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28 May 2010: Smoke rises from central Bangkok after a night of violence, tears, and death. The Thai government claims success in dealing with the Red Shirt challenge while at the same time a movie theater, a mall, and several banks burn. Fear and uncertainty about the future are one of the few feelings shared by both sides of the socio-political divide.
Smoke rises from central Bangkok after a night of violence, tears, and death. The Thai government claims success in dealing with the Red Shirt challenge while at the same time a movie theatre, a mall and several banks burn. Fear and uncertainty about the future is one of the few feelings shared by both sides of the socio-political divide.
The recent political stand-off between the anti-government Red Shirts and the military and police forces surrounding them ended with the death of at least 38 civilians and an untold number of people injured. Armoured military vehicles, snipers, and live ammunition were also used to put an end to the prolonged Red Shirt protest in the commercial and shopping centre of the Thai capital. The final assault took place on the early hours of Wednesday 19 May and the main protest leaders surrendered after the barricades were breached and the human toll started to become unbearable.
It was not surprising to see how the rank and file Red Shirts vented their frustration at the overwhelming violence used against them and the arrest of their leaders by burning the symbols of central government elite control. The Stock Exchange, the Metropolitan Electricity Authority, banks, and the Central World Shopping Mall all represent different aspects of elite control in Thailand and thus were targeted by Red Shirts for looting and attack. Needless to say this was an act of desperation more important for its symbolism and meaning as a clue of what is to come.
The conflict has not been resolved and the tens of thousands of dissatisfied Red Shirts spread throughout the country have not given up the struggle. No new social consensus has arisen out of the ashes and debris is piling up in the Thai Capital. Nevertheless, one thing is clear, which is that the military and the elite consider the Red Shirt challenge sufficiently threatening to blatantly abuse the human rights of civilians in front of an attentive international community. After a renegade Major General who had switched sides to the Red Shirts was shot dead by a sniper while being interviewed by a New York Times reporter, it was clear that the elite's cost-benefit calculus changed in favour of doing whatever was necessary to stay in power regardless of the economic or political consequences.
Now that the government has imposed a curfew in the capital, the world and the Thai people ask themselves what is going to happen now? Is this a return to normalcy and relative stability or just the calm before the storm? Were the Red Shirts just a cursory phenomenon orchestrated and financed by selfish exiled politicians and disaffected leftist intellectuals? Those are just some of the questions that need to be answered before the Thai people can go on with their lives. A simple answer is that instability is here to stay and that negotiation with the Red Shirts will become considerably more difficult now that this level of violence has been used against them. Regarding the true nature of the Red Shirts, the answer lies in the sacrifices made by thousands of unarmed civilians facing tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition in an alien environment with no guarantees of success. Even if financial support is provided by Dr Shinawatra, and the leadership is influenced by leftist intellectuals, the sacrifices made by the people are very real and their grievances are quite specific. They want help from the government in dealing with their basic needs. Will this lead to civil war? A civil war is unlikely; the most likely scenario is low intensity violence throughout the country. The instability in the Deep South and the constant violence there should serve as a preview of what is to come. Protests will continue in other parts of the country, and violence will become more common.
Sadly the average Thai, including the middle class in Bangkok, will suffer from the decisions of the government and the elite it represents. Taking the sky train to work will never again feel as safe as it did before. A parked taxi in front of a building will become an object of suspicion and apprehension. The economy will take a long time to recover and the image of the country as the 'land of smiles' is irreparably shattered in the eyes of the world. Finally, the greatest source of uncertainty for the entire country is the end of the common Thai worldview myth. The cleavage is obvious, and the myth of the monolithic 'nation' is over, and the legitimacy of those in power is in question.
The elite should learn from the recent history of Nepal and consider a peaceful transition leading to a new social consensus rather than risking greater violence and loss of legitimacy. Let us hope that the government will attempt to negotiate with the Red Shirts on mid and long-term goals so as to avoid the worst of what is to come…
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I got an Ultra 20 recently and I've only spent 1 night in it so far. I found it plenty spacious and surprisingly easy to keep the cold air out. With that said, the point of a quilt isn't to give you a great deal more freedom than a mummy bag….it's to shave weight by eliminating the material underneath you that gets compressed by your body weight so it's largly ineffective. If GoLite made the quilt significantly wider then they'd be losing the weigth advantage over a mummy bag.
Regarding tricks…..I ditched the straps (I think most people do) and just wrap it around myself. It works well.
