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I am a guilt-stricken carnivore. Even though I love eating meat, I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the ethics of killing animals for consumption and with the environmental impact of the meat industry. I also have mixed feelings about gentrification. I clearly see the benefits it can bring, but I am also aware it can adversely affect local communities and businesses. One thing I have not done until now is think of these two issues in conjunction.
A few days ago, a colleague sent me an article in the British free newspaper Metro about the recent closure of one of London’s oldest pie and mash shops, AJ Goddard in Deptford. According to the article, the owner blamed gentrification (a claim that has been previously made about the closure of pie and mash shops more generally). The influx of newcomers who were vegan, vegetarian, or “into fad diets” were apparently what caused the shop’s closure after 128 years of operation.
My initial reaction was to question this claim. The owner told the Metro that he’d had a few people coming in and asking if they did vegan pies: “It’s like some kind of bad joke – we’re a traditional pie and mash shop, of course we don’t sell vegan pies.” If this was the case, I thought, why not seek to reflect the desires of local customers and start selling a vegan option? If people were coming in to ask for them, then the demand was certainly there.
The owner’s apparent refusal to sell vegan pies was because the shop was a “traditional” one (in other words, one that sells meat pies). But this claim is problematic: the contents of London pies have changed over the years in response to changes in supply and demand. Pies in the East End were originally associated with eels. The move towards meat (mostly beef) came with the overfishing of eels in the 19th century, though the tradition of eating eels is still present (most shops sell jellied eels and a few also do hot stewed eels). And, the second element of the dish, mash, was only added on a few decades later.
Meanwhile, the media charge that vegetarians and vegans are to blame fits in well with a meat industry that perceives itself as being under siege. Across the world, there have been campaigns to prohibit vegetarian and vegan products from using meat-based labels such as sausage, steak and burger, and in France the industry has even asked for government protection from vegans.
Food identities
But the closure of this South London shop raises a wider question regarding the relationship between food and identity. People’s food culture tends to reflect their class, gender, national and political identifications and as such are often slow to change. The French gastronome Brillat Savarin famously said, “tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are”.
Britain has been described as a “nation of pie-lovers” and pie and mash served with liquor (parsley sauce), aka the Londoners’ meal, has been closely associated with East End “cockney” culture for more than a century. And so one could read the closure of AJ Goddard, and many other pie and mash shops, as an indication of the decline of cockney culture and identity.
But we could go even further and lament, with Brexit in mind, the decline of traditional English culture and identity; in terms of food culture this has included the closure of “traditional” pubs, cafes and fish and chip shops. Gentrification and veganism are thus associated with foreigners or out of touch liberal elites who not only do not understand, share or respect local culture and traditions, but actively seek to change them, and authorities who do nothing to protect them. A pie shop’s decision not to reflect the tastes of local customers could in this view be political as well as pragmatic; tied to “traditional” views of food culture.
Dynamic food
Food culture is dynamic and not immutable. The rise and fall of pie and mash, just like other national food icons, reflects the changing nature of social and economic life in Britain over the past century.
The first pie and mash shop opened in 1844 to cater for the demands of a growing working class in East London, fuelled by the growth of the docks, and based on the flow of people (migrants) and goods (most of the eels originally served came from Dutch fishing vessels). Pie and mash were thus products of change and were probably, at the time, seen as a food fad. They were also, to an extent, products of migration from other parts of the country and from abroad. Of the three families that started the pie and mash trade in London, the Kellys, the Cookes, and the Manzes, the latter two were Irish and Italian.
The pie and mash shops that have survived have increasingly moved away from a narrow interpretation of authenticity and tradition. Most now include vegetarian options, which according to one owner are “really popular”, and some have even gone as far as providing non “authentic” sides such as gravy and chips. A few of the more modern shops have gone further and have included less traditional options such as Thai green curry and chicken tikka masala (and the latter can be arguably seen as a British national dish). One of the most successful London pie shops offers 21 different pies, including three vegetarian and five vegan ones.
All this is true. But the desire, particularly after Brexit, to lament the decline of English culture and to read events through the lens of identity politics has become pervasive. And in fact, according to the Huffington Post, the closure of this pie and mash shop had more to do with local politics and austerity than simply the influx of vegans. Apparently the owner later claimed that the real reason his shop was relocating to Kent was because of the rise in rent and business rates and the condition of the building, which is owned by Lewisham Council.
Whatever the reason, in today’s era of healthy eating, whether you are a vegan, meat eater or flexitarian, serving carbs with carbs is always going to be a hard sell. | {
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The Book of Celtic Wisdom: Poems, Proverbs, and Blessings
The Book of Celtic Wisdom is a collection of the poems, proverbs, and aphorisms of the Celtic people that have been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. These are the proverbs and blessings that bring the wisdom of the ancient Celts to life. Their thoughts on charity ("Stretch out your hand in giving, and you will never stretch it out in need"), aging ("The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune"), and work ("The lazy young man and the poor old man; two sides of the same coin") are as relevant today as they were thousands of years ago. A thoughtful and reflective compilation, this book is bound to inspire, enlighten, and entertain readers every-where. | {
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"i don't care about family trees, i care that families read"
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re/mix-pablo neruda’s one hundred love sonnets xvii vs. public enemy’s fight the power
spring has sprung and clearing out the apartment to make room for a cat whose sleep schedule is the exact opposite from mine has revealed the new/old projects that bring me joy.
this one is one that i will finish over the next few weeks. it came out of writer’s bootcamp and is a poetry mashup exercise. the titles are all folded over, so i’m just grabbing two at a time (yes, i took them all at the end) and seeing who wrote them afterwards. this morning’s surprise begat this re/mix (after three edits):
love obscures things hittin’ your heart
problems and pride live dimly in the dark
so close to an arrow of carnations
reactions speak louder than words so don’t be afraid to
listen if you’re missin’ sweaty imaginations
love the tight aroma
of another summer sound
that doesn’t bloom but carries
forms a closed hand on my dreams
i love you like this because
it seems that i don’t know
i don’t love you.
i’m developing some structure to my writing sundays, and today i discovered just how effective two hours of mining can be, and that’s just what i’m committing to doing. | {
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Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Drunken Seduction by Bob
At the beginning
of my sophomore year in college, a guy I hung around with during our freshman
year, Ray, approached me and said that since we got along so well, we should
room together this semester. I had such a hardon for Ray that I didn't know if
I should take him up on the offer to room together. I wasn't sure I could
handle it, being that close to him all the time. I always sprang a boner
whenever we were together. Thank God for baggy pants. I don't think he was ever
aware of his affect on me. But, eventually, I said OK and once I got used to
being around him so much, it was OK. Ray and I knew each other well enough and
had been friends long enough that it was easy for us to get along, provided, of
course, if I just ignored his naked body parading around our room after his
shower each night, I could handle it.
Right before
Christmas break, the guys down the hall from us had a party, and Ray and I
went. There was lots of beer and several guys were passing around bottles of
harder stuff, so a lot of us got pretty shit-faced. I don't like to drink hard
stuff because I'm afraid of what I might do, for one thing, so I had a couple
of beers, then stretched out on a couch to relax. After I'd been on the couch
for a few minutes with my eyes closed, I felt the couch bounce, then felt
someone slide onto it next to me, felt a hand on my shoulder, and heard Ray's
voice.
"Hey Bob,
move over so I can sit next to you."
For some reason I
did nothing, just pretended I was asleep. Ray poked me harder. I didn't
respond.
I heard someone
else say, "He's passed out man, better get him out of here before he
hurls all over the place."
Ray swore.
"How about helping me", he said, and the next thing I knew there were
hands all over me, and I was being carried
out of the room and down the hall to our room.
I got an erection
almost right away because Ray was helping to carry me and then felt a hand in
my crotch, feeling me up pretty good. Another guy had his hand on my ass,
probing my crack. I'd have cum if the groping had lasted longer. I sure wanted
to know whose hands those were, but I kept my eyes closed and pretended I
really was out cold. I felt myself being dumped on a bed, and heard laughing
and joking as the guys left. I heard the door close. I was about to get up and
turn on the light when I heard someone in the room.
Then the bed shook
and I heard Ray's voice. "Hey Bob, wake up."
He shook me
gently. I remained motionless. He shook me again.
"Fuck, man,
you never get drunk." I was about to leap up and grab him and wrestle him
to submission when
I heard him say, "Maybe I'd better undress you."
I couldn't believe
he meant it, but I decided to wait and see. The next thing I knew he was taking
my shoes off. I was lying across the bed, with my feet hanging off the side, so
that was easy.
"Shit man,
you're faking it", Ray said. "Let's find out."
He reached inside
my shirt and started tickling me. Normally I am very ticklish, but this time I
just lay there like a log.
" You had a
nice tight body, I guess from working out so much" he whispered.
He moved his hands
over my chest and pinched my nipples. It was then that my cock started to swell
up again and as he continued to undress me I soon had a full hardon. His hands
got bolder and went lower and lower and soon he was groping my crotch through
my pants, feeling my
hardon.
"Fuck yeah
man," he breathed, "you're digging this".
He was groping my
cock with one hand while he worked my pecs with the other. Then his hand left
my crotch and I heard a zipper go down. I squinted from behind closed eyelids
so I could sneak a look at him and saw my buddy Ray with his tee shirt pushed up
and his pants open holding his hard cock in his hand. He was jerking off
while he felt my body and played with my hard cock. I couldn't believe this was
happening - my best buddy Ray was groping my hard cock and digging it. My boner
throbbed and twitched as he squeezed it.
Then he said,
"Shit, dude, I can't stop now, I've got to have you", and he undid the waistband of
my pants and unbuttoned the fly and moved off the bed so he could pull my
pants off.
I didn't help, I
still didn't want him to know I was awake, so he had to struggle a bit, but
soon he had my pants all the way off. He moved onto the bed next to me again
unbuttoned and pushed my shirt out of the way and then resumed his exploration
of my now nearly naked body with his hands. I just had on my briefs. I could
hear him breathing heavily. He was really turned on by what he was doing to me.
I figured he was probably not looking at my face so I let my eyes open a bit
again, just enough to see him. He had his tee shirt all the way off now and his
pants pushed partway down and was working his hard cock with one hand while with the
other he explored my body. He was really paying a lot of attention to my pecs
rubbing and squeezing them and when he started working my big hard nipples I
couldn't help moaning because it felt so good. He froze. So did I.
"What the
fuck", he muttered.
I guess he figured
at this point if I was awake bit he'd gone too far to turn back off so slowly
his hand started working my nipples again. My cock was throbbing and swelling
and oozing fuck juice like crazy, I was so turned on by having Ray feel me up.
Ray's hand moved down my abs, tracing the cuts of my six-pack. Then he slid his
hand inside the waistband of my briefs and gently explored my crotch slowly
wrapping his hand around my huge hard cock.
"Shit yeah,
dude", he breathed.
I have a big one,
about nine inches, and thick. Most guys look envious when they see it hard.
It's pretty awesome even I have to say so myself. Ray is pretty well equipped
too, I'd seen him hard lots of times, but I was bigger than he was; bigger than
most guys I've seen hard, which is not that many. Then Ray spread my legs apart
as far as they wouldgo and explored my thighs with his hands, rubbing his hot
horny hands up into my crack. He
was making sounds that told me he was really turned on and getting to the point
where he didn't care what happened. I felt both of his hands on me, one rubbing
my pecs and abs, the other stroking my cock. If he kept that up I was going to
cum and I was thinking it was time to wake up.
Then just as I was
about to let him know I wasn't passed out I heard Ray say "Shit, Bob, I
can't help it I gotta have you" and the next thing I knew I felt his warm
wet mouth on my cock. He was sucking my huge hard cock!
I moaned
involuntarily and he just kept it up. He had one hand on my balls and the other
on my pecs and was sucking my cock for all he was worth. I don't think he'd
ever done it to anyone before, because he was having trouble
taking it and I could feel his teeth a couple of times but I was still in
heaven. I'd never dared dream such a thing; that Ray was as queer for me as I
was for him and now he was sucking me off. I started cumming, my balls churned
and my cock swelled and spurted huge gobs of hot sticky fuck juice all over me
and Ray moaned and panted but he kept on sucking, taking it all and swallowing
it. I opened my eyes a little again and saw him grab his own cock and start
pumping it as he continued to suck mine and right away he started erupting in
huge spurts of cum all over me and the bed. When he finished shooting he
released my still-oozing cock and fell onto the bed beside me, panting and
moaning. He was still rubbing his hands all over my
naked body, enjoying my muscles.
"Shit, yeah,
fuck, oh Bob, dude, I love you."
He crawled up
beside me then and I felt his lipstouch mine and then he was kissing me. I was
so stunned by what he had just done that I didn't know what to do. If I kissed
him back the way I wanted to, he'd know I had been faking it and that might
make him stop. So I justlay there and let him hug me and rub his naked body
against my naked body. My cock was still hard and oozing cum and he was playing
with it and his own cock was still hard too and poking me in the leg all wet
and slippery. Finally Ray got up from my bed. I realized I was stuck now, I had
to lay there and fall asleep and wake up in the morning and act as though I had no idea what
had happened. But I really had to piss. I opened my eyes a little and saw Ray
open the door and go out. He was wearing just his briefs, but that was OK, some
guys walked down the halls buck-naked. Maybe he was going back to the party.
Naw, he wouldn't do that, dressed like that. Did I dare get up and go down the
hall to the can? I was feeling almost like I was really as drunk as I had
pretended, what had happened was so awesome. I lay there for a couple of
minutes then sat up on the side of the bed. My cock was still hard. I reached
down and stroked it idly as I tried to decide what to do. That's when Ray came
back in.
"Dude! You're
awake!" Ray said in surprise. I looked at him with as much of a pretense
of bleary-eyed drunkenness as I could manage.
"Gotta
piss," I said, slurring my words, and lurched to my feet and pulled my
briefs back over my dick. I stumbled against
the wall and stood shakily, looking at my roommate, mybest buddy who had just
sucked my cock. He had a wet cloth in his hands and I realized he'd been
intending to clean me up. I started towards him, lurching around as much as I
could without hurting myself.
"I really
gotta piss," I said, heading for the door. I managed to lurch up against
Ray, and he caught me. I looked blearily into his eyes and mumbled "I'm
drunk, buddy, I'm drunk."
"No shit,
dude!" he replied clutching my near naked body to his.
We were both still
wearing nothing but our briefs, and mine were wet and cummy. I reached down and
groped myself releasing my cock.
"Gotta
hardon," I slurred.
"Yeah, Bob,
you've got a hardon. Here, let's get that thing back in your shorts," he
said and reached down and pulled my briefs up and managed to work my big hardon
back inside.
My cock almost
spurted another load of hot cum all over the two of us when he grabbed it
and pushed it down
into my briefs.
"Good old
Ray,' I slurred. "My buddy Ray." I lurched towards the door again. I
was starting to formulate a plan. "Gotta piss, can you help me to the
john?", I asked.
Ray helped me
stagger down the hall to the bathroom. We shared a giant bathroom with all the
other rooms on the floor. At this hour on a Saturday night it was usually
empty, aside from some drunken college boy taking a piss to get rid of all the
beer he had drunk, so Ray and I had the giant room to ourselves. I let him
guide me to a urinal and I managed to get my cock out and fortunately it had
gone soft enough that I was able to piss. That was real at least, and I
gratefully emptied my bladder. I swayed so Ray tried to support me without
looking too much like he was interested in what I was doing. When I had finished
pissing, I broke from my buddy and staggered away from the urinals and looked
around.
"Gotta take a
shower," I announced, and headed towards the shower stalls.
That caught Ray
off guard, and I was through the doorway by the time he caught up with me. I
wanted him in the shower with me though, so I staggered even more, and let
myself slam into a wall. It hurt enough that I wasn't faking it when I recoiled
and stood there moaning. Ray grabbed me to keep me from hurting myself further.
"Gotta take a
shower," I slurred, stripping my briefs off and
leaving them on
the floor as I staggered around looking for a shower stall.
"Jesus!"
Ray swore softly. "OK, come on, here's a shower."
I think he
expected to just shove me into one and then leave me while I sobered up, but I
grabbed him and pulled him in with me. I reached for the faucets and turned
them on before he could get out of the way and the two of us were showered with
ice cold water.
"Fuck! That's
cold!" Ray yelled, and reached to adjust the spray.
He got it to a
more comfortable temperature and by that time I had some soap in my hands.
Someone had left his soap when he was through washing. Usually I would have
avoided even touching one of those bars,
but I grabbed it and reached out and started soaping up my buddy's almost naked
body. Ray fought me briefly, then decided to give in and go along with my
drunken antics. I soaped him clumsily, in keeping with my supposed drunkenness,
and when I encountered his wet briefs I let out a whoop of discovery.
"Hey! My
buddy isn't naked, gotta get naked to take a shower!" and I sank to my
knees and pulled his shorts down before he could do more than make a brief
protest.
His cock flopped
out, half hard, and I reached up with my soapy hands and started lathering up
Ray's cock and balls. He was hard right away and fell back against the wall of
the shower stall, obviously loving what I was doing to him. I tried to maintain
the pretense that I was drunk and continued to feel him up real good, play with
his hard cock and churning balls until he was moaning and panting with passion.
Then I stumbled to my feet and fell against my naked buddy. My hands were
rubbing his hard pecs and rippled abs just as he had done to me when he thought
I was passed out on the bed. Ray is a really hot stud.
"My buddy Ray
has a boner," I mumbled as I felt him up, letting my hands slide
down into his
crotch.
I got one hand on
his balls and the other wrapped around his huge hardon and started stroking him
as I nuzzled his neck with my mouth and started licking his neck and cheek. Ray
was making ineffectual efforts to stop me, pushing me away very feebly, but
when I put my mouth to his and started kissing him he stopped resisting and
kissed me back.
We parted from
that kiss finally, and I put my lips to Ray's ear and in my normal, sober voice
I said "I'll return the favor and give you a blow job even better than the
one you just gave me when we get back to our room."
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Reading has more than three times the national average when it comes to big name coffee shops.
Data from the Food Standards Agency reveals that Reading has six Starbucks, six Costa Coffees, four Caffeè Neros and two Pret a Mangers. Which means there are 11.3 coffee shops for every 100,000 people in Reading.
Nationally there are 2,397 of these big name shops, meaning a national average of 3.7 chops per 100,000 people.
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Baseball ProGUESTus: The Physics of a Truly Amazing Throw
Alan Nathan is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After a long career doing things like measuring the electric and magnetic polarizabilities of the proton and studying the quark structure of nucleons, he now devotes his time and effort to the physics of baseball. He maintains an oft-visited website devoted to that subject: go.illinois.edu/physicsofbaseball.
When I woke up on Wednesday morning and checked my overnight Twitter timeline, I found considerable buzz about an incredible throw made by Oakland A’s left fielder Yoenis Cespedes on Tuesday night.
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With the game between the A’s and the Angels tied 1-1 and Howie Kendrick on first with one out in the bottom of the eighth, Mike Trout hit a fly ball to left field that fell in for a hit. When Cespedes misplayed the bounce and the ball rolled into foul territory, Kendrick kept on running. Cespedes eventually fielded the ball, over 300 feet from home plate, then uncorked a perfect strike on the fly to nab Kendrick at home plate. Prompted by several calls on the Twittersphere for a “physics analysis” of this amazing throw, I decided to forget about what I had been planning to do concentrate on this analysis instead. So, here we go.
What I wanted to do was come up with a way to determine the full trajectory of the throw. To do that, I need two critical pieces of information: How far did the ball travel (D), and how long was it in the air (T). To answer both questions, I replayed the video over and over again until I was satisfied that I had a good estimate of both D and T.
First, we know that the distance to the left-field foul pole in Anaheim is 340 ft. I estimate from the video that Cespedes was about 20 ft from the foul pole and just inside the LF line when he unloaded the ball. I also estimate that the ball was caught by A’s catcher Derek Norris about 2 ft from the corner of home plate. Thus I find that D=318 ft. Next, I used several different camera angles to time the throw with a stopwatch. I found amazing consistency with that process, arriving at T=3.17 sec. Now, I should point out that ESPN reported somewhat different numbers, D=300 ft and T=2.78 sec. I am pretty confident about the T, and perhaps less confident about the D, since I had to estimate the distance from the foul pole. But ESPN had to do that also. In any case, I’ll proceed with my numbers and comment later on doing the same analysis with the ESPN numbers.
The next step is to use my “trajectory calculator,” a general-purpose tool I have created to do all kinds of trajectory calculations for baseball and softball. While I normally use it for pitched or batted balls, there’s no reason why it can’t also be used for thrown balls, so that’s what I did.
First, I made certain assumptions about the drag coefficient and the amount of backspin on the ball. The specific assumptions are not terribly important, since the final result is not all that sensitive to reasonable changes in those assumptions. Based on the video, I assumed that the throw was released from a height of 6 ft and was caught at a height of 5 ft. I then simply adjusted the release speed and vertical launch angle to make the trajectory be 5 ft off the ground and 318 from release after 3.17 sec. I find that the ball was released at a speed of 97-99 mph and at a launch angle of 12-14 degrees. My best estimate of the trajectory is shown in the plot below. By the way, had I used the ESPN numbers for D and T, the initial speed and angle would be 99 mph and 10.5 degrees, which are not really all that different from my results. So, there seems to be no doubt that the release speed was in excess of 95 mph and the launch angle was quite low, in the 10-14 degree range.
Having satisfied myself that I had a good model for the full trajectory, I then asked another question: How accurate did Cespedes have to be to nab the runner at home plate? The replay shows that there was very little margin for error. How does that translate in the accuracy of release?
I used the trajectory calculator to ask what would be the effect of changing either the horizontal or vertical release angles by ±1 degree. I found that a ±1 degree change in horizontal angle would lead to a horizontal deflection of about ±6 ft at home plate, probably making it impossible to nail the runner. I found that at ±1 degree change in the vertical angle would change the height of the ball at home plate by ±5 ft, meaning the ball would have hit the ground just in front of the plate or nearly gone over the catcher’s head. So we can safely conclude that Cespedes’s margin of error was less than (but comparable to) ±1 degree in each direction.
To throw the ball that hard and that quickly (after all, he didn’t have time to “aim”) with that accuracy is truly an amazing feat. Everyone who has seen the throw knows that already, but now we’ve quantified exactly how amazing it was.
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Well, we've quantified how amazing it was in absolute terms, but not relatively. How can we know how hard it was for Cespedes to do that - either compared to other players or compared to his own prior performance? (Not that it wasn't completely amazing... I'm just curious how difficult it was, the opportunity for any OF to do this is extraordinarily rare, and in many cases - since it means airmailing the cut-off man - discouraged.)
I appreciate the article, and the analysis that u would be completely incapable of. And I was utterly as amazed by the throw as everyone else. But, reading the article, I kept wondering one thing. What were you going to do today before writing this article?
Really nicely done. This throw got me thinking: do any sites keep track of things like total number of throws to X base and what percentage were cut off/on target/off target? With Cespedes it's easy since he leads the bigs in outfield assists. But do we know who has the mos accurate arm in the OF from year to year, regardless of whether the throw made it in time or not?
This was a great throw from distance point of view but it pales in comparison to the Great Bo Jackson throw from the left field corner of Royals stadium to get a much superior runner in Harold Reynolds by an eye lash.
Cespedes kicked the ball around, missed the cut off man by a wide margin, and made a high arching through rather than a straight one.
I don't know who has the most accurate arm in the bigs but I would put my money on Alex Gordon.
Update: I have updated my estimates based on new information I have found (courtesy of Eli Baldrige of ESPN Sports Science). Following his advice, I have used the Distance Measurement Tool with (old) Google Maps to come up with a much better distance, D=300 ft. I had earlier found some incorrect info on the web about the distance to the foul plot, which is actually 330 ft. Also, I now have a real-time video that allows me to time the throw by counting frames, with 30 frames/sec. I find that the hang time T=2.80 sec. The longer time I had used earlier was found from a replay that had actually been slowed down.
So, with D-300, T=2.80, I find initial speed=101.5 mph, launch angle=10.0 degrees. The answer is not all that different from before, but I wanted to get the whole thing right. I have posted a new plot of the trajectory on my web site.
Tom Hart, sideline reporter on the Braves telecasts, quoted your information stat for stat on Thursday afternoon's Braves-Rockies broadcast attributing the information to Baseball Prospectus. His segment included replays of the throw. Pretty good given that the Braves weren't playing the A's and it wasn't related to anything going on with the Braves.
Outfielders throwing velocity is not truly compable to pitching off a mound because the motions are very different. In this case though, Cespedes was not able to bring his full momentum toward home plate as an outfielder camped under a flyball. Yes,this throw was amazing, but throwing 100+MPH from the outfield is nothing special from a MLB caliber OFer.
Re: "...throwing 100+MPH from the outfield is nothing special...". I don't necessarily doubt what you are saying. Just wondering how you know that. In particular, do you have access to data that show that this is the case?
My student, Eric Lang, is busy working on a similar analysis for other great throws (especially the ones pointed out by Rob Neyer last week in his article). If we are successful in obtaining good video, we should be able to do the same type of analysis we did on Cespedes. Then we can compare release speeds, etc. | {
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Is Your Mac Running Too Smoothly? Type These 8 Characters to Crash Almost Any Program
I’ve used Macs for most of my adult computing life. They’re normally very stable machines, but they’re not perfect, and a new flaw proves it. It turns out if you type “File:///” (no quotes) into most programs on a system running Mac OS X, that program will crash. I tested this bug out in a number of programs, and almost all of them quit immediately. This reportedly only works in the current Mountain Lion version of OS X, so maybe it’s a cool new feature? Will “File:///” replace Command-Q?
The tests I’ve run let “File:///” crash nearly any app I tried that had a search feature of some kind. Typing it into the search or address bar of any of my browsers crashed them immediately except for Safari, which I don’t use regularly and hasn’t been updated in quite some time. That browser froze halfway through typing the test characters. That might be why I stopped using Safari.
Typing the characters into a text field of a website didn’t seem to affect anything. I tried typing it in as my username and password to access my email account, and the browser window held up just fine. Typing it into the text field of WordPress did not have any adverse effects either. I also tried sending an email to “File:///” and the window still didn’t crash. I will update this article if I get a response from “File:///”
The bug is being blamed on the Data Detectors feature of OS X, which gives programs the ability to recognize dates, locations, and other data to help users easily integrate things like Calendar and Address Book. Data Detectors is triggered when “File:///” is typed, and tries to extract a file from a path that isn’t there. Then madness ensues, and the whole application crashes. That’s a bit of an overreaction considering the flaw is in something as small as Data Detectors.
Apple is probably flooded with error reports about this, so it will likely get patched at some point in the future, but considering how rarely most people would ever need to type “File:///” it’s probably not a huge priority. In the meantime, disabling “Correct spelling automatically” and “Use symbol and text substitutions” in the Language & Text section of System Preferences should prevent the bug from crashing programs, and you can go back to typing “File:///” with impunity. | {
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Use the Threading analysis to identify how efficiently an application uses available processor compute cores and explore inefficiencies in threading runtime usage or contention on threading synchronization that makes threads waiting and prevents effective processor utilization.
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Threading analysis combines and replaces the Concurrency and Locks and Waits analysis types available in previous versions of Intel® VTune™ Amplifier.
Intel® VTune™ Amplifier uses the Effective CPU Utilization metric as a main measurement of threading efficiency. The metric is built on how an application utilizes the available logical cores. For throughput computing, it is typical to load one logical core per physical core.
The following aspects of Threading Analysis provide possible reasons for poor CPU utilization:
Thread count: a quick glance at the application thread count can give clues to threading inefficiencies, such as a fixed number of threads that might prevent the application from scaling to a larger number of cores or lead to thread oversubscription
The Threading Analysis provides two collection modes with major differences in thread wait time collection and interpretation:
User-Mode Sampling and Tracing, which can recognize synchronization objects and collect thread wait time by objects using tracing. This is helpful in understanding thread interaction semantics and making optimization changes based on that data. There are two groups of synchronization objects supported by Intel VTune Amplifier: objects usually used for synchronization between threads (such as Mutex or Semaphore) and objects associated with waits on I/O operations (such as Stream).
Hardware Event-Based Sampling and Context Switches, which collects thread inactive wait time based on context switch information. Even though there is not a thread object definition in this case, the problematic synchronization functions can be found by using the wait time attributed with call stacks with lower overhead than the previous collection mode. The analysis based on context switches also shows thread preemption time, which is useful in measuring the impact of thread oversubscription on a system.
How It Works: User-Mode Sampling and Tracing
With user-mode sampling and tracing collection, VTune Amplifier instruments threading and blocking API intercepting the calls during runtime and building thread interaction flow detecting synchronization objects. Using User-mode Sampling and Tracing Collection analysis mode you can estimate the impact each synchronization object has on the application and understand how long the application had to wait on each synchronization object, or in blocking APIs. The analysis shows the thread interaction with execution flow transition from one thread to another with releasing and accruing synchronization objects on the timeline view.
If this mode brings significant overhead in the application runtime, try the Hardware Event-Based Sampling and Context Switches mode, which offers a less intrusive method of wait time collection.
How It Works: Hardware Event-Based Sampling and Context Switches
Multitask operating systems execute all software threads in time slices (thread execution quanta). In the Hardware Event-Based Sampling and Context Switches mode, the profiler gains control whenever a thread gets scheduled on and then off a processor (that is, at thread quantum borders). This mode also determines a reason for thread inactivation, which includes an explicit request for synchronization or thread quantum expiration (when the operating system scheduler preempts the current thread to run a higher-priority thread instead).
The time during which a thread remains inactive is measured and called Inactive Wait Time. Inactive Wait Time is differentiated based on the reason for inactivity:
Inactive Sync Wait Time is caused by a request for synchronization
Preemption Wait Time is caused by preemption
Since context switch information is collected with call stacks, it is possible to explore reasons of Inactive Wait Time by wait functions with their call paths. The Hardware Event-Based Sampling and Context Switches mode shows the places in the code where the wait was induced by a synchronization object or I/O operation.
The Hardware Event-Based Sampling and Context Switches mode is based on the hardware event-based sampling collection and analyzes all the processes running on your system at the moment, providing context switching data on whole system performance. On Linux* systems, Inactive Wait Time Collection is available in driverless Perf*-based collection usage with kernel version 4.4 or later. Inactive Time reasons are available in kernel 4.17 and later.
Select to enable the user-mode sampling and tracing collection for synchronization object analysis. This collection mode uses a fixed sampling interval of 10ms. If you need to change the interval, click the Copy button and create a custom analysis configuration. For intervals less than 10ms, use the Hardware Event-Based Sampling and Context Switches mode.
You can configure the CPU sampling interval, ms to specify an interval (in milliseconds) between CPU samples. Possible values for thehardware event-based sampling mode are 0.01-1000. 1 ms is used by default.
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When changing collection options, pay attention to the Overhead diagram on the right. It dynamically changes to reflect the collection overhead incurred by the selected options.
Details button
Expand/collapse a section listing the default non-editable settings used for this analysis type. If you want to modify or enable additional settings for the analysis, you need to create a custom configuration by copying an existing predefined configuration. VTune Amplifier creates an editable copy of this analysis type configuration.
What's Next
Start on the result Summary window to explore the Effective CPU utilization of your application and identify reasons for underutilization connected with synchronization, parallel work arrangement overhead, or incorrect thread count. Click links associated with flagged issues to be taken to more detailed information. For example, clicking a sync object name in the Top Waiting Objects table takes you to that object in the Bottom-up window.
Analyze thread integration synchronization objects with wait and signal stacks and transitions on the timeline. Explore CPU time spent in threading runtimes to classify inefficiencies in their use.
Concentrate your tuning on objects with long Wait time where the system is poorly utilized (red bars) during the wait. Consider adding parallelism, rebalancing, or reducing contention. Ideal utilization (green bars) occurs when the number of running threads equals the number of available logical cores.
Re-run the analysis to verify your optimization with the comparison mode and identify more possible areas for improvement. | {
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The Missouri River rises in the Rocky Mountains, and takes its name after the union of three branches, the Jefferson, Gallatin, and Madison. The springs which give rise to the Missouri River are not more than a mile distant from some of the head waters of the Columbia River, which run in a contrary direction to the Pacific Ocean.
At the distance of 441 miles from the extreme point of the navigation of the head branches of the Missouri, are what are denominated "The Gates of the Rocky Mountains," which present an exceedingly grand and picturesque appearance. For
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the distance of about six miles, the rocks rise perpendicularly from the margin of the river, to the height of twelve hundred feet. The river is compressed to the breadth of a hundred and fifty yards, and for the first three miles, there is only one spot, and that only of a few yards, on which a man could stand between the water and the perpendicular ascent of the mountain. At the distance of 110 miles below this, and 551 miles from the source of the river, are the "Great Falls," 2575 miles from the egress of the river into the Mississippi. At this place the river descends, by a succession of rapids and falls, a distance of 357 feet in sixteen and a half miles. The lower and greatest fall has a perpendicular pitch of eighty-seven feet, the second of nineteen, the third of forty-seven, and the fourth of twenty-six feet. Between and below these falls are continual rapids of from three to eighteen feet descent. These falls, next to those of Niagara, are the grandest on the continent. Above, the course of the river is northwardly.
The Yellowstone river, eight hundred yards wide at its mouth, and probably the largest tributary of the Missouri, enters it on the south-west side, 1216 miles, from its navigable source, and about 1880 miles from the junction with the Mississippi. The Yellowstone, at the place of junction, is as large as the Missouri. Steamboats ascend to this place, and could go farther by each branch.
The length of the Missouri river, from its source to its entrance into the Mississippi, is 3096 miles, which, with the addition of 1353 miles, the distance from the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico, makes a total length of 4449 miles, and it is probably the longest river in the world. Through its whole course, there is no substantial obstruction to the navigation, before arriving at the Great Falls. Its principal tributaries are each navigable from one to eight hundred miles. The alluvial, fertile soil on this river and its tributaries, is not very broad, and back of this are prairies of vast extent. Through the greater part of its course, the Missouri is a rapid and turbid stream, and in the upper part of its course, flows through an arid and sterile country. It is over half a mile wide at its mouth, and for a greater part of its distance is much wider. Notwithstanding it drains such an extensive region of country, and receives so many large tributaries, it is at certain seasons quite shallow, affording hardly sufficient water for steamboat navigation, owing to its passage through a dry and open country, and being subject to a great evaporation.
