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Non-US sellers ?
I have yet to buy and i'm already looking to sell.
The sellers contract on non sponsor website says
Im thinking if i buy at a bargain $100pt even if i could resell it again at 100pt i'll be eating 10% commission and 10% tax im getting $80 for that $100 point unless i can guarantee that refund.
The guys who bought in 90s are making a profit, but.
I dont want to take an additional loss of 20% when selling
Thank you for the replies.
I dont want to buy and sell to make a profit,
im just looking down the road if i bought resale today, lost my job in 10 years and couldnt afford $12pt MF. If i had to liquidate at $50 a point i'd be out my original $50 investment,
But also another $5pt for commission(ok fair enough) but another $5 for the taxman, which isnt profit so i have to apply to show that its not profit.
I just want to know how easy it is to get the money back from the IRS so i can recoup the $5.
I'm sure Disney will say same thing as others, "why would you want to sell" or "its easy to get the tax back"
I just wanted to ask the forum if any non residents have sold and if getting the cash back was easy.
That 10% holding of the foreign seller's sale price is to assure foreign sellers pay any capital gains tax required. After the sale you then have to submit a tax form on which capital gains if any are calculated (ask the broker or title company involved in the sale who can supply the form and help you with it). If there is in fact a loss, e.g., the sale price minus your original purchase price and costs for the sale is a negative number, you get back that 10% withholding. If it is a positive number, you determine the actual tax owed (currently about 23% maximum on the profit made -- consisting of a capital gains tax and a medicare tax). That number owed will almost always be much less than the 10% withholding on the sale price for a DVC sale and you will get a refund.
Note, that 10% withholding and then file to get back money applies to every sale of any property in the US made by a foreign seller and it is not something limited to DVC or timeshares. Brokers and title companies are usually familiar with it and what needs to be done. In fact, in this situation contacting DVC as to what to do would be pointless.
Thanks so much... Good to know its common place and IRS does this to all foreigners.
Do you know that you also have to apply for a SSN or ITIN? You will officially create an account with the American government. You may be asked to submit an American tax return as well. Your record will be saved with IRS and NSA. You will be in their radar from now on even if you never intend to become an American resident. If you have to stay too long, you may be requires to report your worldwide asset just like an American citizen. There are also FATCA laws that many non-American is trying to escape from.
Let's say you are a British or Chinese, owning a few rental properties. If you are not careful, the American may have a claim on those unrelated incomes as well.
In my opinion, it's not worth the troubles for any foreigner to go for it.
This was just published by Yahoo on October 18
It listed:
"Under the current rules, those who spend more than 182 days out of 365 days in the calendar year, or more than 120 days per year on average over a three-year period, may be considered a U.S. resident for tax purposes."
"A government regulation stipulates that, if you own an American property when you die and your worldwide assets are worth more than US$2million, that property is subject to a 45-per cent estate tax."
On the other hand, many countries like Canada and elsewhere, do not have any estate / inheritance / gift tax.
You may want to keep this in mind when you own DVC and use it frequently.
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I like the facemask. The rest I'm not so sure about.
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What team will be the first to go transparent with their helmets?
Wait til the sun glares off of the facemask and a receiver takes a ball to the face. I think they might rethink this design once they test it out.
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- 2Feb 6, '13 by the healer's artIt's exciting that we're all getting answers now! Everyone will have to keep us posted on where they got in and where they ultimately go. This thread has been like a little family. Good luck, it's not over yet!
- 1Feb 7, '13 by bfjeldheimHello all! I am a little late joining this thread, but I wanted to thank you guys for your posts! They've been helpful, and if I could return the favor by sharing my experiences , I'd be more than happy to do so.
I applied to midwifery programs at six schools. I have been accepted to Columbia and The Ohio State, and I have interviewed with Yale (in person) and Vandy (phone). Haven't heard back from the rest yet (Seattle & Marquette). Yale and Vanderbilt both informed that admissions decisions would occur the beginning of March. Without knowing for sure about those programs, I'm planning on Columbia, but I'm hoping to make a decision between Yale, Columbia, and Vandy.
Does anyone have any more information or pros/cons about the program at Columbia (Or Yale & Vandy)? A friend of mine is enrolled at the medical school and she LOVES it. I love living in a big city (Chicago), but NY seems... Overwhelming... and pricey.
- 0Feb 8, '13 by the healer's artQuote from bfjeldheimThere are a lot of threads on here that talk about yale vs columbia but most of the information is old. I have heard mixed things about Columbia and Yale and every school really! I think it's nice that you get a BSN at Columbia so it's easier to find a job while doing the master's. I know Columbia is more flexible about you taking breaks or switching specialities. I think it also depends on what you specialize in and where you want to work. I want to do more acute pediatrics and so I decided not to apply to Yale because their peds program is primary care while Columbia offers a pediatric oncology specialization. If you want to work in NY Columbia does give you a lot of good connections. They also approach the teaching differently (Columbia emphasizes a lot of global and public health aspects). It also depends on what's most important to you. Columbia's program is big (although they promise clinicals will never have more than 8 students and they break up the classes into sections) so if you want small Yale is more like it.Does anyone have any more information or pros/cons about the program at Columbia (Or Yale & Vandy)? A friend of mine is enrolled at the medical school and she LOVES it. I love living in a big city (Chicago), but NY seems... Overwhelming... and pricey.
I hope that helps! Talking about these things is my favorite. Haha. I think also talking to current and past students is really helpful too!
- 0Feb 8, '13 by morganw1I just got an email from penn saying decisions would be up February 12th for the bsn? It's strange because I haven't heard from them since November and I never interviewed. I think my decision is already made, so I'm not sure what that is. Thought it might be of value if anyone is waiting for an email.
- 0Feb 10, '13 by bfjeldheimThank you, the healer's art. This was helpful! I am going to try to find some current students to connect with.
