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July 15th, 2008, 12:01 AM | #21 |
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I think that the government should stay out of it. Personally.
I also think that if you chose to do your own research on the economy, you will see it's doing just fine. IN N OUT in San Fran was hiring fry cooks for $10.50 an hour when I was there. |
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July 15th, 2008, 07:08 AM | #22 |
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Speaking of foreign ownership, did you know that there is not 1 armor plate steel mill in North America that is owned by a North American company? They are owned by the Russians, Indians and Swedes. Come time for a world war and our military armor plate is at risk. Sure, we can take it back and nationalize it but the operating infrastructure would crumble & have to be reorganized. Just food for thought........
July 15th, 2008, 07:44 AM | #23 |
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You are making a fatal error in your comparison. $10.50/hour in San Fran does not compare to $10.50/hour in Kalamazoo. The cost of living plays a huge role in that comparison. San Fran is much more expensive than most areas in Michigan. Fast food places 4-5 years ago in Ann Arbor were offering $10+/hour plus benefits and paid tuition programs.
July 15th, 2008, 08:43 PM | #24 |
Grumpy old man.
You say that like $10.50 an hour is good. I make a little more than that. Could I get be on $10.50 an hour? Sure. But I wouldn't be wheeling or spending any money at JCRoffroad, so there goes your job. Sure, you'll find another job, maybe making the same pay, maybe less. But pretty much everyone slides down a notch or 2. Recession.
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I love when hold California up as an example of anything.
Cali resembles the rest of the US as much as Michigan does. Each has their own problems that don't translate.
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July 15th, 2008, 09:54 PM | #27 |
In the band!
kommiefornia resembles the U.S.S.R. more than it does America. fuck California, I hope it slides into the ocean. what scares me the most is that Cali is what the whole us will be like in 30 years...
July 15th, 2008, 11:17 PM | #28 | |
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What was my point in my comment? The cost of living in the area is not double what is is here, but $10.50 is almost double what the same position is getting paid here in Michigan. They offer $10.50 for that position because it's a workers market there, and many other places in the US. I could have used some other business to make my point, but I don't understand the whole automotive market and it's wages. I also think it's funny that your trying to explain economics of our business to me, or what type of job I could or could not get. |
July 15th, 2008, 11:39 PM | #29 | |
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July 16th, 2008, 12:01 AM | #30 | |
Grumpy old man.
I actually agree with you that the economy isn't as bad as some people think, and can give you first hand proof. Next week I'm starting a new job. I not changing jobs because I have to, but because I was bored at my old job and was looking for something new and interesting. It also helps that I'll be making more and it's closer to home. |
July 16th, 2008, 01:21 AM | #31 | |
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I wonder if the fact that Michigan has like the 7th highest minimum wage has anything to do with our current local economy? California's is $8 (the city of San Fran is 9.36, though my example was not in the city) What this all boils down do is that my example was terrible, and ultimately pointless for my argument. Sorry. Last edited by Monkeyevil; July 16th, 2008 at 01:27 AM. |
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Well, somewhat, but not nearly as much as some would have you believe. Coincidently, all of the states with a minimum wage higher than ours have unemployment rates below us. Last edited by WSU JK; July 16th, 2008 at 08:46 AM. |
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First they flew to watch for illegal immigrants, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not an illegal immigrant.
Then they flew to look for marijuana farms, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a marijuana farmer.
Then they flew to watch the White House, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not the President.
Then … and then … and then …
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… St Cybi's Well, what with an incompetent theocratic government in place:
So imagine the scenario. A deadly flu pandemic is beginning in the northeast. TSA agents are asked to report for work in the germ incubators that are airports to keep the transportation system running. And while their bosses in Washington, D.C. can't supply them with reliably functioning respirators to protect them from infection, they're keeping thousands that may not work on hand, thinking they may hand them out for "employee comfort," like security theater karma for those who make us remove our shoes and take our water.
