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Dr Ashfaque H Khan
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
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The outgoing government presented its fifth and last budget on June 1, 2012. Since the year 2012-13 was an election year, the intention of the government was totally inconsistent with the presented budgetary numbers. Reckless spending to 'win' elections was the only intention of the government. The finance team was asked simply to put suitable numbers on the revenue side to arrive at a reasonable budget deficit number, which would be acceptable to the IMF.
I wrote numerous articles on last year's budget explaining that Budget 2012-13 was a non-serious document and prepared in a casual manner with fragile numbers. It was clear that this budget would die its natural death within a few months of being made public. My position was vindicated when finance officials announced the death of the budget. In so doing, the officials, the minister and the ministry lost their credibility within and outside the country.
How non-serious the budget makers were can be seen from the following facts. The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) was targeted to collect Rs2381 billion in 2012-13 from the actual collection of Rs1881 billion in the previous year – a growth of 26.6 percent. On September 25, 2012, I wrote that the "FBR is not likely to collect beyond Rs2150 billion in 2012-13." Since then much water has gone under the bridge and the working environment has deteriorated significantly in the FBR. My current projection suggests that the FBR will face an uphill task even to collect Rs200 billion.
During the first eight months of the year (July-February) the FBR has collected Rs1160 billion as against Rs1110 billion in the corresponding period of last year, thus registering a dismal growth of 4.5 percent. In order to collect Rs2000 billion, the FBR needs to collect Rs840 billion during the remaining four months (March-June) as against Rs771 billion in the same period last year.
In other words, FBR tax collection must grow by 9.0 percent during March-June. Can this be possible during the transition to a new government? It is therefore safe to suggest that the revenue shortfall from the original target is likely to be Rs400 billion.
On the non-tax revenue side, the government expected to receive Rs79 billion through the sale of 3G licenses. Since this is not going to materialise, the total revenue shortfall is likely to reach Rs479 billion. On the expenditure side, the major slippage is likely to originate from the power sector subsidy. The government had targeted the power sector subsidy to Wapda/Pepco and KESC to the extent of Rs185 million in budget 2012-13.
Within eight months of the fiscal year the government has already doled out Rs235 billion, and there are indications that this may reach close to Rs400 billion by the end of the year, amounting to an overspending of at least Rs215 billion.
On external inflows to finance fiscal deficit, the budget makers put Rs46.5 billion under the heading of Eurobond and Rs74.4 billion under the receipts from Etisalat. Inflows from these two sources have found their places in every budget over the last five years without any success. The budget designers knew very well that these flows would not be realised even this year and yet added these to the budget as a routine matter. Therefore, external flows worth Rs121 billion are not likely to be available to finance fiscal deficit.
With total slippages under the above listed items amounting Rs815 billion or 3.5 percent of GDP, the current year fiscal deficit is expected to be 8.5 percent of GDP or Rs2002 billion. In all these calculations, I have not added the impact of the financial tsunami that deluged Pakistan in late February and lasted till March 16. The bailout package of PIA; subsidies for tube wells, sugar exports and fertilizer; raise in the salary of government servants; the advance payment to oil companies are just the tips on the iceberg. It will take several months to dig out such expenditures and their budgetary impact. I have also not counted the fiscal profligacy of the provinces in the election year (2012-13).
I have always stated that this year's budget deficit may attain a new height in the range of 9.5-10.0 percent of GDP with all its macroeconomic consequences for the economy. Financing of deficit in the range of Rs.2.2-2.3 trillion would be challenging for the caretaker government. Serious damage to the economy has already been done. Deficit of this magnitude will further compound the difficulties for the caretaker as well as the newly elected government.
Interestingly, some of the remnants of the outgoing economic team have started positioning themselves to become acceptable to the new regime by criticising the outgoing government and its policies. Little do they know how much they are hated because of their incompetence by millions of poor of this country.
The caretaker regime with 45 days in its account will face multiple challenges on the economic front. They need to take stock of the damage caused by financial hara-kiri and financial tsunami and make every effort to minimise the damage and prepare a structure of the next budget.
The budget strategy paper presented to the outgoing cabinet has been prepared by those who have lost their credibility. Therefore, the caretaker government needs to prepare the structure of the budget by taking on board the representatives of the key political parties. Whosoever forms the new government will take little time to finalise the budget 2013-14 which can be presented during the second or even third week of June.
Addressing the issue of debt repayment crisis would be the most critical challenge for the caretaker regime. With foreign exchange reserves dwindling and over a billion dollar payment due to the IMF alone, it will really be a challenging time for the caretaker government. May God give us the strength to absorb the impact of the last budget.
