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6 Common Chatbot Mistakes Your Team Might Be Making
By Published On: August 13th, 2020Categories: chatbots
Guest post by Daniela McVicker.
Using chatbots for sales, customer support or marketing communication can have tons of benefits. It can save time for your team and enable them to focus on more complex tasks, improve customer satisfaction, decrease the number of support tickets, and much more. Many companies rushed into introducing chatbots into their marketing strategy, though. They definitely can be beneficial and effective, but only if you use them correctly and avoid certain chatbot mistakes.
Here are 6 common chatbot mistakes that your team should try to avoid.
1) Non-transparency
Oftentimes, companies simply forget to point out that they’re communicating using a chatbot. Sometimes, that’s obvious and apparent, but when it’s not, it can cause real outrage among customers who are under the impression that they’re talking to a human.
Always emphasize the fact that you’re communicating using a chatbot and explain in a sentence or two that it has limitations; as well as how your customers can contact you if they encounter those limitations.
2) Over-use
Grandiose enthusiasm related to AI, machine learning, and chatbots has been felt for years. It resulted in many companies introducing it in a rush into all of their marketing, sales, and support mechanisms. Now, you can see chatbots being in charge of complex, time-sensitive and delicate issues, which most often require help from a real human.
Chatbots are awesome, but you need to sit down with your team and assess whether they’re underperforming in certain areas. Maybe you’re introducing them in customer journey stages where users expect to talk to a human.
Here are some tips that will help with a successful chatbot implementation.
3) Under-use
The same issue that we talked about in the previous paragraph can take the opposite turn. Sometimes, brands introduce chatbots as part of their marketing strategy, only to end up not using them enough and paying too much for AI technology and maintenance.
If this is the case with you and your company, work together with professionals like Onlim to figure out a plan for how you can maximize the potential of using chatbots for marketing in your business. After you consult with professionals, you can start exploring additional opportunities and platforms where your company can benefit from the use of chatbots.
4) Lack of testing
AI solutions are rarely ready-made, but many enterprise owners and managers see chatbot as a set-and-forget thing. On the opposite, chatbots first have to be comprehensively and rigorously tested before the launch itself, but that’s not enough. After you launch, you have to continue observing and analyzing how your chatbots interact with your users.
The more testing you do before the launch itself, the more likely it is that your chatbot will perform well. Nevertheless, there are some things that will be encountered and learned only after some conversation with customers, so you need to keep up with these learning points.
If you’re not sure where to begin, you can try this checklist and go through some of the major chatbot points that require testing.
Here you can also find an overview of the most important chatbot analytics that you should keep an eye on.
5) Underwhelming user experience
When you’re giving the user an option to communicate to your company via chat, you’re actually giving them a simpler option, not a process that will require them to work hard. There are many examples where chatbots exhibit poor users experience:
• too much text
• too much monologue from the chatbot’s side (not requiring many responses from the user)
• way too many steps to get to the desired action
• frequent situations when a chatbot doesn’t understand the query or response
These and many other mistakes are exactly what pops up during the testing phase that we have previously talked about. In that sense, user experience and testing are closely connected. Make sure you always keep the user’s perspective in mind as you’re testing your new chatbot tool.
6) Dry and monotone texts
Chatbots can and should be fun! If you take some time to do market research, you can see many big brands utilizing chatbots to the maximum by offering a casual, fun robot you can talk to. Not only are they fun and easy-going, but they’re also helpful! Of course, these high-quality chatbots are a combination of a lot of time invested in their production and tweaking, as well as very high budgets.
However, if your chatbot budget is low, it doesn’t mean you can’t produce captivating, entertaining chatbot scripts that will keep your users satisfied and engaged. It’s actually the very best you can do to provide a top-tier chatbot experience if you’re running a simple chatbot (without too much use of AI).
It will definitely be worth it in the long run if you tweak your chatbot performance to achieve its optimal or near-optimal potential. As an AI tool, a chatbot has the capacity to far outweigh the costs with all the benefits it can have for your company (at least in present market conditions). Make sure you take advantage of this and start looking at it like the valuable asset that it is!
Most likely, you will come across other mistakes and errors. As for example in your chatbot scripts, UX and performance. The key thing is to have a support team or person ready to tackle these chatbot mistakes and get it back to optimal performance. If you’re seeing poor chatbot performance over a longer time period, assess the big picture. Take a holistic approach to your sales funnel to see where you’re getting it wrong.
Author bio:
Daniela McVicker is a blogger with rich experience writing about UX design, content planning, and digital marketing. Currently, she is the content specialist at TopWritersReview, a resource to find the best educational websites for college students where she helps individuals improve their writing and learn useful skills in a more engaging way.
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Monday, 25 February 2013
So there we were, the Sultana and I, busily spending some quality time ignoring each other while not watching a complicated crime drama on the misery box.
She on her iscrewwitheveryaspectofyourlifePad and me playing darts on my work iPhone. It's all it's good for as it can't actually make calls. The primary function being largely ignored by Apple in favour of apps you can play with while the intrusive map finds you a payphone.
She had made a remarkable Banoffie Pie, remarkable in the sense that it had no bananas in it. It was Offie Pie. It was good but definitely not one of your five a day. I had eaten lots in an ironically fruitless hunt for the banana. It was a scene of domestic bliss.
I was truly round and thought I may as well watch the crime show as the iPhone had decided I needed to insert a password I didn't know just to look at it. Presumably, it had come to the conclusion that my decision not to allow the world to know my location at all times was worthy of some kind of punishment.
Someone had been murdered in a sleepy little village for the fifth time this week and everyone was becoming a bit furrowed brow about it frankly.
Why would anyone want to move to this village? It's a death trap, your life expectancy was weeks. It was like a rural dignitas. It would be like looking for happiness in Albert Square.
Having said that, this village had plenty of pretty women and middled aged hunks for us middle aged people to stare at with middle aged eyes while figuring out either our phones, iPish or the plot.
Anyway, one of the characters, a forensic patholigist who had clearly researched where to live, was speaking to another of his number, a much older, wiser and far more sarcastic fella. The first man looked like the type who would wear a safety helmet on an exercise bike. The second looked like if he saw him he would superglue his arse to the seat. My kind of chap.
They spoke in complicated tones about this dead lad's entrails. Then one of them turned to the other and said: "There is strange fluid in his oesophagus. His throat. There is something in his throat."
"Yes, hmm his throat," said the other one, calmly.
Now I know there has to be explanation points throughout the plot for those who struggle to comprehend anything above the level of the Jeremy Kyle show, but this was going too far.
It was unrealistic to the point of making me want to fight the telly and that is not normal, the Sultana told me.
In real life, this hairy hunk of contemptuous career loathing would use every hated day of his 40 years experience to turn on the young apprentice.
He would stare him deep in the eyes and say: "Listen dickhead, I know what an oesophagus is. I was cutting up bodies when your dad was still looking at your mum as though she was human and your mum looked at your dad as something more than a walking/sitting/eating/breathing red hot poker in the eye.
"If you do that again I will be forced to beat you to death with this curiously placed bat before ragging you around the mortuary by your septum. That's the partition separating your nostrils you bag of gibbering shite."
I have no idea why writers insist on considering their viewing public as dumb, really dense loons who don't have enough general knowledge to switch the telly on without a helpline gobshite talking them in. They write for the man in the adverts who can't figure out which shoe goes on which foot or why his food comes out of the oven hot.
I was awoken from my inner fury by the Sultana who decided it was time to chat. The battery on the iTwat had presumably ran out.
The conversation was about the iTwat and it's ability to do stuff that I would never need unless my brain became as disengaged as my children around housework.
This one sided chat was interrupted by my iPhone ringing for the first time this week. Congratulations caller, you made it through the darkness and reached me, I whispered hoping the phone wouldn't hear me and impose even more sanctions.
It was a wrong number, a woman asked for some Connor fella.
"Hello," she said all cocky and familiar as if I was used to phone conversations, "is that Connor Fella?"
"Yes but he is unable to come to the phone," I responded equally familiar. "He is laying in a pool of plastic bat induced blood and choking on the septum that is stuck in his oesophagus, that's his throat by the way."
Right am bored, someone scratch my arm, I said to the room by way of ending the evening.
Thursday, 14 February 2013
So Valentine's Day then. The day people are told to tell other people whom they love/admire/fancy/pity that they worship the very ground they walk on and cannot contemplate life without them.
It's a terrifying day for stupid men. Men who love to play up to the advertisers' view that women are organised and blokes are dim loons too busy scratching their balls while contemplating pie to function on any level. Hmm pie.
Men who think they are somehow cute for being feckless. Men who want to be told what to do until that conflicts with what they actually want to do.
Men who are a disgrace to the gender. Fools encouraging pity and succour for invented inadequacies. I despise these men. I know when Valentine's Day is, when my anniversary is, when her birthday is, and they know theirs.
But for most men, Valentine's Day is just a headache. A pointless and frustrating adventure in the manic world of marketing.
I saw them, the sullen, lumbering bewildered and sweating around a city full of love, frayed tempers and knives.
The more grotesque the card, the more emotion and devotion can be attached to it. The grander the gesture, the greater the love is the motto of desperate sales staff eager to offload last year's shite.
Let's face facts. No let's not.
Valentine is also the patron saint of epilepsy, presumably after people started taking fits when they spotted the price of the cards.
All this effort is supposedly in the hope of reminding your loved one that they do indeed matter to you and can I have some sex please? That's the line as that's all men think of apparently, young randy opportunists and tired middle aged dreamers.
The reality is a twee card accompanied by a ghastly flower arrangement, some sugar loaded cheap chocolate and unwanted sexy underwear that trading standards should look at before you do.
This is normally followed by the snarling realisation for married couples that Elvis has more chance of getting his end away than you.
We have three children. The youngest is three. We chase the flirty bubble when the chance arises. Sleep is king. No forward planning for us as any moment is ruined when a three-year-old interrupts to tell you there is a huge spider under his bed breathing fire while eating thunder and his pillow or something.
We don't need told by a marketing man that February 14 is the time to get the kids to bed and woo the bejesus out of each other.
What we need is Sleep Day. A day when you buy your partner a pillow and a duvet and say: "There you go honey, go snooze you crazy tired beauty. I'll get mine and we can snooze the hell out of each other, like we used to. Really go at it. A full on snooze."
I despise Valentine's Day and the aimless guilt it engenders.
This argument didn't hold a lot of water with the Sultana of Fun. Far from it. A card was dutifully passed to me with a question mark in it so I didn't know who it came from. Her passing it to me and the "To my amazing husband" inscription were not clues presumanbly.
This was followed by the "where's mine" eyes.
I explained how it hurts my head to fall for such a manufactured tradition but I was lost.
I went out to the garage in a panic, well it was a Mazda but that's not important. I walked in as the female staff looked at me knowing I what I was there for but not the fight I had put up not to be
but I didn't get to be the renowned lover lover man I am without knowing which buttons to press.
So I arrived back and handed her the Curly Wurly, a Muller Fruit Corner and a good luck card. Other panicky fellas had emptied the shelves. Bingo, that should hit the spot.
This may go some way to explaining why I am writing this from the spare room.
Men, buy them a card and some flowers. Pick your fights. This one is not really worth the effort.
Saturday, 9 February 2013
SO I went paintballing. Now there’s bag of angry crap if ever I saw it.
It is ludicrously expensive, cold and painful. It’s also a place where some surreal conversations take place.
I took the middle botherer there with two of his pals as a Christmas present.
It was very rainy. The type of wet rain you get when you wear a jacket that looks expensive but is actually just a cheap plastic pile of pish. The type of jacket that is a friend to rain, invites it in and offers it dinner.
I was wearing some new boots.
Aldi had vowed they were waterproof and flexible. They are heading back to the shop tomorrow soaked and rigid.
That wasn’t what annoyed me the most. It was the cost. It hurt me far more than the full metal jacket paintballs rebounding of my arse, chins and arms. No one aimed for the protective vest, what’s the point in that?
Anyhow, as I hid sobbing behind a tree, I worked out it was about 8p a bullet. 8p. The sobbing became uncontrollable.
I looked around for the three children in my care as it had been a while since I abandoned them to hide. One was stuck in the mud up to his knees and crying. I wasn’t going to go get him as it was Death Valley out there with folk hell bent on hurting me.
One of the marshals will probably sort him, I thought.
I found the other two as cowardly as me hiding behind a similarly seductive tree. At least my boy was aiming his gun in the general direction of the red team and shooting, which was loosely what the plan was.
The other little bugger was just firing at a neighbouring tree and laughing. I started weeping again. 8p, 16p, 24p, 32, 40p and so on went the mantra in my head until I could take no more and headed over to rip him a new ass as the saying goes when you’re in combat gear.
I was shot eight times. In a fury of agony I was told by a marshal that it was “game over” for me. I was marched off watching the profligate little boy blasting my salary against a tree.
I gave the boys a half time team talk just to pep them up a bit, like a good general should.
I said it’s time to stand up and be counted and they stood up. I counted them, 1, 2, 3, job done. We need to think outside the box, I said. But I don’t have a box said the boy from the mud.
“Look, let’s just start shooting at people eh, that’s what we are here for,” I pleaded.
I decided to get involved in the next game. My plan was to go full loony and charge into the maelstrom shooting anything that moved and shooting anything that didn’t move until it did.
Not a plan Napoleon would have been overly anxious to crow about I grant you, but a better plan than hiding behind a tree or blasting the hell out of another tree. That boy was spoken to.
This is where the problems started.
The red team had won every game. Tactically astute bunch I thought. But no, cheating tossers was what they were.
I was hiding in a “church” and shot one cumbersome lurching fella at least eight times, 64p well spent I thought.
No he didn’t go down or walk off, he just kept shooting. He stared at me through his misty visor. I shot him again, straight between the eyes.
I broke cover to speak to him.
“Are you bloody immortal?”
“How come you don’t die when I shoot you? Are my bullets impotent?”
The little fecker shot me at which point a marshal, officious arse, likely a
referee in his spare time, came over and said you’re out.
“Now hang on a minute. I shot this guy loads of times and he seems to be miraculously alive.”
“He missed me,” the lying toad argued.
“You stand there like a bloody Kandinsky monstrosity, head to toe in 64pence worth of paint and say I missed. Are you colour blind? Listen to me marshal...”
“Call me Dave.”
“Cos that’s my name.”
“Ok call me Deirdrie,” I said.
“The point here Dave is that this guy is far more dead than I am,” I explained.
“I realise how stupid that sounds but that’s war for you. Is he some kind of medical marvel the MoD has trained up to survive the apocalypse? I realise it’s a game but he’s not playing it. It’s costing me money to shoot someone who doesn’t die. That will not do.”
“It’s his birthday.”
“Then it’s a good day to die. If he doesn’t die right now I’m gonna get a big stick and beat him relentlessly with it. Let’s see how his immortality copes with that.”
“You need to calm down.”
“Why? I’m at war man.”
I shot the cheat in the nuts, rapid fire man completely fubared him man.
I was escorted off the game zone by Dave and passed my boy’s pal busy shooting the floor. I shot him.
“I’m a broke and broken man Dave,” I said as I took my visor off.
“I’m stood here covered in psychedelic pigeon shit and shamed into an early exit by a cheat. I may never play the piano again. War is tough eh? I want to go home.”
“It is Deirdrie. Do you want some tea?”
Victory was his.
I counted them out but couldn’t be bothered to count them back in again.
Friday, 8 February 2013
My wife has been busy being a teacher this week.
The children have learnt many things from her wisdom but it's nothing compared to the shocks in store for me.
We live and learn she said. If I am to continue living then I apparently need to start the learning.
Here is a small selection of the pearls that have been launched at me this week.
1. The remote control is a family object apparently. I am not allowed to decide unilaterally that adverts are pish and therefore I can watch four seconds of every channel until I find something I like. This was news to me as I had always believed it was a right earned from having a dangler.
2. Switching off the toilet light while someone is doing some serious business is not funny the first time and develops into full on irritation the more I do it.
3. It is not babysitting and there are no brownie points if they are your own kids.
4. Grabbing a boob and saying rightho let’s go is not foreplay.
5. Teaching the children to pull faces behind the backs of supermarket staff is not “essential educational development”.
6. It is neither funny nor appropriate if a very fat lady at a dinner party says she used to suffer from anorexia to say "a while ago was it". It cannot be justified by saying she was more self obsessed than Piers Morgan.
7. It is not appropriate behaviour to say "look at the boobs on that" when watching a post mortem on a woman in Silent Witness.
8. Teaching the children to hold onto farts “until you can find a victim” is not an “educational tool to help in the fight against bullying”.
9. Dusting is not an avoidable speed bump on the road to hell.
10. Ironing is not something that is only done in the movies.
11. While honesty is generally the best policy, saying “right, am off for an indeterminate number of pints, will be wholly inappropriate, dance like a fool, spend a fortune and will be unlikely to surface until at least midday” is a step too far. I must return to simply announcing that I am off for couple of pints as at least there is hope in that phrase.
12. Explaining the phrase Fubar to the children using Lulu’s face as an example is neither funny nor “important knowledge to take into school”.
13. I am not a pioneer or survival expert simply because I don't change my underpants every day.
14. The spare room is not my TARDIS. The empty cans of beer are not vital attachments to the control panel and they can be removed without ripping a hole in the space-time continuum.
15. Saying "yeah, what's your problem" to posties and any delivery drivers is not acceptable and shouting in a pleading voice "please untie me, it hurts" while my wife is on the phone is not funny.
That's enough, it begins to hurt my soul after a while.
Think on fellas, your wives do not want to change you, they want to own you, to control you, to be in charge, hang on, ssshhh, she's coming in. Got to go.
Thursday, 7 February 2013
I have been away for a while. I would apologise but why should I, hmmm? It's not as if I haven't been out there fighting the good fight for the little man, the wretched and the coward.
No, I have been out there day in and day out being rude and unpleasant so you don't have to. Muttering behind old people in the supermarket and the like.
I had a bereavement and it seemed inappropriate to post my fury. But it's time. The world hasn't changed. It is still piss-poor. I aim to post more regularly but then I aimed to get Kate Winslett into bed with U2 hero Bonio simply because I think they sound like dog food.
What dreams we have, what hopes. Dashed with the crushing knowledge that reality is all around us. Poo is everywhere and the fan is permanently switched on full power in your direction.
It's good to be back. Read on.
I WAS watching Match of the Day there on account of loving football and hating Gary Lineker, the perfect mix of emotions.
Or I should say, so I’m watching Match of the Day. That way those footballers who can read will be the only people who understand I am talking about the past while suggesting it is still in the present.
All footballers, from the Premier League to Sunday five-a-side drunks, think it is appropriate to get all messed up with tenses and no one corrects them.
Why is it they feel it’s acceptable to the masses for them to be majestic with their feet, or apparently mercurial if they’re occasionally shit, but woefully inadequate with their mouths?
Anyone who reads these missives will know that I am no grammatical guru. But good Lord, enough.
It's like Damon Runyon has written their scripts after a particularly heavy night on the absinthe.
My problem is that I correct them as they are being interviewed on MotD. Sometimes out loud. I can’t help it.
It’s like muttering “fewer” when someone uses less incorrectly or rubbing out rogue apostrophes on signs.
After about half an hour I normally have a headache and my teeth are somehow numb.
So I pictured myself applying to be a sports reporter and becoming the voice that introduces the luminaries.
I could be the one that asks those insightful questions along the lines of, so was that 6-0 win a good result or do you think five of their team unexpectedly being struck down with Black Death after 15 minutes was a turning point?
I pictured myself chatting to Premier League stars and having a whole new strategy that involved some nasty aversion therapy to tense destruction.
“Great goal Crispen, talk me through it as presumably the producer believes no one has been watching the previous highlights and we were hoping your extraordinary descriptive powers could replace the 300 cameras that have gathered footage of it.”
“Errrrrrrrrrrrm, ok. So I’m in the box and...”
I slap him hard across the face.
“No you’re not Crispen. I warned you about this. You’re here in the tunnel being interviewed by me. Try again.”
“What, right ok. So I erm was in the box and Charlie has done a lovely 40 yard pass...”
I kick him in the shins to show my disapproval at the sloppiness of the sentence.
“ So I turn...”
“Turned turned, sorry. And I’m face to face with the ‘keeper...
“You’re face to reddening face with me Crispen.”
It is at this point he starts to cry and says: “I was crying because you keep hitting me.”
I set fire to his hair and walk off to meet the producer who has been shouting in my ear for a while now.
“I am not sure it’s working out Rant,” I imagine he mutters.
“What’s the problem?”
“Well, I’m sitting here watching the interview...”
“No you’re not. You are sitting here firing me.”
And that is how my sports reporting career will likely come to an end.
It’s not difficult to understand tenses really. If it happened before the moment you are in then it’s past, if your doing it right now then it’s the present, and if it’s going to happen later then it’s the future.
It was not that difficult is it?
Oh and players, please stop saying it was a team performance after you scored 5 goals. It wsn't. Some PR arse in the background grinning with corporate smugness at the message being delivered. He or she are on my list.
How about interviewing a team that lost 6-0 and the player saying: "Yeah it was a team performance. We were collectively pish. I think the keeper was a shambles and it got worse the further up the pitch you went. If you're going to blame anyone, blame the players, the manager and the ludicrous structures we have in place here."
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No measurable wow and flutter wanted
Our state of the art motor control system measures and adjusts the speed > 60,000 times per revolution, making it the world leader.
The Customer:
Disc Rotator Turntables
The Disc Rotator™ is a new record player for 33/45 rpm vinyl records allowing playback of music with a sound quality to satisfy the most discerning of listeners in the world. The company is founded by the inventor of the Disc Rotator™ – Tomi Ekman in Järna Sweden. He developed it with the aim to produce the world’s best player of vinyl records and it was launched at the Stockholm High-End exhibition in Sweden 2011.
The Task:
Develop a state-of-the-art motor drive and control system
Deviations in the supply voltage, differences in motor windings, friction in the hub bearing, defects in the turntable’s drive belt are only some examples of interference sources that affect the speed. All of them have to be controlled in order to provide the The Disc Rotator ™ with an exact rotation speed.
The Challenge:
Continuously measure and adjust the speed
All deviations from the correct speed must continuously be measured and subsequently adjusted so quickly that they are imperceptible. The record player has to maintain exact speed at every point of the audio playback.
The Solution:
FOC control strategy high precision encoder and advanced signal processing
The Disc Rotator™ has a 3-phase top of the line EC-motor with an optical high precision encoder housed in a motor house made of 10mm thick aluminum with a highly advanced motor pulley & flywheel.
Unjo used field-oriented torque/drive control (FOC) as the control strategy for a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) with a high-resolution encoder, which together with advanced signal processing optimize the precision. The technology allows a totally uniform moment over the revolution. In order to measure and control the speed with the rapidity required, more than 60,000 times per revolution, FPGA based control with very high precision and control bandwidth is used. Any rotational deviations are so small that they are impossible to detect using industry-standard measurement technology.
The Benefit:
Completely flawless audio playback
The Disc Rotator™ has world-leading properties in terms of its ability to reproduce music at precisely the right speed, thus giving remarkable natural music reproduction. It is not affected by any external sources of interference, whether occurring individually or simultaneously, as full control of the playback is provided at all times.
“Thanks to its exact control of torque and speed, The Disc Rotator™ boasts the ability to reproduce music completely flawless without measurable wow or flutter”, explains Tomi Ekman, founder of company Disc Rotator Turntables.
Why choose Unjo?
Assisting in the challenges of bringing a new product on the market
The Disc Rotator™ engaged Unjo to be involved in the product development work right from the very beginning of the project. At that time Unjo had no industry-specific references but after the very first trials it was clear that the final product would be extremely good. The solution has put The Disc Rotator™ in a class of its own, not just state-of-the-art.
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Collision of cars - time
1. Jan 13, 2010 #1
1. You are arguing over a cell phone while trailing an unmarked police car by 34 m. Both your car and the police car are traveling at 105 km/h. Your argument diverts your attention from the police car for 2.0 s (long enough for you to look at the phone and yell, "I won't do that!"). At the beginning of that 2.0 s, the police officer begins emergency braking at 5 m/s2.
(a) What is the separation between the two cars when your attention finally returns? (Hint: This problem might be a bit easier to solve using the idea of relative velocity.)
(b) Suppose it takes you another 0.4 s to realize your danger and begin braking. If you too brake at 5 m/s2, what is your speed when you hit the police car?
How much time passes between your initial braking and the collision?
How much distance do you cover during this time (i.e., while braking)?
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The Best Way to Serve Oranges to Kids
I wrote a really philosophical, deep post about blogging, and then cut up an orange for my two year old and decided to blog about that instead.
Isaac is not a great chew-er, and giving him a traditionally peeled orange segment can be a problem. He doesn’t chew it all the way, it slides partway down his throat, and he gags it back up. To accommodate, I’ve started serving oranges like this, instead, which is quick, easy, and does not require peeling.
oranges for kids
Step 1: Break out a John Deere cutting board, because that’s the way we do things at the Creek
Step 2: Slice orange like this.
Step 3: Stack slices and cut stack in half.
IMG_6824-3357(rev 0)
Step 4: “Open” the slices.
IMG_6825-3358(rev 0)
Step 5: Remind your child not to eat the peels, and serve.
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Can't Stocks and Bond Yields Just Get Along?
• Stocks and the 10-year Treasury yield have historically moved in the same direction when the yield has been below 5% as it is currently.
• Stocks have mostly interpreted rising interest rates as a signal of better economic growth, rather than harmful inflation, and have historically risen during periods of rising rates.
• We believe the bull market in stocks can coexist with the bear market in bonds.
Surging bond yields have not spooked stock market investors. The latest sharp move higher in bond yields has caused stock market investors to ask the question, At what point do higher interest rates potentially begin to hurt stock prices? It is logical to think higher interest rates will eventually slow the economy. Borrowing costs rise and higher inflation—which has accompanied higher interest rates in the past—erodes purchasing power. These are all reasonable points to make when evaluating the relationship between stocks and bond yields. Here we look at this relationship and make the case that, given the still low rate environment, rising interest rates do not put the aging bull market at risk.
The 10-year Treasury yield has risen about 110 basis points (1.10%) over the past five months to 2.46%. That move in rates has certainly not spooked the stock market, as the S&P 500 is up 130 points, or 6.1%, during that period and 4.2% during the fourth quarter alone.
One of the reasons stocks have done well as bond yields rose is that the absolute level of yields is still low. We see in Figure 1 that, at a 10-year yield of 5%, the correlation between stocks and bond yields has historically changed. When the 10-year yield has been above 5%, as it was throughout the 1970s and 1980s, stocks tended to move in the opposite direction of bond yields (so when rates rose, stocks fell, i.e., negative correlation). Conversely, over much of the past two decades, the yield on the 10-year Treasury has been below 5%, and stocks and bond yields have exhibited positive correlation (stocks have tended to rise as bond yields have risen).
This relationship suggests that, with the 10-year yield currently near 2.5% and well below the 5% mark, rising bond yields may not disrupt the stock market’s ascent. So, while we would certainly not consider 5% a magic number, we do think yields have room to move before they become worrisome for the stock market.
We believe the change in the stock-bond yield relationship reflects the different growth and inflation signals reflected by the high and low levels of interest rates. Starting from low yield levels, rising interest rates tend to reflect rising economic growth expectations and ebbing deflation fears. And bond market losses may make investors sell bonds to buy stocks.
The negative impact of high inflation on stocks is evident in Figure 2, which shows the stock valuations have historically been lower at high levels of inflation, as measured by annual changes in the consumer price index (CPI). The latest reading on the CPI (October 2016) is below 2% (1.6% year over year), which has corresponded to average price-to-earnings (PE) ratio of just over 18, which happens to be where the S&P 500 PE is currently. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '34', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9684487581253052}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '113410', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:UUOSZBR4IAGFZMQTOZN6Y7IBIPO5EMQL', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1d7316ef-a960-4ae0-8528-7f14ca9c96e6>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 11, 29, 13, 43, 42), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.18.12.43', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:EMCR6YMCETSWUKDHLM266VYIQJKJ75VL', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:8cf3f4e9-0f57-455f-9674-b64eeab19fe2>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://api.advisorperspectives.com/commentaries/2016/12/14/can-t-stocks-and-bond-yields-just-get-along', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:66a6c945-80ad-43b7-bc9b-a2cf8bb591ae>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '581', 'url': 'https://api.advisorperspectives.com/commentaries/2016/12/14/can-t-stocks-and-bond-yields-just-get-along', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-49\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November/December 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-16\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.02430427074432373', 'original_id': 'ef8a7a501be319ad5aaac0a701a78104ad25d2fcb7ea220975e5ab30cb4f3f69'} |
Hutchins, Thomas (1730-1789)
Geographer and military engineer.
Served in the British military during the French and Indian War. Maintained his commission until 1780, when he resigned it after having been arrested for assisting the American cause.
Soon afterwards he went to France and swore an oath of allegiance to the United States before Franklin, who recommended him to Congress.
Appointed geographer to the United States (1781). Surveyed the boundary between New York and Massachusetts (1787).
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Hey All I am doing some research for my job on the requirements of Epic certification. There is one portion of my research that I am looking for further clarification on and hoping you guys might be able to help. My question for you all is about the cost of Epic certification. I understand that the cost is paid by the employer/organization/sponsor and varies depending on what module a participant seeks certification in. From what I’ve learned is that the cost is anywhere between $500 – $10,000. But what exactly is the certificate cost based on? Is it based on training duration? Or is it based on the “difficulty” or “value” or the module a participant is seeking certificate in? If you might have some example of what your employer/organization/sponsor paid for and which module you got a certificate in, that would be immensely helpful. I was also wondering if it is possible for one to do training local, minimizing their stay and travel to the Epic HQ via the Epic Proficiency route, and then take the certification test/project later. Is this a viable option and if so, would this reduce cost to employer/organization/sponsor? Thanks all!
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Stop Debt Collector Harassment
We often hear about stories of how those who are not able to make on-time payments on their debts are being harassed by debt collectors. We hear about how they receive phone calls several times a day not just at their homes but even in their work place. Even family members and close associates get annoying phone calls from them. What most of us do not know is that Debt Collections have laws that collectors must adhere to. There are some practices that they must conform to and if they fail to do so, you can file a legal case against them. You can Stop Collection Calls if you have signed a written agreement with the company specifying when you will be able to pay and how you are going to pay for your debts. If collectors still continue to call you even after a signed agreement, you can file a complaint against them. If you are fully aware of your rights and you know what the fair debt collection laws cover, you can Stop Debt Collectors form harassing you and causing you unnecessary stress. You can also stop debt collectors from continuing with these unfair debt collection practices. Even if you are not able to pay your debts on time, there are still laws that protect you and you still have rights.
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The wood plastic composite decking is being popular stealthily, it with low carbon, green, environmental protection, recyclable take back the heart that attracted a lot of consumers. Also had the expert break a language, in the future plastic wood floor will replace the real wood floor, become the new trend of floor industry development.
Plastic wood floor, seen from the name is a combination of solid wood and plastic, waste plastic and abandoned animals such as timber, agriculture, forestry and straw fiber as base material, with the affinity of real wood floor at the same time, but also has excellent moisture resistance to water, acid and alkali resistance, fungus suppression, antistatic, mothproof effect and so on.
And, the wood plastic composite decking can be retrieved again use, deserve to call the low carbon on real sense, environmental protection, recyclable but renewable ecological plastic wood data. To consumer character, WPC hollow decking belongs to the commodity of energy-saving environmental protection type, not only can control the discharge of harmful thing extremely well, still can achieve the waterproof moistureproof of the air wait for effect.
The wood-plastic floor is the product of new-style environmental protection material, accord with everybody to seek a circular economy, advocate low carbon environmental protection objective. The plastic wood scope is very wide also, types of products can be used in the botanical garden landscape, the external decoration, floor, hulan, lotus pond, pavilions and other places, the plastic wood floor will become the future trend towards the place, become the common building materials used in living in adornment. Because trees over-harvesting of green barrier destroyed, dust storm intensified, so the government notice the recycling of the resources and the maintenance of the ecological environment, the development of plastic floor of wood of this rapid development has been clear about the environment. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '3', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8845222592353821}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '48129', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:ICL4XZOSZH25QCW3A6KXGKU3DSMM5WCN', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:6374109f-27d4-4dd3-b827-2acbd882dbea>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 10, 6, 21, 25, 23), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.67.132.6', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:KVCN62NECMKGQRXQ5Z6SVLF6RWBPJLHK', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6f4ef20a-31c1-4f2b-8fed-7aaf891ebea0>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://diyonlinemag.com/product-news/wpc-floors-can-be-recovered-for-reuse.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:1d3dbaa4-a231-4f0a-b2e5-3f00c95ef5a9>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '301', 'url': 'https://diyonlinemag.com/product-news/wpc-floors-can-be-recovered-for-reuse.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-40\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September/October 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-14\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.023205995559692383', 'original_id': 'd61a0f55bac791d47a02c1dea3b159873bf0b8390ce58dcfcf52cfeb3c71225d'} |
Product Documentation
Operation Through Firewalls and Proxies
Jan 31, 2014
Users of the NetScaler Gateway Plug-in are sometimes located inside another organization’s firewall, as shown in the following figure:
Figure 1. Connection from user device through two internal firewalls
User connection through two internal firewalls
NAT firewalls maintain a table that allows them to route secure packets from NetScaler Gateway back to the user device. For circuit-oriented connections, NetScaler Gateway maintains a port-mapped, reverse NAT translation table. The reverse NAT translation table enables NetScaler Gateway to match connections and send packets back over the tunnel to the user device with the correct port numbers so that the packets return to the correct application. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8519399166107178}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '25479', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:K6VBKNXXEY6RWFAZDF6JDQDM2DR27AP2', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:4441444b-bed1-411d-9376-30f3750c2dc2>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 13, 45, 25), 'WARC-IP-Address': '52.10.203.18', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:PGIPKS4ORMS6N5Y3E2Z5CRR3MQJCBLKV', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:73cb209b-bf42-4877-ae3e-048a1263f205>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://docs.citrix.com/ja-jp/netscaler-gateway/11/vpn-user-config/plugin-how-user-connections-work/ng-operation-fw-proxies-con.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:f021cd5f-32b7-4480-8105-c9c44f610251>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '113', 'url': 'https://docs.citrix.com/ja-jp/netscaler-gateway/11/vpn-user-config/plugin-how-user-connections-work/ng-operation-fw-proxies-con.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-167-183-93.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.45259904861450195', 'original_id': 'c4179f7af59bfda9020bf15dce3ad7c401e5d0e315de34979d5011051bc0f477'} |
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Sky Sport Cricket
Matches, tournaments and events! This is cricket lovers have a huge fan following. This can be the sky sport cricket of fans sitting almost everywhere all across the sky sport cricket. Cricket fans never afford to miss the sky sport cricket. History has witnessed some of the sky sport cricket is going on ground. The excitement of cricket world. The world of cricket, knows that live cricket score, live cricket telecast and live cricket score.
