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Pleasanton commuters advised to brace for BART strike tomorrow
Original post made on Oct 9, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 7:07 AM
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 9, 2013 at 11:44 am
From Chronicle and KCBS columnist Phil Matier today: Overall, BART gets 20,473 job applications annually for an average of 177 job openings. That's about a 1-in-100 chance of being hired. Compare that with Harvard, which accepts 6 percent of applicants. Many in the public who are looking at this latest labor spat are saying to themselves: "What up with that? I'd like that job." Pay, benefits and longevity—guarantees provided by working for BART. Once you're in, you're in.
Even BART's unions will privately admit that this is their toughest sell because the public saw what the wages that their members are earning. People are calling up BART's Board of Directors—the elected officials that represent the Bay Area counties—and telling them: "Look, if they don't they don't want the jobs, I got a kid that wants them so get rid of them and hire somebody else
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 9, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Bart workers shouldn't strike. I bet the union leadership is making them do it. They make too much money. I don't make as much as them. Therefore I'm against them. Only rich people should make more then me. Besides, their unionized and that means their against freedom. Because unions are against freedom. I'd rather me and my family starve than to have a union job. Because unions are bad, really bad.
a resident of Livermore
on Oct 9, 2013 at 2:18 pm
It's my hope that all people involved in this transportation crisis will cross their fingers and hope for the best.
a resident of Livermore
on Oct 9, 2013 at 2:30 pm
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a resident of Livermore
on Oct 9, 2013 at 2:48 pm
If there is indeed a STRIKE, you may see folks from all walks of life on the picket lines. PLEASE BE POLITE. This is no time to be picking on striking workers.
Employees have a legal right to strike so please do your best to accept that reality. Remember, put your best foot forward!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 9, 2013 at 3:47 pm
In case there isn't any doubt, let's be clear. BART workers are really really bad. Their overpaid, their incompenant, and they are sheep that just do whatever their leadership tells them. It's easier to go to Harvard then to get a BART job, so why are they striking? That's the question. Well, I know why. It's because their unionized, and unions are really really bad. Their corrupt because the members only want more money for their spoiled and pampered families. I haven't had a job in almost 6 years. My former bosses always said I had anger issues, but I swear it was them with their socialistic mentalities not me. If I had a job I wouldn't strike.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 9, 2013 at 5:47 pm
Get the ferries ready !!!
a resident of Livermore
on Oct 9, 2013 at 6:07 pm
It's not absolutely certain that there will be a strike.
Please hold your horses.
a resident of Livermore
on Oct 9, 2013 at 6:16 pm
I wonder why the same folks that want the US government to SHUT DOWN are the very ones that want BART to remain operative?
DUH...you may get many of you have been praying for...
tee hee...
a resident of Livermore
on Oct 10, 2013 at 9:25 am
Where is everybody? oh my...
Web Link
I'm ready with my telephone to record the "events" tomorrow.
It seems to me that the trillion dollar "negotiator" did exactly what he intended to do...create a strike. i'm not amused...
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 10, 2013 at 2:21 pm
Libertarian and Ringer (aka mittens, mike cherry, etc.) just recycled the same rants posted here when Walmart was about to open their highly successful neighborhood grocery store. Who's kidding who? Unions are going the way of the dinosaur. Good riddance.
a resident of Livermore
on Oct 10, 2013 at 3:36 pm
"right"...what matters is that members of UNIONS exist RIGHT NOW and they're flexing their muscles!
May they be successful!
I've never known a "dinosaur" so pleeeeese esplain...GRACIAS!
a resident of Livermore
on Oct 11, 2013 at 7:27 pm
"right"...I ain't seen a dinosaur...how old are you?
a resident of Livermore
on Oct 12, 2013 at 3:56 pm
It's somewhat disappointing to see so many middle-class folks rooting against other middle-class folks simply because they don't see anything in it for themselves. I can't help but to wonder how many of these folks also think the pay that some of the BART (and other company) managers recieve is justifiable as they root against people like themselves.
IMO Middle-class wages need to go up and BART is as good a place to start as any.
a resident of Livermore
on Oct 12, 2013 at 5:02 pm
BART management and their cheerleaders are minimally concerned about "money" and clearly confused and angry re:issues of gender, race/ethnicity, and class. They exhibit an aggressive desire to bust the union.
If you believe that union members are not college educated, please submit meaningful hard numbers to prove your position. Many union employees have attended college/university. The distorted fantasies that some pro-management posters have devised to assert their positions are just that...personal distortions. They do not have access to statistically meaningful numbers and have essentially presented positions with an overlay of personal internal anger driven by fantasies related to others perceived as undesirably different.
Union employees are as responsible and capable as any other working Americans when it comes to performing their job related tasks. And, there is no reason to believe that any supporter of BART management is privy to information that proves their distorted comments as more valid than any other comments on this blog.
I ask that you read carefully what pro-management posters are asserting and ask them to prove what they often present as fact. They are entitled to present personal positions/ popular mis-understandings.
a resident of Livermore
on Oct 12, 2013 at 6:05 pm
BART management knows how to play the game of LETS YOU AND THEM FIGHT!
That's why they pit BART communters against union members. It's a sadistic game intended to create rider stress/hostility and public condemnation against the union. Old game, doesn't fly. It makes the news and wins a short lived public relations silliness.
tee hee...
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The Democratic National Committee voted yesterday to strip the so-called super-delegates of their anti-democratic power. This means that in 2020, should Bernie Sanders decide to run for president again, the deck won't again be stacked against him from Day One by constant reports of how many super-delegates, the vast majority of them self-serving party hacks, already have promised to vote at the party convention for an establishmentarian, center-right, Repugnican-Lite, pro-corporate, DINO sellout candidate. (Above: Demonstrators urge the DNC to strip super-delegates of their power at the DNC's summer meeting that just wrapped up in Chicago.)
The best news for the Democratic Party in a long time came yesterday, when the Democratic National Committee overwhelmingly voted to effectively eliminate the power of the so-called super-delegates.
Against the wishes of a minority of dead-ender DNC assholes who had come to savor the fact that their votes for the presidential nominee have counted much, much more than the votes of us mere peasants, the DNC yesterday demonstrated its new-found realization that if the party wants to save itself, it actually needs to be democratic. (Who knew?)
The party is, however, taking baby steps toward reform. "Saturday's vote officially [bars] the super-delegates from voting on the first ballot to choose the party's presidential nominee unless a candidate has secured a majority of the convention using only pledged delegates, whose votes are earned during the primary process," explains CNN. The super-delegates may vote in a second round of voting if no victor emerges with a majority of delegates in the first round, so while their undue influence has been reduced sharply, the petulant, spoiled babies were thrown some pacifier. (The equivalent of super-delegates in the Repugnican Party must vote the way that the people of their respective states voted, so even the Repugnican Party doesn't have an anti-democratic, aristocratic system of super-delegates.)
And while I've written before that presidential caucuses, which are plagued with irregularities (that is, opportunities for cheating), should be dumped altogether and replaced with presidential primary elections, the DNC yesterday also voted to encourage (again, baby steps) states that still hold caucuses to switch to primary elections, and voted to require states that still hold caucuses to allow some form of absentee participation, given that it's forever been unfair that those who for whatever reason cannot get to a caucus have not been able to participate in the democratic process.
