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Bloomberg NewsPeople's Insurance Company (Group) of China Ltd., parent of the nation's biggest non-life insurer, said profit rose 19 percent last year as premiums and investment income increased.
Net income climbed to 8.12 billion yuan ($1.3 billion), or 0.19 yuan a share, from 6.83 billion yuan, or 0.2 yuan, a year earlier, Beijing-based PICC Group said in a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange yesterday. That compares with the 9.73 billion yuan median estimate of three analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Chairman Wu Yan boosted net premiums while intense competition and higher expenses eroded margins of non-life insurers. Investment returns expanded and premium income at PICC Property & Casualty Co., the main revenue contributor, climbed 17.5 percent, according to filings.
"Underwriting margins probably dropped because competition is fierce and marketing and repair costs also rose," Olive Xia, a Shanghai-based analyst at Core Pacific-Yamaichi International Ltd., said before the announcement. "Profitability should remain stable this year as we're not seeing substantial increase in the competitive pressure."
The combined ratio, used to gauge claims and expenses as a percentage of premiums earned, rose to 96.7 percent last year from 95.1 percent in 2012, according to the statement. Underwriting profit at the non-life unit fell 21.4 percent to 5.96 billion yuan as expenses climbed and claims jumped 22.5 percent, PICC P&C said, citing the effects of hurricanes and rainstorms.
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Ping An Insurance (Group) Co., the second-largest non-life insurer, earlier this month reported a 2 percentage point jump in the combined ratio to 97.3 percent for the same period. The ratio of commissions paid to agents, calculated as part of expenses, rose 1.1 percentage points to 9.9 percent, "confirming that effective price competition has intensified significantly in 2013," Sanford C. Bernstein Co. analysts led by Hong Kong-based Linda Sun-Mattison wrote in a March 14 report.
Investment income at PICC Group from diviends, interest and rentals increased 24 percent to 27.2 billion yuan in 2013, the company said. Net realized gains from investments jumped more than fivefold to 3.57 billion yuan while impairment losses narrowed to 3.32 billion yuan from 4.15 billion.
The stock rose 1.8 percent to close at HK$3.32 in Hong Kong yesterday, before the company reported earnings, trimming this year's decline to 11.5 percent.
Net income at PICC P&C was 10.6 billion yuan in 2013 compared with 10.4 billion yuan a year ago, the unit said in a separate statement.
Premiums income at the life-insurance unit, the nation's fifth-biggest by premiums, was 75.3 billion yuan, the company said.
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Young Red Army soldier Gu Qing is sent to the northern Shaanxi region of China to learn local folk songs in 1939. He stays with a poor grumpy widower, along with his son Hanhan and his precocious teenage daughter Cuiqiao. The three are initially suspicious of the stranger, but they warm to him after hearing of the new ideas of the Communist party. Soon he teaches the silent Hanhan a song with the line, "Only the Communists can save the poor," but it is with Cuiqiao -- who will soon be sold into marriage...more
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I work as a freelancer in a creative field. I really love what I do, but I am always struggling to pay my bills. I often go without or don't do things I'd like to do simply because I don't have the money. Sometimes, when I get really behind, I have to ask one of my siblings for help. Because I was the baby of the family, my brother and sisters still treat me like the little kid who is always screwing up. But I don't have any idea how I can better manage my money. I keep careful track of my spending and have cut back on everything I can. This causes me a lot of pain and shame, yet I am not sure what else I can do to economize more.
Being a freelancer is tough. Not only is it a lot of work to run your own business, but the ups and downs in income can wreak havoc with your cash flow. The lack of a clear structure can also make it hard to diagnose what needs to be fixed when things are not working.
In your letter you mention all of the things you're doing to carefully manage your money: You track spending, make sacrifices, you go without. Still, it doesn't seem to be enough and you keep finding yourself struggling to make ends meet.
This leads me to suspect that the problem isn't that you need to find more to cut. There are two sides to any equation, and the solution for this one is to increase what you bring in.
I realize this might sound simplistic to the point of being ridiculous. Still, I have worked with scores of freelancers and you'd be surprised how often this is missed.
We all have an internal frame for how we perceive situations where money is out of balance. Some people look at the facts and see too much spending, and others will look at the exact same conditions and see not enough income. Our perception is often a reflection of how we view our place in the world. If a financial problem triggers shame and self-worth issues, then we would rather make cuts, even painful cuts, than deal with the expected rejection of seeking out and asking for more.
It sounds to me like you've reached the limit to which you can shrink your life. So now your money is bringing you to an important lesson: How do you shake off the toxic legacy of the past, and learn to earn what you deserve?
The first thing you need is a structure for your work that buffers you from the distorting effects of emotions. A simple business plan is the tool for the job. You might think, "But I'm just a freelancer, not a business." Not true. Your freelance work is a business, and you need a clear statement of what it is you do, the market for your work, your income goals, and how you plan to spend the money you bring in. Without a plan, your decisions will always be overly swayed by how stressed or exhausted (or, just as dangerously, how optimistic or flush) you feel in the moment.
Many freelancers I know, especially ones in creative fields, only want to focus on the work or service they provide. They figure if they offer a superior product then the rest will sort itself out. But with this narrow view, they may get lost in unnecessary details of production, or see their difficulties as a statement about the value of their work and slash their fees. When you have a working business plan, you have stable targets for what you're trying to earn and spend. You can always edit your plan, it's not written in stone... but in pushing yourself to stay plan-focused you give yourself an important reality check. You can easily tell if you're meeting your target revenue (Nope. Need to focus on generating more income. Should I raise fees? Start a new marketing initiative?) versus overspending (Aha. money is coming in as projected, but I blew my budget this month and need to adjust for the period ahead).
