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Korean Housewares Showcase 2013 U.S.A. – Discover Korea's Latest Tabletop, Cookware & Kitchen Essentials
The Korea International Trade Association (KITA) is delighted to announce the continuation of its Showcase Series; the Korean Housewares Showcase 2013. This showcase is held both online and offline for a limited time in order to provide new and exclusive sourcing, trade, and partnership opportunities for U.S. companies, and the online showcase will be held October 21st to November 15th, 2013, while the offline physical showroom in New York City will be held from October 30th to November 7th.
The Korean Housewares Showcase 2013 is designed as a virtual and physical by appointment-only showcase event for U.S.-based retail buyers, merchandisers, sourcing teams, wholesalers / distributors, and manufacturers in order to provide exclusive access to a diverse range of emerging Korea-designed kitchenware, cookware, and other kitchen essentials this year. Attendees of the event will gain exclusive access to 20 of the top and emerging Korean kitchen product manufacturers and their vast offerings and latest technologies.
Preview the exciting and new products and trends in cookware, kitchen essentials, tableware products, food preparation and even fixtures firsthand. Connect with Korean manufacturers that can provide outstanding quality and product design capabilities that can help to develop new business and revenue opportunities in the Kitchenware industry and market. From an array of colorful and vibrant home kitchen products, commercial grade products, tabletop products, to even a Red Dot Design Award winner; the Korean Kitchenware Showcase 2013 is sure to offer its attendees new ideas as well as trade and partnership opportunities that are ordinarily challenging to come by.
The Korean Housewares Showcase 2013 event will be hosted both online and in-person at the New York City showroom.
Online Product Showroom
Attendees can participate in the event from anywhere in the world from October 21st to November 15th, 2013. For those with interest in working with the Korean manufacturer or with any other questions; inquiries can be made directly to the manufacturers at Tradekorea.com. Tradekorea.com is KITA's international B2B marketplace, where buyers and Korean companies can connect from all around the globe. Click here to learn more about our exhibitors.
New York City Showroom
The New York City Showroom will be on display from October 30th to November 15th, 2013. The Showroom viewing is a free admission and on an appointment-basis and those that are in the New York City local area are encouraged to attend in order to review and experience the latest products firsthand. A KITA representative will be available at the showroom in order to curate the products as well as provide additional information. Pre-registration is mandatory, and registration / appointments can be signed up here.
|– Date : October 21 (Mon) – November 15, 2013 (Fri)
|– Date: October 30 (Wed) – November 7 (Thu)
|– Website : TradeKorea.com
|– Location : KITA New York, 460 Park Avenue, 4th floor, New York, NY 10022 (Near 57th street)
|– Fee : Complimentary
|– Fee : Complimentary
Note : (1) From November 9th to the 12th, products will be exhibited at the IHMRS(International Hotel, Motel + Restaurant Show), the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in NYC. (2) Korean Housewares Showcase 2013 is open ONLY to the industry professionals. If you have any questions or need assistance, please feel free to contact us.
- Namm focuses on ceramic products with creative and sustainable designs. Their line of products include Kling, Kazabue, High heel, VOU, and Digilog. KlING is a mug composed of an upper and lower body and the shape of the handle was designed to provide a sense of a stable grip for enhanced usage. <download brochure>
- 7bee, a handmade ceramic brand that produces unique and attractively designed handmade cups and infusers. 7'bee's advanced porcelain products, such as white porcelain, sintered at temperatures above 1280 degree offer excellent durability. Utilizing artesian processes such as hand painting and sculpting; 7'bee specializes in high quality and uniquely designed products. <download brochure>
- Kwangjuyo is an iconic Korean porcelain manufacturer that produces elegant dinnerware masterpieces with a modern touch using traditional methods and glazes. Kwangjuyo inherits the spirit of Kwangju Kiln that used to create ceramics to the Korean royal families over centuries. Using natural materials and a hand crafting process, Kwnagjuyo aims to not only continue its fine tradition of reflecting natural beauty, but to also interpret traditional patterns and materials of ceramics with a modern sensibility. <download brochure>
- Another Ceramic expands on the traditional concepts of ceramic tableware, and has been recognized for its uniqueness through humorous and creative thinking for every day products. A wall frame becomes a dish on the table, and the dish becomes a picture on the table. This tableware is in the form of frame, but the Korean lacquer technique allows to safely use as dinning ware as well. <download brochure>
- Yedam uses traditional Korean pottery design as their inspiration along with naturalism, and delivering fine modern products with reasonable value for everyday use. Yedam focuses on serving safe, eco-friendly tableware to families at an affordable price point, attracting consumers around the world. <download brochure>
- The motif of Moum is Korea traditional pottery design using elegant and simple shapes. Using the various color-glazes, which Moum continuously develops; all Moum potteries are hand crafted focusing on providing unique and beautiful products for everyday living.
- Kottam represents the Korean tradition, and offer unique pottery lines and designs. Kottam uses silk material to maximize the whiteness of the core medium, as well as integrating blue-glaze and opaque white-glaze in order to emphasize the added aesthetics. Their lines include tableware, covered box, lighting, vase, and wall art. <download brochure>
- My home shopping has launched a line of products that feature die-casted aluminum, eco-friendly ceramic coating, and stand type handle lid. My home shopping specializes in ceramic coating that withstands PFOA, which can be generated while being heated, and also resistant to higher heat temperatures. <download brochure>
- Euromade Korea is specialized in dies casting, manufacturing, coasting, and heat-resist handling for pans and pots. The surface of the products sustains the non-stick and unique holographic mineral coatings in order to improve durability. Utilizing refined high purity ceramic, the products do not contain any metal substances. <download brochure>
- Hanil has manufactured the high quality cookware for professional and commercial markets since 1962. Over 50 years of in the manufacturing, Hanil has researched and developed major cookware products worldwide in order to produce the best quality stainless cookware with bonded layers. <download brochure>
- Silvat Korea is a cookware manufacture, uses high-purified aluminum sheet with advanced production facilities and technology. The products are hard anodized inside for abrasion resistance and maintain integrity under high temperature.
- Kheo Sung World has manufactured with remarkable progress in the fields of household products, water & air purifier systems and various fine ceramics since 1984. Fine ceramic coated cookware has 8 hours hardness duration, which is twice more durable than normal coating products. Korean King uses eco-friendly materials that prevent the emission of PFOA, Lead, Cadmium, Melamine, and other toxins.
