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One important concept in TCS is that of common preferences. Common preferences are policies that all parties after a successfully resolved disagreement prefer to their initial positions: everyone gets what they want. These are created through a combination of changing one's wishes to more moral ones, and creatively working out how best to proceed for everyone. TCS distinguishes between common preferences and all other possible ways of coping with prima facie disagreement, such as compromises (in which no one gets what he wants) or choosing winners and losers according to some mechanical formula like voting, taking turns, obedience to one's superior in a hierarchy and so on.
Another key concept is that of coercion. Coercion means (roughly speaking) doing things to people, or making them do things, against their will. Where common preferences are found, there is no coercion. A major difference between TCS and other educational philosophies is the idea that it is possible and desirable to raise children without intentionally coercing them.
Is non-coercion not, in itself, a mechanical rule? To think of it as such would be a misconception of TCS; moreover, such a rule could not be followed. By "it is possible" we are not implying that there is a mechanical method of achieving the lifestyle we advocate. We have something quite different in mind: like an engineer who says that starships are possible, we mean that whatever difficulties and obstacles there may be are not inherent in the situation of being an adult looking after a child, but are caused purely by not yet knowing how to solve the relevant problems. But this, in itself, is liberating because it denies the melancholy certainties of "for you own good" and "may as well get used to it" that have been self-fulfilling prophesies throughout history. What we mean is that aspiring to a non-coercive lifestyle is not like trying to build a spaceship that could exceed the speed of light: that would be an example of something that might be be desirable, but is impossible.
By "desirable", we mean something more than that being coerced hurts and that it is not nice to be in a position of hurting people. For that leaves open the possibility of a tradeoff between that and some other even more undesirable thing. Like a political theorist who says that the transition from absolute monarchy to liberal democracy is desirable, we mean that such tradeoffs can be eliminated – again, not by a mechanical formula nor merely by wanting to, but by creatively solving the specific problems that arise.
Another possible misinterpretation of TCS is the idea that coercion is always wrong – that if one child is attacking another with a cricket bat, it is wrong to intervene. On the contrary, it is vital to protect the victim, and that might well involve stopping the attacking child against his or her will, i.e., coercively. That there would have been a way to avoid this in the first place is, at such a moment, irrelevant for all practical purposes. But in the bigger picture, it is reassuring: if the good things in life could be obtained by mechanically following a rule, then only a wicked and unworthy parent would ever fail to find a common preference with their beloved child. But TCS is not a rule. When we say that it is possible and desirable to raise children without intentionally coercing them, we don't mean that if everything goes wrong sometimes, you must be an evil shit unworthy of life, what we mean is: hey, there's hope – things need not be like this for ever!
could u give some examples of...
Submitted by a TCS reader (not verified) on
could u give some examples of "common preferences"? how can we *always* get what we want?
compromise is an art
Submitted by a TCS reader (not verified) on
You're saying compromise is bad? What's up with that?!
"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece." Done well, everybody feels they got what they want. Saying it's nobody getting what they want means you're thinking of a compromise that's not working. In our family we teach the art of compromise that works and we like it.
Some notes on how it "works"
Submitted by a TCS reader (not verified) on
"Mum, I want beans for tea." "Darling, we're out of beans and I don't want to go shopping again. How about pasta?" "Yeah, pasta's cool." (Child puts pan of pasta on the hob.)
There will be hundreds of examples of common-preferences being found in the life of almost any human being every day, probably. Common-preferences aren't unique to TCS. What's unique to TCS is the belief that people don't have to fight with their own kids.
TCS philosophy is that it's possible to get what you want all the time. This happens, roughly, through a combination of treating one's children in a respectful, civilised way, having good ideas about what one should want and improving them all the time, and sharing those ideas with one's children in a positive way they are actively receptive to.
TCS philosophy doesn't say that this is easy, that anybody currently succeeds at doing it all the time, or indeed that one needs to be perfect in order to succeed at doing it all the time. Most of us have 100% common-preference based (non-fighting) relationships with a few friends without being perfect, but not with out kids. It's just a knowledge-gap.
TCS thinks we can have them with our kids too. Somehow. And we can start working out how in practice from where we are now.
Or, looking at it another way round, TCS is about refusing to systematise the coercion of children. It says, if kids get hurt, that's bad. It doesn't try to justify, rationalise or further the use of force on children. Every other parenting school states that coercing your children is inevitable, due to the nature of having children. TCS philosophy, on the other hand, would argue that even if every single parent in the world today, including all TCS advocates, regularly does things that cause their children hurt, that would not mean things should or must stay that way.
"Compromise" is ambiguous
Submitted by a TCS reader (not verified) on
Where "compromise" means someone gave up some part of their preference against their will, unwillingly, TCS philosophy would argue that we can do better than that!
Where it means, everyone genuinely agreed and felt good about it, that's what was being referred to above as a common-preference, probably reached by someone adjusting their desires in a good way (morally).
"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece" sounds like common-preference finding- as long as the big slices of cake are real not pretend, and genuinely satisfying when bitten into, of course.
Example or two
Submitted by decoy on
I'm bit of a newbie in TCS, but I'll try to draft one "easy" and one "hard" example.
First suppose a young child decides se really likes a teen show on TV, but you think the show might be a bit too mature for hir. Besides, it's on pretty late. What do you do?
The first thing is that you can't just tell the child se can't watch. That'd be coercion. Instead you need to think about what the two of you want, why, how those wants could be meshed so that everybody's better off, and then genuinely negotiate with the child.
If the problem really is about noise late at night, you might tape the show. If you fear the child might not understand what se sees, you might consider watching the show with hir, explaining, supporting, and if it ever comes to that, comforting. Children tend to pick the most peculiar shows, so you'd probably enjoy yourself. And the company, of course. Or maybe you might want to watch some similar show you like better, and the child still likes.
If you fear the show might hurt your child, you should first make sure that your idea is sound, and if so, probably help the child understand your concern. Children aren't stupid or uncaring, so if you have a real reason for doubt, the child will usually understand and think twice about watching. If so, you should definitely help hir find some other show to watch, or other things to do, which are as interesting and satisfying as the show we're talking about.
But most of the time you'll probably find that there was no cause for concern in the first place -- TV doesn't make children violent or promiscuous. Dismissive parenting, a lack of solid knowledge and discounting rational thought do, though: they make for uncritical viewers, susceptibility to media influence and lack of impulse control.
No matter what the outcome, in the end, you don't worry, the neighbours get to sleep and the child does something se likes. The deal's something-for-nothing.
Then suppose a teenager wants a car but the money just doesn't seem to be there. Should we just bluntly state that a car is not forthcoming, or perhaps sacrifice your own well-being to get the car? Both are options, but neither is the right one. Again we need to think a little bit and negotiate.
Why is the car needed? If it's to get to school, there might be other ways to accomplish that. Perhaps the bus, perhaps a friend's car (maybe a new car shared with a neighbour?),
perhaps a motorcycle (BTW, girls can love cycles too). If it's because of privacy, self-image or independence, you should ask why the youngster doesn't have those right now. Plenty of solutions lie that way. If it's because the youngster needs a hobby, there are plenty of hobbies out there, and a number of places where one can get one's hands on cars. Even assemble one's own -- I've known a couple of people who've done that and grown up to be successful engineers.
If such alternatives won't cut it, perhaps you could pool funds with your youth and work something out: young people can earn money too, so they shouldn't expect parents to pay for their every whim. (It's easy for young people to understand this as well, unless you've earlier shied away from talking about money and work.) Maybe you could trade down the family car and buy two -- it's far better to have two cars in a family than one, even if they're not that fancy. And no, even taking that second mortgage on the house isn't entirely out of the question if the payoff to the family is great enough. It often is.
And so on, and so forth. The point is that even with hard questions like money, the parent shouldn't be a dictator, and there are always hoardes of nice solutions. Most of them will lead to better outcomes to both parties. TCS doesn't tell what the right solutions are for your family, but it does give you good hints on how to find them quickly, nonviolently and innovatively.
(You might ask just how it is better for a parent to trade down the family car. It is because we're not comparing to the parent always getting hir way. We're comparing to a previous situation where the family car hadn't yet been bought. Speaking from the standpoint of the whole family it can be better to have two cars than to have just a single flashy one.)
Common Preference Examples
Submitted by Elliot Temple on
Alice: very nice
anywayz, easy example:
Elliot: Wanna come over thursday? curi: No, busy. Can I come monday? Elliot: Erm, that's not a good day. How about wednesday? curi: ok, wednesday
they had conflicting first desires (elliot wanted thursday, curi wanted monday) and both changed what they wanted to wednesday. common preference found.
example 2:
Elliot: I WANT MEXICAN FOOD curi: NO, I WANT PIZZA, BITCH Elliot: I AM NOT IN THE MOOD FOR PIZZA, ASSHOLE curi: FUCK YOU, I *SAID* I DON'T WANT GAY-ASS MEXICAN FOOD Elliot: BUT MEXICAN FOOD IS SO GOOD, YOU NUT curi: LA LA LA LA LA LA LA Elliot and curi: *think* Elliot: Hey, there's a steak in the fridge. Big one. curi: *drooling* Really? Elliot: Yeah curi: w00t Elliot and curi: *cook and eat steak*
OK, in this example they had conflicting initial desires about what to eat, but both changed their desire to steak as soon as they thought of it. Notice they yell and cuss, but a common preference was still found. If yelling and cussing work for you, there's nothing inherently wrong with them; common preferences are not some particular method and TCS does not rule out any methods for mechanical reasons (ie, no methods that involve saying 'fuck' or no methods that involve more than 42 UNIT_OF_LOUDNESS). (Actually it's hard to imagine yelling being good IRL in our society, but it's often perfectly fine in text. And cussing can be fun both in text and IRL.)
Example 3:
curi: [wearing a diaper and sucking a passifier] I don't want to wear my seatbelt. Elliot: [wearing a hat that says 'dad'] Now son*, seatbelts are important for safety. curi: I know. Elliot: Well, then, why don't you want to wear it? curi: I'm not sure, I just don't like it. Elliot: Is it uncomfortable. curi: Yeah. Elliot: Anything else? curi: It's boring! It's all black and ugly. Elliot: OK, I have an idea. Elliot: *gets fluffy pink fabric with glitter and glues it over all the seatbelts* curi: cooool, now I'll look like a stud with my seatbelt on!
*I do not endorse calling your son 'son' instead of his name, it's just used in the skit to clarify who is who.
OK, this answer sounds kinda silly, I know. That's because finding common preferences for hard problems (many people find the seatbelt thing hard for them) depends very greatly on the specific details of the involved parties' lives. This solution only works because of curi's odd taste (curi says he was acting but don't listen). I can't tell you in what facet of a tricky situation a CP will come to you; I can say there are possible ones contained in all the facets.
-- Elliot Temple http://curi.blogspot.com/
Submitted by Puella63 on
I have recently read Steven Covey's SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE. Habit no. 6, Synergise sounds a lot like CP. He mentions a 3r alternative to solve conflicts as being a preferable solution for all involved.
How can it be better for the parent to trade down the family car
Submitted by a TCS reader (not verified) on
"Decoy" asked how it can be better for the parent to trade down the family car.
Lots of ways. They won't have to be giving the teenager lifts. And they can be going to one place in their car while the teenager does some family shopping in her own car. Maybe the teenager can even come to rescue them when their car breaks down, or when the two parents are in a car somewhere and one of them is called away urgently and the other one wants to come home. When one car is in the shop, the family still has a car. Like "Puella63" said, when people are getting what they want and are happy, synergie happens.
Right on
Submitted by decoy on
Elliot: excellent examples.
I too find that even strong emotion isn't bad for rational decision making, and think that the childish, utterly outlandish, even fiendish notions of how to conduct our lives sometimes prove fruitful. Children are a resource, especially when they don't like their seatbelts.
Life ain't a simple thing. In particular with children, who always manage to surprise you. That's also why I think we do not only have duties towards children, or just "care for them". I think we can actually learn from them -- children are too inexperienced to care about our faulty ideas, far too self-conscious to cope with inflated egos, and certainly quite capable of rational judgment. So they can also help us get rid of the cruft we're clinging onto. "Entrenched theories", as we call them.
I think that while we care for children, nurture them and give them space and opportunities to develop themselves, we should also take heed of what they really say, and learn. I mean, who's ever gonna shake us like children do?
Common Preference is a flawed idea
Submitted by Henry Sturman on
I certainly like what TCS stands for. Quite literally, actually. I think Taking Children Seriously is a great name, and it really sums up nicely how I think we should treat children: simply take them seriously, just as we take adults seriously. I agree with TCS's most important themes, which I consider to be: don't coerce your kids (well, I think there are rare exceptions where it's good to coerce kids or adults),
be creative at solving problems (generally work from the assumption that there is a solution),
be skeptical about traditional education, use argument and advice rather than force, look for common decisions which make all involved happy. I attended a lecture once by Sarah Fitz-Claridge about TCS, and she has really good and, I believe, true things to say about how to deal with children. So I much appreciate her insights and analysis of the mistakes so many people make in dealing with children. Mostly boiling down to not taking them seriously and using coercion instead of reason.
But ironically, while I broadly agree with most of the TCS conclusions, it strikes me that the way it is typically philosophically defended is logically flawed on several issues. Some other time perhaps I will argue that TCS'ers are somewhat mistaken about the link between TCS and fallibilism. Here I wish to argue that the TCS notion of common preferences is thoroughly confused. This is evidenced by my analysis of two articles on this site showing that the following three different and incompatible definitions of "common preference" are used interchangeably:
1.A common policy that improves the position of everyone. 2.A common policy that everyone involved prefers to all alternatives considered. 3.A common policy that everyone is satisfied with.
Definitions 1 and 2 follow from the first sentence of the article above:
"Common preferences are policies that all parties after a successfully resolved disagreement prefer to their initial positions: everyone gets what they want."
It is clear that the first part of the sentence implies definition 1. The second part ("everyone gets what they want") seems to suggest definition 2, but this is less clear. However, the following sentences clearly does suggests definition 2:
"To put it simply, you keep making bold conjectures and subjecting them to criticism until you have a solution that everyone involved wholeheartedly prefers to any other candidate solutions any of you can think of at the time. (We call that a common preference, the preference you have in common.)".
This is from the article Introduction to Taking Children Seriously (TCS). Another except from that article:
" 'Does it have to be a question of being right? Am I actually wrong for wanting to go to a Chinese restaurant, or is that just my taste?' countered Wendy. It is not the fact that you like Chinese food that is the problem, it is that you are not taking into account the fact that the smell of Chinese food makes me feel physically sick. Let me put it another way: if neither of us changes our mind and we don't resolve the disagreement, is it not the case that at least one of us is going to get hurt?"
Apparently the aim here is to find something that everyone can agree to without anybody feeling hurt. This implies definition 3. Now let's go through these definitions.
