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The four-day Ideas City arts and culture festival returns to New York's Lower East Side May 1st to 4th. Since 2011, it's been held in the galleries, storefronts and streets surrounding one of the event's founders, the New Museum on the Bowery. The goal is to explore the "future of cities" with workshops, conferences, projects and a big "Ideas City StreetFest" featuring interactive exhibits, performances, food and fun. The complete schedule of events is available here and below we've listed some things that caught our eye:
1. Video/installation artist Marco Brambilla will screen his trippy, 3-D extravaganza, "Creation," with a live score in St. Patrick's Old Cathedral (Mott Street between E. Houston and Prince) on Friday, May 3, 8:30 to midnight. This is the third part of the artist's "Megaplex" trilogy. If you've ever ridden in the elevators at The Standard Highline hotel, you've already seen part one.
2. Fringe-ish architecture firm, Snarkitecture, is building a large-scale temporary installation on Mulberry Street between E. Houston and Prince that will open on Saturday from 8:30 to midnight. Not sure exactly what's involved with this, but these guys just did the fantastic "Lift" installation with 45 giant balloons that filled Cipriani Wall Street for the New Museum's recent party and they also did last year's entrance to the Design Miami tent for Art Basel. Photo via Architizer.
3. After everything shuts down for then night, you can walk along the Bowery and check out the new murals that have been painted on the steel, rolling shutters of ten storefronts. You'll see new works by Ellen Berkenblit, Laura Owens, Alex Israel, Mel Bochner and others.
4. Bobbito Garcia and Kevin Couliau will be screening their award-winning documentary, Doin' It in the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC, in the theater of the New Museum (235 Bowery) at 8 p.m. on Saturday. They'll be doing a Q&A after.
5. If you're feeling hungry, just stop at one of the many food vendors set up along the Bowery during the StreetFest. Look for Hot Bread Kitchen, Mexicue, Thirstea,SweeteryNYC, Coolhaus Ice Cream and more.


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At the Heart: Cath Lab Planning Adapts to New Technology and Improved Diagnoses
Smaller, sleeker technologies in conjunction with increasingly sophisticated medical procedures have changed the face of cardiac catheterization labs.
Changing Spaces
In the above floor plans, which represent a health care provider both in the mid-1990's and today, we can compare and contrast the way in which cardiac cath labs have changed over the past 10 years. While lab configuration has not changed radically, subtle differences in design can allow a lab to operate more efficiently.
Central to the design of modern cath labs is the shrinking of electronic equipment across nearly every medical discipline. For much the same reason that computers the size of filing cabinets have shrunk to miniature handhelds many times more powerful, cath equipment has diminished in size and increased in power. Older cath technology, for example, utilizes an image intensifier using silicone tubes. Today's leading-edge technology utilizes an imaging charge coupled device. It provides a new type of light sensor that transforms the image into digital images. New flat screens deliver increased clarity and precision imaging by avoiding the rounded, rolled picture of older monitors. The new technology is also improved in its geometry of detection.
In the past, as the health care provider's earlier lab floor plan depicts (Figure 1), cath labs contained a separate electronics room, routinely measuring about 8 x 10 feet, that housed these large instruments. While this segregation was done in response to manufacturer's recommendations, it also was done out of practicality: the machines often emitted a distracting, droning hum.
In current design (Figure 2), the electro-mechanical hum is all but eliminated, and in the current illustration, equipment may be contained in two full height closets measuring only 3 feet deep and 8 feet long. Having control room equipment within an arm's length in the lab contributes to the staff's operational efficiency.
While equipment has gradually become smaller over the past decade, the actual dimensions of cath labs have grown significantly bigger. This is the result of an increase in the variety of procedures that are offered today within the context of a cath lab. For instance, it is common for a patient to undergo more invasive procedures, such as angioplasty immediately following a catheterization.
The first diagram illustrates a spatial width of 19 feet, extremely tight given that an anesthesiologist with a cart connected to gases may tend to a patient.
Today, that space can be as great as 28 feet wide, an increase not only to accommodate a sizable anesthesiology cart, but to allow a growing number of staff to administer to the patient from all sides.
Other space-saving technology like digital imaging devices has changed the way images are stored. Images are captured directly to a computer and are archived on space-saving laser disks. Thus film processing areas and bulky film readers have been eliminated. Reading room dimensions are therefore streamlined, though not eliminated, because physicians continue to prefer to have a space set aside for this purpose. In addition, cath technology is primarily operated by computer, eliminating extensive storage closets, and thus allowing the control room to be situated within the lab, which greatly increases staff efficiency.
Something's Gotta Give
Today, cath lab design requires a renewed sense of flexibility. Typically not as sterile as surgical operating rooms, these spaces may now have room and be adaptable for full surgical procedures. The best cath lab infrastructure should incorporate mechanical, air changing systems and lighting that is sufficiently flexible to perform minimally invasive procedures and those that require sterile conditions. To accommodate surgery, surfaces must be highly durable and easily cleaned.
Further, recent health code mandates scrub areas be placed outside the lab. Utilization of an entry vestibule (containing the scrub area), shown in the present-day diagram (Figure 2), has corresponding operational advantages. For example, the area is also a convenient place to house a warming cabinet for patient blankets and/or a place to conveniently place a flash sterilizer.
The cath lab is fast becoming a crossroads of diagnostic procedures and treatments for both cardiovascular disease and stroke. As it is designed for new procedures, the cath lab is integrating disciplines in the health care organization. Different modalities are now placed alongside cath equipment. This merging of disparate services impacts how a cath lab is perceived by medical staff. In the past the cath lab was a very self-sufficient, somewhat isolated area and procedure from other hospital disciplines and departments (except maybe the OR). Now, with the introduction of more anesthesia needs, possibly surgery opportunities, and of other imaging modalities, it is being viewed as a more open and integrated component of care. The current trend is a blurring of the typical lines between surgery, radiology (special procedures) and invasive cardiology.
From a planning perspective, adjacencies are more crucial than ever, resulting in support services which can be shared between departments. For existing cath labs undergoing renovation, a hospital's master plan should be reviewed to see which departments might be relocated for improved adjacency with the lab.
Planning a cath lab that effectively supports medical advancements requires both increased space and flexibility. Updating cath lab design must take into account a smaller technological footprint but great strides in scientific technique.
Coleman DeMoss can be reached at email@example.com.
