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Jeep Shots - May 2014Posted in News on April 10, 2014
Mud Bath
As you can tell by the picture, Bill and Holly Tucker of Monroe, Ohio, aren't afraid to get their 2007 Jeep Wrangler JK Rubicon Unlimited dirty. The drivetrain uses a 3.8L V-6 engine with a Volant cold-air intake, Superchips programming, and Magnaflow exhaust. A 4:1 T-case, JE Reel driveshafts, and Dana 44 axles with 5.13 gears and electric lockers in the front and rear wrap up the go-parts. The Jeep Wrangler JK rides on a 3 ½-inch Rough Country suspension. A pair of ¾-inch spacers up front got it level, and 5160 Bilstein remote-reservoir shocks make the ride cush. It all clears 37x12.50R17 Pitbull Rocker tires mounted on 17x8-inch Ion Alloy wheels. In case the JK gets stuck, there's plenty of Smittybilt recovery equipment including a winch loaded with synthetic rope as well as a Smittybilt cage to protect the occupants. Bill and Holly are members of the CJKC, (Cincinnati JK Crew), a Jeep club that holds at least one or two rides every month.
The One
When Matthew Beals was shopping for Rubicon Unlimited eight years ago, his then-12-year-old daughter saw this TJ and insisted, "This is it!" Now she's in school at Syracuse University, and the Jeep has a lot more than 100,000 miles on the odometer. In fact, it wasn't until it passed the century mark that Matthew started building "Jeep V.2" by installing upgrades like a TeraFlex 4-inch suspension with Rancho RS9000 shocks. Other improvements include a Warn PowerPlant winch tucked inside a Rugged Ridge XHD stubby bumper and an OR-Fab spare tire and jerrycan rack in the back. The TJ is used as a daily driver and has been all over Matthew's home state of Arizona, as well as New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, California, and down into Mexico. He credits his father-in-law with starting a family-wide Jeep obsession with the '60 CJ he bought brand-new and still drives to this day.
I'll Trade Ya
Kacee Holmes of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, convinced his wife to give him this long-wheelbase '06 LJ in exchange for buying her a new Grand Cherokee. Kacee says he's not sure who got the better deal. Since the trade, the Jeep has been built for the nearby Uwharrie National Recreation Trails. Upgrades include a 4-inch lift with Currie springs, Bilstein 5100 shocks, Currie Antirock swaybars, Rokmen control arms, and a TnT Customs front stretch and steering kit. The front axle is a Dana 60 by ECGS and the rear is a Currie RockJock 60. Both have 35-spline shafts, ARBs, and 4.88s to spin the 39s.
His and Hers
Steve Collins and Fiona MacClure of Oakville (that's up in Canada) are amassing a fleet of Jeeps, and they now have a '95 YJ, '00 TJ, and a '02 TJ at their disposal. The Jeeps are mostly stock, but are more than capable of transporting Steve and Fiona to where they can explore abandoned homes and farms found far off the beaten path. That includes taking them through deep mud and over logs that get in the way of their adventures together. The purchase of the '95 YJ Sahara is a testament to perseverance because Steve used to drive by it every day and finally decided to knock on the owner's door to ask if he was interested in selling. It took about a year before he got the call, but he left his phone "still dangling by the cord" as he jumped into his Jeep to go over and buy the YJ before the previous owner could change his mind.
Jeep Free or Die
Jason and Heather Hanscom of New Hampshire share a love for Jeeps, so we're not surprised to see this built-up '88 YJ is part of their collection. The rig has a '94 4.0L H.O. engine swap under the hood that's hooked to an AX15 five-speed manual and an NP231 T-case. The rear axle is a Ford 8.8 with an Aussie Locker and disc brakes, and the front axle is a Dana 30 with chromoly axleshafts. The YJ rides on top of a 6½-inch suspension above Cragar Soft 8 black steel wheels with 35-inch Mickey Thompson MTZ tires. The Jeep also has Rough Country seats, and a Smittybilt 8,000-pound winch, and KC lights mounted on a narrow front bumper.
Orange Crush
Wayne Williamson of Lowell, Indiana, and his family have nicknamed their 2011 Jeep Wrangler JK Rubicon "The Beast." The Mango Tango Orange Jeep is a daily driver that's built to be more than capable on the trails since the family spends a lot of time off-roading. The JK Unlimited has a 4-inch Mopar suspension over black 17-inch Mickey Thompson Sidebiter wheels with 35x12.50R17 Nitto Mud Grapplers. Other upgrades include off-road bumpers, a Talon winch by Superwinch, Hella lights, flatfender flares, and lots of skidplates underneath for protection.
Josh Harget of Brownstown, Michigan, says his '99 TJ has a lot of "add-ons," and he's not kidding. The Jeep was built for off-roading in places such as the Silver Lake Sand Dunes and is motivated by a 4.6L stroker and fitted with full custom exhaust with Flowmaster mufflers. It has a 5.5-inch BDS long-arm suspension with Fox shocks and wide 35x14.50-inch Nitto Mud Grappler tires. The stroker sends power to Dana 44 axles in the front and rear with 4.10 gears, Detroit Lockers, and 30-spline Alloy USA axleshafts. Stopping is courtesy of front and rear TeraFlex discs.
Steve Indzheyan of Burbank, California, is building his '04 Willys Edition Wrangler to be a show truck that's also fun to drive. The TJ is one of just 1,000 made during that model year, and he's designing it to stand out from the rest of the pack. It has a Fabtech suspension lift front and rear over Interco Trxus MT tires on 16-inch ProComp black steel wheels. There are steel off-road bumpers with a winch in front and a full-size spare carrier in the rear. KC HiLites spot lamps are mounted for visibility, and cargo webbing adds to the military look while replacing the factory soft top. The factory diamond plate rocker guards were ditched in favor of Poison Spyder Ricochet Rockers sliders with running boards that further set this TJ apart from the other 999 Willys Editions built for 2004.
