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A Good Day to Die Hard review
I apoligize how infrequently these reviews show up, my work at WCU is multiplying like rabbits and I have been able to keep up with recent movies. But, I will not deny my readers, so here is the next entry:
Remember a little film a couple decades ago named Die Hard starring Bruce Willis? Yea, kind of a big deal. To this day, it is still a favorite amongst many action movie fans. It has been so successful, due to the intense action sequences and Bruce Willis' charms, that it has spawned 4 sequels. These sequels, haven't held a candle to the original. The closest being the 4th film: Live Free and Die Hard, this was another great movie. So how does the 5th and latest movie hold up? Not too bad.
The movie takes place in Moscow, Russia, quite the detour from the previous 4 films. The reason is because John McClane (Bruce Willis) is off to find his son, Jack McClane (Jai Courtney). Jack is in big trouble because he has killed a big leader in Russia, not the head of state or anything, just an important man. Meanwhile, Jack is in the middle of a big undercover mission for America, to recover an old scientist and his designs for weapons. After the John shows up and Jack's mission fails, it is up to father and son to save the world from nuclear weapons.
Ok, so what doesnt work in this movie. First off, there are some continuity holes or just logic problems with the story. One of the biggest things from this series of films is just how much punishment John McClane can take and still keep kicking butt. The previous films went a little over the top, the 4th film kind of pushed how much John could do. This movie was downright laughable at points. The big crashes and explosions that John just walks away from are almost God-like. He crashes and flips a truck on a big highway, which takes out several terrorists, and he walks away WITHOUT A SINGLE SCRATCH. And I won't spoil anything about the climax, but no frickin way.
Also, on a minor note, there is a large sequence in the Chernobyl fallout zone in Russia, litterally in the middle of it. The villains have to wear these big radiation suits to live, but John and Jack are fine without them. Then the villains can take off their suits and be just fine. Um, what? I don't no much about nuclear fallout zones, but this movie made it very confusing.
Lastly, and unfortunately, this is kind of a big one, Jack is a jerk in the first half of the film with no logical reason. When John shows up, Jack treats him like he is the horrible annoyance of a human being and shows him no respect. This comes off as very frustrating and annoying, in the extent that Jack goes. His reasoning? because apparently John is a horrible father who is never there for him. Now yes, in the first film, John talks about how his job as a cop in New York kept him busy and his wife and kids had to move away, but Jack was a tiny kid during that movie. I know a child's upbringing can have its effects, but to this extent? Jack treats John like he came home just to beat him every day of his life and never be there for any other purpose. How about all the times John has saved the world, does that mean NOTHING? Jack just comes off very frustrating. Fortunately he turns it around before the climax, but he is a little tough to deal with early on.
Ok, I've said enough bad things, let's talk about what really works in the movie. The action is very in your face, explosive and awesome. This is a tradition in Die Hard movies, and this movie doesn't dissapoint. There are plenty of shootouts and car chases for action fans to love. These are the highlights of the movie, especially the climax. It is intense and satisfying, thanks to John McClane.
That is the other highlight of the film, Bruce Willis. I talked about him in my Looper review, and he is still awesome. Willis is even better as John than in Looper, because Willis is limited in that. Willis as McClane is the role that shot him to super-stardom, and he soaks it up in A Good Day to Die Hard. Now granted, Willis isn't AS funny as he is in the previous films, probly because this is the 5th movie, but John is still very funny and very badass. Bruce Willis could never screw up this role, Bruce Willis IS John McClane practically.
The story, is acceptable. It won't win any awards by far, but it is fun and basic, which is what a Die Hard movie needs. There aren't any real hiccups other than what I previously mentioned, and the cameo by Lucy McClane is well done. Now a small gripe is the villain. The last movie had a great villain, with an awesome and modern plan, which was actually quite intimidating and had a great actor behind him. And Hans Gruber from the original film is one of the most iconic and frickin amazing action movie villains in history. A Good Day to Die Hard, instead, tries a twist villain reveal. It might shock people, but I called it. It is a little dissapointing because the Die Hard films always took their time to develop and build up their big baddie throughout the whole film to deliver a great character. The villain in this movie doesnt show up till right before the climax. Now granted, he is an ok villain, I have no real complaints with him, but Die Hard movies have had great villains, so this guy was kind of a let down.
I know I've said alot about the negatives and not as much about the positives, but i did enjoy this movie. It was a pretty good action film and I'd say definately worth a viewing. It is a fun action movie with the great Bruce Willis. It is a shame the flaws I mentioned are present here, but they don't ruin the movie. If you are a fan of Bruce Willis, the Die Hard franchise or action movies, give a look. If you want a deep and complex movie, this might not be for you. YAY EXPLOSIONS!
I give A Good Day to Die Hard an explosive 3 out of 5.


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Gamdias Demeter Gaming Mouse Overview
The Gamdias Demeter comes in a nicely wrapped clam shell inside a box with their logo design printed on the box so it's raised and glossy. It is a nice touch. Other than the usual images and information on the box, there is very little content inside the box itself. You get a quick installation guide and a couple of stickers with your Gamdias Demeter.
The quick installation guide is pretty sparse with information. It has just enough to tell you to plug it in and where to go to get the Hera software for your Gamdias Demeter. The stickers are a nice touch, but I find them too large to want to actually use on my desktop tower.
On the right side of the Gamdias Demeter you have your profile button. This button can only function as the profile button. The Gamdias Demeter has a nicely braided 2 meter cable with a gold USB connector. It also includes a Velcro strap to keep your cord untangled if you were to take it with you to a LAN party.
On the left side of the Gamdias Demeter you have the back button on the side. This button can also be programmed for macro's or timers. I will explain more about that later when I get to the Hera software application. The back side of the Gamdias Demeter has the companies logo, which will light up when plugged in. Unfortunately it only has one shade of color, yellow. The light is also fairly bright and can be a bit annoying in a dark room until your hand is placed over it to shield your eyes.
You can see on top of the Gamdias Demeter sits your DPI button. This comes in handy for when you want to change DPI on the fly. Also, take note of the shape of this mouse. It is designed to be used for right or left-handed users.
The bottom of the Gamdias Demeter has a nice slick plastic wedge at the back and front of the mouse allowing it to glide effortlessly on your mouspad.
Here is a better look at the right side of the mouse. The profile button is fairly large which makes it easy to change profiles instantly. The only draw back I had is that my hands are a bit big and I would accidentally change profiles in the heat of battle while gaming.
I found the overall heft and build of the Gamdias Demeter to be very good. It feels very solid in my hand and not too small. The weight on it is nice as well. I have been using a wireless mouse for a long time and I have gotten used to a heavy mouse. I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't a lightweight. The texturing on the sides allows for a nice tactile grip.
The mouse wheel tracks with your typical 'click' motion and has LED lights at the bottom that illuminate the clear plastic with an assortment of colors that you can program.

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Mar 09 2014
I Finally Saw Red
With almost no open water on lakes Great and small, ducks and gulls have been spending lots of time on our rivers. This year we're also finding a higher than usual number of red-necked grebes.
Eleven years ago I saw my first ever red-necked grebe on the Allegheny River at Rosston (March 2, 2003). Still in basic plumage, he was plain gray and white with a long pointed bill slightly yellow at the base. He held up the feathers at the top edges of his head; it made his head look lumpy. But he didn't have a red neck. He wasn't in breeding plumage.
And so it went. I periodically saw red-necked grebes but never their red necks because they usually molt into breeding plumage after they leave Pennsylvania. Richard Crossley's illustration from The Crossley ID Guide Britain and Ireland (above) shows the basic and breeding plumages of red-necked grebes but emphasizes their appearance in winter because the grebes don't breed in Britain and Ireland either.
So I was excited to read Jim Hausman's March 6 report that there was a red-necked grebe at Duck Hollow and the bird had a red neck.
I drove down after work on Friday and found two grebes molting into breeding plumage. Ta dah! Not a Life Bird but a "Life Plumage." Here's Jim Hausman's photo of one of them.
After all these years I finally saw red.
(Illustration at top: Red-necked grebe by Richard Crossley (The Crossley ID Guide Britain and Ireland), Creative Commons license via Wikimedia Commons. Click on the image to see the original.
