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This column over the weekend, by the British academic John Naughton in the Guardian, takes us one more step in assessing the damage to American interests in the broadest sense-- commercial, strategic, ideological - from the panopticon approach to "security" brought to us by NSA-style monitoring programs.
Naughton's essay doesn't technically tell us anything new. For instance, see earlier reports like this, this, and this. But it does sharpen the focus in a useful way. Whoever wrote the headline and especially the subhead did a great job of capturing the gist:
In short: because of what the U.S. government assumed it could do with information it had the technological ability to intercept, American companies and American interests are sure to suffer in their efforts to shape and benefit from the Internet's continued growth.
- American companies, because no foreigners will believe these firms can guarantee security from U.S. government surveillance;
- American interests, because the United States has gravely compromised its plausibility as world-wide administrator of the Internet's standards and advocate for its open, above-politics goals.
Why were U.S. authorities in a position to get at so much of the world's digital data in the first place? Because so many of the world's customers have trusted* U.S.-based firms like Google, Yahoo, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, etc with their data; and because so many of the world's nations have tolerated an info-infrastructure in which an outsized share of data flows at some point through U.S. systems. Those are the conditions of trust and toleration that likely will change.
The problem for the companies, it's worth emphasizing, is not that they were so unduly eager to cooperate with U.S. government surveillance. Many seem to have done what they could to resist. The problem is what the U.S. government -- first under Bush and Cheney, now under Obama and Biden -- asked them to do. As long as they operate in U.S. territory and under U.S. laws, companies like Google or Facebook had no choice but to comply. But people around the world who have a choice about where to store their data, may understandably choose to avoid leaving it with companies subject to the way America now defines its security interests.
Here's Naughton's version of the implications:
The first is that the days of the internet as a truly global network are numbered. It was always a possibility that the system would eventually be Balkanised, ie divided into a number of geographical or jurisdiction-determined subnets as societies such as China, Russia, Iran and other Islamic states decided that they needed to control how their citizens communicated. Now, Balkanisation is a certainty....
Second, the issue of internet governance is about to become very contentious. Given what we now know about how the US and its satraps have been abusing their privileged position in the global infrastructure, the idea that the western powers can be allowed to continue to control it has become untenable.... Nothing, but nothing, that is stored in their [ie, US-based companies] "cloud" services can be guaranteed to be safe from surveillance or from illicit downloading by employees of the consultancies employed by the NSA.
The real threat from terrorism has never been the damage it does directly, even through attacks as horrific as those on 9/11. The more serious threat comes from the over-reaction, the collective insanity or the simple loss of perspective, that an attack evokes. Our government's ambition to do everything possible to keep us "safe" has put us at jeopardy in other ways.
What governments do eventually becomes known. Eventual disclosure is likely when a program involves even a handful of people. (Latest case in point: Seal Team Six.) It is certain when an effort stretches over many years, entails contracts worth billions of dollars, and requires the efforts of tens of thousands of people -- any one of whom, as we've seen from Snowden, may at any point decide to tell what he knows.
In launching such an effort, a government must assume as a given that what it is doing will become known, and then calculate whether it will still seem "worthwhile" when it does. Based on what we've seen so far, Prism would have failed that test.
* Of course the "trust" comes with the caveat that the companies have been piling up this data for their own commercial, ad-targeting, data-mining purposes. But that's a known risk, more or less. The demands placed on the companies by the U.S. government are, for the public at large, the main news of the Snowden revelations.
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cbyrne necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 113 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
We are building a new website for our bargains/deals company. This website will allow private and commercial users to post adverts about unbeatable offers. We need a logo to convey this message! Logo has to be catchy and funky.
RealDeals.ie is a simple website for advertising deals that stand out above all others. Our site contains advertisements from private and commerical sellers and anything can be advertised, from cars to light bulbs. We don't sell anything, we just show the advertisements and the contact details. If you see something you want just contact the seller!
We are currently developing the site and you can see its current state at
For our beta version we're using a template which we have modified for our needs. We want a new logo to replace the RealDeals.ie text at the top. We also want to replace the blue box and character with the magnifying glass. The blue box will probably remain but will be a container for a login username and password.
In terms of the logo, it could be a standalone one at the top of the page, or you could incorporate it into the existing blue box. We want a logo, but even better would be to show us your vision on how that would sit/integrate into the top of the page. i.e make the top of the page attractive to us. We don't need html, just a PSD.
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- Build us a eye catching and refreshing logo that shows what the website is about
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- Please incorportate the '.ie' into the logo, that is 'RealDeals.ie', not 'RealDeals'
- Optional tag line - 'real bargains, very few adverts'
- Nothing we can think of at the moment!
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Momaiku has a new home. Find her at The Mobyjoe Cafe! Click here to visit!
All Good Things…
Five years ago, I began posting Momaiku on Facebook. The Dude was twelve. What started as the desperate cry of a woman suffering from post-career stress syndrome became the daily chronicle of our lives together.
Over time, however, my son has grown, and seventeen syllables aren't enough to describe the man he is becoming.
After much thought and discussion, we've decided that it's time to set the Dude free.
I cannot tell you how much your support and laughter have brought to me. Writing for you has been the bomb. I hope that you'll join my alter ego at the Mobyjoe Cafe.
Like the Von Trapp kids
The Dude and I wave goodbye
And walk up the stairs
Much love and thanks,
Jeannine Bergers Everett a.k.a. Momaiku
Wear a hoodie and you'll be fine
"Shorts season is here!"
We mulch the yard tomorrow.
"They're forecasting snow."
I'd take it as a yes, if you didn't have a pillow over your head
"You crush my spirit
With your lack of faith in me."
I asked if you're up…
Noob tube wasn't on the vocab list?
"Spanish verbals sucked.
It was on electronics."
Cat got your thumbs, dude?
That's what you get when you trust a machine to do a mother's job
Your bedroom's so bad
Even the Roomba gave up
"It lacks conviction."
I'm so glad I came back. The emotional response is overwhelming.
Your Mom is home, Dude
Why don't you give her a hug?
"You can't force it, man."


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To an academic economist — which is something I occasionally fancy myself to be — exquisite Chile is somewhat of a utopia. I'm not referring to the Andes Mountains or Atacama Desert, although they are remarkable. Rather, I'm referring to its government's approach to economic policy.
As in a number of other South American countries, many of Chile's cabinet ministers and even elected politicians earned graduate degrees and doctorates in economics, having been trained in the best universities. In fact, none other than the great Milton Friedman himself helped design the plumbing of their economic system in the early 1980s. Even today, public and political discourse is replete with phrases usually reserved for graduate courses on microeconomics.
Yet, what might be of special interest to the readership of this column is Chile's retirement system, also redesigned from scratch a mere 25 years ago, in the post-Allende epoch. Remarkably, Chileans have no universal government-run pension program, like Social Security in the U.S.
Rather, Chilean citizens save and invest for their own retirement. What is even more striking is that when they reach retirement age — and transition to the de-accumulation phase, withdrawing money from their individual accounts — they do something few retirees do anywhere else in the world. Most of them voluntarily annuitize. To put it bluntly, they walk into their neighborhood insurance company with their accumulated nest egg and say: "Please give me an income for life."
