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Analyzing the Distributions of the Stochastic Firm Growth Approach
Recently there has been a renewed interest in the study of firm size distributions and firm growth rate distributions. The stochastic firm growth approach builds on the assumption that firm growth rates are independent identically distributed and size is determined by a first order autoregressive process leaving the size distribution log-normal. This paper analyzes these distributional patterns in an empirical context questioning the foundation of the stochastic growth approach. In a cross section analysis of four industries using Danish data it is shown that the foundation for and the outcome of the stochastic firm growth process as it has so far been conceived are empirically far-fetched. In particular significant deviations from normality are found with respect to third and fourth moments.
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He has been at it for 33 years, living and breathing fireworks, the third
generation in the business, travelling the world and watching the bangs get
The 5,500 shells were launched above the harbour in 17 minutes, at a cost
to the organisers of $250,000. Everyone in Sydney would agree it was worth it
Mr Howard has worked on big fireworks displays in the United States,
picking up ideas and improving on them.
He said: "I saw the way they used fireworks on the Brooklyn Bridge to mark
its 100th anniversary. I thought then, 'with the size of the Sydney Harbour
Bridge, what we could do with that!'"
Mr Howard also did a daylight display in Farm Cove. For the night display,
he used about 2,750 shells manufactured by himself and the rest were imported
from Japan and China, where the fireworks bug started.
Twelve workers he engaged started working with riggers on the bridge on
Tuesday last week.
Four kilometres of electrical wiring was laid out on the bridge to ignite
the charges. Aluminium and titanium powders were packed into containers and tied
at half-metre intervals under the bridge, ready for the fiery waterfall that
would climax the event.
There were huge efforts to prepare the firing points on barges on the
harbour. More than 100 tonnes of sand was used to pack in the mortars.
Mr Howard is probably the best in the business in Australia, if not the
world. He knows the way the powders work, and he knows the dangers.
His grandfather, Syd, the first of the family to become involved with
fireworks, lost his left hand while experimenting and his father, Harry, lost
his right hand when a grenade simulator he was demonstrating before World War II
went off prematurely.
Just once, in Melbourne when he put a batch of portfires (enlarged matches
for lighting fuses) in his pocket, he was in trouble. Sparks set off the
portfires and he ended up in hospital with leg burns.
But that's experience. Mr Howard has so much work coming in from all
States that he is solidly booked for the next three months and will undoubtedly
be booked up for the year.
His bookings include a 183-night contract, worth more than $1 million, to
put on nightly fireworks displays for Brisbane's Expo 88. It is a contract he
won against vigorous competition from the United States, Japan, France and
About 2 1/2 years ago Mr Howard split from the family company, Howard and
Sons Pty Ltd, and went out on his own. He disagreed with his brother, Les, about
the way the company was going.
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Here are the results!
Katherine 1 vote
Meimoya 8 votes
Cary 3 votes
Meredith Robertson 30 votes
Amy Houchen 3 votes.
Congratulations Meredith!
Thanks to the good folks who took time to enter our Fall food writing contest, as well as the business who sponsored the awards!
- A $25 gift certificate to Olivers at the Camas hotel in Washington, one of Food & Wine Magazine's three Best New Suburban Restaurants for 2011.
- A $25 bottle of wine from Portland Oregon Wine.com
- A $25 gift certificate from Las Primas, a Peruvian street food restaurant opening this fall on N. Williams.
Here are the entries in the order received. You will find a voting box in the sidebar of this post on the site.
Katherine says:September 22, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Fall will always mean back to school to me, even though now I'm officially out of the academic world. In college, I lived in a tiny duplex (the kitchen counter was about the size of one plate, depth and width).
With the arrival of my second year of college, so too arrived my first excitement for cooking. I had always loved eating, restaurants, and food, but my Italian Babbo was far too much of a brilliant garlic artist to let me near the kitchen growing up. Yet, college, specifically my boyfriend in college, made me realize I wanted to be good at cooking, for both myself, and him.
So I managed to rustle up a pork chops and applesauce recipe and head to my tiny kitchen. Oil splattered from the pan as I watched the chops transform from pink to caramel on the edges. I jumped back, scared, but was excited when I discovered how easy it was to make a homemade applesauce. Suddenly, the Granny Smiths I'd attempted to chop, along with cider, nutmeg, cinnamon, lemon and raisins was a fragrant, chunky sauce. I was proud, and shocked that I'd spent all those years eating baby food-like Motts.
That night, my boyfriend and I sat on the carpet around the coffee table, and as he knifed into his chop and took a bite, I held my breath. I prayed it was cooked through-I didn't have a meat thermometer yet-and if it was cooked, that it was edible. He swallowed, and then I took a bite of my own, and I knew I was in love-not with him, but with the applesauce, and cooking as well.
meimoya says:September 23, 2011 at 10:59 pm
My mother, the recipe enthusiast, has a box in her kitchen full of, well, recipes, clipped from Sunset magazine, the local newspaper, and who knows where-all. Conversely, she only has a few cookbooks hanging around, and most of them date back to the 1970s. Outdated though they may be, these cookbooks do have a few absolute gems up their sleeves. I walked into her kitchen this morning and was hit smack dab in the face with the ultimate smell of childhood autumn: German Apple Pancake.
This recipe occupies a sacred place in our family lore. It's from The Vegetarian Epicure. Yes, Mom and Dad were once what they call "plainclothes hippies," vegetarians, gardeners, in touch with the planet and all. Their copy of the cookbook consistently falls open to the German Apple Pancake page. For a decade now the binding has been broken there, and there are little droplets staining the paper, souvenirs from pancakes past. My dad used to make this recipe for weekend breakfast once the good apples started to appear in the stores. No Red Delicious ever got near this recipe! We's apple snobs in Washington.
We experimented with all kinds of varieties for the pancake topping…Granny Smith, Fuji, Gala, Jonagold, and in later years, Honeycrisp and Pink Lady. The original recipe suggests Pippens, a varietal that seems to have gone the way of shag carpeting.
The pancake itself is a light, airy wonder, with no leavening, just equal parts egg, flour, and milk, with a pinch of salt thrown in. It gets baked in the oven in a trusty cast-iron skillet, climbing up the sides of the skillet and emerging a golden pancake bowl that is crisp and airy on the sides and doughy and absorbent on the bottom. This delicacy is subsequently topped with peeled, thinly sliced apples sauteed in butter and brown sugar.
Stop. Close your eyes. Really, you need to do this. Take a minute and just imagine all those smells…melted butter, eggy pancake, apple, caramelizing brown sugar, a bit of nutmeg…THAT is my smell of autumn.
My role as a kid was always to help my dad peel the apples. I was in awe of his skill with an apple peeler. (This is how important this recipe is in my family. We don't have potato peelers in our kitchen; we got apple peelers here.) He was able to create long, curling strips of peel. By the time I was finished peeling one apple, one round little blurb of peel at a time, he'd already powered through the other three.
He taught me to time it just right, to start sauteing the apples just as I turned down the temperature on the oven so that both apples and pancake would be done at the same time. He taught me to hold back, be a bit patient before starting to eat, so that the juices would have time to soak into the pancake, sweetening it and adding depth to the eggy flavor.
