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Mobile provider 3 says its mobile Wi-Fi broadband dongle – dubbed the 'MiFi' – can connect multiple devices to the mobile internet over the airwaves, essentially giving you your own portable Wi-Fi hotspot. Like other mobile broadband services you can use MiFi on the go - plus unlike normal dongles you can use the MiFi to connect iPhones and iPod Touches to the internet too.
UPDATE: July 2010 - 3 has launched an updated version of the MiFi - the Huawei E585 - which features an improved OLED display and simpler setup and connection. The new MiFi costs £49.99 as a PAYG option or £39.99 + £15 per month for 5GB monthly data allowance. The review below refers to the original MiFi dongle.
3's MiFi dongle is a neat, sleek-looking little gadget that's about the size of a compact mobile phone. Which? tried it out to see whether its claims of connecting multiple laptops and other devices to the mobile internet via a 3G wi-fi connection hold up.
The MiFi dongle costs £99.99 with 3GB credit pre-loaded or £69.99 with a capped, £15 a month contract. It includes set-up instructions, a charger and a cable to connect it to your laptop, which is useful if the MiFi battery dies. Even with no charge, the MiFi will work with full functionality when plugged into a laptop so you can use it and charge its battery at the same time.
As we explain in the Which? mobile broadband guide, mobile broadband of any kind really comes into its own when you use it with portable devices such as laptops, as you can access the internet on the go. If your laptop is on its last legs, check out the range of Which? Best Buy laptops from less than £500.
We put 3's MiFi dongle through its paces, testing the first wireless mobile broadband dongle on the market for ease of set-up, mobile broadband speed, wireless range and how well it performed with multiple devices including a Dell laptop, an Apple Macbook and an Apple iPhone 3GS.
Ease of setting up the MiFi dongle
The 3 MiFi we tested came preloaded with credit, so we didn't have to worry about buying a pay as you go (PAYG) voucher, and the step-by-step set-up instructions were mostly clear and helpful. Turning the MiFi dongle on and connecting it to 3's mobile broadband network proved simple if a bit fiddly, using small buttons on the side of the dongle.
Icons on the MiFi light up to show the battery power, signal strength and type of connection (standard 3G or the faster HSDPA). It wasn't completely plain sailing for our tester – 3's mobile broadband signal proved strangely variable within the confines of a medium sized room, so we had to move the MiFi dongle around a bit to get a decent signal.
Confusingly, the icon lights kept going out a few seconds after we'd turned the MiFi dongle on, even when there was a good signal. There was nothing in the instructions about this, so to start with we thought the MiFi dongle was broken. But when we checked available wireless networks on our laptop, 3's network was showing, so perhaps the lights go out to maximise battery life. It would have been handy if the instructions had explained this.
We selected the 3 wireless network, typed in the network key provided (leave out any spaces) and, despite some teething problems, managed to get a Dell laptop wirelessly connected to the 3 MiFi mobile broadband network in about 10 minutes
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3 MiFi mobile broadband speed
Using the ThinkBroadband online speed test, we tested the speed of our MiFi internet connection six times between 6.30pm and 11pm on a Sunday. We recorded average download speeds of 0.4Mbps – no improvement since we first compared 3 with mobile broadband services from O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Virgin and Vodafone in late 2008. You can read more in the Which? mobile broadband review – if you want the best mobile broadband service, don't choose your new deal without reading it.
Overall, 3 MiFi download speeds varied between 0.1Mbps and 0.7Mbps, while upload speeds were much slower, often struggling to reach 0.1Mbps.
We found browsing the internet from page to page acceptable, if a little slow, and we were able to watch the Which? video of the new Honda Accord first drive without a problem.
But downloading piece of security software tested in the Which? review of security software - a must-have for all internet users - took more than 10 minutes for a relatively small (58MB) file. A BBC iPlayer show, which could be hundreds of MB, would take quite some time to download at this speed.
3 MiFi wireless range
When we checked how far away from the MiFi dongle you could take a laptop and stay connected, the signal didn't give out until we were between 25m and 30m away. So unless you've got a huge house, you should be fine to leave your MiFi in one place and use your laptop or iPod Touch in another. A single internal wall didn't block the signal either, though this was with a smaller range of 10m.
