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The high value symbols on the reels are all theme related and feature two fairies, a toadstool and a butterfly. J, Q, K and A make up the lower values. The scatter symbol is a sparkly five-point star with the word "Bonus" on top. Scatter symbols only land or reels 2,3 and 4. The wild symbol is the game's logo and it can substitute for all other symbols except the scatter.
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This is a random feature which can trigger during the base game. The fairy will appear and change a number of symbols to increase the winning potential of that spin. The symbols will change to other symbols which are more likely to make a winning combo. They can also change into wilds or allow for 5 of a kind combinations.
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Players can trigger this bonus by landing 3 scatter symbols consecutively on reels 2, 3 and 4. If the player triggers this feature then a mini game will start. The goal is to reach the golden castle. On the trail leading to the castle the player can collect multipliers. Reaching the castle will award the highest multiplier. To reach the castle the player will have to spin the wheel on the right hand corner of the screen. On the wheel there are numbers which will determine how many steps closer to the castle the player can travel during a spin of the wheel. There is also a "collect" option on the wheel. The player will continue to spin the wheel until he/she lands the "collect". Landing the "collect" option will end the bonus. Should be noted that the fairy can change the trail from bronze to silver or gold. This will increase the multipliers the player can collect.
The jackpot is visible on the right upper corner of the reels. Players can only trigger the Jackpot by playing the Fairy Trail Bonus game. On the wheel, apart for the numbers and the "collect", there is also a star. Landing 3 stars during the bonus will allow the player to spin the big Jackpot Chance wheel. This new wheel will offer 1 of the following awards.
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Lucky Fairy is a medium variance slot with an RTP of 95.05%. The game looks great visually and the features allow for huge winning potential. The highlight of the game, however, is the progressive Jackpot which is also the maximum win a player can win on the slot.
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News Zero Escape Volume 3 Will Tell a New Tale on 3DS in 2016
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The official website does plug the full games, at least
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Takes to Twitter for help
The Zero Escape series, which features the puzzle-based visual novels 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors on the DS and Virtue's Last Reward on the 3DS and Vita, has always included the carrying of hope in desperate times as a theme. Series director Kotaro Uchikoshi is now finding himself trying to maintain a similar...
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Ideals remain due to "very humbling" support from fans
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With new cover art to boot!
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Read this article in 'The Telegraph'.
Dialled dinner delivered at doorstep - Scooter-borne network picks up food from restaurants, brings it to caller's home free
Condos of swank steel and myriad marble are reshaping Calcutta's urbanscape and the ever-widening base of ICE-age (information, communication and entertainment) pros is changing the way the city eats — outdoors and in. With dialling for dinner fast becoming a way of life, the need for meals on wheels is growing by the night.
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The service for the moment is operational in south Calcutta, and the munch menu comes from Copper Chimney on Theatre Road, Azad Hind Dhaba in Hindustan Park and Green Chilli on Rashbehari Avenue.
The central business district and Sector V are next on the radar, besides expanding the domestic domain.
"We plan to have 18-20 two-wheelers in the next six to 12 months and eventually cover the entire city with our door-delivery network," promises Thakker. To beef up the cuisine count, WoW! is looking at "one or two options on Park Street", restaurants in Chinatown, Salt Lake, VIP Road and the Phoolbagan-Kankurgachhi belt in the immediate future.
The WoW! army aims to break the common 'two-km-radius' boundary for home delivery. "The concept is nice and as long as they have a solid database of clientele from good eateries with a proper mix of menus, it should work. Similar services are quite popular in Bangalore and Mumbai," observes Debasish Ghosh of Mainland China.
Rajiv Kothari of Bar-B-Q agrees. "There is immense potential in home delivery, and many families would love to have their favourite restaurant food in the comfort of their homes during weekends and even on weeknights after a gruelling day. No one has done it in a professional manner in Calcutta till date and so it hasn't taken off yet."
Thakker is aware of the huge dormant delivery market and is keen to serve it right. "The restaurant owner gets to provide an additional service with existing infrastructure, and the customer gets his/her favourite fare without budging from home," he stresses.
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"Monday's Minutes" is a weekly post in which I track my bookish life. All book covers are linked to Goodreads unless otherwise noted.
Currently Reading:
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros
- Dharma Punx by Noah Levine
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- The Shelf by Phyllis Rose
- Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
Total pages read this week: 530
Total books for the year: 5 of 90. It's been an extremely busy week as the Boyfriend and I make plans to move. I don't know how much reading I'm going to accomplish over the next month or so, but my goal is to read for at least a half hour every night before bed. I call it a goal, but really it's part of my self-care plan to maintain my sanity 😉 Luckily, I'm still on track to finish 90 books this year.
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Park Walk at Gorey parkrun – 6 week programme
March 23 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
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An event every week that begins at 9:30am on Saturday, repeating until 6 April, 2019
March 2 – April 6
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Audiolog Music is an independent Copenhagen based label founded by Anders Bjørn Rørbæk Pedersen in 2017 focusing on releases by local-based electronic music. Audiolog Music's catalog is centered around the artist 'Audiolog', side projects and friends, such as Pfeffermouse, Bolz Brain, Yankee White, People Without Legs and Von Loops.
Release Date: 16.11.2018
The Grid contains two oldies from Audiolog, originally written and produced in 2011, that never got a proper release. Swirling groove on a virtual reality Autobahn makes you wanna' pack your bags and go straight to Berghein without any unnecessary stops!