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C. parapsilosis strains have historically been categorised as Group I, II or III on the basis of molecular fingerprinting. Group I strains are predominant in clinical isolates. Analysis of levels of heterozygosity and of mitochondrial genome architecture supports the hypothesis that three groups represent three different species. It has been proposed that Group II and Group III isolates are are different species and should be renamed C. orthopsilosis and C. metapsilosis respectively. Group I isolates are therefore the most authentic and clinically relevant representatives of C. parapsilosis .
The C. parapsilosis isolate 317 from CDC, Atlanta was selected for sequencing. This isolate came from the hands of a hospital worker, who was the source for an outbreak of infection in a Mississippi community hospital in 2001, and was characterised and described in Kuhn et al and Clark et al .
Published Genome Data
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Pathogen Genomics group sequenced the genome of Candida parapsilosis in collaboration with Dr Geraldine Butler of the Department of Biochemistry, University College Dublin, Prof. Ken Wolfe, Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin and Prof. Neil Gow, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Aberdeen.
Assembly of the C. parapsilosis shotgun reads produced 24 contigs of over 2kb in length. These contigs contain 222792 reads and have a total length of 13.1Mb. There are 8 contigs larger than 200kb and the N50 of the assembly is 2215 kb. The average genome coverage of the genome is 9.2-fold.
The sequence data are available in GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ with accession numbers CABE01000001 to CABE01000024.


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Welcome to the home page of my web site.
This is a piece of work that is pretty constantly "in progress". The site began several years ago, but it has expanded considerably as time has passed. There's some background about it, and a bit about me, here.
You'll find links on this page to the most recent bits I've added. Many visitors come here for the Masters Athletics photos. You'll find the navigation link to these and to all of the other galleries on the site via the "My Galleries" at the top of this page.
The website is also associated with two blogs that I update fairly regularly. "Blog From A Faster Master" tells the story of what it's like to be a very competitive Masters athlete. More recently, I added "A Blog on a Landscape", which takes some of my landscape photographs and tells a bit of the story behind them. By way of warning, do realise I use a pretty wide definition of "landscape".
I also have a second web site, which is a labour of love, at www.thegreatdolomiteroad.co.uk/ That site tells its own story.
I add to several of the photo galleries here fairly regularly, and I don't often remove galleries. However, if you are returning to the site and can't find what you saw here before, drop me an e-mail.
Some time soon, I very much hope to add to the galleries that cover the artwork that I do as well. There is a little of this here but following on from my exhibition in February 2014 I need to get it properly sorted.
I hope you find something you enjoy.
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The RNG issue gets kind of old. Its mainly because I guess most people arnt familiar with card games? EVERY card game has RNG, its the nature of the game type. And makes the outcome of games more enjoyable and less predictable. Its actually a good thing? O rly? Mind is blown!
There is nothing new to see here, really. Games as old as Magic:the gathering have it. And that started like 20 years ago. Guess what happens with RNG when 2 players play? It tends to even out between them. Not always, ofcourse. But in a serie of games. The best player, with the best deck WILL win. You could also see this in Dreamhack Bucharest.
I mean even games as obvious as poker. You see all-in's go lucky sometimes, even against the odds. And this is a huge shift. Still you also see the same players at the final table over and over. The same tourney winners over and over. This is the skill element. Its not obvious to see. Most people will only see the surface of plays and the end result.
Strong heavy control decks sometimes have ZERO card draw. Because they play strong heavy minions/legendaries. That most of the time go 1-2 card trade. So you dont really need card draw. A card like tracking in Hunter, lets you find the specific card you need.
More mechanics will probably be released over time. That much is sure. This summer we will get new cards, that will change the meta. And its deathrattle mechanic themed. I think the game has alot of potential to grow. More cards and more mechanics are certainly welcome.


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Delivering some shocking news, the latest edition of Tech Tonic on Reuters TV revealed that most Fortune 500 companies have been hacked and usually do not find out six months after the breach.
This means that their clients vital information are at level of vulnerability that no one would ever suspect. Unfortunately the video cuts off at the best part — conspiracy! — but not before Anthony De Rosa gives some serious insight.


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Work and Learn
Work and Learn is a program that undergraduate resident students may participate in to obtain a reduction in their University costs. Participation in this program is voluntary and a privilege. The purpose of the program is to build a sense of individual responsibility and dependability in the student. Students who sign up for the program are stating that they are willing to work in a determined job for the University, and they are expected to honor this commitment.
Community Work Service
Junior and senior level students in good academic standing are encouraged to participate in the Community Service program. However, freshmen and sophomore level students who are motivated to do community service and can obtain the approval of the Director of Career Development, may also participate. This program is done in lieu of the normal campus-based Work and Learn program but retains the same financial incentives. The program enables students to be involved in hands-on experience with local volunteer and social service organizations. This program allows students to make a difference in the community while at the same time gaining valuable employment experience and an insight into the functioning of various volunteer agencies and social service programs.
There are two forms of Community Service available: the standard Community Service, which is when a student participates by working in a nonprofit organization and the America Reads program in which the student volunteers at a local school and assists students in learning to read.
Work and Learn Program Details
The Work and Learn program may not be appropriate for all students. Students who have extra commitments such as an excessive class load, an outside job, or sports commitments should consider not participating in Work and Learn as it is difficult to find the time and a job that fits the student's needs. Students who do not fulfill their Work and Learn contract will be removed from the program and must make arrangements to pay for the remainder of their charges.
Work and Learn also exposes students to volunteer agencies and social service programs in the local community. This enables students to be involved in hands-on experiences outside their normal disciplines. The program also provides diverse opportunities that enhance students' educational backgrounds and broaden their range of marketable talents.
Competition for jobs is fierce, and positions are given on a first-come, first-served basis. Not all students are eligible for assignment to every position. For many jobs, the student must meet specific criteria in order to be accepted.
Student Responsibilities:
NOTE: Failure to properly perform duties and responsibilities is grounds for removal from the Work and Learn Program at Lindenwood University.
More information about the Work and Learn can be found in the Work and Learn Handbook.
To discover more about this program, contact the Work and Learn Office at (636) 627-2584 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Things To Do When You Hand in Your Resignation Letter
There are still a few things you need to do once you've handed in your resignation letter. Hold the celebration just yet and check to see if you've done the following:
If you're starting another job, make sure that you get the dates correct. Make sure that you have ample time to sort out anything you need to finish in the job. This will make a clean break by the time you should transfer.
Go to your supervisor and ask if you need to be involved in finding someone to replace you, or if you need to train the new person in the job.
Most companies have clearance forms. There will be office equipment and other materials that you may need to surrender before they can give you a clear send-off. Make sure you accomplish those as soon as possible.
