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January 2013 TTC Thread! Good luck ladies! I hope this New Year brings us a lot of blessings and BFPs!!!
Link to Dec 2012 Thread: community.babycenter.com/post/a3822...
TTC- Trying to conceive
OPK- Ovulation predictor kit (usually we're refering to a single stick)
O'd- Ovulated (not to be confused with everyone elses definition...)
CM- Cervical Mucus
AF- Aunt Flo (or our period)
DPO- Days past ovulation
CD- Cycle day (how many days since the beginning of the last period)
LP- Lutal phase (days between ovulation and if you're not pregnant, next cycle, usually roughly 14 days)
BD- Baby Dance (a really passive way of saying sex)
HPT- Home Pregnancy test (FRER is First Response Early Result and DT is Dollar Tree, the more commonly used hpt's)
FF - Fertility Friend (a web based/ mobile based charting)
FMU- First Morning Urine
Rainbow- A baby hoped for after a loss
2ww- Two week wait (referring to the time after you O'd until your period comes)
Here is some Awesome info to help you understand the 2ww a little better.
~Congrats to the December 2012 Graduates! Healthy Happy Pregnancy and Baby Dust!!~
Jenn (moochiejen)
Stefani (HoneyPumpkin18)
Hoping for a New Year BFP!!!
Names will turn Red for Af and Blue for a Bfp!
Member Trying Since Testing/AF
John 16:33 Dec. 2012 BFP!
Tishka5 Nov. 2012 Jan. 1
Reef9 Sept 2012 Jan. 1-5?
Jkbutseriously Jan. 14
Shannon (byubelle22) Oct 2012 Mid Jan.
draw1113 June 2012 Jan. 21
lds_deb Jan 2012 Feb. 18
0123456789z Nov 2012 Our first early BFP!
Debbie (DebVHout) Jul 2012 BFP!!!!
Jenajoy Dec 2012
Ermana Oct 2012 BFP!!!
Cuddlybaker Feb 22/23
Kirstie (xkiwigirlx) BFP!!!
Ks288 Jan '13
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Jayne (Ejayne) Nov 2011 BFP!!!
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Eden (Destiny~of~Eden) BFP!!!
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Kbfly Dec 2011
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Nicki (loveisspokenhere)
Garnet Emerald (on a Break) March 2012
Lark (5moonbeams4me)
Jennm85 August 2012
TTC in the future:
Preggerwife March/April '13
themamamonster around Feb '13
Ames015 May/June '13
Kate (BooBooKisser0911) Oct 2012 Jan. 29
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best fish for algae control.
I am trying to decide what fish to add to my tank to help control various types of algae, esp. staghorn and hair algae. (I have already addressed other issues such as lighting, overfeeding, etc.) You can find different opinions about fish all over the internet, but maybe someone here has some helpful experience they would like to share. I have a 55 gal community tank that includes small fish like neon tetras.
Possible fish for general algae control and the issues that I have heard are involved:
SAE: Adults will eat my mosses, may move over to eating fish food as adults.
Otto cats: I have 5, they work hard, but are not able to do as much as needed. Buy more?
Mollies: I have a couple of gold ones, but even though they nibble constantly, it seems like they never get anything to come off.
Bristlenose pleco: I have one a couple, but not good for algae on plants with small leaves and moss.
Shrimp: Too small to do much unless I really stock the tank heavily.
Rosy barbs: get too big and will eat my moss.
Red barbs: Just dont do all that much.
American Flag fish: Not a good community fish, get aggressive.
Nerite snails: My clown loaches eat them, I dont want a million snails in my tank.
Any Thoughts?
Well, as for the Nerite snails, they don't reproduce in freshwater.
Pest snails handle the algae for me.. (And no, I don't have 'a million'.)
Have you tried amano shrimps? Other than that you're pretty much out of luck. Stick to manual removal. If your lighting etc is balanced, it should not be an issue... And even the prettiest tanks require manual labor.
What kind of algae are you having trouble with?
Well you could get more otto's they I think can do it.
No, I haven't tried them. I feed the fish lightly once a day and keep the light on for 2 hours in the AM, off for5, then on for 5 hours (so it's on when I am at home). This works fine with my plants, as they grow quite well. I have staghorn and long hair algae which grows crazy fast in the couple of places it is living since I removed or cut back all of the infected plants. Covering the sides of the tank to prevent any light from the window (which isn't very strong) does not do a lot. I don't measure a lot of water parameters other than pH, so I can't give you the details about those. Water changes and manual removal every few days do not do a lot to slow it down.
Warning with amono shrimp is that as mine have got older they've developed a taste for healthy plants - particularly my wisteria. They do an amazing job eating algae but I'm gonna rehouse them into thier own tank soon
Don't think ottos will eat hair algae
SAE can become aggressive and won't eat as much algae when they're mature
There may be other steps you can take to reduce algae - adding liquid plant fertiliser may seen counterintuitive but it will help the plants you have to make more efficent use of the ammonia and light in the tank > staving the algae. Also bulbs rated around 6500k are best for plants - bulbs that are above or below this k rating are likely to result in algae as the plants can't use the light.
Can you post a photo of this "algae" problem? Algae will occur in all aquaria, you cannot prevent it, and I'm wondering if what you have is normal but perhaps not to you. I say this because with the minimal light period you have, and if the plants are doing well, I can't see how algae could be an issue.
i would get more ottos if they are working so far
My camera will not focus through the glass well enough to take a meaningful picture, but over half of my plants were so tangled in hair algae that I cut them off or pulled them up and staghorn grows about ¼ inch high on many of the rocks. Maybe now that the plants have been removed I will be able to dose with some flourish excel, get a few of Amano shrimp and keep things under better control.
I just found this page comparing algae eating fish and inverts that is interesting. Robyn's Algae-Eating Animals Comparison Table Page
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As soon as she heard volunteers were needed at the Mill Race Marathon, Pearl Moody knew that she wanted to help.
The 80-year-old hoped to avoid all the traffic and congestion downtown, so marathon organizers gladly helped the great-grandmother find an alternative closer to her home.
Moody will distribute smiles and cups of water at one of the many water stops located throughout the 26.2-mile marathon course.
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Syneron Medical To Report Second Quarter 2012 Financial Results On August 15, 2012
Israel, July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Syneron Medical Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELOS), the leading global aesthetic device company, today announced that it will release second quarter 2012 financial results before the market opens on Wednesday, August 15, 2012. The earnings release will be available on Syneron's website at www.syneron.com. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120528/535447 )Syneron management will host a conference call and a live webcast at 8:30 a.m. (ET) on the same day. A question & answer session will follow management's discussion of events in the second quarter 2012. Investors and analysts may participate in the conference call using the following dial-in numbers: US (toll free): (877) 844-6886International: (970) 315-0315 The conference passcode for both is 13010078. Investors and other interested parties can also access a live webcast of the conference call through the Investor Overview page on Syneron's website at www.syneron.com. Please log-in at least 10 minutes prior to the conference call in order to download the applicable audio software. Following the conclusion of the call, a replay of the webcast will be available within 24 hours on the Company's website. About Syneron Medical Ltd.Syneron Medical Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELOS) is the leading global aesthetic device company with a comprehensive product portfolio and a global distribution footprint. The Company's technology enables physicians to provide advanced solutions for a broad range of medical-aesthetic applications including body contouring, hair removal, wrinkle reduction, rejuvenation of the skin's appearance through the treatment of superficial benign vascular and pigmented lesions, and the treatment of acne, leg veins and cellulite. The Company sells its products under two distinct brands, Syneron and Candela. Founded in 2000, the corporate, R&D, and manufacturing headquarters for Syneron Medical Ltd. are located in Israel. Syneron also has R&D and manufacturing operations in the US. The Company markets and services and supports its products in 90 countries. It has offices in North America, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, UK, Australia, China, Japan, and Hong Kong and distributors worldwide. SOURCE Syneron Medical Ltd.
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My publications are listed below in reverse chronological order. You can also see these on arXiv, NASA ADS and Google Scholar.
As of 2015 I have have been an author of 37 publications and the lead author of 6 publications. The publications I've contributed to have received over 1200 citations (according to NASA ADS). I have a h-index of 13.
- Loops and arcs in the radio sky
Peel, Vidal, Dickinson and Leahy, Physics World, January 2016, first published in Physics World at physicsworld.com.
- Planck 2015 results. XXV. Diffuse low-frequency Galactic foregrounds
Planck Collaboration, A&A (accepted), arXiv:1506.06660, NASA ADS
- Planck 2015 results. V. LFI calibration
Planck Collaboration, A&A (accepted), arXiv:1505.08022, NASA ADS
- Planck 2015 results. II. Low Frequency Instrument data processing
Planck Collaboration, A&A (accepted), arXiv:1502.01583, NASA ADS
Collaboration paper. I calculated the colour correction coefficients.
- Planck 2015 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results
Planck Collaboration, A&A (accepted), arXiv:1502.01582, NASA ADS
Collaboration paper
- C-Band All-Sky Survey: A First Look at the Galaxy
Irfan et al., MNRAS, 448, 3572, arXiv:1501.06069, NASA ADS
- SKA studies of in-situ synchrotron radiation from molecular clouds
Dickinson et al., Proceedings "Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA", arXiv:1501.00804
- SKA studies of nearby galaxies: star-formation, accretion processes and molecular gas across all environments
Beswick et al., Proceedings "Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA", arXiv:1412.5810
- Studies of Anomalous Microwave Emission with the SKA
Dickinson et al., Proceedings "Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA", arXiv:1412.5054
- Planck intermediate results. XXXI. Microwave survey of Galactic supernova remnants
Planck Collaboration, A&A, 586, A134 (Feb 2016), arXiv:1409.5746
- Planck intermediate results. XXV. The Andromeda Galaxy as seen by Planck
Planck Collaboration, A&A, 582, A28, arXiv:1407.5452
I led this paper, and am the corresponding author.
- Planck intermediate results. XXIII. Galactic plane emission components derived from Planck with ancillary data
Planck Collaboration, A&A, 580, A13, arXiv:1406.5093
- Planck intermediate results. XVIII. The millimetre and sub-millimetre emission from planetary nebulae
Planck Collaboration, A&A, 573, A6, arXiv:1403.4723
- Planck intermediate results. XV. A study of anomalous microwave emission in Galactic clouds
Planck Collaboration, A&A, 565, A103, arXiv:1309.1357
- A 20 GHz Bright Sample for Delta > 72 deg – II. Multi-frequency Follow-up
Ricci et al., arXiv:1307.8380
- Planck intermediate results. XIV. Dust emission at millimetre wavelengths in the Galactic plane
Planck Collaboration, arXiv:1307.6815
- Planck 2013 results. V. LFI calibration
Planck Collaboration, arXiv:1303.5066
- Planck 2013 results. III. LFI systematic uncertainties
Planck Collaboration, arXiv:1303.5064
- Planck 2013 results. II. The Low Frequency Instrument data processing
Planck Collaboration, arXiv:1303.5063
- Planck 2013 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results
Planck Collaboration, arXiv:1303.5062
- Planck intermediate results. XII: Diffuse Galactic components in the Gould Belt System
Planck Collaboration, arXiv:1301.5839
- Template fitting of WMAP 7-year data: anomalous dust or flattening synchrotron emission?
Peel et al., MNRAS, 424, 2676, arXiv:1112.0432
I led this work, doing the template fits, analysis, and writing the paper.
- Sunyaev-Zel'dovich clusters in Millennium Gas simulations
Kay et al., MNRAS, 442, 1999, arXiv:1112.3769
Second author. 99% of this paper is Scott's work; I helped with the analysis looking at the effects of overlapping clusters on the Y-M relationship.
- Blazar Compton efficiencies: Fermi, external photons and the Sequence
Gupta et al., arXiv:1106.5172
Third author. I provided general input, occasionally playing the devil's advocate, and assisting with the paper's instigation and direction.
Also see: J A Gupta et al 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 355 012015, NASA ADS
- Planck Early Results: New Light on Anomalous Microwave Emission from Spinning Dust Grains
Planck Collaboration, A&A, 536, A20, arXiv:1101.2031
I played a significant role in the creation of this paper, including leading the new regions section (coming up with the method of identifying the regions, looking through the candidates, and identifying those that made it into the paper), and working on the aperture photometry (the final flux densities for rho ophiuchi and M42 were assembled by me).
- Planck Early Results: The Planck View of Nearby Galaxies
Planck Collaboration, A&A, 536, A16, arXiv:1101.2045
I provided some input to this paper; originally, I was going to contribute a section to it, but this was spun off into a later paper.
- New constraints on the Polarization of Anomalous Microwave Emission in nearby molecular clouds
Dickinson et al., MNRAS Letters, 418, L35, arXiv:1108.0308
Second author. I worked on the aperture photometry software, the total intensity analysis for Perseus, and provided general input throughout.
- Sunyaev Zel'dovich observations of a statistically complete sample of galaxy clusters with OCRA-p
Lancaster et al., MNRAS, 418, 1441, arXiv:1106.3766, NASA ADS
Collaboration paper
- Physics on Wikipedia
Poulter and Peel, Physics World, September 2011, p. 32-36
Popular article (not peer reviewed), about Physics coverage on Wikipedia and ways that it can be improved. Accompanied by a blog post.
- Radio to infrared spectra of late-type galaxies with Planck and WMAP data
Peel et al., MNRAS Letters, 416, 99, arXiv:1105.6336, NASA ADS
I led this work, assembling the data, fitting the spectra and writing the paper.
- Statistical properties of polarized radio sources at high frequency and their impact on CMB polarization measurements
Battye et al., MNRAS, 413, 132, arXiv:1003.5846, NASA ADS
Third author. I worked on the simulations (sections 5 & 6), and provided some input on the rest of the paper. I also produced the final versions of the plots used throughout the paper.
- OCRA monitoring of V407 Cyg at 30GHz
Peel et al., The Astronomer's Telegram, #2905, NASA ADS
- Radio detection of V407 Cyg at 30GHz with OCRA-p on the Torun telescope
Gawronski et al., The Astronomer's Telegram, #2511, NASA ADS
- OCRA-p observations of the CRATES sources at 30 GHz
Peel et al., MNRAS, 410, 2690, arXiv:1007.5242, NASA ADS
Erratum: MNRAS, 415, 2974, August 2011, appended to the arXiv paper.
I led the survey, the data reduction, and assembled the results.
- 30 GHz observations of sources in the VSA fields
Gawronski et al., MNRAS, 406, 1853, arXiv:0909.1189, NASA ADS
Second author and significant contributor. I wrote a data analysis pipeline to co-analyse the data in this paper, and I had a significant role in writing this paper.
- Simulations and Observations of the Microwave Universe
Peel, PhD Thesis, University of Manchester, arXiv:1006.2760, NASA ADS, University of Manchester eScholar
My PhD thesis
- Statistics of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect power spectrum
Peel et al., MNRAS, 397, 2189, arXiv:0903.5473, NASA ADS
Lead author
- Survey of Planetary Nebulae at 30 GHz with OCRA-p
Pazderska et al., Astronomy & Astrophysics, 498, 463, arXiv:0902.3945, NASA ADS
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Why is it that everyone keeps telling me that now is the best time forms to they again? It has only been 3 weeks since I miscarried. Even the doctors that I work with at my job are saying that this is the best time. Is this based on fact or wivestales ??
best time to try again ....
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The studies show conceiving a child within 18 months of a miscarriage reduce the rate of having another one. Least that's the articles I read.


