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3.6 Carbon Cycle Model Evaluation
3.6.1 Terrestrial and Ocean Biogeochemistry Models
The interactions of complex processes as discussed in Section 3.2 can be analysed with models that incorporate current knowledge at the process level, including syntheses of experimental results. Process-based models make it possible to explore the potential consequences of climate variability for the global carbon cycle, and to project possible future changes in carbon cycling associated with changes in atmospheric and ocean circulation. Models can be run with prescribed inputs such as observations of surface climate and CO2 or the output of climate models. They can also be coupled to atmospheric general circulation models (Cox et al., 2000; Friedlingstein et al., 2000), to allow simulation of a wider range of interactions between climate and the carbon cycle.
Process-based terrestrial models used in carbon cycle studies are (a) terrestrial biogeochemical models (TBMs), which simulate fluxes of carbon, water and nitrogen coupled within terrestrial ecosystems, and (b) dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs), which further couple these processes interactively with changes in ecosystem structure and composition (competition among different plant functional types; Prentice et al., 2000). The treatment of carbon-nutrient interaction varies widely; for example, some models treat nitrogen supply explicitly as a constraint on NPP, while others do not. There are currently about 30 TBMs and <10 DGVMs. Cramer and Field (1999) and Cramer et al. (2001) reported results from intercomparisons of TBMs and DGVMs respectively. A current international project, Ecosystem Model/Data Intercomparison (EMDI), aims to test models of both types against a large set of terrestrial measurements, in order to better constrain the modelled responses of terrestrial carbon cycling to changes in CO2 and climate.
Process-based ocean models used in carbon cycle studies include surface exchange of CO2 with the atmosphere, carbon chemistry, transport by physical processes in the ocean, and transport by marine biology. The parametrization of marine biology can be classified as (a) nutrient-based models where the export of carbon below the surface ocean (approximately the top 50 m) is a function of surface nutrient concentration, (b) nutrient-restoring models in which biological carbon fluxes are set to the rates required for maintaining observed nutrient concentration gradients against dissipation by ocean mixing, and (c) models that explicitly represent the food chain involving nutrients, phytoplankton, zooplankton and detritus (NPZD models). In current models, the uptake of anthropogenic CO2 is controlled mainly by physical transport and surface carbon chemistry, whereas the natural carbon cycle is controlled by physical, chemical and biological processes. The Ocean Carbon Cycle Model Intercomparison Project (OCMIP) compared the performance of four ocean models with respect to natural and anthropogenic tracers (Sarmiento et al., 2000; Orr et al., 2001), and is currently undergoing a similar comparison with 13 models and an extended data set (Orr and Dutay, 1999).
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January 04, 2011/By Frank Gardner BBC Security Correspondent
With much of the Middle East in flux, suspicions intensifying over Iran's nuclear ambitions, a deepening political crisis in Pakistan, and the escalation of jihadist violence in Nigeria there are plenty of potential flashpoints in the year ahead.
There is a distinction between localised conflicts that are largely contained within borders and the kind of global, transnational terrorism that produced events such as 9/11, the Madrid bombings and, in the eyes of many, destructive military ventures like the US-led invasion of Iraq.
Roadside bombs, like this one in Laghman province, have claimed the lives of many Afghan civilians
2011 was another violent year for Afghanistan, with more than 2,000 civilians killed in the first 10 months of the year. The drivers for that violence - insurgency, gun battles, air strikes and criminality - are not about to disappear but the picture is changing. Nato (Isaf) is increasingly positioning itself for the withdrawal of its combat forces by the end of 2014, accelerating the training of Afghan security forces in the hopes they will be robust enough to maintain a semblance of national security and keep al-Qaeda out.
The eventual departure of most foreign forces will not necessarily spell the end of conflict. A worst-case scenario that Nato is working to prevent is that the country reverts to the sort of self-destructive mayhem and warlordism it endured in the early 1990s following the Soviet pullout and that the Taliban re-emerge in the south, bringing al-Qaeda with them.
Logically, an eventual winding down of the Nato vs Taliban conflict in Afghanistan ought to take some of the steam out of Pakistan's own simmering insurgency. But Pakistan's problems run deeper than that, with the country beginning the year with a crisis in relations between its weak civilian government and powerful military as well as a profound mistrust between Washington and Islamabad.
Much has been written in the US media about concerns over the safety of Pakistan's nuclear ballistic arsenal. While these fears may be exaggerated, some militants will be looking to exploit the political chaos and 2012 looks set to be another violent year. Neither the CIA's drone strikes against militants in Pakistan's tribal territories nor al-Qaeda's activities there are likely to stop soon.
Iran and the Gulf
Iranian naval exercises in the Gulf in December and early January have ratcheted up regional tensions
International concern over Iran's accelerating nuclear programme is now so profound that Israel - which feels most threatened by Iran - is having to choose between two deeply unappealing options: living with a nuclear-armed Iran within missile range or launching a pre-emptive strike and starting a war which it may not be able to finish.
Iran has been "wargaming" (planning) for this latter scenario for years and is believed to have in place a number of retaliatory measures should it ever come under full-scale attack. These include Hezbollah in Lebanon unleashing a barrage of rockets on Israel, firing its own missiles at US bases in the Gulf, closing the Strait of Hormuz to shipping and activating sleeper cells in Gulf Arab countries to attack infrastructure and foment unrest. US military officers have so far shown little or no appetite for opening a new theatre of conflict in Iran.
The departure of US combat forces last month after nearly nine years has not been matched by an end to violence. Al-Qaeda's Iraqi franchise, which many had started to dismiss as a spent and beaten force, has claimed responsibility for the co-ordinated bombings across Baghdad in December that killed more than 60 people. If Iraq's Sunni minority continues to feel disenfranchised and discriminated against by the Shia-dominated government of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, then there is a risk that violent extremists may be able to attract more recruits to their ranks.
Yemen is currently in slow-motion turmoil. There are clashes almost daily, sometimes between democracy protesters and snipers loyal to outgoing President Saleh, sometimes between supporters of rival tribal groupings, sometimes between the army and Islamist militants in the southern province of Abyan. Yemen's Gulf neighbours, as well as the UK and US, are concerned that with all its problems coupled with economic collapse, Yemen does not become a failed state. 2012 will be critical in determining whether the country can get itself out of its current impasse.
