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A friend of mine has adopted six kids and is considering adopting a seventh. She has eight kids total so far, ranging from four to twenty-one. Regularly, she sends up a cry of distress for orphans all over the world. I read one of her outcries one day, and then I read the news which was filled with concern over global warming.
The two ideas were mixed together in my head, and I wrote a poem. It's about orphans and child soldiers, and our obsession with saving . . . trees.
I'm not against saving trees. I've planted a number of them on Earth Day, and on other days. I've volunteered at animal shelters. I've picked up trash off my street and at public parks. I recycle and grew up recycling before it became an expected norm.
However, I don't think that any of those activities comes close to the life-empowering, world-changing, transformative action of adopting a child.
Saving a life is a far greater act than planting a tree.
It just is, and that feels obvious to me.
That's what my poem at Every Day Poets is about today. It's one of the harshest things I've written in a while. It's critical and I know it's going to bring a storm of criticism my way.
However, if you feel strongly about needing to save the life of a child, and for whatever reason you can't actually adopt or foster a child like I can't (my husband feels a need to serve God and community in other ways), I highly suggest checking out these options:
World Vision - child sponsorship and other giving opportunities. They have specific funds to fight against human trafficking and child soldiers.
Project AK-47 - the main emphasis of this group is to rescue and rehabilitate child soldiers.
Compassion International - child sponsorship and other giving opportunities.
Children of the Nations - food packaging and child sponsorship programs
Youth With a Mission (YWAM) - ways to give financially to help and serve orphans and widows. They also have an adoption ministry.
I wish I could be like my friend and open my home to six more kids. Instead, I'm giving financially to organizations that I know have a good record of making a difference. I write letters to our sponsored child. I pray. I support others who adopt and foster kids.
And sometimes I write highly charged, angry poetry and hope that it stirs up ideas and not just anger.
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Awesome you're shouting out about adoption even though you can't do it. I'm an adoptive mom and love it. But I wish we could have adopted another child but couldn't because of the cost and my husband's health. In the long run, it was the best decision for us. It would have been so hard being basically a single parent to two kids and working full-time for me. So don't beat yourself up too much on your decision.ReplyDeleteReplies
Way to go with adoption! You definitely have a full plate, Natalie, and everything you do is amazing!Delete
People always rate above trees and there are so many kids in need of a good, stable home now.ReplyDeleteReplies
I totally agree!Delete
I think anyone who adopts one child let alone many is admirable and is giving a child the chance of a happy family life.ReplyDelete
Yes, I admire my friend who has adopted many, but I also admire many of my friends who have adopted one. The life given to each of those children is wonderful.Delete
Great post! We were exploring the adoption route as we struggled to have kids for years, then we had two in a row. I'm all for adoption and think people should really consider it more.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Stephen! Adoption is a movement I hope will grow in the future.Delete
Wish every child had a loving home to grow up in.ReplyDelete
I sponsor- actually my second sponsorship- a child through Children International. I have to say it is one of the most rewarding experiences you personally will get nothing out of. Unless you like happy letters of thanks and crayon drawings and the knowledge someone is living better because of you. Then you get a lot back.ReplyDeleteReplies
Bless your friend - that is amazing. I wish I could do the same, but can't, so I appreciate the ideas of other ways to help. Thank you! And while I agree with you and your poem, I do think that anything anyone does to save life on our planet - human, animal, plant - is valuable.ReplyDeleteReplies
She is amazing! And thank you! Yes, saving a life - any life, is important.Delete
We were going to adopt, but it didn't work out. However, my best friend from high school adopted two children from China.ReplyDeleteReplies
It's tough when it doesn't work out. We have to figure out where to go from there, how we can continue to love and help children anyway.Delete
Good for your friend!
We thought about adoption, but like Diane, it didn't work out for us either.ReplyDeleteReplies
I understand. It's a tough road. I'm always amazed by and blessed by my friends who have successfully adopted kids.Delete
Your friend is amazing! How wonderful of you to give her a shout out and let others know how they can help.ReplyDeleteReplies
She is totally amazing! And thanks!Delete
I swear you and I have been on similar wavelengths lately. I saw the news stories on Syria and the sweet children being damaged by all the hate and felt compelled to do something- and wrote a similar post. we're not all called to adopt or foster, but we are all called to love in action. Wonderful post.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you, Julie. I wrote the poem a while ago, but it certainly fits the stuff going on right now, as well as the horrifying stuff that just keeps going on worldwide with human trafficking, child soldiers, and orphans without homes.Delete
May I also recommend ChildFund (formerly Christian Children's Fund). I've sponsored over a dozen children through them over the past forty years. It's not adoption but it is a way of making a difference.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for the recommendation, LD!!!Delete
There have been many adopted children that have gone on to do wonderful things. There's a need and sadly black children are usually the last to be picked in the US. Very encouraging post!ReplyDelete
I always admire people who are willing and able to adopt a child. I'm awestruck that your friend has taken in so many!ReplyDelete
Adoption is an amazing and wonderful thing and changes so, so many lives for the better. Many, MANY "props" to your friend!!!ReplyDelete
Good job getting the word out on those agencies! Adaption is something that should not only be encouraged, but supported, since it helps give those poor children a chance to be with a family that can nurture them. Do educate yourself on the internecine laws and legal issues though, especially with regards to custody so that this outreach will be trouble free and smooth sailing. We could do that, at the very least.ReplyDelete
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Compelling survey responses have highlighted the democratization and proliferation of open source in three broad areas of strategic and tactical impact -- new people, new technologies and new economics.
