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- Understanding the structure of JavaScript code
- Creating variables, functions, and loops
- Writing conditional code
- Sending messages to the console
- Working with different variable types and objects
- Creating and changing DOM objects
- Event handling
- Working with timers
- Debugging JavaScript
- Building smarter forms
- Working with CSS, HTML5, and JavaScript
- Using regular expressions
Skill Level Beginner
Working with numbers comes easily in JavaScript. We've already done this. We can create variables and put numbers in them. And like any language, we have the notion of numeric variables, we have the notion of numeric literals. In this case, just the value 200 written in your code is a numeric literal. But if you're coming from another programming language, you're likely to be thinking, "What kind of number is this. What kind of variable is this? Is this an integer, is it a floating- point number, what kind of number is it? We don't have to ask those questions in JavaScript because internally all JavaScript numbers are 64- bit floating-point numbers.
That's how they're stored under the hood. So you don't concern yourself whether it's an integer or a small integer or a large integer and so on. Now if you're familiar with floating- point arithmetic, you'll know that you can have issues with that. In practice, that doesn't tend to be a problem in JavaScript because most people aren't really doing complicated financial calculations in client-side code. But yes, JavaScript numbers are floating-point numbers and all the usual rules apply to that. But if you want to store something in a JavaScript variable that has something after the decimal point, you simply write it.
No special formatting is needed. It's very easy. However, there are a couple more things we need to talk about with numbers. One thing that you need to be aware of is just the behavior that happens when variables have certain values in them. So let's say we start off with a couple of variables here, var foo and var bar, both equal to the number 5. I can tell it's the number because there's no quotes around it. And we write out console.log. It's foo+bar. We will write out, not surprisingly, the number 10. If on the other hand, we say var foo = 5 and var bar = 5, these are strings.
They're surrounded in the double quotes, or the single quotes will work too. The console.log message, while it looks exactly the same, the Plus sign is going to do concatenation. It's just going to slam these two together because it thinks you want to treat them as a string. Now, sometimes you do. Say, for example, that these are holding area codes and phone numbers. You might want to concatenate them together instead of adding the numeric values together. But just be aware of that behavior. More likely you're interested in what happens in this kind of situation.
What happens if one of them is a number and one of them is a string? Well, in this case it's going to do concatenation. If any part of it is a string, it's going to treat the whole operation as a string. But that can lead us into more significant issues. What happens if one of these variables is a string and we're trying to do something with it that just doesn't make sense? In this case, we're trying to do console.log(foo*bar). We're using the asterisk. So 5 multiplied by b, well, what's that going to do? Well, actually, what it's going to do here is evaluate as NaN-- that's an uppercase N, lowercase a, uppercase N--which is "Not a Number." This is a special meaning in JavaScript.
It's telling me here this expression did not make sense, and sometimes we need to know this, because think about this situation. Here's the situation we might be more concerned about. Let's say we know we're going to get a variable. Now it should be equal to a number, in this case 55, even though that's a string. But it could be abc, it could be a word, it could be some text, perhaps we're asking the user for some input. We hope they type a number, but what if they don't? Well, step one is what I try and do is I try and make a new variable, in this case myNumber, and create that by calling the function Number and passing in this variable foo.
Now this function Number is built into JavaScript the same way that alert is built into JavaScript. We pass it something and it will try and convert it to a number and return that value. Now if it can't convert it to a number, let's say this was abc, it will return "Not a Number." But I need to know if that was the case. I need to know if the variable myNumber is not a number, and luckily, we can check that. We have another built-in function that we can ask, which is isNaN, isNotaNumber.
Now again, it's the odd casing here. Is is lowercase, uppercase N, lowercase a, uppercase N. In this case, we pass in the variable myNumber and the isNaN function will return either true or false. Now, be very careful about what it's doing here. We're asking if it is not a number, so it return true if it's not a number. And we can write out the message, "It's not a number!" And what's often the case is you're actually more interested in knowing that it is a number, and we don't have isNumber function, unfortunately.
Well, I could of course just write an else statement after my if and then process some code there, but if I want to directly ask, what I'll do is phrase this as kind of a double-negative here. What I'm asking is if NOT NotaNumber is true, and I'll do that by calling isNaN function with the exclamation mark in front of it. So if isNaN returns false, we'll use the exclamationmark to flip that to true, and then we say console.log( "It IS a number" ). Yeah, you've got to love programming.
And finally, something that's coming very handy with working with numbers is something called the Math object in JavaScript. This is an object that's just available to you, has some very useful behavior, some useful functionality you can just tap into. Well, how do we use it? Well, let's just say we start off by creating a variable called x that's equal to 200.6, and I want to round that number. What I can do is just type this code. I'll create a new variable and set it equal to Math, and we use the word Math with an uppercase M, .round, passing in the value x. And that's going to round it to the nearest number. In this case, it's going to be 201.