Photo at bottom by Jim Hausman)


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Like the titular Italian dessert, this compilation of three one-act comedies features three different flavors. In the solo piece "Booby Prize," writer-performer Lizzie Czerner brings a Tracey Ullman-like flamboyance to the tale of a woman cursed and blessed with a very buxom figure, which brings her both ridicule and lascivious short-term attention but no long-term relationships -- until she discovers that there's a place in the world for busty women with low self-esteem. Rebekah Walendzak directs. "Daddy Didn't Die, Did He?" is set at the funeral of a Southern patriarch, and features writer-actors Will Matthews and Casey Christensen playing a gaggle of predatory, mercenary characters, including the deceased's scatterbrained widow, his three competitive children, his Southern-belle housekeeper and a frantic funeral director. The actors juggle multiple roles with speed and versatility, aided by director Jeffrey Addiss. Another solo piece, Keaton Talmadge's "Define: dif-fer-ent," is about a straight woman who's thoroughly disconcerted to find herself attracted to a lesbian -- until she discovers that gay relations can be as disillusioning as straight ones. Talmadge (who inherited her first name from grandfather Buster Keaton) is a hip, skillful and attractive performer, ably shepherded by director Kelleia Sheerin. RANT/L.A. Theatre at the Complex, 6476 Santa Monica Blvd., Hlywd.; Fri.-Sat., 7:30 p.m., through Sept. 21. (No perfs. Aug. 30-31.) (323) 960-1054, plays411.com/spumoni.
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New third baseman Melvin Mora likes what he sees in his first spring training with the Diamondbacks, leading him to believe there is a way out of consecutive last-place finishes in the NL West.
"We don't have a big name, a guy who is going to hit 50 homers here," Mora said. "But like I told everybody, if we do what we are supposed to do and we pitch, we can do damage to anybody. There are a lot of young guys here, but they know how to pitch and they know how to play."
Mora, 39, was signed to play third base on the first day of the winter meetings, hours after Mark Reynolds and his 121 home runs over the last four seasons was traded to Baltimore for relievers David Hernandez and Kam Mickolio. Mora enjoyed his best seasons from 2003-05 in Baltimore -- he was named to the AL All-Star team in 2003 and 2005 and won the AL Silver Slugger award for third basemen while hitting .340 with 104 RBI in 2004.
If that seems like ancient history, Mora had a strong second half with Colorado in 2010, hitting .307 with six homers and 31 RBI after the All-Star break as the regular third baseman when Ian Stewart went down with a rib cage injury. He hit .285 with seven homers and 45 RBI for the season.
"He likes to have fun. He likes to play the game, more than anything," said D-backs manager Kirk Gibson, who is expected to find time at third base also for utility man Geoff Blum. "He's very confident. I've watched him for years. I know what he's capable of. He's going to get his at-bats, trust me."
Mora attributes his longevity to lessons learned from observing former teammates Jeff Bagwell, Robin Ventura, Rickey Henderson, John Olerud and, of course, Cal Ripken Jr.
"When I got to Baltimore, forget it. Cal Ripken Jr. ... how he prepared himself. How he played without getting hurt. Everything comes from your health. How you eat. How you sleep. If you don't get good sleep at night, you are going to get to the ballpark exhausted. That's going to hurt your career. You make sure you discipline your body, you discipline your food, you discipline your sleep. You want to play for 20 years, so you try to do the little things," he said.
--2B Kelly Johnson will play for $5.85 million this season following a career year in 2010 and could find a welcoming free agent market in the offseason considering that Milwaukee 2B Rickie Weeks signed a four-year, $38.5 million extension after posting numbers similar to Johnson's last year. Johnson entered 2011 determined to resist the temptation of looking back or ahead, however. "In baseball, there are two kinds of people -- guys who have been humbled or guys who are about to be. To sit back and admire a season or a week or an at-bat is foolish," he said.
--LHP Joe Saunders broke out a new pitch, a cut fastball, in his first start of the spring. He threw three in 1 2/3 innings against San Francisco and said he plans to work on it throughout the spring as a pitch to offer right-handed hitters who stray too far out over the plate while going after his fastball/changeup/curve repertoire. "It puts another pitch in the hitter's mind. I didn't throw them for strikes, but I thought they had some decent action on them. It's a work in progress. If you have three pitches, it's better than two-and-a-half pitches. It's a good pitch. It obviously worked for Andy Pettitte for a good amount of time," said Saunders, with RHP Daniel Hudson perhaps the top two candidates to start the regular-season opener April 1 at Colorado.
--LF/1B Xavier Nady homered in his first spring training game Friday but took it easy on his arm while making five throws from left field. "I hate to say it, but it's still going to be an issue," said Nady, who underwent the second of his two Tommy John surgeries on July 8, 2009. "I'm a lot more behind than I think. Not just from a physical standpoint but from a mental, especially when you haven't aired it out almost two years. That's a big hurdle. Eventually it should be a non-issue all season." He missed the rest of the 2009 season after the surgery but returned to play 28 games in the outfielder and 52 at first base for the Cubs last season. The D-backs signed him as a free agent in the offseason to be their starting left fielder.
--Roland Hemond, a special assistant to D-backs president CEO/Derrick Hall, has been selected as the second recipient of the John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to baseball during a seven-decade career in which he has served as general manager of the Chicago White Sox (1970-85) and Baltimore (1988-96). The award will be presented during the Hall of Fame ceremonies on July 23.
DIAMOND STAT: 3 -- Cut fastballs thrown in the first spring start by LHP Joe Saunders, who is thinking about adding the pitch to his repertoire
QUOTABLE: "In baseball, there are two kinds of people -- guys who have been humbled or guys who are about to be. To sit back and admire a season or a week or an at-bat is foolish." -- 2B Kelly Johnson
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Santa Anita: All-sources handle up 1%; attendance, ontrack handle decline
ARCADIA, Calif. – Santa Anita has shown an increase in all-sources handle and a decline in ontrack attendance and handle through the first eight days of the autumn meeting.
Through Monday, the meeting showed an increase in all-sources handle of 1 percent, with much of the growth coming through account wagering, according to the track's president, George Haines. Account wagering handle has increased 30 percent, he said.
Ontrack attendance is down 5 percent for the meeting, while ontrack handle is down 10 percent.
The season runs through Nov. 4 and includes the Breeders' Cup Championship days on Nov. 2-3. The track will be the site of the Breeders' Cup for the first time since 2009.
The decline in ontrack business is partially attributed to triple-digit temperatures that plagued the first three days of the meeting – Sept. 28-30 – and kept some fans away.
"The ontrack is down, but we're up significantly in ADW handle," Haines said. "We think some of the heat-related days opening the meeting sort of stopped us from getting out of the gate well."
Haines said the gain in all-sources handle, including betting from simulcasting and account wagering sources, has helped the bottom line.
"As far as purses go, we're okay," he said.
Monday's business was stronger than the corresponding day last year. The ontrack attendance was 7,378, compared with 7,048 last year.
"I think the momentum will build," Haines said.
The average field size has increased slightly, from 9.25 runners per race through the first eight days of the 2011 meeting to 9.33 through the first eight days of the current meeting. The entire 2011 meeting had an average of 8.77 starters per race.
There have been other changes at the meeting. The main track was renovated over the summer, with the addition of 1,000 tons of sand. The track was biased toward speed in the opening days of the meeting.
"We were concerned about the speed bias," Haines said Monday. "The last few days, we're seeing some closers."
The track switched television production companies before the start of the meeting, replacing in-house staff with Pegasus Communications, which provides television production at Los Alamitos and Fairplex Park.
In the early days of the meeting, television pictures were marred by erratic camerawork, particularly in races on the hillside turf course.
Haines acknowledged the television difficulties at the start of the meeting.
"We've made great progress with TV," he said. "I know it was a hard start."
And these are the jerks Cuomo says should run NYRA
I had the pleasure of going to The Frontrunner on a couple of occasions over the past few years as a guest of some very well-connected players.These guys would drive a couple hours to see live racing. The table that I sat at was right on the finish line. These high-rollers used to run up a food tab of $400-$500 a day on the weekends, tipped out everybody in the joint and used to pump tens of thousands a day thru the windows. All of the guys used to receive free parking passes and Turf Club credentials. New management comes in, and these same guys can't get a table, much less any sort of VIP treatment. That's how you create ADW patrons!!
Great that sand added to main track but what is Santa Anita doing to grow grass on the 'green concrete'. I love Santa Anita but hard to believe we can't have Belmont, Keeneland or Woodbine type REAL GRASS at this track. Let's hope two weeks of rain softens it up for BC turf racing and every horse is safer and has a fair chance.
