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"Our homage to the man whose ability to change whilst remaining himself has been a massive influence on us. There are many legends in the music industry but for us, there is no greater than the mighty Dave. We've included all things Bowie, whether that is original songs, covers, backing vocals, production work or reworks we made, to attempt to give you the full scope of the man's genius. "For the visual side to this mix our friend Wim Reygaert (who also made the amazing film for Into The Vortex) came up with the most ambitious film for RSWX, taking us on a fever dream time travel through the man's career starring the amazing Hannelore Knuts as Dave. We've got to extend a special thank you to the cast and crew and everyone involved for putting so much time and energy and heart and soul into this amazing film, it is a pure labour of love for the phenomenon that is Bowie." - Soulwax
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Subhalekha Trailer (1982)
Subhalekha is family oriented movie in which, the story is made with a message on dowry and was a huge musical hit and a Jewel in the crown for our megastar. Sumalatha is a middle class girl who is well educated and beautiful. Her father tries to get her married but is not able to meet the demands of high dowrys.
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Lip skin is more sensitive than any other skin on the body. You should use Chapstick and lip balms. These products coat your lips to seal in moisture, which prevents painful cracking and chapping. Many lip balms also offer sun protection.
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Lip protection is often an overlooked duty in skin care. The air can become very dry during the wintertime. Your lips can become dry and cracked if you choose not to protect them during the winter months. This can be very painful.
Vitamin H is particularly important for healthy skin. This vitamin, also known as biotin, lends a natural glow to your skin. Also, vitamin H aids in creating smoother, more radiant skin. Expensive products are less effective than natural absorption of nature's vitamins.
Sleep is your friend when you want great skin. If you do not get enough sleep, wrinkles will appear under your eyes. Eight hours is optimal, but seven should be okay.
A skin care cream that contains vitamin B3 is very effective for combating blotchy, red skin. Vitamin B3 is known to hold in moisture while protecting your skin from things that could irritate it. After you use the moisturizer for a time, you should notice the difference.
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Use a sponge to apply sunscreen to your face. The sponge method will help prevent the sticky, sometimes thick feeling, that can come with apply sunscreen to your face. In addition, since the application allows better penetration, your skin is better protected.
If you're around a lot of people that seem to be concerned with the way their skin looks, try going to a spa together. Together you can discover the latest and greatest skin care innovations, including masques, cosmetic procedures, chemical peels and other skin-pampering treats.
Be very particular when choosing a cleanser for your face. Use chemical free soaps such as glycerin or castile, and follow it with a toner and moisturizing cream or lotion for optimal results.
Don't rub with too much pressure when you are exfoliating your skin. Doing so can actually end up damaging your skin. For a deeper cleaning, simply spend more time exfoliating the skin. This will help your pores more, but it will not harm the skin.
If you'd like to look younger, be sure and maintain proper skin care. Within this article you have seen excellent advice to help you achieve the radiant skin you desire. Use these tips on a daily basis, and watch your skin improve.


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Jan. 4: The Congress, which has bailed out the Rabri Devi government in Bihar twice earlier, is on a sticky wicket following the alleged fake encounter killing of three Patna students by police on December 28.
The incident has energised the BJP and its student wing, ABVP, and the two organisations plan to use the issue and the subsequent violence to mount an anti-Laloo Prasad campaign in the state.
On its part, the Bihar government avoided confrontation with Opposition parties by ordering a CBI probe into the deaths of the students. The state government also asked the CBI to probe the killing of two men in Majhauli area of Begusarai district on the night of December 2.
But this is unlikely to satisfy the BJP, which would like the Congress to withdraw support to the Rashtriya Janata Dal government and pave the way for imposition of Presidents rule. The Congress is, however, unlikely to ditch Laloo Prasad Yadav, an ardent opponent of the BJP who campaigned for the Congress in the Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat Assembly elections.
This will not bother the BJP too much as party sources say either way the advantage will lie with the party. If the Congress does not ditch Rabri and her government completes its term, the BJP will occupy the anti- Laloo Prasad space by sustaining the agitation and marginalising even allies such as the Samata Party and the Janata Dal (United).
The strategy is to prod the students to lead the agitation, which will also target the Congress for propping up the Rabri regime.
There is tremendous resentment against the Rabri regime, against the violence, misrule, corruption and backwardness of the state. The Congress, by sticking to RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav, has alienated a major segment and even those who are not traditional BJP supporters are slowly turning to the saffron party as the Samata and JD(U) leaders are only marginal players, said a BJP strategist.
The BJP is really calling the shots in the ongoing agitation against the state government, though parties like the Samata, the JD(U) and the Lok Janashakti Party are also on the forefront. In all the demonstrations, two-thirds of the supporters were from the BJP.
Without Congress backing in the Rajya Sabha, invoking Article 356 in Bihar is not possible. If the Rajya Sabha where the Opposition is in a majority rejects any Bill, it could be sent a second time and the Upper House would be duty-bound to approve it.
However, in the case of imposing Presidents Rule, both Houses have to separately ratify the imposition of Article 356. This also rules out a joint session of Parliament, which could have seen the BJP through.
Lok Janashakti chief Ram Vilas Paswan had on Wednesday suggested that a joint session of Parliament be convened to put Bihar under Central rule.
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Discussion in 'General Off-Topic Chat' started by Nujui, Jul 20, 2011.
God I can't seem to find one without someone's name on it.
SonicSlasher is not 25 years old nor is his name Nicholas.
Happy birthday!
Lol, I know, every dragon ball cake I found had that stuff on it
I got a different one.
Happy birthday!
That guy hosted a bomberman tournament and gave me swag for winning like two years ago, so.. Happy birthday
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martin has some sop on his cake
I know, I couldn't really find one to suit his ava (As I have no idea where it's from.) I just found one with his name on it.
Martin deserves his own birthday thread.
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Since the 1970s, economic inequality in the US has increased dramatically. And in particular, the rich have gotten a lot richer. Some worry this is a sign the country is broken.
The USA has major problems which are correlated with starting in the 1970s. For the arguments in this essay it's convenient to just concentrate on growth of the rich, but in real-terms the average salary has dropped slightly.
Bear in mind that this isn't taking out the salaries of the wealthier parts of the society, so if that correction was made I'd expect to see the dip widen.
And let's look at the GDP growth…
Putting all arguments about economic models to one side for a moment, we can all agree it hasn't gone to the workers.
I don't think there's any clear philosophical arguments as to what should go to workers vs risk takers, hard workers, and innovators – but clearly there is some kind of balance that has now shifted.