Connecting multiple laptops, iPhones and iPod Touches
While other mobile broadband dongles must be plugged directly into a USB port, which means you can only connect to a single PC or laptop, the MiFi dongle is wireless, acting as a portable , so doesn't need a direct connection to a computer.
This means you should be able to connect several devices – including laptops, iPhones and iPod Touches - to 3's mobile broadband connection at the same time. This is handy if you have several laptop owners in your household, or if you want to browse the net on your laptop while downloading apps on your iPod Touch.
We easily added an Apple iPhone 3GS and Apple Macbook to the connection alongside the Dell laptop. Surfing speed didn't slow noticeably with three devices connected, though downloading software on both laptops simultaneously took longer than with only one laptop connected.
3 MiFi pros and cons
This review represents a single user's brief First Look at 3's MiFi and is not a full lab test.
Pros: Connect multiple devices at once - including iPod Touches, easy set-up, decent wireless range, wi-fi broadband access on the go
Cons: Slow broadband speed, limited battery life
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There is a blog written by someone with a very impressive resume published Sunday which had a dire prediction for municipal bonds. Normally, I would not mention this as most people would not see it, but it is being repurposed in the New York Times and Yahoo Finance, so it is "out there'. I have earlier warned people there were more dangers in municipal bonds than people realize, in fact in bonds in general, muni or not because of interest rate risk. I still believe interest rate risk a far greater risk for all classes of bonds than default risk.
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While I think there are certain issuers and certain types of muni bonds that carry more risk than is being priced into market, I do not believe as this article suggests that there is a systemic risk of muni bond defaults – however if we get a couple, we might get some panic selling, but nothing like we saw in the stock market. Even on states that I think people should avoid like California and New York, there is a yield where I would invest and take the default risk -but we are not close to those today. I just think it is crazy to take credit risk to get another 100 or 200 basis points in yield, but 1500 points, that is another story.
The NY Times article mentioned the derivatives blow up in Jefferson County, Alabama as an example of the risks alluded to in this blog. If you are not familiar with it, don't worry, Jefferson County was an extreme outlier and is not typical of the way most municipalities act. Orange County, California which is a much more important county blew up on derivatives in 1994 and filed for bankruptcy and it did not trigger a wave of other defaults across the country and in the end all municipal bond holders were made whole. For those of you interested in the Jefferson County situation or want a good read on how Wall Street banks corrupted and financially devastated a local government, there is a new article out in Rolling Stone magazine that is fascinating and here is the link:
The Jefferson County situation is littered with corruption that is so extensive it is shocking and unique even as corruption in municipal finance goes. While "pay to play" is not new, Jefferson County takes the concept to a depth I have never seen before. I would not as the Rolling Stone article suggests assume that other municipalities that entered into swap agreements are in any danger. In fact, in the case of Los Angeles, not only has Los Angeles made money on the deal, if it wanted to terminate them, it could well afford to do. Both these articles suggest there is something implicitly evil about interest rate swaps – there is not and they are responsible financial tools that actually mitigate risk if used appropriately. So the extrapolation that all these municipalities are in danger because they used derivatives particularly swap agreements is fallacious. A swap agreement in its simplest terms is simply agreeing to pay a fixed interest rate while receiving a variable one or vice versa.
By the way, as of today even Jefferson County has not defaulted on their debt though they might. They have done what I expect many municipalities to do before default, cut services and raise fees and taxes, but pay their debts. That is why I don't expect a wave of municipal defaults. But I expect to see very difficult decisions and maybe political impasses that might lead to some "temporary defaults" – because states like California and New York have no good solutions and it is possible they might need to use a default as the political cover for the budget cuts they need to make.
Every year there a handful of municipal defaults but they are almost never cities or counties, but special purpose entities. If you own your munis through a fund you should be diversified enough not to feel it. If you buy your own bonds directly from a broker you need to be aware of what you are buying. Most people buy bonds off ratings and yields and don't look beyond that. If you are buying your own bonds, there should be certain classification of bonds that you should avoid regardless of the ratings and regardless of whether they are "insured" as the meltdown exposed the muni bond insurers as financial basket cases themselves. Two of the biggest municipal bond insurers are Ambac and MBIA, their stocks peaked at around $90 and $73 in 2007 and 2006 respectively, today's those stocks are worth 55 cents and $6.78 today – municipal bond insurance is worthless. Even before they got themselves involved in insuring non-municipal debt which caused the recent problems, the reality is the amount of municipal insurance in force they had relative to their asset size meant they could never payoff a wave of municipal defaults should they occur.
