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This year we are doing the ABC's Of Christmas so I tried to incorporate books that would fit in with each letter. I had trouble with a few so I added our favorite books on those days. Here are the books that you will see cropping up on my blog over the next month :-)
Some of these books may be out of print as I've had them for a while but I'll link the best I can.
Books for 2011
A – Alabaster's Song
B – There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell
C- The Christmas Cookie Sprinkle Snitcher
D – Drummer Boy
E – The Happy Elf
F- Once There Was A Christmas Tree
The Gingerbread Pirates (a favorite from last year).
H – Humphrey's First Christmas
I – Snowmen at Christmas (I'm thinking icicle….)
J – Tiny Baby Jesus
M – Mortimer's Christmas Manger
N – The Nutcracker
O – Olivia Helps With Christmas
P – The Jolly Christmas Postman
T – Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree
U – Merry Christmas Curious George
V- Angel Pig and the Hidden Christmas
W – Willy and May
X – The legend of the Poinsettia (for xmas around the world)
Y – The Legend of the Christmas Kiss
others we'll be doing for a special day (if we have time):
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Some Aussie Favorites:
An Aussie Night Before Christmas
An Aussie Day Before Christmas (I had trouble finding a link)
If you are looking to get a new book for Christmas this year, my favorite book of all time is "The Christmas Lizard" (see list above)…….Amazon only sells used copies now but it id well worth it! I so wish I had have bought 2 copies as mine is getting a little worn but the illustrations are BEAUTIFUL and the story is WONDERFUL and kind of ties Christmas all together by explaining the true meaning. We always save this one for Christmas eve :-)
I'd LOVE t hear what your favorites are! Leave a comment or link to your list in the comments below – I look forward to checking them out!
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How to file your claim: Claims can be filed one of two ways.
1. By telephone: Call 525-1500 (inside OKC) or 1-800-555-1554 (outside OKC)
2. By Internet: www.unemployment.ok.gov.
Due to the high unemployment rate the quicker of the two methods will be to file by
The first call/contact you make will establish the claim. This gives the claim an effective
date and sets the benefit amounts. Claims are effective the week you make the initial call.
Claims will not be backdated.
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2. Total wages must equal or exceed 1 ½ times your high quarter of unemployment
taxable wages.
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eligibility for unemployment benefits. We always use the first four of the last five
completed calendar quarters. For example, if a claim is filed before April 2nd, 2011 (the
last day of the first quarter for 2011) the base period will be October, 2009 through
September, 2010.
The monetary determination: A monetary determination will be issued to you once the
claim is filed. This determination will only reflect wages earned by you from Oklahoma
employers subject to unemployment tax. If you had earnings during the base period that
have not been reported on the monetary determination you need to notify the
Unemployment Claim Center in your area by using one of the numbers listed above. This
includes wages earned in another state, while in military service or while working for the
federal government.
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maximum benefit amounts. The highest weekly benefit amount for any initial claim filed
after 1-1-2011 is $358 per week and $7400 maximum. (This would require a high quarter
of $8234 or $2745 per month on average to qualify for the high WBA)
Be sure to review the monetary determination for discrepancies. Remember, this will
only reflect wages earned in Oklahoma. If you worked out of state or for the military or
federal government, or if you have missing Oklahoma wages, contact the Service Center
at the telephone number listed above and file a wage objection.
The waiting period: Every individual has to serve a one-week waiting period. This is the
first allowable week of a claim. For example, if you have been denied for a week due to
receipt of severance, the waiting period week will be the first week after the severance
Your claim is good for a one-year period of time. This means that if you go back to work
in three weeks then lose that job some time within the one-year period of time you will
reopen your existing claim. However, the benefits available will not last for an entire
year. You have one year to draw out the maximum benefit amount. For example, if you
were eligible for the maximum amounts of $358 and $7400 you would draw benefits for
20.6 weeks.
Extended benefits: The federal government has been providing federal extended benefit
payments to individuals who have exhausted their state unemployment (UI) claims. The
parent state unemployment insurance claim must be exhausted before a request can be
made for the federal extended benefits. There are a total of 3 tiers of federal extended
benefits for which an individual may be eligible. To be eligible for the federal extension
the individual must have exhausted state benefits, or Tier 1 or 2 of the federal extension,
on or prior to week ending date 12-24-2011. No payment will be made on any extended
benefit claim after week ending 6-9-12. All regular UI requirements, such as being able
and available for work and losing your job through no fault of your own, apply to the
federal extension.
Federal Additional Compensation (FAC) payments: The FAC program is not
available for any new claim filed after 6-2-10. The last payment date for this program
was 12-11-10. It has not been extended.
Weekly Certification: After your claim is established you must file weekly certifications
in order to request payment for each week. Weeks run from Sunday to Saturday and the
weekly certification cannot be filed until after the week has passed. For example: Let's
say your claim is effective Sunday, April 3rd. The first weekly certification you can file is
for week ending Saturday, April 9th. You cannot file for that week until Sunday, April
10th but you must file it no later than 14 days from the week ending date. In this scenario
the weekly certification must be filed no later than April 23rd.
You must file a weekly certification for any week that you wish to receive payment.
Untimely weeks will not be paid.
Remember, the first allowable week is considered a waiting period week and you will not
be paid for that week.
If you have worked during the week you are claiming you MUST report all wages earned
during the week in which the wages were earned, not the week in which they were paid.
Debit Cards: Oklahoma no longer issues paper checks. When a claim is filed you have
to options for payment, either by Debit Card or by Direct Deposit.
If you elect to receive payment by debit card, no action is necessary. When your waiting
period week is processed you will be mailed a debit card. You must then activate it when
your first payment is loaded onto the card. You have received a handout regarding the
debit card.
Direct Deposit: If you elect to have your payments direct deposited you will need to call
1-866-320-8699 and tell the operator that you would like to enroll in direct deposit. You
will then complete the form and mail it or fax it back. The direct deposit information is
on the same handout that contains debit card information.
NOTE: Do not call to obtain direct deposit information until after 10:00 on the first
working day after your claim is filed. If you call too early the company handling the
direct deposit will not have your claims information.
