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(ANTIMEDIA) — The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Agency recently fined Merrill Lynch $45 million, once again sparking concerns over the massive derivatives market.
The wealth management division of Bank of America failed to report more than 68 million derivatives transactions dating all the way back to 2014. It had already been forced to pay $20 million in 2015 for an earlier offense. Despite major players throughout the financial industry paying a total of over $350 billion in fines since the 2008 crisis, those same institutions are still thriving and have amassed more than a $1 trillion in profits.
The current penalties amount to little more than a slap on the wrist for these megabanks and have become a normal part of doing business. It's no surprise that the same reckless behavior that helped lead to the Great Recession is still rampant. The global derivatives market was reportedly as large as $1.5 quadrillion in 2016, and things haven't improved much since then. Collusion between large financial institutions, central banks, and governments around the world has fostered an environment with almost zero accountability. Hopefully, as more people become educated about the possible dangers associated with complex financial derivatives, it will be easier to prevent wild speculation like what is seen today.
Derivatives are one of the most complex and least understood financial instruments. Instead of establishing their value through a share of a company's profits or a future dividend, derivatives are essentially side bets made between third parties. Commodity futures contracts are an example of a simple derivative. Farmers have used them to protect themselves against price changes that could significantly impact their businesses from season to season.
However, these financial tools aren't just limited to hard assets and can be used to speculate on every industry, asset, and currency in the world financial system. The growing attention from regulators on the derivatives market may uncover what many investors and economists previously warned about. In 2003, Warren Buffett infamously classified derivatives as 'weapons of mass destruction' and 'time-bombs.'
He doubled down on the assertion during a more recent interview, saying:
"At some point they are likely to cause big trouble…Derivatives lend themselves to huge amounts of speculation…The problem arises when there is a discontinuity in the market for some reason or another…When the markets closed like it was for a few days after 9/11 or in World War I the market was closed for four or five months – anything that disrupts the continuity of the market when you have trillions of dollars of nominal amounts outstanding and no ability to settle up and who knows what happens when the market reopens."
Merrill Lynch and Bank of America haven't been the only ones prosecuted over their derivatives exposure and practices. Deutsche Bank is poised to lose $60 billion for using currency derivatives to speculate on U.S. inflation rates, the 'London Whale' scandal ended up costing JPMorgan $920 million, and just a month ago, Citi was ordered to close $2 billion worth of derivatives taken over during the collapse of Lehman Brothers. These potentials for volatile swings in market valuations can quickly undermine the solvency of institutions that hold a majority of the pensions, savings accounts, and retirement funds for the public.
The first overview report on the E.U. derivatives market was just published by the Europe Security and Markets Authority. It found that the nominal value of derivative holdings within the European Union was valued at $536 trillion. London alone handles nearly 40% of all interest-rate derivative trades for the European Union, and uncertainty continues to grow about the impact Brexit will have on the strength of major European banks.
Confidence in the current system seems to be eroding with each failed promise and debt crisis. If faith in central planning is shaken again like in 2008, the result could impact the daily lives of almost everyone. The once responsible stewards of the public's wealth have been corrupted by power, greed, and self-preservation. The that have been perpetually fined trivial amounts by inept regulators will continue to make trillions while the savers and retirees suffer as a result.
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|Re: [Code] issue 118623: Update Rhino from 1.5R5 to 1.7R3
|Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:41:23 GMT
On 29.11.2011 17:17, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Andre Fischer<email@example.com> wrote: >> >> >> On 29.11.2011 13:08, Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Andre Fischer<firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I need advice regarding license headers. >>>> >>>> The upgrade of rhino to version 1.7 will integrate a file >>>> (OfficeScriptInfo.java) that previously existed only in a patch that was >>>> applied to version 1.5 source code before building. This file still has >>>> the >>>> old license. The patch file itself is part of the SGA. >>>> >>> >>> So the entire OfficeScriptInfo.java was included in a patch, and that >>> patch was included in the SGA? If that is true, then I believe we may >>> update the license header in the source file. >>> >>> Think of it this way: The SGA is what puts these files under ALv2. >>> Updating the license header is how we document this fact, so it is >>> clear to downstream consumers exactly what files are under ALv2. >> >> >> Good, I was hoping for this answer. >> >> And I have another question. Can/should we download the source or even the >> binaries (keep in mind that rhino is a Java library, so the binary is a JAR >> file) directly from the mozilla servers or should we update the rhino tar >> ball in ext_sources? >> > > I'm working on another Apache podling (ODF Toolkit) where we use > Maven. So no third party components are stored in SVN. JAR's are > downloaded at build time. That is the Maven model. So that is > certainly permitted. > > IMHO, I'd look at the stability of the host. If we have a dependency > on a long-established, check > well-known, check > widely-used open source component check > that is not tremendously large, then we could safely download it it > build time. (Assuming the license is compatible, of course). The size should not be a problem in general as you have to download it anyway, either from our SVN server or from its home server. > > But if it is a component that we worry might disappear tomorrow, or > the host is not very attentive to preserving stability of URL > references, or they commonly delete old binaries when updating their > component, then having a copy in SVN could be a good idea. > > The idea should be (I believe) to support some sort of release policy > where we have something like "Long term stable" releases as well as > more frequent feature releases. For an LTS release we would want to > be able to spin a new maintenance release 18 months from now. What do > we need to do to be sure that everything we depend on is still there? In this case, with the source code hosted at mozilla.org I see no problem. But in general we probably have to keep a copy in SVN, just to be sure. If there are no objections then I will give the download a try. Adapting the fetch_tarballs.sh script should not be too hard. If that does not work out, we can still put a copy of the rhino library into ext_sources. -Andre > > That's my personal opinion. > > > -Rob > >> Regards, >> Andre >> >> >>> >>> -Rob >>> >>>> My question is how to handle this file? Change the license on my own? >>>> Ask >>>> Andrew Rist to do it? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Andre >>>> >>>> >>>> On 25.11.2011 15:44, Tsutomu Uchino wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi Andre, >>>>> >>>>> 2011/11/25 Andre Fischer<email@example.com>: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Tsutomu, >>>>>> >>>>>> On 25.11.2011 13:08, Tsutomu Uchino wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi Andre, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Yesterday I got a suggestion about MPL license from Pedro. But it is >>>>>>> clear >>>>>>> now. >>>>>>> I have already reopned the issue. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Ah, very good :-) >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Additionally, I noticed about license issue we need to add configure >>>>>>> options to switch Rhino enabled or disabled. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I can do that if you like. There are a number of libraries that have >>>>>> to >>>>>> get >>>>>> a special treatment, not just rhino. I will start to work on that, as >>>>>> soon >>>>>> the category-x code is removed. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thank you for your work. I think I can do it in short time, my >>>>> knowledge about the building process is not enough for the task. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Andre >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Tsutomu
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This is not music criticism. On this blog, you will only read about music we like.
Friday, February 21, 2014
Video for "Amnesia" by Strange Harvest
Strange Harvest is an appropriately named darkwave duo from Dunedin, New Zealand. Combining minimalist electronics and guitar, they create soundscapes that are dreamy, cold, and a bit unsettling. They released an LP titled In A Replica City in May 2013, which you can stream it at the Bandcamp link below. Two young video directors, Phoebe Mackenzie and Emily Berryman, have made an intriguing video for "Amnesia", the closing track on the album.