01. The Grid (08:21)
02. Into The Void (07:35)
Release Date: 26.10.2018
Audiolog's 4 track EP Pornography was originally released in 2011. This Re-release contains the four original tracks in a remastered version as well as four 2018 version in a more contemporary audiolog style.
01. Dawn (2018 Mix) (06:36)
02. Lost (2018 Mix) (06:35)
03. Pornography (2018 Mix) (07:18)
04. Strange Beasts (2018 Mix) (07:21)
05. Dawn (06:34)
06. Lost (06:52)
07. Pornography (07:15)
08. Strange Beasts (07:24)
Release Date: 05.10.2018
27 is the first single from the upcoming album 'Extended Reality', exploring various themes of escapism. Lush Synthesizers and retro drum machines are taking you to a psychedelic bounty island in space where summer is eternal.
01. 27 (05:42)
Release Date: 09.03.2018
The Edge is the second release from Pfeffermouse. While the sound might be more edgy and housey compared to the previous release, the focus remains on the rich and melodic synthesizer parts and groovy basslines. The track is accompanied by a minimal techno remix by Audiolog, which translates very well to the dancefloor.
01. The Edge (05:44)
02. The Edge (Audiolog Remix) (07:06)
Release Date: 16.02.2018
'Cola' is a collaboration between two brothers 'Bjørn' and 'Ulf'. While working in Vienna, Ulf meet fellow scientist Marta (vocalist). An afterparty and a microphone was the beginning of this track. If you are familiar with the language, spoken by the people originating from Spain, you might find it funny. if not... just listen to the music.
01. Cola (08:39)
Release Date: 02.02.2018
Von Loops is a Copenhagen Techno Duo formed in 2007 by members Anders Bjørn Rørbæk Pedersen and Lars Agersbæk. While being active in the Copenhagen underground techno scene between 2008 and 2011, Von Loops is back with a new EP containing the two tracks 'Power Techno' and 'Yeah.
01. Power Techno (06:38)
02. Yeahj (06:20)
Release Date: 19.01.2018
'Killing Time' is the 4th release by Audiolog Music and is a collaboration between techno producer Audiolog and Singer-songwriter Maria Dam.
The track was conceived back in 2015 and has been played countless time live and undergone many iterations and is finally ready to be released.
01. Killing Time (08:57)
Release Date: 13.10.2017
Bolz Brain debut EP contains the tracks, "Were Were Nothing But Flesh" and "Boltzmann Brain" and is focusing on heavy beats with a distinct feeling of science and film-noir. By mixing elements from both electro-industrial and slow-paced techno, Bolz Brain brings feelings of both horror, mystery, and beauty to the listener
01. We Were Nothing But Flesh (05:20)
02. Boltzmann Brain (05:52)
Release Date: 01.09.2017
Written, arranged, and performed by Anders Bjørn Rørbæk Pedersen, Pfeffermouse's first EP "Pfeffermouse Goes Interstellar" is set to debut in September 2017. The EP contains five tracks, which were written in a period of two years. The album's opener and closer (Interstellar and The Force), have previously been performed live as Audiolog. As the tracks did quite fit into the repertoire of Audiolog, they became the basis and eventually the birth of Pfeffermouse.
01. Interstellar (06:04)
02. Confusion (05:52)
03. Planetarium (05:58)
04. Gravity (06:16)
05. The Force (05:12)
Release Date: 18.08.2017
"Back and Forth #1" is the first official release by Audiolog since 2013. The EP contains the two previously unreleased tracks "Out" and "Deeper" and a remix from "Bolz Brain".
These two tracks was originally written in 2015 and have been performed by Audiolog live several times.
"Back and Forth" is a continues series of previously unreleased tracks by "Audiolog", accompanied by remixes.
01. Deeper (07:48)
02. Out (09:22)
03. Out (Bolz Brain Remix) (07:41)


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Recently, Chris Caplice, executive director of the Center for Transportation & Logistics at MIT, made a thought-provoking argument that, in for-hire trucking, a single "market rate" on a lane does not exist. This makes a lot of sense, especially if one compares rates across shippers, each with their own policies (e.g., payment terms) and relationships with carriers. The price on a lane for a single shipper-carrier combination, however, is typically flat and fixed for a year or two. So while prices across shippers and carriers might not converge to one number, the price across time largely remains the same for a single shipper and carrier.
To an outsider, even this is surprising because while supply and demand conditions constantly change, the prices between the two main parties in the transportation market do not. Many other industries (e.g., coal, petroleum) have adopted market-indexed pricing mechanisms. While trucking is different from pure commodities (network must be considered), there are similarities. For example, there are many buyers and sellers of a common good and little specialization, particularly in the dry van segment.
A precursor to market-indexed pricing is an actual index—and again surprisingly, a real-time, accurate, universally-agreed-upon index does not exist. An index should measure supply and demand conditions in near-real time (e.g., daily), and represent national—or perhaps regional or local—supply and demand conditions. In short, an index should answer the question: As of right now, what is the value of a truck in the market? I recently set out to develop a method that could be used to index supply and demand conditions in for-hire trucking—and the results are pretty interesting.
First, given a good dataset, how might one even go about estimating market conditions? Using spot loads, I propose that an observed price can be broken down into two major components—operational characteristics, such as the lane that it travels on or the pickup day of week, and market status, which is unobservable. If I observe the first two (the price and the operational characteristics), then I can estimate the unobserved market status using econometric techniques. Figure 1 shows this equation—more on "spot price premium" shortly.
