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I've just started reposting here after a nine month absence. Look for some nice changes to the site and regular updates on U.S. intelligence, privatized spying, Korea, Japan and music. My pages section at the top (just below that incredible photo from South Korea in 1960) includes links to much of my work on Korea, Japan, etc., over the years. Meanwhile, follow me on Twitter @TimothyS and read my blog at TheNation.com.
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Category Archives: Kwangju Declassified
20 years ago, my reporting caused a furor in South Korea
This was the best response I ever got to a story, as chronicled in 1996 by the Washington Post.
Gwangju: Preserving the vicious nature of martial law, 1980
I spent most of the last three weeks in South Korea, primarily in Gwangju, Jeju and Seoul. I was invited to Gwangju by the city, along with three American journalists who witnessed the uprising and the final military takeover on … Continue reading
Guest Post: South Korea Bans Korean-German from Kwangju
In an extraordinary and undemocratic act, the South Korean government has prevented Lee Jong-Hyeon, a 79 year-old Korean living in Germany to enter the country to attend commemoration ceremonies remembering the May 18, 1980, uprising in Kwangju. He arrived on … Continue reading
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My Gwangju FOIA Documents Get a Home – In Gwangju
This week I agreed to donate my entire collection of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documents on U.S. policy in South Korea from 1979 to 1980 to the city of Kwangju. Mayor Yoon and I worked out the agreement on May 18 … Continue reading
The Hidden History of the (Current) Korean War
Just posted at Radio War Nerd. Deep-dive interview with investigative reporter Tim Shorrock on the roots of the recurring North Korea crises . . . we spend time recovering the gruesome lost history of North Korea, South Korea & the … Continue reading


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Failing our children
Armstrong Williams | 7/11/2013, 12:29 p.m. | Updated on 7/11/2013, 12:29 p.m.
Apparently, those duties are beyond many parents today, as they have demanded teachers become surrogate mothers and fathers. Why else would they demand schools teach, rather than simply enforce, morality over history or science? For what other reason would they insist their child never fail so he can believe in himself rather than learning how to overcome setbacks?
The students quickly learn that the system cannot afford to flunk them, and school becomes a social function. In fact, the students begin to feel entitled to grades they never earned yet were always given. Many parents encourage this behavior by their actions. They blame schools for their children's failing but bully teachers into passing their child. They yell at the teachers, principals and school board members for disciplining their child. They sue the schools for anything and everything. Students learn that complaining about too much homework, the mean teacher or the bad food makes the problem goes away.
The youths graduate from high school expecting everything to be handed to them and run smack dab into the real world. Having never dealt with failure or needing to meet expectations, they flounder. How could we have ever expected them to succeed when they were never really given the right tools?
But politicians and parents are not the only culprits behind the failure of our education system. Next week, I will address the institutional problems plaguing our public schools and what we can do to try to solve this crisis.
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Hi all! I am a bit shocked to be here as I was expecting it to take a long time to get pregnant. I'm nursing my almost 2 year old whilst also training for a half ironman so I thought my fertility would be compromised so a big surprise to be pregnant the first month, but it does mean I'm missing my race. This doesn't matter in the long term, of course, but I am a little disappointed not to be doing it since I've been training for a long time... Being pregnant is MUCH better, though!
Are any of you planning on working out through your pregnancy? I did with my first though I was not doing tris then and mostly kept to the gym as I could no longer bike outside or row. We have a really motivating keeping fit thread when I was last pregnant so I'm hoping there are some others out there... runners, walkers, lifters, cyclists, and in fact anything slightly physical counts :)
I was very sick last time around and even though I am barely pregnant (12 DPO) I already feel queasy and yuck so this might be a challenge. I am about to try and run. I ran 12 miles on Saturday before I got a positive and now I realise why the run was so dreadful. Time to dial it back a bit but I'm hoping to run as long as is possible, bike outside for the next couple of months (until a fall would become dangerous to the baby), swim throughout, and probably add in some gym work as the weather gets colder.
Right.. watch me sit on the couch for the next 3 months!
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I'm a runner. As a kid I had exercise induced athsma, after my son it magically disapeared! Iwas thinking of doing a 10K this summer but hesitated signing up because we've been ttc a while. I love running, only problem is, I've had 2 miscarriages and also bled with my son. I've been terrified with this pregnancy, so I'm too paranoid to run, have sex, etc. I'm sure in a few weeks I'll start again though!
I'm really active, but my favorite forms of excersise are the circus arts. I stopped completely when it came time to ttc. I really miss it, but it just doesn't seem safe to me. I've been looking into aerial yoga though. I feel like I need to talk to someone specifically about what types of excersize to do and which to avoid.
Happily married to my soul mate, and a mommy of two girls + another baby due in June!
I don't *love* most forms of exercise, but I was out of shape with DD1's pregnancy and in shape for DD2's and it was such a HUGE difference! I'm definitely sticking with exercise this time!!! I worked out for about 2 months in preparation for getting pregnant and in the meantime discovered yoga and I gotta say, I am in love!!!! I have such crappy circulation and digestion that gets even worse while pregnant... I wonder why nobody suggested this before! It feels fantastic!
I am basically confined to indoor exercise here, especially during the summer, due to air conditions (we live close to the freeway and near the fire zones in california). I'm always jealous of you girls who have cool places to run and bike and hike! Maybe someday. :)
Any recommendations for good prenatal yoga videos?
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I'm an active mama! I'm a runner and I lift weights a couple of times a week though I wouldn't call myself a lifter. I didn't do a very good job about exercising during my last pregnancy but I'm really hoping I can keep up with my exercising routine this time. And I'd also like to add some swimming and yoga in as I get farther along. I need you ladies to keep me accountable!!
Maegen, adventurous wife to DH, loving mom to my beautiful DD's and expecting another babe in March 2012!
Great to see so many of you here already! I honestly don't know if this pregnancy is going to stick but I'm going to start a fit mama's check in so we can support each other.
Dandy - can you tell me more about circus arts? That sounds super interesting.
Jane, I did use a good prenatal yoga DVD last time around. I'll dig it out and get back to you with the name.
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I definitely want to exercise with my pregnancy. I walk all over town and do yoga and pilates in my house. I was thinking about finding a prenatal yoga class around here and swimming too. I am a bit concerned about doing too much in the first trimester, so I may just stick to my walks and maybe some light weight lifting. I don't know - is anyone else concerned with this or am I just crazy. I have been having cramping too, but I figure it is because it is my third pregnancy and I know cramping gets worse with each pregnancy - I have not had any bleeding or anything else abnormal. I am excited to hear what works for everyone. With two other kids, I definitely want to keep my energy up with this pregnancy.