I learned on my own never to tamper with perfection:
German Apple Pancake, as I remember it from The Vegetarian Epicure:
1 TB butter
3 large eggs
3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup milk
pinch of salt
4 apples, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
cinnamon and nutmet
Method: Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Melt the butter in a well-seasoned cast-iron skillet, coating the bottom and sides. Mix the eggs, flour, milk, and salt in a bowl and pour into the skillet. Bake for 15 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake ten minutes more.
Sautee the apples in the remaining 1/4 cup of melted butter. When the apples are just soft, add the sugar and spices. Fill one half of the pancake bowl with apples, then fold the other half over on top.
Wait a few minutes.
Cary says:September 30, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Everyone has a favorite pizza. I stand loyal to my favorite pizza joint here in Portland, but my all time favorite hails from Buffalo, New York. Every summer or winter vacation that I visited my dad's side of the family as a child, I always looked forward to two delicacies: 1) hot wings (never call them "Buffalo wings" in Buffalo, mind you) and 2) "Dino Pacciotti's Bocce Club" pepperoni pizza – double pepperoni, double sliced. Our family never bothered to order anything other than that from Bocce Pizza because frankly nothing else was really worth it. Their vegetables weren't of great quality and nothing else could quite measure up to that juicy, thick-sliced pepperoni.
We usually ordered two extra large pies between about five adults and some kids, which usually left us with about half of one to snack on over the course of the next day. Ordering them double sliced provided for the pleasant illusion that we were eating more pizza. I always volunteered to ride shotgun to the pizza parlor to pick up the order with my Uncle Dave or cousin Dan so I could sneak myself in a piece of pepperoni as soon as possible. I could never be trusted to sit with two piping hot Bocce pizzas sitting on my lap. Opening that box let that dangerously tantalizing scent hotbox the entire car and I could not resist prematurely snagging a piece or two of that wonderful pepperoni.
My birthday falls on October 9. One year, my family gathered at my dad's house to celebrate my birthday. My parents divorced when I was 5 years old, but they remain close friends to this day. We still continued to gather all together for celebrations such as birthdays. That particular year, my mom brought me a delicious dark chocolate-raspberry cake that was too rich to enjoy in one sitting. This worked to my advantage as I could enjoy the rest of the cake over subsequent days. To my great delight, as we hurried to find refuge in my dad's house on that blustery birthday, I found my nostrils filled with that distinct, mouth-watering aroma I had only experienced before from over 2,500 miles across the country! I had joked around before about Bocce Club pizza's advertised offer to deliver a half-baked pizza anywhere nationwide via UPS, but I never thought that this dream would come true! As I popped that first hot little slice in my mouth, those copious, thick slices of pepperoni fell all over the plate.
Every time I visit my dad's house, that Bocce Club pizza box remains victoriously displayed above the mantel, taking me back to the glorious time that I ate my favorite pizza on my birthday.
Meredith Robertson says:October 1, 2011 at 8:39 am
Circa 1971, I'm just a little tyke walking home from school in late September. The leaves have changed colors and are starting to fall to the ground and there is a nip in the air. My mother is newly divorced and is struggling to find herself. Find new friends and to find a balance in life and true to her form, she throws her whole self in.
Armed with a new cook book called Glorious Stew my mother sets out to make a basic brown stew. It's the first recipe in the book and by golly she is going to master this stew if it's the last thing she ever does. Several times a week as I walk through the front door I can smell the beef simmering lightly on the stove top and by the time Gilligan's Island is over the mushrooms have been added and it's getting close to dinner time. She throw's in a loaf of crunchy French bread and severs us our stew in the brown ceramic pottery bowls with handles on the side that she got from the Shell gas station with every fill up. I dip my bread in to test the temperature and deeming it satisfactory; I gulp down my soup and run off to watch TV again. I'm sure we never provided the right kind of feedback that she was looking for unless cleaning our plate's counts.
In order to get the right kind of feedback, she needed to test it out on friends. But…this is "just" a basic brown stew, time to pull out the big guns and really test her skills. Boeuf Bourguignon, ahhh that very rich French stew. Glorious Stew says, "The name should really be a la Bourguingnonne- in the style of a Burgundy housewife…" now we are getting somewhere. My mother master's this stew to perfection and I'm in love! But it's a very short lived love. I only get to enjoy this brown velvety concoction with its sweet round onions and firm mushrooms a couple of times. It's too expensive for a single mother to make as an everyday meal, so she saves it for a Saturday afternoon in late October to have with close friends and several bottles of red wine.
By the time November arrives her thoughts' turn to Thanksgiving and Christmas. She, again true to form throws herself into learning and perfecting something new to wow her friends with. It will be a whole year before I get beef stew again. Jump to 1988, after I graduated from culinary school my mother presented me with my own cookbook of Glorious Stew that she had found in a second hand store. She loving copied her notes from the edges and put them in my book to read. My book is well read and used as is hers. There are stains everywhere and reminders of past meals with close friends. I still find that there is nothing better than a warm bowl of stew in fall with leaves turning red.
Amy Houchen says:October 3, 2011 at 8:57 pm
The Scents of September
When I was a child arriving home during the first week or so of school, I was likely to be greeted by one of two scents.
One was ripe Bartlett pears. My mother canned dozens of jars of fruit for our family of seven, and early September was time for pears, which were my favorite. When I got old enough, I was pressed into service peeling, halving, and coring. The easiest way to core a pear half is with a round or oval quarter-teaspoon measure: run the edge of the bowl from the stem end just under the core, scoop out the seed cavity, and then scoop once again—more shallowly—to remove the blossom end.
The other scent was of dill pickles ripening in the crock. I loved that pungent combination of vinegar and dill, even though I never ate any pickles. My mother also made sweet and bread-and-butter pickles, but I didn't like those, either. I remember the mustard seeds in the bread-and-butter liquid, and I only ate sweet pickles when diced and suitably disguised in tuna and ground meat sandwiches. (This "ground meat" wasn't hamburger. It was leftover pot roast run through the meat grinder with the medium attachment, and we mixed it with a little diced sweet pickle and mayonnaise or Miracle Whip, just as we did tuna.) It wasn't until I was an adult that I developed a taste for sweet pickle relish—but only on hot dogs or hamburgers.
The back door I entered each afternoon led into the pantry. It was there that the pickle crock sat. And after the pickles and pears had been put in jars and processed in the big white-flecked dark blue canning kettle, it was there that they (and all the other canned fruit, and the jams and jellies) waited, on slatted shelves, to disappear through the winter.
After I left home, I never canned again (although I have been known to freeze vegetables, fruits, and tomato sauce). But some of my happiest moments each year are in September, when I prepare food while the sun slants in through my kitchen's west windows, just as it did in the kitchen in which I grew up. Proust had his madeleines, but I have a couple of battered aluminum quarter teaspoons that I used for coring pears all those decades ago.


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A SPECIAL thank you was given to the secretary of the Association of Old Rivingtonians, who has served for 50 years.
Olive Fisher has held the post since 1963, not long after she left the former Rivington and Blackrod Grammar School. She had been a pupil there from 1954 to 1959.