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Survey results uncover the growth of first-time developers participating in the open source community, and point to both new open source education initiatives and the prevalence of open source-based educational platforms.
In addition, the survey reveals the three industries expected to be impacted most by OSS are education (76 percent), government (67 percent), and health care (45 percent). Results also demonstrate how embedded OSS has become in our social fabric.
Respondents reported the top ten areas OSS will impact our everyday lives including: Education; Mobility; Web privacy/security; Home appliance; Wearable devices; Robotics; Entertainment; Automotive; Gaming and Monetary exchange/payments.
Impact on New Technologies
Open source has long been touted as the foundation for new technological innovations, and as OSS projects grow, so, too, do these new technologies. As data from Black Duck shows, with nearly one million open source projects to date, the rate of innovation spurs new technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and the continued rise of Software as a Service (SaaS).
When asked what industries OSS technology was leading, 63 percent cited cloud computing or virtualization as the key area where developers have turned to OSS. In addition, 57 percent answered content management, 52 percent selected mobile technology, and 51 percent answered security.
Impact on New Economics
56 percent of corporations expect to contribute to more open source projects in 2014, signaling a change in the way enterprises view open source. When asked why they engaged with OSS communities, cost reduction was still the top response (61 percent), but 45 percent of corporations responded that they also did so to gain competitive advantage.
For companies with over 1,000 employees, influencing a project's direction was the third most popular answer. Finding and recruiting talent fell from the number two reason to engage with communities in 2013 to the number five answer this year, with only 37 percent choosing that as the top reason.
This may be the result of OSS experience becoming a price-of-entry rather than a distinguishing factor.
Additional Findings from the latest study include:
- 72 percent of respondents chose to use OSS because of it provides stronger security than proprietary solutions, signaling a growing awareness that the proper management and use of OSS actually provides an even more secure environment than proprietary solutions. Building upon this, 80 percent of respondents reported choosing open source because of its quality over proprietary alternatives.
- 68 percent of respondents said that OSS helped improve efficiency and lower costs, and 55 percent also indicated that OSS helped create new products and services, further supporting the idea of OSS as both an entrenched and a strategic element of today's enterprises.
- 50 percent of enterprises report openly contributing to and adopting open source, signaling a shift in the way organizations view the value of and their role in making contributions to the community.
More than 1,200 industry influencers took this year's survey, answering questions about OSS trends, opportunities, key drivers of open source adoption, community engagement and the business problems OSS solves -- both now and in the foreseeable future.
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Two weeks after I dropped it off, and numerous calls to the new Service Desk Manager, Ronnie Goodman, I find out that they do not service Mercedes Diesels, so he tells me that he will get it over to Freight-liner that day and get it serviced. I asked him if everything else was fixed and he told me yes. Well it did not make it over to freight-liner until two days later and when I asked if everything else was fixed I was told by Michael that he thought so, but was not sure and that Ronnie would call me. Well Ronnie did not call. We called over this morning and left a message and Michael called back and said they had the Via back but the other items still needed to be completed. What is going on over there.
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Book your room at Lloyd Hotel & Cultural Embassy
Get an overview of this hotelDesigner hotel by the waterfront in Amsterdam
Clubbing near the city
Placing guests between Rietlandpark and the waterfront, Lloyd Hotel & Cultural Embassy is a 10-minute tram ride from the city center. Clubbers are just 3 minutes from dancing the night away at the Panama club. The National Maritime Museum is a 20-minute walk, the Dutch Press Museum 10 minutes.
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The breakfast buffet is a great way to start the day. The restaurant also serves lunch and dinner. Further amenities include 7 meeting rooms, a library, and a luggage storage.
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The inn offers a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. Event facilities include conference space and meeting rooms. This historic inn also offers a library, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff. Concierge services and wedding services can be provided. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
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- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Smoke-free property
- Number of floors - 7
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
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The Restaurant - Onsite restaurant. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available.
24-hour room service is available.
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Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-in time ends at midnight
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Their Mics Still Sound Nice: BET Puts Ladies First | 14 Oct 2010 // 5:00 PM
Do women rappers have to shake it in our faces in order to get us to listen? As this doc. notes some, like Salt 'N' Pepa do it with sassiness and sex appeal "...you know, if I was a book, I would sell / 'cause every curve on my body got a story to tell".