- Quantum by Plus produces 'Kitchen Icicle,' a new form of kitchen tools that can eliminate the inconvenience that can occur while cooking. Kitchen Icicle is a set of four kitchen utensils that can hang from a specially mounted steel plate. Moreover, the unique design of the product allows its space in harmony with the kitchen interior design. <download brochure>
[Kitchen Essentials & Others]
- JM Green develops housewares products based on advanced technology and concepts for today's lifestyles. The freezing container / tray 'RRE Soak!' has been incorporated with special characteristics that enables users to store various food and ingredients in suitable sizes for cooking at a later time. <download brochure>
- Kumho Co. produces a fruit and vegetable cleaner 'Ansimine' used for cleaning raw, unprepared produce. With 99.9% sterilization power, 'Ansimine' not only removes food poison causing bacteria, fungus, and other microorganisms as well as eliminating pathogenic bacteria offering one of the the safest way to enjoy produce in raw or cooked forms. <download brochure>
- J&C Co. produces a permanent use silicone-based Multi Wrap 'Easy-Home' that can be used in the refrigerator, freezer, and microwave, and can withstand temperature ranges from -40 degrees to 180 degrees. Easy Home's product also features Anti-ultraviolet radiation and long-term usage; useful for the outdoor life. <download brochure>
- Shinil Global is a manufacturer of effective eco-friendly cleaning products such as scrubber, multi purpose cloth, sponge cloth, stainless steel scourers, and brass scrubber. Shinil Global supply diversified and durable products that can be used anywhere in kitchen, bathroom, garden, and etc. <download brochure>
- SP Sink produces eco- friendly Sanitary Perfect Sink, which eliminates the use of the rubber packing. It automatically cleans the drain in the sink to restrain the propagation of germs. SP Sink aims not only to reduce environmental pollution but also to cut Sink maintenance costs. SP Sink obtained the international patents among U.S., China, and Russia and has been reviewed for the patent applications in Japan, Brazil, and Indonesia.
- Chang sung Silicone Corporation has been manufactured the silicone and rubber containers since 1978. Chang sun Silicone Co. is proud of presenting their best selling product, Power Lock, which has acquired the patents of its 'one touch method' and silicone cover that is different from other existing airtight containers. As Chang sung Silicone's continuous effort of developing better product, obtained domestic and overseas patents in U.S., Japan, China and Europe. <download brochure>
- Royal Severes has developed and launched quality products from top global brands such as Lenox, Villeroy & Boch, Narumi, Royaldulton, Mark & Spencer, Ittala, and Mikasa for more than 20 years. Royal Severes is proud to introduce its latest innovation, the Ceramic Baby Bottle, which is formed through the intensive refinement of the pure natural materials. This eco-friendly, high quality product has been developed with a focus on eliminating the weak area of Plastic or Glass Material Body on current products. Royal Severes brings a ceramic feeding bottle that is free of endocrine-disrupting chemicals, offers excellent heat resistance, and boasts supreme durability. <download brochure>


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At The Village at Sherman Oaks retirement community, wellness is a way of life. Owned and operated by Solana Beach-based Senior Resource Group (SRG), The Village at Sherman Oaks, like all SRG communities, are proud proponents of Fitness Matters, SRG's signature wellness program that provides residents the programs, amenities, resources and motivation to live healthy, active and enjoyable lives.
In the company's 20-year experience, SRG has found that the combination of a supportive atmosphere, first-class resources, and a service-enriched lifestyle has significantly aided in the personal fulfillment and longevity of residents' lives.
To improve your health and well-being, consider these practical lifestyle tips:
Get up and go! With just 30 minutes of movement three days a week like walking, chair aerobics or aquacizing, seniors can reduce stress and risks of disease while also increasing their endurance, flexibility and mobility.
Indulge a little. It has been scientifically proven that dark chocolate has significant health benefits. Dark chocolate includes flavonoids that act as antioxidants and can protect the body from aging, as well as help lower blood pressure and cholesterol.
Eat your fruits and veggies. The same beneficial flavonoids found in dark chocolate are also found in many vegetables and fruits. Plus, scientists believe that flavonoids may also lower risk for cardiovascular disease and some types of cancer.
Play. Games are not only entertaining, they are a great way to challenge your mind and keep it sharp. Give Sunday's crossword puzzle or an electronic game (like Wii) a try; playing will help increase your brain's speed, function and memory.
The Village at Sherman Oaks includes 239 luxury independent and assisted living residences as well as a wealth of services and amenities. Residents also enjoy numerous resort-style features including: The Village Restaurant, open 12 hours daily, a fully equipped fitness center, The Albers Theater, Internet lounge, bank, market, mailroom, arts and crafts room, library, club lounge, bistro bar, swimming pool and spa, a full-service beauty salon, and secure underground parking.
Residency at The Village at Sherman Oaks is available for a nominal one-time community service fee and an on-going monthly fee that includes a complimentary full breakfast plus choice of lunch or dinner daily; weekly housekeeping and flat linen laundry service; all utilities (except phone) including basic cable TV, heating, air conditioning, water, sewer, and trash removal; 24-hour emergency call system; and scheduled transportation. A full calendar of social, cultural, educational, and recreational activities and programs are also available to residents opting for an independent living lifestyle.
For more information or to schedule a personal appointment, call The Village at Sherman Oaks at (818) 994-7900 or visit the community website at www.srgseniorliving.com.

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Now, here is what you call a little-known fact. Billionaire Warren Buffett, the world's third-richest man and one of the most successful investors of all time – the "Oracle of Omaha" – got his start as an amusement machine operator.
As a kid still in high school, Buffett purchased used pinball machines and operated them with a partner under the auspices of their very own route, Wilson Coin-Op. The year was 1946 and Buffett was 15 years old. Reportedly, Buffett and his pal purchased their first pinball game for $25, installing it in a barbershop. They soon had three machines in different locations.
Actually, coin-op was only one of many ambitious boyhood ventures of Buffett. He also sold cans of soda, by hand, at age six (apparently he couldn't afford a vending machine at the time). As a teenager, Buffett worked two newspaper routes, and used his paper-route earnings to acquire 40 acres of farmland (which he rented to farmers).
Now, the obvious question: how did Buffett evolve from a nickel-and-dime amusement operator into a net worth of $52 billion? And what lesson can today's amusements industry members learn from his success?
