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I have wanted a horizontal sander for a long time in order to contour sand with the grain instead of across it like on my vertical belt sander. I would prefer an oscillating one but this Harbor Freight one was on sale in December so I bought it with the intention of doing something like this with it. I did not want the disc sander, but since it is there and also running, I made a provision to use them both.
This was a design as you go project using plywood construction – glued and nailed in position. I made several designs and decided on this one with a piano hinge for the pivot and a U shaped swing down bar for the support when it is up. The table for the disc sander has to come off when I tilt it up so I made a storage place for it and the 2 wrenches.
The last shot shows the steel swing down lift arm that I made using the location where the vertical table is mounted since I won't use it any more. It make it much easier to lift the whole thing with an arm out away from the center of mass.
It is made from maple solid and plywood and finished with shellac.
I will make a stand for it on wheels so I can move it in and out of the way.
Here are a few build shots:
-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!! Variety is the Spice of Life!!
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#1 posted 05-01-2016 02:59 AM
Nice job and great idea.
-- "The Cedar King"
#2 posted 05-01-2016 03:02 AM
Jim. By Gee that is great thinking. The amount of times that we need to hold a piece of stock on the Top when Belt sanding is now made very safe and accurate with your Idea of Horizontal sanding. It would seem that you could hold a fairly long piece of stock against the belt….12 inches or so? Would you consider a stop block of some kind or don't you feel it would be necessary.
Kind regards,
-- Cliff Australia : Snoring is good. It blows away all the Sawdust.
#3 posted 05-01-2016 03:09 AM
Not bad at all Jim. I too wish I had a horizontal sander. They are very handy for many jobs and can take off material fast. Nice job on the build, very cool design. Is the reason you built it this way so you can use it as both bench and horizontal sander?
-- Dave, Downers Grove, Il. -------- When you run out of ideas, start building your dreams.
#4 posted 05-01-2016 03:32 AM
Great idea to repurpose a tool. I guess it's all in how you orient the tool.
-- Tyvekboy -- Marietta, GA ………….. one can never be too organized
#5 posted 05-01-2016 03:43 AM
Nice design innovation Jim and it will certainly make a lot of sanding operations easier ,
#6 posted 05-01-2016 03:54 AM
Great idea Jim.
-- Bob C, Australia. Your best teacher is your last mistake.
#7 posted 05-01-2016 04:03 AM
Looks good Jim, I have a rigid oscillating sander and use it for everything. Yours is great !!!
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#8 posted 05-01-2016 05:16 AM
Very good Jim!
I too got one of those when they had them on Sale… $40.00 IIRC…
Thanks to you, it looks like it's ready to bring it back out for a NEW lease on life.
You did good…
Thank you very much!
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#9 posted 05-01-2016 08:21 AM
That is really ingenious Jim.
-- Bob, Western Australia, The Sun came up this morning, what a great start to the day. Now it's up to me to make it even better. I've cut this piece of wood 4 times and it's still too damn short.
#10 posted 05-01-2016 08:31 AM
Wow! That's incredible. I was thinking how to do it if I bought one. Outstanding solution. Now I have them separeted so I wouldn't need it, but it's extraordinary.
-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted
#11 posted 05-01-2016 08:43 AM
great idea !
#12 posted 05-01-2016 01:14 PM
That's a fantastic idea and a nice fabrication. Gr8 thinking Jim.
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#13 posted 05-01-2016 02:20 PM
It's a nice shop modification of a piece of equipment. Well done.
helluvawreck aka Charles
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#14 posted 05-01-2016 04:14 PM
Thank you for the nice comments. I have already used the belt and the disc!!
Hi Cliff, I wish I could come back to Australia now that I have so many buddies over there to visit.. I think I'd need to stay a few months!! I don't know what I did to my hand. I first saw it when I was running the metal lathe. Maybe I pulled it across a tool bit. I've don it many times when I reached down to get something that dropped in the chips.
Hi Dave, I built is strictly for the horizontal belt sanding. I want to keep the scratch marks WITH the grain instead of across it lie my vertical 4×36 belt sanded does.
Hi Mark. That Rigid sander is what I really wanted when I found this one so cheap. Now maybe I can trade this for one of them!!
Hi Joe, Ive been thinking of dust control as I built is. I think I can put a "hood on the end that might serve both of the the sanders. Notice I have pitched that end guard that makes it hard to change the belt. That went in the trash can as soon as I took it off.I plan to locate it next to the Dust Deputy and on wheels .
Set yours up. It does sand pretty good….......especially with 60 grit on there. I use them for shaping and then finish sand.
Hi Ivan. I know you have some pretty good sanders that you made. You gave me the inspiration to make this, you know!!! I should call it the Ivan Special!!!!!!!!!! Thanks you, my friend!!
Cheers, Jim
-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!! Variety is the Spice of Life!!
