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Welcome to Solutia, Ltd.
Since on the market from 2004, within Solutia, Ltd. we have built a solid knowledge structure in the area of IT/IS services, including top-level services such are full-scale System Integration, Security Advisory, Strategic Consulting as well as Enterprise solutions tailored to fit customer needs.
In order to keep providing with services at the highest quality, we have built the team of specialists who are responsible for realizing individual projects.
We are ready to provide with services, that:
- customers really need,
- will allow customers to optimize their internal processes,
- will represent an efficient investment,
- will help customers to realize that IT systems and tools are in place in order to support and enhance business functions and not as a plain source of potential problems.
How do we want to achieve customers' satisfaction?
A consistent application of corporate culture and methodologies & standards form a primary premise for satisfying our customer.
Why is Solutia, Ltd. unique?
We consider ourselves unrivaled in the field of identifying a problem on the customer side and finding the appropriate solution via thorough knowledge of appropriate technologies as well as processes and ways to prepare a customer-tailored solution.
By consistently using concepts and prototypes in order to present provided the solution to a customer in any imaginable form. This way, a customer is able to understand the real shape of the future application -- a complicated system or a complex technological unit.
Tier 1 Partner Vertica
We're excited to announce that Solutia is now Vertica Tier 1 Partner.
New version of Ivanti Service Desk - 2018.1
Version 2018.1 of Ivanti Service Desk is now available. Main focus of this version is fixing issues and improving flaws of older version. It also adds few new features like a Calendar gadget to Workspace environment or better managing of a process's history.
ISO Re-Certification
We have been successfully re certificate at these ISO standards
Solutia as a Reseller of Netwrix products
Solutia, s.r.o. has become an official seller of Netwrix products, you can now ask us directly about price!
New version of Ivanti Service Desk
There's a new version of Ivanti Service Desk 2017.3, which brings improvements of user interface with all new possibilities at Ivanti Service Desk Workspace.
Solutia Microsoft Silver Partnership
Solutia is now Microsoft Silver Partner
Now we have merged brands LANDesk, HEAT Software, App Sense, Shavlik, and Wavelink are now Ivanti.
Select Certified Partner Program
Solutia become Select Certified Cisco Partner
Solutia has achieved VMWare Partner Professional status
We are proud to inform you, that Solutia has achieved VMWare Partner Professional status.
We have just passed through a complete redesign of our corporate image, we have a new and modern logo, you are just viewing brand new website containing detailed yet strucured information about our broad products & services portfolio.
Let's celebrate this change together. Cheers!
Solutia, Ltd. has just become partner of LANDesk Software, major service desk and ITIL related services and products.Since just today, we are allowed to deliver products and services related and based upon the whole LANDesk portfolio.
Our goal in this field is to help our customers to proactively react to changes in highly evaluating IT industry, especially using advanced LANDesk's technologies.
Solutia, Ltd. has achieved Oracle Gold Partnership certificate by Oracle Software
We have successfully passed certification & auditing processes for ISO 9001 (Quality Management), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management) as well as ISO 27001 (Information Security Management).
This set of achieval makes us proud and we strongly beleive, that our services provided to our customers now embody even higher overall quality level.


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Side Effects of Hypoalbuminemia
Hypoalbuminemia is a condition characterized by low blood levels of albumin. Albumin is simply the proteins that make up human blood plasma. Approximately 60 percent of human blood plasma is comprised of albumin. There are many causes of this disorder such as kidney dysfunction, liver disease and some heart conditions. According to Chemocare.com, hypoalbuminemia may not be accompanied by any side effects. If blood protein levels become extremely low, however, some physical symptoms may become apparent.
If you are experiencing serious medical symptoms, seek emergency treatment immediately.
According to Serum Albumin Research, the condition of hypoalbuminemia can be triggered by several other medical conditions and individual behaviors. A factor such as a patient's diet can result in hypoalbuminemia. If individuals do not consume enough protein in a daily diet, this condition can result. Medical conditions such a kidney dysfunction can also result in hypoalbuminemia. The kidneys may not be able to process the protein properly, therefore excreting the protein through the urine instead of absorbing it into the bloodstream. Certain liver disorders such as hepatitis or liver cancer can also affect the protein absorption in the body, thus lowering levels of protein in the bloodstream. Also, heart ailments such as congestive heart failure and pericarditis can result in hypoalbuminemia.
Hypoalbuminemia causes a decrease in oncotic pressure. Oncotic pressure is the pressure caused in the blood plasma by the proteins contained within the plasma. Oncotic pressure is useful in carrying fluids to the circulatory system. According to Serum Albumin Research, decreases in oncotic pressure can lead to water retention and subsequent swelling in the body. The swelling can be located all over the body or can be noticed in only one location such as the legs. If unusual swelling in the body becomes apparent, consult a physician immediately.
Muscular Symptoms
According to Chemocare.com, decreased levels of albumin can lead to symptoms that affect the muscles of the body. Due to the low levels of protein, individuals with hypoalbuminemia may experience muscle weakness, muscles fatigue or muscle cramping. If any of these symptoms become evident, a physician should be consulted immediately.
Loss of Appetite
According to Serum Albumin Research, loss of appetite may be associated with the condition of hypoalbuminemia. Appetite suppression can make the treatment of this condition difficult because hypoalbuminemia can occur in patients with healthy appetites who consume proper quantities of protein. Any individual who has been diagnosed with hypoalbuminemia and experiences a change in appetite should consult a physician immediately.
Ascites is defined as an excess of fluid that collects in the space between the abdominal wall and the abdominal organs. According to Chemocare.com, acites may become evident in individuals who had previously been diagnosed with a liver condition that has led to hypoalbuminemia. If ascites is present, the individual may notice an abnormal swelling in the abdominal region. If this symptom becomes evident, a physician should be consulted immediately.
Pleural Effusions
Pleural effusion is defined as the accumulation of fluid in the space that surrounds the lungs. Research is still being performed regarding the direct link between hypoalbuminemia and pleural effusion formation. According to "Pleural Diseases" by Richard W. Light, the decrease in oncotic pressure due to hypoalbuminemia would increase the rate and prevalence of pleural effusion formation. The direct link of hypoalbuminemia and pleural effusion is questioned due to the fact that the patients in which pleural effusions were found, the individuals also had another condition that could have led to pleural effusion formation.
Treatments for Hypoalbuminemia
According to Chemocare.com, in order to treat the condition of hypoalbuminemia, the underlying cause of the condition must be treated. This can be accomplished easily after a consultation with a physician. Measures that can be taken to treat this condition may include adjusting medications to insure no interactions are occurring with the medicines an individual is taking. Simply taking medications in the order in which they are prescribed may greatly help this condition. Adjustment to a daily diet to include more protein may alleviate the condition. Avoiding alcohol consumption will also greatly improve this condition.
- Chemocare.com: Hypoalbuminemia (Low Albumin)
- Serum Albumin Research: Hypoalbuminemia
- "Pleural Diseases"; Richard W. Light
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For as long as my memory serves me my family and I have been visiting the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego California. We even had the amazing opportunity to stay here on more than one occasion. Nowadays, it's over $500 dollars a night to stay in this marvel of a hotel.
Getting down to brass tacks, the Hotel Del Coronado is an architectural masterpiece. In 1888, the Del first opened it's doors to the public. Since then, it's been one of the main features in California as an example of Victorian Beauty and Higher Society. Many Golden Era Hollywood elite have spent the night here, overlooking the beautiful coastline. Actors and Actresses of the Silver Screen have made this Hotel a place of desire, and the gem of California lifestyle. Even 15 US Presidents have rested their heads in the Hotel.
