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Ron J. Feldman - Senior Financial Specialist
Published September 1, 1997 | September 1997 issue
Lending to small firms appears on the verge of transformation. Banks, especially large ones, have increasingly adopted a new application of technology called credit scoring to automate their small business lending. Credit scoring is a statistically based means of underwritingevaluating the expected repayment performance of a loanthat can substantially decrease the time, human input and cost of reviewing applications. The shift could have particularly important implications for small banks that traditionally rely on small business lending.
One can best understand the larger implications of the new regime through analogy with a firm that is neither a bank nor a small business, Wal-Mart. Five years ago The Region reviewed how the rise of discount stores such as Wal-Mart altered the Ninth District's retailing landscape (see "Substance Before Style," September 1992). These firms provide a wide range of products at comparatively low prices while serving areas previously believed beyond mass marketers. They succeeded by adopting new information technologies, such as systems that identify and cheaply replenish profitable merchandise, and leveraging their massive scale. Both factors were critical in underpricing and outstocking other retailers.
Small business loans were also considered somewhat peripheral for many large lenders just as rural markets were outside the sights of large retailers. Large banks did not think they could apply automated lending to small businesses. But research into the relationship between the credit quality of owners and their small businesses has convinced some banks to score small business loans. Ultimately, credit scored small business loans could take on the general characteristics of credit card loans with their high volume, convenient distribution channels such as the mail and phone and high-tech assessment of risk.
Wal-Mart's efficient and technology-based retailing to smaller towns produced ambivalent feelings. Of course, mass discounters cannot attain growth and profitability without meeting the needs of consumers better than their rivals. Indeed, many small retailers charging full retail prices had difficulty competing with the national discounters and some towns lost many of their local merchants. Nonetheless, proprietors losing business of customers they believed loyal cannot avoid disappointment. More generally, the loss of local retailers has led some residents to conclude that the intangibles of small town life have been replaced by an inferior and sterile product.
Banks using credit scoring to increase their small business market share are not explicitly targeting borrowers of community banks. However, like Wal-Mart and small-town retailers, large banks recruiting existing small business borrowers will inevitably run into smaller banks. Banks with assets of less than $500 million held nearly 60 percent of all business loans under $100,000 even though they controlled only 18 percent of banking assets as of June 1996. (Data on small loans provides insight into small business borrowing because loan and borrower size are highly correlated.)
Like the small retailer, the smaller banks can meet the competition by differentiating themselves from larger banks that try to make small business loans a commodity. What about questions of community life? Will there be Wal-Mart like ambivalence? Do residents of small towns care if preapproved solicitations and calls to toll-free numbers replace face to face contact between borrowers and the local lender? A closer look at small business lending and credit scoring should inform the discussion of the broader questions the new technologies raise.
Banks are extremely important providers of credit to small businesses. A recent analysis by the Federal Reserve found that banks provided a little over 60 percent of small business credit outstanding in 1993. But, is small business lending important to banks? Graph 1 indicates that smaller loans make up a significant minority of business loans (commercial and industrial loans and business loans secured by nonfarm, nonresidential property) made by banks nationwide.
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Small loans make up a much greater portion of business lending by banks in the Ninth District. And the smaller the bank the larger the role of small business lending. Sixty-three percent of the business loans held by banks with less than $100 million in assets (about 85 percent of Ninth District banks at the time) were for under $100,000. In contrast, 62 percent of loans held by banks with assets greater than $1 billion were for over $1 million. Graph 2 provides additional detail on the distribution of business loans by the size of the loan and the bank. Small banks in the Ninth District, as with banks in the nation as a whole, hold a disproportionate amount of small business loans. Banks with assets of less than $500 million held 80 percent of all business loans under $100,000 despite controlling only 47 percent of district assets. Graph 3 provides additional detail on the business loan market share of banks according to the size of the bank and the size of the loan.
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Graph 3
Why does business lending by small banks exhibit a heavy concentration of small business loans? Small businesses predominate in some locations, leaving a small bank with little opportunity to make larger loans. In addition, big loans could present too much of a risk for small banks. Banks need to diversify their portfolio in order to reduce the chance that the default of a single large borrower would expose the bank to catastrophic losses.
Small banks have also traditionally been considered better positioned to make loans to the local small business.
The advantage of small banks over large banks is, in a word, information.
Credit scoring for small business loans turns this dynamic on its
head. Proponents of quantitative scoring argue that it provides
information on the future performance of the small business borrower
such that they can profitably extend credit to a firm even if bank
employees have never met the firms' principals.
Credit scoring systems assign a single quantitative measure, or score, to a potential borrower representing an estimate of the borrower's future loan performance. Scores correlate with odds of the loan yielding "good" or "bad" performance. The definition of good and bad depends on the particular scoring system but, in general, a good loan meets banks' profit standards while a bad loan would not. Analysts developing scoring systems identify those characteristics of borrowers that best predict loan repayment. The developer then statistically assigns each of the characteristics a numerical weight so that the credit system measures the relative importance of a given characteristic in accurately forecasting repayment.
The outcome of these statistical procedures is a "score card" on which the characteristics of the borrower are noted and the score tallied. Analysts can derive scores from consumer credit bureau data such as a borrower's current level of indebtedness or previous repayment performance. Some scoring systems use credit bureau information supplemented with specific variables obtained from the loan application such as the size of the loan relative to the value of the object being purchased.
Credit scoring systems, however, are not like HAL, the all controlling
computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Most importantly,
the systems do not independently approve or reject a loan application.
The lender must decide how he or she will incorporate the credit
score into the loan review. The lender may decide to approve all
applications above a certain score, reject all loans below a lower
score and have a human underwriter review all loans that fall in
between the cutoff points. Many lenders have significant experience
in using credit scoring and making cutoff decisions become consumer
loans such as credit card and auto loans have been underwritten
with credit scores for decades.
Years of credit scoring would not seem at first blush to offer
much help in evaluating the credit quality of a business loan. Human
review and personal contact have long characterized business loan
reviews. Yet, in many cases the financial wherewithal and decision
making of the small business extend from the owner of the firm.
Therefore, the willingness and ability of the business owner to
repay personal borrowings could reasonably be assumed to correlate
with the ability and willingness of the firm controlled and managed
by the owner to repay its loans. Developers of scoring systems,
most notably Fair, Isaac and Co. Inc. (FICO), argue that their empirical
analysis of a large database of small business loans support this
observation. They found that the same variables determining the
owner's probability of loan repayment also determines a large part
of the credit score for the small firm.
FICO asserts that augmenting data on the owner of the firm with
very basic information obtained from a loan application and a business
credit bureau, such as past credit repayment experience collected
by Dun & Bradstreet, produces a reliable credit score. Perhaps more
importantly, FICO claims that data which had heretofore received
much scrutiny in the traditional underwriting process, such as ratios
from financial statements, are not crucial in determining the repayment
prospects of the small firm. In fact, FICO's most popular small
business scoring system does not require the small firm to provide
financial statements.
How could this seemingly technical change in loan review fundamentally alter the mechanics of small business lending?
These changes could dramatically modify the look and feel of small business loans. Borrowers could obtain and manage their small business loan like a run-of-the-mill credit card instead of filling out applications with details on financial performance and operating plans. With the changes in the small business loan may also come a transformation in the competitive environment to make these loans.
