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What Balanced Market Reporting Looks Like
by Barry Ritholtz - January 23rd, 2010, 4:09pm
Someone sent me an FT headline to show me that my WSJ post "misses the mark." To demonstrate that it wasn't just the WSJ that succumbed to political bias, I was referred to this FT article: Investors fret over Obama's bank assault.
Not quite as egregious as the WSJ's New Bank Rules Sink Stocks, but certainly worth investigating.
Would I have to add the FT to our growing collection of media criticism (WSJ and NYT). I went to the link and read the article. It turns out no. Consider this context within the FT piece:
The Market Eye
"Let's keep this in perspective. The US stock market advances 70 per cent from its lows in less than 11 months, leading some to claim the rally is overdone. Support for riskier assets from a falling dollar is whipped away as the buck shows evidence of reversing its trend decline. Signs emerge that China, the engine of global growth, is overheating and may require a risky application of the brakes. Concerns increase that a number of European countries are teetering on the fiscal precipice. And the US earnings season delivers a response from traders that suggests all the good news is already baked in.
With all this going on, it was perhaps surprising that stocks were hovering near 15-month highs as recently as Tuesday. They were ripe for a pull-back, and unexpected (?) events such as the Obama banking proposals provide a wonderful excuse.
But this is a banking thing. The idea that the New Wall Street, should it come to pass, will restrict economic activity sounds like spin emanating from the canyons of lower Manhattan. Equities are just 3.5 per cent below those recent peaks."
That, dear readers, is what an intelligent, partisan-free, market diascussion looks like. That balance is precisely what was missing from the front page WSJ article.
Those of you who are partisans, I can only tell you that in my experience, mixing politics with investing is both foolhardy and expensive.
Look around at who made money during the "Obama Rally:" I know a disproportionate number of the people who missed this 70% market spike leaned Republican. But stupidity knows no party affiliation, and after the 2003 George W. Bush trillion dollar tax cut was passed, there was also a huge rally — and many of the ones who missed that one leaned Democratic. This is no coincidence — it is a function of bias and selective perception and an investing strategy co-opted by politics.
Perhaps this helps explain to everyone else why balanced financial reporting is so helpful to investors . . .
WSJ Jumps the Shark (January 22, 2010)
The WSJ Responds (January 22, 2010)
Investors fret over Obama's bank assault
Jamie Chisholm
FT, January 22 2010
Category: Markets
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
43 Responses to "What Balanced Market Reporting Looks Like"
jpm says:
Thanks for fighting this fight, Barry.
The WSJ editors clearly need a kick in the ass to remember why people bother picking up (or clicking on) a WSJ as opposed to any other undifferentiated news outlet.
Minderbender says:
So the next big picture trend question for investors is: if the Tea Party populism that has emerged is beyond mere astroturfing, how will this apparent backlash, as evidenced in New Jersey and Massachusetts, and likely to color our news in upcoming 10 months, typically influence the investor (progressive, liberal, libertarian, or conservative), i.e., how will it cloud our respective visions? What do we need to watch out for?
Barry, you have an interesting thesis here – what it your take? Specific advice for each case?
Gatsby says:
What Balance (and Intelligent) Market Commentary Looks Like: The Big Picture Blog
Well done Barry! The hacks, partisans and politicos need to be countered with what is in effect Kyrptonite to them: reason
austincompany says:
Though everyone is for "balanced" (financial) reporting, what is balanced or bias is often in the eye of the beholder. Though you direct your ire to political parties via financial rags, the same bias reporting can be said for bullish or bearish sentiment.
And there is no doubt much more bias (re: unbalanced) reporting in regards to the economy – Keynesian vs. Austrian economic models. So try as we might to end all "bias" reporting, it is an absolutely impossible task – as there is either fact or opinion. And since most of life and business is mostly "gut" and opinion, the Pandora world of fair and balanced will never happen. What is important is that we recognize what is fact and what is opinion.
YY says:
Right on spot BR.
For those who want to tell balanced from unbalanced reporting, simply put the FT and WSJ reports of the same event side by side. As BR did above.
The nuanced discussion of things is left wanting in WSJ, while most columns in FT have a level headed discussion of things. Mind you, the Economist, from the same publisher does not quite have the quality of reporting.
RANDALL W. FORSYTH says:
From Barron's today (owned by the same people who own WSJ):
THE STOCK MARKET'S 5% DROP in the final three sessions of the holiday-shortened week couldn't be ascribed entirely to the proposed curbs on banks. Indeed, the market rallied Tuesday on the prospect that Brown's anticipated victory would be a tonic to health-care stocks, but there was more at work.
"The Volcker Rule, central banks' exit strategies, expected fiscal tightening, growing concerns about Greece (26% probability of default priced in) and China's credit bubble have produced a headwind of negative news in a market that is priced for a surplus of positive news," writes Lena Komileva, head of G7 Economics for Tullett Prebon in London. "It is no surprise that the damage across risk markets is spreading like bushfire."
Ahead of Friday's 2% drop on Wall Street, the U.S. stock market had been among the least hard-hit, according to the BofA/Merrill Lynch global strategy team led by Michael Hartnett. Thursday, China was down 14% from recent highs, while Spain was off 11%, Brazil was down 10% and Germany was lower by 8%.
The correction didn't begin with Obama's politically motivated bank rules. The global liquidity pump that pushed up asset prices more than real economies is being turned down. And that points to lower prices for risk assets, from domestic equities to commodities to emerging markets. But it should translate to further strengthening of the dollar, which won't be positive for all those investors falling over themselves to buy global mutual funds.
Transor Z says:
Play fantasy baseball. It's a quick and relatively inexpensive way to suss out your home team bias. If you don't do any research/analysis and rely only on drafting players you know and like from your home team (and pass on players from hated rivals), you lose.
huesos says:
Barry.. I'm just curious as to how you substantiate your claims that Republicans missed the Obama rally while Dems missed the Bush tax cut rally. It almost seems too cute to be factual and as far as I know, neither you nor my broker know my political affiliation if any.
You overstate what I am implying: Of the people who missed each rally, their political affiliation seems to me to have been a factor: Disproportionately, lefties missed the W rally, Disproportionately, righties missed the O rally. Coincidence? I do not believe so.
It is based on personal observation of anecdotal evidence.
Of the circle of my colleagues and professional peers, I have a good idea of who is what politically. I also know who missed what (many of these folk's track records are public info).
Add to that the mix of politics I see: Speaking generally, in NYC, the population leans left. In the suburbs (Long Island, Westchester, Connecticut N.NJ), its center right. Wall Street, also leans right — at least in terms of tax policy and regulation. This is the pool I am observing (plus whoever I know over the internet).
Hardly scientific — what the hell is "Leans?" — but surprisingly consistent from what I witnessed.
Mannwich says:
Amazing. The O man basically enacts a massive handout (biggest in world's history) to the jackals that caused this mess. They then pump the market so that it goes up for basically 10 straight months in a straight line in a rally of epic proportions, allowing them collect enormous bonuses again, and now after a 5% three-day miniscule drop (relative to the rally), the whiner welfare queens on Wall Street come out of the woodwork and hammer the O man for it. You just gotta love these vultures. It's no wonder this country is where it is. I used to think the country was being run by sociopaths. I was wrong. We're being run by psychopaths.
the bohemian says:
"They . . .pump the market so that it goes up for basically 10 straight months in a straight line in a rally of epic proportions, allowing them collect enormous bonuses . . . and after a 5% three-day miniscule drop (relative to the rally), the whiner welfare queens on Wall Street come out of the woodwork and hammer the O man for it. "
classic shit there manny- fucking douche bags aren't they?
Mannwich says:
@bohemian: Yes, of epic proportions. The hubris, arrogance, intellectual dishonesty, and unparalleled douchebaggery of these psychopaths is just mind blowing. I can' t be the only one who finds this utterly appalling.
Mannwich says:
Fundamentally, I don't really have a problem with re-enacting the uptick rule, but does anyone else find this a bit humorous considering the timing of it on the heels of a little 3-day decline right after a massive 10 month+ rally? Why not just pass a rule that the markets can never go down again? That way we can all be "rich" on worthless paper assets and be done with it.
par1 says:
A propos WSJ's (not so) hidden agenda, what do you make of this latest piece of BS?
Wall Street's Pay Shift Augurs Ill for Stockholders
in the days before TBP entered my consciousness ..
"DOW losses 513 points in yr2010 wk3″ ..
would seem bad .. like the American GDP is flushing down the toliet
but now I realize the headline actually is
"DOW transfers 513points into investments elsewhere"
strousd says:
Hey Barry, who cares what the WSJ says? I don't get my investment advice from them, do you? Most of the writers for the WSJ and other publications have never invested money before, and most of the time they are just parroting information they get from Wall Street and the investment community. It's not like anybody ever knows with 100% certainty why the market does what it does. I thought the market tanked last week because there were more sellers than buyers, but what do I know. It seems to me that your rant was much adieu about nothing. Given the clear liberal bias in the mainstream media, it's amusing that you chose to complain about the WSJ.