The Hotel is Seven Stories tall, boasting 680 rooms, the first hotel ever to feature electric lighting. Mr. Thomas Edison himself oversaw the complete installation of the Del.
The Ghosts: Kate Morgan; The most notable of spectres to grace the halls of the Hotel. She checked in and never left. The amazing thing is after taking her own life in 1892.. This was the talk of the tabloids.
Notes: People have felt cold spots, poltergeist activity, lights turning on and off on their own accord. There have even been reports in her room #304; then called room #3318 of depressions in the bed. People have said that she will even crawl into bed with guests when they stay in her room. Thrillseekers from all over the world can stay in her haunted room, and spend the night with her apparition. One woman said she was checking the room next to her room and saw a Victorian Dressed Young woman entering the room at the same time, they even made eye contact.
The Hotel Del Coronado at the end of it all will not disappoint, it's absolutely amazing.


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Michal is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is the founder and CEO of Websupport, the largest and most renowned webhosting company in Slovakia. Michal is also behind startups like Nicereply (winner of StartupAwards.SK 2011), Scaledo and InHiro (winner of StartupAwards.SK 2013).
Michal has mentored many Slovak startups. Websupport supports several events for beginning entrepreneurs and supports them directly by providing free webhosting services through the FreeWeb project. If you are interested in triathlon and entrepreneurship, make sure you follow his blog.


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One patient at MacArthur OB/GYN had a question about moving her ovulation. Others spoke freely about their experiences with an endometrial ablation procedure. Most just wanted to say "thanks" to the physicians and show off pictures of their newborns.
These medical questions and concerns — as well as helpful information on women's health — are all online at the practice's Facebook page.
"We are taking this giant world we live in, and we are turning it into this small town where people are interacting," says Jeff Livingston, one of five OB/GYNs and one nurse practitioner at MacArthur OB/GYN in Irving, Texas.
MacArthur OB/GYN's online community of about 600 people (and counting) provides a forum for questions and information shared between physicians and patients. Livingston monitors it daily, and encourages the discussions by posting links and questions.
Livingston is among a growing number of physicians joining social media networks as a way to share information with patients or connect with their colleagues. In fact, 60 percent of physicians reported using or being interested in using online communities, according to an early 2009 survey by Manhattan Research. And all signs point to this number continuing to rise.
But as the status updating, Tweeting, and blogging increases, questions about appropriate online content and patient privacy arise. Should a physician "friend" a patient online? Will patients put your practice at risk and raise privacy red flags by posting their personal health information on the public forum? What if the doc shares too much? Are you exposing your practice to a lawsuit risk by engaging online?
For Livingston and others, online networks have become a necessary venue for connecting — and many physicians are embracing so-called Web 2.0 without ill effects. With a few guidelines and a lot of common sense, social media can be a boon for your practice and your patients.
Where your patients are
If you've been reluctant to hop onto the social media bandwagon, it might be time to consider it. Patients are increasingly turning to the Internet for healthcare information. A recent Pew Research Center study found that 60 percent of adults look online for health information. Plus, 35 percent of adults used social media for health and medical purposes last year, Manhattan Research found.
If this is where patients are turning for health and provider information, perhaps it's where you should be as well, to best educate them and reach new ones?
Livingston first realized his audience was online more than five years ago when he was conducting outreach education to teens about STDs and pregnancy prevention. He noticed his 15-year-old daughter interacting with her friends on the networking site MySpace, and as he put it, "A light bulb went off. Here I am trying to connect with young people in my community and I am not talking to them in the way they actually talk."
His daughter helped him build his MySpace page, and he has since expanded to Facebook and Twitter, where he manages the messages for his practice. Now, the practice's Facebook page is a thriving forum where Livingston shares relevant and credible healthcare information and his patients post photos and discussions.
But before signing up for an account, ask yourself why you're entering the social media realm. Jim Tobin, president of Ignite Social Media, which worked with the Massachusetts Medical Society to promote their organization, says physicians should ask the question: What's the point of it all?
And there can be several answers that garner benefits for your practice. Engaging online through social media can allow physicians to show — not just tell — that they are the experts. Your Web site might say you're the best-trained or the most knowledgeable endocrinologist, but how about demonstrating that by offering helpful information and resources?
Social networks also can boost your search-engine rankings, notes Tobin, who is also the author of "Social Media Is a Cocktail Party." Posts on Facebook and blogs, for example, are indexed and searched by Google and other engines, so fresh content will appear high on the list when a patient searches for a physician online.


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ADRIAN, Mich.--The Adrian College ACHA Division 1 men's hockey team scored eight unanswered goals on Friday night after trailing 1-0 to earn its third straight win of the season, downing the visiting Kent State Golden Flashes, 8-1, at Arrington Ice Arena.
Jason Smith tallied the Golden Flashes' only goal to open the scoring in the first, but Adrian's Brad Kobryn scored the equalizer midway through the period, the first of his two goals on the evening. The two points would bring Kobryn's career totals to 131 goals and 65 assists, tying Spencer Bonomo's record of 196 career points in the program's American Collegiate Hockey Association history.
Senior captain Archie McKinnon closed out the first period scoring and put Adrian ahead to stay with a blast from the left point past Kent goaltender Alex Okicki, making the score 2-1 at the first intermission.
Adrian continued to increase their advantage in the second period as Joe Costello added a pair of goals, his third and fourth of the season, and Mike Finger scored an even strength marker to make it 6-1 after two periods.
Kobryn started the third period scoring with his record-tying second goal, followed by freshman Austin Kuhn scoring his first goal as a Bulldog to make the score 7-1. Adrian's Rainer Glimple finished the scoring with a beautiful breakaway goal, set up by Josh Hosking and Finger.
Bulldogs picking up two assists on the evening included Finger, J. P. Grineau and Marcel Kottek. The Bulldogs outshot Kent State 45-20 on the evening, as Adrian net minder Michael Barrett earned his first win of the season making 19 saves.
The #4 ranked Bulldogs (3-0), will head to Kent, Ohio, on Saturday night to face the Golden Flashes again at 7:30. The contest will mark the Bulldogs' first road game of the season.
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We all know what a family portrait looks like on the beach: khaki pants, white shirt … And hey, I am not here to say there is anything wrong with these, as they are lovely and I have my own set that I cherish. But, sometimes you want something a little more personal or reflective of your family, something that reflects the uniqueness of your nearest and dearest. Photographer Ashley Hylbert has answered the cry with the launch of her Zietgiest portraits.
"The Zeitgeist (spirit of the age or spirit of the time) is the intellectual fashion or dominant school of thought that typifies and influences the culture of a particular period in time." -Wikipedia (just in case you're like me and didn't know that exact definition off the top of your head). In this case, the Zeitgeist spirit defines your family's particular period of time, captured forever.
You are likely already familiar with Ashley's work–she's our FACES of Nashville photographer and her images grace our site each Monday. But, these portraits showcase her talents in a whole new way. No worries if you are stressing about how you and your family would pose. Ashley will meet with you and help you come up with a game plan.
What do you think? Are you and your family game? You know that your holiday card will be the one remembered if you go in this direction. Jane and John may have a family photo on the Great Wall of China, but YOU, you are brave and fun enough to have humor in your photo. Go for it!
For more information, including prices and contact information, check out Ashley's blog entry on these fun portraits: http://www.ashleyhylbert.com/
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Seagate Buys Samsung's Hard-Drive Biz for $1.375B
Seagate said Tuesday that it would acquire the disk-drive operations of Samsung in a deal worth $1.375 billion in cash and stock, bringing the number of major disk-drive vendors down to three.
The deal, which will be accounted for half in stock and half in cash, will add additional storage capabilities to Seagate - cementing a path toward greater use of solid-state-disc technology, as well as hard disk drives. The two companies struck a deal to co-develop SSD controllers in Aug. 2010.
