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Bio-energy from Mountain Pine Beetle Timber and Forest Residuals: The Economics Story
In light of the large volumes of pine killed in the Interior forests in British Columbia by the mountain pine beetle, many are keen to employ forest biomass as an energy source. To assess the feasibility of a wood biomass-fired power plant in the BC Interior it is necessary to know both how much physical biomass might be available over the life of a plant, but also its location because transportation costs are likely to be a major operating cost for any facility. To address these issues, we construct a mathematical programming model of fiber flows in the Quesnel Timber Supply Area of BC over a 25-year time horizon. The focus of the model is on minimizing the cost of supplying feedstock throughout space and time. Results indicate that over the life of the project feedstock costs will more than double, increasing from $54.60/BDt ($0.039/kWh) to $116.14/BDt ($0.083/kWh).
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Lillie McCloud doesn't fit the typical profile of an X Factor contestant, but the 54-year-old grandmother may now be a force in the competition after shocking judges with a powerhouse performance.
McCloud showed up for the Orlando audition of the singing contest, delivering an amazing renditionof the gospel song "Alabaster Box." The performance was so good that it even had the notoriously hard-to-please judge Simon Cowell smiling.
Simon said Lillie McCloud has an "incredible voice," and compared her to Gladys Knight. The other judges were equally impressed, with Demi Lovato saying McCloud reminded her of Whitney Houston.
"Where have you been hiding?" asked judge Kelly Rowland.
McCloud wasn't the only surprising performance on the Wednesday's premiere of The X Factor. Alex and Sierra, a couple attending the University of Central Florida, turned in a folksy version of Britney Spears' song "Toxic" that also earned the praise of judges.
But the night clearly belonged to Lillie McCloud.
After the episode aired, the grandmother of seven said she hasn't exactly been hiding in obscurity, but has had a hard time finding her big break.
"I have been trying not to hide," Lillie told the Orlando Sentinel. "I've been working in Miami nightclubs, on South Beach for several years. I've been recording. I couldn't get beyond dance artist. I had some recordings as a dance artist. I never had this opportunity to branch out."
Even though she's been working her whole life to reach this moment, Lillie said it's still a bit hard to take it all in.
"I feel like a superhero," she said. "This is unusual. Does this happen to a 54-year-old? This is not normal. This not every day that something like this happens to someone like me. A couple of weeks ago I was home cooking with a baby in one hand and a baby in the other. This time I'm ready for it."
Fans will now get a chance to see more of Lillie McCloud, who has advanced to the next round of the competition.

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Hotel Eleni Holiday Village
Elenite, Black Sea Coast (Bourgas), Bulgaria
Hotel Eleni Holiday Village Introduction
The Eleni Holiday Village overlooks Elenite Beach on a quieter section of the Black Sea coast. It offers a good standard of accommodation within well-furnished individual villas offering a homely feel. The in-house entertainment team ensure there is always something organised throughout the day with games and sports for all ages and professional shows in the evening. This family-run complex has a quiet yet friendly atmosphere and the village theme means you can be in the heart of the action or relax away from the hustle and bustle in a quieter area should you wish. Eleni Holiday Village is ideal for all ages, however it is not suitable for the less mobile due to a hilly location.
Hotel Eleni Holiday Village Facilities
• Bungalow-style room for up to 4 (max 3 adults or 2 adults/2 children) consists of • Twin beds • Bunk beds • Shower and wc • Balcony or terrace • Satellite TV • Air-conditioning
• Tennis court • Windsurfing • Sauna • Massage • Fitness room • 10 pin bowling • Crazy golf • FREE Aquapark 'Atlantida' (01 June - 30 Sept)
• "Elenite,Bulgaria,,,00 359 554 68520"
All Inclusive means
• Meals: Full board with buffet-style breakfast and lunch and buffet or set menu dinner. Snacks available from beach pavillion, aqua park snack bar and ice-cream and cookies available from the café. • Drinks: Locally produced beer, wine, spirits and soft drinks (time restrictions may apply). Tea and coffee from the pool or lobby bar. • Activities: Pedalos. Beach volleyball. Aerobics. Water polo. • Entertainment: Regular evening entertainment programme and 'Galaxy' night club. Small fairground rides and novelty train for children.
• Swimming pool • Sunbeds and parasols • Gift shop • Minimarket • Internet access • FREE WiFi in reception area • Laundry service • Safety deposit boxes in reception • Occasional ferry service to Nessebar • Regular public buses run to nearby Nessebar
For Children
• FREE child places • Separate children's pool (at Royal Bay) • Hotel kids' club (4-12 years) • Children's buffet section of main restaurant • FREE cots (on request at time of booking)
Key Facts
• On the beach • Main resort area: 300 metres • 500 rooms • Child age: 2-12 years • Telephone no: 00 359 554 69525 • Official rating: 4 star • Some facilities and activities may incur a local charge
• On the beach • Main resort area: 300 metres
Meals and Drinks
• Buffet-style restaurant • 3 à la carte themed restaurants (Open Jun-Sep, reservations required) • 2 bars • Pizzeria • Café
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any ideas? i no its going to be chopy waht about northside?
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any ideas? i no its going to be chopy waht about northside?
Oh ye of little faith.:o
Delaware not gettin it.
LBI on sun morn,
the windswell will move up there and stay longer. Waist/chest and clean:cool:
30 degrees with hard offshores:(
well lets hope so hopfully mother nature will put the winds west and have a solid 8ft swell =D. and wendsday was a blast wow!!!
if you know where to look, Sat. should be fun, at least in the afternoon.<<even with on shore winds. Looking like a good hard wind swell if the forecast holds. I am thinking only three spots working though. Sunday may be a typical get it early, or not at all. It tends to fade fast with a high tide just past, offshores and a dropping swell. >>This being the Delmarva area.


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Nine Unsolved Physics Mysteries
Antarctica Photography by Ales Litomisky
de Natalie Wolchover, Ales Litomisky
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When, 30 years ago, my boss and mentor Jaroslav Fric told me that artistic understanding of the world is as accurate and valid as the scientific one, I was skeptical and considered that as a hyperbole. Now, 30 years later, I agree.
Even though I did my homework and prepared for what I was about to see in Antarctica, I was still overwhelmed by the sheer presence and majestic beauty of the landscape, wilderness, and wildlife.
One must experience first-hand the scale of dimensions, the hues, and the unusual smell of the breeze and sea water to fully grasp what Antarctica is.
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'Hit the Floor' Cast Reveal Behind-the-Scenes Secrets in Pre-Finale Chat
Most Like Their Character
Katherine: "Taylour."
Logan: "I think I'm most like my character—naw, I'm just kidding. [Laughs] I think everyone is cast really, really well. I just don't think there's anyone that could play their character better than they could. So, in my head, everyone is their character just because they can bring it to life so well. It's hard to say Taylour because Ahsha is so naïve that it's almost rude to say it's Taylour, but her and her character have a lot of similarities—Taylour was a Laker girl for three months, she's like the rookie and she's also very new to the acting side of the industry."
Taylour: "Probably Kat. Not in terms of all the sexual stuff, but she's extremely smart. She's really witty. She knows what she's doing. She has these real-life one-liners that are just like, did you really just say that? And we can't help but laugh. And McKinley is pretty smooth and he's really confident. In a sense, everyone has some similarity to their character, some obviously more than others. I think that Ahsha and I parallel in a lot of ways, where we are in our lives, where we are in our relationships. I feel like I'm a lot more self aware and I have that child-like enthusiasm but I'm like also aware this is Hollywood. This is the industry. I'm professional. This is a job, and I feel like Ahsha, gets swallowed in and isn't aware of the repercussions of her actions. She doesn't really stand up for herself. And at this point, I would've probably cussed someone out, punched someone in the face." [Laughs]
Toughest Scenes
Logan: "I'd love to give you an actual scene, but I think that we've had some really tough dances and the TV doesn't even show you half of how hard. Like, the fact that we did a dance in the pitch black; it wasn't like they used special effects to make us glow. We just had on neon colors under a black light. We have to look like a cohesive team, which can be very hard because we're not always in rehearsals together. Our choreographer's really good. I think all of our dances are very unique, which I hope people enjoy."
