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again--the expansion of Paul's dictum that faith is not certainty, but a belief without
sufficient proof, a belief which leads to right action and to self-sacrifice. Of the 70 years
of life which one might hope to live and work in, I had no mean idea. I asked in the
newspaper, "Is life so short?" and answered. "No." I expanded and spiritualized the idea
in a sermon. and I again answered emphatically "No." I saw the continuation and the
expansion of true ideas by succeeding generations. To the question put sometimes
peevishly, "Is life worth living?" I replied with equal emphasis, "Yes." My mother told
me of old times. I recalled half a century of progress, and I hoped the forward movement
would continue. I read the manuscript of "An Agnostic's Progress" to Mr. and Mrs. Barr
Smith, and they thought so well of it that they offered to take it to England on one of their
many visits to the old country, where they had no doubt it would find a publisher.
Trubner's reader reported most favourably of the book, and we thought there was an
immediate prospect of its publication; but Mr. Trubner died, and the matter was not taken
up by his successor, and my friends did what I had expressly said they were not to do,
and had it printed and published at their own expense. There were many printer's errors in
it, but it was on the whole well reviewed, though it did not sell well. The Spectator joined
issue with me on the point that it is only through the wicket gate of Doubt that we can
come to any faith that is of value; but I am satisfied that I took the right stand there. My
mother was in no way disquieted or disturbed by my writing the book, and few of my
friends read it or knew about it. I still appeared so engrossed with work on The Register
and The Observer that my time was quite well enough accounted for. I tried for a prize of
100 pounds offered by The Sydney Mail with a novel called "Handfasted," but was not
successful, for the judge feared that it was calculated to loosen the marriage tie--it was
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Daewoo: Big Car On Campus?
They're young. They're enthusiastic. And they're in for a tough time. They're the Daewoo Campus Advisers, an army of 2,000 college students hired to create a buzz among their classmates about cars never seen before in the U.S.
They're from Korea's Daewoo Motor Co. Daewoo has been aching to crack the U.S. market for years, but the closest it has come until now is building the Pontiac Lemans for General Motors in the early '90s. Now, on Sept. 1, it's taking the plunge on its own. Daewoo hopes to sell 30,000 vehicles in its first year, just under the number of Beetles Volkswagen plans to sell. Problem is, these are no Beetles. Or Toyota RAV4 sport-utes, or Honda Civic coupes, the "in" cars of the campus crowd. They are three conservatively styled sedans. "Gen-Xers are very aware of the image their cars project," says Wesley R. Brown, an analyst at market researcher Nextrend in Thousand Oaks, Calif. "Daewoo is not going to measure up."
So Daewoo is taking extreme measures. For starters, it's not franchising dealers but opening its own stores, as it has done in Britain. Daewoo will start with 15 outlets, mostly in California, Florida, and the Northeast. It aims to have 40 by the end of 1999 and will add dealers only in states where factory stores are illegal.
The Daewoo Campus Advisers, deployed at some 200 campuses this fall, will be talking up the cars, running Daewoo events, and directing hot prospects to the nearest Daewoo showroom. There, customers will find three aggressively priced models, from the $8,999 Lanos hatchback, to a Nubira compact around $12,000, to a loaded Leganza sedan at $18,600. The non-negotiable prices include roadside assistance and three years of maintenance. Says William D. Tucker, vice-president of marketing and customer relations for Daewoo Motor America Inc.: "We felt we had to come up with a way to approach the market that was totally unconventional."
KOREA CALLING. That's where the student advisers fit in. They get a straight commission of $300 to $500 per car sold, depending on the model, and also receive an all-expense-paid seven-day junket to Korea. In September, each will get a car to use for three months free and the chance to buy it at a discount. "What they're doing is unique and exciting and a chance to earn some extra money," says David W. Clewett, a part-time MBA student at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a Campus Adviser. "It could make a good thesis project."
Daewoo hopes the undertaking turns out to be more than an academic exercise. With the Korean economy ailing, its car sales at home are off 69% through July. "We've got plenty of cars," Tucker quips. Its prospects are mixed, but Daewoo has little choice but to give it the old college try.


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June 17-22, 2012, Bally's Las Vegas Hotel and Casino
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Our 17th Annual Conference and Exposition was held in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 17-June 22, 2012. We are happy to announce next year our conference returns to Bally's after an excellent time in 2011. Join us in the heart of the strip for comprehensive dining, unwavering service, and a signature style that attracts high-rollers from around the world.
Spend your time outside of conference in one of their numerous restaurants or shops. Relax and treat yourself to a day at the spa, or in a private cabana next to the Bally's Blu pool. While still embodying the classic spirit of Las Vegas, Bally's is centrally positioned on the Strip to keep you close to all the finest in shopping, dining, gaming, and nightlife. Located next to Paris and across from the Bellagio, Bally's is a Vegas value in a convenient location.
Below please find general information about the Conference. You can find all the Conference details here:
Conference Information and Registration
If you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact the APP Office at 888-888- or 785-841-6060 firstname.lastname@example.com
For a review of the 2011 Conference – please see our Point Journal issue #56
For the most current and up to date information about the Conference – please use the link above to the Conference Information and Registration website!
If you are an APP member, you get some perks each year at Conference. If you are not yet a member, this Fall is the time to join! Applications must be submitted and be complete by February 1, 2012 in order to guarantee processing by Conference. The Membership Committee reserves the right to prioritize applications for applicants who are attending the Conference in the months just prior to Conference. Avoid the rush and apply this Fall and Winter.
Everyone! While we hope you are a member – being an APP Member is not and has never been a requirement to attend our Conference! Come join us!
New Piercers, Experienced Piercers, International Piercers, Apprentices, Counter People, Studio Owners, Health Inspectors, Legislators, Researchers, Retailers, Wholesalers, Manufacturers… (restrictions apply to the Exposition, see below)
What kind of classes will Attendees find at the APP Conference?
The APP provides ample course selections for both the new attendee and our returning piercers. All are welcome to attend any classes, with the exception of any courses designated Members Only* (usually only 2 courses a year).
Past Course topics
- Aftercare
- Wound Healing & Care
- Troubleshooting
- Anthropology – History of Piercing, Body Modification
- Industry History
- Head & Neck Anatomy
- Body Anatomy
- Initial Jewelry: Size & Style
- Jewelry Materials:
- Steel, Titanium, and/or Gold
- Organics: Wood, Stone, and/or others
- Marketing, Business, Management, and/or Financial
- Blood borne Pathogens
- First Aid
- Technique Courses: Genital Piercings, Surface Anchors and others
- Medical Risk Assessment
- Grounding & Bedside Manner
- Studio Documentation/Manual
- Workshops covering: Studio Set Up & Inspection, Cross Contamination Prevention, and Autoclave Usage
*Members Only (must be an active APP Business/Business Member at Large to attend)
There are so many classes offered, how can I take them all?