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I called BC today and they said they had already started releasing acceptance letters to their program. Has anyone heard from them yet? They said they were going to stagger their acceptance letters throughout the next couple of weeks, but I am dying to know if they are sending out acceptances first and then rejections or if it really is staggered.
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Hello Everyone... Is there anyone in this program or plan on attending fall 2013. I know this is a fairly new program. I just want know is it a good program and are they well organized. I plan on attending this fall 2013. Thanks... Read More
- 0Feb 22, '13 by platinum_garbHello. I am conditionally accepted for the fall session. I was wondering if any of you are farther along in your journey?
- 0Mar 20, '13 by iamuneek12Hi all just wondering did you have to find a preceptor for clinicals or does the school supply them? I wanna apply but iffy about it!
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I enjoyed this story, balanced somewhere between science-fiction and fantasy. This particular version is great and the two narrators are perfect for their parts! The only issue I had is that there are two diagrams specifically referenced in the text of the book (one diagram and I can't remember what the other one was) and there's a halt in the audio as the narrators wave their arms around (or something) in a vain attempt to indicate what you're missing out on. Don't let that dissuade you from listening if you're interested as it's not crucial to the plots, but possibly worth knowing about ahead of time.
"An OK escapist thriller movie in book form"
This book ponders some of the interesting new solutions and problems that nanotechnology may bring us. There's a kernel of a good escapist (as opposed to hard sci-fi) story here, starting with the get-you-hooked first chapter from the Moon Base perspective and then branching into three different locales (two Earth-based and the moon) with a few different characters that are iterated through for the rest of the story. There are a couple of sub-stories that are wound in with the overall plot that don't really add anything to the story and there's a somewhat bizarre twist to one of the main characters that actively detracts from the story.
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The narration by Jim Meskimen was, frankly, poor. It's read with almost no feeling whatsoever and I found it to be slow and bland (I actually started listening on 1.5 speed about five chapters in because it was driving me crazy) and there are frequent changes in audio quality where pieces have been re-recorded for some reason. Mr Meskimen does manage to individually voice the characters but he frequently runs these individual voices into sentences following speech from a character, even if it's nothing related to that characters internal dialog.
This is an OK escapist thriller movie in book form and ultimately there was too much about this book that annoyed me to let me really enjoy it.
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I think I'm going to have to go back and read this one with my eyeballs rather than my ears. It's a lot easier to stop and mull things over when you're reading, as opposed to listening, and there were quite a few times that I felt I was rushed through the moment by the audio. Also, the first "flashback" (for want of a better term) was rather jarring and I spent a few minutes trying to work out if there had been some malfunction with the audio player/file.
Medium aside, this was a very interesting book on several levels. It's the story of a man (Shevek) from the anarchist planet of Anarres and follows his early and middle years (in an interleaved fashion) describing life on both Anarres and, to some extent, the nearby Urras - both planets of the star Tau Ceti. There's a relatively objective view of both the vast anarchistic commune that is Anarres as well as the major capitalist/socialist countries (in what appears to be a rather blatant mirroring of Earth). The story includes plenty of the nitty-gritty details of running Anarres by the generally pacifist-anarchists, and how humans are generally likely to mess up a "perfect" political situation with their inevitable desire for personal power. Overlaid is Shevek's tale, usually told from his perspective and, since he's a physicist, he often brings a very clinical logic to bear on his everyday life that leads to a number of thought-provoking insights.
Story aside, the writing was extremely enjoyable, if not beautiful. It felt a little wordy at times, like it needed one more round of culling to make it perfect.
The version I listened to was beautifully read by Don Leslie and had no annoying audio additions to get in the way of the book.
"Inconsistent SciFi/Fantasy with a weak ending"
I don't know about this one. It was in my "To Read" pile and I didn't even glance at what it was about before I started it. I was expecting science-fiction and was somewhat surprised when extrasensory perception appeared very early on in the story, followed closely by a bunch of machine-augmented telekinesis. There wasn't a great deal of explanation about how this all worked (although it started out in a promising vein with the description of the "Goose Egg" device used to detect "talent", as these powers are called, and mark out the owners for further training) but not much more is said of the technology beyond the occasional nod in its direction when talking about the requirement for The Towers in order to allow the Prime talents to do their thing.
I felt that this book could be split into two-pieces, the good piece, and the bad piece. The good piece is the first part. From a general reading perspective the authors abilities to craft an interesting story with solid, believable and interesting characters in an interesting and well described environment are on show but about half-way through the book (where the bad piece starts) things get a little crazy, almost like the author had had enough of writing this book and just wanted everything to come together and end. Specifically I felt that it suffered from at least three major flaws (four if you count the issues I had with the audio since I listened to this one):
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1) The Rowan starts out as a pretty strong character until, about half-way through the book, she just suddenly turns into a doormat for the main male protagonist when the "love at first sight" meeting occurs. I found myself trying to rationalise this as being due to the fact that it was a completely open, mind-to-mind meeting of the two, subsequent to which both parties were intimately aware of the smallest nuance of the other. That said, the literally instant shift into calling each other "darling" and "my love" and acting like long-lost-lovers was jarring in the extreme. This just seemed like a massive break from the character established up to that point in the book.
2) The rape scene. OK, that's an exaggeration but the scene where Raven forcibly "helps" The Rowan to discover what's behind the mental block about her childhood trauma put me greatly in mind of the rape scene from Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. It was quite a jolt to read.
3) The end. Wow, what a disappointment. There was minimal buildup and then the whole thing was done with in a paragraph or two. I'm not sure if the titular Hive is what is being battled at the end or if this is just a setup for the other books in the trilogy where the rest of the Hive is fleshed out and explained/dealt with but the ending felt incredibly rushed and like a cop-out on the rest of the story.