HI Frenchie2, well, I have cut way back (I was training for a half ironman taking place this September), but I have read James Clapp's book 'Exercising Through Pregnancy', and it seems like that as long as you're not working out to the maximum (i.e. competitively) you can pretty much carry on with your usual routine. My Dr. said the same thing, though she did seem to agree that cutting the intensity and even duration was probably a good thing in my case. The biggest thing to watch out for is your core temperature, which doesn't want to get too high.
There was a large study done which seemed to show an increase in m/c for women who exercised a lot before 18 weeks (no difference after that time). However, it was a retrospective study and the women were not asked about their levels of nausea, caffeine use, etc. The authors caution that whilst there is an association, it might be that women who exercised more simply had less nausea and were able to work out, and that the lack of nausea had more to do with increased risk. The risk rose by 10% for women exercising more than 90 minutes a week, and over 200% for women who exercised over 7 hours.
So.... with all this conflicting info I am going to err on the side of caution but there are so many positives relating to exercise that I'm going to try as long as possible to keep going. My guess is that in a couple of weeks, if this pregnancy is anything like my last, I won't be able to do much until into the second trimester.
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Thanks Zubeldia! All the conflicting info drives me crazy. Yesterday I did some yoga and felt guilty about it - I have done yoga for awhile now, so it should be okay but I still felt unsettled by it. It is supposed to be really hot here and looks a bit stormy, so I don't know if we will get outside much for a walk. So I did a 2 mile walk with Leslie Sansome online. The workout was good and was beyond just walking in place for 30 minutes, which is what I had pictured. I am only 3 weeks, but I already feel my body needing to relax more. My other pregnancies were like this too- if I get in any horizontal position for longer than 10 minutes, I am in a deep sleep.
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Becoming A Contagious Christian
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Thank you very much for the response. I'll follow your lead and CC to dbi-users as well. That sample code never did make it to google... Here it is: [------TABLE SCHEMA-----] CREATE TABLE queue ( id int4 DEFAULT nextval('"queue_id_seq"'::text) NOT NULL, my_type varchar(50), my_data varchar(50), status int8 DEFAULT 0, CONSTRAINT queue_id_key UNIQUE (id) ) WITH OIDS; [---END TABLE SCHEMA----] [----BEGIN TEST CODE----] #!/usr/local/bin/perl # # Set process id... # my $procid = $$; use DBI; my $rs; my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=mydb","myuser","mypass"); my $finished = false; while ($finished ne true) { # # Begin Transaction... # # # Claim a record for ourselves # my $mysql_update = <<EOS; BEGIN; LOCK TABLE queue IN EXCLUSIVE MODE; UPDATE queue set status=$procid WHERE id = (SELECT min(id) FROM queue WHERE status=0 ); COMMIT; EOS my $rs_update = $dbh->prepare($mysql_update); $rs_update->execute; # # Get the row from the batch_trans_queue # my $mysql_get = <<EOS; SELECT id, my_type, my_data FROM queue WHERE status=$procid; EOS my $rs_get = $dbh->prepare($mysql_get); $rs_get->execute; # # We got a record... # while ($row_get = $rs_get->fetchrow_arrayref) { # # Get queue values # my @row = @$row_get if $row_get; my $id = @row[0]; my $my_type = @row[1]; my $my_data = @row[2]; print "VALUES: $my_type $my_data\n"; # # Set record completed # $mysql_update = "update queue set status=1 where id=$id;"; $rs_update = $dbh->prepare($mysql_update); $rs_update->execute; } $rs_get->finish; sleep(1); } # # disconnect from server # $dbh->disconnect; [----END TEST CODE----] I'm really not "preparing" any of my statements... It seemed that in my conversion to DBI, prepare() was a required formality. What is the alternative to executing a pre-prepared SQL statement other than prepare; execute;? I'm also not cleaning up after my non-row-returning SQL executes. Should I be cleaning them up somehow? Here are the things on my list to attempt: 1. Use $dbi->trace(9) 2. Convert $sth->fetchrow_arrayref() to $sth->fetchall_arrayref() and see what happens. 3. Look into the DBI Profiler you mentioned... Any other thoughts? CG --- Rudy Lippan <rlippan(at)remotelinux(dot)com> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Chris Gamache wrote: > > CCing dbi-users. > > > Procps reports that the 6 simultaneous postmasters (spawned by 6 instances > of > > the same perl script) each have 20% load with DBI over 6% load each for 6 > > postmasters with PgSQL::Cursor. (Running Dual Xeons at 2GHz apiece w/o > > hyperthreading) > > What type of load were you seeing with PgSQL? > > > > I can't seem to reproduce the problem with test code (posted in > pgsql-general > > with a similar thread. Hasn't made it to google yet, otherwise I'd include > a > > link) I think it has to do with the large dataset it is dealing with. > > > Sample could would be nice ;) > > > As far as PgSQL::Cursor using cursors, I guess that might be the case. I > was > > hoping someone would suggest using a different DBI method or DBI setting, > to > > tone down DBI's (perceived) voracity for processor time! > > It does not seem to. In fact PgSQL does not seem to do much at all -- > which might explain why it is faster in some things; BTA, much of > DBI & DBD::Pg are written in C which "should" make them faster :) > > > > > PgSQL::Cursor was alpha software when I started using it. It was simple to > > impliment, and did the trick. It was eclipsed by DBI and as a result was > not > > updated. PgSQL.pm didn't cause a problem until recently. Porting to DBI was > > simple: different method calls yielding the same results. The only > difference > > that I can see is the extra load. I've never gone digging in the sources, > so > > I'm not sure how the two differ. > > > > I'll settle for extra processor load as a trade off for stability. I was > hoping > > there would be a well-known and quick fix. My next task is to turn on some > > verbose debug logs to perhaps shed some light on what's going on, and let > me > > know why I can't reproduce this with my test code! > > > 1. You might want to try $sth->fetchall_arrayref(). This will suck > everthing into one big arrayref; which is not as bad as it sounds because, > if you are not using cursors, all of the data are returned by postgres and > fetch() just gives you the next row. Of course this will cause a > momentary increase in memory usage because you will have to duplicate all > of the rows instead of one at a time. -- I would be interested in seing if > this causing any increase in performance? > > 2. If you are doing many prepare()s/execute()s, You might want to try > runing the code out of CVS. DBD::Pg has to preparse the statement that you > give it changing '?' into :p1 and allocating memory and data structs for > handling placeholders. The preparse code for prepare()/execute() in CVS > is much leaner that what is in 1.22. Also try and keep prepare()s out of > loops, this will save a walk or two of the statement. > > 3. if memory usage is a problem try using DECLARE CURSOR and FETCH; this > will give you a fetchrow_arrayref() that takes much less memory > (depending on the size of the dataset), will use more CPU time. [I know > you are worried about CPU time] > > 4. One way to get some pretty large performance increases if you are > executing() in a tight loop is to use postgres's server side prepare. The > Code in CVS can do this for you automatically; however the way it is > writtin, it breaks anything that that cannot be prepared like PREPARE > 'DBD::Pg Statement 1' (varchar,varchar,varchar) AS SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE > a=$1 and b = $2, and c=$3. Basically the (varchars) will cause some SQL > statments to break (eg. WHERE foo BETWEEN $1 AND $2). Right now CVS head > has this feature disabled because it breaks too many things, but if you > want I can make it configurable? > > > You also might want to look at the DBI profiler. > > If you are interested in seeing what DBI is doing try taking a look at the > output of DBI->trace(9). > > -r > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
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What can you do with a couple of boards and some bean bags? Play Cornhole of course! The game is quickly becoming a favorite in backyards and tailgate parties all across the country and on Friday, June 21st, you have a chance to get in on the fun.