There have been fears, so far unfounded, of an institutional linkup between Somalia's jihadist group, al-Shabab, and its prolific maritime pirates. There is limited co-existence, mainly for financial gain, but no sign yet that Somali pirates would be willing to hand over captured sailors to al-Shabab. Of more concern to the authorities in Britain is the small trickle of British volunteers heading to Somalia intent on volunteering for jihad. Their worry is that sooner or later some will be tempted - as others have in Pakistan - to return to attack Britain instead of fighting and dying in a distant country.
North Africa
Much of the Libyan capital is still under the control of different militias
The upheavals across Tunisia, Libya and Egypt prompted by the Arab Awakening have been followed by only limited outbreaks of violence but certainly in Libya and Egypt, there is a risk that more could follow.
In Libya, it has been proving hard to persuade armed militias to surrender their guns, and there is a real worry that weapons looted from Gaddafi's arsenals have leaked across the southern borders into the hands of militants in Mali and elsewhere. Of greatest concern is the risk of shoulder-launched missiles falling into terrorist hands and there has been a major drive to try to locate them.
Al-Qaeda's franchise in the Sahara, known as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) is currently holding 12 Europeans for ransom and Western governments have warned their citizens to avoid large parts of the Sahara region for fear of kidnap.
Last year, attacks by the group Boko Haram - which means "Western education is forbidden" - killed more than 450 people, including at the UN headquarters in Abuja, a radical departure from its previous targets of police, judges and other local figures. In mid-2011, the US general commanding the Pentagon's Africa Command (Africom) warned there may be growing links between Boko Haram and Aqim. Britain's domestic intelligence agency, MI5, is believed to be on the lookout for any signs of Boko Haram connections amongst Britain's sizable Nigerian community.
The Olympics
Britain's hosting of the Olympics this summer will, we are told, see "the biggest security operation in this country since the Second World War". Some 13,500 military personnel will be on duty, a Royal Navy helicopter-carrying warship will be docked near the venue, ground-to-air missiles will be deployed and RAF Typhoon fighters will be on standby to provide air defence. None of which should be needed, if all goes to plan. But the Olympics are classed as a "trophy target" for anyone looking to damage Britain and security preparations are being made on the basis of the national terrorist threat being at "severe", the second highest level in a table of five.
Computers belonging to government institutions, commercial organisations and private individuals are coming under constant cyber attack, according to GCHQ, the government's secret communications HQ in Cheltenham. Attacks range from commercial espionage to stealing credit card details to trying to hack into military secrets. To head off the possibility of a catastrophic cyber attack on Britain's infrastructure, the government is investing heavily in protective measures, fighting what it calls "a constant arms race in cyber space".
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Irving Leads Team Chuck to Rising Stars Game Win
Kyrie Irving kicked off the aerial display with an alley-oop to Paul George. Cleveland's rookie point guard then showed off his long-range shooting skills.
It was so much fun that Irving wasn't too upset that all those 3-pointers came in a meaningless game.
Irving was a perfect 8 for 8 from beyond the arc and finished with 34 points, helping Team Chuck beat Team Shaq 146-133 in the Rising Stars Challenge on Friday.
Indiana's George added 23 points but the night belonged to Irving, who picked up where another No. 1 overall pick left off in the NBA's showcase game for its first- and second-year players. Wizards point guard John Wall earned MVP honors last season when he was a rookie.
Irving said he couldn't remember being so hot from the field.
"No, it's never occurred in my career," he said. "You know, it's kind of unfortunate that it comes in the All-Star game. These stats don't carry over into the season. But at the end of the day, it was still fun to get out there with those talented guys. So it was a great experience."
Cleveland's Tristan Thompson scored 20 points to lead Team Shaq. New York Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin only had two points.
This year's Rising Stars Challenge had a different format, with the rookie and second-year players mixed together on teams for the first time. The league also inserted a little more name recognition with former stars Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley serving as general managers and drafting the teams.
While the teams had a different look, there was once again no real defensive effort and plenty of fan-pleasing fast breaks and flashy play.
"It's what All-Star games are, there's not a lot of defense," Team Chuck co-head coach Maurice Cheeks said.
Lin had a relatively quiet night. His biggest highlight came early in the second half when he took a pass from Minnesota star Ricky Rubio and drove it underneath for a reverse layup.
He played just nine minutes before heading to the bench in the second half, and instead mostly yielded to the more high-flying players on his team. He took just four shots.
Landry Fields, who plays with Lin on the Knicks, remained his biggest fan, holding a "Linsanity" Time magazine cover featuring him.
"It was fun to be out there with all these guys, and this guy right here (pointing to magazine) did his thing," Fields said. "Short minutes, but he still did his thing."
Irving got the game off to a rousing start with the pass to George, and Rubio turned routine passes to his Shaq teammates into behind-the-back and between-the-leg looks.
It was part of an acrobatic early tone that was fast-paced and allowed the next generation of stars to showcase open-court and aerial skills that have already made many of them fan favorites on their respective teams.
Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin had several highlights while playing for Team Shaq, catching several alley-oops and even throwing his own pass off the glass and catching it for a dunk.
"There were a lot of dunks," Team Shaq co-head coach Ron Adams said. "I think the guys had fun. I hope we didn't set a Guinness Book of World Records record for dunks given, but it was a fun game. Interesting game."


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Anyone ever have a crush on Nick Lachey when he was in the boy band 98 degrees or on the ill-fated MTV show Newlyweds?
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LeAnn Rimes: I never liked your music and your face looks funny.
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Beat the Cleveland Indians at tonight's game.
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Phoenix, AZ (ABC15) — A Valley woman has set up a "bucket list" for her dog in an effort to make the most of her family's remaining time with the five-and-a-half-year-old pit bull mix.
Jessica Alderman created a Facebook page after Wrigley was diagnosed with an inoperable form of cancer.
"We are not counting the days, but rather making the days count for our amazing boy Wrigley who has an inoperable canine cancer," the Facebook page explains.
Wrigley was diagnosed with hemangiosarcoma cancer in March, and after further tests, doctors found he had a tumor in the lining of his heart, on his spleen and on his liver.
"I was completely devastated," Alderman said. "But [the doctor] gave us advice that inspired this project: to treat every day like his birthday."
Now, Wrigley, Jessica and her fiance are taking steps to cross off as many list items as they can.