The association is made up of former pupils, staff and governors of the school, which is now Rivington and Blackrod High School. It holds social and fundraising events. Its President's Charity has raised £50,000 since its inception. Present president Geoffrey Darbyshire has so far raised £6,000 for The Christie's mobile chemotherapy Unit.
The Old Rivs holds its 110th annual meeting at Horwich Golf Club on Monday, when all former pupils and staff of the school are welcome.
For details of the group's activities contact Mrs Fisher on 01204 697106.


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Ina Copeland, 92, formerly of Elk River and Opelika, Ala., died peacefully Friday, March 9, 2011.
A celebration of her life will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 26 at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 1326 Fourth St., Elk River. Private interment will be in Alabama. Memorials are preferred to the Holy Trinity Building Fund, or the Episcopal Church Home, St. Paul.
Mrs. Copeland is survived by son, Mark (Pat) Copeland of Atlanta, Ga.; daughter, the Rev. Wanda Copeland of Roseville; three grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by infant son, Wade; husband, Charles; sister, Ona; and son-in-law, Tom Johnson.
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Salaam! I did istikhara about a man I really like (but I'm unsure if he likes me). I dreamt that a TV character from a show I never watched (Lisa Kudrow on "Friends") told me that the man I like was working on a list of activities that the two of us could do together, and he kept it by his pillow. I then saw this man asleep with the list in his hand, and one item on the list read simply "bridal shower." Lisa said that this man was still working on the list. I was really excited until I realized that Lisa had never met this man. When I said that, she got flustered and didn't have a response. Then I woke up. Does this mean anything?
wa `alaykum salam
It means forget about him, it is only whim (Arabic: wahm) that you would be able to marry him. And Allah knows best.
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text: Blogs Monday Morning Good News Category: CIT Economic Indicators Economic Prognostication Economy National Association Of Credit Management (nacm) Submitted by nbartels on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 09:18 The following news release popped up in my mailbox this morning, forwarded by Walt. (Hey, boss! You're supposed to be resting!) A bit of light at the end of the tunnel, in spite of yet another big financial institution meltdown. Login or register to post comments Read more 2617 reads Permalink The China Report Category: Advantech Economic Indicators Economy Keith Larson Submitted by nbartels on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 10:08 Former editor in chief of Control, and now our VP of content, Keith Larson is in Suzhou, China, this week, attending industrial automation and embedded systems supplier Advantech's World Partner Conference. He's been Twittering (see @keithlarson) from the event. Login or register to post comments Read more 3149 reads Permalink Yet more "good" news from ARC-- this time about the DCS business Category: ARC Advisory Group DCS Economy Larry O'brien Submitted by waltboyes on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 10:19 A new ARC study by Larry O'Brien, my co-author on the Control/ARC Automation Top 50 every December, shows that the DCS business continues despite the recession for some very good reasons, and the automation companies are finding salvation in the services business. Login or register to post comments Read more 2625 reads Permalink Siemens' Loescher says automation sector shows signs of bottoming out Category: Economy Peter Loescher Siemens WSJ Submitted by waltboyes on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 14:35 From a news report in the Wall Street Journal, Siemens CEO Peter Loescher briefed analysts yesterday: Login or register to post comments Read more 2652 reads Permalink Automation Services Market a Bright Spot in Dark Picture Category: ARC ARC Advisory Group Automation Service Providers Economy Larry O'brien Submitted by nbartels on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:44 ARC sent out a release this morning on the prospects for the automation services market. They look pretty good: Login or register to post comments Read more 2761 reads Permalink Surfin' the Net, Reeling in Some Good Fish Category: Aaron Crews Andrew Sullivan Christian Science Monitor Control Control Magazine Economy Engineering Careers engineering education The Atlantic Twitter U.s. Airways Flight 1549 Vanity Fair Magazine William Langewiesche Submitted by nbartels on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 12:13 Trolling in the Web waters this morning between bouts of proofing the June issue of Control and have found some goodies to share. Login or register to post comments Read more 2775 reads Permalink This Is No Way to Start the Weekend Category: Economy Grant Thornton Submitted by nbartels on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 15:15 Looks like we're facing another rainy weekend in beautiful downtown Illinois. Now on top of that, the following showed up in my mailbox about 10 minutes ago. Sigh! Can I leave work now and go to the corner bar? Login or register to post comments Read more 2610 reads Permalink Saving Money in Tough Times Category: Economy Submitted by Dan Hebert on Wed, 05/06/2009 - 08:36 When times are tough, companies cut back on everything from salaries to travel to new product investment. Is your company cutting back? If so, how? Do you see light at the end of the tunnel, or are these cutbacks in place for the foreseeable future? Login or register to post comments Read more 2410 reads Permalink Now If Companies Would Only Walk the Walk Category: Economy Nestle Peter Brabeck-letmathe Submitted by nbartels on Fri, 04/24/2009 - 13:54 Found this article on the InnerWebs this afternoon. It sort of degenerates into a lot of corporate self-congratulation, but the money quote that caught my eye is in the opener. Login or register to post comments Read more 2249 reads Permalink Good News on a Sunny Friday Category: Economy Extech Instruments Flir Submitted by nbartels on Fri, 04/24/2009 - 12:20 Sunny Friday here. Spring may finally have come to Illinois. More important, although things are still decidedly cloudy on the economic front, a few glimpses of sun are popping through. Login or register to post comments Read more 2553 reads Permalink < 1 2 3 4 >


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Kane disappointed by Becks snub
Former England captain David Beckham would have been an excellent Team GB role model, according to Harry Kane.
Last Updated: 30/06/12 3:48pm
Former England captain David Beckham's experience and status would have made him an excellent Team GB role model, according to Tottenham's England Under 19 striker Harry Kane.
Beckham missed out on the chance to light up London 2012 after Ryan Giggs, Craig Bellamy and Micah Richards were revealed to be the three over-age players in Stuart Pearce's 18-man squad for the Games.
The 37-year-old spent time training at Spurs Lodge during February 2011 while getting ready for the Major League Soccer season with LA Galaxy.
And Kane, part of the England U19 squad who are heading out to Estonia for the start of the European Championship next week, is in no doubt of the influence the former Manchester United and Real Madrid man can still have on upcoming players.
"David Beckham was down here at Spurs when he was getting fit, and it was amazing to see him in the dressing room, to talk to him because he has been through it all and is one of the greatest role models ever," said 18-year-old Kane, who enjoyed a successful spell out on loan with Millwall last season.
"I had a good chat to him because we went to the same school in Chingford, so we had plenty to talk about. From a football base, he was just trying to help.
"Of course to have players like that around the dressing room is inspiring and you want to go on to what they have achieved."
Kane added: "I would have thought he deserved to go. He had a lot to do with us getting the Olympics and to have him there as a role model would have been the best thing.
"It is unfortunate that he won't be there but that is Stuart Pearce's choice and we have to move on."
While Kane feels it was a 'great experience' to play competitive matches in the Championship for Millwall, the youngster is hoping to break into the Tottenham first-team under Harry Redknapp's replacement.
"Harry was a great manager who helped me out a lot, and it was a shame to see him go, but that is football," said Kane, who played six times in the Europa League for Spurs at the start of last season, scoring against Shamrock Rovers.
"Now I have to impress the new manager who comes in, whoever it is. I just have to keep my head down, keep doing what I have been doing and hopefully I will get my chance."


