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I am a Bengalurian who shares a common hatred with every other Bengalurians : the hatred towards Pathetic Traffic Sense of Bengalurians (including mine). Well, you might prefer to differ with me saying, "Hey, I do follow all the traffic rules". My sincere thanks to you for being an exceptionbut you are what you are, an exception..
Traffic Jam in Hyderabad
Its quite amazing to know that my friends in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Delhi compete with me in cursing their city traffic. Statements start flowing :
"Kolkota-r driver-der driving sense sob-cheye baje"
"Aila, Mumbaitla Traffic Sense sarvat bekaar ahe"
"Bengluralli janardu kittogiro Traffic Sense maga"
As an argumentative Indian, I never want to give up any arguments and hence we argue everytime we meet up on traffic, invariably so because one of them would have reached the hang-out place 30 minutes behind sechedule :)
"Kolkota-r driver-der driving sense sob-cheye baje"
"Aila, Mumbaitla Traffic Sense sarvat bekaar ahe"
"Bengluralli janardu kittogiro Traffic Sense maga"
As an argumentative Indian, I never want to give up any arguments and hence we argue everytime we meet up on traffic, invariably so because one of them would have reached the hang-out place 30 minutes behind sechedule :)
I was on a brief visit to USA in Feb 2008 and obviously, I was amazed by the lane discipline and the overall driving courtesy.
1) When you see the board "Stop and Proceed", you actually stop and then proceed.
2) You stop your vehicle, calmly communicate with the person driving opposite to you about your next action (parking, taking reverse etc) and thank him for stopping for that time.
3) You stop the vehicle when you see a person crossing the path and the pedestrian thanks you for stopping.
I rationalized the presence of driving courtesy in the US (and the lack of it in India) by giving myself the following reasons.
1) Too many vehicles in India, more than what Indian roads can handle.
2) More 2 wheelers in India, more people "filling the gap" in a traffic signal.
3) A very questionable and outdated test for obtaining your driving license.
4) Fast track life, too much stress and lack of concentration while driving.
5) A better and non-corrupt enforcement of traffic rules and huge fine levied upon breaking rules.
I'm in Tanzania (Dar Es Salaam) and I am surprised to inform you that my rationalization is, well, irrational.. Here I see the same problems as in India (questionable test methods for driving license, a lot of vehicles, more two wheelers), yet the people here have much better driving courtesy than we do.
Traffic Jam in Dar Es Salaam
Q : Is it to do with culture?
A : I don't think so, the Indians here (NRIs and PIOs) have good driving courtesy
Q : Has it to do with enforcement?
A : The enforcement body (Traffic Police) is comparable to India in all sense :)
I was having a conversation with my colleague here who's in Dar Es Salaam for 3 years now. He made a point which TOTALLY answered my confusions and cleared my thoughts about the difference.
As per his (and my) logic, it is the "non-geared" vehicles which are making the difference. In India, I get way too irritated after 1 hour of driving in Delhi and shifting gears every 15 seconds adds to the frustration. Here in Dar Es Salaam (and in USA too), most of the vehicles are with "Automatic GearBox". Needless to say your effort to press the clutch and change the gear everytime you accelerate/decelerate is avoided. Its like driving a Honda Activa, even simpler because you don't have to worry about its balance. :)
Trust me, 1 hour of driving in a country where the infrastructure has still not yet coped with the economic growth is way to painful. I am quite convinced that if the number of vehicles with Automatic GearBox will surely make us, Indians to learn better driving courtesy because culturally, we're "Hardwired" to show sympathy and to be considerate.. But considering that Hydraulic Automatic Gearbox is less fuel efficient than manual transmission gearbox, it might be hard for this system to work out in India.


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I laugh at this description of my self.
Gerund-ing prior and present shit.
Getting a turf/dirt/road burn from ultimate frisbee on my left leg between once and twice a year every year.
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University of Utah head men's basketball coach Larry Krystkowiak released the Runnin' Utes' 2017-18 non-conference schedule this afternoon. The complete 2017-18 schedule, including Pac-12 Conference contests, along with television times and dates will be released later this fall.
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We're detectives with a heart, we're here to do our part.
In your moment of need, we'll be there indeed.
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We're cooperative and discreet, we really can't be beat.
And now, if I may be so bold, I'd like to put you in hold.
(David drives Tate to the scrapyard, then asks to get out. Tate asks what for.)
David: My team's in the other bleachers. Besides, it's just my job to bring you here.
(In Maddie's car, as the detectives fight over whether to carry on with the case)
David: I know what a promise is, and I didn't make one!
Maddie: Well, I did. (Gets out of car)
David (going after her): Madeline, I thought we were just having a stimulating conversation. Where are you going?
Maddie: Addison, we don't belong in business together. We don't think alike. We don't agree on anything.
(Inside the hall, the bartender asks the detectives why they're here)
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David and Maddie: Want what to look?
Bartender: The body!
(Before they go into the dive bar, David insists Maddie change her looks--including her hair)
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Maddie (bristling): I'm going to tell Mr. Bruce that you did this.
(The detectives are looking for Michael Wrye. David has doubts Maddie has the savvy for the case.)
David: You just don't have the right attitude. This is not something someone can tell you. You either have it… Or you don't.
(After David lands a new client)
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(Maddie despairs of business at the agency)
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(On her first proper workday at the office, Maddie notes there doesn't seem to be much business. She asks David why. He dodges the question.)
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(In assassin Tate's hospital room; Brummer runs in and pulls a gun on him)
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(In the parking garage; the detectives tell hitman Michael Wrye they have found his rival--something of a Pyhrric victory)
Maddie: I want to die! (to Michael) I didn't mean that!
(In Maddie's car; she screams at David after he asks if she dropped the case)
David (turning up the radio): Great, now we're all going to die. Maybe we can get a group rate at the cemetery!
Maddie: Just because his son's a killer doesn't mean he isn't a nice person!
(After he recovers from choking at dinner)
Farley Wrye: It's not the dying, it's the living. If anybody ever gives you a choice between dying slow and dying fast, take the express.
(In the car, as David balks at bringing Maddie into a dangerous bar)
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On the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, Bush appeared in a 90-second opening sequence of "Fox NFL Sunday" titled "The Journey." Bush's statements were weaved in with taped remarks of police and firefighters.
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I am guilty.
It is not your normal, regular, run-of-the-mill, kind of guilt.
This is far, far more…incomprehensible. One, which is as impossible to escape from, as it was to have been entrapped within.
You see, I loved him.
That once, now seems so long ago it never truly belonged to me; which in all reality I do not suppose it did.
All I had, as you may have now, is the belief life would keep its promise.
I never asked for anything more than was possible; I never asked for the fairy-tale 'happily-ever-after'.
I was not so foolish to think such things exist.
But, I did want it to last longer.
Yet still he has been taken from me, inexorably, imperceptibly, little by little, piece by piece; until there is nothing left but a thin parchment of skin hanging onto a frame of crumbling bones.
My love is in mourning for this body's previous tenant, the man who was part of me, of who I am, my husband, my lover, my best friend.