It is important to include all of the operational factors that affect a load. The most significant is the lane on which the load travels, as this captures distance, origin and destination effects. The hour of day and day of week that a load is picked up may affect the load price. In a spot setting, the amount of lead time and day of the bid may affect price. All of these can be included as separate variables in a regression model.
Second, it is vital to have a good, relevant dataset. This is not easy to find, as most loads travel at previously contracted prices, which do not vary throughout the year. In order to observe price variation, spot prices are needed. Spot prices have other advantages – for instance, relationships are not dominant when procuring one-off spot capacity in a competitive spot auction. Because relationships are difficult to measure, it is good to be able to ignore them (technically one can even include a variable for every carrier to capture relationships).
Moreover, it is important to have contract prices on lanes that correspond to the spot prices; if a dataset has contract prices and spot prices on the same lanes, then I can define a "spot price premium." I define this as the spot price divided by the average contract price on a lane. For example, if a spot price is $1,000 and the corresponding contract price is $500, then the spot price premium is 2. This is advantageous because it allows me to compare spot prices across lanes and across time.
Finally, I need a sufficient number of spot loads spread throughout time and geography—this ensures that our estimates are robust and not just one-off flukes. So given a sufficient number of spot prices, the corresponding contract prices, and the operational characteristics on all loads, then I can estimate market conditions.
Real-Time, Regionalized Index
I've had the opportunity to work with a large industry dataset that meets the conditions outlined above. Using this dataset, I've calculated market conditions from 2012-2015. But, how do I know if it's any good? Morgan Stanley surveys a broad array of shippers and carriers to create a measure of supply and demand conditions, published via Transplace's website (www.transplace.com). They have weekly data points, even though it is released monthly. Because this seems to be the best index out there, with interesting variation across time, I used this as a measuring stick for my index. This is only available as a picture, so I converted it using a free web app that digitizes pictures. Figure 2 shows the Morgan Stanley index from 2012 through mid-2015.
Figure 3 shows the index I calculated based on observed spot and contract prices from a large dataset. They match up surprisingly well—the major shifts up and down in both indexes mostly align. This provides validation that the method to estimate market conditions based on spot prices is a good measure of market conditions. Also, this method has advantages over other existing indexes:
- It is real-time—it can be measured as spot bids come in.
- It can be regionalized—if one has spot bids in different parts of the country, supply and demand conditions can be measured separately.
- It can be used to measure the magnitude of actual price swings—for example, spot price changes from one week to the next can be calculated.
Removing Market Inefficiency
So what? I can see this type of real-time index being useful for several parties. First, back to the discussion on market-indexed contracts. A few years ago I worked on a project for a company that operated gas stations. Interestingly, when buying gasoline from producers, the company's trucks simply picked up a tanker full and the price was calculated automatically based on a third-party index. This was easy to do because there is a centralized market for oil. The indexed price ensured that both parties were satisfied: both knew that there was no obviously better option (economists call this a "self-enforcing contract").
While existing shipper-carrier prices are simple in that they do not require negotiation for each load, there is a fair amount of labor that goes into the whole process. Shippers must go through laborious procurement processes each year, line up backup carriers, monitor carrier behavior, replace poorly performing carriers, and procure spot capacity when necessary. Carriers must also participate in many procurement events each year, and decide which loads to accept and which to reject, which must be done (at least) thousands of times a year. And brokering is a highly labor-intensive alternative to "fill the gaps" when shippers need urgent capacity or carriers need loads. In short, market-indexed contracts, in my opinion, could remove a lot of inefficiency in the market.
Moreover, which carriers were happy with their contracted prices in the first half of 2014, when market conditions were greatly in their favor? And which shippers are happy with their prices, well, now, when the market is quite loose? A market-indexed contract could better reflect supply and demand conditions as they change without the need for constant procurement events.
In addition to the players in the transportation industry, this information could be useful for investors. If Morgan Stanley thinks it is worthwhile to create their supply and demand index, then surely there is value in an index that precedes and predicts the Morgan Stanley index. On the surface, it seems that this type of index could be valuable for investors in the transportation market.
Alex Scott is a senior research associate with Opex Analytics (www.opexanalytics.com), a company that applies optimization and machine learning to help solve business problems for its clients. Scott is also a Ph.D. student in supply chain management at Penn State University, and a member of the MH&L Editorial Advisory Board.


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Birdwatching at Mt Lewis, Julatten, Queensland
We started our Mt Lewis trip early from Red Mill House in Daintree Village. It wasn't the best place to start from, as it's a bit of a drive, but we weren't able to book anything much closer. Kingfisher Park Birdwatcher's Lodge is at the base of Mt Lewis, and is a better location to start a Mt Lewis trip, but they had limited availability. No matter, though, because we hired the excellent guide Doug Herrington for the day, and we had a great time stopping at some good birding spots between Daintree and Mt Lewis.
Our first stop was at Newell Beach, where we saw some mudskippers, crabs, and a Gray-Tailed Tattler. I didn't get a great photo of the Tattler, as the light was pretty low and it was across the water.
There was a fruiting tree in the parking lot that provided some great views of Australasian Figbirds and a Torresian Imperial-Pigeon. We had seen many of these common birds, which are often refered to as Pied Imperial Pigeons or PIPs.