"We tried to think of different items that would both honor what he has meant to us and provide new experiences for him to truly enjoy life," Alderman said.
The items listed on Wrigley's bucket list are below:
1. Dinner at OHSO (done)
2. Attend my mom's fundraising event (done)
3. Pass the CGC (done)
4. Buy a new bow tie (done)
5. Raise money for other rescue Pits
6. Throw an early ½ birthday party (in progress, save date 4/12)
7. Ride in a fire truck or police car
8. Deliver thank you card to veterinarian
9. Appear as a media star
10. Ride in a convertible (scheduled 4/24)
11. Have a professional family photo shoot (scheduled 3/30)
12. Have a dog themed movie night
13. Walk around the block every day
14. Have my portrait painted for my parents
15. Create a new slide show of my life story
16. Try a new "hoo-man" food
17. Eat a doggie ice cream sundae
18. Walk around the famous fountain in Fountain Hills, Ariz. (done)
19. Paw it forward in a Wrigley way
20. Go on a trip
21. Attend my grandmother's wedding in California
22. Go to a dog beach
Alderman adopted Wrigley from the Arizona Humane Society when he was 2 years old.
She says she hopes that Wrigley's story will help others look past stereotypes surrounding the pit bull breed, and inspire others to adopt.


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But when I use IFL booted from a USB flash drive, backup of the same SSD using byte-for-byte verify completes successfully. Using IFL, I was also able to do a successful backup of my 1.5TB hard drive that has 630GB of data on it, using byte-for-byte verify.
Since IFL can do successful backups using byte-for-byte verification, I think that verifies that my hardware is fine. So why can't IFW do successful backups using byte-for-byte verify? Is there a setting that I need to make in IFW?


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A polar air mass that's been blamed for multiple deaths in the Midwest moved into the Northeast on Wednesday, prompting the National Weather Service to issue wind chill warnings across upstate New York and northern New England.
In northern Maine, the temperature dipped to as low as 36 below zero Wednesday morning. The weather service was calling for a wind chills as low as minus-45.
Keith Pelletier, the owner of Dolly's Restaurant in Frenchville, said his customers were dressed in multiple layers of clothing and were keeping their cars running in the parking lot while eating lunch. It's so cold that even the snowmobilers are staying home, he said.
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The MPAA has spent years trying to get the FCC to waive its ban on Selectable Output Control, seeking the power to disable analog streams in the name of piracy prevention. They're particularly worried about the piracy of films that are still in theaters, as they start to serve them up for people to watch on demand in the comfort of their home.
The FCC's decision is geared towards these new movies—cable companies will only get SOC powers for a 90 day window, or until the movie's DVD release—and all of this business really only concerns older HDTVs that connect to set top boxes with component cables (there's already all sorts of DRM that keeps digitally-transmitted content under lock and chain). So the FCC won't be able to fiddle with analog-users' existing content, they'll just be able to prevent them from getting the new stuff, which isn't all that bad, considering there's probably more stuff on demand at this moment than any one person could watch in an entire calendar year.
But still! This sort of thing sets a very dangerous precedent, as many have been quick to point out. The FCC maintains that giving Hollywood these controls is the only way for consumers to get movie theater movies in their homes, but if this decision turns out to be the thin end of the SOC wedge, I imagine a lot of people will wish they could've said, "thanks but no thanks." [Wired and Ars]


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Rich and powerful: Why won't they save themselves?
I spent a recent week at Occupy Miami and Occupy Fort Lauderdale. One question came up several times: What if the system responds– or pretends to respond– to our demands? What if the political class agrees to create more jobs, help the unemployed, let distressed homeowners keep their houses?Then the Occupy movement (and American progressivism) would be out of business."President Obama could finish us off overnight," I said. "A speech would be enough. He wouldn't even have to do anything."
Obama could announce a big jobs bill, knowing full well that Congressional Republicans would kill it. It would probably increase his reelection prospects.
But don't worry. He won't. He can't.
America's corporate rulers and their pet politicians know that people are furious. They understand that their actions and policies are accelerating the pace of income inequality and creating a growing, permanently alienated underclass.
They know history. Sooner or later, the downtrodden rise up, overthrow and kill their oppressors.
It's not a nice way to rule. Nor is it smart. So– if all it would take for America's masters to save themselves from the raging mobs of the not-so-distant future are a few empty words, why not try?
There's no doubt about the nature or scale of the problem. Economists from left to right agree that the United States suffers from high structural inequality. "At least five large studies in recent years have found the United States to be less mobile than comparable nations," reported The New York Times on January 5th. According to a Swedish study 42 percent of American boys raised by parents whose incomes fall in the bottom 40 percent of wage earners remain in the bottom 40 percent as adults– a much higher rate than such nations as Denmark (25 percent) and England (30 percent), "a country famous for its class constraints."
To be poor in the United States is not unusual. Half of Americans live under two times the poverty line. But the depth and persistence of poverty in America is unique among developed industrialized nations. The gap between the poor and the rich is bigger. Mobility– access to the American Dream– is less.
Born rich? You'll more likely to die rich in the U.S. than in other countries. Born poor? You're likelier to die poor.
"Miles Corak, an economist at the University of Ottawa, found that just 16 percent of Canadian men raised in the bottom tenth of incomes stayed there as adults, compared with 22 percent of Americans. Similarly, 26 percent of American men raised at the top tenth stayed there, but just 18 percent of Canadians."
When family background determines your fate you look for other options. Like getting rid of the system that makes things that way for your kids and their kids. That's what happened in France in 1789 and Russia in 1917 and China in 1949.
There is no better predictor of revolution than an absence of economic mobility.
Right-wing extremists dismiss empirical data with anecdotal evidence. "If America is so poor in economic mobility, maybe someone should tell all these people who still want to come to the U.S.," Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation told the Times.
Someone should.
Most Americans are poor. They don't need to read these studies. They're living them. Which is why they want politicians to create big jobs programs, raise wages, establish permanent unemployment benefits (standard in Europe) and impose a moratorium on foreclosures. The polls are clear.
No one cares about Iran's supposed nuclear weapons program.
Yet here we are in the heat of a presidential election year, and no candidate– not "liberal" Obama, not the weird Republican, Ron Paul, no one– is talking about the issues Americans care about.
During the 1930s and 1960s, liberal leaders ended street protests by promising change. Why not now? Why isn't anyone promising to address income inequality? They could lie and break their promises later.