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I worry they too will be stolen from me, now someone else is living in his body.
I feel nothing for this interloper. I do not know him. I have never known him and have no wish to know him. That is why there is a distance between us, one which stretches much farther than the few inches apparent to the casual observer.
Yet there are social expectations which I must meet. So, I simply 'go through the motions', to satisfy the anticipations of others.
This is the guilt I carry, the burden which weighs heavily upon my soul, a guilt I have no way to assuage.
This is my confession.
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A Multiscale Forecasting Methodology for Power Plant Fleet Management
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In recent years the electric power industry has been challenged by a high level of uncertainty and volatility brought on by deregulation and globalization. A power producer must minimize the life cycle cost while meeting stringent safety and regulatory requirements and fulfilling customer demand for high reliability. Therefore, to achieve true system excellence, a more sophisticated system-level decision-making process with a more accurate forecasting support system to manage diverse and often widely dispersed generation units as a single, easily scaled and deployed fleet system in order to fully utilize the critical assets of a power producer has been created as a response. The process takes into account the time horizon for each of the major decision actions taken in a power plant and develops methods for information sharing between them. These decisions are highly interrelated and no optimal operation can be achieved without sharing information in the overall process. The process includes a forecasting system to provide information for planning for uncertainty. A new forecasting method is proposed, which utilizes a synergy of several modeling techniques properly combined at different time-scales of the forecasting objects. It can not only take advantages of the abundant historical data but also take into account the impact of pertinent driving forces from the external business environment to achieve more accurate forecasting results. Then block bootstrap is utilized to measure the bias in the estimate of the expected life cycle cost which will actually be needed to drive the business for a power plant in the long run. Finally, scenario analysis is used to provide a composite picture of future developments for decision making or strategic planning. The decision-making process is applied to a typical power producer chosen to represent challenging customer demand during high-demand periods. The process enhances system excellence by providing more accurate market information, evaluating the impact of external business environment, and considering cross-scale interactions between decision actions. Along with this process, system operation strategies, maintenance schedules, and capacity expansion plans that guide the operation of the power plant are optimally identified, and the total life cycle costs are estimated.


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Hi all,Reminder: We are on tomorrow - so if you would like to come, please let me know!
We have a quorum, so it's all on. Cheers, Nathan. On 7/10/2016 3:19 PM, nathan wrote:
Hi folks!After an unreasonably long hiatus, we are back! I promise we'll run this month, even if it's just me sitting in the room talking to myself.Important note first up: With thanks to the kind folks @ NTT, we are still meeting in the NTT office in the World Trade Centre (Address Below)So - for this month... I'm going rock your world with a look at Sonoma - the newly available 'low cost' SPARC platform. You want M7 type goodness without the M7 type pricetag? You got it!Boyd will be equally world-rocking, with a presentation on Tmux - the logical successor to screen. (He got me hooked - be prepared to get excited if you don't already use it.)Hopefully (I haven't asked him yet!), Richard Spindler is going to talk about some of the build automation work he has been doing across multiple platforms and OS's. He and I had a quick chat about it, and it was pretty damn interesting. Also interested to hear how he solved some of the issues he was coming across.So - come along, talk, listen, eat pizza and drink beer (and maybe even eat Pal.). I dare you.(Yes Gavin - I'm *still* looking (As one other observer noted: Now using my 'Gorgon Stare Mk VIII'(tm) *http://tinyurl.com/jo4sxtb *) at you and the vm2 subsystem one of these days!! heh heh.) :).Hope to see you all there, and if you would like to present on anything in S11.3 that you have already played with, let me know, and I'll make space for you in the program!For reference - On the list of what folks wanted to see - we collectively decided we'd like to talk about the following in the coming months: DTrace stuff (including a re-intro/primer as we have a bunch of new folks in the group), Solaris 11 (going deep into the new stuff), (eg: ipadm, dladm, tuned versus vanilla, etc), OEL/OL (Oracle Linux)... Anyone who wants to volunteer would be most welcome. :)If you want to get someone else subscribed to this list - send them here: http://mexico.purplecow.org/m/listinfo/msosugPlease respond in the positive OR negative ASAP so Pizza and Drinks can be planned.Where? The NTT office, Level 7, Tower 4, World Trade Centre 18-22 Siddeley Street, Melbourne.Walk in the front of the building, and head to the lifts to the left past the security desk, go to level 7. There is parking available close by, though I can't speak to the price. I believe it's cheapoff-peak parking though... When?***Wednesday*** Octotober the 19th at 18:00 for general discussion and merriment.Speakers start at 18:30 sharp, with Pizza arriving somewhere around 20:00ish.I'm looking for Topics/Speakers for *next* month as well. Soft drink, coffee/tea and Pizza will be available. (YES - FOOD.) **If you plan to attend, please reply NOW to nathan.kroen...@optusnet.com.au so that we can plan for seating / pizza / drinks!** To anyone who meets with or talks to folks interested in Solaris: Please let everyone know about the meeting, the time and the date. We would love to continue to continue to grow the group. A note on access: The Lifts in the building and entrance to Level 5 automatically lock early in the evening, so access will be provided by Oracle folks on-site. A sign will also be placed close to the ground floor lifts with a contact number, should you arrive after the start of the meeting. If you are interested in Solaris, doing interesting things with, or on Solaris, we want YOU! Cheers! _______________________________________________ msosug mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com http://mexico.purplecow.org/m/listinfo/msosug
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Invitation from Pax Christi International
An Invitation from Pax Christi International to theologians
Woven into the fabric of Pax Christi's work for peace since its founding 68 years ago is a rich and vibrant spirituality and a commitment to respond to complex and destructive human behaviour out of a deep well of diverse religious inspiration and moral principles.
Often, however, the spirituality – the inspiration of faith that guides and motivates us – remains in the deepest places in the hearts of each one. Our experience of God's presence or absence, our encounters with good and evil, inspiring moments, the impact on us of other's witness to their own beliefs are rarely shared, and a systematic theological reflection to ground our work – emerging from grassroots experiences and from a lived spirituality – is rarely well-articulated.
For the past few years, Pax Christi has been consciously inviting people in our movement around the world to share their spiritual journeys in whatever ways they can. Bringing together the stories of grassroots people and their communities, we have begun to capture the complexity of human experiences that take place in a world where war, conflict and violence exist alongside hope, peace and reconciliation. We have undertaken this effort to understand how people acted in a given situation, but also to ponder their reflections on the use of violence and the option of employing methods of active nonviolence in a given situation and context. We have, thus far, two collections of stories and reflections (see below) and continue to gather more as part of our on-going work for peace in different corners of the world.
Now we are hoping to attract the cooperation of theologians from different traditions, cultures and countries to a mutually enriching partnership that would help us develop a theological reflection on this experience that is (a) contextual, emerging from the diversity of cultures and religious traditions that ground Pax Christi members' work for peace worldwide; and (b) multidimensional, drawing from dogmatic theology, moral theology, Catholic Social Teaching, theology of spirituality, sciences of religions, interfaith peace theology, etc.
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In peace,
The initial material we have available as the basis for reflection is in two collections of stories and reflections. This is just a beginning.
