text: I would like to start by saying hello to every body at the sub committee forum, as i have just joined i built a model submarine 20 years ago it is a 12ft gato weight is 500lbs its a beast it has spent the last 17 years in a trailor and my son said why dont you do some thing with it, what came to mind scrap it but no submarine was full of electronics level control, back hydoplanes very sencertive because of lenght of sub depth control unit, could keep sub at preset depth and would hunt within 15mm to keep it there worked on infa red light sub had four way radio link, video, full telemetry giving data back to bank side padgeing system rc radio control 90 channels was all done 20 years ago. One of the new units to go in sub is low frequency radio link for controlling sub would be interested if anybody else has worked on the same thing because lf is a lot better at getting through water than HF bands plus alot of this is all down to how much RF you can put into antenners other unit i have been working on is on screen display which will overlay on video picture coming back from sub compass headings speed battery voltage and all sorts of other data. To give some idear of size of the sub it takes four 12volt 38 amp hour gel type batterys drive motors for props are washing matchine motors dc 240volts


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Pathfinding is a discontinued merit badge. However, in honor of the BSA's 100th Anniversary, this badge has been named to the BSA's new Historical Merit Badge Program and may be earned by Scouts during 2010 until December 31, 2010. |
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As of March 31, 2010 official requirements are not posted by the BSA. Even though some council Scout shops have sold this patch, this merit badge cannot be earned until finalized requirements are released.
1938, 1945, 1950 merit badge requirements
- 1. Demonstrate a general knowledge of the district within a three-mile radius of the local Scout Headquarters, or his house so as to be able to guide people at any time day or night to points within this area.
- 2. Know the population of the five principal neighboring towns and cities as selected by his Guide or Counselor. Demonstrate direction for reaching them from Scout Headquarters or his house.
- 3. If in the country, know the breeds of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs owned on the five neighboring farms; if in the city, demonstrate directions to tourist camp and to five places for purchasing food supplies.
- 4. Demonstrate how to direct tourists from his home to gas, oil, tire and general auto repair.
- 5. Give telephone number, if any, and directions for reaching the nearest police station, fire-fighting apparatus, Court House or Municipal Building, the nearest Country Farm Agent's office, doctor, veterinarian and hospital.
- 6. Know something of the history of his community and the location of its principal places of interest and public buildings.
- 7. Submit a scale map, not necessarily drawn by himself, upon which he has personally indicated as much of the above-required information.
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SELinux is full of security holes which I'm sure is the way the NSA intended it.
Phoronix: The FBI Paid OpenBSD Developers For Backdoors?
Government organizations, whether they be from the United States, the European Union, or anywhere else for that matter, contributing to open-source projects is not new. Heck, Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) in the mainline kernel can largely be attributed to the United State's National Security Agency (NSA). More organizations contributing to open-source isn't bad -- government or not -- when it's mutually beneficial work with good intentions. However, there are new allegations being made today about OpenBSD's networking stack, in particular it's IPsec code. The FBI allegedly paid OpenBSD developers to insert back-doors into the code-base...
SELinux is full of security holes which I'm sure is the way the NSA intended it.
Ouch. Can't say I'm terribly surprised, but ouch.
OpenBSD is used in way too many servers, a thorough security audit must be performed ASAP (but will that be enough?)
What crude ethics those developers must have ...
The guy who sent the email had a NDA with the FBI that kept him from talking about this. Does that mean that he one of the people who implemented these backdoors?
So I guess he'll be arrested on rape charges now? >.>
Well, like ones said, 'with money you can buy anything.'
..and they said openBSD is secure
oh well..
How has this been in there for a decade without anyone noticing? Where's the code they're talking about? Was this only in some proprietary fork of BSD? This whole story sounds unlikely.
IF this thing has a prossibility to be right, then imagine what happens inside the code of proprietary OSes...
Just the idea makes me shiver...
So, it's now time to audit more carefully Linux source code...


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PSU Speedway/deathtrap?
Has anyone ridden on Broadway past PSU lately?
There is a new bike lane wedged in between parked cars and the sidewalk. This sort of lane would be great if there weren't: 1.Such high pedestrian cross traffic 2.Business trucks loading/unloading in the bike lane (completely blocks route) 3.Buses loading/unloading long lines of passengers across the bike lane 4.Passenger exiting (drivers usually check - passengers never do) 5.Aimless un-caffeinated students standing in the middle of the bike lane with headphones on. I ride this everyday... I ask all the bikers I see what they think about it - and the standard response I get is "It's terrible". I'd like not to get hurt while they experiment with this "Speedway"... ie I'd like to get it removed. One way streets are generally great for bikes (Broadway is excellent) I think this sort of infrastructure would be great somewhere else... dedicated bike lanes are great...just not there. Let me know what you think. http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting...crifice_a.html Thanks, Kevin Tharp Last edited by kevintharp; 10-22-2009 at 11:31 AM. |
We seem to have very different experiences. I've ridden the Broadway cycletrack a number of times now and think it's great. I've never seen a truck parked in the lane (which is illegal and should be reported - did you do so?) and have never had car passengers open their doors in front of me - in fact the cycletrack is so wide I don't even see how that would happen unless you're hugging the left side of the lane (was that what you were doing?).
