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Keystone XL 2015
Posted by Joshua Sharf in Business, Economics, Energy, National Politics on November 18th, 2014
Today, Harry Reid's Senate committed one more act of legislative malpractice by failing to override a filibuster of the bill to move the Keystone XL pipeline forward. The vote was taken for the sole purpose of giving political cover to nearly former Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La.), who's in a runoff election. Much of her campaign has been based on her effectiveness in representing Louisiana's interests. Louisianans overwhelmingly support the pipeline. But Harry Reid has willingly run interference for a White House that doesn't want to make a decision, and risk alienating either the blue-collar wing or the environmental wing of its coalition. So the trick was to get to 59 votes, but not 60.
Apparently the Democrats thought Landrieu might be able to make some use of it. I'm not sure what failure was supposed to prove, but the fact that it was done at all proves that Harry Reid, like Dorothy, had the power to do so all the time. The message that comes through loud and clear is, "We'll do anything to hold onto a Senate seat."
Republicans have solidly supported building the pipeline, and will have no such aversion to embarrassing the White House, so it's a fair bet that it will come up for a vote in the new Congress. How will it fare?
On the surface, things look pretty good. Supporters only need to get one more vote to move it to the President's desk. Can they?
We can safely assume that all 54 Republicans will vote for the pipeline. So they need to find six Democrats to go along. Here's the list of today's Democrat aye votes:
Carper (D-DE)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Warner (D-VA)
Bennet (D-CO)
Casey (D-PA)
Donnelly (D-IN)
Manchin (D-WV)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Tester (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Hagan (D-NC)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Pryor (D-AR)
Walsh (D-MT)
Of the 14 ayes, five won't be around for the next session, because they were or will have been voted out of office:
Begich (D-AK)
Hagan (D-NC)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Pryor (D-AR)
Walsh (D-MT)
That leaves these six:
Carper (D-DE)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Warner (D-VA)
Bennet (D-CO)
Casey (D-PA)
Donnelly (D-IN)
Manchin (D-WV)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Tester (D-MT)
Only one, Colorado's own Michael Bennet, is up for re-election in 2016, so he's probably a safe bet to stay in the Yes column. Gov. Hickenlooper's reticence to take a position notwithstanding, Keystone remains popular here in Colorado. All the other Democrats up for re-election in 2016 voted No, which tells you that Dems either think those are safe seats, or that people in those states will have forgotten this vote by then. In any event, there's little reason for them to change their votes to yes between now and 2016.
Casey, Donnelly, and Manchin all come from states with substantial coal production. These are fossil-fuel friendly states, these guys are up in 2018, and none of them won their seats by being economic suicidalists. McCaskill has been a vocal supporter of the pipeline in the past, as well. That gets us to five, and leaves us with:
Carper (D-DE)
Warner (D-VA)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Tester (D-MT)
Warner also comes from a coal-producing state, and that part of Virginia almost delivered the election to Gillespie this year. Almost, but not quite. Warner doesn't need to run again until 2020, and his colleague, Tim Kaine, voted No. Carper voted yes, but issued a pretty weasily statement back in 2013. I wouldn't count on him.
Honestly, I think either Tester of Heitkamp could stay as Yes votes, and largely for the same reasons – they're Democrat senators in increasingly Republican states. Montana just elected its first Republican senator in 100 years; Tester must be paying attention. Rob Port sees the vote as bad news for Heitkamp.
If Reid does decide to run for re-election, he could be facing a stiff challenge from jaw-droppingly popular Governor Sandoval, who would likely make much of whatever arm-twisting Reid needed to do to keep 41 members in line. On the other hand, he only needs to hold on to one of these senators, 2016 could be a good year for Dems, and it's always more fun to be on the good side of a petulant Majority Leader with a long memory than on his bad side.
Still, it looks as though Reid could have his work cut out for him.
Staggering Improvement
Posted by Joshua Sharf in Business, Economics, Regulation, Transportation on October 27th, 2014
Looking over a CoBank report on the state of rail capacity in the West, I came across this astonishing graph:
The Staggers Act effectively deregulated the rail industry in this country, after almost a century of increasingly heavy-handed rules set out by the Interstate Commerce Commission (RIP). It took a few years for volume to rise, but contrary to the arguments of the regulators, rates fell, revenue fell, and productivity shot up almost overnight. As effects rippled through the economy, volume began to take off.
In recent years, as the cost of fuel has risen, and capacity constraints have become more evident, rates and revenue have started to rise, which accounts for the turnaround in railroad stocks.
What's really striking is the stasis that the railroad industry was held in before 1980. The ICC set their rates, limited their service, and forced freight lines to continue to run unprofitable and largely unused passenger service, competing with bus lines that were getting significant federal help through the interstate highway system. How much of the overall economy's stagnation and deterioration through the 60s and 70s was a result of this misguided paternalism can only be guessed at.
Harley Staggers, the author and chief sponsor of the Staggers Act, was no economic or political libertarian. He was a 16-term Democratic representative from West Virginia who tried to subpoena the footage from a CBS documentary on Watergate and filed an FCC complaint over the F-word in a song on a radio station. But he had enough sense to see that Appalachia's coal industry needed a healthy railroad system to grow. He's lucky that this act from his final term in office is what people remember him by.
John Kerry – Raising the Bar for Wrongness
Posted by Joshua Sharf in Economics, Foreign Policy, War on Islamism on January 15th, 2014
The Olympics are coming up, and in the judged sports, like figured skating, we'll hear a lot about the judges deliberately grading skaters down in order to "leave room" for later competitors who might do better. If we were to judge the Obama Administration on wrongness, we'd probably have given up and just awarded a perfect score a long time ago, but that wouldn't have left room for the continuing improvements being demonstrated.
The latest comes via the Weekly Standard, which reports these remarks by Secretary of State John Kerry:
We talked about the common interest of Pope Francis and President Obama in addressing poverty and extreme poverty on a global basis. The United States of America is deeply involved in efforts in Africa and in other parts of the world – in Asia, South Central Asia – to address this poverty, as is the Catholic Church. And so we have a huge common interest in dealing with this issue of poverty, which in many cases is the root cause of terrorism or even the root cause of the disenfranchisement of millions of people on this planet.
The idea that poverty is the cause of terrorism has been so thoroughly debunked – most suicide bombers come from middle-class families, bin Laden was the wealthy son of a wealthy construction contractor, etc. – that his statement on the merits is hardly worth addressing.
That said, the second part of his statement, where he says that he and Theresa have therefore decided to set an example by donating their entire fortune to the Palestinian people, is really quite remarkable.
Ha, just kidding. Of course, he didn't say anything of the sort. The solution, as always, will be to transfer billions of dollars of wealth from the middle-class and aspiring lower-class earners of the developed countries to the corrupt coffers of their "governments," many of whom actively support terrorism, even as they pose as the most-reasonable-least-bad-alternative, in order to continue padding their Swiss bank accounts. (Would that we pursued those half as assiduously as we went after law-abiding Americans with overseas money.)
In other words, Kerry wants to redistribute my future to people who want to kill me, enabling them to better do so, and feeding the contempt which is the real source of their murderousness.
Of course, Kerry himself won't turn over his fortune to this good cause in defense of his countrymen. He'll pay some nominal increase in taxes, and continue to enjoy marvelous security at taxpayer expense (for a while) and then his own (for a while).