4) I listened to the audio version of the book from Brilliance Audio read by Jean Reed Bahle and had two major issues with it. The first was that Ms Bahle has the incredible ability to sound exactly like a synthesised voice, it was truly astonishing the number of times I did a double-take when she managed to get an uncannily similar intonation to a Speak 'n Spell. The other problem was the special effects that the production team laid on for the mental conversations. Looking at the Kindle preview of the book it would appear that communication that happened via telepathy rather than speech is italicised and this emphasis is translated into a rather annoying echo effect on the audio version. To be fair, I'm not sure what else they could have done to provide contrast but from my perspective if was easy enough to determine what was speech and what was telepathy merely from context.
Overall, meh, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone and I'm not going to read the rest of the trilogy.
"But wait, there's more!"
I made it to the "end" of the Lost Fleet series!
This book covers the conclusion of the Syndic/Alliance war and, of course, the beginning of the Enigmatic War. The story here, particularly the first half, shows the flashes of brilliance that kept me coming back over the course of six books. There are some great moments as the fleet returns to grapple with the Syndics and a plot twist that I genuinely didn't see coming, but once that little story arc comes to a close it kind of feels like the rest of the book was dedicated to wrapping everything up in a neat parcel despite that fact that it lays the groundwork for Dreadnaught and the rest of the Beyond the Frontier series.
I think that Mr Campbell's best work with regard to this series' characters is in this book. The Rione/Desjani adolescent sniping goes away and both characters manage to do some reasonably interesting evolving (although the love story really takes a hard turn into some rather trite dialogue - at least we don't have to deal with any more explanations regarding the impossibility of Geary and Desjani talk lest their respective honours be forever tarnished).
Overall, Victorious was OK. Not a glowing endorsement exactly but there you go. I'll not be carrying on with the next two series because, honestly, I just don't care about the characters at all. The Lost Fleet story was just "OK", it wasn't compelling. I think it could have been in two or three books rather than the six it ended up in.
With regard to the audio quality: Mr Rummel finishes up nicely, no-one's voice changes over the course of the series and he does an admirable job of differentiating the various characters (although Lieutenant Iger still grates). The only weirdness was the beginning of Chapter 7 when there's a musical interlude and the "Audible Frontiers" intro plays.
"Nearly done!"
I admit, I was anticipating some "relentless" puns as part of this review but over the course of Valiant and Relentless the story has taken a dramatic turn for the better. I still have my quibbles but at least we're not recycling the same story over and over again like the first three books.
I'm still feeling that this series would have been a lot better off as maybe a duology/trilogy because a lot of time and effort goes into recaps and a lot of scenes feel forced as explanations are replayed for the umpteenth time (when chapter two kicked off yet another marveling rendition of the conference room technology I think I may have audibly sighed). Same deal with things that should just be extra descriptive detail on the characters, in chapter four there's a scene where "Geary never expected to be able to joke about his past being so long ago" which is fine, except he also felt that late in book four too.
I'm still not thrilled about the technology and effort that's gone into explaining it, the path toward technobabble that was tentatively blazed by Valiant's "self-sustaining probability modulation on a quantum scale" has not been followed thankfully but I'd still like to know more about the shielding and inertial dampening, the Hypernet gates too actually although that's obviously less likely to be possible!
I don't think a lot more is going on with characters here either, right up front in chapter one there's an abruptly personal argument between Geary and Desjani that I guess was borne of events from Valiant...somehow, it really didn't gel with the closing chapters of Valiant and the conclusions that those two came to. Rione and Desjani are still refusing to talk to each other, which really is quite annoying.
All in all, it's a story with a set of familiar characters that (perhaps a little too neatly) ties up all the previous sub-plots bar one, which I assume will be the focus of Victorious. I'm looking forward to finishing that book, at which point I'm going to declare myself done - regardless of how it ends. If you enjoyed all the previous books, you'll definitely enjoy this one, and the inverse also applies.
"Dauntless: Take II"
The story continues...actually, this could almost literally be the same book as Dauntless, it's the same basic plot, leading up to a similar set piece "finale" closing out with a teaser for the subsequent book. The minimal differences come from a new physical location and a slightly stronger threat to Geary from inside the fleet. The major characters reveal slightly more detail with regard to their history but don't develop beyond the boundaries reached in Dauntless. The baddies remain nearly irredeemably bad (to be fair, there are efforts to explain the motivations of the main antagonist) and the goodies continue to lead the charge for universal truth, justice and liberty.
Unfortunately this book continued to strain credulity. There's some really tenuous connect-the-dots going on in the lurking sub-plot. The 100-year war that has managed to pound all traces of intelligence out of the Fleet through raw attrition seemed a harsh juxtaposition against the (SPOILER ALERT: SLIGHT SPOILER IN THIS SENTENCE) sudden discovery of a literal physics genius commanding one of the fleet ships (YOU'RE GOOD TO KEEP READING FROM HERE) and the changes wrought on the fleet by Captain Geary continues to strike me as things that would obvious to even the dullest of people that were still trusted enough to be given charge of what would have to be a very, very expensive piece of equipment (not to mention the numerous lives entrusted to their care).
I'm still reading because the naval theory seems sound (to my civilian mind anyway) and I enjoy that kind of thing. After completing book two I have quite a strong feeling that I know how book three is going to play out and I can't help but feel that this six volume series could probably have been edited down into a more palatable trilogy. But, I've started and I really hate not finishing things so I'm going to push on!
"Finally, finally, this series is going somewhere!"
This is the first of the four books that I actively enjoyed (bits of) so far! The template that books one through three followed almost slavishly has been at least partly done away with and the sub-plots are doing interesting things at last!
The good things from the previous books carry through like the actions between opposing fleets, although the final battle of the book left even me wondering if the maneuvering descriptions could have been slightly more, well, descriptive and slightly less a list of exactly what commands Geary gave (especially since one of the earlier books goes to great pains to point out that the commands could never be issued verbally to the other ship captains for execution due to requirements for speed of transmission and execution). Additionally, some of the major characters start acting far more like humans and have ranges of emotion.
