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Expert knows how soon killer asteroid will wipe out life from earth's surface
By Nirmal Narayanan
June 9, 2018 12:56 +08
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Earth, the planet in which we live lies in the most habitable zone of our solar system. However, on several occasions, killer asteroids have wiped out life from our planet and the last known hit occurred 66-million-years ago, which was supposed to be responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs. Even now, doomsday mongers believe that the apocalypse will be triggered on earth anytime soon, as either the killer planet Nibiru or a gigantic asteroid hit our planet with its full fury.
It should be noted that world's leading space agencies including NASA are constantly monitoring the space activities, and they have deployed sufficient technologies to detect any asteroids which may be heading towards earth. But last week, a small meteorite named ' ZLAF9B2' hit the skies of South Africa and NASA detected it just nine hours before the impact which is undoubtedly an alarming sign.
However, Mike Murray, astronomer and Delta College planetarium manager believes that space agencies will detect large rock bodies months or years before it is going to make an impact, Mlive.com reports. He also added that no countries have developed such technology to eliminate the collision of an asteroid with earth.
As per Murray, there are two possible ways by which the course of an asteroid can get deviated before it hits the earth. The first way is to fly a huge spacecraft alongside the asteroid. It should be noted that even a small gravitational attraction between the spacecraft and asteroid could steer it away from the earth.
The astronomer made it clear that the technique of blowing up asteroids which we have seen in movies like 'Armageddon' will not work in a real-life scenario. If we successfully blow up an asteroid, it would again reach the earth as smaller pieces which could still be a problem.
It should be noted that NASA has not detected any threatening space body which could hit the earth in the near future and it indicates that our planet is safe at least for the next few years.
In the meantime, Tyler Glockner, a conspiracy theorist who runs the YouTube channel 'Secureteam10' has sensationally claimed that the asteroid which burned up in South Africa may not be an asteroid. As per Glockner, the object which was spotted in the South African skies might be a UFO making a close flyby. He added that there was no meteor debris recovered from the crash site.
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Oyo state targets agriculture to boost economic fortunes
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde has declared that his government would boost the agriculture sector to achieve accelerated development of the state in the next four years.
Governor Makinde, who was speaking during an event at Eruwa said that his administration would revive the farm settlements and leverage on the agricultural value chain to turn the fortunes of the state around.
Makinde, according to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Taiwo Adisa, he said that the administration realizing that the state is rich in farming potential, would use agriculture as the focal point of contact for development.
He said: "For accelerated development of Oyo State in the next four years, we intend to use agriculture for the economic prosperity of the state, with special attention devoted to areas like Ibarapaland, where there is a farm settlement.
Here there is about 5, 800 hectares of land. We will revive it we will give special attention to reviving the farm settlements."
The governor also said that his government will take full advantage of the agricultural value chain so as to bring the desired benefits to the government and the people.
The Governor assured people of Ibarapaland that his government would compete for the Ibadan/Eruwa road, which was left uncompleted by the immediate past government.
He said: "On my way here, I saw that the last administration had done the road halfway. We will complete it. It will not become an abandoned project."
Governor Makinde said that he holds Ibarapaland in high esteem as Eruwa was the first location he would visit outside Ibadan since he was sworn- in as Governor. '
"I hold Ibarapaland in very high esteem and you will discover that this is the first place I am visiting outside Ibadan after I was sworn-in.
It shows the love between me and Ibarapaland and the love will keep growing. "In 2015 when I contested and of course I lost the election, it was only in Ibarapa East that I won a ward.
It must be that Ibarapa land and Ibarapa people are dear to my heart. Last Monday, your son, Debo Ogundoyin emerged the number three citizen of Oyo State.
I pray he will use that position for the good of Ibarapaland.
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I would be off Vera in a heartbeat if either of them could get local functions working (I hate the everything is cloud crap), as all forward progress is down to zero.
you hate 'cloud crap' but you want IFTTT ... you seem to have directly conflicting comments.
I don't use IFTTT (I tried a few times for different things) because I found it was slow/unreliable for integration with HA.
Nice mis-quote... problem I see with Smartthings and Wink is "everything is in the cloud", even local commands that shouldn't be. IFTTT has to be web based by it's nature.