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Robert Garcia and Rios To Come Out With Mayweather?
By Rick Reeno
Leonard Ellerbe, CEO for Mayweather Promotions, told BoxingScene.com not to be surprised if trainer Robert Garcia, and WBA lightweight champion Brandon Rios, accompany Floyd Mayweather Jr. during his ring walk on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
As BoxingScene.com reported on Tuesday, Mayweather invited Rios and Garcia to attend Saturday's fight at the MGM Grand. Mayweather is playing up on the long-standing feud between Robert Garcia and his brother Danny Garcia, who trains Mayweather's upcoming opponent, WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz.
The feud began a few years ago when Ortiz left Robert and hired his brother Danny as his new head trainer. Robert Garcia's boxer, Rios, has been involved in a long-standing feud with Ortiz.
Robert Garcia, and Rios, are planning to attend Saturday's event - as guests of Team Mayweather.
Garcia confirmed to BoxingScene - "That would be great [to come out with Mayweather]. We are going to be there."
+ 1 for Mayweather.. :boxing:Comment by ErikTheGreat on 09-15-2011
Mr Victor Ortiz, I wish you good luck and hope you knock this son of a b!tch out. Thank you. Erik.Comment by Lac'em up on 09-15-2011
These ghetto ass Oxnard boys are so stupid. Robert Garcia will get his one day and I can't wait to heat about it. Ortiz get in there and rip this little monkey apart!Comment by Eaner0919 on 09-15-2011
[quote=LeadUppercut;11138020]That would be a truly great thing, although I do not think that Mayweather should be given any credit, he is not attempting to play family councillor.[/quote] no he's not it's just if Robert gets the chance to talk to…Comment by newcastleking on 09-15-2011
this probably tripped ortiz out at first but by now, hes already using it to his advantage mentally. nothing can bring this kid down right now. too strong and too focused. better than the ortiz who fought berto.Post a Comment - View More User Comments (86)


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Bow Wow was on the set of filming scene CSI he confirmed that BET was on hiatus because of Karrueche.
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|Interface scattering in polycrystalline thermoelectrics
|March 24, 2014
|We study the effect of electron and phonon interface scattering on the thermoelectric properties of disordered, polycrystalline materials (with grain sizes larger than electron and phonons' mean free path). Interface scattering of electrons is treated with a Landauer approach, while that of phonons if treated with the diffuse mismatch model. The interface scattering is embedded within a diffusive model of bulk transport, and we show that, for randomly arranged interfaces, the overall system is well described by effective medium theory. Using bulk parameters similar to those of PbTe and a square barrier potential for the interface electron scattering, we identify the interface scattering parameters for which the figure of merit $ZT$ is increased. We find the electronic scattering is generally detrimental due to a reduction in electrical conductivity; however for sufficiently weak electronic interface scattering, $ZT$ is enhanced due to phonon interface scattering.
|Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
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I was recently given an ad-hoc of this fantastic little platformer about a week ago. Initially I was skeptical, I'm not a huge fan of platform adventure games. They tend to become tedious and boring to me, but I took a chance on this game based on the gameplay video. It isn't that the gameplay was that incredible but that the game was visually breathtaking. It wasn't too long after installing Blimp that I found myself sucked into this magnificent world the developers created. I was so enthralled by it all that I soon found myself looking dumbly at the blank screen of my battery-dead iDevice.
A new 2D platformer is scheduled to hit the App Store this week. Blimp's story is heroic: you are a retired war vet who manages to get caught up in a dark and grand scheme that has you locked back behind the guns. Blimp's developer and publisher, Craneballs are confident that their debut game will turn heads and minds with great graphics, story and friendly competition via Facebook support.
"The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his [man's] superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world" (Jules Verne, Mysterious Island, Part III, Chapter 15).
Modern historians, digital powerhouse and champions of English Literature, Chillingo have added further clarity to Verne's prophecy as their next epic release, Return to Mysterious Island, based on Verne's immortal Mysterious Island debuts on our platform of choice. Verne's works, now digital games, books, movies and a host of other media are the author's new face for a new generation.
TMA's review of RTMI
Tetraedge's Walkthrough of RTMI
Take a look at the gameplay video and friendly picies after the jump.
One genre of games that seems to have seamlessly found its place on the iDevice platform is the puzzler. The blend of portability, touch interface, screen size, and processing power on both the iPhone and iTouch gives developers an amazing canvas in which to showcase their creative programming. Take the case of Toki Tori, a recent offering from publisher Chillingo; this game is a great statement to the level of polish and ingenuity that the App Store can offer.