It's really the foreign policy equivalent of Obama's domestic policies. Nobody thinks he or his rich backers from Silicon Valley are going to suffer from redistributionist policies. It's the middle-class and those just starting out who will see their futures bargained away, while the rest of us join the permanent renter class.
Foreign policy naivete combined with cronyism – the administration may finally have earned that Perfect 10.
Blurring the Lines
Posted by Joshua Sharf in Business, Denver, Economics on November 25th, 2013
Aaron Renn of the relentlessly engaging Urbanophile posts on the need for our legal structure to change to accommodate peer-to-peer, where people more efficiently share resources rather than owning a lot of unused or idle capacity:
But beyond the sheer efficiency gains, I think it's under appreciated in developed countries how economic informality can create economic dynamism. Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto noted that lack of property titles and difficulties of the formal economy perpetuated poverty because people in developing countries couldn't access the system for credit to fuel business, etc. In the developed world we've got a similar problem brewing. Our economy has been largely entirely formalized to the point where we are choking in red tape that has produced an economic system that has failed too many of its residents and leading to the creation of these informal economies as a safety valve. And our societies are very ill equipped to deal with that as we've become excessively formalized.
We don't need to establish property titles as we already have them, but we do need regulatory systems that enable entrepreneurship and new business models like peer to peer to thrive. What's more, I think enabling some level of an informal sector to flourish is actually a good thing, as it's a de facto "incubator" for new ideas that can later be developed into a more officialized system. Without a toleration of informality, these would never get off the ground.
These innovations are getting stifled by incumbents, and it's tying up a lot of the economy's capital. You can't rent a room in your house through AirBnB because that supposedly turns you into a hotel, and you're avoiding the hotel tax. Uber can't schedule limos because that somehow is unfair to Yellow Cab or Metro Cab. The car-sharing stuff seems to have found favor, though, for some reason. Lyft began service in Denver a couple of months ago.
I agree with some of the commenters that there's a qualitative difference between creating new value – like nanotech and 3D printing – and wringing the most out of existing resources. Living standards really rise because of the former, not so much the latter. The big improvements in quality of life happen when productivity jumps, and that's not going to happen through renting out that spare room on a regular basis, or sharing cars.
Bear in mind that not all restrictions are just naked rent-seeking. There are externalities associated with many businesses, and making sure that infrastructure gets paid for, and that you're not taking up your whole block's available parking with your in-home B & B are perfectly reasonable concerns. I think most of that is already recaptured by excise taxes and gas taxes and incorporation fees and oh, income taxes. So tying up capital in inventory is something most US companies have been avoiding since the 1980s, and no fair keeping us from joining in on the fun. But unless you're turning that money into productive ideas, someone else is going to end up capturing the benefit of your thrift.
The wrong model will end up raising the cost of owning-your-own outright to the point where it becomes a luxury. I'm not entirely sure that's healthy, and given the way these things tend to work, it could end up reinforcing a socialist model where ownership itself becomes a blurry concept.
For that reason, among others, I tend to prefer the Lyft model to the Car2Go model, although I hasten to add that that shouldn't be enforced through regulation. (Neither, of course, should Car2Go get the benefit of a parking subsidy as they do now.) I think it's healthier when the individuals own their own cars, rather than surrender ownership of a large part of the available fleet to what will end up being a small number of owners. Private ownership also ends up making it more likely that individuals will recognize an individual payment, rather than just avoiding an expense. Not only is that likely more satisfying, it's also likely to result in more of the experimentation that we're trying to encourage.
The other reason that a company going into business as a clearinghouse might prefer the Lyft model to the Car2Go model is the capital expense. Car2Go has to spend a lot of money to buy a fleet large enough to make the service worth using, to make sure that there will be cars available. And right now, it seems to be all tiny SmartCars. I suspect that the existing vehicle inventory out there on the road (or in the garage, as it were) pretty closely mirrors the overall composition of what people actually want to be driving. Why try to guess at a fleet composition, when the country has already done that math for you?
As always, read the whole thing.
Why Rhonda Fields Is Worse Than Wrong
Posted by Joshua Sharf in Colorado Politics, Economics on August 23rd, 2013
In a committee hearing yesterday, State Senator Vicki Marble found herself on the wrong end of a Rep. Rhonda Fields race-baiting attack. Marble – in a committee hearing devoted to race- and ethnicity-based sources of and effects of poverty – had the temerity to suggest that there might be some cultural and dietary contributors to poverty in certain groups. In reality, this isn't even a particularly controversial statement. It was said without malice, and African American State Rep. Tony Exum, who spoke immediately after Marble, apparently didn't even react. It was only Fields who went nuts, supposedly taking offense, attacking Marble, posing as a victim of racism – in a meeting devoted to racial disparities in poverty rates.
Fields is the one who deserves to be condemned here. Not because she's effectively played the ever-popular race card for partisan political reasons, but because she's hurting the very people whom we all agree need help the most, while pretending to defend and support them.
Let's be clear – it is a dangerous and socially destabilizing situation when a group of people believes that it's denied participation in the fruits of the American dream because of their race. It is fundamentally unfair and indecent to the extent that it turns out to be true. There is every reason for the state government to take an interest in the welfare of its citizens, especially the poorest and most vulnerable. And there is every reason for a state to try to determine the extent to which actual, real, discrimination exists.
Which is why Rep. Fields's outburst is so reprehensible. Instead of identifying areas where Blacks and Hispanics might be able to take their destiny into their own hands, she actively encourages them to think of themselves as victims, nurse grievances, and tend to resentments. Instead of looking for actual sources of discrimination, she invents reasons for outrage. Instead of finding ways that people can lift themselves off the Safety Net, she is more interested in keeping them enmeshed in it.
In Detroit, in spectacular fashion, we've seen where this leads.
Rep. Fields has no business serving on such a committee.
And anyone who truly cares about the welfare of poor African Americans and Hispanics should stand up and say so.
CFCs, not CO2?
Posted by Joshua Sharf in Regulation on June 2nd, 2013
Could CFCs, already known to be responsible for the ozone hole, also be responsible for global temperature change, rather than CO2?
That's the conclusion from a new paper in Modern Physics B, a high-level peer-reviewed journal. The paper found that while the correlation between recent temperature anomalies and CO2 was close to 0 – as in, no correlation whatsoever – the correlation to CFCs was close to 1, almost a perfect fit:
Climate scientists have been hard-put to explain the fact that there's been no net warming since 1998, despite increases in atmospheric CO2. If this is true, it is extraordinarily good news. CFC usage has been heavily reduced since their effects on the ozone layer were discovered, and are slowly being removed from the atmosphere. The 15-year lull in warming would not, then, be a pause before further warming, but the top of the roller coaster before we headed back down.
But more important, even the publication of the piece pulls the rug out from underneath the climate alarmists, who have been telling us for well over a decade that The Science Is Settled, and that CO2 emissions are responsible for global warming – or, as they now prefer, "climate change." There has been plenty of reason to doubt these conclusions – historically, CO2 levels have closely led, rather than closely training, global temperatures. Moreover, climate has been changing for millennia, long before the industrial revolution. And recent papers have also cast doubt on the speed with which temperatures have actually been increasing.