It's often easy to find a common policy in accordance with 1. Suppose we are all very hungry. I prefer to go to a Chinese restaurant, while my friend doesn't like Chinese food. But since she is very hungry, having a Chinese dinner still does improve her situation, since she'd rather eat something she doesn't like than stay hungry. So we eat Chinese. According to the definition this is a common preference. But of course this is a totally useless definition, because defined this way a common preference isn't a good result at all. Although both our positions have improved, going to a Greek restaurant, say, would have been a much better choice if my friend really loves Greek food and I like it only slightly less than Chinese food.
Definition 2 is obviously ludicrous in the context of how TCS'ers use the term. It's not ludicrous in the sense that such a common preference is impossible. Sometimes it does happen that, say, all in a group prefer to go to the same restaurant. That's a true common preference. But what makes this definition ludicrous is the fact that it is inconsistent with the TCS idea that one can find a common preference in general. This is obviously untrue, a case of wishful thinking. If I prefer Chinese food and my friend prefers Greek food we have different preferences not a common one. The fact that we may be mistaken about our own preferences is irrelevant, for it remains that there is no logical reason to assume people generally have the same preference.
Definition 3 is the most realistic definition. And in practice that indeed seems to be the TCS attitude. Try to find a policy that everyone is happy with, taking into account everybody's preferences. Though I slightly prefer Chinese food to Greek food, I will be quite happy if we go to the Greek restaurant, because I still like Greek food, and I want my dinner partner to be happy as well. So, the idea is good: if there is disagreement try to be rational, creative, loving, etc. and come up with a solution that everyone can live with. Normal people call this a compromise. TCS'ers call this a common preference. But that term is, of course, quite wrong. Agreeing to a solution other than your own preference, to make others happy, is not a preference, much less a common preference. This may sound horrible, but TCS'ers live in the same world as normal people, and therefore they too regularly make group decisions via compromise, voting or whatever. Their third way exists only in Alice in Wonderland. Unless you redefine the word preference to mean a preference for maximum utility for the group, in which case all would have the same preference if they can agree on all individual utilities for all alternatives. But that is not what the word preference normally means. But, again, the attitude is good. In their illogical search for a common preference I imagine TCS'ers will tend to find the best and wisest compromises, making everybody happy. And that's good.
A last comment. One thing I'm missing in TCS is the idea that everybody doesn't have to do the same thing. If you're in a group you don't always have to find a "common preference" (compromise). If the majority very much wants to do one thing and one person has a very different preference, that individual can simply choose not to join and let the rest of the group do what it wants. Or the group can split into two groups, or whatever. This may be much better in many cases than looking for a single "common preference" for the whole group.
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1. Common preferences don't always have to be the same thing. "Do different things" is a common preference.
2. The word "compromise" is actually ambiguous. Compromising yourself is a bad thing to do. "Common-preference" is more specific: it means (roughly) something everyone is happy with, as opposed to something one or more people may feel shit about but obliged to do because they think it's morally right.
Alice Bachini
Common Preferences flawed idea?
Submitted by id on
There is a serious flaw in your arguments against common preferences. You seem to take the preferences of people to be unmutable.
Let us take the restaurant example and consider it with a little bit more detail. I want to go to chinese and my friend wants to go to greek - let's say he doesn't like chinese, or that the smell makes me sick.
Now if we do things by the utilitarian calculations, as you did, my initial preference would be to go to the chinese, since it would yield me the best utility. But this is before I hear that my friend doesn't like it. Hearing this of course changes my valuations for different things, since I like him and do not want to cause him discomfort, or sickness. Thus the value of going to a chinese restaurant with him is now a lot less than it was just seconds before - this is how obtaining new information may change our preferences. (Speaking from moral standpoint it is also right that we thus change our preferences)
So what happens next? Me and my friend, we try to throw out nice ideas about what we like, and want to do - in order to find out the best thing that exists. This of course is possible, since the best possible action that exists, exists.
So in our case, it might truly be that we go to that Greek restaurant. If we do, this does yield me greater satisfaction than going to chinese with him or going to chinese without him, i.e. it is a common preference of type 2. On the other hand, we may find out that our preferences for certain kinds of food are more important than being together at the moment and so I will go to chinese, he to greek and we'll meet again after eating. Thus as Alice already pointed out, common preference may be that we don't do things together.
Short response
Submitted by Henry Sturman on
Yes, as I mentioned at the end of my previous comment, you can always redefine the term "common preference" so as to make it correct. Indeed, if you define preference to include having a preference for others being happy, plus assume that everybody's preference is for maximum utility, plus assume people can agree on each other's utilities, then you have something workable. This does leave open the question of why we should all be utilitarians. But it does nicely reason away the problem of sacrifice (alla Ayn Rand),
simply by claiming that if you are happy to sacrifice because you want someone else to be happy then it isn't really sacrifice. And yes, one can even square the circle by defining people doing different things as a common preference on the grounds that everybody is satisfied with the result.
I have a preference for being clear and saying what you mean.
definition of CP
Submitted by Alice Bachini on
How do you think "common preference" ought to be defined? Do you think we should use the word "compromise" instead, despite the way this term is often used, to mean something whereby people coerce themselves into self-sacrificing?
Not talking about redefining common preferences
Submitted by id on
The talk of common preferences is said when speaking of people who know each other and care for each other. Now if one cares for another, we can express that in utilitarian terms in following way. If the other person is happy, then my utility goes up, and if he is unhappy mine will also be lower.
I'm not saying we should all be utilitarians, I just explained the matter in utilitarian terms, since you wanted to express the common preference problem in utilitarian terms and concluded that it is faulty, which it is not.
As for simplicity, the idea of common preference is very simple. Everyone gets something they prefer over anything else that is possible. What follows of it, and how it exactly plays out cannot be though out without taking into account that people care for each other especially when we are talking about relationships inside a family. Caring and loving is integral part of close relationships and thus any theory that doesn't take that into account is bound to fail.
Preferences are not immutable, but they change and can be changed when the situations we are in, change.
Re: definition of CP
Submitted by Henry Sturman on
I think definitions should be chosen so words mean what they normally mean. So I would define a common preference as the earlier defition 2:
2.A common policy that everyone involved prefers to all alternatives considered.
And I would want to define a preference as one's personal preference, not yet taking into account other's preferences. Otherwise we are left with no word for the original preferences. For the whole idea of choosing something others are happy with as well, is based on the idea that the others have an original preference which precedes the posterior preference taking other's preferences into account.
This is simply the correct definition because this is how a normal English speaking person would understand the phrase when first heard.
I think the use of the term in this sense is quite OK. It's only that with this definition the typical use of the phrase by TCS is incorrect, as it is not generally true that a common preference can be found, as is claimed. Only if it happens to be the case, say, that we all like the same restaurant most, is there a common preference.
Where TCS'ers mean something else than what they are saying, I propose they simply say what they mean to say. If they mean a utilitarian result, they should say a utilitarian result. If they mean a result that everybody is happy with, they should say a result that everyhody is happy with. The latter is sort of a eufemism for a good compromise, that everybody finds fair and acceptable. Etc.
I also think the word compromise is OK. I don't think coercion is built into that. In some sense sacrifice is built into it, but only in the nontrivial sense that TCS'ers also accept it, namely as giving up your own initial preference because you want the other person to be happy as well. But there might be some danger in the term, as it does sometimes imply that compromise, in the sense that people give up something, is inherently good. While often it can't be avoided that people give up their initial preference, there is not always enough emphasis in at least avoiding that as much as possible. That's why I do like the TCS attitude of trying to be creative in finding solutions that everybody is pleased with to the greatest extent.
So, if TCS wants to avoid the word compromise, that's quite OK. Just think up another word, but please do choose a word which is good and correct. And don't use a word which simply denies the problem instead of solving it. Which is exactly what "common preference" does, since it denies the problem that people don't always want the same thing.
By the way, the word coercion is used in a not well defined way by TCS. For example, I have some doubts about how appropriate it is to speak of self-coercion.
how can we *always* get what we want?
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common preferences
Submitted by a TCS reader (not verified) on
I really like the idea of commonon preferences but to say it is just as easy as stating your preferences and having your kid reasonably dialogue is a little trite...it is and can be emotionally exhausting to have this type of discussion with a 3 year old; less so with an 8 year old but it gives the illusion that non coercion is simple and in reality in can be extremely diffficult. I'm not saying it's not worthwhile but lets be honest about the work it can take...
Re: Common Preferences
Submitted by Alex (not verified) on
I agree, these examples of "discussions" with children that will supposedly convince them to change their minds and make a good decision are either trivial or fanciful: -some are trivial in that the child's preference is not very different from the parent's, or that the child doesn't have a very strong preference in the first place. -others are fanciful in assuming that the child will so easily be convinced of the correct decision, when in fact children (and adults for that matter) are occasionally very stubborn, and won't always readily change their minds, regardless of how rational, patient, and clear the parent's explanation is.
Of course it is good to explain why you think a kid should or shouldn't do something, but to claim that you will always be able convince them with such an explanation is wishful thinking. Think about when you were a kid: did your parents ever tell you that you should do something that you didn't want to do, and try to explain why they wanted you to do it? Did you ever stubbornly reject these arguments, no matter how much they tried to help you see the reason? Did you ever realize later in life that they were right, and that maybe you just weren't willing to listen? Maybe you even do that as an adult from time to time, you would not be alone.
I think Mark Twain captured the idea perfectly in saying this: "When I was 14, my father knew nothing. When I turned 21, I was amazed at what he had learned in just 7 short years."
This situation happens all the time, and not just in childhood. When it does happen, sometimes you just have to explain your position, and then tell the kid to trust you. Parents, after all, may not be any more intelligent than their children, but they certainly have much more experience with the world. That is why kids have to just trust them sometimes, because the parents have been there and done that, and know what works and what doesn't.
Common Preferences and Non-coercion
Submitted by aids related (not verified) on
If you define preference to include having a preference for others being happy, plus assume that everybody's preference is for maximum utility, plus assume people can agree on each other's utilities, then you have something workable.
I like the word common preferences!
Submitted by mammal_mama on
I don't think common preferences should be replaced with another word. When I'm getting together for a meal with people I love and enjoy being with, it's preferable to me to find an eating option we can ALL enjoy together, rather than me getting my absolute FAVORITE food if no one else likes it.
I guess if all you really care about is the food, and the people don't matter, you WILL be happier just going off on your own -- and your companions may find that preferable to eating food they hate or having you be totally miserable.
If you like them enough to want to spend time together after the meal, they'll probably prefer sharing time that you ALL can enjoy.
Of course, if the affection's all one-sided and you don't even want to see them later, your going with what you want is going to be hurtful -- yet would they really WANT you to fake an emotion you don't feel?
I'D rather know the truth myself. But I agree with id that you need relationships of mutual caring for TCS and CP to work.
Applying this to small children: let's say a toddler takes a bottle of water and starts squirting it all over the house. If she and her parents have a relationship of mutual caring, what she REALLY wants is to enjoy squirting the water, not ruin the carpet and irritate the big people.
Though she may not have the words to express all this, she VERY LIKELY would prefer squirting the water without causing anyone else unhappiness.
If her parents really care about her happiness, they'd prefer, say, having her squirt in the bathtub, or throwing a towel on the kitchen floor and giving her bowls to squirt into, or heading outdoors to squirt if it's warm: they'd prefer ANY of these alternatives over forcibly taking her squirt bottle and making her unhappy.
Of course, a parent who cares JUST about the carpet, and sees no importance in her child being happy, would probably prefer just stopping the squirting -- similar to the diner who cares only about the food not the fellowship. Again, the relationship of mutual caring is essential: without it, common preferences are impossible and irrelevant.
How pleasantly hypothetical.
Submitted by a reader (not verified) on
How pleasantly hypothetical. And I'm sure it never never NEVER goes anything like:
"Mummy, I want beans for tea." "Darling, we're out of beans and I don't want to go shopping again. How about pasta?" "I want beans." "But we don't have any beans. How about eggs?" "I want BEANS." "I am too tired to go shopping now. I could make some potatoes." "I want BEEEEEEEEEEEANS." "Chicken noodle soup!" "Beans. Beans. Beans." "Tomato soup and a toasted-cheese sandwich?" "BEANS, I want BEANS!" And so on ... no, it NEVER goes that way, does it?
re: How Pleasantly Hypothetical
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i think the whole entire point of TCS is giving your children the same respect you would give them if they were adults - even when they dont act like adults. To expect them to act like adults would be irrational and thus still disrespectful. So suppose the beans conversation goes the second way, you, as parent, could step back and say "Look in the pantry and pick something out. Anything in the whole pantry. I'll make sure to get some beans the next time I'm at the store."
This way, you've shown your child respect by allowing him to choose his snack (anything in the pantry should be acceptable; it would be disrespectful to keep donuts or other "sometimes" foods right in front of the face of a child and then tell them he can't have them) but you've also taken seriously his craving for beans. If child still refuses to find a "common preference" as its referred to here, then likely the tantrum is due to some other cause - "HALT" is the child Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired? in which case the solution, or common preference, is not giving your child beans, but rather fulfilling their need in some other way.
No, its not easy, its not simple, but its called parenting. Its hard work and requires dedication if its to be done right, but everything in life worth having is worth working for!
If yelling and cussing work for you
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Yelling and cursing are not magical behaviors that blossom from nowhere and go nowhere. Both have their origins in pain, violence and anger. You may add lack of self-control, and egotism. Where is your child learning that that such behavior is acceptable? Obviously from you - she/he may have a hard time later maintaining healthy social ties if such destructive behavior makes up her repertoire of social options.
Yelling could never work for me because it is antisocial, disturbing and violent. I am repulsed by your bold assumption that yelling is an acceptable form of behavior, especially from a young person. Cursing is a form of language manipulation which can denotes anger, spite, violent, scorn, derision or many other forms of sociopathic states. I did not allow my children to curse. Both have developed lovely, charming personalities. Once less strike against them in this life. Who can stand to associate with an ogre?
These two elements which you blithely accept are brutal deformations of language. Language is a common tool that is poisoned by vulgarity much as one poisons a well by urinating in it. VaniNY
Actually, my older child
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Actually, my older child would have thrown himself to the floor in front of the pantry, weeping and wailing that there were no beans in it. He would have done this from the time he was 3 until he was probably 5 years old.
Not all kids respond well to this kind of negotiating/talking/choosing, especially at that age. These methods would probably work quite well now that he's older and can hold different options in mind and balance them out, but getting him to that point took lots of work.