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- Dyan said...
very cool. I love the song and the video.
- February 21, 2014 at 11:25 PM
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I am starting a new Motherhood Mondays series on Instastories next week and in preparation I had so many questions from readers about what kind of chores my children do and how that looks in our family. Today I am excited to partner with The Kid Who Can to share those with y'all along with some great products that make introducing chores to children simple and fun.
The Kid Who Can is a company that encourages children to take responsibility for themselves and their home. I am all about this because I believe – and I believe this more and more having a large family – that everyone in the family needs to take part in keeping a home neat and orderly.
I know many of us either have housekeepers or have the "I can do it better myself" mentality – or we think our little ones aren't old enough to really make a dent in the chores – so we don't take the time to teach them properly. But I believe we are doing children a disservice by not training them to help the family unit run smoothly. It's important for them to serve their family in this way. As my husband says, we constantly have to remind our children that it's not all about them;).
Young children are quite capable of doing more than we often give them credit for when it comes to chores. Many are eager to please their parents and gain a bit of responsibility. They just require a bit of training, which is where The Kid Who Can can help!
First, though, I wanted to share some of the things we expected our girls to do at different ages. When I was a younger mom hearing from moms with older children helped so much to give me ideas and figure out what was best for our family. Every child is different, of course, but this might help you gauge what they can expect from your children.
Chore Expectations Before Age 5
(Keep reading for a breakdown of their daily/weekly chores.)
Toddlers – We started by teaching them to tidy up their toys after playing. The key is moving beyond singing the "clean up, clean up" jingle together to getting them to clean up a small area by themselves, generally when they two-ish years old. Not having an overwhelming amount of toys and having a simple system for toy storage makes this easier. And make sure they follow through. If children know you are just going to pick them up eventually your training efforts will be futile.
Three years old – We expanded from expecting them to clean up an area of toys to tidying up their room/playroom. Note: children have to be taught how to clean their room.They don't innately know these things! Show them how to pick up scrap pieces of paper and put in the trash can. Show them exactly where the toys where they go. Make the bed together and demonstrate how to pull up each sheet and smooth out wrinkles on bed. Again, having fewer toys and a simple system for organization makes this easier.
Four years old – All of the above, plus make their beds. Yes, four year olds can make their beds; some three years old can! It will take them some time to perfect so don't make them feel bad if it looks sloppy in the beginning. Just keep encouraging them. Keep showing how to pull up sheets on either side, where the pillows go, etc. And always praise a job well done.
If you are just starting off with children's chores, or need to reintroduce these daily habits, The Original Chore Chart can help. It includes five helpful products to streamline the chore process, including a chart to simply check off when chores are completed.
I used to make a morning chart for my oldest daughter so she would know what to do before school each morning. It soothed her fears about forgetting something and helped avoid so many meltdowns on school mornings. Now my five year old really likes the (much cuter!) morning and evening checklists that come in The Original Chore Chart System. They prompt her to remember everything I have been teaching her.
Because the checklists have simple illustrations they are also great for children as young as two or three. And their "What I'm Wearing" notepad (sold separately) is great for planning out clothes each week. (My girls wear uniforms but if they didn't this would be so helpful!)
The Original Chore Chart also includes an adorable table setting checklist. I have it pinned to the bulletin board in our kitchen.
Because so many asked, here is a breakdown of my girls' current daily and weekly chores. (They are 10, 8 and 5 years old) I don't have a complicated or rotating chore chart system because frankly I don't have time! My girls know their daily chores and on Saturday I will just tell them extra chores that need to be done. I switch out who does what occasionally. See below for some examples.
Daily Chores (They are expected to do these things everyday!)
- Tidy room in morning/evening
- Make bed
- Put clothes in hamper
- Keep bathroom tidy, including wiping down sink and counter if wet or dirty
- Empty dishwasher before school (one does top rack/one does bottom rack/my 5 year old does utensils)
- Take care of dog (one feeds, one gives water)
- Set table (I will usually ask whoever is in the kitchen to do this; sometimes it's one of them, sometimes they do together)
Weekly Chores (These aren't set in stone; I tell them what to do based on what needs to be done that week!)
- Empty trash cans (My younger two will often do this together)
- Windex french doors/glass countertops
- Water plants
- Scrub spots of walls
- Sweep/vacuum (my oldest)
A few side note: I am always trying to find the right balance between expecting quality work but also having grace when things aren't exactly to my cleaning standards. Just like with their homework, I tell them it's better to do it right and neat the first time, rather than spending more time having to redo something later. Good habits start early!
Also, we don't pay our children for chores but believe they should do them because they are a part of our family. We found that tying allowances to chores made it easier for them to say, "Oh I don't care about getting my allowance this week."
So if you need a way to keep track or to help them feel excited to start on the path to chores the Chore Chart might be just the thing for your family. My five year old wants to be just like her older sisters to this little checklist in helping out so this chart has been so fun for her.
And a little tip when your children start complaining about all the chores they have to do: break out the classic literature. It is so eye opening for them to read what was expected of children before our busy, modern times. Sewing, mending, sweeping, dusting, cooking, farm work. Emptying the dishwasher seems like nothing compared to what they had to do in The Courage of Sarah Noble or Little House on the Prairie. (Good for ages 4-10). I am sure my girls roll their eyes when I remind them how much was expected of Laura and Mary and how good they have it in the 21st century;).
One more product I had to share from this cute company that have been so helpful in our home are these Remember Your Cups. Perfect for parties and playdates, too! Each child picks their own color. No more confusion about whose cup is whose!
So what do you think of my girls' chores? Too much? Too little? I would love to hear if this post inspired you to expect more of your children. And share any tips you have for getting children to do chores below.
Thanks so much to The Kid Who Can for sponsoring this post!
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Discuss this article at the Geopolitics Table inside the Diner
Discussions in the Panarchy & One-t0-the-Many thread inside the Diner brought up an old topic, Categories of Doom which paint various different pictures for the Future of Homo Sapiens on Earth, if the species has one at all that lasts past Mid-Century or so. Just about every Doomer out there has carved out for themselves the Projected Future they either think will occur or would like to occur. In essence, this is Science Fiction, because none of us really KNOW how it is going to play itself out, you just extrapolate on trends and ideas you have to try to imagine the Future.
Going back to my writings on The Burning Platform blogging with Jim Quinn, in my Frosbite Falls Daily Rant I developed a basic breakdown between the two most prevalent Doomer Types writing in the Collapse Blogosphere, Full Doomers and Doom Liters. To get an idea of the differing attitudes these two groups have on the crucial questions of collapse, I created a comparative table.
