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Lansing Disability Lawyer
Supplemental Security Income program explained
Our clients seeking Michigan Social Security disability benefits will often ask our Lansing disability lawyer to explain Supplemental Security Income. They want to know if they are eligible for both Michigan Social Security insurance disability benefits and Supplemental Security Income, or some combination of the two. Supplemental Security Income is often referred to as SSI.
Our Lansing disability lawyer will explain that claimants seeking Michigan Social Security disability may be eligible for benefits under either program, or some combination of the two. But, if they qualify for both, they may lose SSI benefits or receive a reduced SSI amount, depending on the amount of the Social Security disability benefits. We point out, though, that if the amount of Social Security disability benefits they receive disqualifies them from receiving SSI, they still may get SSI benefits during the five-month waiting period after becoming disabled when no Social Security disability benefits are paid, assuming assets and any other income are small enough.
What is SSI?
The SSI program is a federal welfare program for the blind, disabled, and those over 65. It makes monthly payments to people who have low income and few assets. Many states, including the state of Michigan, supplement the federal SSI benefit. The state benefit amount varies from state to state.
The Social Security Administration manages the Social Security disability and SSI programs. However, while Social Security disability benefits are paid out of the Social Security trust fund, SSI disability benefits come from the U.S. Government's general revenues.
Qualification requirements for SSI disability benefits
To be eligible for SSI disability benefits, a disability applicant must meet the following requirements:
- Be found to be "disabled" using the same definition as is used for the Social Security disability program. For more information, see our video Are you likely to qualify for Social Security disability benefits?
- Meet the SSI program's income and asset limitation requirements.
- Live in the United States or the Northern Mariana Islands, and are a U.S. citizen or fall into the group of limited exceptions to the citizenship rule.
Unlike Social Security disability benefits, there is no "insured" or earnings requirement. SSI benefits are not paid for by Social Security taxes like Social Security disability benefits. No work history is required, nor is the payment of Social Security taxes. However, your income and assets must not exceed the SSI program's income and asset limitations, which are discussed in greater detail below.
SSI asset and income limitations
SSI is a needs based program. Unlike Social Security disability where there are no asset limitations, SSI has an asset limitation of $2,000 per individual and $3,000 per couple. Assets include things like cash, real estate, stocks and bonds. The Social Security Administration doesn't count everything you own in determining the value of your assets. For example, they don't count: a home of any value (as long as it is lived in), one car of any value (if it is used for work or to obtain medical care), and life insurance policies with a face value of $1,500 or less.
The SSI income limit is based on the monthly SSI benefit amount after several different kinds and amounts of unearned and earned income are not counted. "Income" is money you receive such as wages, pensions and Social Security benefits, and can also include things like food and shelter. The Social Security Administration counts as income things like your spouse's income. The Social Security Administration doesn't count income such as the first $20 a month of most income you receive; food stamps; and shelter you receive from a nonprofit organization. The income amount left after the Social Security Administration has made all of its allowable deductions is referred to as "countable income."
If your monthly countable income is over the SSI benefit amount, you cannot receive benefits. And the more countable income you have, the less your benefit will be. People who receive support and maintenance, such as from a relative, are often eligible for less SSI disability benefits.
Waiting period to receive SSI benefits and retroactivity
There is no waiting period to receive SSI disability benefits. Your SSI payment will begin with the first month after all the SSI requirements are met or when the definition of disability is met, whichever is later.
There is no retroactive effect for an SSI disability application. You will only be eligible for SSI disability benefits beginning the month after your application.
SSI disability payment amount
The amount you receive is a federal amount set by Congress plus a state supplement, if any, set by your state. The state of Michigan provides a Michigan SSI state supplement. Your Michigan SSI state supplement amount may vary according to your living arrangements. Your countable income will be subtracted from the federal amount before the Michigan SSI state supplement is added. The SSI federal amount is adjusted each year based on changes in cost of living.
How to apply for SSI disability benefits
Separate applications are required to apply for each of Social Security disability and SSI benefits. However, the Social Security Administration will determine when you apply for disability benefits which program you are eligible for or if you are eligible for both.
You apply for SSI disability benefits the same way you apply for Social Security disability benefits:
- You can complete a large part of your application by visiting the Social Security Administration's website at www.socialsecurity.gov.
- You can call the Social Security Administration toll-free at 1-800-772-1213 (between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday through Friday) to ask for an appointment with a Social Security representative from the local Michigan Social Security office. The appointment can be made to apply over the phone or to go to your local Michigan Social Security office to complete an application in person.
You also may visit a Michigan Social Security Administration office without an appointment, but you may have to wait to speak to a representative.
Assistance from a Lansing disability lawyer
If you want our help with your Social Security disability or SSI claim, please give us a brief description of your situation using the form to the right. Or contact us at:


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About Mabeth:
Mabeth, age 15 of Dallas, Texas has been a patient at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children since July 2010. His journey to the hospital has changed his life, and his outlook, for the better. After an accident in 2010 severely damaging his right leg, a below-the-knee amputation was performed. His resilience was apparent when, two weeks later, he was relearning to walk with a prosthetic leg that the hospital made for him. Mabeth was the 2011 junior race director for the annual Dallas Marathon. Mabeth is very excited for his first Amputee Ski Trip, because he loves everything outdoors. Some of his favorite activities include basketball, soccer and golf.
About TSRHC's Ski Trip:
Since 1981, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children has hosted an Annual Amputee Ski Trip for patients. Fourteen teenage patients, as well as medical staff and chaperones, spend a week at the National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD), in Winter Park, Colorado.
In a continuing effort to improve the lives of patients, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children recognized that snow skiing is well suited for amputees, and with special equipment, they quickly become competitive and often excel at the sport.
Skiing at the renowned National Sports Center for the Disabled creates a focus for the trip, but the personal growth and challenges the teens overcome are often more life-changing than the actual accomplishment of skiing. The goal of the trip is to foster a sense of self-confidence, discovery and independence for these teens.
Since the first Amputee Ski Trip in 1981, the community has teamed up with the hospital to make this opportunity possible to patient families. American Airlines has sponsored the trip since 2005. Prior to that, Delta Airlines supported the event for more than 20 years. Multiple supporters include the Lone Star Skier's Club of Dallas, Smith Group Asset Management, The Women's Charity League of Park Cities, TSRHC volunteers and many others.

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Cute Kid Alert! Kourtney Kardashian Takes Baby Mason to the Beach (PHOTOS)
Kourtney Kardashian and boyfriend Scott Disick were spotted taking their one-year-old son out for some sandy fun at Manhattan Beach in California on Sunday, June 26.Little Mason Disick is already showing his California beach bum roots!
Kourtney, 32, helped Mason toddle down to the water's edge where he dipped his itty bitty toes in the surf and giggled at the splashing waves. Mason looked beach-ready in a gray button-down shirt and white pants while his fashionista mommy looked glamorous in a net sweater, high-waisted navy shorts and a Goyard beach bag.
After Mason enjoyed some fun in the surf, Kourtney fed him from a bottle and put him down for a nap under a shady umbrella. The beach can get very tiring, Mason!
Check out more photos of Mason and Kourtney at the beach and be sure to follow Celebuzz on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr for more celeb news and photos.


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Barbecued Oysters with Bacon and Garlic Butter
Smoky bacon and barbecue sauce perfectly balance the oysters' briny flavor in this easy-to-make recipe from chef Chris Schlesinger.Also try: Grilled Clams with Garlic, White Wine, and Tomatoes; Southeast Asian-Style Grilled Shrimp with Aromatic Herbs
- Yield: Serves 12 as an appetizer
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 24 oysters, shucked and on the 1/2 shell
- 1/2 cup Chris Schlesinger's Barbecue Sauce, or favorite prepared barbecue sauce
- 8 strips bacon, cooked and crumbled
In a small bowl, mix together butter, lemon juice, and garlic; set aside.
Preheat a grill: If using a charcoal grill, make a fire in your grill with the coals placed off to one side. When the coals are completely covered in gray ash, hold your hand about 5 inches above the grill grid; count how many seconds you can comfortably leave it there. When you can hold it there for 3 to 4 seconds, you have medium heat and are ready to grill. If you are using a gas grill, heat the grill for 15 minutes with the lid closed. Before beginning to cook, reduce the temperature by turning the knobs to medium-high.
Place oysters on grill near, but not directly over, coals. Top each oyster with 1 teaspoon barbecue sauce and 1 teaspoon butter mixture. Cook until oysters start to ruffle around the edges and juice is bubbling, 2 to 3 minutes. Sprinkle oysters with bacon and serve.