But sadly, scarily, it isn't. Rather, that passage is from the following news item:
The Department of Homeland Security Is Not Prepared for a Pandemic
As the Department of Homeland Security endeavors to prevent another 9/11, a terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000 Americans, it is worth remembering that there are far deadlier threats out there. I speak not of ISIS or Ebola, but the influenza virus. The flu pandemic that began in 1918 killed 675,000 Americans. That is to say, it killed about as many Americans in a couple years as the AIDS virus has in decades. Worldwide, that same flu pandemic killed an estimated 30 to 50 million people. It would take 16,000 attacks like 9/11 to equal that death toll. Those figures powerfully illustrate the case for redirecting some of what the United States spends on counterterrorism to protecting ourselves from public health threats.
Of course, money only helps if it isn't squandered. Take the extra $47 million dollars that Congress gave the Department of Homeland Security in 2006 to prepare for a pandemic. As a recent Inspector General report explains in depressing detail, a lot of that money was wasted. And one darkly hilarious passage in the audit reveals what may be the most galling example of security theater ever.
Oh, joy.
But it's OK, because the rest of the world is ready to step up and fight against a viral threat which could explode into millions of cases in just a few weeks, right?
Um …
Dire Predictions On Ebola's Spread From Top Health Organizations
Two of the world's top health organizations released predictions Tuesday warning how bad the Ebola outbreak in West Africa could get.
Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization agree that the epidemic is speeding up. But the CDC's worst-case scenario is a jaw-dropper: If interventions don't start working soon, as many as 1.4 million people could be infected by Jan. 20, the agency reported in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Sometimes it feels less like I'm writing a cautionary work of fiction and more like I am looking back and writing an historical account …
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Yeah, it's cool and all, but I can't be the only one who looked at the news about Google X's Drone Program …
A zipping comes across the sky.
A man named Neil Parfitt is standing in a field on a cattle ranch outside Warwick, Australia. A white vehicle appears above the trees, a tiny plane a bit bigger than a seagull. It glides towards Parfitt, pitches upwards to a vertical position, and hovers near him, a couple hundred feet in the air. From its belly, a package comes tumbling downward, connected by a thin line to the vehicle itself. Right before the delivery hits the ground, it slows, hitting the earth with a tap.
… and thinks "generation 1.0 Hunter-seeker", right? I mean, this basically jumps from needing a large military drone to having a backpack assassination tool. Why worry about collateral damage with a missile when you can just drop a cigarette-pack lump of high explosive in someone's lap, using a cell phone and facial-recognition software to make sure of your specific target?
Or how I look at the self-driving car and think "hmm, add a Ma Deuce and/or 30mm cannon, and you've a small autonomous tank".
Yeah, OK, perhaps I'm just too cynical. But human nature being what it is, you've gotta think that there was a reason why DARPA has been behind the development of these technologies …
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Sorry for my absence here — I've been very busy with a another big project, one which I can't discuss publicly just yet. But soon.
Without wanting to buy-into the complete panic in some corners about Ebola, here are a couple of very sober articles to consider, which are less about the actual disease and more about what such a pandemic does to the society it hits:
Looters Attack Liberia Ebola Quarantine Center, Patients Under Observation Return Home
Battling the deadly outbreak of Ebola in Liberia has been a mammoth task for the country's government and international aid agencies. Over the weekend combating the virus' spread got even harder when a quarantine center in Monrovia was attacked, and 17 patients being monitored for possible infection fled the medical facility. The Liberian government initially said all of the patients had been relocated to another facility after the West Point health center was looted on Saturday, but later admitted that 17 patients had gone "back into their communities," the BBC reports.
And this one from last week:
You Are Not Nearly Scared Enough About Ebola
Attention, World: You just don't get it.
You think there are magic bullets in some rich country's freezers that will instantly stop the relentless spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa? You think airport security guards in Los Angeles can look a traveler in the eyes and see infection, blocking that jet passenger's entry into La-la-land? You believe novelist Dan Brown's utterly absurd description of a World Health Organization that has a private C5-A military transport jet and disease SWAT team that can swoop into outbreaks, saving the world from contagion?