Reporter John Canzano recently penned a story for The Oregonian newspaper, asking the same sorts of questions as they relate to the success of Oregon State's outstanding college baseball program. (As an aside, this raises the obvious question of whether Warren Buffett played ball as a kid. Canzano doesn't say, but it's hard to imagine this hard-charging entrepreneur devoting time to anything as unprofitable as Little League, even at age 10.)
According to Canzano, along with many others who have studied the sage of Omaha, "Buffett's fundamental investing philosophy centers around investing [only] in what you understand." Obviously, the most successful business people in the amusements industry follow this wise counsel. Operators and distributors take one or two units of an intriguing machine that embodies a brand new concept, and test it. The real pros don't merely wait to see how the cashbox performs, but how the entire product works.
Next, wrote Canzano, "When Buffett acquires controlling interest in a new company, he insists on not being involved in the day-to-day operations. He only wants to hire and set the salary of the Chief Executive Officer, then give the manager the creative room to perform at a high level."
At first glance, this is not an option for most operators, who are sole proprietors or who have, at most, one or two employees. Yet even a business owner who has just one employee should give that person full authority over their area of responsibility. It's worth noting that the largest amusement operators do follow this Buffett "hands-off" credo, as well. There is a sign on the desk of Dick Hawkins, a past-president of the Amusement and Music Operators Association, given to him as a joke gift (but with a serious message) from his employees at D&R Star in Rochester, MN. The sign reads: "The business runs better when the Hawk isn't here."
Third, continued Canzano, Buffett still does his own tax return. Meaning, he remains intimately involved in his personal financials, even if he doesn't micromanage the companies that he owns or invests in. Not overlooking the basics, and not getting too self-important for crucial details, are the lessons here. And it's why even the outstanding CEOs of the world's largest amusement machine manufacturers insist on visiting locations and chatting with players and location owners on a regular basis. They do not attempt to run corporate empires from some ivory tower.
Canzano concluded with this thought: "Why is Buffett one of the world's richest men? You're going to hear people suggest [that the answer has] something to do with miracle working, or being an oracle or prophet, or luck. The truth is it's far more fundamental than any of that. Simplicity, combined with philosophy, wrapped in an unpretentious package."


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BIC Group Board Of Directors Visits Minnesota Operations
Norwood & BIC Graphic North America (UPIC: BIC) recently hosted a BIC Group Board of Directors Meeting. The board meeting was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 23-25 and included in-depth tours of the Norwood & BIC Graphic facilities in nearby Red Wing and Sleepy Eye.
The board is led by Bruno Bich, chairman, and Mario Guevara, CEO, and includes several Bich family members as well as high-ranking executives of external companies. Traditionally, the BIC Group board of directors meets six times a year and from time to time includes a visit to a BIC operation.
On April 24, the board visited Norwood & BIC Graphic's Publishing Operation in Sleepy Eye. The site manufactures both custom and imprinted calendars, notebooks and journals as well as the line of BIC® Sticky Notes. The following day, the board toured the Hard Goods operation in Red Wing, where products such as bags, drinkware and awards are imprinted using more than 20 different technologies, and where Norwood britePix™ is based.
"We were very pleased to see the U.S. promotional products operations first-hand," says Bich. "The complexity of the variety of technologies and products is truly impressive. The plants were well organized and the employees we met showed tremendous enthusiasm and pride.
"Our commitment to BIC APP and the industry remains strong. We know that there have been service issues due to the recent reorganization and ERP implementation, and we apologize for the inconvenience it created for our customers. However, I am confident we will prove ourselves again to be a top supplier with impeccable service."


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I am typically not such a big football fan, but we love getting together with friends and hope to do it again this year. One of the biggest problems with gatherings of this sort, however, is that typically they're loaded with GMO corn chips, dips made with fake cheese, and sugar-filled desserts.In the interest of helping my family and yours have some better options, I've pulled together this ...Read The Full Post
Healthy Super Bowl Recipes – gluten-free & dairy-free
Garlic and Chive Sunflower Seed Cheese ~ dairy and soy-free
{My son has had life-threatening food allergies since he was born - and one of them is to dairy. I've had to work hard to make dairy-free alternatives for him like Easiest Homemade Coconut Milk, Easiest Almond Milk, dairy-free ice cream, this Whipped Cream Substitute and rice milk. Dairy free cheese has been one of the hardest things to come by for him. This almond feta recipe has served us ...Read The Full Post
Grain-Free, Egg-Free Paleo Meatballs with Dairy-Free Mushroom Sauce
{If you're on the paleo diet or have food allergies to dairy or egg, making meatballs can be a chore. My mom's Homemade Spaghetti and Meatballs was one of my favorite childhood meals. My mom would simmer the sauce all day and then would serve us a bunch on a piece of bread when it was almost done.....Mmmmmm...Well, my son is deathly allergic to dairy and egg whites, and we are also ...Read The Full Post
"Dorito®" Popcorn – dairy-free, gluten-free, vegan
Today I'm sharing with you one of our favorite snack recipes--Dorito® Popcorn!If you've been around my blog, or my family, for awhile, you know that we love popcorn - I've got a bunch of homemade popcorn recipes on my site from nut buttery popcorn to one our faves (with an unusual origin)--Surprisingly Good Seasoned Popcorn. And of course there is basic popcorn for the popcorn purist. ...Read The Full Post
Pizza Dip (Pizza Hummus) – dairy and sesame free
I have a real treat for your today if you like hummus, bean dip, and pizza and if you're looking for a healthy snack to add to your family's repertoire.A hummus recipe that is--well, pizza hummus. Or pizza dip. Or just a great tangy, spicy hummus recipe.Or just plain yum. ...Read The Full Post
On the Road with Special Diets ~ and Focaccia Flax Bread (gluten-free with vegan option) {Balanced Platter}
Are you or a loved one on a special diet?If so, you know how hard it can be to travel.Stopping at fast food places, eating at restaurants, and the like can be very difficult.Whether or not you are on or know someone on a special diet, join me today over at The Balanced Platter where I'm sharing some of my favorite foods to take on the road (not that we get there very often ...Read The Full Post
Easy Fruit Dip | Dessert Sauce (low carb, dairy and sugar-free)
I love dips. Veggie dips. Fruit dips. Hummus. Bean Dips.My son doesn't really like dip, but he will eat my dips on rice, plain, or spread them on breads and such.As I mentioned on my Facebook page a few days ago, I was working on an Almond Butter Dip.Anyhow, it was a complete success. In fact, I couldn't really keep out of it yesterday. ...Read The Full Post
Healthy Superbowl Food Galore!
