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With my recent graduation from business school, many colleagues, peers, friends, and family have been asking me what's next, and how work is going. They kind of go hand in hand (though a negative answer to the latter doesn't mean that I'm rushing forward to something in the former).
At work, the biggest development has been that we have started moving away from the status quo and just building up our resources and onto actual new, (hopefully) meaningful initiatives. I have learned a couple of valuable lessons already in doing so.
The first one is rather obvious – no matter what you do, you're going to piss someone off with whatever it is you're trying to get done. If it's new, then at the very least the status quo folks will be unhappy. My goal is to piss off just one group at a time. Furthermore, I try to keep the effort sufficiently segregated that one will not be pissed off either on behalf of someone else or out of sympathy or some other weird connection. This is more than the "you can only please 80% of the people 20% of the time" or whatever the saying is. I'm challenging the status quo, and impacting (and therefore potentially upsetting) 90% of an entire group at a time.
The second part is that it takes perhaps even more political guile than I had realized to piss off only one group at a time. The issue is that these groups are layered. Some layers are cooperative and open-minded, some are less so. And it's important to keep the more receptive layers happy. In a way, they end up being allies against the less friendly sub-groups, but at the heart it's just about keeping good relationships on solid footing. I like to think I'm pretty good at dealing with politics, but I don't try to manipulate as a standard method of operation. It's just simply illogical to burn bridges with potential allies.
The dangerous thing about these layers and sub-groups is that other people know that they are the receptive ones, too. Which means they often get inundated with calls, e-mails, etc trying to get them to help because others are less tractable. Even when I employ alternative means of communicating – offers for lunch, coffee, stopping by randomly – they can be less than receptive due to simple overload. This is especially problematic at a small organization, such as Santa Clara. So in one's efforts to be friendly and reach out, it's possible you might start to singe some bridges.
The point of this post is not to "educate" readers (do I even have a dozen? who knows) that one cannot make everyone happy at the same time. It is a little bit about how one should often forget happy and be willing to accept controlled annoyance.
All of the business school methods and techniques about management, inter-office politics, etc really start to take useful shapes when the MBA is done and the real world starts to envelop one's actions (before it's kind of a blend – learn something new tonight, try it out tomorrow. Now it's "assimilate everything you've learned and apply it all at once"). Sometimes they are "useful" in demonstrating how tough things can be.


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Welcome to Labor Day 2010…as always kudos and many thanks to one of America's greatest Patriots, W. Bonesteel
As bad as you think it is, it's probably much worse than you think…
…and if you think that a Republican majority in D.C. will change anything…
Why Do You Labor?
Let's talk about today.
Labor Day, it is called.
History recalls that it was put into place by Grover Cleveland in 1894 after the Pullman Strike in which the US Military was used to put down workers. The legislation designating it a national holiday was rushed through Congress and signed in what must have been a record – six days – to attempt to defuse further conflict between labor – that is, the people – and her government who had just got done killing some of her own citizens over a private labor dispute.
Note that this dispute wasn't exactly violence-free on the union side – they had derailed a locomotive, attacked strike-breakers and committed several acts of arson. Nonetheless, the rubric used by Grover Cleveland in ordering twelve thousand US Army Troops to put down the strikers was that the strike was "interfering with the US Mail."
Such is the history of this holiday now most-celebrated with weenies roasting on the BBQ.
Today, however, I ask the plaintive question:
Why do you labor?
Let's think about why most of us do, or at least should. We do it to better ourselves and our families. We get out of bed every day and go to work, in whatever vocation we practice, whether it be for ourselves as a self-employed person (e.g. as I am) or "working for 'the man'", because we want to put food on our table, a roof over our head, and clothes on our backs. We want a better life for ourselves and our progeny, and through the use of our minds, hands, backs and legs we hope to attain that goal.
We find common cause in our work. Whether we look upon a roof we just put on a house with pride in our workmanship, a heart we just repaired in some man's chest or a computer that now passes electronic mail traffic where it didn't before, we effort to provide more value to society than what we extract in the form of a wage.
Yet out of that wage is extracted all sorts of tax and other expense that we have no direct control over.
Certainly, we would all (well, most all) would agree that there are certain things that government should do for the people. We all want a fire department available if our home is burning, we would like the streets to be paved, and we would like the sewers to drain so that when we go to the bathroom it doesn't come back to us via the tub. We want a reasonable belief that our nation has enough defensive capability that other nations will not invade us, as they would suffer immeasurable loss.
On these things we all agree.
Most of us also agree that some form of help to those who are unable to help themselves is in some form appropriate. Here we nearly all differ on where the line is to be drawn, however. We can argue endlessly over whether someone should be able to access medical care they cannot pay for with their own funds, with much of debate focused on which forms of treatment should be paid for by taxation and under what circumstances. Some would argue that being obese should bar you from any form of obesity-related treatment for medical conditions paid for by others via taxes, others not. Some would argue that if you smoke you have no right to smoking-related illness treatment paid by others. Still others would argue that anything STD-related should be barred, since you obviously contracted that via an act that you consented to (absent ****, of course.)