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Fact-Checking What You Hear
Several months ago, I did a YouTube video about fact-checking what you hear about Pope Francis. It was the first YouTube video of its kind that I did, and perhaps someday I’ll look back and laugh at how unnatural and scripted it looked. (Oh wait, yesterday I did just that.)
But everything I said in the video could be said after yesterday’s plane interview, and so I took the opportunity this morning to email some parish leaders a written version of the same information. I thought I’d copy it below here (with some additions).
I could take the time to address this latest incident in detail, but others are already doing that. And after all, the next time Pope Francis says something to stir everyone up, I can just pull this blog post back out…
Things to Remember when Reading Pope Francis
In case you haven’t noticed, Pope Francis creates buzz. Whether it’s what he does, what he says, or what people say he says, he makes a lot of headlines.
Whenever you hear Pope Francis said something, consider a few things:
Who is the source?
Before you believe what you hear, stop and think, “Who is saying this?” I’m amazed how many people see something in the secular media and immediately take it for fact. Much of the secular media is written and produced by people who have no knowledge of the Catholic Church, our theology, or our traditions. This results in a lot of misunderstanding. Pope Francis surprises us, but if you hear something that contradicts Church teaching, it’s time to step back and reexamine who is telling you this and consider whether they misunderstood or, worse, purposefully skewed the story.
What is the context?
Reading the Pope in context is easier today than it ever has been. You can access his homilies, addresses, and interviews at http://www.news.va/en.
In this world of the soundbite, often one or two sentences are taken from a speech, a homily, or an interview without any of the surrounding context. This can skew the real meaning of what the Pope is saying.To whom is he speaking?
Remember: He’s the shepherd of the entire world. He’s not just speaking to us as Americans. He’s speaking to Africans, to Australians, to Europeans. At times, he may have a pointed message for a certain community or a certain class of people. At other times, he’s speaking very generally. He is not an American, nor does he closely follow every American news story or personality.
At the end of the day, don’t forget that the Pope is a man. He’s not Jesus. Every word he says is not protected by some infallibility shield. The grace of the papacy does not mean every decision he makes is a good one or every comment he makes is an error-free one. He’s a person, just like you. Now, he prays more than I do, and the Holy Spirit does protect his words “when as the supreme pastor and teacher of all the Christian faithful, who strengthens his brothers and sisters in the faith, he proclaims by definitive act that a doctrine of faith or morals is to be held.” But last I checked, statements in interviews, on airplanes, at Q&A sessions… don’t fall under that. I’m not saying whether he should or should not do those said interviews. Nor am I saying you always take what he says with a grain of salt because he’s just some dude. But before you leave the Church over an answer he gave to someone on an airplane, take a step back and pray. | {
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NORWALK, OH — People gathered at Suhr Park in Norwalk Monday to let the country know they wouldn’t remain quiet about more than 100 people being taken away from their families and the community.
Tiffin Area Pax Christi and others hosted the Rally for Justice in Immigration to give the community a chance to protest the immigration raids at two Corso’s Garden and Flower Center locations last week that separated families.
Dozens of people attended the rally, where speakers railed against the conduct of the immigration agents during the raid, and the net result of splitting up families.
Families torn apart
One of the speakers, 15-year-old Natalia Alonso, didn’t know anyone arrested in the raid, but she saw the pain in her peers’ faces and created Los Ninos de Corso’s to help.
“It affects me seeing peers my age and little kids crying. Honestly, I just wanted to help and I thought donations would be the best way,” Alonso said. “Los Ninos de Corso’s is a Latino youth group. We’re here to support any of the kids who were affected. They can reach out to us on our page and tell us what they need and we will gladly help them.”
The Rev. Samuel Price, who immigrated to America as a young boy, said the issue goes beyond politics and is a matter of justice.
The detainment of 114 Corso’s workers means that many children are now living without a parent. Children like 15-year-old Juan Perez, whose mother was taken, is one of those children.
“If you look Mexican they don’t care if you are illegal they just arrest you right away,” Perez said. “This happened last year on a smaller scale when they took my dad and now they took my mom. If they both get sent back to Mexico, I’m going to to have to stay in foster care or go with them.”
Perez’s father was released after posting a $10,000 bond and he doubts they’ll be able to pay for his mother’s bond. He’s having a hard enough time paying for the phone calls to her.
But Perez knows many kids whose whole families were taken and a baby who, if her father is deported, may never get to know him.
“I’m trying to help around the community, but I still need to take care of my little brother and sister,” Perez said. “My sister doesn’t even know my mom’s gone she thinks she’s still at work.”
Liz Lugo was at work when her stepdaughter got a phone call from her mother. She could hear screaming before the call disconnected.
“Then her mother texted her and said immigration was there and they were taking them,” Lugo said. “It was just a shock. They took so many.”
Lugo has faced similar pain when the father of her granddaughter was deported to Mexico, but her granddaughter going with him was not an option because of a health condition.
“She has a birth defect, which means she has to be within so many miles of a trauma-one center,” Lugo said. “My daughter made a sincere effort to try to keep the family together. She moved to Texas, but it just became too tough. She had to decide between her daughter’s safety or keeping the family together.”
Lugo also laments the possible bright futures taken away from the children who must decide between living without a parent or going to Mexico. Many of the children of immigrants are American-born citizens.
“My grandparents came here from Mexico in the 30s and made a life for us. That’s our legacy just like everyone else,” Lugo said. “But now they’ve cut these people’s legacies out and who knows what we could lose. The next president, a neurosurgeon or a teacher.”
A woman, who only wanted to be identified as Ana, said her mother was also taken in the raid and she still hasn’t gotten any answers.
“She’s been in the process of getting her visa, but they still haven’t let her go,” Ana said. “It’s hard because she was helping me with my kids … my kids need her, I need her and I just want her back.”
Renae Ramirez’s husband was also in the process of obtaining a green card, but it was delayed when they had to start paying for her cancer treatment. Now he’s detained.
“I’m just absolutely devastated. We have four kids together and when I told them their dad wasn’t coming home they’ve cried every night,” Ramirez said. “We (the family and community) have to stick together.”
Not everyone at the rally was directly affected but almost everyone there was shocked by the news and felt for the families.
“It’s just wrong. I looked at my 2-year-old and just couldn’t imagine what the parents who were separated from their children must be going through,” Courtney Osman said.
Jim Ensign has lived in Norwalk for five years and came to the rally because he couldn’t believe what he saw.
“I’m here to make make sure there’s a strong reaction. I’m 71 years old and I’ve never seen anything like this,” Ensign said. “This local example of a national trend that has been scaring me.”
The news traveled nationally with Patricia Dwight hearing about it while she was at her granddaughter’s graduation in another state.
“I was devastated. I’ve been a customer at Corso’s for years and the people who worked there were just the nicest,” Dwight said. “I’ve been rendered speechless and I want to help. I’ve been making calls to my representatives because the immigration system is broken and this is going to keep happening until its fixed.”
But not everyone there shared these opinions. A minority who supported the deportation of undocumented immigrants were protesting the rally with signs supportive of President Trump.
“I think its bull,” Tony Jester said. “There are felons in this country who struggle to get jobs that undocumented workers had. I feel bad for the kids but the parents should have come in the right way.”
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Janet Garrett, the Democratic nominee in the 4th U.S. House District race against incumbent Rep. Jim Jordan, attended the rally.
“I rallied with hundreds of concerned citizens in Norwalk to protest our broken immigration system,” Garrett said. “The tragic raids that rocked Northeast Ohio last week are evidence of just how broken our immigration system is. We are indeed a nation of laws, but when those laws are unjust and result in such clear immorality, it is the responsibility of our leaders to do right by our principles and change the law.”
Jordan was not at the rally and he said previously he would continue to work for solutions to the immigration problem.
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Thank you, Pax Christi Tiffin, for making a public statement on behalf of the targetted, vulnerable and hardworking immigrant population. We have to join our voices and do all that we can to change these heartless and cruel enforcement efforts and be a truly welcoming society. | {
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Will ObamaCare decision provide a redefining moment for federal power?
posted at 12:41 pm on June 26, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
Now that Mandate-mas has been firmly scheduled for Thursday, a few final analyses are now in order. After all, between the Issa/Holder confrontation over Operation Fast and Furious and the Supreme Court, not much else is making news this week anyway, is it? In my column for The Week, I game out the possible outcomes and predict their impact on the political landscape in this election season — and warn Republicans about the perils of static analysis if the court does the unexpected and upholds ObamaCare in its entirety:
To hear the way some critics talk, Obama finds himself in a no-win position. TIME‘s Mark Halperin argued on Monday, before it became apparent that the Supreme Court wouldn’t issue its decision until later in the week, that every outcome would be bad news for Obama. Halperin told Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe that “a lot of Democrats” tell him the same thing. The idea is that the bill is so unpopular, even a win at the Supreme Court can’t turn it into a net positive for voters. Democrats on the campaign trail, Halperin said, “largely hide from it.”
Republicans had better not bet the house on that interpretation, although obviously, a large number of them believe it. It’s true that the ACA has remained remarkably unpopular, with some polls showing as many as two-thirds of the country wanting the Supreme Court to overturn the mandate or the whole bill. The mandate in particular rankles Americans, most of whom are stunned to think that the federal government can order them to buy a product at all, whether it be health insurance or broccoli, the counter example that has grown inexplicably popular as the horrific reductio ad absurdum of limitless government power. (Shouldn’t the worst-case scenario really be Brussels sprouts?)
But let’s get real: Assuming that a positive ruling from the Supreme Court would have no impact on the ACA’s popularity is quite a leap. Public opinion could easily change if the Supreme Court upholds the ACA and the mandate, especially if the vote is something other than a narrow 5-4. Such a decision won’t make ObamaCare popular overnight, but it might prompt some of those who disliked the bill for its reported unconstitutionality to rethink the matter. Many voters would similarly re-evaluate the Republican lawmakers who insisted that ObamaCare could not possibly survive constitutional scrutiny.
Given the oral arguments from March and the tea-leaf reading this week, I’d call that a slim possibility anyway. The Supreme Court seems ready to strike down at least some portion of the PPACA on Thursday, and as I wrote in my column, those options are almost unrelentingly bad for Obama. But will a partial overturning really settle anything? Jonathan Adler and Michael Cannon argue that the court might be inclined to strike the whole thing, rather than endure years of continued litigation on the remnants. For instance, the tax application may already be a prime target for a complaint about the PPACA’s constitutionality, as well as its funding:
Even if the Affordable Care Act survives its first Supreme Court test— a ruling is due as early as today — the lawsuits won’t end. Citizens have already filed challenges to what critics call the law’s “death panel” and its impact on privacy rights, religious liberty and physician-owned hospitals. Still another potential lawsuit poses as great a threat to the law as the case now before the high court.
Under the guise of implementing the law, the Internal Revenue Service has announced it will impose a tax of up to $3,000 per worker on employers whom Congress has not authorized a tax. To make things more interesting: If the IRS doesn’t impose that unauthorized tax, the whole law could collapse.
The Act’s “employer mandate” taxes employers up to $3,000 per employee if they fail to offer required health benefits. But that tax kicks in only if their employees receive tax credits or subsidies to purchase a health plan through a state-run insurance “exchange.”
This 2,000-page law is complex. But in one respect the statute is clear: Credits are available only in states that create an exchange themselves. The federal government might create exchanges in states that decline, but it cannot offer credits through its own exchanges. And where there can be no credits, there is nothing to trigger that $3,000 tax.
If anything, leaving the remnants in place makes this a bigger headache for the courts, not less of one, just as it does for Obama and Democrats (as I also argue in my column). With Congress explicitly excluding language for severability in the bill, the court has a Mack truck-sized opening to dump the whole bill rather than just surgically excise any offending portion. The more I think about this, the more I think a middle ground solution might be less likely.
Of course, an adverse ruling will have the liberal legal establishment up in arms, angrily denouncing the Supreme Court — a process some have already begun as a means to shape the political battleground if ObamaCare gets overturned in part or in whole. How can the Court turn its back on eighty years of commerce-clause precedent, they will scream, and find limitations of federal power? Charles Lane, a center-left columnist at the Washington Post, reminds them that those precedents took place in an era when federal intervention was new and unprecedented itself, and that eighty years of experience may have America at a point where a consensus is developing that it’s neither proper nor beneficial:
In the 1930s, expanding federal power was innovative, promising. By blessing it, the court aligned itself with the wave of the future, in this country and globally. Ditto for the 1960s. Much of the legislation that resulted — from Social Security to the Voting Rights Act — was indeed progressive.
Today, however, there is nothing new about federal intervention — and much evidence from the past 70 years that big programs produce inefficiencies and unintended consequences.
The post-New Deal consensus about the scope of federal power has broken down amid national, and global, concern over the welfare state’s cost and intrusiveness — a sea change of which the tea party is but one manifestation. Obamacare itself, which has consistently polled badly, fueled that movement.
Much has been made of the fact that Republicans had no objection, constitutional or otherwise, when the individual mandate first surfaced. But that was two decades ago. In today’s changed intellectual, fiscal and political environment, seemingly lapidary constitutional phrases such as “commerce … among the several states” can acquire fresh meaning, as they did for the New Deal and at other points in the past.
In that sense, a rejection of ObamaCare would match the consensus we’ve seen in the polling over the last two years. Americans don’t want a federal government that can mandate purchases of private-sector goods and services, no matter how beneficial the governing class believes them to be. This could very well be a turning point that redefines and contracts federal reach — and if so, then the last two years will have been well worth the trouble.
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Let’s see, where did I say you couldn’t post your thoughts? Oh yeah, I didn’t.
Don’t think that harping on those of us who care makes you look the least bit intelligent. It doesn’t. It makes you look stupid.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on June 26, 2012 at 2:36 PM
What makes you look stupid is hanging on to a debunked talking point years after it makes any dang difference.
Yes, Obama is a Marxist loon! Yes, he lied his face off about his past! No, your sore-loser conspiracy theory will not get him out of office! We lost in ’08, but will you please get. over. it. already?!?!
I understand people who think he’s eligible but they should have had no problem having the issue resolved, as disputes in law need to be. Ignoring the Constitution for that issue is what started this whole mess with an administration that hasn’t been held to ANY Constitutional limits. The eligibility issue was the loose thread that started the whole Constitutional unraveling we’ve seen happening before our eyes (and accelerating) as the refusal to have even a simple and clear clause officially resolved in court led to others being loathe to try to defend fuzzier Constitutional limits.
That picture of the two doctors wearing their white robes and clapping like clowns is utterly pathetic. Only a left wing lunatic would accept to be used as a clown for a photo-op picture by Obama political circus… I bet that these two doctors are failed ones, may be some insignificant general practitioners with no specialties, who make much less money than most other doctors, and are full of jealousy and envy of the other doctors. They want Obamacare crap because on the long run it would level the playing fields for them i.e. make the others doctors get paid less than they are paid now… Liberalism is a mental disorder…
Executive Orders are way overrated. First it is very hard to implement most exuctive orders specially when money is involved because only Congress allocates money… Second Executive orders can be easily overturned by the next President…
Do you remmeber the Gitmo Executive order by Obaman? Yeah many of you forgot about it because it went nowhere…
On the other hand, striking down all or part of it will open up almost unlimited opportunity for Obama and Democrats to lie and demagogue about what the law “would have” done, and what the mean ol’ Republicans “took away”. Every person who dies in the country going forward will get blamed on those who opposed this law.
forest on June 26, 2012 at 12:59 PM | Delete | Delete and Ban
That might be a tad difficult this time, since like the unemployed and those who know the unemployed, there’s no spinning the economic disaster. Obamacare is affecting a whole lot of people–and not in a good way. I work for a very large company. Coincidentally with this week’s big news, we all got notified today of the changes to our health care starting in 2013. And it’s not at all good.
I get a huge kick out of the new Obamacare commercials. You can get a mammogram free. They send trucks around to neighborhoods and even if you have to go to the MRI place, if you pay cash, it’s around $90. IF they find something, you have to have a dr to go to and treatment pronto. No pronto, no livo. That’s why so many more women die in England and Canada from breast cancer. Screen you must, but without treatment that’s a big waste of time.
BTW, you can get your blood pressure checked at WalMart. No need to destroy the best healthcare system in the world.
Save the finger-wagging, grandma. This is a political site, not a knitting forum.
MelonCollie on June 26, 2012 at 2:31 PM
Were you recently riding a school bus and made a big splash on the internet? What a perfectly nasty number. You really, really don’t believe in any sort of Karma, do you? If you are lucky, you may live beyond 26 and that Karma thing may bite you in this life, not the next. Good luck.
Romney should announce that on the day he takes office he will ask for the resignations of any justice who voted to uphold Obamacare. Yes I’m fully aware that he has no authority to do this and that the justices will tell him to take a hike. However any vote affirming Obamacare indicates the justice no longer takes their oath to uphold the Constitution seriously. I have no problem berating them and humiliating them in public. Then the House should withhold funding for the portion of the court that voted to uphold. | {
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Boy Crazy: Unexpected Side-Effects of Having Sons
Something must happen to women with sons that desensitizes part of our brains. I originally thought the change to be a result of pregnancy, but it seems to happen equally for adoptive moms, so it's probably caused by an undocumented boy-emitted radiation.
For instance, I stumbled into this post (warning: don't drink beverages while reading this and you may want to don rubber pants if in the small-bladdered stages of pregnancy) and found it hysterical. So, I pestered friends and family with it, and almost universally the parents of boys responded with "hysterical" and a gross story of their own while girls-only parents said merely "gross!"
And, yes, it is totally gross to sneeze pasta, but when Mavis writes, "naturally he tried to eat it." I nearly blew out a lung laughing because that's our boy-parenting lot in life.
One hot but halcyon day we attended a wading pool party at a friend's house. At some point Ranger picked up a pita and snacked on it while continuing to run around the yard and play.
The pool water, pristine and fresh at the beginning of the day, had slowly turned cafe-au-lait colored by the constant traffic for muddy toddler feet. Ranger meandered into back into the pool from his travels around the yard and was holding a bucket underwater when I said "Hey, he already finished his pita."
Probably in response, he raises his hands from the murky depths revealing a last dripping triangle of pita. He pops it in his mouth before I can stop him, chews, swallows, and grins. I just started laughing. Sure, the thought of me eating that drippy pita makes my throat tighten up a little. But his audacity, indecipherable internal logic (the kid won't eat ice cream but pops dirty wet flatbread without any hesitation), and spontaneity are so surprising they simply delight me.
Jim reminds me that there is an interesting discussion of attitudes more common to moms of boys in Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dads (a book I would recommend that every parent read and consider well before facing even the tween years). That discussion however might be bit high-brow for this particular post, so I'll save it for another day.
If you have hot weather, young friends, and a wading pool or sprinkler, then you have all the ingredients for a wonderful summer play date. Popsicles, bubbles, chalk, lawn toys, and dog are all optional. | {
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Meet the Herd
Baba is like an oreo cookie – black and white, round, and sweet. He had a successful career as a show pony in the hunter ring before his life began at MANE. He enjoys teaching some of the youngest riders at MANE. His long, smooth stride is a huge confidence booster! Baba’s kind heart is not easily forgotten, even by riders who have long outgrown his size.
CAPPUCCINOQUARTER HORSE | Born 2003
Cappuccino, more affectionately known as “Cappy,” is a 14-year-old buckskin gelding donated by a generous and faithful supporter of MANE. This golden boy has the winning personality to make friends with a variety of students and volunteers who come to MANE throughout the year. Cappy has an easy-going mindset that matches his smooth trot.
CHANNING TATUMHAFLINGER | Born 2003
Channing Tatum is a handsome Haflinger gelding who charms all of MANE’s participants! Not only does he have a kind and patient disposition, but his short and sturdy build makes him an ideal mount for students who need support from sidewalkers.
DIXIEQUARTER HORSE | Born 2000
Dixie is a refined bay mare who has charmed her way into thousands of hearts. She worked as a lesson horse before becoming a member of MANE’s herd. Her dressage training has helped Dixie teach MANE students how to use their aids properly. She has a sweet disposition and works hard to please everyone under saddle.
ECLIPSEWELSH PONY | Born 1999
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ILLIONTHOROUGHBRED | Born 1995
Illion, a tall, dark and handsome bay thoroughbred, was a great competitor in the Hunter/Jumper ring before coming to MANE. His gentle demeanor has helped carry riders of all ability levels to the next level. Illion teaches students how to ride with greater sophistication, while intermediate and advanced students learn to post to his animated trot and enjoy his smooth canter.
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NUTTYPAINT | Born 2003
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OLIVEPAINT CROSS | Born 2003
Olive is a bay paint mare who came to MANE after retiring from foxhunting. Although she is used to running across open fields and jumping any obstacle in her way, Olive is gentle, calm, and willing to serve. She intuitively helps her students improve and become more independent riders. Our advanced riders adore her smooth, rocking canter!
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Puddin’ is a spunky little Haflinger mare who is just as sweet as her name. She tends to greet MANE riders and volunteers with a soft whinny. Haflingers give comforting sensory feedback with their active walk, which is why they are well-suited for therapeutic riding programs. Puddin’s looks may attract attention, but her personality wins hearts!
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SPIRITARABIAN MINIATURE CROSS | Born 1997
Spirit is an integral part of MANE. Known as the energizer bunny, he has been teaching children to ride for over 10 years. Trotting is the name of his game, especially when competing against his best friend, Baba. He loves to help promote confidence and independence in his riders so they can graduate to greater challenges.
SWOOPESGYPSY VANNER | Born 2009
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The fourth plinth: top 10
The fourth plinth: top 10
There were a great many weird and wonderful contributions to Antony Gormley's fourth plinth project in Trafalgar Square. Here are just a few of the weirdest and most wonderful.
Click on their names to see the video of their performance on the official site
Thursday 8 October 2009 19.05 EDT
First published on Thursday 8 October 2009 19.05 EDT
1 Godzilla
Though Gerald Chong had an 8am slot, his hour was pure primetime entertainment. He arrived in an 8ft Godzilla costume, erected a cardboard replica of the London skyline (including the Eye and Nelson’s Column) – and then pulverised the lot. The incredible effort that went into this live-action monster movie is documented on a charming video he posted on
YouTube.
2 The bread sculptor
On The Archers, Jill Archer had claimed she’d like to bake bread on the fourth plinth. Inspired by this, Amanda Hall did the next best thing, paying homage to the work of Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon while she was at it. Armed with boxes of bread, she made a Gormley-style human figure out of bagels, baps and ciabattas, then took it to St James’s Park to be eaten.
3 Gunter
Ollie Campbell turned up in a lime-green stocking mask. He then got into a large tent, which over the course of 45 minutes shook violently and eventually disgorged a live chicken and two blow-up dolls. Gunter finally reappeared, stripped completely naked, hurled himself into the safety net, and then at the end of his hour jumped off the plinth and streaked across Trafalgar Square pursued by the police.
4 The Balloonatic
Who’d have known the fun that could be had with a 6ft balloon? Accompanied by a surreal soundtrack from a portable stereo, Steve Cousins climbed in and out of the giant red inflatable, first sticking his head inside and bouncing it on his shoulders like a giant human lightbulb, then allowing it to swallow him completely until his head emerged from the balloon’s neck, Weeble-style.
5 Sammy the ref
If you were passing through Trafalgar Square at 3am the last thing you’d expect is to be shown the red card and sent off, which is why Sam Martin’s turn as a referee was so delicious. Dressed in black football kit and blowing his whistle at random nightowls for walking under the safety net or ignoring him while they were on the phone, he stayed in character throughout – even announcing half time.
6 Tattletale
Jonathan May-Bowles had the idea of broadcasting his phone number (via a placard and also on Twitter) and getting people to text him their secrets, which he would then read out on the plinth. For an hour, Trafalgar Square reeled to a riveting succession of sad, hilarious and sexually explicit admissions, which May-Bowles delivered without moral judgment but a lot of humour. The effect was weirdly life-affirming.
7 The living statue
Like many participants, Neil Studd claimed that he couldn’t think of anything to do on the fourth plinth, so he’d just stand there. He didn’t mention that he’d first paint himself grey and dress as Nelson. Most living statues are unspeakably annoying, but by echoing Trafalgar Sqaure’s most famous monument, this one was clever and witty.
8 Liz Crow
Artist Liz Crow emailed the Guardian to ask why her hour on the plinth hadn’t received any press coverage. Given that it involved her sitting in a wheelchair while wearing a Nazi uniform, it certainly wasn’t short on controversy. Like many other participants, Crow was making a political statement – in this case, about the rights of disabled people – and her 10pm Saturday night stint deserves full marks for nerve.
9 Susanna: naked but modest
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Naomi McDonald, the lapdancer who spent her hour grinding and jiggling – but both hours revealed a lot about what nakedness can express, and the differing responses it receives.
10 Plinth Paul’s fun with science
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The unseen driver behind the migrant caravan: climate change
The unseen driver behind the migrant caravan: climate change
While violence and poverty have been cited as the reasons for the exodus, experts say the big picture is that changing climate is forcing farmers off their land – and it’s likely to get worse.“The focus on violence is eclipsing the big picture – which is that people are saying they are moving because of some version of food insecurity,” said Robert Albro, a researcher at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University.“The main reason people are moving is because they don’t have anything to eat. This has a strong link to climate change – we are seeing tremendous climate instability that is radically changing food security in the region.”Migrants don’t often specifically mention “climate change” as a motivating factor for leaving because the concept is so abstract and long-term, Albro said. But people in the region who depend on small farms are painfully aware of changes to weather patterns that can ruin crops and decimate incomes. | {
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@beholdminuggets said in BURST smashed through the roof today:
@peterskrzyniarz said in BURST smashed through the roof today:
... Coin that can be mined with hard drives, letting anyone mine.
As of this date, about 87% of all Burst-Coins have already been mined (PoC). Which may explain why the Difficulty, although up, has not increased in-line with recent exchange valuations. Perhaps investors are wary of the short return window?
Also, the Transactions per Day (& Sent/Day) has varied little over the last two years, and much of that seems to be recurring distribution by Mining Pools. Likewise, the majority of active Assets appear to be focused on Mining.
So, what happens when the music stops? Official Burst-Coin Roadmap. Hummm...
I would say the idea is to accumulate more BURST by trading.
@rattle99 said in Burstcoin is now in TOP 100 on coinmarketcap!!!:
Must have gone even higher now.
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Barbara Johnson
Editor’s Note: Portraits of Resilience is a photography and narrative series by Prof. Daniel Jackson. Each installment consists of a portrait and a story, told in the subject’s own words, of how they found resilience and meaning in their life.
My hearing loss is genetic, and it runs in my family. When I was in grade school, they would bring groups of students in to the nurse’s office for an annual test. We would put on these big rubber headphones, and we were supposed to raise our hand when we heard a sound. I would watch the other children and when they raised their hands, I would raise mine.
I didn’t know I had hearing loss. It just didn’t enter my mind what the purpose of the exercise was. Finally, when I was about 10 years old, I stopped raising my hand. That was when I got my official diagnosis for hearing loss.
I don’t remember a single conversation with my parents about my hearing loss. Not one. I’m from a very big family; I’m the eighth of nine children. My father ran his own business and was working non-stop to support all of us. My mom figured if I wasn’t bleeding and I wasn’t in jail, things were good. And I was doing well in school.
My father passed away some years ago. My mother is still alive, but she’s in a nursing home and she has dementia. I see her every week. Like a lot of older people, her voice has gotten a little softer. I found myself saying, “Oh, I’m sorry, Mom. I’m sorry that I don’t hear better, that I keep asking you to repeat.” She said to me, “Well, I feel bad.” Maybe that’s why she didn’t address it — because she felt responsible. When I’m ready to start asking the questions, there is no longer access to the information. It’s kind of bittersweet.
I have a typical sensorineural hearing loss. You start losing the high frequencies first — for example, the sound of crickets on a summer evening. I remember hearing them when I was very young, and then they just dropped off. About every 10 years it would fall back a little more, a little more. I would just make do. I was strategic about how I would communicate. I relied a lot, and still rely a lot, on lip reading. I would position myself so I could see the speaker. I’m a very good guesser too, based on context. That’s why accents can throw me, because my guessing is based on a Boston accent.
After college, I would occasionally go to an audiologist for a check-up. Each time they would say, “Yes, you definitely have serious hearing loss.” But the loss was so profound that a hearing aid wouldn’t have assisted me. A few years ago, my hearing had declined to the point where I needed help, so I went to get evaluated again. I remember asking the doctor, “Am I deaf?” She said, “Yes, with a capital ‘D.’”(Meaning from an audiology standpoint.) I wasn’t shocked or dismayed. I wasn’t upset. I was just more like, “Well, why didn’t I know that?” They told me, “You’re a candidate for a cochlear implant in either ear. You can pick an ear.”
They had different groups where you could find out more about the devices and meet people who had them. At these meetings, they had live captioning. I was shocked. How come I didn’t know about this? That launched me into this whole advocacy role because I realized if I didn’t know, I’m sure that there are plenty of other people out there that don’t know either.
It is actually not an elaborate surgery at this point. They make a little incision behind your ear. They pull the skin back and then they drill a hole in your temporal bone, to get access to the cochlea. Then they insert the implant under the skin, thread in an electrode, and stitch you up. You wait for about four weeks to heal, then you go in and get the external device. The audiologist will do a ‘mapping’ and will set a certain program and introduce you to sound.
You have no idea how loud the world is, and it is really loud when it first gets turned on. In addition, you have to start understanding what these sounds are. Things I hadn’t heard before, like everything that beeps. My microwave beeping, my dishwasher beeping, all these things that I didn’t know made sounds. Riding in the car, the road noise just felt like it was torture. After a while you start to get used to it. I was walking the dog with my husband and I heard a sound. I asked him if it was a car alarm, and he said, “No, that was crickets.”
The implant doesn’t give you normal hearing. I think I was hoping I would use all the skills that I had acquired through the many years of my hearing loss, and then I would add onto them some new skills by virtue of the implant. That’s not how it works. It’s like wiping the board clean and starting over. That depressed me to some degree, so I just tried to keep going.
I felt a bit embarrassed because I felt like people that I worked with and family members were anticipating this big change. It was a big change, but I think that they were all also a little disappointed that I still had hearing difficulties, although nobody said anything to me. It’s not that anyone told me that I would have perfect hearing, but I just didn’t really understand that I would still be a person with hearing loss. I just don’t want to have hearing loss. I just don’t.
There is a lack of understanding about hearing loss. It’s just a kind of a lousy group to belong to. When I ask people at an event to use a microphone, I get resistance. I’ll say, “Why don’t we just have open captioning?” and sometimes I’ll get, “Well, that will be distracting for everyone.” You will ask for something to assist you, like remember to get my attention before you start to speak, things like that. People will forget and you have to ask again. I don’t take it personally, but part of it tells you, well, you’re not important. It makes you feel a little less valued.
Oftentimes, people don’t think. If you don’t hear them, they’ll say, “Oh, it wasn’t important.” That’s the worst thing. I know they don’t realize it, but it’s a message that says you’re not important enough for me to repeat that.
People ask me if I’m deaf. It’s hard to know what to tell people. I’m not fully able to do everything a normal hearing person can do, but I’m not really accepted in the Deaf community, since I don’t have fluency in ASL. I am deaf, and I would like to be more Deaf — meaning belonging to that group.
I’ve said to people things like, “Well, you know, I’ve come out as a deaf person.” I was pretending I was a normal hearing person, but I really wasn’t. When they told me I was deaf, it was like telling me I was from another country, and I didn’t know it. You start finding out, well, what does that mean? What’s that country like? What is the culture?
Now I’m learning ASL. It’s very attractive to think that my effort can actually pay off and can introduce me to people who I can easily communicate with, who don’t get annoyed at me because I don’t hear well.
I find a lot of support and power in connecting with other people who have similar challenges. The hard part is finding those people. I do talks on advocacy and education about communication access. I just keep hoping that I’m emboldening more people because if enough people talk about what’s a challenge, then it becomes not a big deal.
We want to make a community that’s compassionate and inclusive, but how do you do that? If more of us start talking about what’s going on with ourselves, with our challenges, then, in fact, we are doing something tangible, right?
Everybody has something going on. Everybody. No one is immune. I tell people, if someone tells you that they have nothing going on then they’re lying. Really. Everyone has challenges, right?
Barbara Johnson is a support engineer in Information Systems and Technology.
This project is supported by the Undergraduate Association’s Committee on Student Support and Wellness, chaired by Tamar Weseley ’17 and Alice Zielinski ’16. To participate in the project, or to learn more, contact [email protected].
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I am amazed by every article in this series! How how sensitively the authors communicate their story and invite us readers to know them. As Barbara Johnson said, Everybody has something going on. Everybody. No one is immune. It is part of the painful beauty of each of us. Their stories and their forthrightness are uplifting and inspiring.
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I greatly admire and personally like Barbara very much. I collaborated with her to get her CaptionCall installed (it worked well most of the time). She took it upon herself to make it better by going to the Cisco Analog adapter site and finding the options to make it near perfect. She has also assisted other MIT folks by being her own ATIC Lab when it comes to people in need of improved functional hearing devices. She is special as in heroic. | {
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Making only passing remarks on the scams in the State, Shah said Odisha is poor though it is rich in natural resources as the yield is reaped by Delhi. Now, the new mines auction policy of the Centre will benefit states like Odisha and Jharkhand, he claimed, adding that the margin from the auction can be spent by the State government for the welfare of the poor.
Coming down heavily on Gandhi, Shah said instead of asking Modi to give an account of its six-month rule, the Congress leader should first give the account of his party’s 60-year rule in the country.
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Royals Minor League Report: June 10
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The Storm Chasers slugged their way to an opening win at Nashville. Anthony Seratelli and Brett Hayes hit solo homers in the second. Hayes added a three-run shot in a six-run third. Jarrod Dyson had the best game of his rehab assignment, going 3-for-3 with two walks, two runs and four stolen bases. Danny Duffy, also on a rehab assignment, allowed seven runs on seven hits and two walks over 2.1 innings.
Northwest Arkansas moved to 3-0 in a four-game set against the Travelers. Mitch Canham's two-run double capped a four-run third, giving Northwest Arkansas a 5-4 lead. Matt Fields added two hits and two RBI. J.C. Sulbaran tossed 4.0 scoreless innings for the relief win. Zach Jackson (1.0 IP, 2 H, 1 ER) notched his third save in as many days. Felipe Paulino is scheduled to make his first rehab start tonight.