As for pedestrians, there are definitely plenty around, but the existence of the cycletrack doesn't seem to make things any worse than they were before. Scott |
Deathtrap? I haven't had any problems. I had to squeeze around a delivery truck one time - cars had parked in all the spots that must've been open when it pulled to the curb, so it was a narrow squeeze - but peds step back when they see me coming, doors don't open all the way across the track and I don't think there are any buses on Broadway anymore, are there? I wouldn't say it's terrible.
Deathtrap is quite inflammatory. Maybe it's the time of day that I use the track but I find pedestrian traffic to be scant but very aimless and precariously positioned. I usually ride the track between 8:20 and 9:00 every weekday. I constantly see delivery trucks in the lane. I ride 2 ft in from the divider from the parked cars because I've been obstructed closer to the sidewalk. The passenger door issue is not the problem... It's the passenger hoping out of the car without looking and strolling into the lane without looking.
I really like these cycle-tracks, I just feel that this placement on a 3 way intersected 1 way street is a waste. |
i liked the width of the new cycletrack but its a little hard to get used to parked cars on your left side... i kept thinking they were about to start moving at any second before realizing there was no driver..
The thing to keep in mind is that the cycletrack is an incomplete experiment, the outcome of which will determine whether other cycletracks are implemented elsewhere in Portland. Broadway doesn't need a cycletrack per se, but it's a convenient place for the city to experiment with the concept.
More fully realized versions of the cycletrack (with better physical separation between pedestrians, vehicles, and bicycles) are planned for future development elsewhere in Portland. These should include features to address the concerns in the original post. See related story here: http://bikeportland.org/2008/11/20/p...roposed-cully/ For now, if a rider's not comfortable with the Broadway cycletrack, there's always other options to ride -- either SW 5th Ave (perfectly good bike lane), or take the rightmost lane on SW Broadway, or ride south through the Park Blocks. ________ Yamaha XV1900 Last edited by Axel; 01-19-2011 at 03:45 AM. |
While I don't suspect that all cyclists love this cycle track (Vance L. certainly hates it and he is a cyclist) does Kevin Tharp seem like a bit of an Oregonian troll?
Looking for a line like "LOOK! LOOK! CYCLISTS AT BIKEPORTLAND HATE IT TOO!!!"?
Knowledge is NOT a crime. |
Kevin, I do hope you're not trolling. I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt here.
That said, your original post probably came off as a bit narrow-minded in its focus - you seemed looking for an excuse to get rid of the cycletrack and were hoping to find a chorus of agreement here in this forum. You can probably see by now that you most likely won't find a majority of cyclists here that agree with the "it's terrible" school of thought. So given that, is there a compromise that you'd be willing to explore? What improvements to the existing cycletrack would make for a better experience? It appears that your issues #1 and #5 are related to pedestrians entering the cycletrack from the sidewalk. As an aside, I find that on Broadway I'm much more likely to encounter a pedestrian conflict further north in the hotel district, usually related to hotel guests and their vehicles entering the bike lane on Broadway. Regardless, the amount of pedestrian conflict with the Broadway cycletrack could be alleviated by adding planters or barriers parallel to the cycletrack on the sidewalks. This would serve to redirect foot traffic to the crosswalks, where it is more easily negotiated and managed via the crosswalk signals. Issues #2 and #3 are illegal unloading and should be called into Portland Parking Enforcement. Call 503-823-5195 and have them write the driver a ticket. TriMet buses unload on 5th or 6th avenue, so you won't find them on Broadway at PSU. Issue #4 could be addressed by adding a raised 'shy zone' for unloading. (as seen in this Paris cycletrack: http://tinyurl.com/yf5ved9) All of these improvements would address Kevin's concerns and most likely wouldn't cost a great deal to implement. Improving the existing facility is a much better way to be proactive and cost-effective, rather than trying to eliminate it. ________ volcano classic review Last edited by Axel; 01-19-2011 at 03:45 AM. |
Axel, thanks. Great points. I'm not sure what trolling is, so - I can't speak to that.
I just wanted to get some opinions on my frustrations with the track in it's current situation... before I bothered spending my time chatting with the transit people. The bus stop in the cycletrack is not for trimet buses... I think it's a PSU shuttle. Last edited by kevintharp; 10-22-2009 at 09:11 PM. |
I rode on that last weekend in the morning. I felt that passengers exiting their cars to the L. were not being totally aware of the new situation. (mindlessly walking into the bike lane). That's more of an awareness issue though w/ the pedestrian than it is a design flaw w/ the cycletrack. Obviously it's so protected from cars that peds feel like it's a safe place to stand.
It sounds like all of Kevins observations were of people acting slightly jerky instead of there being an issue w/ the cycletrack itself. (I would assume though that the bus load / unloading would probably require one to stop for pedestrians regardless of the vehicle they were driving.) |
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"Store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroy, nor thieves break in and steal." Luke 6:20
There are several ways to make a gift to a parish, parish school, regional school, specific archdiocesan ministry or a general gift to the Archdiocese. The Office of Stewardship and Development can assist you and your advisor in developing a charitable gift best suited to your interests. You can contact us at (502) 585-3291 or via email at email@example.com.
Designating a Beneficiary for Your Gift
You may designate your gift for the benefit of a particular parish, parish school, regional school, a specific archdiocesan ministry (i.e. Catholic Charities, Catholic Cemeteries, Family Ministries, etc.), the annual Catholic Services Appeal, or for the general needs and use of the Archdiocese.
Tax Savings
Your charitable gift is deductible for income tax purposes to the full extent permitted by law. In addition, certain types of charitable gifts also offer capital gains and/or estate tax savings. The information contained herein is of a general nature and is not intended to serve as legal or accounting advice. Donors should always seek professional counsel to determine any tax savings and benefits when making a gift.