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Ashley Davis Bush, LICSW
Licensed Psychotherapist
11 Harvey Lane, Epping, New Hampshire 03042
I believe that every life situation can create fuel for growth and understanding. Psychotherapy is an inner adventure from which I believe all can derive benefit. Clients who are looking for ways to deepen their insight and create lives of more satisfaction will benefit from my approach to psychotherapy. I invite you to join me on your path of creative transformation.
Cheryl Laurenza, LCMHC, LPC, NCC
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor
155 Main St, Salem, New Hampshire 03079
I use a variety of therapeutic interventions to help folks overcome the issues that hold them bound. Psychotherapy is just helping change the mind, thoughts and behaviors to work together in a healthy fashion where they have been working against you in a negative spiral. We get locked into patterns of thinking and often need someone else to be objective and help us change our negative bent.
Dahlia Rizk, MA, LCMHC
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor
80 Nashua Rd Suite B2 , Londonderry, New Hampshire 03053
While much of my practice centers around brief therapies sometimes we have to understand, process, and come to terms with the past before we can move on in the present. This is where psychotherapy can be useful. Often clients will come in either angry with their families of origin or guilt ridden because they love their family of origin but are struggling with the effects poor family boundaries or volatile environments. It is possible to look in the past, digest what happened and finding peace while respectfully seeing your caregivers as fallible human beings. Psychotherapy is a longer term form of therapy which frames the present as a function of past experiences.
Darwin Gillett, MSW, LICSW, CH
Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker
1 Merrimac St., Suite 16, Newburyport, Massachusetts 01950
Are you looking for a psychotherapist that integrates traditional counseling with other mind-body therapies? If so, visit my website to find out more (www.Mind-Body-Psychotherapy.com). I help clients break free from depression, anxiety, limiting fears and beliefs, and addictions using traditional talk psychotherapy combined with hypnotherapy and other mind/body therapies, including EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) to quickly and powerfully shift clients into health, happiness and peace. Services are located in Newburyport, Massachusetts, which is 45 minutes north of Boston, MA.


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Should you be able to get junk food in hospital?
Hospitals are meant to be the place people go to get better, but leading doctors are warning that the amount of junk food on offer there could be bad for patients health.
The British Medical Association will vote on Thursday on whether stalls and vending machines that sell unhealthy food should be banned from hospitals.
But should it be up to patients to choose what food they eat?
Janine Machin meets a cardiologist who says the current situation is "obscene".
27 Jun 2013
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Before we leave those prints, Mr. Latona, had those been developed by the powder method?
It needed no word from Latona herself to rouse her children to vengeance.
Mr. Latona, could you show how the palm lay on the paper to produce that impression?
She was the sister of Apollo, and daughter of Jupiter and Latona.
She was the daughter of Jupiter and Latona, and the twin-sister of Apollo.
She was a daughter of Jupiter and Juno, or, according to others, of Latona.
Persecuted by the jealousy of the white-armed Juno, Latona fled from land to land.
Diana; the daughter of Jupiter and Latona, and the sister of Apollo.
And she went to Terra, and made her swear not to give Latona a resting-place or a hiding-place anywhere.
Latona was proud of her children's fame, and boasted of it far and wide.


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kloffy posted a topic in Math and PhysicsSuppose I have a general n-polytope, whose faces are a list of (n-1)-polytopes. For example: A 1-dimensional 1-simplex (line segment) would be represented as two 1-dimensional 0-simplexes (points): [(0,),(1,)] A 2-dimensional 2-simplex (triangle) would be represented as three 2-dimensional 1-simplexes (line segments): [ [(0,0),(1,0)], [(1,0),(0,1)], [(0,1),(0,0)] ] And so on... I would like to compute the Cartesian product of two arbitrary polytopes. I came up with the following algorithm, and I am wondering whether it is correct: def product(xs, ys): if isinstance(xs, list) and isinstance(ys, list): return [product(xs, y) for y in ys] + [product(x, ys) for x in xs] elif isinstance(ys, list): return [product(xs, y) for y in ys] elif isinstance(xs, list): return [product(x, ys) for x in xs] else: return xs + ys You can make things a bit nicer by wrapping things in a class: class Polytope(object): def __init__(self, data): self.data = data def __mul__(self, other): return Polytope(product(self.data, other.data)) def __str__(self): import pprint return pprint.pformat(self.data) With this, you can do things like: cube = Polytope([(0,),(1,)]) print("1-cube:", cube, sep="\n") print("2-cube:", cube*cube, sep="\n") print("3-cube:", cube*cube*cube, sep="\n") The results seem correct, but I still need to convince myself that it works in all cases. Since I couldn't find much material online, I was curious if anybody has done this kind of thing or knows any further resources.
kloffy replied to taby's topic in Math and PhysicsSince the proper term has not been mentioned yet: It's a relation. A function is just a relation with the additional requirement that each input is related to exactly one output
kloffy replied to Tonyx97's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingCould be hitting the implementation defined maximums for uniforms, maybe check GL_MAX_FRAGMENT_UNIFORM_COMPONENTS. If that is the problem, the modern solution to it would be SSBOs. Alternatively, texture buffers...
kloffy replied to BlackJoker's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingHave you looked into this? (Not sure how difficult it would be to translate from GLSL to HLSL.) http://www.icare3d.org/codes-and-projects/codes/opengl_geometry_shader_marching_cubes.html On initial reading, it looks nice, simple, and self-contained. Unfortunately, I never got around to implement my own version of it, maybe one day...
kloffy replied to adriansnetlis's topic in Math and PhysicsOne way to speed these things up in Python is to use numpy: import numpy as np vectors = np.random.rand(1500, 3) lengths = np.linalg.norm(vectors, axis=1) Voila, no (Python) loops.
kloffy replied to adriansnetlis's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingYou can use gl_FragCoord to get the window coordinates in the fragment shader.
kloffy replied to Avencherus's topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingIf you want code, look at gluUnProject. Whenever I needed it, I used to look at the Mesa3D sources, but it seems the most recent ones don't have it anymore. Anyway, older version clones can easily be found: https://github.com/krh/mesa/blob/master/src/glu/sgi/libutil/project.c
kloffy replied to kloffy's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingTurns out I was already 90% there towards using multi draw indirect. Just had to stick the parameters into a draw indirect buffer. def commands(mesh): mesh_count = len(mesh.meshes) for i in range(mesh_count): count = mesh.index_count(i) first_index = mesh.index_offset(i) base_vertex = mesh.vertex_offset(i) instance_count = self.instance_count//mesh_count base_instance = i*instance_count yield count, instance_count, first_index, base_vertex, base_instance self.command_data = np.array(list(commands(self.mesh)), dtype=[ ("count", np.uint32, 1), ("instanceCount", np.uint32, 1), ("firstIndex", np.uint32, 1), ("baseVertex", np.uint32, 1), ("baseInstance", np.uint32, 1), ]) It does wonders for performance, especially with the Python bindings, since it eliminates almost all of the interpreter/wrapper overhead. Nice.
kloffy replied to kloffy's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingJust a quick update on the reducing draw calls issue: I still don't see a way of doing it without one of the glDraw*Indirect variants. However, that would require pretty recent extensions, some of which are not in core GL yet: https://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/multi_draw_indirect.txt https://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/shader_draw_parameters.txt I think for now I might just have to live with the extra draw calls.