The writer is principal and dean at NUST Business School (NBS), Islamabad.
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dc.date.issued | 1994-10 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Proceedings of SPIE Infrared Technology XX 2269 (1994) 622-633 | en_US |
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dc.description | "Validation of contrast and phenomenology in the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing (DIRS) lab's image generation (DIRSIG) model," Proceedings of the SPIE, Infrared Technology XX, Vol. 2269. The International Society of Optical Engineers. Held in San Diego, California: July 1994. This paper is made available as an electronic reprint with permission of SPIE. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic or multiple reproduction, distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Comparison of the components and the overall fidelity of infrared synthetic image generation models with truth data and imagery is a crucial part of determining model validity and identifying areas in which improvements can be made. The Rochester Institute of Technology's Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Image Generation Model, DIRSIG, was validated in the midwave infrared (MWIR) and longwave infrared (LWIR) regions using measured meteorological, material, and radiometric data. Error propagation techniques clearly defmed areas where improvements to the model could be made (e.g. inclusion of clouds). An overall comparison of truth and synthetic images yields RMS errors of as low as 1.8°C for actual temperature, and 5°C (LWIR) and 6°C (MWIR) for apparent temperatures. Analysis of rank order correlation statistic shows a very high correlation between brightness rank for object in the truth and DIRSIG images for most times of day. | en_US |
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I was reading this book Bull Run, and I do declare, I find this book not so useful for information. Furthermore, because the stories were so short, it didn't really show a lot about history. Since the stories were so short there wasn't a lot of character development to understand what was really going on. I only understood a little and I rate this book two out of five stars. Continue reading for more information.
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Giving perspectives of sixteen people in the time of the Civil War, Bull Run is an interesting historical fiction. This book is good and short and also a winner of the 1994 Scott O'Dell Award. It shows all the point of views before, during, and after the war. This book however, is a little too short. It doesn't show a lot of information. If you read the third paragraph you would understand why.
This book is not a good way to learn about the Civil War because it does not provide a lot of info about what was going on during it. I dont even know who won! In the whole half of the book, it just shows people getting ready for the war, signing up to be a soldier, both groups going up to Bull Run, etc. And the part after, it just writes that the North and South were spraying each other with bullets. Then one other tiny part after that it says everyone was injured, the dead bodies everywhere, people dying, etc. Then...POOF! The end of the book! Once again I do not recommend this book if you want to learn about the Civil War. It is really confusing. But, I can learn about how peoples lives were before and after the Civil War. I say, this is the only useful info in this book.
So, I guess now you all reading this knows why I do not think this book tells a lot about the Civil War. I enjoyed this book a little though, because the perspectives of all sixteen people were really well. This is why I gave it two instead of one star. After reading all this, I hope you know why I gave Bull Run, two out of five stars.
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I'm British by birth, but because of my parent's nomadic tendencies I grew up travelling the globe – an only child with a serious book habit. I dreamed of being a writer from the age of twelve and finally began writing seriously in the late 1990s. By then I'd got myself a BA in Art and Cultural History, a masters in Literature and the Visual Arts – and I'd worked in all manner of diverse careers – but the stories in my head simply had to be written.
I was first published in the small press under the guidance of the British fantasy writer, Storm Constantine. As well as fantasy and romance, I was also dabbling in erotica. I wanted to incorporate all these elements in my writing and more. My first erotic short story was published by Virgin publishing's Black Lace imprint in 1997. From then on every spare moment was spent on the stories that bubbled away in my imagination.
My short story work has now been published in over eighty anthologies including Best Women's Erotica, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, the Red Sage Secrets series, and the Black Lace Wicked Words series. My erotica has also been featured in several international magazines including Cosmo, Bust, and Scarlet. It was such a thrill for me to find that editors and readers enjoyed my stories!
In the noughties I started working on longer projects and since then my novels have been published by two New York publishing houses as well as several indie presses. My first full-length single title, Double Dare, came out in October 2006 and picked up a Passionate Plume award for Best Contemporary Erotic Romance of 2006. Since then I've had several more novel-length publications, including Rampant, which was nominated for a 2010 RT Magazine Reviewers' Choice Award. I'm now a full time author, and I have many more stories to tell.
Nowadays I live in the north of England – close to the beautiful, windswept landscape of the Yorkshire moors – with my real life hero, Mark. Mark supports my work through all its ups and downs, and runs the tech side of my website. He also manages to keep me sane and grounded when fiction threatens to take over.
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What coffee would you like?|
A large Americano please.
And which cake can we get you?|
Carrot cake would lovely.