So what you'll see is a lot of Math. abilities. We have things like Math.max, which we can create multiple variables, pass in two or three or four or five, and it will just return the biggest one. Flip side of that, Math.min. And the Math object has a lot of these options. We have Math.PI, Math.random, Math.sqrt, Math.log. Useful functionality and useful behavior for working with numbers.


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Sarah:"God, that guy is such an asshole!!"
Brittney: "I'm guessing his name must be Blane. All Blane's are assholes"
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Cool, calm, and charming to boot! This guy is sensitive and shy but very smart. He is very romantic and is a one girl kind of guy.
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An amazing boyfriend who is always there for you no matter what. hes sweet kind, and always puts you before himself. He also has a very big dick, and is wounderful at sex.
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Sam, 'What?'
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Sam, 'What?'
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When a rich kid is attracted to unattractive chicks with no ass and no tits. Taking diffrent ugly chicks down to his basement nightly and screwing them on the already-broken couch that his older brother broke a night prior from screwing a fat chick.
dammit dude! Keep it quiet downstairs. All of Glennmora will hear you if you don't stop givin that chick a B-Lane!
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Failure. Epic Failure.
Wow, he just crashed into the back of a Porsche. He blanes.
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Australian street term for a homosexual.
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Wine and Love brought to you by Nora, and now hosted by suki at Superduperfantastic. What is wine and love? Wine/Love: things during the week that made you reach for the wine, and things that you loved. This particular wine and love post was actually inspired by a Q&A that Kelli from Baby Belly Kelli posted on her Facebook fan page. So, two birds, one stone.. you get the picture.
Question 1: How do you and your family celebrate the Holidays and where are you from?
Same wine different week. I won't bore you with that. And, the holiday blues that have suddenly arisen? That can be easily remedied with quality time with family, friends, and love, actually. (Well, love, definitely, and the movie, Love Actually. Instead I'm going to write about random Christmas memories that fit so well in the love category, and that can answer the above question.
Christmas now is less of the gift-giving celebration that it used to be when we were kids, and more of spending time with family, stuffing our bellies full; And if we've learned anything from last year, there's much laughter and much drinking. I have no problem with this. Luckily, most of my family is in the San Francisco bay area. I've got a few in Washington state that I don't see often, and some cousins sprinkled in Hong Kong, but for the most part, the gang's all here.
Christmas/Winter Nostagia — I remember waking up early every Christmas to have at it under the Christmas tree. We didn't have the open one gift on Christmas eve thing. In 1987..
I remember that one winter sitting by the fire with our grandparents, waiting for our parents to get home. We raced downstairs to the garage to greet our parents and check out the new Toyota Corolla hatchback. That was the first time I remembered learning about 'new car smell'. There were many winters where we lit that fireplace. It makes me miss our childhood home. The smell of baked sweet potatoes. I remember running my fingers along the hideous dark green coarse carpet. I don't miss that carpet.
By the time we hit school age, we had arts and craft ornaments to be strung, and thus came the Christmas tree that was a tradition for years. I remember coming home during college and putting it up one year because my parents didn't feel like it. That Christmas tree stayed up for over year that time. That Christmas tree is still alive even though, it was never truly alive. (Plastic!) It's suffered a few missing limbs, but my sister has that same tree with the some of the same ornaments. Those new Christmas, glittery balls have nothing on our decade old ornaments. Those guys have spent most of their lifetime tucked into a bag, smashed together with their fellow soldiers, angels, the occasional reindeer, tiny, plastic-encased Christmas trees with our school photos inside, and other DIY school arts and craft ornaments. The battle wounds are clearly visible: missing googly eyes, instruments, and some other unknown items, apparent only due to the dried up wad of glue left in its place. What was he holding? We'll never find out. My well-kept Snuffaleupagus stocking (ok, fine, he's missing a sleigh that once was glued to his bottom) is now up on the mantle, that's next to the same Christmas tree.
Snuffy stocking. I loved him. My mom would give us random stocking stuffers like a tube of Estee Lauder lipstick in Pepto Bismol Pink (and of course that was AMAZING at the time).. And as we got older the stocking stuffers turned into money. WIN. One year we got these wrapped up plastic eggs from an aunt and uncle. Each one had a stuffed animals inside. "Yellow Monkey" and "Lamby".
Guess what kind of stuffed animals they were.
I also got a magic kit one year. I was obsessed for a short while.
I've never known what it's like to have a real live Christmas tree. I think of it as a fire hazard, and we all know a real tree has real bugs. It would be nice to pick one out and do all that holiday thing that some families do, but again, the bugs thing freaks me out.
Some of my childhood-favorite stuffed animals were from Christmas. Winchester the bear. Seester got a pink robe that year.
Oh.. heyyyy! Unfortunately, I couldn't find the one where it's seester on Santa's lap and me freaking the eff out. So enjoy. Seester's new pink robe and Winchester makes an appearance. So readers, please feel free to answer below in the comments 🙂 How do you and your family spend the holidays, and where are you from? Or, if you don't spend it with family, who do you spend it with?