Would appreciate any feedback from users of IFTTT.
GetVera has been trying to get IFTTT to cooperate to provide IFTTT support for Vera. It seems IFTTT is dragging it's heels on that.
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Seems nobody else has issues with IFTTT. I doubt it's them dragging their feet for 2 years.
Get a HUB2 and link it Vera via the App. I don't know about IFTTT but i do know that the Wink makes-up for all the shortcoming in Vera. I put the stuff i want to control with Alexa on the wink hub and the devices show up in Vera like they were native; even imperihome sees them. IFTTT works good with the wink hub - get it! But be advised, you'll be tempted to move EVERY THINK to wink! :-) BTW, it has local control (no internet) of lights and switches; this i know from experience.
Already one step ahead of you. I love my Wink 2. It's just sad I may move away from Vera.
Then we have the IFTTT Beta, great news! I really enjoy using IFTTT for Android, Amazon, Google Home and for Philips Hue. For Wink Relay does not work very well.
Just read this on Facebook. Good news, but way over due.
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April 2, 2014 by mhasegawa
As the dust settles
on the first enrollment period of the new Affordable Care Act, we are learning that a lot more people than a lot of people predicted have signed up for insurance. President Obama is claiming 7.1 million people signed up on the health insurance exchanges – along with unknown numbers of others who signed up directly with insurance companies. There was a claim yesterday that 90% of the enrollees had actually paid a first premium, a crucial step to being able to actually use the insurance. We all know that there will be hassles when people go to their medical provider, when insurance cards don't arrive in the mail, when someone with expanded Medicaid goes to a doctor who doesn't accept that plan, but then, there have always been hassles with health insurance. This will be nothing new. What will be new is the massive number of new people suddenly looking for a provider. Adjustments will have to be made all around.
But the biggest losers as of this morning would seem to be the opponents of the ACA or Obamacare as they call it. Here is Dan Wasserman's cartoon from this morning's Boston Globe.
And then there is this story from Politico.
Back in the fall, conservatives seized on the flubbed Obamacare rollout as proof that President Barack Obama's brand of liberalism doesn't work.
Now, the law's opponents aren't about to say that critique was wrong — but they've lost the best evidence they had.
On Tuesday, Obamacare sign-ups passed 7 million, six months after the launch of a federal website that could barely sign up anybody. There are still a lot of questions about how solid that figure is, but the idea that the law could even come close to the original goal after such a disastrous start would have been laughable even a few weeks ago.
That's left the critics questioning the early numbers or changing the subject. It's a reminder that the attacks on the website were more than complaints about technology, but a proxy for a much deeper argument about what government should do and what it can't do
But the Republicans do seem to be suffering from a compulsion disorder. Here is Representative Paul Ryan quoted in the Politico story
And House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, who on the same day released a budget plan that would repeal the law, wasn't fazed by the enrollment news.
"I think Obamacare is a slow-rolling fiasco. I think it's a Pyrrhic victory," the Wisconsin lawmaker said during a conference call with reporters Tuesday, at the same time that Obama was giving his victory speech in the Rose Garden.
But it was so much easier when they could just say the federal government can't tie its own shoelaces. Now, they have to acknowledge that the government fixed the problem — and enrollment came roaring back.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is set to release his health care plan – I guess he is running for President. According to the Washington Post
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will announce Wednesday a plan to repeal and replace President Obama's health-care law, an effort by the Republican to insert himself into the increasingly competitive early maneuvering for his party's presidential nomination.
In his 26-page plan, Jindal lays out a lengthy critique of the health law — which he refers to throughout as "Obamacare" — and reiterates his belief that it needs to be entirely done away with. In its place, he sets forth a bevy of ideas that have run through conservative thought for years, in some cases renaming them and in other cases suggesting new variations on old themes.
These themes appear to include giving those on Medicare a subsidy to buy private insurance and giving Medicaid money to the states to provide whatever care they decide on. I have a feeling that this every-state-for-itself idea will be proven to be a real problem as people in states that didn't accept the expanded Medicare under the ACA are faced with citizens who won't understand why Uncle Charlie can get health insurance subsidies and they can't. I don't think this is a plan people will go for – especially after they get a feel for what is covered under ACA – but at least Jindal has something.