Can I work and draw unemployment: Yes, provided your work is less than full-time
and you report all earnings during the week they are earned. There will be a certain
amount of your weekly earnings that will not be deducted from your unemployment
check but after that amount is reached the earnings will be deducted dollar for dollar.
Again, you must report all earnings from any source during the week in which they are
earned, not paid.
Work search requirements: All individuals, with the exceptions of those in approved
training, must search for work. We require two work search contacts each week benefits
are claimed. These contacts will be kept in the Information for Workers Who are
Unemployed booklets that you will receive in the mail once the claim is filed. Any
individual who is considering approved training will still be required to make work
search contacts up until the week the training begins. Work search can be done in person,
by resume, telephone, fax or email.
The OES 339 Information for workers who are unemployed booklet: This booklet
will be mailed to everyone who files a claim. It contains a brief summary of our rules for
individuals who are filing claims as well as instructions for filing claims along with
pertinent telephone numbers and email addresses. It also contains the work search forms
to record your weekly work searches.
Approved Training: If your training is approved you are not required to make work
search contacts but you must attend class each week and your counselor must complete a
Progress in Training form each week. You will not receive benefits for any week that you
did not make satisfactory progress in training. Contact your local Workforce Oklahoma
office to see if your training can be approved.
Individuals who are not approved for training may still attend school. However, if school
is a barrier to re-employment you will be denied benefits. For example, if you are taking
classes during your normal work hours and you are unwilling to withdraw from school or
re-arrange your classes if suitable work is offered, you will be denied benefits.
Severance, retirement and other payments: If you are entitled to receive severance
pay, retirement pay, bonus or other payments, these payments may be deducted from
your unemployment insurance claim.
Severance payments will only be deducted when you receive the check.
Retirement paid in a lump sum is only deductible during the week of receipt but
retirement paid on a continuing basis will be deducted each week on a dollar by dollar
basis. Retirement is deductible if the employer contributed to the retirement account.
Bonus payments are deductible during the week in which they are received. All of these
payments must be reported when you file your claim and also on the weekly claim filing.
401K's that are rolled over within 60 days are not deductible. However, if the 401K is
withdrawn or not rolled over within sixty days it is deductible during the week of receipt.
You must be able and available the majority of the week to remain eligible for benefits.
Registering for work: Oklahoma no longer requires that you register for work with our
agency at the time the claim is filed. However, it is strongly suggested that you do so and
that you take advantage of any placement services offered. If you are selected to attend an
orientation group or a job search workshop you will be required to register for work.
Failure to do so will result in a denial of benefits.
Availability issues: You must be able and available for work each week that you claim
benefits. If, for some reason, you find yourself unable to work or unavailable for work
stop filing your claim. When your circumstances change and you are able to work or
available for work contact the Commission and re-open your claim.
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ROCK FALLS – Patrick A. Neubauer, 50, of Rock Falls, died Monday, April 29, 2013, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.
He was born April 3, 1963, in Sterling, the son of Robert August and Patricia Ann (Dwyer) Neubauer. He married Laurie M. Musser on Aug. 20, 1983, in Rock Falls. Patrick was employed for 10 years by Wahl Clipper Corp. in Sterling, and most recently for a short time as IT manager of HCC Inc. in Mendota. Patrick was a member of Foursquare Gospel Church in Rock Falls, and a past Cub Scoutmaster of Troop 323 in Rock Falls.
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Motorists are being warned to be aware of changes taking effect in just over two weeks time as the paper counterpart for the driving licence will no longer be issued by the DVLA.
The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) fears many motorists are still confused or unaware of the implications of the paper counterpart no longer having any legal status from June 8.
The paper counterpart was used alongside the photo card driving licence when the latter was introduced in 1998 to include details that could not be included on the card itself, such as any endorsements and which category of vehicles people are entitled to drive.
Before 1998 motorists just had the paper part of the license.
However, from next month, this information will be stored electronically and not be shown on any written documentation drivers will have.
These details can be only be obtained via the DVLA driver record system and be checked online or in writing by post.
As of June 8, the paper counterpart, or an old-style paper driving licence, cannot be relied upon to carry correct or up-to-date information about endorsements or categories of vehicle someone can drive.
What is also changing is the court procedure if motorists have to surrender their driving licence in the event of an endorsement.
The court will take the photocard and if drivers include the paper counterpart with their submission, the photocard will be returned to them but the counterpart will not.
However, drivers will be expected to pay their fine in the normal way.
Another change is how to provide proof of your driving record to an employer or car hire firm, as the photocard or paper licence will not be enough in itself any more.
Drivers will be expected to access the details themselves and print those off for submission to a car hire firm or employer.
Or they can call the DVLA and give a third party permission to check their driving record verbally.
If drivers are hiring a vehicle, it is important to check with the car hire firm beforehand what information they need.
Motorists can also obtain a special code from www.gov.uk which allows the hire firm access to your record for 72 hours to make the necessary checks.
Sarah Sillars, IAM chief executive officer, said: "People are not aware of how many of the current procedures are changing. The onus is very much on the individual to obtain the information they need beforehand.
"So we very much hope people will not be caught unawares, especially if they don't want a nasty surprise when arriving to collect their car at the start of their holiday."
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Jason Loyd Murphy graduated from Pepperdine University in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in TV production and theatre. With an eye on earning a living and scheduling flexibility, he earned California certification as a bartender after graduating from the National Bartenders School. "I knew that I wasn't going to get a job in acting right away, so I decided to go through a quick bartending program which would give me a marketable skill," he says.
Though he still aspires to become a Los Angeles actor, in two short years, Mr. Loyd Murphy has established a successful bartender career. He has worked for a wide variety of catering services and restaurants, including Wolfgang Puck, Truly Yours Catering and The Kitchen for Exploring Foods, as well as at high profile events such as the Academy Awards. He also became TIPS certified (Training for Intervention Procedures) following a training course to give bartenders the appropriate skills to prevent patrons from becoming overly intoxicated.