Taylour: "The hardest scene? It's a toss up between my break-up scene with German, because I just got out of a relationship. It was hard because my relationship with my ex-boyfriend and the relationship between Ahsha and German were very similar in terms of them being together and loving each other for so long, and the circumstances overwhelming their relationship. That was hard to film because it was so real."
Check back tomorrow for our post-finale Part II—the cast talks character swaps, audition flops, and boy props!


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Taste of Asia opened its new location in Sarasota on Tamiami Trail. Known for its Laos, Thailand and Vietnam cuisines, the Lum family's newest restaurant features a full bar with 5-6pm happy hour, take-out and indoor and outdoor seating.
Taste of Asia originally opened in Downtown Sarasota in 2005, but changed locations last spring from Siesta Key to a much bigger space with imported wood and zen décor. Special menu items include: low-carb cauliflower rice, sand storm basa with ginger sauce, pad thai and shrimp rolls.


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MIDDLEBURY — In a showdown between two of the top Vermont boys' lacrosse teams, defending Division I Champlain Valley pulled away from host Middlebury in the late going on Saturday to earn a 12-8 victory at Middlebury College's Alumni Stadium.
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FERRISBURGH — Ferrisburgh residents on Tuesday supported a $3.5 million Ferrisburgh Central School budget proposal, 246-217, or about 53-47 percent, in the town's second vote of the spring on an elementary school spending plan.
Voters in 22.5 percent turnout also backed, 270-194, a separate $20,000 article that will pay for a keyless electronic entry system for FCS like those now used at other local schools. FCS officials said that system will improve security at the school's main entrance.
VERGENNES — Vermont Gas Systems said barring surprises it plans to have natural gas supply lines running throughout the city of Vergennes by late 2015, according to company spokesman Steve Wark.
Vermont Gas intends to begin construction in June of the pipeline extension to bring gas from its main pipeline route through Addison County in Vergennes. Wark said that extension should be complete by August, with work also ongoing in Vergennes to prepare for distributing the company's product.
FERRISBURGH — At the suggestion of Ferrisburgh Historical Society member Gail Blasius, the Ferrisburgh selectboard on May 6 voted to take over sponsorship and organization of the town's annual Ferrisburgh Day celebration.
Blasius told the board the day, modeled after the town's former "Good Neighbor Days" from the 1950s through 1970s, did not really fit into the society's mission and also stretched its organizational ability.
VERGENNES — What was expected to be a competitive clash on Tuesday between two of Division II's top high school softball teams turned into a big win for host Vergennes and a bump in the road for Mount Abraham.
The Commodores rapped eight hits and took advantage of 18 walks and seven wild pitches issued by a trio of Eagle hurlers to post a surprising 15-0, six-inning victory and improve to 6-1.
FERRISBURGH — Construction will begin soon on the Vermont Gas Systems pipeline extension that will serve Vergennes and run about three miles along Plank Road from a new New Haven distribution station to Route 7 and from there to the city, according to company officials.
Along the south side of Plank Road, the pipeline extension will pass through parts of Ferrisburgh and Waltham as well as New Haven, and it could serve homes in those towns, said Vermont Gas spokesman Steve Wark late last week.
BRANDON – The Otter Valley Union High School softball team celebrated Friday afternoon's dedication of the program's field to longtime Coach Pattie Candon by thumping visiting Mill River, 27-0, in five innings as senior pitcher Taylor Aines tossed a no-hitter.
MIDDLEBURY — Given second life by the NCAA Division III selection committee after losing an April 26 NESCAC quarterfinal, the Middlebury College women's lacrosse team made the most of that chance on Saturday, when the Panthers opened the NCAA tournament by thumping visiting Endicott, 19-7.
The 12-5 Panthers, healthier after their two-week layoff, bolted to a 10-1 lead before Coach Missy Foote began substituting freely and watched her team coast past the 14-4 Gulls.
FERRISBURGH — Ferrisburgh residents on Tuesday, May 13, will decide the fate of a $3.5 million Ferrisburgh Central School budget proposal that is about $120,000 lower than the FCS board's initial plan that lost on March 4, 450-279, or about 62-38 percent.
FERRISBURGH — The Ferrisburgh selectboard on Tuesday agreed to continue talking to Charlotte resident Clark Hinsdale III about possibly buying his 2.2-acre lot behind the town office building, a parcel that also abuts Ferrisburgh Central School and United Methodist Church property.
Hinsdale — a former Ferrisburgh resident who said he planned to move back to town — contacted the FCS board and town officials about a year ago and offered the land to the town or school for $40,000.
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Los precios son en Peso chileno.
Great staff who spoke great English. We only stayed one night and I had a stomach bug the entire time we were there and the staff did everything they could to help me feel comfortable.Very clean and nicely decorated. The shower was only warm, not hot.


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I was made editor of http://kenschwaber.wordpress.com/, and our team has somehow lost the password and username for the man (kenschwaber.wordpress) account.
We have tried resetting the password, but unfortunatly cannot find the email address in which the new password/account settings link is being forwarded to.
This is a huge problem, because now we can't reset the main password, and all we have now is editor access on my account (cowsky). I have spent two hours trying to contact WordPress support and searching for a direct support contact channel, and have found nothing.
WordPress and WordPress community, your help would be much appreciated. I believe the only solution is manually resetting the our password, because we don't know which email the password reset options are being sent to (we checked every email address of ours we know exists). Help.
Thank you in advance.
The blog I need help with is kenschwaber.wordpress.com.


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I don't know how many time people have told me that they are not good with technology … and the thing is, in today's society, you need to be! Getting to grips with technology can be one of the biggest challenges when you are running your business. Particularly if you're not naturally a 'techie'. So we have put together this tech training day to help you use technology powerfully and effectively in your business. The tools that we will be looking at are not complex, but they are very useful …Read More »
Clarity, Focus and the FAST Action Workshop
Last year we ran this hugely popular workshop at the beginning of January, this year we decided to get ahead of the game and run it in December, so that you can really get 2013 off to a great start and set your action plan for the year. Goal setting is passe . Action Plans are the way to go. This year, more than any other, it is time to have clarity, focus and a clear action plan to move your business forward. So we have put together a quick …Read More »
How to Succeed at Email Marketing: July 11, 2012
July 11, 2012. Hands down, email marketing is THE most effective way for you to market directly to your prospects and clients. No matter what type of business you are in, you should be using this fantastic, low cost method to be building relationships with your clients and making sales. I attribute 90% of our sales at Women Unlimited to email marketing and want to show you how you can to. What you write and how you communicate through email marketing DOES make a difference to the success of your …Read More »
Getting to Grips with Finance workshop
June 12, 2012. This workshop is a practical and stress-free guide to help you understand business numbers and financial jargon and overcome your fear of finance. The session explains the financial elements of all the stages in your business from the way in which it is set-up, how to work with investors and managing your cash flow on a day-to-day basis. What to expect How to set up your business to make it financially viable The best way to work with an accountant Raising capital without getting caught out by …Read More »
Blogging Workshop: Blogging for business
July 17, 2012. London. Blogging is one of the most powerful tools that you can use in your business today, but it can be difficult to know where to start. So we have decided to run our blogging workshop again to give you all the insights, learning and tools that we know to help you blog successfully in your business.Read More »
Create Multimedia products as an income stream
May 10, 2012. We're really excited to be bringing you this fantastic no holds barred workshop on how to make money by creating multimedia products from your ideas. Multimedia products can take your business from trading your time for money, to a scalable business model where you can literally sell and make income 24/7 from people all over the world. Easy tools, multiple income streams It's crazy in a global economy to limit yourself to your local market. It has never been easier to package your expertise into a video, …Read More »
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May 15th 2012. Kings Cross, London. New Workshop: If you only do one social media workshop you should do this one. Having a strategy and knowing what to do and when to do it is crucial to make social media work for you. Social Media – Is it worth it? As a small business owner you only have a limited amount of time, and you want to make sure that you are using it on something that is going to get results . I frequently get people asking me, "why …Read More »
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November 26, 2012. After the enormous success of our last online WordPress Workshop, we have decided to run another one at the end of November. The course will be delivered virtually through the power of video and WordPress itself. In this online workshop we will show you how to create your own website or blog in WordPress and give you the chance to create a website that you have full control over. CLICK HERE TO GET ON THE EARLY NOTIFICATION LIST WordPress is the world's most used blogging platform, and …Read More »
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It's that time again! On March 9th, we are holding our 4th(!) annual conference at the British Library. The Women Unlimited conference is all about you. It's inspiring, motivating, exciting, and invigorating. We use this day to celebrate your bravery, celebrate your successes, and celebrate each other. This year our theme is all about how to make your business THRIVE! in 2012. What to expect We have an absolutely fantastic line-up, and feel truly blessed to have so many remarkable women who are willing to come along and share their stories, …Read More »
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With Baghdad still in a state of chaos, there was a whiff of panic about Washington's removal of the top layer of its team responsible for reconstruction. There was also a hint that it is being forced to rethink its post-war strategy.