In the field, one of the nice little things I noticed with a quilt is how easy it is to get in and out of. Instead of worming in and out of a mummy bag (which I hate doing when I wake up toasty and it's cold outside) you can just toss it on and off. Way easy to pee in the night :)Aug 6, 2009 at 10:52 am #1519126
I am just saying, for those really frigid nights when a layer of blanket might be nice to pull over your face or head, its nice to have that extra space so you can wrap yourself like thisAug 6, 2009 at 11:13 am #1519132
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I agree Tae – always makes sense to size up a quilt. Especially for those times where one cannot fully seal the top or does not want to carry an additional insulated balaclava.
Glad you like the Ultra 20 – it is on my radar screen!Aug 6, 2009 at 2:15 pm #1519190
i decided to return this bag and get a long one instead. its 3 oz more with additional 6 inches and a bit wider girth.
i figure when the quilt is pulled all the way up to my head, i will still have some insulated space around my feet instead of being right up against the wall of the footboxAug 6, 2009 at 2:22 pm #1519192
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Has Golite started to fill them with more down yet.
I bought one when they first came out but it was severely under filled with down.
I ended up returning it.Aug 6, 2009 at 2:32 pm #1519200
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"In terms of girth, its kinda narrower than I hoped…From what i see , I don't see how much more freedom one can have to move around underneath this than say other traditional mummy bag."
Well, it won't be as wide as a traditional mummy bag used as a quilt, as it is usually narrower. In this case, a regular GoLite ultra has a max width of 54", compared to standard unzipped mummies that are around 59"-64". For me the Ultra is not wide enough to be used comfortably without cinching the straps, which makes it more constrained than using an unzipped mummy. The only advantage is in the weight department as you have less fabric because it's narrower, no zipper and no hood. If I were gonna go back to a quilt, I would have a custom width of ~62" at the shoulder.Aug 6, 2009 at 2:34 pm #1519201
GoLite announced at the Outdoor Retailer market about 1-2 weeks ago that they are replacing the Ultra 20 with two new quilts. There is an article on it on this site. They announced a new 20F quilt that has more down and a heavier fabric than the Ultra 20…I think this new 20F quilt is about 6oz heavier.
Then they announced a new 40F quilt that weighs about the same as the Ultra 20. However, this quilt uses heavier fabric, so it actually has less down than the Ultra 20.
So really, since GoLite added more down to their 20F bag they are acknowleging that this bag isn't quite good to 20F. However, it is good to about 25-30F which is pretty much ideal for 3 season use.Aug 6, 2009 at 2:43 pm #1519203
Here's some more details:
New quilts:
Golite Ultralite 1+ Season: 40F rating, 20oz, 3 lengths, $200-$240
GoLite Ultralite 3 Season: 20F rating, 25oz, 3 lengths, $255-$295
Existing Quilts:
Golite Ultra 20: 20F rating (really 25-30F), 19oz, 3 lengths, $225
I would like to see GoLite keep the Ultra 20 and just rename it as the Ultra 30, but I believe it is being dropped as the new Ultralite 3 Season is considered a replacement.Aug 6, 2009 at 2:46 pm #1519204
I just compared it with my REI Sub Kilo 20 and the down-ness of the quilt seems almost identical with the down-ness of the Sub Kilo 20.Aug 6, 2009 at 3:34 pm #1519216
Christopher KaylerMember
@chriskaylerLocale: Outside
Of course it's all subjective whether a particular bag works for you at a given temperature range, but the Sub Kilo is probably a bit optimistic in my opinion. Which would make sense given that a lot of people think the Ultra 20 is a bit optimistic. As an example, the REI Kilo Plus (0 degree bag) of last year was essentially renamed the REI Halo +10 (10 degree bag). The only real difference was that this year REI started using the european testing standards. Much more accurate / less optimistic.
As far as the new quilts … that's dissapointing that the new 40 degree quilt is going to be heavier than the previous Ultra 20s … even if they were closer to 30 degrees in reality.Aug 6, 2009 at 6:20 pm #1519244
Raymond EstrellaMember
@rayestrellaLocale: Northern Minnesota
I have been using the GoLite Ultra 20 (old model) most of the summer. It is my first venture into quilt territory and I have to say I like it. Quilts that is. I am still wavering about the Ultra 20.
For one thing it is not a 20 F bag (replacement) in my opinion. I spent a night at 30 F last month and was very cold most the night. I did have a light beanie thank goodness.