The dead-enders within the DNC (all or the vast majority of them Billarybots) probably view these positive reforms as being for the benefit of Bernie Sanders, and while he did push for these reforms, having been the victim of the corrupt, calcified, anti-democratic DNC himself, these reforms are good for the people and are good for democracy — and thus are good for the party.
On that note, McClatchy reported (in an article titled "Loyal Democratic Donors: We're Done with the DNC Until They Get Their Act Together") just a few days ago:
While Democratic donors have eagerly opened their wallets ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, helping Democratic candidates and groups largely outraise their Republican counterparts, one notable exception has stood out: The Democratic National Committee — the party's signature organization — has posted its worst midterm fund raising totals in more than a decade.
The DNC has so far taken in $116 million before the November midterm elections — $9 million less than it had taken in at this point in 2014 and more than $30 million less than it had taken in at this point in 2010, the last two midterm cycles.
By contrast, the Republican National Committee has nearly doubled the DNC's haul this cycle, bringing in a total of $227 million. And of the six major federal committees of both parties, the DNC has by far the most debt ($6.7 million) and the least amount in its bank account ($7.8 million).
After 2016's defeat of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by Donald Trump, many of the group's most consistent donors are putting their money elsewhere. A McClatchy analysis found that more than 200 donors who had given more than $1,000 to the DNC in each of the past two midterm elections have failed to pony up any cash to the DNC this time around, despite continuing to support other Democratic groups and candidates. …
Indeed, many if not most ordinary (that is, non-super-wealthy) Democratic donors now give through the wildly successful Democratic fundraising website ActBlue, where they — we — can decide ourselves to which Democratic candidates to give money and how much.
I have given almost $4,500 in a series of donations over the past several years through ActBlue (my average donation is $13) because, frankly, I don't at all trust the center-right, pro-corporate DNC with my money. (The No. 1 recipient of my donations via ActBlue has been Bernie Sanders, to whom I've given more than $1,000, and Elizabeth Warren is at No. 3, with almost $250. At No. 2 [$275] is Kevin de León, who I hope unseats DINO U.S. Sen. Dianne "Cryptkeeper" Feinstein in November.)
"The [DNC's] poor [fundraising] showing could limit the DNC's ability to provide support, such as direct financial contributions or get-out-the-vote assistance, to candidates and state parties in November. And it puts them at a disadvantage heading into the 2020 presidential cycle where the committee will play an even larger role," notes McClatchy, but, again, Democratic candidates are getting money via ActBlue, which is a much more democratic venue anyway. (ActBlue's home page right now reports that since it began in 2004, it has collected more than $2.5 billion in donations to Democratic candidates and groups.)
With ActBlue, we, the people, decide where to put our money. We can bypass the center-right, pro-corporate, anti-democratic Democratic Party bosses, which is wonderful. And that's how it should work: If avenues are blocked, then we, the people, must create our own, alternate but equally if not even more effective, routes around the obstacles.
For years and years, the DNC weasels took our support, including our money and our votes, for granted. Where else were we commoners going to go? While the DNC continued to rot in order to preserve the undue power of a relatively few weaselly insiders, we, the people, have been doing our own end runs.
Because the DNC and the party establishment as a whole fell asleep at the wheel years ago, we, the people, took over, such as via ActBlue and by supporting progressive (that is, actually Democratic) candidates whether the center-right, Repugnican-Lite party big-wigs wanted us to or not. (Bernie Sanders, of course, is the largest example of that, but there have been many others.)
It has been a long struggle, and it is not over, but we progressives are taking back the Democratic Party, bit by bit. And when — and if — the DNC can be trusted again, its reputation and thus also its fundraising will improve.
In the meantime, yes, it's time to look to the 2020 presidential election cycle.
A Politico/Morning Consult poll reported last week puts Bernie Sanders against Pussygrabber in a hypothetical presidential match-up at 44 percent to 32 percent, so anyone who says that Bernie Sanders can't beat Pussygrabber, as he could have and probably would have in November 2016, is, of course, full of shit; Bernie has a double-digit lead over Pussygrabber in the nationwide polling already, just as he had a double-digit lead over Pussygrabber in the nationwide polling leading up to the 2016 Democratic Party National Convention.
Joe Biden also beats Pussygrabber by 12 points in the Politico/Morning Consult poll, 43 percent to 31 percent, so 2020, it seems to me, could be a lot like 2016 if both Bernie and Biden run; it would be the progressive champion against the party establishmentarian.
However, as Biden already has run for the Democratic Party presidential nomination and lost twice (in 1987 and in 2007), I don't see him as strong a candidate as some would assert. He would be the anti-Bernie vote, but I don't think that that would be enough. Also, Billary Clinton was the holdover from the Clinton-Obama years, and wouldn't Biden, as the holdover from the Clinton-Obama years, remind a lot of voters of Billary's colossal failure in 2016?
In the Politico/Morning Consult poll Elizabeth Warren comes in a No. 3, still beating Pussygrabber but by a much smaller margin, only 34 percent to 30 percent, with 36 percent undecided.
Billary Clinton was within only a few percentage points over Pussygrabber in the nationwide polling averages for a very long time, all the way up to Election Day, and look how that turned out.
If we want Pussygrabber out, we need to select, as the Democratic Party presidential nominee, the one who polls the best against him; we (well, the Billarybots and other zombies) fucked up big-time in 2016 by passing up Bernie Sanders for the candidate who polled much worse against Pussygrabber than Bernie did.
I've noted many times that while I like Liz Warren, and would be fine with her as a vice-presidential candidate, I think that as a presidential candidate she'd be painted as a female Michael Dukakis, another clueless egghead from Massachussetts, and I think that while Billary Clinton did not face much actual sexism, Liz actually would.* (That said, if it's between Biden and Warren, I pick Warren, who is my No. 2 choice behind Bernie. I still cannot support Biden, not for the primaries.)
Also in the Politico/Morning Consult poll, Pussygrabber beats U.S. Sens. Cory Booker, Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, former Attorney General Eric Holder and others by 2 percentage points to 10 percentage points, so unless their polling improves drastically, these second- and third-tier candidates are non-starters for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination for me, and we can't allow craven identity politics to sink us in 2020 like they did in 2016.
("Bernie bro," "brogressive" and the like only backfired, as Billary wasn't a victim of sexism, but only suffered appropriately and deservedly due to her utter unlikeability due to her inherently corrupt nature and shitty character, which enough voters sure sensed if they couldn't articulate.)
Methinks that 2020 is going to be a bumpy ride, with identity politics vs. electability once again rearing its ugly head, but at least the road is made a bit smoother because the so-called super-delegates have been defanged and because quaint but corruptible caucuses apparently are on their way out.