Barbara Bodine, the US coordinator for central Iraq, was ordered back to Washington, a casualty of the failure to restore law and order or basic public services to the capital, Baghdad.
She is the second senior US official to be sidelined within a week. Her partner in the country, retired general Jay Garner, head of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Aid (Orha), is also to be replaced within weeks, after a lacklustre performance. He too has only been in Baghdad for three weeks.
Washington hopes the overhaul of its team will bring a much-needed sense of urgency and focus to the reconstruction process. It originally intended to get Baghdad up and running by itself, but may yet have to seek help from the international community.
The capital remains in a state of anarchy, with most of the city a no-go area at night. The former telephone exchange was on fire yesterday after being looted again, and there were big blazes elsewhere round the city. One of the few aid convoys to trickle through to the city in the past few days was hijacked and the vehicles stolen.
Electricity is intermittent, with most of the capital in darkness every night. Rubbish is piling up in the alleys and main streets, many shops are still shuttered, sanitation generally is poor, and the provision of public services is patchy. Only a few people have returned to their jobs.
The process of trying to establish a provisional Iraqi government is also proving troublesome.
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US army Major John Cornelio, a spokesman for Orha, said Ms Bodine planned to leave Iraq last night. He did not give a reason for her departure. She is to take up a post in the state department in Washington. She told the Washington Post: "I'm not leaving with the sense that we've done everything we could have done, but I'm also not leaving with the sense that it's been a failure."
Ms Bodine, a former ambassador to Yemen, has been a victim of Iraq before: she was on assignment in Kuwait before the 1991 Gulf war and was held captive for 137 days by Saddam's invading forces.
Her relations with Gen Garner are reported to have been strained, and she was also said to have been unhappy at the dispatch of Paul Bremer, a former US diplomat, to oversee the political process. He is due in Iraq this week.
Britain has sent John Sawyer, an ex-ambassador to Cairo and former Downing Street policy adviser, to work alongside Mr Bremer. Mr Sawyer, who has been designated special envoy to the Iraq political process, said he wanted a new Iraqi government that was broad-based and credible.
Gen Garner promised that power would be handed over to an Iraqi provisional government by the end of the month, and set a deadline of June 15 for the full restoration of public services. He has been cooped up for most of his stay in Saddam Hussein's former presidential compound on the banks of the Tigris, cut off by heavy security from the plight of the city's residents.
There has been growing resentment among residents over the failure to restore order and basic services. The US, unaccountably, has been unable to stage any big public relations coup since the fall of Saddam to win over hearts and minds, such as a huge convoy bringing in desperately needed medical supplies.
Most of the contractors appointed to carry out reconstruction work remain in Kuwait, saying Baghdad is too unsafe.
The Pentagon and state department have been at loggerheads over the running of Iraq. The defence ministry, having won the war, is reluctant to hand over power to another department, while the state department regards the Pentagon as lacking the necessary diplomatic, and political skills for nation-building.
Although Mr Bremer's appointment was hailed as a victory for the state department, he shares a similar view of the Middle East as the Pentagon hawks, such as the deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz.
At a briefing in the grounds of the newly reopened British embassy in Baghdad on Friday, Major General Tim Cross, deputy to Gen Garner, made a passionate defence of Orha's record so far, saying that security was not a matter for Orha, but for the US-British forces.
He said the management of a political process was always difficult, but that about 40% of electricity had been restored so far, and that the water in the capital was good, though sanitation was not.
The impact of his statement was undermined by frequent bursts of gunfire rolling round the city throughout the briefing.


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There's nothing more contemptible than a hunter with a thesaurus, as this trollish New York Times piece by Seamus McGraw demonstrates.
McGraw breathlessly romanticizes killing deer with unreliable, antiquated firearms. After botching his shot (probably due to his choice of weapon) and grievously wounding a deer, McGraw contends, not once, but twice, "I hate to kill."
People who hate to kill don't go out into the woods with firearms.
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To kill with a flintlock, you must get close. And because these ancient guns are notoriously balky and inaccurate, there is a very good chance that you'll miss your target altogether or, worse, that you'll simply wound the creature and in so doing, inflict greater suffering than is necessary. And so you take every precaution to make sure that your one shot is clean, that it kills quickly and mercifully. And still, sometimes you fail, just as I did that late afternoon in midwinter when I flinched as my gun went off.
McGraw has just delivered a better argument for outlawing hunting by flintlock than any animal rights person ever could, and yet he doesn't even realize he's done so. Link.


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Ever wondered whether it's possible to make patient transfers safe and comfortable, without all the fuss of a large and complicated sling? The Rifton SoloLift can do just that, thanks to the SoloVest that hugs a client's trunk securely, lifting them in an upright and more dignified position without any discomfort. See it for yourself with this video. A transcript is provided below for viewers with hearing disabilities.
Watch more videos in this series:
Out of the Box | Rifton SoloLift Video 1
Transfer Transformed | Rifton SoloLift Video 2
Simple Transfers | Rifton SoloLift Video 3
Comfortable Transfers | Rifton SoloLift Video 4
Above-the-Waist Lifting | Rifton SoloLift Video 5
One Caregiver Only | Rifton SoloLift Video 6
Unique Lifting | Rifton SoloLift Video 7
Safe Lifting | Rifton SoloLift Video 8
Economical Lifting | Rifton SoloLift Video 9
Rifton SoloLift Inservice With Tips | Rifton SoloLift Video 10
For PTs Only | Rifton SoloLift Video 11
3 Final Words | Rifton SoloLift Video 12
[00:00:00.12] Caption: Comfortable
[00:00:03.17] Peggy Amler MA, OT/L: A concern about the vest was whether or not it would be comfortable, particularly for the female consumers and we did not find anybody who was uncomfortable in it. It's secure enough and yet, contoured and padded, that no one expressed any discomfort.
[00:00:21.01] Carol Chiulli, PT: Even when we really tightened the straps, nobody complained that it ever felt too tight.
[00:00:25.19] Peggy Amler MA,OT/L: And we tried several consumers and several staff of varied body types.
[00:00:31.06] Carol Chiulli, PT: And tried really tightening the straps.
[00:00:31.13] Peggy Amler MA,OT/L: No one, no one complained.
[00:00:33.08] Carol Chiulli, PT: I think when we started using the SoloLift on the consumers, it was very quick. I think because of the vest itself, because it really envelops you and it provides support all around the trunk, where other lifters just give the support in the back. So I think that it's more dignified because you are forward leaning, it gives you total support. You're never, you don't ever look like you're in a cradle, like some of the lifters when it goes up, you kind of are, you're lying back in the sling and you feel vulnerable in that position.
[00:01:02.03] Peggy Amler MA, OT/L: And I think that it's a more pleasant experience for the consumers too because it's easier to apply the vest. All you need to do is tip them forward a little bit. You're able to work the vest down all the way where it should be, and therefore you can secure it better. And the vest doesn't ride up the way other vests do.
