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Parkyns Building Services Ltd is a Builders based in Erith (DA8 1JT). Covering all London, Kent and Essex areas.
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Michael Lampard 24th April 2017
"Nik & his team completed the pond infill in one day as quoted abd cleaned up and removed all rubbish afterwards."
S De Iulio 3rd April 2017
"I asked for a quote for a driveway and a brick wall from Parkyns building services as they replaced my roof three years previously and did a great job. Parkyns wasn't the cheapest quote I had but decided to go with them as I was confident they'd do a thorough job and use quality materials. Nik was very helpful going through the different types of materials, styles of brick and processes. I had a lot of questions as I wasn't always sure of some of the style details of the driveway. The work was done within budget and within the time frame and the team always left my driveway area tidy. Now it's all completed and I'm absolutely delighted with my driveway & brick wall."
michael boyd 20th March 2017
"We used Nik and his team to rip out our entire back garden and pave the whole space and they have finished it to a exceptionally high quality. Nike was very informative, knowledgeable and gave brilliant advice when we needed. I would definitely recommend him to our friends and use him again"
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Dan Taylor 9th February 2017
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Business leaders charged with shaping the agenda for the Group of 20 Leaders' Summit in Brisbane next year have agreed to pursue lower barriers to trade and investment to boost job-creating growth.
They include the movement of capital and financing flows, trade, people and skilled labour, and infrastructure investment, Mr Milliner said after a meeting in Sydney.
In all four cases, impediments to free movement within and across borders were limiting urgently needed growth and jobs, he said.
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"We are not saying we can cure all the ills of the world in one go," Mr Milliner said. "But we are saying there is a strong consensus among business, governments and labour around the current global economic environment and that the imperative is economic growth and job creation."
At a B20 lunch in Sydney on Thursday, the editor-in-chief of The Australian Financial Review,
Mr Milliner told the Financial Review all parties saw that job creation would be driven by growth and "you have got to look at what is going to drive growth".
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But capital flows and finance were restricted by a range of factors, such as unintended consequences of financial reform, regulatory oversights or inconsistencies. "We are not trying to wind back Basel III (a global push for stricter capital rules for banks) or restructure the Financial Stability Board," he said.
"The world is awash with capital but at the same time we have got these blockages in infrastructure development and capital investment flows."
Preliminary work had found gains of as much as $US2.6 trillion ($2.8 trillion) could be made by eliminating "friction costs'' and other ''behind the border" brakes on commerce.
Most countries restricted the movement of skilled labour within and across their borders, at a time of high unemployment – especially among youth – in crisis-torn nations.
These could be addressed by reforming domestic laws but in some cases also required multilateral agreements on things such as customs clearance.
Next steps are to secure "buy in" from global business, and set up task forces in time to take over B20 from Russia in November this year.
The B20 aims to make recommendations to the federal government by next August, ahead of the G20 in November.
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She was born Barbara Ann Bachman on Dec. 19, 1936, in Vancouver, Washington. After finishing high school there, she came to Stanford University in 1955. She graduated in the class of 1959 with a bachelor's degree in journalism.
After college, she worked for about two years as a reporter at the Palo Alto Times. In 1961, she married Winfield "Win" Foster, whom she met at Stanford where he was a student at the law school. When Win graduated, they moved to San Francisco. There she worked for the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle, covering the city's society beat.
The couple moved to Palo Alto in 1966, and she worked for a few years before they started a family. They had two children, Laura and Andrew.
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For years she went to services at All Saints' Episcopal Church and then, later, Saint Mark's Episcopal Church. In their retirement, she and Win enjoyed traveling, birding, rooting for Stanford teams and spoiling their grandchildren.
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Today Apple announced the details of the iPhone 2.0 software beta. Many new features are coming to the coolest gadget on the planet. Of particular interest to me is the integration of Cisco's VPN client software into the iPhone. This will be a full blown IPSEC client that will even support the use of certificates or password based multi-factor authentication. Very nice! The iPhone VPN client will be able to connect to Cisco VPN gateway devices, like the Cisco ASA and older Cisco PIX. Apple also announced support for WPA enterprise with 802.1x authentication coming in the 2.0 code. This will enable more enterprises to allow the iPhone to connect securely to their wireless infrastructure. According to Apple, the iPhone 2.0 code will be ready by June '08 as a free upgrade. However, Apple is currently accepting applications from enterprise customers who would like to sign-up for the Beta Program. Here is the link http://www.apple.com/iphone/enterprise For the office Apple announcement see here: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/03/06iphone.html On another note, I wonder if anyone will write a security app for the iPhone using their newly announced SDK interface. So will you be connecting iPhones to your business now that it will have the new Cisco VPN client embedded plus the new wireless security features?
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A top Labor Department official who acknowledged budgeting missteps and cost overruns while overseeing Job Corps announced Monday that she has resigned, effective at the end of the month.
Jane Oates, assistant secretary of Labor's Employment and Training division, notified employees of her decision in an e-mail touting her accomplishments. The message made no mention of budget woes for the federal job training program.
Job Corps froze new enrollments in January after running a deficit of $60 million, but the program lifted the stoppage in April. It still plans to reduce enrollment by 20 percent, according to the National Job Corps Association, which represents the contractors that run the program's training centers.
The association has estimated that the freeze blocked at least 10,000 prospective trainees from Job Corps and cost about 700 people their jobs at training centers.
"The most amazing part of my experience at ETA has been your willingness to examine your processes and help create change," Oates said in her e-mail to employees.
In 2010, the Labor Department restructured how it handles Job Corps, in part by placing budgeting and procurement operations in separate areas of the Employment and Training division instead of the Office of Job Corps. The program incurred a $30 million deficit during its next budget cycle, followed by the $60 million shortfall this year.