I suppose you could argue that workers that don't take risks deserve to be paid some nominally absolute amount regardless of the total economic output of the system that they are in. But I think this point of view doesn't hold, and I'll get to that.
I'm interested in the topic because I am a manufacturer of economic inequality. I was one of the founders of a company called Y Combinator that helps people start startups. Almost by definition, if a startup succeeds its founders become rich. And while getting rich is not the only goal of most startup founders, few would do it if one couldn't.
I've become an expert on how to increase economic inequality, and I've spent the past decade working hard to do it. Not just by helping the 2400 founders YC has funded. I've also written essays encouraging people to increase economic inequality and giving them detailed instructions showing how.
Paul's achievements are something to be enormously proud of.
So when I hear people saying that economic inequality is bad and should be eliminated, I feel rather like a wild animal overhearing a conversation between hunters. But the thing that strikes me most about the conversations I overhear is how confused they are. They don't even seem clear whether they want to kill me or not.
The vast majority of people talking about anything beyond their own direct experience, don't really know what they're talking about. Any serious mature person in 2016 should know by now that inequality is necessary, because human nature is such that the vast majority of people need numerical ways to compare each other in order to be incentivised. Maybe in the past it was the number of subjects you had, the size of your landholding, the number of followers you have, how much land you have, etc – but in the modern capitalist world, it's money, and that's a good thing. It's better we compete for money than compete for sovereign land, and it's naive to think that human nature can be changed so much ("cultural marxism" is as dum as actual marxism).
So, I'm with Paul on this point. People make simplistic arguments based on jealousy or from a perspective of desperation. But that doesn't mean that neo-capitalism is the only answer – not all people involved in the conversation are necessarily naive or stupid .
The most common mistake people make about economic inequality is to treat it as a single phenomenon. The most naive version of which is the one based on the pie fallacy: that the rich get rich by taking money from the poor.
Usually this is an assumption people start from rather than a conclusion they arrive at by examining the evidence. Sometimes the pie fallacy is stated explicitly:
…those at the top are grabbing an increasing fraction of the nation's income–so much of a larger share that what's left over for the rest is diminished…. [1]
Other times it's more unconscious. But the unconscious form is very widespread. I think because we grow up in a world where the pie fallacy is actually true. To kids, wealth is a fixed pie that's shared out, and if one person gets more it's at the expense of another. It takes a conscious effort to remind oneself that the real world doesn't work that way.
In the real world you can create wealth as well as taking it from others. A woodworker creates wealth. He makes a chair, and you willingly give him money in return for it. A high-frequency trader does not. He makes a dollar only when someone on the other end of a trade loses a dollar.
If the rich people in a society got that way by taking wealth from the poor, then you have the degenerate case of economic inequality where the cause of poverty is the same as the cause of wealth. But instances of inequality don't have to be instances of the degenerate case. If one woodworker makes 5 chairs and another makes none, the second woodworker will have less money, but not because anyone took anything from him.
Of course. The pie model is simplistic. But Paul's response to it is also simplistic.
We don't exist in a world where everyone has the opportunity to make and sell chairs on a comparable basis:
- Some people own the land with the trees on – or, the trees may be a protected natural resource that cannot be cut down.
- Some people own the factories that make chairs, and these factories are extremely efficient. An individual making chairs cannot compete with that. The cost to create a factory is outside the reach of the vast majority of people – and investors wouldn't want to invest in a market without growth.
- Where opportunities do exist, they are increasingly out of the reach of ordinary people. Only a tiny majority of people are going to have the skills to create a startup, and an even smaller minority would be able to do this when coming from a place of poverty. Take me for example: I was learning programming since 7 and got very good at it. But I grew up in a comfortable middle-class household that had all the associated benefits of that. I didn't have to worry about stressed parents, work part-time jobs to pay for my own clothes, deal with living in a high crime neighbourhood, etc. Modern opportunities are not open to most people.
As a thought-experiment relating to point '3', take yourself out of it and take it to a point of extremis. Would a random lady from Cameroon have the same opportunity to create a tech startup as a kid of a Silicon Valley company, with all the comfort and connections and education and accessible infrastructure that come with that?
Further, we compete for finite resources. Land is finite. Water is finite (practically speaking). Energy is finite. The price of these resources increases as the ability of people (as a whole) to compete for them increases. Generally anyway. As some people have enormous capability to compete, basic essentials become harder for regular people to obtain. People become more and more impoverished in terms of them owning certain basic resources.
One of the graphs I pulled up earlier was inflation adjusted, which is important. But inflation isn't a universal constant, it comes from particular calculations of what people buy. Due to automation, many things have gone down enormously in cost (food, etc), relative to other things. Or flipped around: some things have gone up massively in price, and inflation-adjusted graphs cannot represent how much less land people can afford, etc.
So, we now have a society where people can afford relatively high-class food (as my Dad mentioned over Christmas, people aren't having drippings instead of butter any more) – but yet cannot afford some of the other most basic things. Or at least, things considered basic through much of the 20th century.
There are other issues with a divided society. It's not just "rich vs poor", there are many strata in-between. For example, the cost of college tuition raises as the salaries of high-paid people associated with those colleges rises. You'd see a big difference comparing the average salary of Walmart to the average salary of Harvard. The rub: poor people have a harder time obtaining services from upper-middle-class people when the poor person's disposable income lowers relative to the upper-middle-class salary.
Even people sophisticated enough to know about the pie fallacy are led toward it by the custom of describing economic inequality as a ratio of one quantile's income or wealth to another's. It's so easy to slip from talking about income shifting from one quantile to another, as a figure of speech, into believing that is literally what's happening.
Except in the degenerate case, economic inequality can't be described by a ratio or even a curve. In the general case it consists of multiple ways people become poor, and multiple ways people become rich. Which means to understand economic inequality in a country, you have to go find individual people who are poor or rich and figure out why. [2]
I would contest that at some level you need to reduce things to graphs and figures if you want to measure progress. They are abstractions (leaky abstractions), but they serve a purpose. The primary objective should not be changing the pie chart, but reasonable people would think it is reasonable to track that pie chart as an indirect measure of success.
If you want to understand change in economic inequality, you should ask what those people would have done when it was different. This is one way I know the rich aren't all getting richer simply from some sinister new system for transferring wealth to them from everyone else. When you use the would-have method with startup founders, you find what most would have done back in 1960, when economic inequality was lower, was to join big companies or become professors. Before Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook, his default expectation was that he'd end up working at Microsoft. The reason he and most other startup founders are richer than they would have been in the mid 20th century is not because of some right turn the country took during the Reagan administration, but because progress in technology has made it much easier to start a new company that grows fast.
