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June 23, 2008 Well Oiled Fear TacticsBy Brian Sussman
Recently, in defending his lack of military and foreign policy experience, Barack Obama said of Republicans, "what they're doing is what they've done every election cycle, which is to use terrorism as a club to make the American people afraid."
While I personally think reminding the American people of the clear and present danger imposed by Islamo-fascists is wise, I am thoroughly disgusted by the Democrat's use of fear in trying to dissuade our government from allowing oil exploration and drilling off our coasts. Fortunately, the way we are getting clubbed at the pump is causing the majority of us to realize that drilling for new sources of domestic oil is in our best interest. Increasing the supply of oil will decrease prices at the pump. The Outer Continental Shelf has been off-limits to oil exploration and development for a quarter of a century thanks to Executive Orders and Congressional votes. We are told that there well could be 18 billion barrels within reach of our shores. No wonder the Saudis are considering stepping up their oil production -- they had better sell to us while they still have a customer. Once we tap our offshore reserves, in 10 years we will not need their oil. By tapping ANWR and other domestic sources, we could actually wean ourselves off of OPEC altogether. However Democrats (and a few Republicans) are purposefully playing on our fears. Obama says drilling offshore "is not something that's going to give consumers short-term relief and it is not a long-term solution to our problems." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid calls offshore drilling a "cynical campaign ploy." Even California's Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger is pumping his biceps, threatening to all that he will "prevent any new offshore drilling." The fear card being played by these politicians goes back to January 1969 when a Union Oil drilling platform six miles off the coast of Santa Barbara sprang a leak, allowing at least 80,000 barrels of crude oil to seep into the Pacific and wash ashore. The cameras of the world's media focused on oil-coated birds stuck in the same muck that was used to power America's cars. The environmental propagandists loved it. Our nation's first outspoken congressional environmentalist, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, immediately flew out to California to see the action for himself. He returned to Washington angered at the oil industry, vowing to do something to wake America up. Emotions were running high -- and still do in ultra-liberal Santa Barbara -- over that accident. Even today, marble-sized balls of coagulated crude can be found in the sand on the beaches of Santa Barbara. Deceptive Santa Barbara environmentalists will direct naïve eyes toward the oil platforms offshore, fervently declaring that capitalism and big oil are to blame for the tar balls in the sand, but this observation is another fear tactic. There is so much oil just beneath the surface of the ocean floor off Santa Barbara that the black gold is constantly seeping into the open waters of the Pacific. According research conducted at the University of Santa Barbara, up to 170 barrels of crude bubble up from Santa Barbara's coastal waters every day. However, despite the eternal supply of crude coming up from the deep of its own accord, all these years later the 1969 leak has fixed it in the minds of many that drilling for oil offshore is a dangerous idea. Playing on the fear of that Santa Barbara spill, in September of '69 Senator Nelson had an idea to capitalize on something he had developed to protest the nagging Vietnam War: the "teach-in". Scrapping the assigned curriculum for the day, instructors across the country were having their students sit cross-legged on the floor during these makeshift events and "rap" about how America was an imperialist nation and why communism really wasn't such a bad form of government -- it just needed to be implemented properly. Nelson's efforts were aided by a young man named Dennis Hayes, a former student body president at Stanford with an effective track record for organizing anti-war protests. While pursuing a masters' degree in public policy at Harvard, Hayes had heard about the teach-in concept and sought out Senator Nelson to help him take his strategy of infiltrating the classroom nationwide. "My God," Nelson is reported to have said. "Why not a national teach-in on the environment?" Years later, reminiscing in a 1993 interview published in the American Heritage Magazine, Nelson elaborated,
Soon, Senator Nelson was ready to "do something". He formally announced there would be a "national environmental teach-in" sometime in the spring of 1970. Hayes would play a pivotal role in the organization and implementation. After careful consideration a name and date for the event were chosen: Earth Day would be celebrated each April 22. Skeptical historians immediately noted a bizarre coincidence. The date of the inaugural Earth Day coincided with the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lenin. The seeds that were sown into that first Earth Day have grown into the scare tactics utilized today by the environmentalists and their political mouthpieces to whip up fear of another 1969-like spill. Problem is, the likelihood of that occurring is pretty slim. In 2005, hurricanes Katrina and Rita whipped up the waters of the Gulf of Mexico with wind gusts over 125 miles per hour, accompanied by chaotic 40 foot waves. The storm battered oil production platforms, ripped a few drilling rigs from their moorings and displaced below surface pipelines. The oil industry was put through a rigorous real-time test. Over 800 manned platforms and about 140 rigs are in the Gulf of Mexico and even with the full wrath of nature unleashed during that hurricane season of 2005, they came through with a good grade. A mere 13,000 barrels of crude were leaked into the open water. Today's technology is phenomenal compared to what was available in 1969. Oil spills are not a barrier to drilling. In the run up to the 2006 elections, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was whining about the price of gas which was then averaging about $2.20 a gallon. In a press release issued in April of that year she said, "Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices..." Since then Ms. Pelosi has forced a vote to increase taxes on energy not once or twice...but four times. Was that a part of her plan? Was it part of the plan when she and her Congressional colleagues trotted oil company executives to Capital Hill for a reenactment of the Inquisition? Maybe details of the plan were recently slipped by her House teammates Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), who called to nationalize America's oil refineries. Earth Day's stealth poster boy, Vladimir, would have been proud. The Republicans have been given a gift here. President Bush has called for Congress to lift its long-standing ban on offshore drilling. Presidential hopeful John McCain agrees. Americans like this kind of talk. We understand the law of supply and demand. A recent Rasmussen poll reveals that 67% of voters support drilling for oil offshore. Included in that number were 57% of Democrats and 60% of unaffiliated voters. Even 46% of self-described "liberal" voters acknowledge the need to drill offshore. The anti-drilling crowd is up against the ropes right now and most of us see straight through their scare-based rhetoric. Drill. Brian Sussman is a radio talk show host on KSFO-AM in San Francisco and formerly an award-winning television meteorologist. He is currently writing, "Global Whining, a Denier's Handbook", a book represented by WordServe Literary Group, Ltd.