kloffy replied to kloffy's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingI have implemented the glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertexBaseInstance version: #!/usr/bin/python3 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import os import sys import ctypes import numpy as np from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtOpenGL, QtWidgets import OpenGL from OpenGL import GL from OpenGL.GL import shaders # Helper Functions (Omitted unused types for brevity...) INPUT_FUNCTIONS = { (GL.GL_FLOAT, (1,)): GL.glVertexAttribPointer, (GL.GL_FLOAT, (2,)): GL.glVertexAttribPointer, (GL.GL_FLOAT, (3,)): GL.glVertexAttribPointer, (GL.GL_FLOAT, (4,)): GL.glVertexAttribPointer, } UNIFORM_FUNCTIONS = { (GL.GL_FLOAT, ()): GL.glUniform1f, (GL.GL_FLOAT, (1,)): GL.glUniform1fv, (GL.GL_FLOAT, (2,)): GL.glUniform2fv, (GL.GL_FLOAT, (3,)): GL.glUniform3fv, (GL.GL_FLOAT, (4,)): GL.glUniform4fv, (GL.GL_FLOAT, (2, 2)): GL.glUniformMatrix2fv, (GL.GL_FLOAT, (3, 3)): GL.glUniformMatrix3fv, (GL.GL_FLOAT, (4, 4)): GL.glUniformMatrix4fv, } def input_setter(program, key, type): location = GL.glGetAttribLocation(program, key) function = INPUT_FUNCTIONS[type] gltype, shape = type def _input_setter(type, value, stride, offset=0, divisor=0): GL.glEnableVertexAttribArray(location) GL.glBindBuffer(type, value) function(location, shape[0], gltype, GL.GL_FALSE, stride, ctypes.c_void_p(int(offset))) GL.glVertexAttribDivisor(location, divisor) GL.glBindBuffer(type, 0) return _input_setter def uniform_setter(program, key, type): location = GL.glGetUniformLocation(program, key) function = UNIFORM_FUNCTIONS[type] gltype, shape = type return { 0: lambda value, count=1, transpose=False: function(location, value), 1: lambda value, count=1, transpose=False: function(location, count, value), 2: lambda value, count=1, transpose=False: function(location, count, transpose, value) }[len(shape)] VS_SOURCE = """ #version 420 layout(location=0) in vec4 position; layout(location=1) in vec4 color; layout(location=2) in vec4 instance_position; layout(location=3) in vec4 instance_color; out VertexData { vec4 position; vec4 color; } vs; uniform mat4 model; uniform mat4 view; uniform mat4 projection; void main() { vs.position = model * (position * vec4(vec3(0.1), 1.0) + instance_position); vs.color = color * instance_color; gl_Position = projection * view * vs.position; } """ FS_SOURCE = """ #version 420 in VertexData { vec4 position; vec4 color; } vs; layout(location=0) out vec4 frag_color; void main() { frag_color = vs.color; //vec4(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f); } """ def vec(v, n=4, dtype=np.float32): result = np.zeros(n, dtype=dtype) result[:min(n,len(v))] = v return result def dir(v, n=4, dtype=np.float32): result = vec(v, n=n, dtype=dtype) result[-1] = 0.0 return result def pos(v, n=4, dtype=np.float32): result = vec(v, n=n, dtype=dtype) result[-1] = 1.0 return result def color_from_ordinal(i): return np.array([(i >> 0) & 1, (i >> 1) & 1, (i >> 2) & 1, 1], dtype=np.float32) class Mesh(object): def __init__(self, vertices, indices): self.vertices = vertices self.indices = indices class MultiMesh(object): @property def vertices(self): return np.concatenate([mesh.vertices for mesh in self.meshes]) @property def indices(self): return np.concatenate([mesh.indices for mesh in self.meshes]) def __init__(self, meshes): self.meshes = meshes def vertex_count(self, i): return len(self.meshes[i].vertices) def vertex_offset(self, i): return sum(self.vertex_count(j) for j in range(i)) def index_count(self, i): return len(self.meshes[i].indices) def index_offset(self, i): return sum(self.index_count(j) for j in range(i)) def make_triangle(): vertex_count = 3 vertices = np.zeros(vertex_count, dtype=[("position", np.float32, 4),("color", np.float32, 4)]) vertices["position"] = [pos(v) for v in [[0.0, +1.0, 0.0], [-1.0, -1.0, 0.0], [+1.0, -1.0, 0.0]]] vertices["color"] = [[1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0]] * vertex_count indices = np.arange(vertex_count, dtype=np.uint8) return Mesh(vertices, indices) def make_rectangle(): vertex_count = 4 vertices = np.zeros(vertex_count, dtype=[("position", np.float32, 4),("color", np.float32, 4)]) vertices["position"] = [pos(v) for v in [[-1.0, -1.0, 0.0], [-1.0, +1.0, 0.0], [+1.0, -1.0, 0.0], [+1.0, +1.0, 0.0]]] vertices["color"] = [[1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0]] * vertex_count indices = np.arange(vertex_count, dtype=np.uint8) return Mesh(vertices, indices) class MainWindow(QtGui.QOpenGLWindow): def initializeGL(self): self.createProgram() self.instance_count = 100 instance_data = np.zeros(self.instance_count, dtype=[("instance_position", np.float32, 4), ("instance_color", np.float32, 4),]) instance_data["instance_position"] = [dir(v) for v in 2.0 * np.random.rand(self.instance_count, 4) - 1.0] instance_data["instance_color"] = [color_from_ordinal(i) for i in np.random.randint(1, 8, size=self.instance_count)] self.mesh = MultiMesh([make_triangle(), make_rectangle()]) self.createVAO(instance_data, self.mesh.vertices, self.mesh.indices) def createProgram(self): self.program = shaders.compileProgram( shaders.compileShader(VS_SOURCE, GL.GL_VERTEX_SHADER), shaders.compileShader(FS_SOURCE, GL.GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER), ) self.inputs = {key: input_setter(self.program, key, type) for key, type in { "instance_position": (GL.GL_FLOAT, (4,)), "instance_color": (GL.GL_FLOAT, (4,)), "position": (GL.GL_FLOAT, (4,)), "color": (GL.GL_FLOAT, (4,)), }.items()} self.uniforms = {key: uniform_setter(self.program, key, type) for key, type in { "model": (GL.GL_FLOAT, (4, 4)), "view": (GL.GL_FLOAT, (4, 4)), "projection": (GL.GL_FLOAT, (4, 4)), }.items()} def createVAO(self, instance_data, vertex_data, index_data): self.vao = GL.glGenVertexArrays(1) GL.glBindVertexArray(self.vao) # Create Buffers self.instance_vbo = GL.glGenBuffers(1) GL.glBindBuffer(GL.GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, self.instance_vbo) GL.glBufferData(GL.GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, instance_data.nbytes, instance_data, GL.GL_STATIC_DRAW) self.vbo = GL.glGenBuffers(1) GL.glBindBuffer(GL.GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, self.vbo) GL.glBufferData(GL.GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vertex_data.nbytes, vertex_data, GL.GL_STATIC_DRAW) self.ibo = GL.glGenBuffers(1) GL.glBindBuffer(GL.GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, self.ibo) GL.glBufferData(GL.GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, index_data.nbytes, index_data, GL.GL_STATIC_DRAW) self.inputs["instance_position"](GL.GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, self.instance_vbo, instance_data.itemsize, 0 * np.dtype(np.float32).itemsize, divisor=1) self.inputs["instance_color"](GL.GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, self.instance_vbo, instance_data.itemsize, 4 * np.dtype(np.float32).itemsize, divisor=1) self.inputs["position"](GL.GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, self.vbo, vertex_data.itemsize, 0 * np.dtype(np.float32).itemsize) self.inputs["color"](GL.GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, self.vbo, vertex_data.itemsize, 4 * np.dtype(np.float32).itemsize) GL.glBindVertexArray(0) def resizeGL(self, width, height): self.size = np.array([width, height], dtype=np.float32) self.aspect = self.size/np.min(self.size) def paintGL(self): GL.glClearColor(0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 1.0) GL.glClear(GL.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT) try: GL.glUseProgram(self.program) self.uniforms["model"](np.identity(4, dtype=np.float32)) self.uniforms["view"](np.identity(4, dtype=np.float32)) self.uniforms["projection"](np.diag(np.r_[1.0/self.aspect,1,1])) GL.glBindVertexArray(self.vao) mesh_count = len(self.mesh.meshes) for i in range(mesh_count): index_count = self.mesh.index_count(i) index_offset = ctypes.c_void_p(self.mesh.index_offset(i) * np.dtype(np.uint8).itemsize) base_vertex = self.mesh.vertex_offset(i) instance_count = self.instance_count//mesh_count base_instance = i*instance_count GL.glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertexBaseInstance(GL.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, index_count, GL.GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, index_offset, instance_count, base_vertex, base_instance) finally: GL.glBindVertexArray(0) GL.glUseProgram(0) def keyReleaseEvent(self, event): if event.key() == QtCore.Qt.Key_Escape: QtWidgets.QApplication.instance().quit() if __name__ == '__main__': app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv) format = QtGui.QSurfaceFormat() format.setDepthBufferSize(24) format.setStencilBufferSize(8) format.setProfile(QtGui.QSurfaceFormat.CoreProfile) format.setVersion(4, 2) window = MainWindow() window.setFormat(format) window.resize(640, 480) window.show() sys.exit(app.exec_()) Apologies that the code is a bit verbose (OpenGL... :-/), but it is completely self-contained. Just needs PyQT5, PyOpenGL and numpy. The key section is the paint method: def paintGL(self): GL.glClearColor(0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 1.0) GL.glClear(GL.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT) try: GL.glUseProgram(self.program) self.uniforms["model"](np.identity(4, dtype=np.float32)) self.uniforms["view"](np.identity(4, dtype=np.float32)) self.uniforms["projection"](np.diag(np.r_[1.0/self.aspect,1,1])) GL.glBindVertexArray(self.vao) mesh_count = len(self.mesh.meshes) for i in range(mesh_count): index_count = self.mesh.index_count(i) index_offset = ctypes.c_void_p(self.mesh.index_offset(i) * np.dtype(np.uint8).itemsize) base_vertex = self.mesh.vertex_offset(i) instance_count = self.instance_count//mesh_count base_instance = i*instance_count GL.glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertexBaseInstance(GL.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, index_count, GL.GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, index_offset, instance_count, base_vertex, base_instance) finally: GL.glBindVertexArray(0) GL.glUseProgram(0) Consequently, this version has one draw call per mesh. Still scratching my head over how to do it with a single draw call.