Samsung will take a 9.6 percent stake in Seagate as part of the deal and pay $687.5 million in cash, freeing Seagate from concerns that it might have to go private or even merge with a company from another field altogether. Samsung will also add a director to Seagate's board.
Seagate reported its fiscal third-quarter results before the bell, instead of later today as originally planned. Seagate reported just $93 million in net income, versus $518 million a year before; revenue also fell to $2.70 billion from $3.05 billion a year ago. Seagate shipped 49 million disk drives.
The Seagate-Samsung deal positions Seagate more competitively, as Western Digital - which had already passed Seagate in disk-drive shipments for several quarters - agreed to buy Hitachi Global Storage Technologies last month for a combination of cash and stock worth $4.3 billion, consolidating the first- and third-largest vendors in the market. That deal has yet to close.
"We are pleased to strengthen our strategic relationship with Samsung in a way that better aligns both companies around technologies and products,"" said Steve Luczo, Seagate chairman, president and chief executive of Seagate, in a statement. "With these agreements, we expect to achieve greater scale and deliver a broader range of innovative storage products and solutions to our customers, while facilitating our long-term relationship with Samsung."
Toshiba will remain as the third-largest disk drive vendor in what suddenly might be seen as an imperiled market, one which faces significant pressure from SSDs in portable devices, tablets, and even some notebooks. That company remains the only major vendor of the 1.8-inch form factor drive, the main target of SSDs.
The Seagate-Samsung arrangement benefits Seagate, however, in that it assures Seagate a steady supply of flash memory for use as the company expands its SSD and hybrid drives, which combine a SSD and a rotating disk drive for faster data access but higher-capacity storage. Samsung has historically ranked at or near at the top of the market, and has been a key supplier for Apple, including shipments for the first flash-baed iPods.
"There was always some concern about a formal supply agreement about what the total package was going to look like," Luczo said on the call. Seagate has already announced a single-layer-cell SSD product, with a MLC product entering production shortly.
Seagate executives said on the conference call that disk-drive supply was constrained, and would remain so through the June quarter, meaning that storage prices will remain high. Executives characterized the demand as "pure demand," with little impact from the Japan earthquake.
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If you've ever seen a ridiculous product and wondered who approved it and why, in the godforsaken world of economics, it exists (jog your memory with this BuzzFeed most-ridiculous-SkyMall-items list), then you're onto something. All you have to do is direct that attitude toward about 95% of products, and you'll have an amazing track record. This Forbes article demonstrates just how difficult it is to successfully introduce a new product.
Below I discuss the most important strategies for success and the most common reason so many products fail. If you're starting your own business, don't panic: check out this course on product management for non-product managers.
Unprepared For Success
Believe it not, most companies are not prepared for a truly successful product. It's almost as if they don't even believe in themselves. Many times, a product will begin to gain momentum, but the company has not taken the necessary steps in planning and is not able to handle the volume. In other words, demand exceeds supply and there's no way to catch up.
The explanation for this is fairly obvious: companies pour the majority of their creative and capital resources into creating a product and then there is little left over for actually designing an effective supply chain (get free advice with this blog post on the 6 best supply chain strategies). When supply hits, you simply have to be ready. The window will not stay open forever.
More Importantly…
Why do most products fail? Because they resemble those in the BuzzFeed article I posted at the beginning. Most products are novelties, or even simply "good ideas." A good idea is useless unless it is has a verifiable aim. A solar powered hat is cool, but who needs it? You either have to create a product that customers need or you have to follow Apple's mantra and show customers what they need. The former tends to be easier; or at least, less costly.
But the moral of the story is this: no idea should leave the dry-erase board until a need for it is proven. This Bloomberg article charts billionaire Russian Alisher Usmanov's rise to wealth. How did he get started? By manufacturing plastic grocery bags that he probably sold for $0.0001 each. And yet, every grocery store in the world needs plastic grocery bags. Now he's a billionaire.
Ahead Of Its Time
If you have a revolutionary device, make sure you take revolutionary measures to simplify its use or learning curve. Most people do not want to devote a month of their lives to figuring out how to use a product they just spent $500 on. That's what was genius about Apple's middle-age years in the early 2000s. The iPod was an incredible piece of technology, but it was so easy to use a toddler could teach himself how to use it in five minutes. A confused customer isn't going to spend a single dollar, so advertise accordingly.
There are intelligent ways to be ahead of your time, and analytics helps. This course of methods of design synthesis will teach you ways to synthesize research to identify innovations and new product features.
Invest In Sales
Your sales team can be the difference maker in a new product launch. You don't need account managers, you need salesmen and saleswomen who can attract new customers. New customers will be excited about a new product and, subsequently, will spread the word. This is one of the most valuable types of advertising. A friend or family member is infinitely more reliable than an ad on Facebook.
Why are new customers so important? Think about any time you start to read a new book series: Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, The Hunger Games, whatever. About half-way through the first book you feel like you've discovered something that everyone needs to know about. Thus, you tell everyone you see for the next month. But when you're on the third book or sixth book (in the case of Harry Potter), you're only concerned about what you are getting out of it. In other words, new customers talk, old customers keep to themselves. Invest in sales.
Advertising: Think Simple
To begin with, you can get a lot of advertising done for free through social media. You will have to pay, as well, if you want to invade other users profiles, but your own profiles are fairly valuable and 100% free. This awesome class on social media marketing can help you get the most out of these avenues.
More importantly, you need to simplify your advertising. This is easier said than done. The majority of companies that offer incentives and lotteries and other gimmicks are wasting their money; believe it or not, people are smarter than you think. You need to use advertising to address one of our original points: why do customers need your product? Once you've figured this out, stick to the tried and true methods of advertising: TV, print, etc. There has yet to be a report on how mind-blowingly effective internet advertising is. I'm not saying you should use it, but you shouldn't rely on it exclusively.
Your work is never done. Whether you're tracking your advertising effectiveness or modifying strategy, you can never set a product on auto pilot and fall asleep on it. Think about some of the longest running, best selling products of the last decade: the iPhone, Microsoft software, Android, etc. These products receive frequent updates: we are on the iPhone 5S (8 versions, I think, in seven years) and more editions of Microsoft Office and Windows than I can count.
Even if the general product is the same, it needs to be improved, the marketing needs to be updated and you have to work relentlessly on keeping it relevant. Why does a product as old and well-known as Coca-Cola need to invest hundreds of millions of dollars annually into advertising? Because they know what it takes to keep a product going.
Get more details on successful product development with this five-star course on how to launch a profitable product: from idea to revenue.


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On truth
I affirm the following statements:
There is a real world out there, independent of us. It has existed for about 14 billion years, and thus existed before we or any other conscious observers came to be. Thoughts do not determine reality. Reality is not a social construct.
I find it convenient to define the word "truth" to mean
"whatever statements describe the world accurately"
There is however no correct definition of the word "truth". You can define any word any way you want. If someone wanted to define the word "truth" as
"any sentence written in red ink"
then I would not know how to argue with him, aside from noting the confusion it would cause.
My definition of the word "truth" -
whatever statements describe the world accurately
- is pretty close to the man-in-the-street's definition. People using non-standard definitions ought to say so before they talk about what is and is not true.
My definition of the word "truth" is based on what is useful, but it does
follow that I therefore subscribe to the pragmatist idea of truth - that truth is whatever is useful. I am merely a pragmatist about how to define words.
It is not very sensible to ask: "Is it true that truth is whatever statements describe the world accurately?" There's nothing in the universe that makes any particular definition of the word "truth" true. However, it is true that most people think of truth as whatever statements describe the world accurately.