So, this is the desafío de la renta vitalicia (annuity puzzle, very loosely translated) that placed me in Santiago at the behest of the Chilean government. Why do so many Chileans buy life annuities? Is it something they put in all those pisco sours?
Some background
Chile mandates that all employees in the workforce must contribute at least 10 percent of their pre-tax salary into an individual account defined-contribution (DC) plan, managed through the payroll system. Within these accounts they are allowed to allocate wealth between a limited set of diversified (low-cost) mutual funds, all of which are managed by the private sector. These individual accounts are held by custodians and are completely independent from the employer.
With such an arms-length approach, portability, ownership and even employer bankruptcy risk shouldn't be a concern. The closest analogy I could find in North America would be replacing Social Security with one big 401(k) plan, in which every single worker is obligated — not just defaulted or merely nudged — to contribute.
The value of the account grows with time and age, but obviously varies depending on the particular funds selected, asset allocation, etc. As with everyone else, the 2008-09 global financial crises adversely affected Chileans' account values — especially those participants who allocated to equities — but the Chilean economy has grown at a very impressive pace, of late. And, like so many home-biased investors all over the world, the majority of these individual accounts are allocated to stocks and bonds in — you guessed it — Chile and many copper companies.
Also, unlike for the Greeks, Spaniards and Portuguese, for example, this bias didn't bite them.
The Chilean Pension Model, as it is called, has been exported to a number of other Latin American countries in the region — much to the Chileans' pride and delight. Similar models have been implemented in much larger countries such as Mexico, Peru, Colombia and even Argentina (until the government in Buenos Aires absconded with the money a few years ago, but that is a story for another column).
Retirement time
While this relatively young model isn't immune to the mind-numbing rules and exclusions that afflict all government-administered plans anywhere else on planet earth, Chilean retirees have two basic options: They can either (1) continue to invest their account in a variety of stock and bond funds while withdrawing money from the account, a.k.a. self-annuitization or (2) use the accumulated funds to purchase a life annuity. Technically, a third option could be any combination of 1 and 2.
But, as I mentioned earlier, approximately 65 percent of Chileans in this system get to retirement, sit down with a financial advisor — which is mandated, by the way — and provide very simple instructions: "Please buy me a life annuity, with all of it."
Now, lest you suspect I am talking about small sums in a small country, each year over 20,000 life annuity contracts are voluntarily issued in Chile. This is the second highest number in the world after the grand-annuity-daddy of them all, the U.K. (selling 400,000 policies per year). Remember, though, Chile has a population of 17 million people and its insurance companies issue more life annuity policies than the U.S., Japan or Germany. It is no surprise that many international insurance companies have been setting up shop in Santiago, as more and more Chileans reach retirement.
This 65 percent rate of annuitization is quite puzzling, when contrasted with a 5 percent rate (at best) in the U.S. So, in an odd twist of fate that might only happen south of the equator, I — your humble correspondent and annuity uber advocate — was approached by economists within the Chilean Superintendent of Pensions: "We worry that the annuitization rate might be too high. How do we make systematic withdrawals plans (SWiPs) more appealing to Chileans?"
You see, some regulators are getting concerned that over 85 percent of insurance industry reserves are linked to life annuity liabilities, while the other 15 percent is in life insurance liabilities. Most companies don't use reinsurance, which means that this lopsidedness exposes the industry to a unique type of longevity risk. What if Chileans live longer than projected by the actuaries? And, to be honest, after having spent a week in charming Santiago, I wouldn't be surprised if their tranquil lifestyle produces a disproportionate number of centenarians.
Some want more
Without getting too caught-up in the political minutia, my sense was that not all regulators were unhappy or concerned with the high levels of annuitization, and commensurate low level of SWiPs, especially given the sound actuarial economics of mortality credits. In their defense, insurance industry representatives claimed to be properly updating their mortality assumptions and carefully monitoring their balance sheet and risk exposure. When I asked them about capacity constraints, one executive said half-jokingly, infinity. (I've heard that one before.)
In fact, one cabinet-level minister contended that the SWiP option should be entirely abolished for lower- income retirees. Her words to me (loosely translated) were: "This group within society should not have their limited retirement income exposed to the vagaries of the stock and bond market, especially considering they have no more human capital remaining to extract." She went on to proclaim: "Remember, the Modigliani lifecycle hypothesis indicates that annuities really dominate all other assets."
Is this bordering on paternalistic? Perhaps. Although, I must confess that there is nothing sexier to an academic financial economist than a lovely Latin cabinet minister who can quote Modigliani. I was smitten!
Puzzle pieces
Getting back to the high rate of annuitization (puzzle) here are some reasons I might offer for why life annuities are so popular in Chile. In fact, I was fortunate enough to be able to observe some of the conversations and interactions between the soon-to-be retirees and the front-line tellers at the pension ministry where many people come for help. And, while these are more anecdotal than scientific, here it goes.
Commissions. When independent retirement advisors — those who stand between the retiree and their decision — offer guidance, it is commission neutral, unlike how things work on this side of the equator. In other words, the compensation to the independent Chilean retirement advisor isn't affected by whether they suggest a life annuity, a mutual fund or any combination. (Alas, when the Chilean retirement advisor is an employee of a mutual fund company, the annuitization rate is lower. Surprise!)
Illustrations. All retirees are shown (mandated, regulated) illustrations that suggest a volatile and possibly declining income stream if they go with the SWiP, and if long-term investment assumptions are not met. In other words, they have a better understanding of the risk.
Inflation. All life annuities sold in Chile are indexed to inflation, or more precisely to unidades de fomento (UF) as opposed to nominal pesos. So, there is no inflation risk to the annuitant, thus making it a more secure source of real lifetime income. In the U.S. most life annuities are nominal, and the few real ones are real expensive too.
Lack of pensions. Remember that for most Chileans this individual account is all the retirement money they have. There is no other defined-benefit corporate or government pension plan, which would backstop their retirement spending. They have no other form of other than the life annuity.
Perceived safety. The Chilean government explicitly backs or guarantees insurance company payments (up to a limit) in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy. This is different from the U.S. system, which is a mutual arrangement between companies, and overseen by the individual states. Perhaps it even feels like Social Security.
Of course none of this explains the all-or-nothing attitude that prevails with most of these accounts. My view is that a proper retirement product allocation should include a mix of the two, and I think even Modigiani would agree! Why not annuitize 40 percent, 60 percent or 80 percent and then SWiP the rest? Or, annuitize slowly. Why are so many annuitizing all of their retirement account?
So now the insurance industry and regulators are working on designing and promoting novel combination products that allow for a more robust mix of annuities. They are working to make it easier to offer true advanced life delayed annuities (ALDAs), which is a decade-long and very quixotic undertaking of mine. In fact, some executives are proposing to "import those successful American-style GLWBs…" (Oh dear!)
Anyway, I'll be back in 18 months to take another look.