A long-run concern for banks has been the rise of alternatives to their mainstay products. Some large companies, for example, can obtain lower-cost financing by directly accessing securities markets instead of banks. Banks have sought out new markets to replace those they can no longer efficiently serve in order to maintain growth. The small business loan market offers large banks the opportunity to increase market penetration because of their relatively low existing share.
Lenders using the automated credit scoring approach could bring lower costs, a new ability to target and assess small business borrowers outside their areas of current operation, and an increased ability to make a large volume of small business loans in a short period of time. As one official from a large Pittsburgh bank that uses credit scoring noted, "If we are going to grow at the rate we want to, we have to go outside our geographic market. When we go to Kansas, we will have the lowest costs and go after the highest credit quality."
This large bank will not enter the heartland alone. The use of small business credit scoring has grown quickly, especially among large institutions. A survey of senior lending officers of larger banks by the Federal Reserve in early 1997 found that a little over 70 percent of respondents used a scoring system when making small business loans, with banks over $15 billion in assets most likely to use scoring. FICO reports that the vast majority of the leading small business lending banks use a credit scoring system. In the Ninth District, First Bank has moved to widespread scoring of their smaller business loans. Of course, nonbank lenders can also avail themselves of credit scoring. Nonbank firms like American Express, AT&T and the Money Store have targeted small business borrowers and could use the new technology in their efforts.
The entry of low-cost lenders into markets where small banks hold significant share should increase competition. A greater number of lenders competing for the current borrowers of small banks could lead small lenders to earn less than they would have otherwise on the small business loans they make. In particular, the lower cost providers could undercut the smaller lenders on credit extensions to the higher quality borrowers. By analogy, Wal-Mart could provide standard, brand name products at better prices than the local competition.
The credit scoring approach could also increase the number of competitors for small business borrowers by making it more feasible to sell groups of small business loans to investors. Investors have been reluctant to buy pools of small business loans because the variety of loan structures, underwriting and documentation makes it difficult to judge the pool's expected cash flows. Lenders may try to eliminate these differences in order to take advantage of the efficiencies offered by an automated underwriting and origination system. Investors ranging from pensions to individuals should willingly fund small business loans if they can buy interests in pools of homogenous small business loans with predictable cash flows. Small banks would then have to compete with international capital markets for small business lending.See discussion on some additional developments in the packaging and sale, or securitization, of small business loans.
Of course, no one can guarantee the success of small business credit scoring even if many banks move to these systems. Initial response rates to preapproved loan mailings have been quite low. It will take time before large banks make the most effective use of the new technology. In the interim, large banks face the often difficult and costly task of moving from an existing to a new lending process. And, new technologies always face the chance that they will perform much less satisfactorily than expected. The scoring systems may not predict loan outcomes as reliably as hoped, and banks may draw incorrect inferences from the information the systems provide.
Yet, there are some signs that big banks have gained advantage through credit scoring, although it remains far too early to declare it a long-term success. The amount of very small business loans (under $100,000) made by banks with assets over $5 billion increased by 16 percent from June 1995 to June 1996. These smaller loans are the most similar to personal loans of the business owner and are thus believed amenable to credit scoring. At the same time, other small business lending did not increase and loans for over $1 million increased by a little less than 3.5 percent. In contrast, large banks saw a huge increase in loans over $1 million and only a 4 percent increase in loans for under $100,000 from June 1994 to June 1995 when credit scoring was much less common.
The Federal Reserve banks in Kansas City and San Francisco recently reported similar trends in business lending by large banks in their regions and attribute them to credit scoring. Some analysts believe that market structure of small business lenders in the future will resemble the current credit card market because of the growing similarities in the production of the two types of loans. This transition would involve significant consolidation of small business lending as the top 10 credit card lenders control more than half of the market.
The specter of increased competition has not been the normal concern raised in conjunction with large banks and small business lending. Policy-makers and bank advocates traditionally worry that large banks would take over smaller banks and curtail the amount of small business credit they made available locally (recent empirical research suggests that this fear is overblown). Should there be any concern about the movement away from the current norms of small business lending even when the amount of credit available to firms could increase?
The fate of the incumbent small banks, like that of smaller retailers facing Wal-Mart, depends on the behavior of local consumers and of the banks themselves. Local banks could ignore the potential threat and rely on the loyalty of existing customers. Such a strategy offers real risk in price-conscious times. Small banks could also try to retain market share by increasing their cost-cutting and lending efforts. These banks could facilitate cost cutting and growth through scoring systems offered by third-party vendors. However, the relatively limited number of businesses that community banks can serve and their inability to match the cost efficiencies, investment capabilities and supporting products offered by larger banks could limit the success of this option.
Small banks may have better luck by emphasizing and improving their traditional strengths of personal service and flexibility with borrowers. Communicating with their lender via mail and phone will not meet the needs of some borrowers. These borrowers will pay more for personal contact and advice offered by the small local bank. Moreover, some borrowers will want terms and conditions outside the standard contract offered by the large banks. In addition, lenders may not feel comfortable credit scoring the applications of certain firms on which reliable repayment data is not available. Smaller banks could compete for these non-conforming borrowers. The number of small business borrowers not eligible or not interested in the credit scored products will determine the success of these strategies.
No one knows the fate of the small business lender facing the new competition. But, we do know that full competition in lending makes it more likely that small firms can regularly access credit in the most effective manner. Surely the growth of one set of service providers at the expense of another can severely hurt specific lenders and individuals. Ultimately, however, ensuring that consumers are best served by efficient credit markets is more important than retaining a particular institutional form to lend to small firms, whether it be banks, finance companies or a completely new type of lender.
Where do communities fit into this consumer-oriented framework? One intangible of community commercial life has been the relationship between the local banker and the local small business. The new lending paradigm would cut that cord. Furthermore, it is possible that while individual firms consider their own costs and benefits when reviewing a loan offer, they do not account for the costs created when the larger community life that they favor is negatively impacted by their borrowing decision. As a practical matter, communities cannot prevent local firms from accessing outside-of-the-community sources of credit. Small towns cannot zone an offer from American Express to a small firm out of bounds as some were able to restrict the development of Wal-Mart stores. Those that believe the community impact should, but does not, affect decisions made by individual firms are left with the task of providing information such that these alleged costs are considered when small firms look for financing.


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Minimum Wage Editorial – Updated With the Reveal
This was a 1987 editorial in the NY Times
The Right Minimum Wage: $0.00
The idea of using a minimum wage to overcome poverty is old, honorable – and fundamentally flawed. It's time to put this hoary debate behind us, and find a better way to improve the lives of people who work very hard for very little.
An increase in the minimum wage would restore the purchasing power of bottom-tier wages. It would also permit a minimum-wage breadwinner to earn almost enough to keep a family of three above the official poverty line. There are catches, however. It would increase employers' incentives to evade the law, expanding the underground economy. More important, it would increase unemployment: Raise the legal minimum price of labor above the productivity of the least skilled workers and fewer will be hired.
If a higher minimum means fewer jobs, why does it remain on the agenda of some liberals? A higher minimum would undoubtedly raise the living standard of the majority of low-wage workers who could keep their jobs. That gain, it is argued, would justify the sacrifice of the minority who became unemployable. The argument isn't convincing. Those at greatest risk from a higher minimum would be young, poor workers, who already face formidable barriers to getting and keeping jobs.
Perhaps the mistake here is to accept the limited terms of the debate. The working poor obviously deserve a better shake. But it should not surpass our ingenuity or generosity to help some of them without hurting others.