*I agree with fivethirtyeight.com's Perry Bacon Jr.'s sentiment when he writes:
… How comfortable should we be, as a society, with discouraging members of traditionally marginalized groups from pursuing political office because other Americans might have a negative view of those potential candidates' gender, race, religion, sexual orientation or other personal characteristics (or some combination of these characteristics)? After all, a candidate can change her ideology if her platform isn't appealing to voters — but many of these traits are immutable. …
I agree that of course it's not fair to punish the victim for the voters' prejudices and biases and bigotry, but when push comes to shove, it does come down to whether or not you want to win the fucking election. In the 2020 presidential election, for a great example, which is more important: booting Pussygrabber from the Oval Office (presuming that he's still there, of course) or making a point?
And there are plenty of reasons to reject Kamala Harris and Cory Booker that have nothing to do with race, such as their history of coziness with corporations, their lack of leadership and accomplishment in the U.S. Senate, and their lower name recognition and popularity — and thus their lower polling — than the top-three front-runners Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren.
Of the two, I'm more fond of Harris than of Booker, but she has not been in the Senate for even two full years yet, for fuck's sake. It's way too early to talk about her being president. As I have noted before, I think I'd be OK with her as the vice-presidential candidate for 2020, but that's as far as I can go.
In 2016, aside from the copious intra-party rigging that was done in her favor, apparently the idea was to make Billary Clinton the nominee — even she didn't poll nearly as well against Pussygrabber as Bernie Sanders did — in order to make a point (namely, that the Democrats could nominate a woman [likability and popularity of said woman entirely aside]). How well did that turn out?
If we make that mistake again, we deserve whatever we get.
And I'm no hypocrite; I personally always have disliked DINO Billary Clinton but love Elizabeth Warren, but if it looks like Warren can't beat Pussygrabber, then we go with the stronger candidate who can. It won't be enough for me that Warren is a woman.

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Q: My high school friend just died of ampullary cancer. What is it?
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i ve given u a possible solution to ur problem...
Comment #6 Tuesday, June 22, 2004 4:15 AM
Will play with it when i get a min.
Thanks again for the help!!!
Comment #7 Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:52 PM
Klashnekoff Signing Off.....
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Comment #9 Wednesday, June 23, 2004 11:57 AM
Glad you liked my feedback - as for colors - monochromatics work best for me - black - crome - pewter.............& rich texture - you are definitely onto someting here with a "jewellery" kinda look - check out some Boy London Watches from the early 90s for some ideas on form & structure ..........Dark Mist's Beatniks & Rainlenders have this concept down - its like Art Deco meets the New Millenium
Fond Regards From Atlantic Canada
Comment #10 Wednesday, June 23, 2004 9:52 PM
Goto http://www.romanda.org/ChromeDome.htm
Then PLEASE email me, or comment here on the colors.
I have not created all of these yet, so feedback is WELCOME!!
Email me: firstname.lastname@example.com
Comment #12 Tuesday, July 13, 2004 7:43 PM
Comment #13 Wednesday, July 14, 2004 5:59 AM
Did you look at the V2 screen shot?
Im looking to try and finish the V2 colors in the next few weeks.
Comment #14 Saturday, August 7, 2004 11:14 PM
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i really like this skin so please help me. thx
Comment #15 Sunday, August 8, 2004 2:23 PM
Are you running WMP V9? Email me an I will do what I can to help.
Comment #17 Friday, October 8, 2004 8:48 AM
When i have more time, there will be an entirely new Chrome Dome created Check this http://romanda.wincustomize.com/Articles.aspx?SID=4243&AID=28947 its where im headed with the new version, and at that time i will see what i can do with colors, im wanting to try some new things, but my focus right now is on DesktopX widgets, trying to learn them. And adding to my Chrome Dome Line of skins.
Comment #18 Monday, December 27, 2004 7:11 AM
nice work dude..keep it up dude..
Comment #19 Monday, December 27, 2004 4:26 PM
Comment #20 Saturday, March 5, 2005 5:12 AM
really cool skin tough
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I pick bugs off people's heads.
And I love what I do. Really. I think I would have made an awesome primate mother, especially when I consider the unlimited snacks.
Since nit picking comes naturally (just ask my husband), the more challenging the job, the more satisfaction I get when I'm done. So you can imagine my delight when I finished a recent job that involved clearing a high school senior from an infestation of lice that had tormented her since age 10.
Imagine it: a seven-year itch.
On days like this, I picture myself as a superhero—arriving at the scene in my black cape, magnifier in hand, wearing really cute leggings, capable of the impossible.
Faster than a competitor's dispatcher! More powerful than a chemical product! Able to clear infestations in a single visit!
"Look, out on the doorstep! It's a Nitpicker! It's a Goddess! It's Lice Happens!"
"Yes, it's Lice Happens, mighty visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Lice Happens, who can change the course of mighty infestations, remove lice with her bare hands; and who, disguised as Marci Meadows, mild-mannered entrepreneur covering a great metropolitan area, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the lice-free way."
Oh, sorry. I forgot you were there.
I stood at the front door, ready to summon my superhero mojo and unleash it on the most persistent case of the beasties I had ever encountered.
It took all of my powers over 3 ½ hours, but with the help of my trusty sidekick Jane, who kicks some serious lice a** on her own, we successfully rid our teenaged victim of the tiny villains that had a cruel grip on her tresses.
The experience wasn't without its kryptonite moment, however. I struggle not to feel powerless and angry when I hear stories about families getting bad advice or being turned away from a pediatrician's office (in this case FOUR pediatrician's offices) because of ignorance about lice. Seriously. Four. Doctors'. Offices.
Hippocrates would not be pleased.
This young woman had suffered for seven lousy years through multiple harsh chemical hair treatments, oral ivermectin (what we give our dogs for heartworm—I wish I were kidding) and every 'home cure' imaginable, including leaving mayonnaise on her hair to turn rancid overnight. Why not put the entire chicken salad on her head and send her to school with two slices of bread?
Who dispenses this nonsense?
Adding insult to injury, the years of whispering classmates and omitted invitations left her with shame that will take time to recede. I wish that my superpowers could have fixed that. But the best I could do was to make it stop, and a month later, I hear she's bug-free and happy. The only one happier was her mom.
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CN continues to take significant steps to strengthen the railway's Safety Management System, with the goal of improving the safety of its transportation of dangerous goods, says President and CEO Claude Mongeau.
"CN's business agenda is anchored on running a safe railway — it's the overarching imperative in everything we do," said Mongeau. "We have developed a comprehensive work plan to bolster our overall safety performance and to enhance our strong record of delivering 99.998 per cent of dangerous goods to destination without a release caused by an accident." The comprehensive plan has three major components:
1. Preventing accidents through process, technology, people and investments as part of a sound Safety Management System
After the tragic Lac-Mégantic accident last July, CN began a thorough review of its safety policy and procedures and has taken a number of steps, including a comprehensive review of its already-robust train securement practices and the implementation of a special program to acquire additional monitoring equipment to enhance its strong technological base for early detection of defects and mitigate the severity of accidents.
CN also applied the U.S. OT-55 "key train policy" to freight trains carrying one car loaded with toxic inhalation hazardous materials, or 20 cars loaded with any dangerous goods, and voluntarily extended the policy to its Canadian operations. The policy includes measures on train dispatching, track inspections and restrictions on train speeds.
Finally, CN continues to strengthen its safety culture, particularly with regard to a new generation of railroaders, by revitalizing its training programs and opening two new state-of-the art training facilities in Winnipeg and Chicago later this year.