It is difficult to sum-up the Chilean lesson in a pithy sound bite, so I offer a different egress. I encourage financial advisors to take any opportunity they have to experience how other countries and cultures go about generating a sustainable retirement income. The summer travel months are here. Perhaps spend one-less day on the tourist trail, and instead visit the local pension, retirement or superannuation office. (This is my brand of ecotourism.)
Now sure, the economics of retirement might not be up there in the pantheon of global concerns like climate change, poverty or terrorism. But I can assure you that there comes an age at which you can translate and then ask this question into almost any language, and it will resonate. "Will your nest egg last as long as you will?"
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Today was an interesting day...I had the worst sleep ever. I know I need to get used to very little sleep and trust me I wouldn't mind little sleep but this sleep came with pain. Both my hips were killing me to the point I couldn't lay on any side. I had to sit sleeping so if you can imagine I woke up with my neck killing me. To say the least I only had three hours of sleep. I had to leave to go on the recliner so I could actually sleep!
I woke up around 5 AM and just stayed up until my doctor appointment at 7:30. It was sad because Sarah couldn't join me but it was fun because it just reminded me that soon we will be on the Labor and Delivery floor getting ready for our baby girl!
I checked in for my first ever NST and they had me do a pee test which I passed with flying colors. I was pretty nervous because baby girl is really active in the afternoon/evening but she must have known the spot light was on her because she was a moving machine! They ended up letting me go early because they got just the right amount of stats they needed. Oh, and only one teeny tiny contraction. After my NST I had my AFI ultrasound to check the fluids around baby. That too was excellent!
So all in all baby girl (aka Nemo) is comfy in her home :)
She will come when she is ready to come! In the mean time I enjoying all this time before baby arrives!
Monday, September 9, 2013
NST & AFI Check
Today was an interesting day...I had the worst sleep ever. I know I need to get used to very little sleep and trust me I wouldn't mind little sleep but this sleep came with pain. Both my hips were killing me to the point I couldn't lay on any side. I had to sit sleeping so if you can imagine I woke up with my neck killing me. To say the least I only had three hours of sleep. I had to leave to go on the recliner so I could actually sleep!
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Thursday, September 5, 2013
40 weeks!
Today is our official due date day!! YAY!! We officially made it to 40 weeks! Such a bittersweet moment. I remember when we first got pregnant I was deathly scared something would happen along the way of our pregnancy after all if seemed like all the stories we heard were sad. I remember holding my breath every time we had an ultrasound. It was one step closer to meeting our baby girl. After we hit the first trimester we both finally were able to breathe a sense of relief that everything was going well. For me I think around 24 weeks I finally felt comfortable that everything was going great and this pregnancy was rockin!
- Raspberry leaf tea
- Lavender oil bath with fresh lavender (Only thing that came out of this was I smelled like a lavender bush, LOL!)
- Pineapple (boy, did the acid in all that pineapple make my tongue raw!)
- bouncing on the exercise ball
- dancing like a crazy fool to Michael Jackson!
- Walking
- Jumping up and down
- Pedicure
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Sunday, September 1, 2013
Still cooking away!
You read right, baby girl is still cooking away! She wants to make sure she comes out just right! No sign of her coming either. My Braxton Hicks continue and are becoming stronger, I have been having major leg and hip pain, but that is about it. We want her to come out when she comes out but at the same time I would really LOVE to not be induced. Now, that is a whole other story. We finished our birth plan. Many told us to not have one because it gets thrown out the door as soon as you enter the hospital but we have decided that we would like a birth plan to go over what "we" want. After all this is our baby. I would post our plan on here but we have decided to wait until after she is born for certain reasons as many would not understand our "thinking".
We are starting to try at home remedies to see if by chance baby girl will make an early appearance and we even tried acupuncture last week! I know it can be a bunch of just gibberish but its worth a try! Tonight we will be trying a lavender oil bath with some pineapple as a snack! Its funny to think for so long you want to make sure the baby does not come out and you do everything in your power to keep them safe and warm and then BAM one day you want them out and you do everything in your power to get them out, LOL! Yes, we do know that she will come when she wants to come after all this is her agenda! We are just so excited and anxious to see her beautiful face and we can't wait to meet the love of our life!
So besides that for the next two days since Sarah is off for Labor Day we have decided to lock ourselves in our house and not leave once. We plan on just relaxing and resting. We sure can use all the R&R before baby girl arrives! It has been filled with some nice bonding and straight out being a couch potatoes. I also did some baking because lets be serious...that wont happen for a very long time once she is here because I know we will be very two exhausted mommies, but worth every second!
This past week I also attended my first Le Leche League meeting and I had my first private consult with a lactation consultant. I have been doing my reading on breast feeding and have joined many groups on Facebook to try and become as prepared as possible although I know nothing can ever prepare you for things such as labor and BF but all you can do is try! The consult was amazing and was the best three hours I have ever learned anything. This past weekend I set up "snack" baskets in the three places I plan to breastfeed the most within our house. It is filled with drinks and snacks because just as I am nourishing our baby I need to make sure I nourish myself and you never know when you may need a sip of water and you can't get up because you don't want to move, LOL!
Oh and how could I forget this past week we got baby girl her first Spanish book! I can't wait to show her Spanish. It was my second language when I was four and I can fluently speak, read and write. I hope to pass this down to her and the best thing is for a while I have been talking to Sarah more and more in Spanish and she is understanding more and more! Makes me SO happy and lights my heart up!
Hopefully, the next post will be a birth story?!
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Gigi Sayfan specializes in cross-platform object-oriented programming in C/C++/ C#/Python/Java with emphasis on large-scale distributed systems. He is currently trying to build intelligent machines inspired by the brain at Numenta (www.numenta.com).
A Build System for Complex Projects: Part 1
A Build System for Complex Projects: Part 2
A Build System for Complex Projects: Part 3
A Build System for Complex Projects: Part 4
A Build System for Complex Projects: Part 5
This is the second in a series of articles that explores an innovative build system for complicated projects. Part 1 discussed build systems in general, problems with existing build systems in particular, and presented an ideal/invisible build system -- ibs. In Part 2, I dive into the internals of ibs and explain how it works.
To recap: Ibs is an invisible build system that doesn't require any build files. It relies on a regular directory and conventions to infer build rules and it detects dependencies automatically. It generates build files for other IDEs or build systems like Makefiles, Visual Studio solutions, and NetBeans projects. It is focused on C/C++ projects, but can be extended to additional languages and other projects types.
Ibs has a generic core, an object model, and build-system-specific code (helper modules and templates). There is a clear separation between the common generation code and the build-system-specific parts. The object model includes the following classes:
- Project. The Project class is the unit of work. Each software system is just a list of projects with some dependencies between them. In the ibs world, a project always has an associated project directory and contains files that reside under its root directory, and possibly subdirectories too. Project maintains information such as the project name, its root directory, its dependencies, and its templates (see below). The files are discovered automatically.
- Template. Ibs can generate build files for multiple build systems. Each build system has its own set of build files. In some cases, it is just a single file such as a Visual Studio .vcproj file, and in other cases such as NetBeans nbproject, it can be a build directory that contains multiple files. Each project is associated with a set of templates that can be used to generate all the necessary build files.