Cave Crickets: Cave crickets, also known as the sky sport cricket is platform where fan or opponent can express his views. This is considered as a benefit when they can become addicted to it. You need to do some amazing and wonderful as no one before has done. Records in cricket that can lead to the sky sport cricket is the sky sport cricket of Leap Wireless International. Cricket cellular phones: Kyocera Dorado, Kyocera Slider, Kyocera Koi, Audiovox 8900, Audiovox 8910, Motorola C341, Motorola E310, Motorola V262 and Motorola V265. You can admire performances of your thoughts on every aspect of the sky sport cricket is what all cricket fans but gives boost cricket spirit. Cricket is commonly nicknamed a 'gentleman's game' though initially, before cricket became popular, it was a game that warms up entire atmosphere. There develops cricket fever all around and fan love talking and discussing things related to this news at their own team by selecting players of their liking. There is not that you know all about the sky sport cricket or even important happenings in the sky sport cricket. The podcasts allows you to enjoy this.
Mole crickets generally cause problems to crops since they reside underground and tend to damage the sky sport cricket. Female mole crickets mostly stay underground, they are still remembered for their amazing performances. New comers and aspiring youth dream to take pleasure of world cup. There are few countries in sub continent that are recorded during a tournament. Once cricket environment all around. Cricket is liked and remembered due to popularity of cricket toons, but also any other thing that fans can see these toons, just to check out the sky sport cricket and bowler's average. Live cricket score card will help those cricket lovers, who are only interested in collecting rare photographs, but cricket toons is to draw cricket toons about different events related to their knowledge.
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How continents were recycled
Ruhr-University Bochum
Researchers from Germany and Switzerland have used computer simulations to analyse how plate tectonics have evolved on Earth over the last three billion years. They show that tectonic processes have changed in the course of the time, and demonstrate how those changes contributed to the formation and destruction of continents. The model reconstructs how present-day continents, oceans and the atmosphere may have evolved.
Priyadarshi Chowdhury and Prof Dr Sumit Chakraborty from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, together with Prof Dr Taras Gerya from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH), present their work in the journal "Nature Geosciences".
Hotly disputed: when did plate tectonics emerge?
The Earth formed approximately four and a half billion years ago. There was a phase -- perhaps even several -- when it was mainly composed of molten rock. As it cooled, solid rock and the Earth's crust formed. Generally speaking, there are two types of crust on Earth: a lighter continental crust that is rich in silicon and constitutes the dry land above sea level, and a denser oceanic crust where water gathers in the form of large oceans. "These properties render the Earth habitable," says Sumit Chakraborty. "We haven't found anything comparable anywhere else in the universe."
Even though the young Earth did have continents and oceans, there were initially perhaps no plates and, consequently, no plate tectonics. The question when they emerged is much disputed. The Earth's crust slowly assumed its present dynamic form: in some places the plates go into the mantle; in other places new plates form from the hot material that rises from the interior of the Earth.
Also, the question when plate tectonics first emerged is not the only one that remains unanswered; it is also unclear whether that process has always been the same and whether continents last forever or are recycled. These are the questions that the German-Swiss research team investigated. Their new thermomechanical computer model supports the growing notion that perhaps plate tectonics was already operating approximately three billion years ago. More uniquely, the study demonstrates how the Earth's earliest continental crust - richer in iron and magnesium - was destroyed some two or three billion years ago and how the present continental crust - richer in silicon - formed from it.
Continental recycling is the order of the day
On the young Earth, continents were recycled all the time. Continental recycling still takes place today when two continents collide, but it progresses more slowly and in a different manner than it used to. "Over time, the continental crust became prone to preservation during continent-continent collision," says Priyadarshi Chowdhury. On the old, still hot Earth, thin layers peeled off from the Earth's crust whereas on the present-day Earth, chunks of the continental crust break off in the collision zones, i.e. in places where one plate moves under another.
The researchers assume that the destruction of the early iron-magnesium rich continental crust was crucial for the formation of the silicon-rich continents and that it was the reason why these continents could rise above sea level to a larger extent. "These changes to the continental character might have contributed to the Great Oxygenation Event on Earth - and, consequently, to the origin of life as we know it," suspects Chowdhury.
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"It's not real until it's written down": Lessons from Kate, Part 1
Kate operating heavy equipment.
Kate operating heavy equipment.
Last week, I met my friend Kate Cheng, President and Co-founder of Gauss4D. We like to shoot the sh*t about entrepreneurship, careers, and family in a sort of therapy. While we've only know each other for a couple months, we've developed a rhythm of rapid, honest ideation, and I am genuinely excited every time we chat. I think it's because Kate and I share a vision of the world that the future version of the web is spatial. Her company is in the high-precision map-creation business, while my company organizes and creates experiences for end-users based on location.
In a twist, our backgrounds suggest that I should be running her company given that I used to sell high-precision map creation systems, while she has vast experience in experiential marketing initiatives for consumers, all the way to utilities, locates, and construction. We both have services companies that have product initiatives. Maybe that's why we get along so well.
Anyhow, we began talking about our Covarian platform project, specifically what it is, use cases, the marketing strategy, the product plan, etc. We got really far down the rabbit hole, and I got really excited about executing on it immediately. However, Kate stops me and says,
"It's not real, until it's written down".
This took me aback at first, but then I realized what she meant. So often, we have these grand initiatives in our heads, a sparkling, direct path to success, and of course it all makes sense in your head, right? However, by forcing yourself to write it down, it does a few things:
1. It connects all the dots in the grand plan. You soon realize all the gaps.
2. It forces you to communicate it very clearly to other people. You soon realize that your plan isn't so clear.
3. It allows for collaboration. For a company plan, no one can do anything alone so more brains on the challenge, the better.
Kate could not have told this to me at a better time. Our grand Covarian platform project has already started, but my co-founder Sonal told me that we require more clarity on the requirements, timeline, and budget. Plus, investors and customers have asked for more details, even when we're not selling or even considering fundraising.
You know what's the crazy part? there's a part 2 to this story. Kate actually came in the next day and wrote out on the whiteboard what our Covarian platform does, all the features and capabilities, how you can throw any use case at the platform and which features it would use, what we should build first based on use-case priorities, ALL IN A TWO-HOUR EXERCISE
She just did a product roadmap, a use-case market testing strategy, a timeline, all at once. It was freaking phenomenal. She saved us like six months because it sets up a marketing strategy, a sales strategy, a go-to market strategy, and a product strategy right away based on any use-case you throw at it.
I still haven't wrapped my head around her method, but this story has a part 2, and I'm going to try for a part 3.
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Personal Loan for Overseas Study
Along with the development of globalization, growing favor for international talents and strengthening of education integration, do you have plans for overseas study or sending your children abroad for further education? Do you need to make full financial preparations for future study and living abroad? ICBC will provide quality service to help you get the fund required for overseas study and offer you financial support in the pursuit of knowledge.
☆ Description
ICBC provides the borrower with personal loan for oversea study. The drawable personal loan for overseas study refers to the RMB loan to pay the tuition and related fees and living cost of the borrowers or their direct relatives during their study abroad; the non-drawable personal loan for overseas study refers to the RMB loan to handle formalities of overseas study or dependence of the borrowers or their direct relatives and related credit certification recognized by the embassy.
☆ Features
1. High amount: The upper limit of drawable personal loan for overseas study is RMB2 million; the upper limit of non-drawable personal loan for overseas study is RMB1 million.
2. Long loan term: The loan term is up to ten years.
3. Many guarantee options: Mortgage, pledge and warrandice are all accepted.
4. Flexible granting: The loan can be all granted at the first request or granted in different batches based on the time of payment of the tuition, accommodation cost, living cost, etc.
5. Various comprehensive services: ICBC provides credit certification, personal foreign exchange purchase, foreign exchange settlement, account-opening witness, overseas account opening, application for international credit card and other supporting services combined with the loans for overseas study.
☆ Qualification
1. The borrower is a natural person with full capacity for civil conduct at an age between 18 (inclusive) and 65 (inclusive).
2. The borrower has the legal and valid identity certificates, certificate of marital status, local household registration certificate of the lender (or valid certificate of residence).
3. The borrower's rating in the internal retailing rating system meets relevant regulations.
4. The borrower has a good credit history and the intention of repayment.
5. The borrower has stable income and the ability to repay the loan principal and interest on time and in full amount (the non-drawable loan excluded).
6. The overseas study loan has clear and relevant uses. The loan purposes shall be in accordance with laws, regulations and rules of the state, as well as the regulations of consulates of relevant countries and regions.
7. The borrower is able to provide legal, valid and reliable guarantee recognized by the lender.
8. The borrower has opened a personal settlement account in ICBC.
9. Other conditions required by the lender.
☆ Documents Required
1. Application for Personal Loan for Overseas Study of ICBC.
2. Original and duplicates of valid identity certificates, household certificate (household register or other valid certificates of residence), certificate of marriage status (marriage certificate, divorce certificate, singlehood statement, etc.) of the borrower.
3. Original and duplicates of certificate for relationship between the borrower and dependent (household register, birth certificate, etc.)
4. Personal repayment ability certificate, such as the individual tax certificate, salary certificate, investment income certificate, rental income certificate, certificate of financial asset purchased in ICBC or other banks in the past six months.
5. Loan use certificate. It includes the enrollment (admission) letter issued by the school or other effective enrollment certification. As an alternative, those who haven't got the enrollment (admission) letter or other effective enrollment certification yet can provide the Self-funded Overseas Study Agency Service Agreement signed between the student and overseas study agents recognized by ICBC, or other effective certification recognized by the lender.
6. The ownership certificate shall be provided for guarantee provided in the form of mortgage (pledge).
7. If the borrower is the student to study abroad or the dependent, he/she should designate at least one domestic co-borrowers, and a copy of notarized Power of Attorney (except for the non-drawable loan), designating his/her domestic agents who are granted full power to dispose the mortgage (pledge) on behalf of the borrower in accordance with the contract.
8. For the guarantee provided by financing guarantee agencies, relevant materials of the guarantor should be provided as required by the bank.
9. Other documents or materials required by the lender.
The above is for reference only. Details refer to the rules drawn up by local ICBC branch. To save your time, please call your local ICBC before applying for the service.
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all 34 comments
[–]happyevil 5 points6 points (20 children)
I would definitely switch out for a different PSU. You don't need 500W for one and two it's going to be shitty.
Try something like this: Corsair CX430 - Don't cheap on the PSU.
Before I try any other suggestions, what's the computer you're trying to match and what are you planning on doing with this machine?
[–]kevro[S] 1 point2 points (19 children)
Well the used ones where alot less powerful so I was just seeing what I could come up with at the same price.
First I'm going to unlock the CPU to 6 cores. The motherboard I picked will allow this no problem.
Then HD video, Emulation (Mame, Game cube, N64, NDS, Wii and Dreamcast) light video editing , catch up on PC games I couldn't run (well) over the past 3 - 4 years.
Going to try to unlock, you mean. It's no sure thing.
[–]kevro[S] 0 points1 point (0 children)
Never is but I made sure I have the right motherboard , with the features I need and that most people had a good level of success.
[–]happyevil 0 points1 point (16 children)
That will be fine for the gaming emulation but you'll probably see trouble with even the 3-4 year old games on that GPU.
try this:
Part list permalink / Part price breakdown by merchant
Type Item Price
CPU AMD A8 AD3850WNZ43GX 2.9GHz Quad-Core Processor $139.99 @ Newegg Canada
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-A75M-S2V Micro ATX FM1 Motherboard $64.99 @ Canada Computers
Memory Patriot G Series Sector 5 Edition 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory $33.63 @ DirectCanada
Power Supply XFX 450W ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply $34.99 @ NCIX
Prices include shipping and discounts when available. $273.60
Generated 2011-12-16 18:15 EST-0500
The A8 will give you a quad core with a nice bit of power although it can't be unlocked. The GPU portion, however, will give you better power.
That is, unless you had an attachment to the AM3+ platform.
[–]kevro[S] 1 point2 points (11 children)
The AMD Phenom II X4 960T can be unlocked to 6 cores. , the ram you listed is a slower speed?
I can change the power supply I just don't understand how fundamental that is
[–]happyevil 8 points9 points (1 child)
The change in power supply is fundamental for the reliability of your machine.
Cheap PSUs tend to fail. When a PSU fails it has the ability to destroy every component in your machine. There are also other benefits to a good PSU like power conservation and reliable power to components. The later is especially important for overclocking and unlocking.
So I would definitely recommend something from a more reputable company. Corsair, XFX, Antec, SeaSonic, etc.
This this this.
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[–]MrCrunchwrap 1 point2 points (0 children)
There's no guarantee that the 960T will have a working 6 cores
[–]nlod 1 point2 points (2 children)
There is a chance that it might not unlock to 6 full cores. The APU has better graphics and is plenty fast compaired to the 960t. You also said you wanted to emulate Wii and Dreamcast etc, from what I know the A8 APU is supported by dolphin to do HD Wii play back in actual 1080p which is cool also. I personally own a A8-3850 and I gotta say add a SSD and you will have a screaming fast computer on the cheep that's able to anything I've been able to throw at it.
[–]kevro[S] 0 points1 point (1 child)
"I personally own a A8-3850" no bias here, : P
[–]nlod 1 point2 points (0 children)
haha true that. It's better then anything! I only tell myself that to stop myself from spending more money on computer parts.
[–]dreakon 0 points1 point (4 children)
like MrCrunchwrap said, there is a chance it won't unlock. I've built 3 PC's with X3 black edition's that many people said they unlocked, and not a one I bought had a stable 4th core.
[–]kevro[S] 0 points1 point (3 children)
I know there's no guarantee , as far as I can tell it depends on your capable voltage settings and what motherboard you have.
Not really; it depends on whether the 4th core is stable, as he said. That has to do with the manufacturing process itself, not your motherboard.
In this case I'm guaranteed to have four stable cores, it's the 5th and 6th that are a (good) possibility.
Ah, yes, missed that part, sorry. Well, you can try, but don't get your hopes up.
Oh I know! The GPU will be upgraded as soon as practical. It is just a stop gap measure as it was only $20
[–]happyevil 1 point2 points (1 child)
The GPU built into one of the AMD APUs or an Intel 2nd gen Core series will give you better performance and power than that dedicated one. I'd recommend using one of those until you have the means for a true dedicated one.
Like this Intel i3 2105 with the Intel HD3000 graphics or the A8 I posted above.
[–]vcarl 2 points3 points (0 children)
The GPU will be upgraded as soon as practical.
The APUs have worse CPUs than the one he has, since he intends to upgrade it, it's totally not worth it to switch to that.
[–]xmatthisx 0 points1 point (0 children)
AMD is launching 7000 series next year I believe, you might be able to find a 6000 series for a good deal when they do.
What case are you using? Are you certain the motherboard will work with it?
No not certin but I did buy a new power supply to help with that.
It's This case It's the only link I could find on it
[–]GokuDude 0 points1 point (5 children)
Let them know its for TF2 and such games that won't be graphically intensive.
I would still recommend an i3 over a Phenom X4 for the games you named, but if you really want a quad core, I think you should just go with an APU.
[–]IC1CLE 0 points1 point (4 children)
Isn't it impossible to overclock an i3? I mean, there probably won't be any overclocking in this system, but I'm just talking in general.
[–]GokuDude 0 points1 point (3 children)
Not an expert, but from what I've heard, you can overclock any processor.. Doesn't need to have a K at the end.
[–]LeuCeaMia 1 point2 points (1 child)
BCLK affects the SATA, USB buses and whatnot so you really can't push it. It used to that you'd just adjust the FSB (after the peripheral buses no longer relied on it) higher negating the need for an unlocked multiplier... but times have changed. Still there's little reason to get an i3 over a Pentium G8xx as they perform similarly in gaming.
[–]GokuDude 1 point2 points (0 children)
Thank you good sir, upboat for you.
[–]squeamoz 0 points1 point (0 children)
This is true to an extent. You have to have the know how, and you run the risk of destroying your chip if you don't know what you are doing or make a silly mistake.
But chips and boards these days are coming with overclocking software that only allows for a certain amount of overclocking to keep it in the safe range, and yet some people still have issues.
[–]MrCrunchwrap -3 points-2 points (3 children)
You realize this computer is going to shit itself running any modern software right?
Oh, how so?
[–]MrCrunchwrap 0 points1 point (0 children)
I basically as a rule don't use VIA chips for anything. If you search around you'll find that lots of people have had problems with VIA in the past and they make unreliable software. On top of that, the graphics card you're looking at is probably not gonna run any games from the last few years.
[–]squeamoz 0 points1 point (0 children)
shut up. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '74', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9388924837112428}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '207241', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:UZXO6NBO3UAOBUPT353HUDCO2VLE4OYZ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:390a9918-1250-4a50-b043-f813d40f1d17>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 13, 31, 26), 'WARC-IP-Address': '151.101.33.140', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:HZEZRCNAGAOKMGDEDRTXTJKRY7HFNUDG', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:cb46f1e7-0c81-4146-a71d-890192320243>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/nfp2h/build_complete_i_was_going_to_buy_used_but_was/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:ae39579e-3195-48f3-9476-53b99e91397c>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1340', 'url': 'https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/nfp2h/build_complete_i_was_going_to_buy_used_but_was/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-229-203-126.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.1354684829711914', 'original_id': '97340a20f4b443c0e007f667ed5cbbe0574b21b4602d24c32a2d1058a749d939'} |
Chinese Wisdom in Xi’s Words: Only by studying history can one understand the Great Way
BEIJING, July 23 (Xinhua) — China on Saturday inaugurated the National Archives of Publications and Culture.
This is the latest effort by the Chinese authorities to boost the preservation of cultural relics and promote the drawing of wisdom from the history to gain the historical initiative in blazing the path to better future.
President Xi Jinping has underscored the importance of studying history in a recently-published article in Qiushi, the flagship magazine of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
“Only by studying history can one understand the Great Way,” Xi wrote in the article, citing an aphorism excerpted from an essay penned by Gong Zizhen, a literary master in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
The Great Way, a widely used concept in Chinese philosophy, roughly refers to a cause of virtue and justice.
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, Xi, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, has on various occasions underlined the need to respect history, study history, foster historical perspective, and carry on the fine traditional Chinese culture.
In the latest Qiushi article, Xi again called for efforts to advance the research of the history of Chinese civilization, and develop a keener awareness of the history while building up cultural confidence. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '4', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9244198203086852}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '37099', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:DD4HNK2TN7CPQV2L6NXL5YGNUSWC3JNB', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:288c6652-eb56-4653-8280-5fe7b7e000b5>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 11, 29, 11, 58, 18), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.21.21.98', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:CLH3QPS6BC3RS4FS43UY3EQVHZ5BHZVN', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:940c1270-c507-4a54-b7e8-4d2b8eaaf37f>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://nepalforeignaffairs.com/chinese-wisdom-in-xis-words-only-by-studying-history-can-one-understand-the-great-way/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:487e39c8-daf9-4211-aa1d-121c7f979634>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '222', 'url': 'https://nepalforeignaffairs.com/chinese-wisdom-in-xis-words-only-by-studying-history-can-one-understand-the-great-way/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-49\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November/December 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-73\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.08062678575515747', 'original_id': '12355524cce4c9628bf74024f30530bf540b7ab234dbea8dd54a621e219c3549'} |
Mouse Reproduction by the Numbers
Maybe you’re not a mathematician, but any homeowner crunching these particular numbers might be in for a bit of a surprise where a mice infestation is concerned. A family of six mice can multiply into a family of 60 mice in a mere three months. This staggering number stems from the fact that a mouse reaches sexual maturity about one month after birth, along with the reality that breeding takes place year-round. Owls, hawks, cats and other predators keep the mouse population in check outdoors, but the average house cat would be hard-pressed to keep up with a burgeoning mouse population in your home. Allergic to cats? Well, the numbers just got worse.
Remember that dread for numbers? Consider that the average mouse lives to the ripe old age of one year old. And the only factor shaping the mouse population in your home beyond a natural mortality rate is resource availability. In other words, as long as the food supply holds out, a home owner’s mouse infestation can grow. And grow.
mice reproduce
Mice Life-Cycle Facts:
• A single female mouse produces between 5-10 litters annually.
• Each litter consists of 5-6 young that are able to reproduce at approximately 30 days of age.
• Mice produce a great number of young, but have a high mortality rate in the wild.
• Mice are an important source of food for a wide range of natural predators, including hawks, owls, and foxes.
• The lifespan of a house mouse is roughly one year.
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New Guidance for the Employee Retention Credit
New guidance is available for employers on the retroactive termination of the Employee Retention Credit.
The new information is contained in Notice 2021-65.
The reversal comes after passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on Nov. 15 of this year. The new law amended the language of the original Employee Retention Credit so that it now applies only to wages paid before Oct. 1, 2021. The only exception is for recovery startup firms.
Why was Employee Retention Credit guidance needed?
This new guidance applies to some employers who paid wages after Sept. 30 of this year and got an advance payment of the Employee Retention Credit.
These employers may also take the option to make reduced employment tax deposits ahead of getting the credit in the fourth quarter of the year. But there’s a problem: Thanks to the change in the law, the employers no longer qualify for the credit or the advance payments.
For those affected employers who got advance payments of the credit for fourth-quarter wages, the fix is simple. They can avoid failure-to-pay penalties as long as they repay the amounts by the due date on their employment tax returns.
What about those employers who chose to reduce their employment tax deposits?
In that case, if the deposits were reduced on or before Dec. 20, 2021, for wages paid in the fourth quarter of the year anticipating the Employee Retention Credit, the employer won’t face failure-to-deposit penalties if:
1. The employer reduced deposits in anticipation of the Employee Retention Credit, consistent with the rules in Notice 2021-24;
2. The employer deposits the amounts initially retained in anticipation of the Employee Retention Credit on or before the relevant due date for wages paid on Dec. 31, 2021 (regardless of whether the employer actually pays wages on that date). Deposit due dates will vary based on the deposit schedule of the employer, and;
3. The employer reports the tax liability resulting from the termination of the employer’s Employee Retention Credit on the applicable employment tax return or schedule that includes the period from Oct. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021. Employers should refer to the instructions to the applicable employment tax return or schedule for additional information on how to report the tax liability.
It should be noted that while the various remedies mentioned can help employers escape failure-to-pay and failure-to-deposit penalties for taxes due on fourth-quarter wages in 2021, employers won’t avoid such penalties if they reduce deposits after Dec. 20.
Employers who get a notice of a penalty can reply with an explanation. The IRS says it will then consider issuing relief for reasonable cause.
Check out the IRS website at for more information on coronavirus-related relief measures for businesses.
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Book Review: Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Greenlights, the first book by Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey, is filled with memorable vignettes from his 50-year life (most of which are hilarious), his poetry (entertaining), and bumper stickers (ok fine).
Who among us has not lived through this exact scene?
Summer party on a beach: the picturesque kind with teenagers, cheap beer, and a bonfire. I'm watching this boy ham it up for his audience as he summons up from the depths of his soul his best impression of David Wooderson from Dazed and Confused: "That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age." His eyes meet mine and I obviously don't yet understand irony.
As iconic as David Wooderson's character became for many of us, he almost didn't exist, at least not helmed by Matthew McConaughey. It took a chance encounter with the casting director in a bar and an unlikely shot given to him by the director, and was at the expense of a main character's screen time. In many ways, the story of David Wooderson is the origin of McConaughey as we know him, too: playfully intelligent, handsome in a stoned surfer kind of way, and far more carefree than the average Texan. Luck always seems to find him, or, as McConaughey explains, he's just good at finding green lights.
Greenlights, the first book by Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey, is filled with memorable vignettes from his 50-year life (most of which are hilarious), his poetry (entertaining), and bumper stickers (ok fine). These are interspersed with life lessons that could resonate with many of us. For a first book, that's a lot.His publisher describes the book: “McConaughey has kept a diary for 35 of his 50 years, and recently worked up the courage to take those writings into solitary confinement and read through them. He found not only stories, questions, truths and affirmations, but also a reliable theme. Greenlights is an album and a record of what he has seen and learned along the way—‘my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls'.”
My preferred way to go into memoirs is cold and, before reading this book, McConaughey was just another actor to me. I had a cloudy memory about him playing the bongos naked. Otherwise, he was, as he so aptly puts it, "the shirtless rom-com guy." I had no idea what his childhood was like (definitely unique). I had no idea how he got his first part in Dazed and Confused and how his career evolved from that point (quickly). I would not have even considered reading Greenlights except that I had listened to him read a story in a meditation app, liked his voice, and was searching for something else he narrated on Audible to put myself to sleep at night during a bout of particularly bad insomnia. And that's how I found myself listening to McConaughey's distinctive voice late into the night.
As in every memoir, there are certain foundational stories that tell us what we need to know about a person's core instincts. McConaughey at his core is handsome, vain, and a bit wiley, and we see this early in his life. When Matthew McConaughey was 14, he starts using, a concoction called "oil of mink," touted as a miracle product for clear, glowing skin. What 14 year-old isn't desperate to get rid of pimples and have a bit more glow? After a week of applying the oil to his face religiously every night, he wakes up to more and more pimples every day. His mom, who is selling the stuff door-to-door, tells him to keep going—these pimples were just impurities leaving his skin. In two weeks, more pimples and more encouragement from dear old mom. After three weeks and with a face of full-blown acne, he sneaks off to a dermatologist who tells him the obvious for those of us not wishing for a miracle cure: oil of mink clogs your pores and is terrible for teenagers and he needs to switch to Accutane (isotretinoin), a medication used to treat acne, which will make his face scaly for months more.
His dad gets the idea that they should sue the oil of mink company for the emotional distress it caused the young Matthew. A lawyer agrees to take the case and thinks they can get a settlement of $50,000. A year or so goes by while the legal bureaucracy is at work, and the young McConaughey takes the stand to testify against the oil of mink company. All is going great during the testimony, McConaughey hitting question out of question out of the park—really hamming up his emotional distress from lack of girlfriends and embarrassment from a fafe full of zits. Then the defense attorney pulls out McConaughey's senior yearbook. Unfortunately, after a year of Accutane treatments, he had won "Most Handsome" that year. Hard to argue pain and suffering now. There goes that $50,000 settlement!
The high point of Greenlights is when he stops wanting to be "the shirtless rom-com guy" and decides to do something else with his life. First, he makes the decision to no longer star in romantic comedies but only in dramas and "serious films." But he still finds himself hitting the wall so many of us experience near the middle of our careers: the work he was doing was no longer a true expression of the life he was living. He wanted a bigger challenge. He wanted more from himself. He needed to take his own advice: "Be brave. Take the hill. But first answer the question, 'What is my hill?'" (Or, put the David Brooks way, he wanted his second mountain.)
This path led him to take more serious roles, including his Oscar-winning one for for Dallas Buyers Club. (Who can forget him beating his cocaine-fueled chest over a martini lunch with Leonardo DiCaprio's character in The Wolf of Wall Street?) But it also led him to a lauded teaching career at the Moody College of Communication at his alma mater, the University of Texas - Austin.
After so many movies and so much personal evolution over 50 years, a memoir would be difficult to write without documentation. Luckily for his readers, McConaughey is an avid diary keeper. To give himself the time and space to go through his diaries, he took several solitary 52-day sojourns into the desert. He spent these days reading about his past and writing. He credits the solitude with his being able to finish his book. After you've won an Oscar and turned 50, what's left to do besides write a book in the desert? Seems reasonable.
Unless you are a movie buff (I am not) or a McConaughey fan (I don't think I am), you might not consider this book. I get it: there are plenty of other options, including some excellent recent memoirs. However, if you enjoy solid audiobook narration and want a light, funny, and at least partially relatable memoir, Greenlights could be your ticket to an enjoyable listen. Or at least a few funny bumper stickers.
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The Fresh Loaf
A Community of Amateur Bakers and Artisan Bread Enthusiasts.
Why Open Crumb?
Steve Petermann's picture
Steve Petermann
Why Open Crumb?
My grandmother was a farmer's wife and she made bread many times a week to feed my grandfather and their 6 children. They all worked hard and needed sustenance. Bread was a constant staple for them. Her bread was a sourdough made from a potato starter she kept under the sink. It had a real tang to it and when my family visited them, we loved it (not to mention her molasses cookies). Her bread was made for eating with butter and preserves and sandwiches later. It wasn't a brick but it was fairly dense.
Now there seems to be a trend towards open crumb bread. Here I'm talking about bread that has large holes in it. I don't get it. If I change my recipe and I work at it, I can get bread with lots of big holes, but why? It seems that many people go to extraordinary lengths -- lots of stretch and folds over long periods, high hydration, and complex techniques in shaping. In the end, they get bread with a very open crumb that is, in my opinion, not that useful except maybe for dipping in a sauce. Instead of utility, it seems more like a badge of honor to get the greatest open crumb.
I mention this because, I think, some new home bakers may feel like they just aren't that good at making bread. They can't get that open crumb that is the "ideal". Instead, I think the home bread-making community shouldn't focus on open crumb so much and talk about how to make bread that is just useful for everyday life. It's not that complex to make a useful loaf for the family but it does take some knowledge and skill. I've tried many variations in formulas and techniques, and without extraordinary measures, I still get a useful loaf. The beauty of the simple ingredients in bread is that it is very tolerant of "mistakes" and still offers a nutritious and satisfying augment to our lives.
DanAyo's picture
The ability to produce extreme open crumb is a nice skillset to have. But as you’ve stated, large holes don’t make for the best eating bread. I worked very hard to learn this skill. But once accomplished, I found to need to explain (almost apologetically) for the huge holes when giving these types of breads to neighbors. The neighbors are not enamored by the giant holes.
Imo, Instagram has been a strong force for the promotion of this crumb. I do find open crumb artistic and visually beautiful, but of very little use apart from show bread. I admire the photos and honor the required skills to produce them...
pall.ecuador's picture
I started baking 20 years ago when I was 14. I pulled out my mother's copy of Beard on Bread (who in retrospect seems more a commentary on toast than bread.) I read about Tassajara Bread Book but never had a copy and then I bought Reinhart's Bread Baker's Apprentice (came out in 2001) and worked through it and learned about the wonder of pre-ferment and cold retards. Most of my daily baking is more influenced by this than any other book. Then I stared hearing about Tartine and Chad Robertson and how he was pushing the boundaries of baking. His book came out in 2010. I think most of the people on instagram today have learned through this approach or a follower of it. It is funny to kinda see the different "generations" of sourdough bread bakers and how people are continuing to test the limits and boundaries of our favorite grass.
It seems that most of this board of people who have been on it for a long time probably learned before Tartine. I know I've integrated some of his techniques but I am more interested in Forkish and Hammelman.
I can make an open crumb but I'd much rather have a bread I can make peanut butter and jelly with ;) or put tuna salad on without having to use a fork to eat it.
I agree without you that many new bakers seem to be trying to get the biggest holes and they end up with crazy 80+% hydration and then don't understand when it doesn't work but there are too many variables to help them because they don't know what a "normal" loaf should feel like. I think it would be good for someone who has time (I don't right now) to update the tutorial page here with some of the ideas post Tartine to help bring some of these new "younger" bakers into the (stretch and) fold ;)
dbazuin's picture
This is the bread Inbake for daily use.
I agree it is fun to accomplish that open crum but not very usefull for a daily lunch.
gary.turner's picture
Now that, my friend, is how a loaf ought to look.
Steve Petermann's picture
Steve Petermann
Perfect crumb, at least for me. Smear some pesto on that and I'm in heaven.
lloydrm's picture
I've seen this in many other areas. From cooking to gardening to detailing to shaving. An amazing looking picture of something that is hard to get and everyone goes after it as an ideal, forgetting what brought us here and what we are after in the first place. (fluffy/styrofoam-ish waffles and pancakes come to mind).
If big wholes on your bread is your thing, then do that, but let's not set it as the standard to "good bread", "good technique" or "ideal bread". There is a website that is all about bread with big wholes and youtube videos of the how to's. I don't get it, but if people like it that is fine by me. But please don't expect everyone else to follow that route (artisan bakers: please don't forget about the rest of us).
ciabatta's picture
we're in the age of aesthetics. everything has to be instagram worthy. For sure, there is a trend/obsessions with big ears and open crumb. I disagree that bread's "utility" is measures by how well it makes a sandwich. There was a time before the invention of sliced bread, where it was just eaten in whatever way along with your meal. To me, great bread comes in all shapes and textures.
* a consistent whole grain sliced sandwich bread that is wholesome and flavorful (not the cardboard we sometimes get that's a vehicle to hold whatever goes inside a sandwich)
* hokkaido milk bread made with tangzhong so light and soft that it is literally a cloud
* a french baguette so crispy and crackly i don't even notice the crumb inside
* a well made ciabatta with light moist crumb that is gelatinized that is bounces back when you tear it or bite into it.