But these are, to a large degree, the finer points of policy debate. Yes, they're important, but they all come down to allocation of funds. I will leave that debate for another time.
No, today I wish to focus on the literal trillions of dollars that we have had taken from us in the past, present and future not by the social spending that is considered a wedge issue in so many quarters (and which I would argue should not be) but rather by the support and protection of organizations that stand accused of raw criminal acts – acts that, in many cases, have directly and indirectly led to people being literally murdered.
I rather ask the plaintive question:
Why should you labor when much of those fruits are literally stolen by people who then evade any legal sanction for theft and other outrageous acts – acts that you, as an ordinary citizen, could not dream of performing yourself without landing in prison for quite literally the rest of your natural life while forfeiting every penny you have.
I speak specifically of the following sorts of acts:
The Jefferson County Alabama scandal relating to it's sewer project. Originally intended to cost about $150 million, the total has now exceeded $3 billion. Sewer rates have gone from $1.15/cf in 1992 to $7.40 in 2008 (a more than six hundred percent increase) and a good part of that was due to rank bribery. This isn't an allegation – there have been multiple criminal convictions related to this matter. As Rolling Stone reported:
There was so much money to be made bilking these dizzy Southerners that banks like JP Morgan spent millions paying middlemen who bribed — yes, that's right, bribed, criminally bribed — the county commissioners and their buddies just to keep their business. Hell, the money was so good, JP Morgan at one point even paid Goldman Sachs $3 million just to back the **** off, so they could have the rubes of Jefferson County to fleece all for themselves.
Of note there has not been one – one – indictment leveled against the banks involved, even though one of the parties involved in the bribery is claimed to be a JP Morgan employee. Remember, for bribery to take place you must have someone offer a bribe, and you must have someone accept a bribe.
Mexico's drug gangs. We've all heard of the horrific violence south of the border. Most of it is fueled by illegal narcotics – a very profitable business, if you can figure out how to move the money around without having it confiscated by rather-belligerent governments. And that's where Wells Fargo's Wachovia came in:
Wells Fargo & Co., which bought Wachovia in 2008, has admitted in court that its unit failed to monitor and report suspected money laundering by narcotics traffickers — including the cash used to buy four planes that shipped a total of 22 tons of cocaine.
How much money was involved here? Oh not a lot – just $374.8 billion dollars. Yes, with a "B". What happened to Wells? They were fined – a grant total of $160 million dollars, or about 2% of its 2009 $12.3 billion in profit, and about one tenth of one percent of it's $135 billion market capitalization.
Just recently The Wall Street Journal reported that nine banks have been caught laundering money for various barred organizations and nations. What's a "barred" organization or nation? Primarily one involved in terrorism in some form or fashion, and thus subject to international (or US) sanction. These are nations like Iran and North Korea, and organizations like Hamas. Nations and organizations that use the money moved around to buy bombs, missiles and guns, with which they then shoot American soldiers, among others. Who's on the list?
Last month, Barclays PLC in London agreed to pay $298 million and admitted to allowing payments on behalf of clients in Cuba, Sudan and other countries. Lloyds Banking Group in London and Credit Suisse Group in Zurich—banks that operated extensive transfer systems for Iranian clients—have agreed to settlements totaling $350 million and $536 million, respectively.
Hmmmm. I've seen some of those names before. Where?
Oh yeah, right here:
List of the Primary Government Securities Dealers Reporting to the Government Securities Dealers Statistics Unit of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
BNP Paribas Securities Corp.
Banc of America Securities LLC
Barclays Capital Inc.
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
Daiwa Capital Markets America Inc.
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
Jefferies & Company, Inc.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
Mizuho Securities USA Inc.
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated
Nomura Securities International, Inc.
RBC Capital Markets Corporation
RBS Securities Inc.
UBS Securities LLC.
Anyone care to guess on the identity of the others? Yes, I know, Credit Suisse USA is a subsidiary of the Zurich-based bank. So what? They share a parent company, do they not?
Who are the "primary dealers"? They are the institutions that the United States Treasury entrusts to maintain orderly auctions for US Government bonds that finance the operation of the United States Government!
You got that? Some of the very firms we trust to finance our government debt for us are alleged to have set up dedicated units to systematically aid the unlawful transfer of funds through the US banking system for these prohibited parties.
What was the sanction? A fine. Again. For the three that have "settled", anyway.
Incidentally, the fact that this money is going to fund people shooting our troops isn't speculative:
At least five Iranian companies stationed in Afghanistan are covertly funding Taliban militants, paying them salaries of $233 a month with a $1,000 bonus for killing an American soldier, according to the Sunday Times of London.
Blowing up a US military vehicle is worth $6,000, making insurgents better paid than any Afghan police officer or soldier.
"Iran will never stop funding us, because Americans are dangerous for them as well," said a Taliban treasurer, who travels from the mountainous Wardak province to an Iranian construction company that operates out of Kabul to pick up the cash.
Is this clear enough? How many of our families will have or have had their son or daughter come home in a box as a consequence of this funding, and how many of those families will sit still for this?