Perfectly reasonable point.
Traditional economists seem strangely averse to studying individual humans. It seems to be a rule with them that everything has to start with statistics. So they give you very precise numbers about variation in wealth and income, then follow it with the most naive speculation about the underlying causes.
I think reasonable people do know the causes. Technology, as Paul stated.
At this point Paul's essay seems a bit pedantic and defensive. You need to do statistics, you need to look at individual cases, you need to identify causes, and you need to find solutions. People are doing all these things. Some people of course have the balance wrong.
Here's something else we can ask:
What is stopping the solutions being implemented? I would say some combination of inertia, status quo, incentivisations of establishment people, globalisation (global competition), empire decline of the West, the unexpected political effects of a long war against Communism, and lobbying.
I don't think we should be pointing fingers about people who use graphs so much as having a constructive discussion on what is the best reform and how to get it done. All those reasons I listed that go against change really set an onus to fight for change, rather than get defensive. Paul left a lot of problems out of his essay while he focused on defending his position.
As a manufacturer of economic inequality, the underlying causes are something I know about. Yes, there are a lot of people who get rich through rent-seeking of various forms, and a lot who get rich by playing games that though not crooked are zero-sum. But there are also a significant number who get rich by creating wealth.
In many cases wealth is not actually created, it is partly reallocated and partly destroyed.
When we talk about any change in economic situation we need to consider the cases of things creating "growth" vs cases of "zero sum game". Taking Facebook as an example, it is both – it creates new opportunities, and it causes decline in industries it supplants or takes over (e.g. making small websites, or where advertising spend happens). Just about everything is both.
So, let's not only talk about growth. Let's also be mindful that disruption is – indeed – disruptive. To acknowledge this is not to be a luddite, it is simply to know that there will be suffering, and we should have an honest conversation about how as a society we need to adapt to that.
Clearly the situation with job loss in industries has been accelerating. Therefore people are having conversations about things such as "basic wage".
And that group presents two problems for the hunter of economic inequality. One is that variation in productivity is accelerating. The rate at which individuals can create wealth depends on the technology available to them, and that grows polynomially. The other problem with creating wealth, as a source of inequality, is that it can expand to accomodate a lot of people.
I'm all for shutting down the crooked ways to get rich. But that won't eliminate economic inequality, because as long as you leave open the option of getting rich by creating wealth, people who want to get rich will do that instead.
Just shutting down crooked practices sets the bar very low, hence Paul's conclusion about it not being effective. We need to have a deeper conversation where we acknowledge the kind of problems I talked of earlier, and try desperately hard to find solutions for them.
There's a much bigger problem in the economy that I haven't talked of yet, but it is kind of critical to all of this. The problems with economic inequality caused by automation in the past were always reduced because of middle and working class job growth. As new industries and markets opened up, new jobs came up. There are at least 6 reasons this is not happening now:
- Globalisation. Particularly there is job growth in countries where the economic incentivisation is to keep salaries down (in terms of the buyer, but also in terms of the people engaged in the wider offshoring model). Further to this, many of these countries are not democracies, so this kind of intentional suppression of salary can happen without the consent of the local people (in a democracy you get better economic growth and information transfer, so to some extent people in these countries don't even know they are being kept down because they are being kept down).
- Proportionally more can now be automated, so even when there are new opportunities, they may be ones for more jobless growth.
- Honestly people pretty much have what they need now. People live comfortably, have gadgets, etc. Many of the big opportunities in the past were giving average people a reasonable quality of life that they never had before, hence a high demand.
- Following from above, wealthy people have everything they could imagine. A functioning economy needs money to be spent, but capital nowadays largely is sitting in bank accounts accumulating. Of course, when we talk about money being spent or not spent it gets incredibly complicated. Banks make investments, of course. But I think we could agree it's not flowing through all the strata and parts of the economy like we would hope.
- Many new opportunities in the past would be linked to rising life-spans (elderly-care, etc), which aren't rising so much now.
- There's a recursive effect. If less money is flowing through the economy, less money is being spent by the middle and working classes. This creates a real growth freeze for many industries that cater to these people (the ones that do best are the ones that cut costs through efficiencies and automation, yet another recursive element).
Most people who get rich tend to be fairly driven. Whatever their other flaws, laziness is usually not one of them. Suppose new policies make it hard to make a fortune in finance. Does it seem plausible that the people who currently go into finance to make their fortunes will continue to do so but be content to work for ordinary salaries? The reason they go into finance is not because they love finance but because they want to get rich. If the only way left to get rich is to start startups, they'll start startups. They'll do well at it too, because determination is the main factor in the success of a startup. [3] And while it would probably be a good thing for the world if people who wanted to get rich switched from playing zero-sum games to creating wealth, that would not only not eliminate economic inequality, but might even make it worse. In a zero-sum game there is at least a limit to the upside. Plus a lot of the new startups would create new technology that further accelerated variation in productivity.
There's a fine line between determination and ruthlessness. I think it's harder to find an argument for the need to protect people in that environment.
As for finance being a zero-sum game, I don't think that's remotely true in the capital sense. It may be in the sense that relative shares of capital shifts from winners and losers, but there is massive balance sheet growth from investments and speculation, and balance sheets are at the heart of wealth inequality.
Variation in productivity is far from the only source of economic inequality, but it is the irreducible core of it, in the sense that you'll have that left when you eliminate all other sources.
Paul was just earlier arguing how we need to consider all factors. Now he is suggesting that we only consider one factor. His reasoning is rational in the sense of him defending his position as an investor, but not rational in terms of us trying to solve economic problems.
Inherited wealth is a big deal too.
Quick Google citation:
"A 2011 study by Edward Wolff and Maury Gittleman found that the wealthiest 1 percent of families had inherited an average of $2.7 million from their parents"
I assume that figure is not inflation-adjusted.
Many of the economic problems I've listed so far apply regardless of how the wealth came to be. Particularly I feel we need to find a way to ensure a decent proportion of wealth is spent rather than banked. I'm not suggesting the government come in and take it, but there are a number of ways to disincentivise having very large savings accounts and to incentivise diverse investment.
And if you do, that core will be big, because it will have expanded to include the efforts of all the refugees. Plus it will have a large Baumol penumbra around it: anyone who could get rich by creating wealth on their own account will have to be paid enough to prevent them from doing it.
You can't end economic inequality without preventing people from getting rich, and you can't do that without preventing them from starting startups.