I disagree with your comments about mixing politics and investing to a certain extent. In the long run, investors need to make correct judgments about the direction of government policies and their impact on the economy and investment markets. This requires political analysis. Decisions made by politicians impact the long-term growth of the private sector, inflation and interest rates, and tax consequences for investors. If the liberal wing of the Democratic Party has its way, we will see expansion of government at the expense of the private sector, an explosion in government borrowing that will crowd out private borrowing, the repeal of the Bush tax cuts in 2011, potential taxes of stock transactions, etc. If this scenario comes to fruition, will it be good for investors?
There is a huge difference between objectively contemplating the impact of potential future legislation on your portfolio, and what I have been discussing: Rampant partisan infection of the analytical process to the investors detriment.
Further, my experience has been the "liberal bias" of the modern media is a canard — what I see is not so much of a left/right bias as a pro-status quo bias by the corporate owned media.
Consider the corporate interests who own various outlets:
Disney: ABC, ESPN,
Viacom: CBS, MTV, COMEDY CENTRAL, MTV, NICKELODEON, SPIKE, VH1, PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Fox: WSJ, Fox News, Barrons, Marketwatch
WP Co: Washington Post, Slate, Kaplan
NYT Co: NYT, Boston Globe
Time Warner: Time, CNN, HBO, TBS, Warner Bros, Cartoon Network, Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, Golf Magazine, In Style, Money, People, Sports Illustrated, This Old House
Conde Nast: Architectural Digest, Golf Digest, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired, etc.
What these firms specialize in is Bread & Circuses, providing distraction for the masses from the real world.
I believe they are interested in profitability, low cost usage of public assets (airwaves, monopoly cable), and extending copyright laws (so they never have to allow material to return to the public domain as per the US constitution). I don't believe they give a rats ass about left or right — as long as their profits are protected, and friendly legislation heads their way.
Strousd: Based on the talking points you reference, I assume you have a political leaning and will shrug off my comments. My detailed response is to those investors who care about their assets more than they do partisan party politics.
foxmuldar says:
huesos Says:
January 23rd, 2010 at 7:24 pm
Barry.. I'm just curious as to how you substantiate your claims that Republicans missed the Obama rally while Dems missed the Bush tax cut rally. It almost seems too cute to be factual and as far as I know, neither you nor my broker know my political affiliation if any
Its the Liberal media that continues to harp about Republicans having all the money. If the market was up 70% in such a short time, who was doing all that buying? I think huesos is on to something.
I also think that insiders perhaps at GS and other big firms got wind of what Obama was about to say about the banks, and they took advantage of the drop to the downside. After all Geithner and Bernanke and others in the Obama club have close ties to the fat cats on wallstreet. Well 10000 on the Dow sure looks like strong support for now. If the unemployment numbers keep getting worse, which I expect they will, then I doubt 10,000 will hold. JMOP
BR: Really? That's your argument? The "Liberal media harps about Republicans having all the money."
Thats pretty lame . . .
Anyone see the release put out by Dodd and Gregg saying Bernanke will be confirmed? Sounds fishy doesn't it? Kind of like all those late Sunday nonsense from Paulson before the Asian markets opened.
Mike in Nola says:
Calvin: I suppose if Bernanke is reconfirmed there will be a big rally because the TBTF's can expect another trillion dollars of zero interest money to buy equity and commodities.
Come to think of it, since Bernanke's printing press has been one of the major drivers of the recent rally, it makes more sense to attribute the drop over the past week to doubts about Bernanke's continued presence and the possibility of a Tall Paul protege casting one of the Tablets down onto the pagans of Wall Street who have built an idol of gold..
Mannwich says:
Good point, Mike. Whither QE in and free play money for Wall Street in the face of the race for the populist vote in the wake of Scott Brown's surprise victory?
Transor Z says:
Anyone see the release put out by Dodd and Gregg saying Bernanke will be confirmed? Sounds fishy doesn't it? Kind of like all those late Sunday nonsense from Paulson before the Asian markets opened.
Calvin, yes — really makes you wonder whether that was even targeted at the domestic audience, huh?
rootless_cosmopolitan says:
So now everyone who missed the huge bear market rally, which has been fueled by liquidity pumping, but not really supported by economic fundamentals, is just stupid in the eyes of the great market timer Barry Ritholtz. There have been very good reasons to be skeptical of this rally, which haven't had anything to do with any political bias. And not everyone is into market timed trading.
Delusions of grandeur usually come before the fall.
rileyx67 says:
Of whatever "scientific value"(?…have beneath the glass atop my desk, a list of "pundits" and their "records" per "guru grades" and other "records", including a number of those who Barry "Respects"…and that list is helpful in determining whom to disregard and save some time from so much noise. Too many of those in the well below 50% accuracy group also have the comment "politics" alongside, so BR's comment IS valid. Yes, we DO need to consider "politics" in future direction of the Economy, and therefore its effect on the markets, but the political LEANINGS of a pundit (so often so obvious) are an an absolute dismissal for me!
Mike in Nola says:
I had forgotten to mention that I have a subsrcription to the FT courtesy of some old Continental frequent flyer points.
I have found it to be a cut above all the other financial reporting I've seen. I suppose because it spends a lot on financial reporters and not big boobed bimbos. Yeah, some of the opinions turn out to be wrong as opinions often do, but you generally get a rational view and both sides of every issue as in the quote above. You also get a lot of facts in the bargain.
Some of the letters are interestng also, since it it read by thinkers.
Scott F says:
I got the entire 2003 rally-from memory, my long-short portfolios (running separate accounts then) were up 30% (S&P up 28, as I recall), and my long only up 40%. As you know, I missed this baby. I think I can reasonably defend the proposition that my recent stupidity was unrelated to politics (as an O supporter), as was my genius in 2003 (As a W detractor).
From your post:
Look around at who made money during the "Obama Rally:" I know a disproportionate number of the people who missed this 70% market spike leaned Republican. But stupidity knows no party affiliation, and after the 2003 George W. Bush trillion dollar tax cut was passed, there was also a huge rally – the ones who missed that one leaned Democratic. This is no coincidence – it is a function of bias and selective perception and an investing strategy co-opted by politics.
My comments were directed to those people who allowed their politics to infect their investing strategy.
I did not mean to imply 100% of those who missed were of any one party — I'll edit this in above(caps below) "AND MANY OF"
Look around at who made money during the "Obama Rally:" I know a disproportionate number of the people who missed this 70% market spike leaned Republican. But stupidity knows no party affiliation, and after the 2003 George W. Bush trillion dollar tax cut was passed, there was also a huge rally – "AND MANY OF" the ones who missed that one leaned Democratic. This is no coincidence – it is a function of bias and selective perception and an investing strategy co-opted by politics
The point isn't who missed what, it is about what effects your process . . .
sundaraz says:
Gene Epstein from Barron's is another one of them, who gets most of the stuff wrong because of his affiliations.
sort of on topic .. BR will be most interested .. I was surf'g with my laptop & caught this thread:
"Linking is more than merely a function and feature of the internet. Linking is a right. The link enables fair comment. It powers the link economy that will sustain media. It is a tool for accountability. It is the keystone to free speech online.
But News Corporation has made good on its threat to fight the link, preventing the UK aggregator NewsNow from linking to several of its newspaper sites."
… but SCOTUS and the Established Estates prevail
bsneath says:
BR Says:
Further, my experience has been the "liberal bias" of the modern media is a canard — what I see is not so much of a left/right bias as a pro-status quo bias by the corporate owned media.
That is because you come from one of the most liberal places in America, most of your friends and associates are liberal, much of the media resides in your City and shares your philosophies and thus the media simply reflects your personal belief system, which as an "objective and rational individual" could not possibly be biased.
Now think back to your past dissertations regarding how folks selectively process information and data in order to justify their preordained view of the world around them and you will understand why you feel the "liberal bias" of the modern media is a canard while much of the rest of the country clearly sees a liberal bias. What is unfortunate is the media has polarized into extremes just as has much of society.
bsneath –
Your talking points reveal biases. Do you really believe:
-NYC is a place of uniform thought
-all of my colleagues are lefties/liberals
-there is no broad spectrum of ideas;
-any independent thought is a mirage;
-everyone here thinks like the media that resides here;
What a silly stereotype.
Now the facts are:
1. NYC is a vibrant city with a broad spectrum of political viewpoints — it leans left, but it also elected Rudy G as a mayor 2X, and Mike Bloomberg 3X.
2. My partners are staunch GOP supporters, my friends range across the political spectrum. The closest friends of my wife and I are very senior in the Conservative party in NYS (He's a judge, she's senior at a major media shop).
3. My reputation has been built on my independence.
4. I have been on Glenn Beck's show, been on shows with Judge Napolitano, and on countless times with Larry Kudlow.
5. I presented to American Spectator in front of room with the creme de la creme of Right wing political and media representatives.
6. I am CONSTANTLY fighting against my own bais. That's half the point of these posts, as well as my mea culpas.
Your beliefs are belied by these facts, but the point of these posts are that those same beliefs prevent you from everseeing these facts.