On Friday, June 21, teams will showcase their bag-throwing technique at Coach's Corner to participate in the 2nd Annual Cornhole Classic Tournament benefitting Senior Citizens, Inc.
The cost is $100 per team of two and there will be a cash payout to the top five teams! All ages and skill levels are welcome. Entry to the tournament also includes a fish fry, all the beer you can drink, and a concert by the Clear Daze band.
Even if you don't play, come out and support this great cause. Tickets for dinner, drinks, and the Clear Daze concert are just $30.00 per person.
Grab a partner and head to Coach's Corner at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 21 where the fun is in the bag!! The tournament begins at 6 p.m., followed by the fish fry and concert at 7 p.m.. Teams are limited. Call (912) 236-0363 or visit http://www.seniorcitizens-inc.org for more information.
The mission of Senior Citizens, Inc. is to help people age successfully. For more than fifty years, the non-profit organization has worked to provide direct services that allow seniors to remain in the homes of their choice for as long as possible. Services are provided throughout five counties in southeast Georgia and include home-delivered meals, in-home support, senior companions, senior activity centers, adult day care and The Learning Center.
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Cornhole Classic: Thursday, June 21 at Coach's Corner (3016 E. Victory Drive)
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7 p.m. – Fish Fry and Clear Daze concert
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In accounting, book value or carrying value is the value of an asset appears in balance sheet account balance. For assets, the value is based on the original cost of the asset less any depreciation, amortization or impairment costs made against the asset. Traditionally, a company's book value is its total assets minus intangible assets and liabilities. However, in practice, depending on the source of the calculation, book value may variably include goodwill, intangible assets, or both. When intangible assets and goodwill are explicitly excluded, the metric is often specified to be "tangible book value".
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- Accumulated depreciation: building... credit = $150, under assets
The balance sheet valuation for an asset is the asset's cost basis minus accumulated depreciation. Similar bookkeeping transactions are used to record amortization and depletion.
"Discount on notes payable" is a contra-liability account which decreases the balance sheet valuation of the liability.
When a company sells (issues) bonds, this debt is a long-term liability on the company's balance sheet, recorded in the account Bonds Payable based on the contract amount. After the bonds are sold, the book value of Bonds Payable is increased or decreased to reflect the actual amount received in payment for the bonds. If the bonds sell for less than face value, the contra account Discount on Bonds Payable is debited for the difference between the amount of cash received and the face value of the bonds.
Net asset value
In the United Kingdom, the term net asset value may refer to book value.
A mutual fund is an entity which primarily owns "financial assets" or capital assets such as bonds, stocks and commercial paper. The net asset value of a mutual fund is the market value of assets owned by the fund minus the fund's liabilities. This is similar to shareholders' equity, except the asset valuation is market-based rather than based on acquisition cost. In financial news reporting, the reported net asset value of a mutual fund is the net asset value of a single share in the fund. In the mutual fund's accounting records, the financial assets are recorded at acquisition cost. When assets are sold, the fund records a capital gain or capital loss.
Financial assets include stock shares and bonds owned by an individual or company. These may be reported on the individual or company balance sheet at cost or at market value.
Corporate book value
A company or corporation's book value, as an asset held by a separate economic entity, is the company or corporation's shareholders' equity, the acquisition cost of the shares, or the market value of the shares owned by the separate economic entity.
A corporation's book value is used in fundamental financial analysis to help determine whether the market value of corporate shares is above or below the book value of corporate shares. Neither market value nor book value is an unbiased estimate of a corporation's value. The corporation's bookkeeping or accounting records do not generally reflect the market value of assets and liabilities, and the market or trade value of the corporation's stock is subject to variations.
Tangible Common Equity
A more obscure variation of book value, tangible common equity, has recently come into use by the U.S. Federal Government in the valuation of troubled banks. Tangible common equity is calculated as total book value minus intangible assets, goodwill, and preferred equity, and can thus be considered the most conservative valuation of a company and the best approximation of its value should it be forced to liquidate.
Since tangible common equity subtracts preferred equity from the tangible book value, it does a better job estimating what the value of the company is to holders of specifically common stock compared to standard calculations of book value.
Stock pricing book value
To clearly distinguish the market price of shares from the core time value of money and other factors such as investment risk. Present value calculations are widely used in business and economics to provide a means to compare cash flows at different times on a meaningful "like to like" basis.
If offered a choice between $100 today or $100 in one year and there is a positive real interest rate throughout the year ceteris paribus, a rational person will choose $100 today. This is described by economists as Time Preference. Time Preference can be measured by auctioning off a risk free security - like a US Treasury bill. If a $100 note, payable in one year, sells for $80, then the present value of $100 one year in the future is $80. This is because you can invest your money today in a bank account or any other (safe) investment that will return you interest.
An investor who has some money has two options: to spend it right now or to save it. But the financial compensation for saving it (and not spending it) is that the money value will accrue through the interest that he or she will receive from a borrower (the bank account on which he has the money deposited).