#15 posted 05-01-2016 04:27 PM
Pretty darn creative Jim,nice work. I wonder if I could do the reverse with my edge sander LOL
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Gabrielle Kimm's novel His Last Duchess was published by Sphere (imprint of Little, Brown) in August 2010, her second book, The Courtesan's Lover, is to be published by same imprint in November 2011. Gabrielle has sold her books to the USA, to Turkey, Brazil, Portugal, the Czech Republic and Croatia.
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What was the first thing you had published?
The first piece of writing of mine I saw in print was the first chapter (as it then was) of my second novel, 'The Courtesan's Lover' – which was then entitled 'The Courtesan's Choice'. It was shortlisted for the Impress Prize for Fiction at the end of 2007 and all ten 'shortlistees' were included in a published anthology. My first novel, 'His Last Duchess' was at the time being touted round agents. I was taken on by the Greene & Heaton literary agency very shortly after that, and 'His Last Duchess' was published by Little, Brown (Sphere) in 2010.
What are your writing strengths and weaknesses?
Oh, that's such an impossible question! I don't know if it's a strength, but I just love the whole process of writing – everything from the wild excitement of initial inspiration and first drafting, through to the painstaking, line-by-line business of copy-edit checking. I'm a horribly nit-picking perfectionist (as my writing group will tell you, holding their heads and groaning). I can lose confidence, though, and I'm never fully satisfied with anything I write. (Now you've asked that question, I'm worrying that I have some awful weakness that I don't know about!)
Do you have a writing routine or any odd writing quirks?
I don't really have the luxury of having a routine. I teach a couple of days a week, and have teenage children and an elderly dog, and all these things take up time. I basically write in every moment I have available in which to do so (and quite a lot of moments in which I ought to be doing something else). Having said that, I do write best in the morning, so I tend to try to organise my free days around that. But I so badly crave time to write that I wouldn't want to limit it by demanding any sort of routine. I always write straight onto my computer – partly because I like the ease and the neatness and the 'printed' look of it, but also because about five years ago I cut my right hand very badly (I fell over whilst carrying a big glass bowl and severed a nerve) and since then, holding a pen for any length of time is quite uncomfortable for me.
Is there a special place you like to write?
I always write in my little study – it's chronically untidy, but rather charming, and I love it. It looks out over my quiet village street, so I can keep a nosy eye on what my neighbours are up to. There's a desk on which are: my computer, a blizzard of bits of paper, a rather embarrassing collection of part-empty mugs and a very small teddy bear called Robert. In the room there is also a lovely old junk-antique velvet-upholstered chair, a small table, hundreds of books and a dog basket. Once a year or so, I try to get away for a week, just me and the dog, to write uninterrupted, away from the internet and the telly and other distractions.
How important is it to you to plot your novels?
Before I start a book, I have to know roughly how it's going pan out, and how it's going to end. It's not a 'fixed in stone' sort of plan, but I do need a definite 'throughline', though that might be pretty fluid, and I'm happy for it to change if it needs to. But having that rough sense of how I want the story to go gives me a sort of map, so I don't feel lost as I step out into the uncharted waters of a new narrative (sorry – that sounds rather 'Pseuds' Corner-ish'!)
Are your characters ever based on people you know?
No. Not intentionally, but sometimes as I read back over what I've written, I find things that unexpectedly remind me of people. One funny story – when I was shortlisted for the Impress Prize, with 'The Courtesan's Lover', I went to the reception for the presentation of the prize (the winner was a wonderful writer called Carol Fenlon). I got into conversation with one of the judges; after a few minutes chat, he said, "Do you find yourself identifying very strongly with your characters? What I mean to say is, is Francesca you?" (Francesca being my eponymous courtesan). I tried to keep a straight face, and said, "Well, given that she's a wildly promiscuous and extremely wealthy Neapolitan whore, I suppose the answer to that question has got to be 'no', really." The friend I was with fell about laughing and the aforesaid judge went a rather delightful shade of dark pink.
Have any authors influenced your own work?
I fell in love with historical fiction as a child, when I first read Rosemary Sutcliff's lovely novels for children set in Tudor times (The Armourer's House, The Queen Elizabeth Story, Brother Dusty Feet, etc). Her delight in the minutiae of domestic life in previous centuries has stayed with me, I think. It's harder to pinpoint specific influences more recently. I'm probably influenced in some way by everything I read – and like all writers, I read a lot!
What qualities do you think writers should have?
Tenacity and determination. Without a doubt. Writing a novel takes AGES and needs a huge commitment both in terms of time, and emotional energy, and you need to be seriously determined to see the project through. You need empathy, too, and curiosity about people and the ways they think and feel and behave. Being observant is important – I watch and record people and things all the time, usually just mentally but sometimes into a notebook (oh dear, that makes me sound rather dodgy and obsessive ...). And you need to love the process of writing, too, obviously!
What are you working on at the moment?
I'm in the very early stages of my third novel – I'm not ready to talk about it yet, though! It's like a little tender shoot, that hasn't been hardened off yet.
What advice would you give to an aspiring novelist?