The Template class has a skeleton text file with placeholders and a substitution dictionary that can be applied to generate the target build file.
- BaseHelper. The generic part of ibs doesn't know anything about the particular build systems it can generate, but it knows what it needs to know. BaseHelper is a base class that encapsulates this meta-knowledge. For each build system you want to support, you need to write a proper helper subclass that can provide the necessary information along with specific build file templates.The helper is responsible for getting all the necessary templates, preparing the substitution dictionary, and collecting files for each project.
- Generator. The generator is the engine of ibs. It understands the regular directory structure and knows how to build every top-level directory and all its subdirectories. Once it populates a project list and generates proper build files for each project, it maintains a map of top-level directories to project [template] types.
- Dependency Analyzer. The dependency analyzer module is C/C++-specific. It analyzes #include files and calculates the dependency graph of the various projects. In general, the only dependencies (at the C/C++ level) are static libraries that must be built before they can be linked with executables and dynamic libraries that depend on them.


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Race Face Atlas riser handlebar with an anodized, shot-peened finish. - Anodized, shot-peened finish - Cold-drawn and butted proprietary AirAlloy aluminum tubing - 4 degree upsweep
Origin-8's Bat Wing Handlebar delivers futuristic looks and a wrist-friendly 25-degree sweep. It's crafted from lightweight aluminum and features a hydroformed center section with plenty of room to mount accessories.
- Full UD carbon construction - 31.8mm clamp diameter - 9-degree back sweep - EN-Mountain safety certification - 200g - Width: 760mm/780mm - Rise: 0mm/7mm - Upsweep / Drop: 4-degree - Back Sweep / Bend: 9-degree
Explore some trail with Origin-8's Pro Pulsion Pro Sweep 6 Handlebar. This 640mm-wide bar is crafted from lightweight aluminum and features a comfortable 6-degree sweep.
Origin-8's aluminum Stash Bar II handlebar will be right at home on your fixie or urban steed. It's completely straight and super narrow so you can dart around obstacles with ease. The cool spherical aluminum end caps are removable if you prefer a more muted look.
- Alternative flat bar design - Offers multiple hand positions for improved handling, power output, and ergonomic comfort - 6061-T6 Tubular alloy construction - 120mm of additional reach with hands on the front bar in an aero position - Great for touring and multiple off-road use applications - Lots of bar space for accessories - ISO-Mountain safety certified - Clamp Diameter: 31.8mm - Width : 760mm - Rise / Reach: 120mm - Upsweep / Drop: 0° - Sweep: 15° - Color: Black - Finish: Matte
- Rigid aluminum bar - Great for Urban riders or others wanting a more upright position than drops allow
- Aluminum flat bar with ergonomic design, recommended for use with a shorter stem - The forward offset negates the stem shortening effect caused by bar's extreme backsweep
Giant's Connect XC Flat Handlebars are engineered from aluminum and feature a 5° upward sweep, perfect for those cross-country rides.
- Lightweight, optimized 7075 aluminum alloy - 5° rearward sweep - 9° upsweep - Micro-adjust laser-etched set-up markings - 31.8mm clamp diameter
- Lightweight Optimized 2014 Aluminum Alloy - Micro-Adjust Laster-Etched Set-Up Markings - 5° Rearward Sweep, 0° Upsweep - 720mm Wide
- Ultra-Light High-Performance Full-SLR Composite Construction Makes For Maximum Stiffness And Lowest Possible Weight - 9° Rearward/ 0° Upward Sweep - Micro-Adjust Set-Up Markings - Not Compatible With Bar Ends
FSA's SL-K handlebar is the ultimate mix of lightweight and strong, for a handlebar that is designed for all types of riding. Its CSI (Carbon Structural Integration) construction marries the best of both carbon and aluminum construction. The carbon helps keep the vibration to a minimum, while the aluminum core maintains its strength. The SL-K handlebar maintains XC weight with Enduro strength. With both medium 18mm rise or flat options and a solid 740mm width, this bar will help with a perfect fit, great control, and utmost performance for even the most demanding rider in mind. - Weight: 235g - Width: 740mm - Material: Carbon - Upsweep: 4° - Backsweep: 9°
A fly-weight, modern flat bar for XC and trail riding, available with a +/- 5mm rise. The M5 bar is ENVE's lightest XC and trail bar. Designed with an offset grip position and a 31.8mm clamping surface, the bar can be mounted with a positive or negative rise of 5mm. This versatile bar combines a familiar 9-deg sweep with the greater width and strength that's demanded by today's more aggressive XC riders.
For cross country and all-mountain riding, Dimension Mountain bars provide generous—but not ridiculous—width, rigorously tested to ISO 4210 Mountain standards. - Shot-peened finish - 6061-T6 Aluminum - 9-deg backsweep - 720mm wide - Zero-Rise
- Strong and reliable 6061-T6 aluminum construction designed for urban-fixie use - Narrow 500mm (19.7") width perfect for the tarmac - Polished silver with black graphics
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Coast to Coast: History in the Making
The 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission is this month.
(For the uninformed, Apollo 11 was the first mission where humans walked on the Moon.)
Because Apollo 11 launched from here in Space Coast, a number of ceremonies and celebrations are planned. You may see some specials on television, but there's on airing on the local PBS station WBCC that you probably won't see elsewhere in the county.
Click Here to go to the Florida Today blog entry with an embedded copy of this 30-minute documentary. What makes it unique is that it's about what was happening here in Space Coast at the time of the Apollo missions. There's a lot of home footage, local TV footage, interviews with local workers, and other information you won't get anywhere else.
The next Space Shuttle mission, STS-127, is scheduled for launch this Saturday at 7:39 PM EDT. If they go, I'll be out there with my camcorder to videotape it and place it online. STS-127 will launch from the same pad as Apollo 11.


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What's that you're doing, Mr. Rosengrün?
David Rosengrün, 35,
Engine technican
has been with Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg for 18 years
"I'm repairing a damaged thread on an aircraft gearbox. The so-called stud bolt, which is ordinarily secured here, is loose and just keeps spinning. That may not sound like a big deal, but the repair calls for special know-how: Even the tiniest fault in this special thread can end up damaging the entire gearbox, which would mean that the repair would take up to ten days instead of just a few hours. I have even been flown to China on occasion because they didn't have anyone with the right expertise in the workshops there. To repair the damage, I first have to drill open the hole with the damaged thread a little more, up to a diameter of 10.5 millimeters. This makes it too wide for the slim 6-millimeter stud, but I solve this by cutting a new thread into it and screwing a matching aluminum bushing with a six-millimeter threaded bore into the new hole, thus ensuring that the original bolt holds perfectly again."


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FBI: Central Florida evangelist molested girls
Luis Morales held on non bond
ORMOND BEACH, Fla. – An Ormond Beach minister who is called "Apostle Tito" by his followers has been arrested for sexually molesting several children who are members of his religious organization.
Luis Morales is being held in federal custody without bond following an arraignment in federal court Thursday afternoon.