You can't in a single year. The APP encourages studios to send multiple representatives to maximize the number of classes and amount of education a single studio can obtain. . Remember, we have many piercers who attend this Conference every year and we try to offer enough variety for everyone to have a unique experience each time they attend Conference.
What are Roundtable Discussions?
The APP believes that much of the education at Conference takes place from peer to peer. In keeping with that belief we encourage you to find time to participate in these more casual, information sharing discussions, mediated by expert piercers and/or professionals. There is no charge to attend these discussions. An attendee/vendor badge, however, must be shown in order to attend.
Topics for Roundtable:
- Marketing
- Public Speaking
- Marking Tips and Tricks
- Difficult Clients
- Professional Etiquette
- Legislation
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Top Ten Singing Duos
The Top Ten
The Evergreen Southern Nightingale P. Susheela & Gana Gandharva K J Yesudas teamed up in 1962, the first ever film. As recently K J Yesudas in his 50 year celebrations described his experience recording the song with the nightingale (Enna Paarvai Undhan Paarvai) - "I walked into the recording theatre and I could see Goddess Saraswathi (P Susheela) in front of me. The whole place had the aura of Godesss Saraswathi's presence.
Yesudas and Janaki Sang together in 5 languages (Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu). May be more than 5 languages. I think they are the best combination.V 1 Comment
Best pair with golden hits
In Tamil Yesudas Chithra is the best combination. But in Telugu SPB-Chithra is the better combination than KJ Yesudas and Chithra.V 2 Comments
What a talent they have because when ever I see them singing together I will most excited guy... Love you both in the same way give another 1000 songs in the same way
Sweet voices that produces songs like honey
Two sweet voices ever
Just love hearing the two. The best 2000s era duo
Yesudas and chithra are great singers
I listened 5 language song with KS Chitra and KJ Yesudas. Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada and Telugu
K S Chithra - 25000 songs spanning 30 years
K J Yesudas - 70000 songs spanning 50 years
The Contenders
7?! They are probably one of best duos of all time, they should be much higher, have you ever listened to america, homeward bound? You need to dig more deeper to find better stuff.
Well they were the sound of my silence and my bridge over troubled water when I needed. It's sad that they are so low on this list.
first off, I'm a filipino... and I love martin and regine and janno. but putting them ahead of simon and garfunkel? now, that is too hard to swallow.
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their voices just blends so well... - reigne27
sure, Martin Nievera is also good, but who among our fellow filipinos doesn't know the songs "Magkasuyo Buong Gabi" and the beautiful rendition of "Evergreen"? - reigne27
Uyire uyire song is best example for this duos, Chithra's heart warming voice could not be explained, WoW!V 1 Comment
Absolutely should be on the list...no question
Every time they make a duet, they kill everybody else duets laugh out loud #BEYHIVE!
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Although the standard relief for breach of contract is monetary damages, they may be inappropriate in certain situations, such as where the amount of damages is too speculative, or the contract was for unique goods. In such cases, courts will grant primarily two forms of equitable relief: injunctions and specific performance. Originally, there were two court systems, law and equity. Today, the distinction has been abolished and all courts can grant either form of remedy. A primary consideration in granting equitable relief is the issue of justice and fairness (treated in more detail in Chapter 11).
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I have a two year old 2 1/2 ton goodman heatpump that recently stopped heating or cooling. I called a service tech from a respected local contractor. After checking the outside unit for a short time he told me the compressor was bad. Although the compressor was running, there was no pressure. While I was dealing with the warranty issue with an online supplier, I decided to do a little troubleshooting on my own. I just couldn't beleive a two year old compressor was bad. After reading lots of online posts that directed me to many possible faults, I started at the control voltages. All were good. Then I checked the reversing valve. First I disconnected the condenser fan wires, so the fan wouldn't come on during testing. I put the thermostat in heat mode and move the temp up about three degrees. The unit came on and was making a loud modulating noise from the compressor. I used an unorthodox method utilizing a golf club ha! ha! I know what your thinking. I used a old one iron to reach down through the top of the unit and tap on the reversing valve. After a few hard taps the compressor quited down. I reconnected the condensor fan and went iside to find the unit working fine.
I switched from heating to cooling and the valve stuck again. I went through this process a few times with the valve sticking each time. I was persistent and the last time it worked in both heating and cooling. I may have to replace the reversing valve sometime in the near future, but for now its working great. The Moral of the Story: Don't always trust the first service tech. Get another opinion, it can save you a lot of time and money.
2.5 years old? Sounds about the right age to be one of the ones that has a recall on the RV.
Goodman had a problem with the RV not moving the whole way or at all at times.
Service Bulletin
Thanks "beenthere" I didn't think about checking SR's. I found a site that had Goodman SR's and it tuns out my unit is covered by SR-036 which covers replacement of faulty "Dunan" reversing valves. This should save me lots of headaches, warranty shipping and labor charges.
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December 21, 2012
BMG Buys Rights to 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', 'Whip It'...
The Wrap reports that BMG has nabbed the rights to "Virgin Music Publishing Companies, Famous UK Music Publishing and selected current songwriters from Sony/ATV and EMI Music Publishing," which include Nirvana, Iggy Pop, and Tears for Fears.
Sony Corporation of America and a group of investors acquired EMI Music Publishing in June, and Sony/ATV Music Publishing administers EMI on behalf of the group. It had to sell the catalogues as a condition of the acquisition.
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by GimmeTheBall!, Jan 18, 2013.
With the cowChip Kelly hiring in Philthy, wonder if Foles could become available?
Big friggin deal, Tony throws an int against the Redskins. We win that game we would have had our ***** handed to us the following week vs the Seahawks and once again Romo cant win a playoff game. The friggin guy cant win.
The OL SUCKS, no RUNNING game, the Defense was devastated by injury, where the hell was this team going against the Seahawks, NOWHERE. Build the team to give Romo a running game and some time to throw and he will not be the one that always has to make a play for us to be in the game. He had a crap game...no doubt about it but please give the guy some help. Why cant people see this? Aikman had Emmitt and a rock solid OL and a rock solid defense...Aikman did not have to be the guy every friggin Sunday. Romo has to be the guy every friggin Sunday or we have no chance in hell of winning...Dont u think that gets kind of old.