CO2 emissions have become something of a totem in current policy debates, inserting themselves into just about every discussion, and they have been responsible for some of the most distortionist of recent economic policies. The people who suffer from these policies most are, of course, the poorest. Globally, the poorest find themselves victimized by added costs for their countries to industrialize and modernize. Locally, Americans find themselves with higher utility costs from green subsidies, higher food costs from diverting massive amounts of corn to ethanol, higher housing costs from mandatory efficiency requirements in building codes, and higher transportation costs from boondoggles like "cash-for-clunkers." And of course, such policies make jobs scarcer for college grads, and less remunerative for a middle class already finding it hard to save for their futures.
On a grander scale, "greenhouse gas emissions" end up being the justification for wasteful light-rail, high-speed rail, and streetcar projects, and the excuse for diverting ever-more tax dollars into losing efforts to force people out of suburbs an into higher-density city centers. The Supreme Court's ruling that CO2 is a pollutant has given the EPA carte-blanche to interfere in just about every industrial process in the country. This despite the fact that natural gas use has allowed the US's CO2 emissions to fall to 1992 levels, even as actual industrial production has risen, without massive government intervention.
As, the climate alarmists have been seeing the debate slip away from them, they have resorted to more anti-science, political hardball tactics. The Climategate I and Climategate II emails laid bare the ruthlessness with which they treated those who questioned their orthodoxy. Recently, it was revealed that the Texas A&M Atmospheric Sciences Department was requiring what amounted to a climate loyalty oath for its faculty – usually not a sign of security that one's position is supported by the actual science.
Add this paper to the growing body of evidence undermining the need for massive reordering of the global economy in order to stave off a disaster that looks increasingly unlikely.
Uber vs. PUC
Posted by Joshua Sharf in Business, PPC, Regulation, Transportation on January 29th, 2013
This past Saturday's Wall Street JournalWeekend Interview was with Uber founder Travis Kalanick ("Travis Kalanick: The Transportation Trustbuster"). Uber allows a customer to summon an otherwise idle limo or SUV, on demand, through a smartphone app. The prices are competitive with town car service, and don't require pre-arrangement. The article details, in part, Kalanick's battles with various municipal regulatory authorities, who, often acting on behalf of established taxi interests, seek to keep his company from operating:
When I suggest to Mr. Kalanick that Uber, in the fine startup tradition, was using the "don't ask for permission, beg for forgiveness" approach, he interrupts the question halfway through. "We don't have to beg for forgiveness because we are legal," he says. "But there's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it. There's no upside to them."
Then, last year, came the clash with regulators in the city where they order red tape by the truckload: Washington, D.C. A month after Uber launched there, the D.C. taxi commissioner asserted in a public forum that Uber was violating the law.
This time Uber was ready with what it called Operation Rolling Thunder. The company put out a news release, alerted Uber customers by email and created a Twitter hashtag #UberDCLove. The result: Supporters sent 50,000 emails and 37,000 tweets. Mr. Kalanick says that Washington "has the most liberal, innovation-friendly laws in the country" regarding transportation, but "that doesn't mean the regulators are the most innovative." The taxi commission complained that the company was charging based on time and distance, Mr. Kalanick says. "It's like saying a hotel can't charge by the night. But there is a law on the books, black and white, that a sedan, a six-passenger-or-under, for-hire vehicle can charge based on time and distance."
In July, the city tried to change the law—with what were actually called Uber Amendments—to set a floor on the company's rates at five times those charged by taxis. "The rationale, in the frickin' amendment, you can look it up, said 'We need to keep the town-car business from competing with the taxi industry,' " Mr. Kalanick says. "It's anticompetitive behavior. If a CEO did that kind of stuff—you'd be in jail."
A determined PR campaign by Uber was able to derail DC's efforts. By coincidence, this week, Uber posted on its Denver blog that the Colorado PUC is up to the same tricks:
Unfortunately, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission proposed rule changes this month which, if enacted, would shut UberDenver down. We need your help to prevent these regulations from taking effect! Sign the petition!!
Here's a sampling of what's being proposed (Proposed Rules Changes):
- Uber's pricing model will be made illegal: Sedan companies will no longer be able to charge by distance (section 6301)
- This is akin to telling a hotel it is illegal to charge by the night.
- Uber's partner-drivers will effectively be banned from Downtown — by making it illegal for an Uber car to be within 200 feet of a restaurant, bar, or hotel. (section 6309)
- This is TAXI protectionism at its finest. The intent is to make sure that only a TAXI can provide a quick pickup in Denver's city center.
- Uber's partner-drivers will be forced OUT OF BUSINESS — partnering with local sedan companies will be prohibited. (section 6001 (ff))
The PUC has run interference for the taxicab cartel here before, last year shutting down a popular airport ride sharing program. In 2011, they denied additional permits to Yellow and a proposed start-up, Liberty Taxi. And the Union Taxi Cooperative's battle to begin service (eventually successful) was the stuff of legend. Their actions to the detriment of electricity ratepayers have been well-documented by Amy Oliver and Michael Sandoval over at the Independence Institute. But at least in those cases, they had the fig leaf of enforcing existing law. Here, as in DC, they're actually proposing to change the rules in order to run the company out of town.
As a living, breathing example of regulatory capture, Colorado's PUC is in a league of its own. Let's hope that Uber's supporters are able to persuade them to cease and desist their harassment of the company.
Inflation – Bad for the Economy, Bad for Society
Posted by Joshua Sharf in Economics, Inflation, PPC on October 29th, 2012
In The Great Wave, his history of price revolutions and inflation, David Hackett Fischer associates waves of inflation with social instability, and a pessimistic culture as reflected in the art and philosophy of that time. If he's correct, we could be in for much more than just a bout of price instability. Indeed, it's possible that the recent increases in gas prices and food prices may already be stirring some dark forces we'd probably rather leave along.
The FBI reports a continuing drop in both property and violent crime. It's important to remember that the BJS report and the FBI report draw from two difference sources, and that they are intended to complements each other, like the household and employer surveys of employment. One might show changes sooner than the other, for instance, or simply be more volatile.
There's plenty of evidence for this even in the last century. Germany was primarily destabilized by inflation, not so much by the relatively quick Depression. It was the brief but horrid inflation of 1923-24 that wrecked people's faith in the institutions of Weimar. In the meantime, the US was wracked by a long, deflationary Depression, which didn't come close to tearing the country apart. Compare that to crime rates in the 60s and 70s, which only began to subside once people recognized that inflation was dead and buried, at least for the time being.
Crime isn't just the poor and lower middle-class losing faith in their futures, it also eats away at the social fabric generally, because the middle class ends up being the most victimized. It results in frustration an anger. Wages go up, masking price increases that always stay ahead of wage increases, and nobody knows what their savings or earnings are worth any more.
I'm obviously not the first one to propose this relationship. It's been observed in other countries, as well as the United States. According to that study, macroeconomic factors don't explain more than 15% of the changes in property crimes over time, but almost all of that explanatory power comes from inflation.
None of this is to say that you can't have serious social upheaval in times of deflation or even price stability. Gold standard enthusiasts point to the 19th Century as a sort of golden age of macroeconomics. But the changes wrought by industrialization, along with the over-expansion and inevitable contraction of the railroads, led to serious social unrest and the first stirrings of mass unionization. Walter Russell Mead has been sounding the alarm about a similar reconfiguration now, we just don't yet know what the other side is going to look like.
But if we are going through a Great Recalculation, a metaphor preferred by Arnold Kling, it'll be a lot easier to meet without the complicating destabilization of people not knowing what their dollar is worth.