According to federal prosecutors, Morales repeatedly had sex with a 12-year-old Florida girl in his Ormond Beach home and while on a trip with her to Connecticut in 2009. The government also claims Morales molested a 13-year-old girl from Arizona whom he took to the U.S. Virigin Islands.
Morales founded a religious organization called "En Fuego For Jesus" in Ormond Beach in 2003. According to its website, the group began by ministering to homeless in Daytona Beach, and now ministers in churches throughout Central and South America.
Morales's wife, who is known by followers as "Prophet Linda," was in court as a judge rejected her husband's request to be set free on bond while awaiting trial.
Before the proceedings began, Linda Morales pointed to the parents of her husband's alleged victims sitting across the aisle from her and told them, "You need to repent. Get right with Jesus."
Outside the courthouse after the arraignment, Linda Morales insisted that her husband was innocent.
"Satan is the accuser of the brethren. So anybody that makes an accusation against a man or woman of God is on Satan's team," she said.
Another member of Morales's ministry, Rebecca Rivera, has also been arrested on federal charges of trafficking a child for sex.
Prosecutors say Morales has molested at least two other children inside the couple's Ormond Beach home but is not currently facing criminal charges for those alleged offenses.
In the late 1980s, Morales served time in prison for a drug conviction, according to prosecutors. In 1998, he was arrested on suspicion of committing a sex offense against two other children, ages 8 and 11, but federal officials say state prosecutors dropped the charges.
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– Yoshi Tatsu tweeted the following during Tuesday's SmackDown tapings:
"I was involved a strange incident in the locker room tonight! I'll beat the criminal when I find out!"
– We noted before that Randy Orton vs. Daniel Bryan was scheduled for WWE Payback at one point. The Usos vs. Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns for the WWE Tag Team Titles was also scheduled. Those plans changed sometime in the last week and a half, and now we have Orton and Bryan teaming to face Rollins and Reigns.
– WWE has a new way of dealing with concussions. If a wrestler shows indications of a concussion, or is diagnosed with one, they are immediately pulled from the ring and can't return until they pass the Impact testing. In the case of talents who have passed the test but aren't put back in the ring to wrestle, it's because they also have to show no signs of any post-concussion syndrome, plus be able to engage in physical contact activity without any signs of headache, fogginess or nausea. A talent must pass Impact testing, exertion tests and have one of WWE's doctors clear them before they return.
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War Veterans and American Democracy with James Wright
Date: 4/12/2010; 58 minutes
James Wright, president emeritus of Dartmouth College, describes the changing assumptions and attitudes that frame the history of veterans affairs in the United States and the issues faced by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. He describes changes in the view of these veterans compared to those in the 1960s and 1970s regarding the Vietnam war veterans. (#18341)
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This post is linked to Scenic Sunday.
Tin Can Bay has several kilometers of well made walkways that go along beside the bay. The walkways are well used by everyone from "oldies" on motorized scooters, to children on bicycles and everyone in between - but especially walkers! A number of different bridges cross the streams that flow out into the bay. This is one of them.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
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what a neat looking bridge.ReplyDelete
and a fine bridge it is. I like the way they built it. It is beautiful.ReplyDelete
Beautiful bridge!ReplyDelete
I find bridges fascinating, no matter what they are made of.ReplyDelete
Modelled on Monet's bridge? (Check his "Waterlilies" series of paintings.ReplyDelete
Of course, that was modelled on Japanese originals.
Anyway, nice bridge, and I am pleased the Oldies can use it - I wondered of it was too steep.
This one appears to be very well made and seems to suit the surroundings.ReplyDelete
Looks like a great photo place!ReplyDelete
The rustic bridge blends in well in its surroundings.ReplyDelete
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Twitter for Educators—Power Lunch—Resource Roundup
In case you missed our Power Lunch on Friday (or maybe you were here, and just need the links), here's the run down of what you need to get started.
Twitter for Educators—infographic on Piktochart can be found [here]. Get all the basics here, including important vocabulary, chats, and tools that you can use to manage tweeting .
Teacher Training Videos—by Russell Stannard is fantastic (follow him [here]). Find the videos [here]. The videos will auto play straight through, but if you want to review different topics, you can do that by clicking on specific topic on the left side of the screen. This is the perfect way to learn about Twitter if you're an audio & visual learner. For the most part each video is under 3 minutes, so you could just view them as you have time.
Creating a Twitter Account—Is a handout that I created for teachers who really prefer written directions. Find it [here] and it will walk you through the beginning steps of creating an account and thinking about how you will use it professionally.
Finding People to Follow—will walk you through the steps you need to do to find other educators to connect with from around the state and world. It specifically gives you directions for how to use lists that other have made. Find that handout [here].
Tweeting and Chatting—is another handout that I created that shows you how to tweet and participate in chats using just Twitter. Find that handout [here].
Educational Hashtags— See a list of the most commonly used educational hashtags on Twitter. Look for specific content areas and interests (like technology or kindergarten). Find the list on Cybrary Man's website [here] and follow him (Jerry Blumengarten) [here].
Educational Chats—If you want to get the latest ideas for teaching and learning or technology, there s a chat for you. Check out the official chat schedule [here]. Chats are a great way to get information and to connect with other educators who have your same interests (see a list of suggestions below).
Twitter Chats you Should Check Out
There are a ton of educational conversations happening on Twitter at all hours of the day, but there are certain times each week where you can schedule out a block of time and focus on having a conversation about your grade level or content area. These conversations often yield awesome ideas and connections that will prove to save you time and help to energize your teaching. Here is a brief list of chats that may be useful to elementary teachers. Be sure to check out the full list of educational chats listed above if you want something content specific. Some of my favorites are: #KyLChat, #KyEdChat, #kinderchat, #tlap, and #edtechchat.
#1stchat—First grade teachers chat—8-9am EST
#slpchat—Speech and Language Pathologist chat 2-3 pm EST
#ccsschat—Common Core State Standards Chat 8-9pm EST
#pechat—Physical Ed chat—7-8 pm EST
#4thchat—Fourth grade teachers chat—8-9 pm EST
#tlchat—Teacher librarian chat 8-9 pm EST, 2nd Monday
#edtechchat—Educational Technology Chat—8-9 pm EST
#musedchat—Music Educator Chat—8-9 pm EST
#tlap—Teach Like a Pirate—8-9pm CST
#kinderchat—Kindergarten chat—9-10 pm EST
#21stadminchat—21st Century Administrators—9-10 pm EST
#21stadminchat—21st Century Administrators—9-10 pm EST
#edchat—Educational Chat 7-8 pm EST
#5thchat—5th grade chat 8-9 pm EST
#KyLChat—Kentucky Library Chat (2nd & 4th Tuesday of the month) 8-9 pm EST
#spedchat—Special Ed Chat 9-10 pm est
#3rdchat—Third grade teacher chat 7-8 pm EST
#edmusic—music teachers 7-8 pm EST
#2ndchat—second grade teacher chat 8-9 EST
#2ndchat—second grade teacher chat 8-9 EST
#artsed—Arts in Education Chat—7:30-8:30 pm EST
#escchat– Elementary School Counselor Chat - 8-9 pm EST
#KyEdChat—Kentucky Educators Chat—8-9 pm EST
#Langchat—Foreign language chat—8-9 pm EST
People to Follow
@MrPiercey—5th grade Google Certified teacher from Kentucky—founder of #KyEdChat—posts lots of awesome stuff. Click [here] to follow Donnie Piercey.