On the down side: Rione's relationship with Geary goes into an unbelievable super-bipolar mode almost immediately (around chapter 3) and I found the characterisation of both Rione and Desjani throughout the book quite disappointing (I simply can not believe that the character Rione was depicted as through the previous three books would buy into the petty sniping and bickering that is attributed to her) and actively detracted from the overall plot.
I was interested to discover the introduction to Lost Fleet: Relentless where Campbell/Hemry talks about REQUIREMENTS from his publishers with regard to word count. I'm beginning to wonder if my reviews of the previous books misplace the blame on the author for stretching out the story and instead I should be getting upset with the publishers for enforcing arbitrary word limits. I stand by my earlier assessment that books one through three (and probably four) could easily have been combined into one volume.
"Copy 'n paste plot, readable story."
Off we go again! I really want to like these books but they're the same basic plot over and over again (much like my reviews of the books in this series). I like the concepts spelled out in the introduction, in theory it all sounds great, and bits of it are quite readable but the constant theme of "Geary considers his future options and has a miraculous realisation that saves the day", especially when said "miraculous realisation" is always blindingly obvious (to me at least, and I'm pretty sure to everyone else who reads them) really takes away from the story. That and the fact that the author specifically calls out his desire to write well-rounded characters...and then doesn't.
Once again though, I enjoyed the details of keeping the fleet running and the space battles and since the sub-plot is finally surfacing as an actual thing I need to read episode 4 and find out what happens next.
With regard to the narration, it meshes perfectly with the prior books as far as character voices are concerned. The only jarring note was what I assume was an Australian accent for Lieutenant Iger, that was a mistake.
"A (mostly) palatable hook for "to be continued...""
This book was OK. I am going to read the next book, and probably the other four too, because I do want to know what happens next! The pace was good and both the premise and the ongoing story were enough to suck me in and keep me going to find out what was going to happen next.
Dauntless was pretty obviously written as the launching point for a series, which explains the somewhat abrupt ending - a convenient point in the story for a pause, but without resolving anything and having only barely laid out who's who, what's going on and why.
I liked the general idea of the story but there are several significant elements of the plot that really didn't make sense, although Mr Campbell performs some plausible justification. The most difficult to swallow for me was the level of ability that the Alliance fleet members displayed, it just didn't make sense to me that a fleet that's been fighting for 100+ years could possibly be as inept as they were painted prior to Jack's thawing. The belabouring of (what I assume is) an emergent plot point in the closing chapters of the book was also somewhat heavy-handed.
The character definition left something to be desired, I think all of the characters are pretty one-dimensional (although I'm holding out hopes for at least one of them) and even the universe itself is sparsely painted, although there are welcome detours into detail when something needs to be explained, usually in order for the fleet to interact with it plausibly.
I enjoyed the descriptions of the fleet battle tactics and general considerations of high speed battles over very large distances but for the most part this appears to be an exercise in translating current/historical ocean-going tactics into three dimensional space but with bigger guns and (technologically unexplained) energy weapons and shielding.
Mr Rummel did a pretty good job, managing distinct, plausible and recognisable characters (although the Scottish? accent for one of the captains probably wasn't a good idea). This version also has music bookending it and it's stuck in between two of the latter chapters as well for some reason (possibly this is where two CD's were joined together) but it's low enough that it doesn't prevent the story from being heard.
"Collect the whole set!"
Another fantastic story from Mr O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series! I'm lingering on reading these because I really don't want to run out of them, even though there are twenty volumes to savour.
This time around we experience the battle for Mauritius between 1809 and 1811, incredibly closely based upon the real campaign (as are most of the subjects of this series I believe). I use the term "incredibly" because the nature of this campaign, the contrast between the immense dangers and interminable boredom (suitably glossed over or enlivened for the reader with brilliant descriptions of the amazing vessels that made up the French and British naval fleets) requisite due to the vast tracts of time that travel to anywhere required when travelling by sail.
These books are so well written that you get dragged in from the opening pages and sucked along in the wake of the story constantly marveling at the way things used be. As well as the expected (and thoroughly detailed) marine elements of the story there are brief forays into the science of the time, a social commentary mostly based on the thoughts of Mr Maturin and other members of the supporting cast - it's a riveting window into the time that gave birth to the fabled English "stiff upper lip".
With regard to the audio: Never was there a more suitable marriage of narrator and subject matter. Everything about this collaboration is perfect.
Enough gushing. It's a great read and I'd heartily recommend it to all!
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I sampled all of their beers on tap. The Sunspot Gold was watery and tasteless, the Hef tasted like banana Koolaid, and the Big Red Pale Ale is a very confused beer. They were out of the IPA which was a huge disappointment. The seasonal was a Spring Ale at 8.6%, and I expected a lot more from it. It tasted exactly like the Big Red and had none of the taste or feel of a higher alcohol beer. The Oscuro was by far the best of the bunch - fairly smooth with decent malt flavor. The Gordo Stout was OK, but a little light on flavor and finish. The food - I think they are trying too hard. I had the Philly which is served on a wrap-style Beer Bread. There was so much sauce on it that I'm still not sure if there was any meat. I'll skip this one next time.
The biggest negative I have with this place is that their servers seem more interested in socializing among themselves and their off-duty coworkers, than attending to paying customers. I had to wait more than 15 minutes for a beer (on a pretty slow night) because the bartender was talking it up with an off-duty employee (still in uniform) who was drinking at the bar. I expect that these issues will get worked out as they start weeding out the bad seeds.
In summary, the beer and prices are good enough to bring me back. If the food and service improve, I'll start recommending this place to others.
Decided to check this place out since its the new microbrewery in town. I wasnt very impressed with the beer. They had a stout that didnt have much body and had an odd taste I couldnt identify, and their HopShock IPA was somewhat forgettable. The Oscuro brown beer was worthwhile, but certainly not as good as most of the craft beers you can buy at the supermarket.
The only have four beers, and three guest beers. I felt that was very limited. The bartender told me that they dont intend on having seasonals or specials. Thats really a pity but I guess thats OK if you are into guest beers.
