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Do people that are more successful use more governmental resources? That's rhetorical, you know, so don't answer. People that earn less use more of the government's resources.
So let me ask you this: as we continue to give those "less fortunate in the lottery of life" tax breaks and government aid,
what impetus remains to drive people to better themselves and achieve a higher level of success?
In simple words, requiring people that earn more to pay more in tax is a penalty our government levies on success. Sure, people that make more certainly have more to give; why should the government elect itself to decide where my money goes (via higher tax rates)? Is the government so moral and just that it will direct more of my dollars to worthy organizations than my current charitable contributions?
I usually see your point clearly Bruce - but not here.
How would you like a 12% pay cut? Or even better, a 18% pay cut under the Cain "9-9-9" plan? What if you were barely getting by, and I don't mean KerryAnn's friend making 50K and thinking they are barely getting by, but one of the 15% or so who live in poverty, and had to give up another 12 to 18% or more? Do you think that will provide the impetus to better themselves and achieve a higher level of success? How many more will end up homeless? How many more will face hunger? How many more will turn to crime? Do you think this will make America a better place? Do you think this would increase or decrease the odds of America dissolving into class warfare? Do you think the resulting increase in the divergence in wealth and income will help or hinder the overall prosperity of this country?
Trust me I would love to pay less taxes. (Slippery slope coming)How about this, in rough numbers the federal government takes in about $1.8 trillion a year in income and payroll taxes. There are about 300 million people in the country. So that comes out to $6000 per person per year. So if we all benefit from government spending equally, I'll just pay my $6000 a year and be done with it. It'll suck for a family of 4 that has to pay $24000 but what do I care. Maybe it will provide the impetus for them to better themselves.
Cliff notes answer: because I don't think the alternative is whats best for the country.
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By Mark Sappenfield and Mian Ridge, USA TODAY
BAREILLY, India If the marigold petals and adoring chants for Rahul Gandhi weren't enough, a huge poster left no doubt: ruling India has been a family business.
On one side were faces from India's past: Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi — Rahul's great-grandfather, grandmother and father, each of whom served as prime minister. On the other side was the face of Rajiv's widow and Rahul's mother, Sonia Gandhi, who is chief of India's ruling Congress Party.
Rahul Gandhi campaigned here last month in one of a series of political rallies ahead of assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state. As a member of Parliament, he was not on the ballot. Such visits, though, have become a test of whether he has the stuff to one day lead India.
"He is being groomed for an important role in the Congress Party," says Zoya Hasan, a political analyst in the capital of New Dehli. "Whether this means that in 2009 he will be put up as the Congress' candidate for prime minister, I don't know. But it will probably be sooner than later."
Gandhi was elected to Parliament in 2004, but has kept his political views and details of his personal life to himself. Since taking office, he has made no significant speeches, championed no issues and sat for no interviews. His Spanish girlfriend Veronique is a mystery, as well: India's prying media have not been able to learn her last name.
Rahul "is at the moment an unknown quantity," Hasan says.
Gandhi has taken it upon himself to revive the fortunes of his Congress Party here in his home state, where it won only 25 of 403 assembly seats in the latest election.
At 36, he came off as personable but untested during the campaign swing. He chatted up voters whenever his motorcade came to a stop but briefly stumbled into controversy by declaring that a notorious 1992 incident involving destruction of a mosque would not have taken place if a Gandhi had been in power at the time.
To those who know him, it was no surprise that his lack of seasoning showed. Rasheed Kidwai, author of a biography of Gandhi's mother, says Rahul was a "nice, well-behaved" child with a good sense of humor, but he was naturally shy.
Sonia Gandhi overcame her own intense shyness to become head of the Congress Party. Rahul "will become less shy, more confident, the more experience he has," Kidwai says.
Rahul likes shooting pistols, driving fast cars and surfing the Web. Here, though, the Harvard- and Cambridge-educated the young politician is a bit out of place. Politics in Uttar Pradesh are rough-and-tumble — split along religious and caste lines, mired in corruption.
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"He has been too inactive politically since he became a (member of Parliament), and he started his campaign in (Uttar Pradesh) too late" to make a major difference in the outcome for Congress's state assembly candidates, says Inder Malhotra, a political analyst.
That said, there are no lofty expectations for Gandhi this year, Malhotra says.
"Rahul understands this, too," he says. "It's not just about these elections — he is taking a long-term view to general (national) elections in 2009."
Gandhi's goals in Uttar Pradesh have been simple: to use his youth, charm and name to appeal to voters weary of caste-based politics while remaining above the fray, says Yashwant Deshmukh, a political analyst in New Dehli.
That script that has served his family well and added to its mystique. Rahul's father, Rajiv, became prime minister reluctantly and only after his more politically minded brother died in a plane crash. After Rajiv was assassinated by a Sri Lankan suicide bomber in 1991, the Congress Party turned to his wife — Rahul's Italian-born mother, Sonia.
She refused to take control of the party, leaving the political scene for seven years before returning to lead Congress to victory in the 2004 elections. Since then, though, she has refused the post of prime minister.
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Hesitant leaders have had appeal for Indians. "To the common man, anyone who is reluctant to come to power is divine," Deshmukh says. "Being reluctant is a classical message."
And at a recent stop, Gandhi announced, "I am not in politics for position."
For now, Gandhi is satisfied to try to become more seasoned, Kidwai says. "He is acutely conscious of the fact that his father became prime minister unwillingly, without being properly prepared. And so he is trying to get as much hands-on experience of politics as he possibly can," he says.
Though his grandmother, Indira, and father Rajiv were both assassinated, Gandhi looked at ease on the campaign trail. The same couldn't be said for security officials from the Special Protection Group that protects India's top politicians. They expressed concern about Gandhi's frequent stops to greet crowds and decision to linger with patrons at roadside restaurants.
Uttar Pradesh voter Radjey Upadhyaya, 50, says he showed up to see Rahul in Bareilly out of loyalty to India's first family. Dressed in a brown jacket, the postal worker invoked the memory of Rahul's great-grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, who is regarded as the father of modern India.
"No one else has made sacrifices for this country like" Nehru and the Gandhis, he says.
Sappenfield is India correspondent for USA TODAY and The Christian Science Monitor; Ridge is a contributor.