So the Superbowl is this weekend and you are scrambling to have some healthy options to munch on or serve to your guests.The truth is, we may or may not be watching the Superbowl this year. We are really an ice hockey family and we get our fair share (or actually, much more than that) of sports each year (especially in the winter season) without football being added to it.But if we can ...Read The Full Post
Crunchy Kale Chips Recipe – Veggies Your Kids Will Love
In this world of "fake fruit snacks" and sugar-laden treats, I am always looking for healthy snack recipes to feed my family (and myself). These no-bake cookies, Homemade Protein Bars, and Homemade Gummy Snacks are favorites around here, but sometimes I want something that isn't a sweet treat.This kale chips recipe fits the bill plus it's a great way to use up extra leafy greens from your ...Read The Full Post
"The Best" Homemade Salsa – Recipe
Looking for a great homemade salsa recipe?Remember my post about our weekend of processing and storing tomatoes?This year, being the vegetable freaks that we have become, planted a large garden and also bought into a local CSA as a "back up."Well, our CSA farmer offered us a TON about 120 pounds of tomatoes (see the beautiful mix of reds, yellows and oranges in the bowl?) this past ...Read The Full Post


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Miley Cyrus Calls Performing With Madonna 'Super Lame'
If you somehow haven't heard by now, Miley Cyrus performed with Madonna for MTV Unplugged because truly we bear witness to the End of Days. (Forgive me, AJ McCarron, for I know not what I do.) Except keeping with her new tradition of pissing in the face of industry vets, Miley Cyrus is already done with this shit. Via HuffPost:
"So, it sounds super lame, but as a pop star it's pretty cool performing with Madonna," the 21-year-old said after singing a mash-up of Madonna's 2000 track "Don't Tell Me" and Cyrus' hit "We Can't Stop." Cyrus spanks the 55-year-old Queen of Pop during the duet, which made Madonna's Britney Spears kiss feel like it was way more than 10 years ago.
"I mean, I guess it's cool, sort of, that Madonna wanted to do it even though she's old and everyone's into me now, but whatever, I'm like young and shit, you know? Although it is kind of nice to do her a favor. Like when you go over to your grandma's house and help her do the dishes. Right, Madge-ina?"
"USURPER!" *spreads wings, unsheathes the ancient bloodsword Shalamonga, cleaves Miley in two*
(If that isn't what actually happened, don't tell me. I'm fragile right now.)
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In the Middle Ages, many works of art like paintings and sculpture and tapestry were unsigned. It wasn't the name of the artist that mattered anyway. It was the art object itself. The artist wasn't the center of attention. What he was tying to communicate was.
Today, some people are famous for being famous, like Paris Hilton or Donald Trump, who is also famous for his hair and for pretending to be a businessman. Some art is popular for being inscrutable, or meaning whatever the observer wants it to mean. This is a good deal for mediocre artists, who don't have to put any thought into their creation. But it makes for mediocre art. That's not to say that every piece of art should teach a lesson or tell a story. But sometimes a soup can is just a soup can. And there is nothing divine or sublime about chicken soup.
A barrel of oil, on the other hand, is always a barrel of oil, no matter how you paint it. The price, however, does change with perception. Crude oil is back over $58. But here we suggest the perception is finally catching up with reality. Maybe the cold weather sobered up oil traders in New York to the long-term realities of oil demand and oil supply. Or maybe oil was just over sold. Or maybe the 3.5% fourth quarter GDP growth in the U.S. is spurring the belief of increased energy demand in 2007. Or maybe all of the above. Whatever the case may be, you haven't seen the last of higher oil prices.
Has Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) become an unelected branch of the American government? And if so, is this a good thing for investors? Henry Paulson, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, comes from Goldman. George Bush's chief of staff, Josh Bolten, is (or was, or will be again) a Goldman man. The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Jeffrey Rueben, has a Goldman background. And the former director of the White House National Economic Council, Stephen Friedman, was with Goldman before he left for the White House. He's back at Goldman now.
Maybe working at Goldman uniquely qualifies a man to run the finances of the American government. Robert Rubin, a Goldman through and through, is the case study in favour of letting private bankers run public finances. But let's not forget that Goldman is a money-shuffler, trading paper for profits and clipping tickets to bring the public what it wants, more stocks, although these days Goldman makes more money trading for itself than brining companies public.
Take Goldman's Global Alpha fund, a $10 billion hedge fund for friends and family of the Goldman elite. Last year the fund generated about $700 million in fees for the company. Not bad for a year in which the fund lost six percent. But that was the first loss since 1990. Generally, Goldman's own are well-served by the Alpha fund and its manager Mark Carhart.
"Carhart, a former assistance professor of finance at the University of Southern California, helps oversee other hedge funds, for mutual funds, and scores of other accounts," according to Richard Teitelbaum at Bloomberg. "In all he and [his co-manager] Iwanowski have $101.5 billion at their command. Carhart and Iwanowski use math-heavy trading tactics that fund consultant Sol Waksman likens to counting cards in a casino. The two lead a corps of computer-loving traders, statisticians, and finance and economic Ph.D.s."
Great. We're not saying the Bush administration has been taken over by traders at Goldman Sachs who live to make each other rich by counting cards. That would be too obvious and clumsy and innaccurate. But we are wondering if what's good for Goldman is really good for anybody else but Goldman. It only really matters if what's good for Goldman somehow becomes the main force behind U.S. monetary and fiscal policy. And our study of history shows that central banks usually do what is good for the private banks that make up central bank governing boards. The are exceptions, but they are, by definition, exceptional.
Of course the guys running the Alpha fund probably don't care much about America's twin deficits. They are out seeking Global Alpha, wherever they can find it. And in that sense, they are in the vanguard of this modern version of American capitalism that makes money allocating capital and evaluating risk. So good have times been for Carhart and crew that he's comfortable telling a room full of investors that Warren Buffet has it all wrong.
Maybe Carhart is right. But we remember the last time people on Wall Street felt bold enough to knock Buffett off the pedestal he's occupied as "the world's greatest investor." It was in December 1999, when Barron's ran a cover story titled, "What's Wrong Warren?"
The article began, "after more than 30 years of unrivaled investment success, Warren Buffett may be losing his magic touch…Buffett, who turns 70 in 2000, is viewed by an increasing number of investors as too conservative, even passé. Buffett, Berkshire's chairman and chief executive, may be the world's greatest investor, but he hasn't anticipated or capitalized on the boom in technology stocks in the past few years."