Once in awhile a game comes along that is unexpectedly impressive in gameplay, graphics, controls and most importantly, fun factor. Chillingo's egg-cellent upcoming platform Toki Tori is such a game. Toki Tori's journey began as a Game Boy Color game back in 2001 that eventually made its way onto the Nintendo Wii via Wii-ware. Now the egg-citingly adorable Toki is set to debut on the iDevice!
Chillingo, publishers of many acclaimed iPhone apps, are dripping fairy dust all over the web today with screenshots of the upcoming title, Vampire Origins. As tight-lipped as the Count himself, Chillingo's director Chris Byatte informed us that this title is to be: 'an advanced "point-and-click" adventure'! Because TouchMyApps' power of deduction is impressive, we have sussed out that 'Origins' will be the first in a dark trilogy of games from Chillingo.[more screenies after the jump]
Zenonia, created and published by Gamevil, makes me proud to be a Korean. With their headquarters in Seoul, Korea, they helped solidify both the iPhone and iTouch as serious handheld gaming devices with their masterful port of Baseball Superstars 2009. They are seeking to set the standard of excellence in another fledgling iDevice genre: RPGs.
I'm an extreme horror fanatic who I grew up watching the Twilight Zone and corny horror movies. Who needs "Saw" when you have "Attack Of The Man-Eating Spiders!" (including sequels 2-800)?! Over time, being exposed to such "gruesome" horrors such as "Night Of The Living Dead", I eventually became desensitized to all things creepy and spooky. How then did I react to an adventure horror game on the comforts of my iPhone? Well, Hysteria Project has exceeded my expectations and brings a unique experience that is quite enjoyable.
When I was a little girl, my mother fueled my interest in old B&W science fiction movies that weren't very good at all. They were entertaining though and many laughable. These types of movies are commonly known as "B-Movies" and many a Saturday I spent watching them totally transfixed. I would also freak out over movies like "My husband is a monster from outer space" or "Giant Brains" which threatened to take over the world. As I got older, watching giant spiders made me shudder but also laugh at the same time at the terrible special effects. I grew to really enjoy these bad B-movies, so if you are a sci-fi aficionado, you'll want to give Otto Matic: Alien Invasion a very close look.
Billy Garretsen, the president of Perfect Dork Studios has said its taken 6 years for the retro platformer game Blade of Betrayal to be the game it is today and to get to the idevice. Garretson was heavily influenced by games such as Castlevania, Mega Man and Metroid when he first went about creating Blades of Betrayal. The NES reminiscent action sidescroller began its journey in 2002, first finding itself on the Pocket PC. BoB even won Action Game of 2003 from a pocket game publication, but how does it hold up on the mighty iPhone/iPod touch?


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Time to give Button a bit more recognition?
Good job again by Button... establishing himself as a great driver by his consistency when provided a good car.
Best of luck for the race!
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Helluvva job when you consider the fuel load, against the competition. You don't think the car flatters the driver then? lol.
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Oh come on Achilles!:-)))
Jay is right.
Jenson is doing an excellent job this season. I just hope that he doesn't gets to much of an advantage, so that the world champion ship is not decided 3 or 4 races before it's over. ha ha ha ha
Many drivers have had great cars... not not all have been able to get consistent results.
When you get consistent results with a great car, then you open a commanding lead over your rivals, as Button has been doing.
Among the other drivers, I would say Alonso is getting the most out of the car he has been provided.


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McKeesport football coach Smith resigns
By Mike White | Monday, Jan. 25, 2010, 10:15 p.m.
George Smith built the McKeesport football team into one of the better programs in WPIAL Class AAAA. But he walked way from the job today.
Smith resigned this morning after meeting with McKeesport school officials. He was the Tigers' coach for 28 years and won 197 games. Smith isn't talking - at least not yet. He could not be reached and McKeesport athletic director Charley Kiss said he has been told by a few close to Smith that he wants to wait a day before speaking about his decision.
It's not toally clear why Smith decided to resign. Kiss said, "He just decided there were some things that were too hard to overcome with the way we do some things in our district."
Not totally sure what that means, but Kiss said he couldn't elaborate.
Whatever the reason, the WPIAL is a little worse off tonight without Smith. He will be missed. He was great for the kids at McKeesport. He was good for WPIAL football. McKeesport is not an easy place to coach, but Smith made things work.
Wonder what will happen to McKeesport's vaunted flexbone offense (triple option)? I'll bet McKeesport hires from outside the program - and the flexbone will be no more.
We'll have more on Smith's decision tomorrow, but here is what Ty-Meer Brown (McKeesport QB the past two seasons) had to say about Smith: "If he's not the best coach in the WPIAL, he's one of the best. A lot of people looked past what he does. But he didn't just make us better football players. He made us better people.
"He's definitely going to be missed. There were people who criticized him, but just look at what he did for McKeesport. ... Just the little things he did were important. Like, there were a lot of kids who turned out to be Division I college players due to Coach Smith. He got them into colleges.
"He always just demanded our best. That's all he really ever wanted."