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Salem 9, Wilmington 0
LP: Sam Selman (4-5)
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Wilmington allowed eight to score in the first inning of an opening loss at Salem. Sam Selman exited without retiring a batter. He was charged with eight runs (five earned) on four hits, two walks plus two Wilmington errors. Jared Schlehuber posted a single and a walk. He is batting .393 (22-for-56) on the road.
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Why Is Sex Good for You?
Why Is Sex Good for You?Renee Lanctot, DHS, discusses the benefits of sex.
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Featuring Renee Lanctot, DHS
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Sex is physically good for you because it helps you lower stress.
And lowering stress can actually benefit you in many different areas in your life. After an orgasm, you have a release of oxytocin and endorphins in your blood stream. Endorphin will give you a great sense of euphoria and well-being, whereas oxytocin has a strong tranquilizing effect, which helps you sleep better, this is why men snore after a good orgasm.
But a good night's sleep will help in your health, and it can also help you lower depression, mild depressions we're talking about.
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According to ESPN, Mallett is going to play for Arkansas now. Seems like kind of a weird fit, especially because of all the negative recruiting the Razorbacks have been getting with Petrino. Plus, doesn't Petrino run the spread? Wasn't that why the Falcons brought him in, to install his offense in the NFL? Seems like if he is avoiding Rich Rodriguez's spread and isn't going to Tennessee because they hired the Richmond coach as OC, and he ran the spread the last 2 years, why would he want to go to Arkansas to run the spread?
Arkansas will run a spread, but Michigan will run a spread option. BIG difference.
Think about it, Brian Brohm was Petrino's last QB... not exactly a speedster.
Arkansas will run a spread, but Michigan will run a spread option. BIG difference.
Michigan is only going to run a spread option if we get Pryor. Rich Rod told Mallett on three different occasions that he would run an offense that fit him. Too bad he got scared off by ridiculous media claims and the threat of competition.
Michigan is only going to run a spread option if we get Pryor. Rich Rod told Mallett on three different occasions that he would run an offense that fit him. Too bad he got scared off by ridiculous media claims and the threat of competition.
Yeah well if they dont get pryor and then stephen Threet blows up then Mallett will be regreting the decision... cause whos gonna be his coach in 2 years? thats the big question here
Keep dreaming slugger. We bring back a good core of the D and on offense, Carlos Brown, Brandon Minor and Kevin Grady all have experience at RB. In addition, our OL won't be as bad as Notre Dame's.
And even if we are that bad, which we won't be, we'll still beat PSU. That's a yearly occurrence.
Bring back a good core on O? Well lets see, no Manningham, no Arrington, no Hart, no Henne, no Mallet, no Long. Thats pretty much the core of your O right there. You will start a QB who has very little, ot absoluetly no experience, new recievers, and a weaker run game.
Yeah, but PSU is due to breakout of this losing to OSU and UM slump sometime. lol. I hope its this year. I thought they would roll Michigan last year, expecially with Mallet starting, but man, Morelli is garbage. Im surprised he got an invite to the combine. Hopfeully, our new QB will tun out to be more like Micheal Robinson, and get te ball to our playmakers in Williams and Norwood. Then again, Robinson didnt beat Michigan......
Bring back a good core on O? Well lets see, no Manningham, no Arrington, no Hart, no Henne, no Mallet, no Long. Thats pretty much the core of your O right there. You will start a QB who has very little, ot absoluetly no experience, new recievers, and a weaker run game.
Yeah, but PSU is due to breakout of this losing to OSU and UM slump sometime. lol. I hope its this year. I thought they would roll Michigan last year, expecially with Mallet starting, but man, Morelli is garbage. Im surprised he got an invite to the combine. Hopfeully, our new QB will tun out to be more like Micheal Robinson, and get te ball to our playmakers in Williams and Norwood. Then again, Robinson didnt beat Michigan......
Michael Robinson was SO overrated. 52% completion percentage and everyone was all over his nuts.
It won't necessarily be a weaker run game. It might actually be better. Rodriguez's experience in instituting a great run O is well-documented, and Carlos Brown and Sam McGuffie should both be BEASTS in this offense, which is focused on getting speedsters the ball in open space. Ask Illinois fans what they think of Carlos Brown after he shredded them to pieces.
And I said we bring back a good core on D. As in defense. As in Donovan Warren, Morgan Trent, Brandon Graham, Obi Ezeh, etc...I think you got it confused. I meant to say "....bring back a good core on D, and on offense we bring back Carlos...."
Michael Robinson was SO overrated. 52% completion percentage and everyone was all over his nuts.
It won't necessarily be a weaker run game. It might actually be better. Rodriguez's experience in instituting a great run O is well-documented, and Carlos Brown and Sam McGuffie should both be BEASTS in this offense, which is focused on getting speedsters the ball in open space. Ask Illinois fans what they think of Carlos Brown after he shredded them to pieces.
And I said we bring back a good core on D. As in defense. As in Donovan Warren, Morgan Trent, Brandon Graham, Obi Ezeh, etc...I think you got it confused. I meant to say "....bring back a good core on D, and on offense we bring back Carlos...."
Well, you did say that we bring back a good core on O too.
As for Micheal Robinson. All that mattered to me was that he won games. Adrain Arrington ruined our shot at the NC, altough it still would have been unlikely. But man, he made plays, and he was clutch. Especially in that Michigan game. Remeber his TD run?
As for Micheal Robinson. All that mattered to me was that he won games. Adrain Arrington ruined our shot at the NC, altough it still would have been unlikely. But man, he made plays, and he was clutch. Especially in that Michigan game. Remeber his TD run?
Anyways, this is the transfer thread, so let's not split off too much.
PSU got screwed on that cause lloyd added 2 seconds, stupid refs, and yes Emanuel Moody is elgible but how many years anybody know? cause i saw something on the stats that indicates he had 1 interception?
Anyways, this is the transfer thread, so let's not split off too much.
oh yea, your right. It was Manningham. I kinda look at it as hi breaking out moment. Still, that game killed me, but it was still one of the best days of football in my life. There was Michigan vs PSU and ND vs USC.
PSU got screwed on that cause lloyd added 2 seconds, stupid refs, and yes Emanuel Moody is elgible but how many years anybody know? cause i saw something on the stats that indicates he had 1 interception?
Oh God let it go....JoePa also got two seconds added in that game, but people seem to conveniently forget that little tidbit. If PSU was as good as they claimed they would have not given up a game winning TD from 15 yards out to a freshman receiver.
PSU got screwed on that cause lloyd added 2 seconds, stupid refs, and yes Emanuel Moody is elgible but how many years anybody know? cause i saw something on the stats that indicates he had 1 interception?
Are you serious? Lloyd Carr does not operate the clock. In fact, he wouldn't have even had time to instruct the clock operator to do so.
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Friday, June 28, 2013
In clover,an eight-year blog and theraputic rain
Clover. Among the flowers and leaves we take for granted.
Eight years ago in June 2005 almost to the day, I gave in to a whim. The idea of writing a blog on a regular daily basis had appealed because for some time, I had been used to responding to deadlines, which had gradually dropped off. Gradual retirement had dulled the edge of urgency in my life. A blog every day might restore it. But from what angle? From what starting point? I didn't want a daily beef. Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells was too easy, so much there was to be disgusted about. It would have been dull, stale and unprofitable. Three Beautiful Things Clare Grant's seminal blog (still flourishing ) provided the answer. What a lovely idea! To note every day three inspiring, amusing or curious events or objects was the perfect model. It has proved both a therapy and simple pleasure. A source of friendship too. Above all it has made me sensitive to the world around me, to the place where I am lucky enough to live and to the people who inhabit it. Sometimes I think that I should look back to trace the rich and varied pattern of a life obscure and insignificant, made up of innumerable small things, but taken together become I hope enlightening, a history composed of chance moments.
A walk in the vegetable garden this morning. No chores apart from watering a few plants in the greenhouse. Outside the soft rain was warm and gentle, falling with a sort of kindness as only rain in this damp country can fall when it is needed in a green summer. You could feel the herbs growing in the herb bed responding to the water and the temperature. The scent of oils and resins suspended in the air. Back indoors I realised that my clothes were not really wet, the skin on my face and bare arms was moist as though subjected to a rare and expensive therapy.
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Beefs do tend to be inhibiting and divisive do they not; and I am guilty of that! Sharing your experiences of the good things is cohesive, and that you have done so well during the time I have been reading your material. Thanks for all that.
Whew!! For a moment there I thought you might be announcing your retirement from blogging.Very relieved I was mistaken. Especially during these last 8 or so difficult months, your inciteful, colorful often amusing observations and commentary have been so welcome. Taking me and my tired mind out for quick refreshment. Hoping you'll keep on keeing on, Joe. Many thanks.
I started writing a response to your second para but decided, even by my standards, it was just a little too ego-centric. It is now to be seen, in modified form, as my most recent post. I hope you agree it's the thought that counts.
Is it eight years already? Congratulations on keeping up the notes on three good things of each of your days. What a pleasure it has been to read it and get to know you and your dearest through this connection! Wishing many more years of pleasures shared!
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Why You Should Use All Your Vacation Days in 2020
"Guilt" is right behind "cost" for reasons Americans don't travel
Earlier this year, the United States Travel Association released its annual State of American Vacation, a comprehensive report on the habits of American travelers. The takeaways were depressing. Over half of American employees reported that they had unused vacation days at the end of the year. Of those people, 61 percent said they feared looking replaceable.
This is a common theme across the American workplace, experts recently shared with Travel + Leisure. The hard-earned, “bootstraps” mentality that compels many of the nation’s workers to work long hours, now has them working long years. And that buildup of stress can have tangible physical consequences, even contributing to cardiovascular diseases. So where’s all that stress coming from? After “cost,” the biggest prohibitive to travel cited by Americans is “guilt.” They fear being seen as inessential personnel, fear being passed for a promotion, or even let go, and thus leave their vacation days unused.
Those concerns are legitimate. But if that description sounds like you, you’ve gotta snap out of it. We wrote earlier this year about the importance of taking a daily constitutional; basically, leaving the office to catch some fresh air and sunlight will lead to more productive afternoons. Vacations are that philosophy stretched out over a few days. Time away from work (real time, no logging into your email every 20 minutes) will take a load off your shoulders you might’ve forgotten was there. It’s time to explore a place or passion you’ve always wanted to know more about, and it will make you a more true and interesting version of yourself in the process.
From a logistical standpoint: have a discussion with your employer. Make sure you have a clear understanding of your company’s vacation policy. They’re not allowed to make you feel bad for taking days explicitly outlined in your contract. Besides, vacation days are good for the American economy; Americans lost out on $62.2 billion in benefits in 2017 from unclaimed days. When you are off, feel free to dream big (fly fishing in New Zealand) or comfy (watch Frodo and Sam walk through New Zealand). It’s all good for your brain, and will have you fresh and ready to do your thing when you get back. | {
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Feb 4 , 2018
Slow wheels of justice go off the rails
by Paul Hutchings
Sometimes nice guys actually do finish last.
That’s what a poor couple who were in an accident 19 years ago learned after their resulting court case was dismissed on January 19 in a Halifax courtroom.
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The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability recently announced a new Funding Opportunity Announcement for joint research on smart grid and energy storage under the U.S.-India Partnership to Advance Clean Energy Research (PACE-R).
The DOE and the Indian Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) are each committing $1.5 million a year for five years to the expanded research effort–focused on smart grid and energy storage for grid applications. The U.S. and Indian private sectors will match the government commitments, resulting in a combined $30 million public-private research investment over the next five years.
“Smart grid and storage technology will transform how we produce and consume electricity, which has the potential to decrease carbon pollution by scaling up renewable energy deployment,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz. “Working collaboratively with India will accelerate solutions to drive down technology costs and improve grid resilience and reliability in both countries.”
The United States and India launched the Partnership to Advance Clean Energy (PACE) in 2009, aiming to accelerate inclusive, low carbon growth by supporting research and deployment of clean energy technologies. Efforts expanded in 2012 when DOE and MST jointly funded PACE-R with a combined $50 million research commitment focusing on solar energy, energy efficiency in buildings, and next-generation biofuels. | {
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An intrusion has been detected
Now what? Unless you are restricting yourself to observation only,
as an academic exercise, the next step is to respond to it. This activity
is known in security circles as incident response, and it
includes activities like stopping further damage, investigating what
happened, and performing required cleanup.
Incident Response
Incident response is the collective name for all of the activities performed in response to a perceived computer security related incident. It includes both defensive activities such as securing the network, and offensive activities like investigating the incident and possibly reporting details to law enforcement.
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The ruins of a village emerge from the Tiantangshan reservoir after water drops in Longmen County, South China’s Guangdong Province. The village was submerged by water in 1992 while local residents were relocated. (Photo/VCG)
The ruins of a village emerge from the Tiantangshan reservoir after water drops in Longmen County, South China’s Guangdong Province. The village was submerged by water in 1992 while local residents were relocated. (Photo/VCG)
The ruins of a village emerge from the Tiantangshan reservoir after water drops in Longmen County, South China’s Guangdong Province. The village was submerged by water in 1992 while local residents were relocated. (Photo/VCG)
The ruins of a village emerge from the Tiantangshan reservoir after water drops in Longmen County, South China’s Guangdong Province. The village was submerged by water in 1992 while local residents were relocated. (Photo/VCG) | {
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Three Days Grace- Time Of Dying Lyrics
On the ground I lay Motionless in pain I can see my life flashing before my eyes Did I fall asleep? Is this all a dream Wake me up, I’m living a nightmare
I will not die (I will not die) I will survive
I will not die, I’ll wait here for you I feel alive, when you’re beside me I will not die, I’ll wait here for you In my time of dying
On this bed I lay Losing everything I can see my life passing me by Was it all too much Or just not enough Wake me up, I’m living a nightmare
I will not die (I will not die) I will survive
I will not die, I’ll wait here for you I feel alive, when you’re beside me I will not die, I’ll wait here for you In my time of dying
I will not die, I’ll wait here for you I feel alive, when you’re beside me I will not die, I’ll wait here for you In my time of dying I will not die, I’ll wait here for you I will not die, when you’re beside me I will not die, I’ll wait here for you In my time of dying | {
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Hillary Would Give Us a Disastrous Third Obama Term
When it comes to unity, the Democrats talk a good game — but in the end they promote disunity because their electability depends on dividing society into groups and inciting anger, resentment and distrust.
I don’t need to cite examples of Democrats’ blaming Republicans for divisiveness and falsely extolling their own aspirations of unity. They are everywhere. It’s what they do, from their talk of our “common humanity,” to their glorification of all kinds of diversity, except diversity of thought, to their proclaimed monopoly on tolerance.
It’s ironic that Democrats get away with this lie. It is Republicans, or at least the conservatives among them, who preach that a rising tide lifts all boats — that economic growth across the board will help the most people.
Democrats simply can’t be honest about economic policy. They have to demonize the wealthy to incite class warfare. They must perpetuate and expand government dependency programs, which means creating incentives for people to remain out of the work force. They must vilify the rich for not paying their fair share of taxes, despite the undeniable fact that upper-income earners pay far more taxes — actual and percentage — and that the lower half of income earners pay no income taxes at all. How much “fairer” can it be for them?
I am old enough to remember then-Senator Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign promise to bring all people together in a spirit of harmony and healing. I also remember him doing just the opposite once elected.
And I remember Obama’s 2012 gamble of appealing directly to minorities and alienating other groups, apparently on the theory that disaffected groups outnumber the sum of all others — or at least that agitating them would increase their turnout and ensure his victory. If a Republican candidate had dared such overt divisiveness, the mainstream media would have tarred and feathered him.
The Democrats are having a field day attacking Trump, and he’s giving them way too much ammunition. But no matter whom Republicans put up, Democrats will viciously disparage them. To them, almost all Republican candidates and officeholders are mean-spirited bigots.
If only Republicans could successfully communicate their case that perpetual malaise, which is the only thing Democrats offer anymore, is unnecessary and correctable. If only they could demonstrate that the Democrats’ socialistic and regulatory policies thwart prosperity for all groups of people — except, ironically, the very wealthy.
But we haven’t made our case, or it’s falling on deaf ears, because Democrats are paying people, in effect, to remain on their plantations. They are encouraging them not to be productive members of society. They are deliberately undermining the nuclear family. They are fomenting envy and disharmony. It’s tragic.
Look at Hillary Clinton’s ballyhooed economic plan. What an utter package of deceit! She tells us she’s going to create more than 10 million new jobs — by continuing the same miserably failed policies of Barack Obama. Obama and Clinton claim they saved the economy from collapse after the 2008 financial crisis, which their policies caused. But eight years later we’ve yet to see appreciable economic growth from this team. For them, 1 percent growth is the new 5 percent. Obamanomics has given us the worst recovery since World War II. Indeed, it is an insult to the term “recovery” to designate this mess as such.
No matter what he says now, President Obama promised his obscene $800 billion “stimulus” package would actually stimulate, and it did the opposite.
But Clinton would continue the ruse, expecting us to believe four more years of this insanity will produce different results. Her five-part plan is more of the same nonsense: 1) Investing in infrastructure. (Deja vu, anyone?) 2) Make college available for all. (But how will graduates get jobs in their recessionary economy?) 3) Make companies share more profits with their employees. (And these people claim they’re not socialists). 4) Make corporations, the wealthy and Wall Street pay their fair share. (I’ve covered this.) 5) Create policies that “support 21st-century families” — equal pay, paid leave, reduced child care costs.
Seriously, which of these strategies could conceivably unleash sustained economic growth? Other than the infrastructure spending (which also won’t create long-term growth), these ideas have nothing to do with expanding the economic pie, but only with redistribution. Not only is Clinton’s five-point plan destined for failure, she will expand the regulatory state, which is smothering small businesses.
If Democrats ever believed in economic growth, they’ve long since abandoned it, going with the myth that we have a finite pie and that they, as Big Sister, must control how it’s allocated, the free market be damned.
I repeat: The Democrats’ viability requires keeping us at each other’s throats. They must divide us. Consider Clinton’s recent shunning of police unions. She is so desperate to retain 90 percent of the African-American vote that she told the 335,000-member National Fraternal Order of Police she won’t seek their endorsement.
The chilling truth is that Hillary Clinton would give us a third Obama term, and I don’t know how we can come back from it. | {
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Shortcodes
The theme comes with a number of shortcodes allowing you to add the info where you want the relevant content to show up. In addition, you can use Visual Composer to add new elements to the page in a simple way. More information on how to use Visual Composer properly can be found here:
Address
In case, you would like to have a line under the text, check Yes in Show separator option. You can add an animation as well, using Enable animate option:
Extra class name - class name for element. Allows to set up additional decorations for element in CSS stylesheets.
Awards
Parameters:
Year - year when the award was given
Title - the awards title
Title link - the link which will lead from title to another page
Subtitle - the awards subtitle
Separator - check yes to add dividing line
Banner Title
Parameters:
Style shortcode - select the banner style. It can take one of the following values: simple, big
Color style - the color type: light or default (dark)
Heading Size - choose from the list the heading size
Subtitle - add subtitle
Title - add banner title
Animation text - add animation text
Color animation text - choose the color for animation text
Style background - choose image or video for background
Description - add short description
Button - add URL and title for the button
Style button - the button type: simple or creative
Columns - add title , subtitle and enable divider option
Enable overlay - click on to enable overlay effect
Enable full height - click on to enable full height
Extra class name - class name for element. Allows to set up additional decorations for element in CSS stylesheets.
Clients
Parameters:
Image -upload the image
Link - add link and title
Extra class name - class name for element. Allows to set up additional decorations for element in CSS stylesheets.
Coming soon
Parameters:
Image background - upload the image
Subtitle - add subtitle
Title - add title
Description - add short description text (if necessary)
Date - the date data (year,month, day)
Contact form - insert contact form code
Social Icons - choose an appropriate icon from the list and add link
The Date option is a required one as well. Use contact form shortcode, if you would like to add sign up option as it is shown in the sample:The words — Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds may look different on Mobile and Desktop:You will have to write in the date data in Time label (Mobile) and Time label (Desktop) options:
Counters
To create the same shortcode as in the sample above fill in the following fields:
Image Background - upload image
Border Size - insert border size
Numbers - add numbers and title as the fields
Figure - choose the figure type. It can take one of the following values: none, triangle, circle, square, oxagon
Color figure - select color from proposed list
Extra class name - class name for element. Allows to set up additional decorations for element in CSS stylesheets.
There are several types of Figure you can choose from the list
Formidable
In the setting there is only one option which should be chosen from the list — Select Form:
Headings shortcode
Parameters:
Subtitle - add subtitle
Enable divider - click yes to enable divider
Content - add description if necessary
List Category and Posts
There are plenty of variations how the shortcode can be displayed on the front page, depending on the Post type:
An amount of total posts and post type should be added in this shortcode:
Pricing
The shortcode can be of two types, depending on the style you choose in the Settings: Pricing simple, Pricing Featured image
The cases the following fields should be filled in: Title, Subtitle, Price,Description and Button. The last option could be of several types (Simple, Creative, Arrow). In addition, an image would be necessary if you choose Featured Image style:
Project Detail Simple Image
Parameters:
Position image - choose the way image should be displayed: top or bottom
Image - upload image
Description - add short text
Extra class name - class name for element. Allows to set up additional decorations for element in CSS stylesheets.
Team
In the settings Name, Position, Strokewidth and Height should be filled in. Image and the proper style should be chosen. You would also need to mention Figure`s type and color. | {
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Marc Blucas ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer", Thr3e) and Naveen Andrews ("Lost", Grindhouse) have signed on to Animals, a new horror movie produced by Anonymous Content (Babel) and T&C Pictures. Also joining the cast are Nicki Aycox (Jeepers Creepers II, "Supernatural"), Eva Amurri (Saved!), and Andy Comeau ("Huff"). Craig Spector wrote the script from his 1992 novel of the same name, his last with co-writer John Skipp. The film's plot will focus on a blue-collar worker who becomes entangled in a love triangle. If the book's template is followed, then things will proceed to get very bloody from there. First-time director Doug Aarniokoski is expected to begin filming next week in Salt Lake City. | {
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Why emerging artists?
So you want to own original art. Fantastic! Owning art and starting a small collection not only adds a lot of personality to your space, but is often one of the most fun and rewarding investments you can make. When considering art, look closely at emerging artists. These are the artists that are just getting their careers going. You won’t find them in a lot of galleries; most likely they are marketing themselves or going to art fairs. But if you don’t have the time to hit every art fair in Virginia…the Cabell Gallery of Fine Art is the perfect place for you. We specialize in emerging artists from Virginia. In general, their work is more affordable then well established artists because they don’t have a “name” yet. But this doesn’t mean their art isn’t good. It just means they haven’t been noticed by the “right” people in the art world…yet.
Buying an emerging artist could get you in on the ground floor of something that will be worth a lot more someday, but remember, that is not why you should buy. Buy what you like, not what is on trend. Buy art because you are drawn to it, and because you will enjoy it being a part of your home. Living with art you love will enhance your everyday life! Smaller and affordable work is the easiest way to start a collection. This could mean a smaller piece by an established artist, a work on paper, or a piece from an emerging artist. There is fantastic art available in everyone’s price range. Stop by the Cabell Gallery to see dozens of artists from this region who make all sorts of works that might connect with you. You can always check out the website, too, www.cabellgallery.com. | {
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GARETH BALE’S injury woes look to have struck again just a week before Real Madrid’s Super Cup clash against Manchester United. The winger limped out of training clearly pointing to his right ankle as he headed off down the tunnel looking frustrated. 👀@GarethBale11 se retiró antes que el resto co...
Man Utd defender Phil Jones has been hit with a two game ban after he verbally abused officials at a drugs test following the club’s Europa League Final victory over Ajax in May. The England international, 25, will miss both the Super Cup Final against Real Madrid and United’s first Champions Lea...
Phil Jones has been banned for two matches and Daley Blind fined by UEFA after the Manchester United pair were found guilty of breaching the governing body's doping regulations after the Europa League final in May.
Phil Jones has been banned for two matches and Daley Blind fined by Uefa after the Manchester United pair were found guilty of breaching the governing body's doping regulations after the Europa League final in May.
Phil Jones has been banned for two matches and Daley Blind fined by UEFA after the Manchester United pair were found guilty of breaching the governing body's doping regulations after the Europa League final in May.
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Stephen Hume: On health and safety hazards, B.C. citizens betrayed by their provincial government
Privacy commissioner’s ruling suggests public agencies’ reluctance to inform public about risks is the rule, not the exception
Oliver resident Ian Gibson, a retired high school geology teacher, surveys the aftermath after the Testalinden dam broke in 2010, unleashing a torrent of debris that damaged homes and farmland. Spencer Whitney photo
The provincial government failed in its legal duty to warn downstream residents near Oliver about the public hazard from a deteriorating irrigation dam before its eventual collapse in 2010, British Columbia’s information and privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham ruled Monday.
It’s an important ruling. It points to the reluctance of government custodians of information to share it with citizens who both pay for it and need it to make informed decisions.
Access to information about health, safety and environmental hazards should be the standard. We should not have to rely upon leaks to The Vancouver Sun from concerned public servants or pry it from authorities more worried about political optics than public welfare.
Although government inspectors first reported more than 35 years ago that the Testalinden Dam, built in the 1930s below Mount Kobau, had reached the end of its lifespan and represented “a hazard to life and property of some of the settled areas,” no warnings were issued.
The province argued to Denham that because the dam didn’t actually fail until 2010, earlier decisions not to inform the public had been vindicated. Huh? This is weird logic. The dam did fail. Downstream residents were at risk. That risk wasn’t alleviated because the dam didn’t fail in 1990.
Its collapse on June 13, 2010 — as a consequence of run-off from a heavier than normal winter snowpack, twice the normal rainfall and a partly blocked overflow culvert — released a torrent of water, mud and debris, seriously damaging houses and farmland.
The dam blowout washed away five homes and damaged 25 properties, 14 of them seriously. The province paid $460,000 to compensate farmers for crop losses in 2010, although some estimated it would take five years to restore their land. In addition, the province said $2.5 million from an $8.8 million federal-provincial flood mitigation fund would be earmarked for construction of a floodway at the Testalinden site.
“I believe that disclosure of the information the Ministry possessed from its various reports would have been clearly in the public interest,” Denham ruled. “The information about the risk of failure of the dam was information that the public did not know and that would have likely resulted in the local citizenry, at the very least, pressuring government to take remedial action.”
Denham was investigating the Testalinden incident as part of a broader submission from the Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Victoria. It had argued the province’s ministries and agencies routinely ignore their statutory duty to inform the public about health, environmental or safety risks.
Provincial authorities had identified the privately owned dam as a threat to downstream life and property as early as 1977 and advised the earthen structure’s reservoir be drained and the dam reconstructed or dismantled because of the downstream menace from a probable failure.
After one 1980 inspection, a professional engineer warned that “the dam in its present condition is a hazard, and endangers the settled areas downstream, along the Osoyoos-Oliver highway.”
But despite what Denham described as an “urgent and compelling need for public disclosure,” no warnings were issued.
The government’s reluctance to tell us about hazards to health, safety and the environment is, alas, the norm rather than the exception, the information commissioner’s report suggests.
Denham said that in a number of other cases cited by the university clinic — ranging from air and water quality issues in Prince George and Cowichan to the presence of black mould in a Simon Fraser University residential building — the government was technically not obligated to disclose risks.
But she said this was because the statute governing reports to the public fails to make sufficiently clear what comprises “an urgent and compelling need for disclosure,” leaving the law open to broad and inconsistent interpretation by the heads of public agencies.
As a result, her investigation found, few government bodies are disclosing health, safety, environmental and other risks of significant harm to the public as intended by provincial law.
Denham surveyed 11 such government ministries and agencies and found that most civil servants did not appear to understand their obligations on risks to the public.
She urges — it’s her major recommendation in the report — that the province amend the law regarding such disclosure to remove the requirement for “urgent and compelling need” and that officials should be educated about their responsibilities to inform the public.
Notifying citizens about potential risks to health, safety or the environment should be a routine and proactive procedure, the commissioner says.
She urges the province to amend the law “at the earliest opportunity” to require all government bodies holding information about possible public, health or environmental hazards and safety to engage in “proactive disclosure.”
Denham is right. This is a complete no-brainer. Citizens have a fundamental right to such information. Change the law. Make disclosure the ethical standard, not the exception. Post it publicly. Snap to it.
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Oliver resident Ian Gibson, a retired high school geology teacher, surveys the aftermath after the Testalinden dam broke in 2010, unleashing a torrent of debris that damaged homes and farmland. Spencer Whitney photo
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G'day Norm, Nope! Not at all! Corticene is a strange deck colour somewhere between a muddy brick red and tan! I needed it for my HMS Manxman Abdiel class fast mine-layer. Never seen it on a carrier!? 😲See -https://www.sovereignhobbies.co.uk/products/rn24-corticenethey took over the White Ensign naval paints when WE sank / emigrated 🤔 Cheers Doug 😎PS Being nuts is an essential pre-requisite to building model boats and ships 👍😉
Thanks. Trouble with a carrier there are so many small deck sections on all the various outboard platforms, I assume wherever feet would go there would be corticene. Carriers are capital ships, which have timber decks as a rule. But maybe the bridge had planked floors, but everywhere else corticene. Boat decks also.You know, model ship builders have to be nuts!
Hi Norm, Tell me about it!! 😭I have Ark Royal (1939 version) and USS Enterprise (first nuclear super carrier) both 1:350, and there are 'bits' hanging off all over the place 😭I also have HMS Hood and KM Bismarck also 1:350. I am slowly modifying them for radio control (Plastic Magic!) so one day I can re-enact the Battle of the Denmark Straight. Don't plan to blow up my Hood though 😉In the nineties I had the pleasure of working on a Colossus Class Fleet carrier (ex HMS Vengeance) which ended up with the Brazilian Navy.Of course she had been updated and modified many times (I was there to modernise the comms) but I never saw any Corticene.Carriers may be capital ships but only the USN were stupid enough to give them wooden decks, which is why they lost so many to dive bombs and kamikaze planes. Whereas these bounced off the RN carriers armoured decks 😊BTW; did you know that all the major carrier advancements still seen in modern carriers; closed bow, angled flight deck and automated landing systems were all invented by the British? 😊👍Happy building, Doug 😎
Hi Doug,Your Ark Royal, what is the deck colouring on her boat decks? Of course the Brits invented all those mods. They have had the most actual action! Are the arrester wires on your model? If so, what is the spacing between them? As you will see in my pic, taken today, the flight deck is armoured. My problem is the decks of all the small gun platforms etc. Also the deck surrounding the funnel? That might well have been armour.I assume you are in the UK? I am in Ontario.Norm
Hi Norm,All the weapons, boats and other 'hangers-on decks' are Humbrol colour Matt Sea Grey # 27, Revel approximate Matt Mouse Grey (Mausgrau) # 47. Don't know what paint type you use but I have several conversion charts so let me know and I'll see if I can find an equivalent. Flight deck is Matt U.S. Light (!) Green # 117, which is actually not so light, more of a Sea Grey-green. Arrester wires: On the Ark there are 8 ! According to my plan-#1 33.5m from the edge of the roll down,#2 6.6m from #1#3 6.6m from #2#4 7.33m from #3#5 7.33m from #4#6 6.95m from #5#7 5.64 from #6#8 5.26 from #7No guarantee for accuracy!! Or even if 'Lusty' was the same but it's an indication. 😉Your build is looking good 👍 I'm wondering if you are taking all this trouble why don't you go the 'whole hog' and bring her to life😉 Finish the hull and give her some motors 😊No, I'm not in UK, I'm in Munich where I've been for the last 32 years, Tempus fugit😲, hence my forum name 😉Cheers Doug 😎
Hi Doug,Surprise. I did flight deck estimated colour from photo off net as being dark grey. I have all the other decks similar. Hope is ok,I originally thought to build her for RC, but my plan was for 1/8" to the foot, and no way could (a) build in my workshop space, as even built in two halves they have to be put together at some stage during build, and (b) launching a seven foot model would be a big problem on our lake. My Nelson is 1/16" and sails very well. Another reason was, as my wife pointed out, I have enough ships to sail, and storage is a bit of a problem. We have one upstairs room, known here as a loft, which rather resembles a museum when all ships are in port so to speak. She reckons we shall have to move soon, get a bigger house!What took you to Munich?Norm
Hi Norm, "What took me to Munich"?I think it might have been a BEA Trident in those days! 😉Seriously though folks, I came back from a business trip to Moscow (a saga in itself!) to find a trade magazine on my desk with an ad from a Munich company looking for RF engineers to promote their RF test gear in the US.I jumped at it, spent a year in Munich learning the equipment (and the way they think!) and then went to the States East Coast for a 6 week look-see. Came back wrote a 14 page report that made me no friends and said 'No way Jose!'Interestingly 3 months later the MD over there quit and the whole thing collapsed, more or less as I had predicted. So I moved to the Communications Division and began to specialise in Naval Comms systems and never looked back. Took me all over the world to navies and shipyards. Didn't make me rich but it was very interesting and sometimes a lot of fun; like the carrier in Rio de Janeiro for example 😉 Also had a lot to do with a COMMS refit for the RCN Coast Minehunters some years ago 👍BTW: I was thinking of building the Ark large scale, I've seen huge model tankers here 3m+ which are built in two sections and only bolted together at the lake!Since then I'm older and wiser (or is that weaker??!🤔)Your dark grey is probably OK, during the war all ships were patched up with whatever was available when needed anyway! I shall do mine with a touch of green for the flight deck, like most RN ships that operated in the Atlantic.All the 'bolt-on decks' can stay mid-sea grey.Cheers Doug 😎
Hi Doug,Surprise surprise, got another problem. Attached [ic showing two small empty platforms. I don't think they would have had 40mm guns - too small - and I doubt more gun controls or range finders. Any ideas?