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I thought I would write about Edward William Sharp today (some also list him as William Edward Sharp, I am not clear which is correct), known to the family as Uncle Ed. He has a tender, yet thorny, position in the family.
Edward William Sharp was born 25 October 1887 in Plain City, Weber, Utah, the seventh child to Milo and Lilly Sharp. My Great Grandmother, Ethel, was Ed's younger sister, number 11 in line. I have written more of Ethel's marriage to Jack Ross. Ed Sharp comes into the family line more closely when Ethel died in 1925. She left behind five children, namely: June, Milo, Paul, Harold, and Earnest. The four children were taken back to Paul, Minidoka, Idaho in 1925 to be raised by their Ross grandparents, James and Catherine Ross, while Jack got back on his feet. As winter came and progressed the family struggled. Earnest passed away the fall of 1925 in Rupert, Idaho. Jack was gone for unknown reasons and James and Catherine called Ethel's family to come get the four children. Starting that winter of 1925-26, Milo Ross was raised by his Uncle Ed. June went to live with her paternal grandparents, the Streeters in Ogden. Paul and Harold were raised by Ed's siblings, Vic Hunt and Del Sharp respectively. Sadly, Paul fell from a loft in a barn in 1932, broke his arm, and suffered a concussion that would take his life in 1932.
Edward Sharp met and married Lillie Elva East 13 May 1909 in Plain City. She was born 16 February 1888 in nearby Warren, Weber, Utah. Together they had 10 children.
Edna Louise Sharp born 11 January 1910 in Plain City.
Florence Evelyn Sharp born 30 June 1911 in Plain City.
Marjorie Lillian Sharp born 23 June 1913 in Plain City.
Ethel Sharp born 8 July 1917 in Plain City.
Elmer George Sharp born 15 June 1919 in Plain City and died 12 November 1923 in Plain City.
Ruby Elaine Sharp born 13 February 1922 in Plain City.
Milo Riley Sharp born 27 November 1927 in Ogden.
Josephine Sharp born 18 March 1927 in Ogden.
Edward Junior Sharp born 24 January 1930 in Ogden.
Dean Sharp born 28 April 1935 in Ogden.
As a reminder, Grandpa, Milo Ross, was born in 1921 in Plain City. He falls right in the middle of the entire family and became one of the siblings. To tell the difference between Milo Ross and Milo Sharp, I will use their last name.
Unfortunately, things were not quite that easy. Ed farmed a nice little farm in Plain City. He also had some cows, pigs, and other animals. The family grew up in the Depression with all the anxieties and difficulties that came with it. Fortunately the farm was mostly paid for and the farm provided for itself and the family.
Despite technically being blood to Ed, Milo Ross was treated differently than the other children. Milo Ross was not allowed to eat with the rest of the family. When the family was done with the meal, then Milo Ross could eat. Often alone. Milo Ross was expected to work longer than the rest of the family, into the time while the rest of them ate. Milo Ross was also expected to arise earlier and get things in order for the day before the rest of the family. He did not often get to eat with the rest of the family for breakfast and often only got some bread and milk. He was also given some of the more undesirable jobs around the farm. For example, it was his job to tend the onions which often left him smelling of them and he found that embarrassing.
Ed also had some drinking issues and had a certain temper. Of course his family saw the issues that arose as part of the alcohol, but it was Milo Ross who felt it. He was the one who suffered the wrath of Ed's drinking bouts at the end of a belt or sometimes worse. While Milo Ross loved his cousin-siblings, the relationship was not as kindred with Ed.
Milo Ross was only one year in age from Ruby who he ran around the countryside with. They were close enough that they would hold hands. They did quite a bit together. He was also close to Milo Sharp, but he was still three years behind him in age. The older siblings, Edna (who went by Louise), Florence, and Ethel were good to him, but were close to each other and did mostly their own thing. Ed kept Milo Ross busy that he did not get as much time with the younger children but he grew close with Josephine and Edward (known as Eddie in the family). Dean was young enough that he was around him some, but did not have as close of a relationship.
As I mentioned in the story of Ed's parents William & Mary Ann Sharp, she also went by Lilly, the Sharp and Stoker families came to Utah as converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A number of issues arose in Plain City and families left the church. Ed's parents followed that suit remaining with the Episcopalian faith. Ed and Lillie did as well, but were not very active. The Mormons continued to work on bringing the families back to the church. The Sharp family started to work through Delwin's family first and the faith spread through Ed's nieces and nephews and into his own family. Only one of Ed's siblings joined the LDS faith while alive, and that was Vic in 1975.
Marjorie, Ethel, and Ruby all joined through the waters of baptism on 12 May 1939. Milo Ross joined 2 July 1939 (only after 18 as Ed would not give consent otherwise). Louise, Florence, Milo Sharp, Josephine, and Eddie all joined 3 January 1943. Dean was the last on 31 October 1943, he was not 8 in January to join with the remainder of his siblings.
As soon as Milo was of age, he looked for opportunities to get out. He eventually married, moved in with his in-laws, and then the impending war took his services abroad.
Milo Ross did not tell only negative about Uncle Ed. Grandpa regularly told of how he learned to work hard under Uncle Ed. While somewhat an outsider, Ed kept in contact with the extended family and Grandpa's position in the family meant he was regularly tending to his Grandmother, Lilly Sharp mentioned above. While it was his strict duty to clean out his Grandma's bedpan, keep the kitchen and house wood split and stocked, and whatever else she needed or wanted. Grandpa relished those moments in her home and with her.
Lillie East Sharp died 4 September 1942 while separated from her husband. She had started divorce proceedings but died before they completed. She was buried in Plain City. Milo Ross remembered her as a beautiful lady who he sometimes told his woes, but she acknowledged the issues but took no steps to resolve them.
Ed died 24 August 1962 in Othello, Adams, Washington. The family brought him home and buried him in Plain City too.

