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The decision last week by credit agency Standard & Poor's to downgrade Western Australia's credit rating from AAA to AA+ highlighted the difficulty of managing the economy and pleasing the ratings agencies.
The downgrade reflected Standard & Poor's view that the Western Australian government was not as committed to paying off debt as the WA premier, Colin Barnett, would have everyone believe.
In its statement, the ratings agency noted:
"... while the fiscal action plan announced in WA's fiscal 2014 budget improves the state's path, in our view there is likely to be slippage, reflecting our view of limited political will as evidenced by the early revision of some budget revenue and expenditure measures."
The key term is "political will" and reflects that, while talking the talk of cutting spending and returning to surplus is rather easy, actually doing it is tough.
The main consequence of the downgrade is that, notionally, it will make raising money for the WA government more expensive as investors may now demand a higher interest rate (or bond yield) on WA government bonds.
The main purpose of ratings agencies is to let investors know the relative risk of governments' and companies' bonds. It doesn't always follow, however, that a ratings downgrade will mean the yield a government pays for its bonds will go up. In September last year, when Fitch downgraded Queensland's credit rating from AA+ to AA, the yields on Queensland Treasury Corporation (QTC) bonds fell in the following quarter.
The yields are now higher, but this is mostly because state government bonds follow the value of Australian government's bonds. And in the past year, the yield on Australian government bonds has risen – albeit from record lows.
And, similarly, Australia's bond yields follow the yields on bonds of the major economies in the world, such as the USA, UK and Germany, whose yields have also increased in the past year.
The important thing about bond yields is as much the difference (or spread) between yields as their nominal rate. Thus a downgrading of a state's credit rating would logically see the spread between its yield and that of Australian government bonds increase – because notionally that state has become a riskier place to invest. This is in some ways a better way of measuring the cost of raising debt because it explains the extra amount a state government has to pay compared with both other states and the federal government. A state government will always have to charge higher interest than the federal government; the issue is by how much.
However, the spread doesn't always increase when a credit downgrade occurs. In the past 12 months the spread of QTC 10-year bond yields to Australian government bonds has actually shrunk.
The downgrade in WA does, however, highlight not only that keeping a triple-A rating is tough, but that tougher still is doing it without wrecking your economy.
The ALP was right during the election to boast that under its watch, and for the first time, the three major ratings agencies – Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch – rated Australia as AAA. Given the collapse in revenue experienced after the GFC, it took some pretty tough spending cuts and tax increases to achieve the balance of keeping the ratings agencies happy and not sending the economy into an austerity-driven tailspin.
As it is, the cuts made in the 2012-13 budget came at a time when unemployment was rising and growth stalling. It was a bold decision by Wayne Swan, one which received little credit from those who believe governments should cut spending in tough times, and less from those who believe the opposite. Little wonder he was never able to sell his achievement.
But while you can argue whether it was good for the economy for Swan to attempt to return the budget to surplus so quickly, it is clear that since Standard & Poor's downgrading of the USA's credit rating to AA+ in August 2011, and Fitch's upgrading of Australia's credit rating to AAA two months later, the spread between Australian and US bond yields has declined appreciably.
Australia is now one of only 11 countries with a triple-A rating from all three agencies, and of those 11, Australia's growth in the past 12 months is second only to Singapore's.
So it is pretty obvious that Australia, to this point, has achieved the balance of economic performance and fiscal responsibility better than just about everyone.
It's a tough balance though. And thus far, Colin Barnett appears a bit flummoxed about what to do in WA. He explained the increase in state debt in quite sensible terms:
"Debt is high and rising. Why? Because this state is growing. We've invested in hospitals, in schools, in improving our capital city, road projects, regional development and the like – and I don't apologise for that."
But he then announced, in response to criticisms from the WA opposition:
"Labor calls for fiscal responsibility. Well, get ready because there's going to be a fair dose of it. The most immediate and direct way of reducing debt is to sell something, or sell several things. There will be a program of asset sales and that will be introduced very quickly."
It is an odd world in which fiscal responsibility is equated with the ability to sell things (if you get to the point when you have to sell things you can't have been very fiscally responsible in the first place).
Credit agencies are concerned primarily with the budget, not the actual economic situation of the state. If slashing spending and selling off valuable assets helps lower the state's debt then the ratings agency will be happy, regardless of what that might do to the Western Australian economy.
A top credit rating is a nice thing – and certainly of value – but no government should start viewing it as the objective of economic policy.


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All women are at risk for gynecologic cancers, and risk increases with age. You can lower your risk for some of these cancers. When gynecologic cancers are found early, treatment works best.