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Timing Our Kids
In case you haven't read my last blog: I'm not pregnant. Nor do we intend me to be anytime soon. But of course, as everyone likes to remind me, "Man plans and God laughs." Or "You might change your mind and want kids sooner." Or "birth control is only 99% effective, you know." (We know.) So when will we have kids?
There was recently a Jezebel article about the problem with the idea that there's a "right time" to get married. Her point, which I agree with, though perhaps not in the same angry way, is that each woman has to decide for herself. We don't need people telling us the correct age to marry. (And, I would add, finding the right person to marry isn't exactly something you can schedule. Or, in other words, man plans and God laughs). We have to make that decision for ourselves as individuals. The same thing applies to having children.
Telling a woman when she should have children is like informing a stranger that he or she should really buy a house now, because the timing is perfect. So many factors go into such life-changing decisions that even if, statistically speaking, one age is best in general, that in no way should affect how each individual plans such a thing. Assuming that individual wants to have children — or buy a house — at all.
For every big decision, a Modern Orthodox person or couple is saddled with the friction inherent in being both modern and Orthodox. The first commandment in the Bible is to "be fruitful and multiply." It's not only part of our religion, it's essential to its continuation (no pressure). When Orthodox couples date, they never ask each other whether they want to have kids. They ask each other how many. I, for one, grew up knowing I would have kids before I knew how to make them.
But then there's the modern part of being Modern Orthodox, which means we don't feel pressured to have kids right away. Do we push it off until I'm settled in my career? Have them young while I'm still in a flexible entry-level position? The news is full of answers, of course, and I read those articles with curiosity, but never with the goal of making a decision, because our decision is our own.
So what have we decided? We're going to wait a few years. The main question, now, is how many kids and how many years. And we don't know the answer to that yet.
I'm sure by pushing off having children a few years, some Orthodox people will question the rightness of my decision to wait. I'm sure whenever we do have kids, some secular people will question my sanity for being in my 20s. But it truly is a very Modern Orthodox approach to take.
We need financial security. We need to feel comfortable paying for our babies' diapers and still be able to put money away for their college tuition. We want time with each other before devoting ourselves to our kids. We're not having kids right away because it's a mitzvah to have kids, and we're not pushing it off until we're 35 and have the perfect jobs. We chose a time frame that works for us, or at least seems right to us now. That can change, of course, but I've learned never to make plans and assume they'll work out perfectly.
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"Countries cannot and will not be able to write effective privacy legislation without global cooperation. And as long as there are no global standards for privacy protection, individuals and businesses will remain at risk as they operate online," he wrote.
"It is time that privacy policy, like the data its meant to protect, become global," he concluded.
Fleischer said that the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) group's Privacy Framework, agreed by the 21 member countries, represents "the most promising foundation on which to build", as it balances privacy with commercial interests and involves countries with "very divergent privacy tradition".
Apec includes Australia and New Zealand, but also China, the country for which Google runs a censored version of its search engine. The company has previously defended this by saying a cut-down, working service is better than a service blocked by China's "great firewall", through which the country attempts to bar many websites.
"Google has made a number of progressive announcements in the last few months" on privacy said Gus Hosein, a senior fellow of human rights campaign Privacy International, following the group's criticism of the company in a report.
However, he questioned Apec's framework as a model. "The major problem with the Apec agreement is that it has been negotiated with pressure from industry and the United States government [an Apec member]," he said, and appears weaker than European Union privacy laws. "It is forum-shopping, in a classic way."
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Did Labatt Guzzle Too Much Too Fast?William C. Symonds
George S. Taylor, the dour CEO of John Labatt Ltd., was almost giddy when he announced plans last July to pay $510 million for a 22% stake in Mexican brewer Femsa Cerveza. After years of seeking growth beyond the flat Canadian beer market, Canada's second-largest brewer had cracked one of the world's most promising markets. "We have clearly positioned ourselves for growth," Taylor crowed. Paul A. Volcker, former Federal Reserve chairman, now of James D. Wolfensohn Inc., Labatt's investment banker, shared his exuberance. Volcker called the deal "a landmark transaction in the post-NAFTA environment."
Barely 10 months later, that landmark looks more like a land mine. With the collapse of the peso at the end of last year, Labatt says it will have to take a $219 million writedown on its Mexican investment in the fiscal year ended Apr. 30. And with the Mexican economy reeling, Taylor concedes the Femsa deal is likely to hurt Labatt's earnings for the next two years. Analyst Jacques Kavafian of Levesque Beaubien Geoffrion Inc. estimates that Labatt's net earnings will climb only 3% in the fiscal year that's just ended, to $118 million, as its revenues rise 35%, to $2.3 billion. And the financial fallout continues. The Canadian Bond Rating Service on Mar. 16 issued a "negative" outlook for the company's debt, after pointing out that the Mexican writedown would raise Labatt's debt-to-equity ratio to 58%, from 44%.
The Femsa fiasco is the latest of several setbacks that have infuriated shareholders and set off speculation among analysts that the company may be ripe for a takeover. Already, Onex Corp., Canada's leading leveraged-buyout firm, disclosed on Apr. 14 that it was evaluating Labatt as a possible "acquisition opportunity." It's clear that many investors are unhappy with Taylor's strategy to expand into global beermaking, sports, and entertainment. From its 1992 peak of around 22, Labatt stock has tumbled 30%, to about 16. "Most of their thrusts have failed," grouses Ian Joseph, vice-president of Altamira Management Ltd., one of Labatt's institutional investors.
For the time being, Taylor, 54 and a 35-year Labatt veteran, is holding firm. Although he concedes the Femsa deal has put Labatt "in a potentially vulnerable position," he insists the company isn't for sale and vows to defend it against any hostile bids. "I share some of the frustration with the time it's taken" to execute the strategy, he confesses. To assuage restive shareholders he is trying to sell some of Labatt's sports and entertainment assets, including half of its 90% stake in the Toronto Blue Jays, to pay off some debt.
STEADY PROGRESS. Labatt's chief executive certainly has gone a long way toward remaking the 148-year-old brewery. After taking charge in 1992, Taylor sold off the company's low-margin food and dairy units, while improving the profitability of Labatt's core $1.3 billion Canadian brewery business. Aggressive marketing has helped Labatt capture 45% of the Canadian market, up from 41%. The net result: Operating profits at the Canadian brewery nearly doubled last year, to $192 million. Moreover, Labatt's net profit came in at $115 million in fiscal 1994, up 17%, on less than half the revenue it had in 1991. Even an executive at archrival Molson Breweries calls Labatt's "a very credible performance in a market where there's no significant growth at all."