We have no need for a qb in this draft unless its a 5th or 6th rounder. Romo will reup for 5 years, a rookie contract will expire before Romo has even finished his contract so wha tgood will that do us. Draft a qb in the 2014 or 2015 drafts and then u have someone that can hopefully step in when Romo is done. Come on down Johnny Football...
Barkley is bad. These USC QBs benefit from the style of def the pac 12 plays and the talent that USC always has. Id take Dysert over barkley and Nassib in a heartbeat. Dysert reminds me a Roethlesberger without the raper status
Just curious, how many of you really ever heard of Tony Romo before we signed him?
The point? You actually have to acquire (draft, trade, UDFA) QBs to hit on one, and who knows if the next, unknown/lesser prospect, stud QB isn't actually in this rookie class?
They don't all need to be first rounders, but come on, if every team used the "how many QBs flame out" theory (fear) to get out of acquiring one, there'd never be a QB selected and they'd all let their QBs play until they qualified for AARP.
IMO, QB must be seriously addressed within the next three years or we're looking at another post-Aikman, dearth of QBs.
I have no hate for Romo, but honestly, I don't care if his feelings get bruised while the Boys try to find another one. It's imperative that they do, and the competition might actually do him some good seeing as though he hasn't had any since he became the starter.
How do you KNOW all this?
The one time in the years that he has been our starter that we actually had a real team all around was in 2007. And by the end of the year a lot of our key people were injured. TO, Glenn, etc. So we had to rely on Crayton and Fasano to make plays and they couldn't.
Romo put the ball INTO THEIR HANDS WHEN IT MATTERED and they failed.
So the ONLY time Tony Romo had a complete team around him he came within a couple of dropped passes to getting to the NFC championship game.
Since then there has NOT been a complete team around him.
2009 was closest but our O line caved in against the Vikings once Flozell went down and Colombo was a complete turnstyle. And then of course that day the Defense completely fell apart.
So once again how do you KNOW that given a complete team around him Tony cannot get it done?
While I agree that at some point we do need to start developing a QB for the future, this is not the year. We dont have the picks to be drafting players to ride the pine, not since we decided to blow the defense up and install a brand new scheme.
We need every pick we got to bring in some defensive players to fit the new scheme and still upgrade the o-line and possibly draft another RB since Felix is probably gone.
We dont have picks to spare this year, maybe next year we can look at getting a future QB.
and this year frankly the crop of QBs really stink
It's so silly to think this team will not succeed without Romo, I'm not buying it. You don't rebuild a team by staying barley average at QB then paying that barely average QB tons of money.


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Blog entry to Khartoum
My final night in Aswan will stay with me for a long time. Eve, a British woman who I had been introduced to who has lived on the Nubian island of Elephantine for several months now, invited me to join her on a sunset trip down the Nile with some of her local Nubian friends, the very entertaining Mustafa, Ekramy and Mohamed. I met them down at the waters edge and after a quick stop to pick up some delicious hot sandwiches, we five started our very leisurely pootle down the Nile, following its course around the back of Elephantine island. Both sides of the wide river banks were fringed with a dense, lush vegetation of all kinds of palm trees and shrubs of rich variety and shades of the deepest green. There were no other boats around and as we all lazily sprawled out on the roof of the boat, drinking our beers and eating our picnic, the world seemed a very peaceful place. We left the boat unanchored so that when the engines were cut, we could enjoy this gentle, peaceful float back down the Nile under a very starry sky, a warm breeze in the air and some Bob Marley playing in the background. Suffice to say it was hard to find much to be stressed about in that moment!
Afterwards Eve wanted to show me around the Nubian village on Elephantine given its extraordinarily narrow streets (the houses are so tightly packed together, you can only walk single file) as well as its beautiful mud-brick domed architecture. As we walked we soon came across a house bustling with people - one of the locals had broken his knee so was being inundated with well-wishers at his bedside and it was like a party in there! The mother of the injured young man spotted Eve, who she recognised, and became very excited, as did the other ladies gathered around outside. All of them greeted us warmly with kisses and wanted to lead us indoors, but we hadn't intended to stay so gestured that we were going to head off. At this point the mother of the injured young man, a deceptively small woman of advanced years and few teeth came striding over to us both, grabbed me by the wrist and with the strength of 10 men, dragged me inside her house, sat me on the sofa near her recuperating son and made it very clear that she would be highly offended if I left without eating my considerable share of a vast banquet of food she had somehow just prepared. "yikesâ€, I thought, having just eaten more than enough on the boat, I wasn't sure I had room for any more, but it seemed that any hesitation to tuck in would prove fatal, so I manned up and, resigning myself to morbid obesity, began to eat, much to the amusement of her bed-ridden son. Mercifully very soon Mustafa entered the room and Eve and I immediately pleaded for him to help us with this food. He refused, patting his stomach, saying "no no, I am full, no more foodâ€. "me too!†I cried, "same same, NO different!! But look at all this food, you have to help!!â€, I urged. Thankfully with that, he burst out laughing, sat down and slowly helped us chip away at the food mountain before us to a socially acceptable level. I had such a great time with Eve and these fun, kind hearted locals and was really touched that they gave me a little necklace just before I left as something to remember them by - what fantastic people.
Next day was the big day of the passenger ferry! I went with the South African couple, Stephan and Sunita (who are driving home to Capetown in a 4x4) to the port to be met with a huge crowd of people and mounds of boxed up electrical equipment and goods piled up everywhere - it was a scene of complete chaos! This was a good preparation to the scrum that ensued as all 570 passengers pushed, squeezed and shoved their way through endless narrow fenced and gated areas for customs controls and passport checks before finally throwing themselves onto the boat. It was every man for himself as each passenger was carrying at least two or three enormous boxes or bags, bound together with string, on their heads, backs and under arms as they tried to wrestle their way to the ship. Given that officially speaking, the boat only had capacity for 400 foot passengers, you can imagine how crowded it was on board. On account of the heat, most people were keen to get the the top deck as quickly as possible to save a place to sit wherever they could find it - on the floor, in the life boats - literally anywhere!
We were very fortunate in that our fixer (for a small payment of course) had arranged for some of us tourists to have a small section of the deck right next to the captain's lookout reserved for us and cordoned off with a bench, so we set up camp there for the next 24 hours and settled in. Joining the Stephan, Sunita and I was Steve, a British man in his sixties who was cycling solo from Cairo to Capetown, Boris, a young Czech guy hitchhiking the same route, Dale and Laura, another couple in a 4x4, two more Czech men Alesh and Yarislav also in a 4x4 and 2 Bulgarians with their Landrover. We were a jovial crew and shared our food and camping supplies amongst ourselves, but once the sun had set and the temperatures cooled, everyone's minds turned to sleep. It was quite a fantastic drift off into the Land of Nod for me, quite contentedly lying out on the floor of the top deck, snuggled up in my sleeping bag staring up at the most beautiful night sky I've ever seen.