[00:01:21.15] Linda Bollinger-Lunger, PT: Initially, looking at the vest, I was concerned that it would be riding up; I couldn't imagine how it would hold my body, without it riding up. And so I was surprised that it really was secure around my trunk and that I was able to be lifted from that position. I was concerned about positioning over any type of tissues or anything like that, but it was really OK, I felt really comfortable with that.
[00:01:48.15] Paul Keckeiser, PTA: I was very skeptical actually, when I first saw the vest that's used with the SoloLift. It didn't seem to me plausible to be able to lift someone's full body-weight with just a vest. I thought for sure it would either ride up under their arms or actually slip off of them. But once I tried it, and I tried it for myself, it actually worked very well, it's very secure.
[00:02:08.27] Keith Jones, Program Manager: With other lifts that we use, the participants do sometimes complain about pain under their arms, being uncomfortable under the arms. So when I actually tried it myself, that was what I was looking for and it was very comfortable for me.
[00:02:20.24] Paul Keckeiser, PTA: When you are first raising the client up, you can see if the vest is sliding up. You stop, you lower it down and you readjust the vest. Or, if the readjustment doesn't work, then you go to a smaller vest. It's easy to tell immediately if it's going to work or not work.
[00:02:32.15] Carol Chiulli, PT: The vest has to be low, and secure, and tight. As long as the vest is in place, the rest of it is very easy.
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In many cases, fear can be more contagious than a virus itself. The emergence of the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug illustrated this. The bug — which hypothetically provided attackers with an easy opening to breach large segments of the Internet — led computing users to be understandably concerned about the state of their personal security.
Certain incidents following news of Heartbleed, including an intrusion on the Canadian Revenue Agency's internal infrastructure that directly harnessed the OpenSSL vulnerability, gave individuals more reason to be alarmed.
This sense of alarm has prompted a proactive response among many users. A new post-Heartbleed report showed that not only are computing users taking more precautions following the bug, but also that they are more skeptical than ever about their personal information security. What this suggests is that for companies thought to lack strong authentication and other protective measures, business will almost undoubtedly decrease.
Research Center Report Sheds Light on General Lack of Faith in Personal Security
While most computing security news stories may go unnoticed by the general public, Heartbleed is not one of them. According to a survey of 1,501 computing users conducted by the Pew Research Center, 39 percent of those polled not only heard about the bug, but took proactive measures to defend against it like changing their passwords.
But despite taking these steps to bolster personal security, respondents said they actively fear for their information safety. Of those surveyed, 29 percent said they fear the Heartbleed bug has threatened the safety of their data, while 6 percent believe that their personal information was actually stolen.
The Heartbleed effect is apparently seeping into the public perception of online security in general, as evidenced by the fact that more than a quarter of respondents said they believe online computing is not secure.
Findings like these suggest that businesses need to take as stringent measures as possible to ensure the safety of their clientele.
To Boost Business, Companies Must Boost Enterprise Security
Looking at the Pew report, it is reasonable to assume that today's average customer will have very little tolerance when it comes to business security lapses. If they have any reason to believe their personal information such as credit card data isn't safe in the company system, they'll take their business elsewhere.
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Leading an effort of conservative freshmen members of Congress this morning, Congressman Jeff Landry (R, LA-03) requested that Speaker John Boehner direct $1.435 million of unused office funds to immediately pay down the national debt.
"My colleagues and I voted against the disastrous Washington debt deal and the failure Super Committee. And my colleagues, members of the freshman class, have been stewards of the taxpayers' money when it comes to office spending; so much so, that today we are returning nearly $1.5 million to protect the taxpayers," said Landry. "But instead of just doing what Washington politicians would do -- issue a press release, pat themselves on the back, and tell their constituents how great they are -- today, we are calling on the Speaker to immediately use these funds to pay down our national debt."
Landry, whose office is returning $160,000 or over 11% of his office budget, cited the need for Washington politicians to stand with the American people not above them. "While American families and small businesses have been struggling -- cutting family budgets and making tough business decisions -- the Washington politicians in Congress have continued to feed their addiction to spending. Enough is enough; Congress is not above the American people. We serve in the people's seats, and the people deserve better than Washington politicians saddling them with mountains of debt," said Landry.
In a letter to Speaker Boehner, Landry and seven of his conservative colleagues said: "As freshmen, we came to Congress promising to reduce red tape and eliminate Washington accounting gimmicks -- ideals we know you share. We believe immediately transferring our unused MRA funding to debt relief demonstrates that we continue to focus on these principles and represents a stark contrast to President Obama's continued efforts to increase federal spending."
Congressman Raúl Labrador (R, ID-01) is hopeful Landry's leading efforts will convince other Members of Congress to follow suit. "With a mounting national debt exceeding $15.3 trillion and a troubled financial outlook ahead, we must remain committed to not only saying something, but also doing something. Because we are honored to serve our constituents in the U.S. Congress, we are called to lead by example. It is my hope that many more of my colleagues will join us in our efforts to pay down our national debt and restore the American Dream for generations to come."
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You can survive a high-rise fire if you know what to do. Before a fire occurs, you must have an escape plan and you must practice your escape. If a fire occurs, the most important thing to do is sound the alarm and get out!
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You can prevent fires from occurring if you practice simple fire safety actions.
Plan for a Fire Before a Fire Occurs!
- Know the location of exits.
- Recognize the sound of the fire alarm.
- Know how to activate the alarm.
- Know how to contact the fire department.
- Participate in fire drills and know the evacuation plans for your building.
- Do not prop open exit doors or store anything in halls or stairwells.
- Sound the fire alarm, no matter how small the fire seems to be.
- Close all doors behind you, especially the door to a burning room.
- Proceed directly to the exit. Do not use the elevators.
- Go quickly and calmly to the ground floor and exit immediately.
- In all instances, follow the directions of fire and security personnel.
- Crawl low in smoke. The air is easier to breathe near the floor.
- If trapped in a room, close all doors between you and the smoke. Seal cracks around doors and vents.
- If possible, open windows slightly at the top and bottom to let fresh air enter.
- Signal at the window to rescuers. If there is a phone in the room, give the fire department your exact location, even if they're on the scene.
- Smoke only where permitted.
- Use large ashtrays. Dispose of ashes only when they are cold.
- Check after smokers for "live" cigarettes smoldering in wastebaskets and under the cushions of upholstered sofas and chairs.
- Investigate electrical equipment that is not working properly or smells strange. Unusual odors from appliances or cords can be a first sign of fire.
- If you must use an extension cord, plug only one appliance into it. Unplug extension cords when not in use.
- Keep heat-producing devices away from things that burn.
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Inshore: If you're looking for fast action on light tackle, head to the gulf beaches. Spanish mackerel, bluefish, ladyfish and jack crevalle have invaded the nearshore waters, attacking huge schools of anchovies (glass minnows) that have finally moved in. Typically, the glass minnows come to these areas in the spring, but for some reason the invasion is late this year. Regardless, they're here now.
The easiest way to find these packs of marauding fish is to look for birds. Flocks of diving brown pelicans with least and royal terns mixed in are a dead giveaway. Once you get close to the birds, look for the fish coming out of the water chasing the baitfish.
Tactics: One way to catch these fish is on a topwater plug or artificial bait. A MirrOlure 16mr11, which resembles a juvenile finger mullet, is deadly. The best technique is to get upwind of the school and cast downwind to it. Run the lure through the feeding fish and watch it get knocked out of the water.
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I'm a Vietnam veteran, and Congress needs to provide more help. I think denying a veteran his claim is like denying a Viking entrance to Valhalla. All that veterans want is for our country to love us as much as we love it.
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- what constitutes spiritual maturity and what is required to get there
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The BCM4329 from Broadcom integrates Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and FM technologies to support more media and data applications in handheld electronics without impacting size or battery life, according to the company. Not resting on this achievement, Broadcom also plans on introducing a new companion chip every 60 days over the coming months, as ABI Research says combination chips will account for nearly a third of all wireless connectivity solutions shipped in 2012.