Therefore, to evaluate the real value of an amount of money today after a given period of time, economic agents compound the amount of money at a given (interest) rate. Most actuarial calculations use the risk-free interest rate which corresponds the minimum guaranteed rate provided by your bank's saving account for example. If you want to compare your change in purchasing power, then you should use the real interest rate (nominal interest rate minus inflation rate).
The operation of evaluating a present value into the future value is called a capitalization (how much $100 today are worth in 5 years?). The reverse operation—evaluating the present value of a future amount of money—is called a discounting (how much $100 that I will receive in 5 years—at a lottery for example—are worth today?).
It follows that if one has to choose between receiving $100 today and $100 in one year, the rational decision is to choose the $100 today. If the money is to be received in one year and assuming the savings account interest rate is 5%, the person has to be offered at least $105 in one year so that two options are equivalent (either receiving $100 today or receiving $105 in one year). This is because if you cash $100 today and deposit in your savings account, you will have $105 in one year.
The most commonly applied model of the time value of money is compound interest. To someone who can lend or borrow for \,t\, years at an interest rate \,i\, per year (where interest of "5 percent" is expressed fully as 0.05), the present value of the receiving \,C\, monetary units \,t\, years in the future is:
- C_t = C(1 + i)^{-t}\, = \frac{C}{(1+i)^t} \,
This is also found from the formula for the future value with negative time.
The purchasing power in today's money of an amount C of money, t years into the future, can be computed with the same formula, where in this case i is an assumed future inflation rate.
The expression \,(1 + i)^{-t} enters almost all calculations of present value. Where the interest rate is expected to be different over the term of the investment, different values for \,i\, may be included; an investment over a two year period would then have PV of:
- \mathrm{PV} = \frac{C}{(1+i_1)(1+i_2)} \,
Technical details
Present value is additive. The present value of a bundle of cash flows is the sum of each one's present value.
In fact, the present value of a cashflow at a constant interest rate is mathematically the same as the Laplace transform of that cashflow evaluated with the transform variable (usually denoted "s") equal to the interest rate. For discrete time, where payments are separated by large time periods, the transform reduces to a sum, but when payments are ongoing on an almost continual basis, the mathematics of continuous functions can be used as an approximation.
Choice of interest rate
The interest rate used is the risk-free interest rate. If there are no risks involved in the project, the rate of return from the project must equal or exceed this rate of return or it would be better to invest the capital in these risk free assets. If there are risks involved in an investment this can be reflected through the use of a risk premium. The risk premium required can be found by comparing the project with the rate of return required from other projects with similar risks. Thus it is possible for investors to take account of any uncertainty involved in various investments.
Annuities, perpetuities and other common forms
Many financial arrangements (including bonds, other loans, leases, salaries, membership dues, annuities, straight-line depreciation charges) stipulate structured payment schedules, which is to say payment of the same amount at regular time intervals. The term "annuity" is often used to refer to any such arrangement when discussing calculation of present value. The expressions for the present value of such payments are summations of geometric series.
A cash flow stream with a limited number (n) of periodic payments (C), receivable at times 1 through n, is an annuity. Future payments are discounted by the periodic rate of interest (i). The present value of this ordinary annuity is determined with this formula:
- PV \,=\,\frac{C}{i}\cdot[1-\frac{1}{\left(1+i\right)^n}] \mathrm = {C}\frac{1-(1+i)^{-n}}{i} \,
\,n\, = number of years
\,C\, = Amount of cash flows
This formula is usable when the cash flows are spread over the different but in equal intervals and also the amount of these flows is s
In mathematics, the absolute value (or modulus) |a| of a real numbera is as numerical value without regard to its sign. So, for example, 3 is the absolute value of both 3 and −3.
Generalizations of the absolute value for real numbers occur in a wide variety of mathematical settings. For example an absolute value is also defined for the complex numbers, the quaternions, ordered rings, fields and vector spaces. The absolute value is closely related to the notions of magnitude, distance, and norm in various mathematical and physical contexts.
Terminology and notation
Jean-Robert Argand introduced the term "module" 'unit of measure' in French in 1806 specifically for the complex absolute value and it was borrowed into English in 1866 as the Latin equivalent "modulus". The term "absolute value" has been used in this sense since at least 1806 in French and 1857 in English. The notation | a | was introduced by Karl Weierstrass in 1841. Other names for absolute value include "the numerical value" and "the magnitude".
Definition and properties
Real numbers
For any real numbera the absolute value or modulus of a is denoted by | a | (a vertical bar on each side of the quantity) and is defined as
- |a| = \begin{cases} a, & \mbox{if } a \ge 0 \\ -a, & \mbox{if } a < 0. \end{cases}
As can be seen from the above definition, the absolute value of a is always either positive or zero, but never negative. The same notation is used with sets to denote cardinality; the meaning depends on context.
From an analytic geometry point of view, the absolute value of a real number is that number's distance from zero along the real number line, and more generally the absolute value of the difference of two real numbers is the distance between them. Indeed the notion of an abstract distance function in mathematics can be seen to be a generalization of the absolute value of the difference (see "Distance" below).
Since the square-root notation without sign represents the positive square root, it follows that
which is sometimes used as a definition of absolute value.
The absolute value has the following four fundamental properties:
Other important properties of the absolute value include:
If b > 0, two other useful properties concerning inequalities are:
- |a| \le b \iff -b \le a \le b
- |a| \ge b \iff a \le -b \mbox{ or } b \le a
These relations may be used to solve inequalities involving absolute values. For example:
Absolute value is used to define the absolute difference, the standard metric on the real numbers.
Complex numbers
Since the complex numbers are not ordered, the definition given above for the real absolute value cannot be directly generalized for a complex number. However the identity given in equation (1) above:
- |a| = \sqrt{a^2}
can be seen as motivating the following definition.
For any complex number
- z = x + iy,\,
where x and y are real numbers, the absolute value or modulus of z is denoted |z| and is defined as
- |z| = \sqrt{x^2 + y^2}.
It follows that the absolute value of a real number x is equal to its absolute value considered as a complex number since:
- |x + i0| = \sqrt{x^2 + 0^2} = \sqrt{x^2} = |x|.
Similar to the geometric interpretation of the absolute value for real numbers, it follows from the Pythagorean theorem that the absolute value of a complex number is the distance in the complex plane of that complex number from the origin, and more generally, that the absolute value of the difference of two complex numbers is equal to the distance between those two complex numbers.