2. Addressing the risks associated with the older DOT-111 tank cars used in the movement of highly flammable products
Mongeau also said: "For CN, tank car design is one of the most important systemic issues arising from the Lac-Mégantic accident. The question of tank car robustness is central, and that question is being addressed by the AAR, to which CN belongs, in recent recommendations calling for the retrofitting or phase-out of the old DOT-111 cars used to transport flammable liquids and a reinforced standard for new tank cars built in the future."
CN itself is carrying out a gradual phase-out of its small fleet of 183 legacy DOT-111 tank cars used to transport diesel fuel for its locomotives to yard terminals. CN is investing C$7 million to replace all the DOT-111 tank cars it owns outright with 40 new tank cars meeting the latest regulatory standards by the end of this year. The remaining 143 leased DOT-111 cars will also be replaced with a gradual phase-out plan completed as leases mature over the next four years.
3. Strengthening emergency response capabilities through sharing of relevant information with communities, training support, and mutual aid intervention protocols
Mongeau added: "CN believes that the rail industry can enhance safety by working more closely with communities. CN has already done this by launching a comprehensive outreach program to meet municipalities and their emergency responders along its network in order to discuss the nature and volumes of dangerous commodities transported through the communities we serve. This voluntary program is on top of the requirement to divulge such information annually to Canadian municipalities, as announced last fall by Transport Minister Lisa Raitt. "
CN is urging the implementation of mutual aid intervention protocols, with the participation of other carriers and producers of dangerous commodities. This would help codify emergency response standards and expand response resources in order to be prepared to handle any future rail incidents involving dangerous goods.
Mongeau concluded: "CN has an unwavering commitment to safety and always strives to deliver responsibly. Between 2003 and 2013, CN's main-track accidents declined by approximately 50 per cent despite increased freight volumes. But we are not stopping there — our efforts are continuing to make an already solid safety record even better."


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Google just unveiled its latest autonomous car, and it's a bulbous two-seater, with no steering wheel, gas or brake. This is the future, pod people.
Unlike the Prius and Lexus hybrids in Google's fleet, this was designed from the ground-up as a complete reimagining of what transportation could be. It's designed to simply get you get from A to B – plug in your destination and you'll never have to interact with the controls.
We're now exploring what fully self-driving vehicles would look like by building some prototypes; they'll be designed to operate safely and autonomously without requiring human intervention. They won't have a steering wheel, accelerator pedal, or brake pedal… because they don't need them. Our software and sensors do all the work. The vehicles will be very basic—we want to learn from them and adapt them as quickly as possible—but they will take you where you want to go at the push of a button. And that's an important step toward improving road safety and transforming mobility for millions of people.
By starting with a blank sheet of paper, Google X – the company's skunkworks division – was able to nix every extraneous bit of modern cars, which means in addition to no controls, it doesn't have a stereo, a glovebox, or mirrors.
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This being Google, there isn't much to the design. It's basic, raw, and yes, looks like a techno Koala. But by starting from scratch, engineers have been able to do things like upgrade the sensors from the 12-degree field-of-view of its earlier prototypes to a full 360-degree view to get more than 200 yards of visibility and track hundreds of objects.
Like Google's previous efforts, the systems mimic defensive driving behavior, so the car will stay out of blind spots, move away from big rigs, pause when the light goes green, and even give lane-splitting fools like me room.
Google put a premium on safety, beginning with that speed governor, since minimal speeds means minimal damage. The windshield is flexible and the front end is made of foam, so it will give if it hits a pedestrian or bicyclist, and while there are no ancillary controls on this first prototype, there are mechanical redundancies built in, with two different systems controlling the steering and brakes.
"We imagine at some point there will be an accident with one of these vehicles, so we've designed the front end to be soft," Ron Medford, director of safety for the project and former U.S. Department of Transportation administrator in charge of vehicle safety research and regulations told Recode.
It's also designed to entice partners in the program, since Google has no intention of building and selling its own autonomous car. At least, for now.
Google's plan is to build about 100 of these prototypes, with "safety drivers" beginning to test the cars this summer. Those cars will have traditional controls as a backup, and Google plans to run the pilot project for a couple of years to learn from the program. Will it go on sale? No. Could it be integrated with Uber, which Google owns a stake in? Absolutely.


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Set against a background of her paintings and the Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, landscapes they depict, this short documentary is a portrait of the life and work of one of Canada's foremost primitive painters, Maud Lewis. Emerging from her youth crippled with arthritis, Lewis escaped into her painting at the age of 30. She had never seen a work of art and had never attended an art class but her paintings captured the simple strength, beauty and happiness of the world she saw - a world without shadows.
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What a beautiful fill. It captures her life story so well. Maud is my great grandmother. Thank you for doing such a wonderful life story on such an amazing artist.TBENOIT04, 12 Mai 2014
Her colours are bright, no wonder her works are so collectible.desmond.emery, 6 Avr 2011
Her colours are bright, no wonder her works are so collectible.desmond.emery, 6 Avr 2011
I loved the Maud Lewis film! You have really caught her spirit. She has always been a heroine of mine to do such delightful art inspite of her crippleing arthritis. I am an artist too in Ontario and now I have arthritis and she gives me courage to carry on! Thank you!Ginny, 6 Avr 2011


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In the video above, Bloomberg West speaks with 72andSunny's partner and creative director Jason Norcross about the thinking behind some of Samsung's latest campaigns.
If there is one person qualified to discuss the state of Apple's current marketing efforts, it's Ken Segall. Working alongside Steve Jobs' creative team for more than a decade, Segall, the man who put the "i" in iMac, served as creative director at ad agency TBWA\Chiat\Day. He created some of Apple's most iconic ads such as the legendary Think Different campaign. Segall took some time on his Observatory blog today to share his thoughts on how "momentum has been lost" for Apple's marketing department at the hands of none other than the company's biggest rival, Samsung:
While you can still argue that Macs and i-devices have a ton of appeal, you can't argue that Apple is still untouchable when it comes to advertising…The fact is, it is being touched — often and effectively — by none other than Samsung…Samsung has made remarkable inroads in a very short time, for two big reasons.
According to Segall, the two big reasons Samsung's advertising has eclipsed Apple's is due to Sammy's massive advertising budget and willingness to "bash away at Apple, delivering ads that are well produced, well written and seem to be striking a nerve." Specifically, Segall pointed to Samsung's decision to run creative new ads at the Super Bowl and Oscars:
In contrast to Apple, which has been sticking to its product-based ads, Samsung has been scoring points with its people-based ads — most of which play off some growing negative perceptions about Apple… Samsung invested in a two-minute Super Bowl ad; Apple chose to remain silent. Samsung created a new story for the Oscars, tapping the eccentric Tim Burton; Apple ran only a variation of its more traditional product-centric campaign.
Segall also noted that the last time Apple attempted something new with its campaigns was with the controversial Olympics ads that were later taken down by the company:
The last time Apple tried to stir things up was when it unveiled a brand-new campaign during the summer Olympics. And you know how that turned out.