First, the rich are feeling squeezed. The global capitalist system no longer has much room to expand. Emerging markets have emerged. Globalization is not only nearly out of steam, it's allowing the weakest trading partners to drag down their healthier partners. Feeling squeezed, our rulers aren't in the mood to be generous. They'd rather loot the scraps of the pending collapse than expand the social safety net.
Second, the ruling classes have fooled themselves into believing that they no longer need to exploit workers in order extract surplus value. They make their profits without us in massive arbitrage transactions that collect spreads from borrowed money. To be sure, it's a bubble. It'll burst. But it feels good now.
There has always been a division within the elites between enlightened liberals and hardass thieves. The liberals don't like us; they fear us. So they try to keep us satisfied enough not to revolt. The thieves count on brute force– cops, pepper spray, camps– to keep the barbarians at bay. The balance of power has shifted decisively to the thieves– which is why figures like Obama can't even pretend to care about the issues most important to the great majority of people.Finally, the rich think they can insulate themselves from the roiling masses of the dispossessed, safe behind high-tech alarm systems inside their gated communities.
Louis XVI had good security too.~
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Too many of the poor and former middle class still take comfort from their futile situation.
Next month, when the Huguely's roll into town, we'll watch them and their kind
get away with murder.
Even if the weather's perfect, there won't be anyone in the streets WeLcOmInG them.
They should be made examples.
What Mr. Roll knows about poverty he could stuff into a coctail olive. Are these the same poverty stricken who loll around talkimng on their cell phones, tablets, ipads, blackberrys, etc., and drive up to the free food pickup points in their SUVs and other pricey vehicles. Or are they the ones who sit and stand around all day at the McDs on Ridge BSing with each other? Please explain what most of us see.
Save the country from you guys? Why bother? You feed and thrive on what you perceive as class separation.
You conveniently leave out all the information from the article that challenges the conclusion you make such as....
"The income compression in rival countries may also make them seem more mobile. Reihan Salam, a writer for The Daily and National Review Online, has calculated that a Danish family can move from the 10th percentile to the 90th percentile with $45,000 of additional earnings, while an American family would need an additional $93,000.
The causes of America's mobility problem are a topic of dispute — starting with the debates over poverty. The United States maintains a thinner safety net than other rich countries, leaving more children vulnerable to debilitating hardships.
Poor Americans are also more likely than foreign peers to grow up with single mothers. That places them at an elevated risk of experiencing poverty and related problems
Mr. Salam recently wrote that relative mobility "is overrated as a social policy goal" compared with raising incomes across the board. Parents naturally try to help their children, and a completely mobile society would mean complete insecurity: anyone could tumble any time.
Most of the studies end with people born before 1970, while wage gaps, single motherhood and incarceration increased later. Until more recent data arrives, he said, "we don't know the half of it."
ALSO, I obviously can't verify the source, but I love that an actual person from Denmark immediately commented to debunk the story...
From the NY Times article page:
thomasdk Denmark "Education is everything. !!!.
Education is simply the one-way track to accomplish well paid jobs. Regardless of your parents income.
In Denmark it is possible to achieve the proper knowledge, you need. Without paying for participating in College, or in school.
This does NOT mean that you accomplish high grades without hard work. It does take a LOT of hard work, to obtain a university degree, or even to pass college, and regular school.
Our requirements to pass college are much tougher than in the US. Generally speaking.
It is also VERY important that we have a very flexible workforce in Denmark.
To whom it is natural to move from one company, and one part of the country, to another, on short notice.
It is VERY easy to fire an employee in Denmark on short notice, without any compensation. (Unlike in Germany, and the US)
That is why our social security net is rather effective. Though not perfect.
People are used to the fact that their income fluctuates. And try to compensate for this by having their spouse work long hours in non fluctuating jobs like Registered Nurses, (RN) etc., and in high profiled public jobs. As "officials". Who cannot be laid off. And is ensured 3 years salary, IF, a government cuts in the number of such jobs, or their job function is seriously challenged. "
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And I will add that Denmark also doesn't deal with 20 million illegal immigrants either. I'm sick and tired of the 99%ers saying we should have open borders, job preference based on race, and everyone is "entitled" to a job... what a total bunch of crap.
African American workers are concentrated in urban and southern rural areas of our country, it's a fact. And unemployment in their population is 15.5% compared to 8% US overall... yup, great plan to invite hordes of low skilled workers with no background check into the population.
I was laid off in January and spent 8 hrs. a day for six months looking for a job until I finally landed one here in Cville for 33% less than I used to make, and I'm moving my family 800 miles so I can work. I also know 2-3 people at home who were also laid off and still sit there on extended unemployment and welfare. They have been offered jobs but haven't taken any because "Why should I, they don't pay as much as my old job did..." It absolutely killed me to take that unemployment check and it made me feel like less of a man and provider for my family and I got off it as fast as possible. But some believe the world owes them something and have no shame.
Some people can deal with reality and make their way in the world and fight through the obstacles thrown their way... some people pout and camp out and ask for a handout...
You occupiers are so far out of touch with reality...
Danish mobility is a function of several factors that differ from the US:
- universal health care makes it easier for people to take risks (contrary to popular belief, Danish entrepreneurship thrives, in part for this reason);
- while education is paramount in the workplace, education is cheap or free (with a stipend on top for undergraduate education -- you get paid to go to college);
- most Danes buy into good unemployment insurance (I disagree that it's easier to fire someone in Denmark than the US);
- there's much greater emphasis on happiness -- for lack of a better word -- where people who don't like their jobs will quit, go back to school, and start a new career, often on the government's dime (er, krone). There isn't the sense of sticking with a job just to earn a paycheck like in the US.
On the flip side, around half of a typical Dane's salary goes to the gov't in one way or another. But to say that one can just educate themselves out of poverty ignores the fact that it is _much_ easier in Denmark to get a good education.
Say what? A lot of drivel going here. Comparing apples to oranges never makes a valid point and non has been expressed here. I don't know what was worse, reading the thread or the posts.
Ridiculous.............check the names and backgrounds of those in the Occupud "bowel movement" and you will find that many of the so called 99% are actually part of, or funded by, the so-called 1%.........isn't that right (left), Mr. Soros.......and that open society has really worked well, hasn't it.