Believe in yourself and your work, and never, ever give up! It can be so tough getting started, and very few people have an easy ride to a publishing deal. I didn't! (See my blog post about my search for an agent – (http://gabriellekimm.co.uk/2011/03/09/pack-a-bag-and-prepare-for-the-long-haul). But if you want it badly enough, you need to stick with it. Agents and editors always say that 'a story that HAS to be read, WILL be read, eventually' – so if you are writing a story that you know in your heart simply HAS to be read – keep going, and it'll happen. A lovely MA tutor said to me several years ago when I was feeling disheartened, "Stand on the doorstep with your finger on the bell, and don't stop ringing. Eventually they'll open the door and let you in just to shut you up!"
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
Ultimate Chocolate Cupcakes
There are some people that when they tell me something is good I just have to believe them. When Anna from Cookie Madness says something is good I have to try it. And she raved about these Ultimate Chocolate Cupcakes, so I had to make them. Wow. That's a lot of chocolate. If you're a chocolate fan then these are for you.
I followed Anna's recipe here to make six cupcakes.
A few differences. I meant to buy bread flour but never did, so I used regular flour. We didn't have any bittersweet chocolate so I used half semi-sweet and half unsweetened chocolate.
I'm not sure if baking with coffee is a Mormon no-no, but I did it anyway.
The frosting was a new one for me. Cooking the egg white, sugar and salt over the stove then adding the butter, vanilla and chocolate was pretty interesting. My frosting was not fluffy so I put it in the freezer for 15 minutes and then mixed it again. It fluffed right up! It's so rich it gave me a headache right away-a typical sign that there's a lot of chocolate!
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Chocolate cupcakes + Heather = a match made in heaven. Thanks for the recipe...I'll be trying these babies soon!
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I'm so proud to be part of such a wonderful, giving group as the writing community! Hurricane Sandy not only ravaged the east coast, but also greatly impacted one of my awesome critique partners, Jeannie Anaya. While she and her family are okay, her house was flooded and she says it's like apocalypse central where she lives.
I've been sitting here on the west coast trying to figure out how I can help. And then I see on Twitter TWO writers who are having auctions for the relief of the Sandy victims:
Check them out! They have many, many awesome auction items, including query critiques, manuscript critiques, ARCs, etc.
Bid and be generous! And if you try to out-bid me, well, I guess Sandy Relief will benefit!
May the victims of Sandy know that our thoughts, hearts and prayers are with you, and that we're looking for ways to help and support you.
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BEIJING — Would Confucius drive a Hummer?
News that an obscure Chinese company has reached a tentative agreement to buy bankrupt General Motors' Hummer unit has people here pondering the larger meaning of Chinese ownership of the mother of all gas guzzlers.
The news has propelled Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co. onto the radar screen of auto enthusiasts worldwide. And it underscores China's growing economic might at a time when U.S. industrial prowess is flagging.
China is already the U.S. government's largest creditor and the largest foreign provider of manufactured goods to the U.S. Now a Chinese firm is the first to salvage a piece of a fallen U.S. titan -- a point of no small pride for many in China.


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what good habit do you wish you'd started earlier? My year as Mrs. Illinois International prompted a feeling of pride in myself. Not in a boastful way, but in an appreciative sense of deciding to take chances and go for that title. This endeavor taught me that there are many other wonderful opportunities waiting for me as well.
what concerns do you have with the future?My hero is a group of people -- the parents/caregivers of children with severe emotional disorder diagnoses. The stigma surrounding mental health diagnosis makes it extremely difficult to accept and be persistent with ongoing treatment. They deserve respect and encouragement instead of blame for a disorder based on medical facts.
what do you most enjoy about traveling?My life experiences are my most prized possession. They have made me into who I am today. I am thankful for every triumph and tear I have had as a child, wife, parent, and friend. It has given me the ability to understand and help others just as God intended.
what do you like most about your age?I never really had a nickname until recently. In my new employment, the fun group of ladies I work with lovingly call me "Barbie" -- yes, like the doll. I consider it a fabulous compliment because Barbie never goes out of style, and her hair and make-up is always perfect!
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So this house that I've been trying to buy for the last couple of months - the deal is off. After like five weeks of waiting to hear if the seller was going to fix the mold in the basement and then repair the basement, they said there was a giant hole in the foundation, with water coming in. The foundation needs to be redone, the tree in front needs to be taken down and there is no way of knowing when the repairs will done. Plus still no commitment regarding the mold repairs. Possibly three months of fixing, but maybe more, depending on weather.
I'm back to square one.
In other news we're all working on college stuff. It's time for Cam to apply so he's working on that. I'm doing taxes and Cullen is working on his FAFSA. Then Cam has to do his FAFSA. Busy, busy, busy.
We got some nice snow yesterday but we weren't prepared for it and it meant we had to cancel a house showing.
This whole next week is expected to be insanely busy.