In addition to the ability to support himself through bartending wages, Mr. Loyd Murphy enjoys being a key factor in the enjoyment people have at the parties and events that he works. "When people drink, they are able to enjoy themselves more at events such as weddings. The bar is the key to a successful wedding," Loyd Murphy says.
Mr. Loyd Murphy & His Career
Tell us about your career as a bartender.
I currently bartend for several catering companies in the Los Angeles area. I primarily work for Truly Yours Catering, but I've worked for Wolfgang Puck, Mary You May, The Party Staff, and The Kitchen for Exploring Foods. I enjoy Truly Yours the most because they're the only catering company that I'm aware of that allows for substantial tips to be collected by bartenders. I'm 24, and I've been out of school for two years now. This isn't the career I want, ultimately, but it's a means to an end and is something that I can do throughout my life if necessary so that I can pursue my other passions. It provides me with a decent amount of income, most of it in daily cash, and it affords me the hours that I need as an actor in LA to do what I need to do in that field.
What do you enjoy most about your career?
I mostly enjoy the free time it allows me. The flexibility of my schedule us really important to me and this job allows me to choose some of my own hours and to work part-time for good money.
What do you do dislike?
Standing for eight hours at a time is physically uncomfortable; I have a lot of back problems because of this job. That's another reason that I don't think I'd want to do this for my whole life, even though it's a really great job for right now.
What exactly do you do on a daily basis?
When I work, I set up the bar from scratch at various locations. I prep wine and champagne for the servers in tubs. I ice down drinks, cut fruit, organize my glassware, set up the alcohol, put linens on the table and bar top, then break down everything once the event is over.
What are the most challenging aspects of your job?
The physical stuff is the most difficult. Unloading the trucks at the locations and carrying glassware on carts down steep slopes are not easy tasks.
What are some common myths about your profession and how do they differ from the actual work?
The most common myth is that you have to know a lot of drinks to be a really good bartender. You really only need to memorize about twenty drinks; everyone orders something from the same list of those twenty. Knowing more can help in the job but there are drink books behind the bar if someone orders something obscure.
What contributions do you feel your job offers to society as a whole?
When people drink, they are able to enjoy themselves more at events such as weddings. The bar is the key to a successful wedding. People go to a number of events at which they feel socially awkward and the bar is the place where they can begin to relax and meet other people at these events.
What has been one of your favorite bartending experiences?
The Academy Awards was interesting just because of the amount of security and celebrities there. It was a neat experience to get to participate in.
What are some of your personal and/or professional goals for the future?
Advancing to a new position at a bar to increase income would be the primary goal for me as far as bartending goes.
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What are the hottest drink specialties within the bartending field?
The Appletini or any other kind of colored drink is really popular right now. Many people don't seem to care about the taste, as long as it's relatively sweet and has a bright color. They want to look pretty while they're drinking it.
Do you feel that is important for someone to be passionate about this field in order to be successful on both a personal and professional level?
I feel it's important to be passionate about any career in order to be successful. This applies as much to bartending as to any job.
What kinds of jobs are available for graduating students in this field? Specialty areas?
Catering is the job which is most available to students of bartending schools. To get into the actual bartending generally requires working your way up through catering and events.
What are the best ways to get a foot in the door?
You should stress your amount of experience as much as possible. Build it up and let potential employers think that you really know what you're doing even if you don't feel confident. Confidence is really important in bartending so you need to exude that in your interviews.
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Tell us about your undergrad education and degree.
I graduated from Pepperdine University in 2005 with a B.A. in TV production and theatre. I knew that I wasn't going to get a job in acting right away, so I decided to go through a quick bartending program which would give me a marketable skill. I graduated from the National Bartenders School, also in 2005, with a California certification as a bartender. I am also TIPS certified, which gives me something else to put on my resume to entice employers to hire me.
What led you to decide to go to bartending school?
I needed a career that primarily worked night hours and had a large cash income so that I could pursue other things during the day. Plus, I'm a performer and bartending lets me show that off a little bit. So the school made sense to me.
How has your education benefited your career?
My bartending education benefited me as far as my level of comfort behind of bar. I am confident in my abilities to quickly and efficiently make drinks and maintain a clean and organized bar. It gave me skills and confidence.
What can students applying to schools of this kind do to increase their chances of being accepted?
I don't think any bartending school would ever deny someone willing to pay to take a course.
What factors should prospective students consider when choosing a school?
If you want a great bartending school, choose one that emphasizes speed and cleanliness. Accuracy is the least important aspect of bartending. Sure, you need to know how to make drinks but you're going to learn that at all bartending schools as well as on the job. You need to be able to make them fast, get your customer's needs met and keep the bar area clear.
Cleanliness and organization are the most important considerations for a bartender. They allow for speed, which allows for greater service to more patrons, which means more tips. Mixology is important, but ultimately anyone can learn the ingredients to the most common drink in a matter of days. It's one's ability to efficiently pour drinks that determines one's success as a bartender.
Does graduating from a certain school make a difference in landing a good job in this field?
The level of one's ability to provide bar service has no correlation to one's education. If you can make a drink, you can make a drink. Supplementing your education with extra certifications always helps boost your resume.
In Closing
Is there anything else you can tell us about yourself, your career, or the profession that would be interesting or helpful to others aspiring to enter and succeed in the field?
Bartending is a great career for people who want high levels of cash immediately and need to have their days free. You can do it part-time or full-time and you can do it just for a little while or for the rest of your life.
Editor's Note: Jason Loyd Murphy is happy to answer follow-up questions from students interested in a career as a bartender. To follow up directly, email him here.


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PPL Electric Utilities has submitted the Northeast-Pocono Reliability Project to the state Public Utility Commission for approval, the company said Friday.
The project will improve electric service for 250,000 people in northeastern Pennsylvania and the Poconos. It will involve construction of three new electrical substations and a new 230-kilovolt power line through Wayne County.
The new power line will be about 58 miles long. It will connect the new electrical substations to the existing high-voltage grid, strengthening the local electric delivery network. The 230-kilovolt transmission line would begin at an existing substation in Jenkins, north of Wilkes-Barre, and run southeast through Luzerne County to a new substation at West Pocono, north of Blakeslee.