The complex absolute value shares all the properties of the real absolute value given in (2)–(10) above. In addition, If
- z = x + i y = r (\cos \phi + i \sin \phi ) \,
- \overline{z} = x - iy
is the complex conjugate of z, then it is easily seen that
- \begin{align} |z| & = r, \\ |z| & = |\overline{z}|\end{align}
- |z| = \sqrt{z\overline{z}},
with the last formula being the complex analogue of equation (1) mentioned above in the real case.
The absolute square of z is defined as
- |z|^2 = z\overline{z} = x^2 + y^2.
Since the positive reals form a subgroup of the complex numbers under multiplication, we may think of absolute value as an endomorphism of the multiplicative group of the complex numbers.
Absolute value functions
The real absolute value function is continuous everywhere. It is differentiable everywhere except for x = 0. It is monotonically decreasing on the interval (−∞, 0] and monotonically increasing on the interval [0, ∞). Since a real number and its negative have the s
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Juan Cole: Iraqi Shiites ... America's Would-Be AlliesRoundup: Historians' Take
The ambitious aim of the American war in Iraqarticulated by Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and other neoconservative defense intellectualswas to effect a fundamental transformation in Middle East politics. The war was notor not principallyabout finding weapons of mass destruction, or preventing alliances with al Qaeda, or protecting the Iraqi population from Saddams terror. For U.S. policy makers the importance of such a transformation was brought home by the events of September 11, which challenged U.S. strategy in the region by compromising the longstanding U.S. alliance with Saudi Wahhabis. In response to this challenge, the Bush administration saw the possibility of creating a new pillar for U.S. policy in the region: a post-Baathist Iraq, dominated by Iraqi Shiites, which would spark a wave of democratization across the Middle East.
But the Bush administration badly neglected the history of the group they wanted to claim as their new ally. Who are the Iraqi Shiites? And how likely are they to support democracy or U.S. goals in the region?...
From 1970 until the end of the Cold War, U.S. policy in the Middle East was based on three principles and two key alliances. The principles included fighting against Communist and other radical anti-American influences; supporting conservative religious and authoritarian political elites; and ensuring access to Middle Eastern petroleum supplies. The two principal allies were Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The centrality of the anti-Soviet pillar to regional policy is often ignored, but it helps explain the others. Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy, was a crucial pivot of U.S. policy from the 1970s forward. U.S. officials viewed its deeply conservative Wahhabi form of Islam as a barricade against Communism andafter the 1979 Iranian Revolutionagainst Irans Shiite Khomeinism. Israel, too, battled leftist and pro-Soviet forces, though its determination to annex much or all of the territories it captured in 1967 made it a problematic partner for a United States seeking Arab friends. The United States could maintain an alliance with both the Zionist state and the Wahhabi kingdom, even though the two did not care very much for one another, because both disliked the Soviets and leftist Palestinians.
Because the Cold War was a contest of economic systems, winning it depended crucially on the prosperity of Western Europe, Japan, and South Korea. Inexpensive energy was essential to their prosperity. And the Saudi alliance was one key to inexpensive energy. Because of its small population and unusually large capacity, Saudi Arabia had enormous influence on the price of petroleum. By pumping extra oil, the Saudis kept the price lower than other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), such as Algeria and Iran, would have liked. Moreover, Riyadh supported Western European prosperity by investing (recycling) its petrodollars back into the West.
The Saudis also bolstered regional conservatism, in particular by aiding the anti-Communist Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt from the 1950s forward. In this period the Brotherhoodformed in 1928 and precursor to contemporary fundamentalismwas increasingly persecuted by Abdel Nassers secular Arab socialist state. With Egypt tilting toward the Soviet Union in the 1960s, Saudi support for the Brotherhood was implicated in the U.S.Soviet struggle. In the 1970s dictator Anwar El Sadat shifted Egypt from the political left to the right and allied with the United States. With U.S. advice he sought a new, positive relationship with Saudi Arabia and with the Muslim Brotherhood. When Sadat made peace with Israel, key pieces of U.S. policy fell into place. (That Sadat was assassinated for taking this direction, by the very Sunni radicals he had unleashed, was irrelevant to the outcome, since his new foreign policy remained in effect).
Saudi Arabia remained central to U.S. policy in the 1980s. It took the lead in the Gulf in opposing Irans Khomeinist revolution and backed Saddam Husseins war against Iran, with Washingtons blessing. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan the United States pressured Saudi Arabia to support the efforts of the Muslim fundamentalist mujahidin (holy warriors) who volunteered to fight Moscows troops. In a breathtaking lapse of judgment, the Reagan administration gave billions of dollars to these groups. The administration misunderstood the difference between Muslim traditionalism and conservatism, and the virulent new strands of Sunni radicalism that were proliferating in the 1980s.
While the United States was consolidating an alliance with Saudi Arabia, policy toward Iraq fluctuated wildlythough here, too, anti-Communism was always the fundamental principle operating in the background. In the mid-1950s the United States and the British pushed the Baghdad Pact (signed in 1955), which grouped Iraq, Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan in an anti-Soviet alliance. This strategy collapsed in 1958 when Colonel Abdel Karim Qasim staged a bloody coup in Iraq against the government of Nurias-Said. Washington saw Qasim, who had Communist allies, as a dangerous radical. It has been alleged that the United States supported the 1963 failed coup attempt by the Arab nationalist Baath Party against the officers, receiving guarantees in return that the Iraqi Communist Party would be disbanded.
The Baath Party finally came to power in 1968, and though it did ban the Communists it went on to have indifferent relations with the United States until the Iranian Revolution and the Iraqi invasion of Iran in 1980. During the 1980s the United States threw its support behind Saddam Hussein and the Baath to combat Khomeinist radicalism, whose rabid anti-Americanism it saw as aiding the Soviet Union. The U.S.Saddam alliance, of course, ended with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
With the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Paul Wolfowitz and other national security hawks later grouped in the Project for a New American Century saw two principal security challenges to the United States: the remaining Communist powers in Asia, especially North Korea but also China, which they wished to see contained or, if possible, broken up; and the anti-American Middle Eastern states, including Iraq, Syria, and Iran. The two problems were linked because the East Asian Communists and the Middle Eastern radical states were suspected of proliferating missile and nuclear technologies to one another. Pakistan, for instance, is suspected of helping North Koreas nuclear program. Wolfowitz likened Chinese sales of intermediate missiles to Saudi Arabia in the 1980s to the Cuban missile crisis. Many of them also saw threats to Israels power as necessarily menacing to U.S. security.