Elsewhere, Labatt has made steady progress building market share for its beer operations outside Canada. Analyst Michael Palmer of Equity Research Associates figures Labatt has invested more than $275 million in Birra Moretti, Italy's third-largest brewer, and a network of 500 pubs in Britain. Labatt's Latrobe Brewing Co. has also made impressive gains. Since Labatt acquired full control of the Pennsylvania company in 1988, sales of its key brand, Rolling Rock, have doubled. It's now the eighth-largest brewer in the U.S.
Still, the foreign ventures haven't produced the bottom-line results that cheer shareholders. In expanding its European beer operation, Labatt lost $2 million last year. Meanwhile, Labatt earned just $3 million on U.S. sales of $169 million. Taylor blames marketing costs for sapping profits. "It takes a long time to build a beer franchise," he says, adding that fiscal 1995 results, to be released shortly, will show sharply improved earnings in the U.S. and Europe.
While conceding that Taylor's U.S. and European bets may eventually pay off, shareholders and analysts complain that his tenure has been marked by poorly thought-out and executed moves. Just one example: Labatt's legal tussle with Anheuser-Busch Cos. Anheuser sued Labatt in 1993 after the Canadian company tried to win U.S. trademark protection for the name "ice beer." Labatt contends it invented the process for making the smooth-tasting beer. On Feb. 11, a St. Louis jury ruled that ice beer was not a trademark and awarded Anheuser $5 million in punitive damages. Labatt is appealing the decision, but industry insiders say an angry Anheuser could cancel Labatt's lucrative licensing contract to brew Budweiser in Canada. Labatt dismisses such speculation as absurd. But a rival beer executive says Anheuser "wants to get out of the contract," since Labatt keeps most of the profits Bud generates in Canada. Anheuser wouldn't comment, except to say that terms of the contract are confidential.
Femsa is another sore point. At the time of the deal, many shareholders complained Labatt paid way too much for it. After all, Femsa has been losing market share since 1988 to Grupo Modelo, Mexico's No.1 brewer, owned 17.7% by Anheuser. And as tariffs fall under NAFTA, analysts suspect Mexico may be swamped with U.S. brands. Philip Morris Cos.' Miller Brewing Co. turned down an opportunity to buy the same stake in Femsa because it felt the price was too high. With the peso's devaluation, Palmer of Equity Research figures Labatt's stake is now worth just $175 million--$335 million less than it paid.
In response, Taylor says no one could have predicted Mexico's financial meltdown. But he insists Labatt's Mexican expansion will eventually generate significant returns. True, beer consumption in Mexico, measured in volume sales, will shrink 6% this year, because of the economic crisis, according to Jose Antonio Fernndez Carbajal, director general of Femsa Cerveza's parent company. But historically, Mexican beer consumption has recovered quickly from downturns.
Taylor claims he is sensitive to the concerns of investors, but he doesn't believe they're doing all that badly. Including special dividends and stock paid to shareholders in recent years--much of it from the company's spin-off of its dairy operations--Labatt reckons its shares have yielded a healthy annual return of 10.8% over the past five years.
BYE-BYE BLUE JAYS. Meanwhile, Taylor is also trying to repair the company's balance sheet, by selling half of Labatt's share in the Toronto Blue Jays to its partners in the Sky-Dome. Within a year, Taylor also hopes to unload Labatt's rock concert promoter, BCL Entertainment. Still, these sales aren't likely to make a big dent in Labatt's $643 million of long-term debt. Analyst Kavakian of Levesque Beaubien Geoffrion estimates that Labatt's interest expense will nearly double in the current fiscal year, to $64 million.
Despite the planned asset sales, Taylor says Labatt's future remains closely tied to sports and entertainment. He's already looking to expand Labatt Communications Inc., which owns English- and French-language cable sports networks. Both are highly profitable, but the household penetration of cable is near its saturation point in Canada. To expand viewership and advertising opportunities outside Canada, Taylor is talking with U.S. networks such as ESPN Inc. and Fox Inc. about taking a 20% stake in LCI. Another possibility: to swap part of LCI with a Canadian broadcaster for another broadcast outlet. In all, Taylor is willing to part with 49% of LCI.
Although Taylor believes his strategy has considerable merit, shareholders seem unwilling to wait for results. Last September, institutional holders voted down a poison-pill plan Taylor proposed that would have allowed Labatt to issue more stock to fend off a hostile bid. It was the first time a management-supported pill had been defeated in Canada, and that sent an open invitation to takeover bidders. Analysts expect that an acquirer, such as Onex, would sell most of Labatt's businesses to repay some of the estimated $1.8 billion purchase cost, keeping just the Canadian brewery or broadcasting arm.
Some analysts suggest that the financial fallout from the Femsa deal makes an imminent takeover unlikely. If that's the case, some shareholders say they may take matters into their own hands by proposing an alternative list of directors at this year's annual meeting. The "most meaningful way to drive value might be to shake up management," says one. The message to George Taylor is clear: Patience may not be the virtue he thinks it is.


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The Spain coach, Vicente del Bosque, has recalled Juan Mata for the holders' final two World Cup 2014 qualifiers at home to Belarus and Georgia.
Mata was left out of the squad for last month's game against Finland in Helsinki after losing his place in the Chelsea starting line-up under José Mourinho. However, the midfielder appears to have regained the confidence of the Portuguese and started Tuesday's Champions League match at Steaua Bucharest after impressing in the second half of the 1-1 Premier League draw with Tottenham Hotspur.
In the absence of injured Barcelona left-back Jordi Alba, Del Bosque has handed a first call-up to Sevilla's Under-21 international Alberto Moreno. He has also brought the right-back Juanfran back into the fold, one of four players included from in-form Atlético Madrid along with the midfielders Koke and Mario Suárez and forward David Villa.
Del Bosque said Moreno's inclusion along with fellow youngsters Koke and Isco was part of a strategy of bringing inexperienced players through to freshen up the squad. "We want to function like a club that has an effective academy," Del Bosque told a news conference. "At the moment Koke, Isco and Moreno are the representatives of that and it brings a lot of dynamism."