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7 FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption & Bribery Charges (Update: 14 People Indicted)
Seven top FIFA officials were arrested overnight in a posh Zurich hotel. The raid was conducted as a part of a corruption probe allegations of bribery totaling more than £100m over past 25 years.
The most significant arrest was that of Jeffrey Webb, the vice president of the executive committee, who has previously been hailed by Blatter as a potential successor.
Other officials held by Swiss police include Eduardio Li, President of the Costa Rica Football Association, and Rafael Esquivel, President of the Venezuelan Football Federation, Jose Maria Marin, vice-president of the Brazil Football Federation, Costas Takkas, a former general secretary of the Cayman Islands Football Association, and Jose Maria Marin, vice-president of the Brazil Football Federation.
Swiss authorities conducted an extraordinary early-morning operation here Wednesday to arrest several top soccer officials and extradite them to the United States on federal corruption charges.
As leaders of FIFA, soccer's global governing body, gathered for their annual meeting, more than a dozen plain-clothed Swiss law enforcement officials arrived unannounced at the Baur au Lac hotel, an elegant five-star property with views of the Alps and Lake Zurich. They went to the front desk to get room numbers and then proceeded upstairs.
The arrests were carried out peacefully. One FIFA official, Eduardo Li of Costa Rica, was led by the authorities from his room to a side-door exit of the hotel. He was allowed to bring his luggage, which was adorned with FIFA logos.
The arrests were carried out peacefully. One FIFA official, Eduardo Li of Costa Rica, was led by the authorities from his room to a side-door exit of the hotel. He was allowed to bring his luggage, which was adorned with FIFA logos.
The charges, backed by an F.B.I. investigation, allege widespread corruption in FIFA over the past two decades, involving bids for World Cups as well as marketing and broadcast deals.
CNN – U.S. arrests officials, Switzerland opens separate investigation.
Department of Justice announced the unsealing of a 47-count indictment in a federal court in Brooklyn, New York, that detailed charges against 14 people of racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy. They include FIFA officials accused of taking bribes totaling more than $150 million and in return provided "lucrative media and marketing rights" to soccer tournaments as kickbacks over the past 24 years.
"The defendants fostered a culture of corruption and greed that created an uneven playing field for the biggest sport in the world," FBI Director James Comey said in a news release. "Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA."
UPDATE I: Fifa corruption live: David Cameron calls for Sepp Blatter to stand down.
UPDATE II: Sepp Blatter's FIFA Reign of Shame.
It is not true that everything has gotten worse in global soccer under Blatter. Safety has improved and, yes, the World Cup has been held in Africa. But just about everything has. To conclude that Blatter should quit rather than embark on a fifth term as FIFA president (assuming his seemingly inevitable election to a fifth term on Friday) feels so blindingly obvious that it's not worth saying. But then the FIFA president is so thick-skinned it's actually worth saying twice: Mr. Blatter, your time is up.
Why? Because the corruption charges against current and former FIFA vice presidents and others reflect an organization rotten to its core, operating in the absence of any meaningful oversight, without term limits for a president whose salary is of course unknown (but estimated by Bloomberg to be "in the low double-digit" millions), overseeing $5.72 billion in partially unaccounted revenue for the four years to December 2014, governing a sport in which matches and World Cup venues and in fact just about everything appears to have been up for sale, burying a report it commissioned by a former United States attorney into the bidding process for the next two World Cups, and generally operating in a culture of cavalier disdain personified by Blatter, whose big cash awards to soccer federations in poorer countries have turned the delegates from many of FIFA's 209 member associations into his fawning acolytes.
UPDATE III: FIFA Arrests: Meet the 14 People Indicted by the Department of Justice.
The 14 people indicted in the global crackdown of FIFA corruption covers a dozen nationalities, although authorities allege the crimes and payments were carried out in the U.S. via American banks.
Seven were arrested in Zurich by Swiss authorities at the request of the U.S. Four other individuals and corporate defendants Traffic Sports USA Inc., Traffic Sports International Inc. and Brazilian sports marketing conglomerate the Traffic Group have already pleaded guilty, according to an indictment unsealed today.
1. Jeffrey Webb, 50, Cayman Islands:
2. Jack Warner, 72, Trinidad and Tobago:
3. Aaron Davidson, 44, USA:
4. Nicholas Leoz, 86, Paraguay:
5. Eduardo Li, 56, Costa Rica:
6. Alejandro Burzaco, 50, Argentina:
7. Eugenio Figueredo, 83, USA and Uruguay:
8. Jose Maria Marin, 83, Brazil:
9. Julio Rocha, 64, Nicaragua:
10. Rafael Esquivel, 68, Venezuela:
11. Costas Takkas, 58, United Kingdom:
12. Hugo Jinkis, 70, Argentina:
13. Mariano Jinkis, 40, Argentina:
14. José Margulies, 75, Brazil:
Posted May 27, 2015 by Scared Monkeys
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Clinton Foundation Reveals $26 Million in Additional Payments of Previously Undisclosed Donations from Major Corporations, Universities & Foreign Sources
If Hillary Clinton cannot run a foundation in an ethical manner, how the hell can anyone think or believe that she could run a country in kind? The Clinton Foundation is now revealing, ahead of the long Memorial Day holiday weekend, an undisclosed $24 million of additional payments from major corporations, universities and foreign sources. How Clintonian. There is no way that this woman should ever be elected President. Character has to matter, ethics have to matter, being able to remotely tell the truth has to matter … Hillary Clinton has none. The Clinton Foundation has been nothing more than a "slush fund" for the Clinton's to become rich. We also recently learned that apart from the Foundation, the Clinton's made $25 million in speaking fees since January 2014. Quite the Democrat populist candidate, ain't she?
The Clinton Foundation reported Thursday that it has received as much as $26.4 million in previously undisclosed payments from major corporations, universities, foreign sources and other groups.
The disclosure came as the foundation faced questions over whether it fully complied with a 2008 ethics agreement to reveal its donors and whether any of its funding sources present conflicts of interest for Hillary Rodham Clinton as she begins her presidential campaign.
The money was paid as fees for speeches by Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. Foundation officials said the funds were tallied internally as "revenue" rather than donations, which is why they had not been included in the public listings of its contributors published as part of the 2008 agreement.
According to the new information, the Clintons have delivered 97 speeches to benefit the charity since 2002. Colleges and universities sponsored more than two dozen of these speeches, along with U.S. and overseas corporations and at least one foreign government, Thailand.
The payments were disclosed late Thursday on the organization's Web site, with speech payments listed in ranges rather than specific amounts. In total, the payments ranged between $12 million and $26.4 million.
This becomes a major issue when payola for influence peddling is received by an individual who is running for the President of the United States, especially when she tried to hide who was making the donations. So much for transparency.
There's nothing wrong with people cashing in. But when that person is the likely Democratic nominee, it raises questions.
That Hillary would be the nominee has been presumed for several years, so these payoffs take on a different meaning than the fat fees paid to speakers routinely. By classifying the payments as "revenue" instead of "donations," the Clinton Foundation shielded the identity of the donors.
Powerline discusses another reason why Hillary Clinton should never be president.
Posted May 22, 2015 by Scared Monkeys
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FAUX Apology From ABC News George Stephanopoulos … Could He Have been More Sarcastic and Snarky?
This is what happens when you have a liberal media that does not punish their own for liberal media bias …
In the wake of the media bias scandal where ABC's George Stephanopoulos failed to make it known that he had donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation and at the same time running cover for the Clinton Foundation amidst its own scandal of taking foreign money as she was Secretary of State, Georgy Porgy decided to apologize for his actions. If you call it an apology. But it was not just that George Stephanopoulos, a former Clinton White House political operative, donated money to the Clinton Foundation, Stephanopoulos acted as the Clinton defender when interviewing Peter Schweitzer on his book Clinton Cash and went after the author claiming that he was bias.
But check out the VIDEO below and the less than sincere apology. Listen to his snarky and elitist tone when he says, "Even though I made them strictly to support work done to stop the spread of AIDS, help children and protect the environment in poor countries, I should have gone the extra mile to avoid even the appearance of a conflict." In his effort to make an apology he basically says, but look at me, I am great, because even though I made these donations to save the word, no the planet … I should have gone the extra mile. PLEASE GEORGY, SPARE US THE DRAMA. You knew damn well, being a former Clinton operative and a political news correspondent that the Clinton Foundation was nothing more than a slush fund. Would it really have been that difficult to do some research and investigation to find what were the best charities for Aids, helping children or the environment, if you were actually being sincere? After all, you are supposed to be some kind of correspondent for the media, is it that difficult to do a Google search of best charities?
But when you have a news organization like ABC News defending such actions of bias and a lack of transparency to protect their own agenda of liberal bias in the media, what would one expect from an ex-Clintonista but a hollow apology.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Now, I want to address some news you may have seen about me. Over the last several years, I have made substantial donations to dozens of charities, including the Clinton Global Foundation. Those donations were a matter of public record. But I should have made additional disclosures on-air when we covered the foundation and I now believe directing personal donations to that foundation was a mistake. Even though I made them strictly to support work done to stop the spread of AIDS, help children and protect the environment in poor countries, I should have gone the extra mile to avoid even the appearance of a conflict. I apologize to all of you for failing to do that.
Posted May 17, 2015 by Scared Monkeys
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Peter Schweizer, Author of 'Clinton Cash' on Fox News Sunday – 4/26/15
Peter Schweizer, author of the book,"Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich," appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. So the Clinton's want us to believe it is all just one big coincidence. PLEASE!!!
Transcript from Fox News Sunday – 4/25/15:
WALLACE: And hello again from Fox News in Washington. Well, it's the old adage — follow the money. And in the case of Hillary Clinton, who just launched her presidential campaign, following the money has led to some troubling questions. Today, we want to drill down into the controversy with Peter Schweizer, author of the new book, "Clinton Cash," here for his first live interview. But first, "Special Report" anchor Bret Baier, who's been leading Fox News reporting on the book, has the highlights — Bret. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BRET BAIER, SPECIAL REPORT ANCHOR: Chris, the dealings of Bill and Hillary Clinton are part of what "Clinton Cash" author Peter Schweizer calls the Clinton blur, a mix of money and politics, diplomacy and personal interests all so interconnected that it's pretty easy to get lost. From lucrative construction deals given to Hillary friends and family after the earthquake in Haiti to $500,000 and $750,000 speeches for Bill Clinton paid for by countries or foreign companies with some action or policy in front of his then-secretary of state wife, to a major uranium mining deal for Clinton friend Frank Giustra, a deal with the country Kazakhstan that is finalized during a Giustra trip with former President Clinton.