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Arjen Robben sees Saturday's final as "a dream come true" for FC Bayern München, and the Dutch winger lifts the lid on the hard work behind the scenes that made it all possible.
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Shady Side Academy stomps Ford City
Even if it doesn't possess the most well-known names in the WPIAL, Shady Side Academy's talented backfield of Jared Brevard and Dennis Briggs bear the weight of high expectations. Replacing current Wisconsin player Reggie Mitchell can do that.
If Friday night's performance was any indication, the junior running backs will be more than capable of compensating.
They combined for 262 rushing yards and scored four touchdowns as host Shady Side Academy defeated Ford City, 27-6, in Class AA Allegheny Conference play.
"Any time you beat Ford City by three touchdowns, it's a good night," Shady Side Academy coach Dave Havern said.
The Indians (1-0, 1-0) asserted themselves early in the first quarter behind Brassard, who broke a 46-yard-run on his second carry. He scored shortly after to open up a 7-0 lead on the Sabers (0-1, 0-1).
"They were more physical than us upfront, and they dominated the line of scrimmage from the get-go," Ford City coach John Bartolovic said.
Despite missing a large portion of the first half due to a lingering stomach ailment, Brassard finished with 17 carries for 132 yards and two touchdowns.
Briggs stepped in for Brevard without missing a beat. He increased the Indians' lead to 13-0 in the second quarter on a 5-yard run.
Briggs finished with 15 carries for 130 yards and a touchdown.
"They're both juniors; they're great students," Havern said. "They're both really special."
Ford City's defense managed to keep it in the game, but its offense struggled. The Sabers finished with fewer than 30 yards of rushing. Senior running back Devan Willyard, who led the team in rushing and receiving last year, accumulated less than half of that yardage.
"We have a couple of very good backs," Bartolovic said. "They just couldn't get a seam."
Ford City quarterback David Lattanzio completed 9 of 16 passes for 75 yards and a touchdown.
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Seven in 10 Mass-goers say that the new English translation of the Roman Missal introduced a year ago at Advent is a "good thing," a survey has shown, yet a strong minority, including bishops and priests, remain hesitant.
Half of respondents agreed that the translation is a "good thing," while 20 percent strongly agreed with that that assessment, the survey found.
Three in 10 Catholics said they disagreed with such an assessment. Seven percent said they strongly disagreed that the translations were good for the Catholic church.
The findings were based on the results of a survey conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University. Responses derived from 1,047 self-identified Catholic adults with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Acceptance of the new language was higher among Catholics who attended Mass weekly or more often than those who worshiped less often.
Worshipers who like the translations said the new wording inspired them to be more faithful in daily life, helped them feel closer to God and make it easier to participate in Mass.
The results were gratifying to Msgr. Richard B. Hilgartner, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat of Divine Worship.
He said the findings in the CARA study reflected the "positive feedback" his office had received in the year since the translations have been used.
Hilgartner acknowledged that he and bishops across the country have heard complaints about the translations, but that they have been in the minority.
Some priests have struggled with the new language found in the Mass prayers, he said. Some worshipers have told him the new language is too formal and hinders their worship, he added.
A nonscientific survey conducted by U.S. Catholic, a monthly magazine published by the Claretians, among its online readers found weak support for the translation.
The magazine said 1,231 priests and 1,208 visitors to its website responded to the survey.
Two-thirds of respondents said they dislike or "don't particularly like" the new translation. In contrast, 17 percent of respondents said they enjoyed the translation; 6 percent said they were unsure.
Among priests, 58 percent dislike the translation and another 17 percent "don't particularly like" the new wording.
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Winter is coming (probably sooner than we think), so if you want great sound and warmer ears, you may want to check out these over-ear options. Although they're not cheap, you'll know where the extra cash went on these audiophile grade cans like the Grado PS1000, described in our round-up as the 'best pair of headphones money can buy' or the Sennheiser Momentum with the gorgeous metal band finish to match the punchy sound.
When it comes to over-ear headphones you generally have two options. If you want something to use at home, particularly for TV, movies and live music, open back headphones are the way to go. They have perforations in the ear-cup, which allows noise to transfer between the speakers and the ouside world. The result is a far more open sound, more like what you'd hear at a live performance, but you will also be able to hear noise around you. Closed back earphones have the speaker mounted inside a solid ear-cup, which isolates the sound and provides some passive noise cancellation. Generally your music and sound will be a bit punchier and a little bass-heavy, great for anytime you're out and about in noisy environments.
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Big sound doesn't always require headgear large enough to negate the effects of a nuclear blast. In-ear buds, like the Atomic Floyd Super Darts, renowned for their noise isolation tech, bring sonic satisfaction in a compact, pocket-sized package, though they are pricey. Meanwhile, the £40 a-Jays One+ offer a tangle resistant flat cable along with an accompanying Android app for deeper sound customisation.
In-ear headphones are very much down to personal preference. Some people find that ear buds don't sit comfortably in their ears, or that a certain model feels far more comfortable. Generally speaking, rubber ear-buds that plug into your ear will always deliver punchy sound, perhaps at the expense of treble notes, whilst in-ear headphones that sit in front of your ear canal won't be quite so bassy, but sound a little more open. In truth, you're best off with what feels most comfortable.
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Have you ever tried running with those EarPods (or 'damn EarPods' as we've come to call them?) Apple bundles with its iOS devices these days? If you plan on retaining your sanity, we wouldn't advise it. While out setting personal bests then you need something that'll stay firmly in place, won't irritate your skin as you sweat and will still sound great in the process. Look no further than this selection of sporty options. The Philips SHQ4200 Action Fit features a neckband design and are sweat resistant, while the Monster iSport Strive grips the top of your ears in order to stay in place. You could plump for the Jabra Sport Pulse Wireless and track your heart rate at the same time.
Like in-ear headphones, comfort is your primary concern here. The difference here is that obviously, the fit has to be rather more snug and secure than your average pair of in-ears. Aside from the fit, loose cabling can be a major annoyance, as the connection can come loose and rub against the fitting, which sounds harmless, except that you'll be able to hear it through your earpiece. Look for headphones that look well manufactured, fit snugly and are easily washed if they get really waxy/sweaty.
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We're pretty sure when out of our sight, headphone cables conspire to knot themselves around our other belongings just to annoy us. The best way to clamp down on this is to go wireless. These options connect with your phone or media player via Bluetooth without the need to spend minutes untangling before accessing your tunes.
Generally speaking, streaming audio over Bluetooth will diminish the quality somewhat, in comparison to using a cable. But that said, the quality isn't noticeably bad and as long as the headphones themselves are of good quality, your music will still be eminently listenable. A few companies even make Bluetooth running headphones, which are ideal for those who hate being distracted by bouncing wires.
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Sometimes, we all just need a bit of peace. A time to relax and listen to some tunes without overhearing the row between the couple on the opposite seat or the constant crying of the toothing baby. For times like these, you need some Active Noise Cancelling cans. Now, active cancellation is different to passive because active uses a power source and emits audio to counter the background noise, whereby passive simply using matrials that are known to better isolate sound. If you want the real deal, get an active pair. Many of these 'phones also are equipped with microphones, so it pipes in certain noises it thinks you should hear, so you're not completely in the world of your own.