Washington could enlarge the existing earned income tax credit. This would permit better targeting, since minimum-wage workers in affluent families would not be eligible.
Training and education. The alternative to supplementing income for the least skilled workers is to raise their earning power in a free labor market. In the last two decades, dozens of programs to do that have produced mixed results at a very high cost. But the concept isn't necessarily at fault; nurturing the potential of individuals raised in poverty is very difficult. A humane society would learn from its mistakes and keep trying.
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Its about productivity. If the worker is more productive than that worker becomes more valuable and thus worth paying more to keep.
Giving people free stuff does not give them an incentive to become productive memebers of society – just the opposite as a matter of fact.
Maybe if the gov took less from pay checks more people would be incentivised to be more productive and to make themselves more valuable to society.
Just saying.Noteworthy Comment +12
You want more ,money? Increase your skills, become more productive, MAKE yourself a valuable asset to your employer.Noteworthy Comment +14
We need a minimum work output to go with that minimum wage.
I worked for minimum wage when I was 16. I don't remember how much it was but it was under $2 an hour. Took me almost a year to save up enough to buy a guitar so I could move to just working on Friday and Saturday nights in places I wasn't even old enough to be in. lol.Noteworthy Comment +11
The minimum wage is not designed to support a family of four, it never was. The minimum wage is a starting wage. Yes there are people being forced to support families, but that's because Odumbo is destroying the economy and has killed off the job market. Get the economoy going again and minimum wage jobs will go back where they were intended to be, for starting positions.Noteworthy Comment +16
Why do you think Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams call the minimum wage, The Black Youth Unemployment Act?Noteworthy Comment +20
So, if i pay you, to teach me work ethics and responsability, it's called education.
If you offer me, a reduced wage, to teach me work ethics and responsability, it's called opression.
Got it! Don't understand it, but I got it.+9
I started out selling subscriptions to the Washington Post in the ghettos outside of DC.
Got $0.25 per subscription sold.
Our 'control' guy said: "Boy, you couldn't give gold bars to Jews!" And thus ended my sales career.+8
Nailed it!
Unruly, I also worked minimum wage ($1.70 per hour) picking and spreading oysters so I could buy an electric guitar. Dirtiest and most backbreaking job I've ever had.+5
@Billy Fuster,
Gotta have that guitar. I saved every penny for a sweet Fender Mustang – pre-cbs and a 1965 Fender Bandmaster amp. I use a picture of that amp in some of my avatars because I miss it so much. The guitar was nice too, it's in England now. Mustangs are a big deal over there.+2
I have always believed that among other things, raising the minimum wage was an inducement to employers to embrace technology more quickly instead of hiring additional employees.
Many years ago, I joined a company and the choice was hire another support person, or spend a couple of thousand dollars on computer technology. We invested in the computer age, and the savings in terms of employee costs have been in the hundreds of thousands of dollars (or more). The same holds true with receptionists – when ours left, we replaced her with an automated system which, while impersonal, resulted in tremendous cost savings.
The problem is that people who used to fill these roles are no longer needed and, unless they learn other skills, are unemployable. These weren't high paying jobs, but they were o.k. for people out of high school and looking to start somewhere, or a spouse looking to earn some extra cash for the household.
I have no doubt that eventually, our company would have become more technologically saavy anyway – but the cost savings of machines versus employees definitely accelerated the process – in some instances by many years. The cost savings weren't just a couple of dollars here and there – they were thousands of dollars every month.
Too many politicians believe in a static world where nothing ever changes, and much of their policy is based upon this erroneous assumption. Need more tax revenue? Raise the tax rate or sales tax, and based on last years' level of sales more money will come in. Except that it doesn't. The same hold true with raising the minimum wage – minimum wage jobs are usually jobs that can be eliminated through technology, and technology neither asks for a raise or bonus every year, nor does technology need to be covered by ObamaCare.Noteworthy Comment +14
I coulda swore I rote that peese!!+5
Hey, zat rooks vewwy vewwy familyer!!!+2
I nailed it too!
Now if the girls are all NASA I will be 2 for 2!+3
Looks like the Grey Lady's starting to plagiarize intelligent writers.+4
An article from 1987? Puleeeeeeeeze.
There's not a progtard in the world that believes this now. They are all fellow Marxists now.+5
I worked for .50 an hour. Minimum wage was $1.50
I wanted to learn to be an Electrician, so I worked for .50 an hour. For one year. Then started my own business.+6
Palin was in school in 87.
So who wrote it+4
Art Laffer said that any min wage legislation ought to be called 'The Teenage Black Unemployment Act', since all it does is price their services out of the market, and nobody can be forced to hire a bunch of overvalued schlubbs+6
Maybe it's just my insomnia and chronic pain but I can't find who wrote the piece, whodunit??+3
I'm just stupid.
This was a 1987 editorial in the NY Times
But, who wrote it for the times?+3
Thomas Sowell+5
Severely restrict the social justice programs that allow lazy assed people to not work, and a minimum wage becomes unnecessary.
Our borders will be patrolled by those people that need the jobs now performed by illegals as well.
Why work for minimum wage when I can get the equivalent of three times that in entitlement benefits by just being a VOTE SLAVE!
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If the Republicans had any balls at all, they'd demand the minimum wage be raised to $50/hr.
Hell, nobody can live on $9/hr.
Gotta make work more attractive than parasitism.0


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"Blessed are those...who have set their hearts on pilgrimage. As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools." (Psalm 84:4-6)
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Once, when we were planning yet another move, we sat in the parking lot at Bel Air. I said, "Dad, we're pretty mobile people, all of us here in America, but especially us here in this car. We have to say goodbye a lot." Painfully didactic, even in my mid-teens, I explained how I saw it: "We say goodbye a lot, but we don't have to say goodbye to each other, right? We bring us with us, always together. Like 'flittenloops,'" I said, coining a word. "We're rings with wings: we bump into other people sometimes, and other times we leave, flitting off to the next best thing. But the loop itself, well, that doesn't change. It has integrity, self-sufficiency."
I haven't always been as grateful for this unbroken circle as perhaps I should have. But then there are Saturdays that remind me: this is really where it's at. Right here. Where home and heart are bound together with graciousness, humor, and the willingness to care.
Friday, October 23, 2009
This is why Oregon
I was born here. Or I moved here only a few years ago. But we all belong in this fertile valley with its fish and fields--its friendliness.
Just a gathering in an art gallery on a drippy Thursday evening, here to hear. Our tastes are alternately divergent and overlapping, but I think it safe to say that we share at least one thing: an appreciation for the streets we walk and a thankfulness for the familiar outlines of the everyday. Oregon is our Promised Land, the blessing we grew up with, a choice we made.
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To rage against the intolerable turning of the wheel
Beneath which you were broken, battered, crushed.
I watched speechless:
Blank face playing field for your emotions,
Empty heart too full to hold it all,
Like wax--impressed by desire, drama, tragedy.
There is a weight to all this desperation:
Hot irons flattening creases in the soul
To press thoughts growing round and bulging out,
To stop, mold, remake when really wrinkles are better.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Communal jigsaw on the third floor
A few weeks ago, someone told me, "You were more honest today than you've ever been. Not," she hastened to add, "that you lie as a matter of course. But just that you actually told me, for the first time, what you're really thinking."
I have, I suppose, a reputation for reserve. When I said goodbye to my coworkers at my first job before moving to Oregon, one of them said, "Look at her! You can tell she has English blood in her--so calm and reserved." That is, not especially emotional, at least not in public.