kloffy replied to kloffy's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingYes, having a single draw call was my initial goal, but I haven't quite figured out an elegant way to achieve it. Could you elaborate more or perhaps point me to some material on the topic? I can kind of see it with shader storage buffer objects and somehow indexing into them using instance attributes, but I am not sure if that is what you mean.
kloffy replied to kloffy's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingAwesome, thanks! In my case, all per object state is in the instance attributes, so using combined buffers seems like the way to go. I just saw there is a glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertexBaseInstance (what a name, just rolls off the tongue), which I may be able to use, and then all of the binding would be moved out of the loop. Still trying to get my head around how exactly it would fit into the overall framework.
kloffy posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingI have multiple meshes combined into one VBO and I need to render multiple instances of each mesh. As far as I can tell, there are quite a few ways to go about it. First, there is the question whether to have multiple index buffers or just one. Since we are already combining the vertices into one buffer, my initial thought was to do the same for indices. The option with multiple index buffers would be: Bind Vertex Buffer Foreach Mesh: Bind Instance Attributes Bind Index Buffer glDrawElementsInstanced(GL_TRIANGLES, mesh.num_instances, GL_UNSIGNED_INT, 0, mesh.num_indices) And the combined index buffer would be: Bind Vertex Buffer Bind Index Buffer for mesh in meshes: Bind Instance Attributes glDrawElementsInstanced(GL_TRIANGLES, mesh.num_instances, GL_UNSIGNED_INT, mesh.base_index, mesh.num_indices) Furthermore, there is glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertex, which as far as I can tell just saves me from offsetting the indices a priori. Finally, there is also glDrawElementsIndirect, which seems the most flexible, but also requires rather recent OpenGL. Anyway, just wondering if my understanding is correct and if anyone has some experience on the topic they would like to share.
kloffy replied to kloffy's topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingIn case anyone is interested, here is a recursive version for arbitrary numbers of arguments. def outer(func): def _outer(*args, **kwargs): def __outer(args, items): if items: xs, *tail = items if isinstance(xs, list): return [__outer(args, [x] + tail) for x in xs] else: return __outer(args + [xs], tail) else: return func(*args, **kwargs) return __outer([], args) return _outer Seems fairly straightforward now, not sure why I was scratching my head over it at the time... :)
kloffy replied to kloffy's topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingYes, that is probably not a bad way to do it if you really want to make the function work on any iterable. Somehow, the user would have to disambiguate (is x an iterable that should be iterated or not). However, for my purposes it is perfectly fine to assume that only certain types will be iterated over (I chose list in my example to keep it simple).


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FamilySearch.org's indexing progress map colors searchable states orange. To search, click the state on the map.
The 1940 census records also are available on FamilyLink.com, which MyHeritage purchased last year. You'll need to register for a free account on the site (if you don't already have an account there) to view the records.
Archives.com: At this 1940 Census Community Project partner site, you can search name indexes to Colorado and Delaware. To access the unindexed portion of the census, this site sends you to the National Archives' 1940 census site (which Archives.com designed and hosts).
FamilySearch: Digitized records are available here for all US states and territories.
FamilySearch just announced that more than 85,000 1940 Census Community Project volunteers have already finished indexing 20 percent of the census, and thousands more volunteers sign up every week.
Not all the indexed records are available to search online yet. FamilySearch's indexing progress map colors searchable states orange; so far, you can search name indexes for the states of Delaware and Colorado. To search, click the state on the map.
(I clicked on Kansas and tried a search because Community Project partner FindMyPast.com has a Kansas index, but the results were people in Colorado.)
FindMyPast.com: On this 1940 Census Community Project partner site, digitize records are available for most states. Records for Texas, California, Utah, Tennessee, Minnesota, Wisconsin and several others are missing. You can search name indexes for Delaware, Colorado and Kansas—except for Kansas, they're the same states as for FamilySearch, because it's the same index.
MyHeritage: Records for all states and territories are available now for free. This site introduced the first searchable index, for the state of Rhode Island, but hasn't added any other states since. MyHeritage also has updated its mobile app so you can search 1940 census records from your iPhone, iPad or Android phone.
The 1940 census record images also are available on FamilyLink.com, which MyHeritage purchased last year. You'll need to register for a free account on the site (if you don't already have an account there) to view the records.
National Archives: Records for all states and territories are available here for free.
Until the acquisition goes through the regulatory approval process, the companies will continue to operate as separate entities. It's unclear how long the process could take.
In a conference call last night with the genealogy media, Archives.com CEO Joe Godfrey and Ancestry.com president Tim Sullivan addressed issues of concern to many family historians.
Here, I've summarized their comments as they relate to some of the questions I've been hearing from genealogists:
Is Ancestry.com just trying to eliminate a competitor?
Archives.com's parent company Inflection is focusing on public records and people-searching (it owns the people-searching website peoplesmart),
diverging from Archives.com's historical records mission. Godfrey and
Sullivan say this acquisition makes sense for all parties.
Current plans call for Archives.com to remain largely as is. "We see a different experience in Archives.com. It's priced and positioned differently [from Ancestry.com]. It's another important service that we can continue to invest in," Sullivan says. He vows to invest in Archives.com's content and technology.
The acquisition gives Ancestry.com the opportunity to offer a genealogy product at a
lower price point (Archives.com subscribers pay $39.95 a year, to Ancestry.com's $155.40).
Nor is the acquisition a response to the entry into the US genealogy market of companies such as brightsolid (owner of findmypast.com) and MyHeritage, Sullivan says. He emphasized a positive view of the genealogy category's growth and the increase in competition, saying it's an indication of the health of the category.
Sullivan says Ancestry.com may work with Inflection in the future, describing the potential opportunity as "tremendous."
Will the sites be too similar?
Sullivan and Godfrey say there's some overlapping content on Archives.com and Ancestry.com, but that how the user experiences each site's content is different and will remain so. "One thing we won't do is make Archives.com like the Ancestry.com user experience," Sullivan says.
"Even though some content might overlap, the way it is presented will have different value propositions to different users," Godfrey adds.
What will happen with the 1940 Census Community Project? The project, whose partners FamilySearch, Archives.com and FindMyPast.com are recruiting volunteers to index the 1940 census, won't be affected, say both men.
Godfrey encouraged volunteers to continue indexing. "Nothing will change as far as the partnership, and nothing will change as far as making the index available for free," he says.
Sullivan says that when FamilySearch was seeking partners in this volunteer indexing project, Ancestry.com leadership discussed it at length and ultimately decided that "it wasn't structured in a way that completely was in sync with what we wanted to do with 1940."
He added that Ancestry.com would support Archives.com's participation in the project.
Does this form a monopoly?
They couldn't elaborate on the regulatory approval process for the acquisition, but neither Sullivan nor Godfrey foresees problems. "We're doing this for the right reasons. There's no negative for consumers," Sullivan says.
Archives.com is owned and operated by Inflection LLC, a Silicon Valley-based technology company.
Since Archives.com's launch in January 2010 (before that, the site was called Genealogy Archives), the site has grown to more than 380,000 paying subscribers who pay approximately $39.95 a year. Archives.com offers access to more than 2.1 billion historical records, including birth records, obituaries, immigration and passenger lists, historical newspapers, and US and UK censuses.
Inflection secured the contract with the National Archives to design and host the archives' website for the 1940 census records, released April 2. Archives.com also is a partner in the 1940 Census Community project, which has FamilySearch volunteers indexing the 1940 census. Ancestry.com is using a paid contractor to create its own 1940 census index. I'm curious to see what happens with this.
From Ancestry.com's press release: "This transaction will enable Ancestry.com to add a differentiated service targeted to a complementary segment of the growing family history category. In addition, Ancestry.com will welcome a team of talented engineers, digital marketers, and family history innovators into the Ancestry.com fold and also gain access to a proprietary technology platform that has supported Archives.com's rapid growth."
Upon completion of the transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, including expiration of the HSR waiting period, Ancestry.com will continue to operate Archives.com separately retaining its brand and website. Many Inflection employees are expected to join the Ancestry.com team.
We'll bring you more on this story as it develops.
The parish register ledger books document Lutheran congregations throughout the United States from 1793 to 1940.
The records will become available at Archives.com later this year. I'm crossing my fingers it'll be in time for our guide to genealogy research in Lutheran records, which will be in the July/August 2012 Family Tree Magazine.