I didnt have the bar food but from what I saw it wasnt worth ordering. It all looked out of a bag or the microwave.
The atmosphere was OK but nothing special. It has that typical old warehouse look but is basically a box in a strip mall. My guess is that the beers will improve because their brewmaster is from Four Peaks. He probably knows what he is doing but may need time to get the processes right. Their selection could use improvement by having some seasonals.
I wasnt impressed enough to come back soon. Better to give them some time to improve.
Beer: During opening week, they did not have the two brews I was planning on trying the Hefe and the Pale Ale. We did try the remaining four brews. The Sunspot Gold (SG) is the lightest selection. Budweiser at a NASCAR race tastes better than the SG. At least I can tell when I am drinking a Budweiser. SG was totally flavorless and forgettable. Drink ice tea instead. The Oscuro is an amber lager. First, it was not amber in color. Second, like the SG, it was mostly flavorless. I say mostly because if I swished the stuff around like mouthwash, I could detect the faint flavor of beer. The Gordo Stout should be renamed the Gordo Pleasantly Plumb. Stout it was not. While the Gordo did have a nice front of the mouth taste, it failed to finish in the back of the mouth. Disappointing. The only pleasant note was the Hopshock IPA. It was hugely hoppy typical of the American IPA. I would recommend this beer to IPA drinkers.
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Some friends have been actively talking about their Exit Plans – about getting out of this country before the curtain goes down. While there is still time. They believe the situation to be hopeless. That despite the upwelling of liberty-mindedness among some, the vast majority of Americans are not liberty-minded. That Americans – tens of millions of them – are stupid, unreachable, mean, irrational, authoritarian-minded Babbits and poltroons. People who always speak in "we" – and lust to control others.
Reluctantly, I have to concede the point.
I have had exhaustive (and exhausting) conversations with countless people – some of them probably a lot smarter than I in terms of raw IQ – who just can't connect the dots.
Or – much worse – don't care to.
The problem is as much psychological as it is intellectual. There may just be a defective sub-species of human being, homo servilus, who – much like a bee in a hive – is programmed to crave the collective and therefore accepts its corollary – coercion – as the natural and right order of things.
It's very easy to get these "bees" to reveal their true natures. Their core antipathy to individualism – and its corollary, liberty. Just let them know, for example, that you find sports/celebrity worship disgusting. Or that you don't subscribe to any particular religious doctrine – or much care what doctrines others subscribe to, so long as they leave you be.
Let them discover that you don't feel obliged to pay more taxes for "our children" – only an obligation to take care of your own children. Criticize war.
Make a negative comment about cops… .
So, I don't disagree that jumping ship is probably a smart move. Nonetheless, I'm reluctant to leave the country, for many reasons – high among them just orneriness. This is my country, dammit. I hate the idea of just giving it to … them.
That said, I am beginning to wish I'd "gone deep" when I selected our fallback redoubt. We consciously moved to very rural SW Va. from the Northern Virginia area (near DC) about eight years ago to a great extent to limit our exposure to what's surely coming. But I am thinking now that we would have been smarter to have moved to rural Idaho or Wyoming or Montana (like Chuck Baldwin did) instead. There are too many Clovers here.
And signs of sprouting continue to worry me.
For example: Several recent "letters to the editor" in our small community newspaper go on and on about how "we" need to raise taxes on real estate so that "our schools" will have "adequate funding." There is one school – an elementary school in a far corner of the county – threatened with closure because of limited "revenue" and not enough students to justify keeping it open. So the idea was floated to close it and consolidate it with another. "The children" would then get bussed a little farther to their new school. This is an outrage to the parentsites of these children, who believe others should be compelled to provide the necessary "revenue" to keep the old school open for their children.
Everything discussed in terms of "we," of course. It's never my children need you to pay for their school.
If I were to speak at a public hearing about this and ask why don't people who chose to have children bear the responsibility for raising their kids – which includes educating their kids – as opposed to their kids becoming an open-ended claim on the property – on the liberty – of other people who had nothing to do with it… I'd likely be the victim of a mob beating. At minimum, I'd become a community pariah – regarded as "selfish" and "anti-child" (as well as "anti-education") … because I am troubled by armed men threatening to kill me and take my property so that it may be given to someone else's kids – kids I've never even met let alone had anything to do with bringing into this world. It is no defense, either, that such a policy makes it that much harder for people who'd like to pay their own way to do so.
Other people's kids take precedence. Over everything.
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SALT LAKE CITY, November 2, 2012 — On the Hugh Hewitt Radio Show this week, Sen. John McCain said that "this commander in chief is not fit to play that role."
Strong words from a long-time, mainstream, and respected statesman regarding Obama's obfuscation and deception in the Benghazi affair.
"Either out of stupidity, or willing desire to deceive the American people continued this absolute falsehood about a spontaneous demonstration," the former GOP presidential nominee said on Monday's broadcast.
He is absolutely right. President Obama hides behind talk of an ongoing investigation to avoid answering uncomfortable questions about the murder of a U.S. Ambassador and the administration's cover-up of it. At the same time, he insists that he is being open and honest about the facts.
President Obama declares that he is "offended" by suggestions that "in any way we haven't tried to make sure that the American people knew as information was coming in what we believed happened."
The list of questions that the President could answer immediately without consulting notes, logs, or cables is long. The only questions that matters right now are ones dealing with what the President knew and when. He doesn't need an investigation to get to the bottom of anything.
The President also insists that his top priority during the crisis was making sure that American security and diplomatic personnel were safe.
Sen. McCain isn't the only one upset about Obama's obvious duplicity. Military and law enforcement personnel implicitly know that the president hasn't a clue about how to make command decisions or lead in a crisis.
Ambassador Stevens and the security personnel in Benghazi found out too late that Barack Obama never did have their back.
Hours after the attack ended—the President presumably having watched much of it in real time via a drone video feed—Obama dispensed with any situation room unpleasantness or distracting intelligence briefings, and headed for a campaign event in Las Vegas.
