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Is your psoas just so-so? Understanding the Role of the Dancer's Muscle
by Janine Bryant for The Dance Journal
When audiences see movement performed that appears to require very little effort on the part of the dancer, it is often because the dancer was able to generate the movement efficiently. Understanding how to move efficiently means firing the right muscle(s) for the required action without recruiting unnecessary ones which can make movement appear tense or 'inorganic'.
As Ruth and John Solomon share in their paper entitled, Functional Anatomy Training: An Efficient Warm Up Emphasizing the Role of the Psoas, "I readily perceived that the study of anatomy had the potential not only to explain to me how efficient movement is produced, but also that it provided a very precise and universally accepted language with which to pass that knowledge on to my students." {1}
This month's column focuses on the role iliopsoas. More commonly known as the psoas in the dance world, this muscle is one of the longest and most powerful muscles in the body, and it is the only muscle that attaches to the spine, pelvis and femur. The iliopsoas includes the psoas major and the iliacus. This muscle is often called 'the dancer's muscle', because it is one that is used often as dancers flex their femur in an effort to create high front and side extensions.
The iliacus originates from the inside of the iliac crest [and fossa], and the psoas takes its origin from the vertebrae between the twelfth thoracic (T12) and fifth lumbar (L5) vertebrae. The iliacus and psoas are joined in the common iliopsoas tendon, which inserts on the lesser trochanter of the femur. This complex is located right in the center of the body and attached to three of the anatomical units that are most crucial to dance movement—the lower spine, pelvis, and hip joint. {1}
Dancers often speak about the need to 'move from the center'. Understanding the psoas and how to recruit it for both stabilization and activation could help dancers achieve this goal.
If a dancer can stabilize the dorsal aspect of the muscle (the portion attached to T12-L2) while activating the contraction of the proximal portion (e.g., to bring the thigh up toward the torso) the body will remain in good alignment and produce an efficient movement. On the other hand, movement is inefficient specifically when it is initiated by the peripheral muscles that lie near the surface of the body, as can be seen all too commonly in students at all levels and in all genres of dance. {1}
We can think of students who are having difficulties with side leg extensions. Beyond the required 90° position, a teacher may notice tension and students can often experience popping or clicking sounds that will hinder this effort.
This has been identified as a positioning problem of the gesture leg and can be solved by the teacher gently guiding the leg to find that particular student's natural 'second position', and raise the leg from there. This position varies from dancer to dancer and should ultimately feel right, i.e. pain free and without tension. The quadriceps do engage during extension, but their role is to be kept secondary to the psoas. {1}
Releasing the quads and allowing the psoas to do its job can help students eliminate the 'gripping' that often occurs when the quadriceps complex is over-recruited during leg extensions.
So, how can dancers learn to use the psoas in order to move more efficiently from their centers?
Solomon recommends a beginning warm up that starts from standing: roll down to the floor, place the seat onto the floor, continue to roll onto the back, reverse the movement and return to standing. Perform this movement vigorously to increase blood flow, heart rate and allow for joint lubrication.{1}
Exercises that emphasize the role of the femur as 'lever' can help strengthen the psoas and include coccyx balances with leg extensions to the front and side.
Solomon concludes the article with, "I emphasize the roles of the psoas, the pelvis, and the spine because the study of anatomy has led me to believe that they are the prime motivators of movement. If the dancer is able to initiate action by the use of these components, all else should follow and the movement produced will be relatively stress free and efficient." {1}
Please refer to this helpful article cited below for visual aids as well as a listing of references used in the article that may generate further exploration of the psoas or 'the dancer's muscle'.
{1} Functional Anatomy Training: An Efficient Warm Up Emphasizing the Role of the Psoas, IADMS Bulletin for Teachers, Vol 3, #2, 2011.
Until next time, dance healthy and long, friends!
Janine Bryant
Co-Director of Dance
Faculty of Biokinetics, Education
and the Campolo College for Graduate and Professional Studies
Eastern University, St. Davids Pa.
- Snapping Hip Syndrome - July 11, 2016
- Safely Increasing Range of Motion or Never, EVER Stretch a Cold Muscle - January 7, 2016
- The Aging Dancer – Part 3 – A Global Survey - November 1, 2015
- The Aging Dancer – Part 2 – What is Glycation? - September 15, 2015
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Home List of Titles The social impact of industrial and resource development on local communities: a survey of residents' views
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/34057
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- The social impact of industrial and resource development on local communities: a survey of residents' views
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- Newton, Peter W.; Parin, J.
- Abstract
- This paper describes the results of two surveys of public attitudes, perceptions and expectations regarding large-scale energy development projects in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria. A baseline survey was conducted in 1974, before plans for a massive increase in planned energy generation for the Valley had begun to be instituted (projected to inject 440MW per year additional capacity to the year 1989, compared with an average annual increase of 52MW per year which characterized the period from 1921 to 1974 (State Electricity Commission of Victoria 1981)) and before construction commeneced in 1977, on the first of two 2000MW power stations, located at Loy Yang, six kilometres from the town of Traralgon in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria. A subsequent survey was undertaken in 1981, with contrsuction well-advanced on the first two 500MW units. The community studies represent part of a major project concerned with impact assessment of new industrial and resource projects in settled (as distinct from isolated) regions of Australia.
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- 1983
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Located in Galway City Centre, Menlo Park Hotel is within a mile (2 km) of popular sights such as Galway Cathedral and St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church. This 4-star hotel has 70 rooms and welcomes guests with a restaurant, free in-room WiFi, and free self parking. South Park and Galway City Museum are also nearby.
Sit down for a leisurely bite to eat at the onsite restaurant, or enjoy a drink at the bar/lounge. Savor a meal from the comfort of your room with 24-hour room service, or get a quick energy boost at the coffee shop/café. Start each morning with breakfast, served for a fee from 7 AM to 10 AM.
Menlo Park Hotel's 70 individually decorated rooms provide coffee makers and desks. Guests can expect free WiFi and plasma TVs with satellite channels. Bathrooms offer deep soaking tubs, hair dryers, and free toiletries. In-room massages are available.
Property features
At Menlo Park Hotel, guests have access to free WiFi in public areas, coffee in a common area, and laundry facilities. There's free parking, and an airport shuttle (available on request) for EUR 12-15 per vehicle one way. The 24-hour front desk has staff always at the ready. Additional amenities include a garden and wedding services.
- Close to Galway Cathedral and St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Free parking
- Onsite dining
Menlo Park Hotel
Hotel Amenities
Room Amenities
Menlo Park Hotel offers 70 accommodations with coffee/tea makers and hair dryers. These individually decorated accommodations include desks. Plasma televisions come with satellite channels.
Bathrooms include bathtubs or showers with deep soaking bathtubs and complimentary toiletries. Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access.
- Coffee/tea maker
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- In-room massage available
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Bathtub or shower
- Desk
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
- Room service (24 hours)
- Individually decorated
- Plasma TV
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
Hotel Amenities
Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant, a coffee shop/café, and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) is offered to guests. This eco-friendly hotel also offers a garden, coffee/tea in a common area, and laundry facilities. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Menlo Park Hotel is a smoke-free property.