That article was published on December 27th of 1999. Six days earlier Berkshire's A shares traded for the meager sum of US$58,400. They closed yesterday over $110,000. If you're scoring at home, that's a 90% pre-tax return. In that same time, the Dow is up 15%. And the tech-stock laded Nasdaq? It's down twenty-two percent since then.
We're not saying Carhart is wrong. Frankly, we don't understand most of what he's up to. But he does remind us of Crassus. That minor in history is paying off yet again. Crassus was a rich Roman who managed to buy his way into government, eventually forming a triumvirate with Julius Caesar and Pompey. Later, Crassus overreached on a military expedition east of the Euphrates and had his head cut off by the Parthians, but not before they poured gold down his throat. Gold: it's not just ancient money.
Crassus made his fortune, ironically, in silver and real estate. You might call him a buyer of distressed assets. His slave brigades would chase their way to house fires around Rome, buying up the property after the fire at low prices. We're not sure this is the origin of the term fire-sale, but you get the idea.
Crassus bought low, sold high, and used his gold to gain power. Eventually, his ambition exceeded his good sense and cost him his head. Plutarch, who chronicled the ambition, folly, comedy, and tragedy of Rome's leading politicians and thieves (often, if not always, one and the same), has more to say about Crassus and his wealth-building ways.
"Moreover, observing how extremely subject the city was to fire and falling down of houses, by reason of their height and their standing so near together, he bought slaves that were builders and architects, and when he had collected these to the number of more than five hundred, he made it his practice to buy houses that were on fire, and those in the neighbourhood, which, in the immediate danger and uncertainty the proprietors were willing to part with for little or nothing, so that the greatest part of Rome, at one time or other, came into his hands.
"Yet for all he had so many workmen, he never built anything but his own house, and used to say that those that were addicted to building would undo themselves soon enough without the help of other enemies. And though he had many silver mines, and much valuable land, and labourers to work in it, yet all this was nothing in comparison of his slaves, such a number and variety did he possess of excellent readers, amanuenses, silversmiths, stewards and table-waiters, whose instruction he always attended to himself, superintending in persons, while they learned, and teaching them himself, accounting it the main duty of a master to look over the servants that are, indeed, the living tools of housekeeping; and in this, indeed, he was in the right, in thinking, that is, as he used to say, that servants ought to look after all other things, and the master after them.
"For economy, which in things inanimate is but money-making, when exercised over men becomes policy. But it was surely a mistaken judgment, when he said no man was to be accounted rich that could not maintain an army at his own cost and charges, for war, as Archidamus well observed, is not fed at a fixed allowance, so that there is no saying what wealth suffices for it, and certainly it was one very far removed from that of Marius; for when he had distributed fourteen acres of land a man, and understood that some desired more, "God forbid," said he, "that any Roman should think that too little which is enough to keep him alive and well."


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Cruise with Your Favorite Band
Kid Rock is going to do it. Rick Springfield has done it several times. A bunch of 90's bands including Gin Blossoms, Smash Mouth, Spin Doctors, Vertical Horizon, The Verve Pipe and Sugar Ray will be doing it in October. Now, Matchbox Twenty is getting on board, too!
What do all of those bands have in common? Cruise ships.
Kid Rock's 4th Annual Chillin' The Most Cruise is March 6-10. The 90's get-together with Sugar Ray is called Mark McGrath & Friends and will set sail October 18-21. The final Rick Springfield and Friends Cruise was in 2011 and I missed it.
Another band launching their own cruise this year is Matchbox Twenty. The band's inaugural voyage will set sail on the Carnival Imagination, December 6-9 from Miami to Nassau in the Bahamas. The cruise will include several "intimate" performances, photo opps, and evening parties where the fans will get up-close and personal with the band.
Have you ever been on a celebrity cruise? What band would you like to see have it's own cruise?


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The Official Music Month Summit
The Official Music Month Summit
This Saturday marks one of the most important events in the NZ Music Month calendar and it's 100% FREE and open to the public!
The Official Music Month Summit.
With seminars on Songwriting, Artist and International Development this is an event not to be missed for all who want to gain advice from some of the most experienced in New Zealand's music industry.
To mention just a few… we will have Scott MacLachlan (Lorde, Sol3 Mio), Paul McKessar (The Naked And Famous, Brooke Fraser), Craig Pearce (The Phoenix Foundation, The Black Seeds), and Lorraine Barry (Dave Dobbyn, Glass Owls, Benny Tipene and Mark Vanilau). They will all be on hand to lend stories and advice on artist and international development.
Then a raft of songwriters will be on hand to talk of their experiences writing the songs that have made them among New Zealand's favourites - including Jamie McDell, Jordan Luck, Iva Lamkum, Paul McLaney and Shayne Carter.
The Official Music Month Summit
is being held this Saturday at the Auckland Museum
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Seattle Workers Win $15 an Hour Minimum Wage
Photo: Seattle rally for $15 an hour minimum wage. Working class mobilizations and the election of a socialist city council member were key to making this victory possible.
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Seattle Workers Win $15 an Hour Minimum Wage
by Steven Argue
Seattle workers have just won a $15 an hour minimum wage. Businesses with more than 500 employees will need to phase in the pay increase to $15 within 3 years, employers with under 500 employees will have 5 years to do it. After pay is raised, it is to be increased with a mandatory 2.4% pay increase per year, regardless of inflation. After 5 years, tips will no longer be counted as part of minimum pay and all employers will be required to pay the minimum wage, regardless of tips.
A strong movement mobilized in Seattle to bring this victory. Central to the victory was the recent election of Kshama Sawant, a socialist, to the City Council. She threatened to take the question to the voters in November if a compromise was not reached. Her referendum would have lacked any phasing in of the wage increases for big businesses and smaller businesses, with 250 employees or smaller, would have had 3 years to phase in the wage increases.
The increase will effect 102,000 workers in Seattle who are currently making less less than $15 an hour.
Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative, a group I have many disagreements with. Yet, many of her platform proposals closely resembled mine when I ran for Santa Cruz City Council in 2000 and 2002. The Seattle Times wrote of her platform, "She shunned standard Seattle issues and lasered in on three platform proposals: a millionaire's tax, a $15 an hour citywide minimum wage and rent control."