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It's official: U.S. airlines have given up their legal challenge to the European Union's landmark law limiting global warming pollution from aviation.
It was an abrupt move by United, American, and their trade association, Airlines for America, none of which gave an explanation for dropping the case in the UK High Court in London less than 48 hours before the Court's scheduled hearing.
We can only guess that after the European Court of Justice's strong ruling upholding the EU directive as consistent with international law, the airlines' lawyers realized their efforts in the UK court would be fruitless.
EDF, with the transatlantic coalition of environmental groups that intervened in the litigation, said today that the airlines' move presents an opportunity for industry to support a global deal to reduce emissions from aviation.
In a joint statement today from Aviation Environment Federation, Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, EDF, Transport & Environment, and WWF-UK, we said:
Although we are pleased this avoids a pointless legal challenge in the UK, it is disappointing that U.S airlines are refusing to accept the ECJ ruling, and may simply be moving the battlefield elsewhere. …
United States, Europe, and other countries [should] work together with airlines and civil society to craft a global solution and enforceable domestic measures.
U.S. House industry-dominated "roundtable discussion" ignores significant developments
In related news, today the U.S. House of Representatives aviation subcommittee hosted a "roundtable discussion" on the EU law and "its impact on the U.S. aviation industry, international law, and global trade."
However, in the 1.5 hours when participants from the Federal Aviation Administration, State Department and aviation industry delivered short remarks and fielded questions from Members of Congress, the latest updates from the law were noticeably absent. No mention was made that just three months ago, the EU's highest court had ruled strongly against the airlines, or that yesterday the airlines had given up their latest challenge to the law.
Eyes now turn to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), where its Secretary General Raymond Benjamin has proposed to agree, by the end of the year, on global measures to reduce aviation emissions. We hope airlines use this opportunity to support a global deal.