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Emigration: The voyageOne of the main difficulties that faced the emigrants in the nineteenth century was crossing the Atlantic Ocean. The voyage to America usually took 5 to 6 weeks but if the weather was bad, the journey could take twice as long. Most of the emigrants crossed in sailing ships and conditions on board such ships would be atrocious.
Very few could afford a cabin so most had to buy the cheapest tickets to travel in third class or steerage. The steerage was a very confined place, with hardly any light or fresh air and it would usually be full to the brim of people and narrow wooden beds side by side. Travellers had no privacy whatsoever, no proper place to make food or wash, or go to the bathroom and during a storm, when the hatches had to be battened down, the air would be foul. To make things worse, a great many of the travellers suffered from sea-sickness.
Due to these circumstances, diseases such as cholera, typhus and dysentery were very common and would spread quickly from one traveller to another. It's impossible to say how many died at sea but death was a common occurrence, especially among children and many of the letters sent back home are full of sad stories and grief.
From the beginning of the 1840s onwards, laws were passed to improve conditions on these ships. There was a need to ensure that travellers had more room and food and that there were also beds for the sick but despite these regulations there weren't enough officers to inspect the ships so conditions for some emigrants were as bad as ever. The situation improved from about 1860 onwards when steamships, instead of sailing ships, started to cross the Atlantic. They travelled more quickly and it would take only about 10 days to reach America.
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Quiet Oaks Hospice Adds Respite Care Service
ST. AUGUSTA - The Quiet Oaks Hospice House has announced they are adding Respite Care to their services.
Respite Care is typically three to five days, and is provided for families in need of short term help in caring for a family member.
Quiet Oaks has been providing end-of-life hospice care in St. Augusta since 2008.
The home includes eight private resident rooms, guest bedrooms for family members, and a community kitchen. It is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year by nurses who specialize in caring for end-of-life patients.


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Vitamin B6, also known as pyridoxine, helps the human body produce neurotransmitters, develop the brain and control homocysteine levels, according to University of Maryland Medical Center. Vitamin B6 helps produce red blood cells, and it also makes the hormones norepinephrine and serotonin.
Neurotransmitters help nerve cells communicate with each other, while norepinephrine and serotonin play an important role in enhancing a person's mood. Vitamin B6 also influences the creation of melatonin, a hormone that regulates the body's natural clock, according to UMMC. High homocysteine levels have been associated with heart disease.
Vitamin B6 assists several organs in making various useful substances. The vitamin helps the immune system fight harmful microorganisms and substances by producing antibodies. Pyridoxine helps make hemoglobin, which transports oxygen in the blood. One form of anemia occurs due to a lack of vitamin B6, notes MedlinePlus. Vitamin B6 works with the digestive system to break down proteins for use in the body. When patients eat more protein, they need more vitamin B6 to process it. Pyridoxine also helps regulate blood-sugar levels.
Vitamin B6 is one of eight B vitamins, a class of water-soluble substances responsible for converting carbohydrates into energy, according to UMMC. Water-soluble vitamins are flushed out through urine and must be replenished daily. Some studies have shown that vitamin B6 helps reduce instances of heart disease, age-related macular degeneration, morning sickness during pregnancy, depression and rheumatoid arthritis.


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About time you say???? I apologize for the delay in bringing you this update. A few computer difficulties but we are back up and running for the moment.
So much has happened since we've last written. Erik and I made a huge leap and decided to buy three goat kids. One, Ruby is a LaMancha milking goat. We eventually will breed her and have more babies and then start milking her. It will be around a year from now before we can do that. The other two, Billy and Molly, are meat goats although I think there is not a chance in the world I could ever eat either of them. Way too cute! I think You'll agree! They were from a young mom who had triplets. They were smaller and got put on a bottle because the mom wasn't producing enough milk for all three babies.
The birds are getting rather large. We have fashioned a home for them in an old water tank we had for horses back in the day. Once we have a home built for the goats we will repair the chicken coop (which has been used as a temporary home for Ruby, Billy and Molly) and put them in their rightful place.
Erik and I have both started work at a coffee shop in Sibley, Iowa. The Lantern is about a 25 minute drive from Hospers... I LOVE IT! Making coffee brings joy to my heart. Adam, the shop owner roasts all the coffee in shop and let's just say he knows what he's doing. I have so missed working on a real espresso machine and pulling shots with my own hands. The last two establishments that I worked at used fully automatic espresso machines.... which takes almost every bit of art out of preparing lattes.
The garden is almost all planted. I think we have just a few things left to put in. We have 8 different types of squash, sweet corn, bush beans, pole beans, sugar peas, snap peas, carrots, cucumbers, lemon cucumbers, 3 types of pumpkins, 3 types of gourds, 4 kinds of melons, red onions, sweet onions, yellow onions, 4 types of tomatoes, 5 kinds of peppers and I'm sure I am forgetting something... but eh... you get the idea. Its pretty much huge!