Does Primary Care Actually Save Money?
Posted by Joshua Sharf in Economics, Health Care, PPC on October 28th, 2012
One of the arguments for Obamacare has been the claim that increased access to primary care will result in long-term cost savings, but studies show conflicting results. The theory in favor of this is that early detection will allow treatment in earlier stages. The theory opposed to it is that keeping people alive costs money, as well.
Still, before we commit to a government takeover of health care, isn't there a pretty simple experiment that we could run to find out? If access to primary care really does save money in the long run, why aren't insurance companies providing incentives to the insured to make more and better use of their PCPs? There are some experiments in the works to incentivize doctors to be more accessible, and Anthem is even cutting them in on the presumed savings.
But the problem may be on the demand side as well – people just don't like going to doctors, and not only because of the wait times. Presumably the problem isn't just putting off going to the doctor when you're sick, it's also putting off the routine physical or the annual checkup that could catch trouble early, before there are any symptoms at all. So why not cut the co-pays? Or why not mimic the safe-driver discounts and rebate an increasing portion of the co-pay for every year you go for your physical? The latter would also help create the habit of going to the doctor regularly.
Insurance companies live and die on the sort of actuarial math that would let them detect any positive results from these experiments pretty quickly. And if anyone is culturally geared not to fall for the fallacy of the seen and the unseen, it's insurance companies. (The fallacy states that people fall for redistributionist schemes because the beneficiaries are immediately identifiable, while the costs are distributed among the many. In this case, presumably, the beneficiaries are largely unseen, while everyone sees the hit to the bottom line.)
So, is there are good reason that insurance companies don't do this? Is it just that they haven't thought of it, or is there actual evidence that it doesn't work? Is anyone aware of any results from the Anthem experiment that show one way or the other?


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When i create a new page, and change the page layout to dynamic page and select the test page i built with the template builder nothing gets applied to the new page i made. Is there something else i need to do in order for the information and style from the template builder to be applied to my new page?
Thank you
Hi JamesPRidley,
No, that should be it. As long as the template selected has content in it that can be displayed on that page and the page isn't already set to be used by some other plugin or page template type usage (woocommerce store, set as the blog page by wordpress or theme option etc).
Yea i am not sure what is causing it not to work, but when i create a new blank page and apply any of the templates from the builder … they dont work. How can I find out what other plugin or page template things are affecting these pages? The URL is sandbox.mainland.ca if you take a look the front page works just fine and the portfolio items from the front page work as well.
But anything of the other pages just dont work.
Can you take a look and try to give me a hand please, thank you!
Please deactivate all plugins, see if the issue will be fix. Activate them one at a time to find the chaotic plugin.
Hmm i have deactivated all of my plugins and i still have the same issue. Anything else I can try?
Can you create a temporary admin account for me so I can look at it live?
You can send the information to my email at DevinVinson (at) gmail.com. Make sure to include a link to this topic so that my spam filter doesn't grab it :)
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Big Box Retail Owners Ask For Stacked Housing
"...the SF Planning Commission will consider an amendment to the Eastern Neighborhoods Plan that will allow owners of the (8-acre Potrero) Shopping Center - home to Safeway, an Office Depot, a half-dozen other big-box stores and hundreds of parking spaces - to build several stories of housing units on top of the current retail buildings.
Owners proposed the amendment, which would more than double the shopping center's height limit from 40 to 85 feet and also includes an agreement to sell 22 percent of the housing built at below-market-rate prices.
Robert Lalanne, one of two principal owners, said he and his partners have no immediate plan to build up on the property."
"With home prices and credit markets where they are, it doesn't make much sense to build right now, but certainly I think someday it will," he said.
"Tony Kelly, president of the Potrero Boosters neighborhood association, said the group has no problem with the proposed project."


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Sam Faiers 999 dash: Health fears for babe after emergency shock
SEXY Sam Faiers had to have emergency medical treatment last night after her face ballooned to make her "look like an alien".
The Only Way Is Essex star, 24, up for eviction tomorrow night, was rushed out of the Celebrity Big Brother house to see doctors when the mystery illness struck.
Insiders said her alarming symptoms, and the speed with which her face became swollen, suggested she had experienced an allergic reaction to something.
Sam had first complained of feeling sick and then, to her horror, gunk started pouring from her nose.
A show source said: "The poor girl looked like something from a horror movie, like an alien.
"She is so used to looking sexy and glam that she was really shaken up, and so were the other housemates.
When TV bosses spotted the reality TV beauty in distress, she was taken out to see a doctor and examined.
At first it was thought she would have to be taken to hospital, but the reaction showed signs of stabilising.
Sam was monitored for some time and given a dose of anti-allergy medication before being allowed back in. A medical team are now on standby to take her out at a moment's notice.
"The poor girl looked like something from a horror movie, like an alien"A CBB source
Sam told fellow housemates she had been terrified by the experience, and said: "This has come from my nose and spread into my face. They've given me a dressing too."
Last night a Channel 5 spokesman confirmed Sam had received treatment. The babe, who has already had health problems in the house with an upset stomach, is up for eviction along with comic Jim Davidson, 60, and journalist Liz Jones, 55.
Her nomination caused a big row in the house as everyone likes her.
When the gang were shown the nominations on a video screen, they discovered she only had two votes – and they came from Jim and Liz.
Both celebrities were accused of tactical voting.
The others claimed they picked on a "safe" housemate like Sam because they do not think she will get the chop.
But there is no guarantee their plan will work. In the past viewers who think a celebrity is safe do not bother voting and they end up being evicted.
Made In Chelsea star Ollie Locke, 27, who has become good friends with Sam, said: "I'd be gutted if she left."


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May 11th, 2011
About 3 and a half months I was a happy normal person with no worries at all.
All of a sudden one day I was sitting on my couch watching TV, when the most horrifying thing in the world happened to me.
DEREALIZATION.. SEVERE.. I didnt know what was happening, all of a sudden all of my surroundings slighty twisted into another
dimention. Like a horriffying 3D Cartoon of somesort. I didnt know what to do. I ran around the house having
a nervous bearkdown.
Nauseous,heart pounding,sweating...ext. I thought I was litteraly loosing my mind!
I called my dad balling my eyes out and was barely able to speak. I instantly called the Mental Health Services after I was able
to calm myself down enough to be rational on the phone. I was stressing to the woman how I thought I was going
schizophrenic and needed to speak to a phyciatrist immidiantly. turns out I have to set up a meeting with a
theropist, get evaluated, then off to the phyc. Tomrmented by non stop panic attacks and derealization I finally got into a phyciatrist
2 weeks later. Told him eveything and he diagnosed my with panic disorder.
As time went on I kept feeling worse, with made me
addicted to the computer to try an "self diagnose" because it would take weeks to see the phyc again. That was the WRONG
idea. Completely sent myself into being so afraid that I was turning schizophrenic It was hard for me to do my daily activities.
So either way I made myself another appt. with him...left with the same diagnosis accept this time acompanied with Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
Went home feeling reassured and just thought I needed to relax. Needlessly to say, I got more paniky and more unsure with his
diagnosis, thinking.. Mabey I didn't tell him enough, mabey he is just missing somthing, mabey then I had GAD/ Panic Disorder but now I have schizophrenia...and so on..