During a Senate hearing in March, Oates acknowledged that budgeting missteps and a lack of accounting expertise among senior staff contributed to the cost overruns. She told lawmakers that the shortfall was due to "inadequate staffing and monitoring on the part of the Job Corps program."
Critics contend that ETA ignored budgeting advice from vendors who run the job-training centers.
"We are hopeful that the department's new leadership will work more collaboratively with Job Corps stakeholders to ensure vulnerable young Americans are never again unnecessarily turned away from Job Corps," said National Job Corps Association government-relations director Anand Vimalassery.
Oates said ETA's accomplishments during her tenure included disbursing nearly $1 billion in Recovery Act funds, creating a partnership between Job Corps, IBM and Jamba Juice, and improving relationships between home and regional offices.
Labor Department spokesman Carl Fillichio declined to comment on Oates's resignation, saying the agency does not discuss personnel matters.
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Get an overview of this hotelHotel in Seneca with free breakfast and outdoor pool
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Situated in Seneca, this hotel is within 9 mi (15 km) of Little John Coliseum, Clemson University, and Memorial Stadium. Brooks Center for the Performing Arts and Walker Golf Course are also within 9 mi (15 km).
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Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. This Seneca hotel also offers an outdoor pool, coffee/tea in a common area, and RV/bus/truck parking. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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Hmm… considering the wind direction and force, atmospheric pressure and (insignificant detail) distance between Dallas and Perm, I'm afraid, it would not.
I don't know… I've got some wind power behind my sneezes.
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Patrick, Yashkovskiy, are this happening right now? Hey, I want this bug too!
LOL!! I can sneeze on you.. would that help?
Maybe it's some fluke. Who knows? I'll take what I can get.
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I guess you were just lucky
Did you check your statement to see the exact time of the purchases?
I'm showing dates (Feb 15 – since Envato is in Australia) for the 5 from today. Previously, my last sale was on Feb 5.
Mind you, I'm absolutely not complaining or upset.. Only curious.
So… Something strange happened.
I didn't make a single sale over the last week. This is unusual. Stick with me.. I'm going somewhere with this.
Then, today, I get 5.
Was I very unlucky – then lucky?
Or was there a delay in notifying me of sales. My theory is that the 5 sales that showed up today were spread out through the week…
Has anyone else experienced this? One must admit that this is rather curious.
Writing music – in general – is awesome. On stock sites, it's nice to get a little extra cash here and there. I must say that the best part (aside from the money), for me, is when I find out who licenses my music. I got notification about 2 weeks ago that a rather large US establishment bought one of my tracks. Now, I'm stalking their Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube pages to find it.
I love selling on stock sites, but the part that kills me is that I rarely get to see where my music goes. I understand that the buyer probably couldn't care less, but it is SO exciting to see my music (legitimately) in the hands and projects of others.
People are buying it… So one would only assume that they're using it… Ya know? It's out there… but where?
I'd love to see a buyer's option to identify themselves and\or their project.
SO… wrapping this up… The best part isn't the money (yet)... It's seeing my work working with others.
Way to go!!
Nice! I've never been the featured author (yet… hint hint ) but I have had a featured item.. and it boosted sales quite a bit.
The great benefit of having a featured item is that you get to stay on the home page for 4 weeks..
I think it is wonderful exposure!
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Created attachment 597946 [details] [diff] [review] hack that makes games playable The basic problem we were seeing is that 3 different mandreel-generated games were getting terrible frame rates while Chrome ran fine. With a little instrumentation, it seems that most/all the pauses were recompiling large functions. The generated JS code (unfortunately I cannot post it) is basically a huge number of if/else branches which hit type guards that recompile the huge function. This isn't just a startup problem since new branches are continually being discovered. I looked into the two biggest sources: in both cases we have type info about global variables and, instead of adding a normal subset relationship, we add a dynamic type barrier that is guaranteed to hit/recompile the first time it is executed. When I switched these to not use the type barrier in the trivial attached patch, most of the recompiles went away and we get Chrome-like speeds. There are still more recompiles happening that jank the game at random times so more investigation is needed. Ideally, Emscripten/Mandreel-generated code wouldn't contain any type guards so I think we need to continue hunting down the sources of recompiles. In general, though, we should solve this problem not just for Emscripten-generated code. I'm not sure if the fix is "more fine-grained chunked compilation". Instead, what if we just said, for large scripts, that we deoptimize by not using type guards? I hear v8 doesn't use Crankshaft for large scripts. Again, for large Emscripten-generated code, simple local inference should give plenty precise type info. Who knows, with this strategy, perhaps we wouldn't even need chunked compilation?
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6 years ago
Are you testing on x86 or x64? Chunk compilation only works on x86 --- issues with far jump repatching make things much more complicated on x64 (will be fixed when IM gets chunk compilation). If you're seeing compilation time eating up all execution time even on x86, it's a bug in chunk compilation which should be fixed (chunk compilation was designed to fix exactly this situation). Deoptimizing code in large scripts just because they are large is a losing game and we will not be able to hit peak performance on these translated games if we go that route, regardless of whether v8 has the same design problem.
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6 years ago
I wasn't aware of the x64 problem. I heard there are problems on x86, too, but I'll double-check.
> designed to fix exactly this situation). Deoptimizing code in large scripts
> just because they are large is a losing game and we will not be able to hit
> peak performance on these translated games if we go that route,
I disagree. Simple local inference for the large translated scripts tells you almost everything you need to know. I now have a large corpus that we can use to test this assumption, though.