Doom Lite
Full Doom
|Dollar & Monetary System
|We can fix the monetary system and rehabilitate the Dollar if we STOP PRINTING, feed Helicopter Ben to the Lions, Slash Spending, allow TBTF Banks to FAIL, Incarcerate the Criminal Banksters and use Precious Metals to underpin the currency.
|The monetary system cannot be rehabilitated by any means, there will be a complete collapse of ALL Fiat money and financial instruments and commerce will for quite some time be mainly Barter. PMs will only retain value in areas where there is a surplus of basic commodities.
|Inflation, Hyper-Inflation, Deflation, Stagflation, DICK UP YOUR ASSFLATION
|To resolve our Energy problems, we must IMMEDIATELY begin building more Nukes, Drill Baby Drill for more Local Oil and build more Hydro Plants and Wind Farms, and eventually pick up the slack from lost energy from Imported Oil sources.
|Lost Energy from depleted Oil is Irreplaceable and it is far too late to stop an extensive Power Down throughout society which will halt most of our Transportation methods and bring down the Electrical Grid. Our only choice is to prepare for a Low Energy footprint in the future.
|We can fix Da Goobermint if we Vote Out all the scumbag CONgress Critters and replace them with Honest Politicians who cannot be Bought who all demonstrate the Wisdom of the Founding Fathers and abide by the Constitution. Said new Goobermint will be made much smaller with fewer Regulations and less Taxation, allowing Commerce to revive as the Free Market takes over.
|Da Goobermint is inherently unfixable and corrupt and cannot be rehabilitated via the Ballot Box. Only a Revolution can remove the current power structure, and the results of a Revolution will likely bring a new Goobermint as bad or WORSE than the current one. The failure of the monetary sytem and energy systems will eventually render all large scale Goobermints unable to function, with the power vacuum filled by local Warlords and Dictators in most places.
|We must stop the offshoring of Productive Jobs and rebuild our Manufacturing Base in order to build an export based Mercantilist economy with a Trade Surplus.
|The Industrial Model is FINISHED, even if we could rebuild Factories here in the FSofA, we wouldn't have the Oil to run them anyhow, and there won't be anyone here or abroad who could afford the products we build with them anyhow, because of the upward spiraling cost of energy measured in EROEI.
|We must Seal the Borders and deport all Illegal Aliens and get FSofA Citizens to work at all the scut jobs at below Minimum Wage they currently fill to reduce Unemployment and reduce the liabilities of Aliens who are soaking up free Medical Care in the Emergency Rooms of our Hospitals.
|We can TRY to seal the borders and deport the Illegal Aliens, but they will just be replaced by more home grown Citizens who are falling off the economic cliff and will be just as big a drain on the Medical System. Besides that, at least on the Border with Mejico, it will likely create an ever growing Shooting War with a Tsunami of Wetbacks seeking to escape an even worse situation in Mejico.
|Imperialism & Foreign Wars
|We must STOP trying to be the World's Policeman, bring all our Boys & Girls HOME and reduce the outrageous COST of maintaining the Big Ass Military.
|As soon as we STOP running all our Imperialist adventures, we will basically be CUT OFF from the Foreign Oil still making its way across the Sea Lanes to our Refineries. We also will crash just about the only type of "productive" thing we build here anymore, which are the Weapons of War and we will bring back a whole new crew of people to put on the Unemployment line.
|Free Shit Army & 30 Blocks of Squalor
|We must end all transfer payments, all Welfare, Social Security and Medicaire which are all unfunded Liabilities we cannot afford. Former Welfare recipients will be FORCED to go back to work and become Productive Citizens rather than Useless Eaters. Old Folks will rely on their Savings and their Extended Families to take care of them in their dotage.
|The minute we knock down all these social support mechanisms is the minute we turn into Egypt or Libya or all the rest of the 3rd World countries where the people with Nothing Left to Lose go BERSERK. We don't HAVE jobs these people could do, even if they were qualified to do any job, which they are not for the most part. Most Old Folks have no savings, and the Extended Family died back in the 1950s for the most part. The Medical Industry as a whole would COLLAPSE without Goobermint input, putting the Doctors, Nurses and Medical Records folks on the UE lines also.
|China will succeed long term because they are net creditors, have most of the Industrial infrastructure and have more Science and Math geniuses studying at Elite Universities.
|China is TOAST because of outrageous Population Overshoot, a depleted Water Supply, insufficient arable land and insufficient local supplies of remaining Fossil Fuel energy.
|Boomers should be EXTERMINATED
|Pigmen should be EXTERMINATED
While this table provides a good basic understanding of the differing perspectives you see in the Doom-o-Sphere, it doesn't break down a couple of other important categories you see all the time on the net now, the Cornucopians who have confidence our Civilization will be salvaged and perpetuated at least, if not go on to Star Trekking the Universe through Technological Innovation and new Renewable Sources of Energy. Nor does it cover the Uber-Doomers, who believe we are on the road to an Extinction Level Event rivaling the Permian Extinction which occurred 282 Million Years Ago.
Even those additional Categories though do not express the great range of ideas for the Projected Future of Homo Sapiens if this turns out NOT to be an ELE. There are many more of these Sub-Categories, and in this post I am going to identify a few of them, along with their attributes and some of their main proponents here on the web in a few cases.
I will start with the main category of Cornucopians, those who have the most positive outlook on the Future for Homo Sapiens. They fall into 2 main Sub-Categories, Techno-Utopians and Amish-Fusion Utopians.
Techno-Utopians or Jetsons
The TU Sub-Group includes those who believe forms of Conventional Nuclear Energy such as Thorium Fission Reactors can be applied to resolve the energy problem, along with those who believe various forms of Renewable Energy might be applied to do the same thing. There are other more speculative TUs who consider the possibilities of Fusion Power or Zero-Point Energy as arriving in time to salvage Industrial Civilization. This group is also nicknamed Jetsons.
Amish-Fusion Utopians
The AFU Sub-Group genrally covers the Greenies in the Transition Towns movement. You can see this represented well on the pages of Transition Voice, edited by Erik & Lindsay Curren. The AFU Model incorporates many "Green" forms of Renewable Energy collection such as Wind and Hydro together with small towns that overall use a localized form of Agriculture more or less on the 18th Century model. Industries such as Clothing Production as well as Food Production are all Local, but we also still maintain the high technology of the Internet and Computers and Communications.
Doom Lite is the next Major Category, probably the largest one overall in terms of numbers amongst Doomers, though they may still be outnumbered by Cornucopians. There is quite a bit of crossover between Doom Lite and Cornucopians, they tend to differ most in terms of their views on the Politics, Economics and Overshoot/Die-Off questions. Under the Doom Lite category you find the Brave New Worlders, Rail & Sailers and Transition Townies.
Brave New Worlders
BNWs have one of the most depressing views of the Future, the Fascist Boot Stomping on the Face of Humanity FOREVER view. They include a vast variety of Conspiracy Theorists who believe Illuminati/Zionist/Aliens or some variant will enslave most of the Human Population, chip everybody with Tracking Implants and run the world in perpetuity as a Satanic Playground. You could place this subgroup under Full Doom also, but since it supposes that the Ubermeisters will retain a high level of technology and standard of living for themselves while the remaining population lives in squalor, it is not really Full Doom. You don't find many Bloggers that are BNWs, but MANY commenters. Quasi-Diner PO1 shows up periodically on the Diner to express BNW viewpoints, El Gallinazo here also. On Peak Oil I ran into a BNW Plubius and Flash expressed this viewpoint often on TBP. My fellow Admins on the Diner Surly and Peter also express BNW viewpoints periodically.