Zombie Watch
Michael Gindlesberger of Orlando, Florida, calls his 2007 Jeep Wrangler JK Unlimited a "Zombie Apocalypse Edition" Wrangler. As a life-long Jeep lover, Michael has built more than a dozen projects -- and he's only 22 years old. His current project rides on a 4-inch Skyjacker suspension to clear 17-inch Pro Comp alloy wheels and 37-inch Pro Comp Xterrain tires. There are front and rear Dana 44 axles with 5.13 gears and to ward off zombies, there are LED light bars mounted on the hood and the roof. LED cubes on the front fenders and spots on the ARB bumper housing a Smittybilt XRC 8 winch round out the package. The snorkel helps keep gunk out of the engine while mudding and crawling to avoid the undead, and the slant-back soft top and Umbrella Corporation decals complete the post-apocalyptic zombie theme of this Jeep Wrangler JK.
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HELSINKI – A 19-year-old Finnish supermarket cashier with millions of Internet fans of her language imitation YouTube video is heading for America hoping her gibberish hit will open up a new career.
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Intel is close to announcing its plan to revolutionize TV, though it's not planning a CES announcement, Janko Roettgers at GigaOm reports.
Roettgers anticipates Intel announcing something in February. And what is that something? Plans for a new TV platform.
Intel has a small stealth team working on a TV service led by Erik Huggers, who led the BBC's iPlayer. Huggers is joined by a team of people that have worked at Apple, Jawbone, and elsewhere outside of Intel. The group is called "Intel Media," and there's talk that Intel could spin it out has its own company.
Intel is planning to release a set top box. It also wants to be able to deliver TV content to tablets and smartphones. To do all of this it needs to hammer out deals with cable and content companies.
In a separate report at Forbes, Kelly Clay says Intel is going to offer the option to unbundle channels so people can only order what they want. Roettgers is skeptical Intel can actually pull this off.
Roettgers says Intel has invested $100 million in this project, and it could end up investing a lot more. Intel is trying to find its next growth engine and it seems to think TV could be it.
It has a design team in London working on building a new user interface.
All of this is set against the backdrop of Apple reportedly trying to do something with TV. Intel, like many others, wants to get something to market before Apple.
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Boliden Tara Mines is in no doubt about the positive impact that systematic training of equipment operators and maintenance personnel can have on efficiency. So much so, that it has made training a fundamental element of its business strategy.
Boliden Tara Mines in Navan, Ireland, has been producing lead and zinc for almost 40 years, and in recent times has experienced many of the classic challenges of an older, deepening underground mine. Realizing that it needed to adapt its operations to address these challenges, the management team made two major strategic decisions. The first step was to restructure the organization towards a 'one mine concept', instead of the previous three-area concept, each with its own self-contained mining teams. The second was to step up its personnel training program in order to enhance skills, work smarter and establish a climate of continuous improvement. Atlas Copco, which supplies Boliden Tara Mines with mining equipment, was also chosen to be the mine's partner in training development. Mike Lowther, Manager of Mining, says the new direction was essential in order to maximize efficiency and flexibility.
"The deeper we go into the mine, the tougher the logistics get," he says. "We can't do anything about exchange rates, metal prices or orebody grades but we do have the ability to control the efficiencies of our mining and our costs. Mineralisation is only ore if you can mine it profitably – to turn it into ore, the mine has to be economically viable."
" The deeper we go into the mine, the tougher the logistics get. "
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Over the years, the mine management has stressed the importance of enhancing skills and has worked closely with the local mining unions to achieve this. This work has now moved into a more intensive phase as an increasing pool of cross-skilled operators and maintenance staff pass through the Atlas Copco Drill Rig Simulator Training Program.
Cross-skilling focuses on training the miners to operate groups of machines with similar functionality, such as Atlas Copco's underground production drilling and bolting rigs. The first training program took place in 2013 and was an immediate success.
The second was held earlier this year, and here too, the results appear to be having an even stronger impact on operations. In preparation for the 2015 course, the mine and Atlas Copco formed a strong project team led by Seán Gilmore, Training Coordinator at Boliden Tara Mines, supported by Damien Healy, Atlas Copco's Service Manager in Ireland.
Gilmore took on the instrumental role of Simulator Training Planner, making sure that all the preparations were in place prior to the delivery of the simulator. Strong backup was also received from the mine's electrical and IT sections.
With just four weeks from go-ahead to implementation, it proved an intensive process. All trainees had to be registered with the simulator training software and system, email training accounts had to be set up, the surface training area had to be upgraded and, most importantly, the schedule had to be coordinated with the mine's shift pattern. In addition, the schedule had to be adjusted around the trainees' holidays and shift rotas to achieve the target of 24 craftsmen and 24 drill rig operators to be trained and cross-skilled.
A total of 56 trainees took part, an increase from 32 in 2013. Once the schedule was in place, Mike Hall, normally Shift Boss at the mine, was appointed NPIC (Nominated Person in Control) for the 2015 project. Hall's role was to ensure risk assessments were completed for the preparation and installation of the simulator on site, communication of the schedule to each trainee, and liaising with the Atlas Copco trainer. The program included both computerbased introductory training as well as operator training on the simulator, depending on the skill level of the trainee. Trainees with broad experience of the drill rig machine group used the opportunity to fine tune their skills, while operators in the early stages of cross-skilling gained an understanding of the functioning of the rigs in the computer programs. The computer-based training covered the following five modules, each with ten categories:
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Humans are constantly pushing their bodies to the limits, testing their pain thresholds, tolerances and sexual endeavors. For some people pain and sex go hand in hand. They use pain to enhance sexual desires. In the body modification world play piercing is not always just for the hell of it, but it can also be done to spice up sexual experiences.