The nights above 30 F have all been good. It is perfect between 35 and 40 F for me.
I really like the comfort of it and how small it packs down. I like the waterproof shell at the bottom as I had some big time condensation on a few trips with it so far.
At some point I will probably spring to have Tom make me a quilt. Until then the Ultra 20 will suffice.
Here is a shot the afternoon after the cold drop. It was much nicer this night.Aug 6, 2009 at 6:36 pm #1519248
who is tom?
when you guys say this quilt isn't warm enough for 20, do you mean with all your backpacking clothe on or just a shirt and a boxer?Aug 6, 2009 at 6:42 pm #1519252
It's too bad the new 20F quilt doesn't just gain a few ounces of down. Then I would be jealous.
I'm not sure if it still has the waterproof fabric at the foot and neck area, and the whole shell is made from heavier fabric which seems unnecessary. With the Ultra 20 it seems a bit easy to tear the straps off but I don't use those so it's not a concern for me. Otherwise, the fabric seems plenty durable and you could just reinforce the areas where the straps attach. No need for a heavier shell.
Still, 25oz is pretty nice if it's toasty all the way down to 20F. This will probably be a nice quilt option.
I can't think of a sane reason to buy the new 40F quilt over the Ultra 20 though. The Ultra 20 is warmer and 1oz lighter. I guess if you have durability concerns then maybe the 40F bag is better….but I think the Ultra 20 will stand up to years of use if well treated though.
The real problem with the new 20F quilt is that it weighs 25oz and GoLite's Adrenline 20F sleeping bag only weighs 30oz. That's getting pretty comparable especially when you consider that the Adrenaline 20 has a hood so there's no need for additional head insulation which a quilt user would want in colder conditions.
At 19oz vs 30oz the quilt is an appealing choice, but at 25oz vs. 30oz you start to wonder weather it's worth it. I actually really like using a quilt because of ease of entry and exit, but had I not tried one, I likely would never realized this and thus stuck with the bag for just 5oz more.Aug 6, 2009 at 7:43 pm #1519258
Raymond EstrellaMember
@rayestrellaLocale: Northern Minnesota
I am sorry, Tom is the owner of Nunantak. He is a great guy, much like Henry… (Who's Henry? ;-)
No I don't count wearing all my clothes and as this was supposed to be a very warm weather trip I did not have anything warmer than a Smartwool long sleeve shirt to add. I did put my REI Sahara pants back on, the first time I have worn them to bed.
I did have a huge Packa coat/cover from Cedar Tree but I had to let Dave use it as a layer as Mr UL just brought a glorified space blanket (V 2.0) along.Aug 7, 2009 at 1:03 pm #1519411
Mike PhilipMember
I just got mine in the mail this week and have not had a chance to try it yet…I am headed out for a 10 day trip in Northern BC next week so hopefully it will do the trick.
I cannot believe how small it is when packed!!! Though i am used to my 3 1/2 pound synthetic bag i have been using for the past 10 years…LOLAug 7, 2009 at 2:02 pm #1519415
M GBPL Member
@drownLocale: Shenandoah
Mike I was just in the Northern Selkirks for 6 nights with a way too warm WM Versalite. BC is having a very warm summer apparently so you should be fine with your Go Lite 20 Quilt. Wish I had brought mine instead of waking up sweating every night with the heavier bag just draped over me. Totally overkill.Aug 7, 2009 at 3:30 pm #1519426
Jamie ShorttBPL Member
@jshorttLocale: North Carolina
Who's Tom and Henry?…how about these Jack characters or Joe, but he's decided to go hiking. What I really want to know who this Ron guy is that I keep sending my money to… and a new package arrived today!
I do think it is pretty cool that we refer to the people that build our gear by their first names…great community.
As far as the golite ultra 20…I'll repeat one more time I have taken it to 20 degree using a bivy/tarp and extremely thin/short pad. I did suppliment it with a montbell UL inner and fleece cap. It was a stretch, but I slept fine. I'm amazed at what this quilt does considering the price and the true 19 oz weight.
JamieAug 7, 2009 at 8:39 pm #1519480
Mike PhilipMember
Thanks for the heads up Martin.
I have been watching the forecast and it has been warm around the area we are headed (Dease Lake) but the long term looks wet…LOL, but the temps look ok.
Was going to take my bivy and tarp with hiking poles but I am going to take the Hubba instead I think. We will mostly be on top of the mountains and not down in the trees so if the weather is nasty i think the tent will be a better option.