As we drove through Mossman, we stopped at the Jehovah's Witness Hall and admired the tree next to the road with hundreds of Metallic Starlings that were busy building nests. They're very common birds in Queensland, but for us Americans, they're fun and beautiful birds. After a few days in Australia, though, a bit of the novelty wears off!
We finally made our way up to the clearing at Mt Lewis, and spent some time enjoying the the Spotted Catbirds and a pair of Brown Cuckoo-Doves.
In the area, we saw the Tooth-Billed Bowerbird (Catbird). It was a really neat experience, as we were very close to the bird's bower and it really didn't seem to be that bothered by us. From our Australian experiences with bowerbirds, many of them don't seem to that afraid of humans and they will let you observe them pretty closely.
The day was pretty windy up on Mt Lewis, and that was keeping the birds quiet and out of sight. Later in the day and in a different part of the park, we came to the bower of the Golden Bowerbird.
After waiting at the bower for a few minutes, Doug identified the call of the bird and within a few seconds, it landed on a branch nearby, surveying its area and checking us out. He didn't seem too perturbed. In fact, as I was photographing the lovely bird, he saw a piece of lichen that it fancied behind me and the bird literally flew past me about just three feet away, and I could hear the gentle woooosh of its feathers.
It took the piece of lichen and went back to its bower to carefully add to his giant masterpiece. After a great viewing experience, we quietly left the area to avoid disturbing the bird any more than we already had.
On our way back to the car, we watched a juvenile Grey Fantail being fed by one of its parents next to the trail.
Even though it was windy and difficult birding, we had a great time. We next headed down the mountain with Doug to Julatten to bird at a lower elevation.


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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
PMA Biennial Going Up
Edgar Allen Beem takes a look an the upcoming Biennial.
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"underwehlmed" would be my response to the PMA 2009 Biennial. With the exception of a few interesting pieces that are engaging and not insulting (one's visual vocabulary)...the works are rather dated, and/or unremarkable. How many more boring, monotonous video pieces must we bear? How many more tride constructions? I think that for the sake of an abstraction the juror/curators made choices that beg to be cohesive, but lack stregnth. For the sake of the body, the head was severed!
- April 8, 2009 at 11:49 AM
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The Dismal Removing Freedoms Saves Money Argument
Here is an example of an argument which you will hear with increasing frequency. A month or so ago on the Fox News Special Report panel the participants were discussing the right to smoke. Juan Williams, the token leftist on the show, agreed that of course people had the right to smoke, but perhaps that right could be curtailed by the state because of matters of cost. Smokers in general have more health care costs, and soon, after Obamacare fully kicks in, the government will assume those costs. Thus, in order to "save money", smoking rights could be abridged or eliminated by the state.
Two quick things. Some of us (me, for instance) will be able to say "I told you so" each time this argument is voiced, since we warned that it would oft be used if Obamacare was adopted. This will afford us many victories, but they will each be bitter. The second curiosity is to note, yet again, the Left's obsession with money. All moral and ethical truth is ultimately grounded on cash. How tedious.
We have already heard several versions of this argument—for which I have not discovered a satisfactory name: how about Removing Freedoms Saves Money (RFSM) argument?—from Mayor Mike Bloomberg who dictatorially proscribed the sale of soda pop over an arbitrary size in New York City. He also outright banned saturated fats in restaurants. He now has his puritanical eye on salt. Each time he wielded government to remove a freedom, he touted the benefits to the bottom line.
There are countless "progressives" who dislike fat people and want to control what and how all people eat; skinny as well as fat, because if the skinny are left to their own devices, they might turn fat. Progs invariably bemoan the "costs" of being fat. Just wait until these costs are paid for out of your taxes. Will you find yourself nodding in agreement when some fool says disallowing this or that foodstuff will make a better, less expensive, life for all? I suppose we can be grateful that Twinkies were shut down before we were treated to the spectacle of somebody calling for its banning.
This kind of thing is already plenty common in England, where the state has controlled health care for decades. Take the comments of ex-politician Geoffrey Clark who a couple of weeks ago suggested unborn babies not meeting his standard of perfection be killed because imperfect lives cost more money. He didn't just mean that fliers touting the convenience of life without burdensome babies should be passed out the NHS clinics. He said the state should "Consider compulsory abortion when the foetus is detected as having Downs, spina bifida or similar syndrome which, if it is born, will render the child a burden on the state as well as on the family." He also mused that those pushing 80 should be made to go to euthanasia counseling. Costs really pile up for the elderly.
Well, these honest, straightforward comments—particularly his use of the Herod-like word "compulsory"—got him fired from his party. It didn't take long for the now routine "I sincerely apologise for any offence" for his "badly expressed views" to appear. No apology for being a raving lunatic, or for cherishing eugenics; just a tear or two for having been caught putting it too bluntly.
What makes this interesting to us is that his apology is nothing more than an extended RFSM argument: "The Government's tax revenues are rarely enough to fulfil its generous spending promises so every year Britain runs a large budget deficit." (Site here; but see it soon because he claims he will soon take it down.)
The lovely thing about the RFSM is that it is without limit. Every citizen costs money to those states which have taken over health care. From the moment a citizen is conceived, prematurely killed in the womb, or manages to escape into the wild, money must be spent on him. That means any activity at all could be subject to the RFSM, for every activity is at least tangentially related to health.
It should be obvious the RFSM has a corollary which is the Mandating Activities to Save Money (MASM) argument, which says those activities meeting favor with statists will be made compulsory.