1. We are God's hand of solidarity – How Pax Christi member organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean live their Spirituality for Peace, was published in 2011 and is available in Spanish, English and French.
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2. Pax Christi International Peace Spirituality – A source of inspiration for a journey towards a peaceful future, March 2012, available in English. This document includes stories, voices and insights that were gathered from member organizations in Asia-Pacific, Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, North America; the Middle East and Europe, as well as from various PCI meetings and from the Pax Christi Youth Forum. It offers also a first more systematic articulation (or framework) of Pax Christi's spirituality of peace, by way of six stepping stones on our peace building path, together with few theological reflections. The titles of the six stepping stones are: 1. We believe in the dignity of each person; 2. There is no real peace without reconciliation and healing; 3. Active nonviolence is our distinct choice; 4. Living compassion; 5. Celebrating diversity; 6. We are committed to proceed through prayer, study and action. Each stepping stone is supported by voices and insights proceeding from grassroots witnesses. Read the document: http://archive.paxchristi.net/2012/2012-0245-en-gl-PS.pdf .


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Saturday, February 28, 2009
Back in the South
My little Squish is being so cute. I had to put her lampshade on because she is licking her leg so much. She came and slept on my head the past two nights. She puts her head on my head and her paws on my head and it is just so adorable. I felt so bad leaving them this morning.
I spent all day at the pool and then walked on the beach for a little bit and collected shells.
I got the sweetest email from Charro. I had sent her a few pictures of my cats because we were talking about something to do with my cats in their cat house and she didn't know what a cat house was. I told her I'd send her pictures. So I did and this is how she responded.
"They are so cute! I must say that Buggles is VERY handsome and looks like a very nice cat. But my favorite is Squish stretching out of her house - adorable! Have a great time and turn a corner."
(I changed their names to protect their identity.)
I thought the "Turn a corner" was hysterical!! It made me feel so good that she emailed me because she didn't have to do that.
I plan on going for a long run on the beach while my parents are at church tomorrow. Then, I will lay out. I should check the forecast.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Bye bye, "Carmine"
Charro decided that she is no longer going to "talk to my eating disorder," that she will only talk to me. She said, "'Carmine' sounds too nice. It reminds me of 'Laverne and Shirley.' (which is what she always says.) I think it downplays what it really is so from now on I'm just going to say your eating disorder, no your Big Ole Anorexia." She then said, "How's that? I'm only drinking ginger tea too!" Ha. I told her that I like it when she "gets mean." I like when she gets down to business...sometimes.
So I leave early tomorrow morning. I won't see Charro until next Friday. It will be fine. Maybe I'll figure some things out while I'm laying on the beach, who knows. Tomorrow I will be "on my own," as my mom likes to put it, because she and my dad have plans. She feels really badly about that but I'm okay because I just want to go to the beach and pool anyway. Now I won't feel bad doing that because they don't like the beach. I won't feel like I have to be spending time with them because they'll be doing something.
I need to pack and clean before I go. It's so nice out here today. It's 60 degrees and Sunday it's going to snow. What's up with that?? Weird. I am SO DONE with winter!!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Ranting about my fatness
Blah, I hate this. I better remember all of this crap tomorrow morning at 9 AM when I see Charro. The problem is that I won't want to talk to her about it. I hate to. I wish it was easier for me to do. I hate that.
I have to get ready to teach aerobics soon. I am not hungry and I don't want to eat dinner but I probably should. I can't wait until 8 PM to eat. I wish I never needed food.
(Add on)
Yes, I am well aware that I've been quite disordered over the past week. No, I don't know what sparked it, perhaps the one pound weight gain that I don't really know if it was real. I just decided that I'll weigh myself at the gym tonight to see how much I really weigh, though I did just eat a big dinner.
WTF...I hate this.
My day today
My day thus far has consisted of a walk to the west side, across the park, to teach an aerobics class. The youngest person in class is apparently 57 years old. It was a challenge for me but I had a blast teaching them. Then I walked back to my place.
In a little bit I am going ice skating in Central Park, so I'll be walking another 3 miles and then skating. Tonight, I will walk another 2 miles to teach another aerobics class.
So, I'll be walking about 7 or 8 miles today, unless I end up taking the subway or something, which I might do after ice skating, come to think of it. I need to burn a ton of calories today so this activity is a good thing.
Beach on Saturday. Body I'm not happy with now.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Wasted time
I got hives on my arm during our sesh. She asked if they were from her. I said no. I've been getting them the past few days. I woke up last night and my leg was so itchy and then I had them on my back today too. WTF? I am so itchy right now. I don't know what's going on.
Charro wanted me to talk. She looked bored. I wanted to talk and I told her that I was going to be pissed at myself when I left because I didn't talk about anything. I don't know how I can go from talking about stuff last night to talking about nothing tonight. That's so frustrating for me. I hate wasting her time and mine. I don't know why I can't just talk!! I'm sure she's wondering the same thing.
I don't know why I'm still awake, it's after 11. I have to do some serious thinking before my Friday sesh. I don't want to waste more time.
Hairballs, broken glass and other stuff
Why am I trying to blog while my cat's head is resting on my left hand? She's sleeping on my lap and her butt is on my right arm and her head is on my left hand. It's really very cute. I think I am disturbing her.
My morning is not off to a great start. My other cat woke me up while he was hacking up a hairball. About 3 minutes after that he knocked over my jar of shells and there was/is glass everywhere. My vacuum doesn't suck (which means that it essentially sucks) so I don't think I got all the pieces up. I just hope they don't get any little pieces of glass in their paws.
My sesh with Charro was pretty good last night. She said that it seemed like there was something that I wanted to say but wasn't saying it. I don't think that was the case but I don't know. We talked about a lot of things and I feel like there were a lot of hardcore things said. I told her about the scale discrepancies. She asked what the difference was and I said about 3 pounds. I told her how I woke up hungry at 4 AM the other day and she asked what time I had dinner. I told her that I didn't think I really had dinner that night. She could clearly see that "Carmine" was making a comeback (not that "carmine" was gone). She said, "Why is "Carmine" coming on so strong right now?" I didn't have an answer. Those weren't her exact words but something like that.
After Charro I had a date. We went to a movie and I kept flashing back to my sesh during the movie. I had a nice time on my date. There will be a date number three...at least I think there will be. :)
Hopefully I can pick up where I left off with Charro last night, tonight.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Charro and date # 2
I ate dinner at 4 PM, she'll love that. Oh well, I had to eat then or I wasn't going to eat at all.
I'm not wearing anything special for my date, but we're just going to the movies. No make-up, a sweater and jeans. I rarely wear make-up and I wore it last week when I met him so if we're going to continue onto a third date, he has to know that I am low maintenance and don't wear make-up. I am, however, wearing TOE SOCKS!!!! (I have to scream that when I say it). I'm gonna look like one hot mama standing in front of the movie theatre wearing 74 layers and my pink hat. :) Yay!
Maybe I'll tell him that I just came from my therapy appointment because I have an eating disorder. :) He's a doctor, he'll figure it out sooner or later. ;) Ha, like "therapy" and "eating disorder" would ever come out of my mouth!!