MikeAug 9, 2009 at 9:47 pm #1519779
Justin YoungMember
I really like this quilt.. I have the first edition and have used it on every trip since I got it. It is absolutely perfect for Spring and Fall.
The coldest night I've slept in it was in the Smokies in mid- to late-March. It had been raining all day, cleared up to be beautiful in the early evening, was nice and warm, and then I woke up to snow on the ground the next morning. I was in a drafty AT shelter that night and woke up several times quite cold but fell back asleep quickly each time.. I'm not sure just how cold it got that night or for how long.
If I remember, the only thing I had on underneath was Patagonia Capilene 2. Apparently I was too lazy to put anything else on. I was sleeping atop a Pacific Outdoor Ether Thermo 6 mattress. Was I uncomfortable several times over the night, sure, but not as cold or uncomfortable as I have been in far-heavier full sleeping bags that weighed a LOT more and had even colder ratings… If I had packed 5 more oz for my down jacket I would have been toasty warm.
I'm sure this applies to all quilts, and bags in general, but even more so for a quilt.. sleeping with it over your head is a bad idea… you can quite literally feel the warmth come and go with each breath as you move air in and out and I specifically remember this from the night I mentioned. I was far warmer when I just left my head out of the bag. If you think it's going to be really cold, just bring a balaclava.
Otherwise, I love having a quilt I can throw on and off as I get warmer/colder. As far as weight and size goes I wouldn't take anything else with me.Aug 12, 2009 at 1:07 pm #1520352
Last week I returned my regular size and got Long in the mail. I am now liking this quilt A LOT better. I am 5.8 at 165lb and I feel that Long size gives me more room to move around without the possibility of gap opening between the quilt and the thermarest. It feels more versatile and I think this is worth the extra 3oz.Aug 12, 2009 at 11:43 pm #1520477
Just so potential buyers hear both sides, I'm a similar size as Tae (5'11, 165lbs) but I have no trouble with gaps opening up between the quilt and pad. That was actually one of two things that amazed me the first time I used this quilt (which is my first quilt ever).
The two things that amazed me were how easy avoid drafts was and also how handy it is to get in and out of. I hate worming out of a toasty sleeping bag in the morning…it's just too much exertion for my lazy self. A quilt is much easy because you can toss it off. If you have a top on then this isn't really cold.
Its funny that quilts are considered so 'hard core ultra light' by anyone I talk too (outside this site) but I actually find them much closer to my bed at home. If I gotta pee in the night, it's easy to toss off the quilt and go pee. If I need to reach out to grab something (alarm, headlamp…whatever) then it's much easier than half worming out of your sleeping bag. Even going to bed is way easier. I love quilts!Aug 13, 2009 at 7:43 am #1520523
Kate HochBPL Member
@dropnrollLocale: PNW
Just wanted to start off with hello! I've been reading the forums here for a while, but this is my first post. Thanks everyone for sharing your knowledge and experiences – I've already learned a ton!
I really like the idea of a quilt, and I'm thinking of getting a golite ultra 20. One thing I can't quite grasp conceptually is how it's used with a sleeping pad. I know the top can be tucked under a sleeping pad, but the footbox seems to be like a regular mummy bag (I think – correct me if that's wrong). So can you use it with a full length sleeping pad? Does the foot end just lay on top of the pad?Aug 13, 2009 at 9:04 am #1520549
John VanceBPL Member
@servingkoLocale: Intermountain West
I wanted to update my findings and impressions with limited use of my new Ultra 20. First off I have to admit that I, like many others, was a bit disappointed with the loft given the specs. I have a Golite Feather Lite 40 that is a wider full zipperless sleeping bag with just 5 more grams of down and it has 1 inch more loft (in just the TOP layer) and weighs just 1.8 oz more. The footbox box in particular has twice the loft and feels very stuffed with down compared to the Ultra 20. Based on my calculations for volume (within the baffles of the bag), of the two bags, the Feather Lite has approximately 20% more space to be filled by the down than the Ultra 20. With this in mind, I can only surmise that the Feather Lite either has MUCH higher lofting down than the stated 800ci per oz OR the Ultra 20 has lower performing down than the stated 800 ci per oz. A third, and likely option, is that it is a little of both of these factors. My reg size Ultra 20 weighs in at 18.6 without the straps and 19.1oz with them. The Featherlite 40 weighs in at 20.4 oz – 0.4 higher than specs.