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 70
- Babysitting or childcare
- 24-hour front desk
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Coffee shop or café
- Free WiFi
- Laundry facilities
- Number of floors - 3
- Garden
- Restaurant
- Snack bar/deli
- Free self parking
- Smoke-free property
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
- Wedding services
- Year Built 1998
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Snack bar/deli
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Where to Eat
Breakfast is available for a surcharge and served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
Bia Beo - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Reservations are required.
24-hour room service is available.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Ecotours nearby
Hotel Policies
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No cribs (infant beds) available
Noise-free rooms not guaranteed
PLEASE NOTE: The Economy Double Room type is located above the function room and may be subject to noise when functions are taking place.
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: EUR 12 per person (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: EUR 12-15 per vehicle (one way)
- Late check-out fee: EUR 30.00
We should mention
This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Hotel Name
- Hotel Menlo
- Hotel Menlo Park
- Menlo Hotel
- Menlo Park Galway
- Menlo Park Hotel
- Menlo Park Hotel Galway
- Pets not allowed
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National Rating
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Camping around the South Holston?
I am planning a trip to the SOHO soon with my 14 year old son and would like to pitch a tent for a few days rather than do the Hotel thing. The problem is that I don't know of any areas to camp. Could someone please help with any ideas oon a good spot. Showers and electricity would be nice but not necesarry.
T. Echols
Your thread got buried on here today. We could really use an "off topic" forum for anything other than fly fishing related questions and post.
I have never stayed here but have heard that it is nice, and close to the river. Hope this helps. http://www.cherokeetrailscampground....utfishing.html
Little Oak Campground
I have no idea what their season is, but they are on Holston Mountain. You can access it from HWY 421 or from the Hickory Tree area. If I can get any more info on their season I will post again. I think someone else on this board was thinking about coming up to East TN and hoping to stay there. It's a gravel road but doesn't take too long to get in and out.
The place the local fly shop recommends is Pursuit Farms. I dont have any info as of yet but I do at the office. I will post info later.
Pursuit Farms is a piece of private property owned by a very friendly gentleman named Jud. He does allowing camping at times as long as nothing is planned for his family at that time. No facilities, just a piece of farmland, and it is a donation type location. I usually give him around $15 per night just for the convenience and company he provides. I have also stayed at Cherokee Trails campground, and they do have a bathroom on site.
Pursuit Farms is part of the spawning grounds that are closed to fishing from Nov 1st till Feb 1st. I am not sure of the dates, but I am positive that this property is covered by that regulation.
Pursuit Farms
Would you email me some contact info? (email@example.com) I'm planning on an overnight trip to the SoHo at the end of the month. Last year, I slept in the car. (Not recommended.)
Little Oak Campground (update)
I talked with a friend this morning who camps at Little Oak nearly every year. He said that he was not aware of any contact #'s. He had gotten in touch with the host one time before, but that was no easy task. He believes that they shut down most of the campground the middle of October, but they do leave one loop (I believe there are 4 loops) open later into the year. The campground is nice and borders South Holston Lake. He said it was about 7-8 miles of gravel coming in from either direction, HWY 421 or Hickory Tree. They do not take reservations, so all you can do is show up and see if they have a spot.
Just for kicks - and since I didn't have anything better to do - I goggled "South Holston River camping" and here's some of what I came up with:
B&B Lakeside Campground, Bluff City, TN, 423.383.5555
Bristol-Kingsport KIA, 425 Rocky Branch Rd., Blount ville, TN 37617, 800.562.7640
Holston View Campground, 207 Old Weaver Pike, Bluff City, TN 37618, 423.367.6627
I was actually trying to find out if there was any camping at Watauga Lake - a beautiful piece of God's country!!
Cardens Bluff is on Watauga.
Thanks guys, this is a great start. I will do a little research and make some calls. I don't know an exact date I will be heading that way as of yet but this will help. As usual, if you need some answers on anything, this is the board to get it.
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Mediterranean Chickpea Salad
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Yummy and light; a combo of a couple of recipes I like...
Ingredients Nutrition
- 3 (15 ounce) cans chickpeas, drained and rinsed (also called garbanzos)
- 2 large red bell peppers, seeded and diced
- 3⁄4 cup reduced-fat feta cheese, crumbled
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 red onion, diced (small)
- 1 cup fresh parsley, chopped
- 1 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 3 tablespoons olive oil, extra-virgin
- fresh ground black pepper
- sea salt, to taste
- Combine all ingredients and stir well. Can eat immediately, but tastes better after refrigerating for several hours.
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This is a great salad! It is really flavorful versatile and packs a healthy dose of protein and fiber. was very popular at a party. It packs well for picnics and lunches and stays crisp for 5+ days. It is great plain but can also be put on a bed of lettuce or in a pita pocket, and is great with added leftover chicken. It makes a great main dish and a tasty side dish as well. It is very easy to scale down this recipe. The servings listed are for main course size- if you are going to be using it as a side you will get a lot more servings.


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Observations: The QandO Podcast for 20 Jan 13
This week, Bruce Michael, and Dale discuss the media and the New Obama Administration.
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Question of the day: how do you enforce "universal background checks?"
A part of the legislative gun control package and executive orders President Obama has set in motion includes this:
Mr. Obama would require background checks for private sales between individuals, including those at gun shows and via the Internet. Expanding the checks is the "single most important thing we can do," a senior administration official said.
Sounds reasonable on the surface, right?
But then the deeper question – how would this have to be accomplished?
Well, let's see – there's no way to track how well this law is being followed unless you are able to identify all the guns that this requirement would cover. And, of course, it would cover every existing gun out there now, right? Isn't that what "universal" means?
So what is required?
Ah, gun registration. Every single, solitary gun that is legally held by the public would have to be registered so the Fed could then track sales and ensure that "proper background checks" were executed. If not, then we have a new crime with which to prosecute citizens and populate our jails.
Oh, and the crimnals? Yeah, they'll play along, won't they?
Can't wait to watch the gang-bangers in Chicago line up to register their guns and do background checks before selling them.
Absurd. And useless.
Observations: The QandO Podcast for 06 Jan 13
The holiday hiatus is over! This week, Bruce, Michael, and Dale discuss the Fiscal Cliff, Debt, and gun control.
The direct link to the podcast can be found here.
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Feinstein's attempt to grab your guns
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is laid out the guts of her bill to ban certain weapons. In it she plans to "grandfather" in those weapons that would be in violation of her new requirements. Among those requirements are certain characteristics that would make a gun an "assault" weapon. She has narrowed it down to a one characteristic test, and would ban magazines that hold over 10 rounds. But where she makes the greatest attempt at tightening gun control is found in the "grandfathering" of weapons which would violate the new law.