We are so far past the tipping point on this, that writing/talking about it is a waste of time. The inevitable is the inevitable. We ignored history and we're doomed to repeat it. That's where we are now and there's no escape. It's going to be an ugly ride to the bottom. Mother Nature likes to restore balance and she always succeeds. Let us eat cake!
OWS might have acepted some money from Soros, but it hardly funded by eltie interests in the way that the Tea Party is a complete creation of folks like the Koch brothers.
@New Guy, I agree that it is most important that we create tides that raise all ships, but thats not whats been happening. Instead, teh incomes of everyone but the top 10% has been in decline, due to yes, the class war started by the wealthy, and their sense of entitlement. Greed is good, and if you have more money you are a 'good' person. When the wealthy stop being so greedy, and start focusing on actually doing things that create jobs in the US - instead of just swirling junk around Wall Street - things will change.
I encourage you to read about Krupp, and what true great industrialists and wealthy job creators do, instead of complaining that the common man has finally awakened to the very real class war being waged against him in the US.
Check the names and occupations of the Occupuds. You will be surprised.
Tea Party doesn't does not hide behind the fact that they work hard, road the trail to the top, in some cases, and have retired with a bundle of cash- for what it is worth these days.
Just not sure why the so-called 99%'ers are so envious of those who built this Countryand how they did that. It does take money to do so and employees to carry out the process.
It also takes seed money and some business accumen to pull it all together............
I'm more or less in the choir but this is shoddy preaching: "Right-wing extremists dismiss empirical data with anecdotal evidence."
I see no references here, just lots of conjecture and unsubstantiated claims (even though I spout all the same in private rants).
OK... my post was long winded... sorry this one is too...
Bottom line, you can choose to make your own way in life or you can sit and point at other people and complain that "they got a head start... life isn't fair... I would do better if it wasn't for "THEM"".... whoever them happens to be that day. And I find that the same people doing all the complaining now are the same kinds of people that just sat and whined and cried when they didn't do well in the kickball game or the quiz in second grade. They want to be the focus of the room and know better than others... but it should just be that way automatically and they don't want to work for it and it's never their own fault. So it's not because of their situation, it's because that's the kind of people they are. The arguments coming from OWS are child's arguments.
Guess what... when I got laid off I knew what I could have done better... My position was eliminated so the company could keep more money. I provided valuable expertise and efficiency, but if I was so incredibly valuable then they wouldn't have let me go. So I can blame "Corporate Greed" and piss and moan... or I can suck it up, learn something, and never quit.
My grandfather came over on a boat from a tenant farm in Europe and didn't have anything... he was a low level cop here the rest of his life and he lived in a crappy run down neighborhood in the city but he scrimped and saved and died with nothing more than knowing his kids would be better off than he was. Then my dad scrimped and saved some more and he got a small house in the suburbs and sent me to college. Now I'm looking for a modest middle class house in the suburbs and will hopefully send my kids to college. Now you want to call me and my kids priveleged and take it all away, and give it to people who have never started the process, and have half of it go to pay government bureaucrats to administer it. Well to hell with you. Passing down the fruits of your labor and helping your children is the only point of living in the first place and I will defend my right to do so at all costs. We all die some day and this is what makes your life valuable. Not everyone in the world can be Ghandi or Einstein for god's sake.
The corporate world owes you nothing
@New Guy: Think about it--the reason this is the US and not a Commonwealth country that still has Queen Elizabeth as its nominal head is that a bunch of people got pissed off at a bad deal and said "enough." Simplistic but that's why we didn't live under the whim of monarchs who inherited the title through birth.
And similarly your grandfather at some point said "Nuts to this" at the Old World conditions and came here, as did lots of others who saw a rigged game and no room for a change of lot. Your father hoped to have his children living a better life as a result of his hard work. Can you realistically say the same, given the statistically clear decline of the middle class?
The real complaint is not "Whaa life isn't fair". It's about the subversion of the democratic ideal that we believe in and our national charter. We are not supposed to be a place where inherited wealth and the privileged few run the country. Nor are young men (mostly) supposed to be sent off to fight and come back maimed or boxed in order to preserve a way of life for companies that offshore jobs, not out of a desperate need to survive, but rather for the purposes of supporting the lionized few that are benefiting in the same disproportionate manner that the feudal lords and kings that our ancestors thumbed their noses at and left. A flatter economic structure could support more jobs and a more contented populace, and a country worthy of believing in.
90% of the people are still working.. so if you can't find a job you just need to accept that you can't even break past the bottom ten percent to get a job.
Its may not be the job MARKET that sucks.
Hard to know where to start to respond to all the drivel in this, but here's one:
"Most Americans are poor."
Now where did you get that idea? Stop crying poor just because you have a 2 yr old economy car, a laptop with less than 2 gig, and are still using a flip phone. "Poor" is not "two times the poverty line"; "poor" IS the poverty line or below.
Take a trip to India, Africa, Malaysia, and maybe you will see what poor really is.
I grew up in rural poverty, without indoor plumbing, my parents both worked 40+ hrs at a factory plus farmed, but always encouraged us to get an education, which I did, and it has served me well. Don't tell me that there isn't a chance for upward mobility in this country; go to India if you want to experience that.
You even admit it when you wrote - ""Miles Corak, an economist at the University of Ottawa, found that just 16 percent of Canadian men raised in the bottom tenth of incomes stayed there as adults, compared with 22 percent of Americans." That means that 78% of American men raised in the bottom tenth of incomes were able to better themselves! maybe that isn't as good as Canada, but it still attests to the opportunities in this country.
"they [the poor] want politicians to create big jobs programs, raise wages, establish permanent unemployment benefits (standard in Europe) and impose a moratorium on foreclosures." There will always be a segment of society that demands a handout, or as you put it, the rulers to be "generous", but that is because it is much easier to sit and cry victim than it is to get busy and do something to improve your lot in life.
"During the 1930s and 1960s, liberal leaders ended street protests by promising change. Why not now?" Sorry, your man Obama promised change four years ago, or did you forget that inconvenient fact?
This is the type of crap that is being taught to our kids. Refer to the "Indoctrination" story on the main page of The Hook. Time for accountability.
Cville Mom I agree that the Ted Rall piece above is drivel. But you're argument is analogous to "You kids crying about me whuppin you with a belt...I'll take you over to Page Country where they use a 2x4 with nails in it!."