Hi Norm,the GA I have, as on active service 1940, doesn't show any sponsons between the 2nd 4.5"AA and the director abaft the front of the island!?It also shows TWO 8 barrel pompoms starboard between the radio mast and the island! It also shows the 4.5 turrets much flatter, almost flush with the flight deck!What you have may have been later add ons. I suspect that the smaller square one was simply for access to the radio mast and the tuning unit which would be at the foot of it. Since the round one also has a door and bulwarks to stop people sliding overboard it would have been manned sometimes and I suspect that either a Quad Vickers 0.5" MG AA (see pics) or a 20mm Oerlikon AA might have been mounted there. Most carriers initially had up to 8 of these Vickers, but they were b.. useless against fast metal aircraft and were soon replaced with 20mm. So if I were you I would be tempted to put a twin 20mm on there. At some stage of the war it would be correct!
The Vickers is impossible to find in a reasonable scale, only teeny weeny etch sets. I once went bonkers putting one together in 1/600 scale for my HMS Manxman, makes yer eyes go funny 😲 There are 8 at 1/350 on my Ark Royal 😡I'm currently in contact with Adrian Smith of Battlecrafts to get some made up in 1/72. He's just done me some 4.7" guns for my 1/72 HMS Hotspur H class destroyer. Not cheap, but damn good 👍 If he ain't got it he'll make it if we can give him photos and drawing or reference sources. The original ship builder often has such an online archive; Vickers for instance.http://www.battlecrafts.co.uk/What date are you depicting with your model? Can you post a pic of your plan? Where did it come from? I've also forgotten what Scale you are building! Aha just found it 1/192 ! Hope this helps more than confuses! Cheers Doug😎Last pic, Illustrious, date unknown, is bit tiny but does show 'something' on sponsons aft of the 4.5s. look like twin 40mm to me, so maybe the sponsons were enlarged at this stage?
Hi again,here the best pic I have of the port side, date unknown. Shows your two platforms but no weapons discernable 🤔 The round one may simply have been a refuge for deck crew when things got hectic or they were under attack. Saw such refuges on the old Colossus class carrier in Brazil, also used one once😲It's now past midnight so Goodnight from Munich, Cheers Doug 😎Forgot to mention; the build is looking very good, such a shame she'll never move 😱
Still up!Here another pic showing the port quarter 1954.The square platform is still there and as I suspected it's for access to the aerial mast ATU and tilt unit for maintenance. Further aft is a round platform with what looks like a single 40mm. A lot more clutter has been added by this date! 🤔 The island has grown as well!Shame it was lovely large photo, I had to scale it down to get the site to accept it 😭And now, definitely goodnight! 😎
Hi Doug,I am beginning to think I will have to make her a generic of Illustrious! I originally intended my model to be as she was in 1942/3. She had so many modifications I am getting lost.My only drawing is one by Norman Ough, from the Great Britain Trust. It has proved to be rather inaccurate. Usually I get drawings from Greenwich, but for some reason they were unable to this time. Maybe just as well as from all the pics I have seen she was probably never as designed. I made the Hull from those drawings, and have had to make alterations to agree with photos! The turrets I had already realized I must alter. Not too great a problem. Just remake the actual turrets but barrels okay. According to my drawing there were two multiple Pom poms abaft the funnel, one one deck below the base of the funnel and the other at flight deck level and two forward of the island, one at flight deck level. I have all the Pom Pom units eight barrelled. Your pic taken from port side forward I was taken in the Pacific I think, as she has the damage to the bridge from kamikaze hit. I'll take a pic tomorrow showing my model as she is now see what you think.Best till thenNorm
Hi Norm, Looking good 👍Looks like your plan is pretty much the same as my GA dwg, no little platforms port side forward! On the other hand, here a port side pic showing them.The little square one has deck above it with railing. The round one has the same gun as you have on the port bow, 40mm single?Then come the director mount then two single gun mounts as you have. Above and between the two singles is a crane mount. Then comes the 8 x pompom. Aft of that the photo gets a bit vague🤔There is a railed gantry running from the port fwd. pair of 4.5s back to the pompom gundeck. the gun decks are also railed. This gantry probably runs back to the stern, and is the same on the starboard side, as I have seen on the old Colossus class Vengeance in Brazil. Learned to keep my head down while walking along them! 😉Your bridge looks a bit low? Still digging - more soon👍Cheers Doug 😎
Starboard side! Photo from 1940.Same square platform for antenna mast maintenance, with same railed deck above. Same round platform behind that (as you already have built) with what looks like a single 40mm or 20mm? Single barrel but shorter than the 40 up front! Then nothing except gantry deck until aft end of the island; then antenna mast mount, boat deck and crane, antenna mast, then some small AA 1x40 and 2 twin 20s?, director, searchlight, antenna mast, then 2x 4.5s. also a close up pic of port fwd. 40mm mount and battle damage! All for now👍Good night from Munich 😎
Some info. on radar, armament and wartime mods! 'Ya pays ya money and yer takes yer choice'! 😎"Armament, electronics and protectionThe main armament of the Illustrious class consisted of sixteen quick-firing (QF) 4.5-inch (110 mm) dual-purpose guns in eight twin-gun turrets, four in sponsons on each side of the hull. The roofs of the gun turrets protruded above the level of the flight deck to allow them to fire across the deck at high elevations.[11] The gun had a maximum range of 20,760 yards (18,980 m).[12] Her light anti-aircraft defences included six octuple mounts for QF 2-pounder ("pom-pom") anti-aircraft (AA) guns, two each fore and aft of the island and two in sponsons on the port side of the hull.[11] The 2-pounder gun had a maximum range of 6,800 yards (6,200 m).[13]
The completion of Illustrious was delayed two months to fit her with a Type 79Z early-warning radar; she was the first aircraft carrier in the world to be fitted with radar before completion.[11] This version of the radar had separate transmitting and receiving antennas which required a new mainmast to be added to the aft end of the island to mount the transmitter.[14]
The Illustrious-class ships had a flight deck protected by 3 inches (76 mm) of armour and the internal sides and ends of the hangars were 4.5 inches (114 mm) thick. The hangar deck itself was 2.5 inches (64 mm) thick and extended the full width of the ship to meet the top of the 4.5-inch waterline armour belt. The belt was closed by 2.5-inch transverse bulkheads fore and aft. The underwater defence system was a layered system of liquid- and air-filled compartments backed by a 1.5-inch (38 mm) splinter bulkhead.[15]Wartime modificationsWhile under repair in 1941, Illustrious's rear "round-down" was flattened to increase the usable length of the flight deck to 670 feet (204.2 m).[16] This increased her aircraft complement to 41 aircraft by use of a permanent deck park.[17] Her light AA armament was also augmented by the addition of 10 Oerlikon 20 mm autocannon in single mounts with a maximum range of 4,800 yards (4,400 m).[18] In addition the two steel fire curtains in the hangar were replaced by asbestos ones.[19] After her return to the UK later that year, her Type 79Z radar was replaced by a Type 281 system and a Type 285 gunnery radar was mounted on one of the main fire-control directors.[16] The additional crewmen, maintenance personnel and facilities needed to support these aircraft, weapons and sensors increased her complement to 1,326.[7]
During her 1943 refits, the flight deck was modified to extend its usable length to 740 feet (225.6 m), and "outriggers" were probably added at this time. These were 'U'-shaped beams that extended from the side of the flight deck into which aircraft tailwheels were placed. The aircraft were pushed back until the main wheels were near the edge of the flight deck to allow more aircraft to be stored on the deck. Twin Oerlikon mounts replaced most of the single mounts. Other twin mounts were added so that by May she had a total of eighteen twin and two single mounts. The Type 281 radar was replaced by an upgraded Type 281M, and a single-antenna Type 79M was added. Type 282 gunnery radars were added for each of the "pom-pom" directors, and the rest of the main directors were fitted with Type 285 radars. A Type 272 target-indicator radar was mounted above her bridge.[16] These changes increased her aircraft capacity to 57[20] and caused her crew to grow to 1,831.[7]
A year later, in preparation for her service against the Japanese in the Pacific, one starboard octuple "pom-pom" mount, directly abaft the island, was replaced by two 40 mm Bofors AA guns;[21] which had a maximum range of 10,750 yards (9,830 m).[22] Two more twin Oerlikon mounts were added, and her boilers were retubed.[21] At this time her complement was 1,997 officers and enlisted men.[7] By 1945, accumulated wear-and-tear as well as undiagnosed shock damage to Illustrious's machinery caused severe vibrations in her centre propeller shaft at high speeds. In an effort to cure the problem, the propeller was removed, and the shaft was locked in place in February; these radical measures succeeded in reducing, but not eliminating, the vibrations and reduced the ship's speed to about 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph).["
Hi,I made the bridge to my drawing. I think it's right. I would think that Noram Ough had his basic dimensions correct. If not I might as well start over! In the pic I am attaching, there is a platform with what looks like a very large searchlight, but it is not clear enough to be sure, Seems a bit unlikely.I am giving her a 36 foot launch. I assume it would have been grey, though I am tempted to paint it black, with varnished wood cabin and mahogany foredeck.I am beginning to feel a bit stupid asking so many questions. I hope you don't feel 'oh no not him again!😡 Never had anyone to consult before. Most of the time here it's me helping others in our little club.You got around a lot of ships all over the world I think. What were you doing, or shouldn't I ask?RegardsNorm
Hi Norm, Norm (!) Oughs drawing may well be 'as built'. During the war she received many mods. Depends on the time snapshot you want to recreate. I may be wrong about the island (photo perspective) but it seemed that way. I remember standing on the topmost island deck of a Colossus class carrier, at the foot of the antenna mast, looking down at ants crawling about on the deck, and the even smaller ones on the dockside! 😉 I was up there inspecting the COMMS antenna fit. That was my job the last 30 odd years. On existing ships I would survey the COMMS systems for upgrades and refits. For new build ships I would discuss the requirements and possibilities with the navies and then discuss with the shipyards how to achieve them! All good stuff, but the last 10 years I was getting a bit stiff for the climbing, so I sent a younger colleague up while I discussed the existing system and any problems with the crew in the Wardroom😉Can't see your pic, the site only accepts jpgs etc🤔 An irritation that has often cost me time to do conversions 😡We'll have to 'gang up' on Fireboat (Stephen) to get this improved.i often wanted to upload a pdf page, but had to convert to jpg etc first😭
Where is this mysterious platform? Maybe I can find it. A large searchlight would not surprise me. Could also be an early radar antenna, need to research the types mentioned above.If the launch has a cabin it may be an 'Admirals Barge', and Admirals had a lot of freedom to paint them how they wanted. So black and mahogany sounds very appropriate to me 👍Often said on this site (and elsewhere) but: 'The only silly question is the one you don't ask'! Keep up the good work, Doug 😎
Yep, you're right, definitely a searchlight👍Behind it you can see the railed gantry I mentioned before.'Running buses' is a boring way to describe excursions to India & Nepal.Sounds pretty interesting (and hair raising) to me!Cheers Doug 😎
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Thanks for the portside pic. Answered my upcoming query - did Illustrious' Bofors have a shield. I have Norman Ough's book, with excellent detailed drawing of the gun, but no way can I get all that detail made at 192 scale.
Hi.Not sure if the attached pictures will help.They are not all from Illustrious but do show some good detail.The pictures of the book pages are of HMS Victorious,sister ship.May be of help to you.regards Bill.
Hi.I am building a working model of HMS Victorious,circa 1941 (sister ship) and have a lot of pictures and plan drawings.Please give me a couple of days as I am away but I will get back to you.Regards Bill.
Hi,Thanks. What scale are you building to? I had originally intended to build to 1-96, but my workshop facility would not be able to cope, and my wife also pointed out I have enough sailing models already! So waterline to 192.Norm
Hi Norm.I am building to 1/128th Using a Fleetscale basic format but making lots of the fittings.I attach a few pictures which may help.I have a lot more if you wish me to send the via post plus some reference books details.The picture of port side with crew on deck is circa 1949 so quite late.I am lucky to have a good size workshop so space is not a problem.
Hi Bill,Thanks. The flightdeck pic is a beaut. Trouble is she underwent so many alterations, mainly of course to the island. I have so many very poor photos taken off the net, and I don't think two are the same! I am afraid my model is going to be a hybrid over ten years.I am putting up a couple of pics showing my space problem. One problem I have is that the damp emitted by the washing machine and dryer tends to rust things.
In fact I manage okay, but my wife occasionally complains it is difficult to get to the dryer.Have another query. Attached pic taken from Wikipedia. What is the structure below the curve down end of the flight deck?It was taken in 1940 so probably original build.
Hi, there's also a gantry running underneath and of course the girder work supporting the roll down. here's a somewhat later pic, Landing On view. On my Ark Royal plan it's very similar.cheers Doug 😎PS Note Blackburn Buccaneers on deck!
Hi Doug,No wonder you're a fleet admiral! Sounds as if you have had quite a time, and I'd guess just about retiring, which I've been for some sixteen years now after most of my adult life running tour coaches, twenty years overland to India and Nepal. Resurrected model ship building when I came to Canada.There is a guy in Hamilton with an American carrier which is about seven feet long. He has a special box and trailer for it. Installs the ballast after launching. It sails well, though does not like wind, and is not much to look at. He had it on our lake about three years ago for our annual Canada day regatta. My longest ship is HMS Ceres, five feet. Sails well and is remarkably stable for such a narrow really oversize destroyer.Back to sorting out pom pom control systems about half an inch high, and fguring out how to fit the windscreen to Fairey Fulmars.BestNorm | {
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Caterpillar sales improving driven by replacement demand
Survey says!
Credit Suisse most recent survey of private construction equipment dealers shows forecasts for a 15-20% improvement in sales consistent with last quarter, driven by replacement demand. Still, 60% of dealers implied Q1/12 was trending ahead of expectations. Also encouraging, housing is on the path to recovery coupled with some pockets of strength in commercial construction and infrastructure (except military).
Large engines remain on fire tied to strength in power generation and oil & gas. There is less optimism on coal mining reflecting tougher emissions standards and regulatory uncertainty. Last, most dealers ended 2011 ahead of expectations citing only modest help from bonus depreciation (i.e. there was little pull forward).
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Dealers noted that Caterpillar’s market share is up broadly, reflecting improved quality and troubled competition, despite rational pricing. Lead times are improving in small equipment, now below three months, whereas larger equipment remains extended at 12-18 months on average, in particular excavators, mining, and D-10-11’s. Mining equipment is now further out vs. Q4 with most quoting backlog through 2014 despite recent concerns of slowing.
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Note his words: “I am supportive of the death penalty.” The Weekly Standard reports that the senator’s stand on the death penalty has “evolved.” Quote: “For years, Kerry opposed capital punishment in all cases. In 1996, during a debate with Massachusetts governor William Weld, who was challenging Kerry for his Senate seat, Kerry said Weld’s support of capital punishment for terrorists ‘would amount to a terrorist protection policy.’ Kerry’s position, on the other hand, ‘would put them in jail.'”In 2002, Kerry flipped again, telling Tim Russert: “I am for the death penalty for terrorists because terrorists have declared war on your country,” but cautioned he opposed it “in the criminal justice system because I think it’s applied unfairly.” Time magazine reports: “‘John Kerry never met a side of an issue he didn’t like,’ says Dean spokesman Jay Carson. And it is true that some positions have changed….” Expect Kerry to keep changing his positions, and then say, “They know I’m for this.” That’s what he’s going to have to do, because he cannot stand on his voting record. Kerry’s going to have to come up with a slithery way to explain some of those votes, and he’ll do so by saying he’s “changed his mind.” He’ll probably say, “Well, since I’m now running for president, I’m not just a senator, and I have to look at these things a little differently. They know what I’m thinking out there. They know what I’m going to do. They’re going to try to distort this.” This is going to be his typical modus operandi. You wait and see. | {
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Ronaldo chose to play
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RONALDO IS still baffled by the illness that wrecked his World Cup final and kept the conspiracy theorists busy for weeks.
Back in Milan to play for Internazionale after six weeks on holiday, Ronaldo recalled the hours leading up to Paris final against France on 12 July. "Before the game I went to eat, then I went back to my room and was a bit tired so I slept," he said at a news conference at Inter's headquarters. "When I got up I felt pain in my body. I felt bad."
Ronaldo was rushed to hospital where doctors said he should not play. "I was very angry because I wanted to play at all costs and I asked them if I could do tests," he said.
"I did all the tests, I got to the stadium just in time and I played. I was the one who said I wanted to play. The doctors told me I couldn't but after all the tests I decided to play. I thought only of winning the World Cup."
Ronaldo performed poorly in the match, which Brazil lost 3-0, sparking speculation about why he was allowed to play. | {
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TEHRAN – Iranian photographer Amir-Ali Javadian has highlighted the presence of the Holy Quran in the everyday lives of Iranians in his recent collection, which is currently on display at the Iran Photo Museum, also known as Axkhaneh Shahr.
Entitled “Presence of Quran in Life”, a selection of 30 photos has been put on display in the exhibit to mark the Holy Month of Ramadan.
“The exhibit showcases different dimensions of the Quran’s presence. Each individual’s intension in holding or reading the Quran has been of special interest for me,” he told the Persian service of ISNA.
The arrival of New Year, the beginning of a new married life, guidance, and protection against disasters are the main themes portrayed in the collection, he said.
“People’s relationship with the Holy Quran is not something that can be taught, it is inborn. The Quran is the book each individual goes to in seeking protection, or in facing a problem,” he added.
“And I wanted to record the impression and the impact of the Quran upon people while I was taking the photos,” he said.
“People’s relationship with the Holy Quran reaches its climax during the ‘grand nights’. I can only show their outward appearance, while their inner thoughts and feelings were in turmoil on these nights,” he explained.
The nights of the 19th, 21st, and 23rd of Ramadan are known as the ‘grand nights’ on one of which the Quran was sent down to the Prophet Muhammad (S).
Javadian is a graduate of photography from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran. He teaches photography at different universities.
He has held a number of exhibits in Iran and several other countries including Germany, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
The exhibit, which opened on June 29, will be running until August 2 at the museum located on Bahar Shiraz St. near Haft-e Tir Square.
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German officials said the preemptive raids, conducted under German anti-Nazi laws of association, were aimed at uncovering unconstitutional or separatist acts and not part of an international terror hunt.
The raids targeted the Islamic Cultural Center of Bremen, on the North Sea, along with a group calling itself Invitation to Paradise in two small northwest German cities. Invitation to Paradise's leader has called for sharia, or Islamic law, to prevail one day but has specifically opposed using violence to impose it.
While some experts say police overreacted in conducting the raids, German officials have come under great pressure from local media and citizen groups to respond to some Muslim organizations that appear to resist joining mainstream German society.
“These groups are a problem for integration, even maybe for radicalization, though not necessarily for violent jihad. They are very orthodox and like to be separate but are not preaching but usually condemning violence,” says Alexander Ritzmann, a former Berlin member of parliament now with the European Foundation for Democracy in Brussels. “The problem is that some jihadis in Germany from before identified themselves as Salafi.”
Germany has been on high alert for possible terror attacks since mid-November. The Reichstag parliament building was partially closed to tourists for two weeks following a phone call from a disaffected South Asian jihadist who warned that Islamic militant groups were planning to attack high-profile targets in the nation.
Authorities said yesterday's raids were unrelated to the phone warning.
The German Interior Ministry said it was investigating efforts by radicals to overthrow the government on theological Islamic grounds. In a statement issued Tuesday, the ministry said that, “For a well-fortified democracy, it is necessary and demanded, without waiting for the jihad to occur in the form of armed struggle, to take action against anti-constitutional organizations.”
A leader of Invitation to Paradise, Pierre Vogel, has been a lightening rod in Germany for some time now. He's a German convert to Islam who appears on numerous TV shows to defend the concept of sharia.
Mr. Ritzmann, the former German parliamentarian, argues that the zeal of the German police should be more in line with the goals of German intelligence, which may be uneasy with high-profile raids that are designed to placate political pressure.
“The police may make some of the popular leaders into martyrs if the state is now going after them," he says. "It means inside the mosque that everything the Islamic leaders say to them about not being accepted in German society appears to be true.”
After a car bomb in Stockholm carried out by a disaffected Islamist from Iraq named Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, several German politicians called for tighter visa restrictions. After yesterday’s raids, other officials called for a quick and total ban on radical Islamic groups. German police say the raids were unrelated to the Stockholm incident. | {
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Peak Knee Contact Forces May Influence High Prevalence of Osteoarthritis in Transtibial Amputees
High prevalence of osteoarthritis in the intact leg knee joint of transtibial amputees may be related to peak knee contact forces rather than knee contact impulses, according to recently published study results.
“Individuals with unilateral transtibial amputations have altered gait mechanics and muscle coordination patterns relative to non-amputees, which may lead to the onset of joint disorders with prolonged use. For example, transtibial amputees have an increased prevalence and early onset of osteoarthritis (OA) and pain in the intact leg knee joint relative to the residual leg and non-amputees. However, the biomechanical mechanisms that contribute to the increased prevalence remain unclear,” the researchers wrote. “Recent work has investigated knee joint intersegmental forces across a range of walking speeds and found no significant differences between the intact and residual legs or between the intact and non-amputee legs. However, inverse dynamics-based intersegmental forces often underestimate joint contact forces, as they do not account for the compressive forces from muscles. In addition, altered muscle coordination patterns and increased co-contraction of the residual leg vasti and hamstring muscles in transtibial amputee walking likely influence the knee joint contact forces.”
Peak force
Researchers used previously collected kinematic, ground reaction force and electromyographic data from 14 patients with a transtibial amputation and 10 non-amputees to generate forward dynamics simulations of the stance phase when the joint contact forces were highest in the amputee residual leg, amputee intact leg and non-amputee left leg.
In the axial and mediolateral directions, researchers found greater peak tibiofemoral contact forces and impulses in the intact and non-amputee legs vs. the residual leg. While the intact leg had a greater peak axial contact force vs. the non-amputee leg, researchers found a greater stance phase joint contact impulse in the non-amputee leg. In the non-amputee and intact legs, the largest contributors to joint contact forces were the vasti and hamstrings in early stance and the gastrocnemius in late stance, with the soleus and gluteus medius largely contributing through dynamic coupling even though they do not span the knee joint, according to study results. The prosthesis contributed largely to joint forces in the residual leg whereas the soleus contributed in the intact and non-amputee legs.
Anne K. Silverman
“We expected peak forces and impulses to be greater in the unaffected side of people with amputations relative to non-amputees because they have a greater prevalence of developing OA on that side, but we found that while the intact leg peak axial force was greater, the stance phase axial force impulse was not,” Anne K. Silverman, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, told O&P Business News. “These results indicated to us that the peak force may be more important in understanding the development of [OA].”
Prevention of OA
While the researchers investigated joint loading, previous studies have shown that bodyweight, prior trauma, joint laxity, joint malalignment and altered loading distribution also influence the risk of OA. In their research, Silverman and colleagues found one of the contributing factors to a greater peak force in the intact leg was due to the hamstrings. According to Silverman, training amputees to alter muscle coordination could help reduce the peak force in the hamstring, which may reduce the risk of OA.
Silverman said it will be important to use a complex model of the knee joint in future studies of amputee walking to help further pinpoint what mechanisms can lead to the increased prevalence of OA, while patient-specific simulations may reveal how “individual prosthetic devices, movement strategies and remaining residual leg musculature contribute to knee contact loading and eventual OA development.”
“In the future we plan to investigate the loading distribution in the knee joint. In this study, we quantified the net force, but there could certainly be differences in how this net load is distributed in the joint. This distribution is likely important in understanding the development of a disorder like OA,” Silverman said. “[OA] generally presents itself in the medial compartment of the knee more often than the lateral compartment of the knee, for example. Thus, understanding the loading distribution across compartments could give us much more information regarding the increased prevalence of OA in people with lower-limb amputations.” — by Casey Tingle | {
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For manufacturing concerns looking to gain more traction and control over their processes, it is far beyond what lower-priced ERP systems provide. Again, it us a major improvement.
NetSuite is extremely extensible through external interfaces, 3rd party add-ons, internal scripting and through customizations.
Implemented correctly, it is relatively fast, and with its browser-based interface, there are no client issues and never any need for IT to upgrade a client version on every workstation because a new feature-set has been implemented.
It's CRM is adequate, useful, and given NetSuite's signature internal integration, it is easy to implement an effective lead-to-cash system.
The ecosystem also has multiple vendors who sell integration services, for example, there are a number of SalesForce to Netsuite integration partners who can (relatively) quickly connect the two systems. On the backside, the same is true of many popular shipping, warehouse management and other packages. Or, you can roll your own JSON connectivity.
Cons: NetSuite is not easily deployed, and requires expertise to get things mostly right the first time. They address this in their ecosystem by encouraging customers to work with NetSuite partners -- VAR firms that have undergone certifications -- to deploy the system.
There is a steep learning curve, even for system analysts familiar with other ERP, CRM and web commerce platforms.
There is a saying in the NetSuite community that is very true: "you can do anything with NetSuite, but it is going to cost you." Those costs may be development hours for internal developers, fees paid to partners, license costs for addons and integrations, etc. etc. Count on it with any major NS effort.
NetSuite is usually quite reliable, but it can and will "get slow" from time to time, and there are infrequent outages that can last a few minutes to an hour or more. These never come at a good time (is there ever a good time?) and getting information regarding status of repairs can be frustrating.
Free advice: vett your NetSuite partner carefully, and make sure that they can and will provide effective ongoing support. Some firms are better than others at this, and it is a good question to ask references before you hire anyone.
Plan on your implementation taking longer than you expect. This is true with most ERP implementations, NetSuite included.
Support from the company itself can be an exercise in frustration, but persistence and insistence can really help.
Overall: We were able to have a single source of truth for our customer, vendor lists, for inventory, and for financials. Once our system was implemented, gaps analyzed and filled, and users trained, NetSuite has been an effective platform for our business.
a NetSuite view from the perspective of a user and partner
Nov 07, 2017
Martin K.
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: multi anything:
- multi tennancy
- multi currency
- multi language
absolute flexibilty / release secure customisation
ALL in ONE product for ALL industries *** real/public CLOUD
- Accounting
- financials
- controlling
- reporting
- KPIs
Billing
- recurring billing
Payments
- SEPA
- bank reconciliation
- credit card statement import
- ERP
- LEAD to CASH process
- PROCUREMENT to PAY process
- inventory
Project management
eCommerce
ALL RELEASE SECURE
- 2 x major release changes per year
- since ~20 years
- for 15000 "logos" = 40000+ clients
HUNDREDS of PARTNERS worldwide
Customer does not need a special expertise to use NetSuite. An internal NetSuite admin can be trained - she/he needs to have some ERP-economical background through - sure.
interface / API / development plattform "in the cloud"
Whatever is not fully included so far can be "attached" e.g.
global HR
- no ERP with accounting on earth has an HR product fully integrated that can cover the same amount of counties as expected from the accounting side of view. Too many regulations.
same with PAYROLE
and BI
- the BI requirements are too diversified that 1 product can cover all. Eithger the internal NetSuite tools will do the job or you attach whatever suits best
and eCommerce
- NetSuite has kind of a "simple" webshop and a SUPER DUPER webshop named SCA = SuiteCommerce Advance that can do everything you need.
Rule of thumb with pricing: probably a 5th to a 10th of the price of DEMANDWARE or HYBRIS but INCLUDING webdesign AND fully integrated REAL TIME solution
Cons: Maybe performance - does not apply in all countries and is very dependant on the amount of individual scripting/programming in the individual system. This can be monitored and maintenanced but still needs to be done.
Not as "chique" as "best of bread" solutions
The overall ERP problem: make users in their various roles aware of all the options they have ... in most case an internal problem which of course refelcts to supporting professional providersevice
Full Featured Cloud Based Solution
Feb 24, 2016
Verified Reviewer
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Source: GetApp
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
3
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Comments: Our company performed a lengthy evaluation of ERP solutions to move to in order to enhance our capabilities and support our expanding business. NetSuite offered the most robust cloud solution at the lowest price (best value solution). We are an import/export wholesale distributor with the need for multi-company, multi-currency capabilities. We have five separate legal entities with three primary operating entities and use public warehousing (more than 15 locations), so being able to report on an individual and consolidated basis was essential. Despite these needs, we are a small company in terms of employees (less than 25). NetSuite's OneWorld product was key to meeting our needs and as a cloud based solution we can maintain with limited staff. As the Controller I am the main administrator of our NetSuite solution, with no IT staff. NetSuite has delivered on their promise, providing a robust solution that provides a full-featured dashboard to monitor key performance indicators, easy secure access from anywhere, mobile capabilities, robust reporting capabilities and very customizable to meet business needs.
Pros: Easy to use.
Can be set-up and running in a short time-frame (90 to 120 days).
Good, proven implementation method that essentially is done with remote support via web-ex sessions.
Full featured dashboard with short-cuts
Email alerts to keep you informed of key data changes or approvals needed
Web storefront
Very easy to customize or configure to meet your business needs
Robust reporting
Easy navigation with short-cuts and global (Google) type search capabilities for finding transactions, communications, customer, vendor or employee records.
Always updated to latest version (version updates twice year)
Can fully support with no IT staff, making use of NetSuite support as needed, however, most questions and issues can be resolved by using NetSuite's SuiteAnswers self-service solution area and extensive online help that is part of the ERP system.
Great online training tools
Cons: Support is responsive, but depending on level of support purchased can take awhile to get answers and issues resolved. We have Silver Support which is limited to submitting cases on-line and waiting for NetSuite support to respond by email or call. NetSuite does assign an Account Manager who can be contacted by phone anytime to help expedite support issues as needed.
Complex system that is very configurable to meet your needs, but this creates a lot of noise as there are many things you may not need or use, making the software somewhat confusing and cumbersome to use at times.
Must have good internet connection and bandwidth to ensure good performance. Uptime is high (99.8%), but when not working all you can do is monitor and wait for NetSuite to fix issues. Longest downtime we've had is 45 minutes.
NetSuite - Robust and customizable, but everything is an add-on.
Dec 13, 2018
Connie V.
IT Project Analyst
Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: It's a reliable, secure, and easily accessible cloud service. The platform is robust, and has highly customization forms and reporting, as well as a a lot of integration potential.
Cons: The software is very expensive, and a lot of times, you will need to do heavy customization to have it fit your needs. You will need at least one full time staff on hand to manage the software as an administrator, and the training is very expensive as well. Most advanced features are an add-on, and are not cheap either. While robust, this software isn't ideal for smaller businesses because of its price tag.
Once you get the software up and running, it is very easy to maintain. However, implementation can be difficult, and success varies with the amount of customization you may need. NetSuite professional services, who offers customization build outs, generally leaves a lot to be desired. Most of their professional services providers were off-shore, and at times difficult to communicate with.
Overall: NetSuite is a robust ERP system that I would generally recommend for medium to larger businesses. If you can get past the implementation phase, it is generally very easy to maintain. If you need a lot of customization for your business processes, be prepared to manage and test the customization extensively, as there are lots of nuances that can be missed during the testing phases that can prove very difficult later to fix when additional workflows or scripts are in place.
Not for the feint of heart but very powerful
Apr 12, 2017
Kent K.
Consultant
Self-employed
Used the software for: 2+ years
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
1
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Power and flexibility.
Cons: Complex.
Overall: If you are looking for a system you can log into and in a few days be fluent and feel comfortable, NetSuite isn't for you. It is an extremely powerful and flexible system. That power and flexibility brings a high level of complexity.
I'm a consultant that recently helped a company move from Peachtree to NetSuite including all their accounting processes and their website. It was a complex process that took a strong attention to detail and much forethought. It isn't something you'll do in a month. Now 1.5 years later, that company is thrilled with their choice. Sales are way up because of the improved website. Customer service ratings have skyrocketed because the CSRs now have a complete picture of the customer and all their interactions including website, phone, and email. The business owner has a much more detailed image of the business and is able to make decisions faster that have a positive impact on the business. Before NetSuite there was much more guesswork. Now decisions are based on actual data.
All this doesn't come cheaply or easily. NetSuite can be tuned to your business in nearly infinite ways. I still fine tune their experience on a daily basis a year later. Customizing emails, pdfs, transaction screens and more. All this pays off with more efficiency in all aspects of the business.
If you are looking for fast and simple, you will be very disappointed. If you are looking for something that has the power to do many, many things and you're willing to put in the time and money it takes to get a great return on your investment, you'll be happy.
Recommendations to other buyers: Best to have a consultant or NetSuite partner help you with the implementation.
NetSuite is the best accounting/program out there!!
Jun 27, 2017
Bethanne A.
Accounting Specialist
Facilities Services, 501-1000 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: NetSuite can do so many things. It is the easiest program I have ever used for invoicing. It has a lot of different options to choose from that you can utilize. You can tell it to tax a customer/parent company or you can tell it that the company is tax exempt. So everytime you do an invoice for that company it will automatically add or not add the tax. There is even a "file" section that you can upload forms like tax exempt forms, or customer contracts. And it is so easy to bring up a company & see all of the invoices that we have ever made for them in a list. It has made our invoicing streamlined & very straight forward. This software has so many options it's crazy. If anyone in our accounting department can think of something that would be helpful to us on the invoice that is not already there, the president of our company can go into the "back ground" of the software & add & delete fields from our invoicing templates. Love this program!!!
Cons: It can be confusing to figure out how to set up your "Dashboard" for your own specification & usage. Other than that there isn't anything that we don't like about NetSuite!!
Overall: Makes invoicing fast & very easy. Lots of options & easy to customize this software to make it work for your company & what you are invoicing.
Upgraded from old ERP system to Netsuite. Took 6 months to cut over to Netsuite and go live.
Aug 22, 2017
Patrick M.
Senior System Admin
Wholesale, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
2
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: The software has a very modern layout, if you have been on a website like facebook, and can use their top tab navigation, then you will be pleased with Netsuite. The program is cloud based, which is get for mobile use. If you can pull up the website, and have a decent size screen, then you get the full experience. Never have to worry about the hardware crashing, with the built in redundancy and backup.
Cons: Data is cloud based, I have purchased the OBDC connection add-on for it, and I still found it hard to get it out with ODBC connection. There was no support for how to setup the connection, and after hours of trail and error, I was told that not all tables as accessible. Many of the reports had to be manually exported and imported into Excel for data manipulation. The Netsuite app was not as useful as a I wish. We had a few scripts running in our environment; but the app did not play nicely with them.
Overall: Went from software that was designed in 90s to a always up to date top of the line software. Netsuite was the best choice for for we needed to do. it had the ERP side as well as the CRM aspect. In time, if we grew, we could add on the warehouse management module.