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6 years ago
So yes x86 completely solves the jitter caused by recompilation. It seems bad to have an optimization that so drastically affects performance but only works on one platform; it effectively breaks the portability of Mandreel/Emscripten, even on desktop. Uniformity certainly would have saved me a few hours of investigation. Are there any concrete plans to add the ARM/x64 version of the optimization? (In reply to Brian Hackett (:bhackett) from comment #1) > (will be fixed when IM gets chunk compilation). There are no plans for IM to have chunked compilation AFAICS. There are non-trivial software engineering concerns.
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6 years ago
(In reply to Luke Wagner [:luke] from comment #3) > There are no plans for IM to have chunked compilation AFAICS. There are > non-trivial software engineering concerns. Yeah, not for initial release for sure. I am really interested in this comment though: > Simple local inference for the large translated scripts tells you almost everything you need to know. It will be great if we don't have to rearchitect IonBuilder.cpp and various optimization passes.
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6 years ago
Yeah, the x64 situation sucks (comment 1 wasn't quite right --- chunked compilation works on ARM). It would be good to fix this for JM, but would basically require backporting the x64 jump mechanism from IM (which is really slick). Maybe not a huge task, I'll poke around. IM won't have chunked compilation in its initial release, but I'd like to get it in before terribly long. JM chunked compilation was in part done as a prototype for IM, and seems to work fairly well so shouldn't need huge changes going forward. Beyond what was required for JM, the main additional difficulty in IM is the lack of canonical spill locations for locals and stack slots, which could slow down state synchronization when jumping between chunks. I doubt this will be a huge challenge to fix, though.
Comment 6•
6 years ago
Also, I agree that local inference gives most information needed to generate fast code, but there is a lot more which full blown type inference will provide. If the goal is not so much 'make autotranslated JS faster' as 'make autotranslated JS as fast as NaCl' then the compiler can't give up on information that would be required to hit that goal. The simple example is hot code in a giant script which does a bunch of HEAP[i] accesses, where HEAP is a global variable with associated bakeinable components (elements address, etc.). Fully optimizing the access requires knowing exactly what HEAP is, which can't be derived from local information. With only local information, LICM and GVN can mitigate the cost of the HEAP accesses, but in scripts as large as complex as Emscripten and Mandreel can generate they will not be able to fully make up for the loss.
Comment 7•
6 years ago
I was not suggesting not using type inference! What I was suggesting is not emitting type barriers (i.e. s/addSubsetBarrier/addSubset/) in large scripts. I completely agree with the goal of getting Emscripten-generated code at NaCl speeds. Looking at what we generate now and what we can do that we aren't doing now, I think we can actually get there without a huge amount of effort. Some of it is what you are saying about optimizing the singleton typed array, some of it is optimizing some simple Emscripten-emitted patterns. I was going to file some bugs on Monday and actually try my hand out on IM (after I wrap of the scope/c-p-g stuff). (In reply to David Anderson [:dvander] from comment #4) > (In reply to Luke Wagner [:luke] from comment #3) > > Simple local inference for the large translated scripts tells you almost everything you need to know. > > It will be great if we don't have to rearchitect IonBuilder.cpp and various > optimization passes. After having spent some time looking at Emscripten-generated code, it looks like basically all operations flow locally directly from or to a typed array op (or type-forcing ops like "|0" which makes local inference simple and precise. I've got several big (605KLOC) Mandreel games so we can easily measure how much type barriers are improving our precision.
6 years ago
Comment 8•
6 years ago
Great fast work on bug 728372! I'll leave this bug open, repurposed with the less-urgent goal of testing my hypothesis in comments 0 and 7.
Any progress on the testing?
Comment 10•
5 years ago
Well, we basically know that, for this well-typed emscripten code, we shouldn't be emitting any barriers. How we achieve that is still under discussion; it is part of a bigger new project for how to deal with these giant generated JS files (startup time, avoiding the choppy frames at the beginning, avoiding all recompilation after the initial compilation, etc). I'm not sure if there is any work left to be done in this bug, though since the problem in comment 0 was fixed.


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Friday, July 20, 2012
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Friday, February 03, 2012
Planned Parenthood vs. Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Susan G. Komen for the Cure sparked a controversy when they announced they were pulling their $600,000 annual grant to Planned Parenthood, claiming that a new internal rule adopted by the Komen board stated they can't fund organizations that are currently under a congressional investigation. Planned Parenthood was the only charity currently receiving funds that fell into that category, so they felt singled out and objected – claiming that the Komen foundation's decision was politically motivated and that the real issue was – que'lle surprise! – abortion.
Hilarity ensued.
Planned Parenthood supporters furiously accused Susan G. Komen for the Cure of making a principled stand. Meanwhile, fueled by Facebook, Twitter, blogs, other social media, Komen's fundraising more than doubled in the days following the announcement, in what the media described as a severe anti-Komen backlash.
At stake, of course, was more than 0.6 percent of Planned Parenthood's budget for the year. Planned Parenthood executives announced that without this funding, either they would have to collect another $1.75 for every abortion performed, or women would be denied mammograms.
Naturally, they were leaning towards getting out of the mammogram business. Which – of course, it turned out they already were: A pro-life activist recently called up 30 different Planned Parenthood facilities around the country, recording the results. All 30 facilities informed her that Planned Parenthood didn't do mammograms.
Not to worry: Planned Parenthood supporters rode to the rescue – led by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. As a billionaire himself, and founder of the Bloomberg media empire, Mayor Bloomberg – a ferocious 2nd amendment opponent and the man who thinks government should be free to dictate your choice in French fries, pledged to donate $250,000 to demonstrate his commitment to a woman's right to choose.
For its part, Susan G. Komen for the Cure was stung by the allegation that its decision to withdraw funding from Planned Parenthood may have secretly been rooted in principle. So about 48 hours after making the announcement that they would no longer provide funding to Planned Parenthood, the female-dominated leadership at Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced that they had changed their mind.