The reason attendance is down is 1) high gas price's 2) Paying for parking 3)Paying to get 4) The price of food. 5) Paying for a good seat. Casino do not charge for parking, to get in, and they give you free drink's.Attendance will get even lower on line and phone betting rebates and the poor racing is also a big part.When will track's say they do not care about attendance and only the amount bet.Go to any racino and you will find many more people in the casino than the track.Plus i never heard of a druged slot machine.
Somebody do a story for heaven's sake on those morons renaming all of the stakes - they had a stake race called the Unzip me Stakes - somebody call them out


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Toledo police are closing down the 2600 block of West Laskey Road and evacuating the area for a reported gas leak.
The leak, at 2615 W. Laskey in West Toledo, was reported at 2:53 p.m.
Crews were going door-to-door asking people to leave their homes.
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OSGi JAX-RS connector: Publishing REST services
In a recent blog post Peter Kriens commented that the OSGi service model is as important as object-orientation. I feel the same – I don't want to write software without this concept anymore. But for me, the service model only makes sense when it's used together with the modularity OSGi provides. I think the modularisation layer is the greatest advantage of the OSGi platform and the services are really only there to simplify the communication between modules.
When it comes to developing a REST API with Java, this advantage is missing in most of today's libraries (e.g. Restlet or Jersey), because the Java language still lacks modularity. But especially for the design of a REST API this concept can be a great benefit, because it overcomes the limitation of only being able to separate REST services by url and Java packages. With modularity the service implementations can be separated into modules which improves the maintainability and the beauty of the whole system a lot.
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A few months ago I discovered JAX-RS for developing REST services. (Before that I used Restlet.) I have to say that the JAX-RS API makes it really easy to develop REST services. See this article for a how-to. A reference implementation of this API is Jersey. The cool thing about this implementation is that it plays really well together with the OSGi HttpService and it ships as bundles. In this way we have the option to actively deploy REST services into the HttpService. But is this how we want to publish REST services? To me, it's not!
In my ideal world I would write my @Path annotated Pojos and publish them as OSGi services. That's it. The runtime should take care of publishing and service wiring. Sadly, Jersey has no built-in feature for that. This is the reason I wrote a little OSGi-JAX-RS connector. The only thing the connector does is that it publishes OSGi services as REST services using JAX-RS. Of course, there are OSGi remote services, but using them does not allow the use of JAX-RS the way I'd prefer, namely as a lightweight additional bundle.
You can find the connector in GitHub. To make it work simply install it into your OSGi instance by using this jar. (You'll also find a p2 repository there). That's it. The only thing you have to take care of is writing the REST services like the one in this example.
@Path( "/osgi-jax-rs" )
public class ExampleService {
public String seyHello() {
return "JAX-RS and OSGi are a lovely couple.";
The activator can then look like this:
public class Activator implements BundleActivator {
private ServiceRegistration<?> registration;
public void start( BundleContext context ) throws Exception {
ExampleService exampleService = new ExampleService();
registration = context.registerService( ExampleService.class.getName(), exampleService, null );
public void stop( BundleContext context ) throws Exception {
Further instructions can be found in the README of the git repository. It also contains two examples for using this connector with and without declarative services. In the second part of this blog series I will show you how to configure the services using the OSGi Configuration Admin Service and publish services on different ports within the same OSGi instance. I hope you enjoy this connector as much as I do.
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I'm curious how you manage the lifecycle of the JAX-RS resources. As you know, the JAX-RS specification requires us to supply Class objects to the Application rather than actual resource objects; this is because by default JAX-RS creates a new instance of the resource for each HTTP connection… so they are using the Class as a kind-of factory. This makes it very hard to inject other OSGi services using DS or whatever, because the servlet is in charge of the resource lifecycle rather than DS.
So I'd be interested to hear if you found a way around this problem (I admit I haven't followed the progress of JAX-RS 2.0 at all). Otherwise this looks fairly similar to the connector I wrote about a year ago: https://github.com/njbartlett/jaxrs-osgi-extender
Hi Holger… thanks for the clarification. Yes I remember that now but I don't remember why I didn't use that approach myself! As I seem to recall that the JAX-RS encourages the use of per-request resource objects over singletons, but perhaps that is purely because you get thread-safety "for free" whereas a singleton will have to be consciously programmed to be thread safe.
Hm – I'm unable to install this into my target it complains about missing javax.servlet [2.3.0,4.0.0] which is very strange because my target shows javax.servlet 2.5.0! Any idea what can cause this problem?
a that worked. In the meantime I checked out your sources and is there a reason you are requireing org.osgi.framework 1.7.0 and org.osgi.service.com 1.4.0 in the console-bundle? Using 1.6.0 and 1.4.0 at least does not give me compiler errors (they are the ones coming with 3.7.1) whereas I guess 1.7.0 and 1.4.0 are from 3.8.
I did similar thing but using camel-cxf, which of course is an overhead, but I just want to play with whiteboard pattern and try different things like (consuming Guice beans with Declarative services) and so on.
I manage to build that with tycho (eclipse plugins/features/tests and p2 repo), so if You are interested in adding maven build to your project I could help with that.
Finally the repository: https://github.com/elyast/sppaclet
Please free to comment.
I myself used a similar pattern in some software I helped develop, however rather than registering resources via OSGi I registered javax.ws.rs.Application instances.
To get it all to work I had a Jersey servlet registered which then forwarded the ContainerRequest to other Jersey application instances based on the OSGi registered javax.ws.rs.Application instances. This did mean that each javax.ws.rs.Application needed to have its concept of "context path" so that the forwarder knew which one to direct the request to for handling, the "context path" was provided by service properties with the javax.ws.rs.Application registration.
Hi Holger, I downloaded all the source from the git hub, i got them compiled too. I launched the JAX-RS Example DS. After this how to test the ExampleService.
Can you please help me on this ?
I got the jars from Github and deployed in Virgo server. Deployment worked fine, but my REST service is not working. When debugging I found that "com.eclipsesource.jaxrs.connector.internal.HttpTracker.addingService(ServiceReference)" is never called, hence all the resources are going to "resourceCache"
What could be the reason, Please help.
Will this work on virgo ?
Virgo server supposed to have a HttpService running, because I was able to run my Spring Controller based REST services, when deploying as "web" bundle, Also I am able to access Virgo Admin console. Is there any thing else I need to check ?
Ok, got it , Virgo doesn't have HTTPService. I deployed "PAX-WEB" Jetty bundle, now the Resource registration is happening and I am able to invoke the service from browser, But there are other issues like
1. When registering the Resource, I get the below message in console.
Starting web bundle 'null' version 'null' with context path 'null'.
2. when invoking the rest service, I get some binary data (not the string I am returning from the function, I also given @Produces("text/plain"), still I dont see the string message
What could be the issue ?
I got it working, Used Apache Felix Http service and mapped to a different port and its working now.
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America's most popular car Honda Accord gets multiple feature upgrades with launch of 2015 models
Coming off an exceptional year for Accord that included retail sales leadership and the introduction of the all-new 50-mpg rated2 Accord Hybrid, the 2015 Accord Sedan and Coupe, and 2015 Accord Hybrid begin to go on sale today. Four-cylinder 2015 Accord Sedans have a starting MSRP of $22,105, with the four-cylinder Accord Coupe starting at $23,775. Both models are also offered with a V-6 powerplant. The 2015 Accord Hybrid, with Honda's Intelligent Multi-Mode Drive (i-MMD) two-motor hybrid system, has a starting MSRP3 of $29,305.
The already very well equipped Accord Sedan and Coupe receive feature upgrades for 2015. The 4-cylinder Sedan and Coupe EX-L and EX-L Navi trims now include the convenience of the HomeLink universal remote system that can be programmed with the codes of up to three devices, such as a garage-door opener or home security system. The 2015 Accord EX Coupe with 4-cylinder engine gains the Honda LaneWatch display that uses a camera and in-dash display to provide an enhanced view of the passenger-side roadway. All Accord EX-L and above Coupes will also now come equipped with an auto dimming rearview mirror.
The 2015 Accord Sedan and Coupe are available with the choice of two highly efficient Earth Dreams Technology™ powertrains, a 2.4-liter direct-injected i-VTEC 4-cylinder that produces 185 horsepower4 (189 horsepower5 in the Accord Sport Sedan) and a 278-horsepower6 3.5-liter VTEC V-6 with Variable Cylinder Management (VCM).