Everything in one place
Jan 05, 2017
Jeremy S.
Manager of Analytics
Computer Software, 201-500 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Access in the cloud was a big plus for us. But the full view of the customer has been the bigger gain.
Cons: The search constraints don't allow for too many layers in a single search. Case reports cant look into invoice pricing as the invoices are on the customer. A customer search can se that, but if you are starting with case parameters to understand a product profit margin from support, it requires some cross referencing in excel.
Overall: Our support team can see what sales, finance, and professional services are doing with a customer. They can see case history for all the users at the customer. Ease of use is a really good, but the sales team struggles (but their focus should be on selling so they don't use the system as often).
Using issues module, we can keep customers up to date on enhancement and bug fixes while closing their current case with a workaround. The update on the fix goes automatically to the customer when the issue is resolved.
Everyone can see when a customer is marked at risk. And anyone with customer contact can enter the alert to give the account owners more time to resolve.
Controller at Non-Profit Legal Service Provider
Dec 07, 2018
Aaron O.
Controller
Legal Services, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: User friendly software!!! Great for custom reporting and searches, able to import payroll in a few minutes, drill down feature, web-based you can use anywhere and open multiple windows at the same time. The ability to scan in AP backup which saves space and time on billing and audits, recent activity allows you to find what you did last quickly, dashboard can be customized to specific users - shows key performance indicators such as bank balances, sales & expense versus other periods. There are workflows to automate task such as vendor approvals, customer service and all NetSuite employees are very friendly and extremely helpful. Also being a non-profit, NetSuite employees volunteer their time with through Pro Bono projects - we have used this three times with great results.
Cons: Any hurdles or issues that i have had were solved by reaching out to NetSuite. One year I was having difficulty printing 1099's but customer service helped get me on track.
Overall: We have used NetSuite for two years now. The Software saves us lots of time and makes our job easier.
From Sage to Netsuite
Aug 16, 2018
David S.
General Manager
Wholesale, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
4
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: The ease of use as well as the lack of a batch system. We came from Sage 300 which feels very antiquated compared to Netsuite. The UI just felt very dated and it was not user friendly at all. If you found a prior mistake after that day then you might as well have found a work around because getting it reconciled was a nightmare. With Netsuite the system is intuitive enough that it can retro almost any issue that you find today back to whatever date it needs to be adjusted with little to no issue. I also like the openness of the system, there is no need to pay someone hundreds of dollars just to modify a form it is super easy to do on your own.
Cons: I love that there is a suite answers form for quick answers but sometimes they can be more confusing than anything. Maybe add some videos demoing what to do rather than just text based support. Implementation of some aspects were also a little less than stellar.
Overall: Overall everyone at my company is very excited to have finally found a system like netsuite and are overall satisfied with your experience thus far.
NetSuite Intergration Review
Apr 14, 2017
Vee M.
QA Software Analyst
Building Materials, 5001-10,000 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Pros: The way the NetSuite software was layed-out was easy to navigate. A lot of features are hidden in multiple drop down menu's so the learning curve could be much faster if pages you used most could be pinned at the top of the menus.
Cons: Like I stated before the most used pages are hidden in the menus.
Overall: To be successful at any Integration, like NetSuite their needs to be a lot of communication. I think some things that was promised for an out of box solution like NetSuite has many limitations. We were finding that a lot of integrations from our legacy systems took a lot of development to and from NetSuite. Over all NetSuite is a great product, despite all the issues.
Recommendations to other buyers: Be prepared to custom develop your own webpages to make a lot of complicated legacy items work with NetSuite. If you just think transferring your data to NetSuite and think it will work out of the box then your in a big surprise. Overall NetSuite is a great product for a small to mid-level ERP system.
Ive used NetSuite for 8 years and couldn't do with out it
May 07, 2018
Robert S.
Dir, Professional Services
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
3
/
5
Features & Functionality
2
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: The search for clients/prospects is fast. I can be on the record page, go to the web site, check for phone records and write reports. I can access just as easily from my smart phone or if im on another computer. It is the foundation of my sales program and very complete. I am able to track current projects and the history is always available.
Cons: The search function is too complicated. if one letter is off I cannot get the proper search. It needs to be simplified. It crates a time problem for me each time I attempt a search. Also I would like for a link from the incoming phone calls to pull up a record of the caller. This would be an outstanding feature and save time and I could be more responsive when receiving a call.
Overall: Couldn't operate without it
Use standard capability and where possible buy off the shelf add-ons that integrate.
Feb 20, 2018
Bart G.
S&M Manager
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Pros: NetSuite's standard capability is easy to use and deploy. The expansion into mobile platforms is good although it could be better. They used to have Outlook integration which although buggy was an excellent method of ensuring all customer comms via email were accurately recorded in CRM
Cons: We were very early adopters of NetSuite and as such we're forced in the beginning to custom develop much of the capability we needed simply because NS hadn't yet created it. Over the years we've become reliant on this custom development which is stable but very slow, complicated and virtually impossible to support. Unwinding ourselves now to make use of the standard out of the box capability NS now provides is virtually impossible
Great ERP
Jul 13, 2018
Alvaro I.
Director of Web Development
Internet, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: - Very Robust and Fully customizable
- Have an API and so connect with third party and other tools you use internally can be definitely doable.
- Multiple currencies, locations and internationalization help you when you have to access in different subsidiaries
- Have great tools for making reports
The support have been great the last 2 or 3 times I used it.
Cons: - Sometimes tends to be slow, It seems like that was a problem with the implementation but in general it feel slow.
- The UI looks old, but does what you need.
- The documentation is really heavy and sometimes is hard to find things there.
Overall: Help us at a time we were growing the company, so right now we are more efficient and have real time data because of Netsuite.
All the bells and whistles!
Aug 16, 2018
Desiree H.
Lead Accountant
Retail, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: I love how easy it is to navigate. If you want to know what makes up any sort of balance, you can usually just click on that balance and it will give you all the details behind it, I just this week found a detailed aging report so our year end journal entries are so much easier than our prior system. I love how it's exactly like a website with so many useful links. I often find myself with 20 tabs open at the end of a day without even realizing it.
Cons: When it goes offline it can be tricky. Sometimes if you don't allow it enough time to finish loading, it will ignore what you have changed. That said, that's true of pretty much any website.
Overall: Efficiency is our number one goal. We don't have to come up with band aid approaches like our old system. Our company was far too big for what they offered and they were not built with retail inventory in mind. We have real time inventory now and that's so exciting!
User from a Fin-tech Company
Aug 16, 2018
Nisitesh B.
NetSuite Admin/Developer
Financial Services, 201-500 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
3
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Accounting, Ease of data handling.
Ease with which other softwares can be integrated with NetSuite
Cons: No proxy logins for admins to check dashboards published.
How standard records are viewed differently in each place. Ex: Contacts are a separate record if you are running a search but they are under relationships in Csv imports which is inconsistent. So are sales Orders which come under transactions.
No way to search for 3rd connection transactions or records. Example: No way to search for a opportunity from which a sales order was created.
Overall: There are some very good positives but as others cloud services are offering much more flexible functioning, NetSuite needs to improve and upgrade with much faster pace than it is doing now
The best cloud ERP you can find
Jun 15, 2017
Demis E.
VP of Product & Engineering
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Using an ERP sounds like a big decision. The main concern people has when thinking about using a cloud ERP is the flexibility they won't have. In Netsuite case is completely opposite. You will have your own instance and do almost what you want to do on top of it. Uptime is around 99.9X% which is more than acceptable. The availability to connect it to other external platforms trough API is a dream made true. Is very reach in features and quality.
Cons: When you process lot's of data in batch mode or you need to have API responses in real time, be careful. You can have acceptable time responses, but you might need to buy extra queues processing.
Overall: Best ratio of features and price on an ERP.
Great CRM and Ecommerce Tool
Oct 31, 2018
Tara H.
Marketing Coordinator & Corporate Social Responsibility Officer
Retail, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: It wasn't until I used a different software for CRM, Inventory, and reporting that I missed using NetSuite. It was simple to have different roles and permissions for departments like marketing, finance, operations. The reporting was easy to set-up daily/weekly/monthly reports and have them emailed straight to your inbox. It also made it a breeze to find invoice amounts and analyze the marketing budget spend each month.
Cons: It is hard to get up to speed with NetSuite at first. But once you understand the basic framework, you can navigate around with intermediate understanding and do well.
Too Complicated for Daily Use
Jul 08, 2015
Verified Reviewer
Environmental Services, 11-50 employees
Review is based on a free trial
Source: GetApp
2/5
Overall
1
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Comments: Netsuite was chosen by our company around 9 months ago and has been in use since January 2015. Implementation was long process and was expensive. Costs include the purchase of main licence, an expensive per-person licence, paying a consulting firm to run the implementation project and having a dedicated in-house employee as "admin" to support the other users.
Netsuite has brought some great changes to our company and improved our record keeping hugely. It has also brought transparency to many of the processes and highlighted bottlenecks.
There are many downsides however, we have run into a plethora of technical problems with logic and programming along the way, while error messages abound (much to the annoyance and over-work of the consultant's team). All of the glitches have been worked out and customer service from the NS themselves has been extremely fast and professional.
Adding to the downsides, Netsuite is probably the LEAST intuitive system I have used since the 90s. It really seems like it is stuck in the past. There are hardly any icons, no drag and drop and navigation is inconsistent. Additionally, as a general manager, I need to extract information and data quickly and easily, but I cannot. Every time I want to extract data I have to go to our in-house admin for her to "write a search" in a logic/language that took her months to learn. Nobody else has time to learn that, so nobody else can do it. To my knowledge, NS has poor graphing capabilities and is very rigid in that I cannot easily change the way data is displayed once it is graphed. Usually, if I want data and I have not got time to wait for the admin to write the search pattern for me, I just export a large amount of data with a predefined/standard search and filter it and graph it with Excel - but this always begs the question, why are we paying through the nose for a program (NS) that is so difficult to use that it forces me to use another program (Excel) to make up for its inadequacies?
I could go on with the downsides of how unusable it is from a manger's point of view - there is a lot to say, but I think you get the picture.
The biggest downfall of Netsuite for me is that it is so hard to use that staff really do not want to use it. This is particularly evident in the sales department. They will only really use it for what they really have to use it for: making quotes, so we lose out. Customer data does not get sufficiently recorded, project details are lacking, contacts are hard to look up, customer account history is never recorded (we can't even find the field to put that in). Other systems we used before, e.g. Zoho CRM, Pipedrive and even Excel, are easy to use and therefore get used by the staff. A system such as Netsuite might have a beautifully coded backend, but if it discourages use through extreme user-unfriendliness, it becomes an almost useless system.
Pros: Solid back end
Keeps excellent and accurate records that are easily audited
Brings transparency to processes
Cons: Too difficult to use and therefore staff refrain from using it for all but the most essential tasks
Requires an in-house expert to help run the system
Requires months of repeated training to get staff up to speed
Poor for tracking customer account history
Extremely difficult to extract and graph the data that you need from it
Rigid and hard to change display and parameters of any data displays
Very expensive
NetSuite a feature rich enterprise software
Aug 16, 2018
Connor A.
Web Developer
Wholesale, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
4
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: NetSuite as a whole offers a lot of great tools. It is the all in one package. With NetSuite you a top of the line ERP, e-commerce website, and a CRM. NetSuite is really good about staying on top of the market and pushes out new updates every six months.
Cons: There is a lot of short comings with the e-commerce side of NetSuite. Overall it is a decent platform for e-commerce however, there are better options on the market that offer more feature.
Overall: NetSuite helps our company manage our inventory, purchase, and sales orders with ease. And with it having everything within one software it makes it so you dint have to worry about any 3rd party integrations for additional platforms.
A great tool but not a solution
Mar 12, 2017
Angelo A.
Business Improvement Leader
Food & Beverages, 11-50 employees
Source: GetApp
4/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Comments: We have over 100 users and use almost every feature available: webstore, ERP, CRM, Marketing Automation.
We provide Engineering Services (maintenance services and design / build / install) and Distribution (Retail / Wholesale).
It's a fantastic tool but people should never expect the tool alone to provide the business solution. The solution is clearly defining your business processes end to end from a customer experience perspective. Reporting is easy using Saved Searches.
Pros: Very flexible and adaptable. Cloud based and covers the full range of enterprise needs. Easy to use and good online help resources.
Huge range of apps / partners can be used to establish exactly what your business needs.
Cons: You need access to specialist capabilities for a really effective implementation. Don't rely on their professional services unless you have very deep pockets.
Customer service support is fine for simple issues and questions; usually good technical understanding but have trouble translating that into operational context. I've developed a fairly deep understanding of the entire suite excluding accounting. Helps me engage directly with the professional services and development people when working up solutions.
Strong Small to Mid-size Business All-in-One Productivity Suite
Mar 04, 2016
Matt V.
Systems Analyst and Netsuite Administrator
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
3
/
5
Customer Support
Comments: Pros: Customization. For me, this is, by far, the biggest pro for Netsuite. Nearly every aspect of Netsuite can be customized, including forms, fields, and entities, along with actions, workflows, behaviors, and reporting. Other pros include very robust API/Web Services capabilities for integration to other software (even in-house and built from scratch), excellent revenue recognition engine for subscription-based and project-based revenue, and built-in 3rd party functionality such as credit card processing (up to Level III P-card), email marketing, and webstores. The all-in-one aspect is great for those who dont need a industry leader like SalesForce for CRM and Marketo for marketing, and having all of these on one platform ensures data integrity and rules-based transactions. Many 3rd party integrations with NetSuite to cover just about any need that cannot be handled on the platform. Plenty of consultants who can provide assistance, if needed.
Cons: Customization can be tricky if not properly planned and tested. Make sure modifications to behaviors and actions are well planned and thoroughly tested prior to going live. Reporting is not very strong - we have had to purchase a Business Intelligence tool to provide more robust reporting for items such as cash and billing forecasting as well as budget/actual/forecast scenarios. The basic procurement module is very bare-bones so any customization such as multiple approval paths based on department/item will require a 3rd party integration or custom scripting/workflows. Standard support is OK but can be slow so an upgrade to Gold support is recommended.
Overall, this is a great choice for small to mid-sized companies who are looking for value in their productivity suite and need the ability to handle growth and expansion. Since so much of the system can be customized it can really be tailored to the specific business model needed.
Great flexibility
Nov 16, 2018
Verified Reviewer
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: NetSuite's biggest pro is that you can customize just about everything you want - either through native tools or via scripting. You can make the ERP your own and make it work just the way you want in order to run your business as efficiently as possible.
Cons: Their Support isn't always the best. They try their best, but a lot of the time you may know more than the support team you end up working with.
Overall: Overall NetSuite is great. You can tweak it to work just the way you want without too much trouble. They have room to improve both in Performance/Stability and in providing more knowledgeable support reps for working on your support tickets.
NetSuite - 3 years of use
Aug 16, 2018
Verified Reviewer
Accounting, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: What I like most about NetSuite is how flexible of a platform it is. I like to use the term "modular". I also have to mention the fact that the software is hosted in the cloud, allowing for ease of access from practically anywhere in the world, and safety of data.
Cons: This one is a trade off, but because of the fact that NetSuite is hosted in the cloud, that can mean periods of downtime or a bottleneck of bandwidth, however I have experienced this only in very rare circumstances.
Overall: I have enjoyed the flexibility and ease of use that NetSuite provides over the 3 years that I have interfaced with the software.
NetSuite Review
Nov 29, 2018
Verified Reviewer
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: NetSuite made my job easy. With the options to automate a lot of tasks, NetSuite made the month end process a breeze. From bank reconciliations to rev rec, NetSuite makes is so that you can spend less time in the weeds and do a more high level analysis. Their user interface is also very easy to navigate and use.
Cons: With our company, there were a lot of customization that needed to be done. At times, there was no good way to do these customizations in NetSuite, so we had to do some work-arounds.
Overall: NetSuite made it easy for us to customize the system to be used the way our business needed it to be. The user interface helps the user to easily get around the system too. While automating most tasks and having our financial data in the cloud, allows us to do our work wherever we are at.
Great ERP System
Aug 16, 2018
Kirthiga T.
Sr. Business System Analyst
Banking, 201-500 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
3
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: NetSuite is a cloud based and can access anywhere , anytime.
The customization and reporting is very easy and non-tech person also can do it in the User Interface.
Cons: Still need to enhance few features in MRP to become a grate tool for MRP. For example getting pending cost STD cost for the item, filtering by Manufacturer tariff , displaying the STD cost on the item record.
Overall: NetSuite gave as an opportunity to run the whole business in one system since it has CRM, financial, ERP and case management modules.
All our department is one system and it makes us more efficient and transparent across all cross functional area.
The Next Level to Accounting
Aug 16, 2018
Daanish A.
Accounting Manager
Real Estate, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: - Easy Implementation and transition from a different accounting system
- Constantly adding new features/updates
- Customer Support that really knows the system
- Easily integrates with other systems (unlike QB and Yardi)
- Overall easy to use even for first time users
Cons: - The PO system could be more robust
- Some transaction records like Checks/Deposits have limited customization (it is already on Netsuite's radar and they're working on it)
- The basic setup isn't ideal for a Real Estate type business but the workaround is to use the Projects module
I use this software daily. I have 3 years of experience with NetSuite and it is by-far the easiest.
May 30, 2018
Dillon D.
Warehouse Technician
Warehousing, 201-500 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Functionally. It is very easy to create and edit Purchase/Sales orders. It is even easier to keep track of customer information and past orders. Netsuite also allows us to search by serial number, showing us exactly where that item is located in our warehouse.
Cons: Sometimes the editable fields we have on our board do not update. I find myself going back through my orders and updating pick status' again, along with Warehouse alerts. A minor con, but one that could be fixed in the future.
Overall: This software is great for a medium sized company
NetSuite is great for all functions of account management. I used it as a tool in dental sales.
Jun 12, 2018
Verified Reviewer
11-50 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Pros: NetSuite lists and reports are very easy to build out. I used it to track leads, prospects, and customers to ensure each account was going through the sales process as efficiently as possible. You can track accounts by any measure such as "last contacted", "sales rep", "state" etc. This made it extremely easy to develop lists for all kinds of reasons such as sales trips to a specific area, what prospects needed to be contacted, and progress made towards sales goals.
Cons: A big con with NetSuite was its inability to sync with Gmail. You had to copy and paste any correspondence with prospects and customers into NetSuite which obviously takes time out of our day.
NetSuite in Non Traditional Use
Aug 16, 2018
Cateline I.
Business Development Specialist
Government Relations, 201-500 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
3
/
5
Features & Functionality
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: NetSuite has the option of many searches, as well has having a broad umbrella of coverage to assist with things such as accounting all the way through account updates.
Cons: The way it was implemented in the company is not how NetSuite should have been used. It was started as accounting and turned to a CRM without proper cleaning and updates or training, causing glitches and headaches.
Overall: I have used NetSuite at two separate jobs. The first, NetSuite was a clearer use. The second, not so much. Overall, with the reliance on the system, any down time in business hours is costly to productivity and correcting data can be difficult with many require boxes that are redundant. Again, this is mostly implementation of a system in a way it was on intended to be used in.
Netsuite works great!
Oct 09, 2018
Verified Reviewer
Consumer Services, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: What I love about Netsuite is that everything is just in one place... its also very user friendly.There's a lot of 3rd party add ons that you can use well.Netsuite is easy to use and accessible anywhere by this tool. It's Very helpful and you can add and customize a lot for reports.
Cons: If there's one thing I don't like about Nesuite is that the functionality is slow and it freezes usually takes a few moments to load.I just wish it will be a little bit faster but no other main issues I can think of.
Netsuite is one of those systems where you have a love and hate relationship.
Oct 03, 2017
Rifat A.
Data Analyst
Telecommunications, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
3
/
5
Features & Functionality
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: The quoting system is a really simple and easy feature. It easily lists all the information needed such as items, prices, terms, and etc. It is pretty easy to run reports on too.
Cons: Trying to troubleshoot an issue or getting a hold of their support is really strenuous. In order to submit a ticket with them, you need to login via browser. If Netsuite is unable to be accessed via browser due to system down or other issues, you are basically out of luck.
Overall: The ability to create customized reports based on the connecting feature of Netsuite.
Get the Training, Not Entirely Intuitive
Aug 16, 2018
Danielle B.
Billing & Collections Administrator
Legal Services, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
2
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
2
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Many functions, modules and dashboards to support various accounting and project management needs.
Cons: It's not an entirely intuitive software, there are many modules and safety features that are not entirely obvious in usage.
Overall: I've worked with NetSuite for about 3-4 years now, while I've become more acclimated to it, it's not entirely as intuitive as previous software I've used such as MAS 90 or Quickbooks, but that's not to say it's not a great software, I just think users need to also invest in training on how to use the software, which of course in turn means more money.
excellent functionality, but clunky UI and prices
Aug 01, 2018
Verified Reviewer
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Pros: First, I think this software is one of the most robust ERP systems out there - it was heavily customizable for all our needs, especially analyzing the financial statements and using the search/query features. In addition, I found the customer service to be top notch. They were extremely responsive and helpful with our specific needs.
Finally, I think the the dashboard screen was helpful as an overview of the company and easy access to changes to be made.
Cons: While this is not about the software, Oracle has been hiking up prices for the past few years, to the point that it's gotten costly. It might be a relevant barrier for smaller companies. However, otherwise, I think the software itself requires a lot of training to use. In addition, integration with legacy software isn't as smooth as I would've liked.
A+ for NetSuite
Aug 31, 2018
Verified Reviewer
Consumer Goods, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
4
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Integration with different tools in the market via API is not a problem. I've used several ERP/CRM tools available in the market with different companies I've worked in and I can say that NetSuite is the most flexible I've used so far.
Cons: It takes a little getting used to but when set-up correctly and with daily use, you will get the hang of it. We've also experienced quite a few technical issues with NetSuite but I think that's almost always the case with technology.
Netsuite User since 2004
Aug 16, 2018
Leeling W.
Financial Officer
Computer Hardware, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
2
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: It is a very efficient integrated software for operation.
Cons: Pricing structure is extremely unacceptable.
NetSuite keeps increasing annual fee for a loyal customer. That is why we will not recommend this software to any start up company.
We are a pioneer customer since 2004.
We have been using Salesforce for several years. Salesforce never increase our price every year. Salesforce is as good as NetSuite.
Overall: 1. A good operation software.
2. Need to improve pricing structure for long term business
Best in Class ERP
Aug 16, 2018
Verified Reviewer
Computer Hardware, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: I like the ability to customize Netsuite to meet my business needs. The core business functions remain but you can adjust them to you specific business.
Cons: UI- There is prettier software out there and there are times that all the information I need on one screen cannot be shown
Overall: I have used NetSuite across 5 different companies from Software to Manufacturing and I would say that overall it exceeds my expectations on each type of business. I have not found anything I cannot do with NetSuite yet.
Overall a great asset for us!
Mar 15, 2014
Karin D.
President
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Customer Support
Comments: We were very apprehensive about switching accounting programs after 20 years on Great Plains/Microsoft Dynamics. No time for a big learning curve and we are short-staffed as it is. Our implementation went extremely well....Netsuite does a fantastic job of preparing and setting up the basic system (posting accounts and processes). They provided a workbook with lots of questions how we wanted to be able to process, organize and post items to establish procedure and reporting functionality as well as role access and restrictions correctly. We went live 18 months ago and have never looked back. There are still many capabilities we haven't even implemented yet and are discovering new features daily. The "Suite Answers" site is a fabulous resource to guide you through finding answers and step-by-step instructions how to adjust or change certain features once you have gone live. When you don't find the answer there, you simply open a case and get direct assistance which is also addressed very quickly and efficiently. Their follow up is amazing! The downside? The cost seemed a bit staggering to us, but all you need to run Netsuite is internet access and a basic computer. Netsuite upgrades their program pretty regularly with improvements, new functions etc. which is all included in your contract. When I look back and remember how much we were spending on not only software upgrades, but the hardware upgrades often necessary to make software upgrades function...and the cost of our IT guy to maintain our server....well..it's a no-brainer! I have given it 5 stars throughout because 4 stars gives it 80% thumbs up......I'd rate it closer to 90% thumbs up! Oh, and did I mention, I can go to the beach and still be working???
Used by our sales department (AV distribution) for invoicing as well as CRM
Jun 22, 2018
Keenan G.
Event Manager
Events Services, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
2
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: The best part of NetSuite is it's integration of both CRM and invoicing. Prior to utilizing, we were using two separate platforms for each.
Cons: NetSuite takes a bit of time to get used to - not super intuitive from the start. The more time you spend with it, however, the easier it becomes. We also had some questionable customer service with our initial rep at one point (in regards to scheduling/cancelling appointments on us).
Overall: Multiple tools in one
Painful set up but robust software
Jul 21, 2017
Nicolas C.
Marketing and Sales Director
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
2
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Net suite ERP is a very robust piece of software. That is its biggest advantage. Also the fact that they have developed through their local representative companies, packages with accounting rules specific to each country. Additionally it looks a little bit more modern than other robust software similar in the industry.
Cons: I dislike the fact that setting it up is a real pain. The process takes months and if you do not hire a certified partner it's completely imposible to make it work. That's because of its robustness, but they should build more pre-packaged stuff into the system so this process can be more agile.
I also dislike the fact that the User Experience is a little bit complex. There are so many options in each view, that sometimes you just get lost in it.
Overall: The biggest business problem we are solving is the fact that we do not have critical business information in multiple systems anymore. We have been able to consolidate all of our operations and accounting information into one system.
Adopting NetSuite
Aug 16, 2018
Josh C.
Engineering Manager
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: Less than 6 months
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: The out of the box NetSuite Platform creates a solid foundation for all critical business functions. The training for administrators allows individuals with the desire to learn the ability to quickly grasp the basic function of being an administrator to formatting the software to best fit their business.
Cons: Although the Advanced PDF Form functionality is extremely powerful and provides endless customization opportunities to better fit each individual business case. Editing these forms without basic HTML/CSS knowledge can be intemediating at first glance. A crash course into HTML editing would go a long way for Administrators.
Overall: Although my current experience is only with the implementation of NetSuite it has been hands down one of the smoothest transitions between systems that I have experienced. The implementation team follows an effective structure that allows the end user to focus on normal operations first while still maintaining forward progress with the implementation. The Consultants are professional subject matters in their respected verticals and can help suggest best practice for various business processes. Overall a 10/10 for implementation and I would personally recommend NetSuite to anyone!
Netsuite Satisfaction Guaranteed
Sep 17, 2018
Adam G.
Sales Executive
Security and Investigations, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
4
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: I've been using netsuite for 3 years now, and the ease and functionality make my job more quicker that gives me more time to focus on my customers.
Cons: The cons for now is minimal, I mean for the pas 3 years of use I haven't encountered any downside that affects the business. maybe 2 to 3 in two years.
Overall: I am very satisfied with Netsuite because it get insights and aso that you can analyzes and customizes business information that benefits both user and their customers.
This is part of every day's tasks at work
Jul 11, 2018
Tracy C.
Customer Service lead
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Pros: Netsuite has tons and tons of features, amazing expandability, and editing is fairly simple. Customizing your personal desktop in Netsuite is a great little perk, and navigation is straight-forward. The search menu is awesome, and for daily use, this is a great program.
Cons: When going deeper into editing, it can get a bit confusing, but it is easy to learn what steps you have to take to edit a particular piece of a page.
Great Tool if you know how to use it
Oct 18, 2018
Verified Reviewer
Wholesale, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: This has a lot of functionality. This is the brain of our business and everything flows through it. The reporting is very robust, lots of integrations are available for the other services, websites, sales channels, etc. that we use.
Cons: It isn't very intuitive. It can take long hours or training to get familiar with this. Price is also tough. It is very expensive and add-ons and integrations can add up.
I work with this product daily. It is a stable product with many applications in a biz environment.
Jul 12, 2018
Jonathan H.
CSR Lead
Computer Networking, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
3
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Case Tracking makes working together simple and provides detailed information directly associated with the client page. The customizable Dashboard is useful in so many ways.
Cons: KnowledgeBase is not searchable in a useful way. Saved Searches are difficult to sort through. Needs easier page editing for 'solutions'
Overall: The best benefit to the company was better interdepartmental communication. Netsuite makes it easy for groups to work together.
Great cloud based CRM
Feb 22, 2018
Whitney R.
Order Processing Lead
51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: We moved to NetSuite from a very old CRM system that wasn't cloud based. Being able to access the system from any location has been perfect for our company. NetSuite allows you to customize your home page. You can add a variety of searches and portlets that show orders, dollars, reporting... the list goes on. It an easy way to track KPIs. The system is very easy to use and flows smoothly
Overall: Time Savings
Netsuite is a strong platform with several integrations that manage small to big business
Oct 04, 2017
Andre B.
System Analyst
Apparel & Fashion, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: The tool have several integrations with different systems like payment methods, warehouse organisation, shipping methods.
The structure of scripts and workflows let you manage the system accordingly with your needs.
Cons: The support is something that I believe that could be an improvement. Sometimes you have to explain the same thing several times and the response is not what you expected. The quality is good, but it is a gap that could be better.
Overall: We are new in the system, but in 1 year we were able to launch 2 websites, one in CA and one in US. Our sales are increasing as our visibility in the market.
Intuitive, easy to use, powerful functions.
Nov 07, 2017
Luyan L.
Finance
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Pros: NetSuite has advanced inventory functions that many smaller software do not have. It can easily scale up with the company as business grows.
Cons: It's hard to get good support. It also has a number of holes or missing capability that need to be plugged, you have to make a suggestion to the forum, and wait for the company to add to its new release, and the company may or may not fix that item in the next release.
Very power tracking tool for all parts of the business
Oct 06, 2017
Joshua H.
VP of Marketing
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
2
/
5
Customer Support
2
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: You can connect just about everything with NetSuite and track all of your primary metrics in one place. You can build dashboards and reports on-the-fly to visualize your data.
Cons: There is definitely a learning curve with this tool. As with anything powerful, it can often feel overly complex or even cumbersome.
Overall: Ability to track multiple aspects of the business in one place. You can build reports and dashboards as needed.
Netsuite review
Nov 27, 2018
Andrea H.
Owner and designer
Arts and Crafts, Self-employed
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: I really liked netsuite. You can search from anything that was in the company profile. It was easy to add specific mods to make it work well with the company I was in
Cons: I don't have any cons for this program. It was very easy to use and the customer support was always prompt.
Overall: Overall I had a great experience. I would use this program again if I needed something to manage clientele and inventory.
NetSuite - cloud-based platform providing real-time data on demand
Nov 07, 2018
Pete P.
Customer Success Manager
Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
3
/
5
Features & Functionality
1
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Able to allow all employee's to access data base don their roles. Great financial reporting tools and reporting. Targeted searches can alert users automatically based on KPI's established.
Cons: Mass uploading tool antiquated. Too easy to duplicate records based on 1-character in customer name being different. Even an extra space or capital letter will mean another record created.
MGIS review of NetSuite
Dec 07, 2018
Howard H.
Senior Accountant
Insurance, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: I like the most about NetSuite is it is dynamic. It has a lot more functions than our previous accounting software.
Cons: It has too many features, which makes it harder to get an overall knowledge of the entire software.
Overall: We have been very happy with NetSuite. We switched to NetSuite mainly because of the financial statements. Our NetSuite consultants were able to configure the financial statements to best suit our needs.
Not a bad product for international accounting
Nov 10, 2016
K M.
Accountant
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
2
/
5
Ease of Use
3
/
5
Features & Functionality
4
/
5
Customer Support
2
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: International currency exchange is automatic
Cons: The time need to get it set-up
Overall: Once you get it set-up it is a good product for international accounting. It does take a lot of time for the initial set-up, but if you purchase the unlimited customer service help, you will get there. Once you have it set-up it is very easy to use. I would not purchase this product if not an international company. It would not be worth cost due to other software products that are available in today's market.
Easy Experience
Dec 04, 2018
Verified Reviewer
Computer Software, 10,001+ employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: - Friendly user Interface
- Good to be manage
- With the correct training the daily tool feels familiar and easy to go through known paths and discover more utilities
Cons: - Most of the reports are configured to be at current period. You cannot modify the dates or specify if you only want just one month of some year for example.
- Sometimes it gets slower.
Overall: The good thins about Netsuite is that you have everywhere conexion to your company numbers, data and information with a familiar and good user Interface. It helps you to make the "work from everywhere" real.
The Best Accounting Software I have tried
Dec 07, 2018
Jhoanna R.
Senior Accountant
Retail, 501-1000 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
1
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: I love how the different pages have a clean look, but nothing compares with the flexibility to modify all the reports to tailor to your specific needs. We have added a variety of custom fields so that we have useful data points that enable us to present and understand better financials.
Cons: I really wish they had better live customer service support.
We have been using NetSuite for four years, but decided to leave.
Jan 18, 2018
María Laura G.
Project Manager
Outsourcing/Offshoring, 201-500 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: You can really customize this software but need tech skills or outsource this tasks. In our case we have been doing both. It is great what you can acomplish with it.
Cons: It's very expensive for the size of our company. Another major disadvantage for us it's that the mexican laws and updates are not taken in account.
Overall: Take care of the financial aspects of our company.
NetSuite is the best software that compiles all my things or I can say everything in one place.
Jul 26, 2018
sara s.
Manager Account
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
4
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: NetSuite software is the most awesome software that is based on modern layout. It has very large storage capacity. It consists of very good built in redundancy and excellent backup. It is very easy to use by anyone. It has quicker search for clients. It is very robust through which one can make reports easily as it comprises of great tools.
Cons: I can hardly find any con pertaining to this software. One of the con is that mostly used pages got hidden in menus causing troubles for the users. Another con is that this software has complicated search functions. If by default one letter is off one can not search properly. It should be simplified.
High quality, customizable software.
Jun 27, 2017
Eamon L.
CFO
Construction, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: The ability to customize the software to current workflows and processes. Dashboards and customized searches add value.
Cons: There are a lot of addons for the software that seem as though they should or could be native. he reporting is sufficient for most all needs however when attempting some more complex reporting the report maker is less than intuitive.
Netsuite has been a huge help for us.Very great software.
Mar 19, 2018
Jan t.
IT Manager
Telecommunications, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Software Advice
4/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Dashboards are very customizable. You can create workflows or reporting from and also make different views depending on the user's permissions/role.
