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Yes, Virginia, the Mullahs DO Screw Up
My Pajamas colleague, the brilliant and erudite Meir Javedanfar, belongs to a school of thought–very common among the Iranian diasporah–that sees every event involving the Islamic Republic as yet another proof of the near-flawless cunning and brilliance of the mullahs. My old friend and colleague Claire Sterling once described this forma mentis–in its Italian incarnation–as "dietrologismo," the science of what lies behind the world as we see it. The handy thing about this approach to the world is that it doesn't depend on annoying facts, but on one core assumption: that you know who's behind it all, and he never screws up. Whatever happens, happens according to plan.
So my dear colleague tells us that Iran has–as a State Department official claimed in an interview with the Washington Post over the weekend–that Iran has "reined in" the Shi'ite militias in Iraq it has been supporting for lo these many years. And then he sets out to explain "why." His explanation is that the mullahs want to keep us buried in an Iraqi quagmire so that we won't be able to use our ground forces to attack Iran. No matter their call for "America out of Iraq," that's just so much propaganda. Their real intention is to keep us there. According to Mr. Javedanfar, the Iranian regime was alarmed when the Democrats won the 2006 elections, fearing that the new majority would actually pull American forces out of Iraq, which in his view would be bad for the mullahs. So Khamenei and Ahmadi-Nezhad bailed out Bush, by making conditions on the ground easier, thereby sabotaging the Democrats.
It's an elegant theory, except that it leaves out several annoying facts. The first is that the terror war in Iraq rapidly expanded after the 2006 elections. Far from being leashed, Iranian-supported terror groups became considerably more active. So Mr. Javedanfar's theory that Iran wanted to make life easier for President Bush after the 2006 elections is counter-factual.
Second, the core allegation–that Iran has "reined in" the Shi'ite militias–is itself very dubious. Yes, a State Department official, David Satterfield, said so in an interview with the Washington Post. He gave no proof, he just deduced it from the fact that attacks in Iraq had dropped off. But, just three days earlier, the Pentagon released a report that stated categorically that there had been no detectable reduction in the flow of support and weapons from Iran to Iraq. Secretary of Defense Gates said that "the jury's out" on all claims that the mullahs were being cooperative, and our ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, also expressed skepticism about the theory.
So the core allegation is disputed by the people who have the best information, namely our military.
Third, we know for sure that American and Iraqi military action has devastated a good deal of the terror network run by the Iranians. Hardly a day has gone by in the past six months without reports of killing and/or capturing elements of "special groups" (the funny talk used to describe Iranian proxies in Iraq). Several of the leaders have been eliminated or are under interrogation, and it's also clear that our troops have made progress in dealing with the latest generation of Iranian explosives.
Why ignore the performance of Coalition and Iraqi forces? Because it just doesn't fit the theory that everything in that part of the world happens because the wily mullahs make it happen. Looking at the "mere facts," one would have to say that the mullahs have been thwarted in Iraq, at least for the time being, and not just on the battlefield. Perhaps their most terrible defeat has come about in the mosques, where the Iranian version of Shi'ism has not taken hold, and where the traditional "Najaf school" of Shi'ism–according to which clerics should stay out of government–is threatening the Khomeinist heresy, even inside Iran itself. That religious defeat is at once a reason for, and a consequence of, their setbacks on the ground. And it's happened despite the flow of mullah money into Iraq (well described by Mr. Javedanfar, although the bonyads are not the key institutions at work here; the really crucial ones are front companies run by the Revolutionary Guards/Quds Force, which is why the U.S. Treasury is targeting them).
In all this, the mullahs' setbacks in Iraq have occurred because of our superiority and Iraqi steadfastness and courage, not because of their unlimited cleverness. They're not ten feet tall, after all. Indeed, they've wrecked the country while awash in petrodollars, and that's evidence of, uh, monumental incompetence.
Darwin Awards, 2007
There's really no need for my comments here, except to marvel at the fantasy, creativity and colossal stupidity that led these people (all men?) to remove themselves from the gene pool. Here you go:
And once again, it's time for the Darwin Award Nominees. The Darwins are awarded every year to the persons who died in the most stupid manner, thereby removing themselves from the gene pool.
This years nominees are:
Nominee No. 1: [San Jose Mercury News]
An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former girlfriends windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.
Nominee No. 2: [Kalamazoo Gazette]
James Burns, 34, (a mechanic) of Alamo, MI. was killed in March as he was trying to repair what police describe as a "farm-type truck". Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a highway while Burns hung underneath so that he could ascertain the source of a troubling noise. Burns clothes caught on something however, and the other man found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft".
Nominee No. 3: [Hickory Daily Record]
Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself to death in December in Newton, NC. Awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed instead a Smith & Wesson 38 Special, which discharged when he drew it to his ear.
Nominee No. 4: [UPI, Toronto]
Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the buildings windows to visiting law students. Hoy previously has conducted demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter Lawson, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was "one of the best and brightest" members of the 200-man association.
Nominee No. 5: [The News of the Weird]
Michael Anderson Godwin made News of the Weird posthumously. He had spent several years awaiting South Carolinas electric chair on a murder conviction before having his sentence reduced to life in prison. While sitting on a metal toilet in his cell attempting to fix his small TV set, he bit into a wire and was electrocuted.
Nominee No. 6: [The Indianapolis Star]
A cigarette lighter may have triggered a fatal explosion in Dunkirk, IN. A Jay County man, using a cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a muzzle loader, was killed Monday night when the weapon discharged in his face, sheriffs investigators said. Gregory David Pryor, 19, died in his parents rural Dunkirk home at about 11:30 PM. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a 54-caliber muzzle-loader that had not been firing properly. He was using the lighter to look into the barrel when the gun-powder ignited.
Nominee No. 7: [Reuters, Mississauga, Ontario]
A man cleaning a bird feeder on the balcony of his condominium apartment in this Toronto suburb slipped and fell 23 stories to his death. Stefan Macko, 55, was standing on a wheelchair when the accident occurred, said Inspector Darcy Honer of the Peel Regional Police. "It appears that the chair moved, and he went over the balcony," Honer said.