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No Answer at the Control Tower
Jets land every day at airports that don't have control towers, or have towers that are closed on nights and weekends and yet flights continue. Air traffic controllers at regional radar facilities can alert them to traffic and line them up. Pilots broadcast their position and intentions on a common radio frequency.
But those are small airports where traffic is light, not the nation's major passenger airports. Early Wednesday, Washington's Reagan National Airport became an "uncontrolled'' airport for a time, and two passenger flights landed using small-airport procedures because the lone controller on the midnight shift didn't answer radio calls.
My colleague Andy Pasztor reports that the controller may have fallen asleep. In a separate incident about a year ago, the same tower went unstaffed for a time when the lone controller got locked out without a keycard. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to put two controllers on duty at Reagan on the overnight shift and examine staffing levels at other airports.
This isn't a new issue for the FAA. A single controller at Lexington, Ky., became a concern after the crash of a Comair jet that lined up on the wrong runway – a shorter runway than the jet needed — before dawn. The controller didn't notice, though the National Transportation Safety Board didn't list that among the official contributing factors in the accident, it did find that the FAA's "operational policies and procedures at the time of the accident were deficient because they did not promote optimal controller monitoring of aircraft surface operations.''
This should go without saying: Passenger jets at major airports need controllers alert and on duty. An airport that is uncontrolled has more safety hazards – a ground worker towing a jet across a runway, for example, who might not be monitoring the proper radio frequency. At night, that would be very difficult to see for a pilot on approach to landing.
After the Lexington crash, there were promises to improve scheduling of controllers and staffing overnight at big airports. The Washington episodes show more needs to be done.


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Black Bear football team wins conference awardsUPDATED 11:45 PM EST Nov 26, 2013
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WIN. 11 MEMBERS OF THE U-MAINE FOOTBALL TEAM HAVE EARNED ALL CONFERENCE HONORS. THREE BLACK BEARS WON MAJOR AWARDS. HEAD COACH JACK COSGROVE NAMED COACH OF THE YEAR. LINEBACKER CHRISTOPHE MULUMBA WON DEFENSIVE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR WHILE QUARTERBACK MARCUS WASILEWSKI WON THE CHUCK BOON LEADERSHIP AWARD AS WELL AS GETTING NAMED TO THE FIRST TEAM ALL CONFERENCE TEAM... "a level of excitement to know your at the top "a level of excitement to know your at the top of the list performance and productivity along with a lot of the teammates that you are a part of here and just creates that excitement that we are ready to go for the next game here.
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A piece of armour used to protect the shin.
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This spacious 2810 square foot penthouse apartment is professionally decorated and located directly on the beach. It is in a very exclusive gated building with 24 hour security. There is private beach access from the pool area.
The penthouse apartment is on two levels and every room has a terrace overlooking Acapulco Bay. Each bedroom has high ceilings with a ceiling fan, air conditioning, king size bed, cable TV, a private terrace and a full bath which includes hair dryer.
There are 3 sofas and 3 sitting areas on the main floor of the apartment. The apartment comfortably accommodates up to 8 people maximum.
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A DREAM VACATION - Ari B Pittsburgh, PA
Date of Stay: August 2010
We stayed in the penthouse condo and had the most amazing experience. Even though we had no sun on our vacation, the beauty and comfort of this condo made the whole experience a great one. I would recommend it to anyone and everyone. The next time that we go to Acapulco, we will definitely stay here again.
"All you can ask for plus a spectacular view..."
Date of Stay: July 2010
We knew about the condo from previous vacations and we love it. However, I must say that the apartment has spectacular views of Acapulco Bay, and having balconies in all the bedrooms are a plus...exactly what we were looking for. We highly recommend it to anyone that wants to have fun in Acapulco, privacy and the glamour of a Hotel and Spa. We enjoyed it very much...
"Pure Heaven!"
Date of Stay: April 2010
"I just spent a week at the Tropical Nest Penthouse in Acapulco and must say that the place is absolutely beautiful. While I was excited about my stay based on the pictures I saw on-line, nothing can prepare you for how spectacular (grand might be a better word) it actually is! I need the designer who put this place together to come and do my own home. Each room is brilliantly thought out and the color schemes are amazing. Add in the sweeping views from every room, and you have - Pure Heaven!
I arranged my stay with the owner, Cyndi, on short notice and everything was very easy. The maid (a delightful woman named Hilda) cleans daily. Although there were only two of us sharing this massive space, this would be the perfect place for a family vacation - at what is truly an amazing price. The property is safe and secure, and there would be no worries regarding children (it appeared that many people in the complex had child care - most likely at a very reasonable rate).
It is thus without reservation that I say do not hesitate to rent this place!"
Amazing View, Spacious, Comfortable, Perfect!
Date of Stay: December 2008
This property was more than perfect for our New Years trip to Acapulco!