Cons: Getting assistance can be confusing as instructions can be too technical when building reports or views. Netsuite can also be pricey depending on how many users is needed for the company.
Amazing ERP Solution
Feb 10, 2017
Doreina P.
Consultant
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Fully customizable to the business needs!
Cons: The learning curve could be a little high, but once you learn the basics is super easy to use.
Overall: I have been working for more than a year with NetSuite. Having used SAP, JD Edwards and other accounting and ERP software in the past, I can confidently say that NetSuite is by far the most complete, easiest to use and easiest to report out of. Apart from the fact that it allows yo to create automations or workflows for virtually everything your business needs. NetSuite controls and features and functionality are outstanding for this fully cloud-based solution.
Recommendations to other buyers: Just amazing!
Surely is a must have for any company.
Mar 29, 2018
jet t.
IT Manager
51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Software Advice
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Inventory management could have been so much easier thanks to Netsuite. A variety of reports can be generated. Inventory control and communication to customers and employees has been smooth because of Netsuite.
Cons: depending on what your company needs, netsuite can be very pricey. Setup can be confusing and not user friendly.
Best Cloud ERP
Nov 13, 2018
Rohit` M.
Controller
Utilities, 1001-5000 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Ease of use, Functionality, highly customizable, Great customer support and many more
Cons: Enhancements.. some basic features are considered enhancements which is cumbersome .
Overall: Working on it for the past 2 years and its arguably the best cloud ERP system . With great customer support as a cherry on the cake . I cant wait to see what 2019 bring to this ERP
Best System!
Aug 16, 2018
Staci H.
Assistant Controller
Events Services, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Ease of use and editing. We can easily reclass and edit transactions without having to re-upload and delete prior entries.
Cons: That certain modules cannot be accessed without certain licenses. Should be an all-inclusive platform.
Overall: FANTASTIC! My team and I were just discussing not wanting to use another accounting system again!
Excellent
May 30, 2018
Travis C.
Warehouse Manager
Warehousing, 201-500 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: User friendly. I love the saved searches and that its internet based. You can log in from phone or computer at home.
Overall: It helped our company transition from small to mid size. It was a big change and worked out for the best.
Netsuite review
Nov 16, 2016
Linda G.
Bookkeeper
Accounting, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
4
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Lots of features
Cons: Hard to set reports. Expensive. But tech support will help; Would like individual training on accounting areas
Overall: I am a bookkeeper. Some features need to be added like reconciling the balance sheets accounts. But overall the software is powerful. One CFO said that for all that it does you do not need a full time IT person to manage it like other platforms
NetSuite is a modern cloud based ERP. We use it on several locations.
Jun 06, 2018
Verified Reviewer
Consumer Goods, 1001-5000 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: NetSuite is a modern cloud based system. The system architecture allows flexibility of workflows, processes and system screens.
Cons: Netsuite does not have built in complex solutions for production. The palnning tools for MRP or work orders are limited.
Overall: Value for money, full SAAS solution, built in security
Focus on competencies and make some hard decisions
Aug 16, 2018
Adam C.
Business Systems
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
3/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
3
/
5
Features & Functionality
2
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Pretty solid ERP system, good platform extensibility with multiple API options, scripting, and other customization. Account management team does a good job advocating internally.
Cons: CRM and Support Case management is limited, riddled with issues, and marked by neglect. Email infrastructure is a complete mess with outages given no urgency. Since Oracle acquisition uptime and reliability have gone sharply downhill across the application, and there is no accountability nor follow up. Front line Customer Support teams are outsourced, limited in hours, and generally incompetent. Professional Services team is incapable of any complex tasks and largely lacks basic communication skills.
Overall: NetSuite can be a best in breed platform for the right company that goes into the engagement and implementation with a clear, sober picture of what it does well versus where it does not spend development resources. Do not try to make NetSuite your everything. If you do not have internal business system/enterprise application management resources and need consulting or professional services, do not use NS Professional Service.
Customization / Extentions
Aug 17, 2018
Sathish D.
Application Mgr
Wholesale, 201-500 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Its easy to customize, easy solve some complex business requirement with simple approach.
Cons: Since its cloud application the restriction on the script execution some time or most of the time being challenging for developer
Overall: We have the flexibility of Cloud application and enjoy customizing most of the process
We have moved to NetSuite for our new account software. NetSuite is used for all of our accounting.
Mar 19, 2018
Verified Reviewer
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: The seamless integration we had with Shopify and our 3rd party logistics company. NetSuite has made so easy for us to streamline our sales/shipping.
Cons: We would like to get a new CRM for our company and were hoping to be able to use NetSuites, but it does not seem to meet our needs at this time, which is disappointing.
Overall: The ease of streamlining our orders with our 3rd party logistics company. New accounting software which has improved the work flow of our accounting department.
This software is great for managing all the company inventory, assets, and finances.
Mar 14, 2018
Verified Reviewer
51-200 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
2
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: The ability to customize and manage our companies inventory and assets really helps with forecasting for the future business needs. Also keeping track of our receivables and payables is as easy as ever. It also lets us keep track of our contractors and customers without confusion.
Cons: It takes an expert to customize, which means it can cost a lot of money to get the set up that you want.
Overall: We get efficiency and ease of finance tracking.
A versatile software can help you
Oct 05, 2017
Ivan A.
IT Manager
Construction, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Software Advice
4/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
2
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: The systems are easy to create items
items by serial
items for purchase or sales
Reports for the inventory and evaluation
adjust inventory
transfer inventory
Cons: The setup needs to be clear from the beginning of the system. and set up the privileges for the user role are not easy.
Great so far!
Nov 27, 2018
Verified Reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: We've had this implemented at our workplace recently. It has been heavily customised to our specifications and we continue to add new features and functions daily. Great that users can access this anywhere, anytime as long as they have an internet connection. No excuse for bad weather days now! We are also now looking, at being a reseller and to support it to our customer base.
Cons: Nothing to report so far, in some cases outages can be experianced which you can't do nothing about although it has been nothing significant enough to cause us problems.
Used for our daily POS
Jun 12, 2018
Zach H.
Sales/Service Manager
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: NetSuite seems to be ablet to hold an endless amount of records, which helps us keep track of many details of our customer database.
Cons: When NetSuite has errors, they tend to be very bad ones and take a while to get fixed, which hurts our daily business.
Just a little training any your good to go
Oct 10, 2018
Kevin J.
Labor
Construction, 501-1000 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: It's very easy to look up my part number, see their information, and edit that information. It's also very easy to look up your paycheck information.
Cons: Can be a little overwhelming at first but, it doesn't take long to get the hang of it.
Controller
Dec 05, 2018
Li Wei X.
Controller
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: NetSuite ERP system is cloud based system and can be used any where and any time.
Cons: The NetSuite system price kinds of higher.
Overall: We use NetSuite to do our accounting and financial reporting. It helps us to manage the software industry revenue and revenue forecasting.
Great system for inventory, sales, and purchasing
Jun 26, 2018
Verified Reviewer
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
4
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Pros: It's a very thorough system, and you can likely run your entire business off of Netsuite. It's well laid out, and intuitive to use.
Cons: I believe salesforce has stronger dashboards and reports, but it could be a lack of knowledge on my end.
this is good for business
Aug 29, 2018
Verified Reviewer
Outsourcing/Offshoring, 1001-5000 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: we use this software for work and it's soooooo user friendly. our bosses can make changes on the software making our work much easier.
Cons: it's just slow at times but it don't really affect the performance of the software that much
Loving Netsuite OneWorld!
Aug 16, 2018
Bob C.
Sales Manager
Publishing, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
4
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Ease of navigation
Global search functions
Customizable reports
One the spot building of searches
Portlet functionality
Cons: Customizable reports - listed above as pro - but the learning required to effectively build reports can be overwhelming
Overall: I am enjoying the building of the application from the ground up due to the nature of our business circumstances. It has allowed me to create my own experience based on my own particular needs. As a sales manager, there are a number of details that need to be tied together to effectively manage my team of 12 and NetSuite has given me new views that I am implementing almost daily.
Not exactly happy with product
Aug 16, 2018
Doug S.
Netsuite Administrator
Wholesale, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
3/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
3
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: The CSV import functionality has saved me a lot of time from inputting data manually. Also, SuiteFlow has been a great help with automating data entry.
Cons: I feel like Netsuite is constantly hanging a carrot in front of my face. Here are a few things that I like least:
* The administrators training module only teaches you the basics, so I had to rely on SuiteAnswers to figure out how to do the more complex tasks.
* The add-on features that would help us run more efficiently are part of these big packages that cost significantly more, which are not cost-effective for us.
* So many little things, like why can't the item name be longer than 60 characters (this has inconvenienced us a lot), why can't workflow use the plus symbol to add multiple custom fields into another custom field, why aren't there multiple email address fields for the customers/vendors that are actually functional, why isn't there an function to process split payments, why do we have to be specific with keywords when searching through SuiteAnswers?
Overall: Our company needs an accounting and inventory management software that's more robust than what we previously had, but migrating over to Netsuite wasn't intuitive for a newbie like me. I wish the training module would've offered documentation on how to support the more complex tasks.
Easy to use, helps get our products online quickly
Oct 05, 2017
Sarah Y.
Director of Communications
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Pros: User friendly, user specific for a company with different departments with varied functions. It's helpful to make sure that the interface functions best for the department using it, and the way it can be transformed for different purposes is astounding.
Cons: Could be more condensed to increase prime user experience. Often I feel like I have too many choices or get lost in a dropdown menu.
Account Manager for Software Companies
Aug 16, 2018
Emily P.
Director of Finance
Computer Software, 201-500 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
5
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: ease of use, customer support, capacity to integrate with most of other systems such as SFDC, Coupa, Concur...
Cons: customize user role. I shoudl there is one input sheet for admin to go through to define the access.
Great CRM
Jun 27, 2018
Steven D.
Sales Manager
Publishing, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
4
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Pros: We went from Results to NetSuite and it was a great transition. NetSuite is easy to use for the most part and finding information quickly is a huge benefit to our customers.
Cons: The NetSuite reporting feature can be difficult if you don't understand "Saved Searches". I have to tend to ask our IT team to help with some of the searches but it is becoming easier.
Nice system to use for purchasing and procurement purposes. Like that is can also send payment.
Jun 05, 2018
Brook K.
Sr. Purchasing & Procurement Specialist
Oil & Energy, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
4
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Great concept that it can purchase to pay. The system can handle quite a bit. It's very easy to navigate.
Cons: Wish it had an RFQ process in this system. Instead you can get a bolt on package, which most software offers. Had we known this, we might have looked at other options.
Overall: We benefit from this software because it does have the capabilities to purchase all the way to pay.
Good accounting solution until the cost went up
Mar 28, 2018
Jeff G.
Owner
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Pros: When we used NetSuite, it was very flexible in allowing us to change templates and invoices. It was convenient to be able to use it from anywhere other than just my office computer. The company gave us training on how to use it which was a big help.
Cons: They started charging more, which is the reason that we switched since we are a small business.
NetSuite Review
Aug 16, 2018
Jonathan E.
Controller
Accounting, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
3
/
5
Features & Functionality
4
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: The ARM tool is great function for SAAS business
Cons: I still have issues with the Fixed Asset Module and the reporting.
Overall: Overall terrific, the user interface is very user friendly. Its easy to navigate and intuitive.
Pay for what you get
Dec 16, 2018
Verified Reviewer
Luxury Goods & Jewelry, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: NetSuite is a smart program with a lot of capabilities, if you can figure them all out.
Cons: Can get expensive with add-ons and plug ins. Time consuming workarounds if you don't invest.
Agility of the platform.
Feb 22, 2018
Shivakant D.
Technical Consultant
Computer Software
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: The ability to see time accruals and organize time by category is fantastic. It really helps to make it through projects efficiently, and the reporting helps everyone in the company. It's lean, and the interface makes sense for the most part.
Cons: The reporting is completely non-intuitive, and because of all the various settings, it can be very complex to develop very simple reporting that comes standard with other systems that cost a fraction of what NetSuite and OpenAir do.
Pros: you are able to basically customize any part of the software, which is nice for different business goals
Cons: when it first started it was basically unusable for us because no one knew how to do anything. a year later we have had to customize every part and hold many training sessions for people to even begin to use it
3 year user
Aug 16, 2018
Robert W.
Controller
Biotechnology, 1001-5000 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
3
/
5
Customer Support
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: NS made the transition to ASC 606 smooth
Cons: returns and credits are a challenge in NS
Overall: company loves the flexibility that NS gives with users creating saved searches and reports
Good product but falls short
Dec 03, 2018
José Elías G.
Auxiliar de Reporting
Accounting, 1001-5000 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
3/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
3
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: What I like the most is the ease to look for anything that's in NetSuite, also how it gives you a lot of options to download your information in diverse formats (excel, pdf, csv, etc), as well as to customize when you get which report (like scheduling a report) and lastly how you can get the system information (which is a great detail of the upload time, changes and so on and when they took place).
Cons: There is a limit to the information you view, so you may have to make a custom view with custom filters to see what you want to visualise, however the formulas in NetSuite seem to fall short so, customization falls short at times or even the profile you need may not have the customize option.
Overall: We are being able to sort out all of the information that comes into NetSuite in an easy to visualize and summarize way. However it's not as flexible as other databases we use. But in a first instance it's a great way to commute the information across all the systems the information comes from, the best part is that it's easy to use.
NetSuite contains a wealth of features and capabilities, but the UI is a bit outdated.
May 29, 2018
Julian A.
Marketing Intern
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
4
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: NetSuite allows you to scale your company and keep up with the demand. It's abilities as a customer/lead database are great. I especially use NetSuite to create and send email marketing campaigns to large groups, and it works very well for that.
Cons: It takes a bit of time and effort to learn how to use and navigate the software. The controls and settings aren't always easy, and it may take you a while to figure out the process for the features you want to use.
A platform and tool for everyone
Sep 17, 2018
Ramil T.
Technical Support
Security and Investigations, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: I benefit a lot on this software, what's cool about this is that it runs through scripts that can be customized and programmed depending on your company's needs
Cons: Like any other platform it's vulnerable to any issues like crashes and bugs
Overall: I am pleased how the software works and how it makes our everyday a lot easier.
Great accounting software for small to mid sized companies
Jul 24, 2018
Verified Reviewer
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
4
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
4
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Pros: The organization of the charts of accounts is very intuitive. The ease of being able to view financial statements is also very good.
Cons: The formatting of the Excel download of each general ledger account is quite clunky and confusing. It is difficult to analyze the data in the format which it downloads in.
Easy and User friendly!!
Sep 19, 2018
Janice F.
Sales Specialist
Computer & Network Security, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
4
/
5
Customer Support
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: I was working in different industry and use a lot of softwares. This was the easiest software I have used. It plain and simple even non techy person can use it.
Cons: I hope they add features that will entice the user to use. Color are dull and not so friendly.
Overall: User friendly software that can be use by anyone.!!!
Easy to use and Navigate
Aug 03, 2018
Cristine G.
Training Lead
Outsourcing/Offshoring, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
3
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: Easy to use and Navigate although there are some issues with the system. Overall its good
We use it to track hundres of field sales reps and thousands of customers.
Cons: Customer service can be a bit slow getting back to help.
Uploading huge amounts of data can be a bit cumbersome.
Overall: Used full accounting and sales commission tracking.
Netsuites good
Oct 10, 2018
Aline n.
sales
Retail, 501-1000 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
5/5
Overall
5
/
5
Ease of Use
5
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely
Pros: I love it it's good to used help with everything it's the best
Cons: nothing at all there is nothing bad on this
Overall: I had a wonderful best and helpful one ty
Room for Updates
Jun 18, 2018
Christie G.
Conference & Event Coordinator
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
4/5
Overall
3
/
5
Ease of Use
4
/
5
Features & Functionality
5
/
5
Customer Support
4
/
5
Value for Money
Pros: I have worked on both the Admin side and the user side of Netsuite. As a user, I think it's a clean interface though it does not provide a lot of value for users at our company. Users at our company use Netsuite for logging time and requesting time off. From the Admin side I know there is a lot of valuable in tracking time spent on projects or teams to help report on business needs/demands.
Cons: Netsuite is not very intuitive from the Admin side, it's much more user friendly on the user facing side. On the Admin interface, there are many steps/clicks require to do what seems like it should be a simple task or update in the software. | {
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We’re officially in the fall season and you’re thinking that you are in the clear when it comes to fire ants…ALMOST! The nice fall weather brings fire ants to the surface after spending the summer underground. Fall is an ideal time to target fire ants for next spring.
Just because the odorous house ant is most active in the summer months does not mean your problem with them will go away with the warm summer temperatures. In fact, odorous house ants often enter structures during rainy weather or fall temperatures.
Field ants, or the One Node Ant, are large ants that are often confused with carpenter ants. Field ants are found in a variety of colors including black, brown, tan, red or red and black. The key to telling the field ant apart from other ants are the ocelli, or “simple eyes” that are found on the front of the head in between the compound eyes.
As been discussing lately, spring and summer bring many pests. One pest in particular that affects everyone, regardless of region, is ants. There are so many different varieties of ants. Argentine ants are mainly found in southern states across the US, fire ants are notorious in the south and carpenter ants don’t discriminate by living in both the south and the north. Ants are one of the few living organisms that live in all ecosystems.
Odorous House Ants are one of our most notorious ant pests. Together with Argentine Ants, Odorous House Ants account for the majority of service calls in the Atlanta area. At one time, Fire Ants were also a significant ant pest, but a number of products are now available that control fire ants very effectively. | {
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Check detailed information about trade4.me like Alexa Rank History Chart, Whois, Traffic Report, Estimated Valuation and more.Illegal puppy trade. The trade in purebred puppies is booming: they are being sold at a cheap price on the internet, in pet shops and in public spaces. | {
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2016 NBA Affiliate Players Added to NBA D-League Rosters
From late September to late October, NBA teams trim their rosters from a maximum of 20 players invited to training camp to 15 on opening night. The “affiliate player rule” allows them to retain up to four of the players that they waive.
Players designated by an NBA team as affiliate players are automatically allocated to that team’s NBA Development League affiliate if they choose to sign an NBA D-League contract.
Unlike in baseball, affiliate players remain free agents available for any of the 30 NBA teams to sign. Still, the designation is a vote of confidence for prospects. It’s an indication of which players NBA teams are interested in developing, allowing front offices to closely monitor certain players on and off the court, keep them within the same offensive and defensive systems using the same terminology and many of the same plays, and work on their skills with their own coaches. | {
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Lives of all saints commemorated on May 25
Third Finding of the Honorable Head of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John
The Third Discovery of the Venerable Head of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John occurred in about the year 850 (see the account of the First and Second Discoveries on February 24). The head of St John the Forerunner was found in the city of Emesia during a time of unrest at Constantinople connected with the exile of St John Chrysostom (November 13).
It was transferred to Komana during the Saracen raids (about 820-820) and it was hidden in the ground during a period of iconoclastic persecution. When the veneration of icons was restored, Patriarch Ignatius (847-857) saw in a vision the place where the head of St John the Forerunner was hidden. The patriarch communicated this to the emperor, who sent a delegation to Komana. There the head was found a third time arond the year 850.
Afterwards the head was again transferred to Constantinople, and here on May 25 it was placed in a church at the court. Part of the head is on Mt. Athos. The Third Discovery of the Head of John the Baptist is commemorated on May 25.
Hieromartyr Therapon the Bishop of Cyprus
The Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of Cyprus, lived a life of asceticism in a monastery, and afterwards he served as a bishop on the island of Cyprus. At the time of the persecution under Diocletian (284-305), St Therapon bravely confessed the name of Christ and died a martyric death.
The relics of the hieromartyr were at first located on Cyprus and were glorified by numerous miracles. Later, in the year 806, they were transferred to Constantinople. The relics were moved because of a danger of invasion by the Saracens. As the ship sailed to Constantinople, myrrh began to flow from the relics, and travellers on the ship were miraculously saved during a storm by their prayers to St Therapon.
Upon arrival at Constantinople, the relics of the hieromartyr were placed in a temple built in honor of the Icon of the Mother of God of Eleousa or “the Merciful” (November 12).
In the year 806 the relics were again transferred into a temple built in honor of the Hieromartyr Therapon, myrrh flowed from them, and miracles took place. Through the prayers of St Therapon, those who are seriously ill are healed, and the dying restored to life.
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The Mission of The Orthodox Church in America, the local autocephalous Orthodox Christian Church, is to be faithful in fulfilling the commandment of Christ to “Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…” | {
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Scott has been an underrated slugger (in my opinion) for several years. Despite derision from some fans for his "streakiness", he always ended up his seasons as one of the better hitters on the club and did it at reasonable salaries. But a serious shoulder injury has put his future in question and the Orioles did not feel comfortable paying him $6M or more in 2012.
That is an understandable decision. What is less understandable is why Scott was on the club in 2011 and why they have to make this decision in the first place.
I'll never fully understand the free agent strategy during the 2011 offseason. The club signed a mediocre reliever for $10M and a 2-year commitment (I will not speak his name...). They signed not one, but two aging veteran reclamation projects in 1B Derrek Lee and DH Vladimir Guerrero committing more than $15 million on the gamble. (The only signings that kind of made sense were low money deals to SS Cesar Izturis and SP Justin Duchscherer. Neither worked out for the club but they weren't bad risks to provide potential depth.)
I've beaten the horse well past dead explaining how signing Lee in conjunction with Guerrero was unnecessary at best and would block promising (and cheap) prospects like Nolan Riemold at worst.
But lets say that you did want to sign those two and that you felt Guerrero still had enough left in his bat to be a serviceable DH.
Why keep Luke Scott?
Scott was coming off a career season at age 32. His trade value had been and never would be higher. With Lee and Guerrero on board, Scott was going to be pushed to leftfield where he was going to be only a fair fielder in the best of scenarios. The O's had Reimold and Felix Pie to platoon in left. Once you've made those other signings, Scott was a luxury that a rebuilding team could no longer afford.
Surely Scott could have brought back a couple of middling prospects. Maybe a cheap major league reliever. That would not be an ideal scenario but once you've pulled the trigger on Vlad, why not? As it stands now, Scott can sign with any team and the Orioles will receive nothing.
I just don't get it. Sign Lee. Or sign Vlad. Or sign both and trade Scott. But to sign both and keep Scott in 2011? It just didn't make sense. It was almost as if Andy MacPhail was gearing up for a playoff run. But could anyone look at last year's roster and truly believe this was a contending club? It was a stretch to view them as a winning one. There was so much that needed to go right for just a shot at a .500 record. But The Warehouse didn't treat the club as a rebuilding entity. Were they pandering to the fan base? Did they really believe the team was better than it was?
They needed to get some value for a guy that was made redundant by free agent signings but the Orioles refused to sell high.
Non-tendering Scott now makes a lot of sense. But keeping him a year ago, given the other free agent signings, certainly did not. | {
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Thursday, March 20, 2014
Journey to the West (2014)
Journey to the West (2014)
Director: Ming-liang TsaiCountry:Taiwan Runtime: 56 min
The face of an exhausted man breathing deeply, his face agitated and,
nearby, the sea. A Buddhist monk walks barefoot and incredibly slowly
through Marseille – so slowly, that his progress is barely perceptible
and he becomes a calming influence in the midst of the town’s goings-on.
More like a performance or installation art project than an ‘art film’,
"Le Voyage en Occident" (Xi you) is a follow-up to the 2012 short
"Walker" or a kind of second segment, set in Marseille (South France -
French Mediterranean coast).
Consisting of only 14 shots of varying lengths - from very brief to a
centrepiece of approximately 20 minutes - the film shows two men,
narratively unconnected, who finally come together in a sequence that
shows off both actors’ physical skills and sense of timing.
Lee Kang-sheng, who features in all Tsai Ming-liang’s films, plays the
monk with impressive energy. His uniform slow motion footsteps and
devoted posture turn his performance into a veritable tour de force as
he unswervingly makes his way from the coast to the market in Noailles
(popular market with mixed communities people), like an illusion in his
bright red robe. Xi You represents another edition of the director’s
series of short films that expand Lee Kang-sheng’s thirty minute slow
walking performance at Taipei’s National Theatre into a ‘slow walking
expedition’. Unusual, brilliantly chosen camera angles provide a collage
of various districts in Marseille, creating a hypnotic space in which
this meditative peregrination becomes a surprising journey of discovery. | {
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Leading up to the Insight Bowl in Tempe on December 28th, PowerMizzou.com will provide complete FREE coverage of the Tigers' bowl practices. Here are the notes from Thursday's practice as Missouri opened preparation for the Insight.[details] | {
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Actually yes, Drudge says right in the story that Democrats told him this...by the way, they are right. Huck will get beat by 30 points in a general election.
Also, other than being pro-life, what issues is he conservative on? | {
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Microsoft announces Halo Fest for PAX Prime 2011
Microsoft has announced Halo Fest, the largest and most expansive live Halo experience ever. The event will take place during PAX Prime 2011 in order to mark 10 years of Halo and Master Chief.
The software giant has promised to show why the past decade of the series was "just the beginning." Halo Fest will be packed with tournaments, exclusive panels, and prizes, all of which will help fans look back "at the amazing stories that forged a diverse community and redefined gaming for two entire console generations."
PAX Prime is taking place in the Washington State Convention Center, which is located in Seattle, Washington. Halo Fest will be on the Annex third floor for three days straight (10:00AM to 6:00PM): August 26, 2011 to August 28, 2011. Admission is included with the purchase of a PAX Prime Badge.
For those who may not know the Halo video game franchise so well, it was created by Bungie and Microsoft Game Studios. There have been five games since, including Halo: Combat Evolved (the first game in the series), Halo 2 (the second game in the series), Halo 3 (the third game in the series), Halo 3: ODST (a game set during the events of Halo 2 and Halo 3), and Halo: Reach (a prequel to the first game). There is also a Halo Original Soundtrack (an album that includes the song "Halo"), a Halo film coming out in 2012 (the first Halo movie), and Halo Wars (a real-time strategy spin-off created by Ensemble Studios). | {
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Giants General Manager Bobby Evans steps down
SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) - The search for a new San Francisco Giants' general manager is on. The team announced on Monday, Senior Vice President and General Manager Bobby Evans will step down from his duties effective immediately.
“I want to thank Bobby for his tireless work on behalf of the Giants. He played an important role in our team’s success throughout his tenure, which includes three World Series championships, four NL pennants and eight playoff appearances,” said Giants President and CEO Larry M. Baer.
Evans was thanked for his contributions over the past 25 years with the organization.
The team's standings in the National League has plummeted. San Francisco Chronicle reported Evans was signed through 2019, but that wasn't enough to outweigh this losing season. | {
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Rabbit
The Rabbit is a fluffable critter that can be found around the Fur Fighter Village (more will spawn when more spouses are rescued) and in the sun dome in Space Station Meer. They are small, cream bunnies with a white underbelly and tail fluff.
Like most critters, it can be destroyed into an explosion of fluff with one shot of any weapon, and it will hop around aimlessly, occasionally stopping for a split second.
If a Rabbit that has originally spawned at the side of the village where the entrance to Cape Canardo is has been herded to the other side of the village far enough, the Rabbit will freeze, but still play their movement animation. They also still respond to close-range attacks near them. | {
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Down & Dirty: Dark Leafy Greens
Every week we get Down & Dirty, in which Nozlee Samadzadeh breaks down our favorite seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more by the numbers.
Today we're taking a nose dive into the salad bowl with a half-dozen varieties of dark leafy greens. These plants come from a few different plant families -- arugula, kale, and collards are Brassicas, spinach and chard are in the Amaranth family, and dandelion is from the family Asteraceae -- but they share certain essential characteristics in the kitchen: all can be enjoyed raw or cooked, and they're all hardier than the fragile salad greens of spring.
The Sturdy Ones1. Kale: Kale has enjoyed a popular renaissance in the past few years, with cookbooks, tshirts, and more dedicated to the plant. Hearty, mild, and nutritious, kale is just as good sautéed as it is raw in a salad. (The realization that massaging vinaigrette into kale leaves wilts and tenderizes them revolutionized kale salads forever.) There are three types of kale, all equally interchangeable in recipes: curly kale, which is the most commonly available variety, and the two harder-to-find types shown below:
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1(a). Lacinato kale, also called Tuscan or Dinosaur kale. Our senior editor Kristen describes its leaves as "dark, like beveled glass." Cavolo Nero is the name of a particularly dark-leaved variety of lacinato kale. 1(b). Russian kale, also called Winter kale. The purple accents that you sometimes see in curly kale are even more apparent in this variety.
2. Swiss Chard: Chard and beets are very close cousins, the difference being that the former is cultivated for its leaves while the latter is grown for its roots. (Chard leaves even look like beet leaves, but larger and better-developed.) Pleasantly tender with crunchy, edible stems (don't toss them!) and a mineral-y, slightly bitter taste, chard can be eaten both raw and cooked. Depending on the variety, the stems can be pink, red, orange, or white -- "rainbow chard" seed packets are actually just a mix of the different varieties. And why "Swiss," when the green originated in Italy? It's in honor of the Swiss botanist W.D.J. Koch, who gave the plant its scientific name.
3. Collards: Did you ever think about how collards are basically flattened cabbage leaves? The two are very close cousins -- in fact, the name "collard" is descended from colewort, a loosely-headed cabbage variety grown in the Middle Ages. Today, you'll find them in cuisines all over the world, from South America to Eastern Europe to the American South. (And a brief history lesson: collards aren't indigenous to Africa, but that signature long-simmered cooking method was brought over by African slaves in the 1800s.) Collards' sturdy leaves stand up to braises, richly flavored soups, and even raw wraps, but they're great steamed or sauteed just until bright green, too.
The Delicate Ones4. Arugula: The target of many a joke about crunchy liberals, peppery, spicy arugula ("rocket" in the UK) is the quintessential spicy green. It has been around since Roman times (Virgil mentions arugula in Moretum, a short poem about a farmer preparing a meal!); today, you'll find it in many traditional southern Italian dishes. Arugula is perfect for amateur gardeners -- to go from seed to salad takes just 6-8 weeks, and the plants actually prefer sandy soil and hot temperatures. The spicy heat of arugula is a good contrast to the bitter flavors of other greens, making it a great addition to any salad mix. You can sometimes find bunches of "bolted" arugula, harvested from plants that have gone to seed, at farmers' market -- save these for sautés, where their extra-peppery, tougher leaves will shine.
5. Spinach: You can't really blame the children of yesteryear for not eating their vegetables: unless you're Popeye, blanched spinach in a can is nothing to write home about. It wasn't until the 1980s that vacuum-sealed bags of fresh spinach became widely available, ushering in a new era of salads (90s-era raspberry vinaigrette, anyone?) and changing the way we eat our greens. The most popular cultivar of spinach is Savoy, which produces crinkly leaves that are hardy enough to stand up to being bagged and transported. The bagged baby spinach you buy in stores is grown from flat-leaf spinach seeds, which have a much milder flavor. If your experience with spinach is limited to those smooth-skinned baby greens, you owe it to yourself to buy a bundle of wrinkly, fully-mature spinach, preferably with the roots still attached -- since spinach is a fast-growing, annual plant, many farmers sell the plant whole since the attached roots help them last longer. The deeper, more complex flavor of these leaves is the perfect match for the spices in Indian saag paneer or Iranian yogurt dip.
6. Dandelion: While the weeds in your neighbor's yard are probably sprayed with pesticides, the dandelion greens you find at market are perfectly edible. Dandelions are actually an invasive species, brought to North America by Puritans who used the plants for their medicinal value (high in potassium and vitamins A, B, and C, they were used as a cure for jaundice and hepatitis). As invasive species go, dandelion is fairly innocuous -- though it's the bane of homeowners with gorgeous lawns, it doesn't compete with local plants or damage local animal populations. In the kitchen, dandelion greens pair well with a sharp, fatty dressing to cut their bitter bite, or you can saute them as you would escarole or endive. And if you can get your hands on yellow dandelion flowers, they can be steeped and fermented into dandelion wine with a whopping 10% alcohol content! (Little-known fact: a section about dandelions I wrote for an article in Lucky Peach about invasive species was cut for length. I know a lot about dandelions)
All of these plants are wonderful candidates for your home garden. They can withstand a bit of cold, they reach maturity quickly, and they keep on giving all season, growing new leaves in place of the ones that you harvest. It's winter now, but don't mind the cold weather -- they all grow beautifully in greenhouses.
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Just a note about arugula - it actually is better planted in cooler temperatures. Hot weather causes it to bolt and flower, and stop producing leaves. So plant in early spring or late summer for a fall crop.
I've found that if you harvest its leaves regularly, causing them to grow back instead of bolting (although they'll get a little spicier with each regrowth), arugula provides a great summer crop! But part of its appeal is how well it does in all seasons.
Mustard greens tend to fall into that odd seasonal category anyways, they've never been as mainstream as spinach or kale..I'd love to learn more about recipes that use mustard greens , other than the standard 'Sarson ka saag' | {
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Orion Marine Group Updates Investors
HOUSTON, July 10, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Orion Marine Group, Inc. (NYSE:ORN) (the "Company"), a leading heavy civil marine contractor serving the infrastructure sector, today is providing its investors an update on the Company's outlook and end markets.
Market Outlook
The Company remains encouraged about the second half of 2014 and beyond, as positive developments in its various end markets continue. As expected, utilization of some of the Company's assets declined sequentially in the second quarter due to the accelerated completion of projects in the first quarter, as well as project starts that pushed out into the third quarter. The Company also experienced slightly more than expected idle labor and idle equipment costs due to delays in project start dates. However, these jobs have now begun and, as previously discussed, the Company expects to see a strong second half leading to positive results for the full year 2014.
During the second quarter, the Company bid on approximately $429 million worth of opportunities and was successful on approximately $113 million, representing a win rate of approximately 26%. Additionally, the Company currently has approximately $110 million worth of bids outstanding, of which it is the apparent low bidder on approximately $10 million. The Company reminds investors that the timing and size of awards can and does affect the win rate in any particular quarter.
Federal Update
The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2014 was signed into law by the President early last month, representing the first water bill passed by Congress and signed into law in seven years. This Act authorizes several large scale water infrastructure projects across the Company's market areas to be funded through the annual appropriations process, and we expect these to be let out for bid over the next several years.