You don't really think it ended there, do you? Of course not. Bloomberg reported on May 18th that a host of major banks are involved in a huge investigation related to the rigging of municipal bond offerings. This is a $1 trillion market and funds everything from your local sewer and water systems to the construction of schools, repaving of roads, additions to your local police and fire departments and building of the local library. All of these matters are funded by bond issues, and you pay for each and every one of them in the form of taxes. When these issues are rigged the costs go up and you get to pay for the corruption through property and sales taxes – an invisible cost-shift that lands directly on you. What is alleged?
"The whole investment process was rigged across the board," said Charlie Anderson, who retired in 2007 as head of field operations for the Internal Revenue Service's tax-exempt bond division. "It was so commonplace that people talked about it on the phones of their employers and ignored the fact that they were being recorded."
Anderson said he referred scores of cases to the Justice Department when he was with the IRS. He estimates that bid rigging cost taxpayers billions of dollars. Anderson said prosecutors are lining up conspirators to plead guilty and name names.
Uh huh. Wall Street's biggest banks. Named in the story is Bank of America, GE, UBS AG (then under Dexia), Citigroup, JP Morgan, UBS and Wells/Wachovia (again.) Allegedly, sixteen companies are under investigation. Notably, Bank of America has reportedly been given amnesty from criminal prosecution.
Notice any names in the Primary Dealer list up there again? Yep.
So now we have banks standing accused of ripping off state and local governments – that is, the taxpayer, who ultimately pays for all of this grift and scam – and yet they are still handling US Government debt auctions.
Isn't that special?
It gets better. This wasn't the first time it happened. In 2000 the SEC "settled", once again, charges of "yield burning" – that is, overcharging municipal governments. How much was the fine? $120 million – a pittance – and only $18 million was refunded to the municipalities that were ripped off.
What did Arthur Levitt say at the time?
Arthur Levitt, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said, "As a result of today's actions, a dark cloud has been lifted from the municipal securities market. This global settlement is a milestone in the federal government's effort to resolve the problem of yield burning in a way that protects innocent municipalities and bondholders."
The hell it was.
Has any of the screwing you took as citizens in the Internet Bubble, the Housing Bubble, and the multiple Municipal bond scams (as documented above) been returned to you? Have you been made whole from any of those scams and schemes? Has your property tax bill, inflated by the municipal bond scams, been refunded by these banks? Has the false "appreciation" that led you to overpay for a house between 2003 and 2006, or for Tech Stocks in the 1990s, been taken back from those who stole the money and returned to you? Has your home's value been allowed to contract back to where it should have been – valuations from the 1980s and early 1990s – and your property tax bill contracted back to those same levels, with a refund being issued to you in the amount of a decade of overpayment?
Of course not.
Not only have the scammers involved in all of this not been personally fined one red cent, they have not been indicted, prosecuted, or spent one night in a prison. The corporations involved have been "fined" a tiny fraction of one percent of their market value – and have effectively kept all of the ill-gotten "profits." All of this has been extracted from your labor – both past and future, in an amount that literally adds to trillions of dollars.
So again folks:
Why do you willingly get up and make effort to feed your family and better yourself when literal trillions of your money are lavished on these enterprises by a band of 545 crooks in Washington DC who have all, each and every one of them, personally enabled, permitted and endorsed these scams?
I speak specifically of:
435 Representatives in Congress
100 Senators
1 President
9 Supreme Court Justices
All of whom took an oath to uphold and defend The Constitution, and all of whom each and every day not only permit this sort of raw lawlessness to go on, but continue to explicitly fund it through both explicit support and the Primary Dealers to the US Treasury!
Oh, some will blame Bernanke or Greenspan for his bubbles and threats, and they deserve that blame. Some will blame Paulson. Some will blame Geithner.
But The Fed exists only because of the acts of those 545, and both Paulson and Geithner were confirmed to hold their offices by 100 of them.
We have deficits that all 545 claim are bad. Yet they exist specifically because of the acts of these 545 people. Without their specific actions, there would be no deficit.
We have all 545 claim that ripping people off and plundering the public purse (which is, by the way, filled with your labor – and nothing else) is bad. Yet that plunder happens specifically because of the actions those 545 people both take and refuse to take.
We have an SEC which claimed in 2000 that the book was closed on municipal bond market ripoffs, but then the same thing happened again, and probably began while these other guys were negotiating their "deal." Those 545 are directly responsible for this – among other things the entire SEC serves at their pleasure, and could be replaced tomorrow or written right out of the statute books.
You thought you were getting "relief" with the alleged "CARD" act (to control credit-card abuses.) Those same 545 wrote into the law an exception for so-called "professional cards", which allowed the banks to evade each and every one of those protections. That's not the bank's fault, it's the fault of those 545. Each and every one of them.
You got robbed blind through serial bubbles in the Internet space and then in housing – bubbles that occurred due to the specific acts of omission and commission, intentional acts – of those very same 545 people.