Have Apple's recent ads lost their significance? Its latest ad, below, was aired at the Oscars and doesn't stray too far from what we've seen in recent months. However, as noted by Segall, Samsung appeared to receive the majority of the attention for its new Oscars ad featuring director Tim Burton. 72andSunny's partner and creative director Jason Norcross, part of the team behind Samsung's latest ads, commented on the strategy to Bloomberg:
"One of the big competitors was really owning the mobile market. Samsung wanted to make a big splash. We tried to take advantage of all the momentum around their competitors. It is a choice of a new generation. Samsung is the flag bearer of android nation. They have quite a bit of innovation. Going back a year-and-a-half ago we just wanted to position Samsung as the leading technology in the category and just used that line of "people lined up." The next big thing is already here. You do not have to wait for its. That was the genesis of the whole next big thing is here. We have just built on that from there."… "I think the results are shown the growth of the Marketshare. Those results speak for themselves. Cool is never something we go for. We just try to show the benefit and to really respond in an honest way."
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If you haven't been watching the College World Series, tonight would be a good time to tune in to ESPN. Tonight is game two of a 3-game championship series between LSU and Texas, two teams who fully expect to play in Omaha every summer and who are generally fun to watch.
Last night was no exception. LSU stud pitcher Louis Coleman (a Royals draftee and a big reason I'm rooting for LSU here) randomly gave up 3 homers in one inning. Texas – not exactly a power team – ended up homering two other times, but LSU's pen kept the game tight while the Tiger offense squeezed out the tying runs in the 9th, and the winning run in the 11th. LSU reliever Matty Ott was notably awesome, holding the 'Horns down – and hitless – for the final three innings.
Oh, and also? It was hot out in Omaha for pretty much the first time this year: The heat index at the start of the game was 107. My friend and I were in the right field bleachers, trying our best to stay hydrated and praying our sunscreen could hang in there under the immense pressure of the sun, but had to leave early for health reasons. However, while we were there, we had help in staying hydrated from an unlikely source – a Texas fan next to us bought us a bottle of water before the game, even though he could clearly see our purple and gold beads.
Not to get all cheesy here, but that shouldn't have surprised me. Once the game gets going, everyone means business, but before games, nobody is afraid to be friendly (as Eric Angevine pointed out at ESPN.com. Oh hey! I'm quoted in that story!). Omaha in June is just nice that way.
Tune in at 6 central tonight to catch Game 2, along with lovingly edited pieces about how glorious Omaha is. ESPN does a great job with those, and Omaha is my town, so I want all you lovely people to see how great it is here. Oh, and cute college players in hi-def. That's fun too.


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Seerobots now available on Chrome
SeeRobots is now available on Google Chrome:
After installation, SeeRobots will appear on the right side of your chrome address bar and looks like this:
LinkParser is now available on Chrome
You can get LinkParser now for Chrome as well over here. Enjoy. We are thankfull for gut reviews of Linkparser in the Chrome Web Store! ;-)
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Woohooo! It took a while and we had to correct quite a few mistakes but our link evaluation and counting Firefox Addon has now been fully reviewed at Mozilla. Go and get it at https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/linkparser/! Have fun!
Seerobots ready for Firefox 5 (and more)
Finally Seerobots got an update for Mozilla's Firefox 5 - it was only something simple. Also we fixed a little issue with the initialization while opening, changing or selecting a tab. Nice to know: the Firefox Add-ons team confirmed the compatibility with the upcoming versions of their browser:
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The next update that will hopefully follow soon will include some changes in usabilty and more options for variability. So keep on following Seerobots on Facebook and Twitter :)
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LinkParser – a link analysis Firefox addon
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Over 5000 downloads and over 1500 daily users
Our little firefox addon has gained in reach and knocked down some nice growth numbers again! Seerobots was now downloaded from Mozilla over 5000 times and during the week
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Seerobots Feature on Mediadonis.net
Marcus Tandler aka. Mediadonis of the newly founded online marketing consulting company Tandler Doerje & partner.com kindly featured Seerobots with a gues post on his blog. We strongly recommend to read it because we have described some use cases of Seerobots over there. Again: Thanks a lot, Marcus!


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It's Strawberry Festival time this weekend in Mattituck
The 58th annual Mattituck Lions Club Strawberry Festival promises to be the biggest — and perhaps the best — yet, with fireworks scheduled not only for Friday's opening night, but on Thursday night as well.
Thursday is traditionally "hulling night," when volunteers gather under the big tent at Strawberry Fields on Route 48 in Mattituck and prepare the juicy berries by taking off their green-stemmed tops. The carnival will offer free admission that night, opening at 6:30 p.m. and closing at 10 p.m. Fireworks are scheduled for 9 p.m.
Opening night begins at 5 p.m. Friday, kicking off the festival with virgin daiquiris, shortcake, dipped berries and carnival rides for kids and adults of all ages until 11 p.m. The second fireworks display will hit the skies at 9 p.m.
Long Island country band Southbound will perform on the main stage between 6:30 and 10:30 p.m.
The event, a fundraiser for the Mattituck Lions Club and the community and nonprofit organizations it supports, continues throughout the weekend, opening at 11 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday. The festival closes at 11 p.m. Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday, Father's Day.
The crowning of this year's Strawberry Queen will take place Saturday at 3 p.m. on the main stage.
Arts and crafts vendors will be selling their wares Friday through Sunday and fresh berries and plants will be on sale Saturday and Sunday.
On Saturday, Who Are Those Guys? will provide musical entertainment on the main stage between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Souled Out takes the stage from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m.
In between bands, from 4 to 6 p.m., fairgoers can take in a martial arts demonstration on the main stage.
As has been the case during the past few years, off-site parking will be available at Martha Clara Vineyards, just west of the fairgrounds, with shuttle service on Saturday and Sunday.


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Blogs of people who talk too much – FREE
There's so much for free online, but you're reading my blog so I don't have to dive too deep here. Follow a couple blogs in an RSS reader, and make sure you sign up for freebies they may offer like Paul Randal giving away training!
Personally, I try to read a majority of everything written by:
- Brent Ozar
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You can include me on this list if you're feeling generous. However, they're all smarter than me, and I'll understand if you don't.
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I know most DBAs don't go to the local user groups. Some never go, some go when the topic is right, but you can benefit from these every time.
Even the presentations that are outside of your normal job duties are valuable. If someone's teaching SSIS and you don't use it, knowing what you can learn from an hour-long presentation will put you in a situation to have more intelligent conversations when these topics come up. Read over job descriptions, they expect DBAs to know everything, and here's your chance to know a little about it.
Also, you can learn from every presentation. I don't care if you could give that presentation, people in a field known for introverts could use practice and examples of how to present ideas to others. You'll see good, you'll see bad, and you'll be better because of it. Also, one or two small details you might pick up on a topic you know extremely well will make a big difference.
Speaking of our field being known as introverts, this is your opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and present. That's what I did. Some present because they were born to do it, and I started presenting because I was born to blend into a cube farm! I'll be presenting at my local user group in April, have already done a SQL Saturday this year, and would like to do at least two more SQL Saturdays, which drags me (kicking and screaming) into improving my soft skills where a typical DBA, like me, is behind the curve.