JO BECKER, THE NEW YORK TIMES: And then soon after that, Bill Clinton got a huge donation, $31 million from Frank Giustra, to his charitable foundation, followed by a pledge to donate $100 million more. BAIER: The company became Uranium One, and was eventually sold to a Russian company that is essentially controlled by Vladimir Putin. They now also control more than 20 percent of American uranium. Officials with Uranium One and investors who profited from that deal donated more than $140 million to the Clinton Foundation. But millions of dollars of those donations were never disclosed, flying in the face of a deal the Clintons struck with the Obama administration. Again, and all of this does not fit on a bumper sticker, but from the book and various media organizations like The New York Times, The Washington Post and Fox News, connecting some of the dots here, most political watchers will tell you, this is, at best for Hillary Clinton, a serious political issue for her campaign — Chris.
(END VIDEOTAPE) WALLACE: Brett, thank you. Now, let's bring in the man whose team spent 10 years on the Clinton money trail, Peter Schweizer, author of "Clinton Cash". And welcome to "Fox News Sunday."
SCHWEIZER: Thanks for having me, Chris.
WALLACE: Let's start with the phrase that Bret mentioned you use in the book, the Clinton blur, the mix of private and public, of charity and government action. What's your point?
SCHWEIZER: The point is basically when former President Clinton travels the world, which he does extensively, he spends time in the developing world, in Europe. When he goes there, he's usually wearing several hats. When his wife was in public office, he's obviously the spouse of a very public figure, he's the head of a charity, he's also giving speeches and he's probably there with an entourage that includes foreign businessmen that have matters before the government, in Colombia, or Kazakhstan, or wherever it may be. And the problem is, when you have a mix of public and private, profit-making backed by the government power that your spouse has, I think it creates a very dangerous cocktail as far as conflict of interests is concerned.
WALLACE: Well, you have an interesting point that I want to put up on the screen that seems to demonstrate exactly the point you're making. Between 2001 and 2012, Bill Clinton made 13 speeches, 13, for which he was paid, $500,000 or more. Eleven of those 13 speeches were at least eight years after he left the presidency while his wife was secretary of state. Peter, what do you think that shows?
SCHWEIZER: Well, I think you can only come to one or two conclusions. Either in January of 2009 when Hillary Clinton becomes secretary of state, former President Clinton has become dramatically more eloquent than he ever was. He's a very eloquent man.
WALLACE: Because his speaking fees went dramatically up.
SCHWEIZER: Dramatically. I mean, for example, in the uranium deal, there's a $500,000 speech that he's paid by an investment banking firm that is tied to Putin. He was paid $500,000. He had only given one speech in Russia before that five years earlier, for which he was paid a third of that. So, the question becomes, why did his speaking fees go up and why did it go up with corporations and with individuals and with people connected to foreign governments who had business before the State Department?
WALLACE: What's your answer?
SCHWEIZER: My answer is that's extremely troubling. The fact you find it's a very extensive pattern. There's not one or two examples. There are 11 instances and I think when you have one or two examples, it's a coincidence. When you have this many, to me it's a trend.
WALLACE: OK, let's go through a timeline, and it's complicated. But a timeline of the uranium deal that you — that Bret mentioned and you reported in the book. 2005, Bill Clinton and Canadian millionaire Frank Giustra fly to Kazakhstan. Giustra lands a big uranium mining deal. Giustra gives the Clinton Foundation $31 million and later pledges $100 million more. 2010, a Russian company wants to buy Uranium One, which has taken over Giustra's company. The new chairman of Uranium One donates $2 million to Clinton foundation, which fails to report that money. In June of 2010, Bill Clinton gets $500,000 for a speech in Moscow. In October, a U.S. government committee approves the sale of Uranium One to the Russian company. Question, is there a connection between always of those millions of dollars that are going to Clinton personally and to the Clinton Foundation and State Department's approval of this uranium deal?
SCHWEIZER: I believe there is. It's not just Frank Giustra. I lay out in the book, there are actually nine, nine major donors to the Clinton Foundation who had written multimillion checks that are tied to this deal. The two financial advisers that arrange for the sale of Uranium One to the Russian government, they're both major Clinton contributors. The chairman of the company is, some of the key shareholders are. The question becomes, when CFIUS approved this transfer in October, what role did Hillary Clinton play?
Posted April 27, 2015 by Scared Monkeys
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Clinton Foundation Acknowledges They Made Mistakes as Schweizer Calls for Investigation
Clinton Foundation acknowledges mistakes after hand caught in the cookie jar …
On Sunday, The Clinton Foundation's acting CEO, Maura Pally admitted to some mistakes in the organization's listing of donations from foreign governments on its tax forms. Imagine that, after all this time they have admitted mistakes after being caught. Peter Schweizer, the author of "Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich," appeared this Sunday on ABC's This Week and on Fox's Fox News Sunday to discuss the claims in the book of the coincidental Clinton Foundation donations from foreign governments, Bill Clinton's increased speaking fees while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and made favorable decisions in regards to those nations.
Looks like some one is admitting wrong-doing. It would appear that Hillary Clinton is trying to do damage control ahead of the release of the Clinton Cash book.
The Clinton Foundation's acting CEO, Maura Pally, on Sunday admitted to some mistakes in the organization's listing of donations from foreign governments on its tax forms.
In a statement, Pally wrote, "Our total revenue was accurately reported on each year's form—our error was that government grants were mistakenly combined with other donations. Those same grants have always been properly listed and broken out and available for anyone to see on our audited financial statements, posted on our website."
The statement comes as Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer has been delineating claims in his forthcoming book, which he says shows a pattern in which the Clinton Foundation received donations from foreign governments before the U.S., under Clinton's leadership as Secretary of State, made favorable decisions in regards to those nations. Pally's statement also acknowledged that those grants were not always properly reported.
"So yes, we made mistakes, as many organizations of our size do, but we are acting quickly to remedy them, and have taken steps to ensure they don't happen in the future," the statement says. "We are committed to operating the Foundation responsibly and effectively to continue the life-changing work that this philanthropy is doing every day."
WAPO – Clinton Foundation acknowledges 'mistakes,' emphasizes transparency.
Transparency, really? If there was ever a word to never describe Bill and Hillary Clinton it would be transparency. Can you say she scrubbed her private server of all emails she illegally used as Secretary of State to do government business.
With scrutiny of the Clinton Foundation's financial practices threatening to create political problems for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, the organization on Sunday took the unusual step of acknowledging "mistakes," but insisted that it is committed to transparency regarding its donors and operations around the world.
Nevertheless, the foundation explained for the first time publicly that one of its affiliates — a Canada-based charity that bears Bill Clinton's name — would continue to keep its donors secret because of restrictions in Canadian law.
Sunday's blog post also coincided with national television appearances by conservative author Peter Schweizer, whose forthcoming book, "Clinton Cash," charges that the State Department gave preferential treatment to foundation donors while Clinton was secretary of state and that the foundation violated its own promise to disclose all of its donors.
The Clinton campaign spent much of last week blasting the book as a partisan attack. Still, the Sunday statement was a sign that the growing focus on the $2 billion foundation and its relationship with donors may have begun to rattle Clinton's team.
Posted April 26, 2015 by Scared Monkeys
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NY Times Journalist Caught the Clinton Foundation Red-Handed in a Lie About a Meeting Between former President Bill Clinton and Kazatomprom, a Kazakhstan State-Owned Nuclear Holding Company
LIARS: If you actually care about America, you will watch the video below that shows of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Lied and sold out our country to the Russians …
How big was the New York Times story on Bill and Hillary Clinton and the uranium deal, bigger than you think. If Hillary Clinton and the Clinton's are allowed to get away with this then this country is lost forever. At some point Americans have to actually care that those in power and have the ultimate power like president of the United States actually have an ounce of decency, credibility and ethics. The individual who holds the highest office in the land can't be a complete and total liar and hide behind a gender card saying what difference does it make. When is enough, enough?
When Hillary Clinton announced that she was going to run for president in 2016, she stated, "Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion." Clinton went on to further say, "Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top." AMERICA, WAKE THE HELL UP … HILLARY CLINTON IS THAT PERSON AT THE TOP THAT THE DECK IS STACKED IN FAVOR OF!!! Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have sold America out so that they could become rich, breaking every law that the so-called people she wants to champion would have been arrested and thrown in jail. America, we are no longer talking about Bill lied about sex with an intern … THESE LIES ARE MUCH, MUCH INSIDIOUS.
Fox News: Millions To Clinton Foundation In Exchange For Russian Uranium Deal
But, as New York Times reporter Jo Becker reported, such a deal would require review by the U.S. government. That's where Frank Giustra, a Canadian business executive and founder of the company that would become Uranium One, entered the picture.
Giustra reportedly set up a meeting between Kazatomprom officials and Bill Clinton himself — at the former president's home in Chappaqua, New York.
Giustra has close ties to Bill Clinton and is a major donor to the Clinton Foundation. The two even flew to Kazakhstan together when Giustra's company landed a lucrative deal to secure uranium mines there.
Here's where the lie comes in.
Becker told Fox News' Bret Baier that when she first asked a Clinton Foundation spokesman and Giustra about the meeting, they both said no such meeting ever took place. However, when she informed them that the then-head of Kazatomprom not only told her that the meeting had taken place, but also showed her a picture of himself with Clinton at the Chappaqua home proudly displayed in his office, they were forced to admit the meeting occurred.
In 2007, Toshiba "sold a 10 percent stake in U.S. nuclear power plant builder Westinghouse," Reuters reported.