Let's just say that communal puzzles don't tempt me much. Their publicness--the way they unfold and develop in plain view--scares me a little and makes me feel vulnerable. I am convinced that I will be happier if I simply walk on by: if you don't make an effort to put the pieces together, then you can't fail at the attempt, right?
But my conviction is crumbling. I might be wrong about this puzzle-thing, I guess. The communal jigsaw might be an acquired taste, but that certainly doesn't make it a less worthy or desirable one. I am more than willing to admit that the process of matching shapes and sorting colors finds its justification when conducted in public contexts: personal pursuits are more significant when we are willing to work on them with others, and if we are willing to admit that perhaps our individual visions can be enriched by the contributions of the person piecing things together beside us.
That doesn't mean it's easy to leave our quiet puzzle corners behind (or even that we ought to completely forsake those private goals). It's just to say that this morning I walked past a table on the third floor, and I thought that at least attempting a contribution to the work in progress was probably more honest and beautiful than refusing to stop and try.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Alcove with a view
I began my day today with two reflections on life and happiness.
The first talks about the connection between monotony and contentment (HT: Sriram):
The second reflection, equally important, is about riding out the in between times:
In its essence life is monotonous. Happiness therefore depends on a reasonably thorough adaptation to life's monotony. By making ourselves monotonous, we make ourselves equal to life. Thus we live to the full. And living to the full is to be happy.
Years ago I heard a message about suffering and how at times we have to wait before we will have a song to sing. That message was by Jill Briscoe who happens to be friends with my dear friend Steph (whom I haven't met yet, but I hold her dear to my heart nonetheless.) She heard the same wisdom from her friend in this way: Oh, Steph. This is just the Selah before your next Psalm. Don't miss this or you won't know the next song. The Selah. That is where I am living right now. In that space between the praises.
So this is where Monday finds me: living monotony contentedly, just doing the next thing (ad infinitum), ready for praise or Selah-space--whatever happens to be coming my way next.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Flavor of a Saturday
In "Offensive Play," Malcolm Gladwell develops a fascinating comparison between football and dogfighting:
At the core of the C.T.E. research is a critical question: is the kind of injury being uncovered by McKee and Omalu incidental to the game of football or inherent in it? Part of what makes dogfighting so repulsive is the understanding that violence and injury cannot be removed from the sport. It's a feature of the sport that dogs almost always get hurt. Something like stock-car racing, by contrast, is dangerous, but not unavoidably so. . . . So what is football? Is it dogfighting or is it stock-car racing?"The Defiant Ones" is an astute review of contemporary children's read-alouds:
Anxious parents—the midnight Googlers who repeatedly seek advice from experts—learn that there are many things they must never do to their willful young child: spank, scold, bestow frequent praise, criticize, plead, withhold affection, take away toys, "model" angry emotions, intimidate, bargain, nag. Increasingly, nearly all forms of discipline appear morally suspect.
The publishing article is, unfortunately, not linkable, and I don't have my hard copy at hand, but suffice it to say that I am disillusioned with Alloy and its packaged plots.
And lest I forget, there was this whimsical, yet insightful commentary on the "Nobel Surprise":
If President Obama really had to get a gift postmarked Scandinavia this month, he would probably, on the whole, have preferred the Olympics. At least at the Olympics the judges wait till after the race to give you the gold medal. They don't force it on you while you're still waiting for the bus to take you to the stadium. They don't give it to you in anticipation of possible future feats of glory, like a signing bonus or an athletic scholarship. They don't award it as a form of gentle encouragement, like a parent calling "Good job!" to a toddler who's made it to the top rung of the monkey bars. It's not a plastic, made-in-China "participation" trophy handed out to everyone in the class as part of a program to boost self-esteem. It's not a door prize or a goody bag or a bowl of V.I.P. fruit courtesy of the hotel management. It's not a gold star. It's a gold medal.We can take it as a sign of what a lucky fellow our President is that winning the Nobel Peace Prize has been widely counted a bad break for him.
When I wasn't reading The New Yorker, I was rereading parts of the Consolation of Philosophy, pondering the implications of doing and having one's own in Plato's Republic, and celebrating a sister's 11th birthday. She's the only person I know who requests a bag of birdseed and then, upon opening it, hugs it like it's packaged in diamonds. Then again, as my brother said this evening, "We're not geeks. We're just enthusiasts."
Happy end-of-Saturday!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Learning to breathe
A year later, I am feeling a bit more circumspect. I cut work hours, sidelined some extracurricular activities, planned to study earlier, sleep longer, eat more; not because I think that I'll really be able to use my time more effectively by doing (or not doing) those things, but simply because I want to be able to enjoy the things on which I am already spending my time.
There are still days when I feel guilty about my decisions, as if I'm not doing everything that I'm capable of, or as if the things that I do get done are somehow of less worth simply because they're not crammed in around an everlasting more. But I'm holding on to some of the most comforting words I've heard so far this term. When I told someone about the changes I'd made to my schedule, he at first said what everyone else does: "I wish I could do that." And then he added, "But you know what? I could do that; we could all do that. It's choices we make and priorities. Prioritizing."
So far, I've been happy with those choices, these priorities. It has been a long over-due exercise in not burning the candle at both ends. And while I don't begrudge other people their busyness, I am deeply grateful for the longer moments that I now have in which to live and breathe and learn.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
The Good rain
I'm buying more coffee, digging through the closet for sweaters, bemoaning my perpetually cold hands. And I'm starting to wonder if perhaps, after nearly four years in Oregon, I should consider investing in a rain jacket. I've finally gotten used to carrying an umbrella; I've fallen in love with scarves. But a jacket?
It's not a bad idea.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
A Brief remark about stereotyping
I'm not going to say that stereotypes aren't convenient and expedient ways of taking the world in hand, of categorizing in a jiffy and putting everything in its place. But I would like to say, with all due respect, that they aren't the last stop on this train of life. At an interview this past Friday, I had occasion to mention both my major (Philosophy) and my educational background (homeschooled K-12), and my interviewers were incredulous. "There are not very many homeschoolers that could be philosophy majors," one of them said, amazed. And I smiled and nodded, and the interview moved on.*
But I've come back to that moment several times in the past few days, because it still startles me when people are surprised at what it turns out a homeschooler can do; it bothers me that what I consistently list as a personal educational advantage, others view as a disadvantage that I've somehow, miraculously, overcome. I've become so accustomed to the success stories--the homeschooled students I know who are studying to become doctors and lawyers and educators and musicians and engineers; the ones who are pursuing or have already obtained rigorous degrees in Classics and Great Books; the high schoolers who are Eagle Scouts and athletes and confident, apt debaters--I'm so familiar with all of this that I find it hard to believe that anyone could interpret the success(es) of these students as a fluke--as the lucky outcome of an unfortunate upbringing.
Because, really, it wasn't luck. My ability to think outside of the box or to listen to other points of view was not something I accidentally picked up on the wayside. It was cultivated through careful training: through the deliberate posing of intellectual challenges, through the development of productive methods of questioning and answering, through exposure to a broad range of ideas and opportunities. And, surprisingly or not, this experience is not uniquely mine.
I don't want to argue here about the relative merits of public and homeschooling, nor do I want to say that homeschooling is always, everywhere the best option for every family (it isn't!). All I know is that for some of us, homeschooling worked and continues to work. And if some of us are becoming philosophy majors or know how to think critically or are, in the best sense of the word, tolerant, it is not by any means an accident.