President Obama's poll numbers are creeping up. Democrats running for re-election would do well to be cautious about running away from the ACA, and optimistic me says that Nate Silver might just be wrong this time with is prediction that the Republicans have the edge in the mid-terms. It won't be easy for the Democrats: They have to turn out their base in larger numbers than is usual for a mid-term, but it can be done. Nate did favor Duke which lost in the first round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
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Impasse?! We should look at the Progressive Caucus Budget
President Obama met with the Republicans in the House yesterday. I think Politico had the best take on the meeting.
After years of pining for more face time with the president, House Republicans found out Wednesday that Barack Obama looks and sounds the same behind closed doors as he does on TV.
President Obama meets with Congress. AP Photograph
I think they are finally learning what many of us have known for a while: what you see is what you get with Barack Obama. Michelle has been trying to tell everyone this for years. So he has his line and the Republicans led by Paul Ryan have theirs. But where does that leave the rest of us? How to deal in a meaningful way with the sequester and the budget? I see two paths: One, those affected by the cuts start putting on the pressure and two, we begin looking at alternatives to either the Republican or White House budget proposals.
On the first, the lobbying has begun. The New York Times reports
Construction companies are lobbying the government to spare their projects from across-the-board cuts. Drug companies are pleading with the White House to use all the fees they pay to speed the approval of new medicines.
And supporters of Israel have begun a campaign to make sure the Jewish state receives the full amount of military assistance promised by the United States.
A frenzy of lobbying has been touched off by President Obama's order to slice spending this year by $85 billion, divided equally between military and civilian programs. The cuts have created new alliances and strange bedfellows.
Hunter R. Rawlings III, a historian of ancient Greece who is the president of the Association of American Universities, joined Wesley G. Bush, the chief executive of Northrop Grumman, the maker of surveillance drones and B-2 bombers, in a news conference in which they denounced the automatic cuts known as sequestration.
Health care and education groups, advocates for poor people, and state and local officials who fought in the past for bigger budgets are now trying to minimize the pain.
How much money do you think will be spent on lobbying? I don't even want to begin to add it up. What a waste of money. But I guess some people will still have jobs.
For an alternate budget we can look at the Congressional Progressive Caucus budget proposal. The Economic Policy Institute assisted in putting the budget together and scoring it. Dean Baker from the Center for Economic and Policy Research calls it "A Serious Budget That the Serious People Won't Take Seriously". The Progressive Caucus has been proposing budgets for a number of years now and takes the position that if their proposals had been adopted, we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now.
So what exactly are they proposing?
Direct hire programs that create a School Improvement Corps, a Park Improvement Corps, and a Student Jobs Corps, among others.
Targeted tax incentives that spur clean energy, manufacturing, and cutting-edge technological investments in the private sector.
Widespread domestic investments including an infrastructure bank, a $556 billion surface transportation bill, and approximately $2.1 trillion in widespread domestic investment.
Ends tax cuts for the top 2% of Americans on schedule at year's end
Extends tax relief for middle class households and the vast majority of Americans
Creates new tax brackets for millionaires and billionaires
Eliminates the tax code's preferential treatment of capital gains and dividends
Abolishes corporate welfare for oil, gas, and coal companies
Eliminates loopholes that allow businesses to dodge their true tax liability
Calls for the adoption of the "Buffett Rule"
Creates a publicly funded federal election system that gets corporate money out of politics for good.
Provides a Making Work Pay tax credit for families struggling with high gas and food cost 2013-2015
Extends Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Child and Dependent Care Credit
Invests in programs to stave off further foreclosures to keep families in their homes
Invests in our children's education by increasing Education, Training, and Social Services
It would also end the war in Afghanistan and do selective, not blanket cuts to the military budget. It basically spends money to put people back to work and stabilize the economy. This assumes that people who work pay taxes and put money back into the economy. It also achieves deficit reduction. All through government spending. As Dean Baker poinst out
For those upset that the budget debate is getting ever further removed from the real world problems of an economy that is suffering from a deficit of 9 million jobs, there is good news. The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) has produced a budget that is intended to make the unemployment situation better rather than worse.