So I repeat once again: I offer this to the readership, as I expect the partisans will have a hard time seeing anything that conflict with their previous expectations/world views.
howard0339 says:
Back when I was a broker trading client money I immediately put any "advisor," analyst, tout on my junk list as soon as any political banter appeared in their writing. Not that the "pure" that remained were any more correct than the others……
Ethel-to-Tilly says:
and after the 2003 George W. Bush trillion dollar tax cut was passed, there was also a huge rally
really have to respectfully disagree with your characterization of the 2003 rally. The threat of war with Iraq created an uncertainty that weighed over the market throughout the winter of 2002-03. It was only after it became apparant that the Iraqi invasion was going to be a cakewalk and there would be no diasters such as Iraqi use of chemical weapons or the war spreading to Saudi or Israel that the market took off. By the time Bush signed the tax cuts at the end of May, the S&P had already rallied almost 19% from the pre-invasion March low. The tax cuts may have extended/deepened the rally, but to infer that the tax cuts were followed by a rally, implying causation, ignores that fact that there was already a huge rally (20% in 2 months!) already underway
BR: All of that is true, but I heard from many Dem leaning friends what a poorly constructed tax cut this was, and why any gains would not last.
max says:
Disproportionately, lefties missed the W rally, Disproportionately, righties missed the O rally. Coincidence? I do not believe so.
Well, I didn't miss the 2003 rally and I voted against George Bush twice and voted for Obama. I got in very early 2003, and got out again in 2004. And stayed out. I stayed out here, and I intend to keep staying out.
I wasn't objecting to people getting in this year, I was bother by people taking the stance that March represented the absolute bottom for pretty much forever, or at least another 5-10 years, and therefore going all in on the long-term buys. If that nominal bottom does represent the actual nominal bottom, hoo boy. The bottom in real terms should be ugly. (The market didn't bottom in 1980, it bottomed in 1982, along with the economy.)
(At any rate, what with the whole state-propped banking sector, trying to profit off the deal is so banana republic, that really it seems like a good time to move everything to Europe. Not, to be fair, that we haven't spent all decade as a banana Republic, what with Imperator George and all.)
['At any rate, congrats to the persons skimming those short-term returns. Well done.']
ditto "congrats to those persons" .. ya good luck export'g into real ..
build us a new economy please .. please with brown sugar on top
Mannwich says:
This is worth a read.
foxmuldar says:
Mannwich Says:
January 23rd, 2010 at 8:53 pm
This is worth a read.
Mannwich, thanks for that link. I really enjoyed reading the article. What a midnight thriller and perhaps a movie in the works.
bsneath says:
BR – I was responding to your statement that "the "liberal bias" of the modern media is a canard".
"Canard – An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story."
I will apologize for the broad brush of my rant. I reacted to the inference that "liberal bias" is a deliberately misleading characterization of the media. Perhaps before I flew off the handle (at what I perceived to be a liberally-biased statement about liberal media bias), I should have asked you to elaborate.
I did stereotype that you are influenced by your environment and beliefs (just as undoubtedly I am of mine and just as journalists are of theirs). I know from your past postings you are well aware of how the human mind processes and screens information and that you are on guard against bias-tendencies. I am also (believe it or not).
I agree with your observations regarding the biases of the corporate owners of media. The firewalls that once protected their news organizations seem to be breaking down and corporate interests who have really just one bias – making money – are infiltrating. I think this is why so many bloggers have expressed a disgust with NBC news products – the feeling that Immelt and GE were steering the discussion and perhaps even silencing those who spoke out contrary to corporate interests.
Nevertheless I will take issue with any statement that the perception of "liberal bias" within the media is a deliberate misrepresentation, just as I will also take issue with anyone who states that FOX News does not have a "conservative-bias". And yes, I would likely stereotype that person to be a conservative. Wouldn't you as well?
Gallup Poll: Media Seen as 'Too Liberal,' Untrustworthy
By: Rich Noyes
October 05, 2009 14:48 ET
Appreciate the sentiment — Most of the nuance in these debates get lost. For example, studies show that at MSM outlets, writers tend more left, editors tend more right. How does that affect the output of content?
To me, the bias remains most profoundly not politics, but protecting their turf, maintaining the gravy train — tho as that ends, it will be fun watching what happens.
One last thing — I don't consider Fox News a media outlet — they are little more than the house organ of the GOP. I am coming around tot he view that Murdoch is working against some of the basic precepts of democracy. And if anyone wants to say the same thing about MSNBC (tho on a much smaller scale), I won't argue.
Scott F says:
FAIR did a survey some years ago that surprised many people:
• On select issues from corporate power and trade to Social Security and Medicare to health care and taxes, journalists are actually more conservative than the general public.
• Journalists are mostly centrist in their political orientation.
• The minority of journalists who do not identify with the "center" are more likely to identify with the "right" when it comes to economic issues and to identify with the "left" when it comes to social issues.
• Journalists report that "business-oriented news outlets" and "major daily newspapers" provide the highest quality coverage of economic policy issues, while "broadcast network TV news" and "cable news services" provide the worst.
Call it working the refs: There has been a deliberate and in my opinion, successful attempt over the years to portray the MSM as more liberal than it is. Many people take it for granted as real, when study after study show otherwise.
bsneath says:
Fair enough.
riverrat says:
Your analysis of the major financial media players is even more valuable than your market analysis Barry. Keep it coming! It is a great addition to larger, critical coverage of the decline of responsible reporting, and the balkanization of public discourse. It seems we are reading from so many different sheets of music, and many of those sheets downright SUCK. Egregious examples, such as the latter day WSJ need to be outed as often as possible..
I do realize your market analysis has to be accepted as solid for you to gain the kind of traction your are getting with your comments on the financial press. So keep up the great work on both fronts please.
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Question:I've been playing for about a year now and I have distance but not so accurate yet. What disc do you recomend for someone with my experience to gain accuracy and still keep my distance? Right now I have a Blizzard Champion Ape, DX Dragon, DX Beast and a Champion Sidewinder. Thanks in advance, Kasey.
I would recommend that you try one of the new Champion or Star Terns, they are very easy to throw and they go a long ways. You might ask yourself why I didn't just say get an Avery Jenkins Star Destroyer… that's because it's not a disc that every player can handle as it's more of a disc for professionals or players with lots arm speed.
But if you are feeling that the Tern is just a little too under stable for you, then of course I would recommend the Star Destroyer because of it's predictable flight characteristics and tremendous glide. It's not the fastest disc on the market but it's a disc that you can count on. Or it might be best to try out some other player's discs and see how their discs fly before buying one of your own.
You ultimately want to find a disc that continues to carry forward throughout the entire flight of the disc without fading or turning too hard at the end. The greater the carry, the greater the distance down the fairway.
Question:Hey Avery I'm 15 and this is my fourth season (2010-2013) playing disc golf. I have been throwing the Destroyer for the last two years, first in DX, then Champ, then Blizzard, now AJ Star, and have liked it a lot, though I often use a beat Echo XCaliber or a Star Teedevil on the course for max distance. I can throw 400' fairly easily, (even with a teebird) and my record is somewhere around 450-460 feet with the Star Teedevil. Do you think that a Speed 13 disc will improve my distance, or would it be too fast for me to throw well? Why don't you throw a disc faster than the Destroyer?
That's a great question! I notice that a lot of players want to throw the fastest discs available because they really think that it will give that added distance, which it will sometimes but it can also sacrifice some accuracy as well.
I definitely think that you should at least try out a Speed 13 Driver because you may really like it and it might be just what you're looking for to add to your game at this point. But always realize that the name of the game is keeping the drives down the middle of the fairway, I would always prefer to be slightly shorter in the fairway than longer in the rough.
When selecting a Distance Driver, it's about finding a disc that offers a great combination of speed, glide, consistent flight and accuracy. For me and several other top professional players, the speed 12 Destroyer is the Distance Driver of choice because it provides all of the attributes along with great feel in the hand.
Sure, there are faster Discs on the market but the consistent flight and controllability of the Destroyer make it a disc that you can always count on for those long distance and accurate shots.
Question:Hi Avery, I've heard that to improve distance you really need to be able to throw higher lines (30'+) to give your disc enough space to really work. When I try to hit a higher line on a distance shot, I often end up throwing the disc a little nose up and I lose a lot of distance. Currently for my distance shots I generally throw a star wraith a little under 400', but throw it no more than 15' off the ground, and usually on a dead-straight, laser beam type of line. What's the key to throwing higher lines and gaining more distance? Thanks, Johnny B.
Yes, it's true that you need to have the proper height on your shots in order to maximize your distance but too much or too little height will really make a huge difference. You always need to concentrate on keeping your wrist in the downward locked position even when you elevate your shot and release angle, this is usually the fixes the the problem of exaggerating the nose up release.
Focus on gaining the height on your shots by choosing your line, find the release angle of the disc and match that with your arm angle during the pull through. By keeping your wrist locked downward this will allow you come over the top on your shot, pushing that nose of the disc down and flying at the preferred height driving forward.