Here's the summary of that portion:
Protects legitimate hunters and the rights of existing gun owners by:
Grandfathering weapons legally possessed on the date of enactment
Exempting over 900 specifically-named weapons used for hunting or
sporting purposes and
Exempting antique, manually-operated, and permanently disabled weapons
However, it also:
Requires that grandfathered weapons be registered under the National Firearms
Act, to include:
o Background check of owner and any transferee;
o Type and serial number of the firearm;
o Positive identification, including photograph and fingerprint;
o Certification from local law enforcement of identity and that
possession would not violate State or local law; and
o Dedicated funding for ATF to implement registration
That's right, it will require any owner of such a weapon to undergo a background check, register the weapon with authorities, and then undergo a certification requirement. Same would apply if you sell it to anyone.
Note too the attempt to ignore the self-defense function of owning a weapon by contending the law protects "legitimate hunters" and "sporting activities". As we all know, the Second Amendment says nothing about either of those pursuits.
Liberals, as Rahm Emmanuel once said, never like to let a crisis go to waste. They view the Newtown massacre as an opportunity to further limit the freedoms of Americans. My guess is that any attempt to require federal registration and certification will be met by massive civil disobedience. And deservedly so.
Pushing the liberal agenda
Now that progressives, liberals, whatever they're calling themselves today, are secure in the fact that Barack Obama will be in the Oval Office for another 4 years, they plan on doing everything they can to see that he does what he said he'd do way back in 2008 – or at least what they thought they heard him say he'd do.
Those parts include climate change, drone strikes, gun control and closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, among others.
We've seen the first shots fired in the gun control advocacy (no pun intended) with the absurd Costas gun-control editorial at the half-time of an NFL game. And, of course, Dianne Feinstein is making the usual "assault weapons ban" noises.
By the way, as a complete aside, but speaking of gun control, I want to show you a classic exchange:
Can you say pwned?!
Anyway, back to the subject at hand – the liberal agenda. Remember, Obama told the Russian President that he'd be "more flexible" after his re-election. There's absolutely no reason that he won't be less politically inhibited (because in the political world, that's what "more flexible" really means) domestically as well as internationally is there?
But now? Now it's safe:
"Liberals in the media are going to be tougher on Obama and more respectful at the same time," Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker's chief political commentator and a former speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, told POLITICO. "He was the champion of our side, he vanquished the foe….. [but] now liberals don't have to worry about hurting his chances for re-election, so they can be tougher in urging him to do what he should be doing."
Apparently the NY Times plans on leading the way in pushing and prodding Obama to do what he said he'd do (or what the NYT thinks he said he'd do):
The New York Times editorial page launched a series titled "Goals for a New Term," calling on the president to implement stronger gun control laws and shutter Gitmo, which he had pledged to do during his first year in office. The tone of the editorials has been sharply critical: On guns, the editors suggested Obama lacked courage. On Guantanamo, they slammed his administration for deciding "to adopt the Bush team's extravagant claims of state secrets and executive power, blocking any accountability for the detention and brutalization of hundreds of men at Guantánamo and secret prisons, and denying torture victims their day in court."
Gitmo? There are rumblings out there – again – of the Federal government purchasing a closed prison with the idea of moving the jihadists in captivity there on to the shores of the US. Seems prison is okay for the jihadists if the left initiates the idea of buying one and housing them there. But holding them in Gitmo, a place that wasn't their idea (but clearly is superior to moving them here) is just beyond the pale because, you know, it was that evil Bush's idea. So it's not about incarceration, it's about the myth of Gitmo … or something.
Obama has claimed he has no interest in climate change legislation/taxation in his second term (well, he doesn't as long as there's a Republican House … if that changes in 2014, he might develop an immediate interest). Then he's said he does. Then, yeah, not so much. So who the hell knows. But what we do know is progressives intend to try to push him on this and it certainly wouldn't surprise me if he responds positively. He certainly has nothing to lose. And it may provide a distraction if the economy keeps tanking. He can couch his attempt to tax thin air in the usual class warfare (fat cat corporations fouling the streams and polluting the air while melting the ice caps to boot). He can call for "social justice" because, you know, climate change effects those least able to afford it first … or something.
Drone strikes? Yawn. A small faction of the left concerns itself with drone strikes. It is classic leading from behind. Get over it progressives. Your President approves all those arial assasinations himself. It is part of the responsibilities that Nobel Peace Prize winners must endure.
Sarcasm aside, it will indeed be interesting to see if Obama does anything for progressives in his 2nd term. Will he become an activist president or will he vote "present?"
Well, let's see – is he taking the lead in fiscal cliff negotiations and working tirelessly with Congress to ensure a solution before the deadline or is he going on a 20 day vacation to Hawaii ending January 6th?
Worst. Pro-Assault. Weapon. Ban. Argument. Ever.
Interested in seeing one of the dumbest attempts to counter an argument against reinstituting the "assault gun" ban?
It's, well, pretty pathetic, and, coming out of Media Matters, shouldn't really surprise you.
First the graphic that started it all:
Okay, you're in the ballpark now.
The Media Matters person (Timothy Johnson) says:
The image was created by a blogger who used it to argue in favor of the ban, writing that "If you can buy the gun on the top, but can't buy the bottom gun, who cares? You still have a gun." McArdle responded that "if it makes no difference, than why have the law?" and argued that "'assault weapon' is a largely cosmetic rather than functional description."
But Johnson says there are vast differences which mean that, hey, they're just not the same. The bottom one, per Johnson, is much more lethal. And he's got the reasons why:
In fact, the lower pictured weapon, a Mossberg 500 Tactical Persuader, has a number of features that increase its lethality compared to the top pictured shotgun. Contrary to what the graphic suggests, the only difference between the two weapons is not just the pistol grip featured on the Tactical Persuader. The Tactical Persuader also has an adjustable stock that can be removed from the firearm completely, which allows the gun length to be shortened for increased concealability. Furthermore, when combined with a pistol grip, the firearm can be more easily maneuvered, allowing the shooter to fire from the hip and more easily use the weapon from vehicles and in other close quarters situations.
An almost identical configuration was sought out by Suleman Talovic, a teenager who used a Mossberg-derivative pistol grip shotgun during a rampage that killed five and wounded four at the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah on February 12, 2007. A recent report issued by the John Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research found that firearms with assault weapon features are disproportionally used in mass shootings and that when used result in higher numbers of casualties.
OK? You get my point about silly?
A "pistol grip" doesn't "increase lethality" unless you beat someone over the head with it (by the way, I can make a pistol grip on the other using a saw in about 5 minutes, or, just buy one aftermarket and install it on the top gun). Pistol grips are non-lethal "features", not lethal weapons.
Secondly, being able to conceal something doesn't make it more lethal either. It simply means you can hide it better. How hiding something better becomes "lethal" will have to be answered by Mr. Johnson who seems not to know what "lethal" actually means.
In fact the blogger is correct – they are exactly the same gun where it counts. And to be lethal, you must still load them, point each of them at someone and pull the trigger. One doesn't shoot more rounds than the other, one doesn't use a "bigger" round than the other, one won't shoot faster than the other. They are each 12ga 6 round pump shotguns. Period.