Saying this is a strawman is a bit unfair, but there are hints of that. Reasonable people shouldn't say that inequality should be ended. But reasonable people should say we need to find solutions to our economic problems, and most of those can be talked about reasonably in terms of economic inequality. As I stated earlier, it is a leaky abstraction – but no conversation is every perfect. Let's not be pedantic so as to end up being obscurant.
So let's be clear about that. Ending economic inequality would mean ending startups. Are you sure, hunters, that you want to shoot this particular animal? It would only mean you eliminated startups in your own country. Ambitious people already move halfway around the world to further their careers, and startups can operate from anywhere nowadays. So if you made it impossible to get rich by creating wealth in your country, the ambitious people in your country would just leave and do it somewhere else. Which would certainly get you a lower Gini coefficient, along with a lesson in being careful what you ask for. [4]
These arguments have some truth to them, but also it is an incredibly slippery slope, and why globalisation is such a problem.
I could equally say "if you don't let rich people shoot some peasants in the USA, they'll take their investments to Russia where Putin allows this". The statement has the same logical backing.
At some point we decide that we want the world to move forward, and we take a leadership position to set an example. Negotiations may be involved also.
I think rising economic inequality is the inevitable fate of countries that don't choose something worse. We had a 40 year stretch in the middle of the 20th century that convinced some people otherwise. But as I explained in The Refragmentation, that was an anomaly–a unique combination of circumstances that compressed American society not just economically but culturally too. [5]
And while some of the growth in economic inequality we've seen since then has been due to bad behavior of various kinds, there has simultaneously been a huge increase in individuals' ability to create wealth. Startups are almost entirely a product of this period. And even within the startup world, there has been a qualitative change in the last 10 years. Technology has decreased the cost of starting a startup so much that founders now have the upper hand over investors. Founders get less diluted, and it is now common for them to retain board control as well. Both further increase economic inequality, the former because founders own more stock, and the latter because, as investors have learned, founders tend to be better at running their companies than investors.
While the surface manifestations change, the underlying forces are very, very old. The acceleration of productivity we see in Silicon Valley has been happening for thousands of years. If you look at the history of stone tools, technology was already accelerating in the Mesolithic. The acceleration would have been too slow to perceive in one lifetime. Such is the nature of the leftmost part of a polynomial curve. But it was the same curve.
You do not want to design your society in a way that's incompatible with this curve. The evolution of technology is one of the most powerful forces in history.
Louis Brandeis said "We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." That sounds plausible. But if I have to choose between ignoring him and ignoring a polynomial curve that has been operating for thousands of years, I'll bet on the curve. Ignoring any trend that has been operating for thousands of years is dangerous. But polynomial growth especially tends to bite you.
"That sounds plausible" should be "This is important to bear in mind".
Paul presents a false-dichotomy. It should not be a choice between one thing or the other thing. There are many ways we can tilt incentivisation.
If accelerating variation in productivity is always going to produce some baseline growth in economic inequality, it would be a good idea to spend some time thinking about that future. Can you have a healthy society with great variation in wealth? What would it look like?
Notice how novel it feels to think about that. The public conversation so far has been exclusively about the need to decrease economic inequality. We've barely given a thought to how to live with it.
I'm hopeful we'll be able to. Brandeis was a product of the Gilded Age, and things have changed since then. It's harder to hide wrongdoing now. And to get rich now you don't have to buy politicians the way railroad or oil magnates did. [6] The great concentrations of wealth I see around me in Silicon Valley don't seem to be destroying democracy.
People living in San Francisco don't seem happy.
People who have to deal with Uber don't seem happy.
It's fair to say most people in silicon-valley are progressive. It goes hand-in-hand with being an innovator. However, the progressive tech company of today is the originator of dynasties of the future – things, families, people, all change over time. It's simplistic to just think that some progressive people holding huge wealth and industry now, is representative of those who will inherit that wealth and industry.
Regardless, the level of inequality is itself causing problems. Not all of them, but some of them.
There are lots of things wrong with the US that have economic inequality as a symptom. We should fix those things. In the process we may decrease economic inequality. But we can't start from the symptom and hope to fix the underlying causes. [7]
The most obvious is poverty. I'm sure most of those who want to decrease economic inequality want to do it mainly to help the poor, not to hurt the rich. [8] Indeed, a good number are merely being sloppy by speaking of decreasing economic inequality when what they mean is decreasing poverty. But this is a situation where it would be good to be precise about what we want. Poverty and economic inequality are not identical. When the city is turning off your water because you can't pay the bill, it doesn't make any difference what Larry Page's net worth is compared to yours. He might only be a few times richer than you, and it would still be just as much of a problem that your water was getting turned off.
This is a very naive view. See my earlier point about competing over resources.
Regardless, I of course agree people should tackle problems, not put on tights and rob wagons. In some cases that may involve changing some things for wealthy people though, particularly around ensuring money gets spent.
Closely related to poverty is lack of social mobility. I've seen this myself: you don't have to grow up rich or even upper middle class to get rich as a startup founder, but few successful founders grew up desperately poor. But again, the problem here is not simply economic inequality. There is an enormous difference in wealth between the household Larry Page grew up in and that of a successful startup founder, but that didn't prevent him from joining their ranks. It's not economic inequality per se that's blocking social mobility, but some specific combination of things that go wrong when kids grow up sufficiently poor.
A big mistake very smart people often make is, frankly, assume everyone can be as smart as them. You can pick out cases where people who grow up poor are actually driven by their situation, with an affinity to some particular business model where they become incredibly wealthy. But these cases are outliers: the majority of people follow the same path as those around them and don't even know what opportunities there may be for them. Being connected matters. Getting a great education matters. Growing up comfortable matters. Having the right accent matters. Everything can be overcome by exceptional people, but being exceptional is the exception to the rule.
One of the most important principles in Silicon Valley is that "you make what you measure." It means that if you pick some number to focus on, it will tend to improve, but that you have to choose the right number, because only the one you choose will improve; another that seems conceptually adjacent might not. For example, if you're a university president and you decide to focus on graduation rates, then you'll improve graduation rates. But only graduation rates, not how much students learn. Students could learn less, if to improve graduation rates you made classes easier.
Needlessly defeatist. You could use this argument against all kinds of things that have been incredibly successful. For example, the number of people who get healthcare correlated against those with good health. I'd be incredibly surprised if that's a poor correlation. Moral of this: make smart choices – not stupid choices or no choices.
Economic inequality is sufficiently far from identical with the various problems that have it as a symptom that we'll probably only hit whichever of the two we aim at. If we aim at economic inequality, we won't fix these problems. So I say let's aim at the problems.