It's definitely going to take some practice and I wish you the best of luck with your throwing sessions in the field.
Question:My home course's front 9 is littered with low hanging trees, most of the holes force you to throw a drive that can stay under 10'. Is seems like this hinders the development of those really long drives, do you have any tips to play long holes while keeping the discs out of the trees?
The trick to throwing lower line-drive shots is really committing to keeping your shots at shoulder level throughout the throwing motion. From the pull through to the follow through make sure that the nose of the disc is slightly downward. You must focus on driving the disc forward, locking your wrist in a downward position and following through in the line of the shot. This will keep your drives at lower trajectories and right down the middle of the fairway.
If you really want to work on gaining distance then is sounds like you need leave the constraints of your home course and play other courses that allow you to open up on some drives.
Question:Hey Avery, I know you are one of the biggest arms in the game. But, in the first Deep in the Game video, you said that you have had trouble putting. Seeing as how my first disc was a Star Beast, I developed distance quick out of necessity, but never got down a solid routine for putting. What was the routine you used, other than hours of practice, to gain consistency? If I want to start winning more, I gotta putt for the dough.
To become a better putter it definitely comes down to keeping your technique simple, finding a consistent routine and committing to dedicated practice. It starts with a solid base and wide balanced stance when lining up the putt, shifting your weight, extending your arm & hand towards the basket, reaching for the chains with a clean release and always following through.
Focus on really locking down a wide balance stance and minimizing any unnecessary body movements. Next you must concentrate on shifting your body weight from back to front, keeping on your toes and pushing with your legs. Use your body shift to produce power while driving and extending your arm forward towards the basket and lifting your back leg to maintain that balance without falling forward. You must really reach for the basket with a clean release and always remember that the disc goes where the hand goes as you reach for the center of the chains.
It's important to find a routine that works the best for you and commitment to dedicated practice sessions in order to develop a consistent, predictable Putt that will put you in position to win Disc Golf Tournaments in the future!
Question:Hi Avery, I've been watching a lot of "in my bag" videos to see what the pros are throwing and almost every pro who's on the Innova team or isn't under contract with another disc maker uses destroyers for their distance driver. Why so many destroyers? Why not a Boss, PD, PD2, Xcaliber, etc? Personally I love my Boss and Xcal. Thanks D.A.A.
This is a great question and a question that I get asked quite frequently!
When selecting a Distance Driver, it's about finding a disc that offers a great combination of speed, glide, consistent flight and accuracy. For me and several other top professional players, the Destroyer is the Distance Driver of choice because it provides all of those attributes along with great feel in the hand.
Sure, there are faster discs on the market but the consistent flight and accuracy of the Destroyer make it a disc that you can always count on for those long fairway shots.
Question:I've been playing for about 8 years and still can't figure out how to throw a "Roller". Is there any chance that you or one of the other pros do a video on how to throw one and what type of discs work best.
Yes, the Roller is definitely something that any player should learn if they are looking to increase the development of the game. It's not a throw that I personally use a lot, except for on wide open courses with nice manicured fairways.
Typically a broken in, understable disc works the best for throwing roller shots because they're able to turn over fairly easy into the ground to produce the roller. You also have to keep in mind that you need to really lean back during the arm swing to create that incredible arching angle with your body, which also allows you to create that turn over angle with the disc.
This is a very athletic move that requires lots and lots of practice in order to perfect. I totally agree that an instructional video should be done on the roller shot because it's challenging to try to describe in writing, but best shown in action.
Question:Is there anything special that could be done to break in discs faster especially star? I have a pro beast that is beat in pretty well, but i found that one suspended above a stream? How do i my star destroyer to get beaten in fatser?
Well, it's obvious that different plastics have different durabilities depending on the densities of those plastic compounds. The Champion and Star Plastic are by far the most durable plastics that Innova makes compared to the DX and Pro Line.
If you want your Discs to break in faster, DX and Pro Line Plastics will offer you that quicker conditioning of the disc, along with providing outstanding grip. But, if you intend on breaking in a Star Destroyer, then you need to throw that Disc a lot and play multiple rounds of Disc Golf.

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The customer, whose name has not been released and was in Jackson for the barrel racing competition, walked outside shortly after 6 p.m. to investigate and allegedly found two males burglarizing his vehicle, according to Jackson Police Department spokesperson Colendula Green.
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Liberal Scrooges
Why are these famous, big spending lefties so uncharitable with their own money?
Samuel Johnson once reported on a man who was privately stingy but publicly touted the merits of sharing. Dr. Johnson said sarcastically that the man was a "friend of goodness." What he meant was that flesh-and-blood goodness is very different from supporting "Goodness" in the abstract.
Many modern liberals like to openly discuss their altruism. Garrison Keillor explains that "I am liberal and liberalism is the politics of kindness." But it rarely seems to turn into acts of kindness, especially when it comes to making charitable donations.
Consider the case of Andrew Cuomo, current New York Attorney General and advocate for the homeless. He has, according to his website, "compassion toward the most vulnerable of us." And this is how the New York Times described the courtship of Kerry Kennedy (of guess which family): "Ms. Kennedy-Cuomo, 43, said she fell in love with Mr. Cuomo, 45, when he took her on a tour of a homeless shelter on their first date and agreed to fast for the labor leader Cesar Chavez."
But that advocacy should not be confused with actually giving to the less fortunate. Cuomo was a homeless advocate throughout the 1990s, but according to his own tax returns he made no charitable contributions between 1996 and 1999. In 2000 he donated a whopping $2,750. In 2004 and 2005, Cuomo had more than $1.5 million in adjusted gross income but gave a paltry $2,000 to charity.
Cuomo made no charitable contributions in 2003, when his income was a bit less than $300,000.
CUOMO IS NOT alone in this Scroogery of course. Barack Obama has a rather poor track record when it comes to charitable contributions. He consistently gave 1 percent of his income to charity. In his most charitable year, 2005, he earned $1.7 million (two and a half times what George W. Bush earned) but gave about the same dollar amount as the President.
The last two Democratic Party nominees for President have come up short on the charity scale. Al Gore has been famously stingy when it comes to actually giving his own money to charities. In 1998 he was embarrassed when his tax returns revealed that he gave just $353 to charity.
Gore's office initially defended the action, claiming that the Gores had often given "food and clothing to the homeless." But when no one showed up in cast-off clothes, Gore's spokesman Chris Lehane offered a typical "friend of Goodness" response saying that you could only "truly judge a person's commitment to helping others" you needed to see "what they have done with their lives." In other words, politics was charity work.
Senator John Kerry likewise has a poor record. In 1995 he gave zero to charity, but did spend $500,000 to buy a half stake in a seventeenth century painting. In 1993, he gave $175 to the needy. Later, of course, Kerry married the rich widow Theresa Heinz, and today is active in charitable causes using the Heinz foundation as his vehicle.
Senator Ted Kennedy has clearly relished his role over the years as a liberal Robin Hood. He once told Al Hunt of the Wall Street Journal, "I come from an advantaged life, and I'll be goddamned if I'm going to get re-elected to the U.S. Senate by taking food out of the mouths of needy children." But this should not be confused with Senator Kennedy actually giving much money to needy children.
Kennedy's tax returns are obviously a closely guarded secret. But when he chose to run for President in the 1970s, he released some of them. With a net worth of more than $8 million in the early 1970s and an income of $461,444 from a series of family trusts, Senator Robin Hood gave barely 1 percent of his income to charity. The sum is about as much as Kennedy claimed as a write-off on his fifty-foot sailing sloop Curragh.
Robert Reich, once Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor and now a professor at Berkeley, has been outspoken about how greedy conservatives are. Conservatives believe in "reviving social Darwinism" and because of conservatives, "America has placed too high a value on selfishness."
But when he ran for governor of Massachusetts in 2002, he was all but forced to release his tax returns. It's not a pretty picture. Reich's 1040 reveals an income of more than $1 million, much of it giving speeches to corporations and universities for up to $40,000 a pop. He contributed just $2,714 to charity, or .2 percent of his income -- note the decimal -- and not all of that was cash. Part of it was the value of a donation of a used drum set to an organization called City of Peace.
Jesse Jackson has often claimed that he operates from a "liberal spirit of compassion and love" while conservatives are "heartless and uncaring toward the silent poor." But according to his publicly-released tax returns, he regularly donates less than 1 percent to charity.
Jackson and his family have also established a charitable foundation called the Jackson Foundation to support the underprivileged. According to tax records, the foundation board is controlled by family members and they receive large contributions from corporations. In 2004, for example, they collected $964,000 from corporations like McDonald's, Anheuser-Busch, and GMAC.
When asked on the tax form to described "direct charitable activities," the foundation responded: "none." From the close to million dollars collected, they gave away only $46,000 to a couple of colleges. The Jackson Foundation spent nearly twice that amount -- $84,172 -- on a "gala celebration" in honor of -- you guessed it -- Jesse Jackson.