When I ran for Santa Cruz City Council I got 3,000 votes. This represented a respectable percentage in a much smaller town than Seattle. It was also respectable with me running against establishment Democrats whose backing by the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie made their budgets many orders of magnitudes higher than mine. In addition, I was slandered in the same corporate media that backed the establishment candidates. Among those establishment candidates was Mike Rotkin, a man who simultaneously claimed to be a socialist and at the same time was a Democrat opposed increasing the minimum wage, opposed rent-control, supported anti-homeless laws, supported laws against the homeless, and supported police repression and police brutality.
Mike Rotkin in fact answered my position that minimum wage should be doubled with a false air of authority saying municipalities cannot raise the minimum wage, and if they could, they on the Santa Cruz City Council would have done it long ago. This was proven a double lie when Mike Rotkin later campaigned against an increase in the minimum wage when it was put on the ballot. The measure was, unfortunately defeated in Santa Cruz, in part through threats from employers of firing workers if it was passed.
The fact that Kshama Sawant was able to win in the Seattle election reflects a growing change in the mood of the American proletariat and youth. All revolutionary socialists should take note of these development. As I've said, I have strong criticisms of the program of Kshama Sawant's party. Frankly, I do not think they are a party with a strong enough revolutionary and anti-imperialist program to transform this country to the degree that is needed. Yet, rather than the sectarian snarls common from certain groups, we should both be prepared to defend and criticize Kshama Sawant as necessary. This is not a moment for that criticism. It is rather a time to send out congratulations to the workers of Seattle for winning the highest minimum wage in this country, congratulations to Sawant for her role in that victory, and a time of applying the positive lessons of Seattle across the country. One of those key lessons is that the labor movement of Seattle broke from their traditional support to the capitalist and anti-worker Democrat Party and instead elected a working class socialist candidate. This was a key to victory.
-Steven Argue of the Revolutionary Tendency
I said Seattle workers won a higher minimum wage and technically in terms of legal formalities this is not true. My mistake was based on reports that negotiations had come up with the agreement I reported and had been announced by the mayor. I was not aware that those negotiations were of an advisory board appointed by the mayor. This was a handpicked body that contained big businesses like McDonald's and no minimum wage workers. Some negotiating bodies do make binding agreements, but I was mistaken to think this was one of them. This decision will still need to be approved by the Seattle City Council. Still, there should be little doubt that based on the decision of that advisory board and mayor the minimum wage is going up to $15 an hour, the question at this point is how fast. I was excited when I read this news and accidentally passed on mistakes contained in those early reports that I read. This was not due to any dishonesty on my part, but a mistake. I apologize for that mistake.
This decision of the advisory board and mayor is due to pressure exerted by socialist city council member Kshama Sawant and the movement for $15.
In addition, while I do think that the wage increase announced by Seattle's mayor is a major victory, there are people in Seattle saying this implementation is not fast enough. I say the faster the better, but was willing to support the increases proposed based on the fact that they are a major improvement and will serve as an inspiration across the country. I also support efforts to implement the increases faster. So I also have no problem with Kshama Sawant when she says implementation is not fast enough and pressure must be continued. I'll let Kshama Sawant explain her position:
Friday May 2nd, 2014 2:24 AM
The report put out in some media of what is just a proposal by Seattle's new mayor is in error. What Steve reports on is a position paper and not an actual law. It still must go thru Seattle city council's legislative process where among others, Kshama Savant the socialist sots. There is opposition from a coalition of large and small businesses going under the name "Coalition for Sustainable Wages", however the $15 an hour minimum wage proposal is expected to pass , hopefully with even stronger provisions than that proposed by the mayor.
Friday May 2nd, 2014 6:10 AM
I did not say this passed. The reports I read said that this was an agreement which had been struck and that almost everyone who was part of the broad negotiating body agreed to it. I should have been clearer about that.
I did, however, write this early and missed the fact that there were people involved in the negotiations who did not accept this proposal and who announced later in the day that they will be working to put $15 on the ballot with an immediate increase. To me, either way is an improvement and the decision to go ahead and put it on the ballot may be the right one, but it is a tactical decision as well.
Friday May 2nd, 2014 7:57 AM
Steven Argue: I did not say this passed.
"Seattle workers have just won a $15 an hour minimum wage."
C'mon on Steve. A little honesty, please.
Meanwhile, it's just another lousy CYA political proposal from the Mayor's advisory committee. Years to phase in, including tips and health care as wages, etc.
Not good enough. Not nearly good enough.


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Sifting through the entries for this season's Buzzie Awards, it became obvious the really good PR programs have one thing in common: They start with positioning. Positioning is the evolution of a dubious process that used to be called image-building. The difference is that positioning is reality-based. Flimflam just doesn't thrive under the bright lights of the Net.
Positioning and the Buzzies are on the agenda because last week we talked with a guy who was on the team that positioned Sun Microsystems and played a major part in positioning PowerPoint, SoundBlaster, and Homestead. He has since gone on to stake out a position in, well, PR positioning. We figured we could pick up a few pointers to pass along.
We caught up with Shel Israel, president and CEO of SIPR, a 13-person PR agency, at home, waiting for the Roto-Rooter man to clear a plugged drain. (It happens.) Shel is a deceptively simple guy. Straightforward. Smart. Chuckles a lot.
Do you do international PR? we asked.
"Not successfully. If you're really going global, get a global agency. To get on the playing field, work with a small agency."
And do what?
"Start with positioning. No company should begin to enter the marketplace until it is so well positioned every employee understands it. Use the fewest number of people to put together your positioning statement. The positioning statement shouldn't be laced with adjectives. Nothing zippy, just very simple, very clear, and defensible statements about who you are and why you are unique. It shouldn't be more than three sentences. The positioning statement has to have the focus to take you some distance."
When Shel Israel says "We think any company to succeed needs to use an integrated marketing program," you might find yourself looking down the road for the Roto-Rooter guy. But to SIPR, integrated marketing is a specific process that begins with public relations… just as PR begins with positioning.
"PR is the opening act of an integrated marketing program. Getting your positioning statement intact makes it easier to do your corporate ID and all the stuff between that and the postlaunch branding. We like to get in early, when companies are defining who they are, what they do. We used to get in before financing (chuckle) but not now."
Conventional wisdom says there's a certain critical mass a company has to reach before it can use PR. How does that square with Shel's idea that PR folks should be the first to belly up to the corporate till? It has to do with SIPR's own positioning. "What we are, really, is start-up jockeys," says Julie Rose, SIPR's business unit manager. "We live and breathe start-ups and focus on early-stage companies. We understand their challenges, their strategic and press needs."