The property is very spacious (I think it looks bigger in person than in the pictures, we were pleasantly surprised upon arrival). It was very comfortable, as the bedrooms had AC units that worked well, all rooms were big, the bathrooms were updated and nice, and the common space opened up to the wonderful Acapulco view and weather (you could close the balcony doors if you wanted to, but we left them open while in the property because it felt so nice). The rooms are just as vibrantly colored and nicely decorated as the pictures show, which made a huge impression on my friends and me. All the furniture was nice and clean.
THE VIEW was incredible! We watched new years fireworks from the balcony, enjoyed looking over the bay (it's a penthouse on the top of the building), and viewing the sunsets. We actually loved the view and comfort so much, that we opted to stay in on some nights instead of going to the bars and restaurants. The property has a convenient location, it was easy to get a cab to go to the bars/restaurants, and we could walk right to the beach and grocery.
The housekeeper was very sweet and kept the place neat and the kitchen clean, but I will admit we bought our own disposable plates, cups, and utensils. That is probably a reflection on us, and not of the housekeeper. She made us feel comfortable, and she never bothered us when we slept in late. She doesn't speak English, so we used our translation books to interact, which was actually very little.
The owners are very understanding, professional, respectful, and patient. I make point of this because I hounded them before and after signing the contract with questions about the penthouse, the city, how our contract works, payments, etc etc. I must have bothered them every day for weeks with questions on how it all works (it was our first time using an online rental by owner service). They went the extra mile to make us feel comfortable and safe about renting from strangers.
Overall, it was a truly perfect penthouse vacation experience! The owners are welcome to use me as reference for any potential renters, I am happy to share how pleased we were with this property. If we ever go to Acapulco in the future, there is no doubt I would ask to stay here again.
"dream vacation"
The most beautiful place that I've ever stayed on vacation. I would recommend it to everyone.
"Wonderful family vacation"
We stayed in the penthouse condo for 4 weeks and it couldn't have been a better experience. Great location on the beach, great service and facilities and great food prepared by the maid/chef. It was so good that everyone wants a re-do.


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Following a weekend of sunshine and temperatures in the mid 50s to low 60s, rain and snow are headed back to the region, weather officials said.
The main impacts from the resulting storm system will be the southwest Oregon coast and Northern California, with up to 6 inches of snow possible on the west side mountains and Mount Shasta.
Snow levels are expected to drop to about 2,500 feet.
"The more significant snow will be down in Northern California," said National Weather Service meteorologist Mike Petrucelli.
Up to 4 inches of snow is expected to fall on Siskiyou Pass.
About two-tenths of an inch of rain was expected to fall overnight around the Rogue Valley. The NWS forecast for the remainder of the week calls for showers or rain every day through Sunday.
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Other Sources: Wednesday's Press Roundup
A roundup of the day's business and finance commentary from The Wall Street Journal and selected London-based newspapers.
The Wall Street Journal (Subscription required)
Heard on the Street
Spain needs to accelerate bank reform (Simon Nixon)
In theory, the collapse of a small Spanish savings bank shouldn't fuel a global stock-market selloff.
Another banana peel as Prudential slides to finish (Hester Plumridge)
Despite Tuesday's listing of Prudential PLC's shares in Asia, the company risks making more mistakes on its way to the acquisition of AIA.
Bond buyers shouldn't sleep on inflation (Liam Denning)
With 30-year Treasury yields hovering around 4%, a central question for investors is if and when inflation will strike.
The Financial Times (Subscription required)
Lex Column
AIA acquisition looks increasingly ragged.
Spanish savings banks
Long-overdue reckoning begins with four-way merger of regional lenders.
Cash is king
An alternative to bonds, it has never looked better.
The Times
Turning a debt drama into a banking crisis (David Wighton)
Analysts blamed the sabre-rattling in Korea but the nervousness seems to be mainly down to clearer thinking about the eurozone mess.
Bring it on, says Chi-X (Martin Waller)
The main rival to the London Stock Exchange is preparing for battle by undertaking a quiet reshuffle at the top.
The Daily Telegraph
It's no surprise that investors are avoiding Europe like the plague (Damian Reece)
Europe is finally catching a cold, if not the plague. Its own version of the banking crisis is spreading over the eurozone with a vengeance.
Forget winning hearts and minds, Hayward is fighting to save his job (Richard Fletcher)
Attempts to stem the flow of bad publicity – like the oil leak itself – are floundering. With oil now washing on to Louisiana beaches Hayward is losing the battle for US "hearts and minds" – along with the wider war.
The Guardian
French and German banks need a haircut (Phillip Inman)
The total euro area exposure of foreign banks including Deutsche Bank to Greek sovereign debt is estimated at about €76 billion.
The Independent
Time to start talking about how we will cope with a Greek debt default (David Prosser)
The size and reach of exposure to European sovereign debt across the financial system of the globe may be much more damaging than initially assumed.