We've got sprouts coming up from most of the squash. I'm very excited to watch how quickly everything takes off, now that its in the ground and the weather is warm (above 95 yesterday and today)
We've had some time to do some small projects for my mom. Erik helped her spray weeds this weekend, a job put off way too long! We've always wanted to grow morning glories on this fence near our garden... so Erik and I made a flower bed along the edge of it... Planted those morning glories and some four o'clocks there yesterday.
I've been enjoying some of the flowers that already have bloomed. The Lilacs. which are all done with... and my Dad's pride and joy...
The man loved his peonies... we have these blooming all along our drive way... conveniently right next to the garden.
Mom, Erik and I have been looking through some books and magazines for good recipes make with our fresh veggies when we get them. We made a gingered spaghetti salad last night with chicken, cucumbers, red and yellow peppers. Absolutely delicious.
I'm gonna end the massive blog and eat some leftovers now!!! Thanks for reading!
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Vision Board Contest Winners
Well the 2008 Vision Board Invitational is officially over. If you didn't get your vision board done by yesterday, you'll have another opportunity to participate next year.
If you haven't checked out the entries yet, please take some time to go look at the awesome vision boards that were submitted. I know that I always get inspired seeing other people's vision boards. I get ideas and new desires.
No, it's not stealing! Go ahead; let yourself be inspired. There is no copyright on dreams!
And now onto the best part… the winners!
First, a huge thank you to everyone who participated. It was great fun and I look forward to doing it again next year.
Everyone who submitted a link to their vision board receives the online version of my CD Introduction to Brainwave Entrainment Technology for Personal Growth and Success. Congratulations.
Three of the participants are going to get a hard copy of that CD along with a copy of the inspiring and award winning anthology Healing the Heart of the World. which includes my essay, The Evolutionary Warrior.
All the winners were chosen at random using a random number generator.
And those three winners are:
Alex Dimmond
And the grand prize winner receives an amazing package of online learning tools that will truly help you achieve your desires.
Simpleology 101: The Simple Science of Getting What You Want (This one is free and on its own can dramatically increase your effectiveness at achieving your intentions. So go sign up now).
Simpleology 102: The Simple Science of Money
Simpleology 103: The Simple Science of Personal Energy
Mark Joyner's 7-Day Business Turnaround (which I have used with great success!)
This incredible grand prize package goes to Jennifer Manion.
Congratulations Jenny!
And again, congratulations to all the participants and to all of you who created a vision board for 2008.
Now it's time to turn our attention to attracting those visions through focused, inspired action. So watch for more articles on sustaining and attaining your visions in coming weeks!
Jennifer Mannion on
January 22nd, 2008 3:38 am
Yea Ed! Thanks so much for the inspiration to MAKE my vision board this year and for your generous prize package! I'm excited to start! I have my vision board RIGHT next to my monitor so I see it every day (for several hours a day) and I KNOW that is contributing to this year having such a stupendous START! I look forward to taking the courses and KNOW I will benefit greatly from them! Thanks again. Gratefully, Jenny
Richard Lemon on
January 22nd, 2008 10:39 am
Thanks sooooo much! 2008 couldn't start off better!
Summer on
January 24th, 2008 2:35 pm
Wow, I won! Thank you! This is awesome!
Edward Mills on
January 25th, 2008 1:46 pm
Congratulations Jenny. I've confirmed your prize with the folks over at Simpleology. Let me know what you think and how you use the programs to move you towards those visions even faster!
Richard and Summer. You've very welcome. Watch for your prize package arriving soon!
alex dimond on
January 26th, 2008 8:39 am
Hi Ed,
Thank you for the honor. I am not usually one who wins things, but this shows me the universe is opening up and the energies are flowing. A wonderful start to a dynamic year for all of us.
Edward Mills on
January 29th, 2008 8:24 pm
Congratulations Alex. I sure hope this is an indication of where 2008 is headed for you!
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Myths against capitalism, Doctors under Obamacare, budget cuts in lieu of growing government (how can that be?), and a decline in economic freedom for Americans are up for discussion today.
- Check out Don Watkins' new article over at the American on the common equation of successful businessmen with "greedy capitalists". The comparison often made between crooks like Bernie Madoff and successful businessmen such as Bill Gates or Steve Jobs are erroneous at best. On the contrary, the two are polar opposites.
- Ari Armstrong points out the new problem posed by Obamacare in Under ObamaCare, "The Doctor Can't See You Now"
- The Republicans are just as guilty as the Democrats regarding our growing welfare state. Michael A. Laferrara discusses the supposed "cuts" from SNAP proposed by Republicans. The important point to note, however, is that no entity in Washington questions the morality of federal assistance and its growing role in the daily lives of Americans.
- Indeed, federal assistance has become its own institution in Washington, often dominating political issues as fundamental and basic as the fiscal budget. The current shutdown is a result not of politics in itself, but a fundamental disagreement between left and right on the scope of government involvement, symbolized most prominently by Obamacare. The Senate rejection of House budget proposals along with current polls of Obamacare indicate that Washington listens little to the people when making decisions that affect them on a daily basis.