The night passed fairly peacefully apart from the occasional disturbance caused by one of the several robed men crouched on the boundary bench a metre above my head changing positions and at one point, a blanketed figure leaping off the bench, over my head and onto the tiny unoccupied spot on the floor next to Steve - I imagine the temptation to be able to lie fully stretched out must have been too great, and who could blame him? I woke up feeling very refreshed but unfortunately seemed to have acquired a winged bug in my ear overnight. I had never thought that was really possible, but the panicked, muffled flapping was unmistakable! Fortunately once the boat docked, Stephan and Sunita gave me a solution to drown it/flush it out, which did the trick wonderfully well - what a relief!
The vehicles had successfully arrived into Wadi Halfa by the time we docked, so quite unlike the experience on arrival to Egypt, the lot of us were off the boat and reunited with our vehicles within 3 or so hours - a brilliant start to our time in Sudan. That night, some of the group decided to wild camp just outside of Wadi Halfa, which like most of North Sudan, is just a vast expanse of desert. We traveled a couple of kms out of town then, spotting a few decent sized sand dunes, swung right off the road and headed over the sand to camp behind them. I was a little nervous taking a fully loaded Suzi onto the sand, especially as I wasn't wearing all of my riding gear and didn't fancy a spill, but we managed to make it ok and the camping spot was entirely worth it. A beautiful, undisturbed night was had by all under another vast and starry sky.
Next day we all slowly prepared once again for the road and travelled a couple of hundred kms towards the major town of Dongola. Despite there being many towns marked on the Michelin map along this route, in reality they were often no more than a few mud brick dwellings with no amenities like fuel stations etc at all. By mid afternoon to my great relief (now running a little low on fuel!) we finally came across the Sudanese desert equivalent of a service station, made up of two ancient fuel pumps (sadly both in the process of being repaired), a shop and a severely visually impaired young man on a food stall selling omelettes, fuul (broad beans stewed in a spicy gravy type sauce) or "meatâ€, which was totally unidentifiable given its absence of any actual muscular fibres - it was just a thick yellow disc of fat with a few bristles attached. I plumped for the beans option, which was ladled out from a very heavy metal cauldron with a thin neck and lid and poured into a metal bowl, served with bread. Afterwards I investigated the adjoining grocery shop for supplies for that night's supper. There was quite a random selection of goods on offer, all under a thick layer of dust, but in a way that gave the shop quite a fun treasure trove feeling about it as you had no idea what you were about to uncover! In the end I settled on a bag of dried macaroni, a tin of tuna and two so called "good luck†wafer bars - I'm open to almost anything to help me on my way!
Perhaps those bars really were lucky, as within 20km we came across another petrol station, this time with working pumps and plentiful supply, so I was overjoyed to have a full tank once again! Fairly shortly afterwards we found a campsite just a few tentative kms offroad in another secluded spot and set up for the night. Unfortunately I wasn't feeling very well by this point - my throat was becoming very scratchy and sore and I felt shattered. Realising dehydration might be contributing here, I found some rehydration powder, made a simple pasta supper and turned in for an early night. As I drifted off to sleep I really started to worry - was I getting sick? I've always been prone to tonsilitis, what if the extreme swing in temperatures here between day and night and the crowded ferry had brought on another bout? What would I do? I couldn't expect the others to stay with me if I needed a couple of days in my tent, but I was in the desert here!
Mercifully next morning my throat had eased but now a cold was coming out - it seemed that all this dust on the roads here was getting into my tubes and causing me some problems, not great but at least it wasn't my dreaded tonsils kicking off! Fairly soon we had packed up and headed into Dongola, where we were required to complete our "alien registration†at the police station, a mandatory requirement for any tourist within 3 days of arrival into Sudan. This process took about 2 hours, 2 photos, 207 Sudanese pounds, a lot of smiling and obedience! Once this was all done, the 3 cars and I set about doing some grocery shopping - it was Dale's birthday and his wife Laura wanted to arrange a Braai for her husband as was his tradition from year dot. We bought some potatoes to be wrapped in tin foil, some salad vegetables and a few kilos of beef from a market shop where flies buzzed with greedy excitement (fortunately, the outside edge of the meat was cut off and sold to someone else so we were able to take a less fly-stricken cut from underneath!). Once that was done and some firewood had also been procured (there's not much to be found lying around in the desert!), our little convoy headed out on the desert road to Karima. We had planned to camp at one of the two ancient sets of pyramids there but alas one set was far too exposed and at the other set, a lone policeman was rather strangely adamant we couldn't camp there, so with darkness now upon us, we headed out of town to see if there might be a good spot in the desert. Of course this is no easy task in the dark and around these parts, the desert is particularly flat and featureless. It was by this point about 8pm, we were all exhausted from the incredible heat of the day and we'd taken the wrong road out of town a few times, adding to the stress levels. Once we were on the correct road, we all pulled over to formulate a plan. Although some of our party were looking a little concerned, the two Czech guys couldn't look less worried, jousting each other at the side of the road with a light-footed silliness reminiscent of Monty Python's Black Knight (of "it's only a flesh wound!†fame). I had to laugh - "you're both pretty relaxed!†I commented. "oh sureâ€, Yari replied, still ducking, diving and dancing on his feet "in the last 2 years we've been on the road, we've been caught in crossfire on the Syrian/Iranian border and had nowhere to sleep on the Road of Bones, this is nothing!â€, he added with a laugh and another lunge at Alesh. Their attitude was infectious and fairly soon we all decided the best thing to do was just to drive as far into the desert away from the road as we could and hope for the best. We were all a little nervous of how deep the sand would get, especially for me, toiling away in the dark on my own after this exhausting day, but there was little choice other than to get on with it. The idea was that I would ride alongside one car to benefit from their lights with another car following behind in case I fell or got stuck, but once I got going, something in my head just clicked. I was tired of being so nervous on the sand and all I could think of was the sand lesson Paul had given me back at home - "no fear, you need momentum in the sand, speed is key - just pin it in a high gear and if you feel a wobble, do NOT throttle off! You can do it!!â€. And so, with these words in my head, as Stephan and Sunita started to drive steadily alongside me in the sand, suddenly I had my Forrest Gump moment - I started clicking up through the gears, faster and faster - I didn't care any more! My proverbial callipers of fear came off and I was going for it! "Wait for the others!!†Stephan cried, but I couldn't slow down, I was off on a mission, blasting over the sand and feeling free of all fear - it was great!! Once I finally thought I'd gone far enough I stopped and once the others caught up, I apologised in case I had freaked them out and explained what had happened, but they were having none of it - "wow Claire, that was quite a transformation, amazing stuff!!â€. What a great feeling! That night we all enjoyed a fantastic BBQ/braai under another starry night sky, delicious food, an illegal swig of Port that Stephan had smuggled into the country in his car, great laughs around the camp fire and finally Laura singing a song or two to Dale's musical accompaniment on the ukulele. It doesn't get much better than that!