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Billie Jean may not be my favorite Michael Jackson song. That honor is arguably reserved for the original demo version of PYT.? However, 80% of the time I will argue that Billie Jean is not only Michael Jackson's best song, but the best song. Like, the best song in pop music history, on visceral, technical, emotional, etc. levels. I can talk for at least an hour about it. It is Michael's masterpiece.
The thing I love the most about Billie Jean is that I feel like I'm inside his head when I listen to it. I mean I literally feel like I'm in a large dark room that could be the inside of his head. That sounds so silly, but that's the visual that goes with it for me. It's not a straightforward narrative, it's almost a stream-of-consciousness cry. And that bassline is like a throbbing heartbeat, like a pain in your temple. That song moves me something serious. There are all these little breaks in the storyline where if you just listen on the surface you're like wtf is he talking about.. but then… I don't know, the story fills itself in. Like he said once, the instruments are telling the story for you, you just have to listen.
It is my favorite song to really get into… like sit down in a dark room with headphones, get myself in a zone and just listen to it nonstop. I even like listening to the demo because it's like another part of the story, before it's all fleshed out. I rarely dance to it, and I get irritated if it comes on while I'm dancing, or doing something else, because I really want to pay attention to it. I usually have to stop what I'm doing or ignore it completely. And it's weird for me, because I like happy songs… sometimes when I'm down I put on Don't Stop Till You Get Enough and it doesn't just make me forget about being sad, the song makes me happy. I can think of one other artist with one other song that does that. But Billie Jean… I dunno, it takes me somewhere dark, and a little sad, and angry, maybe? I can't describe it. And when I get into that kind of mood, I just let it take me further into it, and it's like I can come out of it again. It's odd.
There's an ad lib after the second verse; it's distorted so that you can't really hear whether he sings "do think twice" or "don't think twice." A friend of mine once described that as "the pinnacle of pop history."? I never realized anyone else noticed it. The lyrics to the whole song, when you really listen to it, are ambiguous. He's telling you she's not his lover, but he subtly changes the second verse and admits it ('cause we danced, on the floor, in the round) And he plays around with pronouns to confuse you:
She told my baby we danced till three, then she looked at me
Then showed a photo my baby cried his eyes were like mine (oh, no!)
'Cause we danced on the floor in the round, baby
the first "my baby" you think is his current lover, and the second one could be, which would take the meaning to, BJ showed my girl a photo and my girl said his eyes looked like mine and believed her…
but I never even thought of it being that way until pretty recently… I always read the second "my baby" as an admission of guilt, that the kid was, in fact, his son, because they had (danced on the floor in the round) Is his "oh no" an answer to his girl, or distress over the realization? (I effing love that "oh no")
The fact that it can go either way is marvelous. He's toying with you. the whole song, you never really know whether or not to feel bad for him or not. I remember being a little kid and being enthralled that he could get away with the song, because it was obvious to me that he was admitting the child was his and denying it at the same time. What is this anguish? Is it a lie or is it guilt?
People always told me be careful of what you do
And don't go around breaking young girls' hearts
She came and stood right by me
The smell of sweet perfume
This happened much too soon,
She called me to her room
And there's the literal and figurative climax that began the story but ends it, careening into a denouement of repetition that's either the truth or a desperate attempt to make it the truth. He's begging, pleading, but does he want you to believe him or forgive him? Excuse him? You don't know. Does he know?
God, this song is something else. By the time I ever watched the entire Motown 25 performance full out, I'd already gotten into my thing with it… so the dancing with the song just put me over the edge. I've only watched the whole thing all the way through on Youtube. I don't know if I could really stand it emotionally watching that performance on a full sized TV with stereo sound. The parts that always get me are when he does the jumps and runs at "cause the lie becomes the truth" and "happened much too soon/she called me to her room" and when he kind of does the slumped down thing and inverts his knees… it's like a whole other storyline.
I can't believe I just sat for a
half hour and typed out an essay on Billie Jean. See what this song does to me?


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Feed Notifier 2.4 Released
Feed Notifier 2.4 is a small but important update that fixes a bug that caused many users to frequently lose their configuration settings. The file loading and saving routines have been improved to be much more robust, and the app no longer tries to save the configuration on exit – as that wasn't necessary. Let me know if you still have issues after updating!
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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: audible files on he IPod
Re: audible files on he IPod
From: will <lomaswilliam_at_googlemail.com>
Date: 2006-07-09
would i need an i pod witha click wheel then, not a touch sensitive one?
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Hi Will,
Since the Apple firmware is still on your iPod even when Rockbox is installed, you can switch to it to play Audible books. If you're blind, have someone sighted set the menus so they click through the speaker and headphones, and you'll be able to navigate. If you only have a few books from Audible, it's pretty easy to select the one you want. Then switch back to Rockbox to play the rest of your music.
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The best way to learn accounting is not by reading books. The best way to learn accounting is by reading 10-Ks. This gives you real-world examples of accounting concepts. Today I'm going to talk about some of those concepts. And try to use examples of real companies.
Let's start with depreciation. Depreciation is one of the most important concepts you will deal with as an investor. Depreciation causes much of the difference between reported earnings and cash flow. What matters in investing is not reported earnings. What matters is cash flow.
Cash flow is defined in many different ways. You will hear a lot of talk about EBITDA. That is a measure of pretax and pre-interest cash flow. EBITDA is most often compared to enterprise value. Enterprise value includes the value of the company's equity and its debt. It is an estimate of how much it would cost to buy the entire company without paying any premium.
A lot of studies have shown that enterprise value to EBITDA is one of the best price metrics to use when picking stocks. It is probably the best gauge of how cheap or expensive a stock is. Control owners often use EBITDA as a better measure of earnings.
They do this because EBITDA reflects cash flow rather than reported earnings. And because EBITDA reflects cash flow before interest and taxes. Control owners can add debt to a company's balance sheet. This changes the amount of interest and taxes owed.
Many investors believe using EBITDA is wrong. They are right in that EBITDA greatly overstates economic earnings. However, the solution is not to use reported earnings. For some companies reported earnings are not a good estimate of owner earnings. Owner earnings are equal to free cash flow after paying to maintain a company's competitive position.
That is the key concept to keep in mind as an investor. Your focus should always be on owner earnings. Owner earnings means cash flow. It does not mean reported earnings. And it does not mean EBITDA. It means free cash flow. But it does not mean free cash flow as you see it reported on many financial websites.
The free cash flow number you see reported is often cash flow from operations minus capital expenditures. Why is this not the best measure of owner earnings?
When a company is not growing but it is maintaining its competitive position free cash flow, owner earnings will basically be equal. But when a company is growing very quickly, free cash flow may be very low and yet owner earnings may be high. A good example of this is CARBO Ceramics (NYSE:CRR). Over the last 30 years or so CARBO Ceramics produced very little free cash flow. However, the value of the company has increased in the high double-digit percentage over those decades.
As a result, investors in CARBO Ceramics have made a lot of money. That means owner earnings have been big. And it means owner earnings have been positive. And yet free cash flow has often been close to zero.
How can that be? The answer is that CARBO Ceramics' competitive position has improved over the years. The company's market share has increased. The amount of the overall proppant market that goes to CARBO Ceramics products has probably quadrupled within the last 20 years or so.
So owner earnings have been positive because the company has grown. If the company had not been growing and free cash flow had been close to zero, then owner earnings would be zero. Owner earnings should be considered a hypothetical number.
The best way to think about owner earnings is to imagine what free cash flow would be if the company stayed in place. Free cash flow shows you what the company actually produced in free cash last year. That's not really the number you want. The number you want is the economic profit of the business that would be available to owners. Many companies reinvest much of their earnings. Not just much of the reported earnings. But much of their owner earnings.