*I should add, lest there be any misunderstanding, that said interview was one of the best I've ever had. My interviewers were kind and witty and articulate, and the hour I spent with them was entirely worthwhile.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
From the chapbook
The Platonic dialogue was, as it were, the barge on which the shipwrecked ancient poetry saved herself with all her children: crowded into a narrow space and timidly submitting to the single pilot, Socrates, they now sailed into a new world, which never tired of looking at the fantastic spectacle of this procession. (The Birth of Tragedy)
Walking in song
We had planned to be gone for five hours. Now we were faced with the prospect of another eight--one hour for each of the miles we were traversing so arduously by foot, in the dark. The air was wet, we were bruised, but somehow our spirits were unflagging. We spouted sonnets, dished out trail mix, cracked jokes like there was no tomorrow.
Of course we knew there would be a tomorrow and a next day and a next. But there was something freeing in walking among those dark shapes of trees and the scruffy mask of ground cover, knowing that we didn't know when we would get out, knowing that there was nothing for it but to move forward on our own two feet, one song at a time.
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Now, I'm no artist, and I know little about music, but I do know a kindred spirit when I see one. And today--well, and this week and the months before it--I'm feeling a distinct pull to Beethoven's side of things. I'm a reviser; I write drafts of things and then tear them apart. I worry too much when I type--what if there's something I'm missing, or a point I desperately need to address, or what if this is, in the end, just pointless? I am, I guess, easily discouraged.
But discouragement is not the same as giving up. And because it's Thursday today, and not Tuesday evening, I can say that even discouragement can be conquered. In my case, that meant slashing my work schedule in half to give myself more time to think and breathe, and disciplining myself to sit down for multiple hours at a time to stare at the computer screen--something I should have been doing for the last six months, I know. But maybe it's not too late to give it another try.
If you need me in the near future, I'll be on an undisclosed floor of the library, typing intermittently, collecting words and sentences and paragraphs on a white screen, and reminding myself occasionally that even Beethoven had to rethink and revise.


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A site mailbox can be used from a SharePoint team site to store and organize team email. It can also be used from Outlook 2013 that ships in Office 365 ProPlus or Office Professional Plus for team email, and as a way to quickly store attachments and retrieve documents from the team site.
Before you use site mailboxes at your organization, especially if you plan to use them from Outlook, read this article to understand the requirements and setup considerations. See Frequently asked questions to understand questions users might ask and to troubleshoot access issues.
To get started, learn how a site mailbox can help a team to collaborate. When you're ready to set up and use a site mailbox, see the following:
Permission to work with site mailboxes is controlled by adding people to specific groups on the SharePoint site. The following table shows who can do what.
Important Be aware of the following:
For hybrid configurations, to see a site mailbox in Outlook, the user's mailbox must be hosted on Exchange 2013, or on Office 365.
Here are answers to common questions that might come up as you start using site mailboxes in your organization.
How can a site member find out who can see the site mailbox?
In Outlook, right-click your account name on the navigation pane, and then click Manage All Site Mailboxes. A new window opens that lists all the site mailboxes you have access to. Double-click the site mailbox, and then click users.
You can also use Outlook Web App. At the top-right corner, click Settings , click Options, click site mailboxes, double-click the site mailbox, and then click users.
Can I copy an email into the site mailbox in Outlook, rather than moving it?
When you drag an email from your mailbox into the site mailbox, the email is moved to the site mailbox. To copy it, right-click the email to drag it into the site mailbox, and then click Copy.
What happens if two people try to upload the same document to the site mailbox by using Outlook?
Each document must have a unique file name. The second user receives an email, stating that the file couldn't be added because a file with the same name already exists. The email includes the attachment.
What happens if two people simultaneously edit a draft email in the site mailbox by using the SharePoint site's Site Mailbox app?
The second person's edits overwrite the first person's changes.
Can a user check out a file from Outlook?
No. To check out a file, you must go to the team site in SharePoint.
If your SharePoint workflow requires checking documents out, the documents can't be edited from Outlook.
What happens if two people edit the same document from a site mailbox in Outlook?
SharePoint manages the revisions and merges the changes.
How is SharePoint metadata set when a user drags a document or an attachment to the site mailbox?
When a user drags an attachment or a document into a site mailbox in Outlook, data about the attachment or document is saved. The following table shows the Outlook properties that are saved as SharePoint metadata.
File name
Last modified by
Last modified at
Document size
Checked out to
If your document library requires more metadata and a user drags the document into a site by using Outlook, the document shows as checked out in SharePoint until the same person goes to SharePoint and adds the required metadata.
How often is Outlook synchronized with a site mailbox?
When a site mailbox is open in Outlook or in SharePoint, data is synchronized every 15 minutes. Outlook site mailbox information is synchronized each time Outlook is opened.
If a manual sync is needed, any user can start a sync from Outlook or Outlook Web App. In Outlook, right-click your account name on the navigation pane, and then click Manage All Site Mailboxes. A new window opens with a list of all the site mailboxes that you have access to. Double-click the site mailbox, click sync status, and then click start sync. In Outlook Web App, at the top-right corner, click Settings , click Options, and then click site mailboxes. Double-click the site mailbox, click sync status, and then click start sync.
What happens if I drag an attachment or a document that's in Outlook to the site mailbox, and SharePoint can't save the document?
If a document can be saved to the SharePoint document library, it's saved. If it can't be saved, you'll get an email that has the document saved as an attachment.
What should I do if I see a Sync Issues folder in my site mailbox?
A Sync Issues folder appears if either a synchronization fails or a document can't be uploaded or deleted. If you can't upload or delete a file from Outlook, try using the SharePoint site to upload or delete your file on the SharePoint site. To get to the SharePoint site, from your site mailbox in Outlook, right-click your documents folder, and then click Open in Web Browser.
If a document fails to synchronize from the SharePoint site to the site mailbox in Outlook, try a manual sync to see if that resolves the problem. A manual sync must be done from Outlook Web App for your account, not from SharePoint. In Outlook Web App, click Settings , click Options, and then click site mailboxes. Double-click the site mailbox, click sync status, and then click start sync. If that doesn't succeed, click email me details, troubleshoot your issue, and contact Support, if needed.
Do I need to assign a license to the site mailbox email address?
No. The site email address does not require an Exchange license.
Are there situations when I shouldn't use a site mailbox?
There are times when a site mailbox may not be appropriate:
Can I rename a site mailbox?
The display name of a site mailbox is the SharePoint team site display name. If you change the display name of the site in SharePoint, the display name also changes in Outlook. However, the site email address won't be changed.
Can I change a site mailbox email address?
If the site display name uses characters from a non-English alphabet or has three or fewer characters from the English alphabet, the display name isn't used for the email address. Instead, to ensure that the email address is valid, the email address is automatically generated. Automatically generated email addresses begin with a prefix of SM, followed by the two-digit year, the three-digit day of the year, and four random letters.
Can I add a prefix to site mailbox email addresses for new sites?
You can use the Set-SiteMailboxProvisioningPolicy Exchange Online Windows PowerShell cmdlet with the –AliasPrefix parameter to create a prefix to use with all new site mailboxes.
Can I delete a site mailbox?
When a site is closed or deleted manually or as a result of site closure policies, the site mailbox is also closed or deleted.
You can prevent a site mailbox from showing up on a SharePoint site, but you can't delete just the site mailbox.