Smith won two WPIAL and two PIAA titles.


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The Economic Lessons of Star Trek's Money-Free Society - "[Manu Saadia] points to technologies like GPS and the internet as models for how we can set ourselves on the path to a Star Trek future. 'If we decide as a society to make more of these crucial things available to all as public goods, we're probably going to be well on our way to improving the condition of everybody on Earth', he says. But he also warns that technology alone won't create a post-scarcity future... 'This is something that has to be dealt with on a political level, and we have to face that.' " (via) [more inside]
Sapiens 2.0: Homo Deus?
In his follow-up to Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari envisions what a 'useless class' of humans might look like as AI advances and spreads - "I'm aware that these kinds of forecasts have been around for at least 200 years, from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and they never came true so far. It's basically the boy who cried wolf, but in the original story of the boy who cried wolf, in the end, the wolf actually comes, and I think that is true this time." [more inside]
Eigendemocracy: crowd-sourced deliberative democracy
Scott Aaronson on building a 'PageRank' for (eigen)morality and (eigen)trust - "Now, would those with axes to grind try to subvert such a system the instant it went online? Certainly. For example, I assume that millions of people would rate Conservapedia as a more trustworthy source than Wikipedia—and would rate other people who had done so as, themselves, trustworthy sources, while rating as untrustworthy anyone who called Conservapedia untrustworthy. So there would arise a parallel world of trust and consensus and 'expertise', mutually-reinforcing yet nearly disjoint from the world of the real. But here's the thing: anyone would be able to see, with the click of a mouse, the extent to which this parallel world had diverged from the real one." [more inside]
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Make Everything Awesome For Everybody: Bridging The CP Snow-Style Divide
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution - "[Charles Percy Snow] was pleading for a more adequately educated ruling class so that the suffering of the poor might be ameliorated... Snow wanted to believe something like this: political decisions in the modern world often concern how to deploy science and technology, so people well-trained in science and technology will be better prepared to make those decisions. But that's a syllogism without a minor premise." (previously) [more inside]
Game behind gamed: your narrative programming for the day
How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio[1] actually makes a case against austerity[2] and for redistribution, but also for money printing (and, arguably, for bailouts), while stressing the need to keep making productivity-improving public and private investments. However, it could be equally entitled: How The Industrial Age Political-Economy Doesn't Work Anymore, viz. Surviving Progress (2011)... [more inside]
the dawn of a Star Trek generation
In Praise of Leisure - "Imagine a world in which most people worked only 15 hours a week. They would be paid as much as, or even more than, they now are, because the fruits of their labor would be distributed more evenly across society. Leisure would occupy far more of their waking hours than work. It was exactly this prospect that John Maynard Keynes conjured up in a little essay published in 1930 called 'Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren.' Its thesis was simple. As technological progress made possible an increase in the output of goods per hour worked, people would have to work less and less to satisfy their needs, until in the end they would have to work hardly at all... He thought this condition might be reached in about 100 years — that is, by 2030." (via) [more inside]
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Life after Capitalism - Beyond capitalism, it seems, stretches a vista of... capitalism: [more inside]
The Woman Who Just Might Save the Planet and Our Pocketbooks
What if our economy was not built on competition? Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom talks about her work on cooperation in economics. [more inside]
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I can't surf but let me swim with you!
The look on your face you would think that you were going to catch a few waves. You hide your lack of surfing know how and the water being cold well.
Do you surf MissLaurelle ? You look wonderful here
you are very sweet
Love the smile! Even though you have the "I'm cold" expression. Come to California, there will be a hapa boy willing to teach you how to surf
Love this one
lovely pic
With that outfit and ride a surfboard.. Damn girl! you just a looks so freakin hot!!!
You have a beautiful smile.
Love the shot - and I do agree with you on how cold the water is in the UK.... it's almost winter wetsuit time (I wear mine in January/February)!
Then its Freakin' Cold feet!
Then its Freakin' Cold feet!
I love it!!!
la femme parfaite : la surfeuse
the perfect woman : the surf girl
the perfect woman : the surf girl
Sweet bored(cant spell if hope thats right!) Can i has it my sister tas mine! Anyways this picture is absalutly beautiful!
What about a Bikini Shoot on Skis? At least in April on a Sunny Day you wouldn't freeze more, rather less. Okay joking. It is a beautiful Pic.
Actually i once saw a little Film from the 70ties with the Olympia Winner and World Cup Champion Rosie Mittermaier skiing only in a Bikinni, it looked both cute and a bit sexy but not obscene at all.
omg surfer too *___*
That's look fresh
Another great shot (DD Photography really shoots you well). You could stick a Roxy logo on this, and it would be perfect for a billboard ad.
OMG, i want to start surfing again...inspiring!
pretty girl
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It looks like the auto industry bailout doesn't have the votes. [NYT]
Thank God.