Again, a bit of a strawman, but a bit fair for me to quite say that outright. Of course people shouldn't just look at the pie chart and say "let's rearrange this" – but they may use it as a tracker (hopefully along other trackers) to see the effect of their policies.
For example, let's attack poverty, and if necessary damage wealth in the process. That's much more likely to work than attacking wealth in the hope that you will thereby fix poverty. [9] And if there are people getting rich by tricking consumers or lobbying the government for anti-competitive regulations or tax loopholes, then let's stop them. Not because it's causing economic inequality, but because it's stealing. [10]
If all you have is statistics, it seems like that's what you need to fix. But behind a broad statistical measure like economic inequality there are some things that are good and some that are bad, some that are historical trends with immense momentum and others that are random accidents. If we want to fix the world behind the statistics, we have to understand it, and focus our efforts where they'll do the most good.
Of course. But as with most of Paul's essay, this is mostly defensiveness – I am aware many activists will talk of Robin Hood taxes, etc – but as smart people should we not be engaging on a higher level than this, and talking about what we can do more than just defending our own position against radical-lefties?


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Got our fixtures and fittings list back today for the house we hope to buy. Owner is taking all the curtains and poles, all the light fittings, two carpets (random) and the toilet seat. I fell about laughing at the last one.
I'm in shock- please come tell me your funny stories about fixtures and fittings to make me feel better!
I'll be honest, we didn't check the list beforehand as it was all very out of date (children selling their parents' home) and weren't particularly worried. I did note that sometime between the EA's photos and our viewing the house, they'd gotten rid of the ancient tiny hob. A bit annoying as we'll have to live without one until I decide on a kitchen, but whatever.
Then exchange day came and the final act by the guy was to remove all the curtains. All old, remnants of the 70s which probably hadn't been cleaned since I was a small girl. Exactly the sort of thing you would think he'd leave, as he can't possibly want to use them again but they would actually be useful for us as we need window coverings until we get proper ones.
Totally bizarre.
Meanwhile, he did leave a table and chairs, the chairs are actually back in retro fashion and he could have sold them for a bit of money. Same with the light fixtures, he left all of those.
Toilet seat, though, really? Perhaps he has fond memories.
We took a toilet seat ;-) it was a special blue glass one and the kids loved it! We did replace it though...
Our vendors left loads of furniture, due to miscommunication between warring divorcees...
We were trying to buy a house once and the fixtures and fittings list said that if we wanted the garden shed that it would be £1000 extra. So we said no thank you, and they then tried to charge us to get it removed. That was one of the many barking reasons that the sale fell through. We were gutted at the time (about the sale, not the shed) but it was def fot the best in the long run.
Our vendors said they'd take everything if we didn't pay whatever we'd knocked off the price after the survey. They were miffed we didn't appreciate her dad's improvements and rejected their battered piano.
So we moved in to find actually they hadn't bothered removing the high light bulbs or appliances etc after all - the place had been empty for a couple years and they'd just left it.
Which meant we had fridge, washer, dishwasher etc to sell for a few quid. Which we needed, see reference to survey above...
Glad it isn't just me! I think it's the toilet seat that has really got me- I'm going to have to clarify that it will be replaced (I have visions of not being able to use the toilet when we move.
She got a good price for the house as well!
Our vendors left everything. The carpet with a million stains, the 60's light fittings, a loft full of junk
They took the bath panel though
Last week I read on MSE about a couple who moved into their new home to find the lawn had been taken!
Bath panels and lawn? Wow! There are just no words!
I would get it confirmed that they are going to get an electrician fit standard pendant fittings if they are taking the light fittings, and demand the evidence prior to completion, and get confirmation that the loo seat is to be replaced. I would also require confirmation that no damage would be done in removing the curtain poles - or they would need to make it good before hand over < this to include filling in holes and touching up in the correct colour.
Taking curtains is one thing - but poles are not exactly irreplaceable.
Light fittings - are they really that 'wonderful' that they can't be replaced?
At least they told you! We took a toilet seat but replaced it with a plain white plastic one, we also took the wooden light pulls, but again replaced them. I wouldn't worry about it - you'll probably pleased they've gone. I think the f&f form does say that they have to fill in holes from removing fittings etc - make sure before you sign.
When we moved in we had to empty the attic of all their rubbish, including some furniture (lovely removal men did it), plus a sodding great shed full of stuff. They also left behind the back of a refrigerated lorry - full size - who knew they were so sought after?!
Good luck.
Good idea on the confirmation- I'd only thought of that for the toilet seat but not for the electrics. They are taking the 'cover for the external light' am going to clarify what this exactly means- I want it made safe as I don't particularly like the thought of a light left open to the elements!
Light fittings I'm not too worried about- its just in the short term we could do without the expense.
They are moving into a refurbished house with fixtures and fittings included so it all feels a bit personal (if you get me!) ah well, I'm sure I will get over it! At least she is leaving the lawn!
Sounds as if I'm getting off lightly! Refrigerated lorry?!
I once bought a house where they wanted me to pay extra....for the pond (it was tiny!). I suggested they took it with them and then filled the hole back in so they did
They really do need to leave you with properly fitted pendant light fittings where they take something down - or if a wall light, a replacement inexpensive wall light (although we still have one which we've not got round to putting up even though we moved in 9 years ago - our lot asked very nicely if we minded if they took their dining room lights as they liked them - but did leave most lights with something up!
Ours vendors took all the light fittings (except a bathroom one that looked like it was made from the little mermaids tail) the towel rails, loo roll holders, mirrors, curtains, poles and blinds. Left holes everywhere so we had to pay to get whole house painted. We did get them to put basic light fittings back up but they only left 2 lightbulbs in a 4bed house!! My poor uncle was moving a hot light bulb from room to room the first night just so we could look round!
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We're coming off a pretty light evening in the NBA, and heading into a heavy one tonight. That makes this morning a good time to talk fantasy basketball, and we've got a few notable sleeper prospects for you that you can likely find out there on your league's waiver wire. Let's take a closer look at the recent stats to see if anyone will fit your lineup.
Khris Middleton, SF/PF, Milwaukee Bucks: Middleton's fantasy stock has spiked in recent days, and he's a hot pickup on the wire right now. In Philly on Wednesday, he posted 18 points, three rebounds, three assists and five steals.
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Gordon is the dictionary definition of injury-prone, so he's a high-risk/reward type guy. Still, as long as he's playing well and out there on the court on a nightly basis you should get some miles out of him.