But the president takes offense to suggestions that he isn't being totally honest.
Forgive the people who volunteer to defend American interests abroad for being just a wee bit skeptical of your commitment to the truth, or for that matter your commitment to keeping American facilities secure.
The same consulate had been under attack multiple times in the months preceding the 9/11/12 attack. The ambassador himself had requested additional security based on threats that turned out to be real and deadly.
But this president has a history of ignoring recommendations from those in a position to provide the best assessments, because often those assessments cast his political decisions in an unfavorable light. It is the worst form of leadership, to put lives in danger to protect one's image.
As if dismissing any suggestion that his leadership was anything less than sterling wasn't insulting enough, Obama has added insult to injury by taking credit for the heroism of others.
Ty Woods and Glen Doherty gave their lives to defend the American mission and its ambassador in Libya. They were there on a CIA mission, and disobeyed orders to aid a diplomat that the president shamefully left unprotected.
The Obama administration promptly took credit for having sent those former Navy Seals to protect the ambassador.
But the President is offended.
Perhaps if the justified criticism is too much for him, he should consider a new line of work. Maybe Sen. McCain is right. Perhaps Barack Obama isn't fit to serve as commander in chief.
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- When my word caves in, I'll find peace within, Hearing your voice again, When song birds sing, when my world caves in, and the lights go dim, hearing your voice again brings comfort to me. - Well its been a while since i've last updated this thing... it's because I've been out and about with friends, having a good time actually playing perma-sober. Last night I went to this country western bar that has a no country mondays theme... a cover band played, some good covers, some, so awful..anyways, i wore my new jets jersey and hot water music cap. I got stopped so many times, it was redick! kind of fun too, i also saw a close friend get absolutely shit faced, i felt kind of bad leaving her at another bar because i was supposed to watch over her, but she wanted to stay with her friends, so what could i do, i had a birthday to attend...all in all i had a fun time just talking some of my close friends, good timesSee you at the beach
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If you're new to Sustainably Creative, or just want some help finding your way around, this is a good place to start.
Think of this post as a sort of guided tour of Sustainably Creative, a place for new readers and regular visitors alike to delve deeper into the large number of posts that make up the blog, as well as keeping an eye on what's new and what's popular.
If after exploring here you feel you'd like to delve a little deeper, why not consider becoming a member of the site?
A good place to start is with a few hand-picked posts to get a feel for the site:
Recommended Reading
- Sustainably Creative: an introduction...
- Staying focused
- 20 things you can do in 20 minutes (and create a sense of momentum)
- Just do it. Advice for anyone with limited energy who wants to get creative stuff done.
- ME/CFS Awareness Month: Lessons for everyone from an artist with ME
- Don't compare yourself to others, just get on with YOUR important work
- Achieve (almost) anything you want with a pen, paper and a pot of tea
- Why running a minimalist business is perfect for an artist with low energy
As with everything else on this site there's no need to rush. Why not make a pot of tea and pick one or two posts from the current top 20 of most read posts:
Top 20 Post of All Time (automatically updated)
- 20 Wonderful Drawing Blogs
- Ebook: Start to Draw Your Life
- Welcome to Sustainably Creative
- 20 things to do to practice focusing on one thing at a time.
- Become a member of Sustainably Creative
- 20 things you can do in 20 minutes (and create a sense of momentum)
- Start to Draw Your Life
- 20 (More) Wonderful Drawing Blogs
- Don't compare yourself to others, just get on with YOUR important work
- Take the 20 minutes a day challenge
- 75 Ways to Draw More
- 20 ways to get through the bad days
- Drawing Your Life
- Blog
- 10 ways to just get on with your important work despite being tired or having limited time!
- Start to Draw Your Life: Download, print out and make your own copy
- Why I Love Moleskines (and some resources)
- Deciding to work through The Artist's Way for a fifth time. Join me?
- 10 reasons to just do something creative and not care about the result
- Remember to celebrate your achievements
Getting Your Important Work Done
- Have a morning triage session to keep your Important Work in focus
- Achieve (almost) anything you want with a pen, paper and a pot of tea
- The Importantance of Elevenses (or why it's vital to pace yourself and stay on track)
- What could you say "no" to today to free up energy for something more important?
- Sometimes a "one-thing to-do list" is the only way to get the (really) Important stuff done
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Document Type Doctoral Thesis Author Van Rooijen, Agatha Johanna URN etd-04282005-101131 Document Title Physical activity as an intervention in urban black females with type 2 diabetes mellitus disorders Degree PhD Department Physiotherapy Supervisor
Advisor Name Title Prof P Rheeder Committee Chair Keywords
- Physical therapy
- Clinical trials
- Non-insulin-dependent-diabetes
- Excercise
Date 2004-04-16 Availability unrestricted AbstractType 2 Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2 DM) is present in the populations of almost all the countries in the world and is a significant disease burden in most developed countries. Evidence suggests that populations in Africa develop Type 2 DM at an increasing rate as they reject their traditional lifestyles. Furthermore, newly released figures by the Medical Research Council of South Africa indicate that diabetes is the 10th most common cause for total life years lost in females in South Africa. Exercise is a low cost, non-pharmacological intervention that has been shown to be effective in metabolic control. Exercise is still vastly under-utilised in the management of Type 2 DM, especially in urban black females with Type 2 DM.
This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of an exercise intervention to decrease haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) over period of 12 weeks in Type 2 DM black female subjects, aged 40to 65 years. This study consisted of three phases. Data captured in the first two phases were utilised to plan the exercise intervention. Questionnaires and focus groups were used in the first two phases of the stud. The final phase of the study consisted of a randomized controlled trial. For this phase 157 female subjects who were recruited at the Mamelodi hospital diabetes outpatient clinic, were randomized to either an experimental or a control group.