In every poll conducted by eight major national pollsters this year, opposition to the Affordable Care Act outweighs support. In the September 2013 CBS News/New York Times poll, for example, 39 percent of respondents approve of the law and 51 percent disapprove. In the mid-September Kaiser Family Foundation poll, 39 percent have a favorable view of it and 43 percent an unfavorable one. The late September CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll found 38 percent in favor and 57 percent opposed.
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I nearly had a heart attack.
Of course, none of that turned out to be true. We completed our home and moved in over five years ago. We jumped through all the hoops and did everything right. And I have a heart-stopping property tax assessment (and five years of canceled checks) to show for it.
The culprit? A bloated county planning department with nothing to do and a new bureaucrat in charge who's keeping everyone busy by harassing good citizens for its own people's mistakes. All that so it doesn't have to fire anyone and lose its fat budget.
But why should that surprise me -- or anybody, for that matter? It's par for the course when it comes to government agencies.
My dad spent 40 long years working for the U.S. Postal Service. He was a supervisor at the registered mail headquarters in New York. He rarely complained, but I knew he was miserable. All the small-minded bureaucrats guarding their little fiefdoms, protecting their own butts, and stabbing each other in the back to get ahead.
Everything was about position, power, and politics.
And yet, look at us now. Stuck in a jobless recovery and the most sluggish economy in memory, and government workers have all the perks and benefits, courtesy of their unions: employee contracts, great pay, generous pensions, free healthcare -- no wonder all the states and municipalities are going broke.
I never thought I'd see the day when it would pay to be a government bureaucrat. Something is very, very wrong here.
To be fair, some private sector industries are known for their bureaucracy. Health care, telecom and power companies come to mind. And every company has people who, for whatever reason, behave like bureaucrats. But they're generally in the minority, that's for sure.
In any case, private companies have nine unique characteristics that distinguish them from the public sector. Not only that, they provide the building blocks for our entire way of life and the prosperity we've achieved over the past 200 plus years. And they're still what make the American Dream possible for each and every one of us:
Innovation. Granted, the federal government has provided funding for all sorts of core research, but don't forget where all that money ultimately comes from: taxes on income from the private sector. Moreover, it can't take credit for much of the entrepreneurism and innovation that fuels our economy.
Products and services. This might come as an epiphany to some, but economics is entirely about buying and selling goods and services. Without them, there is no economy and no American way of life. Besides, it's really cool seeing people use something you played a role in developing, making, or marketing.
Employee ownership. Roughly half of the U.S. economy comes from small businesses that are primarily self-owned. Not only that, but entrepreneurs, executives, and regular employees are also part owners of most publicly traded companies. Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) pioneered the practice of issuing stock options to all employees.
Engaged employees. When workers feel they're a part of the business and are proud of what they produce, they're engaged, empowered, and motivated. They enjoy their work and feel good about themselves. In other words, they're not bureaucratic zombies.
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Competition. Free market capitalism is defined by competition. And competition brings consumers and businesses freedom of choice. Perhaps more importantly, competitive and high-stress environments are great breeding grounds for future executives and leaders. That's why so many successful people grew up under adverse conditions or in tough, inner city neighborhoods.
Opportunity for personal and professional growth. It's called climbing the corporate ladder for a reason. The private sector provides a career path and virtually limitless opportunity for anyone with the capability to take advantage of it and the drive to go for it. You're never really stuck in a dead-end job. You're always free to quit and try your luck somewhere else, or even do your own thing. It's your choice.
Revenue growth and profits. Successful business is the one and only flywheel of the American economy. Entrepreneurs obtain capital, hire people, buy materials and tools, and design and build products and services they market to consumers and other companies. Their investors, employees, and vendors make money to buy things and invest in other businesses. And the wheel goes round and round. That's where GDP comes from. That's where our economy comes from. That's where the American way of life comes from.
Don't get me wrong. I know our government provides defense, infrastructure, and services to protect and facilitate our way of life. But let's be very clear about what pays for all that. Taxes. Taxes on our personal income, taxes on our small business income, taxes on our corporate income, and taxes on what we build and buy with our hard-earned income. Period.
The cause and effect of that equation should be crystal clear. No private sector growth means no income, no taxes, no government, and no America. Plain and simple. The further afield we get from that simple equation, the more our nation begins to look and behave like a bureaucracy, the closer we get to the end of the American Dream.
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This post covers one of the most important and frequently misunderstood LINQ features. Understanding deferred execution is a rite of passage that LINQ developers must undergo before they can hope to harness the full power of this technology. The contents of this post assumes an intermediate understanding of LINQ.
Note: A video that accompanies this post can be found here. The sample code from post is found in the attached program called DeferredExecution.
Note: In several places in this explanation of deferred execution I will refer to a data structure called an expression tree. To understand this portion of the text, you need only grasp that an expression tree is a data structure like a list or queue. It holds a LINQ to SQL query -- not the results of the query, but the actual elements of the query itself. In some future post I will cover expression trees in more depth.