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Usher's ex-wife Tameka Raymond has threatened to take the star to court, insisting he is not serious about his parenting responsibilities, according to a report.
Tameka is urging judges to order her former husband to be a better parent after branding him lazy and uncooperative when it comes to making important family decisions, according to editors at Tmz.com.
The Yeah! hitmaker, who holds primary custody over the former couple's two children, Usher Raymond V, five, and four year old Naviyd Ely, reportedly stormed out of a co-parenting class they were ordered to take together in July (13) and has since shut his ex-wife out of the decision-making.
Raymond unsuccessfully tried to regain custody of her sons after Usher Raymond V ended up in an intensive care unit following an accident at the star's father's Atlanta, Georgia home in August (13).


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When I decided to enter the UFO contest, I figured my cut out but still pinned to the pattern outfit from 1991 would be pretty, just to be topped, at least in the planned entries, by a quilt started in 1978.
Might be interesting to see what gets dug out and finished.
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12:00 AM, Aug 5, 1996 • By ERIC FELTEN
THE GLOBAL WARMING DEBATE is in a rut. In mid-July, for example, Undersecretary of State Timothy Wirth called for a crackdown on the emission of so-called greenhouse gases that are the inescapable byproduct of burning coal and oil. Any effort to choke off carbon-dioxide emissions will hit the American economy hard; nonetheless, to the dismay of industry, Wirth has in mind new, binding treaties to do just that. "The science calls on us to take urgent action," Wirth declared at a Geneva conference on climate change. Industry -- as represented by the Global Climate Coalition -- responded as expected, arguing that the science is hopelessly complex and muddled: We should wait and see instead of doing anything rash and ruinously expensive.
This is the stale and predictable state of the global warming debate. Environmental Cassandras declare the world is on fire; naysayers say nay. Greens use elaborate computer models to show that the atmosphere is working its way from a simmer to a full rolling boil. Industry chooses different computer models and finds that global temperatures are the same as they ever were. The scientists can't agree and the layman is understandably bewildered.
But there might be a way out of this tiresome political shuttlecock. The one thing that the Cassandras and the naysayers seem to agree about is that there is only one solution to global warming -- reduce the amount of greenhouse gases put into the atmosphere. But what if that assumption is incorrect? A surprising, and surprisingly large, body of scientific research suggests that it may be entirely possible (and even relatively inexpensive) to cool the planet down, greenhouse gases or no. The whole premise of the greenhouse theory is that human activity is capable of turning the global thermostat up. If so, then why shouldn't human activity be capable of doing the reverse?
Early this year, the east coast buried in snow, newspapers and newsmagazines declared perversely that the blizzards were the fault of global warming. Shifts in worldwide climates caused the extreme weather, we were told. These stories did point to some evidence of a greenhouse effect: 1995 was the hottest year on record, breaking the mark set in 1991. But little noticed was the fact that between 1991 and 1995 temperatures had not just held steady, they had declined dramatically. And climatologists do agree on the reason temperatures spiked downward for a few years: a volcano. When Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991 it belched tons of dust, ash, and sulfur into the stratosphere, where the fine haze of debris floated for a couple of years, ever so slightly shading the earth from the sun. Which raises the question, It dust in the stratosphere can cool the planet, why not combat global warming by putting dust in the stratosphere?
There are any number of tidy, discreet, and costeffective ways to get dust or sulfur into the upper atmosphere. A variety of options can be found in a massive 1992 tome from the National Academy of Sciences called "Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming." Chapter 28 is devoted to what is called " geoengineering," the science of purposefully making large-scale changes to the environment. Not only are an abundance of atmospheric fixes considered in the chapter, but careful cost breakdowns are provided for each.
Among the suggested methods for launching dust into the stratosphere are rockets, balloons, airplanes, and naval guns. Naval guns are among the cheapest, and certainly the most dramatic. According to the National Academy, "A 16-inch naval rifle fired vertically could put a shell weighing about 1 [metric] ton up to an altitude of 20 kilometers." After running the numbers -- including the cost of using the Navy ships and crew, the price of shells, and even the going rate for bulk dust -- the National Academy found that it would cost somewhere between three cents and $ 1 to offset the effect of one metric ton of carbon-dioxide emissions. Mitigating the amount of carbon dioxide put into the atmosphere by the United States in 1989, given these estimates, would cost, tops, about $ 500 million a year, and probably a lot less.


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Limnos Jan 18, 2014 9:01 PM
Re: OSX issue with an old iMac in response to bathinmud Helpful
That font is very hard to read.
If things keep going wrong like that I wonder if your hard drive is going, or at least has major directory corruption. Did you ever run Disk Utility on it?