Monday, February 23, 2009
Oh numbers
My feet are freezing.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Eh, it happens
I woke up at 4 this morning and was awake until after 6 AM. I was hungry, probably because I didn't really have any meals (besides breakfast) yesterday. I was going to get up and have a piece of raisin bread but my cat was sleeping on my chest and I didn't want to disturb her. My other cat was sleeping on my left arm. They were too cute, I couldn't get up.
So here I am. I have to teach aerobics this morning and then do some cooking for a little party my friend and I are having tonight. Yay. I told Charro I don't want to eat at it because I don't like eating in front of people because I feel like they're going to look at me and think that I shouldn't be eating. The anorexic girl who is going to be there doesn't help matters any either. But, I discussed that in a post a few days ago so I don't need to write about it again, even though it's on my mind.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Enough of that
In other news, I can't find my smelly things from Yankee Candle. I don't know where I would have put them. One would think I would have put them with the tea light candles, but apparently I have not. The only place they could be is packed away with all my Christmas stuff, and I'm not about to pull that huge thing down and check. So alas, I will have to go to the outlets and buy some more. I need new sneakers anyway and Nike is right next to it.
(Since I already blew the weighing thing for the day, I decided to just keep on weighing myself. Afterall, I have to see how much I weigh so I know what/if I can or can't eat).
Friday, February 20, 2009
So cold and windy, but I'm "warming up"
I had a good sesh with Charro this morning. She said that I "warm up" during the week. I guess by Friday I tend to do a lot more talking or something.
I got there like 15 minutes early this morning. I have to get on the subway before a certain time if I stand any chance of getting on a subway in time to get there on time. They get so packed around 8:30 that you can't even get on a subway and you just have to stand there and wait. Luckily Charro was there and buzzed me in. I sat there and did my sudoko puzzles while I waited. It's freaking cold out too. The wind is horrible.
I figured something out this morning. I was talking about how I don't like to eat in front of people I don't know because I feel like they're going to look at me and think she doesn't need to be eating or she shouldn't be eating. I guess it sort of applies to people I know too, sometimes. Like if I'm at a party or something. People expect me to not eat, therefore I feel like I shouldn't be eating, or will eat less than I really want to eat because I feel like I shouldn't be eating. I feel like people will think I'm too big to be eating. I don't know why I think that because I don't look at other people and think that. I definitely notice what/how much people eat if they are really skinny, because I wonder how they can eat and still be skinny. That's really the only time I pay attention to what people are eating. I'm too worried about myself to care about others' food intake.
Charro wanted to know why I don't feel like I should eat. Where that comes from. I don't have an answer. I don't know why. I just feel like I'm expected not to eat so I shouldn't eat. That's all I've got for now. I told her I tend to do most of my thinking on Fridays when I leave there, so maybe I'll come up with something.
I definitely need a nap today, and I need to go to the gym. That will be my day in a nutshell. I need to do some work too. Oh, Charro wants to have guacamole and chips someday. I said, "How much" and she said "A serving." I said, "Okay, that 7 chips, I can do that." I tried to change it to hot salsa but she didn't go for that.
So I was bored the other night and had a jewelery box near by, so I printed up a bunch of "G's" in different sizes and put them in the box. I handed the box to Charro this morning and asked her to open in. I said "Don't worry, there aren't any snakes in there or anything." She said, "I'm scared." I told her not to be scared. She opened it up and I told her to take the cotton stuff off and she did and she started cracking up. She said they're G's in a box. I said, "yes!" I said, "you can throw it out now. " She said "I love it!! Can I keep it? It makes me happy." I said, "Sure, if you really want it you can have it." Glad I could make her happy with a little [GEEZ]. I thought it was funny that she wanted to keep it. What's she gonna do with it? I wonder if she'll bring it home to her husband and say "look what one of my patients made," and explain the meaning behind it. Ha!!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Breaking the cycle
I think I need to weigh myself. I've only weighed myself once a day since before I left for Florida. I think I need to break that little cycle for the day. It won't cause any harm and it doesn't mean anything, I just need to do it.
I slept for about an hour today. I'm going to take some cold meds before going to the gym. I need to work my ass off and I don't think I will be doing that, but I'm gonna try. We shall see. I can feel the pounds packing on. I just feel gross, that's all.
Okay, I'm gonna change and weigh myself, and not be happy with the number, I'm sure.
Sucked it all out
This cold has sucked out all of my energy. It's not even a bad cold. I just have a stuffy nose, but I'm so tired. I slept for an hour and a half yesterday afternoon, woke up and went to Charro, and then slept for another 9 hours. I'm still tired. What's up with that? I planned on working out before teaching my class tonight, but we'll see how that goes, I might have to just ride the bike or something. This is killing my workout regiment. Yuckers. I might need to take a nap. I do need to do some work too, I guess.
I feel like I'm sitting around, eating and gaining weight. Not a good thing. I need to get my ass back in gear, and fast.
Charro said something about having a meal, last night. She was like "Then let's have a meal." I don't know if she meant the two of us or just me. I think she meant just me. I don't know how to have a meal. If my mom cooks I can have a meal, but I am not cooking a meal for myself. That's stupid.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Sudafed head
I can't breathe through my nose and it's driving me insane. I can't decide if I'm hungry or not either. I don't think I am, but I didn't really eat dinner so I feel like I should eat something, though now it's too late and I don't want anything really anyway.
Back to tonight's sesh...Charro came out to get me and said "Oooh coconut." I don't know how she can always smell my lotion. I told her I thought I was boring her because I didn't have anything to say. By the end of the sesh I was talking quite a bit and could have kept going. I said "This is stupid." She asked what was stupid and I said, "this...not being able to eat like a normal person. It's not like it's a hard thing to do, I don't know why I can't do it." She thought that thought was a step in the right direction. She said that food scares me and it's very scary for me and wanted to know what "fat" really means to me. I didn't have an answer for that. I still don't. I said, "It does scare me. You're right." The whole thing is just hard. I hope to continue that conversation on Friday morning, or something along those lines.
Sesh and date
Charro kept saying that I seemed angry or something last night. I wasn't. I guess I was a little feisty, but I don't know why. At one point she said, "Say something mean about me." I sat there and was like "I don't have anything mean to say. You need to give me more warning so I can think of something."
I am too tired to think right now. I just want to sleep all day, and take cold meds.
My date was good. I met up with the guy at 7:30 and when I looked at my watch it was 10 PM. That's a good sign, right? I think I will see him again. There wasn't any immediate sparks, but it's definitely worth a second date.
Charro again tonight. Hopefully I will think of what I wanted to say to her last night by then.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
I need a nap and the ability to breath out of my right nostril.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Dinner, a cold, and a date
I actually made dinner tonight and I'm not even hungry so I don't want it. I had a good sized lunch though, so it's ok.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that's all eating disordered talk...blah, blah, blah, but I'm not hungry so I don't need to eat.