Even after you create your plan, it's perfectly normal to need help in those areas that pose a particular challenge. Change is hard, and we all require help to grow. The key is to connect with positive, constructive resources that will support and affirm your efforts, not tear you down and remind you of past mistakes.
Groups like Underearners Anonymous offer meetings for people trying to address chronic underearning patterns. You might look for a chapter in your area, or read books on the subject like those by noted underearning expert Barbara Stanny.
As I've said before in this column, I'm a firm believer that money troubles often appear in our lives as lessons that help us to grow. You may be the youngest in your family, but you're no longer a baby. Your money is telling you it's time to grow up and grow into your place in the world.
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I could not begin to answer why we are fighting in Iraq especially. Some Freudian complex I believe.
I hope this time we will recognize the difference between being lead and being ruled and make the right choice.
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You have the far left & you have the far right. But somewhere in the middle is common sense. ;):)
Problem is there arent many center lefties any more. They call themselves center but they are far to the left of center. The upshoot is they are closer to sane then the far lefties. The rightie centrist are closer to center then the leftie centrists but still isnt center.
If somebody goes far enough to the right, don't they eventually become left?
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Mark Kelly told reporters on Friday that he expects Giffords to witness Endeavour's launch, scheduled for April 19. With NASA planning to retire the shuttle fleet, this is expected to be Endeavour's last mission.
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I'm so pleased with myself because I already have some Christmas shopping done! And for part of that I have to thank the wonderful people at I See Me! They asked if I would review one of their personalized books for children and I jumped at the chance because I knew this would be a perfect gift for my nephew, who lives in a different state. I sent them my nephew's first and last name, gender, birthdate, and the year in which the book would be given, and a beautiful copy of My Very Own Name showed up a short time later! It was even personalized inside with our own dedication. I know that my nephew and his parents are going to be thrilled with it.
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Mural (top left & right) is located in downtown Lake Providence. It is a wonderful painting of the alligators' territory in the swamps of E. C., Louisiana. (the right picture is actually the left side of the entire image). Bottom left is the Old Gossypia Plantation. It is located on a building close to the Mississipi River levee (downtown) in L. P., La. Both murals have faded considerably, and the mural of the plantation is almost covered by a building next to it. [pictures by Sandy Guthrie Moore]
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I think the divorce rate of America is more lame than this image.
This is lame, in an ironic was as in lame for lamebook to put this up..
fluffernutter December 15th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
5-ish months, eh? Not bad these days.
incorrect use of i/me makes me want to kill
Haha she sent her hubby bankrupt in 5 months from dinning out at the fastest fast food establishments. What an economy booster
if that's her looking good….
why would you leave up photos from your wedding if you're divorced anyway
The Scarlet Pimple December 15th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Married and divorced so quickly that her friends don't even know about it. -
The Scarlet Pimple December 15th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Also, GEEZ: Darlene and Daddy look the same age. At first glance I thought it was THEIR wedding.
Gabriel December 15th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Mackenzie Phillips is fatter than I remember her. Yeesh.
Anitalaff December 15th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
She posted it because it's the best pic she HAS. 'Nuff said
In order to 'hit that' you would need a paper bag for the paperbag on her head. And don't forget to turn out the lights
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guinevere December 15th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
@onoff: it's even worse when people correct your already correct use of I/me. Or maybe I just get annoyed when people who don't know what they're talking about correct me. lol
TheObserver December 15th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
The only thing I'm not sure of with this one is that the photo, which is in the Album "Family", may be from the more remote past. When people are putting together albums on FB they often put in old and new photos, perhaps especially in albums involving family. Stacie might just be a dumbass not-too-close friend who assumed the posting meant a recent wedding.
Ultimately though it's still quite funny – all the levity in the previous comments then Darlene's at the end being the lead balloon.
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TheObserver December 15th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Accidental capital there on the word "album" on the first line.
How can we be sure she isn't lying about the divorce? It seems equally likely her husband is no longer around because she ate him.
lukeish December 15th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
WIN Sensible Madness. WIN
mittens. December 15th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Oh boy, fat jokes. How hilarious and not predictable.
meh. I don't think this post can live up to the excitement I had last night with "MISSION: Unacomplished"
wordpervert December 15th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
agree with 21…not much of interest here
Thirstea December 15th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
@Scarlett Pimple and Reno
Yeah I missed the caption with the picture when i first looked at the post. I thought that the man in the picture actually was Darleen's husband – it was hilarious that first Darleen's friends thought her husband was her dad; and secondly that they did not know she had been married and divorced. Unfortunately it WAS her father, so… not the greatest lamebook ever. -
peaceenz December 16th, 2009 at 12:33 am
I feel so awful, they way Darlene's face is blanked out makes her look a bit… mannish. I nearly thought it was the dude posting the picture.
Gripper December 16th, 2009 at 1:44 am
i'd divorce the fat bitch too.
Aphrael December 16th, 2009 at 2:20 am
lol @Sensible Madness
Gripper, why would you marry her in the first place?
What happens in Vegas, stays on Facebook!
Imamofo December 16th, 2009 at 5:37 am
I was REALLY surprised that somebody had given her a pearl necklace.
Mercure December 16th, 2009 at 7:00 am
Apparently Darlene and her ex-husband are locked in a fierce divorce settlement legal battle to agree who gets possession of the contents of their giant fridge and chocolate collection.