If you think not, let's play Stump the Host. Propose an activity, rare or common, and I will show you how a progressive will either cast aspersions on it with a mind towards removing the freedom to engage in that activity, or how the progressive will not only tout the activity as beneficial, but will angle his argument towards making the activity mandatory.
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I suggest that you make this case too black and white. Smokers do impose costs on society. In the UK, with a socialised healthcare system this would mean that my tax bill (as a non smoker) would be higher than it should be. In fairness, taxes on tobacco in the UK are probably excessive and they probably subsidise the rest of us. Smokers' right have been curtained in the UK and smoking in enclosed public places is not permitted. Obviously this curtails smokers' freedoms but smokers before the ban really spoiled pubs (which along with cricket are the best gift to the world of the nation) for others.
By the way, no-one had heard of the ex-politician until he made those daft remarks. There are plenty of nutters on left or right on both sides of the Atlantic we could use to support an argument but they don't move us forward much.
I agree with your sentiment that some are very keen to use this argument that curtailing some freedoms reduces costs. I agree that this is not generally the case but I think sometimes it is and the argument should not be so lightly dismissed.
Jonathan Andrews – There's an argument that has been made by a number of different people over the years, that smoking saves health-care money since the smoker, by dying early, uses less health care than if he had lived longer. Also it saves other government costs, such as Social Security benefits, government pensions, disability payments, etc. Here's an example of part of the argument:
In response to the challenge: Bowling.
"my tax bill…higher than it should be"
This is an excellent point. And I'm sure it could be immediately extended to all of the people in the UK who are drawing housing allowances, etc! What a revelation!
let's play Stump the Host. Propose an activity, rare or common, and I will show you how a progressive will either cast aspersions on it with a mind towards removing the freedom to engage in that activity, or how the progressive will not only tout the activity as beneficial, but will angle his argument towards making the activity mandatory.
You give the parasites … ush, progressives .. too many options for wiggling out. I propose "government spending" as the activity. If expense is the ultimate argument then impetus toward spending must be restricted. No fair reframing by claiming it's a beneficial or mandatory activity. Keep to the 'saving money' meme and shun switching the pea to another thimble.
The only solution is to stop government coverage of costs. Make everyone pay for their own health care or let insurance companies cover but allow people to choose the company. If smoker's cost more, so will their insurance. People buy into the "saving money" idea without considering the option that taxes and government need not be involved at all. There will be arguments about rich receiving better care, but every health care and other system deals with limits in its own way. England leans toward fewer participants, free market limits by cost. At least in free market, you can work and change your level of service–you can't be 20 again.
The way the system is set up now everyone pays a little bit for everyone else (with some everyones taking a bigger slice of the pie than others) then the case can be made that non-smokers pay disproportionately for the smokers therefore non-smokers can make demands on the behavior of smokers. But, how did we get into this muddle where healthcare is a community commodity? Can smokers say, "let me out of this system, and let me smoke and pay for my own healthcare without state interference?"
While smoking has been banned in a variety of environments in NYC (offices, parks, restaurants) the new frontier is to ban smoking in apartment buildings in pursuit of health: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mike_plan_to_butt_in_odSfy97JxXaPQlUFaYc0sK.
In a clever use of doublespeak, a spokesman noted: "The city is not banning smoking in private residences; as part of this federal grant, organizations can apply to fund projects that, among other things, educate the community on voluntary smoke-free housing policies.â€
I've always thought that if the automobile were a modern invention that it would be outlawed almost immediately.
In theory the amount of taxes paid will be less if people are not allowed to smoke, so costs related to smoking-induced illnesses will not be spent.
In practive though, the tax level will not change was there is always something else to spend tax money on.
How about letting the people who make money from selling tobacco bear all smoking-related costs? The people who grow tobacco, the people cutting it, drying it, turning it into cigarettes and roll-your-owns, the people carving pipes, the people asking money for running cigarette ads. And the people levying sales tax, income tax and whatnot on the profits?
"my tax bill…higher than it should beâ€
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Chapter 1 – Marley's Ghost
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Inevitable I suppose. There was a time when Americans valued independence, privacy and self-sufficiency. No longer. Likely the fault of my generation and perhaps others for over-coddling the little ones.
This is evidenced in the "It's for the children!" and "Think of the children!" mantras. Also evidenced by the over-coverage of recent events in CT. A tragedy yes but if 83 kids were killed at school by a tornado (something likely more preventable), I doubt it would get 24/7 coverage let alone two weeks of Dr. Phil interviewing the parents.
So, now the coddled ones have risen to power. It's not surprising they see being coddled as a natural state of affairs.
Sander van der Wal : How about letting the people who make money from selling tobacco bear all smoking-related costs?
Tried once and actually succeeded: The Great Tobacco Suit. The supposed reasoning behind it was the increase in health costs incurred by the states caused by tobacco. One of the states took the money and invested it in tobacco. All we got out of it was the precedent for banning Big Gulps ans transfats..
I have a copy of the Surgeon Generals 1967 report on smoking and health that plainly shows that moderate smokers have lower mortality and disease rates than non-smokers. You will not find this report on the Surgeon General website because it's politically incorrect. And of course, if you go the the National Cancer Institute website they admit they have spent 40 years and billions of taxpayer dollars trying to find a cause of cancer and they haven't succeeded,
Go here. http://training.seer.cancer.gov/disease/war/
The calculus:
Suppose Alice is a not smoker and Bob is a smoker. The are both currently 60 years old and mostly healthy.