Next day was a scorcher as we headed another few hundred kilometres across the desert towards the dusty, dirty and generally charmless town of Atbara. The official maximum temperature was 35 degrees but inside my helmet and riding suit (even with every zip and vent open) it felt like 40 - even at 100kph, there was no wind chill whatsoever, which made riding very uncomfortable. I was definitely a boil in the bag biker! After Atbara we travelled for another hour or so in the direction of Khartoum before stopping to camp near the oldest pyramids in the world at the misleadingly deserted looking temples of Meroe.
Within minutes of our arrival however, majestic robed men sailed over the sand dunes on their most elegant ships of the desert and offered us rides on their steeds, but we politely declined and went to make camp. Clearly word of our arrival had spread fast as within ten minutes, a little band of 8 tunic-ed boys with grain sacks full of souvenirs trod their way over towards us, before laying out their assorted wares on their bags in front of us and sitting down cross-legged at their make-shift market. Although on the one hand all we wanted to do was make camp and eat in peace, no-one wanted to be rude to these children who were causing us no harm at all, siting as they were at a good distance from us and just watching our activities. It was apparent that we were like tv for them, fascinating people from a foreign land with endless gadgets and toys at our disposal. They stayed for an hour or so and left just before sunset, promising to return next morning, which they certainly did at first light! Being woken by the playful tinkle of young voices next day did momentarily cause me to wonder how big this cast of followers might have grown to, but fortunately it was still the same 8 boys hoping to sell something or be given a pen.
Once we were packed we took a walk around the beautiful ancient pyramids and temples (which we had to ourselves - it couldn't have been more different to Giza!), then headed off towards Khartoum. The others were interested to drive 25km offroad to some more temples but I was more interested in the prospect of my first shower in a week, so said my goodbyes and continued on towards Khartoum solo. The ride in was quite enduring, not only with the heat and my streaming cold (still from all the dust), but more particularly with increasingly heavy traffic trying to navigate the main road into Khartoum - a challenge given every 50 metres of Tarmac was followed by a 50 metre stretch of one long, large, dusty, bumpy pothole. Eventually however I made it into town and after a brief visit to my intended hotel, described in the Lonely Planet as a "spiffy joint†(that it certainly was not - "complete dive†would be my two word description, even by the standards of my £2 a night hotel in Damietta!), I checked into a much more encouraging place around the corner and went about the extensive task of getting myself clean (in the non-narcotic sense of course).
I decided that while I was here, it might be a good idea to get Suzi serviced - given the effects that the dust had had on me, I reasoned that she could probably also do with a bit of TLC. I foolishly expected that this would be quite a simple task, but on arrival at the Suzuki shop, it was explained that they didn't offer servicing there, but used a mechanics shop further down the road. Searching out the correct one was no easy task, as the entire very long street was occupied only by motorcycle mechanics, who all preferred to do their work in the open air of the dusty land in front of their tin- shack shops, spilling out onto the road, creating a crazy chaos of fumes, noises, throttles, exhausts and oil! With a bit of help I found the right place and they set about washing the air filter (completely filthy of course), changing the oil and de-gunking the chain. The arrival of suzi and I on the scene attracted something of a crowd of friendly enthusiasts, all asking endless questions about the bike in pigeon English. Uniforms really don't exist here so it was hard to know who of the crowd worked there and who was just there for fun, but it was a relaxed atmosphere punctuated by one man shouting "hey you, hey you, take photo!†at me while he set about proudly pulling a set of wheelies towards where I was standing. I went along with it and took a few short videos of him, which everyone wanted to see and found very entertaining. Even the mechanics wanted to pose for a photo! In any case they appear to have done a good job and Suzi is running all the better for it, so happy days.
So now here I am, preparing to head off once again tomorrow for the final few days before I get to Ethiopia! I'm incredibly excited that I have ridden all the way down one half of my "Africa-north east Arabia†Michelin map and it's nearly time to turn over the page for the next adventures, taking me into Ethiopia and then Kenya. It's been great to recuperate and rest for the last two days at the hotel, especially given the real treat of meeting a wonderful Indian father and daughter who are staying at the hotel here on business. The daughter, Anneke, rather bravely just struck up a conversation with me in the restaurant 2 night's ago and since then I've had the pleasure of their company twice at dinner. They are both such warm, interesting people with fascinating stories of what they have learnt on their travels about people, cultures and humanity, really excellent company and great fun too - very much an unexpected surprise at a hotel, where typically people keep themselves to themselves and I'm really grateful for their company. That's part of what I love so much about this adventure and travelling on my own - yes there are moments of vulnerability but on the flip side you are so much more likely to meet some brilliant people who ordinarily you just wouldn't meet. And so, tomorrow morning it's time to move on to Ethiopia with both feet forward - til next time!


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At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft unveils their new full body and voice recognition device, codenamed Natal, that works alongside with the Xbox 360.
Microsoft showcased their new Project "Natal" for the Xbox 360 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in LA Convention Centre. The device will have 3D motion sensing as well as voice recognition and you no longer need to use a controller to play or select your menu options. In fact, you ARE the controller.
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The Greatest Unknown Master of Design
The Metropolitan Museum opened its Anna Wintour Costume Center this week. First lady Michelle Obama was on hand to cut the ribbon. But the designer who was chosen to inaugurate the new wing holds cult status only in fashion circles.
"Charles James was a designer who was really respected in his lifetime," said Harold Koda, curator in charge of The Costume Institute and co-curator of the exhibit. "Designers like Balenciaga, Dior, thought he was one of the greatest masters of design. But he closed his house in 1958 and fashion is very forward looking, so he was sort of forgotten except to specialists."
Charles James was born in England in 1906. His family moved to Chicago and it was there that he started designing hats when he was 19. James moved to New York two years later, in 1928, where he first opened a hat shop in Queens, and then started making dresses.