On the Tiger install, were you using a black, retail version of Tiger which installs on any computer supporting Tiger, or was it a gray disc that came with another Mac and will only work with that one?
How much RAM in this Mac? Something that came with Jaguar may not have the RAM for Tiger.
Neville Hillyer Jan 19, 2014 4:39 AM
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bathinmud wrote:
I have a 2004 G4 flat panel iMac and it came with OSX Jaguar. Then I upgraded it to OSX Panther. After a day of Panther, it did not boot up. I think a system file was moved. Then I got the instal disk for Tiger. That didn't work. It just stayed on the Apple logo and the loading sign forever. So then I got it to boot into OS9, which works, but most programs do not work with it. After about a month, my Mac did't boot up into OS9 even. And my iMac never had an AirPortExpress Card installed. What do I do?
Thanks in advance,
What computer did you use to post your message? Please do not use Impact font here again - it is unreadable.
I have had hangs with Tiger installs before. Often, but not always, you can power down and it is OK when you restart.
Do you have important data on the G4 which is not backed up elsewhere?
If not try the a clean install but be aware that all settings and data will be lost:
- After the DVD or CD loads select your language and click the Continue button.
- When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
- In Disk Utility select your hard drive and erase it.
- Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
- After the process has completed quit Disk Utility and return to the installer.
- Now complete the install.
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Re: OSX issue with an old iMac in response to Neville Hillyer
Some Macs needed a Firmware update to go beyond Panther.
If you don't know the model, find the Serial# & use it on one of these sites, but don't post the Serial# here...
Using this serial number locator is way better than Chipmunk, and more secure:
How to find the serial number of your Apple hardware product...


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A new initiative has been launched to inform seniors about the importance of protecting themselves against the flu.
The 'Influenza Immunization for You' program is being spearheaded by Florida Hospital Medical Group and will target people over the age of 65 who are more susceptible to contracting the virus.
Justin Menezes, MD, from Orlando Family Medicine of Florida Hospital Medical Group said: "The new initiative is specially timed to occur throughout September – the time when many older adults often visit their health-care providers to receive their annual influenza vaccination. We want residents 65 years of age and older to know there is a flu shot made just for them, in addition to the standard influenza vaccine."
People over 65 account for over 60% of the flu-related hospitalizations that occur in the US. A further 90% of the people who die as a result of contracting the virus are over 65.
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I recently did some fall decor shopping at HomeGoods and Michaels and I thought I would share with you what I purchased. Let me know if you would like to see more videos like this in the future.
I recently did some fall decor shopping at HomeGoods and Michaels and I thought I would share with you what I purchased. Let me know if you would like to see more videos like this in the future.
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I can't believe over a year has passed since my last post. In that time so much has happened both god and bad. There was the whirlwind craziness of the holidays, a job change which I could not be happier about and sadly the loss of my beloved grandfather who meant so much to me.
During my break from blogging I decided to make a change related to this blog. As the title suggests I love fashion and I love food. Never have I focused solely on those two subjects. Up until now PearlsandPasta.com has always a collection of my thoughts and inner rumblings. You never knew what you would find on a daily visit. That changes today. Today I am giving the blog back to what it was originally intended to be. An outlet for me to share my love of cooking and fashion.
A daily visit to PearlsandPasta.com will reward you with a delicious recipe or fashion inspiration. My approach to both subjects is it is all about balance.
I was blessed to grow up in close proximity to my two very Southern grandmothers. Both have sadly passed away but they have left me with a love of cooking and their collection of precious recipes. Now here is the thing. I love Gram's ooey gooey, diet busting macaroni and cheese and am happy to indulge in second helpings whenever it is served, but I don't eat it every day. I do make my own version of gram's recipe and it is just as cheesy, but way healthier…and NO I do not puree butter nut squash and try to pass it off as cheese sauce. Been there. Tried that. No one can convince me it is cheese sauce. In their memory I want to use this blog to share my grandmother's diet busting and my waist forgiving recipes with you.
I also love fashion, both high and low end. I have a ridiculous amount of Kate Spade handbags and jewelry, but I've learned to pair them with inexpensive pieces to complete my look. I will never be one of those girls in name brands from head to toe. You know what? When wearing the two together people always comment on much they love my bargain pieces! I love my designer things but I also love my bargains and my budget demands that I have a healthy appreciation of both. Fashion inspires me every day and I want to share that passion with you.
This blog will also document my fitness journey. I was never athletic in high school or college instead I was a total book nerd. After college as a way to deal with my high stress job I took up running and discovered a passion for fitness and healthy living. Fast forward to the winter of 2011 and my love for running left me with severe illiotibial band syndrome. This injury caused me to take a year off from running and my fitness has never been the same since. I try to stay active but I have not been consistent. To get back on track I have signed up to compete in the 2015 Disney Princess Half Marathon in February. I am so not conditioned for the race so now is the time for me to get serious and back on track.