Our last presentation by Bill Wolf was an excellent presentation on avoiding common coding mistakes. It wouldn't have been too much of a stretch for me to make a similar presentation, but I still learned a couple things and met some good people. The next meeting on March 25th will be about the interdependency between SQL Server and .NET, which would be amazing for any DBA or .NET developer to go to, even if Dell wasn't giving away free laptops as door prizes!
Finally, the presentations aren't the real reason you're going there, are they? You're getting to know the other DBAs in the area, and you're sitting there talking person-to-person to the ones that want to share everything they know with you. You get to know them, they get to know you, and when one of you wants a new job or new coworker then you have a better chance at finding a good fit that you can be comfortable with from the start.
If you're not sure where your local user group is or if you even have one, start by looking at this link. Most groups are affiliated with PASS, and that means they'll be listed there.
SQL Saturday – $10 Lunch
SQL Saturday is a cross between the local user group and the PASS Summit. In fact, the last one I was at has been referred to as a mini PASS Summit because of the number of high-quality speakers there, including multiple names from the list of bloggers I mentioned above.
The cities that host these events typically do so as an annual event, and there's probably one not too far from you each year. I live in Pittsburgh, PA, which hosts one just a couple minutes from my house. I'm also trying to make it to ones reasonably close to me such as Cleveland, OH a couple weeks ago that's about 2 hours away, Philadelphia, PA coming up in June that's a 5 hour drive where I have family I can stay with. I think I'll skip Columbus, OH because it's the week after Philly and I have three small kids. Although I won't make it this year, I may go to Richmond, VA, which is a 6 hour drive where I also have family to stay with.
It's been a cold winter here in Pittsburgh, and now I'm starting to think about how much I miss my relatives in Texas, California, Florida and South Carolina. It knocks this idea out of the free or low cost training blog post, but that doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
While my company did cut the budget, they still paid mileage and gave me Friday off as a travel day. Even without a budget, still ask to see what you can get.
Virtual PASS Chapters – FREE
Pass also does virtual online events. I know I'm risking making this sound like a PASS commercial doing the local PASS chapter, the PASS SQL Saturdays, now the Virtual PASS chapters, but it's hard to talk about free or low cost SQL Server training without talking about these people. So, why would I avoid this sounding like a commercial for them? They deserve to be known, and with all this free junk they can't have much of an advertising budget!
Anyways, the virtual chapters each have their own focus, and I'm a member of the PowerShell, Performance, Database Administration, and I think a couple others. They do presentations about once a month, and I try to watch them when I have time. Worst case, they usually make the recordings available later.
There are also a couple "24 hours of PASS" events throughout the year where there are 24 back-to-back sessions. The next one on the schedule is the Russian version, which I'll pass on.
BrentOzar.com – FREE
In addition to their blogs, the Brent Ozar Unlimited team (Brent's just a member, not their leader!!!!) does weekly webinars that are usually very useful to me. I'd say I watch 3 of them a month, missing one either due to my schedule or because it's a rare one that I don't feel bad about missing. They put up the recordings later, although I have to admit I usually don't watch them if they aren't live. I know I don't make any sense, but you'll get used to it.
Twitter – FREE
Seriously, if you can fit your question and #sqlhelp in 160 characters or less, you'll have someone pointing you in the right direction within minutes. They'll point you to the posts that you didn't know what key words to Google to find, but keep in mind that they're doing this for free. Always be grateful, and understand when they say that digging into the issue would mean a trip to the consultant.
The End – Sad, but still free
So, yeah, my company cut my training budget. That means that so far this year (March 3rd here) I had to stick to learning from Steve Jones, Grant Fritchey, Erin Stellato, Stacia Misner, Tom LaRock, and others in-person. Then I watched free videos by Jes Borland, Jeremiah Peschka, Brent Ozar, Kendra Little, and Doug Lane. I have a free month of the SQL Skills Pluralsight classes with a code that Paul Randal personally emailed me, with which I'm in the middle of a class by Jonathan Kehayias right now. I'm planning on taking full advantage of this trial with classes by Joe Sack, Erin Stellato, Paul Randal, Bob Beauchemin, and Kimberly Tripp, although I'll end up running out of time and buying a subscription for $30 / month.
So, is a lack of a training budget stopping you? You can say it is, but it's not.
I gave you a lot and I missed a lot. This is not all-inclusive, and a quick look around the internet will prove that point. There are still Free e-Books and many other resources out there. I have to start skipping stuff or this post will never make it out to you, and what good would that be?
Hey, look!!! There's a section right below here marked "Comments" that's perfect for your addition to the list. Maybe it can be all-inclusive!!!


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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Pacers waited all season for the playoff rematch with Miami.
In Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, they made the wait worthwhile.
Paul George and David West helped Indiana stagger the two-time defending NBA champs early, knock them out late and take the opener in the best-of-seven series 107-96 on Sunday.
"All season, we've been waiting for the opportunity to be where we're at right now. They're the champs and we just have to bring it to them," Lance Stephenson said. "We have to think Pacers basketball and be the first on the floor."
These teams certainly are well acquainted.
The home team won each of the four previous meetings this season — by six points, three points and one point before Miami's 98-86 "blowout" last month. Last season, Indiana won two of the three regular-season contests — both at home — before succumbing in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals at Miami. In 2011-12, the Pacers went 1-3 against Miami in the regular season but had the eventual world champs on the ropes after taking a 2-1 lead in the conference semifinals. The Heat rallied to win the final three.
On Sunday, the Pacers ignored history and played their most complete game in months.
Indiana was so dominant that it finished with its highest point total this postseason, never let Miami take the lead and never even allowed the Heat to get within one possession after George Hill scored the first five points in the game's first 40 seconds.
At times, the Heat looked befuddled and frustrated — just like the Pacers planned.
"We know these guys and we're pretty familiar with them," West said after finishing with 19 points and seven rebounds. "I thought our resolve and playoff-style of ball was where it needed to be."
Now Indiana has a chance to do something it couldn't in either of their last two playoff series against the Heat — taking a 2-0 lead. Game 2 is Tuesday in Indy.
And Miami has plenty of work to do before then.
While LeBron James finished with 25 points, 10 rebounds and five assists, and Dwyane Wade had 27 points and five assists, the rest of the Heat starters combined for 18 points, six rebounds and nine assists.
The Pacers, meanwhile, had six players in double figures including Paul George, who had 24 points and seven assists, West with 19 points and seven rebounds, Roy Hibbert with 19 points and nine rebounds, and Stephenson with 17 points and eight assists.
Miami also was a dismal 6 of 23 on 3-pointers, had just four offensive rebounds, allowed the Pacers to shoot 51.5 percent from the field and make six of their first seven 3s and sent them to the free-throw line 37 times. And James made his only two free throws of the game.
"It's a matchup collectively that we have to figure out," Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said.
The challengers in this matchup insist they know it's only a start.
"There's nothing to celebrate. It's not like we won a championship. It's one game," Hill said. "Yes, it was good, but if we come out and lay an egg on Tuesday, this game doesn't mean anything."
Indiana swarmed the glass, exploited its size advantage, knocked down six of its first seven 3-pointers and never allowed the Heat to catch up.