Check unfinished work. Leave instructions, materials, contact lists for projects. This will make sure that you won't get any blame because you were irresponsible enough to leave everyone hanging.
Find out any documents, forms, notices, or information that you will need to get from the HR and wages department before you leave.
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How to Make Hot Chocolate
Spring may be around the corner but the cold doesn't seem to let up everywhere else. And if you're stuck home with a cold weather alert, nothing seems to beat a good book, your comfy chair and a mug of hot chocolate. There are a lot of hot chocolate recipes around (the Maya hot chocolate recipe even calls for chili), but we bring you some good old fashioned hot choco. Very much like granny makes it.
What you need:
- 1 cup (around 6 oz) of bittersweet chocolate
- 8 cups whole milk
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- cinnamon powder
- whipped cream
- knife
- mixing bowl
- saucepan
- wooden spoon
What to do:
- Using a chef's knife, chop the chocolate into smaller pieces and place the pieces in a mixing bowl.
- Pour the milk into a saucepan. Heat over medium-low until you see wisps of steam.
- Add the sugar and vanilla extract to the milk until sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat and set aside.
- Pour about a cup of the hot milk and sugar mixture onto the chocolate. As the chocolate melts, whisk to blend the chocolate.
- Continue adding the milk until everything has been fully integrated.
- Serve hot in mugs. For a bit of that Christmas-y aroma and taste, sprinkle a bit of cinnamon. And for a luscious treat, spritz on some whipped cream on top.
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Socialization: Lifelong (process) social experience by which people develop their human potential & learn culture Personality: A persons fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking and feeling
The social Sciences: The role of Nurture
* Psychologist John B Watson developed a theory called behaviorism, which holds that behaviour is not instinctive but learned. (Nature not nurture) * Nurture is our nature
Studies of non human primates
* Psychologist Harry and Margaret placed rhesus monkeys (surprisingly there behaviour is same as humans) in various conditions of social isolation – * They found that complete isolation for 6 months seriously disturbs the monkey's development * Infant monkeys in cages with an artificial mother made of wire with wooden head – they survived by could not interact with others when placed in a group. * Harlow's concluded it is important that adults cradle infants affectionately. * Infants monkey could recover from about three months of isolation – 3 months+ cause serious damage Studies of isolated children
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* Isabelle spoke around 2000 words. At the age of 14 she was in grade 6. * Genie abused by her parents. She was tied to a potty chair at the age of 2. She lives with adults.
Sigmund Freud's Elements of Personality
Lived in Vienna at times when most Europeans considered human behaviour to be biologically fixed. Trained as a physician, Freud gradually turned to the study of personally and mental disorders. Basic Human Needs
* Biology plays a major role in human development
* Humans have two basic needs that are present at birth:
* 1st sexual and emotional bonding (which is called life instinct) * 2nd death instinct or thanatos (Greek: death)
* These opposing forces, operating at an unconscious level create deep inner tensions
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Birding by Ear: Eastern and Central North America
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Editor: Roger Tory Peterson
Houghton Mifflin Company , 2002
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Robert W. Lawson
Lawson, University of Sheffield.
Birding by Ear: Eastern and Central North America
BIRDING BY EAR uses an educational and entertaining method for learning bird songs. Instead of merely providing a catalog of bird song samples, BIRDING BY EAR actually teaches. This proven method has greatly enhanced the field experience for birders across North America. The authors have created learning groups of similar vocalizations and clearly point out distinguishing characteristics. Using techniques such as phonetics, mnemonics, and descriptive words, Walton and Lawson provide a context for learning the songs and calls of eighty-five species of birds found east of the Rockies. Combine the auditory instruction here with the visual features of the Peterson Identification System. Page numbers in BIRDING BY EAR's booklet refer to species descriptions in the PETERSON FIELD GUIDE TO BIRDS OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH AMERICA, fifth edition.
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Watch network TV online with Prime Time Rewind
What Prime Time Rewind does is present every network show that's available on the face of a cube. You can shift the cube side to side to see what's on each network. Or you can shift it up and down to find comedy or drama programs sorted by category.
When you click on a program, it will start playing directly from the network web site. In fact, the network web site will open up on your screen while the Prime Time Rewind navigation options will hang out in a sidebar. That's a really smart move, because it means you're basically visiting the network web site and viewing the videos exactly as the networks want you to. Thus, there's no good reason to sue Prime Time Rewind.
If the cube thing isn't doing it for you, you can also just type the name of a show into the search box to see if it's available. The biggest problem with the service is that there's no easy way to search for a particular episode from the Prime Time Rewind website. So if you're watching a show that's available on another site like Hulu, you might have an easier time finding what you're looking for there.
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Chesapeake Energy and two partners said they will invest $900 million to build natural gas gathering and compression facilities to process natural gas and natural gas liquids produced by the Utica shale formation.
Chesapeake Energy and two partners said they will invest $900 million to build natural gas gathering and compression facilities to process natural gas and natural gas liquids produced by the Utica shale formation.
Plans are to build a cryogenic processing facility in Columbiana County to handle 600 million cubic feet of gas per day, Chesapeake said in its announcement.
Natural gas liquids will be processed at a facility in Harrison County. The complex will be able to store 870,000 barrels and have a fractionation capacity of 90,000 barrel per day. It also will have a "substantial rail-loading facility," the company said.
Chesapeake did not specify locations for the two facilities. While the company said the project will lead to new jobs in the area, it didn't report how many jobs might be created. Engineering has started on the project, and Chesapeake expects the first cryogenic processing and fractionation plants will be in service during the second quarter of 2013.
A Chesapeake subsidiary — Chesapeake Midstream Development — will partner with M3 Midstream LLC (called Momentum) and EV Energy Partners, a unit of EnerVest, on the project. Total E&P USA, Chesapeake's joint venture partner in the Utica development, has an option to participate in the project, which would reduce Chesapeake and EV Energy's holdings in the project.
Chesapeake Midstream will own 59 percent of the business, while Momentum's share is 33 percent and EV Energy's share is 8 percent. If Total E&P joins the project, Chesapeake's share will be 44 percent and EV Energy's share would be 6 percent.
Mike Stice, Chesapeake Midstream's president, said the partnership allows the company to "focus on building the extensive gathering and compression requirements of the system, while leveraging the expertise of Momentum to build and operate the processing and fractionation facilities."
The project "will provide an economic boost for companies and residents throughout Ohio as well as hundreds of high-quality, well-paying, new jobs for Ohioans," Stice said.
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Rosco Thinks Big by Thinking Small
Basically, too much of a good thing almost made the good thing go away. Then we saved it by making the good thing better.