Rail & Sailers
R&S folks have a more Upbeat view than the BNWs do of Doom Lite. They crossover quite a bit with the Cornucopian Amish-Fusion crowd, the main difference is that R&S Lite Doomers do realize that these technologies cannot support the current 7 Billion ambulant Homo Sapiens and that a significant Die Off event will need to take place before this can work again. In this paradigm, a smaller population close to the numbers that existed around the early 19th Century will reinvent the world of Sail and Rail transportation, with the best off of them living somewhat like the Founding Fathers who wrote the FSofA Constitution lived. I would put Jimmy Kunstler, Dmitri Orlov and Steve from Virginia from Economic Undertow into this category
Transition Townies
TTs crossover with R&S, just the focus is different for TTs. These Doom Liters look for a future of many small Independent and Self-Sufficient communities, where all Food Prodcution and Manufacturing is Local, done by Craftsmen rather than in large factories. Assuming all production can be made Local, they don't really need the Rail or the Sail to make the paradigm work. Again, Lindsay and Erik Curren on Transition Voice are prime examples of TTs, so you can view them either as Cornucopians or Doom Liters. They aren't real clear where they stand on the Die-Off question, basically they prefer not to cnosider it on their blogthemselves for the most part. Though they do Publish Guy McPherson so they aren't unaware of Die Off scenarios.
The TT Model represents a Utopian Verision of the Feudal Town v 2.0 with an Upgrade to the 21st Century, with Blacksmiths and Cobblers and Weavers in a small town surrounded by Small Farms with the Farmers trading their Produce for the Manufactured Goods the Townie Craftsmen produce in a self-contained and independent economy.
I break down Full Doomers into 4 Main Sub-categories Eloi-Morlock Techno Slavers, Mad Maxers, Pharoahs and Flintstones. All FDs have in common that they see a VAST knockdown of the population of Homo Sapiens by at least 90% of current population if not more. All though also stop short of predicting an Extinction Level Event, which is the provincce of the Uber Doomer crowd. There aren't any Major Bloggers who are FD, the closest probably is Gail from Our Finite World, but in her articles she publishes on MSM websites she always stops short of predicting FD, it is only inside the Commentary of her own Blog you can glean that Gail is FD. There are numerous smaller bloggers who are FD, Peter Michael Bauer from Urban Scout is one, I am another one. The Survivalists also provide FD perspectives, and some of them have pretty successful blogs like John Wesley Rawlings, and actually these days Brandon Smith of Alt-Market appears to fit this category also.
This subcategory represents BNWs on Steroids. These folks figure that the Illuminati/Zionist/Aliens are ENGINEERING purposefully a Massive Die-off by the prescription of the Georgia Guidestones, knocking down the population of Homo Sapiens to around 500M Human Souls they will enslave in perpetuity. The Category Title comes from H.G. Wells Time Machine, where you had creepy and disgusting Morlocks raping sweet innocent Weenas every time they exited from their Underground Bunkers. There aren't many major Bloggers in this category, though with his Debt Slavery ideas in the past, Ashvin Pandurangi of The Automatic Earth (who also contributes here as a Diner) might have been categorized this way. More recently he fits into the Uber Doomer Sub-Category of Fundies though.
Mad Maxers
MMs are ubiquitous in the Doomer Blogosphere, they are all the Survivalists like John Wesley Rawlings who prognosticate a future filled with Zombies and Cannibals and Rambo-like Survivalists battling it out with them with Ar-15s, RPGs, IEDs, Poison Darts, Tiger Traps…you name it here. LOL. The Children of Men all battle it out in the Thunderdome for the Final Control over a post-Apocalyptic Civilization. It is none to clear in this scenario how anybody actually makes it out ALIVE, so you could call it a Lead Up to Uber Doom rather than Full Doom, but I dropped it in here under the FD category on the wild assumption a few Raging Maniacs and Warlords could manage to survive the Zero Point.
The Pharoah Sub-Group is kind of an extension of the Illuminati/Zionist/Alien paradigm Reverse Engineered back past Feudalism to Ancient Egyptian society. In this case, you have full tilt Agrarian Slaves working the land while a few Pharoahs live a pretty good life comparatively to their Slaves, but there is virtually no technology around that makes it all that much different other than the fact they are better fed and have to work less.
Primitivists or Flintones
The Flintstones Sub-Group of Full Doomers are those folks who see an inexorable spin down of the few remaining Homo Sapiens to Paleolithic living standards. Stone Age technology for the most part, some Horticulture/Permaculture but no mass Agriculture and remarkabley few Homo Sapiens wandering the Earth, perhaps 1 Million or so at most if a decent portion of the Earth is not Poisoned by Nukes and Climate Change doesn't completely wipe out current Ecosystems. Again, no major Bloggers in this category, though there are some theoreticians like Richard Duncan who proposed the original Olduvai Hypothesis back in the 90s. Minor Bloggers I know of in this category are Peter Michael Bauer and myself.
The final Main Category of Uber Doomers I break down to Eco-Doomers, 4 Horsemen, and Fundies. They all kind of overlap, just the Focus of each group is different.
This sub-category focuses on the Climatic Changes which most of them believe are resultant from the increasing Carbon Dioxide content of the atmosphere, which they also generally attribute to he burning of Fossil Fuels over the last 2 Centuries for the most part. Said EDs believe we have already passed an IRREVERSIBLE TIPPING POINT toward Global Warming that will render just about all life on earth above the level of the Tardigrades to be unsustainable. A COMPLETE COLLAPSE of the Ecosystem is IMMINENT, inside the next Century at the outside, perhaps less time left than that befor we are ALL DEAD. Chief Blogosphere proponent of this idea would be Guy McPherson of Nature Bats Last..
4 Horsemen
This sub-category of focuses on the varying ways Homo Sapiens are Engineering their own Extinction through the Biblical methods of Famine, Plague, War & DEATH. If you think that we are all going to the Great Beyond resultant from Global Thermonuclear War, Pandemics of Bird Flu, Crop Failures due to Drought or Floods or just distribution problems of the Herding of mass numbers of the Impoverished into Death Camps for Recycling in the Human Waste Reprocessing Facility in San Antonio, you fit the sub-category of a 4 Horseman.
These Uber Doomers look to the Bible as the main source for prediction of the Final Solution for Evil on Earth, mainly Christian Deonominations but there are some others also who Fundamentally believe that God will take retribution on the Sins of Humanity, take a few True Believers into Everlasting Glory in the Kingdom of Heaven and send everybody else to Everlasting Torment Burning in the Fire and Brimstone of HELL. Various scenarios are painted of Angels and Demons descending from Heaven to go Mano-a-Mano here on Earth, and the end result is none to good for ANYBODY who wasn't a True Believer before TSHTF. You can find this viewpoint on many Christian Fundy websites, and as mentioned previously, Ashvin Pandurangi of The Automatic Earth and Picturing Christ now subscribes to this general rubric as defined by the Biblical Prophets.
Handicapping the End Game
Once you have all these Categories and Sub-Categories defined, you can first decide which one best suits your personality and belief structure, then you can go looking for websites and books which bolster this POV. I can assure you, whichever one you pick you will be able to find some scientist or historian or anthropologist with research to back it up and make it sound credible. Even the Fundies hire up Scientists to "prove" the Biblical Apocalypse and Second Coming of Christ scenario is literal truth.
Once you have carved out your Niche in Doomer Space, you can go out to various Blogs and Forums like the Diner here and discuss TEOTWAWKI as a card-carrying Doomer with the rest of the Doomers haunting such places. The goal of course is to figure out which one of these Sci-Fi Scenarios will work out to be the REAL FUTURE? Which one is MOST LIKELY? Based on this, how do you PLAN, and how should you Hedge against alternatative scenarios in the event the outcome you predict as most likely doesn't win the Apocalypse Horse Race?