The riskiest of muni securities are those that are not backed by the "full faith and credit" of a state, county or city or what are known as General Obligation Bonds. The other major type of bonds are called revenue bonds, though they may be issued under the auspices of a state or city, they are backed only by the project revenues of what the money was used to finance. Such is the case of the Las Vegas Monorail Bonds – which though technically issued through a Nevada state agency is only backed the revenues generated from the fare box and Nevada has no responsibility for it. When the fares proved to be inadequate to support the debt used to build the monorail, it filed for bankruptcy. I should point out that one of the bonds issued for the monorail was guaranteed by AMBAC which has already said it won't be able to pay the interest on the bonds when the monorail misses its next payment as expected because Wisconsin which is their insurace regulator is prohibiting it for now because of AMBAC's large financial problems.
Some revenue bonds though are very high quality as they backed by an essential service that has the capacity to raise rates if necessary – the municipal electric utilities in Los Angeles and Sacramento are two such examples, in the short run they are better quality than even a California GO and that is reflected in their ratings. Of course if California completely goes off the rails and people leave the state, there goes the rate base.
One of the riskiest forms of revenue bonds are certificate of participation which are backed only by a lease agreement from a municipality. If the municipality decides it does not need the facility anymore and stops the lease payments, those bonds will not be paid. These types of bonds should be avoided by individual investors. Two other classes of municipal bonds with a higher degree of problems than average are housing revenue bonds and bonds to finance health care facilities like hospitals and individual investors should avoid these also. Even though most of these types of bonds perform, individual investors without the appropriate background (almost all of you) – can't tell the difference between the good ones and the bad ones, so just avoid them.
While the Bookstaber article is correct that municipal accounting is opaque and it is more opaque than SEC registrants such as corporations, this has been the case since 1933. That does not make it good, it just means it is nothing new and in fact financial disclosure by municipalities and states is far better today than when I studied this subject in graduate school. In 2004, the Government Accounting Standard Board (GASB) required governments to disclose and value their long term retiree health and life insurance benefits and in 2007 the made the same requirement for public employee pensions. Now corporations have had to do this for a much longer time, but municipalities are catching up on disclosure. However, the use of fund accounting by governments and that municipal bond issuers are exempt from SEC registration requirements will always mean that municipal finances will always be more opaque than corporate issuers and there will be less information easily available on the Internet for muni bond issues than most corporate ones.
Lastly, I take exception to Bookstaber's analogy to the housing credit crisis where national diversification didn't shield people from losses. Number one that is true because your loss on mortgage bonds was more predicated in what tranche you were in (first to get paid, second to get paid etc) than in what state the mortgages were issued. Secondly, mortgage funding was completely unregulated – in contrast municipal bond issuance is governed extensively be state constitutions and statutes, that alone means there is significant differences between bonds issues by one municipality and another as each state have different limits on much debt can be issued. You also need to be aware that some states like New York have been very aggressive in issuing "moral obligation bonds" when they hit debt limits in their State Constitution. Moral Obligation bonds are not legally enforceable, it is essentially the state saying "wink, wink", trust us we will pay you but legally we cannot actually pledge that.
I would also be more concerned now about school district debt, which is usually only backed by property taxes and with the housing crisis etc… – Kansas City and Detroit are two school districts with deep financial problems.


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A 62-yearold man was arrested Tuesday on an array of charges after he was allegedly found drunk and unresponsive on a Wildwood railroad track – holding up a train from moving on.
David Lee Nolden, of Wildwood, was charged with interference with a railroad track, trespassing on federal property and disorderly intoxication.
He was placed in the Sumter County jail in lieu of $5,150 bail.
According to an arrest affidavit, Wildwood police officers responded behind 201 S. Main Street just before 7 p.m. Tuesday where a man, later identified as Nolden, was lying between sets of CSX railroad tracks – and a train stopped. It's not clear how long Nolden had been there, how long the train had been stopped or if train official had blown their horn or made other attempts to get him off the track.
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Set aside those fancy algebra and calculus books, it's time for some "TomKat" math! What do you get when you subtract one wacky Scientologist from one of our favorite 90′s pop culture icons? A public spectacle of divorce drama, thousands of dollars a month in alimony (exactly, $21,000 to Ms.Holmes) and one child caught in the crossfires, 6-year-old Suri Cruise.