His technique was unique. He saw the garments as sculpture — which he built by combining different fabric and textures. But he never forgot that his pieces were to be worn and he cared about comfort.
His 1953 ball gown, Clover Leaf, is considered his masterpiece (photo below, being worn by Austine Hearst). It's a strapless dress in white satin and black velvet elegantly swirling out from the body, and constructed in four layers.
Mary Barone, a fashion and arts writer, said James' technique was very sophisticated and influenced many designers. "In 1947, Christian Dior went on record to say that without Charles James he would not have had his most transformative moment as he inspired his 1947 new look, which was a global sensation," she said.
All this engineering can be examined in the exhibit thanks to robotic cameras designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro that isolate details of the garments, and project the analysis on monitors.
The exhibit Charles James: Beyond Fashion features about 75 designs produced by James over the course of his career, from the 1920s until his death in 1978.
It's on view until Aug. 10.
Gallery View of the Anna Wintour Costume Center featuring Charles James' creations (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Charles James, 1952. (Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Michael A. Vaccaro)
Charles James' "Butterfly" Ball Gown, ca. 1955 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Karin Willis)
Street fashion photographer Bill Cunningham taking pictures at the Charles James show at the Met. I tried to say hi, but he dismissed me saying: "I am trying to think." (Gisele Regatao)


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The Additive Disruption Summit: Strategic Impacts, Business Models, IP, Finance
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25 March 2014
Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, California
The Additive Disruption Summit: Strategic Impacts, Business Models, IP, Finance
Panel #1: Janos Veres : "Known Unknowns" -- Getting to Grips with the Unpredictable Impacts and Vectors of 3D (8:45am - 10am)
This panel of Fortune 1000 innovation, manufacturing and R&D directors, will examine the frontiers of 3D methods in an attempt to capture the core innovation dynamic. Already a number of surprising applications with potentially large, disruptive impacts can be seen in bio-printing, architectural applications, and the explosion of "Away from Control" home/distributed scanning, crowd-sourcing and printing of consumer goods, parts and tools. While much of the latter is still more in the novelty or crafts category, the Maker/Techshop/Hackerspace trend augurs difficult to anticipate breakthroughs that may be social and legal as much as technological. An alternative scenario is localized "on-demand distributed fabrication" delivered by existing strategies.
Other Panelists:
Afsar Mir, Open Innovation Manager, Meadwestvaco
Joanne Rainey, Sourcing Transofrmation Manager, ISC Sourcing, Honeywell Aerospace
Paul Susalla, Manager-Rapid Manufacturing, Ford Motor Company
Janos Veres, Program Manager, PARC
Ken Wong, CFA - Analyst, Citigroup
Panel# 2 - Mike Kuniavsky: Business Model Innovation Leveraging 3D Capabilities (4pm - 5pm)
While the additive sector still accounts for maybe $2-3Billion in global revenue, it may be unique in coming to the fore as a fully-blown business/technology ecosystem, with many interdependent players and niches, however embryonic many of them may be at the moment. This discussion will dissect the different kinds of business models so far at play in the 3D printing supply chain, as well as the potential for entirely new business models that rely on 3D printed objects or capabilities. An understanding of the different niches in the value chain, their respective strengths, challenges and margins, is key to any kind of future investment or partnering analysis.
Other Panelists:
Ross Kozarsky, Senior Analyst, LUX Research INC.
Jenny Lawton, President, MakerBot
Gonzalo Martinez, Diretor of Strategic Research for the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Autodesk
Paul Brody, Vice President & Global Industry Leader, Electronics, IBM
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Keurig Green Mountain has appointed José Octavio Reyes Lagunes, retired vice chairman of The Coca-Cola Export Corporation, to its board of directors.
"We are very pleased to add an executive of Mr. Reyes' caliber to our board of directors," stated Norm Wesley, Keurig's chairman of the board. "José's significant experience in the cold beverage industry and his global perspective make him an ideal addition to the Board of Keurig as we look forward to the introduction of our Keurig Cold beverage system and to growth opportunities outside of North America for both our Keurig Cold and our Keurig hot beverage systems."
Reyes will be a Class I director with a term that expires at the company's 2015 annual meeting where he will stand for election by stockholders. Reyes' appointment increases the composition of Keurig's board of directors to 12 members, 11 of whom are independent with diverse experience from companies including Fortune Brands, American Express, Kellogg Company, Credit Suisse Group AG and Proctor & Gamble.
Prior to his most recent role at The Coca-Cola Export Corporation, which he had held since 2012 and where he was responsible for mentoring system leaders around the globe and leading efforts to implement key initiatives of The Coca-Cola Company's 2020 Vision, Reyes served as president of the Latin America Group of The Coca-Cola Company from 2002 to 2012. Reyes began his career with The Coca-Cola Company in 1980 at Coca-Cola de México as manager of strategic planning. In 1987, he was appointed manager of the Sprite and Diet Coke brands at corporate headquarters in Atlanta. Reyes moved to Brazil in 1990 as marketing director for the Brazil division and subsequently was named marketing and operations VP for the Mexico division. Reyes then became deputy division president for the Mexico Division in 1996, and was named its president later that year.
Reyes holds a bachelor of science in chemical engineering from the Universidad Autónoma de México and a master of business administration (MBA) from the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, both in his native Mexico. He currently serves on the boards of directors of MasterCard Worldwide, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Co., Comex Paints and the Papalote Children's Museum in Mexico City.


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By Gabi Miles
WHO: Henrico County, Va., Dept. of Public Utilities
SERVICE AREA: 90,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in three counties and the City of Richmond, Va.
CHALLENGE: Integrate performance data of new and existing treatment processes
SOLUTION: Water Information Management Solution (WIMS) software
PROVIDER: Hach Co.
IMPLEMENTATION: $100,000, including offsite and onsite set-up and user training
Henrico County's 75 mgd Water Reclamation Facility recently added two six-stage enhanced nutrient removal (ENR) reactors and has almost finished upgrading two three-stage reactors to five-stage reactors. The additional nutrient removal capacity will ensure compliance with more stringent pollution standards: 5.0 mg/L for total nitrogen and 0.5 mg/L for total phosphorus on an annual average basis.
The facility's upgrade is part of an effort by U.S. EPA and Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VADEQ) to improve the quality of water entering the beleaguered Chesapeake Bay by reducing nitrogen by 17.5 million and phosphorous by 1 million pounds a year. Approximately 35% of the $24-million upgrade is eligible for reimbursement through a Water Quality Improvement Fund grant from VADEQ.