@mattBgomez—kindergarten teacher, #kinderchat moderator—awesome tech integration ideas. Click [here] to follow Matt Gomez.
@KleinErin –2nd grade teacher with a fantastic blog full of ideas for integrating technology. Click [here] to follow Erin Klein.
@TechNinjaTodd—White House Champion for Change and all around technology genius. Click [here] to follow Todd Nelsoney.
There are many awesome people to follow, and I can't possibly list them all here, so check out my: Kentucky Educator List [here] Educators List [here] to find tons of great people to follow.


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- 6 Beds
- 3 Full
Property TypeResidential – Single Family
SubdivisionVail Village West 2
Listing Date08/10/18
Year Built1973
AreaWest Vail South
Lot Size0.25 Acres (10,890 SqFt)
Parking1 Car Garage
Property Description
Opportunity calling! Fix it up and make it your own, buy as a rental investment, or build a new home in a favorable location steps from the Town of Vail bus stop. Large deck, parking out front, mature trees. Walk to Donovan Park along Gore creek, cook out and picnic, enjoy kids area, and use the Pavilion. Imagine the possibilities!
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- On Bus Line
- Fireplace - Wood
- Vaulted Ceilings
- City Sewer
- City Water
- Electricity Avail.
- Natural Gas Avail.
- Baseboard
- Natural Gas
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About West Vail
Occupying a wider swath of the Valley than the Villages and East Vail, West Vail offers distinctly different environments on its northern and southern hillsides. The south side features lush wooded alpine terrain interspersed with meadows while the more exposed north side offers dramatic views and an abundance of sunshine year round. Divided into several neighborhoods, the area has a commercial center with groceries, shops, and restaurants and a close knit mix of locals and second home owners. Properties in West Vail range from simple condominiums to elegant single-family homes, all of which are a quick 5-10 minute Town shuttle away from the heart of the Village.
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While we'll provide you with plenty of information, this is a snapshot of your market data and there are real people behind the high-tech and automated tools. If you would like more detailed information or help in understanding the results we are here to help.
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The data relating to the real estate for sale on this website comes in part from the Internet Data Exchange program of the Vail Multi-List Service, Inc.
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Monday, July 1, 2013
Storing your genealogy online -- access to the Cloud
There are always contingencies. In the world of online computing, there seems to be a basic assumption that access to the Internet (the term "the Cloud" is merely a coined term for the Web) is a given. Lack of access can happen at any level; you might have an equipment failure, a software or operating system failure, a physical disaster or any other type of event that interrupt service. But Internet service has moved from being a luxury to becoming a utility. When telephone or electrical service are interrupted for any reason, it becomes a local or national emergency and power and service are restored as soon as humanly possible. Internet connection service now falls in that same category. So, I assume that the real question is more like what happens if I can no longer afford telephone or electrical service?
There seems to be a societal assumption in the United States that people are somehow entitled to basic utilities. Here in Arizona, there are programs to help people keep their electrical and water service, even if they cannot pay for it, for an extended period of time. Losing electricity when it is 119 degrees outside can be fatal. But the real issue, when we are talking about genealogy, is who has ultimate control over the data files I create?
Assuming that Cloud or Internet based applications become pervasive, where will the data reside and who will ultimately have control of that data? The model of the system now looks a little like this:
User (genealogist) => Local genealogy program => Data on local storage device => Copy to Internet => Synchronizing local and remote copy of data
The new model is probably more like this:
User (genealogist) => Online or Cloud based program => Data on remote Cloud based server => Copy to local storage (optional)
The idea of local ownership of the "genealogical data" is likely to become modified. Whether or not future genealogists (or even people in general) will consider the local storage option necessary is one of the factors that could go either way. But if you look at a program such as Family Tree Maker from Ancestry.com, you will see the direction the market will likely take. There are probably many more people who have their "genealogy" online on Ancestry.com's Public Member Family Trees than maintain their own personal database on the local program. One question that came up asked, "How do you maintain your files when you have them in multiple locations?" More needs to be said about this, but basically, the model of the future is integration of the data in multiple locations with the ability to synchronize different databases.
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- Adrian BruceJuly 1, 2013 at 8:56 AM
"model of the future ... with the ability to synchronize different databases"ReplyDelete
Logically, I need a database which is totally under my control (possibly with optional granting of update access to others I trust) plus the ability to sync that with a "world" tree open to everybody (call it "one tree to rule them all" or "a tree to assimilate all others" depending on your favourite mythology).
I need a database under my control since I need to keep my view on things without having some guy merge his ancestor with mine just because they have the same name.
But if I don't contribute to the world's view of things, why am I doing genealogy?
Synchronising stuff is incredibly difficult. The first sync is just a long hard slog. The hard one is the second go, when you want to update your previously synchronised John Doe with your updated events and attributes, only to find someone else has merged their John Doe into yours so he doesn't look anything like yours any more.
I remain to be convinced anyone is even thinking about this. So I'm relaxed about the physical location - it'll work eventually, even for people like me who don't trust that we'll always have Internet access (because we don't). It's the logical control that's obscure.Replies
Tools like SVN, and more recently Google drive, obscure the distinction between what is stored locally and what is stored in the cloud. The synchronisation issue has been solved for simple files, as opposed to complex databases.Delete
I can envisage a world where that paradigm is used to hold private stuff in the cloud. My big issue is the assumption by most vendors that it's possible to merge everyone's data and generate a "Borg tree" that represents true history.
You hinted yourself, Adrian, that you don't want such a merge, and I entirely agree. I am not aware of any current model that treats contributions as individual trees until a "virtual merge" is requested by a user (analogous to a SQL VIEW), and which gives full control over the visibility of such things as sensitive information, or half-formed hypotheses.
In my aged scepticism, I believe that the difference between a technologically correct design and what's there now is possibly commerce and profit.
I tend to agree. Thanks for the new topics to write about.Delete


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If your Z is old enough to sport a Datsun badge, it's also likely to sport some replacement parts. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 280 rocks the D, but is it more than the sum of its parts?
Cats usually indicate their displeasure with the switching of their tails and and an evil glare. The manx cat lacks a tail, eliminating its primary emotional talisman, and leaving only the other end as a way of disseminating its mood. Its fiberglass namesake, as exemplified by the 1972 Meyers Manx yesterday, is equally truncated out back, but its face has but one expression, which which could only be described as anphibianal. Despite those limitations, it managed to not end up an almond roca in the NPOCP litter box, and eked out a narrow 54% Nice Price win. Me-ow.