Finally, correlation is not causation (i.e. the gun made him do it where he might not have had he had the top shotgun available instead) and the fact that someone on a rampage chose a shotgun with a pistol grip over a rifle stock doesn't make the one with the pistol grip more lethal (I do wish this guy would look up "lethal").
Additionally the fact that one might be able to be used in "close quarters" better than the other again doesn't make it more lethal. It simply provides a perceived advantage over the other that may or may not, in fact, play out. If, however, it is something anyone would want, it is easily done to the top gun with a minimum of effort or cost.
Then, I assume, thinking he has just nailed it by pointing out the "lethality" of the pistol grip, he throws this up from some activist group that is just about as silly as the rest of his stuff:
All assault weapons–military and civilian alike–incorporate specific features that were designed for laying down a high volume of fire over a wide killing zone. This is sometimes known as "hosing down" an area. Civilian assault weapons feature the specific military design features that make spray-firing easy and distinguish assault weapons from traditional sporting firearms.
Civilian "assault weapons" or those which look like them are "semi-automatic" by law. Military assault weapons usually have the option of automatic fire. It is on the automatic selection that a large volume of fire is going to be projected (and, unless you know what you're doing, very ineffectively). Civilian guns don't have that option. They're not the same freakin' thing regardless of how they look!
Consequently they're not going to be doing any "spray firing" or "hosing down" of an area in semi-auto mode. Can a semi-auto put out a decent amount of fire? Yes, especially if it has a large capacity magazine. But those two shotguns in question are pump action and only hold 6 rounds each.
Shotgun A will fire no faster or slower than shotgun B in the picture above. If A can do it, so can B and the reverse is also true. And whatever they do will involve shoot, pump, shoot, pump, shoot, pump etc. The bottom shotgun doesn't go "boom, boom, boom, boom, boom". It does exactly what the top one does – "boom, pump, boom …" (I wanted it to make it easy for Johnson to understand).
So, in sum, the blogger is correct, but even more correct is Megan McArdle. What's the point? They're pump action shotguns that are, except cosmetically, exactly the same (and each can be modified in any number of ways from their stock appearance). What again is the point of the law?
Uh, control, that's what.
The end of gun control?
I ran across an article in Forbes by Mark Gibbs, a proponent of stricter gun control, in which he thinks, given a certain technology, that gun control in reality may be dead.
That technology? 3D printers. They've come a long way and, some of them are able to work in metals. That, apparently led to an experiment:
So, can you print a gun? Yep, you can and that's exactly what somebody with the alias "HaveBlue" did.
To be accurate, HaveBlue didn't print an entire gun, he printed a "receiver" for an AR-15 (better known as the military's M16) at a cost of about $30 worth of materials.
The receiver is, in effect, the framework of a gun and holds the barrel and all of the other parts in place. It's also the part of the gun that is technically, according to US law, the actual gun and carries the serial number.
When the weapon was assembled with the printed receiver HaveBlue reported he fired 200 rounds and it operated perfectly.
Whether or not this actually happened really isn't the point. At some point there is no doubt it will. There are all sorts of other things to consider when building a gun receiver (none of which Gibbs goes into), etc., but on a meta level what Gibbs is describing is much like what happened to the news industry when self-publishing (i.e. the birth of the new media) along with the internet became a realities. The monopoly control of the flow of news enjoyed by the traditional media exploded into nothingness. It has never been able to regain that control, and, in fact, has seen it slip even more.
Do 3D printers present the same sort of evolution as well as a threat to government control? Given the obvious possibility, can government exert the same sort of control among the population that it can on gun manufacturers? And these 3D printers work in ceramic too. Certainly ceramic pistols aren't unheard of. Obviously these printers are going to continue to get better, bigger and work with more materials.
That brings us to Gibb's inevitable conclusion:
What's particularly worrisome is that the capability to print metal and ceramic parts will appear in low end printers in the next few years making it feasible to print an entire gun and that will be when gun control becomes a totally different problem.
So what are government's choices, given its desire to control the manufacture and possession of certain weapons?
Well, given the way it has been going for years, I'd say it isn't about to give up control. So?
Will there be legislation designed to limit freedom of printing? The old NRA bumper sticker "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" will have to be changed to "If guns are outlawed, outlaws will have 3D printers."
Something to think about. I think we know the answer, but certainly an intriguing thought piece. Registered printers? Black market printers? "Illegal printers" smuggled in to make cheap guns?
The possibilities boggle the mind. But I pretty much agree with Gibbs – given the evolution of this technology, gun control, for all practical purposes, would appear to be dying and on the way to dying.
Twitter: @McQandO
Was "Fast and Furious" a government plot to increase gun control?
We've been asking about that since the scandal first came to light months and months ago on the podcast and on the blog. Usually not given to conspiracy theories, we've found it hard to justify the operation otherwise. The recent use of executive privilege by the President seems to lend credence to the assertion/theory.
At least in this case, It appears where there's smoke there may be fire. And both Rep. Issa and Sen. Grassley have spoken out on the notion:
But the suggestion by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., that the deadly operation was conceived to advance the administration's gun-control agenda is quite plausible.
"Here's the real answer as to gun control," Issa said on ABC's "This Week": "We have email from people involved in this that are talking about using what they're finding here to support the — basically assault weapons — ban or greater reporting."
Issa was asked about the possible connection after comments he made at an NRA convention. "Could it be," he said on NRA News' "Cam & Company" program, "that what they really were thinking of was in fact to use this walking of guns in order to promote an assault weapons ban? Many think so. And they haven't come up with an explanation that would cause any of us not to agree."
Grassley is less oblique about it:
According to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, "There's plenty of evidence developing that the administration planned to use the tragedies of Fast and Furious as rationale to further their goals of a long gun reporting requirement."
In fact, they've already cranked up the reporting requirements:
As Issa noted on "This Week," the Department of Justice announced on April 25, 2011, "right in the middle of the scandal," that it was requiring some 8,500 gun stores in Arizona, California, Texas and New Mexico to report individual purchases of multiple rifles of greater than .22 caliber by law-abiding American citizens to the ATF because such guns are "frequently recovered at violent crime scenes near the Southwest border."
Of course every one of the multiple sales that contributed to the guns that went into Mexico were okayed by the ATF. And don't forget the prelude to all of this: the use of a discredited study that supplied the justification for an attempt to increase gun control:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others in the administration had been pushing the discredited line that 90% of guns seized in Mexico came from the U.S. as justification for stricter gun laws and reporting rules.
But of course, it's all really nothing more than a logical assertion or theory at the moment since the misnamed Department of Justice won't release key documents as legally and rightfully demanded by Congress (in the execution of its Constitutional duty of oversight) and the President of the United States is aiding and abetting this avoidance of DoJ's legal duties.
Reinstating the assault gun ban and tightening gun control are undeniable goals of the liberal left. There's no denying that. But to summarily do it would be politically disastrous and they know that as well. So there has to be a pretext, a reason for it. What better pretext than the death of hundreds of Mexicans at the hands of guns smuggled in from the US coupled with the false 90% stat? Convenient, no?