Spain and France, who are assured of at least a place in the play-offs, both have 14 points at the top of Group I though France have played one more match. Spain host Belarus in Palma de Mallorca on 11 October and meet Georgia in Albacete four days later, when France play Finland in Paris.
Del Bosque was quizzed at length about the possibility that Atlético's Brazil-born forward Diego Costa could be called into the squad in the future. Costa met with the coach on Thursday and expressed his desire to play for Spain but must wait for the national federation to complete the necessary paperwork.
The combative 24-year-old, who has dual Spanish and Brazilian nationality, has been in superb form this season and could bring added value to a Spain team who often play without a traditional striker. He tops the La Liga scoring chart with eight goals together with Barcelona's Lionel Messi and scored the winner in Atlético's 1-0 La Liga win at Real Madrid last weekend.
"We examined the different options that we have and he indicated he would be delighted to join up with the Spanish national team," Del Bosque said. "I think he is both different and complimentary to the forwards we already have. He has been training in Spain since he was 18 and he is a very interesting player for us."


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Information leaflet issued by P&O Orient Lines for the S.S. Oriana trip from Australia to England 31st December 1965 to 24th January 1966. This pamphlet provides details regarding Port Said including arrival, departure, meals, telephones, currency, quarantine, bars, baggage, and postal arrangements. The leaflet was issued to the Myerscough family during their departure voyage from Australia to England in 1965-66 as part of their package of information materials, and kept as a souvenir of their shipboard experience.
John and Doreen Myerscough migrated to Australia from Liverpool in England with their daughters Jill and Julie on 20 November 1963. Searching for greater opportunities and with savings behind them, they took advantage of the Australian Government's 'Nest Egg Scheme'. They were also assisted ten pound migrants. The family sailed on the P&O Orient Line SS Canberra and settled in Melbourne where the climate was said to be similar to that of England. They transferred directly to Altona Migrant Hostel and ended up staying there (most unusually) for two years. John worked on the Geelong-Melbourne oil pipeline, in construction, and as a sub-contractor all over Victoria installing ceilings. Doreen had another baby Paul and later worked at Rothman's cigarette factory in Brooklyn. The couple purchased a block of land in Melton, promoted as a growth suburb, but the potential for isolation, as well as the couple's inability to really get ahead, made them decide to give up the dream and return to England. They paid their full fares, sold their land and returned to Liverpool on the P&O Orient Line SS Oriana on 21 January 1966. However, the challenges they experienced inspired them to strive and succeed, and John and Doreen have subsequently become frequent tourist visitors to Australia.
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Leaflet with soft card cover about Port Said. 4 pages. Black text on green card. Image of drawn boat seller on front. Has a one page insert with details on excursions to Cairo.
The Myerscough migration documents collection offers the unique opportunity to record the experiences of a migrant family who returned home. It is extremely difficult to capture the narratives of the people for whom migration was a negative or unsuccessful experience and who cut their losses and left. Return migration by its very nature is challenging to document through memory and material culture from the receiving country as people tend to be geographically distant, as well as frequently reluctant to record their negative experiences often accompanied by a sense of failure.
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Oliver Barton is HomeMature
Oliver Barton having a run of bad luck, and his return home can only make things worse.
Part 1: Oliver Barton is at the Airport
First off, i don't like old people so i am not that sympathetic. I am sorry that it's 2010 and you're like a thousand years old, but you're holding up the line and I've got a fucking plane to catch. As the elderly woman made eye contact with me I smiled politely and shook my head as if to reassure her the process of checking in a bag was much more complicated than it actually was. I wish I could have said out loud what was going through my head at that moment, I wish I could verbalize even a fraction of the thoughts which stirred through my mind on a daily basis. In the end, however, my conscience always got the better of me, the value of social cohesion with other humans always outweighed the satisfaction of "telling it how it is."
I find myself constantly keeping my thoughts bottled deep inside. It doesn't matter if it is the bag man at the supermarket with the nerve to stack soup cans on top of my bagels (the lazy cunt can't even bag groceries, what a waste of a human life), or my co-worker boasting of his new Jeep Wrangler (you know only douche bags drive those cars...). I keep those thoughts to myself, but for the occasional outburst at my cat Lemon; she doesn't understand English anyway.
The check-in woman asked the old lady to move to the side as she filled out a form, I'm guessing it was a pointless form so she could keep the old woman occupied while she helped other customers. I stepped up with my online print out and other credentials in hand, within a minute I was checked in and on my way. The old lady looked at me perplexed as to how I passed through with so much ease while she was still struggling to sort things out. I simply smiled and offered one possible explanation, "No bags?" I shrugged. She smiled back and nodded as though it all made sense to her, I neglected to add the reason probably had more to do with the fact that people who were born before the advent of commercial airliners probably shouldn't be flying anywhere in the first place, but again my conscience got the better of me, I was late to catch my plane anyway.
I got through the security checkpoint fairly quickly, although not before having to take off most of my clothes to get through the metal detector. I often wonder what would happen if I took off all my clothes and tried to walk through the metal detector completely naked. I bet I could defend it by asserting, "if everyone went through naked there would be no threat of a terrorist attack", perhaps I could even get a "USA!" chant going. Airport security always conjures thoughts of bomb and terrorism jokes for me. I wanted to tell the Homeland Security agent about how the likelihood of me committing a terrorist act is often effected by stress and convenience, and since I'm late to catch a plane I'd say my terrorist alert level is, "pretty fucking high right now." Fortunately for everyone, I got through security without saying a single word to anyone.


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As the Air Force prepares to bring in its next generation of airmen, the service faces a new kind of service member: the digital native raised in a culture of broadcasting information of all kinds. That gulf between the new generation and the digital-immigrant Air Force makeup until now must be reconciled in order to operate in today's theater, according to a top Air Force official speaking Oct. 21 at an AFCEA event in Vienna, Va.
It's a matter of moving from traditional, one-on-one telephone-style contact to the mass approach of today's social media.
"Marconi to Google – that's Ma Bell to Facebook. The Marconi is a radio, and it was a great way to communicate one human at a time. But you can step on each other or delay the information exchange requirement maneuvers," said Brig. Gen. Bob Ranck, director of warfighter systems integration, Air Force CIO/A6. "If you're moving to Google or Facebook then you're sharing with a broader audience with a greater information exchange requirement."