Because Bob smokes he is destined to die at age 70, and Alice is destined to die at 90.
How much will it cost to treat Bob for his smoking related diseases?
How much will it cost to treat Alice for any ailment she may have between ages 70 and 90?
The state is going to pay for both Bob and Alice's end of life care in both cases.
I have a tough time seeing that Alice is any less taxing than Bob.
Maybe we should subsidise cigarettes as a means to save money.
Following your link I see…
"Lung and prostate cancer are the top cancer killers for men in the United States. Lung and breast cancer are the top cancer killers for women in the United States."
I thought that heart disease was the top killer of both genders.
Living in a country where health care is entirely run by government, you get treated no matter what your life choices are.
If you smoke and get cancer you get treated.
If your 400 lbs and require a gastric bypass you will get it.
If you like extreme sports and you often require surgery after accident you will get it.
No matter how rich or how poor you are,you will be treated. And not only when extreme measures need to be taking to save your life. And yet our health cost is about half than what it cost in the US.
Who does include the smoking in their premium if not the health care insurance industries, who before Obama care could decide of a maximum amount of health care they would give to someone. They could refuse to insure anyone they consider to risky to insure.
Yes, there are leftist that propose idiotic things, just like the right and foxnews makes many idiotic proposal, yet this proposal are the fringe and not main stream.
Walking for pleasure.
"Obviously this curtails smokers' freedoms but smokers before the ban really spoiled pubs…"
I have always wondered why, with so many that felt this way before the blanket regulation, there were virtually zero pubs that decided to go "non-smoking". You would think there would be a smoking pub and a non-smoking pub in every downtown area as the free market would demand.
"You would think there would be a smoking pub and a non-smoking pub in every downtown area as the free market would demand."
If the regulations in the UK that cover establishments that serve alcohol are anything like they are in the US, it would be very difficult to open new pubs.
It's likely that the heavy smokers were also the heaviest drinkers. If this is in fact the case, then any pub that went smoke free before the ban would be cutting itself off from it's most profitable customers and would not be able to survive.
I don't have a cite handy, but if I recall correctly exactly this type of argument has been used by bar owners to oppose smoking bans in the US.
I know, too easy.
It is interesting that so few places were smoke-free before the government clamped down. One would think that if a person had the only smoke free bar in town, the anti-smokers would flock there, and be enough business to compensate for the business lost because the smokers wouldn't come. Some restaurants had no-smoking sections before they were forced to create them, or forced to ban smoking altogether. But most did not go voluntarily and restaurants and bars fought smoking bans pretty hard.
If the state said that Marijuana was legal and could be smoked in public, I have a suspicion that many bars would have a no MJ smoking policy. It is one thing to never permit such behavior and another to turn against it after it was once acceptable.
Movie theaters went smoke-free voluntarily well before any regulation.
Northwest Airline was smoke free before the Government mandated it for all airlines.
Why so many places weren't smoke free before?
You needed only one smoker in a group of people for everyone to get into the smoking business. Many people didn't like it but they didn't to be alone, so they join. Not a lot of non-smoker complained back then, but didn't like it.
Now that work places, and business ar smoke free you don't see an non-smoker complaining agaist that either. But I see a lot of people complaining now when people do smoke inside.
When my brother, who smokes, visits us only the smells is disgusting, even if he doesn't smoke inside the house. We can tell he came visit hours after he left.
Sylvain Allard You needed only one smoker in a group of people for everyone to get into the smoking business. Many people didn't like it but they didn't to be alone, so they join.
Yeah? So as Doug asked, why weren't there any smoke-free bars? If what you say were true, they'd have a waiting line to get in and the others would have taken a hard look at their policies. Instead, they had to be forced to support a minority of customers. Were I live, most of the patrons can be found standing around outside where they can smoke.
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Dav is correct. The reason bars were so thickly filled with smoke prior to the smoking bans is because the vast majority of their customers smoked, not because one or two were smoking that heavily and no one dared complain.
The unhappy trend in government control of people's behaviors is direct result of the desire by the leaders to prove that they are not just elected officials but are on path to be viewed as rulers. By selection of a rule that this or that behavior adds to the cost of government programs such health care, becomes justification of the officials desire to rule people rather than represent them. It is important to remember that their rules often are disingenuous. For example, tobacco as a product is legal, but where it is used in not legal because of secondary smoke effects on non-smokers affecting their health. Yet it is legal, all be it expensive, to use tobacco because the smoker reaps the full benefit of maximum destruction of their health. Why? Because the tobacco industry provides tax dollars which are prorated on the cost of the product and the tax benefits everyone under the jurisdiction of the government. So the government lets people destroy themselves by using tobacco because of moral imperative to save money for the government to spend in other ways that benefit the population.
The desire of elected officials to rule people can only be achieved by taking away a freedom. Laws, regulations, presidential executive orders are freedom killers. They are made to address a large scale problem such as obesity in young people by eliminating a perceived cause of obesity often without scientific merit rather than address root causes of overeating, lack of exercise, insufficient parental control, and lack of information or concern about the issue. A really current issue that highlights how removal of a freedom set out in the constitution is control of gun ownership. By making the possession of a special type of weapon illegal will save lives from deranged killers such a Lanza or Spengler. In Spengler's case he was felon and it was illegal fro him to possess any firearm. That law was not enforced. The elimination of one type of gun, say assault rifles, would just reduce the choice of fire arm to be used by a demented person. However, if all guns are banned, the killer would have to switch methods of killing people such wearing and detonating bombs. Instead of killing 20 kindergarten and first grade children in 1 minute with a Uzi revolver it would take 2 minutes with a forty-five pistol. The folly of the ban is not that the cause is just but the approach won't work and in a few years another madman will kill a bunch of innocent people to act out some mental derangement.