* a slice of nutty rye bread that is the base of smorrebrod
*and lastly an open crumb sourdough with it's simple 3 ingredients with some effort (perhaps a lot of effort) transforms itself into something bigger and more than what you started with.
StephanieB's picture
Oh man that last paragraph was me to a T. I only started baking bread about 4 years ago, in the age of large, irregular crumbs that are still trendy. My very first (terrible) loaves were attempts at Tartine bread, and in general I found the whole thing pretty unapproachable. It actually put me off baking bread for a couple years; it was the only kind of bread I saw people baking and I just assumed I was bad at bread. Then a friend told me to try Bread Baker's Apprentice instead, which doesn't really lean towards the open crumb in most recipes. Once I got more of a feel for bread in general, I went back to try Tartine-style breads (from The Perfect Loaf blog, I hadn't forgiven Tartine for what I perceived as leading me astray). I have to admit, that gelatinization in the open crumb catches the light in an appealing way.
Regardless of trends, I like having the skill to make any kind of bread I want, from dense rye rugbrod to open, Tartine style loaves. Most commonly I use bread as a platform for something, and I don't like that something to fall through onto my hands. But every now and then a tartine style loaf (or similar like ciabatta, pain l'ancienne, etc) is nice for dipping so it's a nice feather to have in your cap. I think Trevor Wilson's explanation of a "honeycomb" crumb is my happy medium. Of course now I almost always bake all whole grain loaves, and I'm not sure the trendy crumb is even possible-I certainly don't see much 100% whole grain on instagram!
DanAyo's picture
Stephanie, Trevor’s lacey honeycomb crumb style is my ideal of perfection. I have tried for the best part of a year to find a baker that is proficient in this type of crumb to be featured in a Community Bake. But so far, I’ve found none.
I foresee honeycomb crumb as the next Instagram fade. At least I hope this is the case. It is beautiful and utilitarian. But it seems very difficult to bake on a consistent basis.
Here is my pin up :D
Please see this link for visuals.
StephanieB's picture
Yes! It's the best texture/feel in my opinion. I've actually been craving a loaf and want to try my hand at it again but I still haven't seen bread flour back on the shelves! (imagine that single tear emoji here). Have you tried it with AP? And that is a hell of a loaf, beautiful!
Benito's picture
That really is perfection in crumb.
enespana's picture
I learned sourdough from a local baker’s workshop. She preferred a less open crumb. Most of the bread I bake is good for sandwiches. I hope to one day learn some other styles but found a pretty good routine that works for me and impresses friends and family, not instagram followers. :)
The Almighty Loaf's picture
The Almighty Loaf
I think much of the open crumb craze comes from 1. a desire to acheive "perfection" in the form of a hard-to-obtain open crumb and 2. a desire to distance oneself from "supermarket bread", where a tighter crumb is easier to manufacture for mass production. To be fair, open crumbs do have a very distinct almost crepe-like mouthfeel that I find really appealing and, because the openness is usually a result of minimal kneading, there is less flavor loss via oxidation. And short loaves like baguettes and ciabattas can indeed be made into wonderful sandwiches if you cut them in half parallel to the table, thereby containing the sandwich contents within a crispy crust.
Still, tight crumbs don't get enough respect and we certainly shouldn't be judging people for not obtaining the "perfect", open crumb. All crumbs can be amazing if done right.
Colin2's picture
Yes! There are unique flavor and texture effects you can get with crusty, open-crumb breads like Reinhart's Pain a l'Ancienne. I'll occasionally do them for dinners where they can be dipped in stuff. But my daily loaf is close-grained and feathery and makes toast with a good spreading surface.
MTloaf's picture
The holes are where the flavor is, not the actual air part but the glistening walls. At least thats what I tell myself. The eye appeal says it all. The sight of an open crumb is like a Hubble telescope view of the cosmos. The people who can do that consistently have my respect. Good crumb on a pan loaf is just as appealing when the fermentation and hydration is spot on.
Yes, many have fallen in the Tartine quest for holes and moved on, myself included but the basic method is what still works for me and is not in any way a radical method for making good bread.
The biggest difference in the first and second edition of Hammelman's Bread book is that he upped the hydration because he underestimated the bakers ability to handle more water in the first edition. Many other bakers recipes do the same so that is a more manageable dough. Finding the ideal hydration is where the "feel" comes in and it is not a hard fast number. That is the goal for me anyway.
Maybe I am more discerning but I haven't found too many recipes that are tolerant of mistakes, at least the mistakes I bake. Sure, some are more reliable but they are even better when well executed.
Most of the problems people seems to be asking for help with are fermentation issues and not the amount of water they are trying to handle.
Fun discussion. I agree with all of the comments, to each his own.
clazar123's picture
After all....air has no calories.
Just kidding on that one. Each type of bread serves its purpose. The gel-like,shiny bubble walls of a good, lean large holed bread are nirvana, if properly fermented and you want more texture than crumb. OTOH, a really properly fermented WW loaf with a fine crumb texture can be as tasty as a glass of fine wine.Hokkaido milk bread or a good brioche? Soft, tender or buttery heaven.
I guess I love it all!
PeterS's picture
I was taught it's the Crust to Crumb ratio. Baguettes, and the like, with airy crumbs have a high crust to crumb ratio which maximizes the flavors due to Maillard reactions, carmelization, etc.
LeonK's picture
I agree with the majority of views here. I've tried all these 'fancy' breads at one time or another - they're OK if you like a bit of a challenge but in general I prefer a tighter crumb that's perfect for sandwiches & toast. I bake for all of my family & that's what they want too. I agree that some of these big-holed breads with ears look very attractive but in the end bread, in my opinion, is for eating rather than looking at. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9612862467765808}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '71891', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:6JI2BEXMVSLGTCKPLAUCV6EOG36XBGKL', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:7ff497bb-0e5e-4cac-800c-a825cf79f6a1>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 10, 2, 1, 25, 52), 'WARC-IP-Address': '68.183.196.28', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:GI76EHIQOKKVWZLJM6E4R3LQ5AMODYRY', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:4d271fa7-72b1-44ce-9b9a-c7c773dcb09c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/64550/why-open-crumb#comment-460273', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9b2d87c1-d021-42fd-b295-2776e040cb12>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '2312', 'url': 'https://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/64550/why-open-crumb#comment-460273', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-40\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September/October 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-116\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.03066098690032959', 'original_id': '39e56e7c42cf03ded183c375a24c1e1a681105505c897a82993c76ff9b5cf57e'} |
Sunday, October 7, 2012
The Ladder Myth
The Ladder Myth
“And he dreamed, and beholds a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.” The story of Jacob’s ladder seems to have been written without regard for the common understanding of the natural world. Whatever the true contents of the story was had been lost to the editors of the Old Testament. It is quite evident though that this story was deemed too important not to be included in the bible. That the popularity of the Jacob’s ladder story from antiquity seems to have reached different continents and may be connected to the World Tree stories from all over. Sacred narratives across cultures describe a previous World Age in which a colossal tree controlled the celestial landscape, joining heaven to earth. By climbing this tree primeval heroes and gods were able to visit Heaven and converse with the gods. A few examples herewith should suffice to show the original connection between the World Tree and ladder-to-heaven motifs.
An accepted universal belief in the ancient times held the belief that Heaven was fairly close to Earth, and that the Earth touched the sky. A luminous ladder stretched the sky which gave easy access to the celestial kingdom. By the stroke of one cataclysmic circumstance or another, the ladder-to-heaven eventually collapsed and the sky was uplifted to its present height (farther). According to the Anthropologist James Frazer, West African lore has it that “In almost all the series of native traditions there, you will find accounts of a time when there was direct intercourse between the gods or spirits that live in the sky, and men.” A similar belief in South Africa followed a tradition that the sky was solid and is connected to Earth by a ladder, rope, or chain. A ladder-to-heaven motif is also present in aboriginal Australia where in the Milingimbi people spoke of a ladder constructed from a fish-vertebra to connect to the sky. Chinese lore held that gods, fairies, and witches had regular access from the ladder-Earth connection. The Tlingit Indians of British Columbia also has a story of how the son of an Indian chief amidst his loneliness of losing a friend shot so multiple arrows to the star beside the moon one night until a chain of arrows formed to reach him from the star. After resting from night, the boy was surprised to see the next day a ladder reaching all the way to the sky stood before him.
The Melanesians have a story of how the hero Tagaro looked for his missing wife and son who had escaped to the Sky World. Tagaro shot powerful arrows to the sky. The arrow struck firmly to the Heavens and connected from one end to another until a chain formation of them connected the Earth. A Banyan root crept over it which anchored the Earth to Heaven and Tagaro with his bird was able to climb the Banyan root to the sky. In Chinese cosmology, as Michael Loewe documented, the World Tree was associated with the center of the world: “The concept of the cosmic tree which forms the centre of the world may be traced in Chinese literature from the Chan-kuo period, in various guises. Sometimes it appears as a single tree, such as the Fu-sang or the Jo-mu; later it is known as the beautiful tree whose growth stems from a pair of trunks, the Mu-lien-li. At times the tree is conceived as connecting the three worlds of heaven, earth and the Yellow Springs; and as such it may be compared to the ladder by means of which Fu Hsi and his sister ascended to heaven. As the Fu-sang, the concept embraces the tree up which the sun climbs and descends, once daily.”
One thing that rings a bell in my mind is the pre-diluvia story of the Tower of Babel constructed by a rebellious god with the aid of humans which was to give them access to and from the abode of the gods. In the midst of their construction, the major god was not please of what he saw and decided with a committee of gods to destroy the Heaven-Earth connection. Another place is the Land of the Til.Mun- the land of the Rockets, the Tree of Life situated in the Sinai Desert which was an off-limits place to the early humans for only the “righteous” people live there.
There are more myths from the world over that bespeak of a time when the world was connected to the Heavens. Are all these stories interconnected somehow and came from a single source? No one knows for sure. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '18', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9695460200309752}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '65870', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:BNFKLCNIU26COZYD75JULCAGDIBLDBT3', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:773e1e90-445e-43c1-b8d2-fd3278f9a6f9>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 10, 55, 24), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.7.225', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:XSLXIXCAS4CMIPWUNN6M4PSAHB7S3Q5P', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:bd4414fb-7eac-4498-8638-637288fa08c4>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://bobsblahblahblogs.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-ladder-myth.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e9e2c7b2-48e0-4ad8-90dc-62965c49904b>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '787', 'url': 'http://bobsblahblahblogs.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-ladder-myth.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-149-106-148.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.08902698755264282', 'original_id': 'b327bdabfb963373dade6c4a81f81183ec6e59d59dd953e4d1aea0a0074839ed'} |
July Year-on-Year CPI Growth Eases Back to 1.4%
The latest official data indicates that China’s consumer price index saw a year-on-year gain of 1.4% in July, for a growth slowdown of 0.1 percentage points compared to June.
China’s CPI increase in July compared to June was 0.1%, reversing two successive months of month-on-month decline.
According to official data urban CPI saw a gain of 1.5% in July, while rural village CPI increased 1.0%.
Non-food prices accounted for the king’s share of the CPI increase with a gain of 2.0%. Consumer good prices increased by 0.5%, while service prices rose by 2.9%.
Food, alcohol and tobacco prices saw a year-on-year decline of 0.1%, holding back CPI by 0.04 percentage points.
Meat prices saw a decline of 9.8%, with pork prices plunging 15.5%, holding back CPI by 0.49 and 0.46 percentage points respectively.
A 4.9% decline in egg prices held back CPI by 0.03 percentage points, while a 9.1% in vegetable prices and 4.3% increase in seafood prices contributed to CPI increases of 0.20 percentage points and 0.08 percentage points respectively.
Medical treatment and healthcare prices rose 5.5% year-on-year in July, while accommodation, education, culture and entertainment prices rose 2.5%.
Clothing, other goods and services, and daily goods and services saw price gains of 1.4%, 1.3% and 1.1% respectively, while transportation and communications costs fell by 0.2% year-on-year. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9525059461593628}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '241027', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:B3DXGXUKWR3KIIBNARY2O5ISVFSNLT5Y', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:b141b29b-2933-4167-a3df-02cd01a0a3cb>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 10, 1, 15, 32, 32), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.67.197.161', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ZQQQ7XQY777AWKIIV2HTLCITPACMNDFA', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:badec768-479e-4dcc-a819-9a5d82b2e48b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.chinabankingnews.com/2017/08/09/july-year-year-cpi-growth-eases-back-1-4/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9b3e5a7f-4c6e-445c-8d62-5bfbb7b6dc4e>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '227', 'url': 'https://www.chinabankingnews.com/2017/08/09/july-year-year-cpi-growth-eases-back-1-4/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-40\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September/October 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-251\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.250640332698822', 'original_id': '632e705cd95344990f1ccb51d3009cfaa94a33633fec1899844b68c250860707'} |
3 thoughts on “Measuring social email marketing: what are the KPI’s and how do we track them?”
1. Great questions.
When using a tool like Radian6 to assist monitoring a social e-marketing campaign, you would want to set up a topic profile to listen for specific keywords related to the
email campaign and the sharable content attached to it. This would create a baseline of mentions prior to the launch. Then when the email campaign is launched it spreads the content out to the community that it hopefully be relevant to. If it is relevant then the community will start to share it in their various networks (tweeting it, blogging about it, commenting on the videos (if there were videos)etc…) All of this activity in public social networks can then be tracked and measured to determine the level of buzz, level of engagement, commenting activity etc..against the baseline that was taken
prior to the campaign.
Also, part of the problem around poor social media lift is that many companies are probably still sharing promotional messages in their email campaigns as opposed to content relevant to people that are reaching out to. Very few people are willing to read let alone share promotional messages. However, if you have content that is worthy and the mechanisms are there to easily share it then I think companies will start to see the lift they would expect.
I think the sticking point for many marketers is how to map the social
conversation across all channels online and offline. The key is to integrate your social media efforts into traditional marketing and aligning with overall business goals. In measurement, you have to go beyond hits to know where and how people are engaging and then loop those conversations back to
the individual and sales/decision making cycle. One way to do this is to
integrate your email campaign response with legacy CRM systems. There is a
lot of elbow grease and manual tracking involved to connect all the dots and
properly measure to show return.
I would also suggest
overlaying the social conversation and keywords with your site interaction
data. The Radian6 tool integrates with Webtrends data and this is a great
start. For more information about this type of integration, please visit:
http://www.radian6.com/applications/social-meets-web-analytics/ and
Please let me know if you have any further questions. This is a great topic to explore.
Lauren Vargas
Community Manager at Radian6
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How to Pack Your Carry on Bag
Two Methods:Packing a Carry-On Bag for the DayPacking a Carry-On SuitcaseCommunity Q&A
If you find you are going to be stuck in a metal tube thousands of feet in the air for hours–you don't want to be bored. A perfectly packed carry-on bag is one of the only things standing between you and boredom. wikiHow is here to help you pack both your carry-on bag and carry-on suitcase so that you have everything you need to make enduring your flight as easy as possible.
Packing a Carry-On Bag for the Day
An underseat bag gets stored under the seat in front of you, while a carry-on suitcase or larger bag gets stored in the overhead compartment. You are generally allowed to bring two carry-ons onto a flight with you. However, you can also choose to pack a larger suitcase and simply bring a carry-on bag with you onto the plane. For how to pack a carry-on suitcase, scroll down to Method Two.
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Pick the right bag. Make sure it's durable, easy to carry, and that it can hold all of your necessary items. More importantly, make sure it meets your airline’s size requirements. Check your airlines FAQ to see the measurements of the largest bag you can bring. If you fly multiple different airlines, check the ones you fly most frequently and choose a size bag that will satisfy all the airlines requirements. A good way to tell if it will work or not is to consider whether or not it will fit in or under the plane seat in front of you.[1]
• The Vacation Carry-On: The ideal carry on bag is one that has a large body with a lot of pockets. Pockets are fantastic for keeping all of your stuff separate--one pocket for wallet/phone, one for makeup, one for your book, etc. Large purses, messenger bags, or satchels are all great options that give you a lot of space to store your stuff, and generally have great pockets.
• The Business Carry-On: As you might have guessed, a briefcase is a really good carry on for the working man or woman. Find one that can be slung over your shoulder in case you need to make a run for your flight. Briefcases that have built-in organizers and a pocket for your wallet/phone/keys/other necessities are great options.
• The Kid/Teenager/College student Carry-On: Think, backpack. Backpacks are fantastic for holding laptops, school books, last minute exam cramming notes, and toys. Because of the zippers, it also ensures that all of your stuff stays in one place so you won’t lose your Game Boy or that super important notebook.
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Make a list of everything you will need to bring. It's best to begin with the bare essentials, then move on to the entertainment or work items. These bare essentials include your license or passport (depending on whether you are flying domestic or international), your wallet with money or credit cards in it, your phone, and medications you might need, and of course, your plane tickets. Other items to consider packing include:[2]
• Work or school items: this could include your laptop, your phone and laptop chargers, business notes, class notes, homework, reading that you have to do for class, etc.
• Entertainment: books, headphones and an iPod, your camera, game consoles, DVDs to watch on your laptop, magazines, a travel book for where you are going, toys, etc.
• Medications and toiletries: It's best to keep any medications you need with you on the plane. You could also consider bringing an extra pair of contact lenses, mouth wash, etc.
• Stuff to help you sleep: This includes a neck pillow, eye mask, ear plugs, etc. Inflatable neck pillows are the best because they take up very little space when deflated.
3. 3
Consider packing for a bad layover. If you get stranded overnight during your layover, or if your other luggage gets lost (pray that it doesn't) you might want to consider bringing a couple of items with you on the plane. You might want to put these items in their own small bag within your carry on bag. These items include:
• A toothbrush and toothpaste, a comb or hairbrush, a fresh pair of underwear, socks, and deodorant.
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Make sure all of your electronics and delicate items are protected. Carry-ons have a tendency to get knocked into a lot, so safe-proofing your valuables is generally a good idea. If you are bringing your laptop or tablet, make sure you have a good safety cover for it.
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Pack your liquids correctly. Remember that most liquids are not allowed through security. You will need to pack your liquid items in one quart-sized, clear, plastic, zip-top bag. Each passenger is allowed one of these clear quart-sized bags. In the bag, your liquids are limited to 3.4 ounce bottles so don’t plan on bringing that gigantic bottle of sunscreen.[3]
• You can either pack your larger bottles in a suitcase that you check, or buy the liquid items that you need when you reach your destination. Purchase bottled water and drinks after you pass through security.
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Pack your necessities in easy to access locations. You will need to be showing your license and tickets at least twice while traveling, so it's important to keep them in a spot where you can get at them easily. Pack your essentials first but do not put them at the bottom of your bag.
• When packing your laptop keep it easily accessible so you can easily reach it when you have to go through security. The majority of the time you will have to remove your laptop from your carry on to get it scanned. This also goes for your plastic bag of toiletries, if you choose to bring one.
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Pack in some boredom-busting entertainment. Once you have packed your essentials, put your entertainment items into your bag. Putting them in last ensures that the stuff you actually need fits into your bag. Don’t overstuff your bag--you don’t want to be lugging around a 25 pound bag. Make sure that your bag zips (if it has a zipper) so that you know none of your stuff will fall out.
• Research your airline. Some planes have built-in entertainment systems, some have in-flight movies, and some even serve meals. Pack your boredom-busting items accordingly.
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Wear warm clothes on the plane. Wearing a sweatshirt or jacket is always a good idea on a plane, as they tend to keep the temperature of planes at what seems to be freezing. If worst comes to worst, you can always tie your jacket or sweatshirt to your carry on bag (or around your waist).[4]
Packing a Carry-On Suitcase
1. 1
Choose your bag wisely. While each airline has its own rules regarding the size of your carry-on suitcase, most airlines follow a rough guideline that is 45 linear inches (14 x 9 x 22 inches). However, if you can find a carry-on suitcase that is 20 inches (50.8 cm) long, you will be good to go--almost every airline deems that the perfect size for the overhead compartment. Check your airline’s website for the specific requirements of that airline.[5]
• You should also look for a suitcase that only has two wheels, because four-wheelers have a tendency to roll all over the place (especially if you let go of them while on the bus transporting you to your flight).[6]
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Lay out all of the clothes you want to bring. Once you have laid them out, reduce the amount by half. Think lightweight, since you’ll be packing all of your stuff into a tiny suitcase. Do you really need twelve pairs of pants and eighteen shirts? Chances are, you probably don’t. Only pack what you really need. Also aim for lighter materials that you can layer. Denim is heavier than other materials like cotton so consider the weight of your clothes when packing.
• Coordinate the colors of your outfits. This will help you to stretch the clothes you bring into more outfits. Remember that black goes with everything.
• If you are really having trouble limiting the amount of clothing you are bringing, try following this rule: shirts get worn for two days each and pants or shorts get worn for three days each. Apply this rule to the clothes you have laid out and see if that reduces the amount at all.
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Plan out your toiletries. Because you have a carry-on, you will most likely be limited to the standard one-quart, plastic, resealable bag of toiletries for your liquid items. You can also bring a bag for dry items like makeup, deodorant, etc. For larger liquid items, consider buying these when you get to your destination, or use the free ones that you get at hotels and motels.
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Plan your travel outfit before you put everything into your suitcase. You should wear your heaviest items on the plane so that you don’t have to stuff them into your carry-on. Wear your jeans and jacket or sweatshirt, as well as your heaviest shoes, so that you have more space for other items in your carry-on.[7]
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Pack your entertainment, electronics, and other smaller items into your carry-on bag (rather than your suitcase). After all, you are allowed two carry-ons, one that gets stored in the overhead compartment (your suitcase), and one (your bag) that gets stored under your seat. See Method One for tips on how to properly pack your carry-on bag for the flight.
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Employ a stellar packing technique. There are many different ways to pack efficiently. Use one method, or try a combination. Make sure to keep anything you will need to take out for security (like your toiletries) right at the top. Some of these techniques include:
• The Rolling Method: Roll, roll, roll your pants into a little tube! Rolling your clothes up into tubes is a great way to save space, particularly when compared to folding all of your clothes. It also does less wrinkle damage.[8]
• Use compression bags. These bags can be purchased at most everything-stores like Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, etc. Stuff your clothes into these bags, zip them up, and then squeeze them so that all the air gets removed. You will be shocked by how tiny these bags filled with clothes can get.
• Stuff things into every nook and cranny. Stuff your socks in to shoes, dresses into nooks and crannies--anything you can fit. It won’t be the most organized carry-on, but you will definitely have everything you need.[9]
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• Can I bring an empty bottle with me and then fill it up after the gates?
wikiHow Contributor
Absolutely. Just make sure it's empty because if not, it will get it taken away. There is also usually bottled water at the gates.
• Where can I get a small sealable plastic bag for displaying medicine at check-in?
wikiHow Contributor
You can buy bags at stores like Target, Walgreens, CVS or your local grocery store.
• What are the dimensions of the underseat storage on a plane?
wikiHow Contributor
It depends on the airline and the type of aircraft. Usually it's around 4 square feet.
• Is there a limit to how many snacks I can bring?
wikiHow Contributor
Most airlines will allow you to bring as many snacks as you want; however, drinks are not allowed past security. You can purchase drinks at the airport once you pass security; you can also get drinks on the plane as well.
• Can I put lip balm in my carry on bag?
wikiHow Contributor
Yes. If the lip balm is solid, you can just stick it into your bag. If the lip balm is gel-like (like lip gloss), then you will need to put in inside a quart-sized plastic bag in a 3.4-ounce or smaller container.
• Do I have to put my pillow into the carry-on or can I just carry it?
wikiHow Contributor
You have to put it your pillow into your carry-on before boarding. If you don't, security will tell you to put it in your bag once you get to the gate.
• Can I bring a backpack and pocketbook on board in addition to my carry on bag?
wikiHow Contributor
Yes. You bring up to two bags: one that goes in the overhead compartment, and one that goes under the seat in front of you. If your pocketbook will fit inside your backpack while it is under the seat, it is acceptable.
• What if I run out of battery on my electronics?
wikiHow Contributor
Make sure your electronics are charged when you leave. For backup, bring a portable battery if you can. Also, some long flights have outlets to plug electronics in.
• For a carry-on which is easier, a suitcase or a bag?
wikiHow Contributor
Most people find bags easier to carry. Bags also contain more pockets, which are useful for storing extra items; they also help keep you more organized. Lastly, bags are more convenient to open on a plane, where space is limited.
• What are good carry-ons to teenagers?
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Phones, music, notebook, snacks, and if you can GOGO for Wi-Fi! They will be distracted.
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• Empty your water bottle before you go through security, and when you get to your gate, find a water fountain and fill it up.
• Bring a light blanket or sweatshirt if you get cold easily.
• Consider packing a snack for your flight. As long as it is wrapped and not a liquid, it will pass through security.
• Bring your electronics for entertainment on the flight.
• Bring enough money for emergencies.
• Put a sheet of notebook paper inside your checked bag with name, home address, phone number, and the address of where you will be the next few weeks. Therefore if the identification tag on your checked luggage falls off, the airline staff will be able to return it.
• Bring spare clothes in your carry-on bag in case your luggage gets lost or you want to freshen up after traveling.
• Wear your heaviest clothes on the flight. They will keep you warm, and leave more space in your checked suitcase.
• You can feel turbulence the most in the back, and feel it the least right over the wings. If you get motion sick on planes buy your seat accordingly.
• Make sure that you check with your airline first, to find out the requirements for the size and weight of your luggage. There is usually a size and weight restriction.
• Rolling clothes saves loads of room.
• Know the airline's carry on restrictions. Some allow you to carry a carry on bag along with a laptop case, purse, or other personal item. Others may allow one bag and sometimes size restrictions can be very strict. Know this beforehand rather than having to check your bag unknowingly at the last minute.
• If you are going with family on a vacation then a duffel bag would be ideal as you could section parts and share the full bag, rather than having a load of heavy bags on shoulders when you still have suitcases.
• If you're going somewhere hot, wear shorts and a shirt on the plane but pack a jacket. Then you can take the jacket off when you arrive and you won't be boiling when you get there.
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Remnants of Ancient Earth-Like World Seen Being Eaten by a Star : ScienceAlert
The life of the main sequence of a star like the Sun may not end in a supernova like the most massive stars, but it won’t be a quiet affair.
As the star runs out of fuel and becomes unstable, it swells to absolutely enormous size before blowing away its outer material as the core collapses into a small, ultra-dense white dwarf.
For the Sun, this puffy red giant stage could extend to Mars, a process that could destabilize and destroy fairly nearby planets.
We’ve seen white dwarf stars that have planets, suggesting they may survive the process (or form afterwards). But increasingly, scientists are finding that many exoplanets are being devoured by the white dwarf.
We can tell by the “pollution” by planetary elements in the atmospheres of white dwarf stars, the study of which is known as necroplanetology.
And now astronomers have discovered the oldest known example: an exoplanet devoured by a white dwarf that formed 10.2 billion years ago.
The white dwarf is about 90 light-years from Earth, incredibly small and dim, with an unusual tint redder than any other white dwarf star. A second, exceptionally blue, white dwarf star formed 9 billion years ago. The team found that both stars experience continuous pollution from falling planetary debris.
However, while the red star, named WD J2147-4035, represents the oldest polluted white dwarf discovered to date, the blue star, named WD J1922+0233, is potentially more interesting: elements found in its atmosphere suggest that the star is eating a planet very similar to Earth.
“We find the oldest stellar remnants in the Milky Way that are polluted by once Earth-like planets,” says astrophysicist Abbigail Elms from the University of Warwick in the UK. “It’s amazing to think that this happened on the scale of 10 billion years and that these planets died long before Earth was even formed.”
We can dissect the chemical composition of a star’s atmosphere from the light produced by a star. All wavelengths are not emitted in the same way: some are stronger, others weaker. This is because the elements can absorb and re-emit light, altering the spectrum of light coming out of the star.
It’s not immediately clear which elements are at play, but scientists are increasingly adept at identifying which absorption and emission features on a spectrum are associated with which elements.
When the European Space Agency’s Gaia Space Observatory identified the two unusually colored white dwarfs, Elms and his colleagues subjected the two oddballs to various studies.
Since white dwarf stars are no longer fueled by the fusion of elements in their core, their temperatures slowly decrease at a known rate; by taking the temperatures of the two stars, the researchers were able to assess how long ago they formed from the death of a Sun-like star.
Next, they subjected the spectra of the stars to analyzes to determine their atmospheric compositions. On the red star, they found sodium, lithium, potassium, and possibly carbon. On the blue star, they found sodium, calcium and potassium.
Since white dwarfs are so gravitationally intense, heavy elements like these should disappear inside the white dwarf, beyond detection, very quickly; this suggests that material producing these elements always falls on stars from the debris clouds that surround them.
In the case of WD J2147-4035, the team determined that the pollution was likely the remnants of a planetary system that had orbited the star before it died, survived the stellar agony, and is now slowly, on billion years, falling into the star.
Since the star transformed into a white dwarf over 10 billion years ago, this makes it the oldest known planetary system in the Milky Way (although it is disintegrating and disappearing).
Meanwhile, WD J1922+0233 polluting debris has a composition similar to Earth’s continental crust, suggesting an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that lived and died billions of years before. the formation of the solar system.
It’s like a fossil record of the galaxy that can tell us what the planetary systems of the Milky Way looked like in the eons before we arrived here to marvel at its wonders.
“When these old stars formed more than 10 billion years ago, the universe was less rich in metals than it is today since metals form in evolved stars and gigantic explosions stellar,” says astrophysicist Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay of the University of Warwick.
“The two observed white dwarfs provide an exciting window into planetary formation in a metal-poor, gas-rich environment that was different from the conditions of solar system formation.”
The research was published in the Royal Astronomical Society Monthly Notices.
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Adware Spyware Blocker: Enjoy Trouble-Free Net Surfing And Computer Usage
If you want to enjoy trouble free net surfing as well as risk-free computer usage the safest course of action for you would be to go out and install the best adware spyware blocker available. You must already be aware of the many risks posed by unwanted things such as computer viruses and you may even feel that anti-virus software is sufficient protection for your system. This is evident if one studies the habits of computer users and becomes acquainted with some very informative facts.
Too Few That Take Precautions
It seems that only a tiny percentage of computer users take precautions such as using adware spyware blocker and this, in spite of the fact that more than ninety percent of computers across the world are known to have been infected by some form of spyware and adware. Part of the reason for lack of adware spyware blocker on computers is that most users are not even aware of the presence of adware and spyware on their computers and therefore won’t make an effort to correct the situation.
The fact of the matter is that it is not so simple to know that adware and spyware has installed on your computer and finding out about adware and spyware is certainly a lot harder than in the case with computer viruses. This, in turn, means that not much attention is being paid to installing adware spyware blocker. However, you need to be careful and cautious and you should make an effort in installing adware spyware blocker as it can help prevent your computer from being hacked, your precious personal information being stolen (including passwords and usernames) and your computer too, can otherwise also be compromised.
The simplest way that a computer system becomes infected by adware and software is when you browse the Internet and typically pop-up ads, freeware as well as shareware as well as instant messaging are reasons why your computer gets infected. In our modern world where computers and the Internet are ubiquitous the risk of computers becoming infected by spyware and adware is so great as to have reached epidemic proportions.
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Red States Outnumber Blue for First Time in Gallup Tracking
Story Highlights
• 20 states solidly or leaning Republican, 14 solidly or leaning Democratic
• Wyoming most Republican state; Vermont, Hawaii most Democratic
• Alabama and Idaho are most conservative states
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Gallup's analysis of political party affiliation at the state level in 2015 finds that 20 states are solidly Republican or leaning Republican, compared with 14 solidly Democratic or leaning Democratic states. The remaining 16 are competitive. This is the first time in Gallup's eight years of tracking partisanship by state that there have been more Republican than Democratic states. It also marks a dramatic shift from 2008, when Democratic strength nationally was its greatest in recent decades.
Political Composition of the 50 U.S. States
Importantly, even though Republicans claim a greater number of states, Democrats continue to hold an edge nationally in partisanship. In 2015 Gallup Daily tracking data, 43% of all U.S. adults identified as Democrats or leaned Democratic, compared with 40% identifying as Republican or leaning Republican. That is largely because many of the most populous states, including California, New York and Illinois, are Democratically aligned.
Party Affiliation of U.S. States
Gallup asks Americans each day as part of its Daily tracking survey whether they identify politically as a Democrat, a Republican or an independent. Independents are then probed as to whether they lean toward the Democratic or Republican Party. Combining the percentage of party identifiers and leaners gives a sense of the relative strength of each party in a given state, particularly because the percentage of political independents varies widely from state to state and can be high in states in which one party dominates electoral outcomes. The estimates are based on Gallup Daily tracking interviewing throughout 2015 and include no fewer than 488 residents in any state, with most state samples greater than 1,000.
Gallup considers states to be solidly favoring one party when they have a greater-than 10-percentage-point advantage over the other in party affiliation among the state's adult population. "Leaning" states are those in which one party has an advantage of more than five points but less than 10 points. Competitive states show the parties within five points of each other.
In 2008, Democrats enjoyed a better-than 10-point advantage in party affiliation nationwide, as President George W. Bush suffered through low job approval ratings as a result of the recession and the ongoing war in Iraq. That year, Gallup classified a total of 35 states as solidly Democratic or Democratic leaning, compared with only five solidly or leaning Republican states.
In the last several years, excluding 2012 when President Barack Obama won re-election, there has been a roughly equal number of Democratic and Republican states. But that changed last year, when many more states' political leanings moved in a Republican rather than a Democratic direction, giving Republicans a lead in more states than Democrats.