Ways to Make a Gift
Cash Gifts. You can make a cash donation by sending a check or money order to the Archdiocese of Louisville to the following address. Note, cash gifts can always be sent directly to a parish, parish school, or regional school.
The Archdiocese of Louisville
Office of Finance
P.O. Box 740043
Louisville, KY 40201
Please be sure to enclose a signed letter indicating the beneficiary of your gift, e.g. the annual Catholic Services Appeal, a parish, parish school, a regional school, or archdiocesan ministry.
Donating Stock. Donations of stock offer a way to make a charitable gift without having to utilize cash funds. In general, you can avoid capital gains taxes by donating stocks held for more than 12 months; however, you should always consult with your financial advisor or a tax professional to determine the actual tax benefits or any other consequences of a stock donation.
To donate stock, please follow these steps:
1. Download the Archdiocesan Stock Donation Form by (clicking here).
This form will provide your broker with instructions regarding the stock to be
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Note – Please indicate the beneficiary of your donation on the archdiocesan form.2. Forward the completed Stock Donation Form to your broker and a copy to the
Archdiocese's Chief Financial Officer at firstname.lastname@example.com or by mail to:Archdiocese of Louisville
Office of Finance
P.O. Box 1073
Louisville, KY 40201-1073
For income tax purposes, the fair market value of your stock gift is determined by the date that the stock is transferred to the Archdiocese.
Donating Real Estate or Personal Property. Donations of real estate or personal property provide another attractive way for you to make a gift. Due to the legal issues and requirements regarding the transfer of ownership for real estate and personal property, we ask that you contact either: the Office of Finance at firstname.lastname@example.com or the Office of Stewardship at firstname.lastname@example.com prior to making this type of donation. Either office can also be reached by phone at (502) 585-3291.
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Planned Gifts can be made during one's lifetime or as part of an estate plan. Due to the complex and legal nature of many planned giving options, donors are encouraged to always seek legal and professional counsel. The Office of Stewardship and Development is available to assist you, your attorney and/or financial advisor in preparing a planned gift.
Bequests. Bequests are one of the most common forms of planned giving. Bequests are provisions in a will for the distribution or transfer of one's cash or other assets upon death. Bequest gifts may take the form of a specific dollar amount, a gift of stocks or securities, real estate or property, or a percentage of the residue of the estate.
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Located midway between Chicago and Milwaukee. Over 130 rooms which range from jacuzzi suites for couples to comfortable family-style rooms.
America's Best Value Inn & Suites - Waukegan
Indoor Heated Pool, Free Wireless Internet, Free Continental Breakfast, all rooms with refrigerator, iron/ironing board, hair dryer, and coffee makers.
Americas Best Value Inn and Suites
This hotel is known for its friendly, spacious and comfortable environment and is located a few miles from Six Flags, Gurnee Mills, Great Lakes Naval Training Center, downtown Waukegan, top local golf courses, area attractions, and the best sport facilities.
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The AmericInn Hotel & Suites Schaumburg Hotel provides overnight lodging accommodations in the heart of Schaumburg Illinois in Northwest Chicagoland. Our entire staff will welcome you and your partner with a hot, home-style breakfast, free hotel-wide wifi, and warm, Midwestern hospitality. Shop at nearby Woodfield Mall, order room service from Wildfire Restaurant, or just relax in our cozy lobby. Your room is ready. We are located near several major Interstates including 90 (NW Tollway), 290 (Eisenhower Expressway) and 294 (TriState Tollway).
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The newly renovated and redesigned Best Western Plus in Antioch, Illinois offers an unsurpassed combination of suburban comforts, neighborhood charms and magnificent views of the Chain O'Lakes, plus easy access to downtown Chicago or downtown Milwaukee. Both vacationers and business travelers will appreciate the all the extra touches including a complimentary full hot breakfast buffet each morning, complimentary high-speed internet access, the new state-of-the-art 24-hour fitness room, and access to the new business center. Relax in the full-sized heated indoor swimming pool, oversized whirlpool and spacious sun deck. Stylishly decorated guest rooms features an upgraded luxurious bedding, flat panel HDTVs, microwaves & refrigerators. Enjoy a cocktail at Fox's Lounge overlooking Lake Antioch with indoor and outdoor seating including a 2,000 sq. ft. heated patio. And count on superior service from our 24-hour front desk associates to ensure every detail is perfect.
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Centrally located in downtown Evanston just blocks from the lake. Upscale amenities abound at this Best Western including free Wi-Fi, a modern fitness center, continental breakfast, courtesy shuttle and outdoor pool all for a great value. The 159 guest rooms feature Sealy Posturepedic pillow-top mattresses, luxury linens and coffee makers.
C.J. Smith Resort
For 84 years, C. J. Smith Resort has provided everything needed to enjoy a day of fishing and boating on the beautiful Chain O' Lakes in northern Illinois. C. J. Smith Resort is a family owned and operated business since 1929. We believe in providing exceptional service and reasonable prices to our valued customers and guests.
Cabin Nature Center
Nature center, nature trail and dog park. Free admission, cost for some activities.
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Candlewood Suites
Candlewood Suites is carefully designed with spacious rooms, queen size beds, full kitchens and business desk with executive chair. Among all amenities included in the rate are fitness center, laundry facility, local calls, high speed internet and more.