The guide is part of our new religious records series, which so far has covered Catholic (in the March/April 2012 Family Tree Magazine) and Jewish (in the May/June 2012 Family Tree Magazine) genealogy research.
See the full announcement about Lutheran records on Archives.com here.
These statistics, which Archives.com made nice and pretty for you, explain why:
MyHeritage.com: I can't find an at-a-glance list here. You'll see all states in the search dropdown menu, and when you search on one that's not yet available, you'll get results but with a "coming soon" message. Update: The folks at MyHeritage sent me this list of available records, with more coming soon:
"As the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) official
development partner on this project, Archives.com is responsible for the
website performance and stability. We take full responsibility
for the technical issues that have occurred and are very sorry for the
inconvenience you may have experienced."
The founders of Footnote—the site Ancestry.com acquired in 2010 and renamed Fold3—are now working for MyHeritage. Footnote founders Russ Wilding and Roger Bell are serving as chief content officer and VP of product, respectively, at MyHeritage. They'll be instrumental in the Israel-based company's recently announced initiative to develop its US historical records content. Read more about the hire here.
1. On April 2 at 9 a.m., the only place you'll be able to find online 1940 census records for the entire country is 1940census.archives.gov. This website was made possible through the National Archives' contract with genealogy company Archives.com.
2. Shortly after the initial release, other websites will begin adding the records as fast as they can. Those include:
3. For the first week to several weeks after April 2, the only way to find your ancestor's 1940 census record will be to browse by enumeration district.
You can find out what an enumeration district is and how to pinpoint the right one by watching our free video on FamilyTreeMagazine.com.
4. Three separate projects to index these census records by name will begin ASAP after the records are released:
The 1940 Census Community Project is recruiting volunteers to do the indexing; Ancestry.com and MyHeritage are using paid contractors to do their indexing work.
5. Each site will add its index one state at a time, as states are completed. No site has specified the order in which states will be indexed, so at this time there's no telling when a particular site will add your ancestor's state. It could be weeks or months before a given site posts the index you need (so you'll want to check all the above sites periodically).
6. Ancestry.com is completing its index in two phases: a basic name index to be released first on a state-by-state basis, then a more-detailed index with additional information to follow. This means you may have access to a searchable basic name index for your ancestral state earlier on Ancestry.com than on another site.
7. Watch out for sites that try to charge for access to 1940 census records. There is no need to pay for 1940 census records. They'll be available online, free, at the sites mentioned in No. 2.
Get help finding your ancestors in the US census with these resources from Family Tree Magazine:
Archives.com has published a free database called Patriots of Color.
These records contain information about men and women of color who fought for American independence as soldiers, skilled craftsmen and servants.
More than two years of research, facilitated by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, was dedicated to verifying the service and complexions of patriots from each of the 13 colonies using records such as pension and bounty land application files, muster and pay rolls, lists of troops, court records, legislative records, census records and more.
You can learn the person's name and alternate names used, complexion, state and type of service, and pension and bounty land warrant numbers (if applicable). Here's an example of a database record:
If you find someone of interest, click the Resources Used button at the bottom for more about the resources you can check to get additional information.
Click here to access the Patriots of Color database on Archives.com.
The additions bring the count of records available on Archives.com to more than 2 billion.
The 1940 census images will be hosted on Archives.gov, the National Archives website. Archives has been awarded the digitization contract for these images.
Indexing will begin as soon as the records are released online April 2. Each page will be indexed twice, with a third arbitrator to resolve difference in the two indexes.
FamilySearch is making upgrades and doing "test loading" to make sure its site can handle the extra traffic the indexing project will generate.
Chris Van Der Kuyl, CEO of brightsolid (the British parent company of FindMyPast.com), described the 1940 project as "one of the most exciting crowdsourced projects on the internet." A video commercial to be released on YouTube will bill it as a "national service project" and genealogical societies will receive incentives for galvanizing members to index.
Part of the funding provided by brightsolid and Archives.com will be dedicated to producing other free digital collections. The idea is that money that might otherwise be used to build competing census collections will now go to creating access to material that's not already online. It's "putting money into the community that would otherwise be duplicated," says John Spottiswood of Archives.com.
To volunteer for 1940 census indexing, sign up on the 1940 Community Census Project website.
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Last month, NARA selected Archives.com to host the digitized census records. Ancestry.com also has announced it'll offer a 1940 census index and the record images free, at least through 2013.
Researchers will be able to browse, view, and download images from the 1940 census. See NARA's full announcement here.
To kick off the partnership, Archives.com has created a web page about the launch of the 1940 Census.
You won't be able to search the census by name right away on April 2; instead, you'll need to know the enumeration district (ED) your relatives lived in and then browse the records for that district. You can find the ED if you know your ancestor's address in 1940 or in 1930.
Here's a post about an online tool that can help you determine the ED.
FamilySearch is heading up an effort to index the 1940 census records ASAP after they're released, which will let genealogists search by name.
Subscription website Ancestry.com also has announced plans to provide the 1940 census for free, at least through 2013.
The Record Match service automatically searches the subscription collections of the Archives.com and GenealogyBank websites when a Geni member views a relative's Geni profile. If there's a match, the Geni member gets an alert and a link to the record. To view the record, he or she will need to register for a free trial membership on the partner site, or be a subscriber.
Archives.com recently announced the addition of the entire set of available US census records, 1790 through 1930. GenealogyBank is known for its collection of digitized newspapers.
Geni CEO Noah Tutak hinted that more such record partnerships are in the works: "By providing records from the person's profile, first with partners Archives.com and GenealogyBank.com, and with many others to come, we can save genealogists from spending their time conducting separate searches on the many genealogy databases available."
Read more about Record Match on the Geni blog.
As part of the effort, Archives.com reached an agreement with FamilySearch—the source of the census records—to dedicate a minimum of $5 million to digitizing genealogy records that are not currently online.
The indexes for all censuses are available now, as are images for the 1850, 1870 and 1900 censuses, for a total of more than 500 million names and 3 million images. The rest of the images will be added over the next weeks and months, says spokesperson Julie Hill. Learn more about the site's census collection on its census resource page.
The census search screen looks like this:
You can see it's more streamlined with fewer options than Ancestry.com's census search. You'll also receive fewer results—a search of all census years for the last name Haddad (not exact) living anywhere in the United States, born in Ohio between 1907 and 1911, netted me 30 matches on Archives.com and 63 on Ancestry.com. This might be good or bad for your research—it can be overwhelming to search through a flood of matches, but you also might lose some searching flexibility.
Here's a page of Archives.com search results:
When you click on a match, you first see this page displaying all the indexed fields:
Archives also is introducing a new, Flash-based image viewer that lets users zoom in, adjust contrast, invert colors and more (a basic image viewer will be an option for computers without Flash):
We're thinking this is what Archives.com product director Joe Godfrey was referring to in May, when he opened the National Genealogical Society conference by announcing the site would "embark on an ambitious content acquisition and digitization plan, focusing in part on the digitization of material not yet online."
Anne Roach, who chaired FamilySearch's 2011 RootsTech conference, joined Archives to lead the project.
The addition of the census will bring Archives.com, which launched in July 2009, into more-direct competition with industry leader Ancestry.com. Until Archives.com adds the rest of the census images, Ancestry.com is the only site providing access to all extant US census records and document images.
Archives.com will keep its subscription price at $39.95 "for the time being," says Hill. "That's one-eighth the price of an Ancestry.com World membership. If you compare the subscriptions on a line-by-line basis, its remarkable how many high-value collections are available for one-eighth the price."


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The National Audit Office found cancer rates have risen by 31% since 1971, but death rates have fallen by 12%.
It also showed a regional difference with people more likely to die of cancer in the north than in the south.
The report called for heightened public awareness, faster referrals and diagnosis and more specialists.
It found fewer men died of cancer in England compared to Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and France.
However among women England had the second highest rate and only Scotland was higher.
Figures were taken from 1998, the year for which there are the most recent statistics.
'A north-south divide'
Overall survival rates in men and women were found to be increasing in England, but were still poor compared to Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands and Denmark.
Survival rates also vary widely between types of cancers. Almost 80% of women in England survive breast cancer, but lung cancer patients only live for an average of four months after diagnosis.
Statistics showed Sweden and the US to generally have the best results.
Report author Jeremy Gostick said: "England still has some way to go before its survival rates matches those in Europe and the US."
He said it largely came down to the stage of cancer at diagnosis.
The report found people in Europe are being diagnosed with cancer earlier than they are in England.
In poor areas of England, late-stage diagnosis was particularly prominent.
"There is evidence that people in deprived areas tend to get diagnosed at a later stage," Mr Gostick told the BBC.