Like exchanges on Facebook – but with decidedly greater implications – communications between airmen and aircraft need to be broadcast and then distributed as necessary by those receiving the info.
"Unfortunately we design individual aircraft to communicate with individual aircraft and individual populations. It's a Ma Bell mentality. It's not a network…it's only one information exchange requirement at a time," Ranck said. "We ought to be designing a network so that information is not passed from one person to another, but published and subscribed. When you publish and subscribe the information, the guys that need it can pick it up and can do the individual call if they need to."
Ranck said that within his directorate, they are working to overcome the cultural barriers between the two generations – and the traditional Air Force methods of communications built on archaic requirements and realities.
"Fast forward to the director of warfighting systems integration [office], with one foot in the obsolete world, and one foot in the IT world, recognizing that I'm a digital immigrant and the people I'm building requirements for…are people who expect more than second-generation communications in a fifth-generation aircraft," he said.
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Am I missing something? This article implies that the so called "social media" is the requirement to make information available to all. I thought that was the premise of the internet thirty plus years ago? Unfortunately, in the name of security, many things are locked down with expiring passwords and obtuse links. The reasons for this are the friendly folks in Bulgaria (are they still active?), China, N. Korea, the Middle East (both 'good' and 'bad' guys), Russia, and even domestic folks who want to find out what (insert favorite organizations/companies) are doing for gain or pain.Now this author seems to think that all the pain we have can be avoided by using broadcast 'social' media (even though they seem to equate the existing subscription systems to point to point, yet talk about subscribing anyway). Heck, even the old "point to point" system he disparages is vulnerable to espionage. If that is still true, then how much more data will someone be able to gather with a broadcast system? And personally, I do not have the time to filter what I get now, having to filter a true broadcast with the chaotic postings that many 'younger' folks seem to think is 'cool' (even my 19 year old says there is a lot of garbage, even in focused 'friends' groups) seems to be requiring more time, and I refuse to be tethered 24/7 like many fast track folks seem to expect, I have other interests, hobbies, and tasks that help keep my sanity.This is my opinion, based upon too many years of using the net and seeing issues and not that of my boss, my boss's bosss, the pentagon, congress, or the prez.
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Small Nations Spend Big on Lobbying in Washington, D.C.
New database of federal records shows tiny countries have used big-time Washington lobbyists to plead their cases in the United States.
Tiny countries have used big-time Washington lobbyists to plead their cases in the United States, a new database of federal records shows.
An analysis of 2009 foreign lobbying records by the Sunlight Foundation shows that overseas governments, political parties and other government-controlled entities spent $60 million influencing officials in Washington.
The new lobbying data show that among the countries that spent the most on lobbying was the Cayman Islands, home to about 55,000 people, which spent $7.9 million on issues relating to tourism and economics. Fifteen separate organizations from the United Arab Emirates spent $5.4 million on a variety of issues from nuclear energy to tourism.
That data is searchable online through the Foreign Lobbyist Influence Tracker.
The database, a joint project of ProPublica and The Sunlight Foundation, was built from reports filed with the U.S. Department of Justice under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA).
The new data show that thousands of contacts made on behalf of foreign countries include everything from e-mails and phone calls to in-person meetings -- with government officials, think tanks and even journalists. The data show that the groups contacted U.S. lawmakers or their staffs 17,000 times.
The first release of this project last year found that in many cases these lobbying efforts paid off. FARA filings from 2008 showed that lobbying on behalf of Bermuda's large reinsurance industry resulted in a bill to give businesses and homeowners in hurricane zones taxpayer-subsidized loans for storm windows and doors. The move would save insurance companies millions in losses.
Under FARA, all lobbyists who represent foreign governments, political parties and government-controlled entities in a "political or quasi-political capacity" must file disclosures. The forms list activities, fees received, political contacts and any campaign contributions. This update means that the database includes filings from 2008 and 2009.
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Take this lobby money from the politicians that taxpayers pay a salary to and use it to pay off our debts to China? If they're using it to fund their campaigns, to me that equals using it for their own personal gains so what's the difference between that and what Rod Blagoyavich did other than the fact that they make the laws and they deem this not illegal and just flat out refuse to address the systemic problem of campaign finance reform which makes a damn good soundbite. If I performed the projects of my small business with the same specs (promises) I'd be in court for fraud
I am with you, Ron. Money is the root of most problems in our political system; there is nothing wrong with unfettered capitalism in consumer goods, but there are some basic things that government is responsible for, things that can't be left to the free market. Those things include education, healthcare, poverty issues and our campaigns and elections. The free market can have the rest.
That's the way the roman imperium failed. Now, see what's the result: Silvio Berlusconi leads that poor rest of 2000 year old ruines… The U.S. should be carefully watching what's happening in Washington D.C. AND in the Wall Street!!!
I was having a conversation today with a friend regarding "we need smaller government". We were talking about the cuts to Medicare. (The ugly right McChinless and the other "bonehead" said that they would "work for the people", who may I remind you are still in the minority until January .) I said it's not Big Government that everyone on the right keeps yelling about. The Government of the USA is not the problem. The problem is those that are elected (congress & senate) that collect the $$$$$ from corporations that they shrill for. These douche-bags that are collecting all of those $$$$$$, are the people who are not working "for the people". These scumbags are the working for the corporations that are using them as puppets, telling THEM to vote. If the deadhead (those who don't know anything but what is told to them) right keeps voting them into office, and the left is disenfranchised by this president, HOLD THE PHONE JIMMY, were all screwed.
I totally agree with you on the basics of government participation in our lives for if people are not educated or healthy then that has to directly affect our GDP. Anything other than that is a dumbing down of our populace and in the long run where are we?
Yes we should be watching Washington & "The Wall Street" and the corporate contributions to these entities. I have no problem with free enterprise and capitalism but I also realize there needs to be safety nets in place as well as control mechanisms for these nets. Seems as tho the political parties instead of working thru their political ideologies and reaching compromise which is at the core(?) of our political system want to alienate and divide the populace for their political gain. Why hasn't Obama realized by now that the right does not compromise except when they get their way which is predominately for the rich and corporations and now that corporations have acquired citizenship status does this open them up to being sued as you or I could be? How simplistic of me?(.) Yes they are all puppets of the almighty dollar. My god how I'd love to see a REAL POLITICIAN (public servant) that would actually stand up for the majority of the people not to demean them but they seem to have forgotten why they're where they are at. As far as smaller government be more specific in to what that actually means. If it means less regulation on corporations seems like we're in a huge mess now so is less more? ( of the same) then I'm not there.