The 4-cylinder engine is paired with a continuously variable transmission (CVT) or 6-speed manual (6MT) and earns up to a 36 mpg EPA highway rating2. The Accord Sedan with V-6 is paired with a 6-speed automatic (6AT) with a 34 mpg EPA highway rating2. V-6 Coupe models can be equipped with either the 6AT or a 6-speed manual, with the 6AT having a 32 mpg EPA highway rating2. The 2015 Accord Hybrid is powered by Honda's Intelligent Multi-Mode Drive (i-MMD) two-motor hybrid system that transitions seamlessly between electric motor power, gasoline engine power and hybrid gas-electric propulsion, delivering power to the wheels without the need of a conventional transmission. This elegant powertrain helps the Accord Hybrid earn a 50 mpg EPA city rating2.
The 2014 Accord received numerous accolades, including an unprecedented 28th Car and Driver "10 Best" title, as well as anAutomobile Magazine "All-Star" award and "Best Family Car" award from Parenting magazine and Edmunds.com. Kelley Blue Book's KBB.com named the Accord a "Best Resale Value" vehicle and recognized it as having the lowest cost of ownership for a midsize sedan over a projected 5-year period. Included in the awards given to the 2014 Accord Hybrid were aMotorWeek "2014 Driver's Choice Award," a KBB.com "10 Best Green Car of 2014" award and a naming to Green Car Journal's "Top 10 Green Car Technology List for 2014."
Meanwhile, if you want to belong to the select group of Honda owners, all you have to do is visit the Diamond Honda of Glendale and get in touch with our kababayans Tito Adriosula, Cruzella Clemente and Orly Roque, who are more than ready to serve you and find you your new Honda Hybrids or any other Honda vehicle and be assured of top fuel efficiency as well as safety and maintenance.
These are just some of the reasons why are the Pinoys coming in droves to the dealership. Above all, at Diamond Honda of Glendale, customers are treated like Diamonds! That statement is backed up by General Manager Philip Keung, who has endeared himself to Filipino customers because of his professionalism and his recognition and vast understanding of Honda's multi-ethnic market. "He is a great anchor. We rely on his wisdom and professional savvy all the time. He is very helpful to the Filipino salesmen and customers alike," says Tito.
Diamond Honda of Glendale is located at 138 S. Glendale Avenue, Glendale, CA 91205. Its toll-free number is 1.866.237.7092.


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Herman Miller's Creative Network
Herman Miller CEO Brian Walker talks with Corporate Design Foundation Chairman Peter Lawrence about tapping the creative network for insights and breakthrough ideas.
Herman Miller has a long tradition of working with design consultants like Charles Eames, Isamu Noguchi, and George Nelson. Why an external creative network rather than an in-house design staff?
The driver for us is our commitment to new ideas and solutions. This external network ensures that we are always taking a fresh look at problems faced by our customers without subjecting it to our own filters. If you have only an internal design staff, even an enormously talented one, you are inherently limited by their existing world view and experiences. Our ability to tap into a broader outside network lets us revisit and reinvent our own filters on a regular basis and get a fresh perspective on existing or emerging problems. This approach has its challenges, but it often leads to the best ideas and breakthroughs. Our creative network is at the core of Herman Miller's DNA.
Herman Miller has continued to partner with some of today's great designers.
Yes. A huge contributor for decades was Bill Stumpf, who received the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Product Design in 2006, just prior to his passing away. People like Ayse Birsel, Eric Chan, Yves Behar, Studio 7.5 Berlin and others have continued to extend our design tradition.
Is there a secret to working well with outside designers?
The central thing that we've learned is a willingness to follow and give ourselves over to these designers—not lose ourselves, but be open to following them to places that we may question in the beginning. We give our creative network an outline of a perceived problem and let them share their insights as to whether we're on the right path and then enable them to bring their own gifts to the search for a solution. We follow them in their journey without judging too quickly. One of the hardest things to do is not to judge too quickly, based on the first physical appearance of something. Instead, we try to understand the essence of what they're describing in physical form, written form or sketches.
The genius of Herman Miller's R&D folks is in knowing how to put the right constraints in place so that we end up not only with a great statement of design, a great innovation, but something that solves real problems for customers and has commercial value. It's easy in some ways to come up with great designs that don't have commercial value, but to have great design that solves real problems and creates commercial value, that's where the genius comes in. That's where our R&D people make their real contribution; it's their ability to know how to put the right constraints in place to push the creative network to a different place.
Herman Miller is known for pioneering work in consumer research, including "global scenario planning." What is it?
Every few years, we do global-scale scenario planning, where we look out a number of years and create multiple visions of how we think the world may change. We ask ourselves, if the world did evolve along one of those paths, how would that affect the way people work, live, and feel? These scenarios give us vectors on which to explore new potential problems and new solutions. Solving problems is where our design work begins. We rarely start off saying, 'We just want a chair in this price point.' More often, we say, 'Here's a problem area that we see for folks. How do we solve it?' Around here we often quote George Nelson, our lead designer in the '40s and '50s, who used to say, 'Design is a response to social change.'
Cite an example of a workplace problem you are trying to address.
Right now we see a growing need for temporal places that aren't as permanent as an office nor just a meeting space, but something in between. A question we ask ourselves is what kind of seating is best suited for such a temporal place? If you begin by trying to solve the problem, you get a different outcome than saying, 'We need to go do a chair that's $200.'
Herman Miller's product offerings go beyond office furniture, don't they?
Herman Miller has had several periods of revival or renewal where we have changed our focus. We don't define ourselves as an office furniture company or even a furniture company. Our boundary is around people and human performance. It's around habitat and wherever we can affect the performance of human beings in their habitats. Problem-solving design is at the core of what Herman Miller is, and that can be applied to a broader field and evolve over time. Clearly some habitats have not been primary to us in the recent past, but are logical and natural steps. We have historical grounding in the home, so we can play off of that. Educational institutions have a lot of connectivity and, in many ways, have needs that are similar to the office and the home. And we've had interest in the healing area for many years. Those became the jumping-off point for us.
We also have a group called the Herman Miller Creative Office working on things that you can't define by environment or habitat type. They're clearly not furniture either. The most recent example is Convia, a modular, programmable sub-building infrastructure system for electrical and data that makes buildings more adaptable and changeable by the user. We believe it has profound implications for the design and management of buildings, across multiple categories of use.
How has Herman Miller managed to stay at the forefront of introducing new materials, from Eames' molded plywood to the fabric on the Aeron chair?
Trying to solve problems in a new way often leads us to new materials. One advantage we have as a company is that we're not very vertically integrated from a manufacturing standpoint. If we were, it would be difficult to convince ourselves to change material types. We see ourselves more as an integrator than a manufacturer. We're able to do material explorations somewhat freely and give designers a fairly free hand to bring us new ideas.
You have a strong financial background. How did you learn about design?
It's almost impossible to be here for 18 years and not learn something about design. I don't consider myself knowledgeable about how to design, but I have become a student of design. I have had the benefit of great teachers at Herman Miller, both in our creative network and in our own management team and Board of Directors. I have the good fortune of working with Gary Miller and Don Goeman who have been involved in the design and innovation processes at Herman Miller for 25 to 30 years. Spending time with those folks and being willing to listen to them and have them say, 'Let me tell you why we're approaching it this way' has been a great benefit. More recently I've gotten to spend more time with our creative network.
When I was transitioning from Chief Operating Officer to CEO, I used to sit in on every design review launch team meeting. I spent a lot of time listening to the details of what was going on, not as the boss critiquing their work, but as an observer trying to understand where it was going. Even today, when one of our designers is in town, Don Goeman checks to see if I have an hour or two to meet. It's not about spending time to approve anything; sometimes it's to take me through the latest model and hear what they're thinking.
You recently went to China to explore marketing opportunities and took a team of designers with you. That's rather unusual.
We spent almost three weeks in China doing research into what our entry strategy should be. Our group included Don Goeman and three members of our creative network—Eric Chan of Ecco Design in New York, Bill Stumpf of Stumpf/Weber, and Burkhard Schmitz from Studio 7.5 in Berlin. About a third of our trip was cultural immersion, visiting museums, the homes of local people, touring emerging and old cities.
Can you share any takeaways from that trip?