More, inside.
A Little Backstory
Rosco has long had a sample program, wherein they give away packs of gels that are sized to do a serviceable job as small flash gels.
As long as you extend them a little (and don't mind the spindle hole) you can surf the whole rainbow for free if you can get your mitts on a pack or two. This program chugged along just fine, with the sample packs serving as a nice gateway drug for the full-sized, $7 20x24-inch sheets.
After all, how useful is a sample gel for a ProPhoto shooter? Not very.
But people were always quietly using the sample packs for small flashes, holes or no holes. You'd use the "good" gels and chuck the rest. A little wasteful, but what the hell -- they're free, right?
And that works fine, as long as some bonehead doesn't come along and send a gazillion people emailing in for free sample packs. Which is exactly what happened.
They went from losing an acceptable amount of money to losing way, way too much money on the free samples. Just because the gels were free to us does not mean they were free for Rosco. Ditto the multiple, full-time positions they had dedicated to cutting and assembling them. (Heck, I thought they had, like, a replicator or something ... )
So, about a year ago the sample program was put on the chopping block. Which was, of course, the worst possible outcome. So I got in touch with a man named Joel Svendsen at Rosco, and we put our heads together to come up with a solution.
The Strobist Collection
So, there it is. There are 55 gels in all -- multiple copies of the really useful ones, with no holes. (Only single copies are shown here, for illustration of color selection.) The kit is $9.95, suggested retail price. And while $9.95 is not as good as free, free was not going to keep happening.
There have been several parties -- individuals like Mason Trullinger and stores like MPEX -- buying big gels and cutting them into kits for resale. But the scale was not sufficient to offset the problem of the demand for increasingly expensive free samples.
With this kit (not free but still chump change on the photo gear scale) we go from nearly exploiting a situation to death to sustaining it. I think this is a fantastic solution by Rosco, as they were full ready to kill the sample program before we got them to think about it differently.
Because of the multiple copies of the most-used gels, one kit should last several times longer than a typical sample pack. And this is an honest transactional model which is sustainable for Rosco, for photo retailers and for small-flash photographers.
Plus, I'm gonna make an absolute killing in licensing fees.
Actually I am not getting any money from Rosco, because licensing fees paid by them at the OEM level would be roughly tripled by the time they were passed through a distributor and on to retail. Futher, Strobist has committed to advertising support for the project in the form of 3,000,000 free pageviews for a banner ad for the packs. I want to see them succeed and I hope you'll support them, too.
Which Colors, and Why
A lot of thought went into the color and frequency selection, and I think we did a good job with it.
Five each:
• Full-cut, half and quarter CTO's and CTB's. In addition to their primary use as light balancing gels, this provides a calibrated warm-up/cool-down capability. Additionally, they offset each other (in identical strengths) for cool/warm dual lighting. Where both lights hit, the light is neutral, but shadows from each light are warm or cool. (Neat building blocks for cool portraiture or conceptual product/still life. CTO's and CTB's are among the most useful gels in the Rosco library.
• Rosco 08 - The classic gel for skin on a key light. Once you shoot skin with a slight warming gel, you will never go back. I go back and forth between this and a 1/8 CTO, but I think the #08 is better. Leave your camera WB on daylight and warm the key light. Why warm the whole frame, ambient and all, by WB'ing to flash setting? Warm just the subject and leave those background skies blue.
• Tough Plusgreen - For balancing with cool fluorescents. In a pinch, this can be combined with varying degrees of CTO warming gels (see above) to balance with warmer fluorescents.
[NOTE: In this setup, your photos would be warm, overall. But the flash and FL's would be consistent, which is the important thing. You then shift it all to neutral in post. And besides, I have a an idea for an all-in solution for flash and *any* color of light source coming shortly. Stay tuned.]
Two each:
• N9, N6 and N15 neutral density (ND) filters -- These will make any manual flash more useful. In 1/2-, 2- and 3-stop strengths, you can turn a full-power-only eBay special flash into a useful unit. Also, flashes with full-stop manual setting (Vivitar 285, LumoPro LP120, etc.) get partial-stop fine tuning. Most important, you can now take any variable-manual flash way down below 1/128th power, for killing unneeded power for close-up work.
One each:
Sometimes you gotta add a little more cowbell to kick it up a notch. While I had a strong hand in choosing the above gels, the folks at Rosco took the lead on selecting nine different colors for adding strong effects when you need them. These guys know color and lighting, and I happily deferred to their expertise here.
UPDATE: Even tho the Rosco site lists them as 1"x3", they are actually 1.5"x3.25". This is straight from the horse's mouth. FWIW, Rosco mistakenly forwarded the dimensions of an old sample pack when doing the page. Please use the bigger measurement when checking to see if the gels will cover your particular model of strobe.
Available Now
Rosco already has a network of U.S. dealers stocking the gels, and you can see where to get them (and the colors they chose for the effects gels) here. In the UK/EU, The Flash Centre will be carrying them too. I'll post a link when they are up and running.
Thanks for helping to spread the word. And if your local dealer carries Rosco gels, feel free to suggest that they consider us small-flash shooters and get onboard.
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Ghana set to play China in friendly next month
The Ghana Football Association says it is considering a proposal to play China in an international friendly next month.
The Black Stars want to take advantage of the FIFA free date for international friendlies on August 15.
This is to help coach Kwesi Appiah to fine tune his preparations for September's 2013 Africa Cup of Nations final round qualifier against Malawi.
MTNFootball.com understands some new faces particularly in-form striker Abdul Majeed Waris who leads the Swedish League scorers chart will be invited.
Last month, coach Appiah toured Norway and Sweden where he held talks with potential national team players.
Stromsgodset left-back Razak Nuhu was spotted and could also earn a debut call-up for Ghana's next assignment.
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I spent all morning looking for the article on NAMBLA and it turned up on the 19th page of my SENT file. Even though I told Lydia Howell I was only getting my thoughts together for a possible future publication, I went ahead and published it on the Green Party of Minnesota discussion list. I thought I had put in either my Web page or blog but I was unable to locate it there.
I hope you get this article. As you can see in the addenda at the end, aol has placed a block on my email address so the I could not send email to aol addresses. They told me the block depends oon the number of complaints they receive so I guess a large number of complainants found my political views objectionable. I notice you have an aol address so I hope this doesn't keep this article from reaching you.
I'm sorry that I was unable to answer your question about whether the bounds of discussion allowed in our community had shrunk in the last thirty years. But the main thing I have noticed in the Minneapolis GLBTI communities is that there has been virtually no political discussion in its publications in recent years, not that the bounds of allowable discussion had shrunk. There may be an even broader range of siscussion on the Internet and facebook since it is harder to exclude unpopular groups from these media.