The decision was reversed, and Komen announced its commitment to continuing their "treasured relationship" with Planned Parenthood. So Susan G. Komen donors, regardless of their feelings on abortion, will still send $600,000 per year to an organization that doesn't even do mammograms.
Labels: Abortion, cancer, charities, finance, health care, Politics, women
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Great Moments in Journalism History...
According to the Pentagon, Atwater carries the rank of specialist first class and is based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. His service awards include the Bronze Star and the Army Commendation Medal.
Specialist first class???
Labels: CNN, Columbia Journalism Review, Humor, Media
Monday, December 19, 2011
Pepsi to Change Can Design
The backstory is this: There is a whole subversive element in Middle Eastern marketing and branding, where product designers will take very subtle digs at the West. Call them Muslim "dog whistles" if you will.
I've seen Iraqis openly selling gifts in their markets commemorating the 9/11 attacks. One example I saw was a cigarette lighter that contained a depiction of a jet flying into two office towers, and a red LED that lit up at the point of impact when you used the lighter. It was in cast metal. So somewhere someone had set up a small factory making these things.
I think there's room for plausible denial on this specific can. It's certainly not the only modernist depiction of a skyline. All that's missing is the "Atomic" symbol!
Now, here's my question for Pepsi: What? American design firms can't design your can? You went cheap and went for the foreign outsourcing.
But even assuming the best of the South African design firm, an American marketing agency likely would not have made a design so evocative of 9/11.
Hope you enjoyed the little bit of money you saved by sending the American job overseas.
Splash, out
Labels: 9/11, Arabs, Branding, marketing, Media
Friday, October 21, 2011
Great Moments in CNN History
All those layers of fact-checkers at work again!
Labels: CNN, Countercolumn News Ticker, journalism
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Occupy Portland Protesters Deface War Memorial
The photo was taken on the morning of the 13th of October.
Don't you dare question their patriotism!
Splash, out
Labels: culture, liberals, Occupy Wall Street, protesters, The Left
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Countercolumn News Ticker
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
"Jews Should Be Sterilized," Says Sarah Grunfeld
Sunday, August 07, 2011
The name's Bond.
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Countercolumn News Ticker
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Saturday, July 23, 2011
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Hollywood Expresses Interest in Oslo Gunman ...
Rutger Hauer Sues Shooter For Trademark Infringement ...
ELCA, Missouri Synod Lutherans Blame Each Other For Deaths ...
NYT Editorial: Bachman Refuses To Denounce Lutheran Ties
Swedish Chef Breaks Silence: "Fyordni Hordni Hollni Fordni Bork BANG! BANG! BANG! ..."
World Sends Condolences, Giant Casserole ...
Despite All-Gay Softball League, GLBT Vows Not To Shut The Fuck Up About the Boy Scouts ...
Sexual Assaults Plummet As NFL Players Head Back To Work ...
Developing ...
Labels: Humor, News Tickers
Monday, June 06, 2011
Great commotion in the 'Secret Annexe'! Would the long-awaited liberation that has been talked of so much but which still seems too wonderful, too much like a fairy-tale, ever come true? Could we be granted victory this year, 1944? We don't know yet, but hope is revived within us; it gives us fresh courage, and makes us strong again."
Anne Frank, diary entry, June 6, 1944.
Labels: Anne Frank, D-Day, history, Holocaust, Judaism, WWII
Friday, December 24, 2010
Oiche Nollaig. Christmas Eve.
Peace on earth, goodwill toward men.
Much love to all.
Splash, out
Labels: Christianity, Christmas, Jesus, personal
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Liveblogging the SOTU
9:21 You cut taxes? No. You FAILED to raise the health care tax, thanks to the Republicans.
9:23 Biden's pretty distracting. He should have been coached to sit still.
9:23 He's doubling down on the Crapulus Bill?
9:24 Apparently he's still under the impression that government creates jobs rather than moves them around.
9:30 The business tax credit is a good idea. Where was this idea a year ago? Oh, that's right. No bandwidth for it. The Administration had to focus on a massive socialist takeover of the health care bill.
9:30 Calling for a focus on jobs in 2010? That should have been the focus since day one!!!!
9:30 "I do not accept second place for the United States of America." So why all the damn apologizing, Mr. "No Nation Can Or Should Dominate Another."
9:33 "I'm not interested in punishing banks." (cough) BULLSHIT (cough).
9:33 Now he's pitted his Administration against the lobbyists. Code word for banks. TOLD you it was bullshit!!!!!
9:36 New nuclear plants and offshore driling. Is it just me or is Nancy Pelosi visibly pained at those words.
9:38 The more exports we sell, the more jobs we will support at home. That's why I want to double our exports!!!!!
How? By spending so damn much the dollar will become worthless!!! Neat trick, huh? Who could compete with us?
9:41 "A high school diploma no longer guarantees a good job." Who was under the illusion that it ever did.
9:42 Let's give families 10,000 in tax credits for college, and increased pell grants. I see tuitions rising 10,000 very quickly.
9:42 Wow. Let's help students pay off student loans if they go into government service. That way,
9:43 I am not a homeowner. If Obama is deliberately working to raise home prices, he is going directly to work against me.
9:44" We still need health insurance reform." Slow learner, huh!
9:47 "I take my share of the blame for not explaining (health reform) to the American people." Christ, this guy's delusional. The more he explained it, and the more Americans understood it, the more we didn't want that shit.
9:48 "As temperatures cool, I want everyone to take a second look." HELL NO!!!!
9:49 He's throwing out the "bring down the deficit" strawman. There is no way that reform nightmare would have brought down the deficit long term. Only a pathological liar could possibly argue otherwise. This should be obvious to anyone with half a brain.
9:51 Blaming the prior administration. DRINK.