The story of course is that we are still in a situation where we need the government as a source of demand in the economy. This is independent of how much we like the government or the private sector. The private sector does not expand and create jobs just because governments want it to, as is being discovered now by leaders in the United Kingdom, Greece, Italy, Spain and everywhere else where deficit reduction is now in vogue. In the current economic situation, loss of demand from the government is a loss of demand to the economy. That is why recent steps to reduce the deficit, such as the ending of the payroll tax cut (which put money in consumers' pockets) and the sequester, will lead to slower growth and higher unemployment.
Would this happen with the adoption of the progressive budget? I don't know, but I know that what is going on now isn't working either. And what is worse, people are tuning out and shrugging their shoulders assuming nothing can be done.
Gail Collins has this fantasy.
White smoke poured from the Capitol today and crowds of onlookers broke into shouts of jubilation, crying: "We have a budget!"
Inside, where the nation's legislators had been walled off in seclusion, the newly chosen tax-and-spending plan was garbed in the traditional brass staples for its first public appearance. Insiders said it planned to take the name of Budget for Fiscal Year 2014.
I guess that is alternative number three. Maybe we should try sequestering Congress.
CPC/Dem Back-To-Work Budget Announced, "Wired For Republican" Media Ignores (ourfuture.org)
Progressive 'Back to Work' Budget Wins Praise for Anti-Austerity Approach (beavercountyblue.org)
Will The Media Cover The "Back To Work" Budget? (ourfuture.org)
House Progressive Caucus Unveils Bold Budget to Bankrupt America Quickly (reason.com)
Congressional Progressive Caucus Budget Analysis (themoderatevoice.com)
Congressional Progressive Caucus : Press Releases : Progressive Caucus Leaders Demand Administration's Full Response on Drones (ramyabdeljabbar.wordpress.com)
Posted in Budget, Congress, Economics, Economy, Obama Administration, Politics, Public Policy	| Tagged Congressional Progressive Caucus, Dean Baker, Democrats, Economics, Gail Collins, Paul Ryan, Politics, President Obama, Republicans | Leave a comment
February 12, 2013 by mhasegawa
Responses to the State of the Union Address: being picked isn't always a good thing
Quick. Name the four responders to President Obama's State of the Union/Joint addresses to Congress. (The first one is not considered to be formal State of the Union.) Give up? I could only remember Bobby Jindal and Bob McDonnell so I had to look them up.
2009 – Bobby Jindal in an address remembered for his Kenneth the Page imitation. If he ever decides to run for President, this will haunt him.
English: Governor Bobby Jindal at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
2010 – Bob McDonnell the governor of Virginia who tried to rectify Jindal's mistakes by giving his speech in the Virginia State House before a live hand-picked audience. And then he became known as Governor Ultrasound and his Presidential chances disappeared.
2011 – Paul Ryan. Representative Ryan did run for higher office tied to Mitt and, as we know, they lost. He is young and maybe can run again someday if the Tea Party ever gains firm control over the Republican Party.
2012 – Mich Daniels, governor of Indiana. This was supposed to be a stepping stone to the Presidential nomination. Didn't happen.
So this year we have Marco Rubio giving the response in English and in Spanish (so we are told). He is trying to position himself as the young, fresh face for a 2016 run for the Presidency. I have alread heard some Republican consultants saying he's young and Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton are old and that is good for the Republicans. But State of the Union responders don't have a very good track record, so we shall see.
English: Official portrait of US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Go to this link to see a short video of memorable moments.
Who is Bobby Jindal, really? (tv.msnbc.com)
The Republican response to the State of the Union: Boon or bane? (cbsnews.com)
Forbes, Kaine to sit together at State of the Union (wtvr.com)
So much for shedding the 'stupid party' label (maddowblog.msnbc.com)
Does Television Really Need to Cover Two Responses To the State Of The Union? (daily-download.com)
Morning Joe Previews State Of The Union With Look At How 'Tone Deaf' GOP Makes 'People Feel Unwelcome' (mediaite.com)
Posted in History, Obama Administration, Politics, Public Policy	| Tagged Bob McDonnell, Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Politics, President Obama, Republicans | Leave a comment
October 13, 2012 by mhasegawa
The Vice Presidential debate in song
Very clever, those Gregory Brothers .