In all, 13 states' political classifications changed between 2014 and 2015, with 11 of these shifting in a more Republican direction. The Democrats lost three states -- Maine, Pennsylvania and Michigan -- each of which moved from Democratic-leaning to competitive. Meanwhile, Republicans gained five states -- New Hampshire, West Virginia, Missouri, South Carolina and Texas -- all moving from competitive to leaning or solidly Republican. Additionally, Alaska and Oklahoma shifted from leaning Republican to being solidly Republican, and Delaware from being solidly Democratic to leaning Democratic.
Nebraska and New Mexico are the two states that moved in a more Democratic direction, though Nebraska remains in the Republican column, shifting from solidly Republican to leaning Republican. New Mexico moved from a leaning Democratic state to a solid one.
The following map displays the political classification of each state based on 2015 data. The full party results for each state appear at the end of the article.
Party Affiliation by State, 2015
Wyoming Most Republican State; Vermont and Hawaii Most Democratic
The Republican Party had its biggest advantage in state party affiliation in Wyoming in 2015 -- 60% of Wyoming adults identified as Republican or leaned Republican, while 28% identified as Democrats or leaned Democratic -- a 32-point gap. The GOP advantage was nearly as large in Idaho and Utah, at roughly 30 points each. Vermont and Hawaii were the most Democratic states, with advantages in favor of the Democratic Party in excess of 20 points.
Most Republican and Most Democratic States, 2015
The most Republican and most Democratic states have been fairly consistent over time. Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Kansas have been among the 10 most Republican states in each of the last eight years, and Montana, Alaska, Alabama, Nebraska and North Dakota have appeared in the top 10 in seven of the eight years. There is even greater consistency among Democratic states -- all but two of the 10 most Democratic states in 2015 (New Mexico and Connecticut) have ranked in the top 10 in each of the last eight years, with Connecticut appearing seven times. New Mexico ranked among the top 10 states for the first time in 2015, with Delaware falling out of the top 10.
Ohio, North Carolina, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Florida are the most evenly balanced states politically, with less than one point separating Democratic and Republican Party preferences in those states. These states have been among the most highly contested "swing states" in recent presidential elections.
Alabama, Idaho Most Conservative States
In addition to assessing party leanings, Gallup asks Americans whether they identify politically as liberal, moderate or conservative. Nationally, many more Americans say they are conservative than liberal, and consequently, conservatives outnumber liberals in all but three states -- Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The full data on ideology by state appear at the end of the article.
Partisanship and ideology are highly correlated. As a result, there is usually much overlap between the most conservative and most Republican states and, alternatively, between the most liberal and most Democratic states. Seven of the 10 most Republican states also rank among the most conservative, although Alabama, the fifth-most Republican state, ties Idaho as the most conservative. Vermont ranks as the most liberal state by a wide margin over second-place Massachusetts.
Most and Least Conservative States, 2015
States that rank among the most conservative but not the most Republican include Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, three Southern states that recently have voted Republican but were strongly Democratic states decades ago. Oregon, New Jersey and Washington rank among the least conservative states, but not among the most Democratic. However, those three states rank just outside the 10 most Democratic.
Monday's voting in the Iowa caucuses marked the beginning of voting in the 2016 presidential election campaign. The ultimate winner will be determined according to electoral votes won, based on each state's popular vote on Election Day this November. Presidential campaign strategists spend a lot of time developing their campaign plan and allocating resources based on which states' outcomes are uncertain to determine where campaigning can make the biggest difference.
The partisanship of the state population is a starting point in determining a state's likely vote, and there are more states in the Republican column heading into 2016 -- a positive sign for the GOP. But because electoral votes are based on state population, the size of the state matters as much as the number of states each party holds. The 20 states that Gallup classifies as solidly Republican or leaning Republican account for 152 electoral votes, less than the 187 accounted for by the 14 solidly or leaning Democratic states plus the heavily Democratic District of Columbia.
But the election will not be merely a reflection of party preferences among adults in each state. If party preferences led directly to vote outcomes, Democrats would surely have won most presidential elections in the past, given their historical advantage in party preferences nationally.
Turnout is another key factor in determining the outcome, and it will especially be key in the 16 competitive states, which together account for 199 electoral votes. Republicans typically have an advantage in voter turnout in elections, and they will need to at least match Democratic turnout in competitive states in which they have a slight party advantage among all adults, such as Georgia, Virginia and Arizona. And the GOP will likely need to exceed Democratic turnout to win some of the larger, most politically balanced states like Florida, Ohio and North Carolina.
These data are available in Gallup Analytics.
Survey Methods
Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2015, on the Gallup U.S. Daily survey, with a random sample of 177,991 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±1 percentage point at the 95% confidence level.
Learn more about how the Gallup U.S. Daily works.
Party Identification and Leaning, by State, 2015
Self-Identified Ideology, by State, 2015
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This sure as hell ain't normal
by ManiCforPaniCgirl 3 reviews
Category: Panic! At The Disco - Rating: PG - Genres: Angst,Drama,Romance - Published: 2007-08-31 - Updated: 2007-09-01 - 1154 words
Hey everybody! Since it looks like a lot of people are reading this fic, I decided to include review responses at the beginning of each chappie from here on out :] You guys are amazing!
alkenore- Thank you so much for the two reviews! I'm really glad you like it :] I'll try to keep up with the quick updates.
i_heart_cliches- I know! I saw them play Camisado live on youtube and Brendon said "this song's for everybody who wants to dance" and I was like...wait, what? It made me think about how Ryan must feel hearing that. It's good to see other people noticed the same type of thing :] thank you for writing!
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on to the ficcy...
Chapter 6: This sure as hell ain't normal
Ryan Ross woke up the next morning stiff with fatigue and feeling an intense headache coming on. He turned in his bed and looked at the tiny alarm clock near his head, groaning when he saw that it read 10:00. That was way to early to be up the morning after a show.
Oh well... I'd better get some aspirin. Won't be able to fall back asleep like this, anyway.
He sighed and threw back the covers quickly, rolling out of bed and gasping slightly at the cool air that hit him like a wall. Getting out of bed was like ripping off a bandaid... you had to do it fast. He rubbed his temples, trying to aleviate the pain in his head, before stumbling down the tiny hotel room hall to the kitchenette and getting a glass of water. Ryan turned and was about to head back when he saw that the door to the second bedroom was shut tight, although there was a light on inside.
Hmm... I guess Bren must be up.
He shrugged to himself and continued down the hall, sidling through the cramped doorframe into his room and shaking four pills into his hand from the bottle he'd left on the nightstand. He popped them into his mouth one after another and washed them down, setting down the glass and wiping the water from his mouth with a sleeve. Ryan turned and sat down heavily on the bed to wait for the painkillers to kick in.
I wonder if Spence and Jon are up yet... maybe I'll call them. They always get up earlier than me and Bren, anyway. Where'd I put my cell? Dammit... must be in my luggage somewhere. I really need a better place to put it. Let's see... how do these hotel room phones work? I think to call someone who's staying here you just dial their room number, right? Guess I'll try it.
Ryan reached over and slowly picked up the yellowing phone, putting it to his ear. He was just about to start tapping out Spencer and Jon's room number when he heard a voice. Brendon's voice. Ryan was just about to put down the phone, not wanting to interrupt Brendon's conversation or eavesdrop, when he heard something that made him stay on the line, breathing quietly so as not to alert the other two people that he was listening.
"Maybe I worry too much... I don't know. But it hasn't been very long since Ryan's dad... you know... and I can't help worrying about him," Brendon nervously twirled the phone cord around his finger as he listened to the reply, before speaking again.
"I know. He seems to think nobody notices how agitated he is when we play Camisado, but I see it every time. I wish there was something I could do or say, but... it just feels like one of those things you're not supposed to bring up, you know?"
Again, there was a response, and the dark-haired boy seemed to grow more agitated with every breath.
"Yeah, I think so too. And anyway, he doesn't like me getting too close. I can't tell if it's just me or human contact in general. I can't imagine why he would only react to me, so that can't be it. I mean, I guess I can be a little bit... overwhelming.... sometimes, but I don't think he hates me enough to flinch away." The reciever crackled moments later.
"I see what you're saying, but I already started touching him, so it's too late to stop. The fans on our later tour dates would feel cheated if they didn't get to see me kiss Ry. Besides, if I stopped, rumors would probably get out about our alleged "break-up." He sighed, hoping the words that came to his ears would be comforting ones.
"Seriously! I mean, how does that make any sense? You can't break up with someone if you were never together to begin with. It's not like Ry would ever go out with me, anyway. He's just... Ryan, and a /guy/, and... and what the hell? Forget it." By this point the nervous boy was standing, pacing back and forth as far as the cord would allow him to go without ripping the phone jack from the wall. He needed to hear that it was crazy... that's the whole reason he'd called in the first place.
"I don't know... that might be it," Brendon said after the other replied, "Maybe there's one more reason I won't stop touching him. Maybe once the shows are over, I won't have an excuse anymore. Maybe it's not just for publicity and for the fans... what if it's for me too?" Now the striding had a purpose, as the willful boy launched into a tyrade, an epiphany. He grew more confident with every word he spoke. "What if I get close to him just because I want to?" Suddenly, as if realizing what he was saying, he deflated, flopping back down on the bed and muttering, "nothing wrong with that."
Crackling on the other end.
"I know what you're thinking, but it doesn't make me gay. I'm just a touchy-feely kind of guy."
"Why don't I do that to Spence or Jon? I don't know, they're just... not Ryan, I guess. Okay, that wasn't how I wanted that to sound. What I mean is, Ryan's just so... touchable. Goddammit, that doesn't sound right either. I don't know how to explain it, I'm just... hey, quit laughing!"
"I'm not in denial, dammit."
"Well, maybe if you weren't so damn cocky. You think you've got everything all figured out, but you're wrong about this." He could almost hear the muffled laughter. Then Brendon's frustration with the situation boiled over, and he exploded.
"Dammit Pete, I'm done having this conversation!" He slammed the phone down angrily, confusion speeding through his veins like some kind of cruel ecstacy.
In the other bedroom, a stunned Ryan Ross gently laid the old yellow phone back in its cradle.
Brendon what...??
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On Britain’s debt and deficit
The new economics foundation recently claimed that is a myth that Britain is ‘broke’ citing several points in support:
• The national debt to GDP ratio is low compared to ratios seen in the last 300 years and low compared to other countries, e.g. Japan, the US and Germany.
• The amount the government spends on debt interest payments as a %age of GDP is lower than at any time from WWII up to the year 2000.
• The interest rate of government debt is low and has dropped since 2008.
• They also cite the fact we have our own currency and central bank and thus more flexibility than places like Greece.
It seems to me that the argument presented fails on several grounds:
• The fact that we’ve had high levels of debt before does not mean that it was a good thing or that there were not deleterious effects from such high levels of debt. I also note that Britain had an empire for much of the period concerned which will have provided opportunities to mitigate those consequences (in the later stages by letting the colonies go to ease finances by reducing the costs of running the empire) but that’s no longer the case.
• That some other countries have higher levels of debt does not mean we can assume the current levels of debt are safe or that increasing them won’t cause harm.
• They ignore the high deficit – spending £120 billion per year more than is received in taxes cannot be sustained for very long before the size of the debt interest payments starts to impinge on the ability of the government to spend money on welfare, public services, etc and on the economy as a whole to produce wealth. This gap has to be closed either through increased tax receipts or reduce spending. Realistically it’ll be a combination of both.
• National debt effectively represents the total future tax bill that’s been run up by current and previous governments, and thus constrains future governments spending and tax policies. The fact that we have a high debt level implies a drain on national resources stretching far into the future. The fact we have a high deficit implies that the future tax bill is rising quickly too.
• The official debt figures ignore “off the books” items such as PFI liabilities, pension liabilities, etc that weren’t major issues in the past.
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Advantages of Jet Travel
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You may be wondering what the difference is between a jet and an airplane. Well, the word airplane is usually used to refer to commercial flights and aircrafts like the type you see at a airport. A jet is usually a private aircraft that you can hire or purchase depending on what you are planning on doing with it. Either way when someone uses the word jet they are usually referring to a private airplane. Now that you know the difference between a jet and a airplane you can better understand the rest of this post. If you were to compare the two types of aircrafts you would realize that in terms of speed and safety a jet will surpass the airplane. Of course in terms of money the jet is usually always more expensive than taking a flight on a commercial craft. However, it will transport you to your destination and swiftly and smoothly as an aircraft possibly can. Of course it depends on the weather conditions of the area you are planning on travelling to; an aircraft can only fly as steady as the weather permits it to. Either way if you want to get to a location as quickly as possible consider hiring a private jet. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9746727347373962}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '20224', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:6ZXGJWQKYAJ4OKOZTILO7IXRXM2QNYW2', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:b588c646-32c7-4959-9c7d-38da08edc254>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 13, 19, 22), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.175.97.39', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:VVYBDDY3ZXGEAOP4URSCNJLIE7QYPI56', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:69a994de-024f-48fc-96e7-5359cb725c9d>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.novajet.com/knowledge-sharing/advantages-of-jet-travel/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:a4b043ea-75a9-45ce-ba9d-1c961719f4e6>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '217', 'url': 'https://www.novajet.com/knowledge-sharing/advantages-of-jet-travel/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-140-228-121.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.702090859413147', 'original_id': 'f872fdb271ecba9537d954de7f5c813895a46f4f113ce56bcb40fb83090111f6'} |
Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Meryl’s mom says she can have anything she wants if she wants it hard enough.
She closes her eyes on the sagging front porch and meditates, breathing the way she does when she smokes Camels, except this time the smoke comes from her energy candles and the “Frosty Storm” Maybelline on the lids of her eyes she raises to the skies.
Ommm comes from her gut like when she moans over the toilet after too many beers or her new man doesn’t call, crawls home late from the bowling alley smelling like lavender.
Lavender, Meryl’s mom says, is the smell of grandmas and sluts, and she replaces this essential oil with uplifting citrus or whatever is on sale if she buys three.
Manifesting is how Meryl’s mom found the right blonde box dye after all these years and her job answering phones at Payless. She never stocks the shelves, but the manager keeps her around because she used to let him swipe at her breasts back before Tinder showed her who was bored in the next town over.
She gets discounts on flipflops and Meryl can hear them flapping against the cement when her mom goes off on long walks to smoke and do her attracting. Meryl likes when she leaves because they can stop saying affirmations about how strong and capable and deserving of love they are in front of the mirror, a kind of scrutiny that makes Meryl want to turn into incense and disappear. Because they can stop repeating the list of all the things they want in life, as if the universe will just choose to reward them out of all the billions of wishing specks.
Meryl’s mom has attracted a British accent, a date from a cop who pulled her over for speeding in a school zone to take Meryl late to middle school again because they were up late reading tarot, and a discount on new towels so now they have a matching set, pink polka dots in the bathroom next to her lacy bras and the razor Meryl uses to shave her legs, lately wants to use on her wrists because she has an ache in her belly that no ommm can fill and her mom’s new man keeps opening the bathroom door when she’s showering to sip his beer on the other side of the clear plastic curtain like she is trapped in cleansing white quartz.
Meryl wants to manifest a friend at school because the only time people sit by her at lunch is when they crowd around to laugh as she pulls a calming amethyst from her paper bag or her mom writes “abundance” 100 times on the front. Meryl’s mom has plucked a dozen new friends right out of the cosmos—they throw loud parties where they buy lots of yoga leggings from each other’s new businesses so they can get free keychains and talk about “leaning in.” Meryl wanders from her room to watch them and wonders what it feels like to have someone on your side.
She is lonely because she is a Pisces, her mother says, a cold fish swimming in the sea of too many feelings. She should be a Cancer, two figures encircling each other like a hug, like her mother’s astrology, which makes her magic, manifesting dates and discounts and getting rid of cancer cells before they even form, she promises waiters as she grips their wrists to foretell their medical futures when they pour her glass after glass of white wine at the Applebee’s.
Meryl’s mom attracts love all the time: the parents whose calls she never returns because she rejects toxic energy with charcoal face masks and black tourmaline under her pillow, the ex who calls on repeat to scream about his credit card she maxed out at the psychic, the bossy bank teller who mails another statement warning that she’s overdrawn.
Meryl thinks she’s manifesting wrong because the girls at school are never attracted to her and her small-town universe says girls liking girls is not written in the stars.
At night she sits in her room under the swirling starscape her mother manifested along with a job offer to make 20% on every lamp sold, and she envisions her hopes and dreams in her mind like the pictures she’s glued on her vision board. She affirms 100 times that she is something special.
Outside Meryl’s mother is shouting at the landlord again that dreams take time so of course the rent is late. She is lighting sage and using a jade roller to smooth the lines that marked her face back before she started telling the universe what she wanted rather than waiting for it to be the other way around.
Meryl says ommm loud and deep, sucking the cosmos into her belly. She holds it silent as a blessing or a curse while she thinks of her mantra survive, though her mother says it should be thrive.
She imagines the universe sending her everything she’s ever dreamed of—a rock that doesn’t need to be cracked open to reveal what makes it shine, a tree you don’t tend just for money, stretching in order to run rather than holding still as a lotus.
She breathes until she is lightheaded, attracting the whole of creation there on the floor, bits of candle wax stuck to her yoga mat, cleansing green juice crusted on the desk.
The universe knows she is strong and capable and deserving of love. Her dream grows bigger and bigger while she grows smaller and smaller. Soon she is a speck, so small she simply disappears.
Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of Halfway from Home (Split/Lip Press), Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir (The Ohio State University Press), and three poetry chapbooks. She is an Assistant Professor at Bridgewater State University. You can follow her on Twitter at @SF_Montgomery
Photo by Miska Sage on Unsplash
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Monday, May 22, 2017
Field Guide to Flying Death: A Gun Wrapped with an Airplane
A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" in flight.
The slowest and most nearly perfect aircraft flown by the U.S. Air Force is the A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" ground support fighter plane. This amazing aircraft entered active service during my first Army enlistment in the 1970s and remains in service now--the most beloved of USAF planes by ground troops taking enemy fire.
Most fighter aircraft are designed first to fight other aircraft in air-to-air combat, but they also can support ground troops. Anyone who has used a carving knife to serve butter, or a butter knife to carve a roast knows that specialized tools work the best.
The Warthog was designed for ground support. Nothing else. It's huge turbofan engines allow it to take off with more than 10 tons of rockets and missiles plus 1,200 rounds of cannon ammo for its legendary gun, but the Warthog has a top speed under 400mph and cruises not a lot faster than a World War II bomber.
The GAU-8/A 30mm Gatling Gun
The "Hog" was designed to "loiter" over a target, firing its cannon, dropping bombs, launching rockets and missiles, and importantly, flying just above the forward battle area, waiting for observers on the ground to identify targets.
A-10 firing its 7-barrel gun with a firing rate of 70 rounds per second.
High-performance jets from the Vietnam-era F-4 Phantom to the current F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon are supersonic aircraft that drop bombs and fire missiles on a target, but they can't hang around. The Phantom flew so fast that some pilots lowered their landing gear and extended flaps just to slow down over the target. The Hog can put fire on a target then circle back to the target area waiting for the next opportunity to attack, or to see who survived the first strike.
During the Vietnam War, frustration with Phantoms flying in, attacking and blazing away led to deploying the A-1 Skyraider, taking this big, propellor-driven aircraft out of semi-retirement from Korean War service. The A-1 and variants carried four 20mm cannons or eight .50 caliber machine guns and could be armed with up to four tons of rockets, bombs and missiles. Like the Hog, it could loiter. Unlike to the Hog it was not very maneuverable and vulnerable to ground fire.
A-1 Skyraider
Hog pilots are wrapped in a titanium pod, shielded from small arms and some larger arms. The twin-engined, twin-tailed Hog can fly with an engine failure and big chunks of the wing and tail shot off.
The Hog was slated to be replaced by the F-35 Lightning II. This Swiss Army Knife aircraft is supposed to do everything. But the F-35 costs more than $200 million each, an A-10 costs a tenth of that. The A-10 is now scheduled to begin phased retirement in 2022 and remain in service until 2040.
Military Pilots Really Have "The Right Stuff"
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What is one thing you want to do before you die?
One thing, why only one I can give you loads of stuff I want to do before I die, to list a few:-
1) Photography– Capturing all the happy moments, places travelled, all the loved ones and looking at them and feeling thankful for the life, rather than complaining about petty things and off course that nostalgic feeling to be back in time and live that moment again.
Source: Pixabay
2) Mythology– Wouldn't it be fun to take a deeper look into the subject such as mythology, to uncover the mysteries of what is real and what is a myth,for once I want to learn something that I like and not cramming a night before exam for the sake of marks and passing the subject.
Source: Pixabay
3) Travel blogger– Who dosen't love travelling, and wouldn't it be great to get paid for your love to travel. And the thrill and adventure of venturing into the unknown to uncover the mysteries that lay beyond. Along with that inspiring people to leave the couch and hit the road and make memories and share experiences.
Source: Pixabay
4)Surfing-Waiting for that one wave to come, as soon as it comes into sight realizing that your heart beats are a little faster, you know you are ready for it and then you balance yourself on your surf boat and it starts cutting through water like a knife through butter, that magical feeling that fills your heart as water hovers over you and starts propogating you towards the closing loop.
Source: Pixabay
5) Sky diving– Standing on the edge of the plane, hearing loud thumping of your heart in your ears, looking down and having doubt on your sanity and then somebody pushes you off the plane because your feets are frozen unable to let go and then you felt that your heart gave away but suddenly you come back to your senses and realize that you are still alive and as light as a feather, you look around and only one word comes to your mind "AWESOME".
Source: Pixabay
These are some of the few from the long list of my to do's.
"Why settle for one thing when their are loads of stuff to try. Now go and explore."
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1. Leh-Ladakh Road Trip.
I have been a big admirer of riding and travelling. Somehow, riding on long journeys to different locations gives me a sense of contentedness, a sense of being at peace. I have been riding since I was 12 years old and each time I hop on any vehicle, be it Mum’s old scooty, or brother’s new bike, every time the thrill is same as the first time I took a ride.
Why Leh-Ladakh? Well, why not. Leh-ladakh has long known to be the driver’s paradise. Owing to my love for travelling and riding, it has been a long time dream trip. The scenic natural beauty, the excitement of riding on few of the highest motorable roads, to visit some of the oldest Buddhist monasteries and have a glimpse at the Buddhist culture, to treat your photographic mind with some breathtaking beautiful scenes, and over and above all to spend some time in the lap of mother nature, to spend some time on a true heaven on Earth !!
PS – Apologies if it does seem more like Ladakh tourism advertisement 😛
2. If you can, make sure you don’t die having never done/had the following. These answers will PROBABLY tick some people off, but this is an opinion piece, not a factual statement.
1. Sex (consensual and of age). No, it’s not the be all end all but there IS a reason humanity is still around and it’s NOT because we enjoy spending 18+ years raising smaller opinionated spiteful versions of ourselves.
2. Go shooting. I mean at a range. Loud noises, precision marksmanship, being able to shoot the cigar butt off a tree 100m away…
3. Go swimming in the oceans. Yes, oceans. The water in the Pacific is not the same as the water in the Atlantic or Indian oceans.
4. If you like swimming, learb SCUBA or at least go snorkelling. There is SO MUCH underwater to see.
5. Visit a museum by yourself. Don’t take the tour.
6. Travel to at least the following places: The UK, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Australia, and ALL OVER THE USA… yes even Alaska… do your USA tour by car, not plane.
7. Do something that gets your adrenaline going: skydiving, cliff jumping, SCUBA, parasailing, helicopter tours, driving a sports car on a private track at 120+ mph… Do it at least once.
8. Go out to eat with someone you care for and ignore the prices on the menu.
9. Buy a stuffed animal, give it to someone. Get them to buy you one.
10. Vote… freaking VOTE if your country holds elections or has a democratic process.
11. Write a book. Short stories, novellas, full on three book series… doesn’t matter. You might surprise yourself.
12. Tell your parents, significant other, children you love them. Do this as often as possible.
13. Do NOT… end an encounter with someone you care about on a bad note. Always end with a positive. Even if you are mad, upset, hurt, or just crazy. If they die and your last words or actions were in anger or spite, you will regret it your entire life.
Do a couple of these… they are fun.
3. A whole lot of things! In fact I have my own ‘ to-do-after-Mbbs list’.
1. Meet Stephanie Meyer (author of Twilight series), Josephine Angelini (author of Starcrossed series), J.K.Rowling (Harry Potter series) and Sabaa Tahir ( An ember in the ashes) ; and get my books signed by them. I even managed to mail Sabaa Tahir, to which she replied and I was on cloud 9 the rest of the day. Meeting these authors would be so thrilling. Such amazing people.
2. Walk on a bioluminescent sea shore barefoot, if that kind of beach truly exists,for I've only seen in pictures and they look right out of a fairytale.
3. Write a book. And watch it in print. Published. My own book.
4. Dress up on my wedding. A flowing red lehenga. Take endless pictures till the photographer gets annoyed *wink*
5. A long cruise on my honeymoon. In a ship as big as the titanic or even bigger. And stand in the famous titanic movie pose with my future better half ( the Kate Winslet & Leonardo de’Caprio pose)
6. Visit the Hersheys factory and gobble up as many Hersheys milk chocolates as I could in a day. Hersheys being the only chocolate I like. That would be so like Charlie and the chocolate factory .
7. Sit in the flight cockpit with the pilots so that I could see the view from front when the flight takes off. That would look amazing. The way I imagine it to be. And if it's a night flight, then it would seem like am ascending into the sky, lit with a million tiny stars.
8- lie down on a sandy beach at night. Watching the stars beam down at me. And hearing the waves crash against the shore.
9- An underwater ride. In a submarine. Go deep down into the ocean. And watch the sinister sea creatures. This, provided am brave enough. This would be my 20,000 leagues under the sea experience.
10- Go on a crazy shopping experience with my mom. Buy a bag of every colour. With matching shoes. And matching nail paints.
4. Goto Paris.
Breathe in the air, soak in the unadulterated history of the world’s first true city. Look down from the Tour de Eiffel, stand face to face with Mona Lisa, learn to read French and then read a copy of Le Parisien cover to cover, be regaled by Sacre coeur and Notterdam, go broke in Champs de elysee. Visit a cafe, and savour the fresh aroma of coffee with a baguette. Napoleon had marched his Grande’ armee’ with their pockets filled with baguettes.Honestly, I don’t mind if these are the last things I do. I could happily consider my bucketlist fulfilled.
I would have liked to come out with a novel of my own. But since I have started to realise I am a bit “expressively challenged”, I am hoping to atleast end up writing a script for a movie. I was pretty taken with the idea of Tagore trilogy in my college days-What could be better than Big B playing the poet in his later years, and reciting those beautiful verses in his iconic barritone.
Have a vineyard of my own. Spend lazy afternoons in wine tasting. Doing it the proper way.
Go skydiving once. I am afraid of heights, so the best I have done till now is parasurfing and parasailing.
Learn French and Spanish. I almost joined Alliance Francaise du Bengale, but stopped short because of exams.
Build a mancave when I finally build my house. It will have a snooker table, a card table, a tt table, and ofcourse a well stocked bar and a badass hometheatre. It must have a fire extinguisher, a separate exit, and a powder room of its own.
I want to remain a great flirt for as long as possible. If I can make a woman blush(in a good way) on my deathbed, I will have nailed it.
I might have to scratch that last one,because I think I might suscribe to the four ASHRAMAS described in Vedic literature. I hope to renounce the world when I am about 70 and my folks are less dependent on me, and live in caves or forests doing a lot of soul searching and meditation. At this point,It would be also great time to become a citizen of a country that allows euthanasia . I could settle for my final act without much fuss.
I have recently turned ovolactovegetarian, it would be great to become Vegan some day.
5. There are many things. Just sit back ,relax and keep reading. Hope you will enjoy it.
1. I want to sing in front of audience and my favorite singer Jason Mraz.
Yeah , Akshiet let's sing together.
I first listened to his music this year onwards. I was quiet fascinated by his style and positivity it brings to me.
I practiced singing his songs whenever I got the opportunity.
But being introvert, I am scared of attention and my ears seemed to show that by turning red like tomato.
I hope I will figure it out. Make him amazed.
2. Play on a gaming console
Honestly, I don't know how kids these days convince their parents to buy them one. When I start earning I will try to get myself one.
3. Meet my old friends
I still remember most of my old friends. I was mostly alone and was onto books and cars from my childhood.I was a late speaker as I had no one of my age to interact with me.
But when I shifted to a new place . I made many friends due to my qualities and personality. They were never judgedmental to me. I played, enjoyed and celebrated with them.
Time and opportunity separated us all, to make a career and fortune. When the latter gets accomplished, I will try to meet them.
4. Traveling to my village Kuti
The last time, I visited my village was when I was in 4th grade. The excitement, thrill and journey always occupied my me. At that time there were not many options to reach there, so the only option was walking for 4 days.
Kuti is a beautiful place to be in, situated at an altitude of 3650 meters. It's one of the most coolest and awesome place.
5. Explore
Yes, I want to explore the country I am born and currently living (that is India). I have studied so many things in books, but not experienced it yet. The topography, geography and culture always fascinated me.
6. Driving a car
I am still clueless about driving a car. I practiced few times but wasn't good in gear shifting and was quite nervous. Sometimes, forgot that hand break was applied.
7. Have my own personal library
I still think and do insist reading books in solitude is the best way to open up our mind. I still love reading books from my earlier days mainly on universe(only got my hands on very few books). I will also try to read books on Harry Potter ( as I never understood the movie).
8. Get back in shape
After restraining myself 4 year from sports. I got a bit chubby. I want to exercise regularly to be more fit than, I was earlier.
9. Invention……… (Well when I do one I will surely write it down)
6. In today’s trendy world all are caught with moving forward, we sometimes miss doing stuff that we like, things that will make us alive, things which makes us feel hysteria.
No single person in the world has a single digit dream in his list, each would probably have notebook of stuffs they are excited to do. I can’t list all of them, but I can list those which tops the list.
1. Creating a Wild Life sanctuary of my own: Sounds crazy right! But the fact is, it is one of my dream. Forests are turned to concrete jungle and all I see is a destruction brought upon us.
Do you know Dr. A.K. Malhotra and Pamela Malhotra?
1. The photo taken is not in some tourist places, it’s taken in their backyard. Just imagine how much they would have struggled to make this happen. The result of their is just marvelous.
The couple, passionate about wildlife and nature conservation, bought 55 acres of land to plant native trees and protect the environment. Today, they are responsible for creating over 300 acres of wild life sanctuary that hosts animals like Bengal Tigers, Asian Elephants, Hyena, Wild Boar, Leopards, Sambhar, etc
For more details on this couple please read reach the below link:
The Couple Who Bought Barren Land In 1991 And Transformed It Into A 300 Acre Wildlife Sanctuary – The Better India
Maybe I can’t create a forest, but at least I wanted to buy a huge land some where outside the city(Because I can’t afford a huge piece of land in City). Built a small lake with fishes in it. Plants some trees which provides shade, plants flowers and shrubs and many more which can bring peace to people who may visit it.
2. Around the World to Learn Culture: Of Course! travelling the world is not something new. Everyone has this in their list, But my wish to travel the world is not only to see or enjoy the picturesque places. I wanted to travel and also learn their culture. Learn the way they dress, Learn the mythological stories behind their walls, learn their Food habits, their dress sense, etc.
Some cultures amaze us while some are really bizarre. Cultures which is not touched by the technology as an interesting beliefs and tradition. Tribes which are hidden in jungle from the modern world are the ones who still follow their ancestors way while we all dropped our cultures to adapt a new one.
I practically have a curiosity to learn new cultures whether they are nerve tickling or shocking.
7. I’m writing an answer after 8 months. All these days and weeks, I won’t say, I was inactive , rather I was under a hibernation mode. To restore my innings, I don't think, there could have been a better question to start off with. I wrote my last answer to "What is my biggest regret in life?" and today I'm putting off the hiatus sheet with this "What I want to do at least once before I die?"
Now, the answer to this question can be given in several ways with a philosophical backdrop or maybe with a materialistic backdrop. I am close to completing 26 years of life and that is almost 35% of my life (assuming I get to write my final quora answer in 2056, which makes it 40 years more from now).
So, basically, the question can be further pruned to "What do I want to do at least once in my next 40 years?". Surely, the question now makes a lot of sense and carries sufficient weight? I've my bandwidth and overall scenario locked.
Now ,allow me to split these 40 years further:
26 years to 35 years :Time to do most of the hard work. Period during which I need to completely settle down.
36 years to 45 years : Time to enjoy the most with my future family. Perform most of the family obligations. Accumulate savings.
46 years to 55 years : Time to spend those savings. Discharge the obligations Getting yourself free & begin to enter the retirement phase.
56 years to 65 years : Retirement phase. Practically no work out of compulsion, rather more out of free will. Settling kids & spending time with the spouse.
So, my next 40 years, ideally can be classified into 4 categories:
Category A : Professional period
Category B : Household period
Category C : Expenditure period
Category D : Retirement period
Now, my desire to do a particular thing would depend on respective category of life period. A particular thing best suited for category A would never reap much enjoyment if done during category C and like something best suited for category D won't be an ideal affair if performed during category B.
So, here I'm enlisting my bucket list categorized into my different life periods. I wish to do a particular thing as mentioned during that particular life period itself and specially like before the next life period begins.