Now yes, before you comment, you will still find an inner rambling or two but having a direction for his blog will allow me to create better quality content for you, my readers. I thank each of you for sticking with me in my long absence and am excited for what the future has in store.
I want to share something powerful with you. You ARE more than a number! I saw this Special K commercial this evening on TV and it really spoke to me.
As I prepare for Thanksgiving my mind begins thinking about all the exercise I am going to need to do to make up for all the indulging I will do on Thanksgiving and the days leading up to Christmas, then I stop myself and think…
why do we do that to ourselves?
Why do we automatically start the self loathing here at this special season of year?
I am so tired of it. I want to eat that second slice of apple pie without thinking about how many miles I will need to run or how much green juice I will need to consume in order to be forgiven of my "second slice of pie sin". I've decided I AM DONE WITH IT! Starting today I am putting away my scale and it will not see the light of day until January 2015.
Please understand me. I am not interested in being obese, and I am not saying that I will indulge at every opportunity this season brings my way, but I do want to enjoy my food and plan to do so consciously. I am putting away my scale this season because I believe it has become a crutch for me. Every day the first thing I do is step on that scale to see "what the damage" was from the day before. In doing that I rob myself of the joy of food. As I say time and time again it is all about balance. I will purposely focus us eating well this season so that when my aunt's delicious Kahlua cake is served this Christmas I can indulge with zero guilt. My scale is disappearing for the season but I have noted my starting weight and plan to prove that you can get through the holidays without putting on excessive weight and without working out a ton every day.
So who is with me? Use the hashtags #healthyholiday and #healthyholidayindulgence to document your food this holiday season.
Goodbye scale, hello apple pie!!!
My goal for the month of September is to let the Lord direct my path. Too often I find myself planning out every detail of my life. Inevitably this leads to disappointment because my perfectionism makes me feel like a failure when things do not happen as I planned.
For the next month I am going to make ever effort to NOT plan.
I need to take a step back and recognize that I am not the captain of my life. God is.
I realize that when I attempt to take control of the direction my life will take I am setting myself up for failure. I am not the captain who is controlling the ship. I am the first mate whose role requires that she follow her captain wherever he may lead. This is the truth I will focus on for the next thirty days.
Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God;
may your gracious Spirit
lead me forward on a firm footing.
Psalms 143:10 NLT
Lately I've been struggling. In the grand scheme of things my worries and troubles do not compare to the hardships others face, yet they are mine. I am grateful to have a mother that encourages me through all my trials and heart aches. Today she sent me a beautiful email of encouragement and I thought I would share it with you in the hope that it will help you see through your struggles and focus on "the bigger picture".
"Sometimes I feel like I can not hear God speak…………..and He seems silent for a long while. While other times I feel like He is speaking to me at every bend in the road and through every one and every thing.
This week has been very humbling, as this has been a week when I'm hearing around every corner. The Bible study I am currently studying with a few neighbors, and the Video Bible study my small group is following this summer, and the current struggles in my own heart, have all pointed me to one central truth: God is sovereign and He decides!
Lately I have found myself struggling with the mass confusion of the world and the awful decline of morality in people at large. I have been wrestling with the world issue of hungry and dying children and the rampant evil evidenced everywhere you turn.
Yes, I believe the Bible is absolute Truth, flawless and eternal; but I have wrestled with God's control over things; including things in my own life.
As I have reached midlife, I have begun to struggle all over again with why God has not done certain things yet and why He has allowed others.
We are bombarded with so much information now, and the amount of "bad" reports and "bad" news we get on a daily basis, that I believe it is just plain unhealthy
To add to my inner battles, a friend called this am and was struggling with her family stuff and the "whys" in her own life; why hasn't God caused prosperity in her life, or her kids' lives when they love and seek God, and why
does their have to be the same old struggles of old; doesn't God give victory in our lives and take back ground?
Here are some of the verses God has spoken in my heart
from studying this week, where I felt God answering these questions:
for God alone decides the matter, HE IS THE MOST HIGH GOD,
and who am I to question the Creator of all, the creator,of my person who has given me my life and knows my inmost parts.
"His dominion is an everlasting dominion and His kingdom endures from generation to generation…..All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, but He does according to His will in the host of heavens and among the inhabitants of the earth. and no one can ward off His hand or say to HIm, "what have You done?"