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Luce brauchte ein neues Kodierte Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 47 Designs von 11 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We are a pub in London requiring a website. We do not have a website currently and need a coded design incorporating the logo.
Coach & Horses Clapham
Ale & Food House
Desired Color Scheme:
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); XHTML CSS
The existing logo can be found: http://www.coachandhorsesclapham.com and a photograph and details of the venue can be found: http://www.beerintheevening.com/pub…es/Clapham
 This is a traditional public house offering real ale; good food and a quality wine list. Whilst we would like the website to reflect this we would also like something modern and slick.
We would like the site to appeal to affluent young people.
The navigation items:
- Home
- Menus
- Function Room
- Sports
- Contact
- LinksAlso we quite like the idea of having the address; telephone number and email address in the header area.
Please feel free to showcase your skills and we will try and feedback promptly if we feel it is not the kind of look we are after.
Background info - I am a beginner web developer and have had a go at this myself but my design skills are somewhat limited and I cannot achieve something good enough in the time that we have. As we do not have a huge amount of content for the site I envisage that the home page will be similar to the other pages. So if possible we would like a coded home page and from this I can create a DW template and build the other pages myself. I hope this makes sense!
 Many thanks for looking.


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SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras – It was the most important game yet for this generation of Canadian soccer players. But it turned into a 90-minute nightmare.
For so long, Canada's defence has been one of its greatest strengths, but on Tuesday, it was sheer agony for the backline, as Honduras ran rampant in an 8-1 FIFA World Cup qualifying win.
New England Revolution forward Jerry Bengston and Carlo Costly netted hat-tricks, as Los Catrachos booked their tickets to the final round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying at the expense of a Canadian side that needed just a tie to advance and had conceded just two goals in its previous five games.
One can immediately look back at June's 0-0 draw between the two teams at BMO Field as the decisive moment in this group. Had Canada picked up a deserved win on that day, they would have already been through, but instead, they faced a daunting task of playing in the hellish cauldron of the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano, as their World Cup aspirations came to a spectacularly demoralizing end.
The clash started promisingly enough just two minutes in, as Nik Ledgerwood won space on the right hand side before crossing into Tosaint Ricketts, who miscontrolled with the ball at his mercy.
And the torture started just minutes later when Carlo Costly won a header that put Bengston through on goal for a calm finish past Lars Hirschfeld that brought the packed house to its feet for the first of many times.
Four minutes later, Canada had their best chance when Simeon Jackson's shot from just inside the 18-yard box came back off the post and Ricketts again couldn't bury the equalizer.
In the 16th minute, the Hondurans punished Canada's woeful defending when Mario Martínez's initial shot was palmed away by Hirschfeld right at Bengston. With no Canadians anywhere near him, Bengston easily finished into the open goal.
Honduras toyed with Canada from then on, and in the 28th minute, Bengston turned provider, heading a long, looping cross across goal for Costly to finish with an open header.
On Honduras' fourth goal in the 32nd minute, Martínez nutmegged Andre Hainault before going in alone to cap off the first-half scoring.
The nightmare really just couldn't end quickly enough for Canada and just over three minutes into the second half, Martínez found Costly from the right-hand side, with the former Houston Dynamo man easily beating a flailing David Edgar to head in.
Martínez's spectacular left-footed curling strike with just under a half-hour left was just gravy for the home side, as the Canadian side was treated to a clinic.
Canada got one back in the 77th minute on a fine free kick, but Bengtson and Costly sealed their hat-tricks in the final five minutes to round off an emphatic victory for the home side.
MLSsoccer.com Men of the Match
|What We Saw
|Jerry Bengtson
|New England Revolution forward was rampant, scoring first two goals, setting up the third, and hitting a late hat-trick
|Carlo Costly
|Former Houston Dynamo forward was just as good as his partner in crime, setting up Bengtson's first and grabbing three of his own
|Mario Martínez
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| 12.6°C Dublin

Robbie Williams has declared he would like to be hailed as "a national treasure" like his former Take That bandmate Gary Barlow.

Gary - who co-wrote a song for the diamond jubilee this year - has just picked up an OBE from the Queen and Robbie told James Corden on Sky 1 HD's When Robbie Met James, he'd like the same recognition.
Robbie said: "Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad really.
"I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; at the same time I'm pleased to be anywhere."
But the Candy singer also insisted he and Gary have put any former rivalry behind them.
He said: "There's genuinely a great chemistry with me and Gaz.
"I get respect from one of the best song writers in the world and that's all I ever wanted."
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Users with a Time Capsule that has a failing power supply will notice that it doesn't power on or will shut down without warning after powering up. Apple has identified a range of Time Capsules produced in 2008 that exhibit those symptoms, and now has a program in place to repair or replace these Times Capsules even if the original warranty has expired.
Apple says that the Time Capsules with issues have a serial number between XX807XXXXXX and XX814XXXXXX. If you have a Time Capsule in this range exhibiting power supply problems, Apple will repair or replace it free of charge. If you have data on your Time Capsule that you want to keep, Apple offers different options depending on location—though in the US that means sending it in to Apple's centralized repair facility and a three- to five-day wait.
We have heard scattered reports of this issue in our forums, and a couple of us in the Orbiting HQ have been bitten by the bug. Users have had varying luck getting the affected Time Capsules serviced by Apple Care because the affected devices were made between February and June 2008—the problem often occurred after the warranty expired. However, Apple says that the program will cover Time Capsules exhibiting the problem for three years from the date of purchase. This also means that if you paid for repairs related to this problem and your serial number falls in the specified range, you can contact Apple for a refund.


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danpeg necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 7 diseños de 3 diseñadores freelance.
Photo of the Day
We are Social Expeditions. We make Facebook/MySpace/iPhone applications and games. One of our biggest titles is Photo of the Day (http://apps.facebook.com/photo_of_day/) . POD started as a simple app, randomly selecting a photo from the users' albums or tagged photos and showcasing it as their "photo of the day" and encouraging them to share it with their friends.
The app has evolved and we want to add sub-products such as the ability to add frames to photos and to add effects. Even more distant from the original concept, we have a feature called the "impressions game" where people do impressions of celebrities.
Our audience is 70% women of all ages , very international with millions of users in the US, UK, France and Italy.
Many Moms use our application to share photos of their children.
We are looking for fresh ideas for the front page of our application:
It's important that the flow stay the same (pop up and then front page).
The idea is to create an application in which the user has 3 main actions:
1. Sharing photos with friends
2. Enhancing photos (frames, effects...)
3. Browsing through friends' photos
We do want a coherent navigation (nav) that maintains these goals:
1. Making it intuitive for the user to get what the app does (showcasing a photo but also doing other fun things with photos daily)
2. Having a nav that allows for at least 7-9 elements (in case we add new sub/features). We have considered moving the nav to the left (see attached).
3. Structural clean up in terms of sizes, whitespace (the photo must stay appx. the same size or larger).
4. Maintaining the appx. positions of the advertising units.
To understand the app fully, please play with the application:
1. try to frame a photo
2. publish a photo to your wall
We cannot change:
- The look and feel of the borders of the pop up and its buttons
- See area for design attachment