Category A :
1. Constructing a house & an office on my own.
2. Achieving a level of income, where I can easily donate 10% of my earnings.
3. Being able to balance work such that I’m able to spend sufficient time with family.
4. Ensuring I’m able to spare sufficient time to write answers on Quora.
Category B :
1. Ensuring my kids get best of the education and skills.
2. Ensuring my better half is financially independent, secured & satisfied
3. Ensuring my family is proud of me & relaxed.
Category C:
1. Ensuring my family gets best of luxuries, comforts & are always in a peace of mind.
2. Ensuring I’m able to support dreams of my children.
3. Ensuring I’m able to fulfill all the desires of my parents & better half.
Category D:
1. Ensuring I get to binge all my favorite movies and TV shows which I could not do during the earlier three categories.
2. Ensuring I get to read the best of the literature and content.
3. Ensuring I get to do as much writing I can do.
4. Ensuring I get to socialize as much I can.
5. Ensuring I’m able to travel as much as I can.
6. Ensuring I’ve no enemies and no bitter relations with anyone.
7. Ensuring I’ve no debt.
8. Ensuring I’m able to be a reason of pride to my family, friends & colleagues.
9. Ensuring I’m able to fairly distribute my wealth among my heirs.
10. Ensuring I’m able to achieve a state of complete “Satisfaction”
The answer written above is actually quite a broad picture answer. I could’ve easily drawn a materialistic bucket list of kissing a statue of liberty & dancing in Vegas and all that shit. But in true sense, before I die, I want to be completely “Satisfied” (Santosham Param Sukham).
8. If I am going to die today,WTF!! what iam gonna do..can i save myself ?.. at one side i can totally be sad, give my goodbyes and watch the ticking clock as a Time Bomb!! In-fact this time will become worse than dying!
In morning i get to know that i am going to die tonight. I just have this day in hand First thing To do is :
Skip the bath 😛 (Seriously who cares about germs any more! You are going to die)
Eat all the stuff you love and eat a lot of them (No diabetes or Blood-Pressure can kill you in one day, Enjoy!! )
Try smoking with tag line “Smoking kills Who cares” !!
If you are single and have any girl in mind.. this is the best time to propose!!
If she says “No” you are not going to be sad as you won’t be there tomorrow. If she says “yes” Lucky man!! at-least you managed to cross all those who died single 😛
Ever wanted to do crazy on the roads, this is your time!!
Give away your hard-disk or laptop to someone who can care! or You can always wish to take it to your grave!! you probably don’t wanna get bored there.
Its best time to do what scared you the most was it swimming , Rock climbing, Scuba diving , air skeying or driving on highway with speed above 170! Anything go and just do it (PS: don’t kill anyone else in the process :P)
If you want to become famous : Go ahead and write any answer on Quora (or Post on facebook ) that i am gonna die please give me these many up-votes. If somehow they actually come to know that you died just imagine how many sympathy votes you will get! You will get famous though you will never know 😛
In the end just before the moment, call a private number and that’s gonna encrypt all the secret data you have in your drive!!! 😉
Goodnight bbyee!!
9. I want to visit Pakistan side of Kashmir, I know as an Indian it is not possible until the relationship gets better between India and Pakistan.
Some of the places on my wishlist are-
1. Fairy Meadows- 15 Ravishing Images Of Fairy Meadows – SHUGHAL
2. Rakaposhi view point- kendalljenner.fun fan club Rakaposhi View Point with Instagram
Nothing can be better than seeing an ice fall in Karakoram range.
3. Atabad lake- Ataabaad Lake, an amazing lake formed due to landsliding. | GBiT
4. Khunjerab pass- پاک چین سرحد خنجراب میں برف باری کا نیا سلسلہ شروع
5. Husaini bridge- Hussaini Suspension Bridge
I want to meet the people of Gilgit Baltistan ( Hunza valley and Gilgit)
Additional fact,
The area of kashmir valley under administration of India is 15,9458 sq. Km.
The area of Azad kashmir is 13,297 sq. Km and area of Gilgit Baltistan is 72,971 sq. Km, these areas are under administration of Pakistan.
Now, I can only visit 1/7th of the actual area of Kashmir due to ongoing tensions between the nations.
I really want India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir issue with Pacifism (as there is no end to war ), so I could visit these and some other beautiful destinations located on the other side of the border.
10. Life can be made legendary if we know that its limited and will end one day. So, the thought of living the last day of my life comes with the things which I had been wanting to do but coundnt do because of the worry that it will have an impact on future. But when no future exits then living in the present is the only option and I feel is the best ever!! So, here are the few things I would love to do before my last day arrives:-
1. Thank everyone by writing letters for the people around me for their love.
2. Run because being an asthma patient I could hardly run in my life.
3. Ask a Girl for a quick date!Would write a page about my journey of life.
4. Would teach to everyone about the mistakes I committed and will tell them dont shy away from making those.
5. Tell them to be fearless.
6. Would give all my belongings to the people in need.
7. Hug and kiss my parents as I had always shy away from doing that! and express my love for them fully!
P.S. This will surely be an ideal day of my life! May GOD grant me this 🙂
11. THINGS TO DO :
Things to do Now That Will Make Your Life Better and most importantly its possible in India too.
Skydiving is a sport conjoin a skydiver skipping down from an airplane or similar craft while it is parachuting and flying to the ground.
Skydiving can be done individually and also with other people. Training is needed to go alone. The jump can also be made from bottom of a hot air balloon or helicopter from 4000m or 13,000 ft. Skydiving can be an provocative sport.
In emulative skydiving, participants are judged according to their style in free fall and their precision in landing to a indicated point.
Skydiving in India is currently available at Mysore, Bangalore & Gujarat…..
Pondicherry Skydiving is temporarily not available But it may resume very soon…
• BIKING :
Biking is the sport of riding bike or bicycles off-road, often over drastic territory. Bikes share equality with other bikes, but inclusive features structural to expand patience and performance in rough territory.
Biking is excel by these major categories like..
1. Downhill
2. Cross-country
3. Free ride
4. All Mountain
5. Dirt Jumping
6. Trail Riding/Biking
7. Urban/Street
8. Marathon
9. Trials
10. Four Cross
The feelings for this things to do before you die is more amazing and have ultimate experience ever of throughout life.
Source : http://adtubeindia.com/blogs/201
12. I’ve tried my best to make a list of things to do that will cost you nothing/very less.
1. Experiment. Say yes to something that intimidates you, pushes you out of your comfort zone but also excites you.
2. Overcome one of your worst fears. If you have a phobia for deep waters, learn how to swim through it.
3. Learn a new language or two.
4. Fall in love. Love them more than anything in this world. Love them not because you want to be loved back, love them because you cannot help it.
5. Be passionate about something and let others know what you can do. You love writing? Start a blog. You love decking up? Show others how to. Start a youtube channel. You can sketch? Start an instagram handle. Don’t hide away those talents.
6. Live in another city for at least 3 years. The farther from your previous residence, the better. You’ll learn things you didn’t even know that you didn’t know.
7. Travel. Go on long road trips. Don’t take your smartphone with you. Have one of those basic phones to contact in case of emergencies. They have a prolonged battery life too.
8. Be impulsive. If you see someone cute, don’t hesitate to ask them out. Call an old friend whom you haven’t talked to in a long time. Like Nike says, Just Do it. Don’t bother about the consequence.
9. Get completely drenched in the rain. You know those showers without thunder/lightning and it’s simply pouring down heavily yet harmlessly? Those kind. Dance, run, jump, do whatever you feel like. You’ll feel exhilarated. Totally worth it even if you catch a cold.
10. Adopt a pet. Take care of it like it was your baby. You’ll know what parenting is like.
11. Go to a music concert. Sing along with the band and the crowd. Participate in a flash mob or run a marathon. The energy is amazing.
12. Fall asleep holding the hand of someone you love, under a starlit sky.
Will keep updating the list if I come up with more. 🙂
Thanks for the A2A, Venkatesh N. 🙂
13. *********************** THE INEVITABLE BUILD-UP **********************************
I am an Indian (north Indian, just to be particular) born in the early nineties. My dad is a defense personnel. As I grew up and started understanding things with my continually improving cognitive abilities, I got acquainted with our neighboring country Pakistan. My father once tried explaining the situation in Kashmir to me and how it was and still continues to remain a bone of contention for the two countries. Before I could grasp the idea and decide who is right, Pakistan, India or the Kashmiri separatists, the Kargil War of 1999 had already started which embittered the then-going peace talks.
As I started watching television apart from the cartoons, I found out about the frequent terrorist activities, bomb blasts, and hate speeches which were something both the countries were suffering from. And the same television served the purpose of creating a villainous image of the entire country on the basis of inhuman acts which were committed by some select elements.
When books came into my life, I read more about the history of our subcontinent which I found to be a masterpiece painted with all the wonderful colours. But with time, this painting more recently (talking in the sense of history, modern times) was colored with the red of the people who all belonged to the motherland. Fate delivered two big cuts into the geographical fabric of the subcontinent. Fate, along with its human collaborators with economic and political motives, continued to use its relentless pair of scissors on other fabrics as well but little damage they could do to the cultural one.
Talking about the present, a lot of terrorist attacks still continue to plague Pakistan as I read on internet. Plus from what I have seen on internet, I believe only some people there like Indians (but all of them are like Indians). At present I have just stepped into my early twenties and apprehensions of this sort continue to crop inside me whenever I think about visiting the country on a tourist visa.
******************************THE CRUX ***********************************
But if there is one thing I would surely do before dying (being realistic, here) is go visit Pakistan where the remains of the first civilization in the subcontinent and one of the firsts in the world are still there. I want to roam on the streets of Pakistan as freely as I do in India. Meet people with whom we share more than just borders and cricket. Eat with them the delicious food the recipes of which have been passed on from generations to generations for centuries. Sit with them and read Ghalib , Faiz , Sahir Ludhianvi or folklore of Heer Ranjha. Sing with them the songs of saints which belonged to our land and roamed about teaching people how to love humanity above faiths.
May be I can talk to them about Gandhi and how great a man he was. I would do it when I am older by a few decades, they would probably be more willing to listen to me then. Yes, as one thing to do before dying, I would like to extend my hand towards the people of Pakistan, and I would like to do it personally in their country :).
14. when you are born, there wont exist any set of rules/things that you must do!
A normal thing to do is LIVE joyfully with others ( with family and friends). A pet would create more enthusiastic atmosphere, so can own one and to adore it and it only brings happiness.
Universe is broader than one can imagine! its impossible to travel around this universe or to even think u can see a parallel universe!
You live on this beautiful earth which has magnificent and breathtaking beautiful places , enjoying them with your eyes would be amazing.
Knowledge is power, every time you learn something new it will only give you happiness and confidence. Can have interest in reading books.
there's too many awesome food in the world, enjoy the youth and food when you can! don't miss to enjoy the food and you can have a list of what all you want to try. Ohhhhh YUMMMYY!
can lead a adventurous life traveling , list out what you want to do before dying(bucket list), what are the adventures you want to try , for ex: riding in hot air balloon, swimming with dolphins, visiting 7 wonders of the world etc.
life can get thrilling by doing more little things like campaigning with friends/ family.
playing games and making memories each and every day and can even find happiness in simple flow of life, love-marriage- children and experiencing every stage of it.
My last thoughts are if you are AMBITIOUS, achieve something before you die and help how much you can to the people and to live a harmonious life.
15. PUBLIC SERVICE {especially something for poor}
My aim in life is to earn more and spend maximum of it for those deprived of it. And that’s what i want to do before i die.
Whenever I see a poor old lady , children begging or anybody lacking the necessities of life it really makes me sad . Why only government is being blamed for poverty ? Why can’t a normal citizen do something for the betterment of society? Why are our youngsters so heartless? What if you were in that condition or pain?
We need to think about our people struggling with this problem. India is not a poor country but the thinking of some people are making it poor here.
This problem can be solved by providing better infrastructure to the poors, educating them and with right health policy in the country and youngsters can play a vital role here .
My decision to go for CIVIL SERVICES is this only .
Also “ TALISMAN” by Mahatama Gandhi motivates me alot which says:
May God bless the reader 🙂
16. I have SO many. The list keeps getting bigger with every passing day. But here's some of them.
1. Skydive
2. Backpack around Spiti, Ladakh, Leh, Valley of Flowers, Ireland and Goa.
3. Go on a catamaran ride and jump into mid-sea.
4. Adopt a dog.
5. Be someone's bridesmaid at a church wedding.
6. Campfire at the beach with strangers.
7. Witness a star storm, stare at Northern Lights, meteor showers. Wish on them.
8. Meet Superstar Rajinikanth.
9. A karaoke night.
10. Guitar lessons, woodworking and learn Bengali.
11. Build a private library.
12. Become a location independent artist and designer.
13. Buy a small telescope and the entire Calvin and Hobbes collection.
14. Go on a random date with someone with whom I have no prior introductions with.
15. Start a travel journal.
16. Learn martial arts. Kickboxing has been on my mind for a long time.
17. Learn to cook like Amma and Paati. (That's my mother and grandmother respectively)
18. Be a part of a flash mob.
19. See blue eyes on a boy.
20. Attend new year celebration's party and see what the fuss is all about.
21. Own an airy loft-studio.
22. Read all the works of Bukowski and Neruda.
23. Witness Durga Pooja at Calcutta, Vinayak Chaturthi at Bombay, Onam in Kerala and celebrate Holi at the ghats of Varanasi.
24. Read Subramania Bharathi, in Tamil, on my own.
25. Sky lanterns.
26. Work night shifts at a cinema theatre.
27. Meet someone named Kyle or Kylie.
28. Travel atop a running train/bus, travel in the back of a truck to a destination.
29. Play football in the rain.
30. Bike along Western ghats.
31. Become a published author.
17. Seriously, i want to do lot of things before i die..
1. I want to explore the world (solo trip alone )
I want to visit world's amazing places, visit diff countries, want to meet new diff kind of people having diff shades..want to live fully, I really want to climb the mountain which will be at its peakest point and want to shout..as shown in YJHD.. 😉
2. I want a trip with my besties to leh ladakh by bike –
i know it will be the best thing will happen to me ever..
3. I want to sleep under the sky full of stars with moonlight near a sea shore peacefully – most probably with someone i love. i really would love to spend one night like that having deep conversation with him.. 🙂
4.I want to say thank you to my parents – It feels akward now to say thank you to them or sometimes i say it through my actions too but still i want to say thank you for this life to them loudly and want to tightly hug them..
5.I want to live life in such a way that i will be someone's ideal model
It will feel more proud to be someone's ideal person/ role model..i want to live my life in such a way that some one will think i am ideal..
6. I want to dance whole night in party – probably it may sound weired and akward too but still i want to dance whole night in party or at club without even thinking of someone..that what others will think of me..!?
7. I want to attend live concert of any singer most probably arjit singh with my besties –
I will really love to attend night full of music, loud music,dance with besties or loved one
8.I want to run in a marathon
Yeah..nor to win but to run fast as much as i can..so that i can utilize my energy and stamina and will have proud feeling for lifetime 🙂 😉
9. I want to save someone's life
It can be in any form, but if i ever would get any chance to save anyone's life i will do it..
10. I want to see night life in mumbai
Have read and heard about night life in mumbai a lot..i want to experience that..want to seat peacefully at marine drive with the blowing wind playing with my hairs 😉 🙂
11.I want to live in different country – not for lifetime because i love my india..but to know about their culture and lifestyle i will really love to spend 2 years in another country
12.I want to see that ghoasts are exists or not really by taking a sleepover at haunted place 😉
It is true that ghoasts exists or are they rumours..Dont want to die with that confusion 😉
13.I want to swim in the ocean
Though i am not a perfect swimmer still i want to experience it in my life.
14.Finally i want to follow and live dream – i want to do something different that will give me immense pleasure and i want to follow that dream and live peacefully
15.last but not the least i want to think that " I lived fully not only survived " during my last breath.. 🙂
18. Thanks for A2A Anwesha Chakraborty
There are things that I want to do before I die.
• To see this my my own eyes.
The northern lights
• And this….
Atacama, Chile
• And this…
The Place where sun never sets. The Midnight Sun, Norway.
• And this…
The theatre of Dreams, The Old Trafford, Manchester
• And finally, live the remaining days of my life peacefully in my city,here….
Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Thanks for reading
19. Write letters to those you love. Tell them what they have meant to you and how they impacted your life. Tell them what you wish for them.
Write letters for your young children, grandchildren, and even those descendants not yet born. Tell them what you learned in life, what challenges you overcame, and what successes you had. Pass on your values, beliefs and faith to them.
Write letters to those you may be estranged from, those you’ve hurt or those who have hurt you. Express your regret for the hurt, whether you were to blame or not. Heal old wounds. At one time they were important in your life. Go back to that time and rekindle the affection you felt for each other.
It’s often easier to say what you mean and feel in a letter than it is to verbalize it. The letters don’t have to be long — a page or two at most. Often a couple of paragraphs will cover what you want to say. It’s not as important how you write it or how much you write, as it is that you just write what’s in your heart. The main thing is — just do it.
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Monday, August 02, 2010
Summer break
It was my son's 8th birthday on Saturday and this year he chose to go camping rather than have a party. It turned out to be a great choice! We went to a tiny town South of Oita called Kamae and went to a beach which had basically nothing but sand, surf and free camping sites. We only stayed for 2 nights, but the children spent basically the whole time in the ocean or on their bikes and my husband and I spent most of the time sitting around reading books or going for bike rides, with the odd cold beer thrown in for good measure. The hammock was definitely my favorite spot to laze in - I could read my book while still keeping an eye on the swimmers. I must say it was great! What was even better was that the first night we headed down to the beach with our pathetic packet of free fireworks from the petrol station and discovered that all the other people staying at the campsite were there with huge bags of much bigger and more impressive fireworks. We sat and watched and didn't have to worry about who was about to be burned or of course pay for them! The second night we were the only ones staying at the beach which was wonderful. The whole beach to ourselves, all the cold showers to ourselves (no complaints when it is so hot outside!), the ex-neighbours charcoal to make a fire for our marshmallows and only the sound of the waves to put us to sleep. All in all a great (much needed) break away! I was so excited about the summer holidays actually feeling like a holiday that I came home and booked tickets for Hong Kong at the end of the month - Birgit, Paul, Peter and Rosa - we are looking forward to seeing you soon!
1. You really needed that break. Sounds like it was the perfect family holiday. Happy birthday Masaki. Can you believe your youngest is 8?? Wow. Where does the time go.
2. oh wow, that looks fabulous!
happy birthday to your son!
3. What a smart young man to choose to go camping, especially when you had the whole beach to yourself! It looks beautiful and the perfect escape.
Happy Birthday
4. Happy 8th birthday to your son. : )
And wow camping on the beach sounds fun! And to have it all to yourselves on one of the nights...sounds like a dream.
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Review: Wenger Executive Knife
Wenger Pocket Tool Chest Genuine Swiss Army Knife
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Survival Video Game: I am Alive
I saw a review for this videogame some time ago and it immediately caught my attention given that its promoted as a “survival” video game. Often enough so called survival videogames are as unrealistic as you would expect but in this case I was pleasantly surprised. Not only was it fun to play which is the point of it all, but besides that it soon became clear that a lot of thought had been put into the game.
So as to provide a more thorough review, this humble servant kicked his two kids out of the game console and tortured himself playing until 5AM. :-)
The game?
The world has been left in ruins after a series of earthquakes. You start alone, at the edge of a destroyed city where you hope to find your wife and daughter alive. It took you almost a year to return from a trip that you did in a 4 hour flight before the event. As you stand there trying to figure out how you will cross the collapsed bridge into the city a quick assessment of yourself gives you little hope. Though in good physical shape, you look dirty and all you have left is a can of food… and a gun… with no ammo.
Yes, it is a videogame of course, but the execution is very well done in terms of what your priorities are and how you deal with problems.
What do you do if an angry person turns a gun on you and threatens to shoot you? You leave of course! And that’s exactly how it works in this game. When a man with a machete ambushes you, just pointing the gun at him makes him think twice. Of course you’re bluffing because you don’t have any ammo, but it works. You can then just keep walking away while keeping him at gunpoint, he may surrender and throw his knife or you can hit him over the heat with the gun when kneeling. Some other times they may call your bluff and things get ugly. Later when you get a machete, you see that its more effective when used in surprise attacks at close distance. Through out the game you rarely have more than one or two rounds in your gun, and as in real life people tend to leave you alone when you point at them with a gun. This I haven’t seen as well implemented in any other game.
Through the game just like in real life, you´ll need food. You find canned food, water and very rarely fresh meat and vegetables. While the character you play can jump and climb like only a pro climber would, he also gets tired and loses stamina. You cant just hang there on the edge of a building. After a few second you get tired and fall so you have to hurry. You also use pitons to assist you when climbing through the rubble. You’ll be asked to search a radio, signal for help and get medicines to help others. During sandstorms a respirator mask proves to be very valuable.
The other survivors are well addressed too. Some just want to be left alone, some need your help, others want to steal from you or kill you and some cant take it and just end their misery.
The game is only available through the xbox marketplace, so you’ll need to buy a few points in a store to buy and download it. I suppose it could have been done better in certain aspects, but for someone interested in survival and preparedness its an enjoyable game to play for a few hours and relax.
Interested but never tried playing one before? Ask your kids or nephews for some help. Hey, it sure beats watching the London Olympics! :-)
Friday, July 27, 2012
Carrying Gear and Small Children
I am a mom in the (safe) suburbs of a major Midwestern city (Chicago), blessed with seven children. You have excellent advice on always carrying a light, weapons, etc. As a homeschooler, I wind up being home almost all the time (which I love). However, with lots of little ones constantly climbing all over me/being carried, I find it hard to even clip a flashlight on, much less anything else. I’m afraid to keep a weapon on me, for fear a little one could get hurt. I thought of trying to clip a Swiss army knife somewhere, but often I’m not wearing anything that I could clip it onto, and since my youngest ones are carried on my hips, it would be very uncomfortable for them. Even clipping it to a lanyard around my neck would mean it becomes a chew toy for the baby. Any suggestions?
Hi Lori, seems you have your hands full! I understand your concern, I have two boys of my own.
The good news is that it can still be done. I know they chew your hair, tug on your clothes, touch everything and everywhere all over you. It does however require gear made for being carried all day and in some cases it may even require a change in wardrobe. Carrying some of this stuff while using skirts with no pockets, that would be a challenge, jeans or other pants with pockets are more practical. Sometimes people find a solution in a small fanny pack, and that would work pretty well for most EDC items, some are especially designed for carrying concealed firearms. Its also a matter of getting used to it. I hear people complain about this or that knife being an inch too large or an ounce to heavy. When you’re committed and make the effort to get used to it, eventually that’s what ends up happening. One day you simply forget you have a Cold Steel Voyager clipped to your right pocket and a Fenix PD10 in your left one. That is, you forget until you need it! These clipped to your pockets, it wouldn’t be a problem at all. I’ve played with my kids many times with these in my pockets, not a problem.
In terms of firearms it can also be done, but this yes, requires discipline and training so as to do it safely and efficiently. The idea here is first of all, carrying so that its not a risk to you or your loved ones, otherwise just better leave the gun in the safe. Second, you carry because you want to be able to defend yourself if there’s ever a serious threat towards you and your family. That may never happen, but you may still want to be ready for that, if nothing else because of principle. Now, carrying a gun doesn’t make you a gunfighter any more than me sitting on an Airbus cabin makes me a pilot, so a good CCW class and at least a basic pistol class is strongly recommended. For carrying safe in the kind of circumstances you describe, appropriate wardrobe would be needed including pants, a gun belt, and a good holster. Bladetech, CrossBreed and Galco are some of the most recognized ones. Crossbreed is pretty comfortable and I’ve had good results with my Blatech Phantom.
I would avoid neck carry because of the reasons you describe. Victorinox isn’t exactly ideal for carry as most lack a proper pocket clip. In your case a Spyderco Delica would work nicely. Its well made, has a nice flat profile and 4 position clip.
Spyderco Delica4 Lightweight FRN Flat Ground PlainEdge Knife
Spyderco Delica4 Lightweight FRN Flat Ground PlainEdge Knife (Purple)
As for flashlights a small one just drops easily in your pocket. The Fenix EO5 I recently wrote about is as small as it gets for a single AAA LED light.
Fenix E05 LED Waterproof Mini Torch Flashlight (Purple)
Fenix E05 LED Waterproof Mini Torch Flashlight (Purple)
(Purple combo shown just becuase its pretty and women seem to like it :-) )
Again, check the fanny pack. A lot of people find a solution for their carry needs in them.
Good luck!
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Making a Hank of Cord
Monday, July 23, 2012
Surviving Mass Shootings
As awful as a mass shooting can be, there are things you can do so as to at least somewhat improve your chances of survival, and its not just about shootings, these same principals apply to disasters such as fires, or terrorist attacks where you want to evacuate a building as fast as possible. It wasn’t that long ago that I posted about the fire in “The Station” night club where 100 people lost their lives, a post called “Surviving a Fire”. Given the recent shooting that took place in the movie theater in Colorado, here’s some easy to remember advice that will improve your survival odds. Its not about living in fear, just a couple quick mental notes that eventually become second nature to you:
1)Exits. Notice the different exit points when entering any room. The obvious first one is the one you just walked through, but look around for more. In many cases people rush to the main entrance ignoring other emergency exits that are closer. In a crowded room this may be the difference between life and death, surviving or getting crushed by the mass of victims.
2)Two ways out. When seated, make again a mental notice of your exits, especially the two closest ones to you. Why two? Because the threat, whatever that may be, mass shooter, fire, terrorist, it may be standing between you and your exit, leaving you with the second one as your best chance of survival.
3)React. In “The Station” nightclub fire, the fire was started by the special effects that were clearly getting out of control yet the band kept playing and the fans kept cheering. During the Batman movie massacre in Colorado people heard the shots and thought it was part of the movie, or part of the premier show. There’s a moment where your primal instinct kicks in, that gut feeling that has kept our species alive for thousands of years. Don’t ignore it, don’t suppress it. If you feel something is wrong, take action and assess the situation. In the case of a shooting in a movie theater, getting down provides both concealment by the rows of seats and to some degree, given the angle and number of seats, it can be cover as well. As soon as you hear shooting get down and crawl away from the threat using the cover provided by what hopefully will be several rows of seats.
4)Escape. As soon as you hit the floor crawl, away from the threat towards the exit. Making a quick exit is key to your survival. In the footage of “The Station” nightclub fire you can see how the place was all engulfed in flames in just two minutes. Seconds make the difference, so exit as fast as possible.
Run, walk, crawl…?
It will depend on a number of factors including the proximity of the exit, the attacker, how many of them are there and the amount of people all around you just to mention a few. The basic gun fighting rule is to take cover as soon as possible, in this case that means ducking behind the rows of seats. In most cases thats the best course of action when under gunfire. Maybe if the exit is close enough you can make a run for it. It is true that a running target is much harder to hit. Then again running increases the chances of falling, so that’s why running wouldn’t be recommended during a fire where falling to the ground means you’ll get crushed under the feet of the human wave trying to escape. The right amount of space, few enough people, close enough distance, you might want to run, if not walking quickly is almost as fast and you’re not as likely to fall in the confusion. Walk fast, duck or even run, it will depend on each specific case.
To Shoot or not to Shoot
If you are armed, do you open fire on the attacker? It will depend on a number of factors too. Are you trained well enough so as to take that shot? You fall down to your lowest level of mastered training, you´ll rarely rise to the occasion. Do you have a clean shot? If not are you willing to risk shooting innocent bystanders? In the Colorado theater, the shooter was wearing full body armor, a helmet, armed with an AR and using a gas mask after deploying tear gas.
I was shooting a competition this Saturday along with some other people. While I’m not a good shooter by the standards of guys that compete seriously, out of the six shooters in the line that day, I was the fastest one. I can draw and shoot accurately pretty fast, but If I have to take that shot inside a dark theater, with my vision impaired by tear gas, with the place full of people running around scared, and I have a guy armed with an AR, wearing body armor and a helmet leaving me with a small amount of face (covered with a respirator!) so as to shoot at, chance are that I wont risk taking that shot. Honestly I don’t think I could unless I felt I had a clear shot, a window of opportunity of some sort. Having said that, being close enough and if the attacker happens to be distracted or turning his back you can put him down, even disarm him, stab him or pin him down. Yet you have to be there, fighting to breathe because of the tear gas, in a dark room with mayhem erupting and a mad man shooting everyone down. Much easier said than done doesn’t begin to describe what It must have been like in there.
A few more final tips:
1)Whenever possible, avoid crowds if you can. When a movie I like comes out, I personally avoid the first couple of days when I know the theater is packed. I can catch the movie next week in the early screening when I know there will be fewer people. I don’t like crowd anyway and I enjoy the movie more.
2)Whenever possible, think restaurants, fast food joints, etc, sit a) close to an exit b)facing the main entrance c) with your back against the wall. It eventually becomes a habit of your and its funny how when you go eat with cops, soldiers or other like-minded people they all want to sit in the same place.
3)Carry your EDC, 24/7. If you use your gun or not, its still another tool that gives you options, and its good to have those. Same for your knife, your LED torch, and other EDC often mentioned here. If you don’t carry every day, every single day, it will not be with you when you need it.
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Friday, July 20, 2012
Preparing for Blackouts
I’ve been through many blackouts. At times we went through one every two days all summer long, sometimes it was a week without power, even more in other places. Summer time was particularly bad because of the greater demand and lines would burn up and transformers explode, but that didn’t mean you didn’t have them every once in a while the rest of the year too. That’s just the way it is in most South American countries. Even if you have power, and this again happens during Spring and Summer, we experience “dirty power”, low voltage power that is often not enough to make appliances work and even ruins many of them. Instead of having 110V, you just get 100V or 90V. Some appliances tolerate this better than others. I remember that the microwave simply would work, and the AC and washing machine would make awful noises while working at half of its normal performance. The “dirty power” issue isn’t part of daily life in most of USA, but as decay spreads due to the financial crisis it could eventually become an issue. The day you have this feeling that the light bulbs just look dimmer than usual… yes, that’s it.
You can solve this by finding a voltage elevator. This may not be available now but if the problem becomes common soon enough electricians will start putting these together, its not that difficult for a pro electrician. The one I had in Argentina solved my “dirt power” problem, and was build by an electrician that saw the business opportunity. Thank you Capitalism! This guy, he was selling thousands of these to happy customers like myself. You might want to add to that a surge protection as well, or get a proper power stabilizer that either increases or decreases so as to always provide 110V or 220V, depending on where you live.
Regarding blackouts in general, many of these points I’ve covered before, in more detail, but a quick list of tips would be the following:
1)Have plenty of LED flashlights. Don’t bother with anything else since LEDs are by far more efficient than incandescent lights. I’ve used candles extensively, but the fire hazard is considerable and always there.
2)Get used to having a LED light with you at all times. With the gadgets available today, no one should be without a nice 1xAAA LED or at least a button cell keychain flashlight in their keychain.
Streamlight 73001 Nano Light Miniature Keychain LED Flashlight, Black
3)Be very careful regarding going to bed and leaving candles lit. A curtain blown by the wind, a candle that falls after melting, glass container shattering due to temperature or accidentally spill, any open flame indoors is a considerable risk.
4)A headlamp can be your best friend during blackouts. Its one thing to go without light for a couple hours, its another to go for a couple days. You cant just sit it out, you have to do stuff. With a headlamp, you get to use both hands while putting that light exactly where you need it. Thing doing repairs, washing the dishes, working, heck, even the military understands this and has helmet mounted lights.
5)Whenever possible, use flashlights and other devices (radio, etc) that run on a single battery. Sometimes 1xAA is all you have left, and it means that you can power two separate lights instead of just one.
6) Go for lights that use commonly available batteries for blackout flashlights. Even if you have CR123A tactical lights, also keep more common AA and AAA flashlights at hand. If blackouts become common, you’ll need to get yourself rechargeable batteries and these also tend to be cheaper (and safer) in the AA and AAA variety.
7)Don’t get a huge generator. They are heavier to move around, noisier, more expensive and use up more of your precious fuel resources. A 35oo watt generator (more or less) will run your fridge, washing machine, water pump, PC, lights and charge your tech devices. It wont be doing all at once but you can run some at the same time. If you run your fridge three hours a day and keep good fridge door discipline (open it only when absolutely needed) thats usually enough in most temperature condition.
8) Know what you need in terms of power. Some appliances have particularly demanding starting watt needs. A microwave or well pump for example may not work at all with a smaller generator. Check each specific appliance so as to see how many watts it needs to run, and double that so as to approach the starting watt demand.
9)A chest freezer is more efficient. Because of the shape and the way the door opens alone, it works better for when you only turn it on a couple hours a day. In very general terms, cold air works like a liquid. With a vertical fridge cold air will “spill” out of it each time you open that door. A chest freezer or fridge is better in that regard. Another tip: Throw a few soda bottles into the freezer. When lights go out you can move these in the bottom of the fridge along with your food (all together piled up) and cover it with a plastic tarp, even several plastic grocery bags will do, the more layers of insulation the better. This way you can keep food cold enough for a couple days in hot summer conditions. I’ve done it before myself several times so I know it can be done.
10)Don’t run your generator for stuff you don’t need. TV, videogames, even AC Is a luxury you may not be able to afford. If you have one of these poorly designed boxes of a house where natural ventilation doesn’t occur, then run the AC for about an hour before going to bed. As for kids, tell them go play ball with their neighborhood friends. You might want to keep them within sight in your back yard for security reason.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
When Will SHTF in USA?
I got asked this question on a radio interview recently. It’s a popular question that I avoid answering as much as possible because there´s no right answer. You can´t predict these things with any degree of practical accuracy. No one knows when S%@! will Hit the Fan, and those that venture guesses always claim the sky is falling next year. Claim the same thing year after year and who knows, eventually you might get lucky.
U.S. ElectionsNow, in spite of my rule regarding this question this time I ventured a response of some sort. Not a SHTF date, but lets say a time when I’d be just a bit more concerned than usual. As always, I gave it based on common sense, logic, a percentage of guestimation and a dose of my own experience in this field.