Thanks to ProPublica for their reporting standards
It's a sad commentary that graft, greed and corruption are so rampant and everybody knows it! It's like the weather…everybody talks about it but nobody does anything about it.
Greed is the driving force. It is frustratung to realize how far we the people have let this go. Can we not stop this nonsense. Have we not been taken and taken over by our gov. Now is the to vote this out
Voting out? You can't hold the bible in one hand and in the other the sword! Except you believe only in the old testament - eye by eye, tooth by tooth. That was the way Bush jun. lead the country. The trouble has not ended, but only started ! Watch how the TSA are working: That's terror against every Pax and doesn't improve security at all. Terrible people there!
The problem is that the majority of Americans are nieve, ignorant and petty. Most people are so caught up in their porn, their Internet and their reality shows that they have no idea what is happening in the real world.
Think of all those losers that T-BAGGED all summer long - complaining about government spending - who ended up voting in an outrageous number of T-BAGGING Republicans. The same Republicans that felt the rich needed a tax break, and the middle class didn't need unemployment compensation. The same Republicans who cried about the debt and the deficit, but were all too willing to add an additional 700 BILLION to the tab just yesterday.
Washington and SCOTUS is controlled by corporations, lobbyists and special interest.
Where else can you get arrested for fondling a child? Where else are you forced to stand and watch a TSA agent fondle your child in order to get on a plane in your own country, and its perfectly legal for him to do so?
Ron and so many other people assume that lobbyists give money to congressmen. That's not how it works, even though it's a murky business. We and everybody else who has an issue before congress probably has a lobbyist, even if we don't know it: your school, its teachers, your city, your state, your employer, your doctor and hospital. In a sense they're "watching out for you" the way Bill O'Reilly pretends to do. The problem comes when there are other conflicts and influences, not just the fact of the existence of lobbies.
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Indianapolis council passes $1.1B budget
The Indianapolis City-County Council approved a nearly $1.1 billion budget Monday night.
The mayor's proposed budget does not fund any new police officers. The budget does, however, include money to keep neighborhoods safe.
Democrats are fighting to add 50 new police officers and 30 firefighters. They're also targeting the Capital Improvement Board for $15 million.
Mayor Greg Ballard statement
The mayor released the following statement about the budget vote Monday night:
"Budgeting is not a one-year exercise. It requires prudence and a focus on the long-term fiscal health of our city. The budget in any particular year must help set up future budgets. The Council majority's current plan is unfunded, increases spending, more than doubles the deficit for 2014, and strips support of our downtown economy in order to give tax breaks to a select few.
"The budget I proposed to the Council this year was responsible for the long haul and ensured that income tax dollars are being used to support our police officers and firefighters. There is money for public safety in this year's proposed budget, but only if the Council has the will to make tough choices.
"In the meantime, we must talk frankly about what public safety and criminal justice will look like over the next 20 years. If we don't, the budgeting process will be painful for the next few years. I will spend the next few days reviewing the final document adopted tonight and the many options afforded me by law as Mayor of Indianapolis."


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In February, an estimated 2,000 civil engineers, contractors, developers, and government personnel will "Connect to Solutions" in Reno, Nev., during the world's largest soil and water event. Environmental Connection (EC09) is the annual conference and expo of the International Erosion Control Association (IECA). With world-class education, the largest expo hall of its kind featuring more than 160 products and services from around the globe, and new networking events, EC09 is the one-stop to help businesses survive and even thrive in difficult economic times.
To help ease the financial impact of attendance, IECA has implemented new registration options for EC09 that make full-conference participation more affordable than ever. For one flat rate, conference attendees will have access to the expo hall, half-day courses, Monday's field tour, technical presentations, and conference activities—including special tours—for the entire conference. This full-conference registration also will include all lunches and the Expo Hall Grand Opening Celebration. Full-day training courses will be available at an additional cost. "We feel that one flat price for the basic registration will help reduce the impact that conference delegates in many areas are feeling from the economic slowdown," said Russell Adsit, IECA executive director.
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This Vaudrey Miller Simonis Voord custom designed performance cruising yacht offers luxurious cruising comfort and performance racing capability - compares with Southerly or Oyster, Hanse or Westerly designs. She offers ease of sailing in blue and coastal waters with dual rudders, hydraulic lift keel with shallow draft, electric jib furler, electric winches, and hydraulic system for boom, backstay, outhaul and jib halyard. Elegant interior and galley decor and layout provide plenty of natural light and ventilation. Your family, friends and racing crew will appreciate cruising in comfort with 4 private cabins, 3 heads and roomy salon and cockpit for social activities.
Consider these special features for ease of sailing:
If you're looking for a luxurious cruising yacht that offers plenty of racing capability, give this Vaudrey Miller serious consideration. This is a unique opportunity to acquire a yacht of high standards at less than $600,000 USD. Seller will consider reasonable offers.
As you board amidship, note deck hardware to attach carbon fiber boarding platform stored in tender garage aft. Walk forward along clean, uncluttered nonskid deck to bow. At bow, notice anchor locker to port, and anchor windlass foot controls along starboard deck. Note folding cleats as you move aft along deck. Also notice redundant B&G mast mounted navigation instruments as you move aft and down 2 steps into cockpit. Sit on comfortable cockpit cushions around cockpit table to observe clear 360° view. Notice how sail lines emerge from under deck to feed through labeled clutches to electric winches at cockpit. Move aft to port and starboard helm wheels, observing easy reach to electronic throttle/shift control, navigation instruments, controls for ballast tanks and keel lift/drop. Look aft to see tender garage controls to open garage at stern and launch tender with outboard engine.
Move forward through cockpit to companionway and down 4 steps to raised salon and navigation station. Notice beautifully crafted Australian wood cabinetry with synthetic teak and holly sole. Note roomy U-shaped suede cushioned settee, high screened windows and large table with 2 leaves. Sit on starboard side to observe excellent view from forward facing navigation station, full instruments and chart storage.
Move starboard and down 4 steps to main level with galley, cabins, heads and engine room. Enter alley designed galley to observe beautiful cabinetry set off by granite colored synthetic counters. Observe deep SS sink, backsplash, drain and high wand faucet to port across from stove/oven. Move forward to refrigerator over freezer to starboard. Note full height corner cabinet to port across from refrigerator and freezer.