9:52 Obama criticized McCain for proposing a freeze. Said McCain wanted to use a hatchet, but he wanted to use a scalpel. Then he spent like a drunken sailor. Now he's pulling out the hatchet.
9:55 "That's how budgeting works." ROFL!!!!!!!! "Let me show you how it's done, son!!" FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART!!!!!!
9:56 "That's what we did for eight years." Blaming the previous administration. DRINK.
9:57 "To do our work openly." Like put the health care negotiations on C-SPAN?
9:58 "We've excluded lobbyists from policy-making jobs." HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
9:58 What part of "Congress shall make no law" don't you understand Mr. President?
9:59 Obama just challenged Congress to put earmark requests on line prior to votes. Nancy Pelosi stood up and clapped like a seal again. (DRINK). She's got a huge majority. Think it'll happen? No. What a lying hypocrite she is. Hold her feet to the fire.
10:03 I love it when the Republican minority says "no" to Pelosi and Reid's policy initiatives. THAT'S leadership!!!
10:05 Will he mention victory?
10:06 We're plugging gaps discovered by the Christmas attack. But we still have the same incompetent Director of Homeland Security.
10:07 "We will have all our combat troops out of Iraq by the end of this August." Betcha we won't.
10:08 The new Montgomery GI bill is a lot better. I'll give them that. The VA has a long way to go.
10:09 Oooh. Good luck getting the Norks and Iranians to play along with the promised nuclear anti-proliferation protocols.
10:11. Good job. Stick to your guns on the Iranians. I hope it means something. The problem is, I don't think this president has much credibility in the Iranian halls of power. Bowing to Arabs doesn't help his stature among Persians.
10:12 "That's why we stand with the girl who yearns to go to school in Haiti." Heh. I thought he was going to say "the girl who urinates."
10:14 Taking aim at the prohibition on gays in the military. That's a 2nd term project, though. Not a first-term.
10:15 "Immigrants from every corner of the globe. Like me for instance. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
10:21 That was it? That's the SOTU? Double exports and freeze spending? This is OBAMA???????? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
10:22 Is it just me? or did nearly every SOTU I've ever seen get more applause than this one? This seems anti-climatic. Like the home team lost the game and everyone's looking to leave the parking lot before the rush.
Labels: liveblogging, Obama, Politics
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Arizona Mayo Clinic Dropping Medicare Patients
The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.
Health care providers have been squawking about low medicare reimbursement rates for years, and it's getting harder and harder for medicare patients to find providers. What was fascinating to me, though, is the sheer arrogance and denial coming from the White House and from their fellow leftist morons, the Urban Institute:
Reid Cherlin, a White House spokesman for health care, declined comment on Mayo's decision to drop Medicare primary care patients at its Glendale clinic.
Funny, the White House was full of praise for their low-cost, high-quality, highly-efficient health care before. Cat got your tongue? Can't figure out why this might be happening?
Robert Berenson, a fellow at the Urban Institute's Health Policy Center in Washington, D.C., said physicians' claims of inadequate reimbursement are overstated.
No, libtard. They're not. If they were overstated, doctors would still be seeing these patients. It is patently obvious for anyone who's not dribble-down-his-chin, charter-member-of-the-smaller-bus-club stupid that reimbursement rates do not reflect what the market will bear.
Rather, the program faces a lack of medical providers because not enough new doctors are becoming family doctors, internists and pediatricians who oversee patients' primary care.
And why might that be, genius? Could the fact that medicare and medicaid underpay our family care doctors, internists and pediatricians so that the fields are no longer attractive to our medical school students?
"Some primary care doctors don't have to see Medicare patients because there is an unlimited demand for their services," Berenson said. When patients with private insurance can be treated at 50 percent to 100 percent higher fees, "then Medicare does indeed look like a poor payer," he said.
Holy crap. The free market slaps this leftist twit right across the face to get his attention, and he still can't figure it out. He just said that Medicare underpayment was overstated - and then in the same article concedes that medicare pays only half the going rate.
This is the kind of USDA Prime-quality stupid we're up against, here. It's the think tankers at the Urban League who are coming up with these ideas and advising our dumbest members of Congress - liberals to a man - about how to structure health care reform.
It's already a disaster and they haven't even started yet.
Splash, out
Labels: health care, stupid, The Left
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
So the White House Christmas Tree features ...
Strange fruit, indeed.
Who in God's name are these people staffing the White House?
Splash, out
Labels: Mao, Obama, stupid, The Left
Let's see if we can write a story on Senator Nelson and his decisive health care vote ...
Labels: Abortion, health care, journalism, Media, Obama, Senator Ben Nelson
Reports of my death ...
Labels: personal
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Ha ha ha ha ha ha! "Grim milestone!"
There are now a number of companies... private insurers... who have more in cash reserves backing their own promises than the FDIC has available to back the banking system...
While the parade of failures still represents a mere fraction of America's small banks, it underscores a growing divide between them and large institutions like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and U.S. Bancorp, which are slowly growing stronger as the economy improves.
Leave it to the New York Times to fall for the 'rich get richer' divide. I mean, they already went for "grim milestone." Why not go whole hog for the stupidity? News flash for the Times: It's called "consolidation." Solid banks get a chance to purchase distressed assets of failing banks at a discount and thank God they do! It's good for everyone, and is saving the system from collapse right now.
Burdened by worsening commercial real estate loans, many small banks' troubles are just beginning. Many analysts say that the now-toxic loans could sink hundreds of small lenders over the next few years and place a significant drag on the economy.
Already, the bank failures are placing enormous strain on the F.D.I.C. and its fund, which keeps depositors whole. Flush with more than $50 billion only two years ago, the fund recently fell into the red.