We learned that the Herman Miller brand does mean something in China and that a growing appreciation and respect for good design exists there. It also became clear that we were going to have to create some design very specific to that marketplace and we would have to hire local people, both on the design and management side to really understand the Chinese culture and be sensitive to it.
Herman Miller still abides by the environmental values of your founder D.J. DePree. What formed his beliefs?
To paraphrase DePree: 'Ultimately businesses will be judged by their contribution to humanity and we have a duty to be good stewards of the environment.' D.J. had a deep sense that we don't really own these resources in the long run, we simply are borrowing them, and we need to pass them on to future generations in good order. That's the underpinning of Herman Miller's environmental values. Aside from the moral obligation, there's an economic return, if we're good at it. We have 10 target goals set for 2010 that we call "The Power of Ten." They are part of our ultimate "2020 Vision" of leaving no operational footprint on the environment by the year 2020. A second commitment is that 50% of our sales must come from products that meet the Design for the Environment protocol (DFE) established with the help of Bill McDonough, Michael Braungart and their Cradle-to-Cradle principles. Our Mirra chair was the first non-textile product to meet DFE in our industry. Now we require all of our new products to go through DFE analysis before they're launched.
For decades, Herman Miller has shaped the office workplace. How do you see it evolving, and is the open plan office still relevant?
Open plan offices are not going to go away, but I think we are going to see much more of a mixed landscape that will vary not only by company, but by areas within a company and who those users are. One size won't fit all. That's why among our newer products you can see My Studio Environment, focused on people who need to do individual work and need an element of controllable privacy, and Vivo, a frame-and-tile office system. By the way, it is important that these two products can work together harmoniously. At the same time, neither invalidates what we did with Resolve, which is a more extreme move toward collaboration. All of these systems fit within the portfolio of who we are and you'll continue to see more products that fit in those kind of more temporal areas that are neither private offices, open plan nor conference rooms. The one overall trend that we're starting to see is a less mechanistic feel to the way offices are put together. They'll become more organic. They'll have more of a residential quality in some ways.
Where does the home office fit into your scheme? Didn't the company enter this segment a decade ago?
When we relaunched our residential business in '94, we were probably ahead of the curve. Part of the reason was the technology infrastructure wasn't there. You had a clunky dial-up connection that made it slow to upload and download files. Today, people can't tell if you're at home or in the office. We will see more of a blurring. I also think there will be as much of a need to ask how you are going to deal with the mobility between all of those locations. Our drive is not just to ask how we solve issues of the home and home office, which we do have an interest in, but how we can address issues that people are going to deal with between the home, the office, and that other place.
Is Herman Miller involved in office equipment technology?
That will be an area of growing connectivity going forward. Certainly as we look at our own research, we're seeing many more opportunities emerging with the advent of new technologies. We're actively developing our own internal capabilities and we're looking externally for both design talent and collaborative resources for new technology.
Herman Miller's commitment to design quality extends to print communications as well. For decades your annual report, designed inhouse by Steve Frykholm, has been an award-winner. How is your report evolving?
We want to make sure that any vision, any product that we produce is relevant to the audience and the times. Annual reports produced before the Web were targeted to investors and analysts who probably don't find printed annuals as relevant today because they can get a lot of that data online. But we believe our customers and employees still read our annual report, so last year we did a summary annual with my letter directed more to customers, employees and other constituents. We would like to do more of an employee annual report talking about things at a level that we probably can't to external audiences, but do so in as creative a way as we have for outside groups. We continue to think there is an audience for printed annual reports, but we have to reorganize the content and reinvent it for the segments we are trying to reach.
What about your SEE magazine, which seems to concentrate less on promoting Herman Miller products than on positioning the company as a thought leader?
You hit the nail on the head with the term "thought leader." We think that is rightly Herman Miller's position because our products and services spring from our focus on problem solving and research. Our SEE magazine is a way to connect with customers, influencers and business leaders by sharing some of the knowledge that we have acquired. SEE, which features articles by our design network, also is meant to convey the energy and focus we put into research. It shows that when you come to Herman Miller as a customer, beyond what you get from the product, you get an experience that will enable you to improve your business.
A few years back when your business was in a downturn, Herman Miller made a bold decision to emphasize research and design. What does this say about the company's evolution?
I give Mike Volkema, now our chairman but who was CEO at the time, a lot of the credit. We had the choice to say, 'We are going to be an office furniture company and jettison everything else,' or to say 'Let's begin to paint a bigger picture for our future.' We chose the latter and elevated research and development funding over other areas of our business. It was a gutsy call. What's phenomenal about this choice is that the path of Herman Miller has always been about evolving to a new place-from what D.J. DePree, our founder, saw in the 1930s, moving from period furniture to a design-driven company, to an office furniture leader in the 1960s, to today saying we can have a broader impact on human habitat. Ultimately, our greatest asset is our ability to create. You can call it innovation, but we call it problem-solving design.
Walker is speaking at the @issue conference April 29, 2008 in New York, information at www.cdf.org.


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GIRLS TENNIS: Warriors romp past Willmar
The Brainerd Warriors won three singles matches and swept doubles as they defeated the Willmar Cardinals 6-1 in a Central Lakes Conference meet Thursday at Brainerd High School.
Megan Hintz, Rosie Hunter and Kristina Anderson won singles matches.
Chloe Glassman lost at No. 2 singles but played a competitive match, extending Willmar's Cayle Hovland to three sets.
"Chloe is growing her game," Warriors coach Ellen Fussy said. "Playing No. 2 is a hard position. We're proud of her."
Glassman, Hunter and Anderson are in their first year of varsity tennis.
"They have some room to grow," Fussy said. "They haven't had that experience. They haven't had an opportunity because they've had kids in front of them, but they're willing to work and get coached up."
Doubles wins were by the teams of Sara Wennerstrand-Caitlin Steffen, Morgan Steffen-Natalie Comeau and Ashley Fitterer-Brooke Mimmack.
"The girls are getting better," Fussy said. "The things they need to work on, they're working on. We're happy with our progress but we have more progress to make.
"We've been changing our lineup and the girls are willing to do that, so it's been fun, and we're off to a good start."
Brainerd 6, Willmar 1
No. 1: Megan Hintz (B) def. Gabie Biebaum 6-3, 6-1
No. 2: Cayle Hovland (W) def. Chloe Glassman 6-3, 3-6, 2-6
No. 3: Rosie Hunter (B) def. Bailey Hovland 6-3, 6-1
No. 4: Kristina Anderson (B) def. Maddy Oehrlein 6-0, 6-0
No. 1: Sara Wennerstrand-Caitlin Steffen (B) def. Heather Horning-Kassi Linbo 6-1, 6-1
No. 2: Morgan Steffen-Natalie Comeau (B) def. Waverly Flette-Leah Ramon 6-1, 6-0
No. 3: Ashley Fitterer-Brooke Mimmack (B) Tayva Jolla-Megan Andersen 6-1, 6-0
Brainerd junior varsity winners
Singles: Maiah Maki, Sara Dick, Hannah Moen, Shayla Metz, Jenna Swenson, Molly West, Hannah Spitzley, Megan Wroolie, Karlene Knutson
Doubles: Gretchen Gramer-Madi Exsted, Kallie Voss-Anna Fischer, Emma Johnson-Karlene Knutson
Conference: Brd 2-0. Overall: Brd 3-2. Next: Brainerd at Alexandria 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.


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This "Out to Lunch" adventure began when my wife, Carol, and I began to make plans to attend the musical production of "Ragtime" at the Clayton Center for the Arts on the Maryville College campus.
We first invited our longtime friends, Jerry and Micky Pease, to join us. Jerry is part of the family that operates Pease Furniture in South Knoxville. They have been included in some of my previous articles.
Last-minute campaigning outside the Roane County Courthouse has become an Election Day tradition. These road superintendent hopeful supporters hope their smiles and waves will give voters a last-minute pause to consider their candidate for the job.
Dr. Lyndsey Hazen has joined Dr. James D. Walmsley's Kingston dental practice as an associate in his office.
Hazen has been a practicing dentist for five years. She has been active in Remote Area Medical, traveled to military bases to treat soldiers before they are deployed, worked in the Health Department with children, and in nursing homes with the elderly.
Walmsley said he is excited to have Hazen because of her clinical skills, experience and down-to-earth, warm personality and care and attention she gives to each of her patients.