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Once again, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has shown his ineptitude. Being a governor means being a leader, exuding calmness and confidence that a situation will work out well and correctly. Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey is that type of person. Before, during and after Hurricane Sandy, he remained calm. He said the storm was dangerous, but those who followed the orders of emergency personnel would be fine. After the storm, he took the time to calm children and parents of his state by advising adults to tell the children words to the effect that everything will be fine, this is an adult problem and the adults are taking care of it. That is a leader.
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Bob wrote on Nov 7, 2012 11:48 AM:
" I think he did great, and I usually think he is an idiot. Telling everyone it is like the end of the world before the storm is prudent to keep the idiots safe. Remember last storm someone decided to kayak down a brook that had bridges. So the hysteria is a ,better safe than sorry ,measure that helps keep the idiots safe. As far as complaining about loss revenue for prudence is foolish because with storms like these you never know and if he said it would be moderate, some people would have acted really dumb and died. Then they would have blamed the governor. "
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Getting back to a fifth straight title game will be more than a chore for the Jaguars especially when you replace the likes of Derrick Mathis, a once in a lifetime type of running back who set all sorts of state rushing records. Don't feel sorry for this team though. Now it's time for others to shine and hold up an unparalleled tradition.
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The National Research Council and Institute of Medicine yesterday released the results of a study addressing mortality in the United States as compared to other developed nations. The full report can be purchased here, where a summary also can be downloaded as a free pdf file. The press release on the study frames the questions addressed:
On average, Americans die sooner and experience higher rates of disease and injury than people in other high-income countries, says a new report from the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. The report finds that this health disadvantage exists at all ages from birth to age 75 and that even advantaged Americans — those who have health insurance, college educations, higher incomes, and healthy behaviors — appear to be sicker than their peers in other rich nations.
"We were struck by the gravity of these findings," said Steven H. Woolf, professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and chair of the panel that wrote the report. "Americans are dying and suffering at rates that we know are unnecessary because people in other high-income countries are living longer lives and enjoying better health. What concerns our panel is why, for decades, we have been slipping behind."
From the summary, we have this long explanation of the causes of high US mortality, where I have added emphasis:
The panel's inquiry found multiple likely explanations for the U.S. health disadvantage:
• Health systems. Unlike its peer countries, the United States has a relatively large uninsured population and more limited access to primary care. Americans are more likely to find their health care inaccessible or unaffordable and to report lapses in the quality and safety of care outside of hospitals.
• Health behaviors. Although Americans are currently less likely to smoke and may drink alcohol less heavily than people in peer countries, they consume the most calories per person, have higher rates of drug abuse, are less likely to use seat belts, are involved in more traffic accidents that involve alcohol, and are more likely to use firearms in acts of violence.
• Social and economic conditions. Although the income of Americans is higher on average than in other countries, the United States also has higher levels of poverty (especially child poverty) and income inequality and lower rates of social mobility. Other countries are outpacing the United States in the education of young people, which also affects health. And Americans benefit less from safety net programs that can buffer the negative health effects of poverty and other social disadvantages.
• Physical environments. U.S. communities and the built environment are more likely than those in peer countries to be designed around automobiles, and this may discourage physical activity and contribute to obesity.
No single factor can fully explain the U.S. health disadvantage. Deficiencies in the health care system may worsen illnesses and increase deaths from certain diseases, but they cannot explain the nation's higher rates of traffic accidents or violence. Similarly, although individual behaviors are clearly important, they do not explain why Americans who do not smoke or are not overweight also appear to have higher rates of disease than similar groups in peer countries.
More likely, the U.S. health disadvantage has multiple causes and involves some combination of inadequate health care, unhealthy behaviors, adverse economic and social conditions, and environmental factors, as well as public policies and social values that shape those conditions.
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Most of what I have to say about Mitt Romney's pick of Paul Ryan I said on Virtually Speaking Sunday. I think the Ryan pick will hurt Mitt, and I think it opens up an opportunity for progressives to even box Obama in.
But I am enjoying the response from Republicans, who almost immediately started bad-mouthing the pick. First there was the BuzzFeed story–less than 48 hours after the pick!–describing how the political pros in Mitt's staff opposed the pick. And now Politico describes the opinions of some three dozen Republican operatives, all of whom except Mary Matalin are queasy about the choice. (The Hill has a similar story.)
In more than three dozen interviews with Republican strategists and campaign operatives — old hands and rising next-generation conservatives alike — the most common reactions to Ryan ranged from gnawing apprehension to hair-on-fire anger that Romney has practically ceded the election.
It is not that the public professions of excitement about the Ryan selection are totally insincere. It is that many of the most optimistic Republican operatives will privately acknowledge that their views are being shaped more by fingers-crossed hope than by a hard-headed appraisal of what's most likely to happen.