Ted Rall may be a hack, but Paul Krugman isn't, and his Op-ed in the NYT today is pertinent: "Americans are much more likely than citizens of other nations to believe that they live in a meritocracy. But this self-image is a fantasy: as a report in The Times last week pointed out, America actually stands out as the advanced country in which it matters most who your parents were, the country in which those born on one of society's lower rungs have the least chance of climbing to the top or even to the middle. "
So have another bowl of bootstrap soup.
"your argument" for cryin' out loud. It's Monday.
A surprisingly superficial effort from Ted Rall.
In fact, there is enormous uncertainty about how much mobility there is in United States society compared to other developed nations. Just for starters, income distribution of European nations is more compressed, so moving from the bottom to the top quintile means something different. Also, measures of income in the US generally do not take into account health care benefits, an increasingly large component of compensation. Rall also fails to discuss the widening gap in marriage and divorce rates between well educated and less well educated women in the US.
Poverty and social mobility are important topics, and Hook readers deserve more careful analysis.
Several columns, studies, blogs, and editorials like the one above are popping up on mainstream news today.
I suppose the libs have issued their talking points for this years election.
"Tea Party doesn't does not hide behind the fact that they work hard, road the trail to the top, in some cases, and have retired with a bundle of cash- for what it is worth these days.
Um, except that that's not really who comprises the body of the Tea Party. Instead, its full of a lot of white guys on SS and Medicare who Municipal and Federal pensions complaining about those people down the street who also collect monies from the Treasury. Or they are on lifelong retirement beneifts much like union ones.
In short, they are a pack of hypocrites who think only they showed up for work. Many of those on OWS are far better educated, with a far better modern skillset, yet cannot find jobs that provide nearly half the nice benefiuts.
Basically the Tea PArty is full of a bunch of Republicans who benefited from progressive policies, but don't like to let others have the same shot.
@New Guy -"Bottom line, you can choose to make your own way in life or you can sit and point at other people and complain that "they got a head start... life isn't fair... I would do better if it wasn't for "THEM"".... "
By God, that's exactly what TJ, GW, Franklin, Munroe, and a whole lot of other men said back in 1775, and started a revolution. Not long after something called the Boston Tea Party, which was a protest against anti-competitive corporate power. Our FFs hated corporations, which is why they made it an Act of Congress for a company to get an incorporated, and why the organizing capital had to justify that what they were doing was for the common good of the country. 'Make kitchy things to sell for lots of money and get rich' didn't qualify.
Looks like our FFs were onto something, dontcha think?
I had a grandfather that scratched his way up too, and let me tell you, in spite of being a brilliant man with money and business - he started and sold two just in his retirement - he never liked the Greed is Good garbage, and strongly advocated things like, oh, cheap higher education? He was a Southerner and he was a Progressive all the way. Hmm, wanna bet that you didn't really much if any college debt when you graduated from college?
Why do people keep saying that "wages" have been stagnant for 40 years and that that is a crime against the worker?
Wages are buying power. Nothing more nothing less. So if we go back in time and look at what a school teacher with 5 years experience could buy in 1970 and what the same job could buy today their wages have not fallen. They have access to better health care, way better technology, safer more efficient cars, comparatively cheaper airline flights and travel cruises for their vacations. They have access to mortgage loans with very little down and thanks to wal mart costco and IKEA they have way more chiixces then their predesssors. And while the kids are way brattier and less respectful with all the automation the teachers of today have a lot easier day of it. no more spending hours making mimeographs and grading tests by hand.
In fact name ANY job that is essentially the same as 1975 and compare the standard of living to the same person today. We are better off except for the cost of College. The University of Md is building a 7.2 million dollar house for its President. and Maryland is one of the most liberal states in the nation.
A person is worth only what someone else will do their job for. So if you can be replaced for less than STFU and GTBW before you are replaced.
" They have access to better health care,"
As someone who's background is in economics, I want you to think long and hard about that statement. You are really not being very honest eggplant.
Perhaps you should ask yourself how many teachers went bankrupt or lost their home just because they had a single significant medical event 40 years ago. Healthcare is one of the things in this country that is not affordable to the general population, and, in fact, helping destroy our economy. In part due to folks like you, who spout off what you just did to avoid facing economical reality.
Widescreen TVs are great until you have cancer and lose your home and your health insurance.
There have been lots of increases in false economies, like clothes that fall apart after a few washings, made in slave wage countries. But find me a pair of shorts that lasts 10 years. I still have perfectly good sweaters from the 80's, made in the USA.
" They have access to better health care,"
As someone who's background is in economics, I want you to think long and hard about that statement. You are really not being very honest eggplant.
Well 40 years ago they simply DIED because the medical breakthroughs had not yet occurred.
At least with the rise in healthcare costs we are getting better healthcare... as opposed to colleges where tuitions have risen faster than healthcare but the graduates are certainly not more world ready.
If you get cancer it is bad luck, if you are uninsured then you will get the minimum care. You still get better care than 40 years ago and you still have the benefit of a bankruptsy court so you can start over.
So as much as people whine about stagnant wages a plumber, electrician, mechanic, accountant and the assistant manager at Radio Shack still have at least the same standard of living as their counterparts from 40 years ago.
Some of you people need to go to a nursing home and LISTEN to the old folks who grew up in middle class Chatlottsville and then compare what your "poor" self has that they NEVER did.
Most don't have a clue.
" Well 40 years ago they simply DIED because the medical breakthroughs had not yet occurred."
That's not necessarily true. And not everyone has access to all the new wonderful healthcare gadgets. You yourself said those without health insurance get the bare minimum. That's not really true, but I will hold you to it.
I didn't have an iPad 40 years ago and I don't have one today. I do have a 40+ year old Kitchenaid mixer that works fine. It was quite expensive when my mother bought it, but no more expensive than a high end one today. The one made today won't be around in 40 years. Its lucky if it makes it to 10.
So what is it that you were trying to say about how hard had it 40 years ago?
"Most Americans are poor." No they are not. Can you define poor? I am pretty sure everyone in this country has access to water, food, and shelter. As hackneyed as it is, there are literally people out there who do not have any of the three. Not only do they not have it but it is almost impossible for them to ever get it. True poverty. This is another cheesy, overdramatic article written by the Hook. Good job guys!!!! QUALITY!
wait!! I am wrong. It was not written by the Hook. Here is the source:
Ted Rall's most recent book is "Wake Up, You're Liberal! How We Can Take America Back from the Right" (Soft Skull Press). This essay was distributed by Featurewell.