"What happens in Vegas, stays on Facebook!"
…and then gets posted on Lamebook. -
Imamofo December 16th, 2009 at 7:39 am
So I hear. It's all about who gets the custard-y
ThatsNotPoetry December 16th, 2009 at 9:41 am
She looks like a grotesque muppet.
Like a cross between Ms. Piggy and Rowlf.
You know, some guys like short chubby blondes.
Svetlana December 16th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Okay, this is really really really really really lame.
Did I mention really lame?
Mercure December 17th, 2009 at 6:39 am
@Iamamofo: ha ha. Apparently her husband takes the biscuit, and she is now a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
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Monday, August 25, 2008
Deaf Horse, FlipFlop, Needs a Loving Home
It seems other horses on the website have been adopted or their adoption are pending while FlipFlop continues to wait for a home. If you have a land with a barn that is appropriately designed to take in a horse and looking for a deaf horse to be seriously committed to, consider FlipFlop. Isn't she adorable?? I have no doubt that deaf horses are able to respond to sign language.
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is this sweet girl in Maine by any chance? I teach sign language to my children, and have 6 other horses (none that are deaf, but one that has only 1 eye.) I would like to know more about her, the contact information, etc.
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Hello! I've put off posting this because it's an Asian polish (hence the name) and I didn't know what the code/name was, and I kept forgetting to check. I was also hoping to get a bottle shot but no luck for that part yet. Maybe one day...
Color Combos CTW501 is full of iridescent hex and square glitter in a light pink jelly base with some very tiny pink shard glitter. You'll see what I mean in the macro shot. I did 1 coat over Barry M Cobalt Blue, with top coat.
I think the glitter reminds me of sprinkles, or candy, or something like that. I'm not sure whether my brain is functioning fully or not right now. I'm sure it has something to do with the huge slice of chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream I had earlier.
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Bryna and I are going Camping. I want to go somewhere within a few hours drive of Sacto. We're gonna sleep in a tent and cook over a campfire and on my propane stove. I like rivers and woods, she likes beaches, neither of us are hardcore hike in type campers.
Any suggestions? Eh?
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Hi KLJ, Xeno here. Becca and I once went to this really cool place up by Mt. Lassen. We saw eagles and got to go underground in a lava tube. Only a few hours drive I think. It may have been this one. It was also by a beautiful brook. Pretty quiet.
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Thanks Xeno. That looks really cool.
I was just over at www.xenophilia.com the other day, checking out the ol' journal.
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Miami Photographer Tim Chapman Leads Lawsuit Against Remington Over Misfiring Guns
The Remington Model 700
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Tim Chapman, a veteran news photographer who retired last year from the Miami Herald, had been hunting his whole life, and obeyed one rule above all: Always assume your gun is loaded and ready to fire. In October 2009, it probably saved his life. That's when Chapman's Remington Model 700 rifle fired unexpectedly twice, both times without the photog pulling the trigger. Luckily for Chapman, his hunting savvy ensured the gun was pointed harmlessly into the sky.
Only later did he realize that others haven't been so fortunate. Chapman is now headlining a class action lawsuit in Miami federal court against Remington alleging that the company has known about a defect in the rifle for decades and done nothing to fix it -- despite the fact that hundreds have been wounded and at least a dozen killed.
"My main goal is to get this rifle out of the public's hands," Chapman says. "It is gross negligence on the part of Remington that there's never been a recall."
The Model 700, by some measures, is the most popular hunting rifle ever produced, with more than five million sold since it was introduced in 1962. But critics say the company's known about the trigger problem from the earliest days; as early as 1968, Consumer Reports warned of unintended gunshots.
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Lawsuits have also haunted the rifle. In 1978, the company paid $6.8 million to a paralyzed man; in 1994, a jury handed down a $17 million verdict. But the company still elected not to issue a recall. Then, in October 2010, CNBC aired a documentary on the rifle in which Mike Walker - the Remington engineer who'd designed the trigger -- said he had found a fix and pushed for a recall, but the company still refused.
That program aired about one year after Chapman's own near-accident. The photog's brush with the defect came in the pre-dawn hours in a deer blind outside Immolakee. He'd just slipped off the safety when the first shot rang out. Horrified and shaken, the photographer checked the mechanism, reloaded, and then was shocked again when a second shot spontaneously fired.
"I used to hunt all the time with my son. I easily could have killed him," Chapman says.
Still, Chapman thought he had an isolated problem on his hands until he saw the CNBC show. "I literally yelled and jumped off the couch," he says.
Eventually, he hooked up with Jordan Chaikin, a Bonita Springs attorney, who filed a new class action suit with Chapman as the lead plaintiff. They're asking for financial compensation and a full recall.
Remington hasn't yet responded to Chapman's suit. But they've hotly contested reports of problems with the Model 700, telling CNBC that any errant firings are the result of negligence or bad maintenance. "The Model 700, including its trigger mechanism, has been free of any defect since it was first produced," the company said in a statement.
Chapman scoffs at that answer. "I've been hunting my entire life and never had an accident," he says. "It's an absolute sin for this corporation to keep hiding behind settlements instead of fixing this problem."
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His & Hers: Couples Tattoos
For now, we'll keep ruminating on the idea of getting ink of our own as we share some clever designs other couples seem to have gotten just right:
It may be my naivety, but I get the general impression most people with tattoos pretty much know they want one and have gotten one or several in their early years. I wonder how common it is for people to wait to even get their first tattoo later on in life. Most people say to the younger generation, "you just wait and see what that looks like when you get older." Well, how old is older (Tim especially wants to know your thoughts on this question, ha)?