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New Champion Crowned at Machrihanish Golf Club
David Graham of Machrihanish was crowned the Club Champion following four consistent rounds of golf over consecutive weekends. The local lad kept his nerve on Saturday 9th June to win the prestigious Club Championship after taking a 7 stroke lead from the previous weekend into the final two rounds. Having shot a 71 and 69 the first weekend young Graham maintained his cool to fend of the challenge of the 2011 Champion Jordan Grant with two final rounds of 73 to finish with a combined score of 286 for his four rounds. Grant picked up runner up spot as he clawed back a few strokes with a final score of 290, following by Oliver Armour and George McMillan who finished 294 and 298 respectively.
In the Senior Championship Colin Lang took the honours over Brian Findlay by one stroke with a combined score of 157 over the two rounds.
Andrew Wallace won the Junior Championship and the Malcolm Lang Trophy with a fine net score of 142 for his two rounds as the youngster from Campbeltown continues his fine form this season.
Stuart Campbell showed exactly why he has won the Club Championship in the past with a fine closing two rounds of 71 and 72 Gross to pick up the Robert Ballantyne trophy with his net score of 69 and 70, 139.
Machrihanish Club Championship
Winner: David Graham 286
Runner Up: Jordan Grant 290
Third: Oliver Armour 294
Fourth: George McMillan 298
Jim Scally (1st & 2nd Round combined net scores)
Winner: D Graham 134
Runner Up: N Bowie 138
Malcolm Lang (Senior Handicap)
Winner: A Wallace 142
R Ballantyne (3rd & 4th Round combined net scores)
Winner: S A Campbell 139
R/Up I McGougan 143
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My question (which may turn into a suggestion for the site) is this: How does one get the most out of reading Keats? For instance, would one get more meaning from the works if one read a bio first? Is there a specific work (or type of work) with which one should start?
, and it was quite a magical moment. I started by La belle dame sans merci, then Ode to a Nightingale, and finally Ode on a grecian urn.completely relaxed in a semi-lighted room
Manako wrote:I think that the best way to read Keats, and poetry in general, is to read each poem twenty times trying to understand it for its own, whatever it may say to you personally.
AhDistinctly wrote:This site is an absolute treasure trove! And as with any good dig site, a wealth of little sparkly bits are to be found the deeper the spade is set. Imagine my delight at finding the Keats Recordings thread!
Conversely, I recoil from the knowledge that whatever observations I may make are likely to be reiterations of long-since concluded discussions found in other threads.
Still, I carry on, as the Belcerebons, if only to drown out the sound of my own internal musings by the very act of broadcasting them to the world!
Credo Buffa wrote:I haven't had the opportunity to welcome you, AhDistinclty (great username, by the way!)!
Credo Buffa wrote:I try to make it a point to re-read my favorite poems specifically when I feel like something in my life has affected my understanding. For instance, I re-read "Ode on a Grecian Urn" while I was sitting in the room with the Parthenon frieze at the British Museum.
Credo Buffa wrote:I hope that makes sense. I know it's sort of rambling.
AhDistinctly wrote:As you are from my "neck of the woods," I've had a lot of fun reading your various weather reports. If you get homesick, I'd be happy to report on the current wind chill or heat index -- or the temperature in Embarrass!
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As Congress grapples with the spending cuts of the sequester, the Pentagon is slashing its budget—and career service members and their families are making cuts of their own, according to First Command Financial Behaviors Index survey findings released Tuesday.
The survey findings show that middle-class military families with household incomes of at least $50,000 are making a concerted effort to live more frugally, with 46% in February saying they were preparing for the sequester by cutting back on everyday spending, up 7 points from January. The U.S. government's $85 billion in sequester cuts for 2013 began on March 1.
Military families have responded to the sequester by:
- Increasing savings (37% of respondents, up 7 points from the previous month)
- Decreasing the aggressiveness of investments (15%, up 6 points)
- Moving investments to cash (10%, up 2 points)
- Starting work with a financial planner (7%, up 2 points)
"This monthly uptick in frugality lends further support to our longer-term findings that military households are concerned about defense downsizing and are responding by making meaningful changes in their family finances," said Scott Spiker, CEO of Fort Worth, Texas-based First Command Financial Services, in a statement. "By making positive changes in their family finances our men and women in uniform are responding with confidence to an uncertain future."
The customer base of First Command Financial Services and its subsidiaries, including First Command Bank and First Command Financial Planning, a registered broker-dealer, is composed largely of active-duty and retired U.S. military personnel. The Financial Behaviors Index, compiled by consumer consultancy Sentient Decision Science, is a monthly survey of approximately 530 U.S. consumers aged 25 to 70 with annual household incomes of at least $50,000.
The index also revealed that military families anticipate defense downsizing will mean:
- Reduced retirement benefits (40%)
- Decreased discretionary income for non-essentials (39%)
- Reduced personal expense benefits such as housing, clothing and food (37%)
- Increased responsibility for health care costs (36%)
- Reduced likelihood to be promoted (28%)
- Reduced education benefits (25%)
- Increased likelihood of early separation or not serving to full retirement (19%)
- Forced relocation due to base closure and realignment (14%)
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Traffic Accident Leads Sioux Falls Police to Mobile Meth Lab
A traffic accident in Sioux Falls led police to a mobile meth lab.
On Saturday, police responded to a report of a hit and run accident on 18th St. and Bahnson Ave. According to reports s Nissan Altima struck a traffic pole and the driver fled on foot.
When officers arrived they found two people who were passengers in the car during the accident. During a search of the vehicle, officers found meth in the car, including components to manufacture meth in the trunk of the car.
The occupants were arrested and the vehicle was seized by the Sioux Falls Area Drug Task Force processed the vehicle.
The occupants of the vehicle were taken to the Minnehaha County Jail for possession of controlled substance and possession with intent to distribute/manufacturing controlled substance.
The driver that fled is believed to be Jason Craig Oldehoff. Anyone with information about Oldehoff's whereabouts is asked to contact police.


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Went travelling down the River Murray by small boat, from Yarrawonga Weir downstream to Boundary Bend (so far), with plans to continue at a later time. Saw a lot of evidence of the old loggers along the riverbank, and started wondering about my great grandfather, Absalom Tonkin, who spent part of his life on a paddle steamer.
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KLAX - the latest, greatest hit in the arcades - is now available for play on the Genesis! For one or two players, this brainteaser of a game is simple in concept: Catch colored tiles that come down the conveyor belt. Rack up points by arranging them in same-colored stacks or rows. A tic-tac-tile test, if you will. Sounds easy? It is... until the tiles come tumbling at you so fast, you'll go nuts trying to catch them all - while figuring out where best to stack them before you run out of room! But no matter how tough KLAX gets, the hardest part is pulling yourself away from this fun, fast, and totally mind-boggling game!


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Well, not exactly, but that is the nickname some have given to the RQ-16 T-Hawk (short for Tarantula Hawk, a wasp that preys on the large spiders). The T-Hawk micro air vehicle (MAV) is a small unmanned aircraft that has been making a name for itself in both military and civilian circles since it was developed by Honeywell International Corporation starting in 2003. Weighing only about 20 pounds, the T-hawk relies on a small gasoline-powered engine (like a lawn-mower) and a ducted fan to allow it to take off and land vertically (like a helicopter), fly up to 46 miles per hour for about 50 minutes, and reach heights of 10,000 feet! All this flying technology is used to carry some very high-tech cameras, including regular daytime cameras, as well as infrared cameras. But wait, there's more! It is also programmable to use pre-set GPS coordinates to fly autonomously through an area without any need for a manual control. These unique characteristics have allowed the T-Hawk to be used to "hover-and-stare" both on and off the battlefield.
Originally developed at the request of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the T-Hawk found a place amongst ground troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The Army issued some of the highly mobile units, which are small enough to be carried by a soldier in a backpack, to military units in Iraq where they were sent ahead of a convoy or group of soldiers to scout. With real-time video sent with the T-Hawk's cameras, field commanders can have a bird's-eye view of an area before troops arrive to look out for any traps or ambushes along the way. The US Navy has also made use of the T-Hawk and assigned them to explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) units in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The T-Hawk can take off quickly and hover over a suspicious-looking area or item to give EOD technicians a close-up view without putting them in harm's way. The "hover-and-stare" ability has proven invaluable to spotting road side bombs before US troops arrive in an area. The T-Hawk, however, is not just useful to those in the military. Recently, the Miami-Dade Police Department purchased a T-Hawk to assist with situations such as standoffs with armed suspects. More importantly, the T-Hawk was used to help during the nuclear crisis Japan faced in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that struck the country on March 11, 2011. Using the T-Hawk, US Department of Defense personnel at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant were able to get the first detailed video of the exterior of damaged reactor vessels in an environment that was too radioactive for humans.
So why is the T-Hawk so important to the National Air and Space Museum? Well, besides its awesome capabilities, and its similarity to a flying WALL-E, it will also be seen in an upcoming exhibition at the Museum. The gallery, called Time and Navigation is set to open in March of 2013, and will showcase the importance of time-keeping to navigation. The T-Hawk has recently arrived at the Museum as part of the permanent collection and will be on display in a section of the exhibit discussing the importance of GPS to the military. Stop by and see it then!


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idesigner1 wrote:DearNS,
Confirmation of circumcision won't solve the issue.
In US starting from early 50s lot many white Christians children were circumcised by doctors in hospital after the birth. Some implicate Jews doctors of East coast to make Christians Jews! Medical community touted cleanliness reason to chop penus of new born. Many think this procedure gave some extra revenue to hungry unscrupulous doctors. In those days it costed extra $ 100. Any way great many Christians babies are now circumcised in US. Beside Christians Jew babies are circumcised asjewish ceremony. Chances are good that this killer Mr. Paddock was circumcised.
Now female genital mutilation in Muslim women supposedly downsizes the sexual instincts in those ladies according to members of this forum.Perhaps the same happens in case of male circumcision and since men are supposed to be horny,this also is a way of lessening their instincts.