During Hillary Clinton's tenure at the U.S. State Department, foreign governments and businesses donated tens of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation and paid millions in speaker fees to former President Clinton. Some of those same players then had business or policy issues later land on then-Secretary of State Clinton's desk.
In addition to concerns about ethics of such practices, Clinton failed to disclose millions of dollars in big foreign donations to her husband's foundation, which she had previously vowed to do. It was also reported that the Clinton Foundation is redoing five years worth of tax returns after a review by Reuters found several errors.
That's the gist of the bombshell reports, based on Peter Schweizer's new book, "Clinton Cash," that emerged on Thursday.
Posted April 25, 2015 by Scared Monkeys
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Mitt Romney Says on Hugh Hewitt Show Regarding Clinton Foundation Uranium Payments … "It Looks Like Bribery"
Mitt Romney says, "It Looks Like Bribery."
Yesterday on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, Mitt Romney was asked what his reaction was of the New York Times article report documenting cash flowing from the Russians amid a uranium deal to the Clinton Foundation. Romney, the former 2012 GOP presidential nominee, said that he was stunned and "it looked like bribery". Romney went on to say that it looks like bribery and a cover up on behalf of Hillary Clinton and had she not wiped out thousands of emails, we might know more.
"You know, I've got to tell you, I was stunned by it. I mean, it looks like bribery."
"I mean, there is every appearance that Hillary Clinton was bribed to grease the sale of, what, 20% of America's uranium production to Russia, and then it was covered up by lying about a meeting at her home with the principals, and by erasing emails. And you know, I presume we might know for sure whether there was or was not bribery if she hadn't wiped out thousands of emails."
"But this is a very, very serious series of facts, and it looks like bribery."
It is too bad that Mitt Romney did not go after Barack Obama like he is now Hillary during the 2012 presidential election. Had he done so and kept his foot on Obama's neck following the 1st Presidential debate instead of coating and playing a prevent defense, he probably would have won.
Posted April 24, 2015 by Scared Monkeys
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White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest Not Categorically Denying Clinton Foundation Donors Received Special Treatment From Sec. of State Hillary Clinton
Why would it be difficult for Barack Obama's White House press secretary Josh Earnest to say categorically that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not provide special treatment for those who were donors of the Clinton Foundation? One would think that would be a straight forward response of, absolutely not. However, not with the most transparent presidency in history. The Obama White House does not seem to have an answer to the accusations made from the recent book by Peter Schweizer, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich" otherwise known as Quid Pro Dough.
The new book, "Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich" by Peter Schweizer, lays out the case that contributions to the foundation influenced State Department policy from 2009 to 2013, during Clinton's tenure.
ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl asked Earnest Monday, "Can you say categorically that no donors to the Clinton Foundation – nobody paying any honoraria to former President Clinton – received any favorable treatment from this administration or from the State Department?"
Earnest talked at length about the memorandum of understanding Clinton signed when she joined the Obama administration, saying that it went above and beyond ethical guidelines, given her unique circumstances.
"I know there have been a lot of accusations made about this but not a lot of evidence," Earnest said. "So, the president continues to be extraordinarily proud of the work Secretary Clinton did as secretary of state. For the details of some of those accusations, I'd refer you to Secretary Clinton's campaign."
Karl pressed, "Can you assure us absolutely no favorable treatment given to donors of the Clinton Foundation?"
Earnest repeated, "There are lots of accusations. There is no one who is marshaling the evidence for this. I don't want to be in a position."
Posted April 21, 2015 by Scared Monkeys
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Jon Stewart Mocks Obama's New Ambassadors to Argentina and Hungary (Colleen Bell) … Then Shreds WH Spox Josh Earnest's Lame Comments
Jon Stewart of The Daily Show has been on a roll lately ripping the Obama administration. Then again, he has had so much material. What is sad, all he is doing is repeating what happened. Two new ambassadors, hand picked by Barack Obama,have been approved by the Senate. Their credentials you ask? None. America's new ambassador to Argentina doesn't even speak Spanish and the new ambassador to Hungary is a former soap opera producer, who has admitted not knowing what the US interests are in that region of the world. Because she did so well during the confirmation hearing. But they certainly bundled campaign cash for Obama.
Yesterday, we showed you Press Secretary Josh Earnest's lackluster response to being grilled on the matter by ABC's Jon Karl. But just how confounding was that response? On Wednesday's "Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, the host stopped everything to scream out his disapproval.
To recap, when Karl pushed on the pair's credentials and how it seems their greatest skill is their ability to raise funds for Obama, Earnest responded, "Frankly, I was not part of this decision-making process."
Stewart was dumbfounded.
"What?! You can't do that!" he yelled. "That is the greatest thing I've ever seen the president's press secretary do. His entire job — his only job — is built around trying not to go, 'Hey, look, I just fu***ng work here.' But that's what he did! 'Take it up with my supervisor! Earnest, out.'"
Posted December 5, 2014 by Scared Monkeys
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Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Guity on 20 of 21 Counts of Bribery & Corruption Charges
Ray Nagin, the former Democrat Mayor of New Orleans (The Chocolate City) has been found guilty on 20 of 21 counts of bribery, fraud and corruption charges.
Ray Nagin, the former two-term mayor of New Orleans indicted after he left office, was convicted Wednesday of 20 federal corruption charges for illegal dealings with city vendors, dating back to 2004. A jury delivered its verdict just before 1 p.m., after six hours of deliberations that followed a nine-day trial.
Nagin, 57, joins a list of Louisiana elected officials convicted of misdeeds while in office, but he is New Orleans' first mayor to be convicted of public corruption. Under federal sentencing guidelines, he could face a 20-year prison term, possibly more, lawyers have said
Ray Nagin came into the mayor's office in New Orleans as an avowed scourge of corruption and led the city through the worst disaster of its modern history.
He left a federal courthouse a convict Wednesday, after a jury found him guilty of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and other favors from businessmen looking for a break from his administration. Of the 21 counts against him, he was convicted of 20.
"He got a lot of media attention as being a reformer, a non-politician, first run for office — a businessman who was going to come in and get it right," said Pat Fanning, a veteran New Orleans lawyer and no fan of the former two-term mayor.
After Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city in 2005, the onetime cable television executive would reassure people queasy about sending taxpayer money to a state with an epic history of corruption by telling them, "Google me. You're not going to find any of that in my record," Fanning said, quoting Nagin. "Well, Google him now."
Nagin, who left office in 2010, had little to say as he left the courthouse Wednesday afternoon, telling reporters only, "I maintain my innocence." A small knot of supporters yelled, "Keep your head up" and "He's just a patsy," CNN affiliate WDSU reported.
UPDATE I: Ray Nagin juror: Defense should have put on more evidence.
To the juror who wished that Nagin's defense team had provided more evidence during the ex-New Orleans' Mayor's trial … the answer is, because they couldn't.
A juror wished Ray Nagin's defense attorney put on more evidence to help his client in the federal corruption case that ended with convictions on 20 counts that could send the former New Orleans mayor to prison for 20 years, possibly more.
Speaking outside the federal courthouse after the verdict was read, Lisa Hamaker, a juror from St. Tammany Parish who described herself as a "stay-at-home-mom," said she wished defense attorney Robert Jenkins put on more evidence. Much of the prosecution's case went unchallenged, she said
The Gateway Pundit has a list of the 20 charges that Nagin was found guilty.
Count 1: Conspiracy – Guilty
The charge: Creating, through a variety of bribes and kickbacks, "a scheme and artifice to defraud" the residents of New Orleans of his honest services as a public official. Many of the individual elements of this scheme make up the other 20 crimes with which Nagin was charged.
Maximum prison term: 5 years
Count 2: Bribery – Guilty
The charge: Accepting $60,000 from the three principals of Three Fold Consulting, an engineering firm, in exchange for special treatment.
Maximum prison term: 10 years
Count 3: Bribery – Guilty
The charge: Accepting a $2,500 bribe from Rodney Williams, a principal in Three Fold Consulting, in exchange for favorable treatment.
Maximum prison term: 10 years
Count 4: Bribery – Guilty
The charge: Accepting a shipment of granite from Frank Fradella's company, Home Solutions, in exchange for favorable treatment.
Maximum prison term: 10 years
Posted February 13, 2014 by Scared Monkeys
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2015 Outdoor Movie Schedule
Tuesday, July 21 – Sixteen Candles
Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Justin Henry
With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha (Molly Ringwald) faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. Samantha pines for studly older boy Jake (Michael Schoeffling), but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular senior. Meanwhile, Samantha must constantly rebuff the affections of nerdy Ted (Anthony Michael Hall), the only boy in the school, unfortunately, who seems to take an interest in her.
Wednesday, July 22 – Chef
Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo, Robert Downey Jr., Sofía Vergara; Dustin Hoffman, Scarlett Johansson
After a controlling owner (Dustin Hoffman) pushes him too far, chef Carl Casper (Jon Favreau) quits his position at a prestigious Los Angeles restaurant. As he tries to figure out what his next step should be, he finds himself in Miami. Carl joins forces with his ex-wife (Sofía Vergara), best friend (John Leguizamo) and son (Emjay Anthony) to launch a food-truck business, and the venture provides a chance to reignite his passion for cooking -- as well as his zest for life and love.
Thursday, July 23 – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson
Following her rescue from the devastating Quarter Quell, Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) awakes in the complex beneath the supposedly destroyed District 13. Her home, District 12, has been reduced to rubble, and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) is now the brainwashed captive of President Snow (Donald Sutherland). At the same time, Katniss also learns about a secret rebellion spreading throughout all of Panem -- a rebellion that will place her at the center of a plot to turn the tables on Snow.
Friday, July 24 – Mrs. Doubtfire
Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein
After a bitter divorce, actor Daniel Hillard (Robin Williams) hatches an elaborate plan to spend time with his children. With help from his creative brother Frank (Harvey Fierstein), he dresses as an older British woman and convinces his ex-wife, Miranda (Sally Field), to hire him as a nanny.
Saturday, July 25 – The Imitation Game
Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch), the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.