The prospect of more failures has led the F.D.I.C. to seek new ways to replenish the fund with higher and earlier payments by healthy banks, even after setting aside reserves for future losses.
Those commercial loans aren't turning around yet, either. And there's a new wave of ARMs due to reset soon, which should trigger a new round of foreclosures.
The initial wave of failures has also unsettled some communities, even though most of the troubled institutions have been bought by other banks rather than shuttered. While deposits are safe thanks to federal insurance, the new buyers often do not have the same ties to local businesses as the former owners.
More stupidity. Deposits are safe? Only deposits up to $250,000. And that's not really sustainable, because we upped the limit from 100k to 250k without a supporting increase in premiums. Oh, and what's this "federal insurance?" Kemosabe?
In some cases, they tighten lending and make it harder for longtime customers to obtain loans or favorable terms. In other cases, managers of the new bank make other changes, like ending offers for high-interest certificates of deposit and calling in certain lines of credit. In the longer term, some new owners are likely to close branches of the bank they have acquired in order to cut costs.
Ok, time to hit the Times reporter over the head with a clue-bat: Larger banks don't pull back on CD rates because they're out of touch with local businesses, moron. They do it because they aren't desperate and stupid. There's a reason banks offer above-market CD rates. Think about it: They are trying to raise cash in a hurry, to stave off a short-term crisis. Often it doesn't work, and the bank fails. Sometimes, the smart money sees their bank offer a significantly above-market CD rate, and they yank their money, and the bank fails as a result of what amounts to a large-depositor run on the bank. (Small depositors tend to be lazier.)
Once the bank is acquired by a healthier bank, the crisis is past, and banks no longer have a reason to offer CD rates significantly above market.
(Here's another clue: If you are looking for a good deal on a loan, don't go to the bank offering crazy-good CD rates! They're not looking to lend, and will be very picky and jack up rates to exceed their new higher cost of capital.
This calls for a song!
Labels: banking, economy, finance, New York Times
An Inconvenient Question
And the rest of the press corps does nothing.
I would not have been so polite with the organizer in the hall. Scratch a liberal, you'll find a fascist.
The fact is that the British court ruled that it would be illegal to show the film in schools in the UK without additional guidance for students correcting the nine listed errors in the film. I would have to imagine that's unprecedented, and hardly "in favor" of the film's producers. Even if they agree with the overall thesis, you cannot pull out nine egregious factual errors from any documentary, call the presentation "one-sided," issue a ruling that it would be illegal to show the film without correcting these errors, and call that a 'ruling "in favor of" the movie.
Splash, out
Hey, Jay Rosen... I got your 'rollback' strategy right here!
Labels: Al Gore, environment, global warming, Media, movies
Saturday, October 10, 2009
State Alcohol Agents Seize 924 Gallons of Moonshine in Wilkesboro, NC
Roger Lee Nance, of 1117 Shew Ridge Mission Road, was charged with possession of non-tax paid liquor, possession of non-tax-paid liquor for the purpose of selling, and possession of equipment and ingredients intended for the use in the manufacture of an alcoholic beverage.
"This is one of the biggest seizures of white liquor I've seen come out of the mountains in my career," ALE Director John Ledford said in statement.
The arrest follows a two-month investigation by ALE agents, assisted by the state Highway Patrol. In addition to the liquor, large amounts of sugar and other items were seized during a search of Nance's property, authorities said.
You'd better stay away from Copperhead Road
Labels: Crime, law, Music, Steve Earle
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Military to Obama Administration Civilians:
Labels: counterinsurgency, doctrine, Obama, Politics, Warfighting
Morale Plummets Among Soldiers in Afghanistan
American soldiers serving in Afghanistan are depressed and deeply disillusioned, according to the chaplains of two US battalions that have spent nine months on the front line in the war against the Taleban.
Many feel that they are risking their lives — and that colleagues have died — for a futile mission and an Afghan population that does nothing to help them, the chaplains told The Times in their makeshift chapel on this fortress-like base in a dusty, brown valley southwest of Kabul.
"The many soldiers who come to see us have a sense of futility and anger about being here. They are really in a state of depression and despair and just want to get back to their families," said Captain Jeff Masengale, of the 10th Mountain Division's 2-87 Infantry Battalion.
"They feel they are risking their lives for progress that's hard to discern," said Captain Sam Rico, of the Division's 4-25 Field Artillery Battalion. "They are tired, strained, confused and just want to get through." The chaplains said that they were speaking out because the men could not.
That's a direct result, in my view, of the lack of resolve, decisiveness, and leadership coming from the White House. If the trumpet sounds uncertain, who will answer the call?
That said, the selection of soldiers who go see the chaplain isn't always representative of the military as a whole. Soldiers who speak to the chaplain about morale problems are naturally the ones with morale problems.
But you can bet dollars to doughnuts that these chaplains are in a position to assess the delta - the change, in morale - and if the chaplains in two separate battalions are concerned enough to take the extraordinary step of speaking to the media about it, then Houston, we've got a problem.
This can be turned around, though. The morale problems on the ground simply reflect the morale problems at home. And if Congress is questioning the mission, and the folks back home are questioning the mission, and the White House is questioning the mission, but none of them our paying the price... it's only the US soldier, sailor and Marine on the ground shedding blood every day for a mission the President can't be bothered to sell (too busy trying to enrich Mayor Daley and the rest of the Chicago mob with the Olympics), well, to quote Rudyard Kipling,
Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool, you be that Tommy sees!