I am getting a cold too. I hope I can nip it in the bud so it doesn't get too bad. I have a blind date tomorrow now so I don't want to be all gross with bougs flowing out of my nostrils. Yummy. I think he's a doctor though, so it might work. :) I'm seeing him after I see Charro.
Oh Charro...what in the world will we discuss tomorrow. Maybe the pizza-sized bagel with 15 pounds of cream cheese that she made me eat on Friday. Seriously, if you dropped that thing off a roof it would have killed someone. Maybe I'll tell her that tomorrow.
I need to go to bed early tonight. Oh wait, I can't, The Closer is on. I love that show. Yeah!
Sunday, February 15, 2009
The need to know
I started to freak out about my weight last night and I really wanted to weigh myself. I felt gross and like I had gained weight. I felt like I ate too much food at the dinner party I was at, actually, I still feel like I ate a lot of food, too much perhaps, but it was all healthy. I ate mostly veggies, and all healthy stuff, minus the few chocolate covered strawberries, but those didn't bother me because they're fruit. I just felt like I ate a lot because I ate a lot of different things. So, I really wanted to weigh myself but I didn't.
I hate that feeling of being out of control. I don't even know if that's the feeling or not. I just hate not knowing if I'm okay. I need to check with the scale to see where I stand. I can't really explain it, but I hate not knowing if I gained weight or not. The mere act of weighing myself and finding out the number is what I need to calm me down. I can't not know if I gained weight, it freaks me out.
I need to go to bed. I'm sleepy.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Meals with people I don't know
I went to a brunch with a bunch of people I don't know today. I got there and there was some mini hash brown things, quiche, croissants and apple french toast. I freaked a little bit and wondered how the hell I was going to manage this one. So I took a little piece of french toast. The girl that I went with just cut some off and that meant that I didn't have to take a whole one either. She paved the way for me. So I cut a little piece off and then grabbed 2 little hash brown things. I wasn't really happy with having to eat this stuff, but I had no choice and I didn't take much. I wondered if it looked weird. I guess I don't really care because I'll never see any of those people again.
Tonight I'm going to a potluck dinner with a bunch of people I don't know. More food that I have no idea about and people I don't know that I have to eat in front of, or pretend to eat in front of if there's nothing I really will eat. Oh the cons of an eating disorder. Oh I guess it's better than avoiding the situations all together. I'll put myself out there, I don't care. At least I'm not a hermit. I made a cake. :)
Charro is starting to push the "we really need to get past the food and get to the deeper issues here" thing. I'm not sure how that works.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Stuff I forgot
I told Charro about the weight/scale stuff from the other day. I tried to tell the story without using numbers but I could see that she wasn't really getting it so I had to throw out the numbers. I don't think she freaked, but then again, I did tell her that they were wrong. I also told her that I'm not willing to gain weight right now. I said, "I'm not trying to gain weight, but if I gained a pound or two, I don't think I'd freak out." She said that that is a good start.
So I think I got everything out that I wanted to talk to her about.
After Charro I went to the gym. I had a lot of anger to get out (not because of the bagel) so I threw on some boxing gloves and went to town on the bag. Man, it felt so good. I punched continuously for at least 15 minutes. I have a feeling that I won't be able to move my arms tomorrow. I broke blood vessels in between my fingers. My arms and hands were shaking like crazy when I left the gym. It was a good thing I did my cardio before that. I think I might need to invest in a punching bag and some gloves because I seem to have a ton of anger inside me lately.
I'm feeling like I've gained weight today, and I don't think it's from my bagel. I had cucumber rolls and steamed veggie dumplings for dinner, so I think it has something to do with the salt. I so want to weigh myself right now.
One of my friends from one of my old jobs came into the city to shop, so we got to hang out. I haven't seen her in a while and I'm shocked that she got in touch with me. We had a great time though. We get so silly drunk when we're together. We're nuts and she was completely sleep deprived which made her even nuttier. We went shopping and I tried on these awful MC Hammer pants. They were hysterical. Seriously, I have NO idea who would ever wear them. Maybe I'll post the picture when she puts it up and I can get it. I look quite busty in the picture too, which is funny. Maybe I should say that I look like I have boobs. Ha!
I think I need to go to bed.
The Bagel
I don't think that I am going to gain a million pounds from eating that, but I don't like to feel full. It's not comfortable. She says that people like to feel full, that babies are happy when they are full, etc.
I liked the double sesh. I had a lot to talk about. I am severely pissed at the situation with my sister and Charro can see how angry I am. SO ANGRY! We talked about a lot of things and it was good. I could have actually kept talking. Who knew I could talk for 100 minutes? Well, I guess it was less than that since it took me about 40 to eat the bagel.
I'm just a blah mood right now. My brain is thinking about a lot of things, and I'm still upset about this whole situation with my sister, which I clearly don't write much about on here because it gets me so fired up. It's all too complicated.
Anyway, I need to hit the gym and then I'm meeting up with a (sometimes) friend I used to work with. She's coming into the city to shop. She's a lot of fun when she's in her manic state.
Not looking forward to this breakfast
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Double trouble
I wonder what she's going to bring, a bagel or a muffin. Hmm, I don't know which is worse. I'd rather have a bagel because I've wanted one for so long and I hear NY bagels are really good, but I think that has more calories, especially since I have to have something on it, than a muffin has. I hate this all. Blah!!
I'm trying to clean out the nasties in my humidifier but I don't think it's working. It's so freaking windy out too. I might blow away later. Wind gusts are 60 mph. Seriously.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Still sick (not me)
Hmm, I just had an idea...maybe she doesn't have anyone after me on Friday and we could do a double sesh since Friday will be a stupid breakfast sesh and we won't really be talking anyway. Maybe I will email her and ask her. (Sent!) I'm sure it won't work out for her though. Blah.
This sucks. Now I don't even want to talk about all the stuff I was going to talk about because I feel like it doesn't matter anymore. We didn't get to discuss my breakfast fears either. Oh well. Nothing I can do about it.
Ugh, my cat just pooped and it stinks.
I laid out and got a little sun.
I knew it was a mistake
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
An "oh shit" moment
I just got back to my apartment. Charro is sick and cancelled our sesh tonight. That allowed me to stay and see my nephews. I really hope she's better tomorrow.
I went to see people at another old job today. I'm trying to get back into the radio world so I stopped by to say hi to everyone. The first thing said to me by the secretary was "You lost a lot of weight." Okay, I'm getting it folks. I haven't seen her in a few years though. Yes, I have lost weight since all of these people have seen me, but it hasn't been like a million pounds. It's just that I am a small person so 5 pounds is a lot of weight.
Anyway, the rest of this is just something I need to document for myself, well, I guess this whole blog is actually. I hopped on the scale this morning and I had an "oh shit" moment. The number was very low, a number I've never seen before. I knew it had to be wrong so I stepped on it again and got the same number. I then tried to calibrate it and the number went up a bit, but it was still kind of low. The thing is, I don't know it was at all accurate so I'm not really that concerned by it. I will discuss this with Charro tomorrow because it's something I have to do, even if it results in me being fired. My point to her will be that I really don't know what I weigh. That scale, Bertha, says one thing and my scale here is a little bit different, so who's to say that either are right. There is the possibility that I actually weigh, 10 pounds more than I think I weigh, but I don't know because I just know what my scale is, and the number on my scale (not today b/c it scared me a little) makes me happy. I guess it kind of supports Charro's point of who really cares what the number is. I'm going to try to get that across to her tomorrow, somehow. I'm going to try and convey that my scale could be very wrong. I know my scale here will give me a higher reading tomorrow. I'm tempted to weigh myself now, just to sort of have a comparison and see if I really did lose weight. I am not trying to lose weight.