@tedyc03: You obviously don't live in Michigan. Letting the Big 3 fail will, in effect, idle 1 in 10 workers in this country. Think things are bad now, just wait.
@ageekymom: a vote against the bailout does not mean the big 3 will fail.
[www.cnn.com] gives a good argument against the bailout
Perhaps the republican party is going back to their roots. Time will tell.
@Bladefist: If the 700b bailout bill's popularity among House Republicans was any indication, they're only waiting for more pork to be added for their home districts. Besides, it's too early for them to have finished soul searching — they're still trying to decide on a suitable scapegoat for last week.
@Bladefist: If by, "returning to their roots", you mean, "shoveling uncountable amounts of laxly supervised cash to reprobate financiers, banks and military contractors while turning their backs on working people", then yup. They sure have.
Good to see they're consistent.
Not that I think there should be a bailout. The Big Three chased after ever-larger SUV models while ignoring quality, value or mid-to-low sized vehicles when it was painfully obvious this was a stupid, destructive and ultimately flawed approach.
Let 'em use our very fine bankruptcy laws to dig themselves out. Hopefully one of them will be seized unwillingly by a Japanese firm, their management team eviscerated to better serve as an object lesson that focusing only on the short-term results in ruin.
@Trai_Dep: I still cant read your whole comments. You're too hateful to present a objectionable comment.
@Trai_Dep: Obviously those wouldn't be their roots, that would be the failed Bush "Compassionate Conservatism", aka beat the Dems at their own game. Convserative roots would not have spent all that money, voted for the $700B bailout, nor likely invaded Iraq. Check out Ron Paul for someone who is pretty rooted in true conservatism (albeit a little wacky in some areas).
@Counterpoint: That is correct. Bush has been more of a democrat then clinton.
@Counterpoint: What are you talking about? Bush was the epitome of grass-roots Conservatism: he wouldn't have been in a position to be appointed by judicial activists in '00 if he aimed at the moderates. McCain '00 would have won. He's yours: embrace him.
Oh, wait: McCain approved of the $700B bailout as well, so either way, a gov't-owned banking system is doubly yours.
Screwing things up so badly that the entire US banking sector needs to be nationalized is policy. Just stupid policy. Rest well knowing your guys did what Karl Marx in three lifetimes wouldn't have been able to accomplish.
Like an addled child insisting on rollerblading thru a museum, it is his fault when things are broken and rooms need to be closed to repair the predictable damage. Whining that he didn't mean to do it – who knew – isn't credible. To parents or other thinking adults.
@Trai_Dep: @Red_Flag: $700 Billion? Try $5 Trillion: [www.forbes.com]
Wow, finally good news. How about we just put the rest of the 700 billion in a mattress and know that it didn't lose value.
@categorically: It will, unfortunately. Inflation.
@Red_Flag: Not too mention currency pressures
Yay! Let them fail. Some smart new guys will buy that equipment and hopefully start a company that is profitable and makes good products.
"The financial straits that the Big Three find themselves in is not the product of our current economic downturn, but instead is the legacy of the uncompetitive structure of its manufacturing and labor force," Mr. Shelby said in a statement. "The financial situation facing the Big Three is not a national problem, but their problem."
I couldn't have said it better.
Good, let them fail.
They've resisted every saftey innovation from seat belts to air bags. They've filled our skies with pollution from their low mileage cars and filled our streets with dangerous over-sized vehicles. Now they want a handout? to produce more of the same crap?
Sorry, no.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
The problems for GM is that they spend something like 2400 bucks from each car on Health insurance. The foreign automakers are not unionized and do not encounter these problems.
How about we go bust up the unions in these shops so that there is money to be innovative. This story is deeper than most on here even know. GM is a retirement company and if they go under then there are millions of unemployed and millions without their retirement benefits.
Good Jorb!
@The_Red_Monkey: Let's hear it for over-powered unions!!!
About those retirement benefits? Ya. My dad is 83 and has cancer and GM cut off his retiree benefits for him and my mother. I think it's horrible. Then they go and try to kiss and make up by having some 3rd party company "help" people figure out what health insurance to buy to replace GM's with. Well, that was a disaster too according to my mother. Funny thing is, nothing was ever seen in the news about this other shoe dropping; I read it on a a blog from the UK and forwarded it to her. GM thinks they are doing well by giving retirees an extra 300.00 to cover what they have to pay out for their own health insurance but they don't mention that those funds are taxable. I'm happy the bailout is most likely a bust for them. Karma comes around when you treat your staff like crap.
@The_Red_Monkey: Wow, nice dodge that didn't mention that the foreign companies don't have to pay employee health insurance because their citizens are the happy recipients of single-payor healthcare.
So I guess that you're coming out in favor of one for the US? Yay!