NOR IS THIS liberal tightfistedness anything new. The greatest liberal icon of the 20th Century is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He is regarded by many on the left as the personification of charity and compassion, but FDR actually has a slim record when it comes to giving to charity.
Roosevelt had an average income of $93,000 ($1.3 million in today's dollars) but gave away about 3 percent of his income to charity. In 1935, during the height of the Great Depression, when people really could have used it, he donated just 2 percent.
This evidence of liberal hypocrisy is damning enough, but what really amazes is how poorly these liberals do in comparison to so-called "heartless conservatives." President Ronald Reagan, for instance, was often called heartless and callous by liberals. Unlike Roosevelt or JFK, Reagan was not a wealthy man when he became president. He had no family trust or investment portfolio to fall back on.
And yet, according to his tax returns, Reagan donated more than four times more to charity -- both in terms of actual money and on a percentage basis -- than Senator Ted Kennedy. And he gave more to charities with less income than FDR did. In 1985, for example, he gave away 6 percent of his income.
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have continued this Reagan record. During the early 1990s, George W. Bush regularly gave away more than 10 percent of his income. In 2005, Vice President Dick Cheney gave away 77 percent of his income to charity. He was actually criticized by some liberal bloggers for this, who claimed he was getting too much of a tax deduction.
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Bob Vander Plaats, president and CEO of The Family Leader.
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Bob Vander Plaats is right in calling for an intellectual discussion as opposed to name-calling ("Opposing Judge's Action Isn't Bullying," Nov. 14). Unfortunately, he is on the wrong side of the intellectual discussion he apparently desires.
Vander Plaats' labeling of Judge Romano's decision as "another example of a judge going outside her constitutional bounds" couldn't be more wrong. Instead, Judge Romano was performing exactly the duty she is sworn to perform as a part of her job. The fact that Vander Plaats and his followers might disagree with the decision in no way renders the decision unconstitutional. This would be true even if a majority of society disagreed with the decision.
A bedrock principle of our great state (and nation, for that matter) is that judges have always been free to follow the rule of law, not the will of the people. There were times in our history when a majority of society might have thought interracial marriage should be illegal or that public schools should not be integrated. Yet, fortunately, judges confronted with issues in these areas were free to decide them according to established legal principles, not the so-called will of the people at the time.
Finally, the flaw in Vander Plaats' thinking can be exposed by "putting the shoe on the other foot." In other words, had Judge Romano's decision gone the other way, Planned Parenthood could have come out in support of removing Judge Romano from the bench. Such a move would have been every bit as improper as is Vander Plaats' "call to arms" is.
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An eastern Kentucky referee is expected to be arraigned on sex related charges Monday in Rowan County.
Police say Paul K. Terry of Breathitt County chatted online with a detective who was posing as a 13 year old girl.
Police say Terry tried to set up a meeting for sex and used his web camera to expose himself.
He's out of jail on bond.
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Ulf Dittmer wrote:What do you mean by "synchronization in networking"? It's not a term that has a single commonly understood meaning.
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Why is it that , Synchronization makes networking faster where as in Java Synchronization makes process slower ?
I know the answer of the later half of the question, please care to throw some light on networking
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No it is not related to threads, i did answered the interviewer in thread context only, but he was like "i am not asking about threads".
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Meaningful Use Overview
See important information below concerning 2015 meaningful use.
The overarching goal of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act is not the mere adoption of new technology, but the use of electronic health records (EHR) to systematically improve healthcare access, delivery, and quality. The HITECH Act and its associated regulations describe the application of EHR technology toward that end as "meaningful use."
Being a meaningful user indicates successful achievement of specific procedural and clinical benchmarks using certified EHR technology. Providers will attain meaningful use by progressing through three stages during their years of participation in the EHR Incentive Program and attesting to those achievements. Stage 1 criteria focus on capturing information electronically in a structured format, implementing clinical decision support tools, engaging patients in their healthcare, and reporting public health and quality measures. Stages 2 and 3 will have a greater focus on health information exchange and improvements in quality of care and patient access. Other aspects of the HITECH Act in addition to the EHR Incentive Program, such as provisions for health information exchanges, are designed to support the meaningful use of electronic health information.
Eligible providers can earn incentive payments by attesting to meaningful use measures using the Provider Incentive Payment Program (PIPP) portal. Below are resources and information to facilitate successful attestation.
Important 2015 Meaningful Use Information:
CMS What You Need to Know for 2015 Tipsheet
CMS EHR Incentive Program 2015 - 2017 Overview
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CMS has released both the 2015 through 2017 Modified Stage 2 measures and the Meaningful Use Stage 3 measures. You can access them at EHR Stage 3 and Modifications to MU 2015 to 2017
Three Stages of Meaningful Use
Stage 1 Eligible Professionals
Per the 2015 – 2017 Final Rule , TennCare will stop accepting first year meaningful use Stage 1 attestations December 15, 2015. All EPs in the first year of meaningful use who wish to attest via the TennCare portal to Stage 1 measures must attest by December 14, 2015.
EPs in their second year of meaningful use will not be able to attest to Stage 1 measures for payment year 2015. The 2015 – 2017 Final Rule changed the reporting period to any 90 consecutive days in the 2015 calendar year, but as of December 15, 2015 the measures they must report are the modified Stage 2 measures. For these Stage 1 providers in payment year 2015 only, CMS has provided alternate measures and exclusions for measures in which there are no Stage 1 equivalent. These year 2 meaningful use providers will not be able to attest via the TennCare portal for payment year 2015 until January 2016.
All providers attesting to meaningful use in 2015 must have 2014 Edition CEHRT.
Eligible providers and who have attested to adopting, implementing, or upgrading (AIU) certified EHR technology or attesting for the first time can work toward achieving Stage 1 Meaningful Use.
Stage 2 Eligible Professionals
Per the 2015 – 2017 Final Rule, all providers who have attested to at least two years of Stage 1 meaningful use must attest in payment year 2015 to the modified Stage 2 measures. These stage 2 providers will not be able to attest via the TennCare portal for payment year 2015 until January 2016.
All providers attesting to meaningful use in 2015 must have 2014 Edition CEHRT.
Medicaid eligible professionals began attesting to measures associated with Stage 2 in calendar year 2014.
Stage 3 Stage 3 Final Rule has been published at EHR Stage 3 and Modifications to MU 2015 to 2017 . EPs can begin reporting Stage 3 measures in 2017 and all EPs attesting to meaningful use in 2018 must report Stage 3 objectives and measures.
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The largest regularly scheduled paid attendance events in Northeast Mississippi are home football games at the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University, and each school continues making decisions adding structure, convenience and safety to the crowd-intensive game day atmosphere in Oxford and Starkville.
Additional shuttle bus service was tentatively added last week by the Oxford University Transit for the fall 2013 home games for fans parking off campus in parking lots owned by or accessible to the university. The new temporarily altered routes are expected to join game-day, fee-based shuttles the city will provide from the Activity Center on Molly Barr Road and Oxford Conference Center just off Sisk Avenue at Highway 7.
The Oxford Activity Center shuttle has operated for several years, often to capacity ridership.
Mississippi State makes similar use of its shuttle services.
Both MSU and Ole Miss temporarily become the second-largest cities in the state on their game days, filling both Oxford and Starkville with fans, those who come to enjoy the atmosphere and those who spend time shopping and eating.
Ole Miss officials and the athletic department earlier announced a policy, beginning this fall, eliminating free, non-student parking on campus for home games, conversion to an all-paid fan parking system, with expanded shuttle service as a partial response.
Officials cited past unsafe parking that included blocked emergency routes and sidewalks. Paid football fan parking also will help fund the transit service's regular routes.
Parking off campus is regulated on streets by the city of Oxford and by private property owners.
Ole Miss, as reported by the NCAA, ranked 30th nationwide in average home-game attendance in 2012 (57,066), and Mississippi State averaged 55,026. Construction on an enlarged stadium at MSU has started; Ole Miss has plans in the works for enlarging its stadium.
The OUT routes will be in addition to the fee-based shuttles the city will provide from the Activity Center on Molly Barr Road and Oxford Conference Center off Sisk Avenue at Highway 7.
New shuttle service buses may begin operating as early as 5:30 a.m. on football days to accommodate tailgaters getting to the heart of the campus.
The most positive free exposure both universities receive comes from television broadcasts of campus football games. Effective parking rules help the image and the fan experience, both universities and both cities.


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Each week Albany Herald researcher Mary Braswell looks for interesting events, places and people from the past. You can contact her at (229) 888-9371 or email@example.com.
Veterans Day originated as Armistice Day on November 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for the annual observance and November 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation in 1954 to change the name to Veterans Day as a way to honor those who served in all American wars.
By the (2012) numbers:
— 21.2 million -The number of military veterans
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- Actor John Wayne 70%
- Sen. Gary Hart 0%
- President Ronald Reagan 30%
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— 1.6 million - The number of female veterans
— 9.6 million - The number of veterans age 65 and older
— 1.8 million - The number of veterans younger than 35
— 7.4 million - The number of Vietnam-era veterans
— 5.4 million - The number who served during the Gulf Wars, representing service from August 1990 to present.