So, I broke my once a day weighing today, but it was something I needed to do to make sure I really didn't really lose that much weight. It was more of a positive thing than I negative one. It was an on off, on off type thing anyway, so it doesn't really count.
I really hope Charro feels better tomorrow.
Monday, February 09, 2009
Visiting an old job
Sunday, February 08, 2009
One year later
Saturday, February 07, 2009
Reading my mind
In short, I am not willing to gain weight. Enough said.
I'm also starting to freak out a little about the bagel/muffin breakfast on Friday. (See 2 posts below).
I can't believe anyone still reads this given the fact that I write the same things over and over again. I'd be done.
Friday, February 06, 2009
Not so sure it's possible
Charro is happy that I've only been weighing myself once a day and says that "that's really great." I don't think so, but whatever.
I worry about what my dad might say to me when I go back to Florida. At that point I'll have one month left to gain the 5 pounds he wants me to gain. That's so not going to happen and I don't know what he will or can do about it. Nothing really, I guess. It will definitely suck when he asks me how much I weigh and I have to flat out lie to him. I am such a bad liar too, by the way. He will see right through me. It will suck.
I had a couple people tell me I looked smaller yesterday. I was at the gym when they said it. It's uncomfortable. Charro always tells me that people can't notice 2-3 pounds, but I know they can and apparently they can! One lady came up to me and said, "You look skinny." Okay, random comment from some person whom I don't know to well. How does one respond to that? I said, "It's because I'm tan."
On another note, it's been one year, to the day, that Polly killed herself. The actually date was Feb. 8th but it was a Friday. I think about her quite a bit and smile everytime I look down at my palmtree keychain that says "friends" that she gave to me. I miss my P-Dawg.
(It's a two post Friday. I think I tend to do a lot of thinking of Fridays for some reason).
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So, Charro this morning was fine. She calls me out on the face I make all the time and calls it my "You're right, but I don't like that" face. She says she can tell when she "hits a nerve" because I make that face. I've been working on my poker face but haven't quite mastered it yet....well, I'm not even close.
So today she muttered those four little words, "You have a problem." She then said, "I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't tell you that." Okay. I get it. She said I talk about food and stuff but we never talk about my life in the future, which she said she wants to talk about. Okay.
So the muffins have since been changed to "I'll either bring in muffins or a bagel. It will be a surprise." GREAT!! I can hardly wait. She asked me what I wanted on my bagel and I said "nothing." She said, "You have three choices: Peanut butter, cream cheese or nutella." I still like nothing but that isn't going to happen. I told her that I won't know what I want on it until that morning and I don't have a choice because she is picking up the food. She said, "You can email in the morning and tell me what you want," but that was before she decided she would surprise me with either muffins or a bagel. This was when I said that we should have bagels because I haven't had one since high school and I heard that New York bagels are really good. I asked her if she wanted me to pick it up and she said "Hell No!" It kind of just came out of her mouth and then said "Well that was professional." Ha!!
So, surprise breakfast on Friday. I really don't like surprises and this is one I definitely won't enjoy. Oh well. What I'd really like to eat, and occasionally crave, is a bagel with cream cheese, but I'd probably opt for peanut butter when I give her my choice. I'll get a wheat bagel too. She said "We'll see about that."
There is cat fur all over my keyboard.
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Should have stayed in bed
I was supposed to meet some colleagues for lunch but that got all screwed up because I was late and then something came up at the office, well, not so much at the office but with my boss.
I got to my house, which I am taking care of until April, and found mouse shit everywhere in the kitchen closet. So I had to clean everything out and get mouse traps and crap. My neighbor came over to set them for me.
My garage door got all messed up as I was leaving for my hair appt. At least my hair came out good.
Then I went to Wal-Mart and ran into 2 people I haven't seen in a while. That was good. One said that my face looked "chiseled" and asked me what I was doing. I said, "Well, I don't really know how you work out your face so I guess I'm doing nothing. ;)
That was it, the abrubt version. I think I'll go play my drums.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
The muffins are coming
She kept telling me that the muffins are "homemade." I said, "Are you making them?" She said no and I said, "Then they are NOT homemade. They are STORE made." I told her I'd only eat them if she made them, but that's not going to happen. I tried. Stupid muffins!!
I need to go make some caramel coated chocolate covered pretzels. Blah. I had so much more I need to write but got side tracked.
She said something about me looking like an eleven year old. I said, "So you think I look like an eleven year old?" She said no to that but part of me doesn't buy it. At least she didn't say I looked like an 11 year old boy...I don't think.
There was slight boob discussion again, but not nearly as bad as yesterday. She said "You're meant to have curves" and did a hand gesture thing. I said, "I can't help if if I don't have anything up there." She's like "I wasn't doing that with my hands." None of that helps you guys because I can't show you what gestures I'm talking about. Besides, she probably has enough up there for the both of us. Seriously, I'm so done with boob talk.
I left there thinking a lot but I'm not really sure what I was thinking about. Maybe I'll go to bed now.
Monday, February 02, 2009
This commercial cracks me up!!
Today's sesh
I told her that I don't like this not weighing myself at night thing and I complained about it for a bit. She said I need to do it for a month and come up with another "ritual" to take it's place. I said, "I'll do push-ups" and I got a look from her. She suggested doing some stretches and I was like "Yeah, that's not going to happen." She though I needed a few minutes of time to fill and I was like, "you know how long it takes me to weigh myself? Three seconds." She was like "But then you get off and on again a bunch of times." I said, "No I don't." She was like "Really? You mean to tell me that you've only been getting on the scale ONCE a day and that's it." I said yes. She was very proud of me for that I guess. I told her I deserved something for that. Ha!
New topic: She went on to talk about the developmental/teenage years and how it's a "weird" time, especially for girls. She said that she was at a concert the other night and there were kids in it and she noticed that some of the girls were "starting to develop breasts." Then she said "Not that I was checking them out or anything, I just noticed." She was like "you start developing breasts and it's like when do you start to wear a bra." I was thinking, okay, enough of that talk because it just makes me uncomfortable, but she continued. We finally got off the topic somehow, thank God.
I don't know where I was going with any of this. I've been side tracked. I guess it was a good sesh. I'll see her again tomorrow night. Hopefully we won't discuss boobs again. I did say, during that discussion, "I never did develop any." LOL!
Sunday, February 01, 2009
TV marathons
I'm sleepy so I will probably go to bed soon. I keep waking up really early and I don't know why. I think I woke up early yesterday and today because I wanted to weigh myself. I was waking up early when I was away, but I'm not really sure why. Who cares, I did nothing all day but lay out so it was all good.