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- 08-25-2013, 06:29 AM Thread Author #1
HTC ONE -> Camera Repair (Blue/Purple tint Issues)
Hi all, I am from Singapore.
I wish to know anyone else have any experience sending their HTC ONE for repair due to the Camera blue-tint Issues?
I feel very bad and stupid that why dont I discover the problem earlier so that i can get a replacement instead of repair.
so regret that i didnt test the camera at night earlier...
I had sent my phone for repair on Saturday, the guy said it need 4 working day.
Now I am so nervous and worry that even the camera is fixed, they could accidentally spoiled other part during the repair, call me Paranoid~ (sigh)
I saw how the guy took my phone and wipe the screen with his polo tee, my heart sank, my poor baby !!!!!!!
Other than the blue/purple tint issues, I also address another issues ----- the Macro mode focusing seem not working well. I touched the screen to focus, but it always focus at the wrong point.
I really hope when I get back my HTC ONE, i could finally take a decent good picture at night. So envious about other who posted their wonderful vivid photo that had taken with their HTC ONE.
After getting my phone, I will definitely update you guy about my HTC ONE repair experience.
(sorry about my poor english) - 08-26-2013, 12:23 PM #2
Re: HTC ONE -> Camera Repair (Blue/Purple tint Issues)
Please do update. I haven't had issues with mine, and been very fortunate. Thanks for posting and let us know about your experience. Welcome to the forums!
Re: HTC ONE -> Camera Repair (Blue/Purple tint Issues)
Hey, I have been having the exact same problem, except I am getting a bluish-green tint. And also the macro focus isnt working. I too was told to have my camera changed. Also, previously I had a landscape mode issue. My phone would keep switching to landscape mode. The Service center changed my lcd display and now it is fine. But after that, this current problem cropped up. I thought that something might have gone wrong when they opened up my camera. I am fighting for a complete replacement, as I also have another issue. My phone will not link up with a laptop sometimes. Again the Service centre people say that now the USB board may also need to be replaced!!!
So what is the status of your camera, post repairs? - 09-02-2013, 02:52 PM #5
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Birthdate: February 19
Hometown: Wichita, Kansas. Moved to Nashville with family at age 5.
Family: Father was a chemist, mother is an elementary school teacher. One older sister and one younger brother. Married television producer Jim Owens in 1985. No children, but they have three beautiful cats!
Education: McGavock High School, Nashville. Magna cum laude graduate of Vanderbilt University, Nashville. Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian and Chinese languages. Graduate of Indiana University, Slavic Language School. Lorianne now holds the degree Master of Science, Holistic Nutrition and has completed certification in Plant-Based Nutrition with Cornell University.
Previous Jobs: In junior high and high school: babysitting, taking in neighbor's laundry. During college: waitressing, Hawaiian dance team, cheerleader for Nashville Sounds Baseball Team (she says 'don't laugh'...it helped put her through college!)
Extracurricular Activities: High School: Class President, Cheerleading Captain, Homecoming Queen, Russian Club, Gymnastics Team. College: Top Ten Finalist, Miss Nashville Pageant (country star, Lorrie Morgan was 1st runner up!), Dobro Slovo Russian Language Club.
Most Unusual College Experience: On the day of a difficult and scary Russian exam, only three students showed up in class...Lorianne and two other female language majors. The professor, Dr. Richard Porter, was so disappointed in the rest of the class that he automatically gave Lorianne and the other two ladies an A, then took them to a fancy lunch at the professor's club instead of giving them the test. During that lunch, he dubbed them "Dickie's Angels" for being brave enough to show up and face his most difficult exam.
Beginnings in Television: Lorianne was "discovered" during her college days while working as a Nashville Soundette for the Nashville Sounds baseball team. The girls did local television commercials for the team and even appeared in People Magazine with then-owner, Conway Twitty.