The attacks on September 11 should have made it clear that the hawks had been looking for threats in all the wrong places. Iran and Iraq had been effectively contained, and China was too busy making money off the West to think about harming its economies. At the same timeand in significant part as a result of U.S. support for Muslim fundamentalism as an anti-Communist bulwarkSunni radicalism had emerged as a much more powerful threat than either East Asian Communism or Baathism and Khomeinism. Mujahidin who had trained in Afghanistan fanned back out to their home countries in 1989, victorious, and determined to establish Islamic states in places like Algeria and Yemen. Sunni radicals fought a virtual civil war in Algeria with the secular military government in the 1990s, waged a less bloody but still highly disruptive campaign against the Mubarak government in Egypt, and pioneered new militant political movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan and the neo-Deobandis in Pakistan. Once the Soviets had fallen the Sunni radicals abandoned their alliance of convenience with Washington and turned against the United States, which they now saw as a bulwark of the secular governments that they were trying to overthrow, in addition to resenting its role in supporting Israeli expansionism. The more radical of these groups coalesced into al Qaeda and decided to hit the far enemy rather than only the near one.
After September 11 the national security hawks, many of whom who had actively fostered the jihadis in the 1980s, attempted to link new the forms of Muslim terrorism to their longstanding preoccupations with Iraq and Iran. The anti-American Middle Eastern states were now even more dangerous, they alleged, because they either had joined up with the terrorists already or might in the future share weapons of mass destruction with the jihadis for use against the United States. But the Iraqi Baathists were devoted to secular Arab nationalism, and the Shiite ayatollahs in Iran despised al Qaeda and the Taliban. It was implausible that Khomeinist Shiites, Baathist Arab nationalists, and Sunni al Qaeda would collaborate closely with one another and share deadly technology. Nor was there any good evidence for it, though plenty was manufactured by innuendo.
The pillars of policy were now trembling. Some within the Bush circles, especially Secretary of State Colin Powell, sought a reduced American tolerance for Israels expansionist policies in the Occupied Territories, among the main sources of Muslim anger at the United States. Fearful of this outcome, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon accused George Bush in October 2001 of trying to appease Arab countries by forsaking Israel in the way that Europe had tried to appease Hitler in 1938 by abandoning the Czech Sudetenland. Sharply rebuked, Sharon backed off quickly, and by late fall of 2001 the Bush administration had been convinced, by a combination of domestic political calculations and geopolitical judgments, to remain committed to acquiescing in substantial expropriations of Palestinian land by Israel.
But the other central pillar remained in doubt. Some analysts associated with the administration criticized the Saudi alliance of monarchy and Wahhabi Islam as dangerously unstable and destabilizing. At the very least, some wealthy Saudis had given monetary support to al Qaeda or al Qaedalinked charities. Wahhabi missionizing in the Muslim world had spread the distinctively Wahhabi ideas that Muslims who are not strict in their observance are actually infidels and that non-Muslims are threats to Islam.
The hawks came to see an Americanized Iraq as a replacement for Saudi Arabia. The plan was risky, not least because the secular Baath government had been among the main ramparts against Sunni and Shiite religious radicalism in the Gulf. The hawks argued that a liberated Iraq would kick-start a wave of democratization in the Middle East, paralleling events in Eastern Europe when the Soviet Union weakened and then fell. (They did not explain why the United States, if it wanted democratization, did not start with places like Egypt and Jordan, which were more plausible candidates, being allies, developed civil societies, and recipients of substantial aid). They believed, incorrectly, that Iraqs petroleum-producing capacitywhile not at Saudi levelswas significant enough to offset Saudi dominance of the oil markets. And unlike Saudi Arabia, Paul Wolfowitz thought, Iraq did not have holy cities such as Mecca and Medina that would make the stationing of U.S. troops there objectionable: Iraqis, he said, dont bring the sensitivity of having the holy cities of Islam being on their territory. (He apparently did not then know about the Shiite shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala). The hawks were aware that a democratic Iraq would have a Shiite majority, but their client, Ahmad Chalabi (head of the expatriate Iraqi National Congress), convinced them that Iraqi Shiites were largely secular in mindset and uninterested in a Khomeinist theocracy. In the short term, they thought, Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress would run Iraq in at least a semi-democratic fashion.
This plan proposed an almost complete reconfiguring of the old pillars of American Cold War policy in the region. The two key alliances were now to be with Israel and a Shiite-majority secular Iraq. Saudi Arabia would be marginalized and the allegedly pernicious effects of its Wahhabism fought. ...
It is a plan. And like other ambitious plans it makes many assumptions. But perhaps the largest is that the Iraqi Shiites are plausible allies....
In removing the Baath regime and eliminating constraints on Iraqi Islamism, the United States has unleashed a new political force in the Gulf: not the upsurge of civic organization and democratic sentiment fantasized by American neoconservatives, but the aspirations of Iraqi Shiites to build an Islamic republic. That result was an entirely predictable consequence of the past 30 years of political conflict between the Shiites and the Baathist regime, and American policy analysts have expected a different result only by ignoring that history.
To be sure, the dreams of a Shiite Islamic republic in Baghdad may be unrealistic: a plurality of the country is Sunni, and some proportion of the 14 million Shiites is secularist. In the months after the Anglo-American invasion, however, the religious Shiite parties demonstrated the clearest organizational skills and established political momentum. The Islamists are likely to be a powerful enough group in parliament that they may block the sort of close American-Iraqi cooperation that the neoconservatives had hoped for. The spectacle of Wolfowitzs party heading out of Najaf just before the outbreak of a major demonstration of 10,000 angry Sadrists, inadvertently provoked by the Americans, may prove an apt symbol for the American adventure in Iraq. The August 29 bombing in Najaf deeply shook the confidence of Shiites in the American ability to provide them security, and provoked anger against the United States that will take some time to heal.
In addition, the Saudis cannot be pushed out of the oil picture so easily. It will be years before Iraq can produce much more than three to five million barrels a day. A good deal of that petroleum, and much of the profit from it, will be needed for internal reconstruction and debt servicing. It would take a decade and a half to two decades for Iraqi capacity to achieve parity with that of the Saudis (11 million barrels a day), and even then they will not have the Saudis low overhead and smaller native population. The Saudis can choose to produce only seven million of the 76 million barrels of petroleum pumped in the world every day, or they can produce 11 million. That flexibility, along with their clout in the OPEC cartel, lets them exercise a profound influence on the price, and Iraq will not be able to counterbalance it soon. Neoconservative fears about Saudi complicity with al Qaeda are also overdrawn, since the Saudi elite feels as threatened by the Sunni radicals as the United States does. High Saudi officials have even expressed regret about their past support for the Muslim Brotherhood, which they now see as dangerous in a way that mainstream Wahhabism is not. (Would that Reaganite supporters of the mujahidin were similarly contrite!) So the U.S. alliance with the House of Saud, however badly shaken by September 11 and Wahhabi radicalism, will provide an essential foundation for world petroleum stability into the indefinite future.