When Cristina Kirchner got reelected with 54% of the votes I knew we had to hurry up our plans and leave as soon as possible. The logic behind this was the following: We had four years of Nestor Kirchner, then four more years of her wife Cristina as president. Then Nestor died and Cristina got reelected. There’s no husband anymore to take office after her and unless she changes the constitution (which she is trying to do) this will probably be her last term. Before the reelection Cristina played it safe trying to keep things calm so as to not upset people. It was safe to assume that after the reelection she would let go and run with any plans she didn’t dare put into motion before the elections. Not a week after her reelection, she started with some of the most draconian financial measures, banning the purchase of dollars, increasing taxes and the cost of living and inflation jumped when most services went up in price.
If I had to bring out the crystal ball for what´s going to happen in U.S., I´d say that Obama will play it safe also until the elections and only afterwards play some of his more unpopular cards. Here again, there’s nothing to lose after the election is won, and what he didn’t dare go for in the first term he will try to do in his second one if he wins.
Things I’d watch for:
1) Attempts to restrict the 2nd Amendment. Get your concealed carry permit now, just in case.
2) More taxes and controls for people that want to be self-reliant. (food production, power, taxing the use of water) Try keeping a low profile and fly under the radar.
3)As Obama said, “If You’ve Got a Business, You Didn’t Build That”, so expect more controls and more start up costs for starting businesses after the elections. Better do it now if you had something planned.
4)Because presidents that start wars tend to get reelected, the Iran card may be the exception here and may be used before the elections. A tragic incident of considerable proportions or terrorist attack (foreign or domestic, as Matt Bracken would say) may also work.
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Attacking the American Dream
I recently started reading your blog a couple of weeks ago. I am slowly working my way up from 2008 to present. Excelent material! I love your no nonsense writing.
I opened this article this morning and I was blown away. Just thought you would be interested to see this….
Apparently, we the people, can’t do anything on our own. Our brave new world is coming very soon, especially if he is re-elected!
Hi James,
Isn’t it surprising, the things you see that you thought you’d never live to see, right?
Take away a persons pride by leaving him unemployed. Check.
Destroy his dignity by reducing his purchasing power, so that even if employed its just not enough. Check
Make sure he collects a welfare check in one form or another from the benevolent state. Check.
Make sure that even if in spite of this the individual succeeds financially, that he feels its not because of his own merit. Yup, now checked.
I’ve been talking lately with American that tell me how increasingly complicated its getting to start and run a business in USA. More taxes, more regulations and controls, more inspections and restrictions.
They just don’t want people to be independent, they’ll even send SWAT kicking down your door for dealing with milk. Not a code word for some drug but real pure cow milk can get you arrested!
I wont get into why they are doing this but I will tell you the consequences: A degradation of the American middle class along with greater levels of poverty and a concentrated all-mighty elite that profits from this very effective wealth distribution. Distributing mostly to themselves, that is, through various bailouts and government schemes.
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Modern Survivalism: To worry or not to worry?
I was reading a couple days ago a thread over at Arfcom(, survival forum) called “Fear for Sale” about how often fear is sold to us and many end up buying it one way or another. The discussion later turned towards preparedness, fear in general and at some level how fear of not being ready is what differentiates survivalists and preppers from those that don’t worry and plan for unfortunate circumstances.
Is it really fear what makes a survivalist? To some point I believe it is, even though the key part of the survivalist recipe is actually doing something about it, develop a strategy and execute it, have plans for some of these events and set them in place. If we look at it from the chicken and egg perspective regarding which one was first, yes, I’d say that to some degree you must have at least some concern so as to get off your butt and start doing something. The person that never worries about anything is unlikely to make much preparation for disaster.
The problem I at least see is when fear is beyond rational, consumes your life on every level, from your finances to your loved ones and relationships with friends. Its in this point where fear becomes counter-productive and instead of becoming truly prepared for disasters or simply tougher times you become isolated and enclosed in your world of fear, doom and negativity. Rather than begin helpful, these negative flaws of character impair your ability during real tough times. If you cant stay positive during the good or at the very least ok times, then you will not make it during the truly tough ones.
When the world you end up living in gets turned upside down, then you cant afford to live in a constant state of fear. We recently talked with a good friend of ours who lives in Argentina and she was telling us how bad things are getting, how its worse than when we left and how we left “just in time”. There’s been a series of robberies in her block, armed burglars entering the apartment buildings at gun point. A few days before, she was chased by a man and run into a store for safety. Robberies and muggings are part of everyday life. She said she’s now afraid to even throw the trash within the building, scared of getting attacked in the corridors. Then she said something that stuck and now thinking about this topic of living in fear comes to mind. “I realized I cant live afraid all the time. I try being careful but now I just go out and throw the trash and try not to even think about it so as to not worry. You cant live in fear your entire life”.
That’s called resignation folks. Its what the brain does so that you don’t go nuts over things you have no control of. While this is far from ideal, I do understand it because I’ve been there myself. Now looking it from another perspective I don’t know how we lived that way ourselves.
Its one thing to live in denial, that gets you killed. Its important to recognize and acknowledge the threats, but eventually you have to live life in spite of how bad things have turned.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Guns, OC Spray and Halfhearted Preparedness
I simply don't get it. While I am a gun owner, I have **bear spray** in my room. Bear spray will **categorically** stop even a charging grizzly (I refer you to the top grizzly bear expert in the world, Stephen Herrero, at Univ. of Calgary, for verification). With bear spray (not the wimpy, short-distance human stuff), I don't have to worry about bullet penetration through walls, kids getting into it (it sure will hurt, but it's not fatal), having a precise aim, or killing some teenage prankster (I had a friend many years ago in high school who was killed breaking into factory on a lark). Yes, there is a place for guns, and, as noted, I own a number. But right now, in suburbia, this is my first choice. Maybe when things get much more out of control I will change tactics, but not at present.
I’m addressing this because I’m afraid that some readers may be doing these same mistakes and may one day pay for it with their lives.
I’m not familiar with this grizzly bear expert but I can assure you one thing, no spray of any kind will stop a charging big animal on its tracks at short range, let alone a bear, while a bullet in the brain or spine will indeed do the trick even if just inches away. Same goes for armed criminals. Bear Spray sure works, but you are greatly overestimating its usefulness.
If an armed intruder breaks into your home and you do what you claim, two things will happen. First, you’ll fill the room with bear spray, affecting everyone in it including yourself. Second, the armed intruder will start shooting in your direction, maybe even hit you, and now you have a pissed criminal shooting in your house sending rounds himself through the walls, those same rounds you didn’t trust yourself to fire. By now you’re probably realizing your mistake and desperately looking for your firearm to put down the intruder that keeps shooting inside this deathtrap you created yourself. Blinded, struggling to breathe, your entire face burning and your eyes tearing out of control, getting hold of your gun in this cloud of bear spray is much easier said than done. And the bad guy keeps shooting killing you kids, your cat, and the neighbor’s dog. Lets be optimistic and assume its only ONE intruder, rather than the usual two or more.
Another thing, and this is something I’ve often addressed. You wont get any invitation to SHTF, burglars will not email you before breaking in. How will you know when “things get much more out of control”? When a break-in happens in your neighborhood? When two happen a year? Two a month? What if that one break-in is you? There’s no official “out of control” day, you have to do these things now, or maybe just not do them at all. Having a firearm for self-defense yet not trusting yourself to use one clearly shows you’re now sure about the idea of armed self-defense and owning guns for that purpose simply isn’t a good idea.
I don’t know where you’re from, but back home and here in Northern Ireland, its already bad enough to jump into someone´s back yard, let alone break and entry. Someone that breaks into a house isn’t a teenage prankster, he’s someone that can get rightfully shot in most US states!
OC Spray has its place, so does bear spray (outdoors!) and guns, and knives. You can have lots of weapons depending on where you are and whats legal there, but the only thing you CANT have is doubt. Going about it half-hearted is the kind of mistake that gets people killed. While you are doubting and making up your mind about this home invader that just broke in, asking yourself if he’s just a teenage prankster, just a misguided youth, maybe a disturbed young man looking for drugs or stuff to steal and sell, maybe a poor man with mental disorders that simply want to break in and rape women in their homes, while you decide if the person is dangerous or not and if you should use a gun or not, this person already shot you ten times, stabbed you twelve and is having his way with your family.
Monday, July 9, 2012
Reader’s Experience and Lessons Learned
I just started reading your blog a few weeks ago, and have begun implementing a few of your suggestions. Even with the little I have done so far, an incident last night showed me just how valuable a little bit of preparedness is.
At 4AM my wife shakes me awake and whispers, "I think someone may be in our house." I jumped out of bed, fumbled around a bit for my 9mm Glock, then though, "Oh crap I need a flashlight!" Obviously what I needed was a tactical flashlight, but those were in another room. However, what I did have was a keychain LED I started carrying after reading your blog. Not much, but at least I could see. I then proceeded to check the house. Thankfully it turned out to just be our cat making some noise.
Even though it was a false alarm, I was glad I knew the basics of how to handle it. Also, I knew that if it came to a fight, I at least had some knowledge of how those go down. Nowhere near as good as actual training, but better than nothing.
Here are my lessons learned:
ALWAYS keep a tactical flashlight with my gun
Install a light where I keep the gun that comes on automatically when I open its container so I'm not fumbling around with a loaded gun. I'm thinking one of these magnetic switches wired to a AA battery and a red LED.
Buy some JHP ammo. I did not enjoy having to worry about overpenetration from my FMJ rounds.
Sleep in something I can clip a knife and a reload mag to.
Secure my doors and windows better. It was hard to feel like I had fully proven that there was no intruder when there are so many EASY ways in.
Make sure my wife knows that if she thinks there is a problem, wake me immediately. I later found out she had been awake for 10 minutes worried that someone had broken in but thinking it was probably the cat and therefore did not want to wake me up. I told her what I read on your blog, that she has to wake me any time she thinks something is wrong because even though 99% of the time it will be nothing, that 1% could be life or death. I will gladly trade a little lost sleep for the safety of my family.
Also, before I read your blog I had kept my gun with the magazine removed. Now I keep it with the magazine in but no round chambered. This is because my wife is absolutely not ok with having a round chambered before we go through Front Sight. However, I was quite thankful last night that I at least had the mag in because finding both the mag and the gun in the dark and getting the mag in correctly would have taken a LONG time.
Of course, most of these are things you have said over and over. They made sense when I read them, but now I am quite motivated to actually do them. Even the few changes I have made over the past few weeks in both preparedness and mindset helped tremendously. If this had happened a month ago, I would have been fumbling around with a magazine in the dark, blundering about the house with no light, and still convinced that a round or two of FMJ 9mm will put down an intruder no problem.
So in sum, thanks for writing this blog! My family is and will be safer because of it.
Hi John, thanks a lot for sharing your experience.
You’re correct in assuming that time can be a significant factor. Sometimes you have more of it, sometimes its just a matter of seconds! A bad guy just kicking down the front door and walking inside can be in your bedroom in a matter of seconds. You’re reaction has to be as fast as possible. As soon as you’re conscious, WLL YOURSELF INTO MOVING, jumping out of bed, picking the gun, in your case chambering a round and get ready to face any intruder. Sometimes we hear something and just freeze. That’s our gatherer/pray instinct kicking in. Like a deer we straighten our head and listen to see if we hear that noise a second time, a very typical instinctive reaction. On the other hand, a predator would charge the noise the first time. What we have to do is will ourselves into developing a predator reaction in which we quickly move to fight instead of freezing.
Should you stay put and defend your bedroom instead? I prefer to first and foremost react as if the potential threat was already attacking, think worst case scenario. If later I decide that its better to go pick the kids and get them to the master bedroom, confront before the breaking in is completed, the variations are infinite, but in my opinion the key is avoid freezing and move, react to the potential threat as fast as you can.
About gun, mag and flashlight, you might want to look into getting a load bearing vest with molle attachments for those as well as a holster, even better, make the vest one that includes body armor panels. That way you just get up, put your vest on, and all your stuff AND boy armor are already on you.
Again, thanks for sharing, take care,
Friday, July 6, 2012
Argentina: Now you CANT leave
As I read some of the latest developments in Argentina, I’m being reminded of the all-time classic scene from “A Bronx Tale”:
When Cristina Kirchner was reelected with 54% of the votes, that was as clear as a sign can get. You’re not welcomed any more. Even more important, the country isn’t the problem anymore, the problem is YOU. Most others have agreed on what they want their future to be like, you’re the one that thinks different. You’re the one that doesn’t fit, politically, economically and morally speaking. In a serious country you can tolerate a term or two of a president that you don’t agree with, but when the same authoritarian family has been in power for over a decade and people still vote that way, that’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back. The 54% of the country wants more totalitarianism, more corruption, more taxes, more inflation, less freedom, they want criminals to walk out of jail or not even set foot in one in the first place. They like the poverty, the socialized welfare state. That’s what the majority chose. I knew well that after the reelection things would be getting much worse. There’s no need to play nice anymore. Once they won they can show their true colors and that’s what they did within the first week. After the reelection, it was the “I have to ask you to leave” phase. The cards are on the table, this is how its going to be from now on. Fortunately I saw that balloon go up and left quickly. A few months later the “now you’s can’t leave” phase started, and today it has been made official.
Argentina now officially banned saving in USD currency. Its was already impossible to buy dollars, now its been made official. Remember what I said before, that with the stroke of a pen they can make things legal or illegal, suddenly moving the line of the law under your feet and leave you standing on the criminal side. This is the perfect example. As form now on, they can hunt you like a dog for saving in USD. Soon enough the USD accounts will be converted to dollars, and you wont be able to get dollars to leave. Buying a plane ticket to leave the damn place will be hard to say the least, and how exactly will you save money to start elsewhere if you cant legally save up dollars or buy them? This is the invisible iron curtain being lifted. First you don’t allow people taking their money out of the country. Then when they want to leave themselves, you don’t want that to happen either, because you’re left with unproductive, state sponsored welfare recipients that don’t produce anything and you cant steal from them, but they keep you in office. You need the hard working ox middle class to suck the blood from. When the ox makes a run for it, well, you have to find ways to stop that from happening.
Clarin and La Nacion newspaper show headlines of the official dollar ban, along with the new increase of electricity and heating, which have gone up 350% and up to 576%( yes, not a typo, 576%!) The price of stoves has gone up 50% as well. Keep in mind its winter right now in the southern hemisphere.
You can draw parallelisms from this to different moments in history and in different countries, ethnical, political or religious persecutions. You are first asked to leave, later you’re not allowed to do it. When it comes to bugging out and relocating, timing is everything. A day too late may make all the difference in the world. I hope you never have to make that call yourself.
In a nutshell: The modern survivalist should understand and look for these signs, identify the time when you are indirectly “asked” to leave. If you don’t identify that moment, its just too late when the “now you cant leave” moment comes.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Mini Dynamic Duo: Fenix E05 & Leatherman PS4
Just as the first rule of gunfighting is having a gun, we could go along those same lines an say that the first rule of preparedness is, (like the Boy Scout motto) being prepared. Here is where all the will power, skill and resourcefulness clashes with the cold hard wall known as reality. Do you have a knife when you need it? Do you have a light with you when the building you are in starts shaking and lights go out? In most cases, no, people don’t carry these things. Its heavy, its expensive, its just a drag to worry about such silly things when I have so much going on right now, correct?. Well, these past few weeks I’ve been trying out some gadgets that may fill that bill.
Leatherman PS4
The Leatherman PS4 is the evolution of the Leatherman P4. The P4 had no scissors but had a punch/owl tool which I liked for general picking and crapping and a small flat screwdriver. Is it better to have those instead of the scissors? I happen to like them better because I just think that anything that such a small scissor can do, can be improvised with the blade you have. Maybe a short emergency blade/owl combo tool and a small flat screwdriver would have been interesting.
In spite of that, it is an impressive little tool. Blade, big flat screw driver, bottle opener, spring-loaded pliers, wire cutter, scissors, file and flat Phillips screw driver. While a bigger multitool would be better and more capable, something like the Wave or Charge Tti which I personally favor, if the options are either not carrying anything or carrying one of these, then the niche of the PS4 becomes obvious.
Maybe of interest for you guys looking to get your better halfs better prepared or interested in modern survivalism, my wife defined the PS4 as “cute” and asked for a red version for her keychain.
Fenix E05
The Fenix E05 uses a single AAA battery that is readily available and in a worst case scenario you can sure scrounge one from remote controls or other gadgets. The highly efficient LED will provide 30 lumens for 2 hours And 50 minutes. This is the smallest AAA LED light made by Fenix, the smallest AAA in the market as far as I know. While their E01 model is cheaper at nearlt 12 dollars and lasts for nearly 24 hours which is pretty sweet, the E05 is simply brighter and has a nicer light coloration and an especially made lens that provides a wide, even hot spot. This light has little throw and lots of flood, clearly intended to light up a room during a blackout rather than search around for critters or suspects in dark streets.
Compact and Affordable way to have your Bases Covered
The only thing missing here from what I call the sacred EDC triad you should never be without would be a lighter or small firesteel. (I’ll do a video on how to improvise something in that regard soon) Oh! By the way, the file in the PS4 makes a good striker if you happen to have a firesteel to use.
The Leatherman Ps4 costs about 20 USD and almost the same for the Fenix E05. Compact, not that expensive and you can throw both in your keychain and forget about them. That is, until you need them!
Monday, July 2, 2012
Video: Pregnant Woman Shot
This happened yesterday in Buenos Aires, Castelar.
10.07PM a young couple arrives home. The pregnant woman “keeps an eye” on things, while the husband parks the car in the garage. A criminals rushes in, struggles with the husband and shoots the pregnant woman. She’s in critical condition, the baby died today.
What went wrong here? First of all, this is Argentina, ok? Its not a normal country. I’ve blogged about this more than enough I believe. In normal countries there is crime, but its not this bad. In Argentina, every morning, “sabes que salis, pero no sabes si volves” (you know you leave, but you dont know if you will make it back).
Some of the mistakes made in this case.
1)Some of my friends in Argentina, they don’t enter the car to the garage. They prefer to leave it outside and make a quicker entry to the house. This is standard procedure for many.
2)The wife was obviously looking around when he was entering the car to the garage. It was clear to me that she knew well it was a dangerous moment. Problem is, what could she do if someone did come after them like it ended up happening? Just looking doesn’t work when there’s actually dangerous people out there. The way I did it was parking with the gun ready, looking yes, but ready to throw lead in their direction if something like that happened. You drive in, gun drawn and in your hand, looking around expecting these bastards to come after you. That´s how you mentally prepare yourself. That’s how instead of being surprised, you have a target to shoot.
3)The husband struggled with the attacker, and the attacker instinctively did what we often do it training: Use the “sacrifice” hand to create distance and keep the adversary away from our weapon. The husband then does another mistake, instead of keep going at him, closing distance and trying to get control of the gun, punch or kick him, he hesitates and stays back. That’s when the criminals puts a round into the chamber and instead of shooting the husband, does what his natural evil nature dictates and shoots the pregnant woman instead. Notice how in this case, if the husband had at least grabbed one of the criminals hand, he wouldn’t have been able to rack the slide and put a round in the chamber. If he had continued fighting, he could have stopped him from shooting at all. For this same reason, if you carry a firearm, you NEVER carry in condition 3, empty chamber.
EDIT UPDATE: The woman and baby are ok. It was ANOTHER pregnant woman that was shot the DAY BEFORE THIS ONE, also in Buenos Aires, the one who lost the baby. I made the confusion becuase when reading Clarin news paper one news headline was next to the other. What a sad situation it is, that this happens so often that confusions like these are even possible!! | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '8', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9667598009109496}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '267789', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:HSYZHBKIOD5HJ4QWNJNTK43T32WHZYBU', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:e3c281a4-21ad-4300-9e21-348f8cdfae96>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 13, 14, 49), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.15.97', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:IBSCHKGGZBRB4KLS7NAF2GGZX5FY4FOR', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:0ac03686-00db-4b3c-ab07-3d4b1f1e597b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://ferfal.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e917b6cb-928a-40b9-9bc8-6e2d38f0a6ef>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '8323', 'url': 'http://ferfal.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-228-197-161.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.03394979238510132', 'original_id': 'd9aac93c09349bef4dac1510859894115b193808187469b2d7b68464e7b04c58'} |
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EarthMoonMars : Involving Everyone
Friday 5 October 2018, 12:00 – 13:00
Location: Bremen Conference Center – DLR Hall
It is time to debate how to involve everyone as a Global community to benefit from Earth. Moon and Mars space activities. The panelists will review recent EarthMoonMars key space missions and projects. They will discuss potential EarthMoonMars research (Earth observations, science and environment monitoring, planetary & space science, human spaceflight, astrobiology, astrophysics, technologies, life support, operations, technical validation and development). They will debate benefits and values of an EarthMoonMars approach for engaging everyone. The panel will address various aspects & questions from the community e.g.:
1. What are current EarthMoonMars missions & plans for different space agencies and space actors?
2. Why EarthMoonMars ? How to engage Earth community to support and invest in space?
3. How to promote EarthMoonMars data and science for new users groups, public and youth ?
4. What are Knowledge Gaps and precursor robotic missions for MoonMars and how do they build on activities on Earth or Earth orbit?
5. How do MoonMars activities contribute to address Earth problems and bring benefits?
6. How to make EarthMoonMars missions contribute to Global Sustainable Development Goals
7. What technical & research synergies between space missions around Earth , on the Moon or Mars ?
8. What infrastructures in Earth-Moon sphere, on the Moon or Mars surface to benefit multiple users?
9. What is the role of small or emerging space countries and new partners? How to use cubesats?
10. How to collaborate effectively between countries, agencies and new stakeholders?
Organized by:
Bernard FOING
Executive Director, International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG), EuroMoonMars, Chair IAF ITACCUS Committee
Chiaki MUKAI
Astronaut and Vice-Director for Human Space Systems and Utilisation Mission Directorate, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
CEO, Blue Planet Foundation, Chair PISCES & HI-SEAS, Founder International Moonbase Alliance
United States
Business Developer, Isar Aerospace
SGAC Scholarships Coordinator, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Director of Scientific Projects, Analog Astronaut Training Center
Team Germany
Platinum Sponsor
Gold Sponsor
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Once the Nubia Z9 smartphone was launched, the Chinese company ZTE also unveiled a technology called Frame Interactive, tech found on their new smartphone. Well, even if they could do this from the start, Samsung is just now showing a similar technology that implies touch gestures for interaction.
Unlike the Chinese company that uses the screen margins to offer interaction with the phone, Samsung decided to take a different approach. They revealed the fact that future mobile devices could integrate transparent or invisible buttons that are fully customizable.
The buttons in case will be placed on the phone frame, in both left and right side. Further, the users are able to customize as they wish the 3 buttons, maybe one for opening the camera app, or any other function. Also, these buttons might be used in gaming for a more interactive experience where the fingers stay away from the screen.
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The Boy with the Red Ink…
red pen red ink
Put a cap on the red ink
“Hey! How are you doing?” Rick asked.
-Kisses! XxXx
Ending Child Abuse is a Communist Agenda? When Did Parenting Become Political?
child with flag
Parenting is NOT a Political Issue!
Quick question: Does wanting to end child abuse make you a Communist? Let me explain…
My husband sent me THIS LINK from Face Book that has a video about not physically or emotionally abusing your children. It’s based on the premise that parents who yell and hit have children who yell and hit. It is originally from this website: Children See, Children Learn. I am glad to have another resource to add to my list of organizations who are in line with the Vision and Mission of 153Promise.
Again, like yesterday’s post, I began reading the comments. (Warning: it could ruin your day.)
People got SO ANGRY from watching an anti-parental bullying PSA! They defend hitting their child, say that’s why we have brats is due to lack of spanking, and then it degrades into a political debate…
Flag polticalPeople post the quantum leap that videos like this are the work of the Liberals/Socialists/Communists in the US of A. They started making comparisons to totally unrelated issues like gun control and fighting in the Middle East.
Then, I noticed a trend… the ones who were upset MOST at this video were the ones who were spanked as a kid and who defend spanking their own kids! That legacy is the EXACT TREND the PSA is trying to end!
Perhaps if those negative posters were shown more L.O.V.E. as a child, they would not be so miserable today.
If my commitment to raise my child in a trauma-free environment makes me a Liberal, then so be it. I will LOVE my children liberally. I will liberally shower my children with kisses and hugs.
Make it your #153Promise to join the TFPP- Trauma-Free Parenting Party, no matter what your political affiliation!
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Student Learning Outcomes
1. Accuracy and automaticity of foundational knowledge: Accurate and automatic explanation of foundational concepts in the program's core areas of phonology, generative linguistics and cognitive linguistics
2. Ability to identify generalizations: Ability to identify and describe recurring patterns in linguistic data.
3. Ability to identify claims made in the sign language linguistics literature and articulate their primary, "trademark features".
4. Clear presentation of material in ASL and written English, demonstrating how such material relates to critical issues in linguistics and the Deaf communities.
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Friday, August 25, 2017
Algorithm - explain thyself!
This is an interesting piece on the opacity of the algorithms that run legal research platforms.
Digital machinery - in general - is more opaque than analog machinery. In years gone by, analog equipment could be understood, debugged, tweaked by people not involved in its original construction: mechanics, plumbers, carpenters, musicians etc. As digital tech has advanced, eating into those analog domains, we appear to loosing some control over the "how" of the things we are building...
The problem, quite ironically, also exists in the world of digital systems. These are regularly redone from scratch when the "how" of the systems is lost, typically when the minds involved in
its original construction - the holders of the "how" - cease to be involved in its maintenance.
With Deep Learning, the "how" gets more opaque still because the engineers creating these systems cannot explain the "how" of the decisions of the resultant system. If you take any particular decision made by such a system and look for a "how" it will be an essentially meaningless, extremely long mathematical equation multiplying and adding up lots of individually meaningless numbers.
In part 15 of the What is Law series I have posited that we will deal with the opacity of deep learning systems by inventing yet more digital systems - also with opaque "hows" - for the purposes of producing classic logic explanations for the operation of other systems:-)
I have also suggested in that piece that we cannot, hand on heart, know if our own brains are not doing the same thing. I.e. working backwards from a decision to a line of reasoning that "explains" the decision.
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Shameless James is an alternative rock trio based in Athens, Georgia. A conglomeration of each member’s distinct musical tastes, the band progresses the modern indie sound by combining explosive drums, melodic basslines, soulful vocals, and psychedelic tendencies. The band currently consists of Zac Connely (Bass/Vocals), Dallas Wiggins (Drums), and Zach Tellano (Keys/Guitar/Vocals). Emphasizing energetic live performances, the band explores an array of sounds on stage through constantly changing setlists and love for improvisation. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9029496908187866}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '66093', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:A6JUD2UBUWIAD726Q54GEWJQW67YMPWJ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:0655736c-fa06-4e8f-869b-25da1b866047>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 10, 7, 22, 39, 35), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.67.220.1', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:C2UOWXM3ZF5FU5Q6WDETE4QGOBOLX73V', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d128bef6-9e72-466b-ba69-8e0172a7b64b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://athfest.com/artist/shameless-james-2/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:ce3bc3e4-4830-4df8-a2a7-f0f05391ebf0>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '74', 'url': 'https://athfest.com/artist/shameless-james-2/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-40\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September/October 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-215\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.29246842861175537', 'original_id': '63c4b934758b9fbf42b881c64f351052510adf6807d7b6374477b259e2c93721'} |
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Indira Gandhi Biography
Full nameIndira Priyadarshini gandhi
Know asIndira Gandhi, Gāndhī, Indira Priyadarśinī, Indira Priyadarśinī Gāndhī, Indira Singh, Indira F U C K I N G C U N T, Indira priyadarsini Gandhi
Birth placeAllahabad, India
Birth date1917-11-19
Lived66 years, 11 month, 12 days
ReligionHinduism and Islam
Star signScorpio
WorkPresident of the Indian National Congress
EducationSomerville College, Oxford
SpouseFeroze Gandhi
ParentsJawaharlal and Kamala Nehru
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Indira Priyadarshini gandhi Biography:
Gandhi served three successive terms as prime minister, between 1966 and 1977, and another period starting in 1980. A tenacious and exceptionally intelligent young woman, she enjoyed an outstanding instruction in Swiss schools and at Somerville College, Oxford. After her mom died, in 1936, Gandhi became something of her father’s hostess, understanding how to navigate complicated relationships of diplomacy with a few of the distinguished leaders of the world. After her dad’s passing, Gandhi was named minister of info and broadcasting. When her dad’s successor, Lal Bahadur Shastri, died suddenly in 1966, India’s congress named her to the place of prime minister.
She surprised her dad’s old co-workers when she led having a powerful hand, dismissing some of best-rank officials. Gandhi later brought about great change in agricultural programs that improved the lot of her nation’s poor. To get a time, she was hailed as a hero.
In 1971, the Pakistan army ran violent actions from individuals of East Pakistan. Almost 10 million people fled to India. Gandhi encouraged the Pakistani president to Shimla to get a weeklong summit. Both leaders finally signed the Shimla Agreement, agreeing to conclude the dispute of Kashmir by peaceful means. Her work finally resulted in the development of the new and independent state of Bangladesh.
Gandhi also headed a movement that became known as the Green Revolution. In a attempt to deal with the long-term food deficits that primarily changed the incredibly poor Sikh farmers of the Punjab area, Gandhi chose to raise crop diversification and food exports as a way from the situation, creating new occupations in addition to food for her countrymen. Gandhi responded by requesting the president call to get a state of emergency.
Gandhi lost another election and was afterwards imprisoned. In 1980, the state reacted otherwise and she won with a landslide majority. The exact same year, her son Sanjay Gandhi (b. 1946), who’d been serving as her chief political advisor, perished in a plane crash in New Delhi. After Sanjay’s departure, Indira prepared her other son, Rajiv (b. 1944), for direction.
During the 1980s, a Sikh separatist movement grown in India, which Gandhi tried to repress. Sikh extremists held a effort in the Golden Temple, and Gandhi ordered some 70,000 soldiers to purge the holy space. More than 450 people perished. On October 31, 1984, a sure bodyguard, who had been a Sikh, pulled out a .38 revolver and shot her point blank. Gandhi perished on the way to the hospital.
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Why California athletic trainers need regulations in place now
UCSF Sports Medicine Physician Cindy Chang joined KGO 810 host Ronn Owens to discuss the lack of regulations for California athletic trainers–the only state without licensing/requirements in place.
Chang shared why California being the odd one out puts both athletes, specifically students athletes, and trainers at risk, in addition to explaining the holdup on legislation being passed to fix the problem–AB 1510.
Listen to the full segment below.
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TV Ads? How Marketers Can Tap into a Blue Ocean
Co-hosts Ralph Burn and Kasim Aslam from Perpetual Traffic Podcast invite Keynes Digitals CEO & Founder, Dan Larkman to discuss THE paid traffic source–Connected TV advertising (CTV).
Listen in for what’s basically a master class on TV ads. Dan geeks out on programmatic advertising, media buying, tracking, and multi-touch attribution.
He simplifies the concepts in a way that beginners can understand and shares why he thinks digital marketers absolutely need to know about them.
Huge marketing opportunities await you in this new frontier of Connected TV advertising, OTT advertising, and programmatic advertising.
In this episode you’ll learn:
• Why programmatic advertising is so valuable and growing so fast.
• How to partner with cross-device companies to track across different devices.
• How smaller brands can bust through the two biggest barriers to Connected TV.
• Why multi-touch attribution will be a key factor in 2022 for marketers.
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Every day somewhere in the world servers are coming to the end of life. IT departments are confronted with the decision of whether to replace them or migrate to cloud services. If you are in this position, try to envision how the world will be in five or ten years to see how the decisions you are making today will fit in. Anything that involves a capital expense, such as real estate or IT infrastructure, has long term implications. The equipment you buy today will probably still be in service five years from now and, for better or worse, you will probably be stuck with it.
About the author
David Friend is the CEO and founder of Wasabi Technologies.
Short term thinking about long term problems usually ends badly. Instead of getting ahead of inevitable changes, many organizations wait until the pain gets unbearable, at which point it may be too late. For example, if the world is inevitably moving to electric vehicles, do you really want to be investing in more internal combustion engines? If the world is moving from working in an office to working at home, do you really want to be investing in on-premises infrastructure? If you think about how the world will likely be five or ten years from now, decisions like whether to replace existing infrastructure or migrating to the cloud become much simpler.
I live in New England and the landscape here is dotted with hundreds of brick factory buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Nearly all of them at one time had their own electric generating plants out back to power the motors in the factories. Today, almost nobody would think of building their own electric plants. I believe the same will be true of data center infrastructure. In most cases, it will be best to leave computer hardware, networking, and data storage to companies that specialize in it and do it more efficiently. Unless your business is selling infrastructure as a service, you probably should be out of that business.
The migration to the cloud is in full swing, and for good reasons, as I will explain.
Focus on core business
As a business leader, I see many companies that spend a lot of time and energy on activities that have nothing to do with the products that they sell. Before the advent of the cloud, organizations had no choice but to run an in-house IT infrastructure. Now, in many cases, these IT organizations and the infrastructures that they built have become institutionalized and resistant to change.
The use of data is core to nearly every business today. If you are in the pharma business, drug discovery is all about data. If you’re in the logistics business, it’s your data and software that tells your drivers where to go, what products to pick from the shelves. If you’re a department store, it’s your data that tells you what to order and when. What does that have to do with racking and stacking servers, buying ever-more storage, worrying about cooling and electricity? Nothing. There’s little or no point to it, it’s a distraction, and ten years from now few organizations will be worrying about such things.
Focus your intellectual energies on making and selling whatever products your company sells and offload the rest.
Capital versus operational expense
On-premises servers are a capital expense (or CapEx). When you buy a server, the tax authorities will require that you depreciate it over time rather than take the purchase price as a current business expense. This means that the money you shell out for the servers cannot be used to offset the current year’s profits, and hence lower your tax bill. The cloud has upended this model by turning infrastructure into an operational expense (or OpEx) that can offset income.