Candlewood Suites - Libertyville
Big and built for comfort these comfortable studio and one bedroom suites feature a full kitchen complete with microwave, stove and full size refrigerator. Work efficiently at the oversized executive desk with two separate phone lines and complimentary high-speed Internet. Relax in the over stuffed recliner while enjoying the CD player and VCR. Borrow a favorite from the free video and CD library or work off some stress in the fitness center. Visit the convenient store, Candlewood Cupboard, where meals and snacks can be purchased. On-site laundry facilities are also available.
Candlewood Suites - Waukegan
A 4-time Quality Excellence Award Winner, this hotel is spacious and built for comfort. Each of the suites have a full kitchen, complete with microwave and full size refrigerator. Catch up on work on the large executive desk with two phone lines and free high speed Internet. Relax in the overstuffed recliner while enjoying cable TV, listening to your MP3 or watching movies that can be borrowed from the free DVD library. Work off some stress in the Fitness Center or visit the on-site convenient store, Candlewood Cupboard, where meals and snacks can be purchased.
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Chicago Marriott Northwest
An upscale full-service hotel and conference center featuring The River City Girlle & Lounge, 1500 square ft. of meeting and banquet space, fitness center, indoor lap pool, 24-hour business center, concierge rooms and lounge. Open Fall 2002.
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Chicago Marriott Schaumburg
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August 20, 2009 - by Donny ShawConservatives call it a trojan horse for single-payer health care. Progressives call it the key to reform – a way to keep private companies in check and make health insurance more affordable. It's not the only point of contention between Republicans and Democrats in Congress on health reform, but it's the one the debate has been focused on the most, with moderates in the Senate trying to replace it with a system of non-profit insurance co-ops.
The public option as proposed in the House health care bill, is a government-run health insurance plan, like Medicare, that would compete along side private insurers in a new Health Insurance Exchange that the bill would set up. The exchange is basically a place where people who aren't on Medicare or Medicaid and don't have insurance through their employers would go to comparison shop for a health plan. One of the plans available on the exchange would be the public option. Like all plans on the exchange, the public plan would have to meet certain minimum standards for care – minimum services that must be covered, mental health benefits parity, a fair grievance and appeals mechanism, etc.
The public option and the private insurers on the exchange could still offer different levels of care – from catastrophic-only to comprehensive – but plans would be relatively standardized by type so that comparison shopping is easier for consumers. The exchange would be available to the public as a website and a toll-free hotline, and would be focused on making information about the plans more transparent.
Conservatives argue that the government-run public option plan would drive private insurers out of business because, not being burdened by the need to generate profit, they could offer the same level of care at a lower price. They fear that this would happen to such an extent that eventually there would not be any private insurers left. Liberals on the other hand see the competitive advantage of a public plan as a way to bring costs down throughout the industry, thereby increasing the number of affordable health insurance choices for consumers. Without the public option there will be no real change to the current system that has kept health insurance out of reach for millions of Americans, they argue.
Who's right? The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a politically independent, non-partisan government agency whose job is to provide economic data to Congress on the bills they propose, has done some analysis (.pdf) of the public option's likely effects. This is as close as we can get to an unbiased, scientific take. Based on how the CBO sees the public option working, it's safe to say that even if the conservatives are right and the goal is to crowd out the private insurers, as written into the bill, it's not going to have that effect:
Another significant feature of the insurance exchanges is that they would include a public plan that largely pays Medicare-based rates for medical goods and services. CBO estimates that the premiums for that plan would generally be lower than the premiums of the private plans against which it would be competing. Because all plans offered in the exchanges would vary their premiums to reflect the costs incurred in each area, the difference in premiums between private plans and the public plan would vary geographically—but on average the public plan would be about 10 percent cheaper than a typical private plan offered in the exchanges. That difference in premiums is itself the net effect of differences in the major factors that affect all insurance plans' premiums, including their payment rates to providers, their administrative costs, the degree of benefit management they apply to control spending, and the pool of enrollees they attract (the effects of which would be partly offset by the risk-adjustment provisions described above).
Enrollment in the public plan would also depend on the number of providers who chose to participate in it. Providers would not be required to participate in the public plan in order to participate in Medicare, and CBO assumed that some providers would elect not to participate in the public plan because its payment rates would be lower, on average, than private rates. Even so, CBO's judgment is that a substantial number of providers would elect to participate in the public plan, in part because they would expect a plan run by HHS to attract substantial enrollment. Taking into account both the access to providers in the public plan and the relative premiums its enrollees would pay, CBO estimates that roughly one-third of the people obtaining subsidized coverage through the insurance exchanges would be enrolled in the public plan—so enrollment in that plan would be about 9 million or 10 million once the proposal was fully implemented. Given all of the factors in play, however, that estimate is subject to an unusually high degree of uncertainty.
This CBO report is from July. Since then, one of the three House committees with jurisdiction over the bill, the Energy and Commerce Committee, has marked up a version that would require the public option to be reimbursed on rates negotiated with the insurance industry. That would make the public option less competitive than it would be how it's set up in the bill the CBO looked at (public option reimbursement rates based on Medicare rates). At this point, it's unclear whether or not the Energy and Commerce Committee changes will be incorporated in the bill the House finally votes on.