Even better quality. Talk about fair and balanced...
The issue here is what is the definition of "impoverished" ?
Lets go back 62 years to make it easy. In 1960 what percentage of houses and cars were air conditioned? What percentage of the population of charlottesville even owned cars?
Lets look at the people that lived in the ghetto where Staples and McDonalds are now... They had OUTHOUSES and very few owned cars. Most people in the botttom half bought used cars their entire life.
Then we had some true progress.... houses and cars could be bought with 5% down. Technology broght down the price of A/c units for houses and cars. The city built Westhaven and people moved into homes with indoor plumbing heat and a/c. They had in house laundry facilities and they had security. There was the Graves bus service that went all through town and the city gave out tokens to the poor.
By 1970 the schools were air conditioned, the county offices were air conditioned. Cars became safer with seat belt requirements and crash tests. Agriculture took off and packaged food became less expensive. Microwaves became the norm. Color TV became the norm. organized sports became the norm,The city built public pools and parks.
People have no clue how good they have it. ask an older doctor what it was like to treat diabetes in the 1960s. People died, had legs amputated, had to go to the clinic for shots all the time.
If you want to have a career then go to a nursing home and find a retired person in that career and ask them not how much they got paid, but how they lived for the work they did. Ask them what their standard of living was when they were 25, 35, 45, 55, etc. The odds are overwhelming that not only has the job gotten easier but you can have a much higher standard of living the entire way...(unless you get cancer, hit by a bus or struck by lightning)
A job should not pay more" just in case" something bad happens to you. Your fellow taxpayers are not your mommy or Santa or the lottery.
As for your mothers blender, lowering the price brought blenders into households where they would never otyherwise be. If we have to pay americans 20 bucks an hour for a job that easily accomplished by a 9 year old boy then they are overcharging for thier lack of skillls and deserve to be unemployed. If you cannot find a SKILL then rent a basement and deal with the struggles of minimum wage..... and wear a condom....
Nice article you clueless leftist idiot. An income of 45K with a family of four qualifies you as poor? Hmm... what is the average yearly salary for inhabitants of the undeveloped countries of Africa and Asia.
Permanent unemployment benefits? Are you serious? Are you trying to create a welfare state. Do you not understand that all you are doing is redistributing wealth (taxing rich and giving to the poor) THIS DOES NOT CREATE WEALTH. If you want a good contrast of a society that you believe vs a society that works, look at USA and the USSR. You can even look at it through the scope of cities. Look at Hong Kong vs the rest of China. Did they redistribute wealth in these cities or create it?


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Shoppers handing out gift cards this holiday season will get the most bang for their buck from the store-branded versions, a new study finds.
Research from Bankrate.com revealed that individual stores charge fewer fees for their branded gift cards than the all-purpose ones issued by banks and credit card companies.
The study found that of the 55 store-branded gift cards examined — including Best Buy, Amazon and Office Depot — just 9 percent charge a purchase fee, while only 2 percent charge a dormancy or maintenance fee.
Of the eight bank- and credit card-issued gift cards analyzed, all of them charge a purchase fee ranging from $2.95 to $6.95, while 75 percent charge a fee for not using the card for 12 or more months.
"The key takeaway for consumers is that they're going to get the most value from store-branded gift cards," said Janna Herron, credit card analyst for Bankrate.com. "The benefit of general-purpose cards offered by banks and credit card companies is that they can be used anywhere, but because of the fees, you would be better off giving cash."
The research found that banks and credit card companies are more likely to charge fees because they need to generate revenue for their gift card businesses, while retailers are less dependent on those fees since the money on the card will be used for goods and services at their stores.
Overall, the survey found that the majority of retailers sell gift cards that don't have expiration dates, offer electronic gift cards and cards that can reloaded with more money. In addition, two-thirds of the companies that sell gift cards will replace the card or the money on if it is lost or stolen.
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Fruit Kabobs
This week I taught over 20 preschoolers how to make a yummy, healthy, high-fiber
snack, fruit kabobs.
But this recipe is great for adults too – the high-fiber fruit and seeds are easy to incorporate
for great digestion.
This hands on class offered the kids lots of different techniques that they
enjoyed. Measuring, mixing, skewering, dipping and rolling! And
they loved the food, too!
Fruit Kabobs rolled in Trail Mix
Cut 2 bananas into 4 pieces each, wash 8 strawberries, dry and de-stem.
Set aside.
4 tablespoons sesame seeds (fill up 1/4 measuring cup)
4 tablespoons pumpkin seeds (fills up 1/4 measuring cup)
4 tablespoons raisins (fills up 1/4 measuring cup)
8 tablespoons unsweetened shredded coconut (fills up 1/2 measuring cup)
Measure and mix all together in a bowl.
Skewer pieces of banana and washed strawberries on toothpicks or popsicle sticks.
Dip fruit skewers gently in a bowl filled with dairy-free yogurt and roll in the trail mix.


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I just installed the new AJAX package from microsoft and I'm trying to update an existing program to AJAX. I added all the stuff to Config.web to make AJAX "work".
My original program contained an image button, some radio controls, and another button. When the page loads, or when either button is clicked, the code draws a new bitmap and saves it. When the postback completes, the image button displays the new image. So far, so good.
After my attempted conversion to AJAX, I added a script manager and put the image button inside an update panel. The other button is also used as a trigger for the same update panel.
When I click the bitmap, it calls the Load and Click routines as before. The code draws the new bitmap and saves it. However, the bitmap on the client side doesn't change. I would have expected the contents of the update panel to be updated.
When I click the other button, the Load and Click events are called, but nothing happens on the client side.
I added an UpdateProgress to the page. It becomes "visible" when I click the bitmap, but nothing visibly happens when I click the other button. The code in the click events take a second or more to draw the new bitmap, since a lot of "number-crunching" is involved.


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A new transportation bill signed by Bush on Friday would free up $45 million to build the U.S.'s first maglev train. The train will travel between Disneyland and Las Vegas at up to 300 mph and is meant to help ease traffic on the 250+ mile ride on Interstate 15. While I'm all for high-speed trains and efficient public transportation, isn't the Bush administration forgetting something?