Finally, THE WINNER!!!: [Arkansas Democrat Gazette]
Two local men were injured when their pickup truck left the road and struck a tree near Cotton Patch on State Highway 38 early Monday. Woodruff County deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident shortly after midnight Monday. Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc, and Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock, were returning to Des Arc after a frog catching trip. On an overcast Sunday night, Pooles pickup truck headlights malfunctioned. The two men concluded that the headlight fuse on the older-model truck had burned out. As a replacement fuse was not available, Wallis noticed that the .22 caliber bullets from his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box next to the steering-wheel column. Upon inserting the bullet the headlights again began to operate properly, and the two men proceeded on eastbound toward the White River Bridge. After Traveling Approximately 20 miles, and just before crossing the river, the bullet apparently overheated, discharged, and struck Poole in the testicles. The vehicle swerved sharply right, exiting the pavement, and striking a tree Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions from the accident but will require extensive surgery to repair the damage to his testicles, which will never operate as intended. Wallis sustained a broken clavicle and was treated and released. "Thank God we weren't on that bridge when Thurston shot his balls off, or we might both be dead," stated Wallis "I've been a trooper for 10 years in this part of the world, but this is a first for me. I can't believe that those two would admit how this accident happened," said Snyder. Upon being notified of the wreck, Lavinia (Poole's wife) asked how many frogs the boys had caught and did anyone get them from the truck???
(Though Poole and Wallis did not die as a result of their misadventure as normally required by Darwin Award Official Rules, it can be argued that Poole did, in fact, effectively remove himself from the gene pool.)
What Times Are These?
Thanks to its brilliant editor, Robert Tracinski, every day I get the TIA Daily (TIA standing for 'the intellectual advocate'), and believe thee me there is no more stimulating, informative or enjoyable publication on line or on dead trees. Subscriptions cost money, but it's well worth it.
Today Robert reruns something from a year ago, which featured part of a column from the London Times by Anatole Kaletsky, one of the current stars in the British firmament:
"You Think Our Age Is Turbulent? What Nonsense," Anatole Kaletsky, Times of London, April 12
We are constantly told by politicians, journalists and business experts that we live in an era of unprecedented change—a dizzying period of technological and geopolitical revolutions, in which every year brings some new and astonishing upheaval for which our nervous, insecure societies are totally unprepared. What nonsense.
Never in human history has life been more predictable, safe and stable—at least for that large minority of the human race who live in the advanced capitalist countries of Western Europe, North America, and East Asia.
This thought overwhelmed me last week as I prepared a tribute for my mother, who was born in Odessa in 1916 just before the Russian Revolution, and died peacefully in London on March 31. Who would have imagined, in the terrible and wonderful 20th century, almost all of which she lived through, that she would end her days peacefully in her own home in London—surrounded by the secure, comfortable family whose prosperity she had created literally from nothing—instead of being carried off by the wars, famines, revolutions, epidemics and state terrors that had dogged the first half of her life?…
Compared with the upheavals of the early 20th century, the challenges we face today—whether as families and individuals or as societies and nations—are almost laughably trivial. Have psychologists who tell us that accident witnesses need grief counselling forgotten about Holocaust survivors and POWs in Burma? Do environmentalists really believe that global warming is the greatest threat ever faced by Western civilisation?…
Anatole Kaletsky is a very smart guy, and Robert Tracinski does well to provoke us with Kaletsky's thoughts, but I think that the message is wrong. How shall I put this? Yes, life in London is predictable, stable, and pretty easy…until it isn't. And with regard to Anatole's mother, her life in London was a lot better than it was in Odessa, until it wasn't, until Nazi bombs started to fall on her and her children. I think it's foolish to say that the challenges we face today are "almost laughably trivial," compared to what the citizens of the 20th century went through. It's foolish above all because we don't know how it's going to turn out. And I have to say that it's pretty clear that there is a great perturbation in the Force.
I have the sensation that everything is somehow up for grabs. I think most of the world has lousy leadership, certainly most of the free world, and I think that our people know that, and are very confused about which way to turn. That confusion translates into unpredictable elections sometimes (I have no clue about the likely candidates from the two major parties, and a third party run, maybe even a fourth party run, does not seem at all unlikely to me, nor does the prospect of real political conventions next year, perhaps for both parties).
This may turn out well; we may get a terrific president in 2009. But we may not, with all that entails.
Ditto for the fundamental conflicts. I believe we're already in a big regional war in the Middle East, and it can spread quickly all over the place. But I can also imagine events (the fall of the regimes in Tehran and/or Damascus, for example) that would give us enormous opportunities for a dramatic expansion of freedom.
Ditto for the globalized economy. Economists are divided–shocker!–over what the next few months will bring. Recession or worse? Soft landing? Continued growth? Nobody really knows, and indeed I don't think they CAN know, because, as in the other cases, the outcomes will depend on decisions of men and women who, today, don't know what they're going to do. It all depends.
Which brings me back to Anatole Kaletsky, and his happy thought that we are living in a rare moment of tranquility and security. I think that was true for about half a century after the Second World War, but I don't think it's true today. Today it's all up for grabs, and no one can reasonably predict what's coming.
The Chinese Economy Hoax and Other Economists' Fables
A few years ago, when I was a member of something called "The U.S.-China Strategic Review Commission" (or so I remember it), we issued reports on China's economy, military strategy, and political situation. In each of the first two such reports (I left the Commission before the third came out, and confess that I haven't kept up with them) we took pains to state that the "official" data issued by the Chinese Government were totally unreliable. Indeed, we stated explicitly that the numbers were simply made up.
Now the World Bank has issued a dramatic reevaluation of the dimensions of the Chinese economy, and the Bank says that previous estimates overstated the facts by forty percent, which is a hefty number.
Take a look at this excellent editorial from Investor's Business Daily, while spells it out very clearly, and draws some very important conclusions.
It seems the Bank may have found a reliable metric for measuring the real output of a society, and I wonder if they've done the same for countries like Iran and Syria and Saudi Arabia. I'm going to ask them, but you might look around as well. We need what my kids used to call "true facts," not official numbers, which are sometimes produced on demand to satisfy one audience or another.
Back when I was reporting on Italy–we're talking mid-seventies–my editor demanded that I get the "real numbers" on the Italian economy, since the "official" numbers showed that Italy was dead on arrival. I told him the Italian economy was fine, based on walking tours of various neighborhoods in Rome, Florence and Bologna. But he wanted numbers. So I visited a friend who was then Minister of Finance, and I explained my mission. He smiled happily and asked me "what numbers would your editor like?"
Ever since, I've been touched at the faith people show in official data…
The Failed NIE and Its Defenders
I sent a lot of this to The Corner a while ago, but I added some material here and there and thought you should see it.
I am beginning to feel sorry for the people–the men, that is, since no woman's name has appeared in connection with the event–who issued the now-infamous NIE proclaiming their near-certitude that Iran "halted" its secret nuclear weapons program in 2006, and their heartwarming belief, at a lower level of certitude, that the mullahs haven't resumed it. This embarrassingly crafted bit of fluff has failed to pass muster in London, Paris, Berlin and Jerusalem, and in much of Washington and New York. Most of us thought this would put an end to any aggressive policy toward Tehran, but life is full of surprises and if anything the call for tougher sanctions is stronger today than it seemed last week.