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But if we change the regulation on private insurers by allowing national competition for healthcare among private insurers won't that in effect do the same thing as the public option? By allowing people to purchase insurance from any company regardless of geographical location wouldn't that stimulate the competitive aspects that a public option is so keen on addressing? If we need a public option to keep healthcare competitive why not a public option for everything? Gas, food, clothing, vehicles, and public works. I mean if we are going to have national competition with private industry why not have national competition with state run programs? If in fact its the plan to drive down prices. Where do we stop?
We don't need a public option for gas, food, clothing or vehicles because there is a working free market that isn't employer or geography based. If we could only buy gas if we jobs or couldn't buy steak unless we lived in New York, a public option in these areas might be needed. But since UNLIKE health care we have full individual freedom to buy these goods from whatever provider we like, there is no need for a public option. In the current health insurance plan we have an oligopoly where patients are not the end consumers. This is NOT a free market.
Well health care is very important to have and this just allows people the oppurtunity to have afforable health care. I would much rather have afforable health care compared to other things we need as an individual. People need health care and I think it is a way to compete with other states, but more of a way to help our people who need it.
It won't cost tax payers anything. Just like with private insurance companies, the public plan would be funded by premiums paid by individuals. The bill would set aside $2 billion in start-up funds, but it specifies that that money would be paid back over a ten year period.
If you're asking about premiums for individual plans under the public option, that isn't set under the bill. That would be decided on by the Secretary of Health and Human Services when the public option takes effect. The CBO report quoted above says, "on average the public plan would be about 10 percent cheaper than a typical private plan."
do you know how much your Emergency room visit costs? do you know, if you are diagnosed with cancer, how much your insurance will pay? how much the bill will be for you? I just came back from the doctor. No doctor accepting insurance will tell you, or can tell you your final bill because they have to be "approved" by the insurance companies. Do you know how they approve it? because I called mine, and they couldn't, because of the codes of services that need to meet certain criteria's. So, yeah, i will trade uncertainty for 10% cheaper uncertainty.
"It won't cost tax payers anything. Just like with private insurance companies, the public plan would be funded by premiums paid by individuals." ??? WE ARE the tax payers & We ARE the individuals. WE have to pay for this. What about those of us who just cannot afford health coverage? I cannot afford health insurance or life insurance & judging by the premiums I have been quoted, 10% off is not going to make a dent to where I could afford it anyway!.. Something is underhandedly being done. I found a website that has some pretty freaky & scary information & I just wanted to post it here http://www.h1n1666.com/ &
http://www.h1n1666.com/adverse.html Read those links & then tell me about our lovely government.
What makes you think that people can afford to buy an insurance plan that is only 10% cheaper than a private one? Most of those who are uninsured are uninsured because they don't want to spend the money on health insurance. They will spend money on designer coffee every day and fancy cars but stop at spending the same on health insurance. Another portion are uninsured because they are illegal aliens and shouldn't have access to our health insurance. Not everyone who doesn't have health insurance is complaining about it. Everyone just wants everything for free. It can't happen in a Capitalist nation but our president wants us to be a Socialist nation. Where has Socialism every worked well for the common person?
I have any family members who are uninsured…and its not because they immigrated here or because they choose to spend their money on other things like starbucks or fancy cars…for example: My aunt and uncle are fairly successful organic farmers in VT, but they cannot afford insurance. It would cost them over 1,500 dollars per month, which is insane when they only make around 30-40 thousand a year. They are extremely frugal and have had the same car for almost 10 years, even though it is falling apart. My aunt has had to decide whether she can afford to see a specialist about her osteoporosis, or pay her mortgage.
If you do not have insurance in a group plan through your job, you are basically screwed, because insurance companies charge ridiculous amounts to individuals.
Really?? I graduated college this summer and was dropped from my mother's health insurance plan TODAY because I'm no longer enrolled in college (Disclaimer: I graduated Summa Cum Laude. Hopefully this will dispell any notion you may possess that parallels being uninsured with laziness and a desire for handouts). My health insurer explained that I can sign up for their most basic plan which is $650 per month.
In light of budget constraints at my place of employment they can only afford to keep extending my employment as an "Intern" which does not include a benefits package. Therefore, I am left without any insurance coverage, and I can only pray that I don't get sick or injured. This is a great system we have isn't it?
So, to the ignorant individual that I am replying to, I would say it is better to not throw out phony statistics about healthcare costs without actually knowing the facts. It discredits your entire argument, which was very weak and juvenile to begin with.
If you are a family making 3K a month and your mortgage is 2K a month (for a small cape cod home- nothing elaborate) your car insurance is $1800 a month, electric, phone and heating oil I guess you could pay $500 a month if you chose not to feed your frickin family! you are a jerk. $500 a month is extremely expensive when you are on a limited budget. put yourself in someone elses shoes. You are being arrogant and unreasonable. Not everyone has $500 a month to pay for health insurance! How stupid can you really be?
Most of us who have no health insurance are in this situation because we cannot afford it.. not that we choose fancy coffee and clothes and shiny new cars.. get a grip. We CANNOT afford health insurance – and 10% off is not going to make us afford it any better! I live in NJ and our taxes are the highest in the nation. I pay $1800 every six months for auto insurance (no accidents or violations for 20 plus years!) We are struggling just to put food on the table.. health insurance? puleeeze, we cannot afford it & no government plan is going to make it any more affordable. I hear that those who do not pay for this will be fined.. so who knows maybe a good many of us will be posting from prison.
Brightbird49….How can you say most people that are uninsured either spend their money on fancy cars and designer coffee or are illegal aliens…where do you get your statistics from? Our President wants us to be a Socialist nation because he wants to make healthcare available for all Americans?? Maybe you should change your name to dumbbird49…You apparently haven't a clue as to what this is about.