And the more pessimistic strategists don't even feign good cheer: They think the Ryan pick is a disaster for the GOP. Many of these people don't care that much about Romney — they always felt he faced an improbable path to victory — but are worried that Ryan's vocal views about overhauling Medicare will be a millstone for other GOP candidates in critical House and Senate races.
One big reason the operatives don't like this choice is it makes their job–getting down-ticket Republicans elected–harder.
And that's just what it does to the Romney-Ryan ticket. Forget how it plays in close House and Senate races.
"Very not helpful down ballot — very," said one top Republican consultant.
"This is the day the music died," one Republican operative involved in 2012 races said after the rollout. The operative said that every House candidate now is racing to get ahead of this issue.
And what Politico doesn't dwell on–but what Crooks & Liars noted the other day–is that it's already too late for most of the Republicans running for reelection to separate themselves from Ryan's signature policy. Because they already voted for it.
Even as Mitt Romney was introducing Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, his campaign was preparing a defense of the House Budget Chairman's draconian Medicare proposals. With good reason. After all, in April 2011 the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office forecast that Ryan's scheme to convert today's guaranteed Medicare insurance program into an underfunded voucher system would dramatically shift the health care costs onto America's seniors. And in February 2010, Ryan acknowledged his privatization plan for millions of future elderly constituted rationing.
But it's not just Team Romney that should be concerned about being caught red-handed with the proverbial gun pointed at the wildly popular program. Last year, 235 House Republicans and 40 GOP Senators–98 percent of all Republicans in Congress–voted for Paul Ryan's budget and its blueprint to rationing Medicare.
What's particularly remarkable about the Politico piece is that, in spite of widely expressed admiration for Ryan, just about all the anonymous sources admit that people hate his plan. The plan their bosses have already voted for.
I don't think any of the geniuses in DC–whether Republican or Democratic–planned for this. I don't think they intended to turn Mitt Romney into the poster child for the elites who have been looting our country. I don't think Mitt realized that by picking Ryan, he would make the problem worse, not better.
But this election has now crystalized into a referendum on the austerity, oligarchy, and looting the Republicans (and more recently, the Democrats too) have been gradually introducing into our country.
Obama may still screw up the election. The economy may recrash, the drought may bring a price spike that makes people desperate enough to vote for Mitt, or there may be an October surprise.
And I'm sure Obama didn't want to be running this election, pointing out how unpopular and disastrous are Ryan's policies–policies which are not that different from some of his own.
But that seems to be where we're heading. A referendum, from the top of the ticket on down, on the unpopular elitist policies that both parties in DC have been pushing for the last decade or so.
Congratulations to Kathy Hochul, who rode a disciplined campaign against Paul Ryan's plan to privatize Medicare to victory in a Republican Congressional district tonight.
There's a lesson here. Republicans voted on Ryan's shitty plan. Which allowed Democrats to highlight how shitty it, and Republicans, are. And … Victory!!!
Obama, however, seems to be missing that lesson:
I want to extend my congratulations to Congresswoman-elect Kathy Hochul for her victory in New York's 26th Congressional District. Kathy and I both believe that we need to create jobs, grow our economy, and reduce the deficit in order to outcompete other nations and win the future. Kathy has shown, through her victory and throughout her career, that she will fight for the families and businesses in western New York, and I look forward to working with her when she gets to Washington.
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The Renminbi's Split Personality
In London, the boom in Chinese renminbi trading continues.
A report by the City of London — the same authority that in April 2012 committed to develop the city as a global hub for trading the currency — showed Friday that daily yuan spot trading volumes in London in the first half of 2013 averaged $4.8 billion a day, 93% more than the previous year.
The use of electronic trading platforms to trade the renminbi is now routine, the report said. Trading is also concentrated among a small number of financial bodies–12 banks control 80% of the market share.
The Chinese currency is now second only to the U.S. dollar in the market share for global trade finance, according to data from payment services provider SWIFT. Numbers from the Bank for International Settlements show that the renminbi is the eighth largest currency in global foreign exchange market turnover. Only three years ago, it was number 17.
That is all reasonably healthy. Whether the yuan's price is in such fine fettle is open to debate.
The offshore renminbi gained about 3% against the dollar in 2013, but a possible slowdown of China's economic growth over the next few months and reforms currently underway in the interest rate market have seen some asset managers reeling back their positive bets.
"We were overweight [the Chinese currency], but we have recently closed this with a tactical view to take us back to neutral in light of the broader dollar move higher against emerging markets and extensive positioning," said Liam Spillane, emerging market portfolio manager at Aviva Investors, which has about £274 billion ($448 billion) of assets under management. He doesn't rule out re-entering the trade at more favorable levels.
The risk of buying yuan is also increased by the heavy positions built by investors over the last few months on the back of the steady appreciation of the currency, which could leave them rushing at the same time through a very small exit door.
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Sonia Gandhi condoles the death of CLP leader D Sudarsanam
All India Congress Committee(AICC) President and the UPA Chair Person Ms Sonia Gandhi has condoled the sudden demise of the Tamil Nadu Congress Legislature Party Leader D Sudarsanam.