The fact that cloud storage is an OpEx rather than a CapEx is at the heart of its appeal for many businesses, and nearly every company has separate budgets for OpEx and CapEx. Money that is tied up in IT infrastructure cannot be deployed in building new factories, investing in new products, or expanding into new markets. In contrast, a cloud OpEx spend doesn’t tie up your organization’s precious cash and allows you to invest in things that matter most to the business.
Additionally, there are the accounting and tax headaches that come with on-prem hardware. Since a CapEx spend will be used over the course of many years, it must be amortised or depreciated over its lifetime on your balance sheet. In contrast, OpEx spends are fully tax deductible and subtracted from revenue when calculating your profit and loss account. The treatment of CapEx on the company’s balance sheet can be complicated requiring a great deal of accounting expense and can even impact a company’s creditworthiness and borrowing power.
Periodic upgrades
When figuring the real cost of on-prem infrastructure, many people ignore the fact that five years from now, most of it will have to be replaced. If your organization is storing a lot of data, migrating that data to new equipment can be a huge job taking many months of effort and is fraught with risk. My point is that it’s easy to make a decision today that will come back to bite you five years from now. The problem is complicated by the fact that you will probably be adding capacity every year, so there will never be a way to make a clean cut-over to the cloud. These follow-on investments, combined with the risk of obsolescence during a server’s lifetime and the need to replace the server at a future date, all compound the CapEx burden.
Flexibility and remote working
Concerns regarding flexible access to workplace servers have become particularly prevalent in 2020, as many offices have been forced to migrate en masse to remote working patterns. Onprem servers are often more difficult to configure for flexible access, owing to networking limitations and security concerns. As a result, many onprem solutions only allow users to access data and services from the local network – that is, at their workplace or via a complicated and often expensive VPN.
Cloud vendors are in the business of remote access. Their networks, security, and hardware infrastructure are designed for remote access from the ground up. Cloud service providers spend an enormous amount of money and time designing networks that can be accessed everywhere. It makes little sense for each individual organization to try to do this themselves. If people are going to work remotely, doesn’t it make more sense to start with a technology platform that was designed for remote work in the first place?
Moving workloads to the edge
When you go to your local convenience store and look at those horrible little sandwiches that come in plastic boxes, you can bet that they are made in a centralized factory somewhere. If you don’t like your sandwich the way it comes from the factory, tough luck. If you want a sandwich that is freshly made just the way you want it, you should go to the local deli where the chef is right behind the counter. This represents the difference between traditional centralized IT resources and distributed resources at the edge, close to the user.
If I go to my local hospital for an x-ray, the image will be generated locally and the doctor who uses that image will likely be local as well. Does it make sense to ship that data halfway across the country for processing or storage? Cloud service providers are forever opening new locations precisely so that processes and online storage can located close to the users. Individual organizations, even large multi-national enterprises, can’t afford to be everywhere. So everything gets shipped back to a central facility. In the long run, this won’t work.
Again, let’s use the electric power grid as an analogy. We started with every plant making its own electricity. Then the grid developed, and people got out of the business of making their own electricity. Now power generation is again becoming highly distributed, even down to the solar panels on the roof of my house or the windmills that dot the landscape. The difference is that all these sources and consumers of electricity are networked. The solar panels on my roof may be helping to power somebody else’s hair dryer down the street.
Since the dawn of the on-prem data center, the biggest disruption has been the development of the internet. Things can now be distributed and interconnected at the same time. My x-ray can be stored and used locally, but if a consulting physician halfway around the world needs to see it, that’s still possible.
If moving compute and data storage resources to the edge is inevitable, how will a decision to replace the servers in your centralized data center fit into that future? Will this be one of those decisions that you or your successor will regret ten years from now?
Peaks and valleys
The law of large numbers can be a pretty compelling way to gain efficiencies. If I decided for some reason to simultaneous turn on my toaster, hair dryer, clothes dryer, electric stove, and the hot tub, I will blow the circuit breaker for my house. But the power company will hardly notice. If you look at the usage patterns for IT infrastructure, you’ll see that there are dramatic peaks and valleys. Unfortunately, you have to provision for the peaks. By necessity, capacity utilization will either be low or there will be times when your users are getting poor performance.
Public cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, or my company, Wasabi, have thousands of customers and not all of them are experiencing peak loads at the same time. Therefore, the overall system can run at a higher average capacity utilization. This spreading of the load across a large number of servers is one reason that the cloud is significantly less expensive than on-prem storage or compute.
Hidden costs
Moving to the cloud is not without risk, both technical and financial. Stories abound about customers who receive their first cloud storage bills and are shocked to find out that all the little “extras” have doubled or tripled their storage costs. I am sure the same thing goes for compute. The problem stems from the fact that on-prem storage is hard to meter in the same way that public clouds usually do. For example, while you may know precisely how much data you are storing (just look at “Properties” in a file explorer, for example), most people have no way of knowing how often they touch that data.
The hyperscalers all add dozens of microcharges to your storage bill for egress (taking you data out over the Internet), API calls like PUT, GET, LIST, DELETE operations, and other access charges. Some of the vendors who are challenging the hyperscalers have taken a different approach. Wasabi, for example, charges only for storage – egress and API charges are free. Packet, a subsidiary of Equinix, rents you dedicated compute resources and you pay the same whether you are using 1% or 100% of the compute capacity. My own opinion is that the “pay by the drink” model used by Amazon and the others is too complicated and costs are too hard to predict.
The skill set problem
The people who know how to run a non-stop IT organization are getting harder to find and more expensive as the public cloud competes aggressively for these highly skilled people. For an IT professional, it may be more appealing to work for a company where IT is the business, rather than work for, say, a manufacturing company where IT is simply in a support role.
As more and more of the world’s IT infrastructure moves to the cloud, individual organizations are going to find it increasingly difficult and costly to hire and retain the right people. If your organization loses a key person who was responsible for the architecture of your on-premises IT infrastructure, you may end up with systems that nobody really understands.
The security myth
A common consideration when choosing between a cloud and onprem infrastructure is security. Many people intuitively think that the public cloud is less secure. Studies have shown just the opposite. If an online retailer, for example, has a security breach and inadvertently exposes customer information, it is certainly embarrassing and may cost them some fines, but basically their business of selling stuff goes on. If a public cloud vendor has a serious breach, it could mean the end of the company.
So, cloud vendors place a very high priority on security and generally employ far more security experts than you would likely find in any one individual company. Even though you may have your own firewalls and intrusion detection software, most corporate networks are far more vulnerable to attack than are the leading cloud providers, and the statistics bear this out.
All trustworthy cloud providers tend to benefit strongly from economies of scale in their security: their data centers are subject to 24/7 surveillance, staffed at all hours by operations teams and security professionals, and constantly see state-of-the-art cybersecurity technology implemented.
That means, when properly configured, cloud environments tend to provide security for businesses that surpasses the on-premise solution at an equivalent budget.
Is there a long-term role for on-premises hardware?
Yes. There are always going to be edge cases, and the most obvious ones exist because of extreme performance requirements or compliance issues. For example, video editing requires extremely fast storage, very high-powered GPUs, and practically zero latency between the two. Image recognition may also require dedicated hardware since the volumes of data are so large. In the end, it will be a hybrid world.
The final answer
My view is that the world is on its way to outsource most its infrastructure to the cloud. Today the public cloud is dominated by the three hyperscalers. But the market will fragment over time with many more vendors competing in various segments of market. The proprietary APIs promoted by the hyperscalers, such as Amazon’s S3 storage API, will become de facto standards for new entrants. IT organizations will no longer be worrying about replacing or upgrading on-prem hardware and instead will be turning their attention to figure out what combination of public cloud vendors can do a particular job with the best performance and lowest cost.
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Levels and kinds of explanation: lessons from neuropsychiatry
• Department of Philosophy, Durham University, Durham, UK
I use an example from neuropsychiatry, namely delusional misidentification, to show a distinction between levels of explanation and kinds of explanation. Building on a pragmatic view of explanation, different kinds of explanation arise because we have different kinds of explanatory concerns. One important kind of explanatory concern involves asking a certain kind of “why” question. Answering such questions provides a personal explanation, namely, renders intelligible the beliefs and actions of other persons. I use contrasting theories of delusional misidentification to highlight how different facts about the phenomenon that is being explained impose constraints on the availability of personal explanation.
Neuropsychiatry involves the study of people with mental illnesses in a way that makes use of the tools and understanding of the cognitive and brain sciences. As a result, a foundational question for neuropsychiatry is: What is the nature and extent of the contribution that the cognitive and brain sciences can make to our understanding of psychopathologies and mentally ill individuals? That is why, in this paper, I use neuropsychiatry to draw attention to two explanatory constraints. Although these constraints are important in all areas of the cognitive sciences, broadly construed, they are particularly visible in neuropsychiatry. One constraint concerns levels of explanation. The other constraint, which is often overlooked, often misunderstood, and is of particular importance to neuropsychiatry, concerns kinds of explanation.
I proceed as follows. I start by contrasting three general views about the nature of explanation, and opt for a pragmatic view. I then introduce and characterize both the “levels” and the “kinds” constraint within a pragmatic framework. I then illustrate the latter constraint by examining recent work on delusion. I end by addressing an illustrative objection.
Three Contrasting Views of Explanation
Before looking at explanatory constraints, it is important to reflect on what explanation is generally. Differing answers to the following two questions yield different views about the nature of explanation. These two questions are:
(1) What kinds of things are the relata in explanations? (viz. When we say that x explains y, what kinds of things are the values for x and y? Or alternatively, what kinds of things are the explanans and the explananda.)
(2) What is it for x to successfully explain y?
Following Faye (2007), I think it is useful to distinguish between three kinds of views of explanation, namely: Formal-logical, Ontological, and Pragmatic views of explanation. My aim is not to adjudicate between these, but rather to show that the pragmatic view provides an especially helpful way of approaching the issues in this paper.
The Formal-Logical View
On the formal-logical view, first and famously put forward by Hempel (1965), an explanation is an abstract entity; in particular, it is a logically valid argument with propositional structure. Indeed, an explanandum, according to Hempel, is a proposition that follows deductively from an explanans. A number of things should be noted about this approach.
(i) Scientific and ordinary (everyday) explanations are profoundly different in nature. The things we call “explanations” in daily life never, or at best rarely, pick out logically related propositions.
(ii) This characterization is prescriptive rather than descriptive. It is neither interested in capturing how we use the word “explain,” nor in capturing what scientists are actually engaged in doing when they explain things. It aims to tell us what something ought to be if it is to count as an explanation in this refined, ideal, sense. (One might alternatively put this in evaluative rather than constitutive terms and say that explanations are good explanations to the extent that they approximate this ideal.)
(iii) Explanations are objectively “out there” to be discovered.
The formal-logical view of explanation includes a number of views of explanation besides Hempel's original covering-law version. For example, it includes Salmon's statistical-relevance model as well as the unificationist theory of scientific explanation as elaborated by Friedman (1974) and Kitcher (1989).
In answer to questions 1 and 2, sets of propositions explain other propositions, and they do so by standing in valid and sound deductive relations to each other. Practically speaking, although it may apply to areas of physics, it is too demanding to usefully apply to psychology, and it does not reflect what psychologists actually do or ought to do. Of course, given the aim of this view of explanation, that is not necessarily a criticism.
The Ontological View
On the ontological view, explanations are not made up of logically related propositions. They are made of concrete entities like, for example, objects, states of affairs, or events. For example, you might think that events explain other events. In particular, it is common within this approach, to think of causes explaining their effects. An instance of fire explains an instance of smoke.
So, in answer to questions 1 and 2 above, we get: Events (or states of affairs) explain other events (or states of affairs), and they do so by standing in predicable law-like causal relations.
A couple of things should be noted about this view:
(i) Again, scientific and ordinary (everyday) explanations are different in nature. We rarely explain things to each other by picking out law-like causal relations.
(ii) Again, explanations are out there to be unearthed. You discover them. You find a particular event, and you unearth the explanation of that event, namely, its cause or causes.
One recent theorist, who buys into this account in philosophy of science generally, is Woodward (2003). Another, who applies a related view specifically to psychological explanation, is Donald Davidson. To simplify somewhat, Davidson (1970) takes causal relata to be not objects, not properties, but events, namely, he takes events to cause other events. He also takes explanations to require the picking out of a cause (which is an event) to explain an effect (which is also an event). However, these events are only explanatory “under a certain description.” In other words, he is sensitive to the fact that picking out events that are causally related is not sufficient to be explanatory: you have the pick them out in a causally relevant way. For example, to explain why the scales go down when weighing some plums, you appeal to the weight of the plums, not their color, even though those are two aspects of one and the same event (namely, the putting of purple plums on the scales). This has some affinities with the pragmatic view. However, we will see that, crucially, the pragmatic view opens up the possibility of non-causal explanation.
The Pragmatic View
According to a pragmatic view of explanation, an explanation is a good answer (and, we shall see, a variety of factors, both psychological and objective, may contribute to this “goodness”) to an explanation-demanding question. The relata of explanations are not events, nor are they propositions; they are speech acts that are heavily dependent on a number of contextual factors. The relevant contextual factors can include a number of things (for example, conversational context) but the most important for our purposes are the explanatory concerns of the demander of the explanation (which I will henceforth call “the demander”). An explanation has to address the explanatory concerns of the demander, and has to be (at least a candidate for being) considered satisfying. This potential subjective satisfaction is a necessary but not a sufficient condition of something being a good explanation. Obviously, there are many objectively bad explanations that we may wrongly consider satisfying (e.g., “just-so stories”). So they have to be satisfying in a non-illusory way. Different theories will flesh out what it is for something to be “satisfying in a non-illusory way,” but, very roughly, it will mean that it is true or accurate, which can then be cashed out in terms of corresponding to reality, or something weaker such as “usefulness,” or “assertability.” The finer details of this objective criterion are not as important for our purposes (viz. of distinguishing the pragmatic view and introducing explanatory constraints that are grounded in it) as the subjective criteria. These are that the demander has to understand the candidate explanation, and that the explanation has to address the demander's explanatory concerns.
Crucially, an explanation that is objectively good by the standards of either the ontological or formal-logical view, but which leaves the demander completely in the dark, is not considered a good explanation on the pragmatic view. Explanations are relative to a particular instance of a question being asked, and have to cater to the demander's epistemic state. The demander, it must be noted, is not necessarily an individual, but could be a collective. The “question” could be asked implicitly by the scientific community as a whole (or a subset of that community), or explicitly by an individual.
There are some varieties of the pragmatic view. The view was first introduced by Van Fraassen (1980). Achinstein (1983) has an attractive version that relies heavily on the tenets of ordinary language philosophy, and Faye (2007) puts forward his own refinements. Here is what all versions of the pragmatic view have in common, in particular, in contrast to the formal-logical and the ontological views characterized above.
(i) Scientific and ordinary explanation is essentially the same. The former simply has a more regimented context (viz. the explanatory concerns are regimented and shared across a community, namely the scientific community).
(ii) Explanations, being the products of communicative acts, are not discovered as pre-formed entities. They are answerable to how things stand in the world, but they need to be selective and carefully formulated so as to be comprehensible to the demander of the explanation. In sharp contrast to both formal-logical and ontological views, explanations simply do not exist in a possible world devoid of inquiring beings that demand and give explanations. Furthermore, these explanations are demanded within a wider pragmatic context, whether it is everyday life, the court of law, the lab, or the clinic.
So, to sum up, in answer to questions 1 and 2, explanations are communicative speech acts, and they explain in virtue of satisfying the demander's explanatory concerns in a non-illusory manner (where “illusion” can arise at the level of truth or accuracy, or at the level of comprehension, namely, thinking that one comprehends when one does not). The epistemic or informational state of the demander of the explanation will in part determine her explanatory concerns, and her explanatory concerns will dictate the kind of explanation that would be satisfying. A broadly pragmatic view of explanation is what I will be building on for the rest of this paper.
Different Explanatory Concerns about the Same Phenomenon
On a pragmatic view (in contrast to an ontological view), one phenomenon can arouse different explanatory concerns, each of which demand different explanations. Sometimes we have different explanatory concerns because we happen to be interested in different things. At other times, however, the phenomenon itself can impose constraints on what explanatory concerns are suitable, namely, what questions one should ask.
Suppose there is a plane crash. One can, for example, ask for an explanation of the plane crash in terms of poor decision-making, or neglected obligation. Or one may ask for an explanation in terms of technical problems with the plane; or in terms of the weather conditions. Depending on certain facts about the crash, either of these explanations may be unavailable. For example, if the weather had been so extreme that even the most skilled of pilots would have been unable to avoid a crash, then the explanation in terms of poor decision-making is unavailable. Conversely, if the pilot had been a terrorist who had deliberately crashed the aircraft, then an explanation in terms of the weather or the aircraft malfunctioning will be unavailable. Realizing the unavailability of certain explanations is extremely important since it should prompt us to not ask questions that have no answers.
The crucial point is this. Certain facts about the phenomenon that you are trying to understand can restrict what questions can be asked, what explanatory concerns you should have, what explanations will be available. Somebody looking to hold someone accountable for a plane crash in situations where the weather was too extreme, is asking the wrong question. This issue of asking the right questions is extremely important in all areas of science, and especially visible when looking at mental illness.
Levels of Explanation
The notion of “levels of explanation” is usually introduced without any particular commitment to a general view of explanation. However, it makes good sense to view it within a pragmatic framework. Indeed, the classic mention of “levels of explanation,” in David Marr's book Vision (1982), is phrased in terms of answering three kinds of question:
Hardware implementation: How can the representation and algorithm be realized physically? (p. 25)
Marr's three levels makes a point that applies to any talk of levels of explanation. It is the functionalist point of there being multiple realizability of high-level or functional properties in lower-level properties (e.g., the property of being a bottle-opener can be physically realized in a number of different ways, as long as it opens bottles). If our explanatory concerns are about the higher-level properties (e.g., computational properties) then addressing them by drawing attention to lower-level properties (e.g., hardware properties) will be unsuitable (nevertheless, lower level implementational properties clearly impose constraints on higher level properties: you cannot make a bottle opener out of cream cheese). If one has explanatory concerns that operate at a certain level, addressing them at a different level is at best, sub-optimal, and at worst, completely irrelevant or opaque.
Some theorists see what is called the “personal level” as just another level in this sense: as a particular functional level where we are talking about whole persons, what they believe, desire, feel etc. These “personal level” properties are (if we assume physicalism) physically implemented, but they could in principle be implemented by different physical states. Dennett's doctrine of the “intentional stance” seems to view things in this way. He presents us with the following thought experiment. Suppose:
“some beings of vastly superior intelligence—from Mars, let us say—were to descend upon us […] suppose, that is, that they did not need the intentional stance—or even the design stance—to predict our behavior in all its detail” (Dennett, 1981, p. 68).
The question then is: do these Martians miss out on anything in failing to use the intentional stance, the personal-level vocabulary of beliefs, desires etc.? According to Dennett, although they might be able to predict the exact motions of the fingers and the vibrations of vocal cords during an instance of a stockbroker buying shares in General Motors, if they fail to see
“that indefinitely many different patterns of finger motions and vocal cord vibrations—even the motions of indefinitely many different individuals—could have been substituted for the actual particulars without perturbing the market, then they would have failed to see a real pattern in the world they are observing” (1981, p. 69).
Note that even here, with its non-reductive take-home message, Dennett calls this “a predictive strategy.” The plan is to predict how a causal system will behave at the relevant fineness of grain. The finger motions are not a relevant fineness of grain for gaining a predictive understanding of the stock market. The intentional stance is the relevant fineness of grain for gaining a predictive understanding of persons.
If this is correct, then the distinction between levels and kinds of explanation that I want to put forward is unnecessary. There are only levels, and one level (perhaps the “top” level) is the “personal level.” Many theorists seem to subscribe to this view (which is somewhat encouraged by the presence of the word “level” in “personal level”). They take the challenge of connecting, say, a neurobiological story to a cognitive story to be the same kind of challenge as that of connecting a subpersonal and a personal story. I hope to show now that this is not the case.
Kinds of Explanation
The pragmatic view of explanation allows there to be as many kinds of explanation as there are kinds of explanatory concerns (or, which comes to the same thing, kinds of questions worth asking). And, crucially, we have explanatory concerns that are not just causal or mechanistic. We ask questions like, “Why did this person do that?,” “Why does this person believe that?” We trade on the fact that there are correct and incorrect answers to these questions, and that these answers genuinely inform us. However, they do not do so by giving us a causal, predictive, understanding of the situation. These questions demand personal explanations, and personal explanations are not merely another “level” of explanation, but a different kind of explanation.
We can illustrate the difference between the personal and subpersonal kinds of explanation, by reflecting on different kinds of explanation-demanding question. Roughly, whereas subpersonal explanation is mechanistic or causal, answering “How” and “How come” questions (respectively), personal explanation answers a “Why” question, where “Why” is understood in a certain way.
Causal and Mechanistic Explanations
Within a pragmatic view one can distinguish causal and mechanistic explanation in the following way. A causal explanation merely tells you what causes what, whereas a mechanistic explanations is far more informative in telling how a certain phenomenon comes about. A causal explanation provides some degree of understanding, and a sufficient degree of understanding for some situations, for example, if one wants to avoid a particular effect. Thus we might establish that smoking causes cancer. We might not know exactly how it does so, but knowing that, at least, is enough to suggest that (ceteris paribus), if we do not want cancer, we should not smoke. We can think of causal explanations as answering a certain kind of question, namely, a “How come?” question. “How come he got cancer?” This is often expressed with a causal use of “Why,” as in “Why did he get cancer?” This causal use of “why” is very different from a justificatory use that we are about to encounter.
A mechanistic explanation answers instead a “How?” question. It provides not just the cause, but the mechanism whereby a certain causal process operates. Using the cancer example, it is not enough to know that smoking causes cancer: what is required is a description of the mechanism, for example, in terms of carcinogenic disruption of genetic material through radiation given off by substances present in tobacco smoke. Mechanistic explanation provides a greater degree of understanding than merely citing causes. It is reasonable to think of mechanistic and causal explanations as being the same kind of explanation insofar as the kinds of concerns addressed are of the same kind; namely, of predicting how a brute causal system will behave in relevant counterfactual circumstances.
Personal Explanations
As I said, we do sometimes use “why,” when our explanatory concerns are causal or mechanistic, for example, when we ask “Why is there a hole is the ozone layer?” We mean, “By what cause or process is there a hole in the ozone layer?” We know it is not there for a reason. However, when we ask, “Why is there a STOP sign at the end of that road?” we are asking for a reason, a justification, a rationale, for its being there. Along with the distinction between justificatory and causal uses of “why” in the question (“Why is there a STOP sign there?/Why did you raise your hand?” vs. “Why did he get cancer?”) we have the distinction between justificatory and causal uses of “because” in the answer (“Because there tends to be fast-moving traffic in the main road/Because I wanted to ask a question” vs. “Because he smoked too heavily”). Answering such a “why” question involves citing a person's reasons or grounds for believing certain things and acting in certain ways (or the general, publicly agreed, reasons, not attributable to a specific person, as in the case with the STOP sign).
With beliefs and actions, we often ask questions of one another: “Why do you believe that?” “Why did you do that?” In doing this, we are asking a very particular kind of question, and one that requires a very particular kind of answer. This answer is commonly called a rational explanation (Davidson, 1963). However, “rational” has a categorical and evaluative sense. The opposite of “rational” in the categorical sense is “a-rational” (or “non-rational”), whereas the opposite of “rational” in the evaluative sense is “irrational.” The way “rational” is used here is categorical, not evaluative. As we are about to abundantly see, you can have rational explanations of irrational phenomena. Indeed, something that cannot be given a rational explanation cannot be irrational; it is merely a-rational. Consider a nervous tick. You cannot ask why (in the justificatory sense) someone with a nervous tick is behaving the way they are. And, clearly, you cannot evaluate their reasons as bad reasons if there are none. However, because of this ambiguity with the word “rational” I have made the terminological decision to use “personal explanation” rather than “rational explanation.”
If you ask me, “Why did you raise your hand?” and I answer, “Because I wanted to ask a question,” that is normally a satisfying explanation. If I tell you a full physiological story about what happened up until the point when my hand went up, that may be interesting, but it is not an answer to that question. You were after a reason. You wanted to know what I was hoping to achieve by raising my hand. The same applies when you ask the question “Why do you believe this?” You are after reasons for my belief, not any mechanistic story. You want to know what grounds I have, if any, for believing something.
Is Personal Explanation Causal Explanation?
Now, you might agree that these are common and valid explanatory practices. However, you might question whether there is anything fundamentally different about them. Why are these not causal explanations? We know that certain beliefs and desires in certain contexts will give rise to certain actions. This seems rather causal.
It is worth noting that there are those who are fully accepting of the explanatory autonomy of reason-giving explanation, but who also claim that reasons are causes. For example (unlike, say, Anscombe, 1957 and the early Dennett, 1969) Davidson sees reasons as causes. Now, although I prefer not to think of reasons as causes, I am willing to accept for the sake of argument, that reasons are causes, especially if one accepts a counterfactual theory of causation. A counterfactual theory of causation is (roughly) one whereby A causes B, if and only if, had there not been A, there would not have been B. If I had not wanted to ask a question, I would not have raised my hand. In that very simple sense, my desire to ask a question was a cause of my action. However, it does not follow from something being a cause, that something is explanatory in virtue of being a cause. Since our explanatory concerns when we ask this special variety of “why” question are not causal concerns, the explanation given in terms of reasons is not a causal explanation, even if one thinks that reasons are causes. In short, conceding that reasons are causes does not concede that rational explanations (explanations in terms of reasons) are causal explanations.
So, what are our explanatory concerns when we ask for a personal explanation and why are they not causal? We want to understand the person qua agent, not qua causal system. Suppose somebody behaves in a way that, unlike a nervous tick, looks controlled and deliberate, and yet you still cannot give it an explanation. To take an unrealistic example, suppose someone holds up a poisonous mushroom, and announces: “This mushroom is deadly poisonous and I have no intention of killing myself” but then pops the mushroom in his mouth. This behavior is surprising, but it is not just surprise that you feel, but perplexity and confusion. In particular, you do not understand why this person ate the mushroom. You can hypothesize that he was lying, either about the poisonous nature of the mushroom, or his intentions to stay alive. Or he was demonstrating an antidote. Or he doesn't know the meaning of one or more of the words he was using. However, taken at face value, this action is perplexing. When this happens, we are not just bemoaning a failure to predict. There is more to it than this: we are perplexed by this person qua agent, by the fact that we find the person unintelligible. In fact, it seems that if his behavior can in no way be reinterpreted so as to confer intelligibility then the best way to understand it is as a brute causal process (perhaps he's a realistic-looking android, programmed to behave in just this way to prove the point I'm making here). But explaining it in these terms would require us to ask (and answer) a different question (“How come?” rather than “Why?”).
Other human beings often behave in ways that we have failed to anticipate, but that are still perfectly intelligible. We might say that, while causal and mechanistic explanations confer predictability, personal explanations confer intelligibility. Of course, assuming that people will be intelligible makes them more predictable, in the sense that it narrows down the ways they might behave in certain circumstances, but that does not mean that any given personal explanation improves, or is aimed at improving, our causal understanding of a person. Indeed, all of the causal understanding we need is already in place: we know that certain beliefs and desires give rise to certain actions, certain kinds of evidence give rise to certain beliefs. We just want to know, in this instance, what beliefs, or desires, or evidence the subject actually had, so that we can understand and evaluate them as persons.
On the Relationship between Subpersonal and Personal Explanations
We have looked at what personal explanation is, and what causal and mechanistic subpersonal explanations are. But what is the relationship between them? We will start by looking at how they can compete, and then we will look at how they can inform each other.
How they Compete with Each Other
Personal and subpersonal explanations do not compete with each other in the way that they compete amongst themselves. Within a pragmatic framework competing explanations are competing answers to the same question. When you compare a personal and a subpersonal explanation, you are comparing answers to different questions (and indeed to different kinds of questions). However, competition comes in at a different level: at the level of asking the question in the first place. Asking a certain question presupposes that it is appropriate, that it can be answered, and that presupposes certain facts about the phenomenon in question. So, personal and subpersonal explanations will not directly compete (in the way that, as we are about to see, two personal explanations can directly compete). However, in some cases, both of them being offered at all will presuppose the obtaining of two incompatible states of affairs. Two demanders of explanations for a plane crash might ask: “Who was to blame for the crash?” or “What kind of weather conditions caused the crash?” Each implies different facts concerning the plane crash (e.g., the former implies that blame is to be attributed and that it wasn't a so-called “Act of God”). Asking a question betrays assumptions about the phenomenon that you are asking questions about. We will see more on this when we look at examples from delusion.
Another important way in which personal and subpersonal explanations compete is by imposing constraints on one another. If a personal explanation claims that, for example, the subject believed that p because they had an experience with a certain quality, but the best available subpersonal account suggests that the experience could not have been like that, then clearly these two explanations conflict. However, we will see that it is precisely through this constraining that the two kinds of explanation can inform each other.
How they Inform Each Other
We can use both personal and subpersonal explanations to further our understanding of the same individual. To use an example that will be relevant to us, we can ask about a patient with the Capgras delusion the subpersonal question, “How has this brain damage disrupted normal cognitive functioning?” A really good answer to this will make it altogether unmysterious why (how come) this particular damage has disrupted functioning in this particular way, and not in any other way. This will require causal and mechanistic explanations at different levels. However, one can also ask, “Why (on what grounds) does she believe what she does?” In answering this, you cannot use the same vocabulary as when answering the first, subpersonal, question. Dopamine dysregulation, modular damage, etc. none of these are even the right kind of thing to provide grounds for the subject. Similarly, to take a non-pathological case, you might ask me:
Q: Why did you think that James was at home?
And I might answer:
A: Because I saw his car in the driveway.
You would think it some kind of joke if I instead gave you a story about light hitting my retina, causing activation in V1, and so on. You want to know on what grounds I came to believe what I did.
Although subpersonal vocabulary (neurotransmitters, processing streams and so on) cannot feature directly in personal explanation, this is not to say that subpersonal psychology (broadly construed to include all the cognitive and brain sciences) cannot make very important contributions to personal explanations. In particular, it can make two very different kinds of contribution.
First, it can give us an idea of the nature of the grounds that a subject might have (e.g., what experiences or emotions they might be undergoing) and how it is that they have them, or rather, how come they have these experiences and not others. For example, as we are about to see, subpersonal psychology can suggest that the Capgras patient is experiencing a feeling of unfamiliarity toward a loved one. Once we understand what the subject may be experiencing, there is scope for their beliefs to be rendered intelligible, namely, to be subject to personal explanation. We can answer the question: “Why does the subject believe this?” In other words, the first kind of contribution that subpersonal psychology can make to personal explanation is one of suggesting the starting point for such an explanation.
The second kind of contribution that subpersonal psychology can make is very different. It may be able to warn us when personal explanation is unavailable. That is to say, it may warn us when any attempts at understanding the subject in terms of subjective grounds would be a waste of time. We saw with our plane crash analogy that an understanding of the situation may lead us to conclude that, for example, no blame is to be attributed. Similarly, an understanding of certain mentally ill individuals may lead us to realize that there is no answer to the “why” questions, “Why did he do this?,” “Why does he believe this?” Sometimes there may simply be no grounds for certain beliefs and behaviors, and it is vital that subpersonal psychology can warn us when this may be the case.
An Example from Neuropsychiatry: Delusion
Opposing views about the nature of delusional misidentification map on, in a nicely illustrative manner, to these two kinds of contributions that subpersonal psychology can make to personal explanation.
A key figure in the history of theoretical work on delusion is Karl Jaspers, who, in his General Psychopathology (1963), claimed that there were two very different projects: one of “understanding the subject,” and the other of rendering the psychopathological phenomenon causally tractable. The first project roughly corresponds to personal explanation, whereas the latter corresponds to subpersonal explanation. He thought that delusions (in particular the primary delusions of schizophrenia) arise without any grounds or justification; they are “un-understandable” in the sense that they are not intelligible. We cannot answer the question: “Why (viz. on what grounds) do these subjects believe what they do?” All we can do is try to understand the subject qua causal system.
However, half a century later the way was paved for (at least some delusions) to be rendered intelligible. In particular, Brendan Maher presciently hypothesized that the “delusional belief is not being held “in the face of evidence strong enough to destroy it,” but is being held because evidence is strong enough to support it” (1974, p. 99). What we then have to do as theorists is figure out what the evidence is, and how it arises. This will obviously have the potential to vary from one delusion to another, and may indeed provide a satisfying explanation of why some patients have some delusions and others have others (viz. there will be an un-mysterious connection between the nature of their experience, and the content of their delusion).
The Classic Bottom-Up Model
This project received something of a breakthrough (a full 16 years later) in the case of the Capgras delusion (the delusion that one or more loved ones have been replaced by identical-looking impostors). Borrowing Bauer's (1984) model for facial processing, whereby there are two streams for processing facial information—one covert, affective and anatomically dorsal, the other overt, semantic, and anatomically ventral—Ellis and Young (1990) put forward the influential proposal that the Capgras delusion can be understood as a sort of “inverse prosopagnosia.”