I haven't slept at any temps lower than about 35 – 40 degrees but it was very comfortable both in temp and space. I had no problems with drafts even though I did not use the straps – and I am a side sleeper that flips from side to side throughout the night. Over the years I have trained myself to turn inside the bag, so the switch to a quilt was not a problem. If I feel that straps are necessary, I will just use a little bungee cord and cordlocks as I don't anticipate strapping the bag to the pad. I particularly like the ease of entry and exit as well has venting options. It is also more comfortable than using a bag unzipped as I have not used the hood on a bag for years. For reference, I am 5'9" and 165lbs with a shoulder girth of 51" and found the regular length to be about perfect and don't feel the need for more length.
I have little doubt that I could take this down into the low 20's with the typical clothing I have with me. In temps colder than 40 degrees, I typically sleep in long silkweight terramar underwear with merino wool socks and a fleece cap atop an Exped Down Mat 7 short. The pad makes a HUGE difference in warmth and comfort. At 22oz with the pumpsack, it is the heaviest thing in my pack other than my food bag, but it is weight I am more than willing to carry. I also have a full length 7 but use it only in winter and find that the short leaves little to be desired in my side sleeping/fetal position. Below freezing, in the wee hours of early morning, I typically throw my FF Hyperion Vest (6.5oz) over the top of me as well. Not so much because I am cold, it just keeps me from having to get up and empty my bladder before I want too.
I think that the shell of the Ultra 20 is very well made, more so than the Feather Lite or Golite's past bags, and I really appreciate the "tuck stitching" on the baffle attachment as well as the Pertex Endurance on the footbox and top baffle and I like the feel of the lining in particular. IMO the Ultra 20 would be perfect as is with 2oz more down and/or higher quality/fill power down and while I am considering adding more down, it would be a shame to cut the bag open and then patch it. Based on the construction of the quilt I think that the best way would be to make a small slit on the inside of the bag on each top baffle near where it joins the side baffle, with a hot fine tipped soldering iron, and then stitch it back up. Adding more down to the two side baffles would be an easy job of undoing the seam along the edge. If anyone has opened up the center baffles I would be very interested in what they found.
Other than these two Golite Bags that were basically impulse purchases at 40% off sales events, I have used some 12-15 bags over the years from Western Mountaineering and Feathered Friends. The Ultra 20's shell construction is IMO about 90% of the quality of FF or WM's work – nothing to fault Golite over concerning functionality and durability, just a little less attention to detail. I have tried to get WM or FF to make me a quilt but both declined, although I think FF was close to doing it. While I have not seen any of Nunatak's products, I was going to pull the trigger on an ARC Alpinist last summer, but Tom's timing didn't work for my trip. At the $135 I paid for the Ultra 20 at the Golite sale last month, at this point it's hard to justify $400 or more for a custom Alpinist.
If Golite decides to dump more Ultra 20's as they introduce the two newer quilts, I will jump on at least two more, a spare one for me (in long to use as an overquilt), and one for my 11 year old son. I will be taking the Ultra 20 on a 10 day trip to the Winds in Sept and report back on how it worked.Aug 13, 2009 at 9:31 am #1520558
Kathleen BMember
@rosierabbitLocale: Pacific Northwest
Kate – take a look at Raymond's photo on the first page of this thread. The bottom half of the quilt is lying on top of the neoair (the part that wouldn't fit under it), and the top half of the quilt is on the neoair with the 2 quilt straps wrapped around it. It really does work. As an aside, consider replacing those flapping, annoying straps with thin stretch cord, a la Mike Clelland!. It makes life much simpler.
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By Ellen Hoffman
A 55-year-old divorced man took an early-retirement offer from his company and then set up his own successful consulting business in the telecommunications field. Two years later, his 90-year-old mother had to move into an assisted-living complex. The son spends so much time taking care of his mother's affairs and visiting her daily that his business has faltered. He's currently living on the early-retirement buyout money.
Karen Norman, a financial planner in Dearborn, Mich., points out that this client could face another year or more with little or no income. Even if he's able to regenerate his business, he'll certainly have to change his lifestyle, she says. What's more, he may have to start collecting Social Security payments earlier than he had hoped. His original target age -- 66 -- may no longer be practical. (A recent report by the Family Caregivers Alliance, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, describes the toll that caregiving can take on the caregiver's retirement finances.)