Maybe, but the SIPR approach also works for established companies. This February, Stu Roberson, vice president of marketing for PictureWorks, hired SIPR. "We were marching toward an IPO," says Roberson, "creating new positioning for the company across the board. It was very critical that we had a clear positioning message to cut across all our marketing efforts." Powered by chutzpah, SIPR helped reposition PictureWorks as the leader of infrastructure for visual content on the web and put together a presentation showing how the Net was moving from text-based to visual content.
The argument was persuasive to publicly owned iPIX [Nasdaq: IPIX]. At the first trade show featuring the new positioning, iPIX made a preliminary offer to acquire PictureWorks. Within a few weeks, the deal was done, and SIPR had worked its way out of an account. "We were in the marketplace iPIX wanted," said Roberson. "Their specialty was in going out and collecting images. Ours was in letting visitors submit images to a site through our Rimfire product."
At SIPR even the prospective clients have to be positioned.
"For us to work with a company we have to see they have some technology," says Shel Israel. "We have to be convinced they have three things: something valuable, something newsworthy, and that we have good chemistry together. Chemistry shouldn't be played down. PR is a relationship game. If you don't feel you can share your dirty laundry with your agency, something will break down."
He could have added one more requirement. The start-up has to pony up between $20,000 and $25,000 per month in retainer fees, some part of which might be in stock. "We don't have billable hours. Our billing," says Julie Rose, "is on an all-you-can-eat flat-fee basis."
"The job of PR isn't to get you ink but credibility in the marketplace. The job is to change people's minds. There is a world out there where people are doing things the way they are. Now you want them to do something different."
Do something different… like open an integrated marketing program with positioning developed by the PR agency? Maybe. It's hard to dismiss an agency with the SIPR track record. And harder yet to dismiss a guy who is so sure of his positioning he can be interviewed while waiting for the Roto-Rooter guy.
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By Brooke Army Medical Center Public AffairsAugust 27, 2013
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Amy Beyer cradles a tiny plaster model of an infant's hand in her palm, gently sanding each crease, wrinkle and fingernail. After several moments, she takes a step back to survey her work, tilting her head and squinting slightly as she hunts for imperfections.
"They'll like this," she said at last with a sigh of relief, referring to parents who had lost their baby just weeks prior.
Beyer, a social worker in the neonatal intensive care unit, spends hours each month meticulously crafting 3-D models of hands, feet and even faces in the hopes of bringing a measure of comfort to family members who have lost a child at San Antonio Military Medical Center here.
"We do this to preserve memories for families, and to show them that we care deeply about them in their time of loss," she said.
Beyer first learned of the program while working for the NICU at Wilford Hall Medical Center in 2007. When the department moved to SAMMC in 2011, Beyer and a former co-worker, Air Force Capt. Crystal Gomez, sought to keep the program's momentum going here.
Since that time, Beyer, along with a handful of other staff members, has painstakingly created hundreds of these models -- from impressions to pouring plaster to sanding and glazing -- for babies who are born as early as 20-weeks gestation and teens up to age 17. Always striving for more lifelike perfection, she has painted fingernails a perfectly matched shade of red, carefully captured the nuances of a cherished ring or the individual curve of a tiny toenail.
"For the occasional newborns who are unable to survive their illness, our focus and purpose as care providers shifts from the baby to helping the family through the painful loss of their child," explained Air Force Lt. Col. Daniel Dirnberger, chief and director of Neonatal Medicine Services at SAMMC.
"Having a tangible 3-dimensional replica of their baby's hands and feet gives them something that photos can never satisfy," he said. "They can touch and hold their baby's hand, and it keeps their connection tangible and real."
To broaden the scope of the program, Beyer has partnered with the Department of Maxillofacial Prosthetics at SAMMC, a department skilled at making impressions and crafting models. They will assist with making the models using dental stone, a harder, more durable material than plaster and will offer a wider range of options, including blue and pink models, explained Air Force Col. Alan Sutton, director of Maxillofacial Prosthetics.
"This collaboration will improve the quality and durability of our keepsakes, and will help us help our families that much more," Dirnberger said. "This is one way that Ms. Beyer takes our perinatal loss program beyond what I see anywhere else in San Antonio and throughout the [Defense Department]."
For Beyer, the hours of meticulous work melt away when she sees the gratitude in a family member's eyes -- mixed emotions of sadness and joy. "They hold the hand or foot for the first time and point out the little creases or the toenails, and they are so happy to have something of their baby," she said.
Beyer recalls one Mom, Nikki Pinto, whose son Matteo passed away here when he was 5-and-a-half-months old. She created handprints, along with multiple 3-D models of his hands and feet -- enough to pass on to parents, grandparents and in-laws.
Pinto said she treasures her models, proudly displaying them in her curio cabinet. "I love my pictures of Matteo, but these models are something tangible I can touch and cherish," she said. "The detail is amazing; every wrinkle and fingernail is perfect.
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Formicinae, Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia
Costa Rica (throughout country in wet forest areas above 500m elevation, dropping out with other ants above 2000m; known from Cordillera de Talamanca to Cordillera de Guanacaste).
Minor worker: scapes with abundant subdecumbent, relatively long setae, and with 3-10 differentiated erect setae scattered along shaft of scape; cheeks with projecting erect setae; sides and dorsum of pronotum both flat and meeting at a rounded angle (sharper angle than JTL-010); sides of pronotum without erect setae; dorsal and posterior faces of propodeum subequal in length, flat, meeting at a distinct angle; first gastral tergite with abundant erect white or clear setae, underlying pubescence relatively sparse, fully appressed, and sharply differentiated from erect setae; integument of first gastral tergite moderately shining, feebly shagreened; color solid black.
Major worker: head all black; face coarsely granular/punctate; clypeus protruding posteromedially, strongly convex in lateral view; face and cheeks with abundant short, stiff, slightly clavate setae; head subquadrate.
May grade into cuneidorsus (see notes there).
Similar species: JTL-027, cuneidorsus, JTL-010.
Natural History
This is a very common species in mid to upper elevation wet forests. I have collected it dozens of times as foragers on low vegetation and as an opportunistic cavity nester. I often find nests in dead branches and in cavities in live branches of understory vegetation, and in reachable vegetation along road edges and stream or river edges. Nests are typically small, often with only a few dozen workers, but colonies are polydomous and thus it is difficult to say how large colonies can get.