The Company may see more of a near term impact in the form of increased maintenance dredging opportunities as a result of the law's modification of how collected taxes are expended from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF). Traditionally only approximately half of all annual receipts into the HMTF are allocated for their intended purposes: maintenance dredging of our nation's waterways. The new WRDA law will gradually fix this funding disparity by allocating 67% of the HMTF's receipts to maintenance dredging beginning Fiscal Year 2015 and increasing thereafter to 100% over the next ten years.
The pace of Army Corps of Engineers lettings in the current fiscal year showed no real improvement in the second quarter of 2014; however, the Company is expecting improvement in the frequency of Corps lettings over the next several months as the Corps executes on their back end loaded schedule of bids.
The Company also continues to monitor the appropriations process for the Corps for Fiscal Year 2015. The House Energy & Water Appropriations Committee recently approved the FY 2015 Energy & Water Bill, which includes the Corps' annual budget. This bill must now be brought to the House floor for a vote and then be passed by the Senate.
State Update
The Company continues to execute and bid on a steady pace of bridge work advertised by various state departments of transportation. With the current two year transportation bill expiring in September of 2014, it is important for Congress to support our nations aging highway and bridge infrastructure with secure long term funding. The Senate Environment & Public Works Committee has proposed a six year, $265 billion bill, while the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee has not yet submitted a proposal. The Company will be closely monitoring funding developments, preferring to see a long-term bill passed providing funding clarity for the next several years.
Local & Private Update
The Company has begun work on its $68 million project with the Port of Houston Authority to widen and deepen the entrance channels leading to two container terminals in the Port of Houston. This project represents an important step taken by the Port of Houston to expand its facilities for larger ships eventually transiting through an expanded Panama Canal. The Port's ability to entirely self-fund the project also demonstrates that ports throughout our operating areas may be able to pursue alternative methods of funding capital improvements, rather than relying on an inconsistent federal budgeting process to provide the necessary funds.
The private sector continues to drive sustained increases in equipment utilization for the Company. As mentioned in the past, the demand for expanded waterside infrastructure from the private sector has largely been driven by energy related customers, private terminal developments and recreational dock infrastructure developments. Bid opportunities remain strong in this sector and are expected to continue for the foreseeable future.
Site preparation work at the Company's Dredge Material Placement Area (DMPA) along the northern portion of the Houston Ship Channel is now complete and the Company has begun receiving revenue for dredge material placed in the DMPA, which should continue throughout the remainder of the year.
About Orion Marine Group
Orion Marine Group, Inc. provides a broad range of marine construction and specialty services on, over and under the water along the Gulf Coast, the Atlantic Seaboard, the West Coast, Alaska, Canada, and the Caribbean Basin and acts as a single source turn-key solution for its customers' marine contracting needs. Its heavy civil marine construction services include marine transportation facility construction, marine pipeline construction, marine environmental structures, dredging, and specialty services. Its specialty services include salvage, demolition, diving, surveying, towing and underwater inspection, excavation and repair. The Company is headquartered in Houston, Texas and has a near 100-year legacy of successful operations.
Forward-Looking Statements
The matters discussed in this press release may constitute or include projections or other forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, the provisions of which the Company is availing itself. Certain forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, such as 'believes', 'expects', 'may', 'will', 'could', 'should', 'seeks', 'approximately', 'intends', 'plans', 'estimates', or 'anticipates', or the negative thereof or other comparable terminology, or by discussions of strategy, plans, objectives, intentions, estimates, forecasts, assumptions, or goals. In particular, statements regarding future operations or results, including those set forth in this press release, and any other statement, express or implied, concerning future operating results or the future generation of or ability to generate revenues, income, net income, profit, EBITDA, EBITDA margin, or cash flow, including to service debt, and including any estimates, forecasts or assumptions regarding future revenues or revenue growth, are forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements also include estimated project start dates, expected project duration, estimated project completion dates, anticipated revenues, and contract options, which may or may not be awarded in the future, including the statements set forth above in this press release. Forward looking statements involve risks, including those associated with the Company's fixed price contracts, unforeseen productivity delays that may alter the final profitability of the contract, cancellation of the contract by the customer for unforeseen reasons, delays or decreases in funding by the customer, and any potential contract options, which may or may not be awarded in the future, which awards are in the sole discretion of the customer. Past performance is not necessarily an indicator of future results. In light of these and other uncertainties, the inclusion of forward-looking statements in this press release should not be regarded as a representation by the Company that the Company's plans, estimates, forecasts, goals, intentions, or objectives will be achieved or realized. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. The Company assumes no obligation to update information contained in this press release whether as a result of new developments or otherwise.
Please refer to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on March 27, 2014, which is available on its website at www.orionmarinegroup.com or at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov, for additional and more detailed discussion of risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations, estimates or forecasts. | {
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Indonesia: Fight over the Papuans
As India's armed forces rolled into Goa
last week, Indonesia's jaunty President Sukarno tried to hitch a ride.
Standing beneath a canopy in the cultural center of Djokjakarta,
Sukarno told a wildly cheering crowd of 100,000 to prepare "for the
coming general mobilization of all the Indonesian people soon to
liberate West Irian from the claws of Dutch imperialism. My brothers,
this is my command!"
West Irian is the Indonesian name for a California-sized island of swamp
and jungle that the Dutch call Netherlands New Guinea (the eastern part
of the island is administered by Australia, whose rights there Sukarno
so... | {
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Junker Talks Recruiting
I chatted yesterday with Rebels bench boss Steve Junker about the DHI Prospects Showcase held last weekend in Nelson, it sounds as though recruiting for the 2011-12 season is well underway on many fronts. To take a listen, click here.
Bits & Bites: Creston Valley will see head coach Joe Martin back behind the bench for the next two years, as first reported by the Creston Valley Advance earlier this week. The T-Cats came ever so close to knocking off the Fernie Ghostriders in Round Two of last season's KIJHL playoffs. The USHL Draft was held yesterday, and Penticton Lakers defenseman Zach Urban went 35th overall (3rd round) to the Fargo Force. Victoria (BCHL) announced today they will have centre C.J. Lillies on their roster next season, the 16 year-old split time with Osoyoos and Princeton last year. | {
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Screenwriter Phil Hay talks about his upcoming movies of 2016 in his latest interview
Screenwriter Phil Hay is eagerly awaiting the release of his latest movie “Ride Along 2” starring comedian Kevin Hart and actor Ice Cube. Phil has also recently talked about movies of his that are set to release this coming year with our sources.
Sources claim that Phil, in some way, feels that his previous movies were unfairly treated by the critics as most of his movies so far ” Clash of the Titans” ,”R.I.P.D” and “Ride Along” were all butchered by the critics.
However, Ride Along managed to be a box office success and fans appreciated the comedy very much. Phil’s latest movie “Ride Along 2” is scheduled to release on the 15th of January and he is positive that the sequel will surpass the first movie by leaps and bounds.
Ride Along 2 has large shoes to fill in as the first movie was called one of the best comedy movies of the year 2014. It also managed to gross $ 134.1 million in the box offices, making it by far the most successful movie Phil was a part of.
Sources claim that Phil has also said that the success of the first movie gave him the confidence and strength to write the sequel with a rejuvenated spirit. He is determined that the fans will love this even more than the first installment.
Phil’s other movie, which released last year, was “The Invitation”. It was short movie with a run time of only seven minutes. It was screened at many film festivals around the world and received favorable reviews. The movie also helped show the world a different technique and exemplified Phil’s style of writing.
The movie was a mystery and suspense. Phil had never before tried his hands on this genre. He has found that he is actually good at it.
Phil is also known for writing most of his scripts with his writer friend Matt Manfredi.
Phil, on a personal level, has had a quiet life so far. He has been married to his wife Karyn Kusama for a number of years and they are known to be very happy together. Karyn is a director and has worked with Phil in several of his projects. They worked together in “Aeon Flux “and “The Invitiation”.
Phil and Karyn have only one son, Michio Hay. But recently, they have been hinting at the possibility of more children, claim sources.
Phil has no projects underway as he is patiently awaiting the outcome of “Ride Along 2”.
Phil’s exact age still remains a mystery, but sources close to him have said that he is in his early fifties. He is also not into social net working and communicates with his fans through interviews and talk shows. | {
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This book isn't near as hectic as the rest of the series. Most of the story takes place on the road. John, Brooke, and Boy Dog ditched the FBI and decided to take off on their own, killing Withered everywhere they go. With Brooke's ever-changing personality, John has to stay alert 24/7. He can't have her changing personalities and running off every time she has to relive a thousand year old death. He's constantly protecting her from herself all while trying to survive. But her memories a fuzzy... Attina was last seen in Dillon, Oklahoma. But that's all the information they have. When they show up to this little bitty town, all hell breaks loose. Teens are being viciously murdered, teens that were all last seen with John and Brooke.
I have to say, even though this book wasn't as hectic as the rest, I absolutely loved it.
I love the way Dan Wells created Brooke's character. Sure, her psyche may technically be demonic.... But it's so clearly Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) which is more commonly known as Multiple Personality Disorder. I'm only bringing this up because he times the transitions of the alters (identities) so accurately. Everything that Brooke is, that she does, is because of this "demon" inside her. She can't control who she is, what she does, or how she reacts. But she knows the basics. She feels calm around John even when she's meeting him for the first time. Each soul in Brooke's body has their own story, but they're using Brooke to tell it.
Monday, August 27, 2018
I've been trying to come up with a way to review See What I Have Done since I finished it last night... here's what I've come up with.
First off, it's historical fiction about Lizzie Borden.
That being said, the book is told through four perspectives over the course of two days.
We hear from Lizzie, Emma, Bridget, and Benjamin.
Now I'm not considering anything I'm about to say as spoilers, because well, it's Lizzie Borden and if you don't know what she did then where the hell have you been?!
Here's a refresher:
Lizzie Borden took an ax, and gave her mother forty whacks; when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.
Lizzie's Perspective: It's almost like stream of consciousness. She relays her activities for the day to police after she found her father cut in the study. She's obviously doped up from the sedative the doctor gave her to relax. But the problem is she can't quite remember everything. So she just starts telling the activities out of order because they did happen, just now how she's saying....and she knows that. Honestly, I got a very Tell-Tale Heart vibe from Lizzie when she starts repeating the things she's thinking.
Emma's Perspective: Oh, she's so bitter; it hurts. Her life was so grand while she was away from her sister, Lizzie. She could do her art in peace and not have to worry about Mother's promise. She could finally start her own life. A life outside of Fall River, a life without The Borden's. But then she gets the urgent message to come home and is uprooted from her fairytale. She can't believe what has happened but knows she has to comfort Lizzie the best she can and make sure they live a long life together.
Bridget's Perspective: She just wants a better life for herself. She's tired of cleaning up after an unappreciative family. She wants to go home to her own family, where she can laugh and carry on without a care in the world. She never should have come to America because all it has brought her is sadness. So the day the murders happen, she realizes she has an out. She can leave it all behind; the drama, the yelling, the menial work. No one can stop her.
Benjamin's Perspective: Benjamin get tied up with the girls Uncle John. Out one night, he meets John and is asked a rather large favor. A favor that he can't turn down. John wants someone to go have a "man-to-man" talking to with Andrew Borden, the girls father. He wants someone to teach him a lesson on how he should be treating his kids. But when Benjamin shows up for his task, the deed is already done. Snooping around the house, he finds both Andrew and Abby's bodies. But who could have done this? When he begins snooping through the barn, he finds a bloody ax head and realizes he can use this to his advantage...
Overall, I really enjoyed See What I Have Done! It was so well written!! Now, it did take me forever to read, but only because I was in such a reading slump. But I think it just pulled me out of it.
Huge thanks to Jenni L. Walsh for suggesting See What I Have Done to me on Goodreads!
Monday, August 20, 2018
I am pleased to introduce Jenni L Walsh, author of Becoming Bonnie and Side by Side!
When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?
I can't remember when that urge for creativity and storytelling developed. I think it's always been there. My mom read to me every night (thanks, Mom!). That led to me writing my own stories and poems. After schooling, my day job was a writer, specifically as an advertising copywriter. Any and all promotional words on an advertisement- that's what I did for about ten years. Then, about eight years ago, the motivation to write a novel struck me. I wrote one book, then another, and another- that won't be published, but turned out to be amazing practice. My fourth go-around, Becoming Bonnie, which is a prequel that tells the story of Bonnie (of Bonnie and Clyde) before she met Clyde, was my first book published. And now I also happily have Side by Side, which puts us in the passenger seat of Bonnie and Clyde's infamous crime spree. The books can be read together, separately, and in any order.
What are some of your favorite books?
That question is always so hard, so I'm going to cheat and speak to genre. I write historical fiction because I love to read it. I am really drawn to the stories that feature an actual person, place, or thing. Hazel Gaynor has written about the Titanic. Greer Maccallister about the first female Pinkerton agent. Ariel Lawhon about the Hindenburg. Kate Quinn about a real-life ring of spies. I could go on and on, and I'm thankful I can go on and on.
Where do you get the inspiration to write?
My kiddos. I love being an author. Character voices are constantly filling my head. I wiggle in my chair when I'm writing a scene I'm really excited about. I have a long list of story ideas. But I sit my butt down to write every day because I want to help inspire my children, provide for my children, set a good example, etc. They are both really young, not yet in school full-time, so I feel very fortunate that I can spend my days with them and spend nap times, early mornings, or late nights with my words.
What inspired you to write about Bonnie and Clyde from Bonnie Parker's perspective?
I debated both tense and POV, actually. But I landed on first person, present tense because I wanted readers to be both in her head and also sharing the moment with her. The reader sees, thinks, experiences just as Bonnie does. It made for some intense writing moments!
Do you plan on writing more in the historical fiction genre?
Definitely. I just completed a draft of a novel that's set during the California gold rush. It's a time periods that's always intrigued me. I also write narrative nonfiction for children and have a new series, called She Dared, starting with Scholastic in 2019. Those books will feature young women, who at a young age, accomplished daring feats of perseverance and bravery.
Where is your favorite place to write?
Wherever it's quiet! No music, no distraction, no noise. I usually write while everyone else sleeps!
What do you like to do when you're not writing?
Read. I mean, you had to expect that. Beyond that, with a two-year-old and a four-year-old, I like to do whatever they like to do :)
What is your latest book about?
As I mentioned, my latest WIP is set during the California gold rush, and it's about a remarkable woman, Eleanor Dumont. She was witty and smart and mysterious and independent. And, she's actually began blackjack in our country. However, later in life, Madame Dumont bested an individual in a card game, and, in response, he bitterly called her Madame Mustache, due to a thin strip of hair she'd developed on her upper lip. That name stuck, and often overshadows her real name and her real story. I felt that unfair and I wanted to tell her story.
So, if any of your books became movies, who would you want to play the main characters?
In my books, Bonnie and Clyde write a song together. Bonnie also finds herself up on stage. So, my Bonnie would need a set of lungs. I've always thought Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Peebles, or Darcy Rose Byrnes would do wonderfully!
You have been given a week vacation to visit ANY fictional town, where would you go?
So cliche, but I have to say Hogwarts. I have to. I've spent so much time in that world. Fortunately, that fictional town could only exist on a vacation one day :)
Quick! You have a date with your favorite fictional character, who are you meeting tonight?!
I've long been a fan of J.D. Robb's In Death series. The main character is a badass detective named Eve Dallas. I'd probably be very intimidated and it's doubtful she would even want to spend the evening socializing. So, maybe I could be of help on one of her cases.
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Alright, so I accidentally read The Devil's Only Friend (book 4) before I read Next of Kin because I didn't realize this novella was technically book 3.5 in the John Cleaver Series.
When I think of novellas I usually think of a really quick read, maybe a hundred pages or so. When Dan Wells thinks of a novella..... he writes less than 40 pages.
But I'm not arguing because I really needed those 34 pages!
Next of Kin explored the life of Elijah Sexton, a Gifted who happens to regularly visit the same hospital Brooke has been placed in under protective custody. But when she recognizes him, John and his ragtag team of demon hunters start watching his every move. What they don't realize is that he's one of the good ones. He's not using his gift for evil, he's using it to torment himself. He's almost created his own personal hell from making the mistake to become immortal.
It's a short story but Elijah is honestly one of my favorite characters. I would love to see another series branch out as the Gifted/Withered as the main character, chronicling their human life and decision to become a Godlike creature. | {
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The LEI for China increased by 0.7 percent in July from the previous month, up from zero percent growth in June. Credit expansion once again accounted for the bulk of the increase. The continued reliance on credit to fuel the economy signals that government-led infrastructure investment remains the primary growth driver for now.
Of note, the contribution from lending, which is measured in real terms (that is, adjusted for price changes), was boosted more than usual by falling producer prices, suggesting an increase in the existing debt load of companies and undermining the productive capacity of new lending. This dynamic may be an early signal of “debt deflation” – a risk described in more detail below.
The industrial and manufacturing sectors in China remain weak. Industrial Production and Purchasing Managers Indices continue to show slow growth momentum, especially in the private sector. Inventory overhang in many sectors continues to hamper new production, as does very weak corporate profit growth. Some sectors even appear to be de-leveraging, which is a good development for the longer-term health of the economy but a drag on current growth.
Retail sales and consumer expectations continue to perform poorly compared to the same period last year, presumably as the broad slowdown of the economy constrains individuals’ ability to spend. The labor markets continue to deteriorate as well, primary evidenced by weakness in the employment component of the PMIs. Reports of lay-offs in the country’s industrial regions appear to be picking up, which may act to further dampen growth – particularly in the months before “stated” infrastructure investment kicks in more fully.
Still, growth in large infrastructure investment continues to pick up. This should help the economy stabilize somewhat throughout the rest of the year. The second half of 2012 may see a slight improvement in growth, but strong headwinds remain in place: the risks of significant economic deterioration from widespread deleveraging or falling asset prices (housing) have increased.
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Microsoft is cutting the price on its Surface 2 just a month after cuts to the prices of its Surface Pro 2.
The Surface 2 runs the much-mocked Windows 8 RT operating system and Redmond is lopping $100 off the price.
This means that a 32GB Surface 2 will set you back $349 and the 64GB version will cost $449. If you want the 64GB version with 4G LTE connectivity will have to pay $579. The discounts will be available at Microsoft’s shops and online.
However you will have to be in quick if you really want one. Redmond said that the price stands until September 27. Optimistically it has warned that customers are limited to a total of 5 discounted Surface tablets per purchase.
Word on the street is that the price cut could be because Microsoft is planning to discontinue the model and wants to get rid of its overstock. It could also mean that Microsoft is preparing to unveil a successor to the Surface 2.
The Surface 2 that’s being discounted was introduced last October. The only change to this device has been the addition of a 4G LTE version.
Another suggestion is that Microsoft is getting excited about the HP Stream 14, which is a $99 laptop which might be an inexpensive answer to Chromebook while running a full version of Windows 8.1. It might be that Microsoft just does not see a need for anything like a surface 2 any more.
Microsoft has done rather well in a viral story which pitched its Surface 2 against the iPad.
The story is simple. A 12 year-old girl wanted to buy an iPad mini and nagged her dad. The dad was worried about letting his kid join a cult at that age, everyone knows that an iPad mini leads to harder Apple toys and the next thing you know you are mortgaging your house to buy an upgrade.
Obviously if the iPad mini was a better product than the Father would have to give in. So what he did was he wrote to Microsoft and Samsung about his daughter’s plans to buy an iPad – challenging both companies to offer reasons why they shouldn’t go ahead with the iPad purchase.
Samsung shut up, but Redmond seeing the PR value, took the challenge much to the surprise of the girl and her father. Needless to say the much photographed but unidentified girl went for the Surface 2. The whole story has been detailed by Microsoft in a blog entry here, while there is also a rather cute video to check out too showing the whole thing.
We leave it up to our readers to work out if the story is PR spin or real, it seems to be true though. Face it who would chose an iPad mini over a Surface 2 anyway. (Oh Lord. Ed)
Nvidia got a decent design win, at least when it comes to its modem business. Its first big winner is no other than Microsoft with Surface 2 64GB for AT&T. This is the official name of the product that just became directly from Microsoft.
This 64GB, Tegra 4 powered tablet comes with an Icera 500 Nvidia modem that is capable of 4G on AT&T's network and in the rest of the world should work as a 3G solution. This is at least possible in case that your carrier frequencies are supported. The chances that they are supported are good.
The $130 premium is the same amount Apple charges for its LTE iPads and of course you will have to setup AT&T data account in order to use the modem. Other than the added LTE support, there is not much that sets it apart from 64GB non-LTE version. The 4G LTE version is late to the party, but Windows RT lovers that enjoy the fact that their ARM-based processor can run free Outlook can now enjoy 4G as well.
This is a significant and first major design win for Nvidia's Icera 500 modem but we don’t think that either of these two partners will sell millions of units. It is just a nice proof of concept that both companies can offer 4G LTE product in their portfolio. Let's hope that there will be more of this LTE as from where we stand, Qualcomm wireless LTE business needs some serious competition as it completely rules the USA and rest of the world.
Delta has scrapped a plan to give its pilots iPads in favour of Microsoft’s Surface 2. The airline ran an Electronic Flight Bag pilot program with iPads back in 2011 but scrapped the plan.
Now Delta was going to replace the iPad with Nokia's rumored tablet, but has opted for the Surface 2 instead. The airline has equipped flight attendants with Lumia 820 handsets, which will be used for processing payments and tracking passenger information.
But the issue here was that Delta needed a reliable cockpit device, so the fact that it dumped the iPad for the Surface 2 running RT is probably important.
Although the Surface RT was hardly a big hit for Microsoft, with US $900 million write-down, Microsoft clearly did not give up on Windows RT and the newely announced 10.1-inch Surface 2 successor is thiner, lighter, faster, equipped with Tegra 4 SoC and has a 1920x1080 resolution screen.
As we wrote earlier, the Surface 2 is powered by Nvidia's Tegra 4 SoC which makes it, according to Microsoft, three to four times faster than the original Surface RT. It also got a better 5-megapixel rear and 3.5-megapixel front cameras, both capable of doing 1080p video as well as USB 3.0 port. The new Surface 2 also got the new Kickstand 2 which has a dual-angle adjustment and, according to Microsoft, has 25 percent more battery life.
As expected, it runs on Windows 8.1 RT and will be available in 32 and 64GB configurations as well as white (silver) and black color options. The price starts at US $449 for the 32GB model while the 64GB one will be sold for US $549. Both will be available on 22nd of October on 22 "big markets" including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA.
Although we already wrote a while back that Microsoft's next Surface 2 will be based on Nvidia's Tegra 4 SoC, the recent appearance in GFXBench's results page confirms the information. Scheduled to be released sometimes this year, Microsoft's Surface 2 tablet will be running on the Windows 8.1 RT OS.
In addition to the Nvidia Tegra 4 SoC, the result page also shed some light on some other specifications, including a 1371x771 resolution screen. There has been some rumors regarding a full HD tablet that will be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 chipset as well as smaller 7-inch Surface, which could be the one that showed up in GFXBench results considering its "lower" resolution.
Of course there are still a lot of unknowns but good news, for Nvidia at least, is that we will see at least some devices based on the Tegra 4 SoC as it did not have a smooth ride so far.
While Microsoft is trying to calm down its hardware partners over its new Surface, it appears that there is another one in the works.
Redmond has been saying that it does not want to get into the hardware business and has been describing its Surface mostly as a reference design. But an advert here shows that Microsoft is planning more versions of the Surface.
A listing for a Senior Software Development Engineer reads, "We are currently building the next generation and Surface needs you! The Surface development team is seeking a talented senior engineer to work on our next generation Surface. "You will be responsible for overall system design and system bring-up/enablement. You will be a critical member of a team that includes firmware, electrical, software, design validation and mechanical engineers; together, you will bring next generation Surface to life."
The words clearly give the game away. There is a next generation surface in the works and Redmond is hiring more staff for it. It looks like the Surface might not be just a reference design after all, but might be the beginning of something which will really get Acer and its ilk cross. | {
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Holiday in Michigan
Barbosa, Jose Celso (1857-1921). Puerto Rican intellectual and politician known for his position in favor of statehood, Barbosa lived in Michigan for 4 years, between 1876 and 1880, while he studied medicine at the University of Michigan. This made him the first Puerto Rican to receive a medical degree in the United States. The feat was more notable because Barbosa was of mixed African and European ancestry.
Gonzalez, Jane (1918-1977). City council member and community leader who migrated to Muskegon from Texas in 1946. After working as a court reporter, in the mid-1960s, Gonzalez headed migrant programs for the Office of Economic Opportunity. In 1964 she won a seat on the Michigan School Board, becoming one of the first Chicana women elected to public office in the United States. She later won election to the North Shore City Council, in Muskegon. In the 1970s Gonzalez served as chairperson of Midwest Mujeres de la Raza.
Benavides, Tony (1937-). Community leader and mayor of Lansing, Benavides migrated to Lansing from Mexico in 1952. He worked part-time in farm labor while studying in public schools and attending Lansing Community College and Lansing Business College. In 1969 he became executive director of Cristo Rey Community Center, a church-based social assistance agency providing services such as health clinics, employment programs, and youth activities. In 2003, while serving as president of Lansing City Council, he was elected mayor.
Lopez McKnight, Gloria (1937-2003). The child of a Mexican American mother and a Mexican migrant father, she grew up in Los Angeles, where she became a designer of costume jewelry and an entrepreneur. She was road manager for singer Dinah Washington before moving to Detroit in 1963 to attend Wayne State University. She began working for the state’s Department of Social Services in 1969. She led the movement to defend Southwest Detroit from urban renewal projects in the 1970s, and she testified before the U.S. Senate in 1972. As president of the Michigan chapter of LULAC in the 1980s, she organized protests to resist cuts in social programs.
Lozano, Raymond (1947-). Latino business owner and community leader in Detroit. The child of Mexican migrant workers who settled in the Midwest in the 1920s, Lozano attended Wayne State University and fought in Vietnam before becoming director of Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development in 1979. In 1980 he launched a professional and managerial career with DTE Energy. He became active in Latino business and civil rights organizations, eventually serving as executive director of the Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He was on the board of directors and served as vice-chairman of the National Council of La Raza.
Abreu, Andres (1957-). Founder and editor of El Vocero Hispano, Abreu moved to Grand Rapids from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 1991. Trained as a journalist, he
founded El Vocero Hispano in 1993, while working full-time at a local factory. Within a decade the newspaper grew to a circulation of 20,000. Taking active editorial positions, Abreu helped to elect the first Latino to the Grand Rapids school board and organized large demonstrations in Grand Rapids to support immigrant rights in 2006.
Herrada, Elena (1957-). Detroit community activist and historian, Herrada is the granddaughter of a Mexican revolutionary who fought with Emiliano Zapata before moving to Detroit to work in the automobile plants. Many of her family members moved to Mexico during the repatriations of the 1930s, but they soon returned to Detroit, where Herrada grew up. She worked as an advocate for prisoners in the early 1980s, and then as a labor activist with the Service Employees International Union. She created an oral history project to document the history of Mexican repatriation in Detroit. The resulting film, Los Repatriados, was released in 2000. After 2001 she helped create El Centro Obrero in Detroit, dedicated to defending the rights of migrant workers. | {
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Can vaginal cancer be prevented?
The best way to reduce the risk of vaginal cancer is to avoid known risk factors and to find and treat any vaginal pre-cancers. But since many women with vaginal cancer have no known risk factors, it is not possible to completely prevent this disease.
Avoid HPV exposure
Infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is a risk factor for vaginal cancer. HPV infections occur mainly in younger women and are less common in women over 30. The reason for this is not clear.
HPV is passed from one person to another during skin-to-skin contact with an infected area of the body. HPV can be spread during sex – including vaginal intercourse, anal intercourse, and oral sex – but sex doesn’t have to occur for the infection to spread. All that is needed is for there to be skin-to-skin contact with an area of the body infected with HPV. The virus can be spread through genital-to-genital contact. It’s even possible for a genital infection to spread through hand-to-genital contact.
An HPV infection also seems to be able to be spread from one part of the body to another. This means that an infection may start in the cervix and then spread to the vagina and vulva.
It can be very hard to avoid being exposed to HPV. It might be possible to prevent genital HPV infection by not letting others come in contact with your anal or genital area, but even then there could be other ways to become infected that aren’t yet clear. For example, a recent study showed that HPV can be present on sex toys, so sharing sex toys could potentially spread HPV.
Infection with HPV is common, and in most cases the body is able to clear the infection on its own. But in some cases the infection does not go away and becomes chronic. Chronic infection, especially with high-risk HPV types, can eventually cause certain cancers, including vaginal cancer and pre-cancer.
Certain types of sexual behavior increase a woman’s risk of getting a genital HPV infection, such as having sex at an early age and having many sex partners. Although women who have had many sexual partners are more likely to get infected with HPV, a woman who has had only one sexual partner can still get infected. This is more likely if she has a partner who has had many sex partners or if her partner is an uncircumcised male.
Delaying sex until you are older can help you avoid HPV. It also helps if you limit your number of sex partners and avoid having sex with someone who has had many other sex partners.
A person can be infected with HPV for years without any symptoms, so the absence of visible warts cannot be used to tell if someone has HPV. Even when someone doesn’t have warts (or any other symptom), he (or she) can still be infected with HPV and pass the virus to somebody else.
HPV and men
The 2 main factors influencing the risk of genital HPV infection in men are circumcision and the number of sexual partners. Men who are circumcised (have had the foreskin of the penis removed) have a lower chance of becoming and staying infected with HPV.
Men who have not been circumcised are more likely to be infected with HPV and pass it on to their partners. The reasons for this are unclear. It may be that the skin on the glans of the penis goes through changes that make it more resistant to HPV infection. Another theory is that the surface of the foreskin (which is removed by circumcision) is more easily infected by HPV. Still, circumcision does not completely protect against HPV infection – men who are circumcised can still get HPV and pass it on to their partners.
The risk of a man being infected with HPV is also strongly linked to having many sexual partners over a man’s lifetime.
Condoms and HPV
Condoms (“rubbers”) provide some protection against HPV. One study found that when condoms are used correctly every time sex occurs, they can lower the HPV infection rate by about 70%. Condoms cannot protect completely because they don’t cover every possible HPV-infected area of the body, such as skin on the genital or anal area. Still, condoms do provide some protection against HPV, and they also protect against HIV and some other sexually transmitted diseases. Condoms (when used by the male partner) also seem to help genital HPV infections clear (go away) faster in both women and men.
Get vaccinated
Vaccines are available that protect against certain HPV infections. All of them protect against infection with HPV subtypes 16 and 18. Some can also protect against infections with other HPV subtypes, including some types that cause anal and genital warts.
These vaccines can only be used to prevent HPV infection – they do not help treat an existing infection. To be most effective, the vaccines should be given before a person is exposed to HPV (such as through sexual activity).
Some of these vaccines, Gardasil® and Gardasil 9®, are approved to help prevent vaginal cancers and pre-cancers. They are also approved to help prevent others cancers, as well as anal and genital warts.
Cervarix®, another HPV vaccine available in the US, also helps prevent some HPV infections. It is known to help prevent cervical cancers and pre-cancers, but so far hasn’t been shown to help prevent vaginal cancer or pre-cancer
Don’t smoke
Not smoking is another way to lower vaginal cancer risk. Women who don’t smoke are also less likely to develop a number of other cancers, such as those of the lungs, mouth, throat, bladder, kidneys, and several other organs.
Find and treat pre-cancerous conditions
Most vaginal squamous cell cancers are believed to start out as pre-cancerous changes, called vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia or VAIN. VAIN may be present for years before turning into a true (invasive) cancer. Screening for cervical cancer (such as with a Pap test or HPV test) can sometimes pick up these pre-cancers. If a pre-cancer is found, it can be treated, stopping cancer before it really starts.
Still, since vaginal cancer and VAIN are rare, doctors do not often do other tests to look for these conditions in women who do not have symptoms or a history of pre-cancer or cancer of the cervix, vagina, or vulva.
How Pap tests and pelvic examinations are done
First, the skin of the outer vaginal lips (labia majora) and inner lips (labia minora) is examined for any visible abnormalities. The health care professional first places a speculum inside the vagina. A speculum is a metal or plastic instrument that keeps the vagina open so that the cervix can be seen clearly. Next, using a small spatula, a sample of cells and mucus is lightly scraped from the exocervix (the surface of the cervix that is closest to the vagina). A small brush or a cotton-tipped swab is then inserted into the cervical opening to take a sample from the endocervix (the inside part of the cervix that is closest to the body of the uterus).Then, the speculum is removed.
The doctor then checks the organs of the pelvis by inserting 1 or 2 gloved fingers of one hand into the vagina while feeling (palpating) the lower abdomen, just above the pubic bone, with the other. The doctor may do a rectal exam at this time also. It’s very important to know that a Pap test is not always done when a pelvic exam is done, so if you are uncertain you should ask if one was done.
Vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia (VAIN; pre-cancer of the vagina) may not be visible during a routine exam of the vagina. But it may be found with a Pap test. Because cervical cancer is much more common than vaginal cancer, Pap test samples are scraped or brushed from the cervix. However, some cells of the vaginal lining are usually also picked up at the same time. That allows cases of VAIN to be found in women whose vaginal lining is not intentionally scraped. Still, the main goal of a Pap test is to find cervical pre-cancers and early cervical cancers, not vaginal cancer or VAIN. That’s why women who have had a total hysterectomy (removal of the uterus and cervix) stop getting Pap tests, unless the hysterectomy was done as a treatment for cervical pre-cancer (or cancer).
In women whose cervix has been removed by surgery to treat cervical cancer or pre-cancer, Pap test samples may be taken from the lining of the upper vagina to look for cervical cancer (that has come back), and to look for early vaginal cancer or VAIN. Vaginal cancer and VAIN are more common in women who have had cervical cancer or pre-cancer.
Many women with VAIN may also have a pre-cancer of the cervix (known as cervicalintraepithelial neoplasia or CIN). If abnormal cells are seen on a Pap test, the next step is a procedure called colposcopy, in which the cervix, the vagina, and at times the vulva are examined with a special instrument called a colposcope. | {
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Addiction and the Entertainment Industry: Breaking the Chains That Bind
On screens big and small, addiction as story plot is hot. Just this month, on the premiere of ABC's "The Conners," Roseanne Barr's character died of an accidental prescription overdose. The episode, with not one flinch, explored the issue of opioid dependency and misuse, a national crisis that is killing more than 115 people a day.