So what's the newly-single superstar to do in times of desperation like this? I guess we can cross Dawson's Creek off the list. Tom Cruise decided to take a lavished vacation to a Croatian island of Hvar. Instead of throwing a pity party for himself, he toasted to his new found freedom amongst crowds of fans and dining with a new woman.
Last time Tom was seen in Croatia, he was in the throws of a previous emotional entanglement with Penelope Cruz. He may be privy to this vacation spot due to the fact it's home to The Church of Scientology. As this is a personal mecca for Cruise's Scientology beliefs, he may be better off trying to figure out the science of making a successful relationship.


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MonoDevelop creates those for every project. Should I include them in source control?
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So it sounds like it's really just an optimization. I would personally not include it in source control unless you find it makes a big difference to performance: my guess is it will only really stay valid if only one person is working on the project at a time. (If it's big and changes regularly, you could find it adds significant overhead to the repository too. I haven't checked to see what the size is actually like, but it's worth checking.)
They're just cached code completion data. As the post Jon linked explains, the main reason is to save memory, though they do also save you from waiting for MD to parse all the source files and referenced assemblies when you open a project.
The pidb files can be regenerated pretty quickly, so there's no advantage to keeping them in the VCS. Indeed, as well as the VCS repository overhead, it could also cause problem if people are using different versions of MD with different pidb formats, so I'd strongly recommend against keeping them in source control.


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Cincinnatians on Tuesday voted for a new collection of City Councilpersons, and today locals woke up to good news and bad news. (You want the good first, right?) The city elected a majority of Democrats, an African-American majority and its first-ever openly gay candidate. The bad? Most of the names on East Side yard signs lost, meaning Republicans wasted a lot of money they could have used to pay higher property taxes for the stadium deal they approved. Four members of the conservative majority that spent most of last year either blocking the mayor's initiatives or Twittering — Chris Bortz, Leslie Ghiz, Amy Murray and Wayne Lippert — were ousted, paving the way for Mayor Mallory and the seven Democrats on council to do things they want to do as long as Chris Smitherman doesn't fulfill his goal of representing every political party every created (the Whigs get in the way of everything).
It wasn't very long ago that University of Cincinnati students started a mostly justified riot in Clifton Heights — it was Cinco de Mayo and a frat boy locked his keys inside his car while it was running ("Smash it! Fuck the police!"). Penn State University students today took to the streets in defense of something even more ridiculous: their school's football coach getting fired. The firing of legendary coach Joe Paterno came just weeks after he earned his record-breaking 409th win and nine years after his assistant coach was allegedly seen raping a boy in a locker-room shower. Demonstrators tore down two lampposts and overturned a news van, which an 18-year-old student described as "the best moment of my life — [expletive] Ohio State!"
If you were to listen to the pro-SB 5 commercials during election season (provided you could figure out which ones were real and which were just content stolen from anti-SB 5 groups), it would have been normal to feel concern for the budgetary fallout of the law being overturned.
The Enquirer today checked in with several local governments to see how they feel now that their union employees can continue collectively bargaining like they have for 80 years, and the general consensus was, "No big deal, really." What they are actually concerned about is the potential loss of revenue if state Republicans pass other pro-rich-people plans — repealing the estate tax and reducing the state-provided Local Government Fund — without finding a new collection of scapegoats to underpay.
It's never fun to go in front of a judge — you have to find all your nice clothes and then try really hard not to say "sir" when you mean "ma'am" or vice versa (it's hard when you're nervous!). At least one local judge is going to make the process quite a bit easier for Occupy Cincinnati protesters defending their right to be in a public park after bedtime, as he says there's nothing in the city charter that makes breaking park rules a misdemeanor offense. City Solicitor John Curp disagreed, noting that the Park Board has been citing people for unseemly things in local parks since back when Jerry Springer was around.
It's one thing to generalize people angry enough about corporate greed and influence over government to live inside tents for weeks — it can be difficult to shower under the circumstances and some admittedly enjoy playing hippie drums. But you have to admit that something's up with the distribution of wealth and power in America when 60 Minutes finds it quite easy to point out Congressional abuses of power such as insider trading. An investigation that aired today discovered a process where Congressional leaders receive non-public information one day and then make smart investments the next, with such names as John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi and Dennis Hastert having "scored financial windfalls under questionable circumstances" and "wore fur coats and golfed more than the people who The Great Gatsby was trying to be like."