Robert Halfhill
On August 8, 2006, Lydia Howell posted David Thorstad's
article, "Marriage, Marketing, Tailending: The U.S. Left and Same Sex
Marriage," stating that "I adamantly oppose the aims of NAMBLA but, I
do think Thorstad raises some interesting critiques and points that
are food for thought."
I do not know what Lydia Howell thinks the aims of NAMBLA (North
American Man-Boy Love Association) are. However, NAMBLA only
supports CONSENSUAL sexual relations between people of any age, no
matter how old or how young and no matter how wide the difference in
age between the consensual partners is. NAMBLA does not support rape
and tales about NAMBLA owning a Lear Jet to fly children from any
area of the country to its members are not true.
D.J. West in his HOMOSEXUALITY pointed out that the sublime
discussions of love by Socrates in Plato's SYMPOSIUM were about
what "we would call perversion." For those Gays who condemn NAMBLA
and sex with people under whatever is the magic age of consent in the
particular jurisdiction in question, that is also precisely what
Socrates was expounding on in the SYMPOSIUM. Although not all Gays
are attracted to males under the arbitrary age of consent, those Gays
who dismiss sex with underage persons as criminal are saying that
Socrates, Plato, Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, and Walt Whitman
should have been put in jail!
Wainwright Churchill in HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR AMONG MALES pointed
out that Western Culture is one of the most erotophobic cultures
known. Conservatives view sex as evil. But even liberals and
radicals, although they claim they view sex as good, also conceive
sex as good but also dangerous, just as electricity is good but can
also kill you if your are not careful, and also view sex as good only
if it can be justified by marriage or love. Very few people believe
that sex can be enjoyed for its own sake. Recreational sex is good
in itself and needs no additional justification, although it is even
better if it is conjoined with love.
We need to ask ourselves why people get so upset over CONSENSUAL
sex between an adult and a child and assume that somehow the child
has been damaged. If the sex is consensual and enjoyed by both
partners, then, once we have got beyond the erotophobia of our
culture, is is obvious that no harm has been done but, in fact, only
good if both partners enjoyed the encounter. Research has shown that
no harm is done to the child if the people around him or her to not
get so upset. I remember reading in popular magazine articles
about child rearing in the 1950 that the child was unlikely to be
irrevocably damaged by a sexual encounter with an adult if the adults
around the child did not indicate that they now believed he or she
was irreparable damaged or, even worse, that they now thought he or
she was "bad."
I have thought that I should write something for the various Green
discussion lists about my views on this subject but, so far, the
occasion to do so has not come up. I am writing this to you off
list in order to organize my thoughts for a response to your post on
list. The nearest I have come to writing about this on list was to
forward a post about the hysteria and witch hunts around the country
about child adult sex to the Minnesota and 5th district Green
discussion lists. Even this provoked an email from Mark Snyder
asking why I had posted the article and adding, gratuitously, that
the posts must always be in the context of respect for others. I do
not know what his remark about respect for others had to do with
anything since my forwarding the post was not even in reply to anyone
else. I replied, saying that the hysteria and witch hunting over
child adult sex was likely to have a negative effect on GLBTI'S. He
replied, saying that I should post an explanation of the relevance of
my post but, in the press of other work, I never got around to it.
And this witch hunt about child adult sex has had a negative
effect on many people, not just GLBTI'S. The California scandal over
the Little Rascals day care center, operated by Peggy MacMartin-
Buckley, one of her children, and her grandson, Raymond Buckley,
continued for a decade and cost millions of dollars in legal expenses
before it was established that the state had no case and the case was
dismissed. By that time, Peggy MacMartin-Buckley and Raymond Buckley
has been in prison for years and Peggy MacMartin-Buckley had been
assaulted by other inmates who knocked out all her teeth. Peggy
MacMartin-Buckley tried to sue the state but the judge dismissed her
suit, saying that as long as state officials had acted in good faith,
they were immune from suit. That may be the way the law IS but it is
not the way it SHOULD BE. The law should provide that if a person
has been imprisoned for years unjustly, there should be a law
providing them with enough monetary compensation to make them wealthy
for the rest of their life.
But there are some additional comments Thorstad made in his attack
on the demand for same sex marriage and equal marital rights for Gays
and Lesbians that require a reply. He attacks the demand for same
sex marriage as an attempt by Gays and Lesbians to assimilate to
heterosexuals and achieve middle class respectability and says it
only became popular after the numbers of Gays and Lesbians who poured
out of the closet in response to Anita Bryant's Save Our Children
campaign made it safe for more conservative Gays and Lesbians to come
out. He claims that the recent decisions against same sex marriage
in five state courts "may have sounded the death knell for this issue
in the United States, even if it did not drive a stake through its
It no more "sounded the death knell" than the Hardwick
decision "sounded the death knell" for the fight against sodomy
laws. And no more than the Hawaii Supreme Court's deliberately
delaying its final decision until the voters had time to amend their
state constitution to allow marital discrimination against Gays and
Lesbians "sounded the death knell" for same sex marriage in the
1990's. It no more sounded "the death knell" than Plessey v.
Fergerson sounded "the death knell" for the fight against separate
but equal in the 1890's. And it cannot "sound the death knell" as
the United States becomes more and more unique among the advanced
industrial democracies in not guaranteeing the right of same sex
marriage with the nearest counter example being in Canada, right over
our northern border.
Thorstad also denounced hate crimes legislation as a manifestation
of identity politics and as "thought crimes legislation." Hate
crimes legislation is not thought crimes legislation. Intent
or "thoughts" have long been legitimate considerations in the law.
An example is intent being considered in distinguishing between
first, second and third degree murder and distinguishing those from
first and second degree manslaughter. Intent is necessary in
determining which of these five crimes have been committed and
therefore, the severity of the sentence imposed.
Furthermore, a hate crime against a member of a particular
minority group heightens fear among other members of that group than
a generic crime against a member of the general public can heighten
fear among members of the general population.
Also, hate crimes against a member of a minority increase the
probability of crimes, i.e. acts, against other members of that
group. Prosecutors are likely to assign a higher probability to
prosecuting crimes that have a higher sentence. And the successful
prosecution of a hate crime can undercut the general impression that
people have carte blanche to attack members of unpopular minorities
and therefore lower the probability of further crimes, I.E. ACTS,
against that unpopular minority.