Of course as new evidence comes in and circumstances evolve the Odds change, but right now RE the Alaska Doom Bookie handicaps the 4 Major Categories with the following odds:
Cornucopia 10:1 Doom Lite 5:1
Full Doom 2:1 Uber Doom 5:1
This is ideal odds-making which doesn't leave any Vigorish for the House, so if I was really Bookmaking this I would jigger the odds a bit so I couldn't lose. In my Odds, there is a 50% likelihood for the Full Doom outcome, 20% each for Doom Lite and Uber Doom, and 10% for Cornucopian.
Breaking down the Odds inside the Full Doom Category is a bit harder. You also have to deal with Timelines on this one, since I sure don't think we will be going Flintstones Overnight here. The fastest track to Flintstones would incorporate a period of Mad Max, which COULD occur close to overnight with failure of JIT food delivery to the Big Shities. Slower tracks to Flinstones come with the other FD categories which could persist quite a while, and if any of the Doom Lite scenarios gain some traction then Flintstones is probably a long way off. However, over a timeline say a century or two long, I'd bet on Flintstones as most likely Final Outcome.
Since none of us will live THAT long though, you might consider it a better bet to Hedge for one of the other scenarios before heading out into the Bush to go the Full Primitive. Perhaps prepare yourself to be a good Apparatchik of the Fascist State, or learn techniques for managing large scale Feudal Farms with Animal and Human Labor. Old Horseman who Dines with us occassionally seems to hedge in this direction mostly.
On the Independence level however, if you can prepare yourself for Rewilding and you can get yourself to a sufficiently REMOTE area to do it, it provides the best level of overall personal security. I support this paradigm most in my writings, although I am fully aware that trying to make a go of it out in the wilderness anywhere it still exists is a very low survival percentage endeavor for most people. Low as it is though, it is likely quite a bit higher survival percentage than anyone caught inside the Big Shities the Day After JIT collapses. Wait a day too long to make your Bugout, it's going to be Dog Eat Dog in those places. Or really more explicitly stated, Human Eats Human. A situation you definitely want to avoid if you possibly can.
Anyhow, Best of Luck to all the Diners with their choices and paradigms to negotiate the ZERO POINT, the End of Industrial Civilization and the Age of Oil, TEOTWAWKI.


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Repeatedly tapping S.O.S. on the corner of my desk has failed.
Help is not on the way.
The reality has set in that if I am going to escape the hollow monotony of corporate America before social security and regret fully materialize, I'll need a more substantive plan. One that is grounded in living a life I love with the people I love.
So here we are. The plan isn't immediate but it is exciting. Don't get me wrong, I am in awe of those couples who quit their day jobs on a dime and now happily and competently sail full time from one adventure to the next. But for us, throwing caution to the wind (literally) and exiting our respective gigs isn't in the cards…not just yet.
Here's why:
- While we love the idea of sailing around the world, my husband and I need quite a few more Magellan-like skills in our skill box.
- I am an indentured servant under contract with my employer and the shackles won't be removed for a few more years. My hunky husband is a firefighter and is in the same no-full-time-sailing-until-retirement boat.
- We'll need to stockpile a bit of cash to avoid the awkward circumstance of bartering foot massages for food in unfamiliar lands.
And thus, The Plan. It goes a little something like this:
Sail as often as possible in as many places as possible learning as much as possible to stay sane as possible. And THEN…approximately six-ish years from now…buy the best possible boat we can afford and become one of those circumnavigating, happy, competent sailing couples.
It's possible! Along the way I'll do my level best to paint an honest picture of what sailing as a relative beginner is like, do's and don'ts, the incredible places you can only reach by boat, what I am learning and loving about sailing, and why life on the water beats life by a water cooler any day of the week.


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Stephanie Covelle returns to Charter Arts as the Director of School Counseling. She is originally from the northern suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. Stephanie came to the Lehigh Valley to attend Lehigh University as an undergraduate student. As an undergrad, she majored in English with a minor in Sociology, ultimately graduating with departmental honors.
While at Lehigh, Stephanie was a four year member of Lehigh University's softball team. Upon graduation in 2002, she enrolled in Lehigh's College of Education, where she earned her Masters of Education degree with a concentration in Secondary School Counseling.
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Social bookmarking site del.icio.us has recently released their very own Firefox extension designed to give del.icio.us users seamless integration into the Firefox browser.
When they talk integration, they're not kidding. The del.icio.us extension adds buttons, right-click context entries, and it's own place on the menu bar next to Help. Oh yeah, and a del.icio.us search engine in the search bar.
If you're big into del.icio.us, this is the one extension to rule them all.
Thanks for the tip, Brian!


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Weekly Wine Quiz #19: Wine, An Ultimate Facilitator of Art and Craft
Last week, I learned something fascinating about the wine world. And why my first inclination was to share it with you in my Wednesday's Meritage, I decided to make the wine quiz out of it first.
Take a look at the picture – what do you think it is? No, this is not a quiz yet. This is actually a very unique bottle of wine (there are only 12 produced, and we are talking bottles, not cases). This bottle is a result of collaboration of some of the best craftsmen and artists in Australia, and it holds the wine made by Penfolds and called 2004 Penfolds Block 42 Cabernet Sauvignon. This wine was produced only twice, in 1996 and 2004, and it comes from world's oldest continuously-producing Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard. This Kalimna Vineyard was planted in 1885, 30 years after famous 1855 Bordeaux classification. I recommend that you will read the full story of this unique wine project, Penfolds Ampoule at this link – you will find all information about the wine, videos of making those 12 handmade bottles and more.
If you are lucky enough, you can buy the bottle of 2004 Penfolds Block 42 Cabernet Sauvignon (not the Ampoule, just the regular bottle) for about $600+. Penfolds Ampoule is available for sale now, directly from the winery – would you care to guess how much this Penfolds Ampoule would cost you should you choose to buy one?
Have fun! Cheers!
July 9, 2012 at 12:20 pm
What a beautiful bottle! I'm not very fond of the price however.
July 9, 2012 at 12:21 pm
The bottle is beautiful, but I'm not too fond of the price of the bottle!
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|Daughters from China : transnational adoption and imagining cold war and post-cold war China
|Luo, Yanli
|transnational adoption from China
U.S. cultural representations
Cold War
post-Cold War
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|May 2014
|[Honolulu] : [University of Hawaii at Manoa], [May 2014]
|Stepping into the classroom at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in fall 2012, I was surprised to see a senior white lady sitting in my Chinese class, and that was how I got to know Linda, a white mother of three adopted Chinese daughters. Driven by the desire to understand her daughters' birth culture and encourage them to learn Chinese, she became one of the most diligent students in the class that semester. At the same time, she kept her full-time job as a physician and took the sole responsibility of taking care of her daughters when her professor husband left the island on business trips. Once we got to know each other better, she began to tell me how she and her husband adopted their daughters. "Why did you choose to adopt only girls?" I asked one day. She told me because girls in China were suffering, and she wished she could adopt more girls and offer them a better life. "You can't imagine what would happen to the girls if they were left in China!" She exclaimed, with tears in her eyes. I tried to find out how she had the impression that girls were suffering in China, but she couldn't remember whether she got it from newspapers or other sources. However, she recalled that in the 1990s when she and her husband decided to adopt from China, news of girls suffering in China "was everywhere," and she herself never doubted it was true.