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Summary: SG-1/P&P, sort of. Daniel and Vala discuss his visit to England. 900 words.
Spoilers: Stargate SG-1 through 10.6, "200"; Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"
Notes: Maevebran requested SG-1/Jane Austen, Daniel-centric, with the prompt "champagne". This was as close as I could get without going straight to crack!fic.
"So how was England?" Vala asked, sprawled on the short grass of the backwater, beautiful world Landry had carefully hand-selected on the sly for Mitchell's 200th trip through the gate. She had almost-daisies in her hair from an earlier episode of flower chaining with Sam, and a dab of chocolate from the cake at the corner of her mouth; Daniel thought she looked adorable, but definitely wasn't going to say so.
"Oh, it was nice to see my cousins again," he replied, shrugging, "and I learned a lot more about what Merlin and Morgan le Fay did while they were on Earth, but..." He sighed, and took another sip from his glass of punch. "Still nothing that might point us to Merlin's weapon."
"Cousins?" Vala sat up straighter, staring at him with inquisitive eyes. "I thought you didn't have any family." She paused a moment, wincing, then hastened to add, "Still on Earth, I mean."
"They're pretty distant," he said. "And they're English, not American-- I only saw them once or twice when my parents were alive, and then not at all until I was old enough to go to college. I visited them several times when I was at Oxford, though, and spent hours lost in their private library; I should have remembered them last year when we first started looking for information on Merlin. Unfortunately, it wasn't until we actually met Morgan le Fay that I remembered the quality of their collection and thought to ask."
He took another sip of the punch, glancing up at the brilliantly blue, cloudless sky as he warmed to his topic. "The family has been in England since the Norman conquest-- that's almost a thousand years ago now. They have several reference works that include the legends of Arthur, of which Merlin and Morgan le Fay are a part, dating back centuries before Sir Thomas Malory wrote his famous 'Le Morte d'Arthur' and contaminated all of the subsequent scholarship in the field with his notions of chivalry."
"I see," Vala said vaguely. "So, this family, a thousand years in one place? They must be pretty rich, then?"
Daniel sighed at the unsubtle change of topic, and glanced back at her. The chocolate smear was gone, and she was wearing a wide, blank smile with a hint of apology in it; she had become a lot more considerate of others' feelings since his first encounter with her, but her basic, survival-driven, sharp-tongued personality was never going to change. He'd gotten used to it by now, though; like his friendship with Jack, his acquaintance with Vala was a challenge for him in ways that little else in life was.
"They're not the richest family in Britain," Daniel conceded, "but they certainly live comfortably, and they have an incredible collection of historical artefacts of all kinds, not just books. One of the matriarchs early in the nineteenth century-- almost two hundred years ago -- had a lively personality and an active interest in learning, and her husband indulged her in everything. They made frequent trips to Europe, collecting books and scrolls and pieces of history wherever they went; they added more to the family archives than anyone before or since."
"An acquisitive woman," Vala said approvingly. "Sounds like my kind of person."
Daniel thought about that idea for a moment, comparing Vala to the legendary Elizabeth Darcy, and grinned suddenly. "You know, I think you're right," he said, amused. "You would have liked her. She was smart, strongly opinionated, and notoriously witty; she took an instant dislike to her future husband the day she met him, and the first time he proposed to her she threw it back in his teeth. It was months before they met again, and by the time she realized she did want him there were other obstacles in the way. But he was as stubborn as she was, and once he realized she loved him, too, there was no stopping them. From all accounts, they lived as happily as two people possibly could until the end of their days."
Vala's mood dimmed a little at that, unexpectedly. "Yes, well," she said. "I wish more of us had her kind of luck."
"Now, now," a third voice said suddenly, from behind them. "No frowns at my party, you hear? C'mon, Vala, Jackson, have a glass of this champagne."
Daniel looked up from his seated position, leaning against a large rock, to see Mitchell standing over them, three flutes of golden, bubbly liquid carefully clutched in his hands. "I didn't think we were allowed to take alcohol off world," he said as he reached up to take one.
"We aren't," Mitchell said, with a cheerful grin. "General O'Neill brought it. Said we might as well make this a multi-purpose blow-out; what with the Ori, we won't have another chance to celebrate on a grand scale for awhile." He handed the other glass to Vala, then cocked his head back in the direction of the center of the clearing where most of the personnel had congregated. "C'mon. I think Landry's about to make a toast."
Daniel watched him walk off again, fairly skipping in his exuberance, and sighed. "I think I'm getting too old for this," he said, then got carefully to his feet and held a hand out to Vala. "Shall we?"
She took his hand with a wry smile. "We shall."


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I think it is fair to say that of all Indian industrialists past and present, J.R.D. Tata has been the most widely admired. Part of the reason had to do with his business acumen, his skill in taking the Tatas beyond their core competence in steel and heavy engineering into hotels and computers. But then there have been other entrepreneurs who have been as effective in expanding their empires and moving into new areas of profit-making business. What distinguished JRD from these other men was his commitment to professional excellence and to ethical practice. To add to that, he was a notable philanthropist, who helped fund high-quality institutes of scientific research, student scholarship schemes, theatre and art programmes, rural development schemes and much else. And, as if all this was not enough, there was his own larger-than-life personality, as manifest in his elegant foreign wife, his friendships with the good and great of at least three continents, and his near-legendary achievements as an aviator.
J.R.D. Tatas reputation is well- founded, but some items that came my way recently perhaps dent it just a little. While doing research on Indira Gandhis Emergency, I found a report by a senior New York Times journalist on those years spent by us Indians under that ladys dictatorship. This reporter, J. Anthony Lukacs, found that the Emergency was widely hailed by the middle class, who compared it favourably with the strife-torn decade that had preceded it: years that saw the Naxalite upsurge, the great railway strike, the Bihar and Gujarat movements, and Jayaprakash Narayans all-India campaign of civil disobedience. But now that strikes and dharnas had been outlawed, the crime rate had come down and the trains ran on time. A good monsoon in 1975 meant that prices also fell. Lukacs was told by an official in Delhi that it was only foreigners who cared for such things as the freedom of expression. We are tired of being the workshop of failed democracy, said the official: The time has come to exchange some of our vaunted individual rights for some economic development.
Lukacs discovered that, aside from the middle class, the business community was also pleased with the Emergency. A Delhi hotel owner told him that life now was just wonderful. We used to have terrible problems with the unions. Now when they give us any trouble, the Government just puts them in jail. In Bombay, the journalist met J.R.D. Tata, who told him that things had gone too far. You cant imagine what weve been through here strikes, boycotts, demonstrations. Why, there were days I couldnt walk out of my office into the street. The parliamentary system is not suited to our needs.