So tell us — do you have tattoos? How long did it take you to decide what you wanted and are you still happy with the decision you made?
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HaHa...If I were younger, I would definitely consider getting one..It wasn't "hip" or "creative" back then (gee I sound like my grandma). Now I have too many wrinkles to enjoy a tattoo!!!
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got my 1st when I was 21 and now I have 4. each of them I got because of experiences I had. I'll be proud to say when I'm older these tattoos were proofs of how awesome I lived my life.
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I was 36 when I got my first....a mother daughter tat that my daughter has as well (each on our wrist). I absolutely love it!! Then I got my second one at age 40 on my ankle/foot area. I never thought in a million years that I would get a tattoo much less two but I have no regrets whatsoever and I have plans on getting a couple more. I don't really care what they will look like when I am old. When I see older folks with tattoos, I think that is cool :)
ReplyDelete I have 3, I got my first at 16 and my next one is a mother/daughter one that I'll get mid next year (because it's spring where I am and I want to be able to swim in the summer). I don't regret any of my tattoos, I'm still in love with them all and even more so because they're placed so that I can hide them from people like potential employers and customers. They all have meaning, and even if/when I grow out of them, they're still a representation of where I was at that stage of my life.


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A company's brand, logo and name is typically found on things like calendars, pencils and printed mugs, and it's the face that the company presents to the world. As important as branding is, you'd think that companies would be more careful when building or rebuilding their brand—but many recent attempts have been nothing short of utter failure. Below, you'll see some examples of branding gone wrong.
The Sci Fi Channel
When the Sci Fi channel premiered its new name, we think they forgot to look it up first. If they'd looked on a site like Urban Dictionary, they would have found out that "syfy"—their new name—is a slang term for the STD syphilis. The company said they changed the name so they could trademark it, and because it resembled text-speak. The public's response was, not surprisingly, almost completely negative.
The PepsiCo subsidiary may have been just trying to revamp a classic, but they should have left well
enough alone. When they debuted their new cartons in the beginning of 2009, the backlash was so strong you could almost feel it. People called the new packaging "stupid", "ugly", and "generic". After over a month of phone calls, social media lambasting and emails, Tropicana returned to the old carton design.
Radio Shack
As electronics stores go, Radio Shack is probably one of the oldest—making its rebranding attempt that much more of a failure. Briefly known as "The Shack", it was the company's way of trying to be hip and stay relevant. Radio Shack almost threw away decades of accrued brand value here, but it didn't last for long.
Capital One
Here's another example of a well-established company trying (and failing) to connect with younger, hipper customers. Sure, their "swoosh" was hip—back in the late 90s! The addition to the brand didn't really add anything, it didn't tell customers anything new about Capital One, and it had already been done countless times.
After their reputation took a serious hit due to some human-rights violations, the Blackwater company tried
to reinvent itself. They chose the name "Xe" because it had no prior meaning or negative connotations, but a mere name change wasn't enough to erase the public's memory of what had happened. It's still commonly referred to as Blackwater, and still struggling to land new contracting jobs.
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but the rebranding attempts on this list (plus many more we don't have time to mention) were totally unnecessary. The companies listed above pinned their hopes for success on their new names and images, but only ended up doing even more damage to their credibility and reputation.
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[NREPL-12] Intermittent test failures for stdin Created: 26/Feb/12 Updated: 10/Jun/12 Resolved: 10/Jun/12 |
Status: | Closed |
Project: | tools.nrepl |
Component/s: | None |
Affects Version/s: | None |
Fix Version/s: | 0.2.0 |
Type: | Defect | Priority: | Critical |
Reporter: | Colin Jones | Assignee: | Chas Emerick |
Resolution: | Completed | Votes: | 0 |
Labels: | None |
Attachments: | 0001-Improve-timing-issues-in-tests.patch |
Description |
Failures like these are happening sometimes in the test suite, mainly around stdin: FAIL in (request-multiple-read-objects-in) (nrepl_test.clj:211) FAIL in (request-multiple-read-objects-in) (nrepl_test.clj:217) I've done a ton of debugging and thinking about this, and haven't gotten far. A few theories I had that seemed decent at the time, but ultimately haven't gotten rid of these occasional failures:
The debugging I've been doing (print statements galore) suggests that when this problem happens, the client does send back the proper :stdin, but it doesn't get picked up by the add-stdin handler in time to write to the :stdin-writer and avoid the expiring timeout. I'm pretty much stumped at this point, unfortunately. |
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Comment by Chas Emerick [ 29/Mar/12 4:18 PM ] |
This is becoming a serious problem; the build fails half the time on build.clojure.org, making it incredibly frustrating to perform releases, etc. Any new ideas / evaluation of this is most welcome. |
Comment by Colin Jones [ 15/Apr/12 10:24 PM ] |
My current vague suspicion is that it's a CPU contention thing between the server and client. It's kind of hard for me to reason about the execution of the response-values lazy seq, and where the blocking actually happens. And of course adding logging changes the behavior sometimes. I wouldn't be opposed to adding sleeps in there, but I expect those kinds of things would still be flaky later, on build machines in particular :/ Incidentally, bumping the client timeout up to Long.MAX_VALUE helps a bit the stdin failures, but doesn't solve them. It does create new ones: session-lifecycle, unknown-op, and read-timeout block forever trying to reduce across the whole seq in combine-responses. It was a bit surprising to me to see that reduce in the response-values pipeline, and I pursued that at one point as well, but it hasn't gotten me anywhere. Decreasing the timeout helps to reproduce the failures. I got this thread dump from a blocking-forever stdin test (run via `lein test clojure.tools.nrepl-test`): https://refheap.com/paste/2141. |