It was found that the subjects had little knowledge about their disease and that they lead a sedentary lifestyle. Subjects felt that Type 2 DM had a negative impact on their lives. Their attitudes bout Type 2 DM showed a dependence on health professionals and they disagreed with the attitude that they should be involved in decision-making about their health care. The results of the focus groups indicated that patients viewed walking and household chores as suitable exercise for them. Personal barriers to exercise were lack of knowledge, tiredness and health-related stress.
Subjects expected that exercise would increase the functional capabilities, increase their knowledge and improve their well being. These findings were used to plan the exercise intervention, which consisted of a home-based exercise programme and fortnightly exercise sessions at the Mamelodi hospital. Subjects also had to complete a diary of their physical activities at home.
An analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA) was used to compare the experimental and control groups with respect to change in HbA1c and the secondary outcomes such as walking distance and quality of life outcomes. It was found that the exercise intervention was no more efficacious (p=0.05) than a supervised self-relaxation training intervention to decrease HbA1c, over a period of 12 weeks. The exercise group was however able to walk a significantly further distance (p<0.01) than the control group after the 12-week intervention. While not significantly different between groups (p=0.80), the positive well-being improved significantly within both groups (p<0.01).
It is possible to improve blood glucose control by means other than medication in urban black female patients with Type 2 DM. The patients are willing to change their sedentary lifestyle to a more active one, but several environmental and personal barriers impact negatively o their attempts to do so. The role of the health care worker is to identify these barriers and to accompany the patient on the road to a healthier lifestyle. However, this population of women may need more assistance and support initially to take self-responsibility for their diabetes self-management eventually.
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Live the life of a gangster in Goodgame Mafia, a MMORPG roleplaying game. Try to accomplish as many Godfather's assignments as possible. In order to complete an assignment, you need energy, which gets refilled once a day and you receive cash and experience points (XP). If you are lucky, you might be able to snatch a cool item or find a valuable gold bar. When you have used up all your energy and would like to complete further assignments, see the bar keeper for some energy drinks.
An aspiring young gangster like you should never be empty-handed. Collecting protection money is another way to earn money, beside the jobs for the Godfather. The alley known as Face-Off is where vicious face-offs between the mafiosi of this town take place. These face-offs are about honor and glory. The most dangerous criminals gather here. If you win a face-off against a wanted criminal, you get an epic item.
In the Gang Wars section, you will find an overview of the entire city. Within the different districts, you find the rivaling families who cause nothing but trouble. Once you have gained enough experience and friends, you can take them down one by one. Find new goods delivered every day in the Blackmarket. Buy and sell stuff here. Fresh goods are daily offered in the Cornershop as well. Rent a vehicle in order to get your missions done faster and waste less energy in the Booster section. This way you get more jobs done. Be it a bike or a private jet, it's your pick.
The most important information about your avatar can be found by clicking on the Character icon at the top of the game screen. Manage your equipment, extend your values and get an overview of the duration of your boosters here. Fight for having the strongest family at Goodgame Mafia in the Family section. Being part of a family has many advantages, such as additional experience points and cash for assignments and protection money. What are you waiting for? Become the biggest virtual gangster of all time. "La famiglia sopra ogni cosa" – family above all!
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The items listed in Table 1 comprise the essential elements for archaeological recording at Parks Canada. These elements are described in detail in the sections that follow. Consult the Table of Contents for specific section references.
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Just about this time last year, we reviewed a nifty hand held scanning device called ScanStik. We were impressed with its performance. Today, we were notified of some big improvements. The new ScanStik SK600V from PlanOn wraps full page color scanning together with VoiceNotes and Bluetooth connectivity in the portable device.
Now you can send voice recordings to Bluetooth phones, tablets and computers along with the scanned image. Those images are not scanned slowly one line at a time, but a full page at once. You can save thousands of images via its MicroSD memory slot, whether in color or black and white at selectable resolutions up to 600 dpi resolution. The scans are 24-bit color JPG, or black and white TIF format. The battery that keeps all this running is re-chargeable Lithium Polymer.
The handy little scanner works with Windows, Mac, smartphones and tablets with OBEX Bluetooth transfer protocol. You can take advantage of its capabilities with Android, BlackBerry, WinMobile and most phones. Sorry iPhone users, this won?t work for you.
Combine the pocket sized printer with the hand held scanner and you have an Office in Your Pocket
The rest of us can get a ScanStik from the company, PlanOn, or a local retail store. MSRP is $249.99. This 2 ounce product comes with software from Abbyy Finereader SE professional level OCR and PaperPort SE for image editing and organizing. If you need a complete office-in-your-pocket, just slip a PlanOn PrintStik pocket sized printer in with the go-everywhere-with-you scanner. Print Resolution is 100 – 400 dpi or 600 dpi for the top of the line model. Three pages per minute won?t win any races, but it will get those small on site jobs done efficiently when you need a paper copy.


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The Impact of the Privacy Rule on Cancer Research: Variations in Attitudes and Application of Regulatory Standards
2009; 27 (24): 4014-4020
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Cancer Research Committee designed a qualitative research project to assess the attitudes of cancer researchers and compliance officials regarding compliance with the US Privacy Rule and to identify potential strategies for eliminating perceived or real barriers to achieving compliance.A team of three interviewers asked 27 individuals (13 investigators and 14 compliance officials) from 13 institutions to describe the anticipated approach of their institutions to Privacy Rule compliance in three hypothetical research studies.The interviews revealed that although researchers and compliance officials share the view that patients' cancer diagnoses should enjoy a high level of privacy protection, there are significant tensions between the two groups related to the proper standards for compliance necessary to protect patients. The disagreements are seen most clearly with regard to the appropriate definition of a "future research use" of protected health information in biospecimen and data repositories and the standards for a waiver of authorization for disclosure and use of such data.ASCO believes that disagreements related to compliance and the resulting delays in certain projects and abandonment of others might be eased by additional institutional training programs and consultation on Privacy Rule issues during study design. ASCO also proposes the development of best practices documents to guide 1) creation of data repositories, 2) disclosure and use of data from such repositories, and 3) the design of survivorship and genetics studies.