Play piercing is basically when needles are pierced into the skin without inserting and leaving a piece of jewelry in the hole. The needles are inserted so that both ends of it stick out of the skin, a secant position. This type of piercing is done just for the enjoyment of procedure rather than for aesthetic purpose. The types of needles that are usually used are sterile hypodermic needles.Like when any other type of piercing, a clean sterile environment is the best way to prevent infections. Play piercing kits are available that include everything needed to do this in the most sterile way. The needles can be arranged so that a design can be seen, such as a star. Some people like to put the needles into the skin so that a corset can be laced around them or small objects can be hung from them. The different sensations of the needles being moved, tugged, or twisted can play into the BDSM scene. Play piercing was started in the BDSM community and is widely accept among people in the BDSM community.
Cock and ball torture is one way that play piercing is used in the bedroom to enhance a sexual experience. Some men will put a ball weight on their scrotum, forcing the skin to be pulled tight and then they will begin to pierce their scrotum with hypodermic needles. Some men allow their significant other to do the play piercing into their scrotum if they trust them enough. For some men play piercing into the scrotum or the shaft of the penis is very ecstatic. Women even enjoy the feelings of play piercing in the vagina or other parts of the body.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Whether it's the harvest on the family farm or dish on the dinner table you're thankful for this holiday season, social media users from all sectors of the ag and food community can share their appreciation for food and those who provide it with the hashtag #foodthanks, a campaign started in 2010 by the AgChat Foundation.
"For the third year in a row, we are taking time during the holidays to inspire conversation about an appreciation for the food we eat and the people who produce it," says Darin Grimm, president of the AgChat Foundation. "Social media platforms provide a space for voices from the whole food system to be expressed, not just voices from agriculture."
New this year an additional social media channel, Pinterest, joins Twitter in the food appreciation movement. Participants can follow the #foodthanks board on Pinterest and "pin" must-try recipes, food photos and other related images to the virtual bulletin board, as well as comment on what others have pinned.
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The official website for #foodthanks (www.foodthanks.com) leads users to either Pinterest or Twitter sites to begin using the hashtag and adding to the conversation.
Last year, more than 1,000 people shared 3,112 tweets using #foodthanks in the time leading up to Thanksgiving. The goal for this year is 1,000 followers on Pinterest and to surpass last year's number of tweets.
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Can Markets Overcome Fiscal Cliff Threat?
Wells Fargo Advisors Senior Equity Strategist Scott Wren on The News Hub discusses the recent sharp selloff in stocks and whether the equity market can rebound while the threat of the fiscal cliff continues to loom.
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... the the ... well ... it's been ... taking a beating lately well to get the answer ... still ran all Wells Fargo Advisors thank you Brian much for being here ... aam ... twenty make ... of this this ... decline in in this market because the correction territory for the mass back to mean stocks that has taken a beating ... well Simon damages total of about our outlook next year I think we'll see little that better growth two-and-a-half percent ... think earnings growth would be about five percent I think that will see the U S recovery continue ... to see the global recovery continue ... with a target of fifteen twenty five to fifteen seventy five pre year-end two thousand thirteen so given that situation ... we have been actually looking for a pullback hoping for a pullback and telling our clients that ... they need to have a plan because when the pullback happens ... you're switching the design why why is ... it going back to see what I fiscal cliff I think the combination of things I think one is ... the perception right or wrong that the president's re-election may lead to ... higher taxes more regulation ... of ... business on certainty ... now I think you would be ninety for any of us to believe ... that moving ahead given the fiscal problems of budget promise that we have ... that we all are going to be paying more taxes eventually we are ... so I think the market is ... a little worried about that I think the market in the long way in a relatively short period time when a sixteen percent rally of the early June lows aam and I think that so ... um the of this this with issues is certainly an important one ... that the market wants to see some sort of progress on all the next Cup loss to we have to see if it did to find a deal that will weaken them up to the town around the ... island would we just to see glimmers of hope I think we need to see glimmers of hope but I think what's ultimately going to happen is the lame duck Congress same players we've had there you know basically ... um the the lame duck Congress of the contentious here early these first couple weeks ... aam but then I think they're What's born to happen is in January when the new Congress is sworn in ... there they will make some minor tax hikes ... affecting the very few number people ... to make some minor spending cuts ... affecting a very minor bounced up and that will give the market a little bit of confidence will show that they're able to negotiate ... and help carry that into the debt ceiling debate some ... of his mind and you don't mind active and the fiscal cliff this discussion riled up and running so stoked I think so I think at least for right now I think people the market is expecting ... modest earnings ... they're expecting modest economic growth I think that's what we're going to get in two thousand thirteen I think the topic is ... let's address these longer term issues ... I fully expect some sort of set up Simpson Bowles type of an agreement to be moved toward if not agreed upon as a bipartisan debt of of bipartisan effort from of the president's Commission ... um we need to get something done here in while I don't agree with all the parts of the Bowles Simpson ... of love with an Everest this is the isthe kit yes this deal how did he he he he almost any point and right now would give the markets in confidence it's a plan that you could too we can improve on it to go for time and that's that's what we did ... this to say I'm sitting at home I have on my portfolio what a way to do until I ... use this opportunity this pullback going to buy stocks in a somewhat souls ... but wants to do I think you look at this is an opportunity in the types of stocks that did you wanna buy for those who are sensitive to ... a continuation of the economic report recovery Clover with the small cap is well ... now SmallCap we have remember where we are in the cycle early in the cycle coming out of recession that's for small cap truly outperformed the back half of the cycle which one now it's big cap growth that's generally what is going out on that so we think anyway ... um consumer discretionary stocks technology stocks ... which which had been beaten up lately certainly ... I think it's an opportunity materials stocks which have certainly been beaten up on fears of Chinese slowdown in growth just overall global growth ... aam I think that's an opportunity ... um were also have the blow overweight to telecom services which is a more defensive sector of course that someone one when or if this deal gets done it looks like you know it has to get done in some sense on what to look back ... is it easy to more war this time we get we get a backpack on the road cuz I'm back on the upswing I think if we get if we get some sort of field on which as I said I think it's going to be a minor deal it's not going to be a solution it's going to be a thing ... something that says Kate we we can talk and come to some agreement here I think that'll cost the market to stabilize probably move a little bit higher maybe we didn't do that fourteen hundred fourteen fifty range ... that's been our year-end target for the sheer ... um ... 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In 2010 and 2011, Mount St. Joseph Academy finished third at the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies cross country championships, and last fall, in particular, the Magic thought they could've done better. In a breakout performance last Monday in the 2012 meet at Tyler State Park, the Mounties not only won the AACA title – they dominated.