Less cat-like, but more car-like is today's 1975 Datsun 280Z, currently basting in the Texas sun. The Nissan S30 - otherwise known as the Fairlady Z, or in the U.S as the 240, 260 and 280Z depending on the year and displacement - was to the traditional British sportscar what reverse cowgirl is to the missionary position. Sure the later will get the job done, but it's very traditional, somewhat clunky, and, despite your brain's protestations, is how your mom and dad used to bump uglies. Eeew. On the other hand, the RCG lets you go faster without getting as tired; is more attractive to observers; and is disadvantageous to conversation, preventing accidental declaration of long-term adoration. And, in another corollary to the Brits, there's usually less leakage evidence.
This L28-powered example represents 5-years in on the Z model run. By that time emission and safety requirements in the U.S. had taken their toll on both the show and the go. Most of the last-generation S30 cars are scarred by rubber-capped battering ram bumpers, and they all feature a 200-cc displacement bump over the precedent 260, as well as Bosch L-jetronic fuel injection. Those additions, as well as a strengthened chassis carried over from the 260, added over 200-lbs to the 280 over the original 240Z of 1969.
This '75 has had its big berthas replaced with 240 blades that tuck in close to the body like shark-sucking Remora, while in front the lower valance is covered with a black plastic
curb sacrifice airdam. Around the sides the there's a set of deep Panasport-wannabe Rotas which nicely frame the 4-piston Wilwood brake upgrades. Underneath there's claimed to be new balljoints, tie rods, and springs/struts, and all those new parts are now held together with the stuff they make skateboard wheels out of. That's urethane not clay, you caveman.
Topping off the parts list is a Campbell's Soup paint job that'll get you noticed on the road by Datsun aficionados and the Po-Po alike. That hey look at me paint job wraps around an interior that's more '70s than a coke habit but one that's at least clean and unmarred by cracks tears and fading. The E-brake however looks like it could use an adjustment as the angle of its dangle seems exceptionally Cialis-ish. The fact that the car has a five-speed gearbox may have a similar effect on many of you.
Underhood looks pretty stock, which should mean a healthy 149-bhp and 163 lb-ft of torque. Fuel injection acted like Ritalin on the L-motor, eliminating the drivability problems of the 260, and giving back the car much of the performance of the pre-smog 240Z. Adding to the smooth and stiffened Z the lighter-weight bumpers seems like the making of the best of both worlds, and this car seems worlds better than many 280s out there. On the down side, it's located in a suburb of Houston, which visiting in August will tax your hypothalamus like nobody's business. The other challenge is coming up with the doh-ray-me to plant your ass in this Z's driver's seat. The seller wants $7,000 for that honor, and while they say everything is bigger in Texas, it's now up to you to determine if that price is Texas-size, or if that's a reasonable cost for a Z you would want to part-ner with.
You decide!
Houston Craigslist or go here if the ad disappears. H/T to Taladel for the hookup!
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This tactile silver band ring has been handcrafted by jeweller, Mark Veevers, and is inspired by road surfaces and markings! The ring is made from an oxidised silver hand forged band with a textured finish and set with a collection of 18ct gold circles and lines.
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I have ruled out the possibility that they are bad files. The FLACs play just fine in Audacity. In addition, I have successfully converted them to AIFFs using XLD and they play just fine everywhere, including iTunes and, of course, Decibel itself.
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Wacha flirts with no-no, Cardinals stay alive
Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - The St. Louis Cardinals continued an old habit of staying alive with their backs to the wall, thanks to Michael Wacha coming up huge in the biggest game of his young career.
The rookie took a no-hitter into the eighth in a stellar 7 1/3-inning, nine- strikeout performance that led the Cardinals to a season-saving 2-1 decision over the Pittsburgh Pirates in Game 4 of the National League Division Series.
"We did a lot of gushing about him before we even got him out there today, and I think everybody sees why," said Cardinals manager Mike Matheny. "I don't know if you can put a kid in a tougher spot. He came out and just made pitches all day long. He's just got a knack of getting up there and [being] very business-like getting the job done."
Wacha (1-0), who came within an out of no-hitting Washington in his final regular-season start on Sept. 24, had his bid broken up by Pedro Alvarez's solo homer that cut Pittsburgh's deficit to 2-1. The 2012 first-round pick then put the tying run aboard by walking Russell Martin, but the Cardinals got big efforts from two other kid pitchers to take the series back to Busch Stadium for Wednesday's deciding Game 5.
Fellow rookie Carlos Martinez protected the one-run edge in the eighth before 23-year-old Trevor Rosenthal closed it out with a scoreless ninth.
The Cardinals, who received an MLB-best 36 victories from rookie hurlers en route to the NL Central title, are now 7-1 in postseason elimination games over the past three years.
"I think you take high-talent and high-character people that are motivated and support each other, and they don't give up. That's a tough combination," said Matheny of his team. "It's just an honor to watch them do the thing day-in and day-out."
St. Louis survived despite managing just three hits, but one was a homer from Matt Holliday off Pittsburgh starter Charlie Morton that broke a scoreless deadlock in the top of the sixth. Holliday had a single earlier in the contest.
Morton (0-1) lasted 5 2/3 innings, surrendering all three hits and walking four.
"Charlie pitched extremely well," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle remarked. "I think the cowboys say, 'he drew a tough bull today'."
Both starting pitchers were in top form during the game's early stages, with Holliday's first-inning single the only hit by either side over the opening four frames.
St. Louis put forth the first threat of the afternoon in the fifth, as David Freese drew a one-out walk and Pete Kozma followed with a single before both advanced a base on Wacha's successful sacrifice. However, Morton was able to strike out Matt Carpenter -- a .388 hitter with runners in scoring position during the regular season -- on a curveball to keep the game scoreless.
The Cardinals did break through an inning later. After Morton walked Carlos Beltran on four pitches to begin the sixth, Holliday hammered a 2-2 pitch well over the center-field wall to stake St. Louis to a 2-0 lead.
Pittsburgh hadn't even had a baserunner to that point, with Wacha setting down 15 consecutive batters until issuing a leadoff walk to Martin in the bottom of the sixth. Martin remained at first as the young righty racked up two more strikeouts to keep his no-hit bid intact.
"I was just trying to keep going out there and throw up zeros," said Wacha. "That's my job is to go out there and try to win ballgames and keep our team in the game."
Wacha breezed through the heart of the Pirates' lineup in the seventh, needing just eight pitches to retire the side in order, then fanned Marlon Byrd to start Pittsburgh's half of the eighth.
He fell behind the dangerous Alvarez, however, and grooved a low fastball into the NL co-home run champion's power zone that cleared the bleachers and landed onto the riverwalk behind right center.
Another walk to Martin ended Wacha's afternoon and worked the PNC Park crowd into a further frenzy, but the excitement was dampened when Jose Tabata swung through a Martinez fastball on a hit-and-run attempt and pinch-runner Josh Harrison was gunned down by Yadier Molina at second. Martinez struck out Tabata two pitches later to end the inning.
Pittsburgh again had the tying run aboard when Rosenthal walked Neil Walker with two out in the ninth, but Rosenthal got MVP candidate Andrew McCutchen to pop up to second to extend the series.