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Stephanie Raymond, PPL Electric Utilities Transmission and Substation vice president, said, "It will reduce the number of power outages experienced by our customers, and also will reduce the duration of outages caused by falling trees or severe weather."
The PUC review process generally takes about one year, with opportunities for local residents to comment.
The project addresses the issue of the existing network of 69-kilovolt power lines in this area. These lines are no longer adequate and are up to 40 miles long, exposing customers to more frequent and longer service outages if lines are damaged during storms.
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Have students choose an important or controversial event that involved local residents. Have them research the event through text books, newspapers, or other resources at a library or local historical society. Then have them record an interview with a relative or neighbor who was involved in some way with this event. Students should prepare ahead of time a list of questions for the interview. The questions should elicit information that will help them discover what this event meant to the person and determine the accuracy of this account. Typical questions might include: In what way was this person involved? Who else was involved and what were their roles? What does the person remember about the circumstances leading up to the event? Where was the person when it ended? What was his or her reaction? Then have students write a report that describes the oral history and evaluates its accuracy. In preparing this document they might consider the following questions: Which details in this person's story provide evidence about its accuracy? Why do you think so, or not? Can you distinguish the truth from the elaboration in the story? How? How might the person's point of view have affected his or her account? What other kinds of sources would you need to assure yourself of the story's accuracy? Are written sources always reliable? Why or why not?
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The Onlookers emerged from the late 70's early 80's Mod revival scene but by the time the recordings on this CD were made the group had blossomed into one of the era's most interesting and gifted bands with fantastic songs and an image to match... They managed only one 7" release - the highly sought after 'You And I' on Demon Records in 1982, but the group has gained a cult, almost legendary status over the intervening 30 years. Their songs and sound as fresh today as they were back then. Whilst bootleg cassettes and CD's of live concerts have served only to fan the flames of interest - only rumours existed of an album of demo's that the Onlookers had recorded for Polydor with Jam producer Vic Coppersmith-Heaven."
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If you have read our columns over the years, you may have thought some of the printing problems and mistakes we've described were fanciful. Actually, they are all taken from real-life experiences. We committed many of the mistakes ourselves, but most were taken from our experiences as consultants. This month, we'd like you to join us as we recall a visit to a facility where confusion reigned, a situation that is not nearly as unusual as you might expect. You may consider the conditions at this facility extreme, but they occur to some extent in virtually every printing operation, regardless of the types of products being printed.
Production control gone wild
We were called into a large manufacturing plant (part of a multinational company) to assess and improve its printing operation. Screen printing and pad printing were just two of the many production processes employed by the company. We were told the company's "printing guru" had retired and left the production department with limited printing expertise. The company's managers wanted employees to be well versed in the technical aspects of the screen- and pad-printing processes and standard operating procedures in the printing department to be up to the mark. We expected the job to be a simple and routine check up.
The production department not only employed printing processes, but also injection-molding, metal-forming, assembly, testing, ultra-sonic welding, and spray-painting processes. The print processes were part of this broader production line and located in a specific area of their own. The company operated several shifts and said they followed ISO 9000 standards. On the surface, the company appeared to be a typical manufacturing unit.
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Don't Lose Your Data: Why Backing Up Your Files is Important.
In 1858 American oil explorer Edwin Drake invented something that was to change the world – the oil drill. He spent years toiling in difficult conditions and doing the hard work while trying different styles and methods of drilling until he hit on the one that worked. It was a breakthrough that should have set him and his family up for life. But he overlooked one critical thing – he failed to patent his drilling invention.
It is a mistake we all make from time to time. We are so busy with doing – selling, making, creating, promoting, building, etc. – that we neglect critically important but mundane things. A thing that often gets neglected is backing up your website and its files so you don't lose data. This is a task that is undoubtedly boring so it's easy to push it down the priority list – until, of course, the worst happens.
The story of Edwin Drake may jolt you into action though. While others profited and became millionaires from his invention, he got nothing. He ended up spending his money speculating in the oil markets on Wall Street. In 1863 he lost everything and lived much of the rest of his days in poverty, known as the "crazy man."
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Before going any further it's important to say that an assumption is being made here. That assumption is that you believe backups are critical. Of course if you're the gambling sort who likes to play fast and loose while relying on good fortune, then backups may not be your thing. But when it comes to backup systems, caution with forward planning is the only prudent approach.
Let's get back to a word that was mentioned earlier – mundane. You can probably think of any number of things that are more interesting than talking about backups. For example, deciding whether to stir you coffee clockwise or anti-clockwise. How's that for mundane?
But the solution to backing up your files and website doesn't have to be mundane. This is because of technology from a variety of different providers that handles the full process of backing up your website and files automatically. You just need to spend a short amount of time setting it up and after that, the system will look after itself.
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The oil explorer Edwin Drake became impoverished and the subject of some ridicule following his oversight. It may not be as bad as losing your data without having proper backup systems in place, but you will undoubtedly be worse off in some way. This can be prevented with some simple foresight and a small amount of investment.
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Welcome to my potpourri column that allows me to discuss a variety of important issues all at one time. Also, I want to give you a preview of some of the subjects of future columns that I hope you will find pertinent and timely for all of us living in the Bluffton area. Lastly, I want to end today's column with some excerpts of the many emails readers have sent me, not to mention phone calls. Thank you all for the fabulous support. I am very grateful and hope you'll keep it up.
Let me start with the obvious - Obamacare (The Affordable Care Act) is here to stay and I'm happy about it. Those of us who really know about the substance of this law, know, at the very least, it is a beginning to hopefully make important changes to help us all. I'm going to watch very carefully what the regulations and implementation plans will be as 2013 comes and goes, because the major parts of the legislation will really begin in 2014.
First item on the list will be implementation of the insurance mandate that caused the bulk of the uproar. The deadline of Nov. 16 will have passed as I write this column. That date determines whether the individual states will assume the responsibility for insuring the people who are presently uninsured. As of this writing, South Carolina, to no one's surprise, has said no, they will not participate. For those states that do not, the federal government will have to set up insurance exchanges to meet the mandate rules. No one knows how they are going to do this or when. I think everyone was waiting to see the election results.