…..for He is able to humble those who walk in pride. Daniel 40:35 & 37
"It is I who put to death and give life, I have wounded and it is I who heal"………….Duet. 32:39
"The Lord kills and makes alive; He brings down to Sheol and raises up. The Lord makes poor and rich, He brings low, He also exalts." I Samuel 2:6 & 7
"I am the Lord and there is no other; besides me there is no God. The one forming light and creating darkness; causing well being and creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these," Isaiah 45:5
Psalm 33:11 "The counsel of the Lord stands forever; the plans of His heart from generation to generation."
Many are the plans of a mans heart, but the Lord determines his steps.
I think it's important to remember These truths about who God is when we find ourselves wrestling with the "whys" of things in our life at any given time.
Proverbs 16:33 " The lot is cast into the lap, but the Lord decides every decision of it."
Wow, meditate on that for a while……………Our Lord allows the place of each of our lives, He alone planned our lives, He alone gave us breath and has ordered our days; He alone has the sovereign control over the destiny of our lives, and He is worthy of praise ir-regardless of what life on earth has been like for us.
What I fail to grasp most is that His plan for me is part of His Bigger plan ………….. The Big Picture of His everlasting Dominion, and Eternity is what I need to stay mindful of! The bigger picture involves me being a part of others coming into His kingdom; and that is why we are here……………to transfer from the dominion of darkness to His Eternal Kingdom of light and to help others do the same.
Colossions 1:13-16 reads:
"For He (God) has rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."
I have been so humbled for asking God so many "whys" lately………………and He has gently dealt with me & my pride for asking and questioning His ways.
I am so grateful for a heavenly Father who loves me personally and who speaks to the questions of my heart through His living Word.
I'm much better off emotionally when I keep a perspective of His bigger picture; which includes a lost and destitute world of others, and not just my world.
…….which includes a portion of my time investing in others knowing such a gracious God, and my mind giving thought to how God is leading me to do that.
I've not been put here to just live a good life for me, but to glorify God with the talents and provisions He has given me, and to in turn point to His Truth with them.
God Bless You! Love you!
This weekend I have been making some progress on restarting my business. My goal was to reach 30 likes on my company's facebook page so that I can get access to the page insights. If you feel like helping me reach that goal, visit facebook.com/ReedCommunications and click "like".
Have a blessed weekend!
Too often we forget to rely on the Lord to ease our troubles and turn toward various vices for comfort. For me comfort takes the form of food. I tend to gravitate towards pasta, baked goods and oh lets just go there…. all things starchy! While this yummy comfort bandage feels oh so good in the moment, I always feel awful when it's over.
Why is that?
Besides the fact that I feel overly stuffed and uncomfortable, I know in my heart it is because I sought comfort from something other than my Heavenly Father. When I was a little girl my mother used to make up rhymes and songs to help me memorize things. The spelling of my name, what street I lived on and Bible verses that would stay with me to this day.
Tonight after turning to a bag of oh so delicious crunchy Cheetos which ended in my above described remorse, one of those Bible verses came to my mind.
New International Version (NIV)
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Even though I was raised to seek comfort in the Lord I still have a hard time remembering to do so. My stubborn nature wants to believe that "I've got it" that I can "do it" all by myself. Silly, silly me. I need to learn to turn to the Lord instead of turning to the pantry. The comfort found through his spirit is the only thing that can ease ones struggles and stresses. I find relief in the knowledge that my God is always there for me. Even when I am snuggled up with a bag of popcorn instead of my Bible.
What about you? Do you find that you turn to earthly things for comfort instead of the Lord? Leave me a comment.


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The Centauri trilogy I have but have yet to read because of my Peter David allergy, but I have every intention of getting over it and reading them. Vir was much better round. Crusade was more interesting after reading Galen's story in the technomage trilogy.
Psi Corp trilogy was a quick read and had some excellent Bester development.
I suppose I shouldn't handwring over people's failure to read the technomage trilogy when I've failed to read the Centauri trilogy.. but
if you are reading this you of all people still have no excuse considering how much abysmal Treklit you've read and retained.
I haven't read any of them
i've been hunting the books but have only found a few, and I don't want to start reading a set until I have them all, for fear that I would go mad if I couldn't finish a story.
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Radiation Mac Mar 29, 2013 6:25 AM
Re: 10.8.3 - very very slow + often Apple wheel! in response to fabthi
How much RAM does it have installed? Mountain Lion has been shown in these Forums to be very memory intensive during use, and requires a "minimum" of 4 GB of RAM to have any speed at all (barely), and more RAM helps immensely. The OS would like to use 4 GB of RAM for itself ideally, leaving little to run Applications.
fabthi Mar 29, 2013 6:32 AM
Re: 10.8.3 - very very slow + often Apple wheel! in response to Radiation Mac
I have 8GB.