I thought mabey he just didnt know what he was talking about. So I took it upon myself to make an appt with a different phyciatrist
for a second opinion. Went to him.. and guess what.. same answer. He sid I was not in any way in the prodromal phase and in no way phycotic.
So now this is were I am today. Sitting here convinced there is somthing seriously wrong with me. I know I have got OCD...its not hard to see.
But the part that kills me is I have done MONTHS of heavy reserch on schizophrenia .. every web page.. every symptom.. every forum
and now I hate myself because I am CONSTANTLY over analyzing every single move I make thinking.. Oh that was a sign!
Or oh no I dont feel like talking to anyone right now.. that means im becoming soicaly withdrawn from sociaty and I'm going to go nut soon!
I know how sick this is.. but I just cant help it.. Its making me loos focus in school and with everyday activiies.
And yes.. I am on medication.
I have been on Celexa for a month now, and I have SEVERE derealization everyday.. which makes me feel like im loosing touch..
and my i have bad memory loss to. Confusion and disorientation. Which are all signs or schizophrenia..
UGGGHH PLEASE HELP I dont know what else to do. I'm so sorry this was such a long post. But I appretiate it tremendously who ever is willing to read through and help me.
Also I have these weird suspisious thoughts, then I'm like OH NO I'm havig a delusion!! I know deep down that I dont beleive these things but then when I try and
reassure myself that I dont beleive these things, my consentration is so bad I cant even focus on what i do beleive, then it makes me
question myself if I actually do beleive it because I cant straighten my mind out well enough to make myself feel any different.
I cry alot because of these problems.
I also start having really bad anxiety when I think of the consept of life. LIKE IN EVERY LITTLE DETAIL. Kids, babies... then we grow old and die.. and thats only the
begining!! Every little aspect of life I over analyze and everything seem soooo strange! Which hieghtens anxiety and derealization.
PLEASE HELP ME.. Is this normal? Am I going completely nuts and SOMEHOW the phyciatrists are missing it? Am I a hypercondriact? I seem to read symptoms then beleive I start having them.. Is that severe ocd/anxiety? Or somthing mental
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Just sounds like a panic disorder, that's all, you don't sound schizophrenic to me, at least not from what you've written, they have some good stuff for these panic disorders nowadays as well.
I would try and get some xanax if I were you, calm you right down.
I actually have pretty severe stress on a daily basis myself, it's so draining, I suppose that's different than a panic disorder though.
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if you are not hearing voices etc then your not schizophrenic, it doesnt sound like it at all from what your saying
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I sujest after you read some answers that you turn your computer off and go for a walk, breathe... jog, do something to relive your stress, i over analyze things too, its so annoying, but im trying to stop and just live my life. i dont think you have schizophrenia, but the randomness is really odd
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I feel almost the exact Same way and it is tormenting! I can't stand it and I've also been to 3 hospitals and three different psychiatrists all just saying the same thing and it drives me nuts. I just want it to stop.
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I seriously have the EXACT same problems, granted all mine were triggered by a different circumstance. I fooled around with a drug mind you(I AM NOT A DRUG USER) at all but I think it sent me in a state of panic and ever since which has been about 5 months ago I have panic attacks, I have moments where I'll be driving and I start getting blurry visioned and feelings as if my brain is failing. My doctor's told me it's just anxiety, but like you I didn't believe him or my mom or anyone because I just didn't think anxiety could do this to someone. I never pictured anxiety like this ! Just wondering have u gotten any better since?? please let me know. I feel like im going crazy sometimes and have looked into schizophrenia and lots of other options and try and diagnose myself but then try and talk myself back out of it.. its exhausting!!
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Sometimes calling 911 is the best thing to convence the mental health comunity that your illness is real. I went to get help because of my illness. They sent me away hearing and fighting voices they said it was stress. I opened my hands like a calling to god and fell flat on my back and I said "Do as ye will" smiling bei g hassled byvoices they couldnt hear. They imediatly took me in. Threated me kindly and I let them know what was going on in my head and I talked loudly for them to hear me speaking to them. I was diagnosed as schizophranic. If I didnt fall out and give in to humilliation. Those voices would of got the best ofme. I take meds now and stable. Call 911 and let them see it. Dont hold back and try to be normal let them see it. It will save your life. Embracing the clown saved my life.
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Tens of Thousands Attend Priestly Blessing in Jerusalem
Over 70,000 people attended the traditional 'Birkat Kohanim' in Jerusalem on Monday.
More than 70,000 people attended the traditional "Birkat Kohanim" - the Priestly Blessing – at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Monday.
The event was also attended by the Western Wall's presiding rabbi, Shmuel Rabinovitch, Interior Minister Eli Yishai, Chief Rabbinate Director-General Oded Weiner and others.
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Wasteland 2 - Opening Movie Released
InXile entertainment have released the promised Wasteland 2 opening movie from MCM London in a new post-funding update on Kickstarter.
It looks so-so imo. The voice actor narrating is bad imo. Other than that, it looks ok. I guess. Personally, I would have rather they used that money for something else.
It was fine, but comparing it to Fallout 1's.. well… not even the beginning of a contest.
Nothing wrong with the voiceover, he sounded great. It's all taking shape,cant wait for August to come around. :smartass: ( couldn't find the other 2 ;) )
Thought the voice over guy was trying too hard to sound gritty, then I saw his face and he looked like a dressed up Angry Joe. Guess it could be a little better.
Kind of 90's FMV intro. Certainly could be better but I understand what they were shooting for. Personally I think an in-game intro would have been sufficient.
Looks kinda Nuka-Break'ish… heh. Given the budget, you can't really expect much more… but, yeah, it's pretty low quality. Still looking forward to the game of course!
It was "ok", but i agree that the voice guy tries way too hard, it almost sounds like he's going for comedy more than something serious (i'm thinking of the Honest game trailers etc, i wonder if its the same guy).
Still, if it had to be done, better this way, rather than expensive, resource draining CGI.
I would have chosen something simpler, like images with narration and minimal animation. This looks awkward and amateur-hour.
I like it. It is raw and gives a feeling of immersion. For me the only thing lacking is indeed the voice over.
Looks good and fitting. Too bad they did not process images to reduce clarity, grain etc… That HD sharp definition goes with a civilization at its peak not after its apocalypse.
Personally, I also would have preferred something simpler, because this attempt at live-action movie somehow feels "cheap", somehow. Perhaps a version of uncanny valley, don't know (a movie that's aiming to be realistic instead of something purely artificial). Of course it can't compare to any Fallout intro, but imho, Fallout has the more creative setting anyway.
Artistic choice to avoid featuring a civilization past its peak with technological means that belong to their golden age.
The video contains non sensitical material (like the attires) that are only meant to provide atmospheric feeling.
This game should be on par with Fallout 1, but Wasteland 2 is nearing mediocre with its sub-par graphics and lack of talent.
It was a little on the cheesy side, but I'm pretty sure that was intentional. I thought it was decent.
So I read all the comments, expected to be disappointed, and then watch the video; collectively I think are being a bit harsh. I could nic pic at it but overall I think it was appropriate for the game.
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The Chronicle says that because Carlson was 16-years-old at the time, prosecutors must ask a judge to find him unfit for trial in juvenile court.
Though Carlson was ordered to return to juvenile court on Sept. 21, Deputy Public Defender Aundrea Brown acknowledged that she expected the case to be transferred to an adult court. She described the hearing in juvenile court as "procedural."