Obamacare helps us with some major insurance problems, but in no way is it a long-term solution to the high costs of health care in this country. That will require major reform and right now we are a long way from that.
Contrary to some of the political ads that ran in this country during the campaign, the law did not create a bureaucratic "death panel" to tell people if they would be covered for their aging problems or terminal illnesses; in other words if patients would be treated or not.
It was a great scare tactic, but it didn't work because it was total lie. In fact, this appointed panel cannot do that. It is explicit in the law that the panel cannot get involved in clinical issues, especially treatments. Their job is to research new ways of developing cost containment in healthcare and suggest the best reforms. Remember there are some very good models in this country capable of doing this right now. They are in some of our biggest and best medical institutions, having to do with how providers get paid; not by fee-for-service, but by quality and performance. Whether this can trickle down to a community like ours is the big question. It will have to sooner or later or we'll continue to be in trouble, no matter what laws that are passed.
A reminder to Medicare readers - Medicare Part D insurance changes, having to do with pharmaceutical costs, must be made by early December. I hope you have discussed the plans available with your health insurance broker as to what would be the best policy for you. Unlike Medicare supplemental insurance, where provisions are basically the same, Part D varies from person to person, depending on what prescriptions or drugs you take. Medicare's website will help; talking with a knowledgeable broker is much better. There are lots of traps; we all need help with this important decision, year in and year out.
Here is what's coming in future columns:
• A discussion with three family physicians from Charlotte, N.C., one in academic medicine for many years; one in a solo family medicine practice that is part of a hospital program; and one who works in a community clinic serving more Medicaid patients. I wanted their opinions on the future of Family Medicine. You'll read theirs and my opinion and we will often not agree.
• Some columns about the growing trend toward concierge medicine. I have already interviewed the major company that works with these physicians in the transition from traditional medicine. I will interview local concierge doctors and their patients. I will also interview other providers who do not agree with this trend and patients who also have different viewpoints.
• A discussion of the other provider types such as private nurse practitioners and physician assistant practices and how their patients feel about this type of primary care. I want to discuss medicine provided in the many urgent care centers all over the greater Bluffton and Hilton Head area. And I won't forget to bring in the many issues regarding ER's in our local hospitals.
• A column on the prevalent use of hospitalists to care for you when you need hospitalization. Is it good or bad? I hope to interview these hospital internists and even a doctor who does not believe in this methodology and is one of the vanishing breed of physicians who sees his own patients when they need hospitalization.
• I hope to find out more about the plans the Savannah hospitals have for our area. This is an interesting situation as health care is being delivered across state lines, a bit unusual at the community level, but expected in this highly competitive area.
So stay tuned.
Finally I want to again thank all of you for the emails and phone calls. Here are a half dozen comments, a very small sample. As you'll note, some folks don't agree with my opinion and as I said at the end of my very first column (this is my 12th), it's OK to disagree. We all have opinions and ideas. Those ideas keep us in tune during these difficult health care times.
• "Really enjoyed your column today and always marvel at your research. I am quite worried re: election and as you pointed out we are loaded with "uninformed suckers who, if they listen to the debates (probably watching some reality show), just go with which pundit they either like or the last on to influence them."
• "I read your recent article in Bluffton Today and would like to take issue with something you said about the $716 billion "cut" in benefits from Medicare and I quote, "…it reduces federal reimbursements to providers, hospitals and others and increases fees and taxes on pharmaceutical companies, device makers and insurance companies. Do you really believe that these reductions in fees to doctors, hospitals, drug companies and medical equipment manufacturers will be borne by those groups?"
• "Just want to let you know I think your column is wonderful and very informative. I have cut them from the paper for future reference, as they are so full of good information."
• "Thanks for your efforts to make sense out of this debacle. What I would have wished is for Congress to have given us a comparison of health plans: England, Canada, France, Sweden, etc, so we would see what they pay in taxes to cover their plans, what it covers, their populations, etc."
• "I had taken a course that you gave a few years ago at OLLI and was so impressed with your knowledge regarding Medical Management. Having just finished reading, "What's with these current problems," I'm looking forward to your future columns. I know they will be a wealth of information."
•"Your column on Obamacare was an excellent attempt to critique a tough problem. Health care is expensive in the USA and steps must be taken to bring it under control."
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Columnist Mike Silver lives in Pinecrest and may be reached by email at email@example.com or by calling 843-815-3894.


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freenode/#lisp - IRC ChatlogSearch
2:52:23 beach Good morning everyone!
3:16:09 blep-on-external hello beach
3:16:48 blep-on-external how do i get all the class slots of a class? i've tried sb-mop:class-slots but it doesn't have applicable methods for the symbol or an instance of the class
3:18:53 pillton blep-on-external: (sb-mop:class-slots (find-class 'my-class))
3:18:59 blep-on-external never mind, found it.
3:22:45 blep-on-external oh, i was missing find-class.
3:23:25 blep-on-external cl-mop:slot-names seems more specific to what i want to do
3:23:34 blep-on-external thanks though
3:27:51 beach mop class-slots
3:27:52 specbot http://metamodular.com/CLOS-MOP/class-slots.html
3:28:19 beach blep-on-external: What is the class you are trying with?
3:29:21 beach blep-on-external: More generally, what are you trying to do?
4:05:11 blep-on-external i'm done
4:05:24 blep-on-external i just wrote a method to turn message objects into json strings
4:06:20 blep-on-external https://pastebin.com/X5TVZDMD
4:11:43 beach blep-on-external: Either you have TABs in your code that pastebin can not handle, or you line starting with COLLECT is incorrectly indented.
6:51:29 shrdlu68 "In general, Common Lisp is a type-safe language. A Common Lisp compiler is responsible for inserting dynamic checks for operations whose type safety cannot be proven statically. However, a programmer may indicate that a program should be compiled with a lower level of dynamic type-checking." -- What does (safety 0) do?
6:52:10 shrdlu68 Does it mean I won't get the usual "var is of type X, expecting type Y"?