Just curious: can I go back to 10.6.8 and if yes how?
Thanks for your help
drdocument Mar 29, 2013 7:17 AM
Re: 10.8.3 - very very slow + often Apple wheel! in response to fabthi
8GB should be plenty. My MacBook Pro is running 10.8.3 just fine with 4GB of RAM, currently showing more than 800GB free (in Activity Monitor).
Others have found speed improvements of 10.8.3 with:
Repair permissions
Reset PRAM
Reset SMC
Clear font caches
Verify all other apps are fully updated
Restart more often for a couple weeks.
Be sure Spotlight has a chance to fully reindex.
Verify at least 15% (preferably 20%) free space on startup drive.
Some of these may be of significant benefit since you upgraded from 10.6.8, as there are lots of differences.
Eric Root Mar 29, 2013 12:51 PM
Re: 10.8.3 - very very slow + often Apple wheel! in response to fabthi
You can revert to Snow Leopard, but you will have to erase your hard drive to do it. You can achieve some iCloud syncing in Snow Leopard for Mail and Calendar. There is also a way to sync contacts, but having tried it, I can't recommend it.
Maybe these will help:
Why your Mac runs slower than it should
For the Applications problems and things in general
Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work. The intent is to see if it is specific to one account or a system wide problem. This account can be deleted later.
Isolating an issue by using another user account
If the problem is still there, try booting into the Safe Mode. Shut down the computer and then power it back up. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.
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Linc Davis Mar 29, 2013 3:32 PM
Re: 10.8.3 - very very slow + often Apple wheel! in response to fabthi
First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing.
There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
- If you have many image or video files on the Desktop with preview icons, move them to another folder.
- If applicable, uncheck all boxes in the iCloud preference pane.
- Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Otherwise, take the steps below when you notice the slowdown.
Step 1
Launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.
Select All Processes from the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.
Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for % User, % System, and % Idle at the bottom of the window.
Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?
Next, select the Disk Activity tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in and Writes out.)
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William H. Magill1 Apr 12, 2013 6:57 AM
Re: 10.8.3 - very very slow + often Apple wheel! in response to fabthi
I must concur with the original poster -- 10.8.3 is incredibly slow! Boot times and application launch times. It was bad under 10.8.2, but has gotten worse of late.
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I wind up rebooting my machine frequently because of a particular problem in a specific on-line game I play. That is not the issue -- the issue is how LONG it takes OSX to recover after that reboot -- and even after the OSX login screen has been processed.
It is clear that A LOT of the time is spent by OSX attempting to make things look faster -- the desktop starts to appear, then the various icons begin to popultate as generics, then they begin to convert to actual "correct" images. All of that is part and parcel of the "look-ahead" scheme.
The console log is full of messages like "mdworker[9453]: Unable to talk to lsboxd"
(which apparently relate to spotlight and were caused by the 10.8.2 upgrade)
Interestingly, one thread I ran across over at macrumors implies that a "safe boot" makes the problem go away.
Hmmm... will try that and report back.
John Galt Apr 12, 2013 7:09 AM
Re: 10.8.3 - very very slow + often Apple wheel! in response to William H. Magill1
William H. Magill1 there is something wrong with your Mac that is unrelated to its operating system.
Read the very first line in Linc Davis's response, and then please post a new question. Your hardware is completely different than the OP's and requires different actions. Responding to someone else's post will not result in the attention you require. Thanks!
William H. Magill1 Apr 12, 2013 8:10 AM
Re: 10.8.3 - very very slow + often Apple wheel! in response to John Galt
Who is John Galt?
LOL -- "Your boot drive might be failing." That could be the first line posted in response to any question asked on any of these support forums. DUH!!!
[And yes, Apple did RECALL and replace my hard drive -- every iMac user should check on that recall bulletin.]
Continuing on with my earlier post...
Yes, performing a Safe boot (shut down, hold shift while powering back up) and then waiting until you have completely logged back in -- (don't bother to launch anything, just wait about a minute after the desktop populates) before restarting again.
Very interesting differences. Under Safe Boot:
1- all of the "mdworker: Unable to talk to lsboxd" messages have stopped being posted to the Console log. They used to appear every few seconds.... a big I/O load is now gone.
2- In safe boot, the desktop appeared, and then "boom" in one fell scan" all desktop icons were populated WITH their correct (i.e. complete) icons. (Not surprisingly, no stickies, hmm.)
3- After the reboot following the safe boot, time to login seemed to be "faster" -- however, the "fast desktop" was gone... interestingly the Stickies displayed almost immediately after the desktop, but then it was about another minute before the generic desktop icons appeared, and another 20-30 seconds until they were populated with the correct icons.