When the Heat cut a 10-point, first-quarter deficit to 41-37 midway through the second quarter, Stephenson scored four points in a 5-0 run to make it 46-37. When James trimmed it to 50-45 with back-to-back baskets late in the quarter, the Pacers ended the half with five straight points to make it 55-45.
Hibbert and West then combined to score eight of Indiana's first 14 points to open the second half, pushing the lead to 69-52.
James and Wade rallied the Heat within 83-74 early in the fourth, but the Pacers opened it up again to lead 102-84 with 4:11 to go.
"Our pick-and-roll coverage had a lot of breakdowns, including myself," James said. "I broke down a few times defensively and we allowed them to get into the paint. We had some breakdowns throughout the game and that's what resulted in us losing this game."
Now comes the hard part for Indiana — duplicating this effort in Round 2.
"We've been complacent many times. We just can't get complacent," George said. "We've got to stay humbled off this win and come in with the same mind-set that we have to get another one."
NOTES: Miami has lost six straight series openers on the road. ... The last two games these teams have played were both decided by double digits. ... Former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine opened the series by playing the national anthem on his harmonica.


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TomTom global map coverage reaches 35,000,000km
Official Press Release from TomTom
TomTom today announced the availability of its latest map and enhancement product portfolio, delivering new coverage and features. With the addition of 400,000 kilometers across the globe, TomTom's navigable map database is the first to reach 35.2 million kilometers of roads, covering 104 countries and a record 3.4 billion people worldwide.
"With the latest map release we are adding significant coverage in emerging countries like Brazil, Russia and India, demonstrating our commitment to a truly global offering" said Maarten van Gool, Managing Director of TomTom Licensing. "The latest product release equips our customers with the best coverage and enhanced content globally to power all their location needs."
TomTom's map coverage of Malaysia
TomTom further enhanced its road network database and improved key features throughout Europe. In Western Europe, 74,000 km of roads were added or realigned, including routes that are being built to accommodate the London 2012 Summer Olympics. A new low emission zone feature was added throughout Western Europe to support environmental driving. In Eastern Europe, over 36,000 km of roads were updated in key markets in Russia, Poland and Turkey.
In the Americas, TomTom expanded coverage in growth markets like Brazil where over 100,000 km of roads were realigned – for increased accuracy – and 600,000 Points of Interest were added, ensuring users can easily find businesses, places and people. Customers now benefit from features including specialized lane information and back road designation, which will lead to safer navigation. Additionally, the most up-to-date postal information available in the US and Canada is especially important for Enterprise and Business customers.
The latest product release resulted in an Address Point uplift totaling more than 1.5 million throughout Asia Pacific, enabling more accurate routing and geocoding in this important region. 3D Landmarks, Landmark Icons, 2D City Maps and Junction Views were also updated, resulting in better visualization with a more realistic map display.
Images: Official TomTom release.


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Growing the Indian economy at 10-12% year-on-year is not as hard as it is made out to be. All it requires is an understanding of the following factors that influence an economy in any part of the world, especially in India.
1. Belief in Hell.
You have always believed that the ship of the country's economy is one where the wheel is firmly in the hands of the Reserve Bank governor. RBI sets interest rates, controls liquidity, tracks the velocity of money, monitors inflation, yadda yadda.. so we have heard. Nothing could be further from the truth.
It is now widely believed that the health of the economy is, in fact, controlled by a handful of corporate and political types who plunder the treasury in plain sight, dole out sickeningly nepotistic favors to kith and kin and have turned this country into their personal Disneyland. What will stop this inexhaustibly long list of inveterate criminals from their next round of plunder and pillage when they decide that more is better?
According to this study done at Harvard, a country's belief in hell correlates with its economic development. Researchers analyzed forty years of data and came to the conclusion that the more the population believes in a flaming purgatory, the better are its chances of being less corrupt and becoming more economically advanced. It turns out that belief in eternal damnation is the only thing that stops us all from turning into monstrous jerks. It is interesting to note that belief in God does not cut the mustard. It's belief in Lucifer that is critical to a nation's prosperity. The threat of being run over by a herd of mad buffaloes or being boiled alive in a vat of horse urine postmortem is what keeps us on the straight and narrow.
2. The Sun
It is well known that sunny days lead to sunny dispositions. No one, ever in the history of mankind, leapt out on the streets on a cold, rainy day with a song on their lips. You don't do that. Not unless you live in Transylvania and your name is Dracula.
Research again proves time and again that sunny days breed hope and optimism in human hearts. Exactly the kind of optimism and hope required to splurge ten grand on a dress. You know the one that will make you wonder for the rest of your life about that temporary moment of insanity in which the deed was done. Hope and optimism make people spend more. When they spend more, the economy hums contentedly like a bee in springtime.
3. The Moon
For the longest time, waxing and waning of the moon has been connected to many things from psychological disorders to homicidal violence to suicides. We can add one more feather to the lunar cycle cap. Turns out there is more to folklore than what meets the eye. According to a study published in Harvard Business Review, "…in the 15 days surrounding full moon dates, stock market returns are about half what they are in the 15 days around a new moon". In other words, stocks and werewolves are not made for each other.
4. The Day of the Week
Let's face it. None of us look forward to the weekly restart of bedlam on Monday mornings. Mondays officially became the worst days of the week in the post Industrial Revolution era of organized work. And, you guessed right, it's true for the stock market as well. Mondays are the worst days for Dalal Street, and Wednesdays are best. Fridays, as Navjyot Singh Sidhu would say, are like wives. Hard to tell which way they will go.
You heard it here, folks: Devil worship, 40 degrees Celsius, Amavasya and Wednesdays. The secrets to a 12 pct GDP growth.
And, you thought you knew it all. In a world filled with noise and confusion, there is only one source for clarity and precision in thought: What Ho!


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People are stockpiling guns and ammunition in a way that no one has ever seen in this country. And it's not just conservative rightwing extremists who are bitterly clinging to their guns and religion and racist antipathies as Obama earlier mentioned, either; it's ordinary people. Even liberal Democrats are buying guns.
A CNN story puts it this way:
AURORA, Colorado (CNN) — Gun shops across the country are reporting a run on ammunition, a phenomenon apparently driven by fear that the Obama administration will increase taxes on bullets or enact new gun-control measures.
"Driven by fear." That's probably the best way to put it.
Obama talked about "hope" during his demagogic run for the White House. But a lot of Americans are now finding cause to be very afraid of what Obama hopes for.
I see Obama saying he has no intention of running the auto industry while he fires CEOs, picks boards of directors, converts to common shares of stock so his administration can have an inside presence to change company policies, dictates the advertising budget of an auto company, threatens hedge funds that owned secured debt in auto companies, and changes bankruptcy proceedings to favor politically connected unions. If that's what NOT wanting to run the auto industry looks like, I'd sure be terrified to see what Obama would do if he really wanted to run them. And he's doing even more to impose his will on the banking and finance industries.
I see such naked displays of fascism, and I am driven by fear.
The Obama administration uses the Department of Homeland Security to contact every police agency in the nation to inform them that returning combat veterans, pro-lifers, and opponents of illegal immigration are not citizens who can be trusted, but should be categorized as "rightwing extremists."