This conversation triggered my interest in researching how transnational adoption from China has been represented in American popular culture and how China and Chinese people, specifically women and girls, have been imagined in the representations. I was less driven by curiosity than by uneasiness that what Linda read about girls suffering in China was not what I knew about China. Born a female in the Chinese countryside, and travelling far and wide later for college and graduate school or simply for sightseeing in the country, I never felt I or most other girls I met were suffering. It is not my intention to disprove Linda and American representations of Chinese women and girls. What I am interested in is how images of China and of the United States have been constructed, and what ideologies have been constructed by these cultural representations. Linda's words also suggest that she felt it was her obligation to rescue girls from China and offer them a better life. Where did this narrative of rescue and obligation come from? This thesis addresses these issues by analyzing American cultural representations of transnational adoption from China during the Cold War period and post-Cold War decade.
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How Far Along? 8 weeks today….Or, by my new OB that didn't give an ultrasound, 9 weeks tomorrow.
Total weight gain: 4 pounds lost since Christmas Eve…WOO…Maybe that's because I can't stomach to eat anything?
Cravings: I really want vegetables and fruit lately. But today I just wanted a piece of toast and yogurt. That hit the spot perfectly. Mostly, just clean fresh things that don't make me want to vomit.
Maternity clothes? None yet, but my stomach is bloating, so I have to wear my bigger shirts and pants. Soon, I suspect.
Sleep: More than I did even last week. I have to toss and turn and switch sides to find any hope of sleep, and I am getting up lots to use…..The facilities, but strangely, I feel like I'm sleeping more.
Best moment this week: Finding the only OB in my area that my insurance covers. Meaning, I have a regular doctor! 🙂
Movement: Does the gurgling of my stomach count??
Labor Signs: Ha! No, but I did have a dream the other night that I gave birth now and our baby didn't cry or eat or fill her diaper so we worried that she might not be okay, but she was breathing normally and slept constantly. Because I didn't expect to give birth for another 5 months, we didn't have any diapers or food or clothes or anything. While I was at the store picking up those items and working at said store, my husband called me and said that he had to go into work, so I would have to bring the baby to class with me. While I fretted about bringing the baby to class, I ended up on a beach where I ran into my cousins, Erin and Beth. There was a man following us and we got rid of him by throwing a stick far out into the water from the dock we appeared on. After that, Beth and I headed back to our apartment (Beth lived above Dave and I) as I told her about bringing my baby to class with me. Beth informed me that I couldn't do that and reminded me that she babysits. I told her that I could scrounge up some money for her to which she replied, "Or you could just bring me a sandwich." I went inside to find my husband laying on the floor watching TV, feet propped up on an ottoman and his head resting on our baby like a pillow, when he was supposed to be heading to work, mind you. And then I woke up. Wonder what that meant…?
Belly Button in or out? Still definitely in.
What I miss: Still missing the non-vomitty feeling.
What I am looking forward to: My baby bump.
Weekly Wisdom: Um…I don't think I have any this week.
Milestones: Huh. I think maybe a little to early to have it be anything other than my first ultrasound.
I am enclosing a picture of my 8 week belly (I'm going to go with the doctor that gave me the ultrasound and based my due date on that).


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Humans are going to use your app, and they are not going to get everything right every time. If and when they make a mistake, how does your app cope? This can be a fertile ground for testers looking for issues, as often the Happy Path case is written first and assumes everything is good, and then the conditions to catch and deal with exceptions are added onto this.
How might users make mistakes? Here are a few examples.
1. They Enter the Wrong Information
When creating an account, you might ask the user for their first and last name. They might rush through this as they are excited to get on with using your app—but if they make a mistake, are they stuck with this for the rest of the time they use it? If, thanks to auto-correct, their first name is now Fill instead of Phil, is there a place in the app where this can be corrected?
2. They Leave the Caps Lock Key On
Are your case-sensitive checks appropriate? (You do have case-sensitive checks, right?) If I'm logging in as PHIL, then I should still be able to get into the system. But if I'm busy creating data, don't allow me to create a new entry of BACON when there is already a bacon in the system. (Yes, you can have too much bacon.)
For the first case, the user doesn't need to know they are shouting. In the second case, it's okay to let them know there is a problem.
3. They Make More Than One Click
If the next screen doesn't appear immediately—or if the user clicks accidentally—the button to trigger the next step might get more than one press. This is not something the user needs to be made aware of, but it is something your app should deal with graciously.
4. They Enter Incorrect Data
After the user enters a screenful of data, some of which may be incorrect, do you let them know which fields are wrong and how to correct them? Or do you give them a blanket "Invalid Data on Form" message?
5. They Leave the WiFi Off
Has a user toggled the WiFI off or turned on airplane mode? If so, do you let them know, or do you just say, "Unable to Save Data"? Does the app take the extra step of saving data offline, then synching up when there is a connection?
These are just a few of the unexpected ways a user might interact with your system. There are plenty more, such as quitting the app halfway through a process, hitting refresh on a web page as you are getting the data, and opening the same page in another tab. Stay tuned–I'll cover these in a future post.
Looking for more ways to test? Read some of the other posts in this series:
- Lights, Camera, Action, Bugs!
- Follow the Data
- Quick Attacks on CRUD Apps
- Is it a Good Story?
- Testing for App Consistency
- Quick Tests for Your Web App
- "Alarming" Problems You Should be Preventing
- A Tester's Consistency Checklist
- Peripherals? I'd Forgotten about Those…
- Alternating Phone Models Per Test Cycle
- Using Tea/Coffee Breaks in your Mobile Testing
- Testing Error Conditions


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Will Focus on Rivera's Successes and Life
Kate Lanier to Pen
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#DelinePictures–Javier Chapa and Simon Wise (Mucho Mas Media) and Donald
De Line (De Line Pictures) announced they have secured
from Jenni Rivera Enterprises the life rights of the iconic
Mexican-American singer-songwriter, actor, producer and women's rights
activist Jenni Rivera. Rivera was one of the most influential
Latin artists whose tremendous impact in entertainment, culture and
social good continues to be felt many years after her tragic passing.
The feature film will focus on the famed life of the Banda Ranchera
mega-star who touched not only her Spanish-speaking fan base, but also
successfully crossed over into the U.S. and global markets. De Line
Pictures will produce the film with Mucho Mas.
The film will be written by Kate Lanier, who penned
one of Jenni's all-time favorite films, What's Love Got To Do
With It, and is also known for writing the feature Set It Off.
Rivera – born in Long Beach, California, her mother just having crossed
the border on foot while pregnant with Jenni – was an extraordinary
talent who encouraged and inspired her fans worldwide through her music
and philanthropic endeavors, including being a spokesperson for the
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Jenni was very open about
her life and the challenges of being a woman in the male-dominated world
of music and entertainment, along with her own personal experiences
dealing with domestic and sexual violence. The film will depict a story
of perseverance and drive which drove her successes.
As an award-winning artist – including multiple Billboard Music Awards,
twenty-two Billboard Latin Music Awards, eighteen Lo Nuestro Awards, and
four Latin Grammy nominations – Rivera is not only known as one of the
best-selling regional Mexican artists of all time, but also for her role
in disrupting cultural precedent by crossing into Banda, a
male-dominated music genre, and eventually into pop-music, where her
presence posthumously continues to shine within the entertainment sphere.