After one year as the U.S. Department of Energy's cleanup contractor in Oak Ridge, URS/CH2M Oak Ridge, known as UCOR, has made tremendous progress in safely cleaning up DOE's Oak Ridge Reservation.
The company's most high-profile project, demolition of the K-25 Building at East Tennessee Technology Park, has been ahead of schedule. Demolition of the east wing is nearing completion, with the exception of five process cells needing further deactivation.
UCOR has shipped more than 10,000 loads of K-25 demolition debris for disposal.
Food City will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its sponsorship of the Food City 250 at Bristol Motor Speedway Aug. 24 with a very special guest serving as grand marshal.
In 2006, Harriman's Julian Goins had a season to remember as the Blue Devils QB passed for 1,140 yards and 12 TDs while rushing for 648 yards and 10 TDs in leading Harriman to the TSSAA Class A quarterfinals.
District Attorney General Russell Johnson is not a fan of having early voting at the Roane County Courthouse, where a number of elected officials have offices.
"The current early voting situation provides what is perceived as an unfair advantage to these office holders," Johnson said in a letter addressed to Roane County Administrator of Elections Charles Holiway.
David Morgan, a candidate in this year's race for property assessor, contended that incumbent Teresa Kirkham was campaigning from her office inside the courthouse during early voting.
Rockwood building inspector Jim Hines is safe from elimination — for now.
Rockwood City Council voted to keep Hines, who was on the agenda to be eliminated at Vice Mayor Peggy Evans' request.
Mayor James Watts broke a tie vote on the issue, siding with Councilman Jason Jolly, Councilman Pete Wright and Councilwoman Jane Long.
Cleanup was an issue brought up at the meeting, and Evans used that time to say she didn't think Hines did enough to work with codes enforcement and dealing with overgrown lots and dilapidated buildings.
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By Holly Reisem Hanna
This past weekend, Angie from The Work at Home Wife, held this really informative event called the Work at Home Weekend. During this community event, she unleashed and showcased some of the best work at home blogs on the web.
While I was honored to be part of this event, I was more thrilled to learn about a bunch of new resources that I had not known about before. In fact, I spent a good two hours on Saturday morning just visiting and reading what these women had to offer.
As you well know, I'm always on the lookout for new ways to make money from home – and in finding all of these new blogs, I was able to learn about some new work at home money makers. With these new opportunities, you're not going to get rich, but you can add some extra cash to your wallet.
Here are 8 ways to make some extra cash from home.
Swagbucks is an online platform where you can earn points called SB, which can be redeemed for gift cards and coupons. You can easily earn SB points by watching videos, playing games, answering questions, shopping online, and even surfing the web using their search bar. Refer your friends and you'll earn even more SB points. Your SB points can be traded in for gift cards from Amazon, Target, Starbucks, PayPal and Walmart.
Is an online platform that allows you to make money from taking surveys, watching videos, shopping, completing short tasks, and much more. Sign up and immediately earn $5 just for joining. Most offers pay between .25 to $30 per offer, and payments are made via PayPal, check, or direct deposit once your account reaches a $25 threshold. Some offers do require a credit card number, so if you don't feel comfortable giving out that information, just stick to the offers which display the No CC icon. Fusion Cash is a member of the Better Business Bureau.
New over at Amazon, you can make money online working on HITS (Human Intelligence Tasks). A few of the tasks that I saw listed were, transcribing information from a business card to a form, payout $0.02 cents. Another task was to transcribe a voice-mail from audio to text (audio length 3 hours), payout $76.19. After you complete the task and the requester approves your work, the money is deposited into your Amazon account.
Do you have a way with words? Then this opportunity with BoostMedia may be right up your alley. You basically write PPC (pay-per-click) Ads for companies – if your ad gets accepted, or wins a contest you get paid. On their home-page, BoostMedia boasts one "Booster" who is making $1,200 a month writing ads; keep in mind that this is probably their top earner who has excellent copywriting skills and this probably not the norm.
Bringing together companies and freelancers, Cloud Crowd seeks individuals to complete a variety of tasks. Tasks include everything from from online profile verification, to writing, editing and marketing. According to their expected earnings information, writers can make $15.00 – $25.00 an hour, editors can earn $10.00 – $35.00 an hour, and market writers can make $12.00 – $20.00 per hour. Please note that for the higher paying projects, you will need to pass certain credential tests.
At Jingit you can earn cash for watching ads and then completing a short survey. Simply sign in with your Facebook login, verify your account and start watching ads. By watching one ad (30 seconds) and by answering 5 multiple choice questions I was able to earn $0.30 cents. To increase your earning potential, simply share Jingit with your friends on one the various social media sites. Each friend that signs up, will increase your earning potential by $0.25 cents. You can use your earnings to buy music at music.me or you can get a Jingit Visa Debit Card.
At Postloop you can earn extra cash by posting content on various forums. Simply sign up for an account, then start off by contributing, answering and starting new conversations on Postloop's forum. Once you have completed this task and your account is approved by an administrator you can start posting on the "paid" forums. Each time you answer, reply or add a new conversation you'll earn points – when you reach 100 points, you'll earn $5.00. According to Postloop the average poster receives is $0.08 per post that they make. Definitely not a lot of money, but if you love to gab it may be a fun way to earn some extra pocket cash.
At We Go Look individuals are paid to verify goods and services before another person buys. Tasks include looking at cars, houses and vacation rentals, verifying the quality of a product and or checking the condition of a product. Once the task is completed and you have submitted your report (including photos), you will be paid via PayPal. We Go Look pays $25.00 and up per completed assignment.
What are you favorite ways to earn extra cash?
Please be aware that these companies have only been soft checked, meaning that I did a quick search to see if there were any negative reviews or ratings. As is always the case, please do your due diligence (research the opportunity extensively) prior to enrolling in any business opportunity.


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Im going to have to fit coilovers soon. my suspention is on its way out so this summer im going to fit new and lower it. Im only doing this as the price between new standard suspention and coilovers isnt that much.
Because money is an issue, is there anything i can do to a standard front bumper to make it look better when the car is lowered.
I would like to put an m3 one on but £120 plus prep and paint is far too much.
I dont want the car to look stupid once it has its new coilovers, and i also dont want to have to pay out the price of the new suspension again on a different bumper.
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text: Hey guys(and girls), wouldn't really say I'm new here, I've been reading the CL for quite some time now. Anyway I did a quick search for this topic and didn't really get anything, so I'm wondering what OEM seats you like the most and why? Be it looks or comfort or both, lets see them. My personal favorites are the '97 Saab 9000 Aero anniversary edition seats.


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I was happy to see Robin present a post on long run health care costs. Though unfortunately he seems to get caught in the same rut as the rest of the intelligentsia.
He asks us to imagine a fountain of youth pill that kept everyone thirty forever. Unfortunately, as your true age got older you would need evermore pills. He says
a fountain of youth pill whose required dosage doubled every decade would either have to be banned, or given to everyone over thirty with insurance. And if everyone were required to have insurance, that would be everyone over thirty. But then the per-person expenses of this system would almost double every decade, growing about 7% per year. Every decade that passed, the oldest folks would be ten years older, and require twice the dosage. But per-capita economic growth rates today are far below 7%. So eventually we'd run out of money to pay for these pills; we'd have to say no to some people, and then they'd quickly die. And the longer we waited before admitting to ourselves that we couldn't afford to give effective treatments to everyone, no matter what the cost, the worse it would be.
Why would it be worse the longer we lived in self-deception? That really needs to be spelled out because off the top it sounds like Robin is describing a scenario in which we maximize the the total amount of human life we can support. We are also doing this without implicitly valuing anyone's life over anyone else's. We save everyone we can, as long as we can, until we hit capacity. This could easily be a utopian scenario.
Again, its probably not the scenario I prefer but one has to be explicit about exactly why throwing everything we have at an extremely effective method of preserving enormous amounts of human life is bad idea. It seems like something the average person would regard as a great idea.
Good thing we don't have a fountain of youth pill, right? Actually, our real situation is worse. Per capita medical spending in the US doubles about every fifteen years, which is still much higher than our economic growth rate.Yet we struggle to see any substantial correlation between health and medical spending – our medicine is mostly useless on the margin. Its nothing like a fountain of youth pill.
Its not clear why it's a good thing we don't have the pill, seeing as how the nightmare scenario seemed pretty good.