Private insurance companies set their premiums based on market conditions and not government fiat. The price of the public option will be set to undercut all private insurance; anything else will make it appear that the government is ignoring their 'social obligation' or some such nonsense. The plan will never make a profit and the tax payers will be saddled with the difference. Like Amtrak, the USPS, etc., we the people will pick up the tab when the plan cannot afford to repay these startup funds. Your assertion that the tax payers will not pay anything betrays a breathtaking ignorance in the way a free market actually works.
If you wish to know why prices are out of control at the moment, take a look at how the government is already interfering in the health care market. We should be reducing or eliminating government involvement rather than greatly increasing it.
You say "It won't cost tax payers anything. Just like with private insurance companies, the public plan would be funded by premiums paid by individuals"
Tax payers are individuals, like me – - paying taxes, so it would cost me. Where do you think the funds come from originally??
If the CBO is right and this wonderful plan would save me 10% – - I'd rather pay the 10% and not have the government "Sec. of HHS" decide anything for me.
Who do you think pays the bill when uninsured people go to the emergency room or into the hospital? When mental illness strikes a child whose family doesn't have health insurance that covers inpatient treatment..do you have any idea what is happening throughout the US? Parents will give up their parental rights and have their child made a state ward…and guess who pays for that? Medicaid…And do you not think your taxes aren't helping to pay for illegals that receive benefits? Why not try something that just may help cut the costs of uninsured people getting healthcare and it being charged off to the taxpayers.
I am just wondering – Where is the 2 Billion Start up funds coming from? If not my Tax Dollars then where?
Anonymous posted on Aug 20, 2009 8:01pm that if a public option was adopted then why not a public option on everything? Gas, Food, clothing, vehicles and public works.
What he (she?) isn't taking into consideration is the fact that a very large number of people don't consider health insurance a very high priority; particularly many younger people who are still very healthy and not in need of any full-time coverage. They would just as soon pay for medical attention as needed, infrequently as it may be. You just can't apply those criteria to the other items Anonymous mentioned such as Gas, food, clothing, etc. as you need all of those things ALL of the time; it's like comparing apples to aadvarks.
Also anonymous
It should cost NOTHING! We all (congress and the senate included) need to stop listening to the scare being put out by the opposition, telling us that Universal Health Care that resembles any program currently available in other industrialized nations will not work for us. We should be able to go to any doctor or medical facility for treatment when we need it, without thought to how we will pay for the care. Worse yet, is not seeking the care we need because we don't know how we will pay for it. It is absurd that this occurs in this country! France Belvior, a friend of mine from a village in the south of France, was visiting this summer. She explained how things REALLY are in France's healthcare system, and others in several European countries. Our system is a joke to most other countries in the world. Don't take my word for it.


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A name change is news?
Phoronix: KDE Spark Tablet Is No More, Now It's Vivaldi
Back in January there was the announcement of the KDE Spark Tablet. This was a re-branded Chinese tablet that was loaded up with a KDE Plasma Active desktop rather than Google's Android. While the "Spark" has yet to begin shipping, the name's been canned and now it's called the Vivaldi...
A name change is news?
The Vivaldi tablet name was inspired by Antonio Vivaldi, an Italian Baroque music composer from the 1700s.
I liked SPARK name.
No mention of whose trademark it was?
I wonder why he chose vivaldi? I personally would have chosen corelli unless he's saving that for later.
Have you ever listened Vivaldi's compositions?
It is defenetly worth a try. Primavera - Spring - is his most widely known one:
... this is the tablet for all seasons.


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What Movie UIs Say About the Future
While I was doing research for a virtual user interface I was creating in 3D, I spent some time looking at some of the virtual UIs that have come out of Hollywood. A lot of money and thought goes into their development, so I figured they would make good reference material for my project. While you can't take the virtual UIs in movies at face value, they do contain some nuggets of information on what the future might hold.
I've noticed that UIs in feature films are continually getting more elaborate and complex. Meanwhile, though, real-world interfaces are getting more simple and intuitive. It seems an odd contradiction that the futuristic UIs we dream up for movies follow one path, while real world ones are heading down another path.
But the reason for this is simple. Complexity conveys the impression that a system is very robust and advanced, and a character's mastery of a complex system is more impressive than it would be if the system were simple and intuitive. No matter how complex the system gets, the hero can always operate it expertly, leaving the audience dazzled by the UI and the character's skill. In the real world, though, users are more often like Mr. Magoo than like Tony Stark or (as in the clip below) an MI5 agent. So while high-aptitude, heavily trained users might be the fantasy world for UX professionals, it's not the world we live in. The trend toward complexity in movie UIs doesn't give us much of a preview of the world to come.
Gestural UIs
The most notable use of gestural UIs that I can think of was in Minority Report. It's impressive to see Tom Cruise moving his arms around to call up and manipulate video. But the large and intricate motions he makes wouldn't work in actual practice. Our arms get tired, and it is hard to make such intricate motions with precision without any form of tactile feedback. Another issue with this method is that all of the commands Tom Cruise employs are completely memorized. Systems that don't show commands rely completely on memorization and training. This is faster for an expert but takes a long time to master. Recalling commands, especially when stressed, can be very challenging.