Retirement is probably the last thing that comes to mind if you're in the midst of a major life change, especially an unexpected or unpleasant one such as divorce -- the most common life-altering event -- or the death of a spouse. Yet a change in marital status, a career switch, or caring for an elderly parent may affect your earning potential. And this, in turn, can affect your retirement. Here's some advice on how you can minimize the impact of such an event.
The first thing you must do is acknowledge that retirement issues -- especially related to money -- must be part of your coping plan. Ensuring a comfortable retirement should be as much of a priority as ever, even if it may seem more difficult.
Michelle Smith, a transition specialist and financial planner with Wachovia Securities in New York, estimates that after a divorce, the combined expenses of two spouses living separately will probably be 30% more than when they shared a household. Under such circumstances, it might be tempting to cut back on 401(k) or other retirement savings or even to withdraw money from the accounts to cover day-to-day expenses.
Such options should be a last resort, says Smith, because you could set back your retirement for years. If you stop contributing $500 per month for 15 years, assuming an inflation-adjusted return of 5%, you would forgo about $133,000 in future retirement savings. That could mean postponing your retirement -- or it not being as comfortable as you had hoped.
What's more, if you withdraw funds from a 401(k) or IRA before you're 59½ or older, you'll have to pay a 10% penalty and income tax on the withdrawal -- and you'll lose the benefit of compounding the tax-deferred growth on investments in the account. An IRS rule allows you to withdraw money without penalty, providing you do so over five years, or until you turn 59½. But even if you do withdraw it without penalty, you'll lose the compounding benefit. (For details on the tax effects of withdrawing from your 401(k) or IRA, see IRS Publication 590, "Individual Retirement Arrangements".)
Smith suggests that before jeopardizing your retirement savings, you do a thorough analysis of your income, assets, and expenses. You might find that moving to a less expensive home or cutting back on luxuries, ranging from an extra vehicle to expensive vacations, would enable you to keep both your retirement savings -- and your plans -- intact.
Norman, who often counsels middle-management clients who are living on severance after losing their jobs, also advises hanging onto retirement savings. She says people should get used to living on a tighter budget. "When they go out into the marketplace, often they're not as marketable as they think," she says. "And when they get a new job, they may have to take a pay cut," resulting in a hit to retirement savings as well as to the monthly budget.
After divorce, the second most common life-changing event Smith says her clients encounter: the death of a spouse. Smith doesn't expect "someone to go from grieving to retirement planning" immediately. But she points out that retirement finances should be addressed in the context of putting the deceased spouse's estate in order.
The pension benefits or 401(k) savings due to a surviving spouse can be claimed only by contacting plan administrators and sending a copy of the death certificate. Also, she warns, some employers set a deadline "for getting the money out" of a spouse's pension plan.
By definition, the most disruptive life-changing events are almost impossible to predict. That's why it's important to organize all your financial information, including a list of your assets, retirement and pension accounts, insurance policies, Social Security earnings records, and beneficiary records -- and update them on a regular basis, at least once a year. If a crisis arises, the information will be close at hand. It also will be easier to analyze your options before rushing to decisions that you may regret and want to reverse later.
If you're not up to handling the financial tasks and coming up with your own strategies, you should seek help from a friend or family member, or a trusted professional such as your lawyer or financial planner. You've worked and saved for your retirement, and you owe it to yourself to take steps to protect it.
In addition to writing Your Retirement for BusinessWeek Online, Hoffman is the author of The Retirement Catch-Up Guide and Bankroll Your Future Retirement with Help from Uncle Sam. You can contact her through her Web site, www.retirementcatchup.com
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Richard Myers
Aug. 16, 1954-Feb. 14, 2014
Richard Leland Myers, an honorable man who lived with passion and love for his family and friends.
He was born in The Dalles, Oregon, on Aug. 16, 1954, to William (Bill) and Betty Myers.
The family resided in The Dalles, later moving to Nyssa, Oregon, where Rick attended Nyssa High School. He followed his grandfathers (Lincoln Myers) footsteps and participated in wrestling. Rick lettered in the sport while at Nyssa High School.
After high school Rick moved to Portland, Oregon, to attend Portland State University.
He then moved to St. Helens and worked for Boise Cascade until retirement. He took pride in his work and performed at the highest standards with attention to the smallest details.
He married Barbara Duren of St. Helens in 1979. From this union they had three children. They later divorced.
One of Ricks hobbies was attending concerts and volunteering at the Portland Blues Festival. He looked forward to his time with his friends and doting on his adored grandchildren.