However, the analogy with current US spending seems to have a few problems to me.
Implicit in Robin's story is that the pill had some irreducible non-zero real cost and that we were paying that in order to obtain clear benefits. Once you have you that, it's a necessary condition that the cost of producing the pill will eventually outstrip our capacity to produce it.
Is this the case in Medicine? Robin, of course, recognizes that there is no clear benefit. And as, such there is no clear resource that one must obtain to keep this process going, aside from human time.
Lets try to stay with the pill story but instead of it being a glorious fountain of youth it goes like this: There are pills which people believe to help ward off death. In fact these pills are just a placebo. Yet, they do have an effect because the placebo effect is an effect.
Because the pills are only a placebo they are simply made out of whatever matter is available plus some human time devoted to stamping the label pill-XXXX on them.
Training is required to become a pill stamper. It is easy for smart people to get this training and harder for less smart people.
This dynamic causes the cost of bringing new pills to market to steadily rise. We need more pill stampers. All of the easy pill stampers have been taken and so now we are forcing more and more people through the pill stamping training so that they can stamp pills.
As the number of pills rises we begin devoting larger and larger fractions of our economy to pill stamping. By necessity this means the pill stamping industry must be growing faster than the overall economy. Else it would be shrinking as a fraction, not growing as a fraction.
Wasting all of this time and effort just to get someone to stamp placebo pills seems like a waste of time and I would argue that it is. But, is it sustainable. As far as I can tell its utterly sustainable.
Under a completely totalitarian system we would eventually lock everyone into the pill stamping industrial complex. From birth they would their lives would be channeled towards the eventual goal of either becoming a pill stamper or producing the bare necessities to support the pill stamping industry.
In a slightly more free economy, resources either through taxation or insurance mandate would be constantly flowing towards the pill stamping industry. This would lead to many many folks seeking jobs as pill stampers and parents likewise funneling their children through pill stamping pre-schools.
All resources would not eventually flow to the pill stamping per se because as it grew to enormity, the price of goods and services needed to support the industry would rise. The pill stampers would still need to eat. The would still need shelter from the elements. They would still need some way to dispose of human waste products.
These functions could come about as separate entities or they could be subsumed into the pill production supply chain. For example, every pill facility could have its own dorms, cafeterias, plumbing system, perhaps even in house facilities to produce cheap uniforms for the stampers.
In any case economic growth would come to be dominated by pill stamping and the economy and pill stamping would be two different names for the same thing. Society and life would revolve around the process of stamping pills.
In imagining this scenario, I my hope is that it is clear it is undesirable. It is a place were all of human hopes and dreams have been pushed aside in favor of "useless" pill stamping.
However, it should hopefully also be clear that it is completely sustainable. Humanity could go on like this forever. There is nothing that I see that would stop this, accept of course for extinction level events that would occur anyways.
The problem with this scenario is not that its impossible or that one day it will hit cliff that we will all fall off of. The problem in its most raw sense is that it takes things that I –Karl Smith – value and trades them away for things that I –Karl Smith – do not value. Thus it is a world that is to me undesirable.
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Long story short, I've learned a thing or two about tuning my ECU and what to meet up with another "closet tuner" or other interested party so as to learn more about tuning and not blowing up engines. I just want to meet up at a meet or whatever and shoot the stuff about timing, MAF scaling and all that. Yeh there are lots of sites to check out with lots of info but if I tune my ride in front of you and you tune yours I think we could learn more.
I'm busy the next couple of known meetups but eventually I'll make it out there.
I don't mind helping somebody flash a known good map or whatever. It's a realitively easy process. I've got a bugeye so I have the reflash connectors. Other equipment I have includes Vag-com cable (good for logging, going to mod it to flash to 02-03s), Tactrix cable (flashes everthing) and a handy software loaded up netbook.
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His gaunt grizzly face took a ghastly hue lit solely by the computer monitor in Captain_Raptor's cramped dorm room. It was 4 AM and he still had some homework to finish before his class at 11 but the familiar ringing of his voice chat system instilled in him an optimistic sort of vigor.
"Good morning my darling Nathan!", he heard Sabrina's voice before her smiling visage translated across her webcam to his screen. "Good evening my little one!", he greeted the young woman that he had been in a relationship with now a little over a year. The first woman he had ever told he loved, had shared his deepest darkest secrets with and now the woman who seemed the farthest person in the world from him.
"How was your day?", he asked.
She paused to think and appeared to move her nose and mouth towards opposite sides of her face in what Raptor perceived to be an act of unparalleled cuteness. "Not bad. I was only called "Baka" about five times. Got Roger to finally finish all the math pages in his workbook and I didn't have lunch duty with that creepy teacher that transferred from the west campus."
They had only been officially dating for about 2 months when Sabrina had confronted him with her plan to go teach English in Japan. They had been taking things slow at first but after spending all their free time together and getting to know each other better Nathan couldn't really imagine going a month let alone a year without seeing her. He knew he had no right to tell his girlfriend what she could and couldn't do but it didn't make supporting her decision to abandon him any easier.
She was graduating early and he still had another year and a half to finish his degree. So when she explained that it was the best way to keep herself busy while she waited for him to graduate from college he understood. The admission that Sabrina wanted to be with him after they'd both graduated was more than evidence that their relationship was serious, to Nathan it meant that she loved him enough to include him in her future. He'd spent the time apart to sort through his thoughts and figure out exactly what that meant.
"'Baka' means 'idiot',right? Man, if I ever meet those kids . . . ", he threatened.
"Yep. You know what else we did in class today?", Sabrina didn't wait for an answer before continuing "the kids made a paper chain to practice counting to twenty but I made one for myself with some slight alterations."
Loops of primary colored paper emerged from below the webcam's range of vision. There were forty five strips of paper glued into a linked form and Sabrina rattled them up and down as her eyebrows arched with anticipation for his response.
"Just forty-five days until you're back in my arms", Nathan sighed longingly. Chin dipping out of view of the camera he watched as her eyes lost their excited wideness, melting into an amorous stare that penetrated that aching place in his chest and made the barrier of the microphone all so evident to his trembling lips.
"I miss you.", she whispered.
"And I you . . . Have you thought about what I asked you last week?", Despite how comfortable he had grown just talking to Sabrina there was a hint of nervousness in Nathan's question.
She nodded silently and a puff could be heard in the audio as the microphone picked up her intake of breath before answering, "Yes, I think living with you would be perfect."
Relief evolved to elation as Nathan brought his laptop over to his bed so he could lie down comfortably and continue their conversation. Softly they cooed into their microphones plans for their new apartment laced with sentiments of affection. Eventually there were only intermittent murmurs coming from her end and Nathan hugged his pillow to his chest only to become acutely aware of how unlike his little one it was. The lumps were poor substitute for curvy hips and the coarse seams only a vague representation of her prominent ribs.
Eventually the comforting rhythm of her breathing meant that she had finally fallen asleep. "I love you. Sleep well my little one.", he paused over the red 'end call' button as he waited for the ardent sentiments to reach her precious form.


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CNN - It can be very expensive to raise a child, but a new report says raising a girl may be the better bargain!
It's good news for those who have daughters.
Yes, it may be pricey in the teen years with all of the clothes, makeup, hair and nails, but a report in Money Magazine says raising girls may be a better financial deal in the long run.
There have been many stories in recent years about "boomerang" children — those who move out for college and then move right back into their parents' home.
According to a new survey conducted by Harris Poll for Yodlee Interactive, daughters are less likely than sons to need financial help from mom and dad when they grow up.
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Of those living with parents, 41% of adult men surveyed said they get financial help from mom and dad, as compared with 31 percent of adult women.
The contrast gets larger as the adult children age.
32% of men ages 35-44 still spend nights in the bedroom they had as kids, compared with 9% of adult women.
The study also found that daughters are more likely to provide care for aging parents.
But it's not all bad news for boys.
By age 45, the differences in financial independence between males and females do fade.


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We've been conditioned as an industry to think in terms of segments, or rote, easily grasped audience breakouts. These are often defined in advance by the advertisers or publishers and are very limited in terms of reflecting everything we can know about our audiences, all the traits and qualities that would help us truly target them.
Today, especially in mobile, there is a better way, one that considers audience beyond cookie-cutter segments.
A Quick Look at Segments
Before we get into all the inferiorities and downsides of using segments, let me firmly establish I'm actually a huge fan of segmentation. As an experimental social psychologist, I studied and observed that people are predictable.