Splash, out
Labels: Afghanistan, chaplains, Politics, soldiers issues, Warfighting


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This is a feature request. Is it possible to add a DELETE command to the views? Something like DELETE /db/_design/foo/_view/bar?<view-params> What I'm looking for is a way to bulk delete the docs that match the views without having to fetch the doc _id's and _rev's first before bulk deleting them. Saves a round trip if Couch can just take the latest revision of the docs that match the query and bulk delete them. Similar to what's described in this gist: https://gist.github.com/790015 One issue that I can think about is there might be multiple emit's for each doc so Couch has to do additional work to uniquify the _id's before deleting them, but this would dramatically simplify the client requesting this. Dunno how hard this is to implement. Thanks, K. --- http://twitter.com/pcapr http://labs.mudynamics.com
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Rush Ask Judge to Help Stamp Out Bootleg Merchandise
Alice Cooper Offers Preview Video for Halloween Haunted House
It looks like pioneering shock rocker Alice Cooper is headed back to hell. Universal Studios Hollywood is set to present a Halloween haunted house this year called 'Alice Cooper Goes to Hell,' named for Cooper's 1976 album.
Paul McCartney Helps Rescue an Abused Elephant
You can add "animal rights activist" to Paul McCartney's resume. The superstar singer-songwriter and Knight of the Realm teamed with former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and PETA to successfully advocate for Sunder, an elephant who was living in deplorable conditions in India.
Queen Announce 'Freddie For a Day' Party Competition
Attention Freddie Mercury fans! The members of Queen have come up with a nifty new solution for your party planning needs. The group have announced the 'Freddie For a Day' party pack, which allows you and your friends to enjoy a Freddie-themed party and share the results for the chance to win some prizes.
Def Leppard's 'Hysteria' Turns 25
When Def Leppard began to write for the follow-up to their 1984 multi-platinum breakthrough 'Pyromania,' the group had no idea what a monumental task lay ahead of them. The album would eventually survive through four long years of changes, re-writes, re-recordings and personal traumas to become the defining album of the band's career.
Rolling Stones Documentary to Air on HBO This Fall
The Rolling Stones will be the subject of an exhaustive new documentary that is slated to air on HBO in the fall. The self-proclaimed "Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World" gave their full cooperation to the film, whose air date has not been announced.
Grateful Dead Unveils Limited Edition Spring 1990 Box Set
The Grateful Dead may be no more, but their music will live on forever in a series of archival releases that seem to have no end in sight. The Dead have announced the upcoming release of 'Spring 1990,' a massive 18-disc box set that spotlights six performances from the group's 25th Anniversary tour, which many fans have dubbed their "last great tour."
ZZ Top Reveal Street Date, Cover Art and Full Tracklist for New Album 'La Futura'
Sting, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Peter Gabriel Support Jailed Russian Punk Group
Sting, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Peter Gabriel have added their voices to the growing din of support for jailed Russian punk rockers Pussy Riot, who face seven years in prison if convicted of inciting religious hatred.
Iron Maiden Singer Bruce Dickinson Flies With TV's 'Ice Pilots'
Bruce Dickinson just can't sit still. As if fronting Iron Maiden and performing in concert all around the world weren't enough adventure for one person, the legendary metal singer is also an accomplished pilot who once flew Iron Maiden around the globe on a major tour, as documented in the film 'Flight 666.' He's also flown for Astraeus Airlines, hosted a five-part miniseries about aviation history, and recently launched his own aircraft maintenance company in Wales.
Paul McCartney Slams 'Idiot' Who Denied David Beckham a Spot on Olympic Soccer Team
Paul McCartney is upset that David Beckham won't be playing with Great Britain's soccer team at the upcoming 2012 London Olympics, and he's not afraid to say so in public, calling the team manager an "idiot."


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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [LO] Why was this person subscribed?
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 21:49:33 -0600
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At 07:11 PM 2/5/03 -0500, wrote:
>In a message dated 2/5/03 11:25:46 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
> > I would
> > *really* like to know what fraction of such "smart" subscriptions
> > is from spammers and other no-goodniks. It wouldn't have to be
> > very large to constitute a problem.
>I really think this is a NON-problem. Spammers send their spam to all three
>list addresses -- both request addresses as well as the actual list
>address--so if they have one of the magic word commands they will get subbed
>anyway--but that happens VERY infrequently. I think we can count the
>instances on one hand.
Hi, Joan:
Interesting; I would have expected more. But I agree, it would have to be a
lot more than a handful to be a problem, given RootsWeb's volume.
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For the handful of professional surfers fortunate enough to score a room in a plush team house, a winter on the North Shore is paired with private chefs, beachfront bedrooms overlooking some of the most sought-after real estate in the country, and rumored team masseuses. But this is a far cry from reality for most surfers on the North Shore. For the unsung masses, the surfers trying to make a name for themselves or those with sponsors unable to own or rent a home for the season, finding a place to lay their head is a battle in and of itself. For Kauai's Alex Smith, who doesn't have a main sponsor, an open mind and a little creativity found him with some of the most interesting digs of the season. Alex spent his winter on a boat, a dry-docked vessel in the mountains.
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The way I came into writing Nightjohn, I came in the back door. I worked for several years on research on a book on Sally Hemings, who was a slave girl owned by Thomas Jefferson. I think they had between six and nine children together over her life. When Jefferson died he was bankrupt and she was sold in the block. Said, "one 53-year-old woman worth $50.00," and they just got rid of her. And I wanted to write about her but there's not enough. I think a lot of the historical information about her has been destroyed over the years.
But while I was doing the research on Sally, I ran into many other stories and I got hold of the slave chronicles and its interviews of ex-slaves in the '20s and '30s in America. Just in dialect--some of it's hard to read. It's written the way they talked. It was beautiful.