Senior Meredith Reiche became the individual champion with a time of 18 minutes, 25.7 seconds and sophomore Haasiyna Taylor was runner-up in 18:34.1. The other three Mount St. Joe scorers were all among the top 11 finishers, and even the Magic's sixth and seventh runners were in the top 20. With an impressive team total of 30 points, Mount St. Joe outdistanced runner-up Gwynedd Mercy Academy, with 76 points, 2011 runner-up Villa Joseph Marie (90), and defending champion St. Basil Academy (92). After that came Villa Maria (136), Nazareth (142), Merion Mercy (145), and Sacred Heart (260).
Mount St. Joe had won team championships back in 1999 and 2000, but that was when the AACA joined in with the old Bicentennial league in the sport of cross country. Since the league began running its own meets in 2006, St. Basil has won every year, until now.
In 2011, the Magic came close to St. Basil in a 28-31 dual meet loss, and this year the Mount finally overcame the Panthers head-to-head, 26-30, en route to an undefeated regular season in the AACA.
"As the year went on," said second-year head coach Kitty McClernand, "I told them all we need to do is keep running our race, and I think we stepped up and ran even better today. In a big championship race like this you never know what can happen, but matching up with the other teams runner-for-runner, we felt we could do it."
Reiche, who was fifth in 19:28 at last year's championships, completed the course more than a minute faster this time around.
"We knew this was our year to do it, because the majority of the girls have been on varsity since their freshman year. We tried to focus and work hard every day, and everybody did their part."
Another senior, Adrienne Cellucci, injured a hamstring during the Magic's final regular-season meet and could not race last Tuesday. Junior Annie McCabe, the league's junior varsity champion a year ago, filled in admirably, finishing in 10th overall in 19:56.6, just a stride or so ahead of senior Patricia Hoffman (11th; 19:57.2).
Smack in the middle of the five Mount scorers, in sixth place overall, was Julianna Kardish, capping an outstanding freshman season with a time of 19:05.40 at Tyler.
In between her and the two MSJ frontrunners came the heavy hitters from three other schools. Gwynedd's Emma Keenan landed third in 18:51.6, 2011 runner-up Veronica Wheeler of Nazareth was fourth in 18:54.8, and the individual defending champ from St. Basil, senior Megan McGarrity, was fifth in 19:01.2. Following MSJ's Kardish into the finishing chute were SBA senior Valerie Santangelo (7th; 19:10.5) and Villa Joseph Marie's Twomey sisters, freshman Meredith (8th; 19:11.8) and junior Brenna (9th; 19:51.2).
Mount St. Joe's sixth runner, junior Alyssa Kist, claimed 16th place in 20:20.7, and the Magic's number seven, freshman Jane Prior, was 20th with a time of 20:33.6.
The team had come up to Tyler twice during the previous two weeks. Back at the Mount, the day before the championship race was a school holiday, and Reiche reported, "We actually had a dance party all day long, so the team hung out together during that. We did a lot of team bonding this year."
If one regarded the results of Tuesday's junior varsity race as an omen, good things were in store for the varsity. Mount St. Joe won the JV event by 30 points over number two Gwynedd, with seniors Brittany Robbins and Rachel Heller delivering a one-two finish for the Magic.
It was impossible to make any kind of prediction after the first short loop of the varsity contest, which brought the runners back around near the start/finish line after half-a-mile or so. Nazareth's Wheeler and St. Basil's McGarrity paced a lead group of 10 runners, with Gwynedd's Keenan two steps behind. The Mount's Reiche and Taylor were back near the rear of this pack.
Traversing the same stretch of the course heading in the opposite direction with just over half-a-mile remaining, the runners had separated to a large extent. Reiche was running alone, well out in front.
"My plan was to hang with the leaders for the majority of the race, and then if I felt good I would make a move," she explained. "It was my last league race and when I knew I only had a little over half-a-mile left I really wanted to kick it in. I wasn't going to leave anything out there."
The next harrier to appear was McGarrity. She was about 10 meters in front of Wheeler, Taylor, and Keenan, who were running almost side-by- side. Now, Taylor pulled away from the others.
"Around the last 800 meters I picked it up going up the hill," she recalled. "I saw they weren't keeping up, so I just gave it my all."
Last year as a freshman, Taylor had won all of the Mount's AACA dual meets, but at the championships she had some breathing difficulties due to asthma, and finished eighth.
Over the past 12 months, the sophomore said, "I think my confidence improved, and also my technique. I'm breathing a little better and my asthma is more under control."
She summed up, "Everyone on the team has been working really hard, and we worked even harder this past week, so I think we earned the place that we got."


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I can't tell you how many of my 8-year old daughter's friends have iPod Touches or even cell phones. And not surprisingly, she's been begging me for one of her own.
While I can see circumstances why some younger kids might need a cell phone, I'm pretty sure mine does not. And I'll be honest, most of the kids around her that have one don't need one either.
What's funny is that I made the final decision about my daughter not needing a cell phone or iPod Touch after we left her with one the other week while my husband and I went away to a holiday party overnight. Since it was really only the 2nd time we'd ever both been away from the kids ever, I felt as though she'd feel a little more comfortable with the ability to text us.
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For us, the cell phone is not a toy. And she needs to show us that she's not only responsible, but also that she has an actual need for it rather than just texing her friends back and forth about things they can talk about at school. I realize it's not the popular parenting opinion, given how many of her friends have one, but I definitely think it's the right one.