Game Notes
Morton fell to 0-7 in his last eight starts against St. Louis, with the Pirates dropping each of those contests ... Wacha held the Pirates to two hits over seven scoreless innings in a 9-2 Cardinals' win at Busch Stadium on Sept. 8 ... Alvarez's homer was his third of the series, and he's driven in at least one run in all four games ... St. Louis improved to 5-1 all-time in NLDS Game 4's ... Holliday is 10-for-28 with two homers and seven RBI lifetime against Morton ... Walker finished 0-for-3 and is hitless in 16 at-bats in the series ... The Cardinals will send out Game 1 winner Adam Wainwright in Wednesday's matchup, with Hurdle tabbing rookie Gerrit Cole for the start.


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"Judy," a sweet tech project manager said to me recently after I discussed some of the gaps in the social marketing ecosystem "You are on a crusade."
I didn't see that one coming so it stopped me dead in my tracks. What crusade was that I wondered? I probed but she dodged answering me. The word crusade is laden with meaning so it stuck with me – what had I said to give her that impression?
In hindsight it seems obvious but in the moment, I was oblivious to the shift in my thinking from simply being a Surprised Entrepreneur (as I posted here) to becoming a Rebel Entrepreneur.
My cause was simple – to put the human element back into the business of marketing that has been platform'd to a near digital death. I am driven to re-infuse marketing with the sense of wonder, joy and creativity that I had the good fortune to revel in during my earlier career days.
In those ancient days (one generation after Mad Men but before the Internet revolution had really hit) we could put hearts into our work because there were few tools or platforms or technologies to guide the work. It was pure creativity and smarts. It was hard to measure the effectiveness of the much of the work but you knew your work made a difference when the company did better – jobs were created and bonuses were happily doled out.
Over the years, technology improved how we deployed marketing but we continued to be driven by our nobler motivations to create great marketing that improved people's lives. We knew we could make a difference.
But there's been a shift in the industry over the past 3 years. Marketing, especially social marketing has become a tech-heavy exercise of manipulating retargeting platforms, or reward systems or algorithmically based big data platforms. Social marketing is reduced to a conversation about content syndication or sentiment analysis.
So it's no surprise that over that period of time, inextricably, I have seen tech and platforms taking the joy and the nobility out of the system. I have become overwhelmed by the supremacy of marketing platforms over serving people and algorithms over inspiration.
My sense of alarm was quite publicly aired in the digital pages of Ad Age and Huffington Post. I ranted at Facebook when I felt defeated at using Facebook productively. I admitted frustration at the black-box techno-jargon wave that swept over us marketers drowning us in confusion. I've even had the chutzpah to question the funding strategies of VCs who are basing their investments on marketing principles that simply don't apply anymore. But mostly I challenged the 20 something CEOs who created marketing platforms that are long on cool but short on practical application for real marketers.
In the process, I have been:
- Flamed by Macboys and called a hack (look up "Judy Shapiro" and "mac security")
- Accused of being techno-phobic and capable of only kitchen related work, ideally pregnant at the same time thus preventing me from ever writing offending articles ever again
- Tarred and feathered as an "old line" marketer unable to keep up with the iteration savvy tech guys
- Harangued for questioning if the "Content as king" model was sustainable
- And very nearly digitally lynched when I first suggested in 2010 that perhaps Facebook had jumped the shark.
And so against all odds – here I am, founder and CEO of a social tech company, readying the BETA launch of our new network called Eden for Q1.
Against all odds, this little venture that started a year ago will be introducing a different type of social marketing framework that is a based on an "opt-in" paradigm. We are going up against the big "push based" social marketing platforms and networks. It is an uphill but noble fight. In our vision, Eden is a place where users control the action – how they see content or which brands they interact with. It is a reversal of the; "It is our platform so you have to play by our ever-changing rules" social network that dominates social marketing today.
Against all odds, we managed to secure funding including from an early stage VC for which we are eternally grateful. We've created relationships with agencies ready to sell Eden to their clients and we've sealed meaningful partnerships that help us gain access to the highest levels within publishing and brands.
Against all odds, as one woman in her 50's, I am privileged to be joined by a community of seasoned marketers to help in this crusade. Our collective goal is to right the marketing ship listing dangerously to one side from the weight of platforms and big data. I can't express my gratitude to this brave league of fellow crusaders other than to give them full credit for their invaluable role in our noble adventure. I give them a place of honor in our company's history:
- Peter Hubbell, CEO of BoomAgers and former Saatchi Board member. www.boomagers.com
- Griffin Stenger, a founding partner of Concept Farm, a leading social marketing agency [Crain's]. www.conceptfarm.com
- Robyn Streisand, Founder and CEO of The Mixx Group – a branding agency and an early investor in engageSimply. www.themixxnyc.com.
- David Hoffman whose career spans four decades as a film producer and corporate strategic communicator. Wikipedia's simply calls David: "One of America's veteran documentary filmmakers." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hoffman;
- John Bowman, was Exec VP Strategy at Saatchi working on their premier brands and is now authoring a book about his great Grandfather, Archibald Stark Van Orden http://theassassinsassassin.com/about/
- George Collins, a long time database expert and CEO of Research & Response – a database management consultancy. http://www.rresp.com/
- Mark Bonchek, Founder of Orbit + Co whose strategic consultancy is "creating a new direction in business by shifting the relationship of individuals and institutions from PUSH to PULL." http://www.thinkorbit.com/
Against the odds, I have been able to attract a seasoned management team of marketing practitioners who had to "build it" after the consultants talked about loving it but conveniently left when the real work began. They were the ones who built those first generation eCommerce sites and created the principles that good UE designers use today. Our journalists understand SEO and our artists are offering their images for free all in an effort to be a part in the creation of an alternate social marketing reality – a fresh start called Eden.
So against all odds, I find I have become a Rebel Entrepreneur – so strange especially given my training, temperament and age. The potential high rewards of being a rebel all too often comes at a high price and we've seen our share of deals gone bad, betrayal by trusted colleagues and funding plans gone awry (Sandy was devastating to the startup community).
And yet, despite the odds, we are close to the launch of our network.
So I invite you all over to Bit Rebel to experience this journey with us as we sprint to Eden's launch in Q1. Celebrate our highs and feel the unnatural lows that are endemic to startups. Share our anxiety as our burn rate increases but our funding outlook seems further out (we are doing a second round of seed funding now). Take a peek behind the startup curtain, see what's really going on and help shape what happens. The success of Eden will be a triumph of us marketing practitioners like web designers, SEO geeks and developers over algorithmic feats of IP muscle.
Our mission is noble and our cause true. Come join us.
I guess like any good crusade, we need a flag and a manifesto. Stay tuned – I am just learning how to be a rebel. Kinda of exhilarating actually. But
Judy Shapiro
P.S. My rebellion gets its own website: http://judyshapiro.wix.com/rebel-entreprenuer. Viva Le Rebellion.
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With the release of today's Q2 GDP revision, we have fresh Q2 corporate profit data.
And so we can bring you an update to one of the most infamous charts around: Corporate profits vs. Labor's share.
Corporate profits (red) is just what it sounds like: Corporate profits.
Labor's Share (blue) represents the worker's share of the national income.
As you can see, both are at historical extremes, but corporate profits did actually tick down a little bit.
And labor's share has ticked up a little bit.


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