He said this is because "there is a low level awareness of cancer symptoms and delays in approaching GPs with them".
However he added there was no evidence to show a lack in quality of treatment in these areas.
The report also showed survival rates to be much higher in the in the south-east than in the north-east. Lung cancer survival rates in areas of the north and in Yorkshire were almost one third lower than in London.
'Not civilised'
Edward Leigh, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, said health inequalities have "no place in a civilised society".
He added the report "depressingly confirms the existence of a cancer health-divide".
"Those on the wrong side of it are likely to live in areas of higher deprivation which have higher rates of incidence of cancer and of death from the disease," he said.
Dr John Toy, medical director at Cancer Research UK said their own figures "have shown that as survival from cancer has improved, the gap in cancer survival between rich and poor sections of society has widened."
In addition to this, the report found a 'postcode lottery' still exists in providing access to anti-cancer drugs.
Joanne Rule, CancerBACUP's chief executive said: "Cancer patients across the UK need reassurance that an end to postcode prescribing is in sight."
Delyth Morgan, of the charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer, said: "The report points out that 98% of breast cancer cases referred as urgent are seen within the government's target of two weeks and while this is to be applauded, the stark fact is that 40% of all breast cancer cases diagnosed each year are initially referred as routine by their GP.
"We estimate this to be around 10,000 women who are being asked to put their lives on hold and endure long routine waits of up to 17 weeks for their eventual breast cancer diagnosis. Clearly this is unacceptable."
The report suggests the Department of Health run pilots with groups of people that are consistently diagnosed with cancer at a late stage, to work out why there are delays in coming forward.
It also encouraged hospitals and GPs to develop standard referral procedures.
The report showed a shortage of radiographers, pathologists and endoscopists are also causing delays in treatment.
Professor Mike Richards, the government's National Cancer Director said the Department of Health "has implemented a range of measures to improve the recruitment and retention of NHS staff".
"As a result 300 radiographers have returned to work since April 2001 and the number of training places in diagnostic radiography has more than doubled."


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Cookie Dough Addicts, Rejoice: Unbakeables Are A Gift From Above
Allow me to interrupt your day to bring you this very important, very delicious public service announcement: There's now a way to devour uncooked cookie dough without fearing you'll get salmonella.
To this day, I'm still guilty of scooping cookie dough straight out of the bowl before I put a batch of cookies in the oven, which is always followed by immediate regret and panic that I may get salmonella … again. It happened to me once, and it was not enjoyable. BUT, I was recently introduced to Unbakeables, cookie dough bites meant to be eaten uncooked (they're egg-free), with extra toppings to sweeten the deal. I'm pretty sure they could revolutionize kids' birthday parties everywhere, forever.
Sold as individual bites in either a box set, which includes five 10-pack tubes, or a sampler pack, which includes a 10-pack tube and 3-pack tube, they're reasonably priced and freakin' Heaven on earth. Offering flavors like oatmeal raisin dough, chocolate banana peanut butter (which is vegan AND gluten-free), dark chocolate mint, peanut butter & jelly, original and more, there's a little bit of something for every sweet tooth. Unbakeables are also available in select locations in New York and Connecticut, but all flavors are available for ordering online. You're welcome, people. You're welcome.


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In this article I will examine two companies in order to answer a question that has been bothering me - what is it that enables loss-making companies still make money for investors? How can a company that has been losing money as a business still manage to make money as a stock? How can some stocks manage to live with unrealistic valuations for so long? What makes these stocks tick?
Both salesforce.com inc. (NYSE:CRM) and Workday Inc. (NYSE:WDAY), our objects of study, are in the same sector - technology - and the same industry - software and programming, and both have returned more than 25% in the past one year.
So what's wrong with that, you may ask.
What is wrong is that both are loss-making companies and have been reporting losses quarter after quarter.
Workday Inc.
The company was incorporated in March 2005 and since price data is available only from October 2012 onwards, I assume that it was listed then. The company provides cloud-based applications for human capital management, payroll, financial management, time tracking, and procurement and employee expense management. Its business model focuses on consumer internet and cloud computing experience.
In the quarter ended October 2012, it was able to "surprise" analysts by reporting 12.5% more earnings per share than they were expecting. It is another matter that analysts had forecast a loss of $0.56 per and the company reported $0.49 per share loss. The quarterly earnings report was released on November 28, 2012 and between November 15, 2012 and November 28, 2012 the stock gained 12.26% and has continued moving up and appreciated another 19% since the day results were made public.
Workday released its Q4 and Fiscal Year 2013 results on March 7, 2013. The stock rose almost 17% in the first week of March 2013, only to fall 4.5% on the day results were declared. The results were encouraging as far as total revenue (up 89% from prior quarter) is concerned but the company failed to report a profit. However, at $0.19 net loss per share was considerably lower than per share loss of $0.49 reported in the previous quarter and the loss of $0.77 per share in the same quarter prior year.
Salesforce.com Inc.
Salesforce.com provides cloud computing and social enterprise solutions. It provides a customer and collaboration and relationship management applications over the internet or cloud.
The company reported incremental losses in the four quarters before the most recent quarter ended January 2013, results for which were reported on February 28, 2013..
In the most recent quarter, salesforce.com reported a net loss of $20.84 million. Whereas this is much less than the prior quarter ($220.29 million), the FY 2013 annual loss ($2.70 billion) is far, far more than the $11.57 million loss reported for FY 2012. The fiscal year 2012 and 2013 losses need to be seen in light of the fact that:
- quarter-over-quarter as well as year-over-year revenues have been growing - revenue in FY 2013 registered a growth of more than 30% over prior year
- the company reported net profit in FY 2010 and 2011
While I do not wish to go into the reasons for such disproportionate figures, I would like to draw attention to this article, should you want to know about CRM figures.
Despite such bleak figures, CRM stock appreciated 9% in March 2013 and 28.29% in one year and 225% in five years.
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In case of Workday, there is some sort of a reasoning that the market reacted to news of a substantial reduction in loss but how does one explain the performance of CRM's stock in light of the fact that it has been making a net loss consecutively for five (actually seven) quarters? Moreover, how does one explain the performance of these stocks in light of their negative margins, operating as well as profit?
That leaves us to see future prospects. Analysts are not hopeful of Workday's ability to post profits and do not expect it to report a positive EPS in the near future, not even until January 2016. However, they are quite sanguine about salesforce.com and expect it to report an EPS of $0.22 in FY 2014 and $0.7 in FY 2015. However, at current market price, the stock is trading at an exceptionally high forward (January 31, 2015) P/E of 73.20.
We see unbelievably high P/E ratios in the software and programming sector. For example, Interactive Intelligence Group (NASDAQ:ININ), a small-cap company that provides software applications, is trading at P/E of 1,096.87 with an EPS of $0.04. ClickSoftware Technologies (NASDAQ:CKSW), another small-cap company that provides software products and solutions, is trading at a P/E ratio of 38.33. This is explainable because it is a dividend-paying company with a high-dividend yield of 3.65% and $0.23 EPS, which analysts expect will grow by 100% in December 2014.
Such high valuations are not justified. There is also a limit to which one would pay for a stock on the basis of forward earnings. Considering everything, I do not see any logic in the high valuation of Workday and salesforce.com. I would go by what the writer of this article says about the dot.com bubble, "During the late '90s the market was valuing stocks to the moon and analysts had no explanation for it, so they invented explanations".
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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By Yaël Ossowski | Florida Watchdog
TAMPA — It only takes a small amount of moral outrage to invite the worst of government-enforced bans and prohibitions.
During the roaring 1920s, that moral outrage was voiced by the Ohio-based Anti-Saloon League, arguably the most successful single issue lobbying group in American history, which focused its ire on the sale and consumption of alcohol because it represented the "worst of all temptations."
After the decade of the "noble experiment," much of the same displeasure and angst was transferred to the cannabis plant, denounced in 1937 House Ways and Means Committee hearings as an "evil" substance that required "further legislation in order to protect people from its insidious influence and effects," according to the transcript.
In this day and age, bans relating to drug possession directly affect more than half of all people incarcerated in the United States, the largest population of such in the world.
Though there aren't yet any plans to draw up another 18th Amendment in this century, various groups across the country are advocating using the same method of prohibition for a new target: bath salts.
The drug
However docile the name may sound, bath salts are found nowhere near the bath and actually contain forms of the compound Mephedrone, a stimulant drug sharing side effects with the euphoric drug Ecstasy.
In Florida, the drug has been blamed for erratic and violent behavior in the most recent cases of 21-year-old Brandon De Leon and Rudy Eugene, both of North Miami Beach, sparking repeated references to "zombie takeovers."
Eugene, 31, is better known as the "Miami Causeway Cannibal," who was shot dead by Miami police after being witnessed biting and gnawing on the face of 65-year-old Ronald Poppo, a homeless man sleeping under the highway.