What's your earliest childhood memory?|
Waking up before my parents when I was 2 or 3, opening every picture book stacked by my bed and arranging them over my bed like tents. An early connection with books!
What was your favourite lesson at school?|
A tie between English and history. (i.e. more books please.)
If you could invite three people, dead or alive, to a dinner party...|
George Eliot, Margaret Atwood and Mary Shelley. I'd be awestruck but I would be hoping that their wisdom and talent would rub off on me.
What's your favourite quote?|
"Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell." - Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
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Love is...|
a deep connection on every level.
What achievement are you most proud of?|
Being a published author, and especially having a short story in anthology alongside Margaret Atwood.
Describe what you can see right now?|
Clutter. Books. A large coffee mug.
Who's your favourite writer?|
Storm Constantine.
If you could go back and do it all again, what would you change?|
My fashion 'sense' in the eighties.
What's your favourite flower?|
Ones that are still growing in the earth. I hate to see cut flowers!
Who would play you in a movie about your life?|
Geena Davis. I'm hoping my life would be glamourised and wild, and it would appear that I lived much as she did in The Long Kiss Goodnight. :)
And finally, the perfect man must have a...|
twinkle in his eye.
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In theaters 3-28-08. Back home in Texas after fighting in Iraq, a soldier refuses to return to battle despite the government mandate requiring him to do so.
We're not quite sure where this took place, but check out this interactive bus stop, and brilliant marketing for some new interactive website. When waiting travelers check out the advertised web site, and answer questions such as "Are you bored?" or "Are you in a hurry?" the following happens. Why doesn't this stuff happen to us??? Def jelz of the dog sled-y thing. Def. Jelz.
These girls are going to watch this video in ten years and realize that they were never cute and adorable as a kid, but scary and AXE-murderer-ish.
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Nick is practically suicidal over Jessica Simpson – he's gonna slit his wrists, then write a horrible song about it. Can you save him?
In theaters 1-18-08. Set in a separate storyline not related to the "Trailer Park Boys" Television show, but with the same lovable characters. The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail. When the get out, they decide to pull off "The Big Dirty" which is to steal a large amount of coins because they are untraceable and quit their life of crime forever.
An ancient threat returns. One final hope emerges. See the game trailer for Mass Effect, only on the XBox 360.
Max Tyrie made a Modest Mouse video with 4,133 Kinko's copies and stop-motion photography. The result kicks After-Effects ass.
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If you weren't scared of dolls or puppets before, you freakin' will be after watching just this trailer. From the writers and directors of SAW. Badass!
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In theaters 11-16-07. The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
Nicolas Cage just might kick ass in the movie version of the comic book "Ghost Rider." I love flaming skeletons.
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The current Corvette is doing well for itself as of late, not only moving off the lot at a greater clip between January and June of this year than last, but also besting the SRT Viper and Porsche 911.
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Nissan's motorsports division doesn't think it has enough brand awareness in America. To counter this perception, Nissan tossed out a few NISMO (NISsan MOtorsports) models at the Chicago Auto Show. First up we have the Juke NISMO which is Nissan's oddly shaped small crossover vehicle. The NISMO treatment makes the Juke look even more conspicuous on American roads with shapes and styles never before seen on a production vehicle. Whatever you do, don't look up Juke in the Urban Dictionary while at work.


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Joseph wu origami [5-May-2015] Gorgeous! and the stop motion animation is beautiful, too! |
Blue paper [5-May-2015] I agree, it is a very nice design and an excellent video as well! |
Arthur e.b. [4-May-2015] Truly beautiful!! they look alive! |
Oriholic jared [4-May-2015] That's a lot of koi. |
Oruhito [4-May-2015] Very pretty design! a bit of influence from lafosse ;) |
Ori-gauthier [4-May-2015] Very good model! how did you make this video? |
Mabona origami [3-May-2015] Thank s everyone! jared, that's the good thing about a simple design. oruhito, the shaping was influenced by michael. ori-ghautier, this is how i did it: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/stop_motion |
Tiny acorn dreams [3-May-2015] Beautiful! |
Ray schamp [3-May-2015] That's a fantastic video! it's under 90 seconds, you should post it here! |
Ericgjerde [3-May-2015] I absolutely agree, post it here on flickr :) and that is such a great video sipho - that must have taken a long time! such patience! it's a beautiful model, but the video really does it justice - an elegant folding sequence, no hands in the way, the paper all to itself. did you use foil paper for this to keep it in place? or did you use some other method to keep the paper from unfolding while you took the stop motion photos? congratulations on yet another amazing piece :) |
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Kitty-san [2-May-2015] Nice koi´s ! have to give it a try. |
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Caroline plante [1-May-2015] Wow! you are great at this! just love it! :-) |
Robotron2008 [1-May-2015] How are you able to design such beautiful things? i was never to succesful but is still fold other peoples works. can you please give me some insight on how to design origami? |
Jennifer kraska [1-May-2015] Ohhh! love the whole group. |
Cutepetlab.com [1-May-2015] Cutepetlab.com/?p=53 koi! |
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The St. John's IceCaps announced Tuesday that the top prospects of the Montreal Canadiens will travel to Newfoundland and Labrador in October to compete for the fourth annual Mary's Cup, sponsored by Mary Brown's restaurant chain.