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Minnesota GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Friday that President Barack Obama's deficit spending is equivalent to "running a Ponzi scheme."
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Pawlenty is getting sued by Democrats in Minnesota for his attempts to balance the budget through the unallotment power given governors in this state. They want to hike taxes and spend even more money, while Pawlenty has kept budget growth at about the rate of inflation over his term. Barack Obama isn't the only one doubling down on Ponzi schemes at the moment, but his repeated attempts to use block grants of federal money to states as "economic stimulus" has enabled states to avoid making the necessary and tough decisions on prioritizing and budgeting to keep from going into bankruptcy.
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Have you heard of them? I hope so. If not, click through now and shop (it's no longer invitation only). I own an embarrassing number of items by them... sandals, bags, tees, sweaters, button-down shirts.
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The San Francisco-based Everlane comes to mind now because I had the good fortune to attend a pretty intimate dinner at Everlane HQ last Thursday, with the whole in-house team and 24 other random souls (like me).
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Just about anyone who is on Facebook has received an invitation to play the hit online game \"Candy Crush Saga.\" Business has been going so well that King Digital Entertainment, the company that developed \"Candy Crush Saga,\" on Tuesday invited anyone who might be interested in buying the company\'s stock to keep an eye out for King Digital\'s initial public offering.
Dublin-based King Digital said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it hopes to raise as much as $500 million when it goes public this year. King Digital didn\'t list a date or a price range for its IPO.
What really stood out for King Digital was its financials. The company, which specializes in games designed for mobile devices, said that for 2013 it earned $4.38 a share on $1.88 billion in revenue. By contrast, in 2012, King Digital earned 6 cents a share on sales of $164.1 million. During the fourth quarter of last year, King Digital also reported that 73% of its gross bookings were from its \"mobile audience\" and in December, it had an average of 128 million daily active users.
The company\'s titles also include \"Pet Rescue Saga,\" \"Farm Heroes Saga\" and \"Papa Pear Saga,\" but it\'s \"Candy Crush Saga\" that gets the most attention, as King Digital even called the game \"our top title to date, [and] one of the largest interactive entertainment franchises of all time.\" Candy Crush has proven so popular that King Digital said that the title had 93 million daily average users and was played more than 1 billion times a day during December 2013.
So, sales are surging and game players continue to grow for King Digital. What does the company itself think of its business?
\"We cannot assure you that this level of significant growth will be sustainable in the future,\" King Digital said in its F-1 filing. \"In addition, some members of our management do not have significant experience managing a large global business operation, so our management may not be able to manage such growth effectively.\"
When King Digital goes public, under the stock ticker symbol \"KING,\" it will do so at a time when game developers are scrambling to get bigger pieces of the lucrative market for mobile games.
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The underwriters for King\'s IPO included J.P. Morgan, Credit Suisse and Bank of America/Merrill Lynch.
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While guest-hosting Fox & Friends, former Bush White House press secretary Dana Perino repeatedly portrayed President Obama and Democrats as unwilling to compromise with Republicans during the health care debate, while also touting GOP health care "ideas." In fact, Democrats attempted to compromise with Republicans on numerous occasions and incorporated conservative proposals into the bill.
Perino repeatedly suggests Republicans were shut out of health care reform debate
Perino claims health care summit was an attempt to "embarrass" Republicans and was "all just for show." On the November 8 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Perino said: "Remember, we had to have that big summit where President Obama called the Republicans down and then basically tried to embarrass them in front of the nation -- embarrass John McCain, and then it didn't do them any favors. And it was all just for show that they were going to move on anyway."
Perino: "Cooperation" on health care reform "would be reaching out" to incorporate GOP ideas. Later on Fox & Friends, Perino again attacked Obama's interview, saying: "When he talks about that he couldn't get cooperation from Republicans -- cooperation isn't necessarily Republicans capitulating to what you want. It would be reaching out and saying you have some ideas. The fact that they couldn't politically figure out a way just to even pick off one or two Republicans so that they could have called this a bipartisan bill is astounding to me."
In fact, the bill included several GOP ideas and amendments
Obama: "[W]hen you say I ought to be willing to accept Republican ideas on health care, let's be clear: I have." During Obama's question-and-answer period of his House GOP retreat visit on January 29, Obama stated some of the GOP ideas on health care reform that are included in the Senate bill, such as: "[C]reating a high-risk pool for uninsured folks with preexisting conditions"; "Allowing insurance companies to sell coverage across state lines"; "creating pools where self-employed and small businesses could buy insurance"; "let[ting] kids remain covered on their parents' insurance until they're 25 or 26"; "incentivizing wellness"; and "creating an affordable catastrophic insurance option for young people":
This is a big problem, and all of us are called on to solve it. And that's why, from the start, I sought out and supported ideas from Republicans. I even talked about an issue that has been a holy grail for a lot of you, which was tort reform, and said that I'd be willing to work together as part of a comprehensive package to deal with it. I just didn't get a lot of nibbles.
Creating a high-risk pool for uninsured folks with preexisting conditions, that wasn't my idea, it was Senator McCain's. And I supported it, and it got incorporated into our approach. Allowing insurance companies to sell coverage across state lines to add choice and competition and bring down costs for businesses and consumers -- that's an idea that some of you I suspect included in this better solutions; that's an idea that was incorporated into our package. And I support it, provided that we do it hand in hand with broader reforms that protect benefits and protect patients and protect the American people.
A number of you have suggested creating pools where self-employed and small businesses could buy insurance. That was a good idea. I embraced it. Some of you supported efforts to provide insurance to children and let kids remain covered on their parents' insurance until they're 25 or 26. I supported that. That's part of our package. I supported a number of other ideas, from incentivizing wellness to creating an affordable catastrophic insurance option for young people that came from Republicans like Mike Enzi and Olympia Snowe in the Senate, and I'm sure from some of you as well. So when you say I ought to be willing to accept Republican ideas on health care, let's be clear: I have.