Obviously it wasn't supposed to leak out that the Federal government ordered it or, I'd guess, see 2 Federal agents be murdered as a result of their operation.
What could be worse than turning over the documents requested by Congress?
Something like this coming to light.
Look for the Obama administration to do whatever is necessary to delay, deny and obfuscate for 4 months on this.
But if this is true, and if Obama is fortunate enough to be re-elected, it may end up being a very short second term. There are scandals presidents can survive and then there are those they can't survive.
This would be, or at least should be, one that isn't survivable.
Twitter: @McQandO
McCarthy – "no reason that these devices should be available to general public."
One of the reasons I repeat over and over again that "freedom is choice" is to give context to stories like the one that follows and to give the reader an idea of why I am usually against anything that limits choice.
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy's (D-NY) bill would limit the magazine capacity for pistols. It is another "freedom traded for security" bill which limits choice simply because it makes some people uncomfortable for that choice to be available to you. They simply don't believe you're responsible enough to have it.
"The only purpose for the existence of these devices is to be able to shoot as many people as possible as quickly as possible," McCarthy wrote in a letter to her colleagues that accompanied the bill. "There is no reason that these devices should be available to the general public."
For the sake of argument, let's stipulate that's true. That the only reason these high capacity magazines exist is to "shoot as many people as possible as quickly as possible". So what? As with most anything it can be used for a good purpose (defense) as well as a bad purpose (murder – in this case, mass murder). So on its face, shooting "as many people as possible as quickly as possible" can be a good or bad thing depending on the situation. McCarthy would like you to believe such a ban would only effect the "bad thing". Obviously, that's not true.
But, that's not the line I object too the most. I find "there is no reason that these devices should be available to the general public" to be something that should send chills down the spine of anyone who is concerned with growing government oppression.
Why? It's an attitude that has gotten us in the shape we're in today. What she is asking is for like minded legislators to agree with her premise that government should decide what the public can and can't use responsibly.
Never mind that shoot-ups in Safeway parking lots involving members of Congress by deranged lunatics are as rare as hen's teeth, Ms. McCarthy has decided that there is "no reason these devices should be available to the general public". She claims that should be government's decision/choice – not yours. This latest situation provides an excuse to attempt this power grab, not a real reason.
So to you who've owned that Browning High Power for 20 years and have the original 13 round mag – she would make you a criminal upon passage of the bill (it would eliminate the exception for mags manufactured before '94). If anyone finds out you have one and turns you in, you're up for 10 years in the pokey. The fact that you've responsibly had and used it for over 20 years means zip (although it does demonstrate the bankruptcy of her argument).
McCarthy's reason for attempting to do this is personal:
Gun control is a personal matter for McCarthy, whose husband was murdered and son seriously injured in 1993, when a disturbed gunman opened fire on a Long Island commuter train. Like the alleged Arizona shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, the gunman who killed McCarthy's husband also used a high-capacity magazine.
I'm sorry to hear that. However, it was the deranged killer that murdered her husband, not the high-capacity magazine. I'd love to hear the argument that says a deranged killer would have stopped firing after one 10 round mag if we'd just eliminate access to mags with capacity above that. Of course that's nonsense. And changing a mag in a hand gun, with even minimal practice, is both quick and easy. It would be done before most realized it was happening.
As I've said many times, a free society is a messy society which entails risk. That is the price of freedom. But it also buys many more advantages than disadvantages. An authoritarian society is usually a tidy society with full jails and no choices in life. We've seen what they're like.
Attitudes that say "we'll decide what you can or can't have or what should or shouldn't be available to you" don't belong in Congress or a free society. Not their job, although unfortunately that seems to be what it has devolved into.
We increasingly see government take more and more choice away from us. The attitude McCarthy enunciates isn't uncommon at all. In fact it is quite common and reveals itself in much of the legislation that passes through Congress these days.
It is an attitude which we should demand be changed and changed quickly. Reducing choice and making otherwise law abiding citizens criminals with the stroke of a pen won't change a thing in regards to deranged lunatics shooting up places with or without high-capacity mags. McCarthy's bill isn't about high-capacity mags, really – its about control, and not just gun control. And, as with most laws like this, it will only effect the law abiding as criminals and "deranged lunatics" will flat ignore it (and a thriving black market in high-capacity mag will establish itself and thrive).
"The United States Constitution guarantees to our citizens the right to keep and bear arms," McCarthy wrote in a letter to her colleagues that accompanied the bill. "At the same time that we can all acknowledge this basic right, I believe that we should also be able to come together to develop reasonable laws designed to ensure that the right to bear arms is exercised safely and responsibly."
That, Ms. McCarthy,is demonstrated by the responsible behavior of multi millions of gun owners in this nation daily. The law she wants passed won't change that at all. And that's the point.
It's about more control and less choice, and for the most part, any proposed law of that sort should be resisted fiercely.
Say "no" to Rep. King's proposed gun law
Well the usual over-reaction is under way after the Tucson shooting of Rep. Giffords. I've mentioned the silly nonsense about a bill to ban "crosshairs" in political speech (which begs the question, what part of "Congress shall make no law" concerning political speech as laid out in the First Amendment). But Rep. Pete King, a NY Republican, has decided that a "gun control" measure is what is necessary. His solution?
Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York, is planning to introduce legislation that would make it illegal to bring a gun within 1,000 feet of a government official, according to a person familiar with the congressman's intentions.
Why is it the propensity of these folks to restrict the freedoms of others instead of doing something to increase their own security? Mostly because they can. Look, I can understand the fear this sort of a situation brings, but I'm sorry, restricting the freedom of law abiding citizens because of your fear is not what this country is all about – not if freedom is the fundamental idea upon which it is founded.
Consider this scenario in light of King's nonsense – a legal possessor of a concealed carry permit is in a diner with his firearm on his hip sipping his morning coffee and minding his own business. Some "government official" drops in unannounced to do a little per-election glad-handing. The man with his legal firearm is now a inadvertent but prosecutable law breaker.
So what's King going to do – make every government official wear a sign around their neck so those who might be carrying legal firearms can give them a 1,000 foot wide berth? Why not just put – dare I say it – crosshairs on them? Because if this is to become the law then it is incumbent upon "government officials" to ensure that those who might inadvertently break the law otherwise, are fully aware of when "government officials" are in the area.
Secondly, I hate to break it to King, but as with all laws, those who have a criminal agenda will not obey it or even give it a passing thought. Essentially it will only ensnare those who most likely are innocently doing their own business. Guys like Loughner won't change their plans one iota because King and Congress pass some law about 1,000 feet of space. It will only become another after-the-fact charge, another law broken, to add to the charge sheet. But won't stop a thing.
It is one thing to say you can't bring a firearm to within 1,000 feet of a school or government building. They don't move and they're easily identifiable. Not so with "government officials".
Bad idea and would make a bad law – as simple as that. Oh – and when Mayor Michael Bloomberg comes out enthusiastically for this restriction on our freedom, you should automatically know it's a bad idea, Rep. King.
Don't make laws in emotional haste after the fact – they almost always end up being bad laws that further restrict our freedoms. And this one would be no exception.