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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Cigarette Tax Salience and Regressivity
Recent work suggests that consumers respond differently to taxes that are included in a good?s posted price and taxes that are added upon checking out at the register. This paper investigates how the government?s choice between these posted and register taxes affects the distribution of a tax?s burden. We show that when high- and low-income consumers differ in their attentiveness to register taxes, policymakers can lessen a tax?s regressivity by manipulating the fraction of a tax that is added at the register. We then turn to the case of cigarettes, and investigate whether high- and low-income consumers do in fact differ in their attentiveness to register taxes on that good. To answer that question, we link state and time variation in cigarette excise and sales tax rates to survey data about cigarette consumption from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Whereas both high- and low-income consumers respond to cigarette excise taxes (which appear in the posted price), we find that only low-income consumers respond to sales taxes on cigarettes (which are added at the register). Our results suggest that policymakers can ease the financial burden of cigarette taxes on the poor by levying such taxes at the register instead of including them in the cigarette?s posted price.
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Dana H. Myers's Weblog Dana H. Myers's Weblog https://blogs.oracle.com/danasblog/feed/entries/atom 2012-02-22T14:49:55+00:00 Apache Roller https://blogs.oracle.com/danasblog/entry/a_general_update_to_force A general update to force saving of blog danasblog 2011-04-19T13:53:16+00:00 2011-04-19T20:53:16+00:00
Just a short update
 https://blogs.oracle.com/danasblog/entry/how_often_does_solaris_sync How often does Solaris sync-up with Intel ACPI CA releases? danasblog 2006-08-31T10:35:29+00:00 2006-09-01T15:40:08+00:00
We receive updates to the ACPI CA source on a semi-periodic basis from Intel, and I'll do a quick integration into a Solaris workspace using a simple script that handles the "average" case in under 2 minutes. I'll then build a kernel and sanity-test it on a machine or two. The entire process typically takes less than an a half-day, and I can quickly provide feedback to the Intel ACPI CA team. I'll review the changes in the update; if there's something compelling, or it has been more than 4 months since the last time I integrated into Solaris Nevada, I'll do additional testing on a much broader range of machines and start the integration process. This means that Solaris Nevada is usually less than a few months out-of-sync with the very latest Intel sources and represents broad "soak" testing.