Maglev trains are hella expensive. Sure, the $45 million is only supposed to pay for "environmental studies" in the first phase of the project, but the government can probably expect to spend a hundred times that amount before this thing is over.
Japan's Linimo maglev train, located near Nagoya, cost a cool $380 million to build and it's only 5.5 miles long. China's Shanghai Maglev Train, finished in 2004 in a country where labor's cheap and private land ownership is a pretty new concept, cost $1.3 billion for 19 miles of track-roughly $68.4 million per mile. What will $45 million buy in the States? 10 feet?
I love the concept of mass transit and one of my biggest gripes with the U.S. is how they let their train infrastructure shrivel and rot, but the paltry amount dedicated to such a pricey technology makes me wonder if this isn't just another attempt for Bush to greenwash his last few months in office. [Slashdot]
P.S. The picture is of the Shanghai Maglev Train, which has been criticized by locals for being showy, wasteful and impractical.


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Dr. Karen Bloomquist spoke November 14, at Wartburg Theological Seminary on "Seeing, Remembering, Connecting that Transforms Us, the Church and the World.
To view the lecture in another window: Click here.
She laid out some premises:
- We face huge economic, political, environmental, and cultural crises today.
- These are manifest locally and globally, in often interconnected ways.
- There are countless examples throughout the Bible and church history where the call is clear to stand and work against all kinds of systemic injustices, from out of the heart of who we are as the baptized, redeemed people of God.
- These crises are not just ethical issues that the church is called to address "out there," but they deeply infect the church itself — how it views itself, how it operates, and how the church itself is in bondage.
- Through the power of the Spirit, we, the church, and the world, are transformed by God and through those, who across time, space and life situations are most different from us.
Bloomquist invited the audience to re-envision what it means to be church. "Being formed as church necessarily involves being with those who are different from 'us.' Further, having our perspectives transformed, we ourselves are being transformed by those who are different. They help us see what we would not otherwise see, when bound in by our own subjective-based readings of what is occurring. Being open to how others see, experience, interpret really does matter."
She suggested that we begin with the world. "This is a significant methodological shift in theology: rather than beginning by focusing on the faith, the church, and from there to 'the world,' I am proposing that we begin with the world — what is going on there becomes a 'wake up' call to the church. The world is 'in our face' as a church, because the world is very much in us, whether we realize it or not. Churches that assume they are set apart from the world often operate with assumptions and practices that are more affected/shaped by the world than by biblical/theological perspectives, particularly in their quest to be 'successful.' It's not that the world tells the church how to be the church, but opens up challenges that the church must engage if it is to be faithful to who it is called to be, the bearer of news that really is good today, i.e., liberating, healing, transformative of what holds us and all of creation in bondage." She described the need to "exegete our context."
Bloomquist continued, "An especially urgent calling of churches and religious folk is to open the space, point to the evidence and pose the critical questions. People are feeling acutely betrayed by the promises they have bought into…[provided] by large corporate interests determined to keep the market as 'free' as possible. Matters of basic meaning, hope and values are at stake, which should be the forte of the church. This false idolatry is exposed not primarily from top-down pronouncements, but from out of the actual contradictions as people have experienced them. The urgent pastoral task is to stand aside and open up ways for people to name, lament and rage about the contradictions between what they have been promised by this distinctly American faith and what they are actually experiencing — inviting them to lament, and rage, even outrageously so."
Bloomquist invited the audience to engage in theological practices of subversive remembering. "We are reminded of how countercultural and even subversive were the communities gathered around Jesus…Truth telling emerges through the subversive remembering (a) of who/whose we are in relation to God, (b) of what has come before us, and (c) of the realities of our neighbors globally as well as locally. Empowered through the Holy Spirit, this has the potential to transform what is occurring in light of God's in-breaking new reality. Subversive remembering is a theologically-empowered social practice of expressing 'when/who/what' has been forgotten or overlooked. It exposes our illusions, false gods and the domination (empire) and injustices they perpetuate, and impels truth-telling and organized action (resistance) for the sake of God's world." She added, "This occurs especially through those two practices that are central to what it means to be the church."
Bloomquist went on to describeecclesial practices of connecting. "This implies a more communio[1] understanding of ecclesia: a worldview of relationality instead of individualism; instead of aspiring to be self-sufficient churches, our interrelatedness; instead of our strength or know-how, our vulnerability; openness to listen and learn from others, and even be transformed by those different from ourselves; shifting from the arrogance of empire and theologies of success to attitudes of humility that are shaped by a theology of the cross, and by living out the virtues advocated throughout the New Testament."
She concluded by saying, "Seeing, remembering, connecting are simultaneously an interactive set of practices distinctive to the church, but also publically discernible to those who don't identify with the church; therefore this might even be meaningful, persuasive to those 'in the world,' where they, too, join in these practices of seeing, remembering, connecting with different eyes, experiences, approaches…even through different faith lenses…and together participating in the transformation of the world."
[1] These multi-lateral relationships and understandings have been developed, for example, through various statements and publications of the Lutheran World Federation: A Communion of Churches.


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Ubuntu Landscape and MotD integration kills Gitlab SSH performancePosted in Computing, Infrastructure Management, Systems Administration on June 15th, 2016 by Jeff – Be the first to comment
I had nothing to do with this discovery but my colleague Lance Johnston, who did, felt that we should share it because of a lack of information about the issue on the Internet.
I lead a team at work that, among other things, manages our version control system. We started to have some performance issues with our Gitlab instance as usage increased and it started to impacted users so we decided to restart the Gitlab services first.
We observed a pretty high load when we checked before stopping the services, around 10-12, which we expected to go down when we shutdown the services. However when the services were off, the load did not go down, which was very curious.
Lance investigates and as he watched 'top' he observed batches of inbound ssh connections, as one would expect. But when the connections happened, he immediately saw another batch of processes named 'landscape-sysinfo'.
A little digging turned up some information indicating that whenever a shell is spawned, such as when there's an ssh connection, the Message of the Day is presented. The MotD runs the 'landscape-sysinfo' program in order to collect metrics that are presented to users when they login. So we have literally hundreds of ssh connections at any given time as Jenkins and developers do their jobs so this program was producing a consistently high load average.
Since the vast majority of ssh connections are not interactive, we disabled the Message of the Day and the load dropped immediately to .01, with the Gitlab services off. When they were turned back on we stabilized around .7 and during the work day it doesn't go over 5 during usage spikes.