The three-game American Hockey League exhibition series will pit the Hamilton Bulldogs against the IceCaps. The Syracuse Crunch won the last two titles, while the Norfolk Admirals claimed the inaugural crown in 2011.
The 2014 Mary's Cup series starts on Oct. 2 at Joe Byrne Memorial Stadium in Grand Falls-Windsor. Game 2 is at the Gander Community Centre on Oct. 3, and the series concludes on Oct. 5 at Mile One Centre in St. John's.
The Oct. 5 game will be a 'school game' which will feature educational messaging on the video board throughout the contest and all in-game elements will be student-focused. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in everything from the official puck drop to singing the national anthem to making in-game announcements. Students will be able to access tickets at a special student rate for this game.
"Once again I would like to thank Mary Brown's Famous Chicken and Taters for their continued support of the IceCaps and this exciting American Hockey League series," said Glenn Stanford, chief operating officer and governor of the IceCaps. "I have no doubt the involvement of the legendary Montreal Canadiens organization will help make this the best Mary's Cup yet. These games will enable IceCaps fans to get their first glimpse at what promises to be an exciting, young team. Once again, we are pleased to include a school game in addition to the Mary Brown's ticket giveaway, which will help the IceCaps reach an even broader audience."
Hamilton Bulldogs president Stephen Ostaszewicz says the Bulldogs are eager to see how they stack up against the IceCaps.
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A transformation is suggested which can transform a non-Gaussian monthly hydrological time series into a Gaussian one. The suggested approach is verified with data of ten Indian rainfall time series. Incidentally, it is observed that once the deterministic trends are removed, the transformation leads to an uncorrelated process for monthly rainfall. The procedure for normalization is general enough in that it should be also applicable to river discharges. This is verified to a limited extent by considering data of two Indian river discharges.
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26th November 2009, 08:22 PM | #1 |
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building a sub based on ciare 12.00sw?
Hi, I have recently decided I need a portable PA system to travel and DJ with, so I will be purchasing a powerful PA amp (perhaps a mackie m3000) and a standard pair of midtops such as peavy pro 15s or something along those lines.
However to go with this I would need a subwoofer or two. I would go for one at first and see how that goes. I have been looking at the Ciare 12.00SW (Punisher) driver CIARE ITALIAN SPEAKERS - PRO AUDIO B2B: 12.00 SW THE PUNISHER SUB-WOOFER I have actually heard this in a horn setup as one driver and it was adequate for my needs. However... my enclosure building skills are nowhere near currently good enough to build such a cabinet so I have decided against this. Question is, would the driver still be effective in a PA system in a normal vented enclosure. I have tried it in winISD and it comes up with a very small (29L) enclosure which seems good, but would this sound good? Any other suggestions to drivers/setups are more than welcome!! Richard |
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For bass-reflex, at 37 Liters with a port tuning of 39Hz, you're good down to 35Hz, but it isn't loud. Only around 120dB power limited to 1100W due to excursion. Efficiency looks to be a sorry 90dB/1W/1M
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so you would not recomend this driver in a vented config and would work best horn loaded correct? Any idea of a driver which could provide a heavy sound for small halls and house parties? I know its a bit farfetched but Im sure I could buy a driver and build a better sub than what I could buy for the same money. Thanks for the help btw Davygrvy
Anyway, an alternative to it all would be to find someone who can build me a punisher enclosure. Does anyone know of anyone who constructs such enclosures at a fair price? or even more of a step by step instruction to how I could...perhaps it would be worth the effort. Richard |
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Let's wait for the other folks to chime in, too.