Today's mobile devices provide cameras, browsers, audio capabilities, and other applications that would benefit from the 802.11n standard, which offers higher throughput, more robust connections, and much greater coverage for sharing data than previous Wi-Fi technologies. The BCM4329 offers up to 50 Mbits/s of actual wireless throughput for fast file transfers while consuming less power. And with the standard's space time block coding (STBC), the chip can maintain a connection with an access point anywhere within an expanded coverage area.
Additionally, the BCM4329's FM transmit capabilities enable consumers to stream music directly from their mobile devices to car stereos or home theater systems without special adapters or bulky cables. With the FM receiver, users can get real-time traffic information as well as music, news, and sports broadcasts on their mobile devices.
The chip's Bluetooth functionality provides hands-free communications, cordless data synchronization, and stereo music streaming to headphones and speakers. Since Bluetooth and Wi-Fi both operate in the 2.4-GHz band, co-existence algorithms and a shared antenna system minimize interference and provide better performance than products with separate Bluetooth and Wi-Fi solutions, according to Broadcom.
Handheld devices lack the space, battery power, and processing power to support 802.11n implementations with multiple antennas. So, the BCM4329 uses single-stream 802.11n to transmit and receive data, significantly reducing the system's footprint and power consumption. Yet despite the use of a single antenna, the chip provides faster and more reliable connections than current 802.11g products, Broadcom says. The company also calls the BCM4329 the industry's smallest and lowest-cost dual-band 802.11n solution.
With dual-band capabilities, Wi-Fi users can take advantage of the less crowded 5-GHz spectrum for media applications that require faster guaranteed bandwidth. To eliminate the cost and size barriers of adding dual-band functionality to mobile devices, the BCM4329 integrates 2.4- and 5-GHz power amplifiers, reducing bill-of-material costs by up to $0.75 while providing the same or better performance than solutions using external power amplifiers. This integration also cuts power consumption and makes designs based on the chip 15% smaller than those based on its predecessor for modules that are less than 75 mm2, squeezing into tight board space requirements.
The BCM4329 is now sampling to early access customers and is scheduled for significant production quantities in 2009. Pricing is available upon request.
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(SPOILER) UPN changes trailer for "Bring on the Night".
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Gornal go gunning for FA Vase glory
12:11pm Thursday 14th November 2013
12:11pm Thursday 14th November 2013
GORNAL Athletic go gunning for FA Vase glory this Saturday when they entertain Wisbech Town at Garden Walk.
Ironically, the teams met last season, with Gornal coming out on top.
However, only Ravi Sangha remains from the previous Gornal team.
Manager Matthew Price has arranged a friendly with RAF Cosford on Thursday night to run the rule over a number of trialists.
One of them will be Richard Smith from Worcester Raiders who has scored 31 times from 11 games in West Midlands League Division Two.
Price added: "Richard has been scoring goals for fun recently and if he shapes up well against Cosford, he could well be in the side to face Wisbech."
n Dudley Town came close to becoming the first West Midlands League side to lower leaders Lye Town's colours this season.
It took an 86th-minute equaliser from Ben Jevons to preserve Lye's 19 match unbeaten run.
Rion Francis-Mills rifled the Robins in front in the opening minute before Ricky Anslow levelled matters.
Adam Callinswood fired Dudley back in front on 61 minutes and that looked the likely winner until Jevons stole in to convert Anslow's cross.
Dudley boss Andy Wyton said: "I thought we'd won and we should have won the game.
"There was only one team who wanted to play football and that was Dudley Town.
"Lye just kept lumping the ball into the box — it was horrible to watch.
The Robins have little time to dwell on the game as they travel to Midland Alliance side Causeway United in the FA Vase.
n Tividale have signed former Evesham United and Chasetown midfielder Leigh Downing.
Manager Stuart Scriven said: "It's a big signing for us. Chasetown wanted to keep him, but Leigh wasn't happy with their rotation policy."
Tividale were unable to increase their 100 per cent Midland Alliance record to 13 games this week after their proposed contest with AFC Wulfrunians was called off owing to a waterlogged Packwood Road pitch.
Tividale travel to Quorn on Saturday with Scriven waiting to see whether Aaron Baines and Sam Williams recover from their injuries in time to play.
He has also recalled striker Dan Evans following a loan spell with Dudley Sports.
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Transfer news: Reading yet to agree deal with Mohamed Sissoko
Reading boss Nigel Adkins says the club have yet to reach an agreement with Mohamed Sissoko, but is ruling nothing out.
Last Updated: 06/09/13 6:00pm
The former Liverpool midfielder has become available as a free agent following the cancellation of his contract at Paris St Germain.
Reading wasted little time in making their move for the 28-year-old, but Adkins is reluctant to speculate on whether a deal will eventually be done - with other clubs known to be keen on the Mali international.
He told the Reading Post: "A player of great quality has been highlighted as available for us to pursue and we've gone and pursued it.
"Like everything, you have to do the right due diligence in respect of medicals and then you have to make a take on it as to what is the right business to do for the club.
"There was a genuine desire to try and get it done. Unfortunately, there was a situation where both parties couldn't come to an agreement.
"Now the scenario is the player is out of contract. The fact is that at the moment a deal has not happened, that's not say it won't in the future.
"He's a good young man. He's played at the top level and the last thing I want to do is jeopardise his future by saying anything about any form of issue."
While Adkins has been unable to bring Sissoko on board as yet, he is preparing to dip back into the transfer market when the loan window re-opens on Monday.
He added: "On paper we've got a strong squad of players. The club has managed to keep players, which is important.
"But we want to keep improving and bring top players in. You're going to find that maybe players that have been omitted from the 25-man Premier League squads then become available for loan.
"Some players have had their contract paid up knowing this situation will arise. Players put themselves in that position because it leaves themselves free after the window.
"There are conversations that have to go on. It's not ideal and I'm not hiding away from anything. We wanted to bring three players in before the window shut. That's not happene, but the reality is now that we have to move on.
"You want to bring top players in, tried and tested that does what it says on the tin in the Championship to get ourselves out of it."


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Three youths have been charged following a robbery at Manchester City Football Club's stadium.
A group of up to six youths forced their way into the Eastlands stadium on Rowsley Street at about 9.50pm on March 17by prising apart the magnetic doors on one of the gates.
Once inside, the gang went into one of the public bars in the stadium and stole a number of bottles of spirits.
They were then disturbed walking around the upper level of the stadium by the club's security staff who immediately contacted police. The gang were chased out of the stadium and split up into two groups - one seen heading towards a nearby Asda and the other towards Ashton New Road.
Three boys aged, 14, 16 and 17, were later arrested on suspicion of burglary. The three were charged on Saturday and will appear at Manchester City Youth Court on Tuesday .
Police are still appealing to anyone who saw the group running away from the stadium, or anyone who has information about the incident, to come forward.
Anyone with information about the burglary is asked to call Grey Mare Lane Police Station on 0161 856 3502 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.


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West Bank Attack Victim Ihab Khatib 'Had a Heart of Gold'
Family describes victim's enthusiasm for service in the IDF, his desire to contribute.
The uncle of Ihab Khatib, and Israel Defense Forces soldier who was knifed to death by a Palestinian terrorist in the West Bank earlier in the day, said Wednesday that "he was a boy with a heart of gold who loved to help everyone, and loved to serve in the military so he continued on even after his mandatory service was completed."
Khatib, a resident of the Druze village of Kfar Maghar, was survived by two parents, three sisters and two brothers. He was the eldest brother, and served as a non-commissioned logistics officer in the Kfir Brigade.
"We're not processing this," his uncle said Wednesday. "He left the house just this morning, after a short leave, and suddenly he's gone."
"Ihab loved his service and wanted to advance [in the military]," the uncle went on to say.
Ihab's death marks the third recent tragedy that has befallen the family, after his mother Farha lost her brother, an IDF officer, in an accident 10 years ago. During the Second Lebanon War, in 2006, Farha also lost her sister when a Hezbollah rocket hit the family home in Kfar Maghar.