Wake up, fools. What's going on in West Africa now isn't Brown's silly Inferno scenario — it's Steven Soderbergh's movie Contagion, though without a modicum of its high-tech capacity.
And from that second article, more to my point:
I myself have received emails from physicians in these countries, describing the complete collapse of all non-Ebola care, from unassisted deliveries to untended auto accident injuries. People aren't just dying of the virus, but from every imaginable medical issue a system of care usually faces.
That's the thing — a pandemic is bad enough in its own right, when a disease such as Ebola has a mortality of more than 50% under the best conditions. Consider how much worse the impact will be once the overall public health system collapses due to the death of doctors and nurses, when deliveries can't be made to restock supplies, when whole cities are quarantined, when people begin to really panic.
That is the horror of a true global pandemic. Like the one in St Cybi's Well.
Cheery thought, eh?
Jim Downey
PS: Two other unrelated things I want to mention. The first is thanks to all who participated in Helping Cassandra – you made a real difference. And the second is just to link to a blog post about some black powder shooting I did this past weekend with some very fun historical guns.
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I have mentioned this passage from the prelude to St Cybi's Well a couple of times previously:
He turned the hand-held on, did a quick check to make sure it had the software and apps he'd asked for. Everything was there. He'd pick up a burner phone later, and swap the SIMM card into the hand-held. He turned off the hand-held, dropped it into a special pocket inside his vest – one which was RF-blocked. He had another such compartment in his satchel. These, like the wallet/holster, were prohibited items and grounds for arrest in the States, but while they would raise an eyebrow in the UK they weren't technically illegal.
And even earlier did a blog post about a commercial product to isolate a phone that way when I first thought of it: Off the Grid Bag. (Which actually works quite well, as a matter of fact; I got one of those and have tested/used it exactly as intended.)
Well, now someone has come up with the idea of making actual articles of clothing using the same idea:
Sure, you could just turn off your phone. But that would be too easy. Now, thanks to Trident (yes, the chewing gum) and fashion designer Kunihiko Morinaga, you can repel all cellphone transmissions simply by wearing these hip threads called Focus Life Gear—made of radio frequency shielding fabric.
I suppose that since I haven't actually published St Cybi's Well yet I can't claim to have predicted this tech, but no matter — it's an obvious application of existing technology and desire for privacy. But still, kinda fun.
James Downey
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Woodshed beatings like the one the Milwaukee Brewers absorbed from the St. Louis Cardinals occasionally happen in baseball. Laughers, they call 'em.
Except for four things.
They rarely happened to the Brewers this season.
They never happened at Miller Park.
It happened to the Brewers at a most inconvenient time, Game 2 of the NLCS, the occasion on which they temporarily ceded home-field advantage to the Cardinals.
And there was nothing particularly funny about it, judging by the reaction from a crowd that turned from rapturous in Game 1 to downright annoyed and sarcastic by the time the eighth inning had finally come about in the 12-3 thrashing Monday night.
When the Brewers finally stopped human wrecking machine Albert Pujols from collecting another total base, those weren't empathetic shouts of approval. There weren't enough people left in the joint to do a proper "Jump Around," or to fully appreciate the magnitude of Prince Fielder's second-deck shot that trimmed the lead to, um, eight runs.
To be blunt about it, these Brewers have little practical experience coming back from the type of butt-whuppin' the Cardinals laid on them. It's one thing to do it during the humdrum pace of 162 regular-season games, like they eventually did when the Yankees similarly dismantled them in late June. But that was in New York, where those things happen.
But to get this kind of sendoff for three games in the belly of the beast that is Busch Stadium, and at this particular point in October, well, we're about to see what "Team No Worries" is made of from here now that the Cardinals are going home and sufficiently pumped.
"I guess they've got some emotion now," Brewers centerfielder Nyjer Morgan said. "So be it."
Guess so.
Morgan was part of the problem in the absolute offense-defense-pitching breakdown, misjudging two fly balls in the third. As Brewers manager Ron Roenicke saw it, it was not a total loss in that the Brewers got a complete clunker out of their system.