1) How portable does this have to be? Any size limitations for the hatchback or trunk this needs to be moved in? 2) How loud? For DJ work I'll assume an average SPL at the listeners of 103dB for the discotheque thing. With 10 over for headroom and maybe the speaker will be 3 meters away. Hopefully against the wall or in a corner. If I crunch that I get maxSPL = 103 + 10 + 20*log(3) = 113+9.5 = 122 dB. One cab is looking a little shy to me. Counting some additional boundary gain in, I think that'll work, but just barely. I'm a weird one with recommendations. I'll probably say something stupid like use 16 of the cheap 8" MCM 55-2421 drivers in a vented cab. Try it with WinISD: 8'' High Excursion Woofer | MCM Audio Select | 55-2421 (552421) In a 200 Liter box with the port tuned to 26Hz, that'll get you to 26Hz needing a small low boost and can take 2kW and get you to 130dB(SPL) at 100, but 125 at 40. 200 Liters is only a 22" cube.
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Lol the 8 inch driver idea is actually feasable if it wouldnt work out so expensive. I was just looking to spend 100-150 pounds on a driver maximum and then whatever the wood and other materials would cost to do the build. I am thinking finding someone who can build a horn is a good idea right now. So you say in a vented box, just only 103db is feasible at a listener distance? Im not sure if thats loud or not!! What power would be required to put out that maximum SPL cleanly too... is there anyway you could compare the vented output to the punisher horn output?
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A single tapped horn like what jbell did is very impressive from its efficiency. His cab uses the Eminence 3015LF in a special tapped horn cabinet that gets him an efficiency of 102.5 @ 40Hz Wowzers! As a comparison, you'd need just 90 watts to get it to 122dB(SPL) compared to 1100 watts with the ciare in the 37 liter box and it only sims to 120dB(SPL). The downside is large size. And to be safe, you need to high pass the signal very strongly as a tapped horn as no driver loading below its cutoff.
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A tapped horn should be a little easier to build than the Punisher design, IMO. I'm not sure how close you are to Bristol, but one guy here bought 8 Punishers, already built, tho I'm not sure how much he paid, but I imagine it would be at least £100 per cab unloaded...
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Eight Punisher would have a lot of output, one would not.
One tapped horn would have useable bass (as above). If you will always do big jobs and have a big truck, go for the front load horns. If you need to do smaller jobs and take a smaller vehicle, use the tapped horn. A different TH, but showing the effects of multiple TH:
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Every generation thinks that theirs is the most enlightened and the most advanced ever seen on planet Earth. They're pretty much right. Scientific and social advances keep humanity moving forward in positive ways. Mankind keeps re-evaluating the ways things have always been done and improve upon the things that are still working, and get rid of the things that are no longer valid. It's the way things have been since societies first started soming together.
Then why is America moving backwards? I know the calendar says 2015, but it feels like it's 1520. Sure, every poll shows a clear majority of Americans agree that same-sex marriage should be legal (closing in on 60%), but apparently the will of people isn't enough for some legislators in a bunch of red states who want to make sure they don't go down without losing every battle in addition to losing the war. They want to legalize discrimination...how nice! They want to make it legal for business-people to be able to pick and choose who they want to do business with. I think we went through this before....it was called 'the Jim Crow era'. You remember that, right? One group through another group was sub-human and used religious teachings to show that mixing between those groups was an abomination. You remember what happened, right? It was ruled to be unconstitutional. Thank God.
Well, these days, some lawmakers have decided that their consitutional rights are more valid and more important that the consititutional rights of gays and lesbians. And they want to make it so that if you feel the same way, you can refuse to serve them. So let me get this straight: if you are a LGBTer, you are committing a sin. And somehow, you've determined that this is the only sin in a whole book full of forbidden things that you've deemed important enough to single out. So, murderers and theives are okay? How about those who work on the Sabbath? If you've ever committed adultry or not honored your father or mother? How about someone of another faith because they clearly have another God before Him? And those are the commandments...not just random rules and laws in the Old Testament. You would think the violation of the big 10 would be more aggregious, right? I guess not.
What about the arguements we've heard? What if someone went to a kosher caterer for a non-kosher event and ordered bacon-wrapped scallops? The don't carry that item, so it's discrimination, right? wrong. You can't force someone to carry an item on their menu just because you want it. Can you go to Hardees and order sea bass? No...they don't carry it. And besides, 'people who love pork" is not a protected class under the Consititution. The arguements are getting sillier every day, but the politics is getting scarier. We had a lawmakers in Wyoming who added the language to a bill to protect LGBT rights "when hell freezes over". That was an official bill. His constituents must be so proud. A Texas lawmaker complained to a judge about the implimentation of same-sex marriage, obviously upset about the sanctity of marriage not being held up. Oh, yeah, he's been married 5 times, so he's a perfect example of those vows meaning something. And in California, public proposal is being floated to allow for the execution of anyone found to be gay or lesbian. I thought this was America and I thought this was 2015.