Comment by Colin Jones [ 03/Jun/12 5:07 AM ] |
With this patch, I was able to run clojure.tools.nrepl-test 100 times successfully. Previous attempts would generally only get as far as 15 or so before failing for one reason or another. It also gets rid of a race condition with my skip-if-eol stuff that was addressing multiple input reads. Lastly, it avoids the need for the 10-second timeout, so the tests are faster now as well. |
Comment by Chas Emerick [ 09/Jun/12 10:57 AM ] |
I'm psyched that you may have found the solution to these problems. I've applied the patch locally, and it tests well. I want to eyeball it for a minute (probably tomorrow) before moving on. |
Comment by Chas Emerick [ 10/Jun/12 4:40 PM ] |
Pushed, will be in the next beta release. Thanks so much! |


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The eHealth Initiative (eHI) released a new report entitled "The State of Health Information Exchange in 2010: Connecting the Nation to Achieve Meaningful Use." The report identifies significant growth in the industry, as well as rising concerns related to new government policies, and an increased focus on patients. The report was shared with several hundred state and industry leaders during the National Forum on Health Information Exchange in Washington, DC. The eHealth Initiative has been tracking the progress of health information exchange initiatives for seven years. This year, eHI identified 234 active health information exchange initiatives across the country and 199 organizations responded to the annual survey.
Several key findings emerged from the survey results:
Despite recent funding, significant challenges exist to supporting provider attainment of meaningful use.
The survey revealed that despite expanding capabilities, the ability of HIEs to support providers as they become Stage 1 meaningful user will be challenged by the current number of operational exchanges and current capacity of health information exchange initiatives.
"From the results, it is clear that health information exchange initiatives are focused on supplying the services that will help providers reach their targets," Commented Micky Tripathi, Ph.D., President and CEO of Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative. "While we're on the right track with the service offerings, we still haven't achieved the necessary critical mass of participation."
More research is needed to determine the key characteristics of sustainable systems.
The report confirms that sustainability remains one the key challenges before the initiatives. The State Designated Entities (SDEs) are new entrants in the field, and it is not clear what will be their impact on the initiatives.
"The State Designated Entities (SDEs) are poised to foster growth across the field of health information exchange," said Dr.Marc Overhage, Director of Regenstrief Institute and CEO of Indiana Health Information Exchange. "Among other challenges, the SDEs are going to face the question how to keep the doors open once the federal funding ends. Failure to sustain the SDEs may hinder the overall advancement of health information exchange."
New challenges are rapidly emerging related to federal policy and governance of the health information exchanges.
131 initiatives cited addressing government policy mandates as a major challenge.
More organizations are reporting cost savings through reductions in staff time and redundant testing through the use of health information exchange.
More initiatives reported health information exchange had reduced staff time spent on clerical administration and filing (33); reduced staff time spent on handling lab and radiology results
(30); and decreased dollars spent on redundant tests (28).
Health information exchange initiatives have increased their focus on patients.
Initiatives are providing greater access to patients to not only view (44 in 2010 up from 3 in 2009), but to also update their health information (31 in 2010 up from 7 in 2009).
"There is definite progress here, but it doesn't mean we can rest on our laurels," noted Jennifer Covich Bordenick, CEO at eHealth Initiative. "More initiatives and providers need to document cost savings, and promote services that involve patients in their healthcare."
The report and an interactive map of health information exchange activity are available on the eHI website at: ehealthinitiative.org/2010-survey-health-information-exchange.html
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It's just NAS now, Willy and Dionne dropped the "society" part. No idea why.
I competed for several years, did probably 16 or 17 comps and promoted three. Been out of for a little while now, too busy with work and a couple injuries. Still got my stones in the garage, plus a log, a super yoke, and farmer's implements.
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Tonight Helen Lederer will stand naked on stage talking to her parents. Not literally, you understand, although the experience of her first appearance on an Edinburgh Festival stage for eight years will, she insists, amount to the same terrifying ordeal.
She has been nervously preparing for "An Evening with Helen Lederer", her first stand-up gig this year, when we meet at her south London home. One engagement a year might suggest she has been coasting a little of late, but that is far from the case.
When we meet she is drinking tea from a mug on which are emblazoned the words "Jesus is coming. Look busy". But Lederer, 56, doesn't have to fake it. She must be one of the UK's busiest comedy actors since bursting on to the cut-throat comedy circuit in the 1980s.
She has built a solid reputation with an enviable body of work since 1986's Naked Video, the radio-spawned TV series which nurtured the cream of a generation of comedy writers including Harry Enfield, Gregor Fisher, Paul Whitehouse, Elaine Smith, Steve Coogan, Jennifer Saunders and Rik Mayall.
Naked Video showcased Lederer's writing and acting abilities, and her Sloaney-girl-in-a-bar scenes were a highlight of the series. Catriona, the menopausal magazine editor she went on to play in the Nineties TV comedy Absolutely Fabulous, was in many respects an extension of this character.
"Jennifer Saunders told me the character is one of 'those people that just does things, and no one knows how'. They are well intentioned and rich, not horrible, but completely oblivious and in their own capsule."