But in reality, the Brewers, who got this far on the strength of their starting pitching, suddenly have starting-pitching problems.
As St. Louis manager Tony La Russa was second- and third-guessed for staying with his Game 1 starter too long, Roenicke had to answer why he started the suddenly flailing Shaun Marcum in Game 2. The glove-flipper from the NLDS was pretty much done by the time he left a ball up to the redoubtable Mr. Pujols in the first inning.
Roenicke, who hasn't much choice but to start Randy Wolf in Game 4, should really think about Chris Narveson in Game 6 instead of Marcum. Right now, he says he won't.
"As far as I'm concerned, he's pitching again," Roenicke said.
We'll see Sunday back at Miller Park, if the series returns. But Roenicke's thought that Marcum wasn't hit particularly hard except by Pujols isn't terribly reassuring. The Brewers could also rationalize that first base umpire Sam Holbrook blew it (he did) on the double-play call against Rickie Weeks in the fifth inning. But in the end, a nine-run beating is a nine-run beating, and nine times magnified by the playoffs.
The concern, of course, is that the Brewers will completely fall apart in St. Louis as they did in Arizona, a notion the manager dismissed. "It's a different series, different ballpark, different team, different stadium. We have Yo going (in Game 3). Everything is different."
Of course, Yovani Gallardo is the Brewers' big equalizer. Easy to say, but all it will take is winning one of three in St. Louis to recapture the home-field edge they would have through the World Series. Win Game 3 with Gallardo and the pitching worries are minimized, but that's a lot to ask against Chris Carpenter at Busch Stadium.
Suddenly, Game 3 is huge. If Gallardo can't get it done, the Brewers are looking at an elimination scenario, with Wolf in Game 4 and road struggler Zack Greinke in Game 5.
But they can't think about all that now.
"The thing is still taking it a day as it comes and don't get out of our realm," Morgan said. "We still have confidence in all our pitchers. Part of the game is getting spanked. You've got to get over those."
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I beg to differ with this statement: "the first in downtown Palo Alto since a pub burned in the early 1980s." Since I moved here in 1995, a cooking shop has burned down, and before that a recreational equipment store and a picture framing store burned down, all in downtown Palo Alto.
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Traveling to Disney World with your kids? If you are a typical Jewish family, there are concerns about the availability of kosher food, events that take place on Shabbos that you may have to schedule around, and the availability of a minyan.
Traveling with a special needs child creates an added level of complexity. However, with careful advance planning and organization, many of these concerns can be addressed resulting in a trip in which everything can go smoothly and be enjoyed by all.
Here are some of the key issues to consider-
The length of time you'll be traveling:
Do some research into the Disney World parks. Determine which attractions you want to see and approximately how long it will take, given your child's abilities. If your child has behavior issues, how will he or she handle the large crowds? What type of activities will they enjoy the most? Shows, rides, shopping, parades and nighttime activities like fireworks are some of the choices. Consider getting a disability pass from the park to shorten the waiting time in lines.
Make up a daily schedule:
Make a schedule for each day that you will be visiting the park with estimates for the amount of time that you will be spending for each activity, including preparation time in the hotel and travel time.If your child has medical needs, estimate how long it will take to get him ready for each day's outing, and include that time in your daily schedule.
Plan for the number of stops for their care you will need throughout the day, and consult the maps of the park to plan the best places to make those stops. Again, which activities would they enjoy the most and which are they able to do? How long do you need to allocate for each Park? There are four Disney parks, Downtown Disney (shopping), and various water parks.
Does your child need some down-time in between days at the Parks? Consider some of the many other, less demanding tourist attractions in the Orlando area which would be enjoyable for the whole family but much less stressful and intense than the environment in the Disney parks. Do some research into the available arrangements in the area for Shabbos, and schedule it as one of your planned "down-time" days. There is a lot to see and do in the Orlando area. You might want to stay for at least a week, and use your first visit as a scouting trip for a second vacation at a later time to see some of the things you will not have enough time for in the first visit.
If you will be staying at a Disney property, they have buses from the airport to their hotels and from the hotels to the parks. However, not all of the buses accommodate wheelchairs and often it's a long wait. Consider renting a car/van even if you're staying at a Disney property.