Backports to Solaris 10 are demand-driven by escalations and functional-dependencies; for example, as part of the work I did to support the Sun Blade 8000, I backported the integration of ACPI CA release 20060217 to Solaris 10 6/06 (aka Update 2). Individual bug fixes (like CR 6426595) are often backported ala carte.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/danasblog/entry/intel_acpi_ca_source_release Intel ACPI CA source release 20060721 integrated into Solaris Nevada build 48 danasblog 2006-08-31T09:05:55+00:00 2006-09-01T15:40:35+00:00
I recently integrated Intel ACPI CA 20060721 into Solaris Nevada; it will be available in build 48. As is the case with most updates to ACPI CA, there are a few enhancements and a few bug fixes. One of the interesting enhancements in this update is to increase compatibility with "the other" ACPI AML interpreter:

Implemented support within the AML interpreter for package objects that contain a larger AML length (package list length) than the package element count. In this case, the length of the package is truncated to match the package element count. Some BIOS code apparently modifies the package length on the fly, and this change supports this behavior. Provides compatibility with the MS AML interpreter. (With assistance from Fiodor Suietov)

This is a good example of how everyone wins with open source – pretty much every non-Microsoft x86 OS today uses Intel ACPI CA. At the risk of tooting my own horn a bit, this update also contains the following bug-fix:

Fixed a memory mapping leak during the deletion of a SystemMemory operation region where a cached memory mapping was not deleted. This became a noticeable problem for operation regions that are defined within frequently used control methods. (Dana Myers)

I found this particular bug while testing on the Sun Blade 8000 (Andromeda); a very intense hot-plug test scenario would reliably fail after precisely 3 hours and 3 minutes, like clock-work. Andromeda's ACPI BIOS is used to implement PCIe hot-plug, so the test scenario was very heavily exercising a portion of the ACPI BIOS which dynamically creates a SystemMemory operation region, leaking a bit of memory-mapping each time. After something like 180 or so hot-plug cycles, this resource was exhausted, leading to the failure. I'm pleased we found this in the lab before a customer did, but I'm more pleased with how quickly the fix was integrated by Bob Moore at Intel. Once again, everyone wins with open source. This is a corner-case problem that won't be seen in the field.

Another change Intel made at my request was to provide support for 64-bit thread Ids – a minor change, but again, one which enhances stability and ease-of-integration.