Thorstad argues that "there is no such thing as'gay people' --
only homosexual acts -- that this was an abstract concept that erased
fluidity and ambiguity and discovery, that diverted attention from
decriminalizing consensual sexual acts that everyone had the
potential to engage in, regardless of their sexual identity, and that
turned freedom from sexual oppression into a question of mere
identity politics."
Thorstad is defending the position popular in much
contemporary "modern thought," that Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals,
Transgender and Intersexed People have no existence as objectively
existing groups and are mere "socially constructed" categories which
are not even present in most cultures.
It is true that the less GLBTI's are singled out and persecuted in
some societies, the less Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transgender
People and Intersexed People are less likely to think of themselves
distinct groups and if there were a society that lacked any such
singling out, Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals in that society might not
think of themselves as separate groups at all, that society's view
being only that some people liked only sex with the opposite sex,
other people liked only sex with their own sex, and that others liked
However, even in that hypothetical society, it would still be an
objective fact about people that they desired sex with the same,
opposite or both genders. And if that hypothetical society did not
consider it important whether a person identified as being the same
as or the opposite of their bodily gender, maybe Transgender Persons
would not think of themselves as separate groups but it would still
be an objective fact about them whether they identified as the same
or opposite of their bodily gender. And if that hypothetical society
did not consider it important whether people were born with ambiguous
and not distinct male or female genitalia, maybe Intersexed People
would not think of themselves as a distinct group either, the general
impression in that society being only that some people were born with
distinct male or female genitalia and that some were born with
ambiguous genitalia. However, it would still be an objective fact
about Intersexed People in that hypothetical society that their
genitalia were not definitely either male or female.
Jonathan Katz abandoned his earlier view in GAY AMERICAN HISTORY
that Gayness and Lesbianism were objective traits for the view that
Gays and Lesbians were "socially constructed" categories with no
objective existence in his later GAY AND LESBIAN ALMANAC. He went
from, for instance, the true statement that the early puritans
thought in terms of specific people who committed the specific crimes
of engaging in sex with members of their own gender, sex with
children, sex with animals, etc and not in terms of groups such as
homosexuals, pedophiles and pederasts, zoophiliacs, etc to the false
statement that the puritans apparently had an undifferentiated sexual
attraction to both sexes, adults and children, animals, etc. An
example that will make this clear is skin color. It means different
things in other societies and is categorized differently than it is
in contemporary
American society. It has even been categorized differently at
earlier times in American society. In the early twentieth century,
Finns were not considered white. I suppose if there were a society
that had gotten beyond racial prejudice, different skin colors might
not mean any more than different hair colors do today. But the
actual color of the skin remains the same, no matter how it is
categorized in different societies. An analogous error to the error
Katz made in the case of sexual orientation would be as if he said
with respect to our hypothetical society that had gotten beyond
racial prejudice that the people in that society apparently had skins
of an indeterminate color instead of skins that were white, black,
brown, yellow or red!
This modern attempt to consider Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals,
Transgender People and Intersexed People as mere "socially
constructed" categories instead of separate peoples with a proud
history erases our proud history and ties in with the wimpy tendency
of "modern," middle class, thought to avoid taking a definite
position on anything. It also ties in with the tendency that
decries of less proud and militant Gays and Lesbians to want to blend
in and assimilate with the heterosexual majority. After all, as so
many post Stonewall Gays and Lesbians are fond of saying, "I'm just a
human being."!!!! To paraphrase Jesse Jackson, we were born Gay or
Lesbian among the heterosexuals, not heterosexual in Gay or Lesbian!!!
Thorstad argues that identity politics and considering GLBTI's
to be actual real groups instead of socially constructed categories
relegates "gay liberation to a nearly weightless interest group."
However, 10% of the population can in no sense be considered "nearly
weightless." Thorstad says supporting equal rights for "gay
is "something any liberal capitalist could support," ignoring the
fact that capitalism has certainly dug in its heels against even
tolerating GLBTI'S, let along granting us equal rights. Thorstad
says identity politics has degenerated into the reductio ad absurdum
of an "alphabet soup" of acronyms, "GLBT, LGBT, GLBTQIA,
etc." I too
considered it absurd to go beyond GLBT until I realized that people
born with indeterminate genitalia are an objectively existing group
and conceded that ONE more group had to be added. However, I
it absurd to divide the groups into subgroups, such as Transgender
People into Tsub 1, Tsub2, etc. And Q for Questioning People is
unnecessary since all the questioning people will fit into one or the
other five categories. And I forget what A stands for. It seems as
if people have gotten caught up in a contest to prove how politically
correct they are by thinking up a new category to add.
However, Gays and Lesbians are separate communities in that many,
though not all, Gays and Lesbians have the majority of their social
network among others Gays or Lesbians. The old bromide "speak for
yourself" is irrelevant here since the statement is based on my
observation of other Gays and Lesbians. And Bisexuals are subject to
bigotry from both the heterosexual and Gay and Lesbian communities,
so they will qualify as a separate group also. And whether people
identify as the same gender as their bodily gender or whether they
were botn with indeterminate genitalia are objectively true facts
about them so Transgender and Intersexed People will also qualify as
separate groups. The majority heterosexual society until recently
thought of us as all one group and lumped us all together so we
tended to
think of ourselves as one group also. But we are not one community
but a coalition of five separate communities, each with its own
distinctive set of overlapping, through similar, oppressions and each
with a distinct need for our own separate organizations as well as a
need to act in coalition with one another.
Thorstad argues that " in all the ink spilled over gay marriage,
other forms of marriage are not even countenanced, such as polygamy
or between men and boys, as in the Siwa Oasis." He says "The State
should get out of the marriage business. Society should extend
recognition to all kinds of civil union arrangements between
consenting individuals, whether man and woman, , man and man, woman
and woman, man and boy, grandparent and grandchild, communal
arrangements, and so on. Marriage should be relegated to the purely
private and religious domain. Every citizen should be treated
equally before the state and be guaranteed the same rights and
privileges, without regard to conjugal or marital status. Separate
church and state!"
Thorstad dismisses the demand for Gay marriage as part of " the
gay assimilationist agenda" -- incidentally, Thorstad's consistent
refusal to capitalize Gay demonstrates the extent to which HE has
been sucked into the Gay assimilationist agenda -- and states
that "Oddly, left groups that uncritically support gay marriage are
silent about the way marriage is treated in Cuba." He quotes Vilma
Espin, birth name Mariela Castro, Raul Castro's daughter and Fidel
Castro's niece, who when asked if Cuban Gays are going to demand a
right to marriage, "pointed to Cuba's casual approach to marriage and
its no-fault divorce." "Marriage is not as important in Cuba as in
other more Catholic countries," she said. "Here consensual pairing
is more important. What matters is love." Thorstad concluded: "So
far, Cuban Gays have not demanded marriage. If they use their head,
they won't."