Part of being predictable is exhibiting correlated and categorical characteristics and behaviors. And, by nature of exhibiting categorical attributes, within the context of the human experience, people can be logically clumped with other people (segments) and uniformly described and anticipated. Even more interesting, at least to the psychologist (and statistician), is just how easy it is to segment, or cluster, humans.
So, if segmentation is easy to do, because humans are so predictable, and if very smart practitioners have consistently validated numerous clustering algorithms, why shouldn't we use segments in mobile targeting?
Why the Segment is Inadequate
The shortcoming of segmentation is most easily described if you understand how segments or clusters are formed and defined. While there are many different techniques, statistical and otherwise, used to create segmentation systems, for the most part, they all include two sets of variables: clustering variables and describing variables.
So, for example, age and gender might be the variables that determine to which cluster someone is assigned, dining and shopping preferences might be the characteristics by which we evaluate the meaningfulness of the assignment, and how and where we make use of the information.
With this basic premise in mind, you can begin to think about and evaluate the power and usefulness of segments.
Unfortunately, broadly defined segments also have a much lower likelihood that folks assigned to each cluster will be truly homogenous on relevant, usable descriptive characteristics.
For example, do my age and gender alone give insight into my dining preferences? Or, would it be helpful to also know about income, neighborhood, lifestyle, and past dining habits? Of course.
Most Segments are Built in a Generalist Vacuum
Marketers want to use segments in very specific settings. And, in mobile, that setting gets even more specific.
Take the example above. Segments designed to indicate or predict dining preferences. To build a segmentation system that can effectively anticipate consumer dining behaviors, you need more than basic demographics. You need specific behavioral insights.
In mobile, the advertiser who is looking for consumers with a particular dining habit or preference, is really looking for a subset of those consumers, or those who will be prompted by a mobile message to engage in a particular behavior. The idea that any pre-built segment definition is going to have precise alignment with each individual advertiser's goal is obviously unrealistic.
A real-world example: In the context of the buying and selling of digital media, is the fact that many of the segments we try to leverage in the media industry tend to be based on simplified publisher definitions — crudely categorized demographics and basic lifestyle and behavioral points. The end result is essentially targeting broad audiences, a handful of large segments at a time, and taking a rather linear approach to reaching and optimizing the best audience.
Marketers Leave Opportunity and Money on the Table
Segments, including those used widely across the industry, are by design somewhat static and defined in broad strokes. This means they lack specificity and precision, which in turn means they aren't superstars at identifying unique audiences, much less even more dynamic mobile audiences.
A more advanced approach to audience targeting embraces the idea of dynamic audience discovery and development, and the ability to simultaneously consider tens of thousands of attributes and characteristics, independently varying across location, time of day, content and device, the key triggers in mobile. So, how does this work?
It Starts with Real-time Learning and Multivariate Models
Real-time learning allows you to actually gather the data you need, relevant to what you are trying to accomplish right now, versus relying on previously built, static segments. Real-time learning with predictive scorecards (versus segment assignments) allows you to continually evaluate and adjust which combination of characteristics are the most important in identifying a target audience.
The result is the ability to save money by only communicating with likely prospects, at a time and place they are most interested, and maximizing return on investment by driving bottom line behaviors with the precision afforded when you can evaluate and modify the most effective targeting and messaging, on the fly.
Take a marketer of organic groceries, who'd like to use mobile to promote seasonal berries and a new store location.
- What are the most important characteristics in identifying the best audience?
- Is there a segment for berry-loving organic shoppers? Is the segment most interested in the grocers message at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, the same as the segment most interested at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday?
- Is the difference between these two segments best predicted by income or occupation?
And, what if the answer to all of the above questions is "it depends."
Real-time machine learning, mixed with rich data sets and multi-variate scorecards, allows the marketer to ask and answer all of these questions (and more) at once, and then take action (or not) according to all possible answers. In other words, the organic grocer can learn, in real-time, who is actually engaging with his berry and new store ads, and then only spend money on sending messages to other engagers.
If the consumers are engaging at different times, days, or locations vary, no problem, his campaign can adjust and optimize accordingly. Segments can't ever be that accurate, that precise, or that dynamic.
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McDonald's wants to be your caffeine pusher of choice, and promotes their inexpensive brewed coffee and frozen creations as quick, convenient, and cheap. $1 is the price point advertised on billboards. Cheap! What they don't mention in these ads, though, is that price applies if you want your coffee black or with cream or half and half. If you prefer milk in your coffee, some franchises will accommodate you, but at others, you're going to have to pay for a half-pint carton of milk.
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Should Chocolate Milk Be Served In Schools?
Though there are many differing explanations for why it's happening, there's no arguing that childhood obesity is on the rise in the U.S. The latest battleground over our kids' waistlines is the school lunchroom, where nutritionists are attempting to make arguments for and against the continued sale of chocolate milk.
Family Drinks Milk Containing Dead Mouse For 3 Days, Sues Walmart
I've never tasted milk that contained the corpse of a dead mouse, so I can't say whether or not it would be noticeable, but a couple in Kentucky claim they drank three days' worth of moused-up milk they'd purchased at Sam's Club before ever noticing the rotting rodent inside. Now, as happens in these situations, they have filed a lawsuit.
Chinese Milk Accused Of Sprouting Boobs On Babies
They say that girls are developing earlier and earlier these days, but this is just disgusting. Chinese authorities are investigating reports that three Chinese infant girls prematurely developed breasts after consuming hormone-tainted powdered milk made by Chinese manufacturer Synutra.
Old Thermos Ad: Use Our Product Or Your Baby Will Die!
I know we all like to laugh at old homemaker ads, like where bad coffee will make your husband have an affair or the wrong douche will let the communists win, but here's one that pushes it a step further. How? Dead babies. As the scary ad explains, a thermos keeps filthy germ-ridden flies away from the milk, and keeps the milk cold, and that means the milk won't kill your baby. If you don't buy this thermos, you may as well make your baby into terrible tasting instant coffee and use it to drive your husband into the arms of his secretary, because that's what you deserve.
Find Out Where Your Dairy And Produce Items Came From
A longtime reader sent in a couple of links to websites that let you find out more about your food supply chain, if you're into that sort of stuff. Where is my milk from? matches carton codes with a list of dairies published by the FDA. FoodLogiq is less user-friendly and requires free registration, but you can apparently use it to track produce from participating growers. (Thanks to Cy!)
Lactose Intolerant? Drink Milk!
If you think you're lactose intolerant, the National Institutes of Health says, well… maybe you're not. In a statement released yesterday, the NIH claims that lactose intolerance is nowhere near as prevalent as it's believed and that a general misunderstanding of lactose is causing people to not get the Vitamin D and calcium they need.
Farmers Slaughtering Dairy Cows Rather Than Lose Money Producing Milk
It's so expensive to produce milk right now — due to low demand and high feed costs — that farmers are being paid to slaughter dairy cows in order to "shift the pain to consumers," says Bloomberg.
Milk-as good as sports drinks for athletes? There's nothing like a big glass of milk after a grueling workout in the hot summer sun. Mmmm. [Consumer Reports Source]
China Sentences Two Men To Death Over Melamine Milk Scandal
Two men have been sentenced to death and a third given life in prison for their involvement in the tainted milk scandal that killed at least six children and made at least 300,000 more sick.
Do Not Think About Walmart's Milk Pricing Scheme Or Risk Brain Injury
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FDA Detains All China Milk Products
Two months after vast quantities of milk from China were found to contain melamine, sickening 53,000 children and sending 13,000 to hospital, the FDA announced all Chinese milk imports will be stopped at the border until they're proven melamin-free.. While it's taken them a while to do this, banning entire categories of products from specific countries is a rare move, and it will have long-lasting impact. "It's impossible to get off the alert list," said Benjamin England, a former FDA lawyer. Unscrupulous food makers adulterate products with melamine because they fool testing equipment to make the product look high in protein. In spring '07, about two dozen pets died after eating pet food tainted with melamine.
FDA warns consumers not to drink instant coffee made in China because it may be tainted with melamine. They specifically mention one brand, the hilariously-unappetizing-souding Mr. Brown. [MSNBC]
Um, don't eat those "White Rabbit" candies, they've got the melamine. [Gothamist]
Melamine Tainted Dairy Products Sicken 53,000 Children, Nearly 13,000 Hospitalized
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