Gestural UIs will be a part of our future. They are already present in several devices such as the iPhone and some video game systems, and they're in development for televisions. In order to be successful these UIs will have to be supplemented with menus or be extremely intuitive. If they are to be a major part of the overall interface they will need to be driven by lazy or small motions that won't tire out a user. The exception here would be something like the Wii where the gestures are more engaging and getting tired is part of the game.
The XBox Project Natal is a new gaming system that will be gesture driven. Unlike the Wii (which uses a remote with an accelerometer to capture movements), Natal will use a camera to detect motion. This may not go over well with users as it doesn't provide any sort of feedback. Holding a prop steering wheel as you would with the Wii feels more engaging than an imaginary one as you would with Natal.
Eye Tracking UIs
This concept can be seen in the movie Iron Man. Tony Stark accesses various widgets just by looking at them. This concept is universal (cross-cultural)—just look at something to activate it. My concern is how the system knows the difference between someone glancing over an item and intentionally focusing on it. The idea of "hover intent" isn't as applicable since the human eye doesn't scan across a UI and come to rest on a particular spot like a mouse. Our eyes dart from spot to spot with temporary pauses as they pass over a screen. This could be worked out by having timer trigger based on the eye movements. Another issue would be temporary distractions that cause us to look away from the UI would potentially close applications we were working on. Interactive billboards will be a very likely candidate for this technology; in fact, a few of them already exist.
Voice Activated UIs
Probably the most famous incarnation of this is Star Trek. The ship's crew can issue almost any command verbally and the ship complies. This technology is already present in most cell phones, some cars, and computer programs. If you own any of these systems you may already know some of the current technological pitfalls. The systems struggle when you speak fast or issue long commands. They also rely heavily on you speaking with the proper inflection (which is hard to do when you are panicked, distracted, or sick) and they user must have commands memorized. I often only use a couple commands in my car because they are the only ones I can recall while flying down an interstate full of cars. The only other alternative is asking for a list of commands that is lengthy and distracting.
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On the other hand, these systems are extremely useful when you can't use your hands or have a handicap that prevents you from interacting with the system normally. The key here in the future will be an easy method of retrieving commands and keeping voice commands short and simple.
Stereoscopy / Holographic UIs
Most recently, you can see these in the movie Avatar and District 9. In Avatar, human brains are projected in 3D allowing the doctor to look around at all parts for any abnormalities. In District 9, the alien ships are piloted with holographic UIs, something that is especially useful in navigation. These are a great idea as they help separate content from UI, and separates what is important at the moment and what isn't. This can be faked in 2.5D systems as is done now, but with full dimensionality the effect is enhanced as well as allowing the user to create better groupings and spatial mappings. One trick to this system will be locating the right uses of this technology. Novelty will not be a good reason to make a UI 3D. Dealing with geography, multiple dimensions, and multiple axes will be good reasons.
While the keyboard and mouse work just fine as 2D inputs, these UIs will benefit greatly from other forms of 3D input such as multiple cameras comparing imagery to locate users in 3D space, manipulating a device in 3D that contains an accelerometer, or perhaps other current methods of 3D motion capture used in films and games today. In any of these methodologies, feedback will be important. Users will need to feel some sort of resistance to know they have pushed a holographic button. A simple visual indication won't be satisfying enough. Perhaps a glove that provides feedback will be the solution.
Transparent UIs
Many of the movies that have come out lately feature transparent UIs. They are very visually stimulating and work for something like a HUD in a jet fighter since you need the UI laid on top of the elements behind it. However, it doesn't work for a typical screen. It provides too many distractions when you add the elements on the screen with the complex visual scene and motions occurring behind it.
Large Fonts
Jakob Nielsen included the use of large fonts in his list of top 10 movie UI bloopers. I don't agree with him on this one. His reasoning that fonts are unnecessarily large so that people in the audience can read them is sound. However, our culture of computer users is going from a "leaning forward" posture to a "laid-back" one. As we buy larger monitors and find more UIs on our television screens combined with wireless input devices, we'll need those larger fonts to read the screens from farther away. Instead of sitting at a desk to interact with a computer, we are doing it more and more from our couches.
Adaptive UIs
The only really good adaptive UI I can think of is the Omega widget in Tony Stark's final Iron Man suit. In the movie, the Omega widget is a single widget that contains all of the information from the previous widgets. However this one only shows information and options that are currently pertinent.
The easiest UIs are ones where each command has a unique button, but the number of buttons shown is limited to only the current options. This methodology allows for a tremendous amount of information and commands to be available, but without cluttering the user's screen. Adobe is utilizing this currently in Catalyst and I've seen it in sneak previews of Adobe Rome.
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I like the author's sober approach. And I also believe that bigger fonts do people good. See Windows 7 for mobile as an example...
Games actually provide a lot of good examples of futuristic yet usable interfaces. Keep that in mind.
I don't think the concept of complex UIs/UX ("UIX") portrayed in movies is an unrealistic possibility for average users of The Future. A movie is someone's take on the evolution of UIX and, yes, it makes good movie-money sense to show an expert user accomplishing complex tasks with tools from their future. But can't we assume that *all* users of The Future will have an evolved baseline comprehension of an UIX experience? What seems complex to us now may not seem that way to users in The Future.
How movies predict The Future UIX will always seem like a positive feedback loop when zoomed-in. We can't bypass the random potential that time offers. If we zoom-out from now and zoom-in a 1000 years into The Future and look at an UIX, it'd be a snapshot of all the incremental nudges brought about by centuries worth of design inspirations, technological advances, psychological considerations, good ol' inventiveness, and all the other factors that impress our environment.