@Trai_Dep: Do you know about Japan's health care system? It's not single payer:
"The Japanese healthcare system is highly regulated by the government and, as described by the OECD, "combines a mainly private provision of services with mandatory health insurance. Service providers are paid directly by insurers (the third payer system). Payments for outpatient care are predominantly on a fee for service basis, and inpatient care is paid through a mixture of per diem and fee for service." —[www.medhunters.com]
@Trai_Dep: I thought The_Red_Monkey was referring to foreign automakers' factories in the U.S.
@The_Red_Monkey: Actually, it's closer to $4000.. However, the last contract negotiations had big cuts to wages & benefits for new workers and unions made huge concessions.
I do not work for the auto industry and I'm not in a union, but I live in metro Detroit and I can see how letting the Big 3 fail will affect every business around here. As I said in a previous response, 1 in 10 jobs in this country are connected to the auto industry.
UAW is to blame. It's also the reason why American car companies can't compete with their foreign contemporaries.
Solution 1: Union busting. It would take someone with giant brass balls. Not likely to happen.
Solution 2: Auto makers move to states that are more business friendly and less union friendly.
Solution 3: Bankruptcy for all. Thereby de facto union busting. Set up shop all over again with consumers and investors in mind. I have a feeling they'll be able to find workers.
@mattshu: UAW's been around longer than the manufacturers have been asking for alms. I think your analysis of causation is missing something.
@Red_Flag: The cries of "darned unions" from the Freepers is wryly amusing. No one looks at the stupidity and short-sightedness of the Captains of Industry and says, "abolish Capitalism". Even though it was the leaders, and their ineptitude, that caused the ravages racked on the United States.
Nope. Nope. Nope. It's gotta be the fault of that guy making $20/hr lucky enough to have bargained for a health care package running machining tools that make car doors. Yup. Totally his fault. Every last bit of it. Uh huh.
@mattshu: The unions don't need to be busted. The unions are doing what they are supposed to be doing, looking out for their members. (Do you like your 40 hour work week, thank the unions, btw, and no, I'm not union). What the big auto companies need to do, is be a little stricter with the unions. Do away with "earn your final salary the rest of your life, and your spouse gets it after you die" and go to 401k type plans, like most other businesses went to quite some time ago. The pension worked great when life expectancy and medical costs were what they were decades ago. The huge amounts per car that go to benefits for retirees is a promise they made, and they need to keep it, however, they don't have to keep making the promise to new hires. If they were smart, when they were making money hand over fist, they would have stuck billions in an account to pay for those pensions, and let it collect interest.
They also need to get the unions to back off on automation, the unions are against it, since it takes away members. Automation is why we can't compete with so many other countries cars. We have so many more people manually doing things.
@mattshu: Are they losing money because of the auto manufacturing side of the business, or because they've all turned into banks that write care loans that also happen to build cars? How are GMAC, et al, looking financially?
I'd rather give someone the $700 billion to start a new car company that doesn't make giant gas-guzzling piles of shiny suck.
@opsomath: Exactly!
About damn time they stopped shelling out free money to every company that can't make decent products or run themselves well. If only we'd thought of this sooner.
I don't understand why we don't just buy a controlling interest, stop production, and pour money into R&D. They're already not selling cars, so why try.
Spend a year, use the governments money to develop cars that actually work (IE are affordable and efficient) and then let the (now profitable) business go on it's merry way.
Meanwhile, the government profits from both taxation and dividends. problem solved.
Oh, and fuck the unions.
@m4ximusprim3: and yes, it's is a contraction for "it is", which doesn't make any sense in that context.
I'm a jewish grammar nazi.
@m4ximusprim3: Shooting oneself in one's foot, are we?
@m4ximusprim3: They actually TOOK billions of dollars of our money to supposedly crack the hybrid car nut. Then frittered it away making their cup warmers and DVD players run off their "hybrid" battery system.
They had their fun. Lotsa laughs. Let Chapter 7 sort 'em out.
Looks like the auto industry needs to prop itself up on someone else's matchsticks.
Well, seeing as how I work for an automotive supplier, I guess I'll be out of a job as of Jan. 1. Thanks to all who are in overwhelming support of myself and millions of others being out on the street while AIG executives are getting mani-pedis. Happy 2009!
@technopimp: Well said! It's kind of sickening to read the comments on this thread and see how little these people care about the "little people" that will get hosed if this happens. They obviously aren't considering the people who have built businesses around the auto industry. We're talking suppliers, restaurants and bars, dry cleaners, day care, grocery stores, schools, the list goes on and on. Not only that, but they can't go anywhere because they can't sell their homes.
@ technopimp – It happened to the horse & buggy business, it happened to the typewriter business, it's kind of happening to the brick & mortar retail business now. Times change, and with that the products that people want / need. Giant oil-guzzling SUVs are not in fashion now, so it's no wonder American car companies are suffering. If only they would have some foresight to really research electric cars, or better hybrids.