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Technically, every year is the anniversary of everything, I suppose.
However, like large, slow-moving planets in a natal chart, some years have a lot more large thoughtforms than others.
Cornerstone chaos magic tech provides some reasonably helpful tools in analysing what we might call an astrology of egregores, in particular, the hypothesis that ideas and thoughtforms possess an independent existence and an ongoing malleability.
And speaking of astrology, here is my plug for the excellent Austin Coppock's even more excellent 2014 almanac. Buy it or I'll slap you.
Onto some of the ghosts, then.
The cententary of World War I
Possibly the biggest. But it also forms something of a 'grand trine' with the 75th anniversary of the start of World War II and the 70th anniversary of D-Day.
We already begin to see rumblings in the Otherworld about this. Nazi paintings are found hanging in the Bundestag. (!) Japanese lawmakers are demanding California remove a War Memorial.
The other German anniversary
This year marks the 300th anniversary of the accession of the House of Hanover to the British Throne. The Hanoverians, of course, gave us Victoria... who gave lots of little children to the Great Houses of Europe... who started those wars whose anniversary it is. (I get the feeling Germany is going to have a very complex year.)
The Battle of Bannockburn
It's the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn... pretty much the entire reason why Alex Salmond selected this year for his referendum on whether or not Scotland will secede from the Union.
Empire Games Commonwealth Games are on in Glasgow over the summer. Don't be surprised if The Lizzie Show -which will be out in full force- negates much of the psychic nationalism Salmond was hoping to capitalise on. HM has had a banner few years of hatches, matches and boatshows. No one does ritual quite like the Queen.
It would probably be quite helpful if Philip dies beforehand, allowing her to adopt the psychic mantle of the Widow Victoria, haunting the Highlands as a lonely matriarch of Empire. That went down great, last time. It's not an earth shattering prediction given his age, but I kinda think Philip's number is up this year... so it wouldn't surprise me. (I also think the bell tolls for Bush Snr this year. Again, not earth-shattering. But in both cases, those Nazi ghosts could do with a few state funerals to feed off.)
The Star-Spangled Banner
It's the 200th anniversary of the Star-Spangled Banner... which commemorates what, again? Oh, yeah.
Magna Carta
It's the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. And yes, I'm sure we all learned that the document was, in reality, an extraction of tax concessions from the King by the elite.
However, that's an unromantic analysis. It was also the thin end of the wedge for modern, representative democracy. And given what's gone on these past fifteen months, a psychic repeat of the begrudging rollback of totalitarian powers from the ruler under the threat of death is just fine by me. I'll take it. 'Consent of the Governed', innit?
The Arts
Each year there are a load of Arts anniversaries, but of particular interest to the magically inclined are the 150th anniversary of Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of The Earth and the 200th birthday of the Marquis De Sade. Also possibly Dylan Thomas but that may just be my stuff.
Further Out
The thing about slow-moving planets is that you start to feel their impact or their change further out from the relevant alignments. Continuing the hypothesis then:
- We have just passed the cententary of the Federal Reserve.
- Next year is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, but with typical Tory tact, this is already causing consternation in Brussels, thanks to an exhibit about the Duke of Wellington.
Jedi ghost lessons
"Your focus determines your reality"
I do, but you don't have to believe that certain thoughts and ideas have an independent existence.
It is enough that the impact of recalling certain ideas in the conscious mind has measurable and repeatable effects... by way of psychological priming and also in discernible psi results when large groups of people focus on a subject or outcome.
The state calendar and the media are going to be wrenching a whole bunch of different, potent concepts out of the background and presenting them before the eyeballs of the developed world. As Qui-Gon tells us, they will be foci. They will be hypersigils.
And it's not even like you need to do anything but watch. These slow-moving idea planets will come round, refract and combine through human consciousness and things will tumble out as a result.
The long range space weather forecast is for an interesting year. Go buy an almanac. And maybe an umbrella.


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Blind walkers raise almost $40,000 for Blind Children's Learning Center
Nearly $40,000 was raised for the Blind Children's Learning Center on Saturday, during the second annual Walk-a-thon.
Four Anaheim Hills families of blind or severely visually impaired children organized teams and took to the streets of North Tustin.
Andrew Skavarla, 10, and his parents Jim and Brigett put together a team and walked. So did Rebeca Steege, 6, and her parents Kevin and Camille.
Scott Thompson and Jennifer Houch got involved too, on behalf of their daughter Danielle, 6, who has been helped by the center. And Mickey King, 6, walked with his parents Danielle and Mike and their team.
"It was heartwarming to see the blind children walking with their canes," said Cathy Goodspeed of Anaheim Hills. "It gratifying to see the community support."
Goodspeed is an assistant director at the center, which teaches infants and children to cope with their visual challenges.
"We had more than 300 walkers this year, including three families from Imperial Elementary School and Crescent Primary," Goodspeed said.
Although it was just the walk's second year, Goodspeed reported that corporate sponsorships had doubled, and that Savon Drugs had been the major sponsor.
"Our corporate partners were responsible for about $23,000 of the proceeds," Goodspeed said.
Musical entertainment was provided prior to the walk by some of the center's musically gifted students.
"Afterward we had hotdogs, face painting and a bounce house for the children," Goodspeed said. "It was a wonderful family day."
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Located some 25kms west of the town of Sandakan, on the northeast coast of Sabah, Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre was founded in 1964 with the aim of rehabilitating orphaned and confiscated orangutans.
Today somewhere between 60 and 80 wild orangutans live in the reserve, and around 25 young orphaned orangutans are housed in the centre's nurseries, cared for by highly trained and motivated staff. The centre occasionally provides treatment for other animals, including sun bear, gibbon, Sumatran rhino and the odd elephant.
Sepilok consists of 43sqkms on the edge of Kabili-Sepilok Forest Reserve. During a visit you will learn about the programme of re-adjustment to the wild and see a daily feeding session. The centre supplements the diet of recently rehabilitated orangutans with milk and bananas. This additional food is deliberately designed to be monotonous in order to encourage the animals to forage for themselves. Although the education of both local people and visitors is one of the centre's key objectives, this is never allowed to interfere with the rehabilitation process, so visitors are restricted to walkways and are not allowed to approach or handle the apes. However on occasion the orangutans themselves are seemingly either unaware of this rule, or reluctant to obey it!
In the wild, infant orangutans remain with their mothers for up to six years while learning the skills necessary to survive in the forest – the most important of which is climbing. The centre uses a buddy system – in which a young animal is paired with an older one – to replace a mother's teaching and help pass on the requisite skills.
The creation of reserves such as Kabili-Sepilok reduces the impact of deforestation on orangutans, and as a result fewer young apes fall victim to the now-illegal trade in pets. Young animals are frequently caught while logging or forest clearance is taking place, or captured by poachers who may even slaughter the adults to get them. In captivity young orangutans often fall sick or suffer neglect, or even cruelty. Some individuals raised as pets can never return to the wild, however others can benefit from the costly process of rehabilitation, which may take as long as seven years. The Malaysian Government has outlawed the practice of illegal trading in orangutans, and imposes stiff prison sentences on anyone who is caught keeping an orangutan as a pet.