First Television Jobs: News reporter for KAUZ-TV in Wichita Falls, Texas. Then hired as the PM Magazine co-host for the same station, 1980-81. In1982, Lorianne was hired as PM Magazine co-host for WKRN-TV, Nashville. There, Lorianne co-wrote and co-produced two national award winning specials and was named Outstanding Feature Reporter of the Year by the AWRT (American Women in Radio and Television).
Crook & Chase: Lorianne and Charlie first teamed up in 1983 to host the nationally syndicated This Week In Country Music. It was later seen every weekend on TNN, The Nashville Network . Soon, Lorianne and Charlie were hosting the daily Crook & Chase show, which was named Best Entertainment News Program by Cable Guide magazine, in 1988. In 1992, that same magazine named Lorianne one of the "Ten Most Beautiful Women on Cable Television". Crook & Chase later hosted TNN's flagship prime time live show, Music City Tonight. In 1996 and 1997, Crook & Chase again went into national syndication, doing their unique daily show for Universal Studios in Los Angeles, while continuing to host shows for TNN until its demise as a country network in 2000. Now, she and Charlie host their weekly hour-long TV show Crook & Chase, which can be seen in more than 130 cities across the U.S., as well as on the newly launched TNN. (Click on Stations at the top of the page to find out how to tune in!)
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Pm supreme soil
Posted 01 March 2012 - 11:15 PM
Just an few questions for those using plant magic soil and cuttings only! as this is what I work with.
Im aware of the potting up process and adding granuals at each potup and maybe try the evaloution once aweek aswell.
I have a bottle of fishmix and would opt for Oldtimer bloom from around 2-3 weeks into flower from what Ive been reading.
Will rooted cuts need any grow nutes either fishmix or ot grow if I have them in pots say .5>>1.4>>3.5>>6.5 for around two weeks per pot?
Does the pm soil have enough if any nutrients in it to feed the cuts enough whilst in each pot?
Thinking about a medium change in the near future & fancy giving pm ago.
Thoughts please.
Posted 02 March 2012 - 08:47 AM
The Pm soil supreme really is 'da shit' As you know i started in coco like yourself but moved to organics. I started 5 Oldtimes in the soil which have just been put into final pots the other day (6ltr) I havent had to give any grow and there lush green!All they've had is just plain old tap juice and a smidgen of Bio Silicon. Really does all the work for ya m8! Update my dairy soon so you can have a gander.
"Happiness In life depends upon the quality of your thoughts" ....Marcus Aurelius..
Posted 02 March 2012 - 08:52 AM
Was it from seed you went from chief?
Im wanting to use rooted cuts,just wondering if anything like a grow nute or fish mix would be needed.
I,ll be potting on regular,probally every 2 weeks.
Posted 02 March 2012 - 09:05 AM
"Happiness In life depends upon the quality of your thoughts" ....Marcus Aurelius..
Posted 02 March 2012 - 09:10 AM
Ive got a mixture of 15 cuts only just been potted into their first pots of coco (.5 litre) Im thinking of rooting out these pots first then make the switch at next pot up (1.4) to the pms. Was just wondering if the pm soil will have enough food to sustain them to their next pot up.
Cheers fella.
Posted 02 March 2012 - 09:59 AM
Posted 02 March 2012 - 10:04 AM
ATB Zion86
The Oldtimes have been vegging in the soil supreme for about 6/7 weeks with just water/bio-s
Edited by zion1986, 02 March 2012 - 10:07 AM.
"Happiness In life depends upon the quality of your thoughts" ....Marcus Aurelius..
Posted 02 March 2012 - 10:38 AM
Ive got a bottle of fishmix so I,ll go with that during my vegging.
Then ot bloom pm granuals and will give plant revolution a go too.
Ive also already got the essence kit,so that will be put too use aswell.
Need to read up on the silicon tho..
Thanks again.
Posted 02 March 2012 - 12:41 PM
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Posted 02 March 2012 - 01:33 PM
Just the answer I was looking for..
Just went to make an order at greens and the pms is outta stock till the 30th
I,ll try the stockists on their website.
Edited by Penny Arcade, 02 March 2012 - 01:55 PM.
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Posted 02 March 2012 - 02:10 PM
ps= any1 no of a good pm diary we can have a good read of with just pm soil and neute's?
Posted 05 March 2012 - 03:23 PM
I couldn,t tell you at the moment mate as Ive only just made my order today and I aint bought all the pm range,what Ive got with is pm soil suprime, pm revolution pm granuals and oldtimers grow & bloom. Trying to keep it as simple as possible really and from what Ive been reading grow bloom and granuals if skint is all you really need,maybe after a grow or two with the above I,ll have a tinker with the other stuff plant magic has.
Question: I have a mixture of clones that have been well rooted and placed in their first pots a week ago,these cuts are in coco at the mo and are in .5 litre pots,I,ll give them another week to root out these pots in full then change over to the plant magic soil,and place them into 1.4 litre pots,can I start to add the granuals then? Its their first pot up and I know they where started in coco,will this be a problem? Cant see it myself as Ive swithched from compost to coco before but never from coco to compost/soil.