I feel for your plight, but we would live in a really crappy world if no companies ever went out of business. Everything would be old tech, and not what consumers really wanted…
Thanks…that should comfort me come the middle of January when my key card stops working. Hey! At least there's new technology I can buy with all my hard-earned money…oh, wait. :(
@technopimp: It's economic Darwinism. Adapt or fail. It's harsh, but kind words won't but food on your table. If you know January is going to be rough, that gives you two months to start learning a new trade after work. Or more likely, taking your talents and applying for jobs in a different field.
Indeed, I am with Counterpoint with this one. We cannot subsidize inefficient and outdated companies since it would discourage progress and development in the industry. The ultimate price will be paid by the American economy which would be burdened by such subsidies, not able to keep pace with other countries. So we either pay now or pay a much higher price later.
I would not call is economic Darwinism (evolution is not survival of the fittest), but rather clearing the way for fresh ideas and progress in the auto industry.
You guys suck. Listen, I'm a Libertarian at heart, but these guys have been paying their due for decades. Not in corporate taxes, but in property taxes, payroll taxes, inventory taxes, and their employees and dividends have been taxed and taxed and taxed. When some worker — his fault or not — is canned, he can often claim unemployment benefits.
This isn't just about a couple of rich CEO's or heavy stock holders, but the lives of 5,000,000 "small people" like you and me. The intent here isn't to save three companies, but to save a friggin' significant portion of the US economy. You can say, "it won't affect me," but chances are, it will affect you in some small degree. This isn't just "Detroit"; if you don't know that, then you need to educate yourself.
There are strings attached. Checks and balances. My God, all of you nay-sayers have no idea what you're wishing for when you say you want them to go under. This is at least as significant as the credit crisis.
@balthisar: Sorry, dude. The Big Three may be just victims of bad timing, but if all the pawns and peons of the 'evil' finance industry deserve to be on the street than so do autoworkers.
@balthisar: No one (I hope) wants them to fail, but it's better than the alternative of allowing the government to partially own them. The end of the Big 3 automakers is far more preferable to the end of American capitalism.
Wait till we have 10-12% unemployment because the big three shut down. We are looking at the difference between a 50 billion loan and the economic and social consequences of putting 2 million people on the street.
American capitalism didn't end when the government bailed out Chrysler. I'm glad they did. Our Jeep has 120K on it and is a reliable vehicle. BTW the Govt. Made money on that deal. Isn't that what capitalism is about?
@starrion: As I understand it, the government didn't make any money on that "deal," we just didn't lose any. What happened was, the government guaranteed investors who loaned Chrysler money that the government would pay back the investors if Chrysler couldn't, thereby letting Chrysler borrow money at a lower interest rate than it could have otherwise.
i'm not going to say that i'm for a bailout for automakers – i'm not sure that i am. but i came across a documentary last nite on hbo – Dirty Driving: Thundercars of Indiana. anyone who thinks we should all just sit by & let the american auto industry tank would do themselves a service to watch it.
the program follows a few sub-nascar drivers & their families in anderson, indiana – a once flourishing town that is disintegrating as local auto plants shut down. it gives a good perspective of how reliant midwest towns are on the automakers.
as the plants shutter, for sale signs pop up all over town, local retail businesses start to go dark & soon entire sections of the town are vacant.
we need to do something. maybe writing a big check isn't the answer, but we should be pumping some money into those mills. perhaps credits for fuel efficient vehicles? perhaps subsidies to develop & mass produce NGVs? something…
The factories are going to go anyway (they're being moved to Mexico/China or another cheap labor market). Bailing out the auto industry might slow the process, but not much else.
@gibbersome: see, this is why i don't support tax breaks that aren't connected directly to real investment (i.e. – capital gains reductions). imho, any tax breaks realized by corporate america should be directly connected to the employment of american citizens (perhaps a tax credit to offset payroll taxes for new hires for x number of years?).
bush's tax break program expedited the move of jobs abroad by facilitating the transfer of capital – we need something to help bring those jobs back. or if not those jobs, other ones to fill the gap.
again, maybe "bailing out" the auto industry isn't the answer, but without it, we're left with a whole lot of unemployed skilled craftsmen that could be producing something.
The government is pouring money into the financial sector for the specific reason that they resume lending. Is there any reason why automakers can't go to the banks for a loan instead of lobbying the government? If banks aren't willing to lend money, then they are breaking their promise to the taxpayers by taking the money in the first place (Which wouldn't surprise me)
I sure wish people got as angry about war expenses as they did about bailouts.
Meh, the war became a political issue. I think the majority of us (whether republican or democrat) are against bail outs.
Well, why don't they just buy all Americans a new American car? Might be cheaper, and it would have the same effect. I mean, it turns out that my Jeep Rubicon, over a year old now, retained its value better than all the stocks on Wall Street!!! (Joking here. But wait . . . )
Maybe they can rework it with a ton of pork barrell ear marks to get it to pass? Maybe a tax cut for the wooden horse industry?


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