Can I automate creation of site mailboxes?
New-SiteMailbox –DisplayName "<Site display name>" –SharePointUrl https://domain.sharepoint.com/sites/<site_name>
New-SiteMailbox –DisplayName "<Site display name>" –SharePointUrl https://domain.sharepoint.com/sites/<site_name>
Here's an example of how to set up a new site mailbox on the marketing team site:
New-SiteMailbox –DisplayName "Marketing" –SharePointUrl https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing
For more information about cmdlets that are used for managing site mailboxes, see Sharing and Collaboration cmdlets.
How do I control the maximum mailbox size?
You can use the Set-SiteMailboxProvisioningPolicy Exchange Online Windows PowerShell cmdlet to control the maximum size of email messages that can be received, when mailbox size warnings are issued, and maximum mailbox size.
Are site mailbox usage statistics available?
Yes. You can use the following Windows PowerShell cmdlets to get usage information:
For more information about using these cmdlets, see Sharing and Collaboration cmdlets.
Why can't a user see a site mailbox in Outlook even though they can see it in SharePoint?
There are several reasons why a user might be able to see a site mailbox in SharePoint but not in Outlook. Check the following:
Why can a user see a document in SharePoint, but not in the site mailbox in Outlook?
For a document to be visible in the site mailbox in Outlook, the document library that contains the document must be pinned to the site Quick Launch.
Why can a user see a document in a site mailbox in Outlook, but not in SharePoint?
Outlook lists all documents, but SharePoint lists only documents that the user has read permission for. If a user doesn't have read-permission for a specific document, the document's name is displayed in the site mailbox in Outlook, but the Outlook user can't open the document.


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Deputies and Bloodhound locate missing Alzheimer's patient
It was the case of a man with Alzheimer's disease missing from his north Fayette County home early Friday morning. The man was located within minutes of the arrival of the sheriff's K-9 unit and Bloodhound Sue.
Maj. Bryan Woodie said the Fayette County Sheriff's Office received a call of a missing person at approximately 6:17 a.m. Friday. A 73 year-old man who resides in the Country Lake Subdivision, located off of Georgia Highway 279 in northern Fayette County, had apparently walked away from home. The man, who suffers with Alzheimer's disease,was thought to have only been wearing light clothing consisting of a pair of shorts and a t-shirt, Woodie said.
Responding deputies searched the immediate area but were unable to locate the elderly Fayette County Resident. Concerned for his safety, they requested the assistance of both the Fayette County Sheriff's Office K-9 Unit Tracking Team and the Sheriff's Office helicopter Hawk 1. Fayette County Sheriff's Office Bloodhound Handler Sergeant Shane Head and Sue, a six year old Bloodhound, responded to his home, Woodie said.
Sergeant Head and Sue started a scent track in an effort to locate the missing Alzheimer's patient. The tracking team successfully located him in only nine minutes after having started their search. He was located, entangled in a vine and briar covered wooded thicket, not far from his home, Woodie said.
Fayette County Fire Department emergency medical personnel were called to the scene; other than being very cold and disoriented due to his illness, he was found to be good condition, said Woodie. Due to his advanced age and medical condition, Fayette County Fire Department personnel transported him to Piedmont Fayette Hospital as a precaution, he added.
Woodie said the problem of missing individuals suffering with Alzheimer's, dementia, epilepsy, autism, Downs syndrome and other related illnesses is a potentially life threatening issue. The Fayette County Sheriff's Office has partnered with Project Lifesaver to help those in our community struggling and coping with the issues related these debilitating and heart breaking illnesses. Project Lifesaver is a program using electronics and specially trained search teams to locate missing person's who suffer from Alzheimer's disease and other similar illnesses.
The Fayette County Sheriff's Office K-9 Unit was established in 1992 and began with three Bloodhounds. Sheriff Wayne Hannah expanded the original program; the K-9 Unit now includes three Bloodhounds, six Full Service Patrol Dogs, and one narcotics only detection dog. These animals are available for duty at anytime of the day or night. All of our canines, with the exception of the narcotics detection only dog, are trained to locate missing people among their other duties, Woodie said.
For More information of Project Lifesaver and the Fayette County Sheriff's Office K-9 Unit and their capabilities, please visit www.fayettesheriff.org
I had no idea that the FCSO had such an extensive kennel!
Does anyone have any idea when they will take delivery of the other three specialized police dogs they have ordered? (The cadaver dog, the bomb sniffing dog and the underwater demolition dog).
It's raining!
Way 2 go Sue!
Just wondering.
I have had the pleasure of meeting Sgt. Head, he is a great officer and a nice guy. Glad he helps protect us. Thank you!
Thank goodness for Sgt. Head and Sue. Good work, Sue.
Sue can't hear you to understand! But the sergeant can.
None of the other 5 dogs understand you either. Just keep the canned horse coming is all they care about. Bring it with Hawk 2!
I do hope that the cost of all these animals and helicopters does not exceed the cost suffered by Atlanta for the two mules, Jack and Jill, that cost them $78,000 last year and about $8000 to buy and were sold for about 4,000! They also had a full time attendant and special auto, just as all these dogs do.
I think they should use either Doberman or Pits myself for the walking around part of the patrolling. Never seen that!
Courthouse, that would be a sight. I've never seen Dobermans or Pits on police patrol either, but I think they would probably keep all the bad guys walking a straight and narrow.
Now, Courthouse, I know that Sue can't hear me. However, I thought maybe the sergeant just might give her belly a rub and he might give her a scratch behind her ears for me. You know how it is amongst the animal lover crowd and I'm one of them.
My opinion of that is the human wants the dog's love--there is no way to love a dog, or cat, etc.
I see too many mal-treated animal pets to think otherwise.
They don't walk them nearly enough, feed and water them correctly, they pull them behind a golf cart on hot roads, let kids maul them, kick them while drunk, ride them in hot cars, lock them up in cars, and whip them for biting.
At the same time the humans ignore poor, hungry, ill treated kids, while spending thousands on animals in houses who the mistreat.
They will also lie and make excuses for such treatment.
Truly! I don't even know you, but I truly worry about you.
Every living creature wants love. Humans and animals want love.
You are sadly right about some humans and how they treat their children and animals.
I can guarantee you that I don't fall into either catagory. There are NO excuses for ill treatment of children or animals.
Cheer up, Courthouse! There really are some good people out here. I think you must have a bad case of what I call the blahs. Cheer up! Go have a glass of good old cold sweet tea with lemon and you will feel better. I promise, you will feel better! On second thought, however, it could be that you are so far gone that you really need a big glass of milk and a hunk of chocolate cake or a warm brownie with vanilla ice cream. Things will get better!
Might I suggest that you eat the milk and cake to improve your love thoughts about the WBP and those people who advocate it?
I do think SOME animal owners (lovers) do their best to make an animal happy, but that is never enough---he is still tied, walled, and bound as your slave.
I had outdoor farm dogs as a youth and they were free until a need arose for them to work some. They left if they chose to do so.
Today's crowding doesn't allow such treatment.
I saw if you can't supply an acre or two at least for his freedom, then you shouldn't have him for your pleasure and domination.
Might I suggest that we humans are also "tied, walled, bound" in some fashion or other unless we live under a bridge somewhere. However, even at that we would still have to be "walled" under that bridge, otherwise we would eventually succumb to the elements. We would still be "bound" to the search for food if we were to survive.