The CLP leader Mr Sudarssanam died of multiple organ failure at a private hospital here on Saturday night, party sources said. He was 68 and is survived by two sons.
The veteran Congress leader breathed his last at around 10.15 p.m, on Saturday.
Sudarssanam had come here to participate in the ongoing World Classical Tamil Conference. He fell ill in the wee hours on Friday following which he was admitted to Kovai Medical Centre and was on ventilation support.
Sudarssanam, elected from Poonamallee constituency, became the CLP leader after 2006 Assembly polls. He had been a member of the Assembly from 1991 representing Tiruvallur and Poonamallee constituencies.
Sudarssanam, a confidant of senior Congress leader late G. K. Moopanar, sided with him when he floated Tamil Maanila Congress in 1996. He was made treasurer of the new party till it merged with Congress in 1999.
Sudarssanam was treasurer of the TNCC, a post he held till his death.
Family source said the body would be brought to Chennai on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Congress President Sonia Gandhi has condoled the death of Sudarssanam.
In a message to TNCC President K. V. Thangkabalu, she said Sudarssanam was "a simple man and a disciplined worker. As Congress Legislature Party leader, he brought laurels to the party".
Union Health Minister and AICC General Secretary in charge of Tamil Nadu, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Political Secretary to Sonia Gandhi, Ahmed Patel also condoled his demise.
Mr. Thangkabalu told reporters the party would observe a three-day mourning from Sunday as a tribute to the departed leader and party flags would remain half mast.
In the death of Sudarssanam, "Congress has lost a disciplined soldier and a person liked by one and all.
It is a personal loss to me as Sudarsanam was my friend for the last 40 years", Mr Thangabalu said.
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In this case WECC 9-bus test system [2], shown in Fig.1.1, is considered to perform the voltage stability monitoring of the system. This system contains 9 buses, 3 generators, 3 transformers and 6 transmission lines. In this case, it is assumed that PMUs are available at 3 generator terminals and one sensitive load bus, identified based on dQ/dV sensitivity analysis [3]. The case is simulated by increasing the load at the rate of 10% of base case per 20 sec. In this case stability monitoring is performed by using the two voltage stability indices, L-index [4] and VCPI [5] (brief description of the indices is presented below). The results were monitored by using the meters available in the runtime environment of the RTDS (Fig.1.2) and also by exporting the results at every operating point to external application (Fig.1.3). Both the indices reach to numerical value 1 as the system moves towards the stability limit. The results observed in Figs. 1.2 and 1.3, are matching with the results reported in [4] and [5].
Fig. 1.1: WECC 9 bus test system
Fig. 1.2: L-index and VCPI at 140% above the base case in the RTDS run-time environment
Fig. 1.3: Voltage stability indices monitored using external application
Huang et al. [3] have suggested dynamic L-index for online prediction of the voltage stability. The L-index can be computed at each load bus (say bus-j) using the following equation:
Vi is the ith generator bus voltage, G is the set of all the generator buses, is the jith element of the FLG sub matrix of (3), VL, IL are the voltage and current vectors at the load buses, VG, IG are the voltage and current vectors at the generator buses.Voltage Collapse Proximity Index (VCPI) :
Voltage Collapse Proximity Index (VCPI) suggested by Raghunatha et al [3], at a load bus-j, can be defined as:
Vcg is the centroid voltage of the generator bus voltages, Vj is the jth bus phasor voltage, NG is the number of generators, Vk is the kth generator bus voltage phasor. Using the synchrophasor technology, if the PMUs are provided at various buses to measure voltages at a faster rate, the L-index and the VCPI can be computed in real time. Voltage collapse takes place when Lj and VCPIj reach numerical value of unity.
[1] Ankush Sharma, Ch.V.V.S.Bhaskara Reddy, P. Banerjee, Bibhu P Padhy, S.C.Srivastava, and S. Chakrabarti, "Synchrophasor based Power System Monitoring and Control using Real Time Digital Simulation Facility," National Power System Conference (NPSC), IIT (BHU) Varanasi, Dec. 2012.
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[3] P. Kundur, Power System Stability and Control. NY:McGraw-Hill, 1994.
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Water 2013, 5(3), 1279-1302; doi:10.3390/w5031279
Setting Target Measurement Uncertainty in Water Analysis
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AbstractWater is the most frequently and thoroughly characterised product due to the impact of the chemical composition of water of different sources or destinations on public health and on economy. The adequacy of water characterisation relies on measurement quality, which is a function of measurement traceability and uncertainty. In some analytical fields, target values of measurement performance parameters are set to ensure that the measurements quality is fit for the intended use. Nevertheless, frequently, these performance parameters do not allow the control of the magnitude of relevant components of measurement uncertainty. This work discusses the need for assessing fitness of the measurement for its intended use through the magnitude of uncertainty associated to the measurement value. The way this evaluation should be performed, when no guidelines are available, is also suggested. Target values of relevant performance parameters, results of interlaboratory tests, or the magnitude of trends of the measured quantity, are some types of information useful to define the maximum admissible uncertainty, i.e., target uncertainty. The information and algorithms used to define the target uncertainty are presented from the most suitable to the less likely to produce consensual values. Calculations are illustrated with application examples of different analytical fields. In this work, the way in which variability of uncertainty evaluation is taken into account when comparing estimated with target uncertainty is also discussed.