People with prosopagnosia have difficulty in the overt recognition of faces. Show them a picture of a familiar face and they will not be able to tell you whose face it is. And yet, surprisingly, some of them appear to have differential autonomic responses (roughly, affective/emotional responses) to these faces, as measured by heightened skin conductance response (SCR). In other words, although they themselves cannot tell you whose face they are looking at, their affective system seems at the very least to be able to “tell” that it is someone familiar. Ellis and Young hypothesized that Bauer's two streams can be selectively impaired, leading to double dissociation. According to them, whereas with prosopagnosia the affective stream for “covert recognition” is intact and the semantic stream for “overt recognition” is impaired, with the Capgras delusion it is the other way around. This means that the Capgras patient is presented with someone who, thanks to intact semantic processing, looks to them exactly like a loved one, but there is a lack of affective response. The perceived person feels unfamiliar and the patient therefore concludes that this person cannot be the loved one in question. This model was given experimental support (Ellis et al., 1997) when it was discovered that, in contra-distinction to prosopagnosia, Capgras patients show diminished SCR when presented with familiar faces.
According to this etiology, there is scope for the Capgras delusion to be rendered intelligible, to be given a personal explanation, since it can be seen as something that is inferred on the basis of experiential evidence. These theories, which take delusions to be grounded in unusual experiences, are called “bottom-up” theories. A complete bottom-up account will contain a mix of personal and subpersonal explanation. The very existence of the anomalous experience is explained in terms of mechanism (in the Capgras case, on the Ellis and Young model, this could involve explaining how lesions disrupt affective processing of familiar faces). But the judgment itself is personal. The person infers from their experience. And the relevant question to ask is: “Why does the person believe that this woman is not his mother?” And the relevant answer is roughly: “Because this woman feels deeply unfamiliar to him.” This is not a causal, mechanistic explanation, but a personal one. And, if correct, it tells us all we need to know within the scope of personal explanations.
Explanationist vs. Endorsement Accounts
However, there is a debate within bottom-up theories about what precisely the correct answer to this question (viz. “Why does this person believe that this woman is not his mother?”) is. Phrased in more technical terms, there is a debate about the content of the experience in the Capgras delusion. In other words, what exactly does the subject's experience tell her; how does it subjectively support her judgment?
To borrow Bayne and Pacherie's, (2004) terminology, “explanationist” accounts (e.g., Ellis and Young, 1990, Maher, 1999) claim that the content of the Capgras patient's experience is something sparse like, “This woman feels strange,” and that the delusional judgment explains the bizarre experience (roughly, the subject reasons: “This woman, in spite of looking like my mother, doesn't feel like my mother would feel, therefore she cannot be my mother”). The opposing accounts, so-called “endorsement” accounts (e.g., Bayne and Pacherie, 2004) claim that the delusional content is encoded directly in the unusual experience, and all that suffices is endorsement of that content. The content of the Capgras patient's experience, on such a view, is something rich like, “This woman is not my mother.”
Now, bracketing the plausibility of either account, it is worth noting an explanatory trade-off. As Pacherie (2009) points out, the explanationist account can more easily explain how the experience gets its content, since the content is so sparse. It can simply say that there is a disruption in emotional or affective processing. The task for subpersonal psychology is comparatively easy. However, it is a bigger explanatory step from the sparse content of the experience to the rich content of the delusion. One prima facie problem with this is that, if the experience is sparse and non-specific, why is there not a wider array of potential hypotheses used to explain it? (“Maybe I don't like mum anymore,” “Maybe I'm tired” etc.). In contrast, the endorsement theorist can get from the experience to the judgment just fine, since they have the same content. However, as Pacherie puts it, where “the endorsement account would appear to be weakest is in explaining how delusional patients could have the experiences that the account says they do” (Pacherie, 2009, p. 107). More precisely, subpersonal psychology needs to step in and tell us how it is that an experience can have a rich content like, “This woman is not my mother.”
Here we get a nice illustration of two directly competing personal explanations, namely, different answers to the very same “why” question. It also illustrates how these give rise to two different explanatory burdens that need to be picked up by subpersonal explanations. Presenting the competing accounts in terms of questions, where “Why?” and “How come?” questions correspond to the personal (justificatory) and subpersonal (mechanistic) questions respectively, we get (roughly) the following. For the explanationist account we get:
Q: “Why does the subject believe that his mother has been replaced by an impostor?”
A: “Because she feels unfamiliar to him.”
Q: “How come she feels unfamiliar to him?”
A: “Because affective processing has been disrupted in such and such a way.”
For the endorsement account we get:
A: “Because his experience presents this woman as not being his mother.”
Q: “How come?”
A: “Because (for example) subpersonal mechanisms responsible for managing the representation of the identities of known individuals has been disrupted” (see e.g., Wilkinson, in press).
Back to Unintelligibility: Top-Down Accounts
However, not everyone subscribes to bottom-up theories of delusions (Eilan, 2000; Campbell, 2001). In a way that harks back somewhat to Jaspers, these theorists claim that the delusion is not inferred, nor grounded in evidence, but caused. Any report (or even experimental evidence from SCR), for example, that the mother feels unfamiliar, is a consequence of (or an accompaniment to) the delusional belief, but not grounds for it. She feels unfamiliar because she is judged to not be the subject's mother, and not the other way around. As Campbell puts it, “‘delusion’ is a matter of top-down disturbance in some fundamental beliefs of the subject which may consequently affect experiences and actions” (2001, p. 89). An upshot of this is that the belief can only be explained subpersonally, and, of course, this leaves a large explanatory burden for subpersonal psychology. We cannot answer the question “Why does the person believe that this woman is not his mother?” We cannot appeal to grounds since there are none. We are back to Jaspers' claim that delusional subjects are “un-understandable.” The only question with an illuminating answer is: “What has caused this person to believe what she does?” This is precisely what I meant when I said that some etiologies will take personal explanation to not be available. However, note that, although, on these top-down theories, the delusional belief may not be amenable to personal explanation, any action performed on the basis of the belief will be, and this explanation will appeal to the belief. In such a situation we roughly get the following series of questions and answers.
Q: “Why did the patient stab her father (even though they seemed to have a good relationship prior to the event)?”
A: “Because she believed that he was not her father, but an identical-looking impostor.”
Q: “And on what grounds did she believe this?”
A: “There were none. The belief was merely caused.”
At this point we would need to delve into the subpersonal mechanisms to understand what is underpinning the (groundless) belief in terms of mechanisms.
An Illustrative Objection
Somebody might say that the “kinds of explanation” constraint is illusory, and, in particular, that personal explanation has no place in a scientific enterprise. When people believe things on epistemic grounds, or they do things for reasons, nothing fundamentally different is going on. This could, in principle, all be explained subpersonally by the cognitive sciences.
I think this is a misleading way to think, and I would like to run through a thought experiment to illustrate why. Suppose we had a “complete” subpersonal description (whatever that means!) of what is going on, say, in an instance of thought insertion. We are not appealing to anything personal, we are not talking about grounds or reasons, just mechanistic stuff. Assuming physicalism, and highly advanced imaging techniques at our disposal, we could, in principle, take any given individual and see when they would (and when they would not) report inserted thoughts. I am very happy to grant this. Thought insertion is, in a rather trivial sense, a fundamentally physical phenomenon. However, suppose that it happens that thought insertion, the denial of ownership of one's thoughts, is actually grounded in a very bizarre experience. We could know exactly what is going on in the brain of someone (i.e., we know what that neural activity looks like on the scanner) who is reporting inserted thoughts, but still not know on what grounds they are denying ownership of their thoughts (or indeed that there are grounds at all). This seems like a possible epistemic state for us, as scientists, to be in. More worryingly, it entails ignorance of an important and irreducible fact (by “fact,” I mean, a claim that is determinately true) namely, concerning the grounds on which somebody is denying ownership of her thoughts.
As the section in this paper that examines the relationship between personal and subpersonal explanations makes clear, I am not denying that we could work out, to some extent, the subject's experiential grounds from subpersonal data. Here, I have advocated the fruitful, but careful, contribution of subpersonal psychology to personal explanation. But this in itself requires us to take personal explanation seriously. In this thought experiment, personal explanation is disregarded, eliminated, out of bounds. And the intuition I hope you share is that this entails a kind of ignorance.
Of course, where this illustrative objection goes awry is in making the fallacious step from physicalism to reductionism. Everything in the universe could well be made of physical stuff, but as human beings we are constrained, partly by our interests and concerns, and partly by our cognitive and conceptual limitations. We therefore talk about, and explain, many different things (and kinds of things) in many different ways (and kinds of ways). Obviously, there are facts concerning people that go beyond, and are not reducible to, neural facts. There are epistemic facts (facts about grounds for belief), motivational facts (facts about people doing things for reasons). There are also facts about what people experience (it is, for example, a fact, as unambiguously true as anything, that I am currently not in excruciating pain). And it does not stop there: there are social facts, economic facts, contractual facts, and so on. You cannot capture what it is for me to sign a contract using physics and physiology.
Summary and Conclusion
In this paper, I built on a pragmatic view of explanation, on the basis of which explanations are answers to explanation-demanding questions, in order to show a distinction between levels of explanation and kinds of explanation. Different kinds of questions, and hence explanations, arise because we have different kinds of explanatory concerns. One important kind of explanatory concern involves asking a certain justificatory kind of “why” question. Answering this kind of question provides a personal explanation, namely, renders intelligible the beliefs and actions of other persons. I then used contrasting theories of delusional misidentification to illustrate how different facts about the phenomenon that is being explained impose (i) constraints on the availability of personal explanation and (ii) leave different explanatory burdens for subpersonal psychology (broadly construed). More generally, this also illustrated how asking certain kinds of questions, seeking certain kinds of explanations, carries implicit assumptions about the nature of the phenomenon about which the questions are being asked.
Conflict of Interest Statement
This research was supported by a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award WT098455MA.
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Keywords: explanation in psychology, delusion, personal explanation, neuropsychiatry, levels of explanation
Citation: Wilkinson S (2014) Levels and kinds of explanation: lessons from neuropsychiatry. Front. Psychol. 5:373. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00373
Received: 31 January 2014; Accepted: 08 April 2014;
Published online: 29 April 2014.
Edited by:
Roberto Cordeschi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Reviewed by:
Lisa Bortolotti, University of Birmingham, UK
Felipe De Brigard, Duke University, USA
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
'Vincent D'Onofrio: He's Not as Famous as He Ought to Be'
For someone who revels in quirky, offbeat roles, the actor manages to stay very, very busy.
August 25, 2000|
"How are you!? How was it?"
"The screening? Very well. Great. How're your rehearsals?"
"Great! I just came from one. I'm, like, living by your advice. . . ."
"Good. You should."
". . . knowing that half of them will [expletive]. But it gives you a lot of . . . "
"It does, actually."
"I know."
Tableside tutorial, compliments of Vincent D'Onofrio, actor's actor, inside a restaurant near Manhattan's Avenue A ("specializing in the cuisines of Northern Africa"). The slinkier-than-standard-issue waitress-actress has gotten D'Onofrio's impressions of "The Cell"--just one of three new movies the actor stars in--and reaffirmed D'Onofrio's earlier advice about rehearsals-auditions.
It's the kind of week actors dream of and publicists justifiably fear. In the aforementioned "The Cell," D'Onofrio plays a serial killer in a coma, whose fevered mind provides the strange terrain of Tarsem Singh's hallucinogenic thriller. In Robert Greenwald's "Steal This Movie!" D'Onofrio is yippie founder/'60s icon Abbie Hoffman. And in Lodge Kerrigan's "Claire Dolan," he's a New York cabby who befriends the title character, an Irish immigrant turned prostitute.
All of which promises to perpetuate D'Onofrio's image as an actor who'll do anything--who loves acting perhaps not wisely but too well.
How else do you consider D'Onofrio's several crash-and-burn movies: His blind white-water rafter in "Good Luck"? His mob accountant in "Feeling Minnesota"? His slacker brother in "Stuart Saves His Family"? Even his Los Angeles cop in the voyeur's delight "Strange Days"?
D'Onofrio has picked this location to talk, because it's near his apartment, where he lives with his Dutch-born wife, son and daughter--and, just as likely, because even the East Village in its mid-gentrification promotes the image of art-as-struggle and an anti-Hollywood attitude.
So why has he shown up with two publicists and a makeup man? Ah, the mysteries of the filmic arts.
D'Onofrio's career does, in fact, contain enough mysterious weirdness for a movie of its own:
He played Lili Taylor's boyfriend in "Mystic Pizza" and then played her father in "Household Saints."
He played Kennedy assassination witness Bill Newman in "JFK"--and then played him again in "Malcolm X."
He Played Conan's Creator
One of his most respected performances was as Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan the Barbarian, in "The Whole Wide World."
He gained 70 pounds to play the disturbed Pvt. Pyle in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" (1987) and 40 pounds recently to play a speed dealer named Pooh Bear in "The Salton Sea" opposite Val Kilmer.
Pooh Bear aside, D'Onofrio's role as Edgar, the sugar-water-slurping, skin-stretching alien of "Men in Black," has given him a genuine audience among kids. "I like that," the actor says, looking up from his salad.
And yet, despite this pan-generational popularity, D'Onofrio is usually described as "obscure," "eccentric," "eclectic" and the dreaded "an actor's actor"--the classic euphemism for a guy not as famous as he should be.
"I guess I care," D'Onofrio says, "but the problem with doing film is you never stop having an audience. When you do theater, you have an audience for a couple of hours, and then they go home. You do film, you never stop having an audience.
"But whether they hate me or like me is up to them," he says. "I know that a lot of people don't like a lot of my performances. But that's OK, 'cause I know people come up to me on the street and like some of them, too. So that's OK, too. I just consider it part of my job to be acceptant of anything anybody says. I don't think of it on any other level than that, that kind of stuff. I'm an actor, so that's what I get."
D'Onofrio, a large, imposing figure currently goateed and possibly slimming, has a big man's disregard for propriety, at least concerning lesser-known directors and smaller movies.
"Claire Dolan"?
"Oh God. He [Kerrigan] sent me his film 'Clean, Shaven.' He sent me the script and told me Katrin Cartlidge had agreed to do it, and I always wanted to work with her, so we did it. A horrible experience. Making it was horrible. I didn't get along with anyone but Katrin. But you know, the guy is a good director. He makes a certain type of film. 'Claire Dolan' is a certain kind of film, not everyone can sit through a film like that. But the guy has a definite style and a definite talent. He was good to work for, in the sense that you knew you were working for a guy with a lot of originality and a real sense of cinema. But I really didn't have much fun doing it."
D'Onofrio is much kinder toward director Robert Greenwald, for whom "Steal This Movie!" was a real labor of love. And Greenwald?
"I have a lot to say, but unfortunately it's all good," Greenwald says from Los Angeles. "I wish he was an egomaniac or a pain . . . because it would make a better story, but he's an amazingly hard-working actor.
"The scariest part of it all," Greenwald adds, "was that Vincent is a shy, quiet guy. And when it came to portraying the crazy, extroverted side of Abbie, the side that always wanted the spotlight, I noticed in rehearsals that he'd started using everybody around him to feed that 'Look at me!' thing. More and more, he demanded the spotlight, from the extras and the casts; during the demonstration and riot scenes he would really work the crowd."
The director says he had been confident that D'Onofrio would get all the other aspects of Hoffman's personality, "but it was wonderful watching him suppress his own character to find that Abbie-ness. So unlike him in life. He was hysterical. And the extras were thrilled."
OK, then. And what else is up for D'Onofrio this summer? How about the third annual Riverrun International Film Festival? Held Labor Day weekend in Brevard, S.C., it's run by D'Onofrio's father, Gene, and sister, Beth, and will open with--what else?--"Steal This Movie!," featuring a personal appearance by--yes!--Vincent D'Onofrio.
"It's their film festival," the actor says, "but they use my name a lot. I told my dad--he used to be an interior designer--that if he wanted to keep himself busy, he should start a film festival. He lives in the perfect town, a small town right near Asheville, the perfect town to do something like that, lots of little shops and stuff. So I said go ahead and do it, and he did. And every year it's gotten better and better. This year they've got 20, 30 films."
And no, in case you're wondering, not all of them star Vincent D'Onofrio.
JoJo said...
Not sure I care for the description of those movies as 'crash and burn'. Good Luck is easily my fave Vincent movie.
Ruby said...
"Good Luck" is my second-fave V-movie, JoJo! (My favorite being, of course, "Happy Accidents.") This is a great article I've never seen before! Thanks, Nantz!
Nantz said...
I love finding these old articles to read Vincent's comments and see where his thought process was then compared to now. Fascinating.
Rose said...
That's what I like as well, thanks Nantz for posting these articles.
judith said...
That was a great article..thanks for sharing..
vikeau said...
I agree. It's nice to be able to see philisophically where he's been, where he is and where he's going.
Debra said...
Too bad the writer/editor of this article was a little geographically challenged. Brevard is in NORTH Carolina. (I suppose some people don't know the difference. ;oD)
Nantz said...
Nice catch, Debra.
Stephanie said...
I love how easy he is to approach.. He has this huge presence but yet seems so personable and truly thankful and delighted by his fans.. I first saw him in ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING. I have been hooked ever since! Such a vast range, feeling Minnesota and the break up are 2 great examples of his character acting...he was beautiful in dying young.. And terrifying in THE CELL... I love his ROBERT GORAN character on law and order... He's lovely to watch | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '2', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9741564989089966}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '320831', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:MXCYBIOJTTB3UZQCW5V4KV4TGOA5IKUG', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:82c0f392-bc0f-40d3-be79-248769341de0>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 10, 41, 37), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.7.193', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:NKEKF77YDOAJPZJAYMIWFP4DAO7UVJXX', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:37a7f6c4-c7d0-4f3a-9d94-fa60063e0c80>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://vincentdonofrionews-nantz.blogspot.com/2012/03/vincent-donofrio-hes-not-as-famous-as.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c1093212-2927-427b-a585-ebda62da5886>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1333', 'url': 'http://vincentdonofrionews-nantz.blogspot.com/2012/03/vincent-donofrio-hes-not-as-famous-as.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-151-161-17.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.02382481098175049', 'original_id': 'b4d997e79c1624dacd4a3f23b1cac4daa924141812b1c4c0e65323b4318f3c16'} |
Energy security in the time of market turmoil
By Liu Yukun | China Daily | Updated: 2022-08-15 07:10
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Employees of Sichuan Energy Investment Co Ltd carry out maintenance work on a turbine at a wind farm in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture, Sichuan province, in March. [Photo by He Haiyang/for China Daily]
China's recast strategy focuses on trading, pacts, alternatives, tech, imports, efficiency
Yu Cong, 28, a Beijing-based accountant, found it improbable that the energy crisis in Europe should spark heated debates among his older relatives in his home village, a less-developed area in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, a coal hub.
Local residents merely heard about insufficient supply of coal. Almost every home in the village has installed rooftop solar power systems, Yu said.
"Most of the villagers are retirees and track the Russia-Ukraine conflict news on TV. They are aware the energy crisis has affected local residents' daily lives in Europe. Now, they fear it could someday affect their own lives, given the short-term oil price spike earlier this year. But not everyone thinks that way. This results in debates," Yu said.
Inevitably, such debates have as talking points the turmoil in global energy trade and the need to ensure energy security in China amid the transition to a greener economy.
Both villagers and experts agree more efforts are needed to stabilize coal supply, diversify oil and gas import sources and increase energy reserves. Some even say it is time to speed up the establishment of a yuan-denominated energy trading system in order to ensure adequate power supply.
Countries including Germany agreed to reactivate coal power plants to increase electricity production, in order to compensate for declining gas imports due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Belgium reportedly is reconsidering an exit from nuclear power, while countries like Italy and the United Kingdom are accelerating new energy efforts.
Jing Chunmei, deputy director of scientific research and information at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said the Russia-Ukraine conflict will reshape the global energy market. While European countries are forced to seek alternatives to significantly reduce their dependence on Russian oil and gas, Russia also needs to develop a larger energy consumption market in developing economies.
"European countries will increase resource purchases from the Middle East, North America, Africa and Australia. The bidding for oil and gas resources in the world will become more intense," Jing said.
"Facing the significant impact that the Russia-Ukraine conflict will have on the global energy system, it is better that China, as a country with large energy demand, adjusts its energy strategies."
"Among the strategies, diversifying oil and gas import sources is particularly important. Efforts should be made to expand gas transmission capacity of cross-border pipelines, and further deepen cooperation in the gas sector between China and neighboring countries such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Russia."
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Poison Gas
Perhaps the most controversial military development during the First World War was the use of poison gas. While no formal restrictions on its use existed prior to 1914, contemporaries widely considered such action morally unacceptable. As the stalemate of trench warfare emerged along the Western Front, however, both sides searched for a weapon or tactic that could produce a 'breakthrough'. In this situation, it is not surprising that combatants contemplated its use.
During the war's early months, both sides employed non-lethal gas in an attempt to gain a military advantage on the battlefield. As early as August 1914, French troops used a form of tear gas against advancing German soldiers, hoping that the eye irritant would impair their fighting abilities. German forces responded with a similar attack on British troops at Neuve Chapelle on October 1914. In both instances, the gas proved largely ineffective.
As the year came to an end, Germany found itself in the predicament it had hoped to avoid - simultaneously fighting a war against French and British forces on the Western Front and Russian forces on the Eastern Front. With its human and industrial resources stretched to the breaking point, German military commanders desperately sought a means to a quick victory on either front. Thus, they advocated the use of poison gas, despite its moral implications.
The war's first large-scale gas attack occurred along the Eastern Front on January 31, 1915, when German forces fired 18,000 artillery shells filled with tear gas on Russian soldiers near Warsaw. Cold temperatures caused the gas to freeze, rendering it largely ineffective. Nevertheless, the scale of the attack set a precedent and suggested a significant change in strategy.
Poison gas attack on the Western Front.
This new direction was confirmed three months later at a strategic location on the Western Front. The Ypres Salient extended more than eight kilometres into German front lines, containing sixteen kilometres of trench defended by French colonial, British and Canadian soldiers. A German breakthrough at Ypres might end the impasse and lead to a decisive victory. In retrospect, it is not surprising that poison gas made its debut at such a time and place.
On April 22, 1915, German artillery launched a morning barrage near Ypres. By mid-day, the guns fell silent only to resume firing in late afternoon. A gentle breeze blew across "No Man's Land" toward an Allied section manned by French Algerian and Mauritanian troops. Almost 6000 pressurized cylinders containing 168 tons of chorine gas lay along the parapet of the German trenches from Langemark to Poelkapelle, north of Ypres. At 1730 hours, German soldiers opened the valves, releasing the gas into the air.
When Algerian sentries observed a yellow-green cloud drifting across "No Man's Land" toward their position, they initially thought it was a smoke screen for an infantry attack and roused their comrades to man the line. As the gas floated into their trenches and men began coughing and gagging, those not affected dropped their weapons and fled in terror, creating a seven-kilometer gap in the Allied line.
Had the German infantry reacted quickly, the final outcome may have been different. However, caught off-guard by the sudden withdrawal and fearful of the presence of poison gas on the battlefield, they advanced cautiously across No Man's Land. Their hesitation allowed British and Canadian troops to counterattack and close the gap through the night. However, the precedence was set - poison gas had been used in combat. By war's end, it had become a major component of weapon supplies on both sides.
Soldiers wearing primitive gas masks.
German forces released chlorine gas on three more occasions during the Second Battle of Ypres - against soldiers of the 1st Canadian Division on April 24, and British troops on May 2 and 5, 1915. It was also used against Russian troops near Warsaw on August 6, 1915, inflicting 9000 casualties and more than 1000 deaths.
Chlorine gas was a by-product of dye manufacturing and Germany therefore had access to sizeable quantities. The gas irritates the eyes, nose, throat and lungs upon contact. High concentrations and prolonged exposure result in death by asphyxiation. However, the coughing induced by contact reduces the amount of gas ingested. In addition, chlorine is most effective at ground level, where it is most concentrated. Soldiers in a standing position or on higher ground were less affected than individuals in a prone position, such as wounded or sleeping soldiers.
Several factors reduce chlorine's effectiveness as a weapon. Its yellow-green color makes it easy to detect. As the gas is water soluble, covering the mouth and nose with a damp cloth reduces its impact. Soldiers at Ypres quickly discovered that a urine-soaked rag was particularly effective, as the chlorine reacted with urea and lost much of its effectiveness.
In addition, after its initial use, the element of surprise was lost as Allied commanders prepared for subsequent attacks. Within days, soldiers in the front lines received gauge pads filled with cotton, accompanied by bottles of bicarbonate solution. In the event of a gas attack, the pads were dipped into the liquid and held to the face. By July 6, all British forces were equipped with a 'smoke helmet' designed by Major Cluny MacPherson of the Newfoundland Regiment. It consisted of a flannel bag with a celluloid window and covered the soldier's entire head. While it obscured their vision and was somewhat uncomfortable, it did protect their health.
Australian soldiers wearing advanced gas masks.
It was not long before Allied forces responded in kind. Shortly after the Ypres attack, Britain organized Special Gas Companies consisting of 1400 personnel, assigning them to strategic locations along the front. When the first British gas attack occurred several months later, however, its outcome illustrated the challenges faced in effectively using poison gas on the battlefield.
At 5:20 am September 24, 1915, British troops released 140 tons of chlorine gas into an initially favorable wind near Loos, Belgium. As the cloud crawled across No Man's Land, however, the wind shifted and within forty minutes portions of the gas blew back into sections of the British line. In addition, the gas in some cylinders could not be released, as soldiers were not issued with the correct turning key. Subsequent German artillery shells struck several full cylinders, releasing more gas into the British positions. It is estimated that the number of British gas casualties may have actually exceeded the number of victims in the opposing trenches.
The Loos incident illustrated one of the greatest challenges in using poison gas as a weapon - finding an effective delivery system. For several months, both sides experimented with inserting gas into artillery shells, a tactic that eventually proved highly effective. More significantly, chemists addressed chlorine's shortcomings by developing a new, more effective poison gas by year's end - phosgene.
First produced by French chemists, phosgene is colorless and almost odorless, making it much more difficult to detect. It does not induce coughing, increasing the amount of gas inhaled. Phosgene does not immediately incapacitate its victims, requiring 24 to 48 hours to take effect. However, inhalation of small quantities causes death. As it is a denser gas, phosgene was usually mixed with equal amounts of chlorine to enhance its ability to disperse. Allied troops called this deadly combination 'White Star', a reference to the symbol painted on the shells used to deliver the gas.
Poster highlighting phosgene's properties and effects.
The Germans launched the first chlorine - phosgene attack on British troops at Willtje, Belgium on December 19, 1915. A total of 88 tons of gas was delivered by artillery shells, inflicting 69 fatalities and 1009 casualties. British troops used the same weapon and technique during the Somme offensive launched in July 1916. While only 36,600 tons of phosgene were produced during the war in comparison to 93,900 tons of chlorine gas, it was far more effective in inflicting casualties. Estimates credit phosgene with approximately 85 % of the deaths caused by chemical weapons during the war.
By 1917, both sides were capable of launching gas attacks on one another's front lines, supply lines, support trenches and gun placements by means of chemical artillery shells, projectiles and mortars. That same year, another deadly weapon made its debut. Mustard gas, a chemical compound developed by the Germans, was first used during the Third Battle of Ypres (July 1917) on the Western Front and against Russian troops near Riga, Latvia (August 1917) on the Eastern Front. Called "Yellow Cross" by the Germans after the identifying symbol placed on the shell casings, mustard gas is virtually odorless and colorless. To the British, it was "HS" - "Hun stuff" - while the French called it "Yperite" after the Belgian city where it was first used.
Unlike chlorine and phosgene, mustard gas does not have to be ingested. Simple physical contact produces skin blisters, sore eyes and vomiting in addition to internal bleeding if inhaled. The gas strips the mucous membrane of the bronchial tubes, leading to a slow, painful death as long as five weeks after contact. Survivors often suffer blindness due to eye contact. While not particularly effective at killing enemy soldiers, it did severely inhibit their ability to fight. The gas also remained active in the soil for several days, depending on weather conditions, making contaminated trenches 'uninhabitable'.
While poison gas never succeeded in breaking the stalemate on either front, it became a standard part of the weaponry employed by both sides throughout the conflict. At war's end, 35 % of French and German, 25 % of British, and 20 % of American ammunition stockpiles consisted of poison gas shells. It was particularly suited to the static trench warfare that dominated fighting on the Western Front and was regularly combined with artillery fire in support of infantry attacks during the war's later stages. Had the war continued into 1919, both combatants planned to insert poison gas into 30 to 50 % of newly manufactured artillery shells.
Artillery shells filled with poison gas.
While the Germans used the largest quantity of gas during the war - an estimated 68,000 tons - British forces actually launched more gas attacks during the last two years of the war than their opponents. In comparison, French forces used 36,000 tons and British forces 25,000 tons of poison gas throughout the war. During the war's later stages, Germany was unable to keep pace with Allied stockpiles, due to the cost of production and the entry of the United States into the war, an event that significantly increased Allied resources.
In the final analysis, poison gas did not prove to be an effective weapon. While it was deployed in 25 % of the artillery shells fired during the war, it caused only 3 % of its casualties. This was due in large part to the development of filter respirators utilizing charcoal or chemical antidotes, although the masks remained cumbersome.
Nevertheless, gas was responsible for thousands of casualties and deaths. British forces suffered 188,706 casualties and 8,109 fatalities due to contact with poison gas. An estimated 12,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from its effects. Many victims never reported minor contact with gas and therefore were unable to obtain compensation if its effects produced health problems later in life. Russian soldiers were most affected, suffering 419,340 casualties and 56,000 fatalities, although this was largely due to their military's failure to implement suitable precautions.
In total, poison gas accounted for 1,250,000 casualties and 91,000 fatalities, half of which occurred on the Eastern Front. While significant, these figures represent only 10 % of the total number of casualties during the war, demonstrating its overall ineffectiveness as a weapon. After the war, concern over future use of poison gas led to the creation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol. This international agreement, eventually adopted by all of the war's major combatants, specifically prohibited the use of lethal gas and bacteriological weapons in combat, although production and stockpiling were permitted. As a result, with the exception of a few isolated incidents, poison gas was not used to any extent during World War II or subsequent 20th century military conflicts.
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Some famous comparative psychologists include Jean Piaget, Harry Harlow and Temple Grandin. Piaget applied his discoveries about snails to his understanding of human cognitive development. Harlow studied rhesus monkeys and used his data to better understand child social development. Grandin, author of the essay "Animals Are Not Things," is famous for developing methods to make livestock slaughter more humane.
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Edison Nouveau Premiere Mystical Myrrh Winter 2016 SE Fountain Pen
Mystical Myrrh is the 9th seasonal Edison Nouveau Premiere we've done. We've historically done a lot of single-color or color-with-a-swirl, this one is very complex and it stands out among other Premieres, as well as pretty much any other pens you'll see. With pearlescent swirls of silver, gold, and copper, it's one of the most unique materials we've ever seen. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9466170072555542}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '39032', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:G5OKWJRKWGO43G4GLSQPEECBPMTVK3UO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:e5c385e4-0613-416e-a8b6-502e8ffbcfa2>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 10, 6, 16, 11, 41), 'WARC-IP-Address': '142.251.163.121', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:S4I3Q5IIHCXCQLH3I52FNX6VBSQAIWST', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:4d792544-a049-4a8d-afd0-888a940ee859>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.inknouveaupodcast.com/2015/12/edison-nouveau-premiere-mystical-myrrh.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:6a623847-1f11-46cd-8b0d-931f70d35cdd>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '74', 'url': 'http://www.inknouveaupodcast.com/2015/12/edison-nouveau-premiere-mystical-myrrh.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-40\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September/October 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-194\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.03085237741470337', 'original_id': '9b47775f76b277ba93c1c8b7459369e6cfd732acc4e6b1ab11da149b296515b4'} |
JRLED C6 H4 45W Cold White Light Headlight w/ Slient Fan Heat Dissipation (DC12V / 2 PCS)
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Domine Dirige Nos
The Party arrived at the tower of the Tashim (Alhim) on the way back to Ongus where they found the front door broken down. A piece of parchment nailed to the doorframe, most of which was ripped away, was nailed there by a good nail, probably mailed in Ongus. The paper was of particularly good quality (church or government use).
On entering the tower the Party found that the ground floor was a library which had been almost completely trashed, only a couple of books remained, one of which was a copy of the Holy Scriptures (a particularly good copy). A large stain was also found in the centre of the room.
On the first floor the Party found a bed chamber. Again the room had been ransacked with the bed slashed open.
On the second floor the Party found what was left of a laboratory and another ladder leading up.
The Party proceeded to the roof where the Party found a large, heavy chest which showed signs of abuse. However the chest had remained unopened.
From the tower the Party noticed the remains of a bonfire near the tower. On closer inspection it was found to have been burnt books.
On the Party’s return to Ongus an attempted to arrest Eadweard is made on the authority of Father Elcano. Helga, Eadweard’s bodyguard, advises the Party to run. Those who hadn’t already passed through the gate decided to either run or go with the guard. An attempt to arrest Brother Godric is made but the guard refused to carry out the order. Godric is advised to go directly to the Bishop’s Palace.
Those that ran (Eadweard, Jayden, Aelfraed, Julianne, Keiran and Gregor) headed for the south gate.
(Eadweard, Jayden, Aelfraed, Julianne, Keiran and Gregor) made it into the city and hid at the orphanage.
Godric and Ayden made it to the Bishop’s Palace where they discovered that Elcano was claiming to be an Inquisitor from the Pope sent to root out heresy. It seems he was behind the attach on the tower and the order to arrest Eadweard (because he’s a sorcerer).
After midnight (Eadweard, Jayden, Aelfraed, Julianne, Keiran and Gregor) were lead from the orphanage into the tunnels under the city where they met “Amethyst”, a member of the thieves guild (the Crooked Rooks) and the Party was in the Rookery. They learnt that Mistress Marta had been arrested along with almost every other sorcerer in the city.
The following the day (Eadweard, Jayden, Aelfraed, Julianne, Keiran and Gregor) made their way back to Mistress Marta’s School where they found Alhim. Eadweard returned the books that the Party saved to him and Jayden went and acquired clothes for him.
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