If you're a lover of all things Bose, the Quiet Comfort 25 is the pair to pick. They're sleek, premium feeling and sound awesome. If you want something smaller the Sennheiser PXC-250 II is another choice, while Samsung's feature packed Level Over pair are wireless and boast some nifty touch controls. The choice is yours.
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An IDF soldier was shot dead near the town of Rosh Hanikra, on Israel's northern border with Lebanon, on Sunday evening. The IDF returned fire, shooting at a Lebanese army position across the border.
The gunman was a member of the Lebanese Armed Forces, who fired six or seven bullets at a vehicle on the Israeli side of the fence, first reports said.
Initial reports said Israel regarded the attack as a "terrorist incident," and believes the soldier was acting alone. IDF troops who witnessed the incident reportedly saw other Lebanese Armed Forces personnel converge on the gunman after he opened fire.
The incident happened near the spot where a bomb blew up an army jeep, injuring four soldiers, in August.
According to the ZAKA rescue and recovery services, the IDF soldier was evacuated to a local hospital and died of his wounds en route.
ZAKA: It has now been confirmed that it is a soldier that was shot near Rosh Hanikra. He died of his wounds on the way to the hospital.
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The IDF issued a statement saying it "reserved the right to respond at a time and in a manner" of its choosing."
The gunman was said to have "disappeared," Army Radio reported.
The IDF statement added: "At approximately 20:30 this evening, shots were fired at a civilian vehicle traveling along the Israel-Lebanon border, near Rosh Hanikra. The IDF has confirmed that the sniper is a member of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). An investigation of the incident is underway."
Update: An IDF soldier was killed earlier this evening by the gunfire of a sniper from the Lebanese Armed Forces
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) December 15, 2013
The IDF initially searched the area in case the gunman crossed the border, but no cross-border infiltration was discovered.
The United Nation's Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) urged restraint by both sides.
The IDF said Israel conveyed a severe protest to the UN over "this outrageous breach of Israel's sovereignty" and beefed up its presence along the border.
#IDF has protested the breach of sovereignty to #UNIFIL, Heightened preparedness on the border and will maintain the right to self defense.
— Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) December 15, 2013
#IDF protested this outrageous breach of Israel's sovereignty with UNIFIL and has heightened its state of preparedness along the border 2/4
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) December 15, 2013
A Hezbollah-affiliated website reported that the Lebanese terror group put its fighters in southern Lebanon on high alert after the incident.
Hezbollah's al-Manar news agency claimed an IDF patrol had crossed into Lebanese territory and was fired upon by the Lebanese Armed Forces. It said the IDF fired flares over the border into Lebanon, and that a Lebanese soldier went missing during the clashes.
Al-Manar news also quoted Lebanese military officials saying Israeli planes entered Lebanon around 8 p.m.
In 2010, Lebanese snipers shot at Israeli soldiers on the border, killing one and injuring another, and sparking an international incident. Three Lebanese soldiers and a journalist were killed in Israeli retaliatory strikes.
Israel and Hezbollah fought a three-week war in 2006, but the border with Lebanon has remained mostly quiet since.


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Updated 6:21 pm, Tuesday, March 8, 2011
For Deborah Keller-Rihn, Luminaria is an opportunity to stretch beyond her usual work as a photographer and painter.
"It gives you a chance to do something a little experimental that you wouldn't ordinarily do," she said. "It has to be more performance based."
For instance, one year she took part in a dance piece. This year she's creating a dozen illuminated, floating altars honoring some of the city's artists who have passed on, including Chuck Ramirez, Sterling Houston and Amy Freeman Lee.
She's looking for a way to link the pieces "like cells, so it should look like how the arts community is an interconnected community."
She did a similar piece for Día de los Muertos last year, paying tribute to her parents.
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"I just liked the transience of the altars and the idea that life is kind of beautiful but short and delicate," said the 54-year-old artist.
"I am of the age where I'm starting to think about things like this," she said. "We're not going to be around forever. But as long as people remember you, you can still remain part of the community."
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• H-E-B Family area: Family art projects from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. beside Magik Theatre, 420 S. Alamo St.
• Opening ceremony: 6:30 p.m. at the entrance to HemisFair Luminaria: 7 p.m.-midnight. Closing ceremonies from 11 p.m. to midnight.
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Dental dams are small, thin, square pieces of latex used to protect the throat during certain kinds of dental work. They can also be placed on the anus or vagina when the mouth, lips, or tongue are used during sex. Like the condom, dams keep partners' body fluids out of each other's bodies and prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted infections when performing oral sex. How does it work? When used, the dental dam is stretched across the anal opening or a woman's vagina to prevent the exchange of bodily fluids. Unlike condoms, the dental dam itself is not lubricated, but using a water-based lubricant on the anal/vaginal side of the dental dam may be useful in helping to keep it in place, and to increase sensation. Dental dams come in plain and flavored latex squares or a flavored water-based lubricant may be used to enhance the taste during oral sex. If you do not have a dental dam, it is also possible to use plastic wrap, or a cut-open condom to cover the anus or vulva. Dental dams help to reduce the risk of HIV transmission during oral-vaginal and oral-anal sex, in addition to other diseases which can be transmitted from mouth to anus/vagina or vice-versa, including herpes and genital warts. Dental Dam Precautions When using (or making) a dental dam, be certain that the dam covers the entire anal opening or vulva and that it can be held at both edges. Be careful not to flip the dental dam over during oral sex, as this defeats the purpose of not coming in contact with your partner's bodily fluids. Never re-use dental dams. How do you get it? Dental dams can be made out of condoms or latex gloves (or Saran Wrap). This means that you can get the makings of a dental dam almost anywhere. If you are looking for the real thing, you can buy them at local erotic shops and online. Dental dams are not yet available in many drug stores or pharmacies. How much does it cost? Dental dams run from 50 cents to around $3 per dam, depending on size, color, flavor, etc. Buying a multi-pack makes them cheaper. Many health centers, family planning clinics (including Vista Community Clinic) and some schools distribute them free of charge. Adapted from a document of the University of Chicago Student Care Center: http://scc.uchicago.edu/pdf/library/Dental_Dams.pdf


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When she entered into her first marriage, she took with her the goodwill, the passion and the desire to create a healthy, happy home. Unfortunately, because of past programming and misunderstandings experienced earlier in life, the Covenant of matrimony turned into misguided efforts of form and function.
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As I have an older kindle (and a Fire) and don't really care about special formating in my books, I convert my books to the 'old' format.
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Look on the back of any modern book and you will find an ISBN code. Take this code and calculate this sum in the way shown. Can you see what the answers always have in common?
A game that tests your understanding of remainders.
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Fleming is a University of South Florida English professor who teaches undergraduate and graduate creative writing courses. He is also the founder and advisory editor of USF's Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art. His books include The Legend of the Barefoot Mailman and Fearsome Creatures of Florida, and his work has been anthologized in 100% Pure Florida Fiction, and his short stories published in McSweeney's, North American Review, Mississippi Review, Rosebud and Georgetown Review.
What is on your nightstand?
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I am required to read it to help one of my daughters with her quidditch team.