My plan is to have them in 1.4>>3.5>>6.5 litre (final pots) and 10 days too 14 days in each pot..sound good? I,ll only use oltimers grow if I see them going hungary.
Look forward to giving it a go anyway.
Posted 05 March 2012 - 03:30 PM
I follow the oldtimer schedule as found here, except I take Ot's (revised) advice and don't give silicon after week 2 of 12/12, and when I do give it I give it alone (ie no nutes). Biowetter I only use when I'm foliar spraying essence really, but it's handy to rewet the soil if they've been allowed to dry out too much.am just strugling with my feed plan a little i've got ALL pm neute's with the silicon + bio wettre, but wot it is wot's burning mi nutt out. is wot can be added in same mix ie= silicon with root stim? also veg boost with what?+ the bio wttre when do you give that? i have a bluelab ec pen so am hoping it aint gunna catch me out but saying that am always stoned so who no's! i have'nt used the soil to root cutts with but i'm going to be giving it a go sooin, so let us no how it goes penny plz. Hope you get it sorted and if you no any answers to mi brain smasher, let us no, have agood day. nelly
ps= any1 no of a good pm diary we can have a good read of with just pm soil and neute's?
Boost I only use on pot ups, or again if a pot's dried out too much I'll use it to help kick start the micro-herd again (only in veg though).
I'd be very wary of using an ec truncheon to measure organic nutes, I don't think they 'read' the same way as chemical nutes.
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Policies and Procedures
Policy Title: | 241 - University Procurement |
Type of Policy: | Modification of an existing policy . |
Draft Number and Date: | |||
President's Council Sponsor: | Val Peterson | Ext. | 8424 |
Policy Steward: | Ryan Lindstrom | Ext. | 8819 |
Title | University Procurement | Number | 241 |
Section | Financial Affairs and Development | Approval Date | Jun 20,2013 |
Subsection | Development | Effective Date | Jun 20,2013 |
1.1 As a public institution of higher education, Utah Valley University strives to be accountable in the use of public funds, to follow ethical practices, and to maintain impartiality and professionalism in its procurement processes. This policy specifies the University's general procurement policies and responsibilities that will ensure compliance with Board of Regents' policy, state code, and federal code.
2.1 Utah Procurement Code, Utah Code Annotated, sections 63G-6a-101 et seq.
2.2 Utah Administrative Services Code, Utah Code Annotated, 63A-5-206 (2)(a) Construction
2.3 Utah Board of Regents' Policy R571 Delegation of Purchasing Authority
2.4 UVU Policy 114 Conflict of Interest
2.5 UVU Policy 242 Solicitation and Award of Procurement Contracts
2.6 UVU Policy 243 Small Purchases
2.7 UVU Policy 244 Requisitions and Purchase Orders
2.8 UVU Policy 245 Receiving Goods and Services
3.1 Advance Payments: Payments made prior to the actual receipt and delivery of goods, services, or construction.
3.2 Construction: The process of building, renovating, altering, improving, repairing, or demolishing any University structure or building, major developmental work, or landscaping of University real property. It does not include the routine operation, routine repair, or routine maintenance of existing structures, buildings, or real property.
3.3 Contract: Any University agreement for the procurement or disposal of goods, services, or construction.
3.4 Goods: Anything purchased other than services, construction, or real property.
3.5 Noncompliant purchase: A procurement transaction circumventing established procurement policies and procedures, including those outlined in University Policies 241 through 244.
3.6 Procurement: Buying, purchasing, renting, leasing or otherwise acquiring any goods, services, or construction. It also includes all functions that pertain to the obtaining of any goods, services, or construction, including description of requirements, selection process, solicitation of sources, preparation for soliciting sources, award of a contract, and all phases of contract administration.
3.7 Purchasing Agent: An individual duly authorized by the Chief Procurement Officer to perform procurement-related functions.
3.8 Real property: Land and its permanently affixed buildings or structures and related fixtures.
3.9 Services: The furnishing of labor, time, or effort by a vendor that does not involve the delivery of a specific end product, other than reports. It does not include employment agreements or collective bargaining agreements.
4.1 The President delegates authority over procurement activities to the Director of Procurement Services and designates the Director of Procurement Services as the Chief Procurement Officer for the University.
4.2 All goods, services, and construction purchased by the University shall be procured in compliance with applicable statute, rules, guidelines, policies, and procedures, regardless of the funding source, including: state appropriated, federally appropriated, income generated, and funds from gifts, grants, and contracts.
4.3 Procurement Services oversees the procurement of all goods, services, and construction required by the University and all its departments. Procurement Services: establishes operating processes and guidelines with which to locate and ensure adequate and continuing sources of goods, services, and construction, consistent with legal, budgetary, and delivery requirements of user departments; provides the necessary assistance to acquire such goods, services, and construction on a timely and economical basis; ensures compliance with all applicable state and federal laws and University policies, procedures, and guidelines during the procurement process; and provides assistance, consultation, and advice regarding all procurement needs of the University.