6:52:18 beach shrdlu68: Depends on the implementation.
6:52:34 beach shrdlu68: Array bounds checks may be omitted.
6:53:12 beach shrdlu68: It may believe you when you say something is a fixnum, and act accordingly.
6:53:20 shrdlu68 Hmm, meaning one could get a segfault?
6:53:24 pillton The standard allows array bounds checks to be omitted at safety 3.
6:53:26 beach Oh, definitely.
6:53:38 beach pillton: Oh, OK.
6:53:54 beach shrdlu68: Yes, definitely segmentation faults are possible.
6:54:40 pillton clhs 22.214.171.124
6:54:40 specbot The ``Arguments and Values'' Section of a Dictionary Entry: http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/01_ddc.htm
6:54:53 pillton "Except as explicitly specified otherwise, the consequences are undefined if these type restrictions are violated."
6:55:27 pillton The standard defines no exceptional situations for aref.
6:56:22 beach Yeah, that surprises some people.
6:56:39 pillton It surprised me. SBCL made me lazy.
6:56:59 White_Flame also, a big ol' "In general," in the beginning of shrdlu68's quote leaves leeway there, too
6:57:17 pillton Even using ELT on a list is unsafe.
6:57:34 pillton "Should signal an error of type type-error if index is not a valid sequence index for sequence. "
6:58:28 pillton Anyway, what the standard allows and what sane people do are two different things.
6:58:52 shrdlu68 I should pay closer attention to exception types, never noticed array out of bounds exception was not standard.
6:58:54 pillton Oh, I am not implying that the standard is insane.
6:59:12 pillton Well, not all of it.
6:59:16 pillton I digress.
6:59:35 White_Flame sanity is relative to time frames. Pathnames, for instance, are kind of insane nowadays
6:59:41 beach The purpose of WSCL is to clarify many such situations, like requiring errors to be signaled in safe code.
7:00:23 pillton I must admit. I have never really understood the definition of safe code given clhs 22.214.171.124.
7:01:25 beach Oh, you are putting too much interpretation into the word.
7:01:56 beach The definition is that SAFETY is 3.
7:02:15 beach It's like "simple" rewrite systems. There is nothing simple about them.
7:02:34 pillton Well, that solves that mystery.
7:03:11 pillton Thank you.
7:03:15 beach Sure.
7:03:27 beach But I understand what you feel. Hence WSCL.
7:11:06 shka_ UB area is CL is large
7:11:22 shka_ writing portable code is not super easy
7:11:38 shka_ so, yeah, WSCL makes sense
7:19:38 p_l Hmm, large UB? Anyone got a metric for that?
7:23:37 akkad there is sbcl, and nothing else. portability a non-issue
7:23:54 beach Hard to quantify of course, but it is probably worse than most people think after a casual read of the Common Lisp HyperSpec. But I am guessing it is not as bad as some languages like C.
7:30:16 phoe akkad: d'oh, other implementations are used as well
7:33:35 akkad awesome lisp says to just use sbcl
7:35:12 akkad phoe: what do you use?
7:43:59 jackdaniel what is awesome lisp? also, that is pretty dumb advice, unless provided as a simplified instruction for a real newbies.
7:44:25 jackdaniel if we didn't care about portability, but "just write" for sbcl there wouldn't be a need for a standard and we'd be in a similar situation python or clojure are
7:44:33 jackdaniel that is - specification defined by implementation
7:44:38 phoe akkad: sbcl and ccl on x8664, ecl on android and abcl on JVMs
7:46:08 jackdaniel clisp on minix3; ecl on haiku :)
7:46:33 jackdaniel and lispworks on producation (that's what I've been told)
7:46:53 jackdaniel ;p getting back to my (hopefully portable) toys
8:01:45 d4ryus1 ** NICK d4ryus
8:08:40 beach jackdaniel: The concept of a standard that is independent of implementations and of the organizations that supply implementations is pretty hard to grasp, especially these days, when single-implementation languages and benevolent-dictator languages are not only commonplace, but also used by industry projects that think of themselves as being serious.
8:17:17 jackdaniel I like to look at standards from the humanism standpoint
8:17:51 jackdaniel I can imagine our civilization getting doomed; only printed standards and programs survived
8:18:06 jackdaniel and some alien civilization recreating virtual machine to run our "heritage"
8:18:40 jackdaniel of course I'm half-joking here, but looking at standards this way may help making the topic a little easier to grasp
8:19:30 beach You have a vivid imagination. :)
8:19:59 jackdaniel thank you
8:21:24 beach But, and I know I have said this before, for any industry project that thinks of itself as being serious, using a language with an independent standard is a must, or else they must take precautions and figure out what to do if the "language" they have chosen should disappear, quit being maintained, or be altered in some major way.
8:21:46 beach They might have to hire compiler experts then. And they probably don't even know where to find one, nor what to pay such a person.
8:28:00 dim beach: what about companies using their own home-grown and home-steered projects/language, such as Google with Go or Mozilla with Rust (I think), or Oracle with Java?
8:30:46 ebrasca They are big.
8:30:53 beach dim: That's fine because they will then have hired people who are capable of maintaining that stuff.
8:30:57 shka and not so smart if you ask me!
8:40:06 shrdlu68 t/ex
8:40:29 aeth akkad, jackdaniel: I find a good compromise between painful portability and no portability is to write for one implementation and then test it on one or two supported others. Technically, they could all violate the standard in the same way, but at least you're not tied to *one*
8:42:49 aeth It's pretty easy to run on both SBCL and CCL. On the other hand, ABCL and CLISP are probably the hardest to support.
8:43:17 Cymew Aren't CLISP that old crap that should just go home and die?
8:43:28 Cymew Hmm. "Isn't"
8:43:43 aeth CLISP is... unusual. I think its fixnum is 48 bits. Its long float is arbitrary precision. etc.
8:43:46 beach Cymew: What is the point of such utterances?
8:44:06 aeth ABCL is more excusably unusual. It has to run on the JVM.
8:44:13 aeth If you *really* want to be portable, test on them.