Other apps do "their thing" -- too much inteaction with the Internet to determine if/what kind of slowdowns might be them, and which migh be results of the current DDoS impacting internet performance in general. (And I happen to have Verizon FIOS which has its own DNS issues!)
So, yes, the Safe Boot, did do something. How significant an impact, only time will tell.
John Galt Apr 12, 2013 9:02 AM
Re: 10.8.3 - very very slow + often Apple wheel! in response to William H. Magill1
William H. Magill1 wrote:
LOL -- "Your boot drive might be failing." That could be the first line posted in response to any question asked on any of these support forums. DUH!!!
For good reason, since it is often after a user has lost all his data that he regrets not taking this simple and fundamental precaution.
Continuing on with my earlier post...
Please do not. "Safe Boot" is a troubleshooting mode only and other than performing some cursory actions does not in itself solve a thing. You are going off in the weeds.
As I wrote, post a new question. Responding to someone else's post will not result in the attention you require.


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Among Center City's neighborhoods are Penn's Landing, Old City, Society Hill, South Street, Washington Square West, Market East, Chinatown, Logan Square, the Museum District (located along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway), Rittenhouse Square, Fitler Square, the Avenue of the Arts (South Broad Street), and Jewelers' Row.
Center City is home to most of Philadelphia's tallest buildings, including Philadelphia's City Hall, the second tallest masonry building in the world and until 1987 the tallest in Philadelphia, as well as the tallest building in the world for seven years. In March 1987, One Liberty Place broke the gentlemen's agreement not to exceed the height of the statue of William Penn atop City Hall. Seven other skyscrapers now top the statue, including One Liberty Place's little sister, Two Liberty Place, the Comcast Center, Mandeville Place, 1441 Chestnut, and Bridgeman's View Tower.
Just about everything your little heart can desire, from parks, monuments, statues & graveyards. Food stands of every type & style all over the area, dollar stores, restaurants from high brow to just plain chow. Clothing, shoes, books electronics & the ever popular Samson Street, home to jewelery merchants displaying their goods for all to see.
If you like science and your child has a passion for it too the only right place in Philadelphia for you will be the Franklin Institute. This 3 store building with observation platform is huge. You need to come early morning and leave at closing if you want not to miss a thing. You want to plan your day ahead if we talking about this particular Science museum . Check the daily programs sheet, organize your theater shows, demonstrations you wish to see. They have fabulous, most amazing the IMAX and Planetarium .I recommend IMAX everyone I know:4story domed, wrap-around sound screen, something really special!
This year we were blessed with a very rare Tutankhamun exhibition. We experienced the world of boy king Tut, came face to face with his contemporaries, saw ,heard and almost touched his life and short reign influence on history .for people who interested in Howard Carter discovery and lives of pharaohs it's very valuable experience -50 major pieces directly from his tomb,130 artic rafts,80 objects that were found in graves of other 18th dynasty royal.
The Please Touch Museum has been educating and entertaining Philadelphia's children since 1976. The museum offers live theater and interactive exhibits for children of all ages, but specifically those in the under-seven crowd.
The Enchanted Colonial Village is the latest addition to the museum's collection of exhibits. The village is a recreation of the Lit Brothers' famous department store display, which was a popular place for families to visit during the holiday season in the 1960s and the early '70s. The original Village depicted 18 animated scenes of workshops and buildings during Christmastime. This new exhibit includes four recreated scenes and will run from November 26 to December 30.
Other exhibits that run yearlong include Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Children can join the Mad Hatter for a tea party and play croquet with the Queen of Hearts. Move It! gives children the opportunity to learn about real-world transportation. Kids can sit in the driver's seat of a SEPTA bus and even be the captain of a sailboat on a miniature Delaware River. The museum's Story Garden is a quiet place where guests can crawl up with a good book to read.
The Sendak exhibit features interactive sets recreated from the books "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen" by author/illustrator Maurice Sendak. The child-sized Supermarket is one of the museum's most popular attractions. Children can fill their shopping carts, stock the shelves, and bake bread, just like adults. For the youngest children, there's the Barnyard Babies exhibit. Toddlers and even infants can feed the baby chicks and dress a scarecrow in this pint-sized exhibit designed just for them.