And supporters of the NIE–a group that more or less coincides with those who still believe in the likelihood of a "grand bargain" with the mullahs–are resorting to some pathetic attempts to advance their policy. Two of them, Hillary Mann Leverett and her husband, Flynt Leverett–both former Bush Administration dissidents–have an odd oped in today's New York Times, in which they argue a) that anyone who proposed "engagement" with Iran in the early Bush years was risking her career, and b) that Iran has really tried to cooperate with us in the past, but got nowhere.
As for a), I'm not aware that anyone was ever fired or demoted from the Bush Administration for advancing the "engagement" policy. Indeed, Richard Haas, an intimate of then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and head of State's Bureau of Policy Planning, vigorously advanced it, and I think he got various high-ranking officials (perhaps Mr. Leverett himself) to go meet quietly with Iranian counterparts to explore the possibility of detente. And, as I have written several times, a bit more than a year ago, Secretary Rice asked former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzales to go to Tehran, which he did. He met with Mr. Larijani, who told him to forget it.
So a) seems factually wrong.
As for b), you really have to read the small print. For Leverett and Leverett actually say this:
"Iran has tried tactical cooperation with the United States several times over the past two decades — including helping to secure the release of hostages from Lebanon in the late 1980s and sending shipments of arms to Bosnian Muslims when the United States was forbidden to do so."
Yes, the Iranians were in a great position to be "helpful" to our hostages in Lebanon in the mid and late eighties. After all, they had instructed Hezbollah to take the hostages in the first place. They were running the old mafia insurance scam, first demonstrating their ability to kill us (as they did to at least two of the hostages, Higgins and Buckley), then showing their control by releasing a handful. If that's the "grand bargain" that the Leveretts have in mind, I'd rather pay protection money. It saves on travel expenses and time wasted.
As for the provision of weapons to "Bosnian Muslims," this was one of the Clinton Administration's most scandalous undertakings. We enabled the Iranians to smuggle weapons into the Balkans in violation of formal international agreements, and it enabled the mullahs to set up a substantial terrorist-training network through which many of the most infamous killers, including some involved in the 9/11 attacks, passed in the eighties and nineties. I wouldn't hold that up as a great example of "tactical cooperation." More like "American stupidity combined with Iranian murderous cunning."
The Leveretts give us yet one more pathetic example of Tehran's presumed virtue, and America's meanness in response.
"Tehran's expectations of reciprocal good will have been dashed by American condemnation of perceived provocations in other arenas, as when Iranian support for objectives in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks was rewarded by President Bush's inclusion of Iran in the "axis of evil."
Do they not know that the mullahs were playing both sides of the table? At the very moment Tehran was sitting at the negotiating table with us to discuss the future of Afghanistan, Iranian-guided terrorists were trying to kill Americans on the ground. Just as they are today, in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
It's kind of a template for the nuclear program: on the one hand they make a friendly gesture, on the other hand they continue to produce the ingredients of their atomic bomb. Heads they fool us, tails we die.
You Gotta Read "Christopher's Ghosts"
by Charles McCarry, the greatest living Washington writer. Wow!
The Mullahs' Great Failure
I have been arguing for some time now that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has every reason to be discouraged at events in Iraq, and elsewhere in the Middle East, with a few beams of light in Afghanistan (mostly because some of the NATO countries send people in uniform to that country, but then forbid them to shoot at anybody).
Of these failures, perhaps the most significant, and almost certainly the most unexpected to the protectors of the conventional wisdom, is the religious independence of the Iraqi Shi'ites, and their unwillingness to buy into the doctrines of Iranian clerical fascism.
Now Jeremy Rabkin provides extensive documentation of this important Iranian failure, by discussing something of which I had been unaware: the web sites of the four leading Iraqi ayatollahs. And he adds another fascinating "poll," this time of Iranians traveling to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj, which reveals that the two most popular ayatollahs among the Iranian faithful are: Sistani (the leading Iraqi cleric in Najaf) and Montazeri (the celebrated Iranian who has condemned Khomeinism and continues to denounce the Iranian regime as lacking religious authority, a mortal threat to its legitimacy).
Read Rabkin's <a href="http://here.">excellent piece deserves your full attention.
Chavez goes on Iranian time
This is really interesting: Venezuela is changing its time by half an hour. Yes, it's nutty, but the only other country I know of (and there may be others, it would be fun to see who else goes for this) that is half an hour different from its neighbors is the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Further proof of the growing intimacy between the two countries?
Well, they both have student demonstrations against The Leader, don't they?
The Great Intelligence Scam
Yesterday's big story was the Intelligence Community's "Estimate," according to which Iran unilaterally and secretly suspended its covert nuclear weapons program back in 2003, and hasn't resumed it to date. We don't know the sources and methods that underly this analysis, and it may well be that we have acquired some totally convincing evidence that justifies the astonishing conclusions of the IC's assessment. But the "Estimate" itself is internally unconvincing–different agencies, notably the National Intelligence Council and the Department of Energy, are not convinced we have the full picture, and argue that we may not know whether the "halt" on which the IC hangs its analytical hat applies to Iran's "entire nuclear weapons program."
In other words, we seem to know that something was halted, but we don't know if that's the whole story. In Rumsfeld's famous words, we don't know what we don't know.
The most interesting part of the "Estimate" is of course its political and policy implications, which National Security Adviser Steven Hadley was quick to spell out. In his view, and in that of many political leaders and pundits, if Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program, there is no great urgency to move against the mullahs.
And indeed, those "intelligence professionals" were very happy to take off their analytical caps and gowns and put on their policy wigs: "Although the officials as a rule, respecting the norms of their craft, declined to offer policy prescriptions based on their findings, the most senior official present did cite the finding that the Iranians are susceptible to international pressure and say that such pressure should "continue" as a way to "allow IAEA to have significant visibility into the program."
This sort of blatant unprofessionalism is as common in today's Washington as it is unworthy of a serious intel type, and I think it tells us a lot about the document itself. The "Key Findings" published yesterday address the obvious question: why would the Iranians abandon a program that had been in the works ever since the late 1980s? The IC replies: because the Iranians are rational, and they respond to international pressure. They shut down the program because the pressure was too great. They couldn't take the risk of even more pain from the international community.
At this point, one really has to wonder why anyone takes these documents seriously. How can anyone in his (there was no female name on the document, nor was any woman from the IC present at the press briefing yesterday) right mind believe that the mullahs are rational? Has no one told the IC about the cult of the 12th Imam, on which this regime bases its domestic and foreign policies? Does not the constant chant of "Death to America" mean anything? I suppose not, at least not to the deep thinkers who wrote this policy document.