The Gregory Brothers — Andrew, Michael, Evan and Sarah (who is married to Evan) Gregory — are best known for their YouTube music-video mash-ups, including the series Auto-Tune the News and Songify This!, in which they make songs out of non-songs and unintentional singers out of intentional speakers. They live in Brooklyn.
we present you the vice-presidential debate as it should be: Songified. It is our hope that someday, the vice-presidential candidates of the future will learn a lesson and just sing the whole thing to begin with.
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Posted in 2012 Election, Politics	| Tagged 2012 Election, Democrats, Gregory Brothers, Joe Biden, Paul Ryan, Politics, Republicans | 1 Comment
August 24, 2012 by mhasegawa
The Republicans and Disfunction
I'm reading It's even Worse than it Looks: How the american Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of extremism by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein. And yes, it is depressing especially when I'm reading it while also looking at the Republican Platform which has been described by Think Progress as the "most conservative in modern history." OK so maybe Think Progress is on the left but they have a pretty good summary. Here are just a few subheading from the summary.
NO ABORTION IN CASES OF RAPE OR INCEST
NO LEGAL RECOGNITION OF SAME-SEX COUPLES
REPLICATE ARIZONA-STYLE IMMIGRATION LAWS.
NO WOMEN IN COMBAT
NO NEW TAXES, EXCEPT FOR WAR.
The New York Times said this in an editorial last Tuesday
Over the years, the major parties' election-year platforms have been regarded as Kabuki theater scripts for convention week. The presidential candidates blithely ignored them or openly dismissed the most extreme planks with a knowing wink as merely a gesture to pacify the noisiest activists in the party.
That cannot be said of the draft of the Republican platform circulating ahead of the convention in Tampa, Fla. The Republican Party has moved so far to the right that the extreme is now the mainstream. The mean-spirited and intolerant platform represents the face of Republican politics in 2012. And unless he makes changes, it is the current face of the shape-shifting Mitt Romney.
The draft document is more aggressive in its opposition to women's reproductive rights and to gay rights than any in memory. It accuses President Obama and the federal judiciary of "an assault on the foundations of our society," and calls for constitutional amendments banning both same-sex marriage and abortion.
In passages on abortion, the draft platform puts the party on the most extreme fringes of American opinion. It calls for a "human life amendment" and for legislation "to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children." That would erase any right women have to make decisions about their health and their bodies. There are no exceptions for victims of rape or incest, and such laws could threaten even birth control.
The draft demands that the government "not fund or subsidize health care which includes abortion coverage," which could bar abortion coverage on federally subsidized health-insurance exchanges, for example.
The platform praises states with "informed consent" laws that require women to undergo medically unnecessary tests before having abortions, and "mandatory waiting periods." Those are among the most patronizing forms of anti-abortion legislation. They presume that a woman is not capable of making a considered decision about abortion before she goes to a doctor. The draft platform also espouses the most extreme Republican views on taxation, national security, military spending and other issues.
Over all, it is farther out on the party's fringe than Mr. Romney ventured in the primaries, when he repudiated a career's worth of centrist views on issues like abortion and gay marriage. But the planks hew closely to the views of his running mate, Paul Ryan, and the powerful right-wing. Mr. Romney has a chance to move back in the direction of the center by amending this extremist platform. It will be interesting to see if he seizes it.
Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia might not have gotten the Vice Presidential nod, but he delivered the platform. He should be proud.
Mann and Ornstein have a long quote from a former Republican Congressional staff, Mike Lofgren, who wrote in 2011 why he was leaving after almost thirty years [pages 54-55] Part of that quote reads
It should have been evident to clear-eyed observers that the Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe.
Later Lofgren writes
Far from being a rarity, virtually every bill, every nominee for Senate confirmation and every routine procedural motion is now subject to a Republican filibuster. Under the circumstances, it is no wonder that Washington is gridlocked: legislating has now become war minus the shooting, something one could have observed 80 years ago in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. As Hannah Arendt observed, a disciplined minority of totalitarians can use the instruments of democratic government to undermine democracy itself.
The platform is the Ryan agenda no matter how much he tries to say that it is Romney who is running for President. Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan and no one can convince me he didn't know what Ryan's positions were or what legislation he had sponsored. The Republicans like to say they are for smaller, less intrusive government, but the platform seems pretty intrusive to me. If they have their way, they will be imposing their views on the rest of us.