4.4 A University employee involved in a procurement process must act in accordance with the University Procurement Services Code of Ethics and the ethical standards outlined in the Utah Procurement Code (63G-6a-2201, et seq.). Individuals who do not comply with University policies when placing procurement orders may become personally liable to the vendor for the contract price and may be subject to disciplinary action.
4.5 Procurement activities shall be performed independent of any fundraising endeavors of the University.
4.6 Operating units authorized in section 4.7 shall comply with applicable University policies and procedures and use substantially the same sound business practices in their purchasing activities as those followed by Procurement Services.
4.7 The following operating units are delegated purchasing authority to solicit bids and issue purchase orders independent of Procurement Services, but in keeping with written policies found within each department and with maximum practicable competition in all such purchasing:
1) Library (books and periodicals only)
2) Bookstore (resale items only)
3) Dining Services (resale items only)
4) Events center (event-related goods/services and resale items only)
5) Other resale operations as approved by the Director of Procurement Services and the applicable vice president (resale items only)
4.8 Advance payments may not be made except in certain cases as determined appropriate by Procurement Services.
5.1 Responsibilities of Procurement Services
5.1.1 In discharging its responsibilities, Procurement Services may:
1) Initiate, conduct, and conclude solicitations and negotiations for the purchase of goods, services, and construction for the University.
2) Obligate the University for the purchase of goods, services, and construction.
3) Recommend changes in quality, quantity, or kind of material requisitioned and/or suggest appropriate alternatives.
4) Fill requisitions with goods of equal usability and quality that are currently available in the inventories of the University.
5) Select qualified suppliers.
5.1.2 In order to avoid violating University policies and procedures, correspondence with vendors relating to the acquisition of goods, services, or construction shall be processed through Procurement Services during the period of time beginning when an individual knows, or should have known, that a solicitation for quotes, bids, or proposals must be completed and ending when a contract has been awarded.
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If you thought Gandhian ideals were a lost cause, look no further than the Sena. They have not only held them in utmost regard, but are now fighting for it to remain alive.
We all know that the Shiv Sena attacked CNN-IBN channel offices — that's old news. They beat up reporters and staff — big deal. But few people know that a Shiv Sainik too was beaten up in the fracas :
"We have demanded action against journalists, who beat our activists. A party worker was seriously injured and has been paralysed," Sena group leader in Assembly, Subhash Desai, told reporters here.
I am sure the biased channels haven't covered this news. Action must be taken against the journalists who have done this. Don't people even remember what the old man taught us ?
If the Sainiks attack you, you don't resist. If you do, they'll beat you up till you don't resist. So really if you see, they're just converting us all to Gandhians.
And here we are, criticizing them.
It is sad that for the media, the line between news and reality TV is fast blurring. I came across this very disturbing video shot in the home of a cop who was beheaded by Naxals in Ranchi.
They shot it when his 7-year old son calls up the school and asks authorities to send home his brother, because their father has died.
Then, presumably as an answer to the oft-asked question 'How do you feel ?', the kid says, 'You have killed my father, I will join the police and will kill you people–I will kill you people' before breaking down on camera.
Good for TRPs, hell great ! But what if the Naxals who are watching this target the child ? You and I would probably not be threatened by a kid, but I don't know how Naxals think; the ones who beheaded a cop in cold blood.
Whoever said our media had become slightly responsible after 26/11. Added irony is that this was telecast on CNN-IBN, whose Rajdeep Sardesai tried to claim the moral high ground among channels for their ethical coverage of 26/11.
You know an issue is serious when they let Sagarika Ghose loose on it. Ergo, Mr. P. Chidambaram's advice to Delhiites, which was in bad taste, is a big issue now.
The topic on yesterday's Face The Nation was : Chidambaram asks Delhiites to behave: Are Indians rude and ill-mannered?
At the beginning, 88% percent agreed. By the end, 95% agreed. The host was Sagarika Ghose.
You conclude. I am not saying anything, I just present facts.
If there is one news channel that has truly mastered the art of delivering news, it is CNN-IBN.
First, they select some news worthy enough to be a breaking news, like all others. Say for e.g., the SRK incident.
Second, they run recurring stories of it, like all others.
Third, and this is what makes them intellectually superior and different, they let Sagarika Ghose loose on their "in-house talkers" like Lord Desai, to debate if the whole brouhaha was justified.
This technique, which I can only hope they have patented, gives them more mileage off a news than anyone else.
To quote Mr. Barney Stinson, this technique is a game-changer — like the forward pass, the slam dunk, and that haircutting technique where they hold it between their fingers and then snip.
Immense respect comes.
This is the most fun set of questions asked by a news channel to a minister, courtesy CNNIBN and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar (who is in London presently). Meanwhile, rains are delayed in India and CNNIBN is flustered. Here goes :
CNN-IBN: Sir, people are worried.