8:44:43 dim I'm still missing the ABCL facility to create a .jar from a .asd
8:44:44 Cymew beach: If that is the old implementation I'm thinking of, I think it is such a corner case that it can be disregarded for compatibility reasons.
8:45:18 beach Cymew: That is no excuse for inflammatory phrases like your first one.
8:45:23 Cymew I probably should have been clearer, yes.
8:45:24 dim as soon as that's possible, I'll have a look at having pgloader.jar and also using JDBC on that platform, that'd be great really for supporting some commercial databases and other niche ones
8:45:43 aeth Cymew: CLISP is the interpreted implementation that's semi-active (no new release in a long time, but not dead), but tons of resources from 2000-2010 recommended it so it'll live for a long time.
8:46:00 White_Flame I don't recall CLISP ever being characterized as being incompatible
8:46:01 aeth It's also possible that it'll be active again because it's not dead.
8:47:01 White_Flame the 3 major things is that it's slower than native compiled implementations, it has fast bigmath, and it's easy to get running on new/unsupported platforms
8:47:05 Cymew White_Flame: I have read descriptions of its implementation of CLOS to be very peculiar.
8:47:26 beach Cymew: karlosz is in fact writing a Cleavir-based compiler for CLISP as a GSoC project.
8:48:07 Cymew Interesting idea.
8:50:03 aeth I'd say that the most annoying thing about CLISP is that it doesn't support single-float and double-float specialized arrays. When a specialized array isn't supported, you just get T arrays instead. *Tons* of libraries assume float arrays (or byte arrays) even though the standard only requires bit and character arrays. Those libraries will (slowly) run in CLISP, but without any sort of benefit in the type system.
8:51:23 aeth Implementations with long-float (not just CLISP) also have an interesting issue with pi. pi is technically long-float, but in most implementations that's also a double-float so some people erronously assume pi is a double-float. So CLISP has the opposite issue there, where it supports something (long-float) that most popular implementations don't.
8:52:19 aeth s/long-float/a long-float larger than a double-float/
8:53:00 aeth (don't replace "pi is technically a long-float" with that substitution, though.)
8:55:39 aeth (CLISP does support byte arrays, so I might have been unclear there. I was just saying that that's another thing libraries assume.)
8:56:55 White_Flame as specialized vectors or simple arrays? :-P
8:57:17 White_Flame that's a problem I keep hitting. Half the libs want specialized VECTOR, the other half want specialized SIMPLE-ARRAY
8:59:06 _death when I started learning lisp I used clisp on windows (and sbcl on linux) .. it was slow, but usable for many tasks.. it also has a small image size
8:59:19 aeth White_Flame: a (simple-array single-float (*)) is a (vector single-float *) afaik (but not the other way around afaik)
8:59:49 aeth _death: And there's the right answer for what you do NOT want to use SBCL for. When you need a small image size!
8:59:52 _death it also has a nice manual
9:00:38 White_Flame yeah, flexi-streams will build a vector for me, then I need to convert to simple-array to give it to the websocket lib
9:02:09 _death flexi-streams has many faults.. some of them can be fixed without creating backwards compatibility issues, but that particular one I'm not sure
9:02:16 aeth A simple-array is usually what you want if you even remotely care about performance (assuming you're not using one of the features that a nonsimple array has). It gives more guarantees as to the structure of the thing.
9:02:23 aeth At least a 1D simple-array.
9:04:34 White_Flame yep, I think a real failing of the spec is that simple-vector cannot be specialized
9:05:28 White_Flame however, when you think about it, when you're dynamically building up a buffer from a stream, the backing data can't be simple
9:07:16 aeth Yes it can. You could e.g. just have a fixed size.
9:08:17 aeth You would need some way to communicate that it's only meaningful up to a certain index. A general library should probably just use the 2nd return value to do it, but I'd personally put it in a struct to store the value.
9:09:07 aeth Obviously this is probably going to waste space (but also risk running out of space), but make things faster.
9:09:10 aeth A tradeoff.
9:12:14 White_Flame and re-copy to larger ones manually, or keep a chain of them, etc
9:12:23 White_Flame because you don' tknow the size ahead of time
9:12:44 White_Flame could be 16 bytes, could be 16MB
9:14:34 aeth You could even have the user be in control
9:14:59 aeth i.e. feed in the array, if it's too large, then allow the user to continue
9:15:13 aeth So you as the user would be checking the 2nd return value
9:19:08 aeth s/if it's too large/if the data is too large for the array/
9:43:23 mrm ** NICK l
9:43:30 l ** NICK mrm
9:58:32 lthms hi
9:58:53 beach Hello lthms.
10:01:26 beach lthms: Are you new here? I don't recognize your nick.
10:01:53 lthms I am indeed, I am here thanks to borodust
10:02:01 beach Oh, OK.
10:02:05 beach Welcome then.
10:02:23 lthms thanks!
10:04:16 White_Flame aeth: needing human involvement in a communications crossbar doesn't seem like the greatest idea...
10:04:54 White_Flame "oh, I need to wait for the admin to notice the server's sldb window before my response gets returned"
10:05:14 phoe Afternoon
10:06:13 beach Hello phoe.
10:06:48 phoe Hey beach - been a while.
10:07:04 phoe I got sucked up by various things to do in life.
10:07:06 phoe (again)
10:07:11 beach Oh!
10:07:22 beach Sorry to hear that (I guess).
10:07:25 lthms i was wondering, has anyone here tried to write some async database code in common lisp? do you have anything to advice?
10:07:36 phoe lthms: what kind of database do you mean?
10:07:57 lthms anyone really, I don't have any strong opinion on the matter
10:07:59 phoe beach: I'm alive, I just did things that I didn't really enjoy doing. The stuff that's required to function and such, but nothing really enjoyable.
10:08:37 phoe lthms: that's a pretty big question when it comes to choosing databases though; what are your needs? what kind of data will you store? what functionality for modifying and retrieving it will you need? how is your data modeled and structured?
10:08:51 White_Flame lthms: threads, messages, just the same as any other language. Just make sure your DB connector library is threadsafe
10:09:16 phoe because there are object stores in pure Lisp, there are bindings to various SQL and NoSQL databases out there.