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No, I think I'm doomed to be a muggle. I also just started Revenge of the Radioactive Lady by Elizabeth Stuckey-French. It's told comically, but it addresses serious issues like the possibility of being affected by the government's radioactive testing. I also just read Whiteman by Tony D'Souza. . . . I liked the way he wrote in episodic pieces, but the book stands together as a whole.
For your work, are there particular Florida writers you keep on going back to?
John Brandon's Citrus County. I loved the voices of the characters in it, the dark humor in it, and I love the language. It's wonderfully written. Also, I thought (he) did an excellent job of capturing the attitude of kids who grow up in a place where nothing seems real.
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I've been spending a lot of time with my parents lately. In July my father was in serious industrial fire. He suffered third-degree burns on his upper body, had to have skin grafts on his arms and was in the ICU at the University of Chicago hospital for a month. The experience has provided me with enhanced insight into the challenges that our seniors are facing today.
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Scheduled to leave ONAP at the end of the year, Jeffrey Crowley says that working for President Obama has been an "amazing experience." Crowley became the White House's so-called AIDS czar in February 2009, leaving his position as a researcher and senior scholar at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute. Here, Crowley speaks about his time in the White House and the state of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Black communities.
Little did she know that a report she wrote in high school would expose her to what would be her life's work in HIV/AIDS. Today she coordinates outreach and mobilization efforts across the South.
Loop21.com, an African American news and lifestyle site, devoted lots of energy and real estate to HIV/AIDS last week. In the run-up and on World AIDS Day, the site ran a three-part series about the disease's effect on ball culture("Underground Gay Dance Culture Keeps 'Voguing' Legacy Alive"); covered Obama's remarks at a ONE Campaign event ("President Obama Talks 'The Beginning of the End of AIDS'"); and debunked down-low mythology in a statistics-laden piece about HIV risk among young black men who have sex with men ("Young Gay Black Men Are Most at Risk for HIV Transmission").
This year, we commemorate World AIDS Day during the 30th year since the first reported cases of AIDS, a milestone that has led many to reflect on how far we have come since those dark days when HIV infection was almost always fatal. Remarkably, three decades of scientific progress in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment have brought us to a time when we can begin to imagine an AIDS-free generation.


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St. Catharines, ON – Mirum Media is the creative brains behind the latest visual release from R.A.W. Music. Chuck-C, Rennie and YL come together for "Land of Reckless & Wild," produced by Afola Beats. Check out the video after the jump.
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You don't need a specific holiday to plan a fun service project. Here are three projects that you can do year-round at your school to help spread the word about Key Club—and also put smiles on people's faces.
1. Students at West Bridgewater Senior High School in Massachusetts didn't have to worry about whether or not they had a Valentine, thanks to the school's Key Club. Each student was surprised to find a Valentine's Day card attached to the front of his or her locker last Friday. But there's no reason to wait an entire year to try this at your school. Write encouraging messages or inspirational quotes and hang them on lockers before school starts on Monday morning to surprise your classmates.
2. Challenge club members to do random acts of kindness throughout your school like the Booneville Key Club in Arkansas did. For Valentine's Day, the club's advisor gave each member a card with a challenge listed on it. Some challenges are incredibly simple, such as the one below that says "Smile at everyone today," but those simple acts could really boost your school's morale.
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ANKARA – As France and the world mourn the terrorist slaughter of innocents in Paris, the leaders of the G-20 are meeting in Antalya, Turkey. Terror will now vault to the top of the long list of pressing issues that will be discussed. The G-20, whose members account for about 85% of the world economy, has an important responsibility to respond to challenges that affect the lives and prosperity of millions of people around the world. It cannot risk falling into complacency and inaction, whether regarding terrorism or the fragile state of the world's economy.
Since Turkey assumed the presidency of the G-20 in December 2014, our approach toward ensuring inclusive and robust growth through collective action has enjoyed the support of the organization's members. This effort has been built on three pillars: decisive implementation of past commitments, boosting investments as a powerful driver of the global economy, and promotion of inclusiveness so that the benefits of growth are shared by all.
When it comes to implementation, great strides have been made. By promoting sound macroeconomic and fiscal policies and implementing solid, structural reforms, we have made significant progress toward our objective of expanding the G-20's collective GDP by 2.1% by 2018. The global financial system is now more resilient than it has ever been. Financial capacities are being rebuilt, and new growth targets are being met.
But there remains much more to be done. G-20 members should expedite efforts to deliver on their commitments to boost productivity and eliminate structural bottlenecks to investment, competition, trade, and jobs. We must also cement the fundamental reforms to the global financial system that the G-20 has delivered over the past seven years.


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Robinson is set to give several players a debut in Sunday's first Test.
"The key message is that we've got 16 games now in 16 months to the next World Cup," he said.
"Each player involved has a fantastic opportunity to put their hand up for that. They must show the ruthlessness we need to take the chance."
Robinson will announce his starting line-up on Wednesday, with Test debuts looming for Gloucester scrum-half Peter Richards and his club colleague, lock Alex Brown.
World Cup winner Mike Catt, 34, is expected to be recalled for his first Test appearance since England were crushed 51-15 by Australia in Brisbane two years ago.
He is likely to partner Mathew Tait in midfield, the 20-year-old Newcastle centre likely to be preferred to Falcons team-mate Jamie Noon.
Competition for the back three roles is intense, with Iain Balshaw, Mark Van Gisbergen, James Simpson-Daniel, Tom Voyce and Tom Varndell all in contention for a starting spot.
Robinson believes Australia will provide a much stiffer test up front under new head coach John Connolly and forwards coach Michael Foley, both formerly together at Bath, than at Twickenham last November.
Connolly is thought to be considering giving giant prop Rodney Blake and hooker Tai McIsaac Test debuts on Sunday, with England likely to go with Graham Rowntree, Lee Mears and Julian White in the front row.
"We knew the Wallabies would pick a strong squad that typifies what John Connolly and Mike Foley want to do with a big tight-five," he added.
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"(Assistant coach) Scott Johnson will also have a terrific influence on how Australia play.
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Eight Things I Miss About the Cold War
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Eight Things I Miss About the Cold War
Fifty Years Ago, College Was Cheap, Unions Were Strong, and There Was No Terrorism-Industrial Complex
By Jon Wiener
At a book festival in Los Angeles recently, some writers (myself included) were making the usual arguments about the problems with American politics in the 1950s -- until one panelist shocked the audience by declaring, God, I miss the Cold War. His grandmother, he said, had come to California from Oklahoma with a grade-school education, but found a job in an aerospace factory in L.A. during World War II, joined the union, got healthcare and retirement benefits, and prospered in the Cold War years. She ended up owning a house in the suburbs and sending her kids to UCLA.
Several older people in the audience leaped to their feet shouting, What about McCarthyism? The bomb? Vietnam? Nixon?
All good points, of course. After all, during the Cold War the U.S. did threaten to destroy the world with nuclear weapons, supported brutal dictators globally because they were anti-communist, and was responsible for the deaths of several million people in Korea and Vietnam, all in the name of defending freedom. And yet its not hard to join that writer in feeling a certain nostalgia for the Cold War era. It couldnt be a sadder thing to admit, given what happened in those years, but -- given whats happened in these years -- who can doubt that the America of the 1950s and 1960s was, in some ways, simply a better place than the one we live in now? Here are eight things (from a prospectively longer list) we had then and dont have now.