Look at us. We (you and I) seem to be "tied, walled, bound" to these computers. If something goes wrong with computer, we feel "bound" to fix the thing or "bound" to buy another one. In order to do that we are "tied" to whatever means necessary in order to obtain the money to fix or purchase another computer.
May I suggest, Courthouse, you, I, everyone here must be content with being "tied, walled, bound" to these machines otherwise we would be elsewhere.
Be that as it may, I just have to accept the fact that you are a free spirit. We will never see eye to eye on any subject. If we did, then there would be one less person for you to dominate. Like it or not, we are all imprisoned or "slaves" to something or someone. Now, you've given me a case of the "blahs." As I said before, Courthouse, I truly worry about you.
I only say what I believe. I don't need people agreeing with me all of the time.
Obviously you do.
I don't get the "walled" to a computer, being compared to a dog imprisoned!
I'm sorry that upsets you and there is no law against keeping animals according to the animal laws.
I don't know why I comment back to you about roads and dogs anyway.
I'll quit.


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Offensive-Security WPA Rainbow Tables
July 14th, 2009 by xyberpix, Filed under: Encryption, Networking, Sec Tools
The guys over at Offensive Security have released a 49 Million WPA optimised password dictionary file, the torrents are up at this link here.
If you download it though, please keep the torrents seeding for a while to help others out.
Have fun cracking!


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Discussion BY cbergmanesq ON September 30, 2014 - 1 COMMENTSAfter going out West, I won't be renewing my membership
I joined TU b/c I love trout fishing and am a conservationist. I do not understand what "fly only" designations and other restrictions do to further either of those goals.
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I went fishing yesterday evening, and noticed under the Prescott St Bridge in Pepperell, that there is, what appears to be, a beaver dam. It COULD be simply a debris pile up, I didnt look too closely, but, from the downstream side, it appeared to be pretty consistent with beaver activity.
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Discussion BY mjmccormick ON September 4, 2014 - 0 COMMENTSHelp the Newbie!
Just moved here from AK and looking to get into some trout.
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My parents are selling their home of 20 years. This beautiful property along the Battenkill River includes:
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I have a Mike Clark St. Vrain Special that I am forced to part with because of financial hard times.


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My dear sisters and brothers in Christ,
A social model is often applied to the church community. The ancient church was viewed in relation to the power and organization of the Roman Empire. The 16th century Reformation saw individual election as a primary reality. Today in America, the church is looked at from the perspective of corporate America. The church produces a product, tries to avoid bankruptcy, and measures its growth in the size of its membership as a criteria for success. Some members, even of Sacred Heart parish, still see the church as a civic organization, as the moralizing instrument of society as an instrument with a "specific contribution" to society. But a greater number, which brings joy to my heart, understand the church as an Event - "happening", by which the "cause" of Jesus is made present by the Holy Spirit.
The majority of the parishioners of Sacred Heart see the parish as a "place" where the Risen Lord can be found and where His presence can be experienced. They gather regularly as members of Christ's Body to glorify God by participating in worship services and deepening their faith through prayer and faith formation. They listen to the Word of God and respond to God's call by engaging in the process of conversion, which results in acts of charity. Participating in the sacramental life of the parish, they strengthen their inner lives and transform the world around them. Many see the parish community as a place where the creative powers of people are being liberated. The accomplishments of the many parish organizations are the fruits to the creativity and engagement of many.
The ethnic and demographic diversity of the parishioners of Sacred Heart presents itself as a blessing to many. The parishioners understand that God, who seems to be absent, reveals Himself through the face of the other. They know that it is not necessary to understand the other person in everything. The fact that the other exists is enough for them to respect the other person and care for him/her. Some even go so far as to accept the possibility of being hurt by others. They deeply believe in the real presence of God in the other and restrain themselves from any reaction that may compromise their belief. They are the true heroes and saints living among us.
This new directory, filled with the names of so many parishioners of Sacred Heart, is for some an ordinary, insignificant book. For those who would like to see the model of family applied to Sacred Heart Parish, the book is a list of family members, relatives and friends. How wonderful it would be if those who have a chance to use and enjoy this publication would see in it the names of their dear brothers and sisters.
With God's Blessing,
Rev. Msgr. Frank Kurzaj, Pastor
Our Mission: to spread the good news of Jesus Christ to all God's people by word and action.


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BOOM, a word of Teutonic origin (cf. the Ger. Baum, tree, and the Eng. beam) for a pole, bar or barrier, used especially as a nautical term, for a long spar, used to extend a sail at the foot (main-boom, jib-boom, &c.). The "boom" of a cannon (note of a bell, cry of the bittern) is distinct from this, being onomatopoeic. In the sense of a barrier, a boom is generally formed of timber lashed together, or of chains, built across the mouth of a river or harbour as a means of defence. Possibly from the metaphor of a breaking boom, and the accompanying rush and roar, or from the rush of rising waters (mingled with the onomatopoeic use), "boom" began in America to be used of a sudden "spurt" or access of industrial activity, as in the phrase "a boom in cotton." Hence the verb "to boom," meaning to advertise or push into public favour.


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HP has shipped more PCs than any other vendor worldwide for the third calendar quarter of 2006, according to both IDC and Gartner results released.
Results from both analyst firms for the period mark for the third quarter of 2006 as at least the third consecutive quarter that HP has grown faster worldwide than the global market, while HP also reported record revenue and operating margins for its Personal Systems Group in the fiscal third quarter.
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, while the worldwide PC market for the third quarter of 2006 grew at 7.9 percent, HP's third calendar quarter worldwide PC shipments grew at a rate of 15.1 percent to 17.2 percent market share, nearly twice as fast as the worldwide market. HP's U.S. market share also grew faster than the market in the third quarter to increase share 1.6 percentage points to 22 percent from 20.4 percent year over year.
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rating: 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
I believe that there were bolts added since this route was first posted on MP. I do not think that it would feel run out to the 5.8 leader.
We also raped the route as there were not parties below us. 3 double rope raps to the ground.
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There are a couple of sequences through the first two pitches that hit the low 5.10 mark and it did feel a bit run out, but the "fun factor" on this route was great with the level of exposure for the grade.
The 30' run out has had a bolt added


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So far in our Five Questions series we've covered concerts, food, and dogs – and specifically, how to photograph them. Today our subject is child photography, and so we turned to Elizabeth Halford, photographer behind Gracie May Photography. She's produced some remarkable portraits of kids (and a Blurb book called Cheequal). She's got a knack for child photography, bringing out her subjects' personalities in pictures that are both naturalistic and full of style.
Blurb: What kind of gear do you use?
Elizabeth: For a few years now, I've been increasingly focused on gear. Ya know, two cameras strapped to my body, an assistant schlepping a reflector, a soft box on a Speedlite, etc. And I found that as my focus on stuff increased, my attention to detail and actually maintaining a rapport with my young clients diminished. So now, I work mostly without using the following:
A Canon 5d Mark kII or 7D camera body. I rarely use both at once. I own 24-105mm f/4 and 50mm f/1.2 lenses and I often hire a 70-200mm f/2.8. Of the lenses I own, the 50mm f/1.2 is my favourite. I always have a reflector on me and usually just balance it against my body or lean it where I need it.
Blurb: Studio or outside, and why?