Meanwhile, the new Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga remake of "A Star is Born" (which as of October 29, 2018, has raked in more than $253 million worldwide) details in heartbreaking fashion the massive toll booze and pills take on the career, relationships and life of Cooper's character.
Gaga is glorious, and Cooper ain't bad to look at, but does the movie get it right? Paul Pellinger, chief strategy officer for addiction treatment center Recovery Unplugged, hasn't seen the film yet but says he appreciates the way modern, more sensitive portrayals of those afflicted with alcohol and drug dependency are changing "the negative stigma that was attached to addiction. I like that people are now aware that an addict isn't somebody on the street with track marks and a brown paper bag and a red nose. Those are three percent of the addicts and alcoholics in this world — the other 97 percent are people like me and you. So, I would say that we've certainly come a long way when it comes to the perception of addiction."
While it remains to be seen whether the sympathetic spotlight the entertainment industry is shining on the issue of addiction will usher more people into treatment, those that make it through Recovery Unplugged's doors will find a center like no other. This is in no small part owing to the work of legendary singer-songwriter Richie Supa, who has helped Pellinger devise a program rooted in the power of music to, as Supa explains, "break down fences."
"If asked to name a song they love, 99.9 percent of the people on this planet can, right away," Supa continues. "Why? They identify with the melody or the lyrics or a combination of the two. So when you write songs about addiction, and you tell the truth, it draws in addicts and alcoholics and begins a dialogue. The healing begins when you can open them up and they start to share. A lot of people come into treatment broken, ashamed and angry. The last thing they want is someone shaking their finger at them saying, 'Now I want to tell you what you're doing to your life because you're drinking and doing cocaine.'"
It Takes One to Know One
Richie Supa (l) and Steven Tyler (r). (Source:Recovery Unplugged)
Supa, Recovery Unlimited's director of creative recovery, ought to know. On October 18, he celebrated three decades clean, a significant achievement for any addict, let alone one with a storied career in rock-n-roll.
According to Supa, who co-wrote Aerosmith's "Amazing," a song about addiction, with his friend Steven Tyler, as well as songs recorded by Ozzy Osbourne, Pink and Willie Nelson, "There are a lot of drugs in the music industry, and I don't think anything is going to change anytime soon. I find it frustrating, but I was young once, too, and I was having fun... we all start doing drugs and having fun, and then drugs start doing you, and that's what happens."
Supa's role at Recovery Unplugged gives him the opportunity to lead two or three group sessions a week at the center's Fort Lauderdale location. Clients listen to music, sometimes analyzing songs about addiction and discussing how the lyrics relate to them, other times just dancing and singing with Supa and his band, joyfully connecting with each other through the glorious noise.
The success of "Feel Good Fridays," as the latter session has been dubbed, is just one reason Pellinger believes Supa "to be as good, if not better, than any clinician that I've ever known. He just has this magical way of connecting with clients through music. I think it was Steven Tyler who once told me that we were exposed to music in our mother's womb, through the heartbeat. So there's really no defenses against it."
Jill Gleeson is a travel and adventure journalist based in the Appalachians of Central Pennsylvania. Find her on Facebook and Twitter at @gopinkboots.
In this edition of Ask a Doc, sexual health expert and physician in residence at Roman Health Dr. Michael Reitano shines the spotlight on how sexual health studies handle erectile dysfunction in same sex relationships-emphasis on relationships. | {
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The community of Nyakapela B, Zambia, was home to 25 families. Although it was a small community, they did have a local health clinic to provide for the residents’ medical needs and a local church to address the spiritual needs of the community. One essential item that the community was lacking was safe water. The existing well in Nyakapela B had fallen into disrepair, and residents had resorted to using a local stream for their water needs. Particularly in the humid, subtropical climate of Zambia, water was a requirement, and the community needed a lot of water to stay hydrated, as well as to provide for their other needs: cooking, bathing, washing, and cleaning. Unfortunately, the stream they relied on did not provide sufficient water for the families of Nyakapela B, and the water it did provide was contaminated. Cholera, dysentery, malaria, and respiratory infections were frequent, unwanted guests; and the residents were all too familiar with the debilitating side effects of these water-related illnesses. They were forced to stay home, struggling to combat the sicknesses; and without a safe water source to treat the illness or to help them rehydrate, it seemed they would never be able to truly thrive.
The community members knew that they did not have the knowledge, tools, or funds needed to repair their existing well or to drill a new one. However, the optimistic and persistent residents refused to give up. They learned of the work Living Water International was doing in other communities like theirs—rehabilitating wells and providing safe water. They wrote a letter, pleading for assistance and a solution to their water crisis. The community was overwhelmed and overjoyed to learn that, not only would the Living Water field team come to Nyakapela B to repair their well but also the costs for the project had been generously covered by Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood. The residents began to hope for a brighter future and for a day when safe water would again flow freely in their community.
Alis Mpande, a 54-year-old resident who makes her living by farming, shares that she is happy since she can drink safe water from the well again.
With smiling faces, the residents come to pump water from the well.
The Living Water field team arrived in Nyakapela B with the necessary tools and equipment to rehabilitate their existing well. The residents greeted the team warmly and offered their assistance, providing additional labor for the project and any locally available materials that the team might need. The field team immediately set to work repairing the well from the bottom up. They replaced or repaired the broken pieces: the chain, cylinder, rising main-drop pipe, pump reservoir, pump rod-sucker rods, pump handle, and pump head. After the work was completed, the residents were filled with joy as they watched safe water gushing from the hand pump. It finally looked like the days of sickness and thirst were behind the residents of Nyakapela B.
Whenever a community has been without a safe water source, it is imperative to provide, not just safe water but also the knowledge and skills of how to use the safe water and keep the pump working smoothly. The Living Water field team conducted hygiene and sanitation training to provide the residents with this information in practical, hands-on sessions. The community members learned about germs, disease transmission, proper handwashing techniques, latrine perception, and proper use of the pump. The team also incorporated the spiritual message of Jesus cleansing us from sin just as safe water can clean our hands from germs and diseases. The residents appreciated the lessons, and the team will follow up to ensure necessary, practical steps are being taken to incorporate these new practices into the hygiene and sanitation climate of the community.
The newly rehabilitated well is ready for the community to use.
The most important thing the field team could communicate to the residents of Nyakapela B was the message of the gospel. The Living Water team worked with Power of God Church and Pastor Daniel Mwanza to ensure the residents had the opportunity to hear God’s Word and learn about God’s plan for their lives. The team desired for the residents to have access to safe water but also for the community to learn of the living water that Jesus provides, which can quench spiritual thirst and provide eternal life. At the well dedication ceremony, the team shared the story of “The Blind Beggar” from Luke 18 and encouraged the residents to have faith like the blind man who called out to Jesus and received his sight.
Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood, thank you for desiring to impact the thirsty of Zambia by providing them with a safe water source and ensuring that God’s Word and love was shared as well. Through your love and generosity, the 25 families of Nyakapela B have safe water flowing in their community and their lives have been changed, both temporally and eternally. Thank you, Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood, for providing water, for life, in Jesus’ name! | {
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Speeding bullets are of little concern to superheroes like Superman and Wonder Woman. But for mere mortals who lack chests of steel and magic bracelets, metal projectiles can be crippling, if not deadly. And in the business world, these bullets don”‘t even have to be real to cause real harm. | {
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CAIR-Chicago at Harold Washington Public Library for “One Book, One Chicago” Discussion
October 16, 2007
CAIR-Chicago participated in a panel discussion with other community activists to explore how an iconic 20th century play exposes alarming historical parallels between citizens targeted for witch hunts during the colonial period, alleged communists accused of treason during the McCarthy era, and Muslims and Arabs targeted in the current War on Terror.
The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is the most recent selection of the city-wide “One Book, One Chicago,” program. Miller’s play explores the fear created by the infamous witch hunts in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts. The play was inspired by the events of the Red Scare in the 1950s which led to many public figures being accused of being Communists, including Miller.
The panel discussed the similarities between other groups who have been targets of suspicion. One such group was the Japanese Americans. Despite never being charged with any crime, they were placed in internment camps following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The government failed to officially acknowledge the internment until over 50 years after World War II.
Muslim and Arab communities have been similarly singled out as targets of suspicion following the tragic attacks of September 11, 2001.
The panelists discussed how fear allows recurring episodes of discrimination, prevents lessons from being learned, and allows the repetition of shameful actions on the part of the American government.
The panel included CAIR-Chicago’s Executive Director Ahmed Rehab; Jean Fujiu, Executive Director of the Japanese American Service Committee; and C.C. Carter, Director of community and Cultural Programming at The Center on Halsted. Martha Lavey, the Artistic Director at Steppenwolf, moderated the panel and led the Q&A session. The event was also accompanied by Steppenwolf Ensemble members James Meredith, Sally Murphy and Alana Arenas who performed readings of the selected book. Also in attendance were CAIR-Chicago’s Outreach Coordinator Gerald Hankerson, CAIR-Chicago's Board Secretary Yaser Tabbara, and a community audience. | {
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49ers lose backup OL Shon Coleman to serious leg injury
San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Shon Coleman, center left, is helped onto a cart during the first half of the team's NFL preseason football game against the Dallas Cowboys in Santa Clara, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Josie Lepe)
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers tackle Shon Coleman will be placed on season-ending injury reserve with a serious injury to his right leg suffered in the exhibition opener.
Coleman had surgery Sunday for a broken fibula and dislocated ankle suffered in the first quarter of Saturday night's 17-9 victory over the Dallas Cowboys. Coach Kyle Shahanan said Coleman will be placed on injured reserve Monday and the team plans to bring in tackles to work out to fill his spot on the roster.
The Niners lost three other players to injuries in the game with linebacker Elijah Lee expected to miss two weeks after undergoing surgery Sunday on his thumb, defensive tackle D.J. Jones week to week with a sprained knee and running back Raheem Mostert in concussion protocol.
The most serious injury came to Coleman on San Francisco's opening drive of the exhibition season when teammate Najee Toran fell into his leg on a running play. His leg was placed on an air cast on the field and Coleman was taken off on a cart.
Coleman was projected to be the backup swing tackle to starters Joe Staley and Mike McGlinchey, leaving a void at that spot going forward.
The Niners rested their entire projected starting line on Saturday. Sixth-round rookie Justin Skule struggled at times at right tackle and Willie Beavers was overmatched after stepping in for Coleman at left tackle. Beavers was called for three holding penalties in the game. Christian DiLauro also got playing time and was called for a false start and hold as San Francisco was penalized 18 times for 216 yards.
"You have to play better," Shanahan said. "Guys sometimes hold when they get beat. When you get beat, you can't hold. You have to let it go so you don't lose 10 yards. Sometimes you have to get into better position so you aren't beat and you don't have to hold."
Coleman was a third-round pick by Cleveland in 2017 and was acquired in a trade last summer by San Francisco. He spent the entire season on the 53-man roster but was inactive every game.
In other injury news, Shanahan said safety Jimmie Ward will have X-rays this week to determine whether he's ready to be activated from the physically unable to perform list after breaking his collarbone during the offseason program. | {
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It has gotten so bad statewide the state Board of Education was forced to lower the "passing" mark for the writing test because so many kids flunked it. That would be the first hint that FCAT is meaningless.
But get ready — a new test is coming. It's called PERT, the Postsecondary Education Readiness Test, which is going to be required of most juniors and seniors. Like FCAT, this test is given just in Florida. Stand by. It's bound to be as useless as FCAT.
Here's a sample of what readers had to say about FCAT:
Students are sick of taking tests and teachers are sick of it, as are parents and even some administrators. The only people who seem to think these tests are a great idea are those who do not have to take them and are not held accountable.
One of the biggest issues I have with the climate of education in Florida is: What are we educating our students to become? Certainly not good citizens who understand participation in democracy. We aren't teaching creativity or critical thinking, two qualities that have allowed America to excel in world markets.
Oh, no! We will have great test-takers! Whoohooo! That's going to help my middle-school students as future citizens and productive members of society.
Is this a ploy by legislators to get votes? After all, election ballots are one of the only multiple-choice tests anyone takes once they are out of school.
Linda Edlund
Clermont
Although the FCAT may not reflect the true ability of a child to read and comprehend at a certain level, this is at least some accountability until the system plans and implements a better way for assessment.
My daughter-in-law is an educator in Palm Beach County at the high-school level. Her opinion — and that of many other teachers — is that holding a child back in the third grade until he or she can reach that level of reading and comprehension is imperative to the child's ability to learn throughout his life, not just while in school.
As a business owner for many years, I found an amazing number of people who have high-school diplomas but are functionally illiterate.
Unless the system forces children to learn to read earlier than the fourth grade, they will continue to be pushed through the system and will be limited all during their lives.
Kenneth Mack
Leesburg
I was a middle-school teacher for four years and a counselor for nearly 28 years in Orange County. I have been retired since January 1998, but testing was even overdone back then, and I was coordinator of testing at my school.
It was a task that wasted two weeks of my time between dealing with organizing testing rooms, orienting teachers, preparing and distributing testing materials and forms and returning them to be scored. It was a nightmare and a distraction from learning.
The testing has become even more complex, with different grades being tested, some on paper and some on computers. The students stay in their testing room all day so as not to disturb other grades, leaving only for lunch and recreation outside if the teacher elects to do that. And volunteer proctors are required, in addition to teachers.
Most of the school year revolves around preparing to take these tests, and the testing business has, of course, boomed in Florida and elsewhere as the states pay a fortune to private testing companies that compose the tests and grade them. There is considerable competition to get those extremely lucrative contracts, and the taxpayers foot the bill.
The sad part is that often-bright students who have high academic averages in high-level classes sometimes cannot pass the FCATs — probably an indication that the FCATs are confusing and not valid. Still, those same students go on to make acceptable scores on the SAT or ACT that can be used in place of FCATs for graduation.
Education should exist to help students grow up to live a better life, not to enrich testing companies or for politicians to try to make political hay. The money being thrown at these tests that really do almost nothing to benefit students and do disrupt actual education could be much better spent. | {
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Again, I have a problem with the expression "blind" till I hear more from
you.
But I think the important piece of information the client gets from the
Redirect-Ref header is that the resource understands the
Apply-To-Redirect-Ref header. So that's why it makes sense to return
Redirect-Ref header with the 302, but not with a response to a request that
was already using Apply-To-Redirect-Ref. So perhaps you would be happier if
we just say this.
--Judy
-----Original Message-----
From: Yaron Goland [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 2:50 AM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: Yaron.Redirect.BlindRedirect
The second sentence of the last paragraph of section 6.3 reads: "The
Redirect-Ref header informs a reference-aware client that this is not an
ordinary HTTP 1.1 redirect, but is a redirect reference resource. "
If the purpose of the Redirect-Ref header was solely to inform the client
that they were dealing with a redirect resource then the header would be
returned on all responses from a redirect resource, even those with a
Apply-To-Redirect-Ref header.
However the purpose of the Redirect-Ref header is to let redirect aware
clients determine that they are dealing with a blindly generated 302. As
such I move that the sentence be changed to state: "The Redirect-Ref header
informs a redirect aware client that they have received a blind 302 response
from a redirect resource."
Similarly the main paragraph of section 11.1 currently reads: "The
Redirect-Ref header is used in all 302 responses from redirect resources.
Its presence informs reference-aware clients that the response is not a
plain HTTP/1.1 redirect, but is a response from a redirect reference
resource."
I move that it be re-written to read: "The Redirect-Ref header is used to
mark blind 302 responses from redirect resources." | {
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“I know the whole House will want to join me in marking Holocaust Memorial Day. It is right our whole country should stand together to remember the darkest hour of humanity. Last year, on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, I said we would build a striking national memorial in London to show the importance Britain places on preserving the memory of the Holocaust. Today I can tell the House this memorial will be built in Victoria Tower Gardens. It will stand beside Parliament as a permanent statement of our values as a nation and will be something for our children to visit for generations to come.”
British Prime Minister, David Cameron, 27 January 2016
So began Prime Minister’s Question Time on Holocaust Memorial Day 2016 in the British Parliament. Later, in response to the Leader of the Opposition’s questions, Cameron rejoindered that, far from standing up for ‘the British people and hard-working taxpayers’, Jeremy Corbyn ‘met with a bunch of migrants in Calais [and] said they could all come to Britain.’ Many were quick to point out the cruel irony of his dismissive statement moments after his commitment to ensure the memory of the Holocaust never be forgotten. As Joseph Harker pointed out in The Guardian, ‘one couldn’t help but wonder whether, if Cameron had been around in the 1930s, he would have laughed about “a bunch of Jews”.’
Important as it is to draw these comparisons, the story of Cameron and the Danish government’s supposed hypocrisy only partially explains where current European responses to the hysterically named “migrant crisis” sit in relation to the European history of race.
In fact, a large part of the problem in interpreting and proposing solutions to the persistence of racism can be located in the problematic of comparison itself. One of the most dogged problems facing students of race and racism is one of definition. Racism is correctly viewed as an historical phenomenon (although the impact of psychology has led to its facile identification as a perennial facet of human behaviour). However, the tendency to historicise race and racism is often accompanied by a partial reading of that history. This is particularly the case in Europe where the dominant focus has been on a version of the history of race that, as Barnor Hesse has pointed out, begins in the 18th century with the advent of racial pseudo-science, and ends with the culmination of the Second World War.
World War II is thus retold as a fight primarily against racism and fascism. I have written extensively about the efforts to expunge race following 1945 as an outdated and discredited concept, making way for ideas about difference, such as culture and ethnicity, that rejected the naturalised inevitability of race as genetics. What this undigested rejection of race left Europe with, politically, was the tendency to seek to define race and racism according to a singular, teleological process that ignored their rather more messy trajectories. In other words, the longer history of race as a political project, beginning with the invasion of the Americas through the spread of European colonialism, the expropriation of lands and resources and the genocides of indigenous peoples, the institution of slavery and later indentured servitude, became severed from the telling of the story of race, leaving just the specific moment of Nazism. Even in relation to the Nazi Holocaust itself, it is far from orthodox to point out the colonial antecedents of the concentration and death camps as instituted by the Germans in, for example, Namibia, not to mention their use by the British during the Boer war, or the very similar treatment of Aboriginals in what was to become Australia.
As I argued here, racism becomes ‘frozen’ in relation to past events that have been sanctioned for identification as racist. In part this is to do with the problematic genealogy of the term ‘racism’ itself, first coined to describe the spread of fascistic ideas by Eurocentric early opponents of fascism in the 1930s. As Hesse argues, these defenders of European democracy against fascism were not as concerned with the co-temporality of colonial rule in most of the world. In Australia, which fought on the side of the Allies to defeat Hitler, Aboriginal people were considered flora and fauna until a change in the constitution as late as 1967. This inconsistency did not affect the liberal European orientation that gave rise to the concept of racism.
Hesse’s conclusion is that when racism, devised Eurocentrically, is applied to the call for equality and justice for colonised people or, for example, Black people in the USA, it is doomed to fail for it was not originally conceived to encapsulate their experiences and agitate for their full autonomy. Be that as it may, and there are good arguments with hindsight that bear this observation out, the problem of fixing the definition of race, and consequently racism, must be scrutinised.
In part, the problem is methodological. As David Goldberg shows in his chapter in Karim Murji and John Solomos’ edited volume, Theories of Race and Ethnicity, most studies that seek to examine racism beyond the confines of one society,
‘have tended to draw together almost exclusively those states considered to exhibit the most extreme and extremely different modes of state racism. These dominant examples of compared racisms are taken either to indicate that their differences are not as extreme as first thought or to reveal that, at least tentatively, there are a limited number of models for state-based racisms.’
He concludes that in contrast to this potentially reductive and comparativist frame, what is needed to fully conceptualise ‘racial conception and racist practice’ is a relational and interactive framework. This would reveal both their local specificities and their ‘trans-territorial conceptions and expressions’. In other words, it is not that there is a confined number of prototypes that explain racial structures and racist expression that can be compared among them with the consequence that any racialising process or racist practice that does not measure up to these exemplars becomes ‘not racism’. Rather, to quote Goldberg again, ‘terms circulate, practices are shaped and fail, only to be taken up and refined in environments that prove to be more conducive to their articulation’. Race, as John Solomos and Les Back have argued, is a scavenger idea that feeds off seeds sown in one location, pollinating them in a sometimes entirely different context. It may not always be clear to us how and why that process took place; tracing the relational aspects that Goldberg talks about requires an intimate knowledge of the mechanisms through which race is not only reproduced but mutates, shaping itself to the context and time.
Gavan Titley and I pointed this out in our 2011 book, The Crises of Multiculturalism, when we described how the idea of multicultural failure becomes a ‘recited truth’ that is translated between societies with vastly different migration histories, ideological standpoints, and policy approaches.
Thus, the direct – and correct – comparison of David Cameron’s pronouncements on a ‘bunch of migrants’ and the Danish government’s new policy on asylum seekers’ valuables with the Holocaust – the racial exemplar par excellence – may obscure more than it reveals. The first thing that struck me on reading these twin developments in the rapidly deteriorating state of European asylum politics was their predictability. As Joseph Harker reminds us, Cameron has form having already described asylum seekers as ‘swarms’ and barely raising the asylum seeker intake in the wake of Aylan Kurdi’s horrible death. But the Danish decision to seize their assets seemed to be of a different order, beyond words. In reality, however, Germany and Switzerland have already instituted similar policies.
Coverage of jewel issue took all the attention away from the more serious parts of the bill. The most draconian one is a three-year waiting period to apply for family reunification. Even the Danish state’s own Institute of Human Rights says this is a direct breach of article 8 of the European convention on human rights.
The reason why the ‘jewel issue’ shocked was not because the expropriation of valuables (resources) of the majority of the world by Europeans hasn’t been central to the race project since its inception, but because it reminded us of the macabre-ness of Jewish gold fillings. What ‘frozen’ racism has done so successfully is to encapsulate race in its spectacularity while playing down, not only its banality (it has become commonplace to talk about racism as ‘everyday’), but also its more intangible and complex machinations, which have become more or less obscured.
So much of what is needed to understand the operations of race in its entirety can be found in dry, bureaucratic documents such as those so well described by Ann Stoler in her writing on Dutch and French colonialism in Race and the Education of Desire (for an excellent account of Stoler’s approach listen to this interview on the Archipelago podcast). These descriptions of the minutiae that govern the possibilities of colonised populations are mirrored in policies such as that recently enacted by the Danish government, only a small part of which pertained to asylum seekers’ valuables. The three-year waiting period to apply for family reunification for example can be re-written as commonsensical from the perspective that can only see migration as a drain on resources understood as properly and exclusively ‘national’ (the most common defence of the Danish asylum policy is that the gold standard Danish social welfare system must be preserved for Danish citizens). However, it is important to understand race as having the function, not only of condemning other human beings to a life separated from their family for example, but as placing more or less arbitrarily designated non-white, non-European, non-Christian populations (yesterday Jews, today Syrians) in the position of ‘being done to’, and not as agents of their autonomous will.
The way in which that is achieved is through the connection of racialised discourse – crime and terrorism, economic drain, cultural incompatibility – to banalised bureaucratisation. As Sanmati Verma et al point out, a good example is the ‘Code of Behaviour‘ for asylum seekers living in the “Australian community” on so-called “bridging” temporary protection visas. They are threatened with return to detention centres should they violate the code, much of which pertains to the intangible perception of anti-social behaviour, from the most ordinary (spitting, bad language) to the more disruptive, including protest. This potentially leaves the arbitration of the fate of temporarily protected asylum seekers (who in any case have not been offered refugee status and permanent settlement) to any individual who deems them to have breached the code and reports them to the Australian Border Force. Even if this may not eventuate (although regular ‘compliance’ operations are undertaken by the Force), it leaves the affected group living under constant threat of a sudden and permanent change to their circumstances and an end to their freedom, however circumscribed and temporary.
Taking on board Goldberg’s insistence on the adaptive and relational dimensions of race, ‘competencies’ can be understood to be widely definable, with multiple – often contradictory – interpretations coexisting with each other. For example, in the week running up to David Cameron’s pronouncements on Holocaust Memorial Day, he was widely lambasted for insisting that Muslim women in the UK be forced to learn English in an effort to curb what he called their ‘traditionally submissive’ tendency not to condemn radicalisation. This unleashed a satisfactory counter-attack on social media by multilingual, highly competent Muslim women under the hashtag #traditionallysubmissive. Nevertheless, the coexistence of Cameron’s desire to free Muslim women through education with his attack on migrants as seeking to destroy the ‘British way of life’ – thus ascribing to them both ignorance and cunning – is not immaterial (perhaps the real comparison with Nazism, which also portrayed Jews as both all-powerful and as racially degenerate, is here).
The point is that it does not matter because race has been, and continues to be, about the delineation of proximity and distance and the ever-changing parameters of where one fits in. What defines cultural compatibility? Where are the boundaries of ‘national values’ drawn? And what measures are used to assess the individual according to them? Who arbitrates? What arguments are used to legitimate applying these measures? Who, beyond the bureaucrats, even knows about the myriad constraints on those non-citizens in limbo outside of an ‘event’ such as #traditionallysubmissive or ‘the jewel issue’? It is relevant here to consider how the issue of detention was brought home when a US-American PhD student was put in a detention centre after being refused leave to remain in the UK.
Indeed, the multiplicity, intangibility and seeming arbitrariness of these judgments of ‘competence’ or ‘compatibility’ play into the distance that is put between the purportedly ‘real’ – frozen – racism of the past, and the commonsense approaches to the ‘management’ of migration flows and the assurance of integration today. With the supposedly post-racial hindsight afforded by a partial reading of the history of racism that freezes it in narrowly defined regimes, events, and practices, the messiness and complexity of race as it appears to us today is easily dismissed as ‘not racist’. In essence, the success with which racism has been hegemonically defined from a white standpoint, not only denies experience as key to the subjective definition of racism (as has long been pointed out by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour), but refuses to get ‘bogged down’ in the detail of race in practice.
The operations of race can be found in the contradictions, between the lines, in the ironical, hypocritical and paradoxical statements, and so on. Because it is the apparent confusion that is created that permits racial rule to persist. It is precisely because this lack of clarity breeds confusion and misunderstanding that there is hesitation in defining something as racist. It is this lack of clarity too that allows purportedly ‘anti-white racism’ to take ascendance as an idea, deracinated as it is from any understanding of history.
If we seek to understand the functioning of race at a time that is deemed post-racial, it is imperative to understand that it is indeed this that keeps race alive: a defining feature of race post-race is the perfecting of racism’s deniability. The violence of race is not only in the materiality of its effects, but in the denial of its presence as an arbitrating factor in decisions about human life. | {
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An array of critical flow venturis (CFVs) was installed in a blow-down facility and used to calibrate a large (i.e., D = 89.5 cm) 8 path ultrasonic flow meter (USM) at atmospheric pressure. The calibration was performed in dry air over a flow range from 2 kg/s to 36 kg/s. At the largest flows, pressure transients associated with the blow-down system resulted in quasi-steady flow conditions. The quasi-steady conditions were measured using a high speed data acquisition system that scanned 66 instruments (i.e., pressure and temperature sensors) every 1.8 s. Corrections were made for thermal lag of the RTD temperature sensors, and for mass storage effects in the 230.3 m3 connecting volume between the CFV array and the USM. This paper presents the results of the calibration and the corresponding uncertainty analysis. | {
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In the hopes of promoting the next heavyweight champion, Oscar De La Hoya is confident that undefeated Deontay Wilder will face WBC titlist Bermane Stiverne under the auspices of Golden Boy Promotions.
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer said he has not heard back from Mick Hennessy since the English promoter called him about a potential clash of unbeatens between heavyweights Tyson Fury, whom Hennessy promotes, and Deontay Wilder, who is handled by Schaefer.
The WBO middleweight title bout between unbeaten beltholder Peter Quillin and Gabriel Rosado was officially added as the co-feature to the Bernard Hopkins-Karo Murat fight on Oct. 26 in Atlantic City, N.J. Rosado is undefeated in New Jersey.
Heavyweight KO artist Deontay Wilder, who has been added to the Oct. 26 Bernard Hopkins-Karo Murat card, believes David Haye will defeat Tyson Fury on Feb. 8, and that he will be fighting for a major title during the early months of next year.
2008 Olympic bronze medalist Deontay Wilder is 26-0 with 26 KOs: “I just need to continue to work hard and continue to show up and do what I’m doing, which is knocking guys out. For me, you know, it’s knocking everybody out.” | {
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Hey Argon,I know I am in the minority on this, but I am a huge TRON fan. I appreciate the original for what it was given the time of it's release - way ahead of its time. I also like TRON Legacy both as an AV show piece and I really just plain enjoyed the movie and the story and the extras on the Blu-Ray disc. Hope you enjoy with or without medication!
Dan, I am a TRON fan from way back too. I have not seen the movie in years and it was very entertaining to me last night even if my wife kept poking fun. I was especially impressed with the Desk screen where our antagonist was typing on the screen and not a keyboard. There were also multiple windows showing at one point. Way ahead of its time......Rob
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I saw that whale movie "Big Miracle", the one with Drew BoreMeMore the other day...kind of seemed like an extended, after school movie or a made-for-tv Disney movie. Not terrible, entertaining to a point but nothing special either.
Also watched "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" recently. Lots of holes and lack of continuity in this one, too many characters many of which had little or nothing to do with the story.
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We watched Lion King 3D last night and king fu panda 2 3D tonight. First movies we have watched in 3D on the new TV. Pretty impressive actually, and not as Gimmicky as I thought it would be. I think I can get into this 3D thing on occassion.
I re-watched Kissing a Fool and Dodgeball last night when my friend from Spokane visited. It had been a while since I'd seen either. They both still make me laugh. Mili Avital from Kissing a Fool has a great face, so I should look up more stuff she's been in. I think the only other thing I saw her in was Stargate, which I really didn't like.
Picked up the BR copy of Real Steel last night (found it for cheap finally - $12). I sampled a few scenes today just for fun until I can sit down and watch the whole thing again with the family. Wow, who knew robot fighting could sound so real? Great bass, great clarity, serious thunk of metal on metal and immersive surround field. The DTS-HD 7.1 mix is a winner.
Just an FYI if you're looking to find some new demo material for your system. Cheers,
I watched Real Steel a couple of nights ago as well. I got it pretty much for the touted audio effects but once again I was surprised by a 'fighting movie' that actually had a good story line. Not as good as Warrior but very watchable.
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PQI U510 Ultra Slim Card Drive 1GB review
Finally - elegant storage that slips into your wallet
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Our Verdict
The wafer-thin U510 works well - it's a desirable piece of portable storage
For
Slim build
Lightweight
Elegant design
Inexpensive
Brushed metal finish
Against
Too delicate for some people's tastes
Look at the photo of the PQI U510 - doesn't it look appealing? You can't help but be drawn to a stylish- looking drive that's the size of a credit card, weighs only 23g and is available in sizes of 1GB (£27), 2GB (£46), 4GB (£84) and 8GB (£129). We've seen one or two companies try and make card drives over the years, but nothing with a capacity this large or this build quality.
The U510's brushed metal finish looks tailor-made for a PowerBook or MacBook Pro, which is a good start.
The drive case is the same shape and size as the average credit card, and if that wasn't thin enough, there's an even thinner USB dongle that tucks away into the drive, and then extends out on a wafer-thin cable strap to meet a computer port. It's a dongle without any of the plastic housing, just the naked coupling. When it's docked, a blue light then shines from the strap to indicate that you're connected.
We transferred a bunch of 150MB files to and from the U510 drive with no problem at all. It's not the fastest drive we've seen, but it's certainly respectable. Speed isn't really an issue for this type of storage. If you were to line up 20 1GB drives at this price and time their transfer rates, you would be splitting hairs to find a winner.
Because of its delicate dongle and thin, wispy strap, it feels a bit like you're treading on eggshells whenever you dock it. We worried about whether the strap was going to take the weight of the drive as it hangs from a port. This is particularly a concern on the vertical USB port of an iMac, but less so with the horizontal ports of a Mac laptop where the drive can rest its weight on the desk.
Build quality
Previous card drives we've seen tend to suffer from two key problems when it comes to build. Firstly, and more of an issue for guys than girls: if the casing isn't hard enough, the unit will buckle and bend in your wallet the first time you forget it's in there and sit on it.
Secondly, the USB connectors can snap off. During two weeks of regular use we had no problems - helped by the fact that we didn't take it to the pub with us - but you can't chuck it about like a 1GB pen drive.
The backup software that comes with the U510 isn't Mac- compatible, but insists on letting you know it's there each time you dock it. Just click 'Ignore' in the OS X pop-up warning panel, then you can read and write to it with ease.
For the fashion-conscious owner of a brushed metal Mac laptop who's looking for portable storage, the U510 is quite a cool thing to buy. In fact, it's quite cool for anyone to buy. Everyone we showed it to thought it looked pretty smart; it certainly has that wow-factor down to a tee. James Ellerbeck | {
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The sprintf documentation contains details of the formats;
these are not shown in the printf documentation.
So, as it was the sprintf formatting that I was explaining, it seemed appropriate to use sprintf in my example code.
More importantly though, I made a conscious decision to not use printf in my examples. That function has a number of gotchas which aren't specifically related to the actual formatting and which I didn't want to have to explain.
The printf documentation is short: just three paragraphs.
The first gotcha, noted in the very first sentence, has tripped you up!
Here's what happens if I substitute my 'print sprintf' with your ("Why not simply") 'printf':
I find it makes the code easier to read and, when necessary, easier to debug.
There's a clear delineation between the first argument, which affects how the function operates, and the remaining arguments, which specify what the function operates on.
Well, thank you for your answer, Ken, I guess it is probably a matter of personal taste. Perhaps a reminiscence of my C background. However, as far as the gotchas are concerned, if you look at the one-liner in this post I made two days ago Re^2: How to calculate the sum of columns to be equal to 100?, you'll see that I did not fall in any of the two traps you're mentioning: I am using print, not printf, when I don't need specific formatting (it is actually extremely rare that I use printf), and I am adding a new line in the formatting when needed, nothing particularly complicated. As for the use of the fat comma (=>), I found it slightly distracting, I actually had to think a couple of seconds to understand its meaning in this context. But, again, maybe a prejudice due to C reminiscences on my part. | {
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