He was an avid OSU fan but, during Christmas tree sales he would wear a U of O Duck shirt and an OSU hat so a potential customer would not be offended.
He leaves his family with more laughter than sorrow, more stories to tell and a community affected by a caring man.
Rick, your special kindness to those around you will forever be in our hearts.
Rick was preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by daughter, Katie (Tyler), son, Patrick (Kristen) and son, Jonathan (Ashley); grandchildren, Elainie, Emry, Haley Elizabeth and Jonathan James; brothers, Bill of Beaverton and Walter of St. Helens; and sister, Marci Dutcher of Palm Desert, California.
A wake is scheduled for Saturday March 1, at 2 p.m., at the Village Inn Banquet Room in St. Helens.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations to Cascade Blues Association, 2020 S.E. 7th, Portland, OR 97214 or a charity of your choice.
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In this tutorial, we'll be using a local server to develop our app. You're certainly welcome to use your own web server if you have one, but if not, grab a copy of XAMPP to host your app on your own computer.
In any event, you'll want to create a new directory for your application. In XAMPP's htdocs directory, we've created a new folder called "demo" where we'll be developing our app.
We'll also be taking advantage of jQuery, so if unfamiliar with either, check out the respective documentation pages!
Registering your app
First, head on over to https://www.box.net/developers/services, log in, and select "Create New Application". After creating your application, edit the app and supply a redirect URL. Because we're developing locally, we can just use http://localhost/demo/index.html. While you're here, also make note of your app's API key; we'll need that later.
Now that we're all set up, we can start developing our app! Before users can access our app, they'll need to log in to their Box. To do so, we'll need to redirect them to a secure login page hosted on box.net. First, we'll need to get an authentication ticket from the Box API via the get_ticket method. All of Box's API methods have the same base URL: https://www.box.net/api/1.0/rest, and actions and parameters are passed to this URL in the query string. The get_ticket action takes a single parameter — our API key — so the URL we need to hit looks like https://www.box.net/api/1.0/rest?action=get_ticket&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE.
Unless you're lucky enough to be a Box developer like myself, you'll be hosting your app on a domain other than box.net (or a subdomain thereof). As a result, the Javascript Same Origin Policy is going to prevent us from making Ajax requests to the API from another domain (like localhost, which we'll be using in this tutorial). As a result, we're going to use YQL, a free service created by the Yahoo Developer Network, to make our API calls. The format of a YQL request is simple: you supply a URL and a format (like XML or JSON), and YQL will return the data you wanted from your cross-domain request.
We'll also need our API key in every request we make, so it's a good idea to save that in a Javascript variable like window.api_key. Once we receive a response from the Box API containing a ticket, we need to redirect the user to Box's secure login page, using that ticket. So, a get_ticket request may look like this (notice how we're redirecting the user to Box after we receive a ticket):
[js]$.getJSON("http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20xml%20where%20url%20%3D%20'https%3A%2F%2Fwww.box.net%2Fapi%2F1.0%2Frest%3Faction%3Dget_ticket%26api_key%3D" + window.api_key + "'&format=json&diagnostics=true",
function(response) {
window.ticket = response.query.results.response.ticket;
window.location.href = 'https://m.box.net/api/1.0/auth/' + ticket;
Notice how all parts of that URL are encoded; Javascript's encodeURIComponent can come in handy here. After the user authenticates, they'll be sent back to the page we specified when we set up our app. The URL will also contain an auth_token, which we'll also need to include in all future API requests, so let's save that in a variable like window.auth_token as well.