Klein: "I don't think it's well understood how many of the GOP's central health-care policy ideas" are in Senate bill. In a February 8 blog post, Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein wrote that the "four planks" on health care laid out on the House Republican Conference's website are all included in the Senate bill, specifically the website's call to "Let families and businesses buy health insurance across state lines"; "Allow individuals, small businesses, and trade associations to pool together and acquire health insurance at lower prices, the same way large corporations and labor unions do"; "Give states the tools to create their own innovative reforms that lower health care costs"; and "End junk lawsuits." Klein also wrote that the excise tax included in the Senate bill "does virtually the same thing" as President Bush's 2007 proposal to cap the tax break for employer-sponsored insurance, and that the bill is "a private-market plan" that does not include the public option.
Senate bills had numerous GOP amendments and reflected bipartisan meetings. According to a HELP Committee document about bipartisan aspects of the health reform bill the committee passed July 15, 2009, its final bill included "161 Republican amendments," including "several amendments from Senators [Mike] Enzi [R-WY], [Tom] Coburn [R-OK], [Pat] Roberts [R-KS] and others [that] make certain that nothing in the legislation will allow for rationing of care," and reflected the efforts of "six bipartisan working groups" that "met a combined 72 times" in 2009 as well as "30 bipartisan hearings on health care reform" since 2007, half of which were held in 2009 [HELP Committee document, 7/09]. And according to the Senate Finance Committee's September 22, 2009, document detailing the amendments to the Chairman's Mark considered, at least 13 amendments sponsored by one or more Republican senators were included in the bill.
Several prominent Republicans indicated their unwillingness to negotiate in good faith
GOP senators made clear they didn't intend to negotiate with Democrats in good faith. For instance, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) asserted during a July 17, 2009, conference call organized by the anti-health care reform group Conservatives for Patients Rights while discussing health care reform: "If we're able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him." Similarly, Minority Whip Jon Kyl (AZ) reportedly admitted on August 18, 2009, that "almost all Republicans" will oppose Democratic health care reform efforts, regardless of the compromises Democrats might make in attempting to win their support. And Senate Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley during an August 2009 town hall meeting told the audience they "have every right to fear" the end-of-life counseling provision in the House bill, adding that the "government-run plan" could " could lead to "decide when to pull the plug on grandma." During an August 2009 interview, Grassley also admitted he wouldn't vote for his own bill if the GOP remained opposed. The Senate Finance Committee also held 31 "bipartisan meetings to discuss the development of a health care reform bill."
Perino touted GOP health care "ideas"
Perino: "When it comes to the Republicans, they did have ideas. They laid them out there." Later on Fox & Friends, Perino reacted to a clip of Obama saying he thought there could have been "common ground" on health care but that Republicans wouldn't cooperate, by calling his statement "a little bit stunning," claiming: "Because -- first of all, when it comes to the Republicans, they did have ideas. They laid them out there. Even though Democrats -- their favorite line is to say that the Republicans didn't have any ideas."
Fox News figures previously touted the GOP plan. On the November 5, 2009, edition of Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor Caroline Shively parroted a GOP press release, falsely claiming that their plan "means premiums for millions of families will be almost $5,000 lower under their plan, compared to the cheapest plan in the Democrats' exchange." On the November 5, 2009, edition of America's Newsroom, host Martha MacCallum claimed: "The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is saying that the Republican bill ... will carry lower costs for Americans. The CBO estimates that health insurance premiums would be nearly $5,000 cheaper under the Republican reforms than the Democratic ones."
In fact, GOP plan wouldn't cover uninsured, or lower premiums, and would lead to less deficit reduction
CBO: GOP plan leaves 52 million people uninsured. According to CBO estimates, the GOP plan would not cover most uninsured Americans. Despite a reported claim made by a spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner that the Republican alternative "will cover millions more Americans" than the Democrats' plan, the CBO estimated that the plan will only cover 3 million uninsured Americans over the next 10 years, 33 million less than the House Democrats' newly released bill. According to the CBO, the GOP plan would leave 52 million people still uninsured. By 2019, CBO predicts that under the GOP plan, "[t]he share of legal nonelderly residents with insurance coverage" would be "roughly in line with the current share."
CBO: GOP plan would lower most premiums by "zero to 3 percent." The CBO estimated that for 80 percent of the insured population, the Republican alternative would "lower average insurance premiums in 2016 by zero to 3 percent." In addition, CBO estimated that some of the bill's provisions "would tend to increase the premiums paid by less healthy enrollees."
CBO concluded GOP plan would result in less deficit reduction. CBO estimates indicate that House Democrats' bill lowers the deficit more than the GOP's proposal. The Republican alternative is estimated to reduce the federal deficit by $68 billion over 10 years. By comparison, the Democrats' bill would reduce the federal deficit by $104 billion, according to the CBO.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Consciousness (7): More Ambiguous Figures
In this post we'll finish the tour, started in the previous post, of ambiguous figures.
Some of the most compelling illusions include things that move. Indeed, every time we watch a movie we succumb to the illusion of apparent motion. As we saw in the previous post, a rotating Necker Cube evokes vivid bistability. The present group of ambiguous figures include moving parts that are essential for the illusion.
Ambiguous structure from motion
The following video looks like a cylinder rotating either clockwise or counterclockwise (its direction is bistable). There is no cylinder drawn in the video, just a bunch of randomly placed spots. The spots' motion is set to match the velocity they would have if painted on the surface of a cylinder, and this motion signal alone is enough to give the impression of a particular shape.
It sometimes takes more than 30 seconds for the percept to switch, so you might need to watch the movie more than once. I am able to make it reverse faster by rotating my finger around the bottom of the imaginary cylinder as if I were pushing it in a new direction.
Bistable See-Saw
In the following animation, the barbell-shaped object should look like it is flipping back and forth like a see-saw. Sometimes the see-saw crosses through the horizontal axis, and other times the vertical axis. You might even see the barbell rotating 'round and 'round in a circle, though in my experience this is rare.