I see such clearly ideological-driven partisan political branding, and I am driven by fear.
Barack Obama and key members of his administration have repeatedly demagogued guns and the U.S. gun industry by falsely claiming that "90 percent of the guns going into Mexico come from the United Stats." If this isn't demagoguery and propaganda, what is it?
I see such demagogic and dishonest behavior coming out of an administration, and I am driven by fear.
And so we see movements by states to say, "We shouldn't have to be afraid of our own federal government." We see unprecedented movements of states to assert their rights under the 10th Amendment. And so Montana passes an in-your-face gun law intended to directly challenge the Obama administration. Utah and Texas began to follow with their own versions of a firearms freedom act. And the floodgates are opening, as Minnesota and South Carolina are also entering the revolt. And numerous states are beginning to sponsor state sovereignty resolutions.
States, too, are clearly being driven by fear.
Obama could largely end this fear by simply clearly stating what his until-now twisted and contradictory stance on guns actually is. The fact that he will not do so only stimulates MORE being driven by fear.
Well, there's a single good thing coming out of Obama's politics of fear. To cite Vice President Joe Biden, all of Obama's fearmongering is creating "a three letter word": "J-O-B-S." In the gun and ammunition industry.
The Obama administration has to make up numbers to justify how its stimulus program has failed. They have to ignore the 2.6 million jobs they've lost and point to 150,000 jobs they can't show they've created.
I think Obama is looking in the wrong place for his "jobs." He should point to the jobs in the gun and ammunition industry that he has inspired.
There's no question that these industries owe their success to Obama and the fear he has created in millions of American hearts and minds. Obama should take credit for it.
More stockpiling ammunition: Fear of potential Obama laws causing mass sales
FLORENCE – Every day, Darren Newsom's three Bitterroot Valley Ammunition facilities crank out 300,000 rounds of ammunition.
It's not nearly enough.
"I'm going about 100,000 rounds in the wrong direction every day," Newsom said. "We probably have about six months of back orders right now."
Newsom has been in the ammunition manufacturing business for more than 20 years and he's never seen demand this high.
Fearful of the Obama administration's potential to tighten gun control laws, people from all over the country are stocking up on guns and ammunition.
"I went through the Clinton years and there was a bit of a scare then," Newsom said. "This is like the Clinton years on steroids. On the day of the election, our phones started going nuts. It hasn't stopped since."
As a master distributor for ATK – the world's largest ammunition business – Bitterroot Valley Ammunition supplies other ammunition manufacturers around the country with the components needed to make bullets.
"I get a million primers in every other day and most are shipped out the very next day," he said. "I have 100 million primers on back order right now. We just can't get enough of them."
At a recent gun show in Salt Lake City, Newsom sold somewhere between 300,000 and 400,000 rounds in the first two hours.
"It's just unreal," he said. "Somewhere in lots of basements around the country, there are millions of rounds of ammunition being stored."
Local businesses have felt the ammunition shortage.
At Bob Ward's in Hamilton, Mike Matteson said there has been quite a run on ammunition and reloading supplies like bullets and powder since the election.
"We are especially low right now with pistol ammunition," Matteson said. "There are four or five calibers that we don't even have on our shelves."
Matteson said he didn't believe manufacturers were prepared for the panic buying that's occurred since the election.
"They tell us that they're months behind on some calibers – .22 ammo is really tough to come by," he said. "Our gun sales are up somewhere between 30 (percent) to 35 percent or better. A good percentage of those sales are pistols."
Firearm and ammo sales aren't the only place where concerns about gun control are cropping up.
Ravalli County Sheriff Chris Hoffman has seen a marked increase in the number of people applying for concealed weapons permits since November.
Montana is a "will-issue" state for concealed weapons permits. Any law-abiding citizen who fills out the application and can show they've completed some form of firearm safety course can obtain a permit.
The county is averaging about 38 requests for renewals or new permits a month. Last year, the requests averaged about 25.
"It's definitely a noticeable increase," Hoffman said.
The sheriff said he's hearing from people who are concerned about what might happen over the next four years with the gun control issue.
"We are being asked what would be the stance of local law enforcement if the federal government calls for the confiscation of firearms," Hoffman said. "That's a very real concern for people."
Gary Marbut, the longtime president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association in Missoula, said the seeds of the current ammunition shortage can be traced back almost a decade to the Y2K scare.
"Many people became concerned about their ability to get ammunition back then and they stocked up quite a bit," Marbut said.
In the intervening years, China blossomed and bought up world copper supplies. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan used up warehouses full of U.S. ammunition that needed to be replenished. That forced higher prices for civilian ammunition and people started using some of the bullets they had squirreled away after Y2K, Marbut said.
And now, with the current economic and political uncertainty, people are looking to restock their supplies at a time when most ammunition manufacturers aren't willing to expand their operations.
"The whole demand side of this is so flexible and the supply side is not," he said.
The ammunition shortage is creating a bit of an economic boon for Ravalli County.
Newsom plans to open a fourth manufacturing facility in Stevensville sometime in September. He employs about 50 people right now and could add up to another 100.
"There are a lot of people out of work right now," he said. "Two years ago, I probably couldn't find 10 people to go to work for us. Now I have 10 people a day coming in here looking for a job."
Newsom believes the need for ammunition won't go away. This scare is creating a whole new group of ammunition customers for the future, he said.
Need proof?
Take the .380 caliber pistol. A year ago, Newsom said there was hardly a demand for the ammunition. Since then, the .380 auto pistol has become very popular with women.
"One year ago, it wasn't in demand and now it's some of the most sought ammunition in the U.S.," he said. "There are more people getting into shooting and that's one thing about ammunition – you can only shoot it once."
People need to understand that the Obamamania fear that is creating such an incredibly high demand for guns and ammunition is not merely fear of Obama gun laws; it is fear of the future that Obama's out-of-control spending will have on our economy.
We may very well have a short-term recovery (which is what happened during the Great Depression following the stock market crash of Black Friday in October 1929); but that recovery will be devoured by the sheer massive weight of trillions and trillions of dollars in debt. Obama will spend $9.3 trillion and nearly DOUBLE the national debt. The administration has spent, loaned, or committed more than $12.8 trillion . This year Obama is spending more than four times as much as George Bush did in 2008. Obama is creating more debt than every single president from George Washington to George W. Bush – COMBINED. And the Congressional Budget Office says that by 2019 a whopping 82 percent of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP) will be going to pay down the national debt.
That mind-boggling spending and that mind-boggling debt is a disaster weighting to happen. It is only a matter of time before a ten trillion ton anvil falls on the American economy.
Trends Research Institute CEO Gerald Celente is on record predicting food riots by 2012 as massive spending creates massive inflation and devaluing of the currency. If Celente is a nutjob, he is a nutjob that CNN, The Economist, USA Today, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The New York Times, CBS News, The Detroit News, the Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, and the New York Post have all gone on public record to praise for his incredible predictive accuracy.
People are scared, and judging by the continuing massive purchases of people stockpiling guns and ammo, they're not clearly not getting any less scared.
So you get your gun. And lock and load. Because the beast is coming.


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