If we were to snapshot an UIX from The Present and took it to an user in The Past, would the learning required for comprehension of that system be greater than it would be for an user from The Present or The Future? It seems the further back in time you take an UIX the greater the amount of learning required for the end user. What happens if we take a converse example? If we took a UIX (or equivalent) from The Past and presented it to users from The Present/Future, would less learning be required? Is it because the The Future User has evolved from the UIX of The Past? Do we eventually reach a threshold where two UIX snapshots from different points in time are so far removed that users cannot draw from any context in which to understand them thereby reducing (if not entirely eliminating) all the learning and evolution that time has provided?
I looked a bit more into it and indeed a 180^ phase shifted photons do cancel, and the rainbow effect on bubbles is an everyday example of this phenonmenon.
Anyway, the elephant in the room is that emitting black light has nothing to with rendering a 3-dimensional image.
What is a more reasonable stab at an answer would be a material like phosphor in CRTs that only lights up when hit by waves from 2 directions.
Thus, a cube of glass and phosphor or a chamber or other contained area could be filled with phosphor 'smoke' and two rays could paint the image by emitting beams that crossover at the computed points making up the image.
Although perhaps we need to go back to 1991 and look at the arcade game Time Traveller for a more immediate solution. Imagine combining the parabolic mirror floating effect with modern 3D screens.
Black light might be possible by emitting frequency-shifted cancellation photons in the path of the other photons that you are trying to block.
Their net frequency could be almost 0 and I assume this would be seen as nothing/black.
Thinking about that, the double-slit experiment proves this. In this case, a photons passing through two slits at once interfere causing bands in the image where they cancel.
You can't cancel signals by emitting a "frequency-shifted" version of it, that's as if you could cancel red by emitting blue. Net frequency doesn't exist like that.
What you are looking for is a 180 degree phase shift, but good luck with that. Light waves are in the nanometre range, try making a phase adjustable emitter that precise. Light is emitted in all directions from a screen, otherwise it has no viewing angle; how are you going to measure and re-emit photons for all those directions. What about the latency of the screening device, you're up against the speed of light. It's generally not possible.
You should review how light interference in the double-slit experiment works. It was puzzling back then for a reason; seems the answer still eludes you for now.
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Until somebody "invents" black light, transparent or 3D UI's will never progress beyond the rather excellent Star Wars interpretation. it is a personal bug bear of mine to shout at TV programmes and Films when they decide to add their own black to projected UI's, when in reality black can only ever come from what is directly behind the projection, therefore bright room = no black and a very confusing image.
This is why a reliable and clear projected UI can never go beyond the single "monochrome" image
The 'Johnny Mnemonic' interface with VR goggles and gloves is a favorite of mine. I feel that the obsession with screens is/should be a thing of the past. Augmented reality overlayed over vision is IMHO the ultimate. I have seen a blog discussion about 'display in a contact lens', i like the idea, but am unsure if this invades personal space just a little. somewhere between the VR Geek helmet of Johnny Mnemonic and the contact lens display is the sweet spot I have been waiting for.
Personally, I love looking at UIs in movies. Yes - they're product of the now, but I think movies, in general, are always from the perspective of when they're created. Film UIs are just the same. Some are important and really do change how we see technology (think: 2001); others are fun candy, not to be taken too seriously.
I posted a followup to this post on my blog... where I talk a bit about the issue of complexity that Tony brings up. I think his point is totally right - that film UIs are out-of-sync with current trends towards simplicity. But that, perhaps, in some instances (like within a secret intelligence agency) complexity may be appropriate.
I just want to pick up on what Robert said there regarding the absurdity of movie UIs.
It's my belief that what most people perceive as futuristic means something we've already seen, i.e. prior art, either prochronistically or in a fictional future setting.
Look at it this way. If you took a took an iPhone back to 600BC, would it look futuristic to people of that time? Would their ideas of what the future looks like coincide with the design of that object? Essentially, will it look like it came from the future as they image it? Unlikely.
We are no different in 2010. We determine whether something possesses futuristic qualities based on identifying an evolution of the state-of-the-art and by drawing from visions depicted in movies and fictional media.
Therefore the whole process is a positive feedback loop where designers mimic stuff seen in movies in order produce something that appears futuristic, and movie-makers advance stuff seen in real life.
Designers are thus led by the response of the consumer to a design, and so it's arguable that we are condemned to create the absurd things seen in movies.
There is also some scientific research on this topic: "A Survey of Human-Computer Interaction Design in Science Fiction Movies". It was done by the AI Group of the Saarland University and you can see some slides of a presentation talk here.
Most UI's in film are absurd because, above all else, the job of film visuals is to be 'cinematic'. That is, to be interesting to look at, help tell the story and reveal character/organisation traits.
The UI in James Bond is unnecessarily complex because it needs to convey the fact that MI6 has clever technology at their disposal that you and I couldn't possibly understand.
Minority Report's visuals were distilled from a think-tank that Spielberg put in place to discuss what the future would be like. The trouble is while gestural UI was very much on the cards it wasn't very 'cinematic' (read 'cool') so we get Mr Cruise waving his hands inthe air like a teenage girl at a Jonas Bros gig.
I love watching these clever attempts at UI in movies - I've even designed a few - but at the end of the day they're pure theatre and not meant to be taken seriously. The danger comes when we think they are and try to design to replicate them because the reality never lives up to the promise.


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