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1932 Ford Roadster - The Road To The Grand National Roadster Show
A Look At An Average Guy Building An AMBR Contender
The call came at 5 p.m. on Thursday, January 24: "Troy Ladd, this is John Buck ... where are you?!"
Troy Ladd is the owner of Hollywood Hot Rods in Burbank, California. John Buck is the producer of the Grand National Roadster Show, where Troy's '32 roadster, Respect Tradition, was entered as one of 12 finalists for the America's Most Beautiful Roadster award. The car was supposed to be inside Building 4 at the Pomona Fairplex by 4 p.m. Instead, it was 40 miles away-still at the shop in Burbank-with no radiator, no grille shell, no hoses, no seats, and no wheels.
Respect Tradition isn't the first car Hollywood Hot Rods has entered in the GNRS. The Big Sister and Little Sister sibling '32s drew a lot of attention for the shop when they were entered in years past, but they were never in contention for the AMBR award.
"The roadsters that I had entered before weren't specifically built for the show," Troy says. "They were nice cars, built for driving, that I wanted to display. This roadster was geared to be a show car, although it wasn't intended to be an AMBR competitor at the beginning. I'd been working on the car for two years, and as the design evolved and became more complex, we started to toy with the idea.
"The cars that compete for AMBR are typically swoopy, two-tone, big-billet-wheel kind of cars. I wanted to try to stir up the status quo a little bit. It's a redesigned, handformed, high-end car, but with the look of a traditional car. There have been other over-the-top, traditionally influenced cars before, such as the Pinkee's roadster pickup and Troy Trepanier's '32 roadster from a few years back. Neither of those cars won AMBR, but they both made a huge impact, which is exactly what I wanted to do. John Buck was very encouraging when I told him what we were building. I sent him photos and got his approval.
"Another motivation was the fact that there aren't many owner/builders in the competition. We're younger, the shop is relatively new, and I didn't have a million dollars to sink into the car.
"Being an owner/builder put me at a huge disadvantage because I didn't have the budget some people do. My time was free, but it's time somebody would ordinarily be paying me for.
"For most of the three-year buildup, I worked on the car by myself. During the last year, I dedicated Mondays or Saturdays to the car, with guys from the shop putting time into it. In the final three months, it got crazy, and by the last month, we pretty much shut down the whole shop and everybody worked on it all the time. As the guy paying the bills, I freaked out because it was taking so much time and there was no money coming in; but once you commit, you've got to come through, and I had committed to a lot of people-John Buck; the companies that contributed parts; Butch Lynch, who did the bodywork and paint; and Mark Lopez, who did the interior within one week. All these guys were part of it.
"The great part was that the guys at my shop, Troy Morris and Garret Wilson, got excited about the car, and took so much pride in their work on the car. Everybody has their ideas and their handiwork in the car. At the end, when we thought we wouldn't finish it, everybody was freaking out because of how much they'd contributed to it."
Going For AMBRThe guys at Hollywood Hot Rods knew going in that building an AMBR contender goes far beyond an ordinary build. If any one person helped Troy take the roadster from excellent to truly AMBR-worthy, it was painter and metal beater Butch Lynch.
Troy knew Butch had been involved with previous AMBR contenders and had a good reputation in the hobby. After they met through mutual friends, Butch became not only an important contributor to the project, but one of the biggest cheerleaders toward taking the roadster to the competitive level.
"In fact, he was driving me nuts," Troy says, "but in a good way. He'd call me regularly and tell me, 'We need to clean up this or that. You need to come down here with your metal tools and your welder and we'll change the metal here ... make a panel ... move this.' Because he'd done AMBR cars, he was very detail-oriented and knew to do things that I never would have thought of. He spent weeks reworking the floor to make it smooth and beautiful and perfect. I would've thought we could prep it and paint it nice and shiny. We moved dimensions and moved panels. Everything under the car is completely symmetrical. The brake pedal assembly is up under the dash, because otherwise that would've been on one side and broken up the symmetry. Same with the plumbing; there are three polished stainless steel lines on each side of the car, exactly the same distance from the framerails. We shaped and welded the rocker panels so the gap between the 'rail and the subrail would be even. We actually pinstriped under the floor, such as on the transmission pan.
"Originally, I wanted painted steel wheels on the car; that changed to modified '34 Dodge wheels. I would've been happy with bomber seats; instead, we hand-shaped our own seats and had them upholstered. Those are the kind of things you have to do. There can't be anything out of a catalog. Everything has to be creative and custom designed and handbuilt. Every panel on this body is hand-worked, reshaped, and redesigned. Our taillights are machined to match the speedometer, which in turn matches the color on the steering column. My guys never want to clock another bolt in their lifetime. You wouldn't believe how ticked off they were, but that's what you have to do. That's what this is about-crazy stuff that, on a regular car, nobody would ever see.
"On the other hand, you can't just stick stuff on for the sake of details. We worked very hard not to add brackets or doohickeys that serve no purpose. As one of my customers said, 'You have to be careful not to put too many sequins on the dress.'
"Building an AMBR car is about pushing the boundaries, even to the point where some people may not get it. This interior has been a little controversial. Some people tell me they're not sure about it. That makes me think I took it to the right place. You can build a 'safe' car, but if you're going for AMBR, you have to push it a little bit.
"People complain about the money it takes to build a car that can compete for AMBR. I think it's true that the average hot rodder can't compete, but that's not necessarily wrong. There are many great shows where everybody can compete and win. As long as it's not just about throwing money at a car, but about being creative, why not have no-holds-barred competitions where you do whatever you can to build the best car you possibly can?"
The Clock TickingThe final month before the GNRS, when all attention at Hollywood Hot Rods was devoted to Respect Tradition, was a frantic time. At Christmas, the car had not been painted. On New Year's Day, the engine was in pieces. One week before the show, it had no upholstery.
"People see those TV shows where a bunch of guys build a car in seven days," Troy says. "I didn't have those guys."
With three days to go, the roadster was still disassembled and Troy was starting to panic. "I almost gave up. I started to come up with exit strategies on how to tell John Buck that we wouldn't be coming. It's giving me a stomachache even thinking about it."
On setup day, Troy and his crew still hadn't finished the car, and didn't know if they would. "That day was pretty rough," he remembers. "The guy we'd scheduled to color-sand and polish the grille shell and other parts that had just been painted never showed up. There was no radiator, no radiator hoses, no inserts, and no emblems. The wheels had to be painted and mounted. The headlights had to be mounted to the grille shell and we couldn't assemble the headlight buckets until they were. I was freaking out."
Whatever happened during the last frantic hours is part miracle and part force of will, and at 7:30 p.m., the roadster rolled off the open trailer onto the pavement in Pomona.
"I didn't even see what the other cars were," Troy says. "We were late. I hadn't slept. All I could do was concentrate on our car.
"When I came back the next morning, I was afraid to go into the building, knowing that I had to walk past Barry White and Pete Chapouris, and all the other AMBR cars. I couldn't go in there and hear people say, 'It's a nice car, but it shouldn't be an AMBR car.' After all we'd been through, I couldn't live with that. But when I finally walked through the door and saw my car, I thought, 'We so belong here.' I stood up straight, walked past all the other roadsters, and said to myself, 'We did it. That's an AMBR car. '"


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Discussion in 'Parallel Universe' started by The Jinx, Jul 2, 2012.
What a bunch of idiots at BMW marketing - F700GS?!?
Idd, why not keep it simple and call it the f800gs and the f800gs adv ...
I put the full Tech brief here - http://www.mcnews.com.au/2013_Bikes/BMW/BMW_F700_F800GS/BMW_Motorrad_F700GS_F800GS.pdf
Images here - http://www.mcnews.com.au/2013_Bikes/BMW/BMW_F700_F800GS/index.htm
They reduced the area and angle of attack of the beak......
....certain disaster on the freeway......
Yeah, yeah...I know...naughty corner.
But in all seriousness, have they changed anything mechanical...or addressed the minor issues such as the shock bolts...ethanol proofed the fuel system...done anything with the front end...
But they paid for retooling for the plastics.
Oh well, that's something...yeah?
It looks like if I want an F900GS I will have to build my own ... oh well, that could be fun !
Sounds mostly cosmetic updates. The beak looks more streamlined with the bike.
About time
ESA and ASC for 800 too. Summary.
Overview of new technical features:
• Increased output and torque in the F 700 GS as compared to predecessor model: 55 kW (75 hp) at 7,300 rpm (F 650 GS: 52 kW [71 hp] at 7,000 rpm).
• The latest generation of BMW Motorrad two-channel ABS as standard.
• Double disc brake system at front - now also for F 700 GS.
• Automatic Stability Control ASC (ex works option).
• Electronic Suspension Adjustment ESA (ex works option).
• Rear spring mount can be adjusted via optimised handwheel.
• Newly designed body features in a more dynamic, masculine look.
• New paint finishes for the F 700 GS:
Red apple metallic, Ostra grey metallic matt and Glacier silver metallic.
• New paint finishes for the F 800 GS:
Kalamata metallic matt, Cordoba blue and Alpine white 3.
• New handlebar switch units and brake fluid containers, front.
• New handlebar clamp for F 700 GS.
• Cockpit with new dial faces for speedometer and engine speed display and an extended range of information.
• New windshield for F 700 GS.
• Smoke grey turn indicators and smoke grey LED rear light glass covering.
• Lowered suspension for F 800 GS (ex works option/special accessory).
• Power reduction to 35 kW (48 hp) (ex works option).
• Engine map adjustment for regular fuel (RON 91) (ex works option).
• Comfort seat now available as an ex works option too.
• Case carrier for Vario case now also available as an ex works option.
• New centre stand as ex works option.
• Comfort package: on-board computer, heated grips, case holder, centre stand (ex works option).
• Safety package for F 800 GS: ASC and ESA (ex works option).
• Safety package for F 700 GS: ASC, ESA, RDC (ex works option).
• LED auxiliary headlight for F 800 GS (special accessory).
• Enduro footrests, wide (special accessory).
I read through it and thought - oh boy, the anti ABS guys are going to flip when they see this.
More electronics, and still no interest in the "warranty fixes".
Oh well.
Can't see why not. The bigger pistons are available. The bigger barrels are too, although you could just get yours bored.
If you just made it an oversquare motor without stroking it there are benefits from that.
All the other parts are available new from Husqvarna.
Gives you something to look forward to when this one wears out.
Looks like they woke up and fixed the turn signals and kill switch!!! GH
I like new footpegs !
Make that two of us
I like it overall, interested in seeing the suspension upgrade with the available ESA. F700 looks good IMO and should be even more fun now.
Starting to look like the Tiger.
wow i am glad i bought the good looking duckbilled platypus
Nothing there that'll make me update my 09 F800GS. The ESA is interesting, I like it on my GT, but it'd be less expensive to do aftermarket suspension on my 09 than buy a 2013 just to get it.
First impression is pretty good! Not necessarily a fan off all the colour schemes, but you're not left without options...
Looks like that 4 extra horses now requires premium fuel.