For a complete list of changes in each ACPI CA release, have a look usr/src/uts/i86pc/io/acpica/changes.txt  which is updated with each integration. The previously-integrated release of ACPI CA was 20060317.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/danasblog/entry/solaris_acpi_ca_debug_output Solaris ACPI CA debug output options danasblog 2006-05-09T09:36:10+00:00 2006-05-09T16:41:33+00:00 How to control Solaris ACPI CA debug output on DEBUG and non-DEBUG kernels.   <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"> <title>Solaris ACPI CA debug output options</title>   Build 36 of Solaris Nevada added support for the ACPI CA debug output component in both DEBUG and non-DEBUG builds of the kernel; this way, anyone can control ACPI CA debug output using AcpiDbgLevel with an entry in /etc/system - for example:

 set acpica:AcpiDbgLevel = 0x7

 AcpiDbgLevel is a bit-mask documented in usr/src/uts/intel/sys/acpi/acoutput.h

 Well, it didn't take long to notice that many BIOSes contain a fair bit of Debug() object output, which is the ACPI table equivalent of a kernel printf(), which I blogged about a while back.

 Build 38 of Solaris Nevada (and Solaris 10 Update 2) contain an additional switch for DEBUG and non-DEBUG kernels. Non-DEBUG builds disable ACPI CA debug output by clamping AcpiDbgLevel to 0 by default; DEBUG builds leave the ACPI CA default intact.

 If you want to enable ACPI CA debug output on non-DEBUG kernels, you need to add the following lines to /etc/system:

 set acpica:acpica_muzzle_debug_output = 0
 set acpica:AcpiDbgLevel = <desired debug level>

 On DEBUG kernels, you need only add:

 set acpica:AcpiDbgLevel = <desired debug level>

 Normally, all ACPI CA debug output is sent to /var/adm/messages; if you want the output on the system console as well, you can add the following line to /etc/system:

 set acpica:acpica_console_out = 1

   https://blogs.oracle.com/danasblog/entry/living_with_a_loquacious_bios Living with a loquacious BIOS (or what's all that stuff in /var/adm/messages?) danasblog 2006-03-15T17:40:36+00:00 2006-03-16T05:20:16+00:00 I haven't heard any complaints about this yet, but I recently noticed that /var/adm/messages on my Acer Ferrari 3400 was filling up with jabber from the system BIOS, like this:

 <samp>Mar 15 16:23:22 unknown acpica: [ID 927697 kern.notice] [ACPI Debug] String: [0x8] "QUERY_09"
 Mar 15 16:23:22 unknown acpica: [ID 486228 kern.notice] [ACPI Debug] String: [0xD] "CMBatt - SMSL"
 Mar 15 16:23:22 unknown acpica: [ID 214751 kern.notice] [ACPI Debug] Integer: 0x F1
 Mar 15 16:23:22 unknown acpica: [ID 920918 kern.notice] [ACPI Debug] String: [0x12] "CMBatt - CHBP.BAT1"
 Mar 15 16:23:22 unknown acpica: [ID 729625 kern.notice] [ACPI Debug] String: [0x1B] "CMBatt - BAT1 still present"
 Mar 15 16:23:22 unknown acpica: [ID 578842 kern.notice] [ACPI Debug] String: [0x12] "CMBatt - UPBI.BAT1"
 Mar 15 16:23:22 unknown acpica: [ID 776413 kern.notice] [ACPI Debug] Package: [0xD Elements]
 Mar 15 16:23:22 unknown acpica: [ID 411424 kern.notice] [ACPI Debug] (0) Integer: 0x 1
 </samp><samp>Mar 15 16:23:22 unknown acpica: [ID 923811 kern.notice] [ACPI Debug] (1) Integer: 0x 1130</samp>

 Pretty exciting, eh? Back in Solaris Nevada build 29, I fixed kernel printf() so Solaris ACPI CA debug output would work, and I left the default ACPI CA "debug level" setting intact. One of the things that the default level sends to /var/adm/messages is when an ACPI BIOS contains ASL statements like:

 <samp> Store ("CMBatt - BAT1 STATE CHANGE", Debug)
 </samp>and<samp>
 </samp><samp> Store (PBST, Debug)
 </samp>
 The Acer Ferrari 3400 BIOS is peppered with them. Some of you are already familiar with Intel's ACPI CA interpreter and know that there is a gobal variable to select levels of debug output, and may have just fixed it yourself (gold stars for all of you) but I'd bet a dollar there are many more people that are just suffering in silence. Well, here's the easy way to make it stop - add the following line to /etc/system and reboot:

set acpica:AcpiDbgLevel = 0x7

 That's all. If you really don't want to see any debug output from ACPI CA, you set it to 0, but that's a bit extreme. For more information, have a look at this ACPI CA header file in OpenSolaris.

 Solaris Nevada will continue to default to leaving this feature turned on, but I'll change the default for Solaris 10 when I backport to an update release.

 https://blogs.oracle.com/danasblog/entry/zfs_v_ufs_performance_for ZFS v. UFS performance for building Solaris danasblog 2006-03-06T11:56:27+00:00 2006-03-07T16:01:31+00:00   <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"> <title>Building Solaris: ZFS vs. UFS</title>
Abstract:

I'd been an early-adopter of ZFS; it's amazingly easy to use and promises good performance. My personal workstation is always running a relatively recent build of Solaris, and one of the most time-consuming tasks I do is full "nightly" builds. Once I upgraded my workstation to a dual-core CPU, I noticed some oddity in ZFS performance and did some investigation.

 Background:

My personal workstation is an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe with 1GB of RAM and an Opteron 180 CPU (effectively identical to an Athlon 64 X2 4800+), upgraded last month from an Athlon 64 3200+.

 Several months ago, when ZFS first integrated into Solaris Nevada, I did some experimentation with ZFS on a Dell PowerEdge equipped with 5 fast SAS disks. I found that single-threaded access to ZFS was fast, and I could easily achieve over 200MB/sec transfer rates to a pool of 4 disks. I saw some oddities with Bonnie numbers, and mentioned this to Tim Bray and he was kind enough to blog about this early experiment. and perform some experimentation of his own.

 I've been using ZFS on my personal workstation since then; when I upgraded from a single-core Athlon 64 to a dual-core Athlon 64 X2, I wondered why I didn't see as much of an improvement in full nightly build times as I expected, and compared notes with another Athlon 64 X2 user. I discovered that my build time was about 40% longer than his, and the only difference I could find was that he was using UFS and I was using ZFS for the workspace storage.

 In the last week, a wad of ZFS fixes have integrated into Solaris Nevada, and, I'm sure, will roll out into the sunlight in a Solaris Express release. The fixes sounded quite promising, so I ran an experiment this weekend.

 DISCLAIMER: these are not official benchmarks of any kind. They're just some stuff I did because it was too wet to go outside and mow the lawn.

 I added another disk to my personal workstation (an 80GB Hitachi SATA 7200RPM drive, if it matters), partitioned it into two equal 40GB slices, and created a UFS in one slice and a ZFS pool in the other (I suppose it is possible that the location of the slices on the disk may have some impact on the overal performance; I may try swapping the filesystems in the slices as a sanity-test for this. For now, I'm going to assume that the disk performance is the same for both slices).

 ... Then I got to work with some simple Solaris nightly-build benchmarking.

 The tests are simple:

Initial workspace bringover time

Several trials of full nightly build time

A "parallel" bringover, in which two workspaces were brought over at the same time

A "parallel" build, in which two workspace were built at the same time.

 Note that I only tested one kind of filesystem at a time, and that the system configuration was unchanged during the tests. The system was essentially idle otherwise. Overall, I'm assuming that the impact of all other system elements is identical.

 On to the numbers!

 First, the intial bringover:

 UFS
 	 ZFS

 real 7m31.42s
 user 0m13.58s
 sys 0m19.53s
 	 real 6m25.35s
 user 0m13.56s
 sys 0m18.63s

 Well, the user time is identical in both trials, which one would expect. I ran the same application twice, so the times should be about the same. Whew! Sane results so far. Note that ZFS seems to enjoy about a 17% performance advantage in this trial. Note that this test is dominated by filesystem performance.

 Now, the full nightly build trials. I did three; the first one does a little less work in that the workspace is not populated with binaries to delete (make clobber). These are just the real elapsed-time for each build, in HH:MM:SS:

 UFS
 	 ZFS

real 1:39:08

real 1:46:01

real 1:47:56

real 1:42:08

real 1:43:47

real 1:44:50

 Interesting. I'm not surprised UFS was quicker on the first trial and slower on the subsequent trials. ZFS seems to be slightly faster overall, though the difference is just 1-2%. Clearly, this experiment suggests that ZFS and UFS performance are essentially identical when it comes to building Solaris. Note that this test is dominated by CPU performance.