And as for Iran's delicate sensitivity to international pressure, just a few days ago, the European 'foreign minister' Javier Solana was on the verge of tears when he admitted he had been totally unable to get the Iranians to come clean on their uranium enrichment program, even though he had told them that more sanctions were in the works. Yet, according to the IC, this program–neatly described in a footnote to the "Estimate" as "Iran's declared civil work related to uranium conversion and enrichment–really doesn't have anything to do with nuclear weapons. But if that is so, why are the Iranians so doggedly hiding it from UN inspectors?
This document will not stand up to serious criticism, but it will undoubtedly have a significant political impact, since it will be taken as confirmation of the view that we should not do anything mean to the mullahs. We should talk to them instead. And that's just what the Estimate says:
…some combination of threats of intensified international scrutiny and pressures, along with opportunities for Iran to achieve its security, prestige, and goals for regional influence in other ways, might–if perceived by Iran's leaders as credible–prompt Tehran to extend the current halt to its nuclear weapons program.
Incredibly, the authors of the document claim they can prove all this: "The impact of international pressure is beyond dispute, the officials said, a "cause-and-effect" relationship backed up by an 'evidentiary trail.' "
But any good student who has taken Psych 101 will tell you that it's nigh unto impossible to determine someone else's intentions, especially when presented by "analysts" who think that Ayatollah Khamenei and President Rafsanjani are as rational as the rest of us. This is demeaning to the Iranian tyrants–for whom their faith is a matter of ultimate significance–and insulting to our leaders, who should expect serious work from the IC instead of this bit of policy advocacy masquerading as serious intelligence.


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Title: Thermal processing of acidified foods with pH 4.1 to pH 4.6
Authors: Breidt F, Kay K, Osborne J, Ingham B, Arritt F
Journal: Food Prot Trends
Accepted date: 2014 Jan 24
Interpretive summary: For producers of acidified foods, the Food and Drug Administration requires that a scheduled process be submitted to the agency. This filing must be returned for commercial production of acidified foods, according to acidified foods regulations 21 CFR part 114. The process filings must have scientific data to show that the product is free of bacteria that can cause human disease, some of which are acid resistant. The research has shown time and temperature conditions needed to assure safety for thermal processing of acidified foods with pH values of up to 4.6, the upper pH limit for acidified food products. These data expand on previous published results for products with a pH of 4.1 or below. This work fills a critical gap in the scientific knowledge about the safe processing of these products. The results can be used by processors for FDA filings, and will assure safe production practices.
Publication date: 2014 May
Volume: 34
Issue: 3
Pages: 132-8
Related projects: Control of Human Pathogens Associated with Acidified Produce Foods

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Sometimes, it's too warm for a full sweater in the office. But I hate short blouses [which for some reason is all there in on the racks now]. To remedy that, I made a long vest. Not knee length, just long enough to cover my bum.
I used Peaches & Cream cotton yarn, but this should work with any 4 ply worsted weight.
Size J metal hook
two 14 oz cones of Peaches & Cream 100% cotton worsted weight [I used Sea Breeze color, because it's what I had on hand]
stitch markers
Because this is a vest, it works for Large to 3X.
I left the arm holes large enough to accomodate a very full sleeve without being binding.
Very nice vest. I like the sleek shape of it as well as the directional changes. Thanks for sharing!
Crafty Begonia,
Thank you. I used this yarn because I had it on hand, left over from another project. The same pattern works out well with two colors, One for the body, and a second for the yoke and edging. I made one like that for my daughter with a brown camo type yarn for the body, and tan yoke. I actually liked that one better, but for slimming and bum hiding, one single yarn is best [at least for me]
Happy Hooking
The Crazy Cat Lady
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I finished up the wart zapper prototype breadboard circuit, adding the IRF510 Mosfet and 10k resistor. I did get a square wave signal coming out of the drain this time, but found, however that the frequency was off significantly and so was the output voltage. So I started questioning the health of my Mosfet. I didnt have another IRF510 to swap in, so I made due with an IRF3710, which I had on hand. It then worked just the way it should. A 21.6kHz square wave was coming out of the electrodes and the AC voltage measured around 19V on a meter. The circuit ended up looking like so:
I talked my wife into being the first test patient. This time, as we treated her plantar wart, she had an experience similar to that described by Scarborough, where the pain builds up at a particular point, for a short period, but later subsides. Before, with the 25V DC output of the old wart zapper, she would feel a steady pain that was very uncomfortable. This time, however, she commented afterwords that the overall comfort involved was much improved.
- Godfrey
Square Wave and Voltage Under Load?
But, even though a cursory glance at Scarboroughs descriptions appear to describe burning, they really dont. They describe a process of decomposition of wart cell structure due to resonance.
But in this case, are you really talking about Dr. Gary Gears observations and Dr. Bill Biagiolis zapper augmentations on this page? :
My problem with the Stingo right now is that frequency is less controllable and limited to a certain range and I think frequency is significant in the case of wart zapping.
There is a third problem that Dr. Gary Gear noticed. The zapper does not produce a square wave under load. The wave looks square on a scope until a person is attached. Then the corners go very round.
I havent yet looked at the output on a scope while the circuit is zapping someone. Thats the first step. Then I will try your suggestion.
- Godfrey
Re: Wart Zapper Prototype Results
Why there is no resistor between 555 output and the mosfet?
Maybe like stingo, when we grab the probe harder, it change frequency lol.
BTW, I am beginning to wonder if using toroid for radiant sleeping aid is a bad decision. I get worse result than when I use transformer, but I will do more experiment to be sure.
Re: Health Zapper Circuits - DIY and Experimentation
Forgot to mention. Few days ago I apply stingo before the diode with cap in series for another case of red skin athlete's foot. It healed but not right away, it take few days. It was treated with topical for many weeks and still do not heal.
So, I will always use cap isolated before the diode from now on. Not sure if it has to be painless or not, I use it with tolerable pain....
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radiant sleeping aid for wall adapter
I found out yesterday that the non grounded water may have different voltage potential compare to ground with different circuit powered with computer power supply.
The top one produce negative offset. The bottom one produce positive offset. Offset apply to both positive/negative output, one is of course higher than other.
So, in case we use adaptor or other wall power supply, I suggest the top version:
On battery charging measurement, stingo2pnp radiant negative output is 5.6V more negative than source positive.
So with stingo2pnp (top circuit) it is easier to has the non grounded water to be more negative. With stingo1pnp (bottom circuit) it is easier to have non grounded water to be more positive.
Since radiant sleeping aid is trying to make the bed more negative than non grounded water, the top version is better. Although it seem power consumption is high with 3V.
Last edited by sucahyo; 12-31-2010 at 12:58 AM.