The uncle said that the family was known for its contribution to Israel and its security. Ihab's grandfather is a retired Border Police officer, and one of his brothers is about to enlist in the IDF.
Ihab's family said that they got word of the incident from one of his army buddies who called the house shortly after the incident. Later, military officers came to the house to give the family the news. Many of the village residents flocked to the family's home to console them.
Fatma, one of the residents of the town, said that Ihab's mother could not process what had happened. "For her it is a third tragedy, a third blow," Fatma said. "She lost her sister only four years ago, who was the same age as her son, and now him too. The pain of the loss of her brother is added on top of all that. You can't imagine this mother's pain."
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FOR THE second time in a week, my bus to work failed to turn up. This is the 11 A/C Brynglas. That means I've had to pay for a taxi twice in seven days which I cannot afford to do.
Newport Transport did not bother to send out a message for those of us who were waiting. Do they believe that going to work is optional for us? Perhaps we ought to bill them for the taxi fares.
It would also be nice if they could show some concern for their customers. After all, we keep them in business. I wonder if my 09.11 bus will turn up tomorrow?
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Single Knob Filter (or: my first VST worth releasing)
UPDATE: The SKF project is now hosted at Google Code!
Are you laptop a DJ? Do you love the filters on the Pioneer DJM-800 mixer? Then this plugin is for you! Single Knob Filter, as the name implies, is a low/high-pass filter controlled by a single knob. Besides the obvious economy in knob assignment real-estate (come on, not everyone has a Drehbank!), it's perfect for filtersweeps that make everybody on the floor put their hands in the air… you know, like they just don't care.
Turn the Filter knob to the left for low-pass and to the right for high-pass. The Reso knob adds more resonance to the filters (and boy, it adds a lot – going almost into self-oscillation! SQUEAL, PIGGY!). Before anyone asks: yes, that makes it a filter with two knobs, but "low/high pass filter controlled by one knob plus resonance" is too big for a name. Besides the important part is controlled by a single knob. That's the whole point, in case you missed it. ;-)
Read on to know how the SKF came into being.
I've been playing with Synthedit for a while, but most of my plugins until now were quite specific and mostly useless for everyone else. But things change! Last month I was reading the Ableton forum and someone asked if it was possible to create a single-knob low/high-pass filter (like the one on Pioneer DJM800 mixer) using only Live's racks.
The solution presented worked, but it was rather clunky (a rack with 127 different filter instances!) and didn't sound very good on extreme low-pass sweeps (there are loud pops when Live changes from one filter instance to another). Some people offered other solutions (me included), but none of them sounded quite right. At this point I decided to drop the Ableton-specific solution and go VST. I fired up Synthedit and some hours later I had a working solution.
The zip file includes the Synthedit source file. Yep, this plugin it's open-source – released under the GPL 2, to be more precise. You can alter it at will and even include it in your own plugins if you like. The only condition is that you release your own sources under the same license.
The only downside of using Synthedit is that the plugin is Windows-only… but if I find a way to translate the schematics to something that works on Macs, I'll do it.
Thu 11 | Jan/2007 | Tags: English,Production,VST
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11 Responses to "Single Knob Filter (or: my first VST worth releasing)"
Ross Haswell Says:
15/Mar/2007 at 1:59 pm
Hey man,
This is just what i've been looking for. Thanks!
Antonio Says:
21/Oct/2007 at 5:51 pm
algum release pra mac??
FZero: Infelizmente não… quando eu tiver condições de ter um mac E um PC, provavelmente vou conseguir um jeito de fazer releases multiplataforma, mas por enquanto não dá. De qualquer forma é bom saber que existe interesse.
mark esq Says:
27/Jul/2008 at 5:14 pm
the nice guys over at aurora mixer tipped me off about your vst but agggggg its only for windows ar the moment, i just love the sound. keep up the good work. Mark x
FZero: Yep, and that's rather unfortunate because I switched to mac as well. I'm trying to get my head around Max or something like that to see if I can release this plugin in some form for mac.
protman Says:
28/Aug/2008 at 2:29 pm
I'm going to use it tonight!
protman Says:
28/Aug/2008 at 4:56 pm
So.. coincidentally, as I was working on my bluetooth configuration to more easily support a ps3 controller for my joystick>puredata>midi machine, my OS exploded; just in time for ^tonight. A major reason I moved to the ps3 controller, besides the motion axis(s), was because the wirelexx xbox controller's L2 and R2 are seen as only one axis, which made it half-useless. However.. this plugin makes that problem useFUL.
Frey Says:
04/Sep/2008 at 4:44 pm
nice plugin, love to use it, really great job, only the reso is dangerous (produces a lot of loudness), but I can handle this as long a don´t get drunk while the gig :D
vince Says:
02/Apr/2009 at 2:32 pm
I love it.. I just wish I didnt notice the volume dip when it is engaged.. sounds like 3db.. maybe I should d/l synthedit
Brian Says:
19/May/2009 at 10:54 pm
Good work!
Anyone else using this on Vista? No problems on XP, but after a new machine with Vista, it works for some hosts (FL Studio) but not others (Sony Acid). Wondering if anyone else experiences(d) this?
FZero: I don't have any computer with Vista or Acid installed to test this. Anyway, it seems this could be fixed with a fresh export on a newer Synthedit version. I'll try this as soon as I can.
Brian Says:
20/May/2009 at 11:48 pm
Thanks FZero! I'll check back, but I hope you can ping me when you've got something. I'll test for ya! Meanwhile, I'm learning some Vista hacks that might get it working for Acid. I'll post anything worthwhile here.
Brian Says:
21/May/2009 at 12:55 am
Okay, the workaround (for Acid and probably other hosts) is to run as an administrator. From the Vista start menu, right-click on the application icon, and select "run as administrator". I had to "rescan" the VST plugins folder before it was picked up.
No need to do anything on your end FZero. It was just an I/O (idiot operator) error. My bad. Vista is frustrating.
tom Says:
11/Oct/2010 at 2:42 pm
Ableton 8 Suite seems to load all my VST plugins as well as my AU plugins. have no problem to get this to load on my macbook!
FZero: I seriously doubt that, unless you're running windows on your Macbook.


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I should be on tonight's (9pm EST) episode of Stossel, on Fox Business TV, talking about biases.
Added 8Dec: I was wrong; the show should air Thursday Dec. 11
Added 28 Dec: Here is a video of the episode
I should be on tonight's (9pm EST) episode of Stossel, on Fox Business TV, talking about biases.
Added 8Dec: I was wrong; the show should air Thursday Dec. 11
Added 28 Dec: Here is a video of the episode
Humans have a capacity to reason, i.e., to find and weigh reasons for and against conclusions. While one might expect this capacity to be designed to work well for a wide variety of types of conclusions and situations, our actual capacity seems to be tuned for more specific cases. Mercier and Sperber:
Reasoning is generally seen as a means to improve knowledge and make better decisions. However, much evidence shows that reasoning often leads to epistemic distortions and poor decisions. This suggests that the function of reasoning should be rethought. Our hypothesis is that the function of reasoning is argumentative. It is to devise and evaluate arguments intended to persuade. … Poor performance in standard reasoning tasks is explained by the lack of argumentative context. … People turn out to be skilled arguers (more)
That is, our reasoning abilities are focused on contests where we already have conclusions that we want to support or oppose, and where particular rivals give conflicting reasons. I'd add that such abilities also seem tuned to win over contest audiences by impressing them, and by making them identify more with us than with our rivals. We also seem eager to visibly hear argument contests, in addition to participating in such contests, perhaps to gain exemplars to improve our own abilities, to signal our embrace of social norms, and to exert social influence as part of the audience who decides which arguments win.
Humans also have a capacity to tell stories, i.e., to summarize sets of related events. Such events might be real and past, or possible and future. One might expect this capacity to be designed to well-summarize a wide variety of event sets. But, as with reasoning, we might similarly find that our actual story abilities are tuned for the more specific case of contests, where the stories are about ourselves or our rivals, especially where either we or they are suspected of violating social norms. We might also be good at winning over audiences by impressing them and making them identify more with us, and we may also be eager to listen to gain exemplars, signal norms, and exert influence.