If recent TV shows about rich, powerful American men are any indication, most during the course of history have been huge bastards who treat women like crap and think swimming in the ocean is the ultimate expression of freedom (Hey Don Draper, ever hearda yoga?!?). Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain today pulled a classic move, telling reporters in response to numerous accusations of sexual harassment: "Ask my wife, she'll tell ya I'm nice!" Gloria Cain today backed Herman up, explaining in a to-be-aired-on-TV interview that he "totally respects women," that he'd have to have a split personality to do those things and that the only time he ever demonstrated such a tendency was when someone tried to change the name of the Whopper and he started wearing an Incredible Hulk mask to work until they let it go.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
today defended his removal of Occupy Wall Street protesters while
describing his city as a place open to freedom of expression for business-friendly periods of time in non-annoying areas.
Protesters received a temporary restraining order barring the city from
evicting the protesters or their belongings, though Bloomberg believes
the law allowing Zuccotti park to be open for enjoyment 24/7 has not
been complied with because protestors have admitted to being very angry
and the park is for fun.
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Trust us, it's definitely worth the $7 BART ride to step inside the revamped Fox Theater in Oakland. The multi-million-dollar facelift of the gorgeous 1920s Deco movie house is finally complete. After decades of decay and slumber, the historic theater officially threw open its doors earlier this year, marking the end of a massive restoration project. Home to the Oakland School for the Arts by day, the Fox promises to be one of the Bay Area's best music venues by night. And thanks to inking a deal with booking giants Another Planet Entertainment, the gilded palace is set to bolt out of the gate with a starting spring lineup so good you'll wish they made a season pass. Mark your calendars:


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Dear Mr Green
Further to your recent email request to Mr Thomas to be sent a copy of the minutes of the last Council meeting, I write to advise that the draft minutes will be considered by Council at their next meeting on 13th January 2011. At that meeting only councillors can consider their accuracy and agree whether to confirm them as a correct record. A copy of these draft minutes will be appended to the Council agenda for the 13th January and these documents will be made available for public viewing on the Council's website by tomorrow lunchtime.
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Patients suffering from chronic pain are to be offered free exercise on prescription at their local gyms as part of a major new clinical trial aimed at developing more effective ways of reducing their painful symptoms.
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Before recruitment can start the team will survey 40,000 patients from GP practices in Macclesfield and Aberdeen to identify people with the condition, who will then be assessed for eligibility.
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Apartment EP2 has a bedroom with a king size double bed (can be set up as two singles), a spacious living room and fully equipped marble kitchen. The living room can sleep two more people (one on a made for sleeping single sofa and one on a fold out single bed). There is also a large marble bathroom.
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We were 10 and we took 4 appartments : ep1 ep2 ep3 ep4 (we can be really independant in each appartment). So we were 4 in an appartment (because every appartment has a double bed in the living room). And we can eat all together on the rooftoop, a perfect place, not too hot. Appartments were clean and very pleasant.
The location is perfect : very close to the subway, near every attractions, city center, restaurants... During 4 days we can do everything by foot with my family. What else... We have air conditionning, it was safe, and cleaning is include in the price. Go in this house, we will be happy. Thank a lot Lia.
We arrived in the afternoon and were picked up at the airport by the taxidriver arranged by the appartment-company. The appartments are in really good condition. The spaces and bathrooms are nice, the kitchen is well equiped. After a short tour through the apartment our host Costas invited us on a twenty minute walk through the neighbourhood. This was really nice and gave us a good feel of the place. The neighbourhood looks quite grim with a lot of graffiti (or street art as some may call it) and a homeless person sleeping at the end of the street, but it is in fact a friendly village within the city. Located nearby the big fish/meat and vegetable markets and an excellent bakery you'll have ample opportunity to have a nice BBQ on the roof terrace. (Best in the afternoon, the sun shines on the terrace till about 7). We walked to all the important sites and took the metro to Piraeas. One afternoon we met our neighbours from the apartment underneath on the roof terrace and had a very nice conversation. We had a great time in Athens!