— 1.6 million -Veterans who served in World War II
— 2.3 million - Veterans who served in the Korean War
— 26.7% - The percentage of veterans age 25 and older with at least a bachelor's degree.
— $36,264 - The annual median income of veterans, compared with $26,278 for the population as a whole.
— 3.6 million - The number of veterans with a service-connected disability rating. Of this number, 881,981 had a rating of 70 percent or higher. Severity of one's disability is scaled from 0 to 100 percent.
Did you know?
— Less than 28 percent of Americans between the ages of 17-23 are qualified for military service, that's only about 1-in-4.
— The Department of Defense owns over 29 million acres of land worldwide.
— The Coast Guard is smaller than the New York City Police Department yet, on any given day, it seizes about 160 pounds of marijuana and 300 pounds of cocaine..
— The U.S. Army was in charge of exploring and mapping America. The Lewis and Clark Expedition was an all Army affair. Army officers were the first Americans to see such landmarks such as Pike's Peak and the Grand Canyon.
— Thirty presidents served in the U.S. Army, 24 during time of war. Two earned the rank of 5-star General (George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower) and one earned the Medal of Honor (Theodore Roosevelt). Only one president (James Buchanan) served as an enlisted man in the military and did not go on to become an officer.
— The U.S. dropped more bombs in Korea (635,000 tons, as well as 32,557 tons of napalm) than in the entire Pacific theater during WWII.
— Due to a metal shortage in World War II, the Academy Awards used painted plaster for three years. When the war was over, the Academy invited everyone who won 'fake' plaster Oscars to have them replaced with real ones made out of metal.
— Nearly half of homeless veterans served during the Vietnam era.
— By the end of the Civil War between a third and a half of all money in circulation in the U.S. was counterfeit.
— "Little Willie" was the first prototype tank in WWI. Built in 1915, it carried a crew of three and could travel as fast as three mph.
— In 1942, an Army private earned $50 a month.
— While completing the required 30 missions, U.S. Air Corps servicemen in WWII had a 71% chance of being killed.
— The U.S. Interstate Highway System requires that one mile motorway in every five be straight so that these sections can be used as airstrips in times of war.
— When the battleship USS Arizona was destroyed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, 23 sets of brothers were killed.
— By 1779, as many as one in seven Americans in George Washington's army was black. Those that were slaves were promised freedom for serving the entire war.
— The term "dogfight" originated during WWI. The pilot had to turn off the plane's engine from time to time so it would not stall when the plane turned quickly in the air. When a pilot restarted his engine mid-air, it sounded like dogs barking.
— The Spanish-American War lasted for only 10 weeks.The Treaty of Paris was signed on December 10, 1898, officially ending the war. Spain surrendered control of Cuba and ceded Puerto Rico, parts of Guam , the West Indies and the Philippine Islands to the United States for $20 million.
— Kleenex tissues were developed for use as gas mask filters during the World War I.
— During the Vietnam War more than 58,000 American soldiers were killed in action. It has been estimated that nearly twice that many have committed suicide since their return to the states.
— In March 2013, North Korea declared the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War invalid.
— From 1940-1945, the U.S. defense budget increased form $1.9 billion to $59.8 billion.
— The U.S. Army used approximately 1,500 dogs during the Korean War and 4,000 in the Vietnam War.
— Nearly two-thirds of military deaths in WWI were in battle. In previous conflicts, most deaths were due to disease.
— Over 18,000 fighter jets were deployed in Desert Storm, all on June 17th, 1991.
— Isaac Asimov once said, "It is not only the living that are killed in war."
— One in six deaths of military personnel in Iraq were too young to buy a beer.
— In the 2012 presidential election, 70 percent of veterans cast a ballot.
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Contributed by MOTHERS volunteer and guest blogger Rosanne Weston.
When I was growing up in Brooklyn, New York, I thought that "culture" was something people either had or didn't. In my young thinking, those folks who listened to opera and attended the ballet had it; the rest of us who loved Elvis and considered dancing on the hot sidewalk to rock 'n roll blaring from a portable radio the height of artistic endeavor, well, we didn't.
I know now that it's more complex than that, and that culture not only connotes a refinement of taste but also behavior typical of a class or group. And when I recently heard Ellen Bravo, long-time activist and expert on family-friendly work policies, state at a Pay Equity Roundtable that it is embedded in our culture to pay women less than men for comparable work, I suddenly understood clearly why change takes such a long time.
Fair pay, or pay equity, is a cultural issue that has nothing to do with what music you love and whether you eat with the right fork or not. It is a mark of the valuation by a society of women, and, by extension, of families. There is still a large part of our population – men and women – who think that it is all right to pay women less. The old template of the ideal worker, usually the breadwinner husband, and the housewife who works for pin money still exists in our mental universe, if it barely does so in the real world. And there are still some people who think that a woman deserves what she gets – lower pay, harassment, teasing – if she ventures into a male-dominated environment.
Just ask Lilly Ledbetter, the woman who sued Goodyear when she discovered that for almost two decades, despite exemplary work, she was consistently awarded lower pay raises than her male counterparts. At that same Roundtable discussion, she described unsympathetic neighbors responding to her lawsuit by telling her she had no business working in a tire manufacturing plant in the first place.
So I started to think about things that were embedded in my thinking over the years, and how they have changed.
For example, when I was in high school, girls had to take something called Home Ec, while boys were assigned to Shop. If a girl was unlucky enough to be sent by a dean or teacher on an errand into a Shop classroom, the male students would greet her with a variety of yelps, screeches, table banging and animal noises. While she stood with eyes lowered, praying for a quick exit, the male teacher made some feeble efforts to curb the uproar, all the while shrugging and smiling along with the boys.
But what's really interesting is that we girls always felt powerless. How could we complain when we had ventured, like Lilly Ledbetter, into male territory? We had internalized the belief that there were places we did not belong. And if we did say something, we were told that "boys will be boys," – in other words, learn to live with it. I am well aware of the amount of violence directed at girls and women today, but would a school allow such institutionalized humiliation now? I don't think so. In fact, both male and female students are assigned to Shop and Home Ec, (or whatever it is they're calling those classes now) in schools that offer them. Shifts in cultural expectations eroded a long established pattern of behavior.
Years later, when I was a young, married woman, a supervisor in a large organization had no qualms about asking me if I planned to become pregnant that year. He wanted some assurance before he offered me a promotion. I felt uneasy; something about that felt wrong. Yet it was such a culturally embedded assumption that a woman would leave the workplace at the first sign of fetal quickening, that many women were passed over for advancement despite the strength of their performance. I bought into that, too, and did not ask my supervisor if he questioned whether the overweight, middle-aged men in the company, prime targets for heart disease, were planning on having coronaries that year.
Questions about family planning are less likely to be asked now, at least in New York State, where I live, and where it is illegal to ask. I wonder what they are doing in the 24 states where it is not illegal.
And women are no longer subjected to everything from mild teasing to merciless harangues when they show up to take their Law or Med Boards, as women of my generation were. Women now comprise half or more of the lawyers and doctors in this country. It doesn't so much as raise an eyebrow.
So change does happen, but it requires a paradigm shift in our assumptions about what is possible for women and men. I know too many women in my (middle) age group who experience real regret at not having pursued what was considered unsuitable work for women. They suffered emotionally and financially for letting the cultural norms keep them from creating a life on their own terms. So it was interesting to hear the problem of pay inequity framed in terms of cultural attitudes by panelists like Bravo and Ledbetter.
Women still earn 78 cents for a man's dollar. Long term, women actually earn 38 cents to that dollar due to caregiving work. Archaic workplace structures and family and medical leave practices place unnecessary obstacles in the paths of women trying to balance work and family life. We need to redress these situations legally and politically. But we also must be attuned to the subtler attitudes that allow these practices to continue. One woman making a stand for herself might be courageous, but it does not move us toward a fairer and more equitable society. Even as we look into our individual biases, we must work together so that change is institutionalized and compensation is based on the quality of the work performed. Not only is that fair, but everyone – women, men, children – benefit when women are paid and advanced at the same rate as men.
When it comes to culture in the arts arena, there is room for both Puccini and Presley. But there is no room for historical behaviors that hinder one group or another from fair and equitable compensation and advancement. That's the kind of culture that we need to change.


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Book Smart
Jan. 31, 2006
Freedom and Entertainment: Rating the Movies in an Age of New Media (Cambridge University Press, 2006) by Stephen Vaughn, professor of journalism and mass communication
In all likelihood, you view the world and its controversies as you do by watching how people in movies or on television handled things.
For two decades, "the least-known, most powerful man in Hollywood" — also known as Richard Heffner — was responsible for how movies presented those controversies, rating cinematic depictions of subjects ranging from violence, gender relationships, pornography, substance abuse, religion, history and much more.
Heffner headed the movie rating system from 1974-94. "Until his papers became available for historians, we have known very little about how the rating system actually worked. My book is the first to go behind the scenes using primary sources to examine how movies were rated," Vaughn says.