2. We didnt have a secret terrorism-industrial complex.
Thats the term coined by Dana Priest and William Arkin in their book Top Secret America to describe the ever-growing post-9/11 world of government agencies linked to private contractors charged with fighting terrorism. During the Cold War, we had a handful of government agencies doing top secret work; today, they found, we have more than 1,200.
For example, Priest and Arkin found 51 federal organizations and military commands that attempt to track the flow of money to and from terrorist networks. And dont forget the nearly 2,000 for-profit corporate contractors that engage in top-secret work, supposedly hunting terrorists. The official budget for intelligence has increased from around $27 billion in the last years of the Cold War to $75 billion in 2012. Along with this massive expansion of government and private security activities has come a similarly humongous expansion of official secrecy: the number of classified documents has increased from perhaps 5 million a year before 1980 to 92 million in 2011, while Obama administration prosecutions of government whistleblowers have soared. ...................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175638/tomgram%3A_jon_wiener%2C_ike%27s_dream%2C_obama%27s_reality/#more
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Tue Jan 15, 2013, 07:18 PM
leveymg (36,418 posts)
1. Here's a line from the Cold War: "We have met the enemy, & he's us." Now, that's treated literally.
Things did seem a lot simpler in the 1960s, and we were a lot more confident it would all end up okay.
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Tue Jan 15, 2013, 08:52 PM
Brigid (17,621 posts)
2. This is why . . .
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"Mad Men" is so popular. In a number of ways, life was better; and people, even those too young to have experienced it firsthand, know it.
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Tue Jan 15, 2013, 09:26 PM
leveymg (36,418 posts)
3. Median American purchasing power peaked in 1974, and is now about 30% less.
Most of that decline since 2000.
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Tue Jan 15, 2013, 10:13 PM
Fumesucker (45,851 posts)
4. The Peace Dividend
In retrospect one of the stupidest things I think I've ever heard.
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Wed Jan 16, 2013, 05:40 AM
bananas (27,505 posts)
5. There are still thousands of nuclear warheads on hair-trigger alert
In the article he says:
...But there is one thing I do NOT miss about the Cold War: nuclear arsenals on hair-trigger alert.
But there are still thousands of nuclear warheads on hair-trigger alert.
A Fact Sheet from the Nuclear Threat Initiative:
Fact Sheet: Building Global Security by Taking Nuclear Weapons off Hair-Trigger Alert
Oct. 15, 2012
More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia continue to keep hundreds of ballistic missiles and thousands of strategic nuclear warheads on hair-trigger, launch-ready status.
A 2009 report from the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament:
Alert Status of Existing Weapons
2.39 Strategists and operation planners usually make a distinction between short-notice alert and launch-on-warning (LOW) or launch-under-attack (LUA) policy, (also popularly, if inaccurately, described as hair trigger alert). The former relates to all combat ready weapons that may be launched quickly (in a few minutes time) after receiving the order, primarily ICBMs and SLBMs at sea. The latter is associated with weapons that must be launched quickly upon receiving information about an opponents attack in order to avoid destruction on the ground. <snip>
2.40 Altogether there are now probably about 3,000 nuclear warheads of the U.S., Russia, France and Britain at launch ready status at any given moment in peacetime, of which around 2,150 are on very high alert in line with the LOW/LOA concept and operational plans (on U.S. and Russian ICBMs, and on Russian SLBMs on submarines at bases).
A 2012 article from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists:
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The passage of five decades and the introduction of hotlines, permissive action links, and other technological brakes on the launch of nuclear warfare has not decreased the threat of nuclear war. Nine nuclear-weapon-armed states have a total arsenal of 19,000 warheads, nearly 2,000 of which are on high operational alert. The threat has in fact increased, and potential for use of nuclear weapons -- whether intentionally or by accident, through computer error or cyber attack or terrorism -- is only too real. There is no guarantee that we will have luck on our side, as we did during the Cuban Missile Crisis, in our time. To reduce the likelihood of an Armageddon that will doom all countries -- large and small, sophisticated or less so -- we must:


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Ai no Miko, I think overall you have a great take on Sebastian. Your costume looks great and the photos are nice. The only thing I can think of to say about the posing would be to try to cock your head back a little more and look down a bit with your eyes. Sebastian tends to look down on others in that way, one because he's so tall, and two because he's an arrogant demon. But all in all you've got a great start.
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Just a question in terms of positioning my head, is it fairly easy to cock back your head like that and not make your eyes come off as too droopy when you look down a bit? I struggle with very tired looking eyes and I'm just wondering if they'd look closed half the time. Maybe I could get your opinion on if this looks any good, or if it's even what you meant:
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It's Mrthejazz... a case not yet solved. 14:04, August 8, 2010 (UTC)
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|Hi Jazz, my lifelong nemesis, this is a pretty good article you have here. There really aren't many issues, but nevertheless I have a few suggestions that I hope will help.
Generally your humour is really good. The way you make the article boring to the point of irritance is very effective, and also amusing, so good job there. I do have some concern that it might work too well, and that readers may actually find the article quite tiresome. This can probably be fixed quite easily however. One of the main reasons I feel this is because of your list: the really long list of "colours that aren't beige". To sit and read them all is quite a task, let me tell you. I'm pretty sure everyone who sees it will just quickly glance at it, hoping to catch a few funny ones. Could I suggest making it a little shorter? Perhaps getting rid of some of the silly (but not funny) colours like pigment green and venetian red? It's up to you of course, but it really is a very extensive list.
Another problem here is that there seems to be an inbalance of funny colours to serious colours, tipped in favour of serious colours. There are two things you could do to counteract this. The first is to somehow highlight the funny colours (maybe not all of them, just the best), so they stand out and readers aren't straining to find them. An interesting way I thought you could do is by linking all the real colours to the pages we (presumably) have on them, leaving the non-real ones as regular text, and thus more noticeable.
My second idea is to simply add more funny ones (which, if you also cut some of the serious ones as I suggest, would become a whole lot clearer). You could probably also work on some of the funny ones you already have. A lot of them, for instance, just add swear words to pre-existing colours. This didn't really work more than once. Try to add more context to your made up colours, rather than just swearing. For example, how about something like "James Brown brown" or "McDonalds cheese orange"? Not hilarious I know, but they're the kind of colours people can imagine, and that's exactly what I think you need more of. You already do this to some extent, of course, and some of the colours are hilarious so don't worry about it too much.
As for other jokes, the section on the Beige Film seems a bit silly. Perhaps get rid of this, it's kind of seems like you're grabbing desperately for beige things to talk about (perhaps this is the joke, but if so, make it obvious). Otherwise, get rid of this part, because it's not a real film. Or is it? It's certainly not one most people have heard of. I did really like the idea of a beige Power Ranger however, perhaps you could come up with a section about this instead?
Something else that puzzled me in your "list of things that are beige or have beige in them" section was the "language, linguistics and sign theory" part. This seemed like the wrong place for it. Also, the title is a bit misleading, you're not talking about "langage, linguistics and sign theory", you're talking about the etymology of the word beige. I recommend moving this to a section of its own, perhaps just called "etymology". Wikipedia tends to put this sort of thing as the first header, but it's up to you where it goes.