I understand you may not like the person down the block from you being in a same-sex relationship. Your religion may frown on it You may frown on it. But you can't discriminate against them. Have you EVER committed a sin? Sure you have. Do you think it's right for someone to discrimiate against you if you ever ate shellfish or shaved or did anything else forbidden in the Bible? You can't pick and choose. All sins are equal in the eyes of the Lord. It's the eyes of some Americans that have me worried.
We just moved out of Standard Time and into Daylight Saving Time. First of all, there's no 's' at the end of 'saving'..it's one of those words people always get wrong and then it becomes part of common vernacular....like safety deposit box....although the real phrase is safe depsoit box, but don't get me started.
DST was proposed in some fashion by Ben Franklin in the 1700s, but the concept wasn't adopted by the US until 1918 as a way to use less energy during WW1. The idea was that people would get home, it would still be light an extra hour, so you'd use 1 less hour of electricity to light your home before you went to bed. Interesting concept, and it probably worked, because, other than lights, there probably wasn't anything else electric to use energy in the teens and Roaring 20s. But that's it. That's the whole reason we mess with the clocks and people's sleep cycles. We have the audacity to think that mere mortal men can control time, going to the past and future like Marty McFly in a Delorean, just to save a few kilowatts. A century ago it was a new concept. Today it's just outdated. If saving energy is the whole reason, let's look at some studies. in 2006, Indiana inally adopted DST, but since then, they've seen energy use go UP by 1 percent after the clocks change. In 2007, the whole country added 4 weeks to DST...they found energy use went down one-third of 1 percent. So...it's pretty much a wash. You might come home and not need the lights, but it'll be hotter for an extra hour and guess what uses more electricity, lights or an air conditioner? Plus, when you get up and it's dark for an extra hour in the morning are you going to turn on more lights or stumble around in the dark? I thought so.
Daylight Saving has nothing to do with farmers, although that's the popular wives' tale. Do you think cows care what time the clocks say or are they just going to get up and want to be milked when the sun rises? Same with the farmers doing the milking...do they get up when the clocks says they need to, or do they get up when it's time to go to work?
It's outdated, the reasoning behind it is flawed and I don't know one single person who likes DST....so why do we still have it? Won't someone stop the madness and tell Mother Nature to take control of the clocks again. It's not like the whole world does this anyway. North America and Europe does...but South America, Aisa, Africa and Australia think we're time-traveling fools. If we don't get out of this time loop for logical reasons, why not escape DST for our collective health. The day after DST starts, studies show that there are more traffic accidents, heart attacks and workplace accidents than any other time of the year. Suicide rates also go up the weeks following the clock change and studies also show that when we get an hour less sleep than normal, people tend to eat an average of 200 calories more that next day.
So...thank YOU Ben Franklin and thank YOU Woodrow Wilson and thank you GW Bush for your contributions to this folly we call Daylight Saving Time. I'm not happy with any of you but I don't expect you to lose any sleep over it.
Yeah, I know the Super Bowl is in the rearview, but I wanted to talk for a minute about 'deflate-gate". You remember that…the issue that everyone was talking about for the 2 weeks leading up to the game…where the Patriots were caught with footballs that were under-inflated, so they be thrown and caught more easily? Now, I'm not a huge fan of the Pats, although I don't hate Tom Brady like many people apparently do, but I couldn't get worked up over this non-event.
If it's eventually proven that Brady or coach Bill Belichik knew what was going on, it might change my opinion somewhat, but as it's been said many times, "if you're not cheating, you're not trying."
I've either been playing or watching sports since I can remember and I can't think of a sport where someone doesn't try to get an advantage of their opponents either by bending or breaking the rules. Here's a few examples…..
Baseball – The Neighborhood Play – where the middle infielder comes close to tagging the bag for a force-out but never really touches the base.
Also….signs. Signs are hidden by the coaches and catchers because they assume the other team is trying to steal them. But…if you're caught trying to steal them, then people get mad at you!!
Football – The clock's running down and you don't have any timeouts left…what do you do? Fake an injury…fall to the ground. You'll be penalized 10 seconds…but at least the clock stops
NASCAR – If you ain't rubbin, you ain't racin. How many of your favorite drivers have been penalized cash or points because their car failed inspection after a race? Just about all of them, that's who. Do they set the cars up illegally on purpose?….of course…they just hope not to get caught.
Little League Baseball – a Chicago team just had their title taken away because they brought in players from outside their district to help them to victory. And do I have to remind you of the player from a few years ago that was 14 but everyone claimed he was 12 so he could play?
Cycling – pretty much every Tour de France winner for the past 30 years has been under suspicion or found guilty of blood doping or other forms of cheating.