When looking at owner earnings you want to consider what form those earnings come in. In the case of CARBO Ceramics they do not come in the form of free cash flow. What does that mean?
It means CARBO Ceramics increases its sales every year. The increase comes in the form of bigger receivables, bigger inventories and more property, plant and equipment. In other words comes in the form of asset growth. That is common for growing companies.
A few companies produce lots of free cash flow even when they grow. A good example of this is a software business like Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). Other good examples are advertising agencies like Omnicom (NYSE:OMC). And database companies like Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE:DNB). Many companies with intangible assets that are produced internally have high free cash flow. So you should not be surprised to find that a company like Dolby (NYSE:DLB) has a lot of free cash flow. But there are other kinds of companies that also produce a lot of free cash flow.
One company that produces a lot of free cash flow that I've been looking at recently is Western Union (NYSE:WU). Western Union is a financial services company. For most financial services companies the idea of free cash flow is meaningless. Many people write to me in emails talking about the free cash flow a bank or insurer produces. That is a bad thing to focus on.
Why? It is bad to focus on the free cash flow produced by banks and insurers because those companies can increase free cash flow today by making mistakes they will pay for tomorrow. An insurer can increase free cash flow today as it is shown on the cash flow statement by making promises that will cost a lot in the future. Both banks and insurers have reported earnings that depend heavily on the assumptions those companies are making. Other kinds of companies do some of the same assumption making.
A good example of a non-financial company that has to make assumptions is a movie studio. Let's talk about DreamWorks. DreamWorks Animation (NASDAQ:DWA) produces movies. DreamWorks Animation does not distribute movies. The movie distribution business is shorter term. The movie production business is longer term. And the movie production business depends a lot on assumptions. It depends on assumptions when making the movie. And it even depends on assumptions when reporting earnings after a movie has been released.
You can see this in the accounting rules used by these companies. DreamWorks explains that it carries film inventory on its books. Inventory at most companies consists of products that will be sold within the next year. There are some exceptions. But inventory is normally a liquid asset. Inventory at a film studio is not a liquid asset.
DreamWorks accounts for film inventory much the way most companies account for inventory. But that is only true when inventories are put on the books. Film inventories are put on the books at cost. The one difference is that the inventory can include capitalized interest. This is not an important factor for DreamWorks because the company does not borrow.
Inventory is normally recorded at cost. This is true whether the inventory is bread on a grocery store shelf, a diamond in a jewelry store, or a movie that is entirely intangible. Now the question becomes how the company accounts for the value of that inventory over time.
Ideally inventory is sold at a much higher price than cost. It's important to remember that the inventory that is shown on company's books at least under GAAP accounting which is what is used in the U.S. will be the cost of that inventory. Let's take the example of a grocery store. A grocery store might spend $1 to buy and shelve some product. That product will probably be sold for about $1.33. When you look at the store shelf you see $1.33. However, when you look at the company's balance sheet you see $1. When the product is sold the company records gross profit to the extent that the retail price of the product exceeded the cost.
Gross profit is an important concept at many companies. I want to stress that inventory is recorded at cost. A normal profitable business should routinely sell inventory for much higher than the value shown on its balance sheet. In fact many companies go year after year after year without having negative gross profit. The company that has a gross loss is usually in very serious trouble. It is normal for a company to have a gross loss only in the very early stages of the business. And even then only in the case of companies that are going to rely on a huge scale to make a profit in the future.
From the perspective of understanding a business rather than a company and its financial structure the key numbers you want to focus on are sales, gross profit and EBITDA.
You always want to compare these numbers to something else. A lot of people compare gross profit and EBITDA. In other words they take gross profit and divide by sales to get the gross margin. And they take EBITDA and divide by sales to get the EBITDA margin. Those are both important numbers. But they're not the most important numbers. The most important number is a return on capital measure.
How should you measure return on capital? If we put aside the issue of how companies are financed and focus on the business itself the number that will matter most to you is EBITDA divided by invested tangible assets. What are invested tangible assets?
Different companies will have different quirks. I mentioned DreamWorks. That is an unusual company. And it can be hard to measure return on capital there. Likewise companies like Microsoft and Dun & Bradstreet will have deferred revenue. This complicates things because if you ignore deferred revenue you underestimate the return on capital of the businesses.
But for most companies the key balance sheet items are receivables, inventory and property. Those are the assets. The liabilities are accounts payable and accrued expenses. You want to net the sum of receivables, inventory and property against the sum of accounts payable and accrued expenses. This will give you an idea of how much capital is in the business.
You then want to look at gross profit divided by the difference between those invested assets and liabilities. And most importantly you want to look at EBITDA relative to the difference between those assets and liabilities.
Why do we net out the difference between the assets and liabilities of the operating business?
A business has owners. And it has creditors. We usually think about financial creditors. But when we look at a company independent of its debt, what we need to focus on are creditors that are owed money as part of the day-to-day business.
Most companies owe money to their employees. They owe this money at all times. Employees do work first and are paid later. They also owe money to suppliers. Supplies are shipped first and paid for later. These creditors provide some of the capital the business needs to operate. That is capital that owners like shareholders do not have to provide.
What if the accounts payable and accrued expenses are less than receivables, inventory, and property. Then the business will need capital from owners. Or it will need capital from banks. Or it will need capital from bond investors. In other words it will need financial capital.
It is best to start studying a company without leverage. Some companies use leverage all the time. A utility like a power company or a water company will not earn enough for its shareholders without issuing bonds. That is true. But investors first starting out in understanding accounting should focus on businesses before considering how they are financed. They should start with how business is run regardless of whether capital is coming from bond investors or stock investors.
They should also focus on cash flow rather than reported earnings. That is why I want to talk about sales, gross profit and EBITDA relative to invest capital.
What is a good return on investment? That is one of the biggest reasons investors look at accounting. They want to find a business that earns a good return on capital.
It is important that the return on be good in most or all years. You need to go back at least 10 years to understand a business. With EDGAR you can often go back 15 years. You should do that.
Important numbers to consider are sales relative to receivables, inventory and property. And sales relative to net tangible assets. The net tangible assets are approximated at most companies by receivables plus inventory plus property minus accounts payable minus accrued expenses. The higher sales are relative to net tangible assets the lower margins can be in the company can still make money. The reason a company like Costco (NASDAQ:COST) can operate with such low margins is because it has high sales relative to net tangible assets.
If a company has low sales relative to net tangible assets like Amorim Cork does in Portugal or many jewelry stores do it will need to have very high margins. Some companies that have a lot of assets always have high margins even when they have poor returns on capital. A cruise company like Carnival (NYSE:CCL) has very high EBITDA margins even in bad years. The same is true of a railroad. That is not what you should focus on. It is not important that they get a good return on sales. It is important that they get a good return on assets.
When can you be sure that a company has a good return on assets? Here is a rule of thumb. If a company routinely earns a 20% EBITDA return on net tangible assets, the business is good enough for you to invest in for the long run. But it is critical that you remember that a company which earns more than 20% in most years but lost money in any year may have a mediocre performance over the long run. In other words you want to see median returns and minimum returns that are as close to your ideal of 20% or higher in terms of EBIT up. Where does the number 20% come from?
An unleveraged company with a 20% EBITDA return is likely to be able to deliver double-digit returns to shareholders. That is why a 20% EBITDA of return is a good cut off.
But it is most useful for companies that have consistent EBITDA returns.
That's where you start. You start with the EBITDA returns. Then you can think about how closely EBITDA is related to owner earnings.
At a company like Western Union EBITDA translates into free cash flow at a very high rate. The only depreciation and amortization at Western Union has to do with write offs of bad past acquisitions. Or with signing bonuses. Western Union capitalizes signing bonuses.