Turn to starboard and open door to enter crew single berth cabin with hanging locker and cabinets. Lift mattress and hatches underneath for access to fuel filters, hot water heater and keel hydraulic lift. Note that this cabin can also be used as workshop.
Exit crew cabin and open door to master cabin forward. Note hanging lockers, ample cabinets, walk-around queen berth. Turn to port and open door to spacious head. Notice vanity adjacent to glass door enclosed walk-in shower, vacuflush marine toilet and full length cabinet with shelves.
Exit master cabin and proceed aft through galley. Open door to enter twin berth cabin with over/under bunks on starboard side. Note hanging locker at entrance and cabinet storage between bunks.
Exit twin berth aft cabin and move along hallway to port. Observe electrical panel on forward bulkhead. Turn aft and open door to double berth with cabinets and hanging locker.
Exit double berth aft cabin and open door to port to enter aft head. Notice glass door enclosed walk-in shower, vanity and vacuflush marine head.
Exit aft head and open door to engine room. Observe Northern Lights generator to port and Yanmar engine to starboard, along with mechanical equipment described in other sections.
You'll appreciate the beautifully designed interior. Australian blackwood cabinetry with granite colored counters, synthetic teak and holly sole and ample ports and hatches throughout interior provide a light, elegant look. Your family, friends and racing crew will be very comfortable in sleeping cabins for 7 with cedar lined hanging lockers, 2 heads with walk-in glass enclosed showers and 1 day head. Gather everyone aboard on salon settee surrounding folding leafed table or roomy cockpit for meals and other social activities.
This beautifully crafted alley design galley is perfect for long cruises with a full crew aboard. Plenty of perishable and nonperishable food storage allows for gourmet meals during long passages. Plenty of counter space and full size appliances make meal preparation and clean-up easy without consuming unnecessary space from living and sleeping areas.
Appreciate the excellent sail and rigging plan with lines led aft under deck to cockpit, electric winches, carbon fiber canoe boom with mainsail stack, electric jib furler, hydraulic sailing system and plenty of sails for racing and cruising.
This Vaudrey Miller electrical system has ample battery packs, generator and shorepower systems to supply current for any purpose while sailing, anchored and in port.
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This Vaudrey Miller is fully equipped with navigation and entertainment electronics for long open sea passages and coastal cruising. Navigation electronics are duplicated at interior navigation station, mast and each helm.
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This Vaudrey Miller's mechanical systems expand your cruising areas with retractable bow thruster, hydraulic retractable keel, extensive fuel storage, generator, watermaker, and airconditioning and heating throughout interior.
Sailors appreciate this clean deck with folding cleats, sail lines led aft under deck, and dinghy stored in garage under cockpit. Hull is constructed of fiberglass, epoxy resin with foam core and high modulus carbon fiber. Mast and boom are carbon fiber. Hydraulic retractable stainless steel keel with lead bulb. Water ballast tanks add stability.
This Vaudrey Miller Simonis Voogd custom designed performance cruising yacht offers luxurious cruising comfort and performance racing capability. Compares with Southerly or Oyster yachts. She has ease of sailing in blue and coastal waters with dual rudders, hydraulic lift keel, electric winches, hydraulic system for boom, backstay, outhaul and jib halyard, retractable bow thruster. Elegant interior and galley decor and layout provide plenty of natural light, ventilation. Private cabins for your family, friends and racing crew with 3 heads.
If you're looking for a luxurious cruising yacht that offers plenty of racing capability, give this Vaudrey Miller serious consideration.
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The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
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How the top 10 fared
1. Brookfield Central (16-0) beat Brookfield East, 72-42.Caleb Mortag had 14 points for the Lancers, who led their neighborhood rival by 15 after a quarter. Up next: vs. Wauwatosa East, Friday.
2. Germantown (17-2) lost to Wisconsin Lutheran, 62-52.Jake Showalter had 15 points for the Warhawks in a loss at home. Up next: vs. Grafton, Friday.
3. Milwaukee King (16-1) beat Milwaukee North, 99-66.The Generals hit 10 three-pointers, including five from Curtis Weathers, who had 17 points. Up next: at Milwaukee Madison, Friday.
4. Wisconsin Lutheran (15-2) beat Germantown, 62-52.Dez Cockroft hit 4 threes and had a team-high 14 points for the Vikings. Up next: at Hartford, Thursday.
5. Milwaukee Riverside (15-2) lost to Milwaukee Hamilton, 62-57. Up next: at Milwaukee Bradley Tech, Friday.
6. Racine Case (11-3) Did not play. Up next: vs. Racine Park, Wednesday.
7. Kettle Moraine (15-2) beat Edgerton, 57-55.The Lasers got 16 points from Mitch Pfeifer in a victory over the Associated Press' third-ranked Division 3 team. Up next: vs. Waukesha West, Friday.
8. West Allis Central (14-2) beat West Allis Hale, 82-59.Brandon Key (26 points) and Jerome Cummings (24) had big nights for the Bulldogs. Up next: at Menomonee Falls, Saturday.
9. Whitefish Bay Dominican (14-3) beat Burlington Catholic Central, 69-48.Jack Jelacic had a team-high 18 points for the Knights, who strengthened their grip on the Metro Classic lead. Up next: at Racine St. Catherine's, Friday.
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I have switched recently from x10 controller/sw to Indigo 4 and a Insteon 1132CU. I have been doing some problem solving on a few nagging issues. Recently I had a bad power strip plugged into an outlet near the controller causing interference, replaced the strip and it looked like everything was going well.
Current problem is in the morning I have noticed that my lights are on that should have turned off at sunrise. This happens about 5 days out of 7. I was thinking I had another noise issue so I tried to replicate what happens in the morning at the house that doesn't happen in the evening: hairdryer, shaver, coffee pot, etc.
The lights were stuck on this AM, no response from my iPhone or iPad to change the status. I tried from my laptop and also no results. I then tried "all lights off" and it worked. This is happening to most if not all the controllers in the house. I tried reloading the interface, toggling the switch manually and unplugged most everything that I think could cause interference that might kick on automatically ie: refrigerator, NAS, etc.