Getting Files and Folders
Phew! Now that a user has logged into Box, we can start interacting with their account. Among the most useful API methods is get_account_tree, which gives us a list of the files and folders contained within a user's account. As with all API requests, we'll need to include both our API key and the user's auth token. We also need to specify a folder_id, which will serve as the root of the tree. A user's root folder (their top-level, or "All Files") folder, always has an id of 0. Because many users take advantage of Box's huge storage offerings, getting a user's entire account with one API call is probably going tobe too slow to be usable. As a result, consider supplying onelevel as an optional parameter to get_account_tree; rather than recursively returning a user's account, only one level of tree depth will be returned by the API. The API also compresses responses by default, so let's disable that for debugging purposes with the optional nozip parameter. So, our final API call is going to look something like:
[js]$.getJSON("http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20xml%20where%20url%20%3D%20'https%3A%2F%2Fwww.box.net%2Fapi%2F1.0%2Frest%3Faction%3Dget_account_tree%26auth_token%3D" + window.auth_token + "%26api_key%3D" + window.api_key + "%26folder_id%3D" + folder_id + "%26params[]%3Donelevel%26params[]%3Dnozip'&format=json&diagnostics=true", function(response) {});[/js]
Inside of our callback, the response variable contains the user's folder information, wrapped in a few extra properties added by YQL. If, for example, we want to display a list of files and folders in a user's account, we need to iterate over the folders.folder and files.file properties of response.query.results.response.tree.folder. Here's what that could look like:
[js]var ul = $('
'); var ul_html = ''; // iterate over folders and add to list if (response.query.results.response.tree.folder.folders) { var folders = response.query.results.response.tree.folder.folders.folder; for (var folder in folders) { ul_html += '
' + folders[folder].name + '
'; } } // iterate over files and add to list if (response.query.results.response.tree.folder.files) { var files = response.query.results.response.tree.folder.files.file; for (var file in files) { ul_html += '
' + files[file].file_name + '
'; } } // render listview ul.html(ul_html); ul.appendTo('body');[/js]
Notice that the API response contains both file/folder names and IDs. Each ID is unique throughout Box, and can be used to retrieve information about a single item in the user's account. For example, if we wanted to get the tree of a folder inside the user's root folder, we'd want to call get_account_tree again, this time supplying the folder's ID for folder_id instead of 0 (which, remember, will always be the user's root folder).
Downloading Files
Now that we can navigate within a user's account, we'd like users to be able to download their files. The download API method makes this painless. Download URLs have a different format than the other API methods we've seen so far. To download a file, simply direct the user to a URL in the format https://www.box.net/api/1.0/download/<auth_token>/<file_id>. Here, auth_token is the same auth token we've been using throughout our app, and file_id is the unique, numerical ID of the file, which you can get from the get_account_tree method.
Uploading Files
Uploading files is as simple as sending a POST request to a URL similar to a download URL. To upload a file, POST a request to a URL in the format https://upload.box.net/api/1.0/upload/<auth token>/<folder id>.In this case, folder_id. For example, we could present the user with an HTML <form> with the attributes method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="https://upload.box.net/api/1.0/upload/<auth token>/<folder id>" and containing an <input type="file" />. However, simply submitting the form via an <input type="submit" /> element will bring the user to an API URL (and therefore out of our app), which probably isn't what we want. One option is to use a plugin like the jQuery Form Plugin.
Alternatively, we create and submit another form (in addition to the form in which the user selected a file to upload) hidden in an invisible iframe. That way, when we call the native form submit() method, we won't be navigated away from the page. To do so, we simply need to construct an <iframe>, a <form> containing an <input type="file" />, append the <form> to the <iframe>, and submit() the form. It's important to note that the invisible <input> element we create must have the same content as the <input> we presented to the user; the easiest way to do this is to simply append another copy of the presented <input> to the <iframe>. Now, we'd like to know when our file has finished uploading. One way to do this is to continuously poll the <iframe>'s location; once it is no longer accessible, it must be pointing to URL on another server (which, in this case, is Box's API). Putting all that together, we could use something like this (provided the input we presented to the user had a class of upload_file_input):
[js]// get element representing file to be uploaded
var file_input = $('.upload_file_input');
// create iframe containing a form whose input matches that presented to the user
var iframe = $('');
var iframe_form = $('<br />
<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="' + form.attr('action') + '">');
// poll the iframe to detect when the file has been uploaded
setInterval(function() {
if (document.getElementById('upload_iframe').contentWindow.location.href == undefined)
alert('Upload successful!');
}, 300);[/js]
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By 2020, Gartner predicts, data volumes will grow to 20x of today's volumes. Social media provide a vast wealth of data that is both personal and insightful and can tell you a lot about your brand—but even more about your customers.
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Responsible for managing several distributed teams tasked with creating advanced data collection, processing, analytics, and distribution systems with the goal of scaling from a current hundred of millions of daily messages to billions of global social and enterprise text messages analyzed using LSA (Latent Semantic Analysis) and NLP (Natural Language Processing) with the goal of optimizing signal to noise ratio followed by large scale distribution within the Oracle cloud and on-premise eco-system.


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The course investigates the instrumental chamber works of Western Art Music, ranging from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic to contemporary repertoire.
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