text: Crystal Morey: The Japanese Kappas By Crystal Morey Kappas are definitely one of the oddest indigenous Japanese creatures. They are depicted simultaneously as both sinister and unerringly cute. They are typically the size of a large child and appear to be a cross between a chimpanzee and a turtle. Their bodies usually resemble a monkey or upright frog with a turtle like head (often with a beak). They have turtle shells and webbed hands and feet and usually appear green, yellow or blueish in color. (Some say they can change color like a chameleon.) They all have a bowl-like depression on the top of their heads filled with water and surrounded by scraggy hair. The water provides the Kappa life-source on land and if it is spilled the Kappa must return to the river or he will die. Kappas love to eat cucumbers (cucumber sushi rolls - Kappa maki are named after them) and small children. They are honorable creatures and if bowed to, they will always return a bow. Japanese parents tell their children to bow low to a kappa if they see one, because the kappa will always return the bow, causing the water to spill from it's head thus rendering it powerless. Kappas are considered great practical jokers, the often pass loud gas and peer up women's robes. Their mischief however tends towards the malevolent. They are voracious eaters and while cucumbers and children are their favorite delicacy, they will also attack full grown humans, cows, horses and other livestock which they consume by sucking their life force "shirikodoma" (essentially the heart, liver and internal organs) out through the victim's anus. They are not considered completely dangerous, just creatures to be treated with caution. They love playing games and wrestling and it is possible to best a Kappa in sport and trick him into helping you with farm work or allowing your family to bathe in the river unmolested. They also are quickly won over with cucumbers so mothers often enscribe their children's names onto cucumbers and throw them into the river as a gift to the Kappas in hopes that they will let their children pass safely. Kappas are still quite prevalent in present day Japanese culture, you see them in signs and advertisements everywhere. There are rivers still with signs warning bathers to beware of Kappas and there is a whole area in Tokyo called Kappabashi with tons of statues and signs. Kooky. The kappa images I've included are snippets from the upcoming Japanese Mythological Creatures book due out this fall... (Crystal Morey works for Gomineko Books and is a contributing blogger for Tattoo Artist Magazine. For more info on Gomineko Books please visit their website: www.gominekobooks.com.)


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Proposed Physician Fee Schedule Reflects Continued Congressional Failure To Protect Elderly, Disabled Patients' Health Access
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Statement attributable to:
Reid Blackwelder, MD
American Academy of Family Physicians
"If Congress had any question about the urgency of repealing the sustainable growth rate formula that determines Medicare physician payments, they need look no further than the proposed 2015 Medicare physician fee schedule.
"For the twelfth consecutive year, the annual proposed schedule reflects an SGR-mandated payment cut that ultimately threatens the health security of elderly and disabled Medicare beneficiaries and the military families who depend on Tricare for their health coverage. The AAFP is disappointed that current law continues to require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid to issue a physician fee schedule that slashes payment by 20.9 percent next year.
"Moreover, failure by Congress to repeal the long-standing SGR overshadows the 2015 proposed fee schedule's new and commendable code for chronic care management services.
"Elderly and disabled patients have complex, multiple and chronic health conditions that require whole-person medical attention available only through primary care physicians. This code recognizes the value of additional cognitive and administrative work that occurs outside the exam room but that is essential to comprehensive, coordinated care. The AAFP welcomes the new code but we also look to a day when policies designed to strengthen primary medical care are not undermined by drastic cuts to the underlying foundation on which all payment is based.
"We again call on Congress to repeal the flawed sustainable growth rate formula reflected in the 2015 proposed Medicare physician fee schedule. Congress could end this recurring cycle by passing the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act. Failure to do so means legislators will fall back on a time-consuming, expensive and destabilizing temporary patch. Temporary fixes do nothing to solve one of the most chronic and fundamental challenges in the Medicare program, nor do they establish a stable environment in which physicians can plan for their practice's stability."
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Founded in 1947, the AAFP represents 120,900 physicians and medical students nationwide. It is the only medical society devoted solely to primary care.
Approximately one in five of all office visits are made to family physicians. That is nearly 192 million office visits each year — nearly 66 million more than the next largest medical specialty. Today, family physicians provide more care for America's underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty. Family medicine's cornerstone is an ongoing, personal patient-physician relationship focused on integrated care.
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By now, you've probably seen RoboSimian — the four-limbed, ape-inspired robot built by the Jet Propulsion Lab — in action at least once (and if you haven't, seriously, check it out now). Today, we've got Brett Kennedy, who leads the RoboSimian team at JPL, here to answer all our questions about robots, space, and robots in space!
Brett Kennedy has been interested in robots, space, and especially space robots, since he was at least eight years old. (Anime can be a powerful force for good, he tells us.) He has degrees in mechanical engineering and robotics from Berkeley and Stanford, and he designed the world's very first "limbed" robot, the Lemur. You may also know him from his work on the Curiosity rover (he led the team that built its robotic arm), or perhaps from the recent DARPA competition, where RoboSimian, which could one day play a role in disaster relief, was named a finalist.
Brett will be joining us at 11:30 a.m. (PST), so start asking him your questions now about RoboSimian, the future of robotics, and, of course, robots in space!
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Hi all, I'm currently doing some experiments with nmap in a Backtrack 5 VM environment. I am currently at a cafeteria and I'm connected to the (open :S) network at the shop with my Windows machine. In the BT VM I'm trying to scan my Windows machine (with another network adapter) but I'm getting unexpected results:
nmap -A Aggressive -sS -O 10.236.xxx.xxx
Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-07-09 12:11 CDT
Nmap scan report for Aggressive (67.215.xxx.xxx)
Host is up (0.17s latency).
rDNS record for 67.215.xxx.xxx: hit-nxdomain.opendns.com
Not shown: 999 filtered ports
80/tcp open http lighttpd 1.4.19
|_http-methods: No Allow or Public header in OPTIONS response (status code 302)
Warning: OSScan results may be unreliable because we could not find at least 1 open and 1 closed port
Device type: general purpose
Running: Linux 2.6.X
OS details: Linux 2.6.9, Linux 2.6.9 - 2.6.30
Network Distance: 1 hop
TRACEROUTE (using port 80/tcp)
1 14.97 ms hit-nxdomain.opendns.com (67.215.xxx.xxx)
10.236.xxx.xxx is my Windows machine but another machine in the network (67.215.xxx.xxx) is currently replying to my nmap scanning...could you help me to understand why?
thank you in advance,


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SanDiegoSEO necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 38 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
We are an IT support company based in Camarillo, California (just north of Los Angeles county). We are big enough to be full-service and quite capable, but small enough that you can reach the owner and expect great service.
Our primary value to our customers is that we remove headaches. We know that what ever our customers business is, they don't want to spend their time and money on IT - they just want it to work, easily and all the time. That's what we do - we make it work, all the time, within their needs and budget.
Our personality is that we are 'people people', despite doing technical work. Some techies can't talk to non-techies- we can.
We have a logo and color scheme that we like and that we're using on our print material, and we're just looking for a fresher look for our web site. We will do the technical part of making the image into a web page, we just want a single image that incorporates our logo and existing colors.
No-nonsense business owners that are looking for help with IT support.
They may or may not be creatives. Most likely, they are business owners that will recognize a professional design (vs. one that engineers like us come up with), but that would not associate excessive detail or flourish with technical competency. In other words, we tend to think a simple clean design is the best way to convey professionalism in a technical field.
2 files:
***File #1:***
A high res image file that we will use for a web page. (.psd and .jpg)
Design: Must include our existing logo (red symbol at spartechnology.com)
Size: 950px wide, 700~725px high.
Colors: should be compatible with colors currently at spartechnology.com and our print collateral. Print collateral colors are primarily black/dark gray as a left side vertical stripe with red and white text. Dark red to black gradients are used as page headers with Arial white text. Ask if you'd like a sample file. Text on the 'central' part of the page is dark gray on white.
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An image to be used for a background image that File #1 will be centered within. Should be color-coordinated with the primary image and probably be a simple color gradient from top to bottom.


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Tangotiger, revealing a side we haven't seen before:
OPS is fine, if that's all you have. But, don't be too serious about it. Think of OPS as your f-buddy.
He doesn't finish the analogy, though. If OPS is your "f-buddy," what's wOBA? Your girlfriend? Your wife? I shudder to think the implications of this.


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New Maasai Community Project in Tanzania
One of the reasons that many volunteers choose Tanzania as their volunteering destination is because of the Maasai tribe. This tribe has maintained their tradition and culture regardless of the encroaching modern world. As the Maasai people are very private, it is rare that foreigners get an insight into their lifestyle and rituals.
Projects Abroad first had the opportunity to work with a Maasai community during a Water & Sanitation project in 2012. Following the completion of this project, the community requested that Projects Abroad send volunteers on a regular basis in order to help.
To meet this need, Projects Abroad has started the Maasai Community Project. Volunteers in this project will be based in the Ngorongoro National Park in Northern Tanzania. Even though this is a national park, volunteers will be far removed from the safari routes.
Volunteers will play a vital role in teaching the Maasai community English, providing additional resources and constructing homes and buildings for the Maasai people.
Not only will volunteers be surrounded by the natural beauty of Northern Tanzania, they will get the unique opportunity to learn about the Maasai culture and traditions, while helping the community.
Projects Abroad volunteers are also currently working on our latest Water & Sanitation project in the area.