I won't even bring up steroids or other performance enhancing drugs…that's too easy.
Does everyone cheat? No. Some sports are worse than others…and in some, like Golf, you're supposed to report your own rules violations…which most golfers do. The bottom line is that most fans know their teams or sports heroes try to get any advantage they can, and sometimes rules get in the way. If it's your team, you'll probably give them a pass. If it's a team that lots of people hate….oh, like the Patriots…then everybody will want heads to roll.
It was 70 years ago this week that the concentration camp at Auschwitz was liberated. Hopefully the world will never see its like again.
It was 30 years ago this week that a bunch of stars got together in Los Angeles and recorded "We are the World". It sold 20 million copies and raised awareness of a problem that most people didn't know existed or didn't want to acknowledge....that hunger exists.
It was 20 years ago this week that the OJ Simpson murder trail started...and didn't end for 9 months. We all remember how that ended. The jury believed the rhetoric and silver tongues of Johnnie Cochran and The Dream Team more than they believed the relatively new science of DNA and set OJ free. The glove did not fit...so they must acquit! It didn't matter that the DNA evidence proved that the blood on the scene belonged to Simpson. It didn't matter that OJ was wearing plastic gloves so the leather gloves wouldn't slip on his hands. It didn't matter that he led police on his white Bronco chase...which no innocent person would have done. All that was thrown to the side of the road and justice was NOT served. How did that make you feel? Did you feel as though the jury let their emotions get in the way of facts? Like a group of people refused to see what was right in front of them? That the community that had alays rallied behind OJ had their heads in the sand out of blind loyalty to what they've been taught all their lives.
That's the way I felt...and I still feel that way today. Yes...about OJ....but also about several other issues we take up during The Morning Show. Let's take Climate Change. Literally thousands of climate scientists agree that Man is influencing the climate negatively, but that's not enough to convince the non-scientists among us to believe them. They will point to the fact that even though 8000+ scientists think one way, that doesn't negate the 2...yes 2!... scientists that disagree wih the majority. Those in power who refuse to answer questions about Climate Change will answer with some variation of "...I'm not a scientist, so I'm not qualified to answer that." Well, I'm not a scientist either, but I'm smart enough to listen to one....or in this case, 8000+. Also, as one comedian likes to say, you're not an obstetrician either, but that doesn't keep you from answering questions about women's health.
Politicians like to complain that 'our children and grandchildren will have to pay for what 'the other side' is doing right now. Well, if you were truely interested in making sure future generations were taken care of, making sure tey have a place to live should be job one.
Like the OJ jury, the science...the facts...are right there in front of you. The OJ jury decided NOT to listen to facts, but instead listen to other voices telling them that the facts were somehow skewed or twisted to fit an agenda. 20 years ago, a killer went free. Don't let pride or politics lead to the death of our planet as well.
I've never read Sun Tzu's The Art of War, but I'm sure there's something in there about picking your battles…wisely. If you go into a battle, knowing ahead of time you have no chance to win, they why waste the time, effort and resources?
That was the basis of a recent article I read about Democrats and The South. The offshoot was this: Democrats, stop wasting your time trying to win any more Federal seats in Dixie. Sure ,a stray House seat may go to a Democrat, depending on how the district lines are drawn, but by and large, votes for the Senate and the President for the foreseeable future will most likely be all-GOP from Texas until you reach the Atlantic. The basis for that hypothesis? Voters in The South are heavily committed to the 3-Gs as far as issues are concerned: God, guns and gays. The article said that no matter what the Democrats say or do, they'll always be on the opposite side on those 3 social issues, so why even pretend and go through the dance?
It kinda makes sense.
Mary Landrieu was the Democratic Senator from Louisiana for 3 terms before she was beaten in this election cycle. As the final days of the campaign were nearing, polls were showing she was going to lose big (she did) so the Democratic National Committee decided to pull all advertising from the state to save money, instead of pouring it into a losing proposition. Was that smart? Yeah, it was. They could have spent countless millions and she still would have lost, and the Democrats would have lost the money for no good reason.
So, should that strategy be expanded to a larger scale? If you look at, say, South Carolina for example, it's one of the reddest of red states. There's no way a Democrat wins the Senate or gets the 7 electoral votes for president…so why bother? The other states in the South are pretty much the same thing, so again, why bother? Should Democrats put up a candidate just for show, knowing they have no chance? Should a party have to spend millions on a race they know can't be won just so it appears as though the 2-party system is alive and well? A lot of this goes into my regular argument against the electoral college, because if you're a Democrat in a red state like ours, there's no use in casting a vote in the presidential race…it's just wasted.