Rosie Rivera, Jenni Rivera's sister, stated of the project: "My sister
dreamt of a biopic of her life for many years, we are thrilled it will
come to fruition. We never imagined such an amazing producing and
writing team like Donald De Line and Kate Lanier would join together
with us to help make her dream a reality. We are overjoyed and excited
to begin this process. It's taken time to get here because we had to
trust Jenni's story in the right hands – and we are confident that we
made the best partnership with Mucho Mas Media and this creative team."
"Jenni's story is one that deserves to be told and will resonate not
only with those who continue to call themselves fans, but with those who
are passionate about stories that address the struggles and triumphs of
women – across cultures – who are pursuing their best lives. Jenni's
story is universal in themes of love, loss, success, and cultural
change. As shared by many who knew Jenni well, her motto of 'The number
of times I've fallen down is the number of times I've gotten up'
exemplifies the depth of the story of her life," stated De Line.
"We are honored to be joining Donald and the Rivera family in developing
and producing one of the most extraordinary life stories of an artist
and activist. Jenni's impact was felt during her life and continues on
in her legacy. The film will honor her artistry and commitment to
inspire and help people of all cultures to accomplish their dreams,"
stated Mucho Mas Media partners Chapa and Wise.
The project was negotiated between Anjelica Cohn on behalf of Jenni
Rivera Enterprises, her family and the producers. Lanier is represented
by Bob Hohman of The Gersh Agency.
About Mucho Mas Media:
Mucho Mas Media is a Los Angeles-based media company focused on the
development and production of content for today's domestic and global
Latino consumers. The company, and its partners, work from a unique
cross-cultural perspective to produce innovative, bi-lingual content for
multiple platforms that meets the needs of Latinos and Spanish-speaking
consumers – the world's fastest-growing consumers in the
About Jenni Rivera Enterprises:
Jenni Rivera Enterprises was founded by Mexican-American music legend
Jenni Rivera. Based in Jenni's hometown of Long Beach, California, the
media company continues Jenni's legacy of creating music and content for
audiences around the world.
Lynda Dorf/LD Communications


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First look: The Simpsons Road Rage
THQ releases the first information on the GBA version of this TV-show-inspired taxi-driving game. First screens inside.
THQ has today released the first information on the Game Boy Advance version of the console driving game The Simpsons Road Rage. The game will see players assuming control of one of 15 different characters from The Simpsons and using their vehicle to drive paying passengers all over Springfield. The game will feature four different gameplay modes in all, including road rage, mission mode, sunday drive, and a two-player head-to-head game.
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Cable Beach
Cable Beach is the perfect place to while away the day, and if you want to take a stroll on the longest stretch of sand on Grand Bahama, look no further. This four-mile stretch is home to a variety of resorts, restaurants, entertainment, and more. Cable Beach Bahamas has a reputation as an excellent destination for families. There won't be a boring moment at a Cable Beach resort, and kids will love all of the activities that are so close at hand. In the Bahamas there are two types of beaches: activities beaches and secluded beaches. If you're looking for action, you've come to the right place! If secluded is more your style, check out Gold Rock Beach or Love Beach.
Cable Beach got its name from an important moment in history. In 1892, the first Bahamas-to-United States telegraph cable was installed here. For over a century people have come to enjoy the fantastic atmosphere of Cable Beach Bahamas. Today, the Cable Beach Resort is home to a variety of hotels including Sandals, Sheraton Nassau Beach, and the Wyndham Resort in Nassau. Families love these resorts for their proximity to the beach and activities, but also for the convenience of their bars and restaurants. While some travelers love to explore for hidden or secluded beaches, others prefer a comfortable beach chair and a cold margarita just a few steps away. If you fall into the latter category, Cable Beach could be perfect for you.
If you're leaving the kids at home for this trip to Cable Beach Bahamas, there is plenty of adult entertainment as well. The beachfront offers a full range of restaurants, atmospheric bars, live music, and nightly entertainment. If you want a full range of nightlife options on your doorstep, choose a Cable Beach Resort. Nights can be spent hitting the casino, enjoying live guitar music, dancing the evening away, or simply relaxing with friends. Travelers that are more interested in daytime activities will revel in snorkeling, scuba diving, parasailing, and more. Fishing is one of the most popular activities in the Bahamas, so if you've never tried it before, sign up for a tour and cast your first line.
The hotels on Cable Beach don't take away from the great atmosphere. Expect quiet days where you can relax reading a juicy novel. While these Bahamas beaches might be more crowded than their secluded neighbors, you will also have all the conveniences of your hotel being nearby. If you want to explore more secluded beaches around the island, take a day or two away from your resort and hop in a rental car. The best beaches around the island include Snorkeler's Cove, Paradise Beach, and Goodman's Bay Beach. Wherever you decide to dig your toes into the sand in the Bahamas, you definitely won't want to leave!
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Pricey 'Potter' Exhibit Shines
By Robert Marich
April 11, 2013-Here are my personal impressions of an exhibition of Harry Potter props and costumes in New York City, which was engaging but pricey at $27 for an adult admission. The exhibit was at the Times Square-area Discovery hall.
Says a press release, "The 14,000-square-foot experiential exhibition – created by Global Experience Specialists, Inc. (GES) in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products – showcases the amazing craftsmanship behind authentic costumes and props from the films, offering fans a firsthand view of hundreds of artifacts displayed in settings inspired by the film sets – including the Great Hall, Hagrid's hut, the Gryffindor™ common room, and more."
GES is a unit of NYSE-traded Viad Corp. that put on exhibitions. In this case, the eight Warner Bros. Harry Potter movies were in the spotlight.
As for my own impressions, the costumes were presented in faux medieval décor—elaborate, antique looking and slightly gloomy--that dovetails with the world of Harry Potter. Still photos of actors connected with the costumes on display and video monitors playing snippets from the movies dotted the exhibition. Presumably, actors negotiated some extra compensation for use of their images, since such displays would not be covered by contracts for acting services. The exhibit does not appear to be the normal movie publicity.
In what was a typical presentation, a sign at one display said: "Robes worn by Professor Gilderoy Lockhart (KENNETH BRANAGH) while teaching his first Defense Against the Dark Arts class in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." One of the more elaborate areas recreated the inside of the cottage of the beefy Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane). A small version of the movie's iconic school dining hall—replete with stain glass windows—was one of the last displays.
There were a few touches of dry humor. In a satire of sports, one banner on display carried the text "422nd Quidditch World Cup," which references the blend of rugby and dodge ball that is seen in Harry Potter movies with contestants riding flying poles. Another bit of humor were wanted posters of movie characters, which mimic wanted posters of criminals from law enforcement.
The exhibit ends—where else?—in gift shop, where baseball hats and adult tee-shirts were a pricey $30, and coffee mugs $12.
I'd call the whole exhibit an example of licensed merchandise that is a "service"--unlike normal merchandise hard goods. Other services include movie-themed vacation packages--again not physical goods.
In a separate promotion, an international Quidditch competition in Florida is being held with teams from colleges, which keeps Harry Potter mania alive despite no new movies.
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By Chuck Lindell
Participating in daily fantasy sports amounts to illegal gambling in violation of Texas law, according to an opinion released Tuesday by Attorney General Ken Paxton.
"Odds are favorable that a court would conclude that participation in daily fantasy sports leagues is illegal gambling," the opinion said.
Under Texas law, it is illegal to wager on the "partial or final result of a game or contest or on the performance of a participant in a game or contest."