Consider this simple LINQ to SQL query:
var query = from customer in db.Customers << Query does
where customer.City == "Paris" << not execute
select customer; << here
It is easy to assume that these few lines of code execute a query against a database. In fact, they do not. This code merely captures the idea of the query in a data structure called an expression tree. The tree contains information about the table you want to query, the question you want to ask of the table, and the result you want to return. It does not, however, actually execute the query!
In LINQ, execution of a query is usually deferred until the moment when you actually request the data. For instance, the following code would cause the query to execute:
foreach (var Customer in query) << Query executes here
Query expressions often do not cause code to be executed. They only define the question you want to ask. If this were not the case, then it would be difficult or impossible for LINQ to break queries down into a relational algebra which makes composability possible, and which allows developers who care about such things to optimize their code. Deferred execution makes it possible for you to compose quite complex queries from various components without expending the clock cycles necessary to actually query the data. Or at least the data will not be queried until it is absolutely necessary.
Let's make a slight change to the query shown above:
var query = (from customer in db.Customers << Query executes here
where customer.City == "Paris"
select customer).Count();
This time the query will be run when the execution point moves past it. The code executes when you call Count(), as it would when you call any of the other operators that must iterate over the result of a query in order to return a value that is not IEnumerable<T> or IQueryable<T>. The ToList() operator the query code to execute immediately because it returns a List<T> instead of IQueryable<T>. Consider the following code:
public void SimpleQuery01()
db.Log = Console.Out;
// Query executes here because it returns a List<T>
List<Customer> list = (from customer in db.Customers
where customer.City == "Paris"
select customer).ToList();
foreach (var Customer in list)
One of the last things the LINQ to SQL provider does before executing a query is to create the SQL it will send across the wire. This fact gives us a clue we can use when trying to determine the exact moment when a query executes.
Assigning db.Log to Console.Out as we do in the first line of this query ensures that the SQL for our query will be written to the console as soon as it is generated. When the code shown above is run, you will see the log written to the screen as the query expression executes.
Consider the following code, which does not call ToList():
db.Log = Console.Out;
var query = from customer in db.Customers
where customer.City == "Paris"
select customer;
foreach (var Customer in query) << Query Executes here
If you step through this code with the debugger while watching the console window, you will see that the SQL is not generated until the foreach statement executes. When we call ToList(), the SQL is written to the screen earlier, providing the evidence that the query itself executes earlier:
List<Customer> list = (from customer in db.Customers
where customer.City == "Paris"
select customer).ToList(); << Query Executes here
Let's look at deferred execution from a slightly different angle:
public void SimpleQuery03()
string city = "London";
var query = from c in db.Customers
where c.City == city
select new { c.City };
city = "Madrid";
foreach (var q in query) << Query Executes here
This method will print Madrid to the screen rather than London. By changing the value of the variable city to Madrid just before the foreach statement we ensure that Madrid, rather than London is included in the SQL that is sent to the server. The point being that the execution of the query expression merely generates an expression tree, it does not send SQL to the database.
Let's take a look at one final example, just to drive this very important point home. Consider this code:
public void DeleteInsert01()
db.Log = Console.Out;
string customerId = "WIDGE";
// Query expression to be used repeatedly
var query = from c in db.Customers
where c.CustomerID == customerId
select c;
Console.WriteLine("Count before insert: {0}", query.Count()); << SQL Sent
// Object Initializer
var newCustomer = new Customer
CustomerID = customerId,
CompanyName = "Microsoft",
ContactName = "John Doe",
ContactTitle = "Sales Manager",
Address = "1 Microsoft Way",
City = "Redmond",
Region = "WA",
PostalCode = "98052",
Country = "USA",
Phone = "(425) 555-1234",
Fax = null
// Insert
Console.WriteLine("Count after insert: {0}", query.Count()); << SQL Sent
// Delete
Console.WriteLine("Count after delete: {0}", query.Count()); << SQL Sent
This first call to WriteLine() shows the initial number of records with a CustomerId of WIDGE. The value returned is zero. The second WriteLine shows the value at 1, because a record with that value has been inserted. The final call shows the count as back at zero, because the inserted record was deleted
Notice that query expression used to retrieve the count from the server is written only once near top of the method. At each of the three WriteLine statements this query is composed with the Count() operator and executed. The following SQL was sent to the server three times:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS [value]
FROM [dbo].[Customers] AS [t0]
WHERE [t0].[CustomerID] = @p0
SQL of a different sort was also sent to the server when DeleteAllOnSubmit was called.