Some companies build new stores and new factories. Western Union does not do that. Western Union has a network of agents. Those agents already have bank branches and post offices and convenience stores and the physical stuff you need to be a Western Union agent. So all Western Union needs to do is sign them up. The investment that Western Union makes is a signing bonus.
So if Western Union pays $800 as a signing bonus to get a new location for the next five or seven years they will amortize that signing bonus over those five or seven years. That means they take $800 and instead of expensing it in year one they spread it out at a rate of anywhere from say $200 to $100 a year depending on how close it is to, say, a four-year contract or how close it is to being, say, an eight-year contract.
That is amortization. You may see it described differently at different companies. The truth is that amortization, depreciation and depletion are all really the same thing. They are just different terms for the same idea. Do not get hung up on which word is used. You often see amortization used for intangibles like movies. And you will see depreciation used for tangible things like machines. Depletion may be used for natural resources. They all amount to the same thing.
Whether we are talking about depreciation, or amortization, or depletion we're talking about taking a one-time cash outlay and spreading it over many years as an expense. The classic example that I use over and over again is a cruise ship. A cruise ship may last 20 or 25 years. And even after it has been used for 20 or 25 years it will not simply be scrapped. It will be sold. So a cruise ship has a residual value. And it has a useful life of many, many years.
Those are the key concepts to understand with depreciation. You want to look in the accounting notes for a description of useful life and residual value. There are also different methods for how to spread the expense over the years.
An example is the difference between how Carnival accounts for depreciation and how DreamWorks handles film amortization. Carnival spreads the expense evenly. It uses a straight-line method. DreamWorks uses the ultimate revenue approach. They match revenue against expenses. That works except when they have a flop. When they have flops they have to write off immediately. So expect to see a write down of Rise of the Guardians real soon.
Why does this matter? It doesn't really matter that much. You shouldn't focus on reported earnings. Analysts tend to focus on reported earnings. The media definitely focuses on reported earnings. Don't do that. I want you to focus on cash flow. So you need to look at the ways that reported earnings masks cash flow. You don't want to have an estimate of what earnings will be next year. That's not necessary.
Carnival and Royal Caribbean (RCL) are similar businesses. And yet if you read their explanation of how they handle depreciation carefully you will see it is not identical. You will also see this with companies like railroads. Not every railroad has to use the same approach to depreciating assets. And not every cruise company has the same approach to depreciating their assets. They will even disagree on issues like useful life.
This is important. It means that Royal Caribbean may sometimes be depreciating 4% of their ships each year while Carnival may be depreciating 5%. If each company is generating sales of only about 40% of the value of their ships we are talking about ships with a book value of about 2 ½ times sales. In other words a 1% difference in depreciation per dollar of book value of property each year would correspond to a 2.5% difference in margin each year.
So if you focus on reported earnings a tiny difference in depreciation of say a 20-year useful life versus a 25-year useful life could cause you to miss a 2.5% difference in margin. You could look at the two companies and see one company has a margin of 12.5% and the other company has a margin of 10%, and you would think the company with a 12.5% margin is more profitable. But if the company with a 12.5% margin has estimated useful life for their ships that is just five years greater then actually there is no difference in cash flow. There is only a difference in reported earnings. And that difference is based on an arbitrary decision about useful life.
In other words, if you do not understand accounting you will not understand that you are giving credit to one company over another simply on the basis of trusting managements' estimates of how long they can use a ship.
This kind of thing is common in many situations. And that is the way to use accounting. You want to use it not as a guide to exactly what is right and wrong. You want to understand it as you would understand a written language.
In other words you don't want to have some exact idea what depreciation is or should be in every situation. Instead you want to understand how the depreciation affects reported earnings and cash flow. And you want to understand the difference between economic reality and management estimates. Most importantly you want to take nothing for granted. You want to understand where every part of your own estimates of a company's value comes from.
The danger in not understanding accounting is that you will incorporate ideas without analyzing them critically. You will incorporate ideas like the useful life of a ship without ever thinking about the useful life of a ship. You may never read that note on depreciation. But you will take those margins and make assumptions based on them. But those margins themselves make assumptions based on the useful life. So you need to go and look for what data makes up the data you are using.
That is the most important part of accounting. It is not about right or wrong. I can't tell you exactly what the earnings-per-share of Royal Caribbean should be. And I can't tell you exactly what the earnings-per-share of Carnival should be. I can look at why the earnings are what they are. I can look at how they would be different if they made different assumptions. And I can give you my take on what assumptions I think are reasonable. More importantly, I can make conservative estimates of economic reality and I can restate reported earnings in terms of a conservative economic reality as I see it.
That is what you are really looking to do. You don't need to know what reported earnings will be. You need to know what a conservative estimate of future owner earnings will be. And the way to do that is to break down the headline numbers you find in a company's earnings.
How do you do that? Try to be like an investigator. Write down questions you have. If a company's receivables look particularly high or low, go and read the note on receivables. The notes to the financial statements are critical. I can't stress this enough. You always need to read the notes to the financial statements. You always want to read the entire 10-K. And you need to take notes. The notes you take should mostly be questions.
In other words, when you are looking at the depreciation line you should be thinking what assumptions are they making about useful life? And you should be thinking how does that match what actually happened in the past. For example, you can go back into the past annual reports for Royal Caribbean and see the age of their ships. You can see what they sold ships for when they were done with them. You can test estimates of the future against the past.
If you listen to conference calls you hear a lot of estimates. You should ignore this. You should instead go back into the past to make estimates about the future. If you want to consider what kind of capital spending will be needed to keep a fleet in a certain shape you should go back to what they spent on ships in the past. You should adjust it for inflation. You should consider that as the average life of the fleet gets older its earning power may be worse. Certainly its attractiveness will be lower to customers. You should think the way an investigator or journalist would think.
The metaphor of a reporter is a good one. That is really the way to tackle accounting. It is very important that you not get hung up on right and wrong. That's the mistake most people make when they look at accounting. They try to decide what is correct and incorrect. That's not really the way to use accounting. The way to use accounting is to literally think of it as a language. It is to analyze a financial statement the way you would analyze a written statement. You would not be focused on some ideal. You should be focused on the gist of what was being said and how it was being said and what wasn't being said.
There are good books on accounting. But they will not help most people who need help with accounting. Because they are theoretical. And at best they will give you some idea of what you'll face the real world. But it is much better to simply go out and read a 10-K every day. You can't help but learn accounting if you read a 10-K every day. If you read 10-K every day and read it critically taking notes and especially asking questions you will become much better at understanding accounting than most investors.
It is that simple. You should stop looking for books on accounting. And you should start learning accounting the way you would learn a language by immersing yourself in it.
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It wouldn't surprise me if I found out that we were ALL already chipped in some strange way. Methods might have been microscopic chips in our food or drinking water. They might include semi-robotic chips that combine in our bodies to form a larger chip that can be tracked by scanners, whereas the smaller ones (necessary so that we won't find out about them) would be undetectable by scanners using today's technology. It might all include scanners and trackers so sensitive that the public wouldn't believe that they could exist.
Perhaps this system has been introduced worldwide, to some troubled areas, if not throughout the whole world, and some time ago. Perhaps the reason for Guantanamo prisoners is that they had been track by chips that they unknowingly had ingested, and that Government DOES have strong evidence, or proof, of their nefarious activity through the tracking. But if Government revealed how they got the info, we would all be up in arms for being chipped without given the choice. So, we have Guantanamo.