For now, the United States is back to having two footstools in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia. Iraq has proven too rickety, too unknown, too devastated to bear the weight of the strategic shift imagined by the hawks. And far from finally defeating Khomeinism, U.S. policy has given it millions of liberated Iraqi allies. Their new Iraqi Interim Governing Council has declined to recognize Israel, citing Iraqs membership in the Arab League and lack of genuine progress toward a Palestinian state. Al Qaeda and allied terrorist threats were not countered by the invasion of Iraq.
Whether Iraqs Sunnis will turn to radicalism and reinforce al Qaeda is as yet unknown. But what does seem clear is that the Iraq war has proved a detour in the War on Terror, drawing away key resources from the real threat of al Qaeda and continued instability in Afghanistan. The old pillars have proven more resilient than the hawks imagined. What really needs to be changed are U.S. support for political authoritarianism and Islamic conservatism, and acquiescence in Israeli land grabs on the West Bank. Those two, together, account for most of the trouble the United States has in the Muslim world. The Iraq war did nothing to change that.
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How can encrypted hard disks be imaged for recovery in case of a hard disk failure?
Symantec has tested and confirmed that a raw sector-by-sector image can be made of a hard disk that has the "Hard Disk" User Program installed. Symantec has tested and supports the use of Symantec Ghost version 7.5 or later for this purpose.
Note: It is also possible to create an unencrypted image of an encrypted Harddisk by starting Ghost from within the SEE Access Disk once the log on process has completed. This is only possible using Ghost version 11.5 or later. Please see TECH105685 for more information. This has the advantage of keeping the image smaller, but is not secure as the image is not encrypted.
Note: A raw sector-by-sector image is the only supported image once the Hard Disk User Program has been installed even if the drive is not encrypted. Other imaging programs (e.g. Disk Image) are not supported. Also, we recommend that before attempting this process check Symantec's website to confirm hardware compatibility for the specific hard disk types used at your organization.
When creating the disk image you must create the "raw image" by using the "IR" switch. This will create a snapshot of the encrypted hard disk.
Warning: Do not compress the image.
Note: The image size will be comparable to the size of the drive being imaged. For example, a 60 GB drive will generate a 60 GB image file.
Listed below are the recommended switches and their definitions to use when creating a Sector By Sector copy of an encrypted Hard Drive:
- IR: The Image Raw switch copies the entire disk, ignoring the partition table. This is useful when a disk does not contain a partition table in the standard PC format, or you do not want partitions to be realigned to track boundaries on the destination disk. Some operating systems may not be able to access unaligned partitions. Partitions cannot be resized during restore and you need an identical or larger disk.
- Auto: Automatically names spanned image files during creation. Using this switch avoids the user prompt that asks for confirmation of the next destination location for the remainder of the image file that is being restored. This switch is the default behavior for Symantec Ghost.
- FRO: Forces Ghost to continue cloning even if the source contains bad clusters.
Example: "Ghost.exe -IR -Auto -FRO"
The image can be stored on a server, or a set of CDs.
Note: Using a set of CDs introduces potential risks in case one or more of the CDs has any physical media problem. While it may be possible to store the image on DVD media, this has not been tested and confirmed. In order to apply the image to a replacement hard disk, the replacement HDD must be the exact make and model with the same physical geometry as the original hard disk. Any difference will cause a failure in imaging to the new hard disk.
When the image is applied to the replacement hard disk, the same "Hard Disk" login name and password will be required at start-up in order to access the hard disk and its encrypted data.
For more information, please see "Switches: Sector copy" at http://service1.symantec.com/support/on-technology.nsf/docid/2001111413481325
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All change with Manga – Tokyopop out, Kodansha in..
News comes via Mangablog that Kodansha is letting the licenses for various Tokyopop titles lapse. From the Tokyopop press release:
The Japanese publisher Kodansha, from whom TOKYOPOP has licensed many terrific series over the years — Chobits, Love Hina, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Rave Master, Initial D, Kindaichi, Life, GetBackers, and Love Attack, to name a few — has decided to let all existing contracts with TOKYOPOP expire on all manga series that they have licensed to us. As a result, Kodansha will not renew any licenses with TOKYOPOP for any new manga volumes. What does this mean? TOKYOPOP will not be allowed to complete the publication of any series that is currently in progress; in addition, TOKYOPOP will not be allowed to reprint titles after the current inventory has been sold out, so once these series are sold out at retail, they will not be available for consumers to purchase. The reasons for Kodansha's decision were not communicated to TOKYOPOP.
We have received many emails and phone calls about titles related to this announcement, and given the nature of the negotiations, we could not definitely answer any of those questions until now. We love all of these series, and we are disappointed that we will not get to enjoy the outcome of some of our favorite manga. We hope to see these series completed some day…. However, if they are ever published again, they will not be published by TOKYOPOP.
Ouch. The list of titles is long and exhaustively covered at Precocious Curmudgeon. That looks like seriously bad news for Tokyopop, one of the main Manga publishers in the US market. But it seems Kodansha have their reasons for doing this – after much speculation it seems they're going to be making their own Manga line at some point, distributed by Random House, in addition to licensing to Del-Rey and Dark Horse. This from ICV2:
The manga which Kodansha will be publishing in North America will be distributed through Random House. There had been some speculation that the Kodansha titles would be published as an imprint of Random; we've confirmed that the relationship will be for distribution. Kodansha continues to license manga titles to Del Rey (see "Del Rey Acquires New Manga") in addition to launching its own manga publishing operation in the U.S. So Random House will be distributing both Del Rey Manga and Kodansha manga titles. Diamond Comic Distributors will sell the Kodansha manga to comic stores.
So it's all change in the main Manga players yet the overall feeling is that between Kodansha, Del-Rey and Dark Horse, the titles that Tokyopop is losing will resurface at some point in the future. How far into the future is a little more open to speculation. But what this means for Tokyopop, much loved by Manga fans (and retailers – Tokyopop really spearheaded the Manga explosion in stores), is as yet uncertain.