Banning video games, movies, and TV programs that depict murder and violence in response to some perceived frustration is another RFSM. People are not compelled to watch the movies and TV programs or play the violent video games. Locking people up because they might become violent is another RFSM.
To reduce cost to governments would require that the video depiction of murder and violence be completely eliminated. The only sure way to prevent any unstable person from killing at any time in the future is lock them up until they are cured, if ever.
While there are many people on both sides of the issues of gun control, video violence, and mental health, there is really very little likelihood that any modest measures taken by the government by creating new laws and regulations will really make a difference. One problem is enforcement of the new regulations against the backdrop that existing laws are not enforced. However, when they pass the laws and regulations they are rulers not elected officials
The terrible tragedy in Connecticut might have been prohibited or the scale reduced if the teachers had equivalent weapons to fight back with against the intruder. However, would arming teachers make them a target of attackers just because they are armed? What about innocent bystanders if here is gun battle between a teacher and a deranged person? Some attackers might be killed by a teacher before they have a chance to commit a murder themselves? Would the teachers be liable if it turns out that the person was looking for an easy suicide? Putting an armed guard in every school room isn't really any different that arming the teacher in the last analysis. Would people really feel that kids in school are safer with a person with a gun in the room with their children?
What can be done to keep children safe in school from an attack by deranged killer if any measures proposed to date are likely to fail? The principal at Sandy Hook had the only viable method in mind to protect the children, don't let killers into to school while children are present. The only problem was the security system didn't work as well as she had hoped. However, a security system can devised that would work a lot better. Rather than spend more money to ban more guns, censor more videos and games, and build more prisons to lock up potentially mentally unstable persons, why not put our best minds to work on security system that would make in improbable that any could enter a school without the system permission. The RFSM in this case is to reduce the freedom of the potential killer to murder innocent people by keeping them out and it seems to me that this approach is cheaper than giving every teacher a gun or a body guard. If some elected official came up with this idea I would say they are a real leader.
DAV and Matts,
Why were there more people in the bar after then before the smoke ban?
It was the case here. It has also been the case for restaurants.
The only place that smoke ban has reduced the crowd is at the bingo.
Here in Québec we see the same phenomenon with language where anytime there is one person who speak english the group speaks english.
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Why were there more people in the bar after then before the smoke ban?
Not true here. When the local county banned smoking inside, most of the patrons starting frequenting bars in the other counties. The ones under the smoking ban lost a lot of business. Even now, the patrons outside don't buy as much since they aren't allowed to consume alcohol in public. They have to come inside to drink. Nearly all of the social interaction is outside. Before the total ban, when there were smoking and non-smoking partitions, the non-smoking side had few if any occupants. None of the waitresses wanted to be assigned to the non-smoking side.
Here in Québec we see the same phenomenon with language where anytime there is one person who speak english the group speaks english.
Maybe that says something about English. But of course, it's just an example of warmhearted extension of welcome. Québec citizens don't like smoking but will do so to avoid offending others in the group, eh? Noblesse Oblige, etc.
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Can't say I'm very impressed by the link. Do you really think they'd admit a mistake? Couldn't find a business group agreeing with the ban and thanking the gov't for its marvelous foresight?
To be honest, I find the whole discussion here depressing and, well, just plain useless. Useless because with ObamaCare being the law of the land in the US, the decisions that impact us all will be based on pure politics, the politics of whichever party happens to be in power. Whether conservatives know better or liberals know better doesn't matter. Which side has the more persuasive arguments and scientific data doesn't matter.
Any experienced engineer will tell you that the first solution to a problem is never optimal, and is very rarely even satisfactory. With the US federal government, we get one chance to get it right, or better stated, least horribly wrong, then we are stuck with it. Political inertia, lobbyists, and Stare Decisis sets everything up in concrete.
What's missing at the Federal level is simple accountability. It doesn't matter whether the Federal government gets it right or not; in fact, we'll never even know, since we'll never be allowed to try another way. The hidden costs may well be massive, but they shall remain hidden. Likewise missed opportunities.
And we end up with the WD-1 system of health care. Some of the favored among us will even marvel at how well it works. Sad. Very, very sad.
I've heard it said many times that the reason the US has (had?) outpaced the world in the relatively short time since it's founding is "American Exceptionalism". I've always felt that explanation was inadequate, and lately I've come to severely doubt it. No, I think the American Experience can more likely be attributed to our Constitution and a healthy does of luck in striking just the right balance between Federal power and States Rights. The Federal government should have the upper hand on matters that aren't held to accountability standards, like the Bill of Rights; the States should have the upper hand in all other matters where accountability is required for successful government. But that balance has been so badly corrupted that I fear we may not be able to recover, closing the last chapter on this grand experiment.
In an attempt to end on a more upbeat note, I'll say that I have found some success recently in arguing politics with people I've previously found impenetrable, by simply abandoning all the 'my way is better than your way' arguments in favor of the accountability argument. It's fairly easy to come up with numerous examples of how local government works better than state government which works better than the Federal government, and to personalize these examples to the pet peeves of the audience. And to point out that if your local government screws you over, it's a lot easier to escape to the next town or county than to another country.