For off-property lodging, if you need a place to stay that's handicapped accessible, you should look into it ahead of time. Many of the hotels in the Orlando area are two floor walk ups, without elevators.
Do your research. There are a number of travel sites on line with detailed listings of the hotels and motels in the area, along with reviews by travelers who have used them. Another good research tool is the Florida AAA Travel Guide, which is available free upon request to AAA members. It will give you an idea of where the better hotels and motels are, and what facilities they offer. If your child loves the water, it's important to note that there are no indoor pools in Orlando, even at luxury hotels.
The location of your hotel makes a difference as well. It can take almost 40 minutes from some hotels to actually reach the Parks, especially during peak travel times during the day. Many special needs children cannot handle a long car trip on top of a full day at an amusement park. Try to determine the actual traveling time from the hotel to the park before making your reservation.
Look for a place with a kitchen, efficiency, or at least a fridge. Remember that you will need a place for medication storage, as well as a preparation area and place to store kosher food. Think about what you will need to bring with you from home, such as a couple of sharp knives, a frying pan, a hot water device, and harder to find items like kosher cheese and meat, and what you can expect to buy at a typical Orlando-area supermarket, like disposable utensils and basic packaged foods bearing a national hashgocho.
Glatt Kosher airline style frozen meals can be ordered at some of the Disney facilities, and the web site of the Chabad of South Orlando lists various establishments in the area offering kosher food, as well as supermarkets with kosher food sections. The majority of Publix supermarkets have a variety of kosher food. Since this information may change without notice, it is strongly recommended to check with a phone call to confirm accuracy and availability.
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Mastering the art of grooving requires practicing your bass lines to sit in front of the kick drum, behind it, and right on it. Sometimes, a tight relationship between
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George Washington, the father of our country, had taphophobia, fear of graves. When dying in 1799 he recalled several newspaper reports of men thought to be dead who were buried alive. He told his secretary not to bury him until at least three days after his death.
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Owen and technicians placed patients inside advanced brain scanners and gave them careful instructions: Imagine you are playing tennis. Imagine you are exploring your home, room by room. The scanner showed no action in the brains of most patients, but for others the scans flashed like those of a healthy conscious person: The minds of these supposed vegetables were alive. One patient could answer detailed yes-and-no questions about his life before entering the hospital.
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An efficient algorithm for a generalized joint replenishment problem
In most multi-item inventory systems, the ordering costs consist of a major cost and a minor cost for each item included. Applying for every individual item a cyclic inventory policy, where the cycle length is a multiple of some basic cycle time, reduces the major ordering costs. An efficient algorithm to determine the optimal policy of this type is discussed in this paper. It is shown that this algorithm can be used for deterministic multi-item inventory problems, with general cost rate functions and possibly service level constraints, of which the well-known joint replenishment problem is a special case. Some useful results in determining the optimal control parameters are derived, and worked out for piecewise linear cost rate functions. Numerical results for this case show that the algorithm significantly outperforms other solution methods, both in the quality of the solution and in the running time.
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Keywords | deterministic demand, inventory, joint replenishment problem, multi-item |
Persistent URL | dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0377-2217(98)00322-1, hdl.handle.net/1765/15346 |
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Frenk, J.B.G, Kleijn, M.J, & Dekker, R. (1999). An efficient algorithm for a generalized joint replenishment problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 118(2), 413–428. doi:10.1016/S0377-2217(98)00322-1


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Blackhawk 27" Wide 5 Drawer Top Cabinet
Blackhawk 27" Wide 5 Drawer Top Cabinet
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Product Type: Top cabinet | Color: Black |
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From its founding in the early part of the 20th century, Blackhawk Manufacturing developed into one of the top producers of mechanic's tools, and its products were widely respected for their quality of design and production. Blackhawk's rapid innovation in the late 1920s and 1930s helped set the pace of development for the rest of the tool industry.Blackhawk 27" Wide 5 Drawer Top Cabinet
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