Of course, the counter to this argument is that things go in cycles, and it wasn't but a generation or 2 ago, that the South was as Democratic as could. If you give it up now, you'll never have a chance to flip it back to blue. That's a valid argument. Someday, things could change, depending on the social climate and the cultural arguments that monopolize politics. Someday, maybe. But that someday isn't today. And as divided as Americans are at this moment, someday is probably a long way away.
I'm not the biggest political junkie in the world. All you have to do is listen to The Morning Show and you'll see…or hear…that I'd rather talk about any other subject than politics. Maybe it's because of the petty fighting, the inability to get things done or the pure hatred the followers of one side have for the followers of the other side. Take your pick.
But I will say I am a fan of the psychology behind why some politicians say or do the things they say or do. I also like to keep what I call 'the big toteboard in the sky' and determine who wins or loses the battle of perception versus reality. For example, with the Obama Administration NOT sending someone to Paris for the Unity March, it probably won't mean a lot in the overall battle against terrorism, but it was a huge PR mistake for the president and a huge win for the GOP in the perception that he doesn't care about terrorists…or even that he's a secret Muslim!!
The other time I pay more attention to politics is right now…when everybody's doing the dance. You know, the 'I'm forming an exploratory committee and talking to donors and getting my campaign staff ready but I'm not sure if I'm running for president' dance. It makes for easy, daily fodder on the morning show. Who said what? Who hinted at what? Who met with whom? Who's sniping behind the other person's back…and from the same party? It's enough to make a talk-show host giddy. The only question is who's going to be the first to commit and how long will it take everyone else to throw their hats into the ring. Everyone's expecting a lot of Republicans to take the plunge, but maybe only a handful of Democrats. I expect Hillary to wait until the field is full of a lot of unknowns before she officially announces. For the GOP, you'll probably be familiar with most, if not all of the candidates. The for the Republicans, you have the battle between the conservatives wing of the party and everyone else. Will they back a more moderate candidate (like McCain or Romney in the last 2 elections) or will it be a Tea party-backed candidate? So many questions to be answered….and we only have 22 months until the election. That should be just about right.


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CARTERSVILLE, Ga. - While the 35-7 run differential for Easton Elite's 10u team may suggest otherwise, the scrappy youngsters from Southern California had to string together a couple of come-from-behind wins on their way to becoming PG Super25 10u SoCal Regional champions in the tournament series' first ever SoCal Regional, played February 15th-17th in Baldwin Park, Calif.
After coasting to wins of 8-0 and 16-1 in the first two games, it took some perseverance out of the young Easton Elite team to overcome deficits in the semi-final and championship games.
"At the end of the day, it was just a matter of execution, both on offense and defense," said coach Daniel Ramirez. "The kids went out there and they played hard over the weekend and they had a blast doing it. I think this weekend was a perfect example of good coaching and great execution by these kids."
OF/3B Joey Godoy was the engine behind many key two-out rallies for Easton Elite in the semi-final and championship games. As important as his bat was, his defense stood out to the coaches as well.
"He threw out a kid at third on a no-hop throw and he threw another kid out at home plate on a line drive base hit," mentioned Ramirez on Godoy's outfield play.
Easton Elite was able to get by Diamond MVP in the semi-finals by a 5-4 score and come from behind to defeat Team Rawlings in the championship game, 6-2, thanks in large part to Godoy's clutch performance.
RHP/SS Luke Mistone's pitching performance also came to mind when asked what it took for Easton Elite to come out on top in the PG Super25 10u SoCal Regional. "He kept one of the best teams in Southern California down to one run the entire game," said Ramirez.
It was RHP/3B Jesse Villalobos, however, whom Ramirez named MVP of the tournament for his 10u Easton Elite team.
"He had the keys hits -- making solid contact and driving kids in," Ramirez said. "He's another one who started off a lot of our rallies and defensively he's a stud on the mound."
While Ramirez contributes a lot of Easton Elite's tournament success to these three young players, he emphasized the fact that his team played together and executed when they needed to, displaying a perfect example of playing as a team.
"We make sure that the kids we have on this team have that dedication and passion for the game," said Ramirez. "What we teach them is you respect the game, you respect your opponent, and you respect your teammates."
Easton Elite became the first ever PG Super25 10u SoCal Regional champions in the tournament series' inaugural event, one Ramirez said was very enjoyable for the players and the parents in attendance.
"You couldn't ask for better weather than what we had over the weekend, and the competition was great," said Ramirez.
The Super25 tournament series will continue for the 10u Easton Elite team, who earned a spot in the PG Super25 10u National Championship, July 11th-15th in Charleston, S.C.
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