Elizabeth: I closed my studio last year because I found that it was just a glorified storage space. I was shooting more on the farm where it was located than actually in the studio. It was there that I truly fell in love with the countryside and now, I shoot in the forest almost exclusively. Why? Children are alive in nature. They are able to run and jump and play and stop for the occasional portrait and sometimes I have to follow them up a tree. My clothing takes a beating when I shoot and it isn't uncommon for me to just plonk down in the mud if I have to. Whatever, I have to do to get the shot I want!
Blurb: How do you approach capturing the unique personalities of the kids?
Elizabeth: No matter how much I would love to be able to answer this question definitively, the truth is that with children I barely know, I don't actually know their personalities. I mean, it takes parents years just to figure that out themselves. But what I can offer is that I don't force anything. I would never encourage a child to 'say cheese' and I'm perfectly comfortable with a non-smiling face in a portrait. In fact, I prefer it. I just spend a lot of time with the children and we talk about kid stuff, I tell silly jokes, I tell them about my own children. I actually get to know my clients as we walk through the forest waiting for magic to happen. And it always does.
I think that I must be on the right track with regards to capturing the essence of these children because I've had many'a a parent crying during viewing sessions which is always a good thing :)
Blurb: What about kids that are camera shy, antsy, or just not into it?
Elizabeth: You know, lots of kids are camera shy. And it's because they've been introduced to the concept of 'picture time' in such a negative manner: bribery, demands to smile, because it usually cuts into something fun they were doing. I've had many parents say they would like me to get a good shot "if you can" – assuming their child won't comply. But I've never had a child say "no." Even when I shoot in schools, if one kid doesn't want to sit, I just say "ok," and move on. They watch from a comfortable distance and jump in when they're ready. And their parents are always pleasantly surprised.
Blurb: Is parental input and participation helpful? Or do parents get in the way?
Elizabeth: Oh man. It's a tough one, because they're paying me. But often, I just subtly handle it in such a way where my husband or assistant will engage the parents and I will just move off to the side with the child and then come back. We never go out of sight, but I do like to get alone with them if I can. Parents mean well, but the demands they can often place on their children are unhelpful and I've never gotten a genuine portrait of a child who feels the pressure of being on stage.
Get more tips and photos from Elizabeth at her personal website, elizabethhalford.com, and her photography studio site, graciemayphotography.com. Also, check out her Blurb book, Cheequal. Elizabeth donates her profits from the sale of Cheequal to the House of Heroes Orphanage in the Philippines. And if this post has you inspired to make a family photo book, get started now.


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No. 5 Ohio State Continues Postseason at NCAA Championships
Buckeyes open competition Friday night at 7 p.m. in second qualifying session
No. 5 Ohio State Opens Postseason at Big Ten Championships
Big Ten Network will broadcast championships live Friday and Saturday
Ohio State Scholar-Athletes to Be Recognized Monday
Outstanding student-athletes will be honored at 46th annual Scholar-Athlete Dinner
Ohio State Places 75 Student-Athletes on Winter Academic All-Big Ten Team
The men's swimming and diving team led the way with 28 honorees
MGYM: Photo Day
The men's gymnastics team held its annual photo day for the 2014-15 season on Wednesday. Photos by Kirk Irwin.
Academic Achievements
2012 (Freshman Season): Did not compete for the Buckeyes; named an Ohio State Scholar-Athlete.
Prior to Ohio State: Trained and competed as an all-around competitor for the OSU Boys Club under coach DeRon McIntyre ... two-time national qualifier and national event competitor.


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Diss Town Clerk, Deborah Sarson with one of the Royal Anglian commemorative pint glasses for sale to raise moey for the Royal Anglian Benevolent fund. Photograph Simon Parker
By dominic bareham
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
The people of Diss have been praised by the Royal Anglian Regiment for their "magnificent" support when soldiers paraded through the town last week.
In a letter seen by the Mercury, Lt Col Kevin Hodgson, the regimental secretary, thanked Diss Town Council and the town's residents on behalf of the regiment for the warm welcome given to the 150 troops when they received the Freedom of the town on Wednesday.
He said the soldiers' lasting memory of a "truly great day" was the sight of an estimated nearly 8,000 wellwishers who thronged the parade route along Mere Street, Market Place and St Nicholas Street to cheer on the troops, who had returned from their fourth deployment in Afghanistan in October.
Wellwishers have also got the chance to get their hands on a commemorative pint glass, produced for the parade, which features the logos of the town council and the Regiment and the words "The Royal Anglian Regiment Diss Freedom of the Town Parade 7th November 2012."
The momento was given to the Regiment's members and civic dignatories, but there are at least 15 left and more on order, which can be bought for £3 from the council's office in Market Hill or from the Diss Tourist Information Centre in Mere Street.
Proceeds from the sale of the pint glasses will go to the Royal Anglian Regiment Benevolent Charity set up to help serving and former members of the Regiment, which is already set to receive £982 raised by collectors lining the parade route on the day.
Diss Mayor Graham Minshull said: "We are really thrilled with the amount raised, which was collected in the space of an hour. People were incredibly generous."
A commemorative stone has also been created by monumental masons H L Perfitt to sit amidst a flower bed outside the Co-Op in Mere Street, created especially for the Freedom parade.
The monument, bearing the Anglians' logo, was particularly poignant for its creator James Hollington because his friend James Grigg lost his life while serving with the Royal Anglians in Afghanistan.
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DENVER (AP) - The state Senate plans to work tomorrow on a bill that hopes to crackdown on prostitution by creating a statewide network of so-called "john schools." They would be scared-straight-type programs for men who solicit sex from adult prostitutes. Democratic Senate President Brandon Shaffer says he will also ask to increase fines for johns, which can be as low as $75, to $10,000.
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> I just put 50 pumpkins in the freezer, pureeing them, and bagging them
> in 2 c. amounts in freezer bags. It was a lot of work, and I am
> wondering if anyone has a really quick way to do this. I cut up the
> pumpkins (they were sugar pie pumpkins) and cut out the seeds and put
> the chunks in a large roasting pan with some water and covered the pan
> and baked at 350 for 50 min. Then I cut off the skin part and put the
> flesh through a Foley food mill. Is there a faster way to process a
> large amount of pumpkins?
> Patty
If there is, I sure don't know. You can cook pumpkin in the microwave, too,
though, but that doesn't really solve anything except maybe being a little
faster on the cooking. And then, because the microwave can't hold as much
pumpkin at a time, you probably have to do this multiple times.
I'd say if you have a Victorio strainer that might do the straining faster
than a Foley mill (my hands get really tired using it).
I haven't done pumpkin in a few years. This year, there was a sale on the
15-oz cans of Libby pumpkin for 97 cents a can, no limit, at one of the
local supermarkets. I'd read in the paper that Libby's has a shortage of
canned pumpkin, something to do with bad weather taking a toll on the
pumpkin crops where they get their pumpkins, and that it's going to be hard
to find canned pumpkin after the holiday season until they get more pumpkins
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AWOGA NY/NJ will be having it's Annual Dinner/Dance Fundraiser on Saturday, June 18, 2011 at Akbar Banquet Hall (21 Cortlandt Street, Edison, NJ 08837).
Door opens at 7:00pm with Cocktails and Appetizers. Ten (10) fabulous door prizes to be won, including a $200 gift certificate from SouthWest Airlines, Wine Basket, and a Designer African Handbag.
Our Chief Patron is Mrs. Patricia Marcell.
Dinner will be served at 9:00pm and dancing will continue until 1:00am.
Tickets can be bought online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/159376 or you may call us at 1 (862)-218-0449.


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