Those very same 545 people have pointedly refused to cause the people responsible for these serial bubbles and your exploitation to answer for these actions, to be prosecuted where fraud or other criminality can be shown, and to pay back what they plundered to the full extent of their personal and corporate fortunes.
These same 545 have additionally provided upwards of twelve trillion dollars in promises of your future labor that they claim the right to compel performance of in support to these institutions.
545 men and women did that – they are directly and personally responsible for voting for and permitting these individuals and institutions access to those funds that you must provide through your work after they knowingly and willingly exploited you as a direct result of the previous acts of these 545.
These same 545 are personally and directly responsible for funding and allowing the continued operation of institutions that stand accused of financing drug cartels in Mexico, terrorists in various nations and the rogue regime in Iran, ripping off hundreds of municipalities across the United States and more. They are responsible for continuing to voluntarily let these institutions not only have the privilege of a banking license in the United States, effectively operating with the sovereign credit of our nation behind them. To add insult to injury, these 545 also allow these firms to make a profit offering and dealing in US Treasury debt.
Why do you labor?
Literally NOTHING.
You, America – you – the common man and woman – hold the keys.
No, I'm not talking about voting, even though that's important. Both of the "major parties" have explicitly supported every single act noted and documented above and dozens more. Not one major political party candidate has gone to the Well of the House or Senate, or appeared on TV, and said in a plain, loud and clear voice:
If you elect me (or return me to office) I will do everything in my power, to the exclusion of all other issues if need be, to see to it that every one of the scams and frauds that have infested our financial system is eradicated and everyone who was involved goes straight to prison.
Not one Democrat, not one Republican, and not one of the "second-tier" parties either – including both the Libertarian and Tea Parties. None of those candidates have stated the above – yet that, my friends, is nothing more or less than a statement that the rule of law is what that candidate is running on. Simply put, none of them, either before they get to Washington or after, are interested in the rule of law.
Until you hear that from candidates and they actually perform after being elected, voting will not fix these problems.
But that doesn't mean you, the ordinary people in America, can't fix it, as many claim.
You are in fact not powerless – you, the people of this nation, absolutely have all the power required, if you choose to use it.
You hold the ability to stop this – all of the above and more – dead in its tracks in one day – in your hands.
You provide the Federal Government with ninety percent of it's operating revenue through income and social insurance (FICA/Medicare) taxes, both of which are only collected as a consequence of your voluntary labor.
You, through the non-violent, peaceful and perfectly legal expression of your will, simply by your refusal to labor until all of this activity is stopped, the people responsible are prosecuted, the funds stolen are returned to you and the firms involved are permanently closed – can end this BS tomorrow.
Because without tax revenues from your labor – labor you voluntarily perform and upon which 90% of the government's revenue via taxation is based – those 545 have nothing to back up their debt issuance.
Not one damn thing.
All the hot air from Boehner, Pelosi, Reed, McCain, Obama and the rest – it's all just words. It is exactly identical to you walking into the bank and telling them you want to buy a $500,000 house but you have no assets, no job and no education.
Without your daily consent in the form of your willing performance of labor the words, bluster, threats and claims of those 545 carry no force whatsoever.
That's the dirty little secret that nobody in Washington talks about out loud, but they all know it's true.
Not one damn penny would flow to the government to fund it's operations if there was nobody willing to buy those bonds, and without your willing labor to provide those bond buyers a reason to believe they will be paid, there will be no buyers.
So today as you grill your wieners and drink your beer, consider that Tuesday, when you get up and get in your car, get on the bus, board the train – you will, by doing so, provide your actual and physical consent to each and every act that I have outlined above – and dozens more just like it.
The difference between (financial) **** and (financial) sex is consent.
These acts stop when you refuse to fund them, and you have the power by choosing to drink beer, sleep with your wife or girlfriend, go the beach or simply turn off the alarm clock and phone, to withdraw your consent to the continual screwing you are currently receiving and have received daily for the last 20 years.
You, America, have literally ALL the power, and can stop this crap any time you choose.
So as you roast your weenies this Labor Day, and drink your beer, do America a favor and contemplate a wise choice for tomorrow.
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Self-Balancing Bot without PID
Self Balancing robot is one awesome form of the subject Control Systems. It relies on the topic "Feedback Controller".It always feels awesome to work on these projects and to calibrate your bot according to your needs. Although calibration my bot took less time than to work with PIDs which can take ages and ages also. Auto-Tune PID is also available to manipulate your bot but still, hard work deserves more reward and peace.
In this project, I haven't used PID control to control the motion of bot. That doesn't mean that my bot is unstable or it will wobble around here and there. It is indeed stable and can recover from sudden jerks and movements too. I am not using the enable pins of L293D IC which is used to control the motors using PWM signal I am using here a soft coded PWM signal and decoding part of Arduino to determine the speed of the motor with the respect to the angle. Also, I coded a virtual encoder that can help my bot to return to its original place from where it started drifting.
This project is a complete do it yourself project. I've only used foam tape, hot glue gun, some rulers, etc. I've converted the micro servo into continuous rotation Servo since it has high torque but also one should note that it has less speed so better use large wheels in order to cover more distance.