I have Charro in the morning. Charro tomorrow!! I still love saying that.
I think I'm going to head back to Florida at the end of the month. I found a cheap flight. More sun for me!! :) Yay!! I'll already have a base tan too, which makes it so much better.


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decaturstevo (199) decatur, Tennessee | February 22, 2012
Great service. Great selection of beers and styles. All the beers were pretty good. A college town brewpub. Quite on this day but I'm sure that can change. I would go out of my way to go back.
User37895 (92) , | January 18, 2008
For the area of the country, this brewpub was pretty solid. Atmosphere was razorback collegiate territory for sure along with more of a restaurant type ambiance than anything pubby, although I'd imagine it gets pretty sports pubby during big games. The beer selection was pretty standard in terms of number of selections. Quality was good, yet short of excellent. The food was solid.
Doppelganger (20) Dry County, Arkansas | March 17, 2005
Alas for another silly pig-named business in Arkansas! Ah well. In spite of the name, this is a pretty fun spot. Their range house-brewed beer is on the predictable side of brewpub offerings, but mostly pretty solid stuff. In addition to their beer, there are another eight or so varieties on tap, and about fifty varieties of bottles available. Haven't tried most of their menu yet, but the burgers are top-notch. (How many places these days will actually let you order a burger medium rare?) Very cool exposed-timber and brick building.
LilBeerDoctor (367) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | January 25, 2012
A pretty neat brewpub in the college town of Fayetteville. It is a large place with plenty of seating, TVs to watch sports on. There was a decent number of beers on tap (maybe 7-8), including some interesting styles like java porter and imperial stout. They offer a variety of sizes. The beers varied from decent to good and although there was room to improve, you could see they were going in the right direction. It seems they have improved compared to earlier ratings as well. I'm not sure how often the beers are rotated, I think there are are 1-2 seasonals. The food was good - I got a tasty salad. Overall, it is quite good for the area and I'd recommend it if you're passing by!
hezron (26) Viroqua, Wisconsin | December 24, 2005
Cool ambiance, with lots of old brick and huge wooden beams with cool bracing. Service was pretty good, substituting the barleywine into a sampler for me and even providing a snifter. I really liked the chicken bacon sandwich and the fries were excellent. My wife had a crab stuffed avacado which looked good, but I was busy sticking my nose into my glass.
Now, about the "too cold" thing. Why serve beer this cold? Here is a quote from their website: "New taps and beer lines have been upgraded to provide colder beer." Colder beer! We don't want colder beer. I guess the good folks of Northwest Arkansas want colder beer.
Travlr (2847) Charlotte , North Carolina | July 2, 2012
The smell of wort greeted me in the oarking lot, always a good sign - and an extra point for atmosphere. The beers were decent enough with no stand outs. Food was tasty, classy pub grub, and the service was fine. Pay oarking only though.
grikmok (3) Little Rock, Arkansas | February 13, 2009
This is the best brew pub in town. Excellent food, beer is decent but can be better...
legion242 (122) Richardson, Texas | March 7, 2006
Well, the beers were just ok and the service was below my minumum. The small starter that i had s were just ok.was really good and the rest of the menu looked yummy, if expensive. The beer
alaskanwarren (5) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | December 6, 2005
Nice place, pretty decent beers. Not terribly adventurous though. The wait staff was excited about a barleywine that was going to be ready in a few weeks, so maybe I caught it at a bad time. I had a few beers in 15oz mugs, but beware - they serve their beers very cold in frozen mugs. So, I highly recommend asking for a non-frozen glass. The beer itself is still 10 to 20 degrees too cold, but at least it has a winning shot at making it to a decent temp. Seriously! A stout at 30 degrees? Argh. Anyway, neat ambiance, very cool building, and helpful staff. I'd go back.
jackl (740) Minneapolis, Minnesota | June 14, 2014
Really more of a restaurant than a bar. Very corporate feel, as evidenced by the khaki and polo shirt staff uniforms that seem to be compulsory. All Hog Haus beers are now being made at Saddlebock, so I'm not sure this place should still be classified as a brewpub. In fact, there was a lot of confusion amongst the bar staff when I asked for a sampler of Hog Haus beers. They initially explained that none were available, then conceded that there's a few beers that they're still labeling as their own. There's about 8 beers on tap, a few from 'Hog Haus', the rest from Saddlebock. The beers I tried were uniformly disappointing, not a surprise given that most Saddlebock I've tried so far has been quite underwhelming. Prices on Dickson St in general are high for the area. Overall, really only a place to stop by if you want some Arkansas ticks. Otherwise, head elsewhere.


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Over the past few decades, Republicans and Democrats have become more and more sharply divided – not just ideologically, but also geographically. Democrats tend to do best in the nation's urban areas, while Republicans find their strongest support in more rural areas. Now, a new Pew Research Center analysis of county-level presidential-voting data quantifies just how dominant Democrats are in big cities – and analysts say this dominance will present a tough challenge to Donald Trump this November.
In 2008 Barack Obama won 88 of the 100 most populous counties; in his re-election bid four years later he won 86. Given Obama's popularity among racial and ethnic minorities and young adults – who tend to cluster in big cities – that's not altogether surprising. But Democrats' urban dominance precedes Obama: The last time a GOP presidential candidate won more than a third of the 100 largest counties was 1988, when George H.W. Bush took 57 of them.
The disparity also is reflected in the parties' share of the big-county vote. As recently as 1988, they were essentially even: Bush took 49.7% of the total vote in the 100 largest counties, while Michael Dukakis took 49.2%. But the Republican vote share fell steeply in 1992 and never really recovered: Since then, George W. Bush was the only GOP presidential candidate to receive more than 40% of the vote in the 100 largest counties (in 2004). Meanwhile, Democrats' vote share in those counties has grown steadily, exceeding 60% in Obama's two races.
This wasn't always the case. Up to the 1990s, in fact, urban America was competitive territory for both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates: Ronald Reagan carried solid majorities of the 100 largest counties in both 1980 and 1984. In 2012, by contrast, Mitt Romney won only four counties with populations greater than 1 million: Maricopa County, Arizona; Orange County, California; Tarrant County, Texas; and Salt Lake County, Utah.
Most of the biggest counties have become more presidentially Democratic over the past four decades. We took a closer look at vote patterns in the 83 counties that were among the 100 most populous in both 1976 and 2012. In more than half (46 counties), the Democratic-Republican split shifted in the Democrats' favor by more than 20 percentage points; only nine became less Democratic to any degree.
For example, Illinois' DuPage County, a longtime GOP stronghold just to the west of Chicago, went for Gerald Ford by more than 40 percentage points in 1976 (68.8% to 28.3%). But it went for Obama twice, by nearly 11 percentage points in 2008 and by 1.1 percentage points in 2012.
One caveat is in order about Democrats' big-county advantage: Even as their grip on these counties has tightened, they carry less electoral heft than they used to. The 100 largest counties in 1976 together cast almost 44% of the total vote in that year's presidential election; in 2012, the top-100 vote share had slipped to 39.4%.