Re: radiant sleeping aid for wall adapter
A belated Happy New Years wishes to you, my friend!
I spent the last couple weeks or so under the weather with flu and dealing with storm and work stress, so was delayed in participating.
I notice you have substituted TIP41C for the TIP31C, and put in an extra transistor. Will try this new config with a wallwart when I can spare some time.
Meanwhile, I have used the regular configuration with rechargeable AAA batteries to zap myself quite a bit lately. I have found the recovery diode to be harsh and stingy (I always experience the sting through the radiant negative electrode). So have settled on using open AC type output.
I got caught being busy when the flu set in, so missed the opportunity to make a premptive strike with the zapper, before the flu set in. My wife got the flu too and she tried zapping, but not with as much resolve and regularity as me. It made a difference in a back ache she was complaining about too.
I have to say that there was always a difference after zapping. Certain symptoms, like runny nose would go away immediately. But many symptoms would creep back or be replaced by others. I think that this has to do with various tissues density and reactability. It seems to me certain tissues are not being reached very effectively while others may be overstimulated.
I also suffered some digestive track issues that I think may have been exacerbated by zapping, which seems to decimate good intestinal bacteria. It cleared up when I started eating yogurt.
I recently read some research which claimed that to reach the body electrically, a frequency of greater than 50kHz is required.
- Godfrey
Re: Health Zapper Circuits - DIY and Experimentation
Happy new year .
About the storm, I would try to connect the radiant positive output to TV antenna and see if it reduce it. Don't use negative or you may make it worse. Just some playing.....
The transistor type is just what I use. Nothing important. The additional transistor is something like Bedini-Cole, and turn out to be different.
Try open output with capacitor in series too.
I think zapper work only on skin surface, so something that goes deep may not get infected. The suggestion from Hulda Clark is in minutes:
7 go - 30 rest - 7 go - 30 rest - 7 go.
I think sharp signal work better than high frequency. But it seems body will muffle the sharp signal. If cap in series can not help, that would be hard.
Wart Zapper Prototype Update
I have been delayed in steady work on this project, due to other personal preoccupations lately.
In the time I have been able to spare, I have discovered that even though the signal reaching the gate of the Mosfet seems to be swinging rail to rail, within the voltage range allowed by the zener diode, which in this case is 12V, and looks like this on an OScope:
On a more thorough check of the output, however, voltage measured coming out of the drain, does not sink all the way to 0 volts, but swings from 24V+ to 12V+. Also Mosfets don't have the same output characteristics as bipolar transistors. Here is what I measured with positive probe hooked to 24V+ and negative clip connected to the Mosfet drain, no load, for IRF510 and IRF610:
I think this curly voltage signal translates into a square wave, current-wise, because as the gate reaches saturation voltage, the drain voltage first rises and then drops to zero as the drain resistance drops to nothing and resulting current reaches its max. But the voltage signal coming out of an IRF3710 looks classically square like so:
Makes me wonder what is so different between these Mosfets. But in both cases, however, you can see that the output is oscillating between 24V and 12V, rather than dipping all the way to 0V. Now the output from pin 3 of the 555 timer chip work like a pair of complimentary bipolar transistors set up in totem mode to insure that the signal truly swings from rail to rail. But it looks like the gate is floating when low and needs to be pulled down to the negative rail. I think that a complication is arising from the difference between the 12V positive being fed to the 555 timer and the total 24V which is being switched by the Mosfet.
I see two issues that complicate the soup. First off, delving into Mosfet specs and switching considerations, it is recommended that the gate receive a maximum voltage, which is looking more like 18V rather than 12V, so the last thing we want to do is drop the signal voltage. Secondly, this simplified timer configuration starts to cause problems when being used both as the RC timing charge and discharge path, as well as for an output signal. I have found that adding a resistor between the output and Mosfet gate causes an unwanted voltage division at the node between it and the other resistor. Increasing this resistor value does not drop the voltage in the direct way expected and starts to degenerate the square shape of the output signal wave.
I think it may be better to use discharge pin 7 for the output signal. This would require the addition of a pull-up resistor connected to the positive rail to work right. The other option, of course, is to use pin 3 as what its intended for, and use the classic RRC/pin 6/2/7 timer network. This would allow different duty-cycle configurations than just 50% too.
I am encountering issues with load too. I dont get an accurate output signal with an unloaded circuit. This is even worse with bipolar transistors, which tend to stay open. I need to emulate the resistance load of the human body which is not a trivial problem. So far Ive tried an array of LEDs in series with a 1.5M resistor.
One other thing thats slowing me down and adding much annoyance is the tendency of bnoth my CMOS timer chips and Mosfets to blow out on me, often for no good reason. I actually went through a dozen of both and am waiting on more ordered before I can resume my investigations. Yes, Sucahyo, you warned me about those 555 chips. Well Im not through with them quite yet, but pretty pissed off about them at the moment ;)
As sensitive as frequency may be, resonance is the unavoidable phenomenon at work here and another fact you cant talk me out of Although I agree that accuracy is a problem.
Meanwhile, Im waiting for more 555 timer chips to arrive so I can start blowing them up all over again
- Godfrey
Re: Wart Zapper Prototype Update
Imagine an accurate frequency generator that has step of 5 Hz at 1MHz (device with accuracy of 99.9995%). what is the chance it can hit 1,000,002MHz when you sweep the frequency?
This is why we urgently need a way to know the effect. Like link posted by theremart:
Watch the movie. It show virus like rife.
Can you trust your frequency guesser accuracy?
BTW, seen any capacity increase on the rechargeable battery?
Some rambling:
While I fix a computer of a fellow co worker, he mention often receive pain in the head, sometimes make them collapse. He also mention can only sleep 4 hour a day. Hearing the story make me regret that I still had only very minor knowledge in this. I still not confident enough to tell about radiant sleeping aid, because I don't know if he can accept it as science, not as voodoo...
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Re: Wart Zapper Prototype Update
- Godfrey
Re: Wart Zapper Prototype Update
Since it require 30 second between reading, it may give longer sweep of frequency.
However, I just remember that resonant frequency usually change on different environment. Maybe it is better to sweep 5% from the exact one.
I don't notice high enough self discharge though. I can use it even if it sit for a week.
BTW, use the partial cap isolated FWBR version for stingo charging.
Wart Zapper - The latest
Energy patterns, on my opinion, are made up of wave forms with characteristics involving shape, frequency and amplitude. Furthermore, all form is ultimately energetically based.
So it shouldnt be anymore difficult to reach the resonant frequency of a virus or parasite once accurately determined.