I am using here
Two continuous micro servo 9g
GY-521 Accelerometer + Gyroscope
Arduino Pro Mini
0.1 uF Ceramic Capacitors
10 uF Electrolytic Capacitors
Do remember that electrolytic capacitors have polarity and ceramics do not. Ceramic capacitors are being used here to nullify motor noise. Electrolytic capacitors are being used for appropriate filtering of power fed into L293D IC.
Some concepts of GY-521 - Gyroscope never measure the actual angle of the tilt it actually measures the rate of tilting. Similarly, the accelerometer measures the acceleration in a particular direction basically GY-521 has 3 Axis accelerometer it can measure in X Y and Z-Axis. The gyroscope present on GY-521 can measure and X, Y, and Z gyro rate. We can either use Kalman filter or the complementary filter to nullify the peaks and valleys obtained from GY-521. The complementary filter is easy as it is just a one-line code as compared to Kalman filter. However, I got results that were more or less equal for both more filters.
I named my bot 'Po'. Yes, I love Kung Fu Panda.
Po works within 5 regions on each signed axis i.e 5 on the positive angle tilt and 5 on the negative angle tilt.
Within the first region (0, 0.8) and (-0.8, 0) degree, no power is supplied to the motor since the bot is perfectly stable.
Within the second region (0.8, - 2) and (-2, -0.8) degree, servos run @ 30% duty cycle.
Within the third region (2, 7) and (-7, -2) degrees, servos run @ 60% duty cycle.
Within the third region (7, 15) and (-15, -7) degrees, servos run @ 80% duty cycle.
Within the third region (15, 25) and (-25, -15) degrees, servos run @ 100% duty cycle.
Both the servos were attached using a ruler and foam tape like this.
A vertical section is added to the horizontal servo support. This vertical support will carry the circuit board.
Currently I am working on an another way of controlling the bot using an equation of the damped parabola. I will upload its results soon. To increase smoothness we will have to increase the regions and change motor duty cycle. Then we can map the duty cycle to the angle of Po to get an equation. Sounds a tough job but is far better than trial and error of PID setting if you ask me.
Another approach I am thinking about is using state space. I have used servos here because plastic DC motors have a backlash error that will always make an error of 0.5 degrees which will keep your bot vibrating at the single point.
I have used an approach to change the balance angle in this bot as it moves. Whenever forward() is instantiated, a counter named "f" is incremented. Similarly, a counter "b" is incremented whenever backward() instantiated. A separate counter is run inside the main loop which checks "f" and "b" after every 1200 cycle. If "f" is greater than "b" setpoint is decreased by 0.05 degrees. If "b" is greater than "f" then setpoint is increased by 0.05 degrees. Then it will reset the main loop counter along with "f" and "b" too. Th basic problem of self-balancing bots without encoder is that they don't return back from where it started. Although Po won't return to its exact point of location, it will return to its nearest point as long as both motors rotate at the same rate which rarely happens with L293D IC.
A point of note - Better use L298 or L293 IC as both have the greater amount of current supply than L293D IC. Also, use a 0.1nF ceramic capacitor across the motor terminals in order to nullify the reverse current spikes. Whenever your motor power stops, it will still rotate due to inertia and will act as a generator of better say back EMF. This sudden drop is the spike and will keep resetting your Arduino, Bluetooth or even Gyro. In my case, it always resets the bluetooth module.
Here is the code for Po.


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- Neil said...
'mornin Barb,
Shitty for you to be feeling sick when you're going to see our favorite singer!
I hope you feel better come sing along time.
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- Barbara Bruederlin said...
Thanks Neil - come concert time I was feeling GR8!!
I'll post a review later, but I'll give you a sneak preview: FANTASTIC!!!!
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Wahoo! Glad you ended up feeling better!!!! And really glad it was FANTASTIC! :)
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Thanks Bev. Man, I'm tired today though. Us old farts can't concert like we used to.
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And now, here are our Book of the Month selections for February
Karen – Strong Signal by Megan Erickson and Santino Hassell – "In this book you get kind of what you would expect from these authors: the sort of brash, grumpy, smartass grittiness I love from Santino Hassell, and then the sweetness and spunkiness from Megan Erickson. Both these authors can write some pretty hot and smoking scenes individually, but together, they pretty much set the pages on fire. Like, seriously smoking HOT!
The characters and situations felt very real to me. My husband suffers from extreme social anxiety and panic attacks, and me having had a couple panic attacks and being introverted, shy and kind of antisocial, especially if I don't know you, it can become life consuming. I thought the way this book portrayed this issue was outstanding, and it made me love it even more."
Kim – Good Bones by Kim Fielding – "Dylan and Chris both start off on the wrong foot, each stereotyping the other. Dylan thinks Chris Nock is an unsophisticated redneck, and Chris thinks Dylan is too "big city folk" to get his hands dirty. The fun part of Good Bones is that both men are proven wrong as they get to know each other, and eventually become lovers when Dylan hires Chris to help with the remodel of his new home.