In recent decades Americans have increasingly sorted themselves politically. A 2014 Pew Research Center report on political polarization found that liberals are about twice as likely as conservatives to live in urban areas, while conservatives are more concentrated in rural areas.
Topics: Elections and Campaigns, Voter Demographics, 2016 Election
Drew DeSilver is a senior writer at Pew Research Center.
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Show the stats for states
Could you please show information for all 100 most populous counties
Would be meaningful to include demographic analysis and how that shift if any has also changed during this timeframe.
If you look at the list, they are concentrated in either very blue or very red states, IMO, so that 40% gets either wasted or diluted.
Regarding the 100 most urban counties & most populous: if these counties account for 40 percent of the voters, this alone should advantage HRC on Npv. Should your piece include perhaps some reference to turnout?? Thanks! JL
Not necessarily true since the President is really elected by the Electoral College vote, which is independent of county boundaries. While the concentration of Democrat voters in large, urban counties bodes well for Clinton winning those areas, the influence those areas have on the overall vote count is diminishing as the share of the total vote coming from these areas has dropped by 4.5% between 1976 and 2012. I agree, however, with your comment that this survey would be more meaningful if it included context like turnout or influence/impact these pockets have on Electoral College votes. Ninety-nine percent of the article is used to present a picture of a growing Democrat dominance over this slice of the vote, but then states at the end that this slice has become less important over time without clarifying how those two forces balance each other out. Kind of interesting, but ultimately meaningless information.


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Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL) is a consumer product company focused on the production, distribution, and provision of household, healthcare, and personal products. The company operates in oral, personal, and home care, and pet nutrition segments. CL leads the oral care market through its toothpaste and manual toothbrush brands. Oral care generates a large proportion of the company's total revenues and in 2013 sales of oral care were 46% followed by personal products sales at 21% and home care sales at 20%.
Financial Highlights
During the fourth quarter of 2014, earnings beat the estimates by around 1.6% but missed revenue estimates by 0.6% compared to a miss of 1.5% in the third quarter. Despite a strong unit volume increase of 6.5% the quarterly revenues of $4.36 billion grew by 2% from the same quarter during the previous year. The significant positive aspect was organic sales growth of 6.5%.
CL managed to grow its organic sales from the emerging markets by 10.5% despite the economic slowdown in the region. It continues to expect high growth in fiscal year 2014 resulting from the introduction of new products in all categories and geographic regions. The exchange rates proved to be a headwind and the company warned about the devaluation of Venezuela's Bolivar. The foreign exchange rate volatility negatively impacted the company's earnings by nearly 4.5%.
The net income of $564 million resulted in a diluted earnings per share of $0.60 when compared to the net income of $589 million and earnings per share of $0.63 in the fourth quarter of 2012. Excluding the impact of restructuring in both quarters the net income was $697 million reflecting an increase of 4% compared to the fourth quarter of 2012. The improved margins supported the earnings growth. The diluted earnings per share in the fourth quarter of 2013 were $0.75 reflecting an increase of 7% compared to the fourth quarter of 2012. Despite the higher raw and packaging costs, CL successfully improved its gross margins by 50 bps year-over-year to 58.9% and further improvement will become evident in 2014.
For the second quarter CL has announced it would increase dividends by 6% and the new dividend per share would be boosted to $0.36 from $0.34. The increase may not be too high but it is consistent. CL is a good option for stable dividend seeking investors because the company has a long history of dividend payments and has paid uninterrupted dividends on its stock since 1895. With the strong net operating cash flows of $3,204 million this expectation is valid and CL will continue its dividend growth history.
In the fourth quarter of 2012 CL commenced a four-year restructuring program to sustain the long-term growth. For restructuring purposes, during 2013, the company spent $202 million compared to $81 million in 2012. Through this restructuring the earnings are expected to improve. The company expects to save $365 million to $435 million annually by the end of the fourth year.
The Strong Market Footing and Growth from BRIC Countries
Growth in the emerging markets is highly attributed to growth in Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC). BRIC countries contain about 40% of the world's population and account for about 17% of the world's economy. The BRIC countries have seen very fast GDP growth and a 3-year GDP growth rate of 7.6% is way higher than the 0.1% 3-year GDP of the U.S. The GDP plays an important role for the demand of oral hygiene products in the emerging markets and the growing GDP is an indication of the increasing demand for health care products.
Source: laresearchgroup
CL remains the global leader in toothpaste and manual toothbrush products with approximately 45% and 33% market shares, respectively. The company also showed significant improvement in its mouthwash category with a global market share of 17%. In the emerging markets of India and China CL dominates the oral care market. The growing demand for consumer products in China, India, and South-East Asia will boost the earnings in 2014.
The global oral care market totaled more than $31.8 billion in 2013 with a CAGR of 3.3% over 5 years. The economic slowdown will result in a CAGR of 3.2% and the oral care market will hit above $36 billion by the end of 2017. The oral care industry of India accounts for around 5% of the global market. According to a report by KenResearch, the industry revenues are expected to grow at a CAGR of around 13.9% from 2013 to 2018. This pace is much faster than the global CAGR growth of around 3.2%. CL dominates the Indian oral care industry with a market share of 54.3% in 2013 and increased from 51% in 2011.
Amongst oral care products, the toothpaste segment is likely to sustain its dominance over the next five years. In India the toothpaste per capita consumption is 147 g/p and this consumption rate is likely to increase due to improving disposable income. This lucrative market growth has invited new competitors for CL. Procter & Gamble (P&G) and GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) recently entered the oral-care market. However CL's increasing penetration through aggressively low pricing and strong distribution will help the company to maintain its market lead. CL's broad innovative product range at different price levels will result in improved earnings for the coming years.
The graph shows CL's penetration and market share in India.
Source: Investor presentation
The oral care market in China is estimated to grow by 5.92% year-over-year over next four years reaching $3.17 billion by the end of 2017. Similar to India, the toothpaste is by far and away most the valuable product segment in China's oral care market. CL market penetration is showing an upward trend and the company has a market share of 33.9% in the toothpaste market of China. The launch of innovative products such as Colgate Plax fresh tea and Colgate Plax fruity fresh will continue to add growth for the company.
CL's total return to an investor, both from price appreciation and dividends (assuming the dividends are reinvested), has outperformed Proctor & Gamble (NYSE:PG) and Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD). However the 15.53% total return remained lower than the 23.48% of the S&P. Despite that, CL's return over twelve months was higher than its competitors.
Source: YCharts
For the fiscal year the decline in earnings per share adversely impacted the P/E ratio. The trailing twelve months P/E 26.7X is higher compared to the industry P/E of 21.1X and this is a bit expensive. The stock is trading at a forward P/E of 18.5X with a 5-year forecasted growth of 8.6%. However, the outlook for fiscal year 2014 is quite strong. The saving from restructuring and growth in the company's core product categories, successful innovation, and expansion into emerging markets points to a good future outlook for the company. Improvement in its gross margins will further benefit the company and generate funds for advertising that will help the company to gain more market share. Based on these facts I give this stock a buy rating and suggest that investors purchase it when there is a dip in price.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.
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