The Academy of natural science can be the place where you can spend the whole weekend day having an adventure of discovery with the whole family-4 floors full of exhibitions. They have a lot of interesting things to explore and do for little ones. My child run away from dinosaurs chasing her- I think it's a funny 3D thing but its fun, fun, fun!!! She dug in a "BIG DIG" area for dino's fossils-didn't find any though! They offer videos and naturalist presentations in the Auditorium, that is rest for feet and exploring the world for kids, on the life animals show they even let kids to touch animals, I believe my daughter touched a big iguana, not sure but it was something like reptile or something scales covered, she enjoyed it though! Live animals corners are interesting too-white fox, loud parrot and the most interesting part-academy is like a shelter for them because they were either rescued by employees or brought because people didn't wont them anymore! Another interesting thing is the tomb of Petiese, an Egyptian High Prist, complete with mummies, it should have a mummified cat, but I either missed it being blind or they don't have it anymore. Constructed in 1978, the tomb was recreated with special attention given to drying the plaster walls to prevent moisture from damaging the mummies once they were inside. The tomb is eight feet long, four feet wide and six feet high.
It is the amazing museum, not mentioning the fact that it was found in 1812 and international one. It undertakes research and public education that focus on the environment-that is really appreciate.
945-foot tall One Liberty Place is the tallest building in Philadelphia and the 16th tallest in the USA. Built in 1987, the 61-story One Liberty Place was the first building in Philadelphia to exceed the height of the Billy Penn Statue on the City Hall; before, a 'gentleman's agreement' in Philadelphia stated that no gentlemen would build any structure in Philadelphia taller than the brim of William Penn's hat. Oddly, ever since the construction of One Liberty Place, none of Philadelphia's originally successful professionial sports teams have won a championship; many describe this as the Curse of Billy Penn.
Right across City Hall, in Penn Square, you'll find Thomas Paine Plaza. Named after the author of "Common Sense", Thomas Paine Plaza is, well, an interesting place. It's got two sculptures - one of Benjamin Franklin the craftsman, the other a tribute to the US Bicentennial in 1976.
What really caught my eye was a tribute to board games. Checkers, Bingo, etc. My one question is: why here?
South of City Hall, you'll find Broad Street, better known as the Avenue of the Arts.
Theaters are everywhere, some spectacular, others charming. and all worth the price of admission. You should definitely check out the Academy of Music (academyofmusic.org), which is the oldest opera house in the United States that is still used for that purpose. I attended a friend's medical school graduation here, in which the former Surgeon General of the U.S., C. Everett Koop was the speaker and I've also been here for an opera. What a grand and beautiful place!!
We stayed in the city center amongst all the skyscrapers that you associate with Philadelphia.
The views from our hotel rooftop were stunning. Philly has some very large buildings, but for some reason it does not feel nearly so clautrophobic as other cities.
Philly is good when it is warm....cheap drink, nice things to see, very artistic place and ver laid back as well.
The best cheese steak stop in philly is called Pat's Steaks and it is on 9th street....must try one while you are there
Center City is the average American city. There is just SO, SO much to do! You can stay for days and nights to just find out and go to anything and everything. From Chinatown to Penns Landing to Liberty Mall to City Hall, there's something for everyone.
This building is a very beautiful building inside with its grand hall and open space. here you can find great restaurants and stores while above you can find the Mexican counsalete as well as other offices.
The CLOTHESPIN statue at the corner of 15th and Market streets is a sight anybody can't miss at Centre Square.
Convention Center District is a neat & upscale area to walk in & revel in the makeover of Philadelphia.
This is a city with some European style buildings, which made me feel something similar when I arrived Boston several days later.
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The Great Race is organised by Southport Yacht Club and will be staged on the Gold Coast on 25 February 2012. This event is Australia's most unique and exciting sailing challenge for off-the-beach dinghies and catamarans.
The Great Race, from the Gold Coast to Brisbane, is open to dinghies and multihulls.
This highly entertaining and equally testing 70 kilometre marathon is possibly the longest and most challenging event of its kind in Australia. It takes the fleet on a journey north from the Gold Coast, first through the meandering channels of the Broadwater, then across Moreton Bay to the finish at Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron at Manly.
This is a race where the competition is as fierce as it is fun from start to finish. Initially the scenic, narrow and twisting waterways between the mainland and the Broadwater islands test competitors' boat handling skills, then the wide open waters of Moreton Bay call for tactics and speed.
This is the eighth time The Great Race has been staged and organisers at Southport Yacht Club are hoping for a fleet of more than 100 boats from throughout Queensland and interstate. The current race record is 2hrs 57m 18s for multihulls and 3hrs 44m 48s for monohulls. The majority of the fleet usually takes between four and six hours to complete the course.
The chosen date for the race has favourable tidal conditions for much of the day. Entries are open to all off-the-beach dinghies with a yardstick rating less than or equal to 109, and all off-the-beach multihulls with yardstick no higher than 100.
A fun social agenda is also being planned around the race.
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For more information contact the Southport Yacht Club's Sailing Manager, Shane Smith by phone (07) 5537 7030 or email@example.com.
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