I sat in my basement reading these things crying every night. And one of the things I ran into several times was the slaves' attempt to learn to read. For the slaves it was a capital offense to learn to read and they could be killed. They usually didn't get killed right away because they were too valuable to the slave owner. So the owners would cut a thumb off, or sometimes a toe; sometimes the front half of the foot would be chopped off. Men were castrated. And they were always whipped. That didn't stop them and they would hide in the schools--they would call them pit schools--and they would get a ditch or a gully or a hole, and they'd cover it with brush so the light wouldn't shine out, and they'd go in there at night with torches. They tried to teach each other to read and were successful in many places. Most of the owners were terrified of the slaves learning to read, because they knew they would want to be free.
A riveting story that pits the power of literacy against the inhumanity of the slave system in the pre-Civil War South.
Travel to the Waller plantation and meet 12-year-old Sarny, a slave whose mother was sold away when she was four. Sarny first sees Nightjohn when he is brought to the plantation with a rope around his neck, his body covered with scars from many beatings. Sarny is drawn to Nightjohn when she learns that he had escaped North to freedom, only to voluntarily return to the South. Nightjohn has a self-imposed mission--to teach slaves how to read and write. He believes knowledge is the key to helping slaves break out of bondage. Sarny is willing to take the risk, even knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment.
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Using Nightjohn in the Classroom
Nightjohn realistically explores slavery and deals with the issues of freedom and survival, but in a different way from other Paulsen titles. Have students read some of these to see how he presents these concepts. An author study (using Something About the Author) will help students see where Paulsen gets his ideas.
Students can watch the Disney Channel Premiere Film based on the book and compare the movie to the novel. (The film, starring Carl Lumbly and Beau Bridges and introducing Allison Jones, was filmed on location in South Carolina under the direction of award-winning filmmaker Charles Burnett.) The dialogue in Nightjohn could easily be used as a Reader's Theater presentation. This would make a superb addition to a Black History Month (February) presentation.
Nightjohn presents a powerful story. Enjoy sharing its historical roots and modern applications with your students!
Pre-Reading Activities
Evaluate students' prior knowledge of the South in the 1850s by comparing life in the big house and life in the slave quarters using a Venn diagram. Have students personally experience inequality by through a simulation activity in which students who possess a certain physical feature (e.g. green eyes, brown shoes with laces) receive special privileges. Have them briefly write about how this felt from their perspective. Discuss student reactions and ask them why they think slavery was an integral part of this era.
Thematic Connections
Is it ever right for one individual to own another, or for one group of people to be denied equal rights because they are different in some way? This would make a good debate topic for students.
Getting Along with Others
Slave owners such as Clel Waller used fear and intimidation to control their workers. Students should see that these methods are inappropriate. Put students into small groups and give them a task that needs cooperation to finish. Have students rate themselves on their work habits and project how they could do better in the future.
Nightjohn had gone North and was free, but returned to the South to help others gain freedom by teaching them how to read and write. Have students discuss the value of literacy and how it creates freedom. Students can brainstorm how they would perform a familiar routine (eating in a restaurant, going to a different part of town) if they couldn't read or write.
Nightjohn is viewed as a leader among the slaves because of his efforts to help them. What does it take to be an effective leader? Students can select some local or national leaders and decide why they believe these people have been successful in getting support from the voters.
Interdisciplinary Connections
History (Civil Rights)
Have students check reference books for historical details of life in the antebellum South and information about Sally Hemings, to whom Nightjohn is dedicated. Students can trace the rights of African Americans as those rights evolved from the American Revolution to the 1850s and the following periods:
1896 (Plessy vs. Ferguson court decision) to the 1920s (Jim Crow laws)
Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s
Information can be displayed in a wall chart/time line. Students can also bring in newspaper articles for display as evidence of modern attitudes about civil rights.
Language Arts
Paulsen uses many images that portray the slaves as being treated like animals. Have students make a list of these images.
Students can write a "people analogy"--a description of a person that uses the characteristics of a particular animal. For example, Bill is a wily opponent who tricks his football pursuers by retracing his steps. Other students can guess the animal employed (fox).
Encourage students to think about Sarny's life beyond what Paulsen describes in the book. Because slaves were forbidden to read and write, they had to communicate their feelings in other ways--ways that would not be obvious to their masters. One way they did so was through song. Listen to recordings of songs such as "Follow the Drinking Gourd" and " Steal Away." Have students create lyrics for a song that relates how Sarny feels about her life on the Waller plantation.
Sarny chews tobacco leaves and spits the juice on the roses to control the "little green bugs." Tobacco is used as a natural insecticide. Students can explore other methods of natural insect control (e.g., companion plants like basil and tomatoes; predator insects like ladybugs). If possible, students might visit a farm that produces natural fruits and vegetables.
Nightjohn may have gone North via the Underground Railroad. Have students explore the escape routes that were used by slaves and plot them on a map. Students could label the free states, the slave states, and the locations of some of the stations. They might read stories about Harriet Tubman, another escaped slave who went North and returned to the South via the Underground Railroad.
Teaching Ideas prepared by Kay Moore, Professor, Teacher Education Department, California State University, Sacramento.
Because of the historical setting, words and expressions that Paulsen uses in Nightjohn may not be familiar to students. Students might use the context of the story or they can consult a dictionary to determine the meaning of some terms, such as "pallet," "breeder," and "crackers." Some students may be sensitive to the graphic descriptions of slave life. Discuss how the words made them feel and why they think Paulsen chose to use these words in this book.
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
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* "The stunning impact of this novel is similar to Toni Morrison's Beloved. Nightjohn should be required reading (and discussing) for all middle grade and high school students." -- Starred, School Library Journal
* "Among the most powerful of Paulsen's works, this impeccably researched novel sheds light on cruel truths in American history as it traces the experiences of a 12-year-old slave girl in the 1850s." -- Starred, Publishers Weekly
* "Paulsen is at his best here." -- Starred, The Horn Book
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