In January 1977, the Emergency was lifted. Fresh elections were held in March, which saw Indira Gandhi and her Congress party being removed from office. However, in January 1980, Mrs Gandhi commenced a fresh term as prime minister, sent there with a fresh mandate from the people. India had returned emphatically to democracy, to voting and freedom of expression, but also to popular expressions of grievances large and small, real as well as imagined. For these were also the years of the renewal of the Jharkhand movement, the radicalization of the Punjab movement, and the birth of the Assam movement. To these assertions of ethnic identity were added protests based on more orthodox class lines, as in the massive textile strike in Bombay in 1982.
The next year, 1983, J.R.D. Tata was honoured with a reception hosted by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay. This, in part, is what he said:
The Bombay of my youth with its magnificent harbour, its shady wooded hills, its flowering trees, its then disciplined population there were no morchas then to impede ones travels through the city its virtual absence of beggars, its freedom from law and order problems, and how happy a place it was in which to live and to work, a city of which we could be proud.
The Bombay of JRDs youth was, of course, the Bombay of the British Raj. In that colonial autocracy, as in its post-colonial successor of 1975-77, the state looked with deep displeasure on morchas and the like. The key phrase in the lines I have just quoted is, I think, its then disciplined population. Here, as in that other remark made and recorded during the Emergency, JRD appeared to be saying: The parliamentary system is not suited to our needs.
As is well- known, one of JRDs abiding passions was population control. Along with many others of his class and generation, he believed that one reason India was not progressing quickly enough was that there were far too many Indians. He wrote often to the prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, about this, wrote with a certain impatience too, making clear his view that the government was not adequately committed to promoting contraception among the poor. The impatience, one has to say, was not only with Nehru or his government, but also with the cumbersome procedures of democratic practice, with the need to obtain so many approvals before action could be taken approval from budget committees, from the cabinet, from the parliament, and, not least, from the Indian people themselves.
Viewed sympathetically, JRDs attitude towards democracy might be understood as a product of the despair of old age. All his life this great man had sought to build a great industrial house and, by that means, a great country. His dreams for the Tatas had been perhaps three-quarters fulfilled; the remainder falling victim to the stranglehold of the state on the economy. His dreams for India were however only half-fulfilled (at best); the remainder falling victim to the corruptions of politicians and the corrosions of competing interest groups. As death approached, this unselfish man had no regrets as to the life he had himself lived. But the thought crossed his mind, and crossed it again would his fellow Indians perhaps have been better off under a benign and corruption-free dictatorship'
Viewed sociologically, JRDs views seem of a piece with the wider impatience with democracy and democratic procedures displayed by industrialists everywhere. Milton Friedman, and Friedrich Hayek before him, floated the fantastic theory that those who believe in a free market necessarily believe in freedom of political choice. I say fantastic because this theory has been violated by countless dictators from Antonio Salazar to Augusto Pinochet, the violations encouraged, at every step, by factory-owners seeking to safeguard the operations of their factories from prying reporters of self-organized workers. The Hayek-Friedman thesis is also decisively repudiated by the governments of their own countries, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. These have always found dictators easier to deal with, and especially to sign arms and other contracts with. Here, too, the denial of democracy has been silently and sometimes not so silently hailed by the capitalist class.
J.R.D. Tata, of course, was not the common or garden variety of capitalists. The type typecast in the preceding paragraph was (and is) motivated by profits and by profits alone. On the other hand, JRD was a man of a larger and more humane vision. He wished all Indians to share in the fruits of economic growth. This end he served by building world-class industries under the Tata label, and by donating vast chunks of his personal wealth to charity. However, there was only so much one man and one house could do. But what if India was run as a well-managed company, with a brilliant and disinterested man (or woman) as its CEO' Might not poverty be removed much faster' Such appear to have been J.R.D. Tatas political views. The best, or at least the most polite, word I can summon to describe them is: naïve.


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Excellent response to 'We eat healthy, we buy in a market'
More than 3,500 children have participated in this educational activity that spreads the word about healthy eating and doing sport
The educational programme "Mengem sa, mengem de mercat" (We eat healthy, we buy in a market) runs in association between Barcelona's markets and the FC Barcelona Foundation, has worked this year with 68 schools and 3,532 pupils on a project designed to teach primary and secondary children about buying local, quality and healthy food products, as well as the essential role that sport plays in maintaining a healthy lifeatyle.
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The collaboration agreement between the Institut Municipal de Mercats de Barcelona (IMMB) and the FC Barcelona Foundation was set up early last summer. The involvement of the football club has helped raise awareness among schools and pupils. 62 of the participant schools are in Barcelona and the other 6 are in other municipalities.
Considering that there are 422 schools in Barcelona, that's an impressive take-up rate of 16% of all schools. A total of 29 markets have been visited by 160 groups of pupils from different centres, the most commonly visited ones being Concepció, Guineueta, Llibertat, Abaceria, Sant Antoni and Santa Caterina
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The activity forms part of the 'We are what we eat' campaign being run by the FCB Foundation and has enjoyed the support of Sergio Busquets, who has lent his image to the advertising campaign visible all around Barcelona's different markets.


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Natalie Cassidy is known for appearing in the tv series, Eastenders. 2007. Natalie released the fastest selling weight loss video in Britain. Her entrance video below.
She says about going i the house, she will tell people what she really thinks about them but may may have to hold back at times. She says she is looking forward to having a great time in the house and will miss her little girl.She reckons she will entertain everyone while in the house!
My views: I always find it uncomfortable looking at really ugly people especially when they are overweight and ugly. She's like an annoying auntie who means well but is just so annoying! She will never win!
1st week. Natalie was the first to enter the house and Michael Madsen 2nd. It was so funny to hear Michael say he thought Natalie was the 'meet and greet' lady especially the way she was dressed and serving drinks to everyone.
I would have to give her an Oscar for her acting during her 1st BB secret task which was to tell housemates whatever BB was telling her in her ear via a secret ear piece. I don't think anyone could have done better!
Natalie has become the 5th housemate to be evicted. If she was not such a good actress, she would have been very surprised and shocked to hear it was her being booted, even after the crowd were cheering when Brian mentioned her name. Natalie who was up against Michael, who had received boos when his name was mentioned before he was finally saved. Natalie is no loss to the house whatseover, and the show goes on.