I have been looking at Dave Lawtons latest PWM circuit as well as another hydrogen generator: http://www.making-hydrogen.com/hydro...et-irf510.html
Ive noticed that both use a resistor between the gate and output pin 3 and another resistor to pull down. Seems to solve just the problem Ive been experiencing. Ive got a new supply of timer chips and Mosfets to experiment with, so will try this out soon.
- Godfrey
Re: Wart Zapper - The latest
charged battery replace the resistor at the left.
I hope we can achieve something that we can confidently suggest to everyone .
Re: Health Zapper Circuits - DIY and Experimentation
Yesterday my son was sick. His body is hot but he still look healthy. I decide to use 3V stingo zapper before diode with toroid. After under 10 minutes of use his body temperature cooled down.
Also got serious muscle tension that make me almost unable to let go the electrode when accidently dial full power when tuning the output power. Don't underestimate a 3V stingo guys......
I also tried to power radiant sleeping aid with 12V power supply. I use bedini cole stingo, where coil is isolated from power with NPN and PNP. It output about 500V measured with analog. I got jolted when I touch the water in the bucket. The water only had the postive output terminal. Negative terminal un connected.
It seems that the ground become ghost negative polarity. The reason I use bedini cole version is because the negative output is more negative than ground.
The result for sleep seems weaker than 3V toroid version. So I will use 3V in the future.
Re: Health Zapper Circuits - DIY and Experimentation
Here is a small modification to the circuit that will increase the frequency a little.
My son and wife impression on this circuit is this circuit make them sleepy.
I have use this version on non painfull setting but still high enough to produce singing at the contact pad.
I have seen injury can be recovered faster. Inflamatory will reduce, red and yellow wet part will be dry the next day.
I found that I do not have to use it at painfull setting at all. Flues, fever can be reduced in an instant.
Re: Health Zapper Circuits - DIY and Experimentation
Here is how I package my zapper.
This video also shows interesting current consumption. The output voltage still high at spesific value.
"Here is a video showing my portable circuit. LED is in parallel with the battery.
As I turn the potentiometer, the LED start to get dimmer, indicating lowered battery voltage as the circuit draw more current from the battery.
But interestingly, at spesific point, the LED goes brighter. Beyond or before that point, the LED will still be dim.
Notice that the output voltage do not drop when the LED at its brightest at the spesific point."
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I've tested this one in my search for the perfect shepherd's pie recipe and, like many other reviewers, I think this is too wordy which might put people off! My tips are: - You can use ground meat (lamb, pork, beef), but when you brown it leave it in roughly 1" chunks rather than breaking it up too much, tastes nicer that way. - Put any vegetables you like in it. I always use onion, frequently use carrots, celery, mushrooms and any bits of vegies I've got kicking round in the fridge. - Make your "gravy" any way you please. I don't do a buerre manie. I add some worcester sauce, some extra stock, even a little steak sauce to pep it up. If it needs thickening I'll stir in some cornflour before putting the spuds on. - I like to grate cheese on top of the potatoes for the total comfort food experience! - I can recommend making a big batch, assembling a few small ones in single serve casserole dishes and freezing them. Very handy if you're home alone or have kids to feed. - Enjoy! Shepherd's pie should be fun to make, tasty and filling to eat, and a meal the family can enjoy together.flag if inappropriate
Dinner guests and my family including fussy teenagers love this dish. I recommend substituting the turnips for cremini mushrooms (sliced) and baby carrots, swapp the white wine for a good red wine to add richness and made my own recipe for garlic mash potatoes as the topper. Makes a great fall/winter dishflag if inappropriate
I know. I know. It's just shepherd's pie, not Daniel Boulud or French Laundry. However, I expected a lot more. Proportions in the recipe are all wrong. Not enough meat, too much turnip. I cooked the stew the recommended 2 hours in a cast iron dutch oven, covered with parchment and a tight fitting lid, but I had little gravy at the end to thicken. Potatoes were runny. The tomato paste, white wine, root vegetables, and leek gave the sauce a sweetness that detracted. Toss this one.flag if inappropriate
I've been making this recipe since Jan 2004, about 10 times now (Dec 2005). As many reviewers suggest, the recipe can be easily modified to meet time, ingredient and personal preferences. Try using low sodium, vegetable broth. Make your mashed potatoes any way you like. Do the beurre manie if you have time. I find that the buerre adds a subtle flavor, and, if I've miscalculated on my improvisations, it can rescue the dish from a soupy mess. Also, if all you need to do is thicken the broth, don't be shy about using Gold Medal "Wondra". All in all, this is a hearty recipe that withstands any chefs alterations with aplomb.flag if inappropriate


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Norwalk 'Signal' wins top honor
The Norwalk High School journalism department added five feathers to its cap Saturday at the 28th convention of the Northeastern Ohio Scholastic Press Association.
Journalism students took three first place awards and two third place awards at the convention Saturday at Kent State University.
A first place went to Dave Preston and Greg McDonald of Norwalk for a radio broadcast during the convention.
The "Signal," the high school newspaper, was named the best newspaper among high schools with enrollments under 1,000. Preston is editor-in chief. Page editors are Kathy Adams, Greg McDonald and Nancy Lehan.
1st day on job? Not worth 5 cents
"There isn't one person in this auditorium who will be worth five cents to his employer the first day on the job," Ralph Bache told Norwalk and St. Paul High School students this morning.
Bache, president of a Norwalk insurance agency and immediate past president of the Norwalk Chamber of Commerce, was keynote speaker for the annual career day program in which students of both schools participated.
Bache went on to tell the students, however, they could make themselves so valuable their employer would not dare fire them and would pay them handsomely to keep them from going to a competitor.
Collection of broken bank notes tops show
Harper Hite, of Norwalk, founder and president of the Firelands Coin Club, won the top trophy at Sunday's sixth annual coin show sponsored by the local club.
The trophy was won for a collection of 29 broken bank notes including what he believes to be the only complete set of notes from the Norwalk Branch Bank, now the Citizens Bank of Norwalk.
Hite explained the notes were issued in the place of silver during the colonial days. Eventually most of the banks went "broke" making the notes worthless and giving them the name "broken bank notes."
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IGNACIO, Calif. - Captain David H. Pflieger, son of Mrs. Lucille B. Pflieger, of 13 James St., has received the U.S. Air Force Comendation Medal at Hamilton AFB, Calif.
Captain Pflieger was decorated for meritorious service while assigned at Truax Field, Wis. He now serves as director of personnel services at Fourth Air Force headquarters, a major component of the Aerospace Defense Command.
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New Washington boys basketball to host golf scramble September 19
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The New Washington High School boys basketball team is hosting their second annual golf scramble.
The scramble will be held on Saturday, September 19 at Spring Hills Golf Course, 4766 W. Butler Falls in Hanover. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. with participants teeing off at 9 a.m.