Consider some forager examples. You go out to find fire wood, and return two hours later, much later than your spouse expected. During a hunt someone shot an arrow that nearly killed you. You don't want the band to move to new hunting grounds quite yet, as your mother is sick and hard to move. Someone says something that indirectly suggests that they are a better lover than you.
In such examples, you might want to present an interpretation of related events that persuades others to adopt your favored views, including that you are able and virtuous, and that your rivals are unable and ill-motivated. You might try to do this via direct arguments, or more indirectly via telling a story that includes those events. You might even work more indirectly, by telling a fantasy story where the hero and his rival have suspicious similarities to you and your rival.
This view may help explain some (though hardly all) puzzling features of fiction:
Some phenomena to ponder:
Overall, we tend to wait for others to push info onto us, rather than taking the initiative to pull info in, and we tend to gullibly believe such pushed clues, especially when they come from high status folks, come redundantly, and come correlated in time.
A simple explanation of all this is that our mental habits were designed to get us to accept the opinions of socially well-connected folks. Such opinions may be more likely to be true, but even if not they are more likely to be socially convenient. Pushed info tends to come with the meta clues of who said it when and via what channel. In contrast, pulled info tends to drop many such meta clues, making it harder to covertly adopt the opinions of the well-connected.
When a man loves a woman, …. if she is bad, he can't see it. She can do no wrong. Turn his back on his best friend, if he puts her down. (Lyrics to "When a Man Loves A Woman")
Kristeva analyzes our "incredible need to believe"–the inexorable push toward faith that … lies at the heart of the psyche and the history of society. … Human beings are formed by their need to believe, beginning with our first attempts at speech and following through to our adolescent search for identity and meaning. (more)
This "to believe" … is that of Montaigne … when he writes, "For Christians, recounting something incredible is an occasion for belief"; or the "to believe" of Pascal: "The mind naturally believes and the will naturally loves; so that if lacking true objects, they must attach themselves to false ones." (more)
We often shake our heads at the gullibility of others. We hear a preacher's sermon, a politician's speech, a salesperson's pitch, or a flatter's sweet talk, and we think:
Why do they fall for that? Can't they see this advocate's obvious vested interest, and transparent use of standard unfair rhetorical tricks? I must be be more perceptive, thoughtful, rational, and reality-based than they. Guess that justifies my disagreeing with them.
Problem is, like the classic man who loves a woman, we find hard to see flaws in what we love. That is, it is easier to see flaws when we aren't attached. When we "buy" we more easily see the flaws in the products we reject, and when we "sell" we can often ignore criticisms by those who don't buy.
Why? Because we have near and far reasons to like things. And while we might actually choose for near reasons, we want to believe that we choose for far reasons. We have a deep hunger to love some things, and to believe that we love them for the ideal reasons we most respect for loving things. This applies not only to other people, but to politicians, to writers, actors, ideas.
For the options we reject, however, we can see more easily the near reasons that might induce others to choose them. We can see pandering and flimsy excuses that wouldn't stand up to scrutiny. We can see forced smiles, implausible flattery, slavishly following fashion, and unthinking confirmation bias. We can see politicians who hold ambiguous positions on purpose.
Because of all this, we are the most vulnerable to not seeing the construction of and the low motives behind the stuff we most love. This can be functional in that we can gain from seeming to honestly sincerely and deeply love some things. This can make others that we love or who love the same things feel more bonded to us. But it also means we mistake why we love things. For example, academics are usually less interesting or insightful when researching topics where they feel the strongest; they do better on topics of only moderate interest to them.
This also explains why sellers tend to ignore critiques of their products as not idealistic enough. They know that if they can just get good enough on base features, we'll suddenly forget our idealism critiques. For example, a movie maker can ignore criticisms that her movie is trite, unrealistic, and without social commentary. She knows that if she can make the actors pretty enough, or the action engaging enough, we may love the movie enough to tell ourselves it is realistic, or has important social commentary. Similarly, most actors don't really need to learn how to express deep or realistic emotions. They know that if they can make their skin smooth enough, or their figure tone enough, we may want to believe their smile is sincere and their feelings deep.
Same for us academics. We can ignore critiques of our research not having important implications. We know that if we can include impressive enough techniques, clever enough data, and describe it all with a pompous enough tone, our audiences may be impressed enough to tell themselves that our trivial extension of previous ideas are deep and original.
Beware your tendency to overlook flaws in things you love.
I've been vacationing with family this week, and (re-) noticed a few things. When we played miniature golf, the winners were treated as if shown to be better skilled than previously thought, even though score differences were statistically insignificant. Same for arcade shooter contests. We also picked which Mexican place to eat at based on one person saying they had eaten there once and it was ok, even though given how random is who likes what when, that was unlikely to be a statistically significant difference for estimating what the rest of us would like.
The general point is that we quite often collect and act on rather weak info clues. This could make good info sense. We might be slowly collecting small clues that eventually add up to big clues. Or if we know well which parameters matter the most, it can make sense to act on weak clues; over a lifetime this can add up to net good decisions. When this is what is going on, then people will tend to know many things they cannot explicitly justify. They might have seen a long history of related situations, and have slowly accumulated enough relevant clues to form useful judgments, but not be able to explicitly point to most of those weak clues which were the basis of that judgement.
Another thing I noticed on vacation is that a large fraction of my relatives age 50 or older think that they know that their lives were personally saved by medicine. They can tell of one or more specific episodes where a good doctor did the right thing, and they'd otherwise be dead. But people just can't on average have this much evidence, since we usually find it hard to see effects of medicine on health even when we have datasets with thousands of people. (I didn't point this out to them – these beliefs seemed among the ones they held most deeply and passionately.) So clearly this intuitive collection of weak clues stuff goes very wrong sometimes, even on topics where people suffer large personal consequences. It is not just that random errors can show up; there are topics on which our minds are systematically structured, probably on purpose, to greatly mislead us in big ways.
One of the biggest questions we face is thus: when are judgements trustworthy? When can we guess that the intuitive slow accumulation of weak clues by others or ourselves embodies sufficient evidence to be a useful guide to action? At one extreme, one could try to never act on anything less than explicitly well-founded reasoning, but this would usually go very badly; we mostly have no choice but to rely heavily on such intuition. At the other extreme, many people go their whole lives relying almost entirely on their intuitions, and they seem to mostly do okay.
In between, people often act like they rely on intuition except when good solid evidence is presented to the contrary, but they usually rely on their intuition to judge when to look for explicit evidence, and when that is solid enough. So when those intuitions fail the whole process fails.
Prediction markets seem a robust way to cut through this fog; just believe the market prices when available. But people are usually resistant to creating such market prices, probably exactly because doing so might force them to drop treasured intuitive judgements.
On this blog I often present weak clues, relevant to important topics, but by themselves not sufficient to draw strong conclusions. Usually commenters are eager to indignantly point out this fact. Each and every time. But on many topics we have little other choice; until many weak clues are systematically collected into strong clues, weak clues are what we have. And the topics of where our intuitive conclusions are most likely to be systematically biased tend to be those sort of topics. So I'll continue to struggle to collect whatever clues I can find there.
Intuitions are a major source of evidence in philosophy. Intuitions are also a significant source of evidence about the person having the intuitions. In most situations where onlookers are likely to read something into a person's behavior, people adjust their behavior to look better. If philosophical intuitions are swayed in this way, this could be quite a source of bias.
One first step to judging whether signaling motives change intuitions is to determine whether people read personal characteristics into philosophical intuitions. It seems to me that they do, at least for many intuitions. If you claim to find libertarian arguments intuitive, I think people will expect you to have other libertarian personality traits, even if on consideration you aren't a libertarian. If consciousness doesn't seem intuitively mysterious to you, one can't help wonder if you have a particularly un-noticable internal life. If it seems intuitively correct to push the fat man in front of the train, you will seem like a cold, calculating sort of person. If it seems intuitively fine to kill children in societies with pro-children-killing norms, but you choose to condemn it for other reasons, you will have all kinds of problems maintaining relationships with people who learn this.