What's sweet is that you can tell that Chris is falling for Dylan when he opens up to him, but he's frustrated that Dylan is keeping secrets from him. By secrets I mean that Dylan is terrified that Chris will run from him if he finds out Dylan's a werewolf. And… It doesn't help that Andy, the man who bit Dylan, keeps showing up to lure Dylan back into his pack."
Carrie – The Law of Attraction by Jay Northcote – "The Law of Attraction just hit all my hot buttons. It begins with a scene from a bar where a guy—no, not a guy—a man leans against the wall with a drink in his hand, suit and tie slightly askew, eyeing all the possible distractions that could be had for the night… Yeah, you had me at hello. Remarkably like Alec has Ed at hello, also!
These two equally strong men are desperate for each other, caught in a working relationship and fighting personal demons in their own ways. The push and pull between these two men is delicious, and their rapport keeps the book flowing and the story easy to read. It is also a story of family and how our formative years have such an impact on how those people can shape our lives. Jay Northchote draws such a poignant picture here of the difference a loving supportive family can have on the people we become."
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Sammy – Foxes by Suki Fleet – "I so wish I had the words to describe this incredible story. Such gritty reality poured off every page of this novel. I could not put this book down. The fate of both Danny and Micky, alongside a secondary cast of characters that ranged from other homeless youth to the compassionate souls who occasionally fed them, watched out for them and helped them as best as they could, all mixed together to create a gut-wrenching tale that held me in its grip from beginning to end. I must repeat that word—honesty. There is no fairytale ending to the incredible journey Micky and Danny take together. At the end of this story, each boy still grapples with their demons, but this time with a sense of hope—a hint at a future that will see them stronger and happier. And, sincerely, this is the strength of this author. Rather than lead us into some unbelievable conclusion, Suki Fleet shows us that some can make it beyond the horrible life one endures in a barely survivable existence."
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This is a page of my handwriting, which is possibly the most illegible you'll ever see in your entire life. But I keep writing – not to make my handwriting better (that might be hopeless) but for a different reason, maybe a little bit like Peter, one of Jesus' disciples.
Consider that Peter was one of the crowning examples of success on the Day of Pentecost when he stood up to share about Jesus to a massive crowd of curious Jews. From Peter's message, 3,000 became followers of Jesus & the Christian church was birthed with the power of the Holy Spirit. But if one looks into Peter's years preceding Pentecost, I wouldn't really throw him in the "successful category." From my perspective, he was kind of a loose lipped, impulsive wannabe, not unlike me from time to time.
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In California, the dreaded Medfly had turned up again, and so have the apple moth and Mexican fruit fly, meaning quarantines and paralysis for many farmers. When it comes to insect "terrorists," who's minding the borders?
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It's enough to sting any farmer's heart with terror. Ceratitis capitata, the Mediterranean fruit fly, has reappeared in California. In September thirteen Medflies were trapped in a peach tree in the farming community of Dixon between San Francisco and Sacramento. Dixon (Solano County) lies north in the Central Valley, the state's bountiful agricultural plain. The dreaded Medfly, which can infest over 260 types of fruits and vegetables, hadn't been seen here since the days of Governor Jerry Brown, the early 1980s.
So why now? UC-Davis entomologist James Carey contends the Medfly has taken up residence in California; it was never actually eradicated, as so many in the state's $34 billion ag industry had hoped and believed. But many others — including Solano County farmers and U.S. Rep. Dennis Cardoza of California's ag-heavy 18th Congressional District farther south — say that lax inspections are to blame. In March of 2003, the duty of checking agricultural products entering the U.S. shifted from the US Department of Agriculture to the newly created Department of Homeland Security. According to Cardoza, who chairs the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture, "The transfer has been a colossal mistake and a colossal waste of taxpayer money." (See Kate Campbell's piece via the California Farm Bureau Federation for lots more discussion.)
In October, less than a month after the Medfly discovery, the federal Government Accounting Office presented a report to Cardoza's subcommittee. Lisa Shames, director of natural resources and the environment for GAO, testified that since Customs and Border Protection had assumed responsibility for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) "the mission has been compromised." The GAO reported multiple problems, including understaffing, faulty equipment, and failure on the part of the Department of Homeland Security to measure the efficacy of its ag inspection procedures. The upshot has been a decline in interceptions — down by 43%.
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Rep. Cardoza said in October's hearings, "DHS is absolutely failing at its mission to prevent bug and pathogen infestations from coming into this country." He called for a joint meeting of the House Agriculture and Homeland Security Committees.
Eric Bailey, writing for the Los Angeles Times, describes the SWAT procedures that follow a Medfly discovery. "Crews strip trees within 100 meters of infested fruit. They spray insect-killing Sinosad, an organic formula derived from a naturally occurring bacterium, within 200 meters of a find. And they spread millions upon millions of sterile male Medflies — their bodies dyed pink so they can be identified — over the infestation zone. The flies, raised in a Los Angeles-area lab, are chilled to 38 degrees to immobilize them for a ride aboard a twin-engine plane, and then dropped in weekly runs. They thaw as they fall and reach ground level ready for romance."