Nearly two decades after the first series, Lederer is due to start shooting the new Absolutely Fabulous next month. "It will be very interesting to see how old we all are. Can you imagine? Joanna [Lumley] is one of these women who never ages," she says.
It will be her second screen venture this year, as she also appears as rich aunt Ruby in the Horrid Henry film which opened earlier this month. Add this to her books, sitcom and radio writing, her voice-over work, wine commentating and presenting and it is frankly surprising she has time to contemplate a return to the Edinburgh stage. One might imagine that being in such demand would be something to celebrate, yet there is the sense that Lederer, despite her protestations to the contrary, barely finds solace in it.
She admits she may deserve the internet moniker she has acquired – "the supply teacher of comedy". "When somebody told me I'd been called that on Google, I was surprised, but I found it horrifyingly funny. Everyone else I've told has roared with laughter.
"When I started out doing gigs, there wasn't a Google. There were just really shit reviews. I remember on my first Edinburgh, reading a review, feeling quite sick and thinking, well, I'll just read another, it can't be as bad as that one. And do you know what? It was worse.
"With me being a polymath and a supply teacher I just go, 'oh, they've asked me to do that, great'. I don't have any plan other than writing my sitcom, my book and website. The work that comes in you have to be thrilled about. I just think, brilliant, a job, and jump up and down with excitement."
She is initially reluctant to reflect on what might have been, but then acknowledges that she has "memories that come back and haunt me". "I've had a few near misses. But if you talk to any comedian or actor they all say 'oh, I nearly got that part'.
"We did this thing with Rab C Nesbitt messing about with these two Jewish characters, Miriam and Bernard. But the part never materialised because Nesbitt was understandably so hot and had other offers.
"I understand all that, but I look back and I just go 'bum', because that could've been great. There are a few moments it could have happened, like when I was in Ben Elton's Happy Families. There was Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French – everyone went on to their own series except me!
"You think that these things are going change your life forever, but they are not. 'Supply teacher' might not be too bad, is what I am saying," she laughs, rolling her eyes. Meanwhile she will readily mine her "bitterness" for her new show.
She has not felt the full fury of Edinburgh for eight years. Instead she has dazzled corporate diners bringing a little stardust to proceedings – what she calls being a "K-list" celebrity.
"I do speeches sometimes. But you are allowed to look at your notes and have a meal beforehand. You have to chat and be very jolly indeed.
"Some people stay for the disco, which is amusing," she deadpans. "I have been known to do a bit of a shimmy, because it would be churlish not to. Then I try to shimmy my way out and hunt down my car."
Other material in the show comes from examining tense social situations such as the claustrophobia of polite conversation. "It's a sort of death wish. If your brain is working that hard you are obviously not engaged and then you go, 'oh I'm just going to fuck this up'. It's that thing where you say, 'I mustn't say that', and you do."
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And how does she feel about being a K-list celebrity? "I can't take myself seriously enough not to be all right about it. I'm still here, so I might as well just get out there and do it.
"People can have their time of being inventive, being completely focused with burning ambition. But you can't maintain that over a lifetime.
"And if you don't have anything new to say, that's a problem. But I think I'm saying something different in a new way, but not as a beginner."
The reward for putting herself through such an ordeal again is a simple one. "Humour is a moment, literally a tiny second of something flying between one person and another. That's just gorgeous when it happens."
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Is it ok to use with ios 7.0, and are you SURE it's undetectable, as I have paid out a lot of money on this game and don't want to get banned by Supercell...?? THANKS IN ADVANCE.
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Finally.. a tool without survey!! thank you... and let's FIGHT!!!! ;)
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These last few stages took a while. I painted it with several coats of polyurethane, sanding lightly between coats, and re-staining parts that got a little too much taken off. We had a real problem when it came to handles. The old handles were three and a half inches across and all the new handles are three. I think we looked in three or four hardware stores and online as well. Finally, we settled for these--because they were the only ones in the store that would do, since the plate covers the old holes and we could drill new holes for the handle. I also spray painted the white, plastic-looking shelves so they would fade into the background better.
Anyway, when I look at the many flawed areas, and the less than perfect job of rushed sanding and sealing, I manage to console myself by remembering what the thing looked liked before all this. And when I wish the handles matched a little better, I take a look at the former handles--especially the one on the bottom drawer, and I sigh. It does look lovely now.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
6 comments:
- Carina said...
That looks amazing! I am always impressed with your re-finishing skills. Look forward to seeing it today.
- November 25, 2010 at 7:47 AM
- Johanna said...
It's beautiful!!!!
- November 25, 2010 at 8:28 AM
- annell said...
Love your desk!
- November 28, 2010 at 8:30 AM
- aftergrace said...
It looks even better in person! You've done a wonderful job on this sweet little piece of furniture.
- November 29, 2010 at 7:03 PM
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- Nanka said...
Good restoration work of the old furniture which is well done. You have breathed life into it!!
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NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit MENTA – Mint Tin Arduino Compatible Kit, Includes Mint Tin. Introducing the MENTA, a portable minty Arduino-compatible project that fits into a common mint tin. We took our super popular Boarduino series, and wrapped it with a prototyping area into a rounded PCB that slots directly into an Altoids-sized metal tin. We included everything you expect to jump-start your project:
- DC power adapter jack with polarity protection
- Beefy 1 Amp 5V regulator and 250mA 3.3V regulator for 3.3V devices
- Green power LED, red blinky LED on pin 13
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- FTDI interface plug to connect an FTDI Friend or FTDI Cable
- Female header set so you can plug standard Arduino-compatible shields in.