The cost is $50 per person or $200 per team. The deadline to register your team is September 15.
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Indiana's own Miss America 2009 Katie Stam and Electric Consumer, the statewide publication of Indiana's electric cooperatives, are teaming up to recognize the community spirit of Indiana's youth.
The inaugural Youth Power and Hope Awards Contest emphasizes the important role young Hoosiers can play in their communities. The contest is open to Indiana fifth through eighth graders who reside within Clark County REMC service territory. Entrants must complete an entry form, submit an essay regarding community service, provide examples of how they have been involved in their local community, and include a letter of reference from a trusted adult.
Five winners will be chosen from all entrants to attend a private luncheon with Miss American on December 17 in Indianapolis, have their entry essays published in Electric Consumer and be special guests at a presentation by Miss America at the Indiana statewide Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives' 75th Annual Meeting on December 17, among other highlights. An entry form and contest details can be found at www.electricconsumer.org.
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Fundraisers to be held for local man recovering from recent motorcycle accident
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Two fundraisers are being planned for a local man who is recovering from a recent serious motorcycle accident.
Ryan Clausing of Memphis, was traveling home on Friday, August 7 when he was involved in a motorcycle accident just seconds from his home.
Clausing was STAT flighted to the University of Louisville Hospital for treatment, where he is still recovering from his injuries.
He sustained extensive injuries including a spinal cord injury at T4 level, severe leg injury from the knee down on his right leg, collapsed right lung, bilateral lung contusions, heart contusion and broken clavicle, scapula, wrist and ankle.
Clausing's family has been able to provide updates to family and friends via Caring Bridges. You may read more about his story at www.caringbridges.org/visit/ryanclausing/mystory.
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Pirates make it three?in?a?row versus Brownstown Braves
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Pirate Football traveled to Elm Street in Brownstown to open 2009 Mid Southern Conference play against the rival Braves.
Elm Street ended up being a nightmare for the host team instead of the visitors, as the Pirates' defense dug in and stopped the Braves' high?powered offense for a 35?14 victory.
The game was ended due to thunderstorms with 10:46 left in the game.
The game began with each team marching the field twice and scoring touchdowns, including an 85 yard kick?off return by senior Michael Baines and a six yard pass from freshman Aaron Daniel to senior Jake Cook.
With the score tied at 14?14 starting the second quarter, the Pirates' defense took control, and their offense kept on digging. The Pirates' Aaron Daniel intercepted a Brave pass on the Braves' next drive then countered with a six play 51 yard drive that ended with Michael Baines rushing 10 yards for another touchdown with 2:18 left in the first half (21?14).
The Pirates opened the second half with a 12 play 62 yard drive that ended with an Aaron Daniel one yard run for a touchdown with 5:42 left in the third quarter.
The Braves fumbled the ball on their next possession when the Pirates marched 72 yards in 10 plays ending with a Ethan Bowen 21 yard touchdown run to make the score 35?14 in the middle of the fourth quarter.
Aaron Daniel was named the Tumbletown Offensive Player of the game while Logan McCutchen was named Tumbletown Defensive Player of the game by Pirate Pride Sports Broadcasting.
The Pirates return home to the Bone Yard this Friday night to host county arch?rival Clarksville in another important MSC match?up. Kick-off is set for 7 p.m.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 02 September 2009 08:18
Louisville man dies in one vehicle accident in Charlestown
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The Charlestown Police Department is investigating a one vehicle fatality that occurred Saturday morning at approximately 6:05 a.m. just east of the intersection of State Road 62 and State Road 3 in Charlestown.
Three adult males were transported from the accident scene to the U of L Trauma Center in critical condition.
Two of the three are currently believed to have been ejected from a red 2004 Ford Mustang during the incident; the third male was extricated from the Mustang by Charlestown Fire and Rescue.
Robert D. Reynolds, 19, of Louisville, was later pronounced dead at U of L.
Cory B. Flint, 26, of Madison and Brent Hamilton, 18, of Shepherdsville, Kentucky, at last press time remain in critical condition at U of L.
Excessive speed is being investigated as a possible contributing factor of the crash. No other information was available for release as of press time.
Anyone who may have been near the intersection and witnessed the crash is asked to contact Detective Ledbetter with the Charlestown Police Department, 812?256?6345.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 02 September 2009 08:19
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The Benefits of Tangible Non-Monetary Incentives
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There is perhaps no subject debated more frequently (or as vehemently) by incentive program practitioners and their clients than the value of tangible, non-monetary (alsoreferred to as non-cash) incentives versus cash.
When a participant is deciding whether an award is "worth the effort," the participant is considering the perceived value of earning the award — the match-up between the value of the award itself, and the effort required to earn it. Insights into this decision-making process come from expectancy theories, which hold that effort exerted in pursuit of a reward is positively related to the value of the reward offered for performance. This dynamic is known as the expected utility of the award.
In addition, several principles of social and cognitive psychology suggest that participants may perceive non-monetary incentives to be more valuable than the retail value of that award in cash. For example, acknowledgement from peers and other dynamics can extend the value of non-cash incentives over and above the cash value of the incentive. This has been referred to frequently as trophy value.
Objective Of Paper
Four psychological processes described herein influence participant perceptions of tangible non-monetary incentives, making them perceived to be of more value than cash incentives of equal market value.
Four Psychological Processes
The four psychological processes to be discussed in this paper can be categorized as items that directly affect the Perceived Value Of The Award and those that increase the Value Of Earning The Award, because the awards are earned rather than purchased.
Perceived Value of the Award
Value of Earning the Award
In the following document, the perceived value of a non-cash award— influenced by the processes of Evaluability and Separability — will be explored first. Following that overview, this paper will provide an overview of how tangible, non-cash incentives can increase motivation because they are earned rather than purchased, via the psychological processes of Justifiability and Social Reinforcement.
When a non-cash incentive comes in the form of a travel award, considered a pleasurable experience, an interesting dynamic occurs.
Affective Reactions Drive Perceived Value
That dynamic is known as an affective reaction to the incentive. As an example, when you think about a trip to Hawaii, affective attributes probably come first to mind - things like good weather, fine beaches, and great dining.
Research has shown that people use vivid items (such as the good weather, etc.) more frequently than mundane items (such as trip preparations, finding a sitter, stopping the mail, etc.) to form attitudes. Because attaching a monetary value to non-cash incentives is difficult, the participant's affective reaction to the award substitutes for its predicted utility.
Value Ambiguity Increases Value Perceptions
Such affective evaluations drive participant perceptions regarding award value as well; in fact, they tend to increase value beyond the actual. This is because affective evaluations tend to have ambiguity in value, allowing participants to cognitively alter the predicted utility of the award . Given that tangible, non-cash incentives are more difficult to "put a price on," they have greater ambiguity and thus can be ascribed a higher value than cash, which has an established value (and therefore no ambiguity).