He adds that although Heffner wielded serious clout, he kept his influence largely out of sight.
"Heffner tried to stay out of the limelight. Jack Valenti, the former president of the Motion Picture Association of America, insisted that Heffner keep a low profile. Heffner also wanted to keep the identities of the ratings board members secret because he believed that movie studios would attempt to influence them in some way if they were known. Heffner, though, is an interesting person and hardly a shadowy figure. He was a communications professor at Rutgers with a background in American history and public television. During the 1950s he started a TV program in New York called 'The Open Mind.' Over the years he interviewed many well-known political leaders and intellectuals. Amazingly, the show still airs in New York each week," Vaughn says.
Before 1968, a seminal year for movie ratings, the American film industry censored itself through a production code that required studios to submit scripts for review before filming began. Vaughn says that the code's goal was to avoid overt government interference.
"In 1968 Hollywood abandoned the production code and prior censorship and adopted a rating system which said, at least in theory, that filmmakers could show virtually anything they wished as long as the content was rated: G through X, later changed to NC-17. That movie rating system served as a model for the rating system that television adopted in 1997," Vaughn says.
The ratings board, known as the Classification and Rating Administration, is made up of parents and selected to represent a cross section of America. Board members watch films and then vote on how they believe other parents would want the movies rated. Filmmakers can challenge the ratings before an appeals board of movie industry representatives.
However, new and emerging media such as cable TV, video cassettes, DVDs and the Internet have challenged the ratings system, Vaughn says.
"In 1968, you had to go to a theater to see an X-rated film, and the box office served as a buffer to keep the underaged from seeing restricted films," he says. "With modern media, much of the restricted material comes into the home unregulated," leaving parents to find ways to shield the impressionable young.
Vaughn says that his interest in cinema and censorship is the direct result of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
"I soon discovered that the state historical society houses one of the world's great film libraries — their collection contains most of Ronald Reagan's Warner Brothers movies, for example. That collection led to my book 'Ronald Reagan in Hollywood,' which came out from Cambridge University Press in 1994. I quickly realized that the old Reagan films are interesting historical documents, full of social and political commentary. The Reagan book hardly exhausted the topic. It only whetted my appetite to learn more about motion pictures and their place in America," Vaughn says.
"From the outset of moviemaking, people have assumed that the cinema can have a profound effect on public opinion. Motion pictures have been at the center of the past century's so-called culture wars. Over the past half century, the average person probably watches more drama and entertainment in one week than people who lived a century ago would have had access to in a lifetime. The next time you pick up a newspaper or watch the nightly news, count the references to entertainment and entertainment figures. Entertainment permeates our culture."
Vaughn, currently on sabbatical, is putting the finishing touches on a companion volume to "Freedom and Entertainment." The new book, "Morality and Entertainment: Cinema and Censorship, 1907-1968," will be out in 2007.


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Mobile, AL (Sports Network) - Augustine Rubit recorded his 10th double-double of the season with 19 points and 11 rebounds as the South Alabama Jaguars held on the beat the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, 65-57, in Sun Belt Conference action at the Mitchell Center.
Rubit shot 7-of-12 from the field and added four blocks for South Alabama (10-8, 7-3 Sun Belt), which has won three of four. Antoine Allen also scored 19 points, and Mychal Ammons chipped in 10 points and seven boards.
For WKU (11-10, 5-5), Brandon Harris led the way with 14 points and seven rebounds. T.J. Price (13 points) and George Fant (10 points) also scored in double figures for the Hilltoppers, who have lost five of six.
South Alabama shot just 42.9 percent from the floor in the first half, but it made 8-of-14 from the foul line as it took a 28-23 lead into intermission. WKU shot only 37 percent from the field and 1-of-3 from the stripe.
The Jaguars' poor showing from the field continued after the break (.385), but they continued to march to the free-throw line (14-of-18), as they held on for the eight-point win.
South Alabama won the rebounding battle, 40-32, although it was outscored in the paint by a 24-10 margin.


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- The Big Picture - http://www.ritholtz.com/blog -
The Belated Mortgage Fraud/Crisis Investigation
Posted By Barry Ritholtz On January 25, 2012 @ 6:30 pm In Bailouts,Foreclosures,Legal | Comments Disabled
The most interesting news from the SOTU address was the very belated appointment of a mortgage investigation task force, the Office 0f Mortgage Origination and Securitization Abuses.
You may recall that back in April of 2011, I presented to the National Association of Attorneys General a short keynote speech. It was titled "How Systemic Bank Fraud Contributed to the Financial Crisis [1]."In particular, you should review pages 14-17, and 22-30.
But meanwhile you may be asking why in 2012 — 4 years after the great financial collapse, 3 years after the recovery began, and in the last year of the President's term — Mr. Obama finally decided to investigate the role of Fraud in the entire crisis.
The politics are obvious: Both Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party were very unhappy with the bailouts, and even more unhappy with the lack of prosecutions. So its obviously good politics.
But the suspicions on the Left have already begun; consider:
• The Schneiderman Gambit: Financial Fraud Unit Appears Designed to Fail, and Grease Skids for Foreclosure Fraud Settlement (Firedoglake [2])
• Obama To Announce Mortgage Crisis Unit Chaired By New York Attorney General Schneiderman (HuffPo [3])
• Is Schneiderman Selling Out? Joins Federal Committee That Looks Designed to Undermine AGs Against Mortgage Settlement Deal (naked capitalism [4])
• California calls $25-billion mortgage settlement 'inadequate' (L.A. Times [5])
That is way too negative — but the suspicions of the Obama administration, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner aka the Banker's friend — is not unwarranted.
What is the thought process about this? Is this the real deal investigation? Will this commission uncover anything, or is this cover for a white wash?
What say ye?
Article printed from The Big Picture: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog
URL to article: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/01/mortgage-fraud-investigation/
URLs in this post:
[1] How Systemic Bank Fraud Contributed to the Financial Crisis: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/04/follow-the-money-how-systemic-bank-fraud-contributed-to-the-financial-crisis/
[2] Firedoglake: http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/01/25/the-schneiderman-gambit-financial-fraud-unit-appears-designed-to-fail-and-grease-skids-for-foreclosure-fraud-settlement/
[3] HuffPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/24/obama-housing-crisis-unit_n_1229617.html
[4] naked capitalism: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/is-schneiderman-selling-out-signs-up-to-co-chair-committee-designed-to-undermine-defectors-to-mortgage-settlement-deal.html
[5] L.A. Times: http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-mortgage-settlement-20120125,0,7414913.story
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Manufacturing in motion: first survey on 3D printing community
3D printing, manufacturing and development
Which year did you use 3D printing / printer the first time?
Survey participants were asked when they used 3D printer / printing services for the first time. Predefined options (years) were listed in a dropdown menu.
The amount of 3D Printers/Printing started rising around 2005-2006 and has been rising ever since. In the histogram below you can see the growth. The numbers for year 2012 seem to be dropping, but that is an artifice created by the polling schedule. This survey was conducted in middle of the year in May and therefore the amount for 2012 seems low.
Figure 10. Which year did you use 3D printing / printer the first time?
The growth can be partly explained with the rise of RepRap. The first RepRap, "Darwin", was finished spring 2007 [22].
For what usage do you use 3D printing?
Participants were asked "For what usage do you use 3D printing?" and given 10 predefined options together with a tick-box for 'other'. Predefined options were: Spare parts to devices, Covers and such for devices, Artistic items, Visual aids, Presentation models (including architectural models), Functional models, Used for pattern / in molds, For research/educational purposes, Direct part production (custom, short run, series production), Furniture and household decoration. The amount of selected items was not restricted.
The results suggests that five most common usages for 3D printed items are:
- Functional models (144 times),
- Artistic items (140 times),
- Spare parts to devices (133 times),
- For research/educational purposes (128 times) and
- Direct part production (113 times)
Figure 11. For what usage do you use 3D printing?
If participant selected 'other', it was instructed that a short description would be provided. Some of the survey participants (42) selected 'other', and provided descriptions containing items and usages such as toys, for fun, (custom) jewellery, repraps (replicating printer), prototyping, reselling, gaming miniatures, tools and medical devices.
Most common 3D printing material
Survey participants were asked "What kind of material do you use (now and in past) in printing?" and again they were given a predefined option set. Options were: Metal (any), Polymer, PLA, Cement, Biomaterial, Silicon, Wood, None, Other.
The amount of selected items was not restricted. It must be noted that the options were a bit vague. Over 60 participants selected the 'other' and 59 of these indicated ABS as material. ABS is copolymer and could be included to option 'Polymer'. In the below pie chart, 'Polymer' and 'ABS' are presented separately. Furthermore, some of the participants who indicated ABS in the 'other' field, selected also 'Polymer', but not all. In other words, those two options intersect in some amount. The amount of 'ABS' answers in option 'other' has been substracted away.
Figure 12. What kind of material do you use (now and in past) in printing?