- There's four mounting holes if you want to attach it permanently to a box or plate
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I JUST BUILT THIS on the altoids proto-board a few weeks ago! gonna have to get one here and compare to my DIY Curiously strong arduino.
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After months of intensive training, Billy is finally ready to go on his first solo creatch op for AFMEC (Allied Forces for the Management of Extraterritorial Creatches). Godzilla-like monsters are menacing the Chinese mountain village of Hua Qing. Billy is more than fired up to fend them off–until he discovers that bossy Ana García will be tagging along. Though Ana is no older than Billy, she's a full-fledged AFMEC agent–and doesn't hesitate to remind him of that fact. Whenever possible.
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Whether it's nachos, burritos, enchiladas, or a variety of tacos, we always end up with full bellies, ready for a nice siesta. There's nothing more fulfilling than a good meal followed by a nice, leisurely nap.
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- 2 Tablespoons Lime Juice
- 2 Tablespoons chopped Cilantro (optional)
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- 1 cup of your favorite salsa. We used a medium, restaurant-style salsa.
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I received my PhD in Vertebrate Palaeontology from the University College London (UCL) and the Natural History Museum (NHM), London, UK. I notably specialize in the study of taxonomy, anatomy, and phylogeny of Mesozoic turtles. My current work is mainly focussed on Late Jurassic turtles from Europe.
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Caramel Apple Mold
Lump sugar/Granulated sugar | 4 Ounce (125 Gram) | |
Water | 4 Tablespoon | |
Cooking apples | 3 Pound, peeled, cored and sliced (1.5 Kilogram) | |
Ground allspice | 1⁄2 Teaspoon | |
Ground cloves | 1⁄4 Teaspoon | |
Sugar | 50 Gram | |
Calvados | 4 Tablespoon | |
Butter | 50 Gram | |
Eggs | 3 | |
Egg white | 1 , lightly beaten |
Put the lump sugar and water in a saucepan and stir over gentle heat to dissolve the sugar.
Bring to the boil and boil until the syrup turns a rich brown.
Remove from the heat and pour into a warmed 900 ml/1 1/2 pint mould.
Tilt the mould so the sides and bottom are evenly coated.
Put the apples, allspice and cloves in a saucepan.
Cover and cook gently for 20 to 25 minutes or until the apples are very soft.
Remove from the heat and mash the apples to a puree.
Return to the heat, uncovered, and cook for a further 10 to 15 minutes or until the puree is stiff and dry.
Remove from the heat.
Beat the sugar into the apple puree, then stir in the Calvados, butter and eggs.
Fold in the egg white and spoon into the caramel-lined mould.
Cover with foil and place in a roasting tin.
Pour enough boiling water into the tin to come halfway up the sides of the mould.
Bake in a fairly hot oven (190°C/375°F or Gas Mark 5) for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours or until set.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes.
Then, to serve hot, unmould onto a serving dish.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 2083 Calories from Fat 514
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 58 g89.7%
Saturated Fat 30.8 g154.2%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 741.9 mg247.3%
Sodium 282.2 mg11.8%
Total Carbohydrates 359 g119.8%
Dietary Fiber 33.6 g134.5%
Sugars 310.3 g
Protein 26 g52.4%
Vitamin A 54.7% Vitamin C 107.6%
Calcium 20.1% Iron 26.2%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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Like The Artist or Newt Gingrich's primary campaign, Ed Sheeran is one of those leftfield successes no one in their right mind would have predicted. What chance of a scruffy kid from Suffolk with an acoustic guitar and passing resemblance to TV chef Jamie Oliver rising to become one of Britain's hottest musical properties? Yeah, right. And pigs will whistle his songs as they fly off to watch a French silent film and cast votes for a family values champion/serial adulterer.
As usual, the received wisdom has got it wrong. Since scoring a top three hit with "The A-Team" in the summer Sheeran hasn't looked back. His debut album has sold almost 1m copies. Triumph beckons at next month's Brits, where he has been nominated for four awards. When the FT reviewed him in July he was playing his largest ever London headlining show in front of 1,000 people. Last week he was back for two nights at the 5,000-capacity Brixton Academy. "Thank you for being present at my biggest gig to date," he announced on the first night, with the swagger of the tyro who sees a succession of bigger gigs stretching ahead of him.
Sheeran, 20, isn't short of confidence. It's needed for his act, which consists of him alone with his guitar and a loops pedal, the latter being used to play back snatches of vocals or music. An a cappella cover of the 19th-century American folk song "The Wayfaring Stranger" was constructed entirely from vocal loops, Sheeran separately recording each element – human beatbox sound effects, backing harmonies – and then layering them together live on stage. The effect was startling; so startling indeed that you momentarily forgot the novelty of seeing a chart pop star with a following of camera phone-toting young fans covering a 200-year-old spiritual from the Catskill Mountains.
Would his show translate to larger venues? There was the odd warning sign: a premonition that confidence could turn into bumptiousness, or that sentimentality could turn into mawkishness, as on a new song written for his godparents' wedding. But mostly Sheeran was impressive and likeable – a bold jumble of musical influences, from the pleading singer-songwriter of "Give Me Love" to the urban-music fan who was joined by guest rappers on two tracks. One was "The A-Team", which offered the peculiar sight of 5,000 people singing along to a song about a homeless drug addict prostituting herself. Alongside the huge catchy choruses was the exhilaration of sensing a rule book being torn up.