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The next generation of USB devices won't just offer seamless connectivity — they'll be capable of driving far more power to devices. USB 3.1 opens the door to monitors that can charge laptops off a single cable — or systems that can do the reverse.
One of the tech world's most archaic aspects is that plugs don't universally connect to ports — even the ones that have the word "universal" right there in the name. Aside from power cords with two prongs of equal size, the most prominent plug that can be reversed and connected is Apple's Lightning connector, a much less widespread connector type than standard USB. Now, with the next generation of USB, everyone's favorite serial bus will be reversible and connect any way you jam it in.
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Tablet integration and cloud gaming have been incessantly heralded as the saviors of the next generation consoles. While they both have a lot of potential to expand the medium, plenty of other important features are slated for the Xbox One and PS4 that haven't received nearly enough praise.
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So, you've just finished your last semester of general education and finally about to begin your major courses. Feel good because this is where the fun begins.
To study your major, you must love your major. Love it the way Tom Hanks loved Wilson in Cast Away, that kind of undying love. This is when you absolutely pour your heart and soul into the academics, into the class projects. You better love the major you've chosen because that's all you're doing for the next two years.
Unlike general ed classes, which require very specific courses, fulfilling your major can be flexible. You and your friend may share the major, but take different courses to achieve that grand piece of paper at the end. You can pick and choose which areas of the major you want to be strong in. Sometimes, a major will consist of different focuses or concentrations. For example, at my university there's a standard Journalism major, but within it are concentrations in Photojournalism or Print Journalism. Even if your major doesn't offer subcategories, there are tons of classes you can choose to fulfill the requirements. Instead of taking that course on Shakespeare, take the Bob Dylan course as a poetry fulfillment. Yes, Bob Dylan courses are real, and so are courses on The Beatles, I'm in one!
Assuming you enjoy, or at least, have an interest in the major you've chosen, the classes associated with it should be more interesting and fun. You'll be making more friends that share the same goals as you. The people you see in class, chances are, you'll see them in other classes too but it's not a guarantee.
This is how you create your social network and, if you're ambitious, create a future start-up with the people you meet. Chances are your meetings will be late-night jam sessions or involve lots of Xbox instead of discussing business propositions.
But who knows? Major courses are usually more fun than general ed because they're in-depth and focused on a single slice of the overall subject. They're hands on and you're actually learning something you have a lot of interest in, which probably wasn't true for general ed.
Studying your major is the best part of college academics. I've felt more focused and determined to produce great work since I've started it. I think this is due to me absolutely loving what I study and because I love it, it doesn't feel like school work, it doesn't feel like a chore, a feeling synonymous with school since, well, forever. You won't miss the general ed and all of its required courses. Sure, some of them were pleasant surprises but nothing can compare to the energy you'll feel when sitting in class, studying and doing what you love (even if you can't land a job after graduation).


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While I was placing this tea into my new porcelain tea canister from Verdant I was so amazed at the chocolaty aroma! The dry leaf smells intensely of dark baking chocolate. How can this be? I couldn't wait to taste it!
I made a pot full, western style. I used 3 tbs. in my 24 oz. pot. The dry leaves are very dark, vanilla bean brown. I poured the water over the leaves, mmmmmmm… Still chocolate, but now a another layer to the aroma, grains.
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Beginners Flight School Videos
I'm doing some Beginners Flight School videos for the RCPowers forum. I thought some of you might find them helpful as well. I have a write up for each video on the RCPowers forum. The video titles link to the write ups.
Video 1: Beginner's First Flight
Video 2: Circling Decent to Landing
Video 3: Stalls
Not bad but I dont think the flat foamie was a good demonstator of a stall. IN fact I never really saw it do so.
These type of planes violate too many of the normal rules of flight to be good for this sort of thing.
A true full stall will have the plane literally stop, then drop it's nose and dive. And at that point the pilot should do nothing, but wait till the plane dives out and gets it's airspeed back. Cause thats what it's designed to do, and will if you let it.
But the good thing is whats said about the stall, thats it all about AoA. And that, is always completely in the pilot's hands with his elevator stick.
As I have always preached, "The airplane cannot stall, only the pilot can do this."
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I have flow full scale planes that also stall fairly level. The Piper Cherokee I used to fly would stay level and 'rock forward and back' during a stall. The high wing Cessna's I flew exhibited the more recognizable nose down pitch type stall.
Different airframes can exhibit wildly differing visual stall characteristics.
Airspeed is not necessarily required to recover. If you look at the stall recovery at 5:53, you'll notice that the plane is flying straight up with very low airspeed when I recover. The reason the plane is not stalled is because of angle of attack, not increased airspeed. This is possible in this attitude because of the extremely low wing loading (practically zero).
Thanks again SabreHawk for watching and commenting on my video. I hope this provides further explanation to you and others about what is happening during stalls.
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I like how you defined Angle of Attack. Angle of Attack is all about direction of travel compared to the angle of the wing. This can be a hard concept for some folks to visualize.
I want to piggyback on the comment you made about wings needing airflow to generate lift. A wing that is not generating lift is not necessarily stalled. At 5:53 in my stalls video, I break the stall while the plane is vertical. It slows and executes a hammerhead turn (all by itself I might add). During this maneuver, the wing is generating almost no lift at all, but it is not stalled. Why doesn't it stall here? The wing load is also very close to zero, and angle of attack is directly related to wing load vs. lift. Airspeed is not necessarily required to keep a wing from stalling. Conversely, as wing load increases (as it does in high G maneuvering), the wing can stall at a much higher airspeed than normal. High airspeed is not necessarily enough to keep a wing from stalling.
Thanks again for watching my videos and your insightful definition of Angle of Attack. Feel free to drop me a comment about topics you would like covered in the future.
In real aircraft with higher and higher wing loadings and momentum due to there size and mass, if you move beyond high wing trainers you will find a proper fully developed stall is a VERY serious situation.
Unlike most sims, and as RC guys know a stall doesn't happen all at the same time along the whole wing or to both wings equally. The shape of the wing plays a huge part but gets wild complicated as to why, but ultimately one wing is usually going to stall before the other. Remember I am talking about a fully developed stall, a break away, the wing is not suddenly producing very little lift but still producing drag. That wing will fall and slow more developing it's stall. At the same time the yaw effect caused by this has propelled the unstalled wing forwarding increasing it's airspeed and increasing it's lift. This process continues with both wings stalled, but one more so than the other and a spin develops.
The problem with a spin, even if you know the recovery, is they often happen at low speed and at low speed with stalling wings you have very little lift (Duh, that's what got you here), but what do you think control surfaces use? Yes lift.
Now most small light aircraft and most large heavy aircraft will recover from a spin, IF they are sufficiently strong to survive the spin.
Heavy small aircraft like fighters with delta wings is a different story. A full developed spin can go flat spin or falling leaf where there is no airflow over the controls and they are mostly useless. The aircraft 'flops' one way, stalls, flops back the other like a floating leaf, usually spinning. There often isn't that much time to 'rock it out'.
So... why did I say "fully developed stall"? Well, it comes down to one question. Are ALL wings stalled? If no, then it's not fully developed and this is the most common stall type people experience 'accidentally' and it's not really a full stall at all, it's a safety feature of the aircraft.
The main wing stalls, the tail does not. Simple. This causes a sudden pitch forward to reduce angle of attack on the main wing and restore flight. It can still enter a spin, especially if provokes with back elevator and rudder, flaps, or ailerons are unwise too.