Most commonly used 3D printers
Survey participants were asked "Which printers (which manufacturer) have you used?" and again they were given a predefined option set. Options contained 20 different manufacturers. Three options (Arcam, Blue Printer and Solidoodle) did not get any answers and have been left out of the charts, below. A few manufacturers were selected only by a few participants (1-6 times). Such companies were: Botmill, ExOne, Fortus, Makibot, Printrbot and Solidscape & Envision Tec. Those were also left out of the chart. Thus, the pie chart below depicts the most commonly used 3D printer manufacturers.
Figure 13. Which printers (which manufacturer) have you used?
RepRap was the most common printer among the participants. RepRap is also the first printer (of the listed 'new wave' printers) that was available (since 2007). The relatively low amount of Makerbots can partly be explained with long market entry time, since Makerbot has been around since early 2009. Some of the printers have just entered or are entering the markets, such as printrbot.
3D printing services
The participants were asked: "Which of the 3D printing services have you used?" Again, question contained predefined options: 3D Creation Lab, 3dprintuk, 3DProParts, Cubify Cloud Print, i.Materialise, Impression-3D, Kraftwurx.com, Ponoko, RedEye, Sculpteo, Shapeways, Solid Concepts, None, Other. If participant selected 'other', it was instructed that description would be provided.
Figure 14. Which of the 3D printing services have you used?
Results suggest that among the participants who have used 3D printing services, Shapeways has taken a major share of customers. Ponoko was second most popular and i.Materialise took the bronze. It is notable, however, that a huge amount of the respondents has not used any 3D printing service. Several of the available services were not selected at all or only a few times. This result raises interesting questions: Who are those who selected 'none' and why their amount is so huge? Are they developers and not interested in or in need of printing services?
Out of curiosity, a cross tabulation was created between this question and whether the respondent's work was related to 3D printing or rapid manufacturing or not.
Table 3. Cross tabulation between work relevance and printing service usage.
Is your work related to 3D printing or rapid manufacturing?
|Has used printing services
|Has NOT used printing services
|47,2% (67)
|58,7% (71)
|27,5% (39)
|20,7 %(25)
|Yes, but only partly
|25,4% (36)
|20,7% (25)
Those that do not work with 3d printing or rapid manufacturing seem to use 3D printing services slightly more often than 3D printing professionals. The situation is leveled if the two last lines are calculated together.
The same kind of cross tabulation was created between this question and whether the respondent considered self to be a developer or end-user.
Table 4. Cross tabulation between role in 3D printing development and printing service usage.
Your involvement in 3D printing. Do you consider yourself:
|Has used printing services
|Has NOT used printing services
|more like 'end user' of 3D printing
|64,6% (84)
|22,7% (25)
|more like developer of 3D printing solutions (not getting paid though)
|21,5% (28)
|64,5 %(71)
|more like paid developer of 3D printing solutions
|13,8% (18)
|12,7% (14)
The cross tabulation indicates that 3D printing solution developers who do not get paid, are part of the population who are not keen to use 3D printing services.
Tags: 3D, BitsFromBytes, Dimension, EOS, fabbaloo, Objet, ponoko, reprap, Sculpteo, shapeways, stratasys, ZCorp
Comments (29)
Miguel Fernández
Wow! Is Incredible! I've been waiting for such type of study for a long time. I'm writing my master thesis about low cost tools for design and prototyping, and this survey is very very useful for me! Thanks!
This results presented in this blog post are just tip of the iceberg. Data contains more jewels, which wait for the founder. You can do your own analysis, just download the raw data and get your hands 'dirty' http://surveys.peerproduction.net/open-data/longitudinal-survey-data/#3d-manufacturing-community-surveys
Fixed, thanks for letting us know.
Hi Jarkko, afraid there's still a 404 for: http://surveys.peerproduction.net/open-data/longitudinal-data/#3d-manufacturing-community-surveys
Jarkko Moilanen
Duh! There was a typo (extra '/') which is now removed. Thanks for the persistant reporting
Hi Jarkko,
I get also 404 following both links. Is it removed already?
Jarkko Moilanen
Results caught the attention of following sites:
- http://thetechjournal.com/electronics/computer/hardware/a-look-at-the-global-3d-printing-survey-results.xhtml
- http://www.maindevice.com/2012/06/02/3d-printing-survey-third-industrial-revolution/
- http://thedailyattack.com/2012/06/03/3d-printing-survey-hints-to-the-third-industrial-revolution/
- http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/06/04/3d-printing-survey-hints-to-the-third-industrial-revolution/
- http://3druck.com/nachrichten/statistische-erhebung-ueber-die-3d-drucker-community-485057/
- http://alt1040.com/2012/06/impresion-3d-tercera-revolucion-industrial
- http://www.3ders.org/articles/20120601-results-of-3d-printing-communities-survey.html
- http://fabbaloo.com/blog/2012/6/6/3d-printing-community-survey-results.html
- http://www.laosonline.net/component/k2/item/63298-a-look-at-the-global-3d-printing-survey-results
- http://blog.sculpteo.com/2012/06/07/manufacturing-in-motion-the-results/
- http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/1418-Shapeways-3D-Printing-Service-Ranked-Most-Popular-in-Statistical-Survey.html
- http://www.dresdner-zukunftsforum.de/blog/2012/02/07/jeremy-rifkin-gibt-keynote-beim-5-dresdner-zukunftsforum/
- http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-revolution-at-hand
- http://stephenmurphey.com/survey-on-the-3d-printer-community/
- http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page
- http://technologywillsaveus.org/2012/07/manufacturing-in-motion-first-survey-on-3d-printing-community/
- http://www.librarycult.com/2012/07/first-3d-printer-survey/
- http://www.sparpointgroup.com/Blogs/Head-in-the-Point-Clouds/3D-printing-trends,-in-a-pretty-movie/
- http://www.designworldonline.com/3d-printers-we-want-what-we-want-when-we-want-it/
- http://solidsmack.com/fabrication/manufacturing-in-motion-a-3d-printing-visualization/
- http://boingboing.net/2012/08/15/visualzing-3d-printing-statist.html
- http://3dprintingblog.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/ergebnisse-der-ersten-studie-der-3d-druck-consumer-community/
- http://on3dprinting.com/2012/07/20/results-of-first-survey-on-3d-printing-adoption-education-services/
- http://www.noxfy.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9:impresion-3d-y-la-gestacion-de-la-tercera-revolucion-industrial&catid=9&Itemid=106
- http://www.3dcreationsllc.com/2012/07/14/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-first-survey-on-3d-printing/
- http://community.oreilly.de/blog/2012/07/23/3d-drucker-erkennt-ihr-euch/
- http://communities.ossoil.com/?p=1215
- http://technologywillsaveus.org/2012/07/manufacturing-in-motion-first-survey-on-3d-printing-community/
- http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2012-09/3d-drucker-geschaeftsmodelle/
- http://www.makerlibrarian.com/3d-printing/
- http://blog.minitab.com/blog/the-statistics-of-science/3d-printers-and-the-additive-manufacturing-process
- http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/01/10/the-rise-of-open-source-3-d-printers.aspx
- http://adcinc1.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/journal-of-peer-production-conducts-first-survey-of-3d-printing-community/
- http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/the-big-risk-to-3-d-stocks-no-one-talks-about-3d-systems-corporation-ddd-stratasys-ltd-ssys-autodesk-inc-adsk-74900/
- http://www.icarenet.eu/node/122
- http://pewsplosions.weebly.com/printing-a-3d-revolution.html
- http://whyfiles.org/2013/3-d-printing-wave-of-the-future/
Dimensionext 3Dprinting blog (monthly hits 25,000+) write-up in progress – thank you for this great survey.
TW @dimensionext
Comments in Y-Combinator http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4059188
Dimensionext blog (monthly hits 25,000+) write-up in progress – thank you for this great survey.
TW @dimensionext
Jarkko Moilanen
You're welcome. We are conducting this survey again around April 2013. This time we'll have questions in English and Spanish. Possibly even in French. More translators are welcome. Translation work is not in vain, since this is annual survey and therefore questions do not alter too much.
Randall "Texrat" Arnold
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Fantastic! There are some terrific insights in this study, particularly about what users believe are the big "bottlenecks"…
I actually had to share this specific article, "Statistical Studies of Peer Production
Your graphs are not especially colourblind friendly, especially the one on motivations which has almost all its shade in the common colour deficiency spectrum. So I can tell agree from disagree but I have no idea which side is which.
Jarkko Moilanen
Point taken. Thanks!
Do you have the raw data in Excel?
Jarkko Moilanen
Liz, unfortunately no, but you can read the CSV file in to Excel.
Karel Kulhavy
My latest OSHW project is a device aimed at mitigating the drinking water crisis.
0.8 billion people still don't have drinking water
The project is finished and currently gathering donations for the design to be released.
I'm participating in a dataset census assignment for the University of Maryland and would like to use your data. Can you tell me:
What are the access terms?
What are the use terms?
How should this data be cited?
Jarkko Moilanen
All material in SSPP site is licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. In citation use name of the author analysis. If referring to data, use Statistical Studies of Peer Production.
Naseer khan
thats all i need to know about 3D printing thanx .