- Ideal for viewing: Bornean pygmy elephant, mouse deer, orangutan, slow loris, western tarsier
- Where: Sabah State, Borneo
- View on Protected Planet Sepilok Forest Reserve & Orangutan Sanctuary
Wildlife trips
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Festival of Wildlife: Sepilok & Kinabatangan Extension
This 6-day extension to Sabah travels to the Kinabatangan River, a wildlife sanctuary of immense significance. Stay at a wonderful lodge on the river and enjoy a full programme of jungle boat trips and excursions, before continuing to Sepilok, with visits to orangutan, sun bear and proboscis monkey sanctuaries.
- When to go: Jun
- Duration exc. flights: 6 days
- Price exc. flights: From £1,995 pp
- Trip type: Group tour
Rainforests & Rivers
Join this small group tour with acclaimed photographer Nick Garbutt to explore Borneo's stunning landscapes and spectacular forests. Sabah's premier wildlife locations are home to a tremendous array of wildlife from the fabled orangutan and the improbable proboscis monkey to hornbills and singing tree frogs.
- When to go: Apr to Sep
- Duration inc. flights: 19 days
- Price inc. flights: From £7,195 pp
- Trip type: Group tour
Sabah & Sarawak Adventure
Search for the wildlife of the interiors amongst the dense jungle and remote rivers of Sabah & Sarawak. Designed to introduce you to the area's top eco-destinations, highlights include a visit to a headhunter tribe, watching orangutans in Sepilok, and Tabin Reserve, home to some of Borneo's unique species.
- When to go: Jan to Dec
- Duration inc. flights: 15 days
- Price inc. flights: From £3,295 pp
- Trip type: Tailor-made trip idea
Sabah Wildlife Special
Travel to Borneo on a two-week trip that visits the best places to see Sabah's wildlife. Enjoy boat trips to discover the extraordinary wildlife of Kinabatangan, including proboscis monkey, orangutan, Asian elephant and Sumatran rhino, and four nights at one of our favourite lodges in the Danum Valley.
- When to go: Jan to Dec
- Duration inc. flights: 14 days
- Price inc. flights: From £4,095 pp
- Trip type: Tailor-made trip idea
Places to stay
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Sepilok Nature Resort
This simple lodge, situated close to the Sepilok Forest Reserve entrance, is extremely comfortable and convenient for visiting the nearby Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary. It offers spacious accommodation in air-conditioned chalets, set in beautiful tropical gardens and connected by boardwalks to the main building.


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January/February 2003
Morning, Noon and Night
Warner Brothers
Bob James' Morning, Noon, & Night (Warner Bros.) illustrates the veteran keyboardist's eclectic musical sensibility. James demonstrates his willingness to incorporate contemporary elements into his sound with the hip-hop-influenced opener "Street Smart," wherein his jazzy piano glides over turntable scratches, samples and hip-hop grooves supplied by Rob Swift of the X-Ecutioners.
James' jazzy piano stylings meet Rick Braun's elegant flugelhorn solos on "Five O'Clock Chateau," the dramatic "Dai Dai Ya" features some call-and-response between James' Fender Rhodes and Keiko Matsui's classically influenced piano, and James' daughter, singer Hilary James, delivers a melancholy vocal performance on the adult contemporary ballad "When the Love Is Over." Top smooth-jazz producer Paul Brown makes a rare artist appearance on "Over & Over"; the gospel-inflected track gets some South Asian flavor courtesy of Brown's electric sitar accents. On James' tribute to Count Basie, "Count on It," jazzy soloing by the keyboardist and by guitarist/producer Chuck Loeb, coupled with a horn section that provides unobtrusive but unmistakable shading and punctuation, brings Morning, Noon, & Night to a gently swinging close.


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Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo, or SABESP (NYSE:SBS), reported encouraging results for the fourth quarter and full-year 2009.
During the quarter, net income increased to R$457.3 million (US$104.1 million) from R$113.3 million in the same quarter of 2008. EPS was R$2.01 (US$2.30), up from R$0.50 (US$0.44) in the year-ago quarter. Reported EPADR was well above the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.39.
During 2009, net income was R$1,373.9 million (US$785.1 million), up from R$63.6 million (US$34.6 million) earned during 2008. The company reported an EPS of R$6.03 (US$6.00), up from R$0.28 (US$0.30) in the previous year. EPADR surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $4.73.
Increase in net come was based on increase in revenue and decrease in total cost and expense.
During the fourth quarter, net operating revenues reached R$1,964.1 million (US$1,122.3 million), up from R$1,835.6 million (US$801.6 million) in the fourth quarter of 2008, representing a 7.0% increase year over year.
During full-year 2009, net operating revenues reached R$7,236.2 million (US$3,600.1 million), up from R$6,838.8 million (US$3,716.7 million) in the previous year, representing a 5.8% increase year over year.
During the fourth quarter, total water and sewage billed volumes increased 3.4% year over year. During 2009, water and sewage billed volumes increased 2.5%.
During the quarter, total costs and expenses decreased 5.2% year over year, attributable to 50.1% decrease in depreciation & amortization expense. However, during 2009, expense increased 10.2% due to 32.3% increase in services expense.
During fourth quarter, EBITDA increased 13.9% year over year to R$834.3 million (US$476.7 million). EBITDA margin also increased to 45.7% from 43.0% in the same period of 2008. However, during full year, EBITDA decreased 3.5% year over year to R$2,741.7 million (US$1,364.0 million) with a margin of 40.7 % from 44.7% in 2008.
At the end of 2009, net debt was R$ 5,790.6 million, down 7.3% against 2008. Due to the amortizations and, mainly, the dollar devaluation, the total debt net balance decreased by R$305 million.
The short-term outlook for the company is solid, due to the September 2009 tariff adjustment. The more relaxed monetary policy in Brazil is also very encouraging.
The company's non-cyclical and relatively low risk business model are also positive. The overall regulatory regime for water and sewage utilities in Brazil has improved considerably recently, reducing the regulatory risk of the industry in general and SABESP in particular. Thus, we maintain our Outperform recommendation on the ADRs.


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#20496 - 03/05/01 01:53 PM Re: Pet Names
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I took it home, and had a very lovable line of "Tuxedo" cats, looking like Sylvester. Incidentally they all had double paws,
How nice that they were all dressed up to go dancing. To the two-step, no doubt.
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Dear TEd: and if I remember correctly El Gordo is not a tale bearer?
#20498 - 03/05/01 04:54 PM Re: Pet Names
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"How nice that they were all dressed up to go dancing. To the two-step, no doubt."
Dear Sparteye: They were turned away from all ballrooms, because though they wore Tuxedos, they also wore white hip boots, and refused to take off their white gloves.
And ladies in Tuxedos had not yet come into style.
#20499 - 03/05/01 09:12 PM Re: Pet Names
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"They are miniature predators; if they were big enough, they would eat you." Food for thought.