I lock in fairly strongly to the horizontal see-saw, but when I cover up the bottom half of the image for a few seconds, this brings out the other percept.
One Plaid or Two Gratings?
Stare at the black dot in the following animation. While initially you probably see a plaid pattern moving upward, you will eventually see two translucent sinusoidal patterns (often described as 'gratings') sliding past one another. It took me almost 30 seconds the first time before the percept switched, so stick with it.
The Spinning Girl
One of my favorite illusions. This beautiful ballerina was created by Nobuyuki Kayahara. In which direction is the ballerina doing her pirouette? Most people see her rotating clockwise initially, but the stimulus is actually ambiguous, so you can also see her rotating counterclockwise.
If you have trouble getting her to switch directions, cover her body and look only at the shadows at the bottom of the image. With the number of cues reduced, you should be able to see the shadow change direction. Once that happens, slowly lift your hand while maintaining the new direction of rotation to reveal the new pirouette direction.
This illusion has been misinterpreted as a test of handedness, or a test of whether you are right-brained or left-brained. There is no evidence for these claims, and I'm not sure where the rumors originated.
Binocular rivalry
Binocular rivalry has been a workhorse for the study of consciousness. This is partly because, in addition to the extensive psychological studies of binocular rivalry, neuroscientists have locked onto rivalry as a model for the study of the neural basis of consciousness. While we'll look more deeply at rivalry in future posts, for now we'll treat it as just another cool bistable percept.
To experience rivalry in the following image, put a piece of paper perpendicular to the screen between the two images, so your left eye sees the face and your right eye sees the house (your face should be about six inches from the screen). Be sure to fuse the checkered circles in the center of each figure. Once you obtain fusion, hold it for a while and you will experience rivalry.
Most people do not see a simple fusion of the house and face, but rather the patterns alternate. For instance, you might see the house for a few seconds, and then the face will dominate for a while, and so on. That is binocular rivalry. During transitions, the new percept will spread across the old in a kind of traveling wave, in which case you might see a dynamic quilt-like pattern.
Ambiguous forms
In this class of ambiguous figures, perception alternates between often drastically different types of objects (e.g., face and vase). These illusions are probably better known than all of the others. They are used in advertisements and art, and there are so many on the internet that I can only show a tiny sample. I won't say much about them, as the titles suggest what the two objects are supposed to be, and most of them aren't very difficult to see.
Vase versus Face
The old standby in every introductory psychology textbook.
Duck versus Rabbit
Another classic. I like the following version (from Torrey (1970)) because the two interpretations seem equally likely.
Wife/Mother-in-law and Husband/Father-in-law
On the top is a beautiful young socialite and a nasty witch-like banshee. Below is a handsome gadabout and a wretchedly distasteful lecher.
Chef versus Dog
Tilt your head to the left to see the dog, and to the right to see the goofy French chef.
Nude woman versus Reagan face
Kissing Jesters
It alternates between a single jester facing you, and two jesters facing each other, their lips lightly touching.
Gypsy versus Narcissist
The top of the image shows the ambiguous version, while the bottom shows disambiguated versions (gypsy on the left and narcissistic woman looking into the mirror on the right).
Man's face or Woman Reading?
Our last figure. I would be remiss, in a tour of ambiguous forms, if I didn't pay homage to the great surrealist Salvador Dali. His paintings are filled with beautiful and sometimes hauntingly plastic forms. The following painting, 'The Image Disappears,' was painted by Dali in 1938.
It seems somehow appropriate to let Salvador Dali be the last stop in our tour of ambiguous figures. If you have any favorites that I haven't included, please let me know in the comments or via email.
Where we are headed
While ambiguous images are intrinsically cool, they also provide a window into the nature of visual consciousness. Based on these illusions, in the next post I'll make some general hypotheses about the nature of (visual) perception. These hypotheses will give us a target for the neuronal data, to which we will then turn.
Sources of Illusions
The structure-from-motion demo is supplementary material in Krug et al. (2008). The Bistable See-Saw is adapted from the ambiguous quartet illusion, which was described by Ramachandran and Antsis (1985) (a tactile version is described in Carter et al. (2008)). The plaid/grating illusion is from Stoner et al (1990). The Spinning Girl was created by Nobuyuki Kayahara, who works in digital design. The house-face image used for binocular rivalry is from Tong et al. (1998). Vase/face goes back to Rubin (1915), but the one here is from Fischer (1967). The duck-rabbit was published originally by Jastrow (1899), but the one here is from Torrey (1970). The mother-in-law/wife image was originally published by Hill (1915), and the husband/father-in-law was originally published in Botwinick (1961). Kissing Jesters is from Fisher (1967). Chef/Dog is from Wallach and Austin (1954). Nude/Reagan is from Fisher (1968), a paper that shows 30 ambiguous forms from the history of psychology. Gypsy/Narcissist is from Fisher (1967).
Botwinick (1961) Husband and father-in-law: A reversible figure. American Journal of Psychology, 74: 312-313.
Carter, O, Konkle, T, Wang, Q, Hayward, V, and Moore C (2008) Tactile Rivalry Demonstrated with an Ambiguous Apparent-Motion Quartet. Current Biology 18: 1050-1054.
Fisher, G (1967), Measuring Ambiguity, American Journal of Psychology 80: 541-557.
Fischer, G (1968) Ambiguity of form: Old and new. Perception and Psychophysics 4: 189-192.
Hill, We (1915) My wife and my mother-in-law. Puck November 6.
Jastrow, J. (1899) The Mind's Eye. Popular Sci. Monthly, 54: 299-312.
Kristine Krug, Emma Brunskill, Antonina Scarna, Guy M Goodwin, Andrew J Parker (2008) Perceptual switch rates with ambiguous structure-from-motion figures in bipolar disorder. Proc. R. Soc. B, 275: 1839-1848.
Ramachandran, V.S., and Anstis, S.M. (1985). Perceptual organization in multistable apparent motion. Perception 14, 135-143.