First, the fact that I want to affirm any relationship I succeed
establishing in a ceremony before the community does not mean I want
to ape straights or assimilate to them.
Second is is disingenious and avoiding the issue for Vilma Espin
to assert that marriage is not as important in Cuba as in other
Catholic countries as long as Cuba still legally recognizes opposite
sex but not same sex marriage.
And third, while Thorstad is right in arguing that the concept of
marriage should be expanded to include man-boy relationships (as well
as women-girl relationships -- Linda Frankel was one of the few woman
members of NAMBLA), one husband and multiple wives and one wife and
multiple husbands, and group marriage or polyamory, and that the
concept of civil marriage or consensual contracts should be firmly
delineated from the concept of religious marriage which will be the
sole business of the particular religions involved, it is
unnecessary to replace the words "civil marriage" with "civil
contracts" once all that has been achieved. Civil marriage has
always had the meaning of a variety of marriage. My parents were
married in a civil ceremony before a Justice of the Peace in 1939 and
they, I and everybody else always considered them as MARRIED in the
usual sense, even if it was performed by a Justice of the Peace
instead of a minister, priest or rabbi. So a terminological change
is definitely not needed. But if that change is made, I want Gays
and Lesbians to win the right to civil marriage in the generally
accepted sense BEFORE we start calling it something else. Otherwise
it will look like the heterosexual majority has gotten away with
saying: "We don't want to admit Gays and Lesbians to MARRIAGE, which
only a man and a woman are good enough for. So we will abolish
marriage so we will only have to give them the inferior substitute of
consensual pairings and civil contracts. The only way we can stop
marriage from being sullied by Gays and Lesbians is to abolish it for
This seems to me very similar to the tactic of some public schools
in Utah which decided that if recognizing other student extra
cirricular clubs meant that they would be legally required to
recognize Gay Straight Alliances, then they just wouldn't recognize
ANY student extra cirricular clubs.
Finally, Thorstad concludes: "In the 1970's, much of the
left seemed to discover that the proletariat was unlikely to play the
historic and revolutionary role assigned to it by orthodox Marxism.
Leftists began to look around for 'new mass vanguards' and 'new
social movements' such as students, women, gays, third world
peoples. None of the groups have proven viable alternatives to the
proletariat that, in the West at least, shows no sign of acquiring a
revolutionary consciousness, or even of acting in its own self-
interest. And none have proven more easily coopted by the capitalist
system than homosexuals. This is the meaning of the marriage
However, the remark about "homosexuals" being the most easily
coopted is probably just a case of Thorstad assuming that the grass
is always greener on the other side of the fence. And it wasn't just
the left looking for new vanguard
groups. The growth and expanding influence of the GLBTI, the
Women's, etc movements forced the left to recognize them. All of
these groups will once more play a revolutionary role when the
political climate shifts back to the left.
And I hope that Thorstad still recognizes that as capitalism goes
deeper into crisis, it will be forced to attack the gains of the
workers, which will force the proletariat to act in its own self
interest, acquire a revolutionary consciousness and act once more in
a revolutionary manner.
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Popular gospel singer, Princess Anne Inyang, speaks with Jayne Augoye her journey in music
Unassuming and humble are some of the words that best describe popular gospel singer, Princess Anne Inyang, whose hit track, Aka'anam nkwe , has become a church anthem of a sort.
Despite being largely unknown as the brain behind popular Christian songs Things are Getting Better, You are Worthy Lord, God Cannot Lie His Word Must Surely Come to Pass and Winner, the soft-spoken singer would rather have her work speak for her.
At a time critics believe a major issue confronting the gospel music genre in Nigeria is the poor quality of its videos, Inyang, who currently controls the 13-man Saints Music Band, thinks otherwise.
Decrying what she calls apathy towards gospel music artistes by Nigerian media owners, the Yaba College of Technology, Banking and Finance graduate says, "Our greatest problem is airtime. In fact it is killing our career. Media owners do not accord us airplay but they play secular music from Monday to Sunday and then tell you that gospel music is 'religious'.
"I have lived in South Africa where gospel music is played much more than secular music. In fact, they play it every day. Music is music. It is a calling, talent and gift irrespective of the direction you want to shift to. There are people who love gospel music. Let them have their choice instead of pushing it away from people. If you don't play those songs how will people hear them? It is a pain in this country, because I travel overseas and my songs receive generous airplay."
The singer's music talent was spotted by the late highlife legend, Bobby Benson, who offered her an opportunity to sing in his club alongside her female band members, known as G-4. After having been out of marriage for years, she also recently found love a second time in the arms of Hon. Justice Chudi Nwokorie. The couple tied the knot in a lavish ceremony held in April, in the bride's hometown in Akwa-Ibom State and Lagos.
Paying glowing tributes to her husband, she says, "I enjoyed being a single woman because I had my time to myself. But I thank God I have someone who understands me, allows me to be myself and keep my maiden name. He is very caring and persistent. It took me a long time to finally say yes but he was convinced about me. One thing about gospel music is that once you are married your career will die down, especially if you marry a pastor and I was afraid of that.
"This was not unconnected to the fact that I have a passion for music which began at an early stage. My husband had invited my band to perform at his father's burial and when he was appointed a judge. But we never had any romantic dealings. I just noticed that he had developed some romantic feelings for me last year. Although he is in a reserved profession and I am in a loud one, we complement each other."
For the artiste who left a thriving banking career in 1998 to do music full time, it hasn't been smooth sailing all the while. Indeed, just like most of her colleagues, the activities of marketers have been a pain in her neck. With a new music video from her album titled Yanfu Yanfu currently in the works, she laments her plight saying, "I have a serious challenge in the marketing and promotion of my albums, which has cost me a lot of money. Most of the vehicles and costumes they use in shooting their videos are borrowed. I thank Yoruba people for patronising Yoruba artistes. Some churches see gospel songs as a free gift. Yes, the gift is free but the wherewithal to nurture the gift is expensive. It costs me a lot of money to produce my albums and shoot my songs' videos. I don't know why some telecommunication companies don't like sponsoring gospel albums.
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We'll be giving these solutions, which will also be applicable to future crises as well as the current one, for two reasons. First, to provide a better understanding of the problems we face and, second, to point out the steps necessary if we are to solve those problems. Generally speaking, we are going to try to keep these entries short and readable. To that end, we will also be building a recommended reading list for those interested in additional details.