Sharad Pawar: I don't want to create a further panic scare. I don't want to speak from London without talking to the Met Department. It is not proper for me to talk from here. When I will be back… I will be happy to talk to you.
CNN-IBN: When are you back?
Sharad Pawar: 26th (June 26).
CNN-IBN: Do you feel that your Ministry must be missing you?
Sharad Pawar: I don't think so. You are unnecessarily creating a fear complex.
CNN-IBN : Sir, will you please get some water along while coming ?
Sharad Pawar : What the @$@#@ !!
Yeah fine, I added the last one, but it could have well been there.
CNNIBN reports :
A hotshot MP, caught in a scandal, expelled from the party, pushes an officer in uniform on duty, makes for great masala news .. only if it were true and not more frivolous reporting. See if you can spot the alleged "push" (you know there is a problem when a push is preceeded by alleged).
Looks like some are in the business of creating news, not reporting it.
Election time has ensured that WTF quotes fly all around. Check out these.
1. IBNLive invites Ujjwal Nikam and Abbas Kazmi (prosecution and defense respectively of Ajmal Kasab) for a chat :
CNN-IBN: Mr Kazmi, the accusation is not just of delaying but also Kasab saying he was under 18 years of age despite prosecution documents pointing to the contrary.
Abbas Kazmi: It is clear with the way he is behaving that he is a juvenile [WTF Alert 1]
CNN-IBN: Mr Kazmi, no juvenile goes around shooting people. He is a terrorist. Give him a fair trial but cooperate with prosecution and get this case wrapped up in time. [WTF Alert 2]
While on IBNLive, did you know that Rajdeep Sardesai and Barkha Dutt were recipients of the Padma Shri last year ? Somehow bloggers let this news be.
2. Good sense and politics still evades Sanjay Dutt :
Sanjay Dutt : During the rally in Pratapgarh, Dutt allegedly said he "will give 'jaadu ki jhappi and pappi' (magical hug and kiss) to the chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati".
(Dream sequence) Mayawati : Zeher hai ke pyaar hai tera chumma.
3. Karunanidhi on LTTE supremo Prabhakaran :
"Is Prabhakaran a terrorist? No, I don't see it that way. Prabhakaran is my good friend. I am not a terrorist. I will deeply regret it if Prabhakaran is killed. I will regret it. I will say it happened because of a lack of unity among the Tamil groups in Sri Lanka. Some people in Prabhakaran's group might be involved in terrorism. But that is not Prabhakaran's fault."
Yeah last heard innocent Prabhakaran was sucking on a lollipop and riding around on his tricycle. Sitting behind was an unknown kid with dark glasses for unexplained reasons.
4. Hema Malini while campaigning for BJP :
Vote for BJP, ye Basanti ki izzat ki sawal hai: Hema
A particular blog from Mr. Gaurav Kalra on CNN-IBN has been getting quite some attention recently : Link
Suddenly, those buildings where the soothing sound of a distant piano provided the comforting solace of security; have become battlegrounds. Guns were meant to go off elsewhere, weren't they? In busy market-places or railway stations that stench anyway. So no wonder the elite are enraged. Suddenly terrorism isn't just a dinner table conversation.
Where was this elitist angst when a brave bus conductor lost his eyes saving others in Delhi? Or those who have had their legs amputated after the blasts in Ahmedabad? Did elite India find the shrillness in their voices to demand what they are asking for now? Was a fund set-up to support government in fighting terror ?
My first wondering is, what is wrong with not reacting when it doesn't affect you ? In fact, it is perfectly rational behaviour. Why do you think the Hindus did not react to the Orissa and Karnataka incidents, Maharashtrians did not react to the MNS mischief, naxalites in the north-east did not react to the Vidarbha suicides, all the non-Dalits did not react to the Khairlanji massacre ?
Putting that aside, the overall reaction from an ordinary Indian has been stronger this time (proven not just by the constantly changing status messages on instant messengers and forwarded mails), because we could see some things gone horribly wrong that lead to the attacks being successful. That was the bottomline and nothing else.
In a bid to dig deeper in the analysis of an incorrect target, which philosophically speaking might not hold much ground, we have identified another enemy apart from the terrorists. The elite.
There itself we lost the battle of unity we so proudly started a couple of days ago.
And we didn't even start our innings.
P.S. : Meanwhile, if you want to do some serious thinking (else you could get seriously confused), do read this piece written by Siddharth G : Article here.