While no evidence of bath salts or similar substances has surfaced in the Miami cannibal case, De Leon, who is accused of biting several police officers after being taken into custody for disorderly conduct on June 2, reportedly had such substances in his body, according to police.
In May 2011, similar events inspired the passage of a statewide ban on the bath salts, adding the chemical composition to the already lengthy list of controlled substances in the Sunshine State.
While the ban has been in effect for some time, accessibility has in no way been affected, as evidenced by the many media reports in the past few weeks alone.
This prompted Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to offer a warning on the eve of spring break this year, warning vacationers to stay away from bath salts because they remained "dangerous" and posed "significant" risks to users and those around users.
Conversely, Max Pemberton, a London doctor writing in the London Telegraph in 2010, described his euphoric experience with bath salts while his government floated a similar ban around the same time.
He recalled giggling and laughing uncontrollably, overcome by an "incomprehensible, overwhelming desire to dance."
"I'd love to be able to tell you that I had a hideous time when I took mephedrone but the truth is, I didn't. It was a lovely feeling and I can completely understand why people would use it," he wrote.
The ban
With more reactionary legislation being called for in the state of Florida, lawmakers should heed caution before they introduce any new ban to curb the "worst of all temptations."
Similar sentiments brought on the wretched prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s, incentivizing millions of ordinarily lawful Americans to skirt the laws and resort to violence for their fix of liquor, wine or beer, evidenced by the crime wave of crimes bosses like Al Capone in Chicago.
In the present era, state and federal prisons already are at full capacity with individuals who have transgressed nonviolent drug laws, ballooning prison budgets and sparking more violence in America's poorest cities.
If governments are intent on banning these particular substances because of a handful of media reports, what is the next target?
Robert Arthur is an author and former public defender who has written extensively on bath salts since they first appeared in the public consciousness.
"If authorities cared about public health, a more rational approach would be to ban it for minors and then study these chemicals objectively before adding adult users to the prison population," wrote Arthur.
Arthur cited his experience as a public defender, explaining that insane violence is a daily occurrence in American homes, but it doesn't receive immense focus until it can be "linked to the 'scary' drug of the moment."
"Violent people with severe mental health issues should avoid the excessive use of any drug, particularly alcohol — the drug most linked to violence," Arthur said.
Using the force of the government to impose a ban on these substances will only produce the same results we have seen too many times before: more use, more abuse, more violence and, regrettably, more zombies.


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The Hudson ice hockey team finished 1-2-1 after earning a 3-3 tie with Toledo St. Francis DeSales in the Walsh Jesuit Christmas Tournament, which concluded Dec. 30 at Kent State University Ice Arena.
The game was tied at 1-1 after one period and the Explorers (10-6-1) had 2-1 and 3-2 leads in the third period.
Bo Lori scored twice for Hudson and Luke McLean also found the net once. Connor Ganley and John Calabro each had one assist and Explorers' goaltender Auston Ganley made 31 saves in the nets.
Hudson finished with nine points for the tournament. Columbus St. Charles had 17 points to win the tournament. Sylvania Northview, the defending Division I state champion which is ranked No. 3 in the state, finished with 16 points and Shaker Heights had 10 points.
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The future of broadband and the internet in Australia became the latest battleground in the lead-up to the September election, after Opposition Leader
The differences between the two major parties on broadband is not as stark as it was three years ago, when the NBN proved to be a crucial trump card for Prime Minister
The broadband debate has more acronyms than you can poke a stick at – FTTH, FTTN, VDSL and a host of others to confuse the uninitiated. Put simply, the key difference between the rival NBNs is in how much of Telstra's copper network is replaced over the next six to eight years. Under Labor's plan, the existing copper wiring, which delivers your home telephony and internet services, will be pulled out and replaced by fibre optic cables: fine tubes of glass that carry data at the speed of light without the noise and poor electrical conductivity of copper wiring. This means much faster speeds, but at a cost dwarfed only by a blueprint for high-speed rail.
The Coalition's plan is less ambitious but more financially prudent. About 22 per cent of Australian homes will still get the fastest fibre connections offered by Labor and these will be new housing developments. For the rest, the fibre cabling will instead end at an unattractive metallic cabinet (1.4 metres high by 1.1 metres wide) on street corners or in the basements of apartment buildings. These boxes are the equivalent of the Telstra exchanges scattered around Australian suburbs today. They house the electronics and machinery that connect individual homes and businesses to the wider internet.
The copper wiring over the "last mile" between these cabinets and houses will continue to do the heavy work of relaying data to computers. Turnbull has relied on technological advancements used in Europe on similarly old copper networks to cut down on many of the problems with using copper over the last mile. Bringing fibre closer to the action and adding technology to improve the way copper conducts electricity will ensure fast speeds are still possible, but not as fast as those under Labor's plan.
For regional and remote Australians, the policies are now identical. Owing to millions of contracts now signed and sealed by the current government monopoly, those in towns of fewer than 1000 homes – and those not in towns at all – are more likely to receive either a version of the 4G mobile technology that is deployed by
The velocity of future broadband connections has featured heavily in the debate of the past few days as politicians and pundits compare the two policies. At its heart lies the number of bits and bytes you will be able to download over the internet under each policy.
It's clear Australians are hungry for more and more data: Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show we downloaded 63 per cent more in the last three months of 2012 than we did in the same period in 2011. All signs indicate that pace won't slow any time soon.
But how fast do we need all that data?
The Coalition says its plan will give the vast majority of Australian homes a boost to 25 or more megabits per second (Mbps) by 2016. At more than five times Australia's current average broadband speed of 4.3 megabits per second (according to US network company Akamai), this speed is touted by the Coalition and some analysts as more than enough to see Australians through the very near future. It says 90 per cent of homes will have access to speeds of 50 Mbps by 2019, while homes in new estates and those already passed by Telstra's existing cable network will get access to 100 Mbps.
Labor plans are much more uniform, with 93 per cent of homes to get 100 Mbps (and up to 10 times that speed in the near future).
These speeds are likely to be used for the same, mundane things we do today but are accompanied by the promise of high-definition. This will be a boon for 3D television streamed directly into homes, and for health and video-conferencing services over the internet, which have enormous appeal to rural communities where health services have been cut back and access to specialists is lacking.
The Coalition's plan will cost $20.4 billion to build and $29 billion to fund between now and 2019. That compares to a capital cost of $37.4 billion and a total funding requirement of $44 billion under Labor, with a scheduled completion date of 2021.
The Coalition alleges that Labor's NBN will actually require more than $90 billion in funding, based on a Macquarie Equities estimate that it will cost $4000 to connect each house along the way. It also says NBN Co will attract lower revenue than it assumes and that the number of households to go wireless-only will hit 23.5 per cent compared with NBN Co's forecast of 16.5 per cent.
But this analysis has been slammed by Labor. Communications Minister
Critically, government funding for both projects will not influence whether the annual budget is in surplus or deficit, or Australia's official net debt. NBN Co is set up to recover its costs and generate a positive financial return, meaning the funding is treated as an investment on the budget under international accounting standards.
However, by scaling back the total cost of the NBN, and the amount of equity the government needs to inject into NBN Co, the Coalition believes it can save about $750 million over the budget forward estimates, on reduced interest costs.
The Coalition also claims its policy will result in lower household internet bills than Labor's. According to its official corporate plan, NBN Co currently expects to treble average revenue per user (ARPU) to above $60 by the time the network build is completed in 2021. It also expects wholesale internet prices to decline in both real and nominal terms, with the increase in ARPU driven by greater usage, as more and more aspects of life become connected and more and more services emerge.The Coalition says its estimated wholesale average revenue per user will be $38 in 2021. Under Labor, prices will be uniform nationally, with a cross subsidy from the cities to the bush. Under the Coalition, prices could be lower in the cities than in the bush due to increased competition.
Labor's plan for a government-funded national network was born out of a single, over-riding principle: remove Telstra's stranglehold on the telecommunications sector. In another surprising political consensus, both parties now support the structural separation of Telstra, whose retail and wholesale arms will be kept at arm's length during the NBN rollout and beyond.
Under Labor's policy, NBN Co will effectively replace Telstra as Australia's fixed-line telecommunications monopoly. Under an $11 billion-plus deal nutted out between the government and NBN Co, Telstra will hand over all its cable broadband and copper internet customers to NBN Co's newer network. Optus has also struck an $800 million deal to shut down its cable network and transfer customers on to the NBN.
Labor's network will become the only way of connecting to the internet without mobile access in most areas in the future, a prospect the government trumps as enabling it to keep down costs and plan for future services.