Daily fantasy operators argue that their contests are not games of chance because success is largely due to the skill and preparation of participants.
"However," Paxton concluded, "Texas law does not require that skill predominate."
"It is beyond reasonable dispute that daily fantasy leagues involve an element of chance regarding how a selected player will perform on game day. The participant's skill in selecting a particular player for his team has no impact on the performance of the player or the outcome of the game," the opinion said.
In Texas, attorney general opinions are nonbinding -- courts have the final determination of what is legal or not -- but the opinions also carry weight in legal challenges.
Paxton's opinion was sought by state Rep. Myra Crownover, R-Denton, who also asked the attorney general to determine the legality of season-long fantasy leagues.
Such leagues, Paxton said, also appear to violate Texas gambling laws. However, he added, courts are not likely to hold participants in traditional leagues accountable because the law allows for private games where nobody receives a "rake" or a portion of entry fees to run the game, and all participants share the same risk of winning and losing.
Participants in daily fantasy choose from a menu of athletes from professional or amateur sports, compiling points based on statistical performance, such as yards gained in football or points scored in basketball.
The online games typically last one day to one week, with the faster turnaround allowing more contests to be played -- and more money to be spent -- than the season-long games in fantasy leagues formed among friends and family.
It is a relatively new and largely self-regulated industry, with operators required to interpret each state's laws -- most of which do not mention fantasy sports -- to determine whether the games are allowed.
Paxton's opinion came amid greater scrutiny of daily fantasy sports by other states.
Nevada banned the games in October when its Gaming Control Board declared that the games were illegal gambling, joining five other states where operators block residents from playing -- Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana and Washington.
New York's attorney general moved to ban the fantasy sites as illegal gambling operations, winning a short-lived court order to stop the businesses from operating in December. An appeals court judge halted the ban after an emergency appeal by FanDuel and DraftKings, the largest concerns in the daily fantasy business, allowing the businesses to operate in New York while the appeal continues.
Illinois' attorney general also issued a late-December opinion finding that daily fantasy sports violated the state's gambling laws, prompting lawsuits from FanDuel and DraftKings, while the attorney general of South Dakota came to a similar conclusion but added that he was awaiting guidance from the state's gaming regulators.
In addition, a federal grand jury in Florida is investigating fantasy sports, while officials in California, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts and Michigan are studying the legality of the games, according to published reports.
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Antibiotic Susceptibility Zone: Diameter Interpretation
Clinical Microbiology C453
Task 3 Antibiotic Sensitivity Lab Report- Revision
After growing different kinds of bacteria in task 2, how do we kill the bacteria if we become infected? One way of killing or slowing the growth of bacteria is by using medications called antibiotics. One classification of antibiotics are called broad spectrum, which will treat a wide range of bacteria's such as gram positive and gram negative. The problem with this is that the antibiotic can destroy our own normal bacteria that help us fight off invaders . So its important to know the level of selective toxicity of the antibiotic. Selective toxicity is the ability to kill or harm an organism without harming other cells in the body. If the wrong antibiotic or wrong dose is given this can lead to organisms being resistant to the antibiotics and can lead to ineffective antibiotics and even death if bacteria remains growing. Another group is referred to as narrow spectrum antibiotics, which are only affective for certain types of bacteria. Narrow spectrum antibiotics do not work well if there are multiple types of bacteria involved in the infection. Since the doctors don't use narrow spectrum meds very often there is a less resistance to this group. Resistance to antibiotics is a real problem and concern. The best way to avoid resistance is to stop taking antibiotics for everything and to finish your prescription as ordered. The goals of antibiotics are to kill the bacteria that make you sick while keeping our own good bacteria and prevent resistance. For this report we will be looking at penicillin, gentamicin and novobiocin and how they respond to the staph epidermidis bacteria.
Methods and Materials
Before starting this test, new agar plate is brought to room temperature. While the agar plate is warming up, supplies were gathered. Supplies needed for this test are the 3 antibiotics discs; personal protective equipment (gown, gloves, mask and apron) Staph epidermidis culture vial, alcohol , sterile cotton swab, tea light, lysol wipes and a marker. The workstation was wiped with Lysol wipes, hands were washed with soap and water and personal protective equipment were worn. First step is to divide the agar plate into 3 equal parts using the marker and then labeling the sections with penicillin, gentamicin, and then novobiocin. Now, its time to inoculate the agar with the staph epidermidis using a sterile swab. But first the staph epidermidis culture tube will be placed over the lit tea light for sterilization. The cap from the vial is protected from contaminates as well. Take the sterile cotton swab and place it carefully into the staph epidermidis vial without touching the rim and then remove and wipe the whole surface of the petri dish. After rubbing the cotton swab over the agar, the agar is turned about 90 degrees and repeated. Make sure all the edges are swabbed well. Place the petri dish lid on and wait for the bacteria to absorb into the agar. Place the shaph epidermidis vial over the flame and return cap to the vial. The cotton swab will be placed in undiluted bleach and then discarded at the end of procedure. Now that the bacteria are absorbed, take the little tweezers and place in alcohol to disinfect, shake remaining alcohol off and make sure tweezers are dry. Take the penicillin disc and place in the section labeled penicillin; Repeat these steps for gentamicin and then the novobiocin. After discs have been placed in appropriate sections, lid will be replaced and dish will be left in dinning room for 48hrs to incubate. The workstation was wiped down with Lysol wipes and personal protective equipment removed and a 5 min hand wash was completed. On return 48hrs later, I wiped work area down with Lysol wipes and placed my personal protective equipment on so I could examine the area around the antibiotic disc. This area around the disc is known as the zone of inhibition. The diameter around the disc with no growth is measured in millimeters (mm) with your ruler and results are placed in task 3 data table 1. Once the measurement was completed the agar dish was put in undiluted bleach for about and hour and then taken out to the garbage. Work area wiped down with Lysol wipes and 5 minute hand washing was complete.
Antibiotic Susceptibility Zone: Diameter Interpretation
Zone Diameter Standards (mm)
Antibiotic Name
Microbiology Task 3 Tables
Task 3 Data Table 1
Staphylococcus epidermidis
Zone of inhibition measurement
The penicillin measured 17mm in diameter with no growth, which makes penicillin resistant to the staph epidermidis bacteria. Penicillin would not be effective in killing staph epidermidis. If penicillin was used the bacteria can still grow and cause an individual to remain sick even while taking the antibiotic.
Gentamicin measured 33mm in diameter with no growth which makes this antibiotics the most effective in killing the bacteria. Gentamicin would be the best antibiotics to treat the staph epidermidis bacteria because of its susceptabity.
Novobiocin measured only 5mm in diameter. This puts novobiocin as a resistant drug against the staph epidermidis bacteria. If novobiocin was used the bacteria can still grow and cause an individual to remain sick even while taking the antibiotic.
When we talk about selective toxicity, it means the drug can kill the bacteria and not harm other bacteria around them. So the drug of choice would act on the bacteria only and leave our good immune cells to do their work. It is so important for doctors to know what kind of bacteria is present and which antibiotic is the best choice of eliminating the bacteria. This is why the Kirby-Bauer test is preformed in labs to determine which antibiotic is sensitive and which one is resistant so we can eliminate the bacteria without destroying our good bacteria.
Hands on Labs (2015) Antibiotic Sensitivity-Kirby Bauer Diffusion Test
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