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Different family types may have a fixed flow of consumption costs, related to subsistence needs. We use a survey method in order to identify and estimate such a fixed component of spending for different families. Our method involves making direct questions about the linkup between aggregate disposable family income and well-being for different family types. Conducting our survey in six countries, Germany, France, Cyprus, China, India and Botswana, we provide evidence that fixed costs of consumption are embedded in welfare evaluations of respondents. More precisely, we find that the formalized relationship between welfare-retaining aggregate family incomes across different family types, suggested by Donaldson and Pendakur (2005) and termed "Generalized Absolute Equivalence Scale Exactness," is prevalent and robust in our data. We use this relationship to identify subsistence needs of different family types and to calculate income inequality.Download Info
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unfortunately if you want to enjoy those dx11 effects with smooth frames, you'd have to play at 640x480
It can take in a normal pcie card kinda like Nvidia Optimus or ATi PowerXpress/Hybrid CrossFire on supported boards. I can see this setup work on htpcs that double as gaming boxes where you will need the graphics horsepower and the other times when you're just watching movies IGP will do fine.
brilliant, just what we needed from amd, more low end proccesors while still no idea about the high end one's also sigged
They also snuck in this AMD Athlon II X4 631 I assume it's just a failed APU with the graphics core disabled. I wonder if that extra cache and smaller die will make it out perform current Athlon II's by any kind of noticeable margin. What strikes me however is the stupidly high TDP for the die size and low speed.
AMD has been ridiculously overvolting all CPUs (and I'm mostly thinking of the higher end ones, low end can undervolt like crazy). You can take .2-.3 V off and they'll still be stable. I have to wonder even with the overvolting if the TDP claimed is a little high. I guess they just don't give a shit about binning.
I prefer this A4 than a sempron/Athlon II X2 paired with an 800 series chipset sporting 4000 series IGP. I've been selling this lately, but the A4 performs better as dual core than any Athlon dual core, and not even mentioning the graphics performance increase. So the A4 makes perfect sense to me. But I agree that DX11 support won't be practical, still if it's there, what do people expect? AMD retrotaking it to DX10 or DX9? No, they won't. And DX11 still has some advantages in the low end, where game developers are the ones to blame if the graphics advantage over DX10 don't show up.
The TDP is not bad at all when you consider these APUs have a built-in graphics core and northbridge. This thing is in effect more or less a 45w chip considering the whole system power consumption.


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Religious exploitation should be called out
Former Arkansas governor and 2012 presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee found himself in hot water this week after he called Islam the "antithesis of the gospel of Christ" and said that churches that share worship space with Muslims are caving to a religion "that says that Jesus Christ and all the people that follow him are a bunch of infidels who should be essentially obliterated."
In an analysis of how Islam may shape campaign politics, Politico's Bryon Tau wrote: "As Republican candidates define their national security stands in the 2012 elections, conservative discomfort with Islam in America will be a feature of the debate."
Should Islam be debated on the campaign trail? Are religious issues in danger of being exploited?
Article VI of the U.S. Constitution bans any religious test for public office. Just as importantly, the spirit of that provision dictates that religion, Islam or otherwise, should not be interjected into the campaign unless a candidate's religious beliefs bear directly on one's policy positions or fitness to lead as a public official.
But where candidates or pundits interject exaggerated, caricatured and even false statements about Islam -- or any religion -- then, yes, it must be met by a swift public correction. Lies suggesting President Obama is a really a Muslim, or all of Islam is dedicated to "obliterating" Christians, or that more than the lunatic fringe of Islam applaud the events of September 11, must be answered. And not just by right-thinking Muslims, but by Christians too.
Yes, religion -- especially Islam these days -- is in danger of exploitation for political purposes. Religion is often used and abused for political gain. It is important that such pandering be called out. Should violent, extreme forms of Islam be fought as an enemy? Absolutely! But that's a far cry from irenic Islam that informs millions of patriotic American citizens, including two members of the United States Congress: Keith Ellison, D-Minn. and Andre Carson, D-Ind.
In any event, a failure to engage in careful, nuanced thinking and speaking in the public square and campaign trail about Islam -- or any religion -- is, prima facie, an abuse of religion.
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"Yes, religion -- especially Islam these days -- is in danger of exploitation for political purposes."
Well said. Especially if we are considering this a problem of extremist Muslims who are using their faith to gain political power and if we are considering this a problem of extremist Christians in the United States who are arousing and using the fear of Islam as a crutch to gain political power.
Far right religious extremism is a danger to liberty, equality, and freedom here just as it has been an impediment in Islamic countries.
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Mr Walker makes some very important observations, not the least of which is that religions have been abused in the remote and recent past, by certain ignoble individuals to gain political power. This brings to mind recent demagogues such as Milosevic, Modi, and Avigdor Lieberman who knew how to harness the hate of the neighbor to consolidate their power. This is, in fact the antithesis of the foundation of United States. Welcome to the club, Huckabee
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- Dominic said...
Something I wondered about, after reading Hayek: to what extent would the availability of a sufficiently super supercomputer modify his argument about the intrinsically unmanageable complexity of human economic affairs? It ought to be possible in this day and age to simulate a planned economy, the same way we simulate atomic explosions and global warming.
- owen hatherley said...
Hmm, interesting - isn't this something you could have a go at in your lunch break or when the boss isn't looking? From software theologian to software central planner!
It's curious how cybernetics is so often spun as a right-wing discipline, much as the internet is alleged to be a libertarian's paradise, when there's surely as much Communist potential in either (cf Voyou's interesting comments a while ago on open source software as incipient socialism, and the fact that open source designers do not like being told this). - dave said...