For more on this see Heidi's detailed post and Tom's analysis that yielded this gem:
"I think there are three basic issues to track here. The first is what exactly this ends up doing to Tokyopop, which I think maybe no one talked about out loud right away upon yesterday's news out of a sort of respect for having just watching someone get hit in the stomach by a small truck."


text: Does anyone know anything about Robinson's of Babin's agents, and if they have started contract negotiations? If so how are the negotiations going, is any one close to making a deal. Because Id hate to see us turn out like some of those other teams who cant get their top picks signed until the middle of training camp. We were able to sign both Carr and AJ before training camp started and I would like to see that tradition continued with Dunta and Jason.


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November 9, 2013
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Dakota State had two runners qualify for the NAIA Men's Cross Country National Championships after their impressive performances Saturday morning in the North Star/Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference qualifying meet at the campus of Haskell (Kan.). Senior Michael Hoffman captured the individual title and freshman Michael Carson qualified for the nationals in helping the Trojans to a second-place finish.
The Trojan men's team had four runners placed in the top 15 in the qualifying meet. As a result, Dakota State placed second with 54 points. Valley City State captured the men's team title with 22 points and earned an automatic team bid for the nationals.
Hoffman won the individual title in the field of 57 runners. He clocked a time of twenty-seven minutes and 23.73 seconds and qualified for the nationals. Carson also qualified for the nationals after placing eighth with a time of 28:36.14.
Taylor Hauge was 11th with a time of 28:49.39. He was just four seconds short in earning the final individual bid to qualify for nationals. Steve Selchert finished 13th in 29:01.06. Jared Sutton ran a time of 29:41.93 to place 21st. Jared Truman posted a time of 30:32.73 to earn 29th-place finish. Caleb Hemphill was 32nd in 30:50.09.
On the women's side, Dakota State finished seventh overall in the meet with 192 points. Jamestown won the team title with 28 points, followed by Saint Mary (Neb.) second with 56 points.
In the 66-runner women's race, Kayla Sveen finished 32nd with a time of 22:45.28. Anastasia Gentles posted a time of 23:17.74 to earn 35th-place finish. Victoria Sopko placed 37th with a time of 23:26.91. Brooke Fritz was 42nd in 23:55.59. Autumn Hazelett ran a time of 27:42.13 for a 62nd place finish.
Carson and Hoffman will return back to Lawrence, Kan. on Saturday, Nov. 23 to run in the NAIA Men's Cross Country National Championships.
Nick Huntimer, Dakota State University Sports Information Director


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Canon Ink - A Quiet Revolution Jan 13, 2010 14:24 by Matt Bird
Whilst we trundle along each day providing our quality customer service and products, we frequently come across new printer ideas that are of an ingenious nature, but implemented poorly with a feeling of being rushed. Occasionally though, an idea comes along that is sickeningly simple, but wonderfully effective. Canon have been quietly using one of these ideas in the vast majority of their inkjet printers, with people seemingly unwilling to stand up and acknowledge the brilliance in its simplicity. But no longer! Here at StinkyInk we consistently rave on about how good Canons Inkjet printer range is, with 2 of their models being recommended as the top of their categories in our Printing Guide, and we feel we must tell the world of one of the aspects that so enamours us to their range.
Canon Inkjet printers utilise BOTH pigmented inks and dye-based inks. Simple, yet brilliant. We realise not many general printer consumers realise the difference, or better yet, care about the difference. However we suggest, nay – insist, that you do.
Pigment and dye-based inks are essentially tailored towards 2 different kinds of printing, text and image based respectively.
Typically pigment based inks are used for text printing. Made with a resin that aids resistance to light, the longevity of your text prints will be unmatched and not fade. Additionally, pigment inks absorb water, but do not dissolve like Dye-based inks. This gives a handy resistance to water for your home and office related text prints. Now I do not mean this as a challenge to go read your meetings minutes in the shower, but it does mean:
- Printing onto envelopes will be hassle free for the post
- You can use highlighters on the text with no smudging
- The prints are immediately touch dry.
Especially pleased with the essay or report you just printed off? You can immediately caress the hardcopy from the printer, whilst a dye-based print would have to wait for your love. Additionally, they typically come in bigger cartridges as well, so that essay/report you so adore can be printed even more times and the joy can be shared to many others. Ultimately, pigment inks love text documents (invoices/reports/essays), greyscale, all things colourless.
Sitting on the other side of the printing fence however, dye-based inks are bathing in their colour rich world. Made with optical brighteners, they have vivid colours with superior brightness and colour scales. Whilst having a slightly lower gamut (potential colour range of the image) which is unavoidable due to the nature of the ink, the images printed will still be visibly superior and much more satisfying on the eye. However, due to the small dispersion of ink when the print request is applied to the page, the image is more susceptible to chemical and light reactions, meaning a lower image life. The difference in quality between the images means this is a knock worth taking though, and with evolutions in the dye-based world towards making them hardier to nature's assaults, should hopefully be less of an issue in the future.
So now you know the main differences between the inks. One is amazing for text. One is fabulous for image printing. Just imagine if a printer had the ability to hold both types of cartridge, and only use the superior type of ink for the required job. Cast your mind's eye back to the beginning of this article, they exist! Canon have been using this ink segmentation for a while, and not been thanked for it.
With printers now being used for countless operations, with the introduction of PictBridges for camera printing, card readers for document and photo printing, the ability to provide a quality output no matter the print request is fantastic. Being able to print a word document and know you are not using your valuable black reserves for images, or a photo print and know your supply of text-ink is sitting safe and sound, is a brilliant peace of mind, and can help you save a bundle on printing costs.
We really do love this simple application of different inks, and coupled with Canons reliable products it really is a great base for home and small office printing. We hope this article has been of interest for you, and you can start demanding such a great idea from other brand manufacturers. Canon are leading at the moment, the rest must now play catch-up.
If you like this article, feel free to link to this and sign up to our blog feed. Any request for a research article, or something to add? Just comment below and we will get back to you.


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Pure Michigan Spoof – Winter Virgins
The funny spoof Pure Michigan ads are pure genius.
The guy who does them — there are almost 70 now — is really clever.
Sure, he doesn't sound all that much like Tim Allen. But he has the music and he knows Michiganders. He really has a grasp of what makes us funny as a state.
Now that winter is here, I give you the funny not-so-Pure Michigan winter virgins. It's OK to laugh.


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