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Non-Cash Incentives Have Evaluability, Meaning They...
People mentally segregate some sources and uses of funds, and aggregate others. A type of mental accounting process occurs.
For example, most people mentally separate investment income and home (real estate) appreciation from salary; however, because salary and a cash bonus are both earned as part of the job, they are likely to be mentally combined with the rest of the participant's employment income.
Cash Awards Not As "Separable" as Non-Cash Incentives
Cash bonuses lack separability, because they go into a base salary mental account. Thus, the value of the cash bonus as an award for performance "above and beyond" does not stand out anymore. Companies can counter this through a ceremony and the like (to commemorate the performance); however, participants often continue to view this money as an increase in total compensation, because it is cognitively aggregated with salary.
Non-cash incentives are usually consumed less frequently; they are separated into smaller, more specific mental accounts (e.g., Travel, Entertainment), etc. In these cases, the award has separability — it is not aggregated with other compensation.
In Conclusion...
Non-Cash Incentives Have Separability, Meaning Individuals...
Many non-cash incentive awards are viewed as luxuries that participants normally cannot justify purchasing. If a participant values it highly (but would not purchase it) then the opportunity to earn it as reward for hard work does not violate the participant's standards of justification.
Earning The Incentive Eliminates The Need To Justify Its Purchase
For example, a salesperson might never go on an expensive and "frivolous" trip to Hawaii; however, if the trip is earned for hard work and the participant must "use it or lose it," there is no need to justify taking it. Hard work thus becomes an attractive way to acquire something that was not justifiable otherwise. The result: Earning the non-cash incentive carries more value than earning the market value of the incentive in cash.
In addition, cognitive dissonance research suggests that if a participant is working hard to achieve an award, the participant will try to mentally justify that the award is worth the effort. This brings the participant's beliefs in line with their actions and can increase the perceived value of a tangible non-monetary award. Put another way, the harder a participant works to achieve an award, the more valuable the award becomes. This in turn leads to more effort.
In Conclusion...
Non-Cash Incentives Have Justifiability, Meaning They ...
Social Reinforcement
One of the most important rewards for a job well done is acknowledgement from one's peers, supervisors, family, and friends. This social reinforcement comes from others knowing about the good performance.
Acknowledgement Increases Social Utility, Increasing Value
Non-cash incentives may be more effective than cash awards in this regard, because the participant doesn't need to advertise earning them. For example, a friend or a colleague might ask, "So Bill, how are those golf clubs you earned from the firm?" This is a socially acceptable question. On the other hand, it is less socially acceptable to say, "So Bill, how's the $1,000 you earned from the firm?"
Non-Cash Incentives More Socially Acceptable To Acknowledge
Most people are uncomfortable bragging about cash, but enjoy talking about their new golf clubs or trip. With tangible non-cash incentives being visible and socially acceptable to praise, question, or bring up, there is no need to go out of one's way to call attention to them. By providing a better means to indirectly call attention to the award and what was accomplished to earn it, the value of earning a non-cash incentive is enhanced relative to the cash value of the incentive.
Non-Cash Incentives Have Trophy Value
Non-cash incentives like a big screen television will serve as a reminder to the participant about his or her performance (and the firm) every time it is watched. Vacation travel provides memories, pictures, etc. Cash awards can do this somewhat, but only when a certificate, plaque, etc., is provided as a physical marker. In the case of a non-cash incentive, the award itself is the physical marker.
The utility of earning a non-cash incentive is enhanced by the visibility of the award and the absence of social norms against discussing them.
Cash Awards Are Less Likely To Be Tied To The Company That Provided Them
When a cash award is provided, it becomes the participant's — anything purchased with it is something the participant chose to purchase rather than something the firm awarded to the participant. Family, friends, and colleagues will also be more likely to view what the participant purchased as something the participant bought rather than something that was awarded for performance. This makes the link between the company and the award weaker, diminishing the likelihood that good performance (or the company that awarded it) will be discussed. This is less likely to occur with tangible non-cash awards.
In Conclusion...
Non-Cash Incentives Offer Social Reinforcement, Meaning They...
What do the four psychological processes mean to incentive program practitioners? Here are some basic guidelines for consideration.
1. Make Your Awards Truly Special
If the participant is less likely to purchase the item (because he or she can't justify it) then making the award truly special will increase the value of earning the award, and increase effort to receive it.
2. Use Infrequently Purchased Items Or Services
Items or services that participants would likely not purchase on their own are more likely to attract the attention of colleagues, increasing the trophy value of the award.
3. Maximize (and Capitalize Upon) Social Reinforcement Qualities
To maximize social reinforcement qualities, encourage participants to think about the admiration that will result in achieving the award (and by proxy) the performance that led to it. This will make earning the incentive more valuable and increase effort.
4. Communicate Awards As "Splurge" Items
Imply within incentive program communications that the award is truly something the participant would only purchase as a luxury or personal treat. This will add to the award's trophy value and increase its overall power as a motivational tool.
5. Vary Award Types To Meet Diverse Needs
For each performance level, when participants can choose from a variety of awards, utility value perceptions are improved. Maximize utility value by offering incentives desired by people having diverse tastes.
6. Minimize The Potential For "Loss Aversion"
Switching from a cash incentive program to a non-cash incentive program can result in loss aversion - the perception that losing something hurts more than receiving the same thing of equal value. Put another way, if a cash incentive program is eliminated, any tangible, non-monetary incentive programs implemented in its place should be of greater perceived value. Because of this, it may be better to use a non-cash incentive in a newer program rather than replace a cash program with a noncash program.
7. Consider Other Potential Benefits
A firm may receive additional benefits from non-cash incentives. For example:
SummaryThis paper suggests how the following four psychological processes can increase the perceived value of tangible non-monetary incentive awards over and above cash-based awards having the same market value.
Social Reinforcement
The editors wish to thank Scott Jeffrey for his tireless efforts in providing the hypotheses and secondary research set forth in this document and in the larger body of work from which it was taken. For reprints of this article or the full, unedited version of this report, please contact the SITE Foundation.
Dr. Scott Jeffrey
Scott Jeffrey is an assistant professor in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo in Southwestern Ontario. He received his Ph.D. in Managerial and Organizational Behavior at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Jeffrey performs research on incentives and participant motivation, as well as how goals are formed and how those goals affect job performance. He also studies the cognitive and motivational processes associated with judgment and decision-making.
Dr. Jeffrey has taught Organizational Behavior, Negotiation, Human Resource Management, and Competitive Strategy. To reach Dr. Jeffrey, contact him via email at email@example.com.
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