Hayek's basic conceit on prices is that they successfully agglomerate widely distributed information; a complex enough computer-based system could aim for this, but presents other problems (e.g., single-node central systems are especially vulnerable to attack and/or collapse). With a well-designed and appropriately redundant/decentralized computer system, one might approach Oskar Lange's ideals of market socialism with great efficiency [one of Hayek's major pricing works, The Use of Knowledge in Society, is a rebuttal to Lange].
Still, the administrative costs of gathering and inputting this information would be a (huge?) deadweight loss. - dave said...
I have lots of problem with Lange Model socialism, which falls into the common socialist trap of only being concerned with spot markets, but with the right inputs and Beer's system it could theoretically navigate those efficiently.
- EricTheActor said...
The control room looks contrived.
Market research (is that what yall r talkin bout?) should be conducted by wealthy groups/entities that employee millions of people to go door to door seeking whatever information. Eff machines - Benjamin said...
check out this: http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2162
The dream is not over - btw I thought the column picture was rather stylish... - owen hatherley said...
Thank you Ben.
Interesting link - it is all kicking off now, and looking grimly familiar... Surely a reminder that one of the main reasons why serious attempts at planned economies tend to fail doesn't even need to be theorised - massive hostility from outside, usually helping out with destabilisation inside, adding to the usual 'socialism in one country' dilemma.
It's particularly tragic that the only sustained peacetime attempt at co-ordinating socialist economies was Comecon, crippled from the start by Stalinism (or here, technocratic Brezhnevism to be precise) and its attendant distrust of democracy in all its forms... - Benjamin said...
and of course what is also left out is the amount of planning in so-called 'market' economies - ironically especially in their neo-liberal guise. The financialisation of capital, in its current forms, wouldn't be possible w/o computers either.
I did like Chavez's message expelling the US ambassador though; that's transgressive scatology... - said...
911 was an inside job.Watch 911 Taboo and September clues.
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Out of Control in New Jersey
'Give me one more chance, and you'll be satisfied.
Give me two more chances, you won't be denied.
Well my heart is where it's always been
My head is somewhere in between
Give me one more chance, let me be your lover tonight...'
When this tour began two years ago, 'Real Thing' wasn't even in the set, now it would be strange if the show didn't open with it. But nothing surprises with this band. Thirty years ago they were playing the Fast Lane, Asbury Park - before many of the 90,000 people here tonight were even a twinkle in the eye of their parents.
'So much has changed, so much hasn't', mused Bono. One thing that hasn't is 'Out of Control' - in the set in 1981 and in the set in 2011.
'New Jersey, hot summer night, where you gonna take us?' asked Bono. Jumping aboard the U2360 spaceship, you never know where you might be taken but you'll never come back the same.
''Where we gonna go, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania… New Jersey.'
The band have had some unforgettable nights in New Jersey over the years, twenty four shows in East Rutherford alone and Bono just happened to have the original set list from that Asbury Park show back in another century.
'The Ocean, 11 O'Clock Tick Tock, I Will Follow, An Cat Dubh, Into the Heart, Another Time, Another Place, The Cry, The Electric Co., Things to Make and Do, Stories for Boys, Boy-Girl, Out of Control, and the encore was… A Day Without Me, 11 O'Clock Tick Tock , The Ocean and I Will Follow.'
Of the fifty-plus tracks they've played on this tour, 'Out of Control' is not the only one from 'Boy ' to have found its way back into the U2360 set list - 'I Will Follow' still sounds like it could have been written yesterday. It was also on the set list in a club in London in 1981 on the night that The Who's Pete Townshend took a young American singer along to meet this new band from Ireland for the first time. They became firm friends and Bruce Springsteen was here tonight, when the band paid tribute again to the late, great Clarence Clemons.
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And they did not notice me...'
It was one of the longest sets of the tour tonight, 26 songs, but 'nothing much has changed' as Bono put it before the surprise closing number. 'Four Irish boys, out of control...'
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You know the sort of thing - put fences between the people and the cars, so the drivers feel that it's "safe" to drive faster than they might otherwise. And make sure those fences are on bends / at junctions so that they can act as cyclist graters when a lorry cuts the corner off.
Anyway. There's a plan afoot to revise all this, and make it a more person-oriented location. Check out the ideas, as shown in this video which I found via Tom Vanderbilt's How We Drive :
I found this particularly interesting to watch, as big parts of my engineering degree were about discrete event simulations & industrial dynamics flow modelling (believe me, those long winter evenings just fly past), which is the sort of stuff used to generate the animations of how things should work in the new design of the junction.
The only problem I have with the proposed new design is one of practical law enforcement.
With fewer railings and barriers in place, it'll be harder for the police to contain legitimate protests - "kettling " will become a logistical nightmare. Bring your own fencing, or have to pay even more police overtime to ensure enough police are present to contain the unruly masses? That's the problem with these experimental traffic improvements - they don't take account of the total cost to society of their so-called people friendly ideas.