This species is often found as an opportunistic inhabitant of ant-plants, but always as a peripheral or marginal inhabitant and not a dominant species. In surveys of Cecropia inhabitants, this species is very commonly encountered. Nests are usually in single or a few contiguous internodes, but multiple nests are often found in the same tree or sapling. Nests are very often encountered in lower internodes of Cecropia insignis and C. angustifolia saplings, while founding Azteca queens dominate the upper nodes. In montane habitats, Azteca colonies may be weak in crowns of mature C. insignis trees, and do not occur at all in mature C. angustifolia trees. In these cases Camponotus JTL-016 may be found nesting in mature trees as well, but still scattered in the crown in multiple small nests. When a C. insignis tree is occupied by an Azteca colony (usually A. xanthochroa in montane forests), Camponotus JTL-016 will often have nests in lower branches, or lower portions of branches that have Azteca in the apex.
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Magazine Editor Fired For Flashing Co-Workers A Hint Of Her New Bosoms
Many moons ago, I worked at a women's magazine (the sadly defunct Jane) that did an annual naked issue. For a prank one year, my editor dared me to go into a conference room, take off my shirt and bra, and then call in another co-worker (a good friend of mine) for a meeting and proceed like it was totally normal that I would be topless, just to see how she would react. The whole thing was completely ridiculous—and ended up being very funny in print because it took her a full minute to say anything. But, uh, I'm glad no one called human resources on us—I could have been fired on the spot. After all, according to the New York Post, a very similar thing just happened to an editor at Brides magazine. After the jump, her side of the story. This unnamed editor had recently gotten a boob job and told two of her friends in the office about it. They asked to see. So she took them in her office and unbuttoned her shirt to reveal a sports bra. "It was within the confines of my office, behind closed doors," the editor says. "There was no nudity involved. They were personal friends who I had known for years." But when word of this got out, someone reported her to human resources. Two days later, she was fired. "I was in complete and utter shock," the editor said.
This editor is, naturally, taking legal action to get her job back. After all, breast implants don't come cheap.
Now, you know how I feel about plastic surgery. But something about this case, if it happened as the editor says, just seems so wrong to me. Do you think this woman was fired for a good reason, or should this have gotten a finger wagging instead? And, uh, why would someone go to human resources with this rather than just saying, "Hey, I thought that was out of line"? [NY Post]


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This is the final cloth from Miss Angie, one she bought at the Pleasanton Flea market last year. I love the fact that it's card table size, for playing cards with the images of cards : ) From the snippy Queen of Hearts…
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1. Find a cute cloth (or create one!).
2. Throw it on a table, pull up a couple of chairs.
3. Throw on as MUCH fun stuff as you can stand, then throw on a few more pieces : )
4. Add a small collection of cookies and a Princess cake, brew some tea and grab a hat.
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In reality, Boston Dynamics says that PETMAN is used to simulate human physiology by "controlling temperature, humidity and sweating inside the clothing to provide realistic test conditions." OK, just don't give that thing a gun.
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"Freddie and Matt are awesome," Rigsbee said. "I got the chance to play with Freddie a little bit last year, so we have a little bit more in-sync-ness, but Cochran's doing a great job as a young center. It's really not much of a drop off. It's been good. "
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My dad has had a raven arms .25 acp pistol for years, in fact it was what he wore in an ankle holster as his back up when he was a cop. The firing pin broke not to long ago, and I've looked everywhere to find a replacement part without any luck, and I don't want to spend three days making one, as I do not have a lathe. Any suggestions? I know the pistol ain't worth more than about 70 bucks, but we like the little thing, and right now its not much more than a fancy trot line weight
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I own three of those neat little hiddy guns, Kidding, two of them are new in the box. The first older one I use for a backup hiddy gun. Darn thing has never failed to function, and is fairly accurate in room distances. I use the Winchesters with soft lead and a little steel ball in it's nose ammo that gives it some improved expansion. Probably not the most lethal firearm in the world, but I'm sure it would deliver some hurt if you had nothing else.
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I am a descendant of Isaac Lawson and Agnes "Nancy" Lawson whe came to Rockbridge Co., VA in 1782. Their son Robert Lawson married Margaret Hicks Jan 1800, they are my ggg grandparents. Robert had a brother James Lawson, possible middle Inital L. Robert and his family came to Jackson Co., TN 1812/13 and it is possible that James came with them. From other family members have learned that there was a James L. Lawson who served in the Battle of New Orleans, this may be Robert's brother because he came from Jackson Co., TN. He did not return to Jackson Co., TN after the battle so have no record of where he retruned to, possibly the Nashville area.
Also Elijah Harvey Lawson and family moved from Jackson Co., TN to Macon Co., MO about 1840, where my family remained though my Father's generation. Elijah Harvey Lawson is a son of Robert and Margaret HIcks Lawson. Martin Van Buren Lawson, son of Elijah and Fred Lawson son of Martin. My father is Gerald EDward Lawson son of Fred Lawson and Beatrice Mae Burk.
Do we have a MO connection???
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>Nancy with Thomas and Harden found in 1850 in Roane Co. Tennessee. Seems they all left Tennessee about same time. Does anyone know Nancy's maiden name of what Lawson the father of these two boys? Any help would be appreciated. Feel they are closely connected to Ambrose Lawson. They later moved to Randolph Co. Arkansas.
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it detects objects even outside the cell being scanned
The sharp sensor that I am using is this http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/136
I've kept my cell size as 20x20 cm2 as the size of my robot is small. The problem that I am face if I point the sensor in a cell direction is that the width of the ir beam is 6cms at 20cms from the robot. The sensor detects objects at other cells too.
Moreover, the input voltage from the sensor increases if the beam detects an edge far away from the robot and hence records the object to be present in the cell nearby (I really don't know what's wrong and I suspect that the sensor might be at fault as I soldered the wires to the back of the sensor as I couldn't get 3 pin jst wires anywhere).
I have found a crude way to detect obstacles and it works most of the time but the motion of the servo is quite jerky and not continuous as the one in your video
Another question is does your code consider objects that appear while the robot is moving from one cell to another?(something like a bump sensor as I saw your robot stop in the middle when you placed a cereal box before it).
The simple way to avoid this is to decrease your scan angle
you can do fancy trigonometry to figure out where everything is during the scan
But if you had time and your basic code already works, I'd encourage you to try it.