Farmers who hope to harvest and sell produce from areas of quarantine also have to follow elaborate protocols involving chemical treatments (each requiring a permit), special packaging, labeling and transport — all overseen by the California Department of Food and Agriculture. That office estimates that a permanent Medfly infestation "would result in estimated annual losses of $1.3 billion to $1.8 billion."
While the Mediterranean fruit fly is "public enemy No. 1," according to Solano County's ag commissioner Jerry Howard, it's not the only six-legged terrorist in California. Inspectors in Escondido found Mexican fruit flies (Anastrepha ludens) just last week and will soon quarantine some 81 square miles of San Diego County. A 10-month quarantine for the Mexican fruit fly here in 2002 cost growers $7 million.
Area of recent spray for brown apple moth, N. Salinas/Boronda area of Monterey Co., CA
Map: California Department of Food and Agriculture
And in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, the state has been spraying to kill off brown apple moth (some Santa Cruz residents filed an objection to the chemical pheromone sprays, but were overruled by a judge). The UC-Davis entomologist James Carey likewise believes that the brown apple moth has settled in California for keeps.
He and others say that the most dire effect of the brown apple moth isn't loss of crop but the huge costs that added inspections and trade restrictions incur. Carey says this "double bind" has the state of California struggling to impose eradication programs of dubious efficacy, since "To acknowledge the truth is to trigger these embargoes and quarantines that are absolutely devastating, so they're always playing this game that it's 'eradicable.'"
The Medfly is an old enermy of farmers and a gourmand, with a taste for everything from walnuts to tomatoes, peaches and coffee. Long a bedevilment in fields and orchards, it's revealing some wormy branches of federal and state government, too.


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Cole Echols
Bull Riding, Team Roping (Heeling)
5/18/1987 Shreveport, La.
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World Titles Won:
Wrangler NFR Qualifications:
1 (2013)
Current Residence:
Elm Grove, La.
2016 world standings place: Did not compete
Tour Finale qualifications: 2
Championship: 2007, 2013
2017 Highlights
• Won the Stampede at the Ike (West Monroe, La.)
Career Highlights
• 2015: Co-champion at the Georgia Junior Livestock Show & Rodeo (Perry, Ga.). Finished 111th in the world standings with $9,106
• 2014: Won the Old Fort Days Rodeo (Fort Smith, Ark.). Won the all-around and bull riding at the Texas Stampede (Allen, Texas) and the State Fair of Louisiana Pro Rodeo (Shreveport, La.). Co-champion at the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo. Finished 21st in the world standings with $51,783
• 2013: Placed in two rounds in his debut at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, including a second-place finish in Round 10. Won the Wrangler Champions Challenge (Redding, Calif.); the Xtreme Bulls Tour Finale (Ellensburg, Wash.); the Oakley City (Utah) Independence Day Rodeo; the Austin (Texas) Xtreme Bulls Division 2; the State Fair of Louisiana Pro Rodeo (Shreveport, La.) and the Rusk County PRCA Rodeo (Henderson, Texas). Co-champion at the Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) and the Sheridan WYO Rodeo. Finished ninth in the world standings with $118,811
• 2012: Won the Henderson County PRCA Stampede (Athens, Texas); finished 35th in the all-around standings with $22,238, 70th in bull riding ($17,300) and 178th in team roping ($4,938)
• 2011: Won the all-around at the Four States Fair Rodeo (Texarkana, Ark.); won the Tops in Texas Rodeo (Jacksonville, Texas), with Travis Dorman; won the Matagorda County Fair & Rodeo (Bay City, Texas) with a 91-point ride on Classic Pro Rodeo's Junior Bonner; finished in a tie for second at the Marshall (Texas) ProRodeo; won the team roping at the Silver Spurs Rodeo (Kissimmee, Fla.), with Dakota Shipp; co-champion in the team roping at the SW District Fat Stock Show & Rodeo (Lake Charles, La.), with Dakota Shipp; co-champion at the Silverton (Texas) Buck Wild Days Rodeo. Finished 56th in the all-around with $12,394 (not including Xtreme Bulls earnings), 88th in bull riding ($14,158) and 152nd in team roping with $5,359
• 2010: Won the Brighton Field Day & PRCA Rodeo (Okeechobee, Fla.) and the Redding (Calif.) Rodeo; finished 93rd in the world standings with $11,545
• 2009: Won the Xtreme Bulls Division 2 (New Braunfels, Texas) and the Xtreme Bulls Division 2 (Oklahoma City, Okla.); co-champion at the Ralph Morgan Pro Rodeo (Lauderdale, Miss.). Finished 54th in the world standings with $24,153
• 2008: Finished 56th in the world standings with $22,155
• 2007: Won the ProRodeo Tour Round at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo with a 92-point ride on Cervi & Guidry Rodeo's XS Energy and finished fourth in the average. Won the Hugo (Okla.) PRCA Rodeo; finished 20th in PRCA World Standings with $58,353
• 2006: Finished season ranked fourth among bull riding rookies and 73rd in the standings, earning $16,557
5-9, 140 … Single ... Parents, Mike Echols (construction business) and Leslie Holder; two sisters and two brothers … His whole family rodeoed . .. Cole started in the sport at age 8 … Homeschooled …Credits Seth Rains for helping him develop into a top bull rider …Enjoys hunting and fishing … Favorite rodeo is the Pendleton (Ore.) Roundup, favorite sports team is the Indianapolis Colts, favorite music is rock and country (especially George Strait) and rodeo idol is ProRodeo Hall of Fame bull rider Tuff Hedeman … Likes to watch movies and play miniature golf when he's on the road