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The 63rd Emmy Awards are scheduled for Sunday (Fox, 8 p.m./7 Central), with Glee star Jane Lynch hosting. As always, there will be dozens of statuettes handed out, and as always, only some of the satisfactions I get from TV will be represented. Actors, actresses, directors, writers and series get recognition, but by and large, the awards don't quite match up with the way regular viewers watch (and talk about) television.
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Using several stamp sets from PTI, the 3rd Viva la Verve January sketch installment, and somewhat non-traditional colors, I created a sweet Valentine's Day card for my special someone.
I am really loving background stamps these days, expecially this sheet music. I stamped it with Brilliance Graphite Black ink and it stamped amazingly black. Love that! The notepaper die was stamped with the order form found in the It's Official set. Then a cluster of hearts was adhered and a sentiment flag attached.
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- ~amy~ said...
Tina...this is a beauty!!
- January 18, 2011 at 8:59 AM
- Lisa Kind said...
Love it! The color combo is so pretty and I love the music sheet!
- January 18, 2011 at 10:20 PM
- Allison said...
Awesome, fabulous, amazing...you get the point!
- January 19, 2011 at 2:04 PM
- alienanessa said...
That is seriously a great card, awesome sketch. I am totally loving your use of all the sheet music lately!! You sure can tell that gorgeous swirly is PTI! I do believe that I've uncovered something interesting in myself: I can't get enough of notepaper looking things, I especially love my eksuccess notebook paper punch, and the way you did it here with the stamping too, I love it!!
- January 19, 2011 at 2:21 PM
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Hunger Games: Donald Sutherland fuzzy with his Reading Comprehension
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The new sensation out there is the book series by Suzanne Collins. It's called "The Hunger Games." In an interview with ABC news, the man who plays the President of Panem in the movie, Sutherland compared the narrative as synonymous with the occupy movement vs the republicans. A funny and very fuzzy understanding of the movie at best.
You can watch his appearance courtesy of Breitbart.tv here.
In the actual story we have a situation in which an oppressive government that claims to take care of it's people forces rule over its twelve member districts by fear and heavy rationing of resources. Every citizen who resides within the districts live with the fear that one of their children might be selected for the hunger games, a 24 person death match held by the capitol and promoted like a reality show for all in the country.
If you read through all 3 books what we actually have becomes a lot clearer to the duller minds of hollywood. The Capitol is an oppressive government, the media are the large crony capitalistic corporations that the government is willingly in bed with as long as the relationship remains mutual.
In the third book we see the final piece to the puzzle of this allegory. District 13, the forgotten district for so many years becomes the launching pad for much of the rebel movement. President Coin of D-13 plans to use Catniss and milk her popularity across the country as fuel and inspiration for the rebellion. Underlying in all of this is the fact that the so-called launchpad district of the rebellion is far from freedom or liberty and it's endgame turns out to be quite sinister in the end. What we have here is a microcosm of what wrong with the 99%er movement all along. In fact many of the lead rebels were nearly everything they accused the Panem government of being.
In the end it took those who loved each other and who saw the value in life to shake off the desire for power and control from not only the Panem government, but from many of the rebels themselves because both were in the wrong.
So go ahead and pretend that this book series is a pro-occupy revolutionary kind of book, Mr. Sutherland. Understandably I don't speak for the author, I speak for what I read. I leave you with the last paragraph of the book – if you haven't read the series, this may not have the same effect for you that it had on me:
My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard. Peeta says it will be okay. We have each other. And the book. We can make them understand in a way that will make them braver. But one day I'll have to explain about my nightmares. Why they came. Why they won't ever really go away.
I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away. That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.
But there are much worse games to play.
That's always what my idea of a liberty movement has been from the beginning. One where we see the goodness in other people, one where we value life and one where our potential is limited only by our drive to succeed. Not by some overreaching government, but rather by our own work ethic. A free and prosperous society requires us to be moral and take personal responsibility. The moment we lose our values is the moment we cease to truly be free.
So Mr. Sutherland, I respectfully disagree. The way to fix this country is not through slamming the gauntlet down further on those who have acquired personal wealth and who already pay exorbitant tax rates to begin with. Those ideas my friends are of the rebels who wanted to eradicate the lives of children who had been raised in the capitol in the same sadistic way the original oppressive government did. The main character in the book saw that and refused to be a piece in either of those side's, because in the end they are the perpetrators of the very same evil.