So I think people treat philosophical intuitions as evidence about personality traits. Is there evidence of people responding by changing their intuitions?
People are enthusiastic to show off their better looking intuitions. They identify with some intuitions and take pleasure in holding them. For instance, in my philosophy of science class the other morning, a classmate proudly dismissed some point, declaring,'my intuitions are very rigorous'. If his intuitions are different from most, and average intuitions actually indicate truth, then his are especially likely to be inaccurate. Yet he seems particularly keen to talk about them, and chooses positions based much more strongly on they than others' intuitions.
I see similar urges in myself sometimes. For instance consistent answers to the Allais paradox are usually so intuitive to me that I forget which way one is supposed to err. This seems good to me. So when folks seek to change normative rationality to fit their more popular intuitions, I'm quick to snort at such a project. Really, they and I have the same evidence from intuitions, assuming we believe one anothers' introspective reports. My guess is that we don't feel like coming to agreement because they want to cheer for something like 'human reason is complex and nuanced and can't be captured by simplistic axioms' and I want to cheer for something like 'maximize expected utility in the face of all temptations' (I don't mean to endorse such behavior). People identify with their intuitions, so it appears they want their intuitions to be seen and associated with their identity. It is rare to hear a person claim to have an intuition that they are embarrassed by.
So it seems to me that intuitions are seen as a source of evidence about people, and that people respond at least by making their better looking intuitions more salient. Do they go further and change their stated intuitions? Introspection is an indistinct business. If there is room anywhere to unconsciously shade your beliefs one way or another, it's in intuitions. So it's hard to imagine there not being manipulation going on, unless you think people never change their beliefs in response to incentives other than accuracy.
Perhaps this isn't so bad. If I say X seems intuitively correct, but only because I guess others will think seeing X as intuitively correct is morally right, then I am doing something like guessing what others find intuitively correct. Which might be a bit of a noisy way to read intuitions, but at least isn't obviously biased. That is, if each person is biased in the direction of what others think, this shouldn't obviously bias the consensus. But there is a difference between changing your answer toward what others would think is true, and changing your answer to what will cause others to think you are clever, impressive, virile, or moral. The latter will probably lead to bias.
I'll elaborate on an example, for concreteness. People ask if it's ok to push a fat man in front of a trolley to stop it from killing some others. What would you think of me if I said that it at least feels intuitively right to push the fat man? Probably you lower your estimation of my kindness a bit, and maybe suspect that I'm some kind of sociopath. So if I do feel that way, I'm less likely to tell you than if I feel the opposite way. So our reported intuitions on this case are presumably biased in the direction of not pushing the fat man. So what we should really do is likely further in the direction of pushing the fat man than we think.
I seem to know a lot of smart contrarians who think that standard human biases justify their contrarian position. They argue:
Yes, my view on this subject is in contrast to a consensus among academic and other credentialed experts on this subject. But the fact is that human thoughts are subject to many standard biases, and those biases have misled most others to this mistaken consensus position. For example biases A,B, and C would tend to make people think what they do on this subject, even if that view were not true. I, in contrast, have avoided these biases, both because I know about them (see, I can name them), and because I am so much smarter than these other folks. (Have you seen my test scores?) And this is why I can justifiably disagree with an expert consensus on this subject.
Problem is, not only are smart folks not less biased for many biases, if anything smart folks more easily succumb to the bias of thinking that they are less biased than others:
The so-called bias blind spot arises when people report that thinking biases are more prevalent in others than in themselves. … We found that none of these bias blind spots were attenuated by measures of cognitive sophistication such as cognitive ability or thinking dispositions related to bias. If anything, a larger bias blind spot was associated with higher cognitive ability. Additional analyses indicated that being free of the bias blind spot does not help a person avoid the actual classic cognitive biases. …
Most cognitive biases in the heuristics and biases literature are negatively correlated with cognitive sophistication, whether the latter is indexed by development, by cognitive ability, or by thinking dispositions. This was not true for any of the bias blind spots studied here. As opposed to the social emphasis in past work on the bias blind spot, we examined bias blind spots connected to some of the most well-known effects from the heuristics and biases literature: outcome bias, base-rate neglect, framing bias, conjunction fallacy, anchoring bias, and myside bias. We found that none of these bias blind spot effects displayed a negative correlation with measures of cognitive ability (SAT total, CRT) or with measures of thinking dispositions (need for cognition, actively open-minded thinking). If anything, the correlations went in the other direction.
We explored the obvious explanation for the indications of a positive correlation between cognitive ability and the magnitude of the bias blind spot in our data. That explanation is the not unreasonable one that more cognitively sophisticated people might indeed show lower cognitive biases—so that it would be correct for them to view themselves as less biased than their peers. However, … we found very little evidence that these classic biases were attenuated by cognitive ability. More intelligent people were not actually less biased—a finding that would have justified their displaying a larger bias blind spot. …
Thus, the bias blind spot joins a small group of other effects such as myside bias and noncausal base-rate neglect in being unmitigated by increases in intelligence. That cognitive sophistication does not mitigate the bias blind spot is consistent with the idea that the mechanisms that cause the bias are quite fundamental and not easily controlled strategically— that they reflect what is termed Type 1 processing in dual-process theory. (more)
Added 12June: The New Yorker talks about this paper:
The results were quite disturbing. For one thing, self-awareness was not particularly useful: as the scientists note, "people who were aware of their own biases were not better able to overcome them." … All four of the measures showed positive correlations, "indicating that more cognitively sophisticated participants showed larger bias blind spots."
I've noticed that recommendations for action based on a vision of the future are based on an idea that something must "eventually" occur. For example, eventually:
The common pattern: project forward a current trend to an extreme, while assuming other things don't change much, and then recommend an action which might make sense if this extreme change were to happen all at once soon.
This is usually a mistake. The trend may not continue indefinitely. Or, by the time a projected extreme is reached, other changes may have changed the appropriate response. Or, the best response may be to do nothing for a long time, until closer to big consequences. Or, the best response may be to do nothing, ever – not all negative changes can be profitably resisted.
It is just not enough to suspect that an extreme will be reached eventually – you usually need a good reason to think it will happen soon, and and that you know a robust way to address it. In far mode it often feels like the far future is clearly visible, and that few obstacles stand in the way of planning paths to achieve far ends. But in fact, the world is much messier than far mode is willing to admit.
From Triver's book Folly of Fools:
When a person is placed under cognitive load (by having to memorize a string of numbers while making a moral evaluation), the individual does not express the usual bias toward self. But when the same evaluation is made absent cognitive load, a strong bias emerges in favor of seeing oneself acting more fairly than another individual doing the identical action. This suggests that build deeply in us is a mechanism that tries to make universally just evaluations, but that after the fact, "higher" faculties paint the matter in our favor. (p.22)
This suggests an interesting way to avoid bias – make judgements fast under distracting cognitive load.
As I write these words I'm riding a late night train, listening to some beautiful music and noticing a beautiful woman in the aisle opposite. And I can feel with unusual vividness my complete vulnerability to a beauty bias. The careful analytical thoughts I had hours before now seem, no matter what their care or basis, trivial and small by comparison.
If words and coherent thoughts came through this beauty channel, they would feel so much more compelling. If I had to choose between beauty and something plain or ugly, I would be so so eager to find excuses to choose beauty. If I needed to believe beauty was stronger or more moral or better for the world, reasons would be found, and it would feel easy to accept them.
This all horrifies the part of me that wants to believe what is true, based on some coherent and fair use of reasons and analysis. But I can see how very inadequate I am to resist it. The best I can do, it seems, is to not form beliefs or opinions while attending to beauty. Such as by avoiding music with non-trivial lyrics. And by wariness of opinions regarding a divide where one side is more beautiful. (Yes Tyler, this does question my taste for elegant theoretical simplicity.)
I have little useful advice here, alas, other than: know your limits. If you cannot help but to fall into a ditch if you walk nearby, then keep away, or accept that you'll fall in.


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