The Coalition's proposal is focused on retaining competition for internet services, at least in the short term. Telstra's cable network, built to deliver Foxtel but already capable of delivering 100 Mbps, would be allowed to continue offering broadband services. The network passes 2.7 million homes and is said to have about 600,000 active customers. Telstra's cable network will form a plank in the Coalition's promise to make speeds of at least 25 Mbps available to all Australians by the end of its first term in government.
Optus's network overlaps with Telstra's in many areas. It passes 2.4 million homes with about 400,000 active customers. However, both Telstra's and Optus's networks will eventually be overbuilt with the Coalition's preferred fibre technology. Despite Turnbull describing NBN Co's deal with Optus as "shockingly anti-competitive", his plan now assumes that the contract will be kept in place.
Privatisation plans and effect on Telstra shareholders
The NBN will be in public hands for the foreseeable future under either party. Under Labor's plan, NBN Co could prepare for an initial public offering five years after the network is completed, and following a vote in both houses of parliament. There has been speculation by analysts that the Coalition could seek private sector equity investment at an earlier stage of the project. But both Abbott and Turnbull all but ruled that out in the week.
"Ours certainly ultimately will go back into the private sector," Abbott said. "But it won't go into the private sector until it's ready for sale. At the moment, there's nothing to sell."
The Greens, who may hold the balance in the Senate, have called for the NBN to remain in public hands for the long term.
For Telstra's 1.4 million retail shareholders, the NBN has long been a source of considerable anxiety. Under Labor policy, Telstra will receive payments it estimated in 2011 to be worth $11 billion, for leasing its tunnels, ducts and exchanges, and migrating its customers off copper and on to the NBN as it is rolled out. The deal will help Telstra generate a war chest of up to $3 billion by mid-2015, when it could raise its dividend, buy back shares or pursue acquisitions.
Turnbull in the week confirmed that while the Telstra deal would be renegotiated, shareholders would be "kept whole". Abbott noted that Telstra would be paid more quickly if the rollout is faster, as the Coalition is planning.
"We aren't interested in going to war with Telstra," he said. "I think we've seen too much conflict between government and Telstra in the past. We want to work constructively with Telstra and the other telcos."
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Lord Norton of Louth asked the Chairman of Committees:
What consideration has been given to the recommendation of the Select Committee on the Constitution (12th Report, 200304, HL150) that the two Houses establish a Joint Committee on regulation. [HL595]
The Chairman of Committees (Lord Brabazon of Tara): The establishment of a Joint Committee is not a matter for this House alone. The first step is for the Liaison Committee to consider whether it agrees with the proposal in principle. If the Liaison Committee does wish to establish a Joint Committee, negotiations with the Commons would then proceed.
Since the publication of the report, I have been in correspondence on this matter with the chairman of the Select Committee on the Constitution. As I have already notified him, he will be invited to attend the Liaison Committee to support the proposal when it next meets, which is expected to be shortly before the Summer Recess.
Lord Judd asked Her Majesty's Government:
What priority they will give to generating support for an International Arms Trade Treaty with the aim of alleviating suffering in Africa and other conflict-stricken parts of the world, during the forthcoming G8 heads of state meeting. [HL456]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Lord Triesman): One of the Government's main priorities for the G8 2005 summit attended by heads of state and government are to agree a comprehensive plan to address the complex problems within Africa. To be successful, this must include measures that will help build peace and create security across the continent. The Government believe that a legally binding international treaty covering the trade in conventional weapons would be an important step in tackling the problems caused by irresponsible proliferation of arms. We will raise this issue in discussions with our G8 partners including at the meeting of G8 Foreign Ministers taking place on 23 June.
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Lord Triesman: In accordance with Article 53 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the contracting states undertake to abide by the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The European Commission's 2004 regular report on Turkey's progress towards accession notes that Turkey has made increased efforts since 2002 to comply with the decisions of the ECtHR. Following the ECtHR ruling that the trial of Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan had not been fair, the Turkish Government confirmed that in this case too, Turkey would comply with the ECtHR judgment, and would reopen the case file to see whether the ECHR violations could have affected the verdict. The Turkish Foreign Minister indicated that any re-examination of the case would be conducted in a manner acceptable to the Committee of Ministers, whose role it is to oversee the implementation of court judgments, and who will consider the case in July. We will continue to follow developments.
Lord Harris of Haringey asked Her Majesty's Government:
What has been their response to the advice from the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre that agencies involved in the critical national infrastructure should stop using Microsoft Internet Explorer because of its security weaknesses. [HL352]
The Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Scotland of Asthal): NISCC has not so advised.
Baroness Byford asked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the Written Answer by the Baroness Scotland of Asthal on 7 June (WA 50), how many students on the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme failed to return to their country of origin for each of the years 2000 to 2004. [HL445]
Baroness Scotland of Asthal: Information is only available for 2004 in relation to SAWS students who left their employment before they were expected to or about whom employers had doubts as to whether they would leave the UK. Of a total of 22,901 SAWS work cards issued, 154 students fell into this category.
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Lord Astor of Hever asked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the Written Answer by the Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Mr Alan Ingram, on 26 May 2004 (Official Report, Commons, 1696W), how many prisoners were (a) held by the United Kingdom forces; (b) brought into United Kingdom custody; and (c) transferred to United States custody, each week from 1 December 2003 to 28 June 2004 [HL253]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Drayson): Prior to December 2003, all persons taken into custody by United Kingdom forces were held by the US at Camp Bucca, in southern Iraq. During December those internees were transferred to the UK's divisional temporary detention facility (DTDF) at Shaibah logistics base in southern Iraq, and the figures given from January onwards refer to internees held at that location. However, during December, internees taken into custody by the UK may have spent a short period in Camp Bucca prior to transfer to the DTDF on or around 18 December 2003. From the end of December 2003 to 28 June 2004, no internees were transferred to US custody.
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|109 (in US Custody)
|Week ending 8 Dec 2003
|111 (in US Custody)
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|110 (in US Custody)
|Week ending 22 Dec 2003
|Week ending 27 Dec 2003
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These figures are based on the best available data; it is evident that some theatre records contain inaccuracies.
Lord Astor of Hever asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they foresee adverse consequences for United Kingdom-based defence companies in the Defense Bill now before the United States Congress; and what steps they are taking to encourage a balanced view on these issues on the part of Members of Congress. [HL325]
Lord Drayson: It is vital that the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom and United States operate effectively together. This can only happen if UK and US defence industries can continue to work closely together.
We are concerned at any proposals for protectionist provisions that would damage this important relationship. As we have done previously we will continue to work with the US Administration to counter protectionism and welcome the recent statement from the White House. We will continue to make the Government's views known to Members of Congress.
The Countess of Mar asked Her Majesty's Government:
How many inquests remain to be heard in relation to members of Her Majesty's Armed Forces who lost their lives as a result of the 199091 Gulf War and military duties in Iraq since 2003; and what are the reasons for the delays. [HL446]
Lord Drayson: No inquests remain to be heard resulting from the 199091 Gulf War. We understand that 77 remain outstanding since 2003. All investigations into deaths abroad take time to resolve; deaths in operational situations take proportionally longer. Delays have also arisen from pressure on the Oxfordshire coroner, since all bodies are repatriated to RAF Brize Norton.
The Government have assured him that the funds he has requested will be made available and this should not cause further delay.
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Robert Medina had a good job working in corporate security when he set his sights on law school as a way to help his community at Zia Pueblo.
Last February, his goal was met when he became the tribe's first-ever tribal judge trained in the law. When he graduates in May, the position will become full time and he will continue in earnest his efforts to develop a separate judicial system for the pueblo.
"I'm excited and anxious to get started because I know that people with pending cases want a resolution, they want to move on," he says. "Some of these misdemeanor cases go back at least a year." Initially, he will hold court in the tribal council chambers, but would like to see a courtroom built eventually.
Another priority is to revise the pueblo's law and order code: "It is the same one the BIA gave us in the 1960s and is not based on tribal values," he says.
Medina was a tribal police officer in 2000, the only one with a home phone, when he decided to begin his journey toward law school. He earned two associate degrees at CNM, then a B.S. in criminology at UNM.
At the UNM School of Law, he has concentrated on economic development. "Even if we create the best judicial system for our community, we will still need money to operate it," he says.
"I have gained a good foundation in understanding codes and regulations, which will help me as I create a new tribal code," he says. "And I know my new laws will be challenged, so I need to be sure they withstand those challenges.
"The law school also has taught me where to look for answers and has helped me to see both sides of an argument," he says.
Medina will work closely with the tribal council in revamping the law and order code, making sure it better reflects the tribe's values.
"I have to live with the tribal members who will come before me, and I will use the judicial system to help with social problems, as well," he says. "I'm pleased that the dream I had is becoming a reality and I look forward to moving the pueblo forward."


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