To make the most of their new-and-improved operations, managers realized they needed to streamline how they gather, process, and analyze the metrics associated with the plant's various functions. "Without effective processes to manage our data, we were very concerned that we wouldn't succeed in complying with the new nutrient limits," says Division Director James Grandstaff. "We needed to have real-time functional control of our equipment and processes as well as an improved ability to more effectively and efficiently leverage our data."
Before the upgrade, employees manually entered data from multiple entry points without a cohesive system for collecting or analyzing the information. Process data, lab data, and field logs were housed in three different Excel spreadsheets; equipment and process data was in a SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system. Managers spent hours every month requesting, compiling, confirming, correcting, integrating, and analyzing this information to prepare three different Discharge Monitoring Reports.
This process ate up at least four hours of Grandstaff's time every week; Operations Superintendent Michael Chapman spent 10 to 15 hours a week filling out paperwork, re-entering data, and compiling quality control assessments. After all that time and effort, they still had no good way to evaluate seasonal performance trends, identify quality control opportunities, or perform correlations.
Generating meaningful operations reports from existing equipment was challenging enough, but it would be virtually impossible as new equipment came online and regulatory limits became tighter. So they invested in software that would allow them to monitor and manage systemwide performance from a central database without having to invest in new hardware as well.
Keeping centralized data secure
Formerly known as OPS SQL, Hach Co.'s Water Information Management Solution (WIMS) compiles and secures data from multiple sources, converting information from systems such as SCADA, LIMS (lab information management), and CMMS (computerized maintenance management system) into easy-to-understand and usable formats like trend analysis charts and reports.
Each user logs in with a unique password that's tied to a specific level of access. Some have full administrative rights, some can only enter data in certain input forms, and some have read-only access. The program tracks input by time, date, and user, virtually eliminating any remaining possibility for data-tampering.
Facility managers can build their own WIMS dashboards so they can see the parameters for which they are responsible, and quickly monitor their processes with little support from IT. Chapman's dashboard, for instance, has direct links to the reports he tracks and time-stamped updates of LIMS and SCADA data imports.
Any operational data that's not automatically generated or incompatible with the SCADA interface — such as aerobic volume, internal recycle flow and carbon feed rates, and operational targets — is entered by operations staff. This data is typically collected in the field, so Hach provided WIMS training for portable devices to keep manual entry to a minimum.
Because Henrico County's security policy requires the system to reside on its own server, some SCADA data must still be transferred by jump drive each day. Grandstaff hopes to resolve the issue soon, as the policy is being revised.
The configurable software integrates data from all plant functions to provide a visual of overall performance that managers can access any time of day or night. The county's IT Department used the software's "automated tasks" function to set up three e-mails a day that provide the status of all vital processes at a glance.
Reports are populated as the data is generated (according to preset calculations), so regulatory and business reports can essentially be reviewed in real time. Managers review their monthly Discharge Monitoring Report whenever they want instead of waiting for and compiling data every few weeks.
Identifying cost-saving opportunities
To ensure the software would meet their requirements, plant managers first had to identify specific needs, including:
Hach developed the database accordingly, and spent five days installing and fine-tuning the software onsite.
The plant designated a project manager who was responsible for getting the team together when required, gathering information, and assisting the Hach support team. During implementation, the project manager spent about half his time on the project. Facility IT Specialist Tom Maciejewski configured the underlying system and participated in installation and training.
Hach led a four-day training program to teach plant employees how to interact with the system and customize it for future needs, including setting up additional parameters, reports, dashboards, and entry forms without requiring additional help. For more complicated needs, the initial setup cost includes a year of technical support with an option to renew an annual support contract.
The process took about four months, during which the plant continued to operate as usual — with data captured manually — until the new software was ready to go.
Grandstaff estimates his team saves at least an hour during annual state inspections — a process that used to require several hours as data had to be pulled from three different reports for each month of concern. But more significantly, they're able to quickly generate temporal performance trends and give the county's public works department the information in easy-to-understand charts and graphs.
Upon implementing the software's trending function, employees discovered the new reactors could achieve the same results with one instead of two internal recycle pumps. By leveraging the automatic-control functions on the aeration blowers and reducing internal recycle flow rates in aeration basins, they've saved nearly $180,000 annually on electricity since August 2009.
Grandstaff's also using the software to anticipate future treatment needs. For example, SCADA holds hourly average flow data for only five days. To track hourly average flow over several rain events, operators go back in time and assess hourly flow rates during a rain event, then plot and compare influent flow rates during that period to better prepare for future events.
Getting on the same page
Having defined and standardized reporting processes for basic metrics, Chapman meets weekly with the lab manager and county IT specialist to create new reports, bring new material online, and introduce new variables.
Grandstaff and Chapman also gather their employees for a weekly "Graph Pack Think Tank" meeting focused entirely on trending process control data. The group looks at the most recent data and reviews good performance periods, along with similar plant or environmental conditions such as temperatures and seasons. According to Grandstaff, these meetings more than anything else over the last two years have empowered employees to take full advantage of the system's functionality.
Everyone's encouraged to look at the data and question decisions. "It's gotten us all more on the same page about how to operate a wastewater plant," says Grandstaff, because operational adjustments are now based on objective data rather than subjective assumptions. If something unexpected happens, he pulls everyone together in one room, pulls up the program, and walks through all the variables. The team works together to make correlations, identify the processes involved, and solve the problem.
The system also serves as a backup to conventional wisdom.
Once while touring the facility, Grandstaff noticed a fair amount of scum and foam in the aeration basins. Because this usually indicates a die-off in the secondary treatment process, the operator strongly believed the plant needed to increase the waste rate to support the microorganisms. The two reviewed solids retention time, sludge volume index, and food-to-microorganism ratio, and made calculations based on their targets. The analysis showed they should decrease the waste rate; increasing it would have made the problem worse and taken longer to control, resulting in higher electrical and related costs.
Grandstaff and his team are using the program to explore the potential benefits of a proposed combined-heat-and-power project that would use flared digester gas to produce electricity. They're more accurately tracking and reporting gas flow data from the plant's solids anaerobic digestion process. Some estimates indicate the project could generate approximately half the plant's annual energy demand, further reducing operational costs and carbon footprint.
Grandstaff has a practical view about how operations will further evolve. "It's not a mystery, science fiction, or luck," he says. "If you have good numbers and good data, it's just how you operate a plant."
—Miles (email@example.com) is a product manager for Hach WIMS in Loveland, Colo.
EPA's gearing up to require individual plants — not states — to submit environmental reports electronically.