It may sound obvious, but recognizing a problem, while being unable to identify the right solution, can lead to ever greater problems. Almost daily during this economic crisis, the talking heads in the media list and endlessly analyze the details of the current problems afflicting our economy. They then try to provide solutions, but more often than not, these solutions only sound good. If implemented, they would be disastrous.
Recently, for instance, we have even seen a pundit on a major television network discussing the 2008 panic and advocating as a solution "a little socialism now to prevent a lot of socialism later." Those were his exact words. This particular commentator was more candid than most. The words used most often by the media in their "solutions" are "more regulation," "better management," and/or "more controls" by government.
All of these amount to "a little socialism." But, "a little socialism" has a definition that most do not want to hear: fascism.
Whether it is fascism or full-blown socialism, the stated objective is to control the economy. But, the basic problem is that an economy can not be managed or controlled. Call it whatever you will, but what government intervention in the economy ends up controlling is the people themselves.
When speaking of the word "economy" in the sense of a system, what is really being discussed is the sum of all the individual economic actions taken by people. When the government attempts to control the economy, for whatever reason, what necessarily ends up being controlled is not the abstract concept that we call the economy, but the real actions of the honest, hardworking people whose economic decisions taken in sum comprise that larger abstract whole.
In short, a controlled economy is in fact a dictatorship in that it is control over what people do by the government. Even if it is controlled by a few outside of the government, it still constitutes an oligarchy. On a lesser scale, only involving a service or product, it would be called a monopoly.
Therefore, when anyone advocates controlling the economy he is in fact advocating the building of an oligarchy over the people by a system of economic controls. Money does not move by itself. Property does not change hands by itself. Manufacturing does not happen without people doing the work: from inventor, to manager, to worker, to the salesman selling the product.
The same holds true for the stock market or banking.
As a result, any government that seeks to control the economy, must increasingly control all of the people that make up that economy. That, however, is impossible. Even the most thoroughgoing despotism lacks the analytical and theoretical tools necessary to control the economic lives of all the people who make up the larger economy of a nation. The tighter a government attempts to control economic behaviors, the more economic dislocations grow in size and severity. This is particularly true in large, populous nations, which by their size and scope are more difficult to control economically than small nations.
But, the inability to achieve widespread positive economic outcomes through government intervention and control is by no means a limiting factor to those who are behind the drive for control. While no government can manage the economy to derive a broad, general benefit for the nation as a whole, the economy can be controlled for the benefit of an elite few.
There are a number of dynamics which occur that are detrimental to both the people and the wealth of a nation under a controlled economic environment. The following are by no means all of these dynamics:
- The more controls on an economy, the poorer the economy becomes. We need no better example than the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR. The Soviets had the most sophisticated planning agency ever devised, and quite publicly and solemnly pronounced their intention to carry out each "five year plan" for economic improvement of the nation. The planning bureaucracy, though, was never able to plan its way into economic growth and stability and the Soviet economy collapsed after a long period (marked by extreme shortages and acute suffering) of stagnation and decline.
- A controlling factor cannot see into the future relative to progress on a wide scale. It can sometimes see disaster coming, however, when figures and statistics show a serious problem that will affect the economy. Since it cannot see into the future, particularly relative to progress, then decisions are flawed – even without realizing they are flawed. A good example is the pay telephone. Just at the leading edge of the cell phone coming into use, there were a number of Americans who invested heavily in pay telephones. Since they could not see the coming change in technology, they lost a lot of money. If this would have happened on the part of government, the pay phones would still be used and the cell phones discouraged for a variety of reasons. Not the least of them would be that government will always hamper innovation due to either heavy investment in the old, or simply because government cannot do anything without appointing a committee to study it. The slightest unforeseen variable can have a ripple effect on the economy.
- For an economy to be controlled, it must of necessity be centralized control. There are problems with this on two levels besides that described in point two above. First, the results of decisions made by a centralized control affect all of the people; whereas, in a free society, mistakes usually only affect a few. Second, when mistakes are made in regulation, reversal of any decision takes time. Again, it is the committee concept and when you throw in the unwillingness of government authority to admit mistakes, the problems are compounded. In the case of an omnipotent state, they cannot admit mistakes since that will cause the people to question their wisdom, then their authority. The more powerful a government, the more that government fears a restless citizenry and the less likely it is to ever admit a mistake, or take remedial action.
- Those who control the economy tend to become more equal than others. An elite grows. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. Even in a communist state. In this case, the elite become the Party leaders. In a controlled society, those who would normally be the entrepreneurs in a free society realize that the only way to get ahead is to join the Party. In a semi-controlled environment, too many people realize the way to their heart's desire is by going along to get along rather than rocking the boat. In a free economy, the enterprising individual uses his head to invent, innovate, and becoming an entrepreneur to achieve his desires. In the process, he provides better ways and means, better products, and jobs for his fellow citizens.
- Due to point four above, a controlled economy ultimately shrinks. It cannot grow in the sense of providing growth for the population all across the board. Within the framework of freedom combined with growing controls, the rate of growth will be proportionate to the amount of control. Then, at some point, zero growth, and then a shrinking economy. Government or the controlling factor will never relinquish its grip. That iron grip of control will only continually tighten unless there is a large backlash by the people forcing the planners and controllers to relinquish their grasp.
The economic example we use of the USSR was always a façade. What the West saw was what the USSR wanted us to see. They were always a "basket case." Too much of what we did see was furnished by the West. There have been several books written outlining the fact that Russia did not have an economy as we understand it, did not have the ability to invent, could not even produce a sound product without the help of key people in western governments and industry ― from Berlin to Washington. Some of the best series of books on the subject are by Anthony Sutton authored while he was at the Hoover Institute on War- Peace Studies at Stanford University.
From experience we know that it was hard for people to believe that the USSR was always on the verge of collapse. One of the reasons tourists and other visitors to Russia were not allowed to venture out on their own while in Russia without a government "guide," and were prevented from simply traveling in the countryside, was that had they done so they would have seen the abject poverty outside the major cities and industrial areas. It was particularly hard on the elderly. Early retirement in Russia has always meant dying earlier than one's normal life expectancy.
Whatever they call it, socialism, regulation, management, or controls, the bottom line is detrimental to the people and the economy. And it is always sold as a benefit for the people. Every new control over the people regardless of the real situation with the economy or security or any other so-called crisis is always sold as a solution benefiting the people. And power in the hands of the few grows as a result.
The bottom line: The solutions we will be posting will be based on liberty; the freedom of people to control their own lives, their own destinies; and as always, based on the Constitution of the United States.
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