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In recent years, there has been a jump for consumers and industries alike to find better and cheaper forms of energy, and forms that were better for the environment and its inhabitants. Everyone is looking to end the stranglehold that foreign oil seems to have over this country, and the quicker we can get it done, the better. Perhaps the shaky state of the economy has contributed to the recent push towards the green movement. Not only are we looking at the
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There are many different types of renewable energy out there, including wind power, water power, solar power and thermal power. Perhaps one of the best known types out there is the water power. People have been harnessing the energy of water for thousands of years. Farms used water energy to power equipment, and then industries began to use the same technologies on a larger scale. However, when oil and gasoline came about, they ended up
being cheaper to use. However, what started out as a cheaper alternative turned out to be much more costly than we ever imagined. The drilling used to get to the oil left permanent damage to the areas, the processes used to turn that oil into usable items such as gasoline also caused a great impact to the environment, and the burning of oil based fuels has added more pollution to the earth than we ever could have imagined.
Think about how many cars were on the road when gasoline power started to take hold. Now think about how many cars are on the road every minute of every day. Millions of cars are burning fuel and oil, spitting out harmful fumes that float up into the atmosphere and stay there. It's no wonder that many of our cities have a permanent haze of smog hanging around. Luckily,
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Burlingame features an area renown Lawn Sports Complex that hosts the inter club championships and various other tournaments throughout the season, featuring Tennis Pro Henner Lenhardt.
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From last Monday's Sydney premiere of the film. Jim and I interviewed by the delightful Emma Swift from Rhythms magazine.
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Lauderdale Down Under
To coincide with Jim's upcoming trip to perform at the Tamworth Country Music Festival next week, we're holding the Australian premiere of the film on Monday 28 January at the Dendy Cinema, Newtown.
Doors will open at 8.15pm for an 8.30pm kickoff. Jim and I will both be in attendance and will do a Q&A session post-screening.
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I am sick at the moment. Now, I will be fine but every time I get sick I get pissy. For those that are not aware of this I have MS (pointing up – look at the marathon info). I'm very healthy with it and have no huge issues. I get fatigue, random pains, and little problems now and then but overall I'm fonzie.
I however have gotten pretty sick in the past and I'm rather cranky and not happy when I'm sick. On Wednesday my arm started to hurt and my fingers went a bit numb. Eh, not something I get too worried about. Thursday fingers are worse and more painful, now I'm getting annoyed. Thursday night it gets worse and Friday morning is almost unbearable.
This means that on Thursday I turn in to a little lunatic. I'm usually fine when I'm sick but I get crazy when its MS related. If I'm going to be a hundred percent honest, it scares the shit out of me. My mind always takes me to the worst place possible. I'm going to be in a wheel chair and disabled and unable to talk or move or feed myself etc. I'll be like that guy in monkey shines who is disabled and gets a "helper" monkey but the monkey is insane and kills people.
Because, if anyone will get an insane homicidal monkey to help them once they are paralyzed, it will be me.
So, I get a little crazy with the MS. I also get very needy, like a 2 year old child. I want someone to care and coddle me. Yes it's not fair but at least I know that's what I'm doing (sweet innocent smile). This can be a little disconcerting for people around me who have not known me that long. See, in general I'm pretty stoic with things that bother me. I'm also a pretty happy go lucky person and I like to laugh and joke around. When I'm sick I get quite, the laughing happy go lucky person kinda goes away, and I turn into angry girl. Usually I can hide in my cube at work, no one will bother me, and I can analyze things lol.
This week though I had meetings every bleeding day. Now, people who know me know I can have little patience for people. At work this is not the case and I know I need to explain things to people because of the type of work I do. However, nice me is gone and bat-shit crazy me is in charge.
I didn't say or do anything bad but let's say that I was pushing the mute button a lot and meditating in the lunchroom lol. I think I might have scared most of the people I work with who I'm friends with. They kept asking me if I was ok and asking me if I was going to die. Which was funny and I laughed but obviously I was not acting ok.
I will also say this; if not for some of my coworkers I might be crazy now. One woman even hugged me on Friday because she said I needed one and poor Alan the new Navy guy's story…laughing hysterically.
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Fossil Megalodon teeth in general are not rare in some locations, but extremely well preserved and large examples are rare and can be quite valuable. Below is some nice Megalodon tooth porn. You can see how unique some of the colorations are thanks to different minerals leaching into them during or after the fossilization process, as well as natural things that happened after fossilization.
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