Overall, your "beige things" section is a bit inconsistent. It starts off with very specific titles, ie. "aeroplane cockpits", "the beige book", then starts using more generic ones like "music" and "film". It would be better if you stuck to one format. I recommend the more specific titles, as I feel that would be a more boring list. This of course would help continue the boring tone.
So that about wraps it up for humour. Mostly this article is full of really great jokes. The one about the New Zealand Cricket Team doing "alright" was great.
|Now like I said, the boring tone works pretty well, but to stop it from being a drag I would really recommend getting some more content in here. If we ignore the enormous lists of colours, what is remaining seems pretty listlike itself. The main body of the text - "things that are beige etc" - needs more depth to counteract the two massive lists either side of it. Your section on ethnography for instace just says "some people are beige". Really? Who? That sounds kind of interesting, please go on. You should also explain the Beige Book a bit more. Is it a real book? If so, it would be funnier if your header read "the Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions", and then mentioned in the prose that it was coloured beige, as this would make it look humorously dull (the beige book, on the other hand, sounds mysterious and mildly interesting).
So yeah, it's all a little brief. Again it's not a major problem, but if you could get a little bit more in there, I'd certainly be happier. Surely there's tons more stuff you could say about beige. Did you know, for example, that the average colour of the universe is actually beige? They call it "cosmic beige" or something to that effect. Tehcnically, this means everything is beige. Surely you could write a section on that? Perhaps along the lines of how the whole of reality is as bland and monotonous as all the other beige things you discuss.
The only other thing I had a gripe with conceptually is in your "fashion" section. You say that the beige-ness of khaki pants "is a point of contention". This seems contrary to the rest of the article, which considers beige-ness to be very dull and incident-free. I'm not convinced that this could cause any contention in the world of your article. Maybe it would be funnier if it started a very neutral and boring argument, which actually ends without incident?
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|Ok, spelling and grammar first. You're missing an "are" in the first sentence of "things that are either beige or have beige in them". The line should be: while there are things that are considered common knowledge
Then you go on to say "then there are things that are beige". Perhaps you should stress the "are" in here, so people can really tell these things are beige. This would just make a deliberately awkward sentence a bit easier to read, in my opinion.
Ok, you were probably expecting this next one - the beige coloured text does kind of add to the article, and I did like it, but I think it makes it way too hard to read. Perhaps it would be better if you made the background beige? And included more beige pictures to really hammer home the monotony of beige-ness? Seriously, it was near-impossible to read. I had to highlight the text.
The really long list of colours in the first image also makes it look a bit scruffy. It's not a huge detriment to the article or anything, but I personally think this kind of joke would work better in the main body of the text. It would counteract the "colours that are not beige" section quite well. The caption was funny though so you should probably keep the rest of it intact, should you make this revision.
|Images. They're good, but the top one should be moved down, maybe replacing the picture of the guy in the huge bowtie as that was probably the worst image. That one didn't really add anything as far as I'm concerned, plus it looked a little too exciting to be consistent. As predictable as it sounds, your top image should probably just be beige - all beige. I like how you put a lot of your opening images on the left, by the way. It's like you have a signature.
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|So to sum up, the main problem here really is briefness. I hope my review helps. Don't take any of my criticisms to heart, this is a great article, my suggestions are just there to help you should you want to change anything. Good luck with this (and with WotM, damn you), and feel free to contact me if you need any clarification or want me to look at any changes.
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odded our mucky shoes all around that room at least four laps each! You have guessed it no doubt, No telephone, telephone socket in the bathroom and one by the bed but no apparatus attached to either. Management definitely did not want guests of this room to have the facility to ring down and complain about incomplete verandah. Management probably thought Guests would be too embarrassed to trail wet cement shoes all the way down to reception. Oh! They were so wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As we were trying to explain our problem to a receptionist that thought it would be safer to pretend that she did not understand our English another couple arrived at the desk, I remember them being on the same flight as us and they also had cement all over their shoes. She was fuming; mind you I did notice that her shoes were definitely expensive jobbies, not your 9.99 court shoes from the market! Duty Manager arrives and introduces himself as 'Adonis' guides us all to a table in the lounge area away from the reception incase other Guests over heard our plight obviously and starts to explain his problems with workmen not doing the job right etc etc. We told him bluntly that we had paid for a sea view with a verandah and would like a room with a verandah that we could actually step onto without sinking into the cement. He was not coming forth with any solutions he claimed that he only had two other rooms available and they overlooked the kitchens so we were not very happy at all. Finally my hubby and I agreed to stay in the original room for that night on the condition that he moved us to another room the following morning. We found a bottle of very nice wine in the room when we went back up so cracked it open and thought we would make the most of it for the night after all we were on holiday. Five minutes later 'Adonis' the Duty Manager knocked on the door, he had magically found us a nice room and it w
as a very nice room with a gorgeous view, so we moved into that after having our supper. Another bottle of complimentary wine was left on the coffee table in an ice bucket so a good night was had by all! A bit of a bad start to the holiday but the hotel was all right, certainly not five star, maybe it was ten years ago but it was a little bit drab and the service was extremely slow. Food was great for the first couple of days over the actual Christmas period but after Boxing Day it went down hill rapidly, for the last two nights of our holiday we went out to eat because we were going down to cold food and on one night they actually ran out of food before everybody had been fed. I would not recommend this hotel as a five star and I would not stay there again, but I did find the staff courteous and helpful. Oh I forget to mention, the other couple were given a room on the ground floor directly behind the lifts they did not get a lot of sleep for seven days and couldn't wait to go home, so maybe we were lucky.
I recently spent seven days at the Kissos Hotel, in Paphos and I was fascinated by their chef's ability to recyle food until there was hardly any waste (more about this later)! The Kissos was originally built in 1984 and the main hotel still has the original 'period' furnishings. The paint is peeling on the balconies and the carpets and drapery look as though they have seen better days. The new block is 'superior' (as the brochure says) and has new furnishings and pristine glossy paint work. You have to pay a supplement for this though. There are three swimming pools but the new lagoon-style pool is for residents in the 'superior rooms' only. The old pool isn't heated so it was far too cold to swim in it during the Cyprus winter, even though we had plenty of sun. The inside pool is so small that you can really get a god swim in it.A few strokes and you reached the end. This was part of the health club which consisted of rowing machine ans a couple of cycles. This all sounds quite reasonable so far and given that the Kissos is only a 3* I thought it sounded pretty good. The first problem with this hotel is that they have increased the number of rooms they have but failed to upgrade the facilities. So, it was virtually impossible to get a sunbed by the pool as their just weren't enough. Service at the bar was very slow as they don't have enough staff or enough seats. Now, back to my title! I have never before been served the same dish of carrots disguised in so many different ways. Day one brought carrots served in the traditional way. Day two they were served mixed with peas, then in a white sauce, a vegetable casserole, in a vegetable terrine and finally in Spanish omelettes. It wasn't just the carrots that made repeat appearances either. Roast beef was served three days running, disguised as beef wellington and 'Wyatt Earp's Fire Roast'
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