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Denver, CO - Denver Zoo visitors will notice a couple of new African wild dogs in its Predator Ridge exhibit. The two young sisters, Tilly and Cheza (CHEH-zah) are now exploring the exhibit's maternity yard after arriving from Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Zookeepers say they are settling in well and doing great. Visitors can see them now, weather permitting.
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The largest of Africa's canine species, full-grown African wild dogs weigh between 40 and 60 pounds and stand 30 inches tall at the shoulder. The slim, long-legged dogs have large, round ears, which not only provide excellent hearing for hunting prey, but also cool them off in the hot African climate. Each African wild dog has its own unique markings of yellow, black, brown and white. Because of this, they are alternately called painted dogs. In fact, their scientific name of Lycaon pictus means "painted wolf-like animal" in Latin.
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Social and cultural determinants of economic institutions and outcomes have come to the forefront of economic research. We introduce religiosity, measured as the share for which religion is important in daily life, to explain institutional quality in the form of property rights and the rule of law. Previous studies have only measured the impact of membership shares of different religions, with mixed results. We find, in a cross-country regression analysis comprising up to 112 countries, that religiosity is negatively related to our institutional outcome variables. This only holds in democracies (not autocracies), which suggests that religiosity affects the way institutions work through the political process. Individual religions are not related to our measures of institutional quality.
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BELPRE - Belpre area students got a little bit of help Sunday as a Belpre church gave out around 200 backpacks with various school supplies at a special event.
Rockland United Methodist Church held its third annual Backpack To School Party for families around the area at the church on Washington Boulevard.
Members of the church put on a picnic with food and games culminating in the handing out of backpacks and school supplies for various students, from elementary to high school age.
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Kellie Beaver, of Belpre, was one of around 200 local students who received a backpack and school supplies Sunday at Rockland United Methodist Church in Belpre. The church held its third annual Backpack To School Party for families around the area.
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Miracle Sunderman, of Vincent, looks through all of the school supplies she got Sunday at Rockland United Methodist Church during the church's third annual Backpack To School Party for local families.
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Sierra Koon, of Belpre, picks out a pair of scissors to put in a backpack she received Sunday at Rockland United Methodist Church during its third annual Backpack To School Party.
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Jacob Daugherty, of Barlow, gets a yellow highlighter to put in a backpack he received Sunday at Rockland United Methodist Church during its third annual Backpack To School Party. The church handed out 200 backpacks and related school supplies to area families.
Last year the goal was to hand out 100 backpacks and after a little bit of work getting more supplies, the church was able to hand out 150 at that time.
"We decided we needed to make it bigger and we went to the church and said we need to try to give out 200 backpacks," said Pastor Jim Condrey. "This year, we partnered with Belpre Area Ministries, the United Way and Belpre Rotary.
"They provided the funds for the backpacks. Rockland and some other churches got together and bought the supplies."
The event was open to anyone.
"It is a no-strings-attached event," Condrey said. "People show up and it does not matter what neighborhood they live in. If it is West Virginia, great. If it is Ohio, great.
"We just want to let people know that Rockland Church is here and we care about them."
The reasons for putting together an event like Sunday's giveaway go back to some of the church's most fundamental teachings.
"It is what Jesus would do," Condrey said.
The backpacks were age-appropriate with cartoon characters on some and more traditional color schemes for older students. Students were identified by grade and received appropriate supplies.
The supplies included paper, pens, pencils, rulers, erasers, crayons, colored pencils, scissors, pencil boxes and more.
"We can't get it all for them, but it is a good start," Condrey said.
Many of the families who attended the event Sunday talked about the rising cost of school supplies and how they were thankful to groups and organizations who were willing to help them out.
"I think it is really a good thing they do here," said Andrea Haddad, of Belpre, who brought her son and step-granddaughter. "It helps everyone and it is a good thing."
Megan Beaver, of Belpre, had been to the event before.
"I think this is wonderful," she said. "We came last year and had a good experience.
"We decided to come back. It is very helpful."
Vicki Sunderman, of Vincent, who brought her children, said the event was a great chance for families to come together for fellowship. It is also a good way to help out the students at the beginning of the upcoming school year.
"I think it is just wonderful and a great thing for the community," Sunderman said.
Around 63 percent of Belpre students are below the poverty line.
"We knew this was needed," Condrey said. "The goal is to meet a need."
Organizers are hoping to expand the program next year.
"Next year can we step it up a notch and do more," Condrey said.