As part of the Water Information Management Solution (WIMS) reporting function, Hach Co. provided Henrico County's 45 mgd wastewater treatment plant with templates for submitting paper and electronic copies of three discharge permits.
This service may save plant employees even more time in the near future.
In response to President Barack Obama's call for federal agencies to make regulations "less burdensome," U.S. EPA has identified 16 steps for "modifying, streamlining, expanding, or repealing a regulation or related program."
One step is coordinating permit requirements and removing outdated requirements in the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). EPA proposes converting paper-based reports to a national electronic reporting format like the Internal Revenue Service model for collecting income tax data via software programs such as TurboTax and TaxACT.
Hach and several other software providers are participating in a pilot program to determine the technical feasibility of reporting compliance monitoring data — starting with Discharge Monitoring Reports — via an "open platform e-file" process.
EPA expects electronic reporting to eliminate annual and quarterly reporting requirements from the states because regulated facilities will download the data directly into an agency database. There's no size limitation for regulated facilities that will be eligible to participate.
The agency plans to issue its final report on the pilot program this month and move forward with implementation in 2012, pending funding.


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Cult Pizza decor images feature notorious leaders
Ryan Cappalletti poses for a portrait inside his new restaurant Cult Pizza, Saturday, March 30, 2013 in Grand Rapids Mich. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Sally Finneran)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A West Michigan pizza shop is drawing attention for [auth] images of notorious leaders on its walls.
MLive.com reports (http://bit.ly/10zjNGA ) that the decor of Cult Pizza in Grand Rapids includes portraits of Branch Davidian leader David Koresh and Aum Shinrikyo cult guru Shoko Asahara. There's also a photo of people who died during the 1978 mass murder and suicide at Jonestown, Guyana.
The restaurant is the work of Ryan Cappelletti.
He tells The Associated Press that he encountered a similar controversy two years ago when another restaurant he operates next door displayed artwork depicting Mao Zedong, Che Guevara and Ronald Reagan.
He says he wants western Michigan to be open to a full range of artistic expression and not to lose its cool when faced with challenging images.
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In an attempt to tamp down rising prices, the Obama administration is setting a 10% maximum increase for health insurance rates, above which insurers would have justify the increases based on higher costs. Starting in 2012 they will set different rates for individual states. I don't know if there is any literature on this in health insurance, but there is evidence that when regulators set price points it can serve as a focal point, or "Schelling point" for economist Thomas Schelling, for collusion. Here is how Knittel and Stango describe the theory:
In practical terms, the problem of tacit collusion often reduces to one of successful coordination.Firms can resolve the coordination problem in many ways; one such way is through the use of a focal point. The theory of focal points dates at least to Thomas Schelling (1960), who noted that in simple games with many equilibria, agents can quite often recognize a focal point and use it to coordinate. In one of his more well-known examples, Schelling discusses the problem of two people simultaneously choosing a common location (in which to meet) in New York City. Given that the game possesses an infinite number of equilibrium location-pairs, we might expect the odds of successful coordination to be quite low. Nonetheless, in practice most people who play the game choose a well-known spot—such as Times Square or the Statue of Liberty—and can successfully coordinate. In situations where firms set prices, it is often suggested that the "clustering" of prices occurs at certain natural focal points (e.g., $9.99).
Like I said, I have no idea whether this would or has occurred in health insurance markets. But regulators should certainly consider it a potential cost to setting prices.


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A New Post-Labor Force?
Here's another article about how robots will soon replace humans in an array of jobs:
But robots raise an even bigger question than how many jobs are left over for humans. A number of scholars are now arguing that all this automation could make many goods and services so cheap that a full-time jobs could become optional for most people. Baxter [the robot], then, would become a liberator of the human spirit rather than an enemy of the working man.
It strikes me as funny because it's already the case that full-time jobs have been optional for most people, but not in service of the human spirit, but to organizations already cutting labor costs to the bone and working their existing employees twice as hard. If Baxter does come to pass, a). how will the non-employed, spirit-infused among us earn a living, and b). will that living necessarily be serving Baxter — as designer, technician, programmer — in some capacity or another? Baxters will be driving our cabs, doing laundry, predicting the weather, piloting our planes.
And what does this mean for education? Will, as some people would have it, the liberal arts once again becomes the exclusive province of the wealthy, ruling elite? Will all students be funneled into STEM disciplines whether they show any aptitude, because there will be no other choices?


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Protesters and police clashed today as squatters who have occupied six mansion blocks in Brixton for up to 32 years were evicted.
While officers blocked off the area in Rushcroft Road, bailiffs stormed the blocks in the early hours to remove the residents, including young children, from 37 flats. Bins were set alight and locals gathered in the street angered by "gentrification" of the area and "purging" of the poor.
A group of up to 10 protesters tried to resist police and chanted: "Stop," and "No eviction" as bailiffs broke down doors. The Met confirmed at least one activist was arrested for criminal damage and assault. A second man was held this afternoon for affray.
Lambeth council has been trying for two years to remove the squatters. It said three of the buildings will be sold to private developers for an estimated £5.5 million and the rest will be reserved for social rented housing, for people on benefits or low incomes.
One of those evicted, Peter Piotrkowski, who was on crutches, claimed he fell over when police pushed him. "I was moving slowly because I can't run and they pushed me twice. I'm going to be homeless now. I'm on benefits, £72 a week. I can't find any place for that money and I need to keep some money for food." Mark Evans, 50, a carpenter, was evicted from the block where he has lived for two years. He left with his dog and his bike, and said he plans to sublet nearby.
Some privately owned flats in the buildings are being sold for up to £475,000. Today's events comes weeks after a protest against estate agent Foxtons in Brixton by locals angry about "yuppies" moving in to the area, pushing up rents and property prices.
Julian Hall, of Lambeth United Housing Co-operative, said: "It's completely in line with the kind of gentrification community purge that Lambeth are enacting. Lambeth is Labour-run, and people need to know that Labour councils are just a guilty of purging communities as any other council."
Lambeth councillor Pete Robbins said: "We are taking this action because it is unfair on the thousands of residents in need of housing in Lambeth that a small minority are unlawfully squatting in six mansion blocks and not paying any rent or council tax.
"Following the eviction of the unauthorised occupants, three of the six blocks in Rushcroft Road will be sold to bring the remaining three blocks back into use as 22 new homes for social rent." He added: We have been in regular dialogue with the occupants of the six blocks over the last two years, offering support and advice on how to find alternative accommodation. We will continue to take this approach in order to help everyone who is affected."
The council said the estimated £5.5 million raised by selling the flats will be invested in projects across the borough, including new schools, town centres and housing.
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