View details for DOI 10.1200/JCO.2009.22.3289
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Friday, March 13, 2009
PODCAST: The Great Fire of 1835
Nicolino Calyo captured the terrible sight of the blaze as it might have looked from the Williamsburgh side of the East River
The Great Fire of 1835 devastated the city during one freezing December evening, destroying hundreds of buildings and changing the face of Manhattan forever. It underscored the city's need for a functioning water system and permanent fire department. So why were there so many people drinking champagne in the street?
Listen in as we recount this breathtaking tale of the biggest fire in New York City history.
Listen to it for FREE on iTunes or other podcasting services. Or click this link to listen to the show or download it directly from our satellite site.
Before the blaze: Charming Wall Street in 1825, from a 1920s guide book. Prosperity from the Erie Canal was just around the bend. (Courtesy Ephemeral New York)
The original Merchant's Exchange building, one of New York's more ornate building, featuring a statue of Alexander Hamilton standing nobly in its rotunda. (Illustration courtesy the New York Public Library image gallery)
What's the damage?: the red areas below indicate the blocks destroyed by the swift moving conflagration (map courtesy CUNY)
City officials, including mayor Cornelius Lawrence, could only watch and stare as the blaze over takes a stretch of prominent buildings. Also included below is Charles King, who watches as his newspaper the New York American is overcome by the fire.
Calyo's painted depiction of the "Burning of the Merchant's Exchange"
Another interpretation from the same angle -- the futility of battling the blaze was chillingly illustrated from the corner Wall and William streets, where winds carried the flames from building to building, high above the heads of fighters below.
As the old Dutch Church on Garden Street caught fire, a morose parishioner mounted the organ and began playing a dirge. (Where's Garden Street? According to Forgotten New York, Garden Street was "between William Street and Broadway, just south of Wall Street" and is now part of Exchange Place today.)
Aftermath at the Merchant's Exchange. Many business owners actually tranferred their stock to the Exchange building, unfortunately thinking it would be impervious to the encroaching flames.
The devastation that met New Yorkers the following day led most to believe the city would never recover.
Most of the buildings on today's Stone Street were built in the immediate years following the fire, Greek Revival-style countinghouses that are refitted for modern times as taverns and restaurants. It's also one of the few cobblestone streets still around in the Financial District area.
Who exactly was Nicolino Calyo, the man who painted so many vivid pictures of the Great Fire? Nicolino Vicomte de Calyo was a political dissenter who fled Italy in the 1830s and settled in Baltimore, becoming entranced by the new American landscape. Although his most famous depictions of New York are of the city in flame, he also painted a few serene views (like the one below, a vantage of the harbor from Brooklyn Heights).
His works are in many New York museums, including the "Burning of the Merchant's Exchange" which is at the Museum of the City of New York.
Another cool resource on the Great Fire is up at the CUNY website, with more pictures and more backstory as to New York's capacity to fight blazes in the early 19th century.
And if you're so inclined, why not visit the New York City Fire Museum? It's in SoHo and afterwards you can take a stroll down to the Financial District and imagine what it all might have looked like.
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This was very interesting although I was looking for a devastating fire in upper new york,,,passed grants tomb...where many, many houses were destroyed....I'llkeep on looking...don't know the month but it was 1835...This web-site was great.ReplyDelete
This was a fantastic podcast! I love learning history like this. You made it exciting and enjoyable, really placing the listener on the scene. I also appreciated the history fires before the 1835, as well as the bits about the birth of fire fighting, etc. Great job!ReplyDelete
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|Collection Name:
|Frank E. Schoonover - Thornton Oakey Correspondence related to Howard Pyle
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|University of Delaware. Library. Special Collections Department [Repository Details]
|Repository Location:
|Newark, Delaware, United States
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|The Frank E. Schoonover-Thornton Oakley Correspondence Related to Howard Pyle consists of correspondence, catalogs, broadsides, bookplates, photographs, and newspaper clippings. The bulk of this small collection, which spans the dates 1912 - 1953, contains correspondence between Oakley and Schoonover. There are numerous catalogs that document historical events that honored Pyle and his art. The significance of the collection is its record of Pyle's students and their efforts to commemorate him, which was referred to as "Howard Pyleana" (F4).
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|Delaware; History; Letters; United States
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Hematoma (cont.)
Benjamin Wedro, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Dr. Ben Wedro practices emergency medicine at Gundersen Clinic, a regional trauma center in La Crosse, Wisconsin. His background includes undergraduate and medical studies at the University of Alberta, a Family Practice internship at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Mary D. Nettleman, MD, MS, MACP
Mary D. Nettleman, MD, MS, MACP is the Chair of the Department of Medicine at Michigan State University. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt Medical School, and completed her residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Indiana University.
In this Article
- Hematoma facts
- What is a hematoma?
- What causes a hematoma?
- What are the types of hematomas?
- What are the symptoms of a hematoma?
- When should I call the doctor about a hematoma?
- How is a hematoma diagnosed?
- What is the treatment for a hematoma?
- What are the complications of a hematoma?
- Can hematomas be prevented?
What are the complications of a hematoma?
Hematomas cause swelling and inflammation. It is often these two consequences that cause irritation of adjacent organs and tissues and cause the symptoms and complications of a hematoma.
One common complication of all hematomas is the risk of infection. While the hematoma is made of old blood, it has no blood supply itself and therefore is at risk for colonization with bacteria.
Can hematomas be prevented?
Accidents happen and most hematomas are inevitable once the trauma has occurred.
For patients taking anticoagulation medications, it is wise to avoid participating in events with high risk of injury. For patients taking warfarin (Coumadin), it is important to make certain that the dosing is appropriate and the blood is not thinned excessively.
Longo, Dan, et al. Harrisons's Principles of Internal Medicine. 18th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2011.
Medically reviewed by Rambod Rouhbakhsh, MD, MBA, FAAFP, American Board of Family Medicine.
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