Aircraft that stall level are risking entering a proper fully developed stall and the spin that will come from it. Be careful.
You get all kinds of other stuff, tips stalls etc. High speed stalls, high speed spins.
Hey Venquessa.
Those are fantastic points. Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge about stalls.
I hope you will continue to look in on my future videos and share your understanding of these flight concepts.
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One day in 1779, a London couple, seeking treatment for their seven-year-old daughter, showed up at the Soho Square Dispensary for the Relief of the Infant Poor. The first doctor thought she might have a hernia. The second had a different idea.
"I shall not trouble the reader with the surprise into which the parents were thrown when I first told them their child was not a girl, as they had supposed, but a boy," wrote the second doctor. The case was recently discovered in the archives of the University of Kansas and written up in the latest issue of the journal Sexualities.
In the early 2000s, Carol Warren—then a professor of sociology at the University of Kansas—was researching the history of electricity in the college's rare books library when she noticed an old pamphlet with an eye-catching title: "The case of a boy who had been mistaken for a girl; with three anatomical views of the parts, before and after the operation and cure," by a surgeon called Thomas Brand. "I was looking through a bunch of materials that had been shoved together, and this one appeared," recalls Warren.
According to Brand's report, published in 1787, he noticed an "irregularity" in the patient's "external parts." After further examination, he concluded that the child's "part, which had the appearance of the labia pudenda, was in fact the scrotum," and suggested an "operation to free the penis from its confinement." He went ahead and made some alterations, enabling the child—whose name is unknown—"to urinate standing up, wear trousers, and enjoy the privileges of being a male." Brand, who practiced at the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, was "not a quack," according to Mary Fissell, a professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins who I spoke to on the phone.
Brand saw the operation not as sex change, but as a means of returning the child to his "proper" gender; Brand seemed to believe that only two distinct sexes were possible. He denied the existence of hermaphrodites, although he was familiar with the concept: "The term 'hermaphrodite' is properly understood as an animal that has both the male and female organs equally and perfectly formed," he wrote. "But," he goes on, "There is no reason to believe that such a case ever had existence in the human subject."
Brand's attitude toward sex and gender was consistent with the predominant view of his time; according to eighteenth-century norms, sex was a medical fact that had nothing to do with choice or personal expression. In fact, neither the patient nor his parents seem to have even been consulted. "Gender wasn't conceived of as a form of identity," says Warren. "It was conceived of as a form of body." The idea of a person being "transgender," of course, is not something that would enter common conception until about two centuries later.
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i have problem with the boot loader and iam upset of this problem so please help me
i use fedora11 and the boot loader vanish
i used the rescue CD and make this but its useless so please tell me what is the problem
grub -install /dev/sda
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How did grub disappeared? What did you do before? Did you, for instance, tried to install Windows on another partition?
And, did you use to have a /boot partition in your system?
In all cases, maybe this will be helpful:
i installed win 7 then the boot loader vanish
When you installed Win 7, it replaced grub in the MBR (master boot record) of /dev/sda with the windows bootloader.
To repair your grub, boot the Linux installation CD of Fedora 11. It should offer the option to boot from the hard drive. Select that option and it will find Fedora on the hard drive and boot it. When Fedora is running, run the grub-install /dev/sda command to repair grub in the MBR.
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Thanks Texaslass for understanding where I'm coming from.
Yes it is a little less than $3000 for 12 months hospitality/tourism internship, with about $2400 paid after passing the interview with the company and getting an offer from them.
They say the fee is for arranging visa, insurance & customer service. I guess, the hint here is that the more money you pay, the faster you will get your visa done since this corruption thing exists.
I will try to contact some companies/hotels myself though that could be quite a task.
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It could be a scam as well.
Be careful before you invest so much money !
28.Nov.2012, 05:31 PM
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Yes I know that. I didn't just trust any agency.
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Basically, the only way you can get through onto a J-1 programme is through an accredited agency. Its got to do with sponsorship etc. and a single company won't go through all that trouble as they can hire someone off the street. Way back I was in USA on a J-1 programme, and I worked in a national park. The pay was rather nonexistant though, and they're pretty strict the visa is for that one "experience", they don't allow you to transfer or get another category too easily.
What I would suggest looking into, is getting a job on the cruise ships. I mean after graduating, just check the jobs available. Being a cruise director's assistant or in the purser office is not "loveboat" but you get money saved and something to talk about in the next job interview. You can get an entry level job and then, well, its not the foreign legion but a few years of hazing and you work through the ranks...
Being a non-EU and in Sweden unfortunately doesn't give you any preferentials to say Nordjobb placements and you still need to go through the work permit process to any EU country.
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I mean, if you look at teh J-! programme rules, the "idea" of it is to provide an "experience" with pocket money, rather than being a "real paid job". So as an answer to your original question, the answer is "no". But you have a couple "plan b" there that might be possible.


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After two weeks of rest and rehab, Troy Glaus will begin to put his tender heel to the test today when he joins the Blue Jays in New York. Glaus isn't eligible to come off the 15-day disabled list until Saturday, but he'll hit with the team and take some ground balls.
A decision will be made Friday or Saturday whether he is ready to return to the lineup.
"If all goes well, he should be able to play on Saturday (against Texas)" general manager J.P. Ricciardi said.
"It's a weird thing, but the heel never was a problem until this spring when Troy started wearing a larger shoe. He had always worn a half-size smaller, but it was pinching his foot slightly. Seems his foot spread out a bit in the larger shoe and this is what resulted."
Pitcher John Thomson's first rehab assignment with the single-A Dunedin Blue Jays produced some indifferent results (four innings, eight hits, four runs) but Ricciardi said the Jays will run him out there five or six more times to get a full evaluation before deciding what to do. If or when Thomson gets himself into game shape, the Jays will have to either release him or bring him to the major-league roster.
Pitcher David Purcey is off to a strong start with the double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats. Righthander Purcey is 3-0, having allowed only seven hits and two walks in 20-plus innings. Lefthander Jo Matumoto, the 36-year-old Brazilian of Japanese descent who was signed in the spring, has appeared in four games for the Fisher Cats, allowing three hits in seven innings.
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A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals heard an appeal by Walker, who was sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison in 2005 after being convicted on 127 counts that included using his government post to make himself rich.
The jury included four white men, five white women, two black women and one black man. Walker is black. "The result of the ... challenge was that it tilted the ultimate jury drastically from the composition of the community," attorney Don Samuel said.
Samuel also argued Walker was given too long a sentence and that prosecutors never proved a key claim - that Walker used his clout to coerce Grady Memorial Hospital into hiring workers from his personnel company.
The four disputed jurors, including one who would become jury foreman, replaced one white man, two black women and one white woman.
During jury selection, U.S. District Judge Dudley H. Bowen Jr. replaced the jurors after saying it appeared the defense was removing candidates based strictly on race.
Federal law allows lawyers on both sides to strike several jurors from the jury pool without stating a reason, as long as it's not because of their race or sex. All 10 defense strikes in the case were white males and all six removed by the prosecution were black.
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Raising chickens in tractor chicken coops is an excellent option for chicken enthusiasts rather than in a fixed coop. There're number of benefits to raising pastured chickens such as they eat bugs, seeds and grass from the ground while moving chicken tractor coop from one place to another.As a result the eggs obtained from these birds are not only inexpensive but delicious and healthy than market purchased eggs.This excerpt is all about mobile chicken coop plans that have detailed instructions on how to build a diy chicken coop with chicken coop drawing and blueprints too.