My scenarios and the reasons I chose them.
Reading in public libraries. Here where I live in Cheltenham a free public library was proposed in 1889 and vigorously opposed by the local breweries who claimed that the working class wouldn't buy beer if they could stay at home reading.
Sex between children under sixteen. A young lady of my acquaintance was in a "PSE" class when the teacher announced that it was now time for the students to start experimenting with sex. (He meant in private not in class). He then asked all who intended to do this to stand at one side of the room and those who didn't to stand at the other. My friend was the only abstainer. She is just 14.
Ray, re your 12/26 2:49 PM comment.
I think I know the 1967 report you mention, and no matter how much I dislike and distrust the Surgeon General, the report was not suppressed (but it's not easy to find unless you know exactly what to look for). If I've got the right document, it was created by the National Center for Health Statistics, so it's not part of the SG canon. The title is "Cigarette Smoking and Health Characteristics†(publication series 10 # 34, May 1967).
http://www.cdc.gov/search.do?q=site%3Awww.cdc.gov%2Fnchs%2Fdata+filetype%3Apdf+"Cigarette+Smoking+and+Health+Characteristics"&submit1=Search It's the first item on the list.
See Table A (report page 8, PDF page 14) which shows that (for this sample) people who smoked under 11 cigarettes a day had fewer chronic diseases than non-smokers.
For anyone interested, there's a critique by Sterling: http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/jdn02a00 and a response by the author plus Sterling's reply http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/gaj32f00
Well, confusing moral arguments with economic arguments will always get you into trouble. Moral arguments should be dealt with moral counter-arguments and economic arguments should be dealt with economic counter-arguments.
And so on.
When people mix them up, people like Briggs freak out. Correctly I should add.
Did you find any groups that disagreed with the ban if wide state or national, after it was implemented?
Here the ban was state wide so no bar could benefit from a local ban from a city or county.
The reason we switch to english is more to facilitate communication than by any good manner.
Before the ban, people were very accomodating to smokers, but it is really not the case anymore. People who smoke where they shouldn't are told to move by the non-smokers.
In 2000, we had 30% smokers, in 2010, 20%, and less and less people die from cancer for several causes including the smoking ban.
Sylvain Allard,
What matters for a ban on smoking in bars is not the percentage of the overall population that smokes, but the percentage of bar patrons that smoke.
There is a few comments from UK people not completely enamored with the British NHS system and its inefficiencies here –
I particularly like their "Non-job of the week" sections.
Als there are quite a few people that wonder why they are paying for a $19billion computerized record keeping system that failed. (Answer – it's too expensive to get out of the contract with all the suppliers)
Sylvain Allard Here the ban was state wide so no bar could benefit from a local ban from a city or county.
Are you being purposefully dense? The claim in your link is that restaurants and bars benefited by increased business. I asked if you cold find any business group(s) lauding the ban because it increased their bottom line.
If so, why didn't you link to it instead? If not, why not?
You are unable to provide proof that business were hurt by the ban unless the ban was local and I should prove that their business increased.
The proof that their business were not hurt is in how much sell taxes the governement was able to take in from this business sector. The amount in taxes have increase by up to 9%. Meaning that they sold more.
An ancient employer, a chicken restaurant told me that if he had known how much people prefered to eat in smoke free restaurant, he would have ban smoking in his restaurant much earlier.
They banned cigarette publicity in sports, what happend new sponsored arrived and competition continued. Ferrari receives about tens of millions in sponsorship alone for their Formula 1 program.
You are unable to provide proof that business were hurt by the ban unless the ban was local and I should prove that their business increased.
I'm telling you what I have personally observed in the establishments where I live. I didn't publish it. If you don't want to believe me — fine.
OTOH, you supplied a link effectively claiming it true. The ball's in your court. Self-evaluation reports are notoriously unreliable. In fact, it looks cherry-picked. You don't have anything better? You must rely on the government's word that it did no harm?
Incidentally, you have slipped away from the original point about bars. Where I live bars are restaurants by definition. You have done the equivalent of refuting a statement about bicycles by using a car example. For shame.
Stump-the-host activity: praying in school.
You say "England"; but I think you meant to say "United Kingdom" which is composed of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
@JH, you will fail. To stump the host, you must find an activity which can be assigned to NEITHER the "mandatory" NOR the "prohibited" column by a progressive bureaucrat. Prayer in school is, as much as possible, already placed in the "prohibited" column.


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So, I've become obsessed with thermals. The slightly warmer weather means they are working better on my cold hands, and I just can't get enough of them! I've stared staring at my nails everywhere, instead of just in the privacy of my own home. It might be silly, but I get a ridiculous amount of pleasure from my polish changing colour!
I've got swatches of...five thermals in the vault, but this polish has instantly become one of my favourites (my very favourite thermal is still Nails Inspire Fairy Lights!). It's a slightly more grown-up version of the effect, compared to a lot of my others at least. This is 2 coats of Jekyll & Hyde.
I love the change from dark, murky brown into a warm caramel colour, it's very reactive and it gives perfect 'tips'. My camera didn't really pick up the scattered holo, but it's there, and it's lovely.
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Latino-owned businesses are the future of America, and educating them on the benefits of technology is a great thing. Although Los Lunas had to give up a lot to win the bid for the data center facility (including no taxes fro 30 years), I do believe a new Facebook facility will bring jobs and economic stimulation to the city and its neighboring suburbs. This is a long term invest that will pay off.


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