10:09:47 White_Flame lthms: depending on your workload, maybe put your requests into a job queue and have some fixed number of DB connections pulling from it
10:10:15 White_Flame but again, that's no different in Lisp than any other language
10:10:45 phoe well, yeah, I've been using postgres recently and it's just a matter of making ten connections to the database, and suddenly you can have ten DB queries running at once.
10:11:30 lthms phoe: which lib did you use to use postgres? I saw there are plenty
10:11:52 phoe lthms: postmodern
10:12:14 phoe I saw it used very commonly around here
10:14:37 antoszka Yeah, I second postmodern.
10:16:17 lthms okay, I will try to have a look. Thanks!
10:16:49 phoe lthms: no problem
10:17:00 phoe ask us any questions you might have
11:14:44 ebrasca Can I do someting like in unix?
11:14:45 ebrasca (with-open-file (file #P "/dev/sdc1")
11:14:45 ebrasca (loop :repeat 10 :do (write-byte (read-byte file))))
11:19:19 loke ebrasca: cat?
11:19:36 loke You want to cat the first 10 bytes of /dev/sdc?
11:19:39 ebrasca How to read files like /dev/sdc1 or /dev/random with pure common lisp?
11:20:03 loke ebrasca: What you did should work
11:20:15 loke it doesn/t
11:20:16 loke ?
11:20:34 ebrasca #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file /dev/sdc1" {10052C9813}> is not a binary input stream.
11:21:03 ebrasca I like to make my fat32 portable.
11:21:14 loke ebrasca: (with-open-file (s #p"..." :element-type '(unsigned-byte 8)) ...)
11:22:54 ebrasca loke: Thank you.
12:12:18 jmercouris I'm trying to take a long string, and split it into stringths of a max length, but only at word boundaries
12:12:32 jmercouris so something like "this is a very long string" could split at "a"
12:12:48 jmercouris rather than splittin in between "ve" and "ry" from "very"
12:12:55 jmercouris s/splittin/splitting
12:14:41 jmercouris any lib anyone know of? or will I have to implement this?
12:16:48 Xach jmercouris: i don't know of a public library
12:17:32 jmercouris Interestingly enough, I am asking because I want to make "pargraphs" of text in Vecto
12:17:47 Xach I have done that so many times for my graphics toys.
12:17:55 jmercouris Do you have a snippet you can share?
12:18:18 Xach The general strategy I use is to categorize characters as breakable, then add words, and when a threshold is reached, go back to the last breakable character.
12:18:19 TMA jmercouris: if it is meant for human consumption, I recomend you to look up the algorithm used in TeX.
12:18:31 Xach So a space is breakable, in some contexts a hyphen is breakable
12:18:56 jmercouris TMA: it is meant for humans, but not really, it is just a legal requirement, nobody reads it
12:19:52 Xach jmercouris: https://www.xach.com/tmp/paginator.lisp
12:19:59 TMA jmercouris: then use a long line with a scrollbar :)
12:20:27 jmercouris Xach: Thank you
12:20:31 jmercouris TMA: I have to produce a graphic
12:20:39 jmercouris For printed purposes
12:20:40 Xach jmercouris: that generic algorithm can be used to break arbitrary things into lines.
12:21:51 LdBeth TeX use the notion "badness" to break lines
12:22:41 jmercouris So I have to transform my strings into a list of objects?
12:23:33 Xach jmercouris: Who is that question for?
12:23:37 jmercouris Xach: For you
12:23:55 jmercouris because I see these defgenerics, and I assume I have to implement methods for them
12:24:20 Xach jmercouris: You could specialize them on characters, and use other context to give meaning to "width".
12:24:55 Xach jmercouris: https://www.xach.com/tmp/glyphlayout.lisp shows how i used it for http://wigflip.com/minifesto/
12:27:02 jmercouris Hmm, I see
12:27:18 jmercouris Okay, I understand
12:27:26 jmercouris I think I will write my own implementation, for the educational value
12:27:45 jmercouris thanks for the example Xach


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Christian Lutz / Agence VU via HOST Gallery
Nigeria, Abuja, 04 February 2010.
NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation) complex.
Christian Lutz / Agence VU via HOST Gallery
Nigeria. May 2010.
Water polluted by oil, Niger Delta.
Christian Lutz / Agence VU via HOST Gallery
Nigeria, Lagos, 22 November 2009.
Swimming pool at a private beach club on the Lagos lagoon.
Christian Lutz / Agence VU via HOST Gallery
Nigeria, Okerenkoko, 26 May 2010
Gbaramatu Kingdom, Niger Delta State.
Christian Lutz / Agence VU via HOST Gallery
Nigeria. Lagos. December 31, 2009.
Lagos Yacht Club, New Year's Eve party.
According to a report in today's New York Times, billions of dollars in oil revenues raised by the Nigerian government are unaccounted for. The newspaper reports that the country's Excess Crude Account contained about $30 billion in late 2008, almost all of which is now gone. A maximum of $8 billion of spending has been accounted for in the intervening period.
"Where the hell did the remaining $22 billion-plus go?", asked a government adviser interviewed by the Times.
Tropical Gift, a photo exhibition running now at HOST Gallery in London, examines the closed world of those dealing with oil and gas in the Niger Delta.
During three trips to Nigeria in 2009 and 2010, photographer Christian Lutz gained extraordinary access into the dark halls of power of the corporations that govern Nigeria's oil. His pictures contrast the opulent lifestyle of the oil executives with the crushing poverty of local residents.
"I thought it would be more expressive if I underscored that side of the story," Lutz told the British Journal of Photography. "I was a wealthy white in Nigeria, and I used this to get mixed up with the community. I ate fresh sushi that cost $150, and swam in their pools and drank some great South African wine, but I could hardly stand it. It made me sick. I never want to go back. How can we eat sushi in West Africa when the fish for the local population have been annihilated by the oil spillage? The population split in Nigeria is so extreme, it becomes surreal."
The exhibition runs at HOST Gallery until March 1.
More images from the story are available at Agence Vu and an accompanying book has been published by Lars Müller.