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Over the winter I accumulated a bunch of new factory ammo, and a few handloads, I was waiting for a nice day to test. That day finally came! Suffice it to say that with four rifles, two of which I switched in the field from .338LM to also test .308, this was an all-day affair. Now I need to find time to analyze all the targets and radar data….
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Remington R51: My favorite new pocket gun
This Remington R51 is a really great gun. I bought it at the end of 2017 for $500 (including the Crimson Trace laser sight) while Remington was offering a $100 mail-in-rebate. I have to applaud Remington for going through the significant trouble of launching a pistol based on the Pedersen "hesitation lock."
Previously, pocket guns with such a low profile were only available with simple blowback actions, which limits them to .380ACP or lighter cartridges. The R51 is rated for 9mm +P, which puts it in the realm of "full-power" defensive handguns. At one time I owned a Sig P232, which is a very slick .380ACP pocket gun, but I sold it some years ago during a caliber consolidation. Subsequently my only gun that really fit a pocket holster was the S&W 642 revolver. Lacking the cylinder bulge, the R51 is easier to carry in a pocket. If you're looking for an "everyday carry" gun, you could end your search here on that basis alone.
Summit toggle action 10/22 now manufactured by Volquartsen
Interesting announcement today: The Summit toggle action 10/22 will now be manufactured by Volquartsen!
Dean Sylvester, PWS President and Summit designer commented "The Summit has been one of our most requested products over the years. We feel combining the unique features of the Summit design with the impeccable manufacturing standards and reputation of Volquartsen Firearms will allow both companies to focus on our core markets and ensure all customers are getting the best product possible."
Hit by my own bullet!
Here's a .22LR bullet that went through my paper target at 50 yards and then somehow ricocheted back to hit me on the forehead. (It then bounced onto the bench in front of me, leaving me scratched and bewildered, but nothing more serious.)
I'm well aware that bullets can do surprising things, and I've even researched some of them in depth. I've seen videos of people supposedly getting hit by ricochets of their own bullets fired into conventional backstops, but this is the first time I can offer a first-hand account of such an event.
I was doing more precision testing with a rifle in my machine rest, which meant that I was firing tight five-round groups very quickly. The last shot in one group made an unusual impact sound in the earthen berm behind the target, and as I lifted my head from the scope I heard a snap in the trees to my left and then something like a small pebble hit me in the forehead hard.
I was alone on a private range, and as I rubbed my head feeling for blood or a welt (and finding neither), I saw this slug on the bench in front of my machine rest. It was too hot to hold, so I set it aside while I finished shooting my test plan. After photographing it back in my shop I weighed it at 40.7gr, so if it shed any lead during its trip it appears to have made up for it by catching dirt in its crevices.
Does this story come with a lesson? Well, for one thing, wear eye protection! If this had hit me in an eye it would have produced a serious ocular injury. Another: Unlikely things can happen! I would still say it's extremely unlikely for an unjacketed, subsonic bullet fired into an earthen berm to ricochet a full 180 degrees and cover another 50+ yards. (And, in that rare event, the bullet would not have enough energy to cause serious injury, unless it hit someone in the eye.) But however unlikely something may seem, just realize there's probably somebody who's going to have an astonished look on his face when it eventually does happen. Do what you reasonably can to make that the worst consequence!
The Time Cost of Reloading
There are various reasons to take up handloading ammunition, including:
- Producing ammunition that shoots with greater accuracy in a particular gun than non-customized loads.
- Producing ammunition that is not available on the commercial market.
- Saving money.
But the last benefit depends in large part on how one values one's time.
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Buckmark .22LR Pistol Accuracy, continued
Following some review of the recent Buckmark accuracy test, some readers wondered if the suppressor was hurting precision. Others, noting that Buckmark barrels are well known for their accuracy, wondered how the stock 5.5″ barrel would fare.
I ran the standard barrel through the same procedure as before. The aggregated data and analysis are in this Excel workbook, and the summary results with links to the 50-yard targets are here:
|CEP Radius (MOA)
|Average fps
|fps Standard Deviation
|Eley Contact
|Eley Club
|Gemtech 42gr
|Federal AutoMatch
|Federal Champion HV
This pistol shot everything well. In fact, the best four loads tested would all be expected to hit inside a Bullseye 10-ring virtually 100% of the time.
Running the Tactical Solutions barrel without the suppressor seemed likely to help its score also, at least with some loads. At 4″, it gives up 40-50fps vs. even the 5.5″ barrel. But the accuracy of CCI SV went from CEP of 2.0 MOA to 1.3 MOA. Groups of Eley Club (essentially the same performance as Eley Target) showed CEP under 1.4 MOA. However, it was not able to tighten performance of the Gemtech load. (Detailed data were added to the spreadsheet from the previous test.)
Buckmark .22LR Pistol Accuracy
How accurate is a typical rimfire pistol? Out of curiosity I mounted my Buckmark, with its 4″ Tactical Solutions barrel and 5″ AAC Element II suppressor, on my test stand and recorded shots simultaneously at 25 and 50 yards.
As usual, I digitized the paper targets using OnTarget TDS, and followed the statistical analysis outlined at ballisticaccuracy.com. The aggregated data and analysis are in this Excel workbook.
|CEP Radius (MOA)
|Average fps
|fps Standard Deviation
|SK Plus
|Eley Target
|Gemtech 42gr
|Federal Champion HV
I was surprised at how much more dispersion this gun shows than the 10/22 rifles I have tested. It's certainly nothing to brag about: The 10-ring on NRA Bullseye Pistol targets (shot competitively with autoloading rimfire pistols) typically has a radius of 3MOA, and even with zero shooter error the good ammo here would only hit that 80% of the time.
How to hold a small pistol with large hands
I was training a woman for precision rifle shooting when she showed me her defensive handgun: a S&W M&P Bodyguard 380. This is a very small pistol: 5.25″ long, 4″ high, and just 0.75″ thick! Its dimensions make it easy to carry concealed, but can make it tricky to shoot.
This woman's hands are almost as large as mine (which are 8″ long and 3.5″ wide mid palm), so I asked to see how she was able to handle such a small gun. Through practice on her own, she had concluded that even though she is both left-handed and left-eye dominant she shot it better with her right hand. Since it's a double-action-only gun with a long, heavy trigger, she had resorted to pulling the trigger using the second knuckle. She noted that doing this she would often hit the magazine release with the tip of her trigger finger, but she didn't know how else to run the gun. She also couldn't figure out how to get her support hand on the gun, and so she presented it with the largely ineffective "teacup" hold.
The same guidance for holding guns that fit can be applied to holding undersized guns. Of course, the first order of business was to nix the idea of pulling the trigger with anything other than the center of the first joint of the strong hand's index finger. (With large hands it can often be necessary to arch the trigger finger outward, but you never compromise on this point.) Then I showed her how to follow the usual steps of establishing a proper handgun grip:
- Push the firing hand web between the thumb and trigger finger as high on the grip as possible.
- Find a "home" position for the trigger finger outside the trigger guard, and then close the remaining fingers and palm snugly around the grip.
- Now snug the support hand up and around the gun and trigger hand in order to maximize contact with its palm and fingers.
- Ensure that the support thumb and index finger don't interfere with the gun's controls or the trigger pull. (Typically the support thumb will rest parallel and ahead of the trigger hand's thumb. The support index finger needs to find a home too, and while that is often atop the knuckle of the trigger hand's middle finger, on some guns it can instead find a consistent grip on the front of the trigger guard.)
Chronos High Speed Video Camera for Shooter Diagnostics
Today I'm going to show a project that exploited the Chronos 1.4 at high image resolutions and at the lower end of its temporal resolution (i.e., frame-rate): What does handgun recoil look like, and how can a shooter control it?