1: Use Cabinets for Coops:
Truly this is one of the simplest chicken coop plan because it requires you to find some old cabinets at home. The smaller cabinet's can be used as nesting boxes, while others can be the main living room. Make sure, while cutting you leave a good space for ventilation. For the legs, you can use metal legs, while you need to form netting edges all over so that predators can be kept away. You can also attach the ramp to the nesting area and open it in the netted space so that the chickens are free to move. Lastly, for the wheels you can use any parts of the old luggage bags or the lawn mower. Take help from some expert or anyone who knows how to assemble the various parts together.
2: Chicken Tractor Coop Design Made With Scrap Lumber:
You can use some parts of the lumber and make a basic coop structure. For the inner side you can use luan, while outer side needs to be fixed with proper old cabinet doors. For the run, you can use plywood and coat it with any color you want. The cabinet doors must be attached to the run so that the chickens can move anytime. See the step by step guide Backyard Chickens
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If you are thinking about how to build a chicken tractor that is inexpensive You can simply get away with this great chicken coop within $150 – you need grade plywood for exterior, and hardware cloth. You need lots of screws and some patience to fix all the pieces together, and install feeders and water systems.
4: Movable poultry pen:
Looking for a chicken pen plan? You can find a various chicken coop plan PDF online, which can teach you, in detail regarding the making of coop at home.
Here is chicken tractor coop plan in pdf.
5: From Scrap To Chicken Tractor:
You would need:
- Lumber pieces
- Wire fencing
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From the wood, you can make the base, and the top first. Later, you can add wood inside the structure to provide it enough support. Do not forget to add the door on any side you feel feasible. Once done, you need to over the entire area with wiring sheets. You are done for the time being, enjoy the simplest kind of mobile coop design.
6: Fancy coop with wheels:
You might be an artistic person, and thinking of having an attractive chicken coop. However, your basic structure and idea would remain the same. You can add as many accessories or colors you want, and even may with the cuttings to make it more desirable.This plan has chicken coop drawing and construction detail.
7: Cheerful Chicken Coop:
Without any question, lumber is the best material that can be used to form the foundation of the coop. The idea here is to have access to nesting boxes from outside, so you can add doors (window nest boxes). Simply attach the lumber structure to old cart tires or even bike tires, and paint it with some happening colors. With the entrance door, you can add the rap so that the chickens can easily manage to move in and out. Get the complete plan here
8:Garden House Coop Plan
You can be as creative as you want to when it is about designing or making a chicken coop. All you need is time and patience – do not worry about the material because they cost something less than $100. You can use tin roofing, following that you can have a base structure with door and windows. Below that, you can attach a surface so that it looks like a house porch. Support the entire structure with big tires, and paint it with beautiful colors. Do not forget to add some pictures and flowers to make it breathtaking.
9: A-frame coop style:
As the name suggests, this kind of coop design would not be easily made at home, as the structure requires many technical details. Forming A-frame one over and another is not simple, yet nothing is impossible as well.
10:PVC Chicken Tractor Coop:
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ST. PAUL – Amy Smith takes her health seriously, so when her employer offered discounts on health insurance premiums if she took steps to become healthier, she jumped at the opportunity.
"I was excited about having the money off, and I definitely needed to have some structure to my weight loss efforts," said Smith, an administrative assistant for the University of Minnesota Press.
Smith is one of more than 5,700 university employees who will receive at least a $300 discount on health insurance premiums in 2013 for participating in activities including a health risk questionnaire, health coaching and a biometric screening to measure blood pressure and cholesterol.
As Minnesota workers weigh their health insurance options for next year, more are being offered financial incentives to participate in wellness programs that monitor their health. That has some workers concerned about their privacy rights.
Basic health incentives, such as a discount for a gym membership, aren't new. About 90 percent of companies offer some kind of health incentive, said Nico Pronk, vice president for Health Management at HealthPartners, a nonprofit, member-governed health plan based in Minneapolis.
The simpler programs, such as an online questionnaire, likely aren't enough to change people's behavior, Pronk said, so employers are choosing more comprehensive programs. They include a range of activities — everything from weight-loss management to nutrition coaching.
"When we then look at these comprehensive solutions, it is less than 10 percent of companies that actually do those," Pronk said. "So this is a major issue when you think about the effectiveness of these programs."
In the past, the University of Minnesota offered employees $65 in cash to complete a few activities. Starting this year, the university added activities and upped the reward. Employees must earn 300 points to receive the health premium discount.
Completing the online health questionnaire earns them 100 points; commuting to campus by bike is worth 75 points; and setting a personal fitness goal like running a marathon, 50 points.
Dann Chapman, the university's employee benefits director, said officials have been getting the word out about the program in a variety of ways. But he thinks participation will rise dramatically next year as more people find out about it.
"It's a substantial help, and as that word gets out and people are realizing what a difference that can make, more people are paying attention and saying, 'how come I didn't know about this?' "Chapman said.
The university, which is self-insured, wants a high participation rate, because the program helps save on health care costs, including avoiding hospitalizations.
"Every extra dollar that gets spent paying for health care takes away from the university's ability to do its core mission, so we are very aggressively managing our trend," Chapman said.
He said a health economist who analyzed the university's health care costs concluded the wellness program gives the university a $1.76 return on its investment.
"It's going extremely well," Chapman said.
But dramatically increasing participation rates won't come without challenges. The university covers 38,000 employees and dependents, and some are concerned about their privacy – even though university officials make it clear the data is collected by a third party and comes back to them only as an aggregate, making it impossible to identify individuals.
Smith, the University of Minnesota Press employee, said participating in the health questionnaire and biometric screening can feel "a little creepy."
"I think that if I were not already enthusiastic about taking care of myself, I might not feel as positive about the program," she said.
More than a dozen people from MPR's Public Insight Network from the U of M and elsewhere expressed privacy concerns about their employers collecting such data.
"What do they need that information for? What do they need to know my cholesterol rating for in order to know I'm doing a good job?" asked Andrea Lorek Strauss, a U of M extension educator in Rochester. "Now if it were correlated with my health provider, that feels a little more connected to me."
Deven McGraw, who directs the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, D.C., said it's smart for employees to ask questions about such data collection. But she said most employers want to use the data to better manage health care costs.
"That actually means it's in their best interests to make strong commitments to their employees not to use the data for any purpose that involves their employment," McGraw said. "Because why would you, as an employee, be truthful on a survey or take one to begin with if you had any doubts about how they would use the data?"
She suggests employees concerned about privacy ask their employers for more information about who is collecting and analyzing the information, because if it is collected by the health provider it is subject to patient privacy laws. If the employer collects the information, no specific law protects individuals' information, unless it involves a disability covered by the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.
As health care premiums continue to rise, employees will have more reasons to join incentive-based wellness programs. Not only are the programs likely here to stay, but health insurers say employers want to take it a step further to reward employees not just for participation, but for results.
"This is where value-based approaches get a little edgy," said Scott Reid, vice president of product strategy and development for Medica, a nonprofit health insurance company based in Minnetonka. "It's a grey area from a legal perspective in how far employers can go in asking their employees to actually make improvements to qualify for certain levels of rewards."


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