Suppose we rewrote the method the method to look like this:
public void DeleteInsert02()
db.Log = Console.Out;
string customerId = "WIDGE";
// Execution of the query occurs here
var query = (from c in db.Customers << Query executes
where c.CustomerID == customerId
select c).Count();
Console.WriteLine("Count before insert: {0}", query); << No execution
// Object Initializer
var newCustomer = new Customer
CustomerID = customerId,
CompanyName = "Microsoft",
ContactName = "John Doe",
ContactTitle = "Sales Manager",
Address = "1 Microsoft Way",
City = "Redmond",
Region = "WA",
PostalCode = "98052",
Country = "USA",
Phone = "(425) 555-1234",
Fax = null
// Insert
Console.WriteLine("Count after insert: {0}", query); << No execution
var deleteQuery = from c in db.Customers
where c.CustomerID == customerId
select c;
// Delete
Console.WriteLine("Count after delete: {0}", query); << No execution
This time we get the count of records in the database when the query expression executes near the start of the method. The correct value, which is zero, is returned from the database at that time and is sent to the console when the first WriteLine statement executes. The second two times that WriteLine is called, the same value of zero that was returned from the initial query is sent to the server. As a result, invalid data is reported to the user! This illustrates why it is so important that you understand deferred execution.
Deferred execution is a two edged sword:
- Composable queries and deferred execution work together to make LINQ an unusual rich query language. If you properly understand these features of LINQ you will be able to write less code, that executes faster, in order to accomplish more.
- As you have seen, if we don't properly understand deferred execution then we can end up with a sheepish grin on our face. Queries might not execute when we expect them to, and we might report erroneous results to the user.
Note: Deferred execution applies to all varieties of LINQ, including LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Objects and LINQ to XML. However, of the three, it is only LINQ to SQL that returns an expression tree by default. Or more specifically, it returns an instance of the IQueryable interface that references an expression tree. A query that returns IEnumerable still supports deferred execution, but at least some larger portion of the result is likely to have been generated than is the case with LINQ to SQL. In other words, all types of LINQ support deferred execution, but LINQ to SQL supports it more fully than LINQ to Objects or LINQ to XML.
This short post outlined some of the core facts about deferred execution. This is a subject that developers must understand if they want to use the full power of LINQ. It is not a particularly difficult subject, but it is one that requires us to follow chains of thought that we have not typically pursued when working with imperative code.


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Pop Pop was designed by Master's students at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. He reacts, via real-time data collection, to things going on at the corner of Broadway and Waverly Place in Manhattan, New York.
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No. THIS Sunday, Dad.
This call occurred Monday evening. He called me.
Me: Hi Dad.
Dad: Hi, sweeeetttttiiiimaaajiggggy. (Dad is on several medications for his COPD, and sometimes, he takes a Lortab...this would be one of those times).
Me: Oh goodness. Hi.
Dad: Hi there!
Me: Uh, you feeling okay?
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Dad: So what changed your mind on when to move?!
Me: I'm hanging up now.
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One year my mom did all her Christmas shopping after she took a Lortab...very interesting gifts that year! Hope all goes well with the move THIS Sunday:)
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text: Exports to the U.S. up by 2.6% Battered by repeated hammer blows from the global oil shock, the Canadian economy has seemingly enjoyed a graceful partial recovery in the past few months as exports reached record highs. The export sector grew for the third straight month, posting a 1.0 per cent increase to $46 billion in January 2016, Statistics Canada said in a report released on Friday (March 4). Exports to the U.S. (representing 76 per cent of the total) grew by 1.1 per cent. Volumes went up by 3.6 per cent, even as prices fell by 2.5 per cent. In contrast, imports increased by 1.1 per cent to $46.65 billion, while volumes grew by 1.6 per cent. Prices in this sector saw a slight 0.5 per cent decline. These despite the 17th consecutive monthly trade deficit in January, prompting experts to conclude that the low exchange rate is sowing the seeds of a major shift in Canadian energy and real estate markets. "Today's data was encouraging news for those looking at the depreciation in the Canadian dollar as an eventual catalyst in rotating the economy away from energy and housing, and moving it toward export growth and manufacturing investment," CIBC Capital Markets economist Nick Exarhos told BNN News. Trade surplus with the U.S. sat at $3.7 billion as of January, while trade deficit grew to $655 million. Leave a comment SHARE


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Basics: Apple Watch
Tuesday, January 22
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Apple Dubai Mall
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Join us for a tour of Apple Watch. Bring in your Apple Watch and iPhone and follow along as we show you how to navigate using the Digital Crown, Siri, and gestures. We'll help you set notifications for information that's most important. We'll teach you how to set and customize watch faces and even how to find, add, and organize apps, so your watch is just the way you like.
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The Uptones were selling out night clubs when they were still Berkeley High School students. Uptones' founders, Eric Din and Paul Jackson sit down with Bay Area music journalist, Joel Selvin, and talk about why they choose to be a Berkeley Ska Band. The podcast includes lots of Uptones music. It's worth a listen, and makes me proud to be a small part of this narrative. Listen to the podcast, you'll really enjoy it!
Let's Talk Ska
I Love Ska. One of the first sites we created is Ska4u.com.
You'll find the best list of Free Ska MP3s at this site.
Ska combines the elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues.
Then in the 1970s Ska met punk.
And it has grown worldwide ever since.
Although Ska has not been accepted by the mainstream radio and the established music business, Ska is very popular with the younger generation.