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Blackhawk Museum Events
Friday, December 31, 2010 at 6:00 PM - Saturday, January 1, 2011 at 1:30 AM (PST)
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Friday December 31st
8pm to 1:30am
Dancing in the main ballroom to
Music by Celebrity DJ, Mix Master Miguel
Top 40 / Hip-Hop / Club Hits / Mash Ups
Go-Go Dancers
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Casino Gaming Tables with Prizes
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Appetizer Bar from 9-11pm
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21 & Over
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$ 40.00 per person General Admission
$30.00 per person Group Discount (6 or more)
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Results: Crown, NAB, IAG, Santos
A 33 per cent drop in normalised revenue from VIPs at Crown Melbourne weighed heavily on the gambling company's interim results, which missed analysts' expectations despite a record result from its investment in Macau casino operator Melco Crown.
Mr Craigie said the Victorian "super tax" on VIP revenue is a key negotiating point with the government after a new pokies levy for Crown was proposed in December. If Crown does not win a reduced VIP tax rate, the Melbourne venue will be "trying to compete with one hand tied behind its back relative to the other casinos," he said.
In NSW, as well as in Macau and Singapore, VIP revenue is taxed at a flat rate, but Crown's Victorian VIP revenue is taxed progressively. Its effective rate of tax is 14 per cent, but can rise to 22 per cent in line with increasing revenue. The flat rate in NSW is 10 per cent.
Casinos attract high rollers by offering rebates, as well as paying commission to junket operators, who are like travel agents. A lower tax rate means VIP business is more profitable, which means casinos can spend more on inducements and marketing.
"Crown Melbourne has a tax burden that the other casinos don't have," Mr Craigie said.
He said the uneven tax regime was a major factor in Crown's VIP slide.
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Crown's smaller rivals
Macau is the 'main driver'
Arnhem Investment Management partner and Crown investor Theo Maas said although the VIP trend was disappointing he was comfortable with Macau as "the main driver" for Crown.
"VIP is the most lumpy and volatile business that they have," he said.
Crown's net profit rose 112 per cent to $382.5 million in the six months ended December 31. On a normalised basis, removing the volatility linked to huge VIP bets, net profit rose to $315 million – short of analysts' expectations of $325 million. Normalised revenue fell 5.9 per cent to $1.47 billion. Crown's share of Melco's normalised net profit more than doubled to $140.6 million, representing 52 per cent of the group's earnings before interest and tax.
Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation fell 2 per cent to $392.3 million.
Overall revenue in Melbourne was down 9.4 per cent to $950.2 million, while the Perth casino reported a 4.1 per cent rise in revenue to $451.5 million.
Mr Craigie said job losses in Victoria were affecting main gaming floor revenue. "Generating revenue growth in the local market is challenging," he said, adding that cost control would be a focus under the circumstances.
Crown declared an 18¢ interim dividend that means Mr Packer, who owns just over 50 per cent of Crown, will take home $65.6 million on April 1.
The gambling stock's value fell 3.2 per cent on Friday to $16.68. It's risen 44 per cent in the past year, compared with a 9.1 per cent rise in the ASX 200.
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Over the past two years Dr. Wolff has increasingly crisscrossed the United States, speaking to news outlets, radio shows, universities, trade and community unions, and high schools about the impact and implications of the economic crisis that began in 2007. Dr. Wolff is the author of numerous books on economic and social issues, the latest of which, "Capitalism Hits the Fan" has seen great success as a filmed lecture.
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- A practitioner's journal on household energy, stoves and poverty reduction.
Stove can be defined as an apparatus in which fuel is used to furnish heats for cooking or warmth. The word stove first referred not to a cooking or heating device but to a room for taking a hot-air or steam bath (first recorded in 1456). During 1550 and 1625, the devices used to heat rooms came to be called stoves. The stove as the chief cooking device, taking the place of the fireplace, dates only to around the mid-19th century with the widespread use of wood or coal burning cooking stoves. An improved stove is a complex engineering device involving closely coupled phenomena like pyrolysis, combustion, fluid flow and heat transfer. The complex coupling between these makes the problem highly non-linear and hence difficult to tackle in totality.
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Traditional StovesDue to many disadvantages of open fires gradual improvements were made to the open fire cooking and evolution of cookstoves took place. The most simple one of which is the horse - shoe shaped single pot cookstove that is traditionally used in the villages of India and other countries.
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Traditional Cooking DevicesTraditional Cooking Devices are very wasteful. They use only 10% of the total heating potential of the fuel burnt in them. Another disadvantage of the traditional cook stove is that they produce a lot of smoke, soot and un-burnt volatile organic matter, which not only blacken the pots and the walls of the kitchen, but also pollute the indoor air and adversely affect the health of the householders. Housewives and infants are affected the most by these pollutants, because they are maximally exposed to the flue gases.
Improved CookStoveThe Improved CookStove has emerged as part of the response to the above mentioned problems and improvement in quality of life for the rural population. Improved Stove aims to save cooking time (increasing efficiency), as well as, to create a smokeless environment in the kitchen and/or reduce the volume of smoke emission. Better stove designs gradually came about during the mid-1980s. The newest designs took into consideration the complex interaction between the different processes that take place in a cookstove, such as: combustion, heat transfer fluid flow and material science. A large number of improved stove models, have been developed during the last 10-15 years.
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Stove TestingThe Stove Testing The "stove problem solutions" quoted in the first article from the ITDG "Practitioner's Manual" will help field workers to follow a planned procedure for fixing a faulty stove. However, they may still need to check to know whether they have been completely successful or whether the stove still needs treatment to bring it to its full potential. Its performance can be compared with other stoves of the same kind, tested at the same time, with standard figures for the stove, or with the results of tests carried out on the stove before "fixing". This can be done by using the simple Boiling Water Test .
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Stove DangersThe dangers associated with cookstoves. The most common health and safety risk factor is minor and major burns however fire can spread and where houses are made from combustible material it is easy, particularly in dry seasons, for fires to get out of control See Stove accidents for more information.
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Grease Monkey ran my kids 1996 Grand AM without any oil for at least 5 minutes while doing a gas line cleaner flush.
The Engine soon after started knocking bad and is trash. The oil pressure light never came on. Grease Monkey said the oil pump must have gone out.
The dealer where I took the car said it looked like someone has run it without oil and after seeing the Grease Monkey sticker said I should call them.
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