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All right. Which way would you rather have lost-in a landslide or by a squeaker?
Many WORLD readers, I imagine, see a long winter ahead. The trouncing at the polls was thorough, painful, and unambiguous. It confirmed the claims of many analysts that the conservative coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan a generation ago has all but disappeared.
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Try this very specific case in point as a personal test. Did you catch the news item the weekend before the election about how several reporters for conservative-leaning newspapers were booted from the Obama plane to make room for staffers from Jet and Ebony magazines? You can get upset and angry about that, if you want. Or you can respond with optimistic humility: "Maybe it's my turn to learn to be in the minority."
Or maybe we could quietly approach some of our Jewish friends. Jews, after all, are actually a minority group among minority groups; blacks make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, but Jews just 2 percent. We could ask them to go way back, even to Old Testament times, and recount for us how their ancestors managed to keep hope alive when the odds against winning anything at all were overwhelming.
I would ask my Jewish friends especially to remind me, by reading from Deuteronomy 7, that the Lord has a unique perspective on what it means to be a minority. "It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set His love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that He swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery."
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Expert warns comfort eating can become a form of addiction
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PETALING JAYA, Malaysia - Comfort eating may be a way to "de-stress" for some Malaysians, but an expert has warned that the habit is similar to getting addicted to drugs or computer games.
"You want to make yourself feel good. It's like doing drugs or playing computer games or even watching three to four movies in a row," said Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia's Health Psychology Programme lecturer Assoc Prof Dr Alvin Ng Lai Oon.
Comfort eating is when one consumes food to relieve stress.
It is sometimes referred to as "emotional eating".
He said there could also be a link between comfort eating and being overweight or obese.
"Comfort food is a part of life and people use it to regulate their emotions.
"If they cannot manage their emotions in other ways, it can lead to overeating or unnecessary eating," he said.
"The food they eat may not be healthy but it makes them feel better. So, there is a higher risk of being overweight or obese," said Dr Ng, adding that it was also related to people who were underweight or had a normal body weight.
He said an indication that someone was into comfort eating was when they had the urge to eat or "feel bad" if they did not, or had irrational thoughts like eating out of fear their mothers would disown them.
Another indication is needing to eat within a short period after having a full meal.
"They claim to feel hungry or have low blood glucose levels when it is not necessarily true, but it gives them a good reason to eat."
There are currently no local studies to show the number of people who comfort eat.
Dr Ng said most people did not see it as being a problem until they became overweight or obese.
He advised those who sought comfort in food to get counselling to overcome their emotional problems or have a network of friends and family who are "appointed" to tell the person that he or she is comfort eating and to stop doing so.
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"It would be better to do physical activities than eat," said Dr Ng.
Meanwhile, Nutrition Society of Malaysia president Dr Tee E Siong said chocolate and ice cream were two of the most common comfort foods.
"I suppose if one finds that a specific food can bring comfort, it is not a real problem," he said.
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When Longer is Better: Using Phrases in Brand Naming
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When product or company naming, I can't tell you how many times a client will ask us for a brand name that's as short as possible. One or two syllables. Six letters or less. Whatever. And while occasionally there are … More »
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Yes & No: Fifth & Pacific Company Name Review
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Going *Really* Green: The Nissan Leaf
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Even though it was unveiled back in 2009, the Nissan Leaf is only now appearing in commercials and on billboards near you. It seats 5 adults and has a range of about 100 miles, goes up to 90 mph (really?), … More »
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Once upon a time, Catchword named a company Kijiji. It was a non-US version of Craigslist, part of eBay, and the name was supposed to be globally neutral: from everywhere and nowhere. The name we came up with, Kijiji, is … More »
Mar 31
Girdle Revival: The Foundations of Good Brand Naming
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If you ever asked me for evidence of how far good brand naming can take a company, my Exhibit A would be Spanx. For those of you who live under a rock or aren't women (or both), Spanx is the … More »
Oct 13
I Cannot Lie: Levi's and Old Navy Got Back
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This item was originally published on October 11th, 2010 at Fast Company. Let me start this blog with a gratuitously sexy play on words: In apparel marketing, asses are hot right now. Lacking any actual product innovations for the fall, … More »
Feb 09
Pita Bread Pants: When Branding Goes Too Far
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Suede: Retail Store Naming
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