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Whether it's a marquee QB or an interior defensive lineman, no team can afford to lose its most valuable player.
So, who steps in if the unfathomable happens? Our NFL Nation reporters and Scouts Inc.'s Steve Muench and Kevin Weidl have teamed up to identify each team's most important player and which player in the 2014 draft each team can target to groom as a potential replacement -- MVP insurance. For some teams, their future stars may be slightly younger than others as draft-eligible non-seniors are denoted with an asterisk.
You could make a case that Nick Foles, not LeSean McCoy, was really the Eagles' most valuable player in 2013. Through eight games, McCoy led the NFL with 733 rushing yards, while the Eagles' record was just 3-5. In the second half, with Foles starting all eight games, the Eagles' record was 7-1.
It would be a reasonable argument, but that's all it would be. Foles might prove to be the more important player over the long term – he's a quarterback, after all – but McCoy was the Eagles' MVP in 2013.
Fortunately for the Eagles, they have the 25-year-old McCoy under contract through 2017. So unless he is injured or abducted by aliens, he figures to have four more prime seasons in an Eagles uniform.
If something were to happen to McCoy, the Eagles would need to be in better position to replace him than they were in 2013.
Going into the season, Bryce Brown was considered a promising backup running back. Brown had two remarkable games in relief of McCoy in 2012, rushing for 178 and 169 yards. Based on that, it was expected that Chip Kelly would use him to change pace and to keep McCoy from being overworked.
But Brown never did emerge as that kind of weapon. He broke a 65-yard touchdown run late in a blowout win over Chicago in December, but was otherwise pretty quiet all season.
Chris Polk, meanwhile, had only 11 carries all season.
So it wouldn't be surprising if the Eagles drafted a running back in the second or third round this May. That has been their pattern, drafting Duce Staley while Ricky Watters and Charlie Garner were still going strong, Brian Westbrook during Staley's prime and McCoy while Westbrook was still productive.
Kelly's offense and the Eagles' excellent offensive line could make a back like Brown or Polk serviceable for a game or two. But a true replacement for McCoy is not on the Eagles' roster right now.


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Measuring Excessive Risk-Taking in Banking
In this paper the authors propose a new approach to the assessment of excessive risk-taking by a banking sector. They use the portfolio approach to assess the optimal risk-return combination of a bank's portfolio, based on data for 32 categories of loans. It provides a benchmark for the optimality of the bank's portfolio. The authors apply this method on an exhaustive sample of Czech banks for the period January 2005–February 2008. They observe an average excess of risk-taking of 33% of the optimal risk and a slight reduction of this excess risk over the analyzed period.
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|Look Forward to Failure
|EP by The Ataris
|November 10, 1998
|September 14-18, 1998
|Pop punk, skate punk
|Fat Wreck Chords
|Bill Stevenson, Stephen Egerton, Joey Cape
|The Ataris chronology
Look Forward to Failure is an EP released on November 10, 1998 by The Ataris on Fat Wreck Chords. This was the first album released to feature the fan favorite "San Dimas High School Football Rules". That song later appeared on Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits. The band also intended on putting the song "That Special Girl" on Blue Skies, Broken Hearts as well but it didn't make the cut. The song features Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 on backing vocals. The version of "My Hotel Year" that appears on this EP is the electric version and contains an extra verse at the end. The version that ended up on Blue Skies was acoustic and shortened.
Track listing[edit]
- "San Dimas High School Football Rules" - 2:45
- "Not a Worry in the World" - 2:22
- "My So Called Life" - 2:41
- "My Hotel Year" - 2:18
- "Between You and Me" - 2:36
- "That Special Girl" - 1:55 (featuring Mark Hoppus)
Band members[edit]
- Kris Roe – vocals, guitar
- Patrick Riley – guitar
- Michael Davenport – bass
- Chris Knapp – drums
Additional personnel[edit]
- Back up vocals were provided by Mark Hoppus and Chad Price.
- Tracks 2, 3, 4, and 6 were recorded and mixed at The Blasting Room in Fort Collins, CO on September 14–18, 1998. They were produced and engineered by Bill Stevenson and Stephen Egerton and mixed by Jason Livermore.
- Tracks 1 and 5 were recorded at Orange Whip Studios in Santa Barbara, CA. They were produced by Joey Cape and engineered by Angus Cooke.
- The song "My So Called Life" was written by Kris because he had a crush on Claire Danes. He also later wrote a song entitled "Ben Lee", which was about Claire's boyfriend of the same name and how much Kris hated him.
- The song "My Hotel Year" was inspired by the book Life After God by Douglas Coupland.


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'I couldn't save him' distraught dad was helpless to rescue one of his two drowning sons
A DISTRAUGHT father told yesterday how he was able to rescue one of his two sons drowning in the sea – but helpless to save the other.
Adam Nash, 35, was with his family on a popular beach in Anglesey, North Wales, on Friday when Isaac, 12, and Xander, 10, got into difficulties.
Grandfather Paul waded in and grabbed screaming Isaac then Adam pulled out Xander.
But a freak 10ft wave hit Paul and he lost his grip. Isaac was dragged out to sea.
Yesterday – as an air, sea and underwater search continued, Adam told how Isaac was lost.
He said: "I gave Xander a little bit of instruction, telling him to swim and to try to take big, deep breaths. He was grabbing me round the neck.
"He said he couldn't swim any more. I was exhausted too. I thought I just don't want to let go of him.
"When I got my feet on the ground, I was massively relieved. Xander said to me: 'I thought I was going to die.'
"I turned round and looked for my dad. He was washed up on the rocks and just laid flat.
I just had a horrible feeling that he didn't get out
"I ran over to a bloke on the beach and asked him if my son Isaac, had got out. He could see the panic on my face. I just had a horrible feeling that he didn't get out.
"My dad came round and his face was just screwed up and there was blood dripping down him. He said: 'I couldn't save him'."
Holyhead Coastguard received a 999 call at 12.30pm reporting that there were several people in difficulties on the rocks at Aberffraw.
Adam, of Highburton, Huddersfield, West Yorks, said: "Isaac was a good swimmer, a strong, sporty lad. They were jumping over the waves and just paddling… it was perfectly safe but I did warn them not to go too far." But the boys began getting into trouble.
"I saw Isaac doing front crawl, trying to get back. He was very close to my dad and I thought they were fine."
Adam dived in for Xander but then: "A massive wave hit Paul and Isaac and he couldn't hold on to him."
On Facebook yesterday, mother Zoe, 35, wrote that Isaac "will always be with us" and has sadly "left" them.


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