Rubin, EJ (1915) Synsopleved Figurer: Studier i psykologisk Analyse. [If anyone has the full reference please let me know]
Stoner, GR, Albright TD, and Ramachandran VS (1990) Transparency and coherence in human motion perception. Nature 344: 153-5.
Tong, Nakayama, Vaughan, and Kanwisher (1998) Binocular rivalry and visual awareness in human extrastriate cortex, Neuron 21: 753–759
Torrey, CC (1970) Trace Localization and the Recognition of Visual Form. The American Journal of Psychology, 83: 591-600.
Wallach, H, and Austin, P (1954) Recognition and the localization of visual traces. Am J Psychol, 67:338-40.
Table of Contents of posts on consciousness.
6 comments:
- joeyo said...
In the structure from motion example, I don't think the precept of the cylinder arises simply from the motion of the dots, but rather also due to the way the dots change size and shape at the edges of the figure. This presumably is to match the dynamics of surface features "going over the horizon" as the object rotates.
- Eric Thomson said...
Joeyo: excellent point, I hadn't noticed these differences at the boundaries.
Because of that, the example in the post isn't a pure case of structure from motion. Such boundary manipulations aren't required to get the effect, and you can see a pure demo at this site.
- Arnold Trehub said...
Looking at the spinning girl, I wonder if others see what I see, that whenever the far toe is fixated, the direction of spin reverses.
- Eric Thomson said...
Arnold: I can't get it to switch that way. It is very hard for me to get her to switch without covering most of the figure.
I hadn't seen the spinning girl, very cool.
I tried the rivarly, but I keep seeing each image (both at the same time) or one or the other if I put my attention on one or the other. I tried for awhile--
Are there other images I might try?
A good example of the motion illusion is the lighting along the strip in Vegas--
- Eric Thomson said...
Anon: this was the best example I could find, the most "pure." If you focus on truly fusing the crosshairs, and just hold it for a while, it should happen. Or perhaps you have a mutant visual system. :)
It is frankly pretty common to have an impure rivalry, and I will have a lot more to say about this, as the dynamics of the alternation are a lot more complicated than I discuss here.
The scholarpedia article on rivalry is excellent.


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In Fall 2013, one of the BMA's most iconic works – Bruce Nauman's Violins Violence Silence – was removed from its place on the BMA's East Wing. Over time, natural wear and tear had begun to take their toll on the piece, so in consultation with the Bruce Nauman studio and the BMA's conservation and curatorial staff, the sculpture was removed from its normal location, in order that it could be refabricated with more up-to-date and durable neon technology.
The large piece was Nauman's first public neon work, and it came to the BMA as a gift of the artist's galleries, in recognition of the Museum's pioneering 1982 exhibition Bruce Nauman: Neons – the first survey of the artist's works in that medium. Wrapped around a corner of the BMA's façade, the words Violins Violence Silence share letters and form a poetic string of similar sounds. The meanings of the individual words appear unrelated, suggesting that the physical structure behind verbal communication can be surprisingly arbitrary. Alternatively, read as a sequence describing cause and effect, the work relates an aggressive act against art and beauty, and the somber consequence.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the gift of Violins Violence Silence and the 100th anniversary of the Museum in 2014, the BMA's Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art (FoMaCA) organized a series of events to raise the $120,000 needed to restore the beacon-like presence of this 20th-century masterpiece to the BMA and the city of Baltimore.
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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury residents on April 11 will vote on a proposed 2007-2008 Mary Hogan Elementary School spending plan that offers no new programs and reflects an inflationary increase in spending.
ID-4 school directors have OK'd a draft budget of $5,482,885, which represents a 2.73-percent increase compared to this year's Mary Hogan Elementary spending plan of $5,337,045.
"It's pretty much a maintenance budget," said Principal Bonnie Bourne. "There are no new initiatives."
It's a spending plan that reflects roughly the same number of staff (around 65) delivering services to what officials believe will be a level — or slightly higher — number of students next year. Mary Hogan currently serves 389 children in grades kindergarten through 6.
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MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury South Village (MSV) development off Court Street could soon host a 17,000-square-foot Aldi discount food store.
Developers Jeffry Glassberg and Steve Reid confirmed on Friday they have signed a purchase and sales agreement with Aldi, through which the company would buy two lots within the 30-acre project. Aldi would build its new store on one of the lots, while setting aside the other lot for landscaping and parking — though that site could potentially be developed at a later date.
Friday saw Glassberg, Reid and Aldi Director of Real Estate David S. Wolf meet with Middlebury officials and local business leaders to explain the food store's history and tentative plans. If all goes well, Aldi will submit a building application to the town as soon as this spring or summer, according to Wolf.
"Our goal today is to introduce the (project concept), and Aldi, and listen," Glassberg said. "We want to hear from folks what they think."
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Week 7 of the USSF D-2 Pro League began with three important midweek matches on Wednesday, May 19, as conference rivals Austin Aztex and Tampa Bay Rowdies battled to a pulsing 3-3 draw at House Park in Austin, Texas, which moved both teams above the Portland Timbers in the USL Conference standings. Crystal Palace Baltimore continued their impressive road form as they downed the Rochester Rhinos 1-0 in Rochester, while the Montreal Impact picked up a key away victory against cross-conference opponents, the Portland Timbers, at PGE Park. Saturday, May 22 saw Vancouver Whitecaps FC return to winning ways when they beat the Rochester Rhinos 2-0 at home in Swangard Stadium. Resurgent Crystal Palace Baltimore turned a double on the Portland Timbers by earning a 2-1 win at home over the Oregon club to jump up the NASL Conference table to third place. The Tampa Bay Rowdies took the opportunity presented by the Portland loss to jump over them in the USL Conference standings after a 3-0 victory against AC St. Louis in St. Louis. Down at Lockhart Stadium in Ft. Lauderdale, Miami FC earned its first win of the season in a 1-0 contest against the NSC Minnesota Stars.
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