And then some still try anyway. [gives Isis a sour look]
#20500 - 03/06/01 09:59 AM Re: Pet Names
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We have 2 cats and 2 dogs. they vehemenently don't care about each other. The dogs are george and Martha
NAmed after the first president and his wife. the imbicile cats are named Jenny and Rita. Rita is 20 and Jenny is 2. Jenny has the stange habit of licking you and then biting you.
#20501 - 03/06/01 01:22 PM Re: Pet Names
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licking you then biting you
What's strange about that? Obviously she wants to know how you taste before she bites into you.
#20502 - 03/06/01 04:01 PM Re: Pet Names
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She should know what we taste like, she bit us a billion imes before!
#20503 - 03/06/01 04:01 PM Re: Pet Names
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She should know what we taste like, she bit us a billion times before!
#20504 - 03/06/01 04:27 PM Re: Pet Names
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I have had many pets. I currently own 2 dogs, Blackie for obvious reasons, and Kodi (short for Kodiak Bear, what she looked like when we got her.) Not too long ago we had three cats, Boots - had white paws, Scoot - used to run the porch rail lickety-split to get away from the dogs, and my husband insisted we needed a Boogie so we could have
boot-scootin'-boogie. The bad part is neither of us know how to do that dance.
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I've recently been wanting to get an Irish Setter and name it Potato.
For reasons lost in the mists of time, the elegant, smoky grey Persian we had throughout my childhood was named Potato. I think my older brother named her, when he was first learning to speak, but no one's sure.
My partner's family until recently had a long-haired grey, who looked much like Potato, whose name was Chairman Mao (I understand mao is "cat" in Mandarin - confirmation of this anyone?).
My own cat is named Nico, and and he's got very sleek, black fur, he's know as Nico and the Velvet Underbelly.
My son has two frogs (hylas, in fact), although there were originally three of them, which he named when he was 2 years old: Humpty-Dumpty, Violin, and A (his first initial). Violin and A live on, and it turns out a 3-year old is not responsible enough to care for them. Frogs, anyone?
I also have a snake named Raya ("stripe" in Spanish) because she comes from Mexico and looks like this:
I've been told that no further pets will be allowed in the house.
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I'm wondering how the domain affects the inverse function.
Taking the example:
The inverse is
Why is the inverse restricted to 0 while the other was restricted to -3? I see it on a graph and I understand that it must be because the function stops being a 1 on 1 at x=0 but I'm wondering how we figure that out with functions that are more complex such as a sinus function or something?
Hm. I must be misunderstanding, as
sqrt((-1)^2) - Wolfram|Alpha
What am I misunderstanding?
EDIT: Woops..Now I see what you mean. -1 is of course not the same as 1. Thank you!
What if we do it the other way around and take g(f(x))? Then we get which must mean that x has to be equal to or larger than -3 as well? Or doesn't that matter?
As far as I remember, f(g(x))=g(f(x))=x for it to be a valid inverse.
Well...According to wolfram I'm wrong (sqrt(-4+3))^2-3 - Wolfram|Alpha
How is it that this is calculated? I would have thought that we started calculating inside the root to get -1, then attempt to take the root but we would end up with an imaginary number...But perhaps that imaginary number squared is equal to -1? (I'm not very familiar with complex numbers).


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Getting Applets To Talk To Each Other
By Sowmya Kannan on Nov 24, 2009
Do you have more than one applet on a web page? Do you want the applets to share water cooler gossip? Ahem..ahem.. On a more serious note, do you want one applet to invoke methods or set variables of another applet?
Long long ago, you may have accomplished applet communication with the use of static variables. This method of sharing applet data is not fool proof. Different applets may run in different instances of the Java Virtual Machine software. This makes it impossible for an applet to see static variables set by another applet.
You should avoid using the following mechanisms to find other applets and share data between applets:
- Avoid using static variables to share data between applets.
- Do not use the
getAppletsmethods of the
AppletContextclass to find other applets. These methods only find applets that are running in the same instance of the Java Runtime Environment software.
Applets must originate from the same directory on the server in order to communicate with each other.
Consider two applets called Sender and Receiver. When a user clicks the button to increment the counter, the Sender applet invokes a JavaScript function to send a request to the Receiver applet. Upon receiving the request, the Receiver applet increments a counter variable and displays the value of the variable.
To enable communication with another applet, obtain a reference to an instance of the
netscape.javascript.JSObject class. Use this instance to invoke
JavaScript functions.
The Sender applet uses an instance of the
netscape.javascript.JSObject class to invoke a
JavaScript function called
try { JSObject window = JSObject.getWindow(this); window.eval("sendMsgToIncrementCounter()"); } catch (JSException jse) { ... }
Note: To compile Java code that has a reference to classes in the
netscape.javascriptpackage, include
<your JDK path>/jre/lib/plugin.jarin your classpath. At runtime, the Java Plug-in software automatically makes these classes available to applets.
Write the JavaScript function that will receive requests from one applet and
invoke methods of another applet on the web page.
sendMsgToIncrementCounter JavaScript function invokes
the Receiver applet's
incrementCounter method.
<script> function sendMsgToIncrementCounter() { receiver.incrementCounter(); } <script>
Note that the JavaScript code uses the name
receiver to obtain a
reference to the Receiver applet on the web page. This name should be the same as the
value of the
id attribute that is specified when you deploy the
Receiver applet.
The Receiver applet's
incrementCounter method is shown next.
public void incrementCounter() { ctr++; String text = " Current Value Of Counter: " + (new Integer(ctr)).toString(); ctrLbl.setText(text); }
Deploy the applets on the web page as shown in the following code snippet.
You can view the Sender and Receiver applets and associated JavaScript code in
AppletPage.html in this example's source code..
<!-- Sender Applet --> <script src="http://www.java.com/js/deployJava.js"></script> <script> var attributes = { code:'Sender.class', archive:'examples/dist/applet_SenderReceiver/applet_SenderReceiver.jar', width:300, height:50} ; var parameters = {}; deployJava.runApplet(attributes, parameters, '1.6'); </script> <!-- Receiver Applet --> <script> var attributes = { id:'receiver', code:'Receiver.class', archive:'examples/dist/applet_SenderReceiver/applet_SenderReceiver.jar', width:300, height:50} ; var parameters = {}; deployJava.runApplet(attributes, parameters, '1.6'); </script>
Download source code for the Sender Receiver Applets example to experiment further.
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Aurelia Michael was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. She began her dance training at the Dance Theatre of Harlem, and continued studying at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Aurelia is a graduate of the Broadway Dance Center Summer Professional Semester, as well as the Motivating Excellence Mentoring Program under the direction of Rhapsody James.
Aurelia has danced for Cirque Du Soleil, Xbox 360, Mattel, the Regional Production of Legally Blonde: The Musical, and an international tour in Ireland with the show Every Little Step. Most recently, she was able to teach the girls of Abby Lee's Dance Studio from the hit TV Show Dance Moms. She has also assisted choreographers in Mexico and Peru, as well as assisting with several artists including Alicia Keys and Carly Rae Jepsen.