I took a rusty shooter to the range with his Sig P239 chambered in .357SIG. This is an excellent concealed carry gun shooting arguably the ideal cartridge for defensive handguns. However, since the fully-loaded gun weighs only two pounds it has somewhat snappy recoil which requires training and practice to handle well.
Stepping through the video frames we can see that this pistol's "lock time" (the delay from when the trigger is pulled until the hammer hits the primer) is 5ms. Also, from the moment the trigger is pulled, it takes 18ms for the slide to cycle to the rear, and 63ms to return to battery.
We filmed the shooter's first few shots. He had forgotten some pistol fundamentals, including: proper grip, not anticipating the recoil, and following through each shot. (Granted, most of these problems can be detected or assumed even without high-speed video.) After retraining we filmed a few more shots. The improvement was remarkable. Beginning the refresher the shooter experienced muzzle flip of 40 degrees and consistently took over 60ms to halt the recoil of the gun. This composite overlaying the moment of discharge with peak recoil shows the slide already returned to battery by the time the shooter has stopped the recoil:
After retraining, the shooter was able to keep muzzle flip under 20 degrees and stop the recoil in under 40ms. (This was accompanied, of course, by faster and more accurate shooting.)
Chronos High Speed Video Camera for Shooting Analysis
Frequent readers know that I have been looking for high-speed video to go mainstream for years – ever since Casio dipped its foot into the consumer market with its F1 camera in 2008.
The sort of bullet-freezing high-speed video that has become familiar to YouTube audiences still requires a Phantom or Photron camera that runs well into five figures. However, there is finally a "pro-sumer" level high-speed video camera that fills the niche between 3-figure "action cameras" and those 5-figure professional cameras: The self-contained Chronos 1.4 is launching at $3,000 and offers 1.4Gpx/s throughput on a rolling 4-second buffer, which ranges from 1280×1024 @ 1,057fps to 640×96 @ 21,649fps! Aimed Research recently gave me an opportunity to test the beta version of this camera. I'll show some of the cool things this camera can do over the next few posts.
Note that this was a beta device, and I didn't have enough time to learn to optimize the camera at its limits. For example, here's a 60gr .22 bullet leaving a barrel recorded at 9,000fps. With some more tweaking I expect I could have gotten the shutter speed low enough to show the bullet as a solid in each frame instead of a blur:
With time resolution in the thousands of frames per second we can see a lot of hidden phenomena. The following video of the same 10/22 rifle shooting the same 60gr .22LR bullet was recorded at 2,356fps. One surprising thing we can clearly see here is that the bolt bounces off of the breech when returning to battery.
Another thing we can see is something we heard during recent sound level testing: The unusual 60gr .22LR load is 50% heavier than the bullets for which this action was designed, and the case is 0.2″ shorter. As a result, the case clears the chamber less than 1ms after the bullet leaves the barrel, which causes a significant amount of pressure (and sound) to vent out the breech of the barrel. (A standard 40gr round doesn't open the breech until 3ms after the bullet leaves the barrel.) If we wanted to tune this gun for this unusual cartridge, video like this would really help us confirm how changing bolt mass and spring rates affects the action.


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Q: There has also been a big surge on crude prices, 5 percent up last week. Is this just a geopolitical one-off that is happening with crude or do you think something fundamental is changing with that commodity?
Marc Faber : Yes, actually I believe that crude is one of the very few commodities that look attractive from a longer term perspective. Between last November and February of this year was five times in the Middle East on five different journeys. My impression is that the whole Middle Eastern problems wi
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I don't often use this nail polish alone so when I did I knew I had to get some pictures. I generally use this to liven up a creme polish or just when I'm in the mood for layering. It's definitely my go-to for a shimmery top coat. Next time I use it for that I will have to get good pictures. However, here you can see it alone! In it's gold and glittery glory!
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Govindan, VK and Shivaprasad, AP (1991) Artificial database for character recognition research. In: Pattern Recognition Letters, 12 (10). pp. 645-648.Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)
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This paper describes a technique for artificial generation of learning and test sample sets suitable for character recognition research. Sample sets of English (Latin), Malayalam, Kannada and Tamil characters are generated easily through their prototype specifications by the endpoint co-ordinates, nature of segments and connectivity.
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Today I thought we'd explore another cosy corner of Walt Disney World, and - as you've probably guessed from the title - our search for a quiet spot is going to take us to the Canada Pavilion at Epcot!
totally random tidbit: I seem to spell "pavilion" with a different number of "l's" every time I type it. Anyone else do that?? lol!
I love the Canada Pavilion. In the first place, it's got Le Cellier (love that pretzel bread...and the cheddar cheese soup...but I'd better stop before this post becomes all about LC!). In the second place, it's just beautiful - the Victoria Gardens, the soaring tower of the Hotel du Canada replica.
Sadly, there isn't a whole lot of seating in Canada for the quester of quiet corners. At least, there isn't indoor seating, which is always a bummer. But when the heat isn't too punishing, there is a lovely place I love to frequent out-of-doors.
Climb the steps past the Northwest Mercantile and you'll find this charming courtyard. You may have passed through it before on your way to see O Canada! Which is such a great name for a show, btw. Names that start with an ejaculation and end with an exclamation point are just so much more exciting. ;)
This can be a busy area - what with people going to the show and people who came up the steps thinking they led through - kinda reminds me of Roller Coaster Tycoon, where if you built too many dead ends the little people in your park would wander around lost forever, becoming more and more annoyed.
Luckily Disney World doesn't have too many dead ends. The imagineers must have played Roller Coaster Tycoon growing up.
But back to the point at hand, if you look carefully at the stone building, you'll see that there is a nice tucked-away little nook for sitting in...
On the Disney World website (which actually has a page dedicated to the Canada Pavilion - who knew?), there's a little fun fact that says: "Near the Hotel du Canada is a rugged stone building, modeled after a famous landmark near Niagara Falls which reflects the British influence in Canada." I guess this must be the stone building, although it looks more refined than rugged to me!
...you can admire the gorgeous flowers...
You also get a pretty impressive view of the Chateau Laurier.
Off to the left you can even catch a glimpse of the Canadian Rockies. It's a marvellous place to sit and catch your breath before you head off to explore more of Epcot!


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Clever Cookie has been a fine servant for his connections, having competed at the highest level on the Flat and over hurdles.
He won both of his starts in bumpers and despite being beaten on his first two hurdle starts, he won twice at Musselburgh in 2014 before tackling the Grade 2 Scottish Champion Hurdle at Ayr, where he finished second to Cockney Sparrow.
Following that effort his connections decided to switch his attentions to the Flat and he got off the mark at the first attempt in a Doncaster maiden, beating subsequent Group 3 winner Air Pilot. He won his next two starts including a Listed race at York before running well in defeat in both the Ebor and the Doncaster Cup.
In 2015, he recorded a first Group 3 success in the Ormonde Stakes at Chester before following up in the same Listed race at York in May. He then ran in three successive QIPCO British Champions Series races – the QIPCO-sponsored King George at Ascot (finished fifth), the Lonsdale Cup at York (fourth) and Long Distance Cup on Champions Day at Ascot (second).
He did not enjoy the rub of the green in the last-named race and gained deserved compensation when landing the 2016 Betway Yorkshire Cup – the first race in the Long Distance category of the 2016 Series.
Clever Cookie had previously split Mizzou and Flying Officer in the Sagaro Stakes at Ascot in April.
He was sent off 8-1 for the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot but, despite conditions being in his favour, failed to make an impact. He then possibly found the ground when fifth behind Quest For More in the Weatherbys Hamilton Lonsdale Cup at York.
Clever Cookie has yet to strike in 2017 but showed he retains all his zest when a fine fourth in the Doncaster Cup on his latest start.
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