 Before the recent wad of ZFS fixes, I began to suspect that ZFS was too aggressive in internal locking and that multiple threads would become synchonized on a ZFS pool. In fact, this would tend to explain the 40% penalty for using ZFS that I had seen on earlier Solaris bits. So the next tests attempt to do two things in parallel; I launched the tests with a script that did something like

start test 1 &
 sleep 10
 start test 2 &
 wait

 First parallel test - two bringovers in parallel:

 UFS
 	 ZFS

  real 13m57.95s
 user 0m27.83s
 sys 0m41.19s
 	  real 8m21.28s
 user 0m27.30s
 sys 0m36.77s

 More sane numbers! User times are the same and twice what a single bringover took. UFS was almost but not quite twice the single-bringover real-time. ZFS does very well in this test, around 65% faster. Again, this test is dominated by filesystem performance.

 OK, let's do two builds in parallel:

 UFS
 	 ZFS

  real 8:09:42
 	  real 3:34:15

 The ZFS trial looks totally sane; 3h 34m is just about exactly twice the 1h 47m times we saw in the single-build trials. The UFS trial took over 8 hours, which isn't easy to explain. I did not monitor the system page/swap statistics during either trial, but I have a hard time believing ZFS wouldn't equally suffer page/swap penalties. If I wasn't busy enough with real work, I'd try this again, but I don't believe I did anything blatantly wrong in this test case.

 Whew. This is strange - but the ZFS numbers remain totally sane.

 Let's try one more round of tests, this time, turning compression=on in the ZFS. Since I didn't do UFS trials, I'll just compare uncompressed to compressed here:

 ZFS (uncompressed)
 	 ZFS (compressed)

  Bringover:
 real 6m25.35s
 user 0m13.56s
 sys 0m18.63s

 Single build times:
 real 1:42:08
 real 1:43:47
 real 1:44:50

 Parallel bringover (2 ws):
 real 8m21.28s
 user 0m27.30s
 sys 0m36.77s

 Parallel build time (2 jobs):
 real 3:34:15
 	 Bringover:
 real 6m32.13s
 user 0m13.56s
 sys 0m19.99s

 Single build:
 real 1:43:14

 Parallel bringover (2 ws):
 real 9m48.18s
 user 0m27.55s
 sys 0m41.02s

 Parallel build time (2 jobs):
 real 3:30:35

 From this, I suspect that ZFS compression exacts a slight penalty on write performance, but may impart a slight improvement in read/build performance. In any case, I noted a compression ratio of over 1.7x after the parallel build time tests, so it's pretty cool that I'm getting more data on the disk and not paying a performance penalty at all.

 As soon as build 36 makes it out into Solaris Express, I'd love to get some comparable results from the community.

   https://blogs.oracle.com/danasblog/entry/configuring_solaris_acpi_at_boot Configuring Solaris ACPI at boot-time danasblog 2005-06-14T10:21:40+00:00 2005-06-14T19:50:35+00:00
As part of the new Solaris ACPI subsystem integrated as part of Newboot, I've added a new bit to the "acpi-user-options" boot option.

Historically, acpi-user-options=0x2 has been the only publicly documented option, and is used to disable Solaris use of ACPI for CPU enumeration and interrupt routing. Generally speaking, the pattern has historically been to set acpi-user-options=0x2 if there's any problem at all, just to see if the system works better. Changes made in Solaris 10 have made ACPI use in Solaris much more robust, so disabling use of ACPI should not be required as frequently as in previous releases.

Beginning with Newboot, integrated into Solaris source in April (2005), acpi-user-options has changed in a couple of ways:

The previous ACPI subsystem did not put the system into "ACPI" mode, but left the system in "Legacy" mode, where the system BIOS retains control of the system. The new Solaris ACPI subsystem based on ACPI CA now places the system in ACPI mode by default.

acpi-user-options=0x8 causes the new Solaris ACPI subsystem to leave the system in Legacy mode. This is the first option one should try if ACPI-related issues are suspected.

acpi-user-options=0x4 is present in Solaris 10, and causes both the previous Solaris ACPI subsystem and the new subsystem to partially disable use of ACPI – but Hyper-Threaded CPUs are still enumerated using ACPI tables. This is the second option one should use if ACPI-related issues are suspected.

acpi-user-options=0x2 is present in Solaris 10, and causes both the previous Solaris ACPI subsystem and the new subsystem to disable the use of ACPI.

Generally speaking, the new Solaris ACPI subsystem seems to do very well by default. I'll blog separately about some issues I've diagnosed that appeared to be ACPI-related but turned out to be to something else (BIOS issues, actually).

 https://blogs.oracle.com/danasblog/entry/suppose_i_ought_to_introduce Suppose I ought to introduce myself... danasblog 2005-06-14T09:40:53+00:00 2005-06-14T17:21:36+00:00 I'm Dana Myers, and I'm in the Solaris engineering organization where I spend most of my time leading the Solaris ACPI engineering effort. In my nearly 12 years at Sun, I've been a Solaris x86 engineer, a Consumer/Embedded engineer, a Java Wireless BizDev technologist, and once again a Solaris engineer. While my focus in on providing a high-quality ACPI sub-system based on Intel's excellent ACPI CA interpreter, you might find me tinkering with pretty much any system-board level thing. I still have a soft-spot for network device drivers - perhaps some of you are still using the PCnet-PCI driver in Solaris? I was pleasantly surprised to find a fair bit of the code I wrote at the end of 1994 is still visible in that driver. Coming back to Solaris engineering after a long absence, at a time with so much new energy and new development as we dramatically expand x86 and x64 support, this is such a rush! Just so I don't start thinking it is as good as it gets, I was fortunate to be able to join the Newboot development team - Newboot was my first customer for the new Solaris ACPI subsystem. My ACPI-team colleague David Chieu quickly developed the ISA-device enumeration code on top of the new interpreter, and we're pleased to have filled-in a key piece of Newboot. I'll be blogging a bit about the relatively few, relatively minor issues I've encountered since integrating ACPI CA into Solaris. In general, ACPI CA is working extremely well - the issues we've seen are generally related to how I've changed the way that Solaris interacts with the system. The biggest change is that we run the system in ACPI-mode now, not legacy mode - but I'll save that for another blog. Cheers! https://blogs.oracle.com/danasblog/entry/dtrace_kool_aid_worth_drinking Dtrace: kool-aid worth drinking danasblog 2005-05-10T11:05:06+00:00 2005-05-10T19:21:36+00:00 So, a few days ago I installed an experimental Solaris kernel build, and my mouse stopped working. In the old days, before dtrace, this would have meant digging around in kernel source, building experimental modules and running the kernel debugger. This time, though, I wrote a few lines of "D" code, kicked-off dtrace and a few minutes later I'd located exactly where the error was occurring. It just took another couple of minutes to check to see if the source file had been recently modified - and I found the bug had just been fixed the day before, I just needed to grab the updated source. Start to finish, it took under 30 minutes to resolve this issue. dtrace is an \*amazing\* tool.


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BMW Unveils the F800GT
It's been a busy couple of months for BMW Motorrad.
As dated as the air-cooled boxer twin motor may seem to the unconverted, BMW certainly feels there's a bit more that can be squeezed out of the configuration it debuted in the 1920s, even as we settle into the 21st century. Certainly, no one can argue that BMW hasn't successfully updated the concept. As tuned for the new R 1200 R upright Roadster, the flat twin now boasts four valves per cylinder, electronic fuel injection and 1170cc.


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I'm having some difficulties understanding how to use the
seed.rb script in rails.
So far, I've used it to populate my database every time i deploy my application.
Like this.
["Video", "Tv"].each do |thing|
Category.create(name: thing)
class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
validates_uniqueness_of :name
The script can now be runned every deploy or pull. Anyone in the dev team can now add their own category without have to worry about duplications.
Like this.
Person one
- Adding the
Tablecategory to
- Commit and push to master.
Person two
- Pull master.
- Run
rake db:migrateand
rake db:seedto ensure that the local database is up-to-date.
- Deploy application to production server.
rake db:seedis being runned on the server to ensure an up-to-date database.
Is this workflow okay, if not, where should I put the new data to ensure that every developer has an up-to-date database?


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