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Lanson is one of the oldest champagne houses founded in 1760 by Francois Delamotte, a magistrate from Reims. Not only is it one of the oldest house, but it is also one of the biggest with cellars that stretch over 4miles.
The Lanson Black Label is a champagne that is loved all over the world being one of the best selling champagnes world wide. Created from three grape varieties including 35% Chardonnay, 50% Pinot Noir and 15% Pinot Meunier and then aged for 3 years. An impressive range of 40 to 50 crus are blended together to form this champagne and they are all vivified separately so the cellar master has an exceptional choice of aromas available to him, thus guaranteeing the consistent Lanson at all times.
Lanson Brut's brilliant and clear colour is reminiscent of the straw colour and hints of amber characteristic of the Pinot Noir grape. On the nose, the impression is one of vitality and scents of spring mixed with a touch of toast and honey. The palate consists of ripe fruit and citrus to create a sensation of fullness, fruitiness and lightness. A pleasant racy wine with a long and lingering taste.
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Strength (ABV) | 12.5% |
Brand | Lanson |
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Release Date: 1968 | Tracklist
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffIconic counterculture album for fans of rock/metal. Full album here: http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Steppenwolf/1120539 Your comments are appreciated.
Digging: Doomocracy - Visions & Creatures of Imagination
Album Rating: 4.0Album is great. :3
Don't think I've ever heard a Steppenwolf song other than Born to Be Wild, haha. Will need to check this out.
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Offhaha yeah, there are so many people who haven't heard any of their songs apart from Born to Be Wild. Before listening to a full album of theirs I really didn't think very highly of them but this one is quite solid.
one of the first albums my dad ever bought me. think I was 9 when I first got it
Digging: Venenum - Trance of Death
sweet review buddy, was an enjoyable read. Haven't heard much of these guys will definitely check them out! just a small fix in the first paragraph: That's only one of the reasons THAT Steppenwolf ;)
Digging: Sorority Noise - You're Not As ____ As You Think
Great review man pos'd, no idea why this didn't have one already! I should definitely give it a spin
Its a shame these guys are only known for 2 songs...
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off@Atari Thanks dude, error corrected! It's a cool album and knowing that you enjoy some blues rock I think you'll like it. @Mad I was surprised too man, it's a significant album. @emester Agreed. Their first two albums are solid. Haven't heard their third one for a long time though.
Album Rating: 3.5steppenwolf/
Album Rating: 4.0Woah, I only know 'Born to be Wild', but I am surprised this has such a low number of ratings.
I would give it my 4.0, but only 2014 for me
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffThanks dude.
Album Rating: 3.560's right here
MANO CAN YOU REVIEW TED NUGENT STRANGLEHOLD sorry i didn't realise i had caps on
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffTed Nugent doesn't have a review?! That's weird. I'll need to re-listen it because I like "Stranglehold" but I'm not so sure/familiar with the rest of the album.
Album Rating: 4.0Great review mano, POS. I should give that one a try, it sounds intriguing.
Digging: Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffCheers, appreciate it! On another note, a couple of songs from this one were included in the soundtrack of the movie "Easy Rider". Seems like a great film and I'll definitely watch it in the following days. If this doesn't get you in the mood, I don't know what will: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbATaj7Il8
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Hey everyone, thanks for being patient while I was away and of course, for all of your support and kind words through yet another incredibly difficult time. I'm back to regular posting now and before I review anything, I need to announce the winner of my Knit Two giveaway. I was supposed to draw a few weeks ago, but with all the craziness, simply forgot. Because of the delay, a couple of surprise gifts will be in the winner's package.
The winner of Knit Two by Kate Jacobs is:
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After nearly two years of consolidation, the Dollar (ICE Index) was finally driven to a critical bullish breakout in the final months of 2016.
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the factors that led to EUR/USD breaking through its March 2015 cycle low in Q4'16 will likely maintain their influence into Q1'17
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The Japanese Yen heads into 2017 falling fast against the US Dollar, and fundamental developments suggest the JPY may continue its decline versus the resurgent Greenback.
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Much of what happens to the British Pound in 2017 will depend on implementation of the outcome of the Brexit referendum. Markets will have ample fodder for speculation, from the formal initiation of the process pulling the UK out of the European Union and the subsequent negotiation to the indirect influence of uncertainty on the economy.
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Rising U.S. interest rate expectations may continue to drag on gold prices as the Federal Reserve appears to be on course to further normalize monetary policy in 2017.
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For traders who like to simplify the markets to a game of supply vs. demand, the Oil market in Q1 2017 should be their World Cup. Heading into the New Year, the OPEC and non-OPEC members will cut supply to the agreed upon amounts.
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A buildup of major event risk in 2016 from Brexit to the US Presidential election to the second Fed rate hike put markets back in motion. Will revived trends hold true into 2017 or is volatility the only holdover to depend on?
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Elliott Wave For Beginners
Learn the basics of Elliott Wave Analysis, one of the most misunderstood theories of technical analysis. When its rules are understood and applied correctly, Elliott Wave Analysis can often help you interpret and forecast price action.
Introduction to Forex News Trading
Major economic events and fundamental developments are closely watched by currency traders, as they reflect the strength of a given economy and may indicate direction of a given currency. Trading the News is often difficult and may not be suitable to everyone, but the volatility that follows can generate a trading opportunity.
Top Trading Lessons of 2016
A good trader never stops learning, and every mistake is another potential learning experience. Here are some of the top lessons our analysts learned, absorbed or suffered from our personal trading in 2016.