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Akin, Ryan, Romney and Women's Healthcare
I was cooking dinner and listening to a rerun of Tom Ashbrook's On Point when I heard Mary Kate Cary say that she agreed with the President that rape was rape, but did not agree with him that male legislators were making health care decisions for women and that they should just let women decide for themselves. The President's exact words from a report from CBS News
"Rape is rape," Mr. Obama told reporters at the daily White House briefing Monday. "And the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we're talking about doesn't make sense to the American people and certainly doesn't make sense to me."
Mr. Obama added that Akin's remarks underscore "why we shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women."
The president acknowledged that his GOP rival Mitt Romney and other Republicans have distanced themselves from Akin's statements. However, he said, "The underlying notion that we should be making decisions on behalf of women for their health care decisions, or qualifying 'forcible rape' versus 'non-forcible rape' — those are broader issues….between me and the other party."
Mary Kate Cary, a former speech writer for President George H. W. Bush, went on to confuse the fact that women probably do make more decisions about health care treatment than men since they are still most likely to take the children to the doctor, with the male legislators setting boundaries on what kind of treatment women can actually choose. (Thanks to my husband for helping me clarify that.)
So what does all this mean? It means that Todd Akin, Paul Ryan and the Republican platform are imposing their religious ideas on everyone and removing choice. And here I thought that they were the party of small government! What with banning abortion in all situations and/or requiring vaginal ultrasounds before an abortion, I think they are actually intruding in health care decisions. At the same time, none of them cares about what happens to the child after this forced birth because there will be no available safety net for her or for her mother under the Ryan/Romney cuts to the safety net in the budget combined with the proposed repeal of the Affordable Care Act. There will also be no way for women to prevent pregnancies as there will be no contraception available under the ACA and no funding for Planned Parenthood.
Todd Akin and all his pals who don't believe that a woman can get pregnant during rape, make that forcible rape, may be on the extreme edge of an extreme edge but they do represent the majority view of the Republican party. This from the New York Times this morning
As an orator, Representative Todd Akin of Missouri may stand out for his clumsiness. But as a legislator, Mr. Akin has a record on abortion that is largely indistinguishable from those of most of his Republican House colleagues, who have viewed restricting abortion rights as one of their top priorities.
It is an agenda that has enjoyed the support of House leaders, including Speaker John A. Boehner and Representative Eric Cantor, the majority leader, who has called anti-abortion measures "obviously very important in terms of the priorities we set out initially in our pledge to America." It became inextricably linked to the near-shutdown of the federal government last year when an agreement to keep the government open was reached only after it was linked to a measure restricting abortion in the District of Columbia.
Even as Congressional Republicans, including Mr. Boehner, denounced Mr. Akin's remark that victims of "legitimate rape" were able to somehow prevent pregnancy, an agenda to roll back abortion is one that House Republicans have largely moved in step with.
In an anti-abortion measure once sponsored by Mr. Akin, Mr. Ryan and scores of other Republican lawmakers, an exemption was made for victims of "forcible" rape, though that word was later removed.
On Tuesday, Republicans approved platform language for next week's nominating convention that calls for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion with no explicit exceptions for cases of rape or incest. That is a view more restrictive than Mr. Romney's, who has said that he supports exceptions to allow abortions in cases of rape.
Ryan center and Akin to the right in a photograph by J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press
So Democrats can now keep tying Paul Ryan, Todd Akin and the Republican Platform together while Mitt, as usual, tries to dance away from taking a position. After all as Republican Party Chair, Reince Priebus said "this is the platform of the Republican Party, it is not the platform of Mitt Romney." I titled this "Akin, Ryan, Romney and Women's Health Care" but if they have their way, women won't have health care. There is already a large gender gap. We can enjoy watching it get bigger.
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Paul Ryan's Proposals in a Nutshell
The Boston Globe columnist, Scott Lehigh wrote what I think is one of the best summaries of Paul Ryan's budget proposal compared to President Obama's proposals. And whether Mitt Romney likes it or not, he is tied to the Ryan budget which he once described as "marvelous".
Lehigh describes the Ryan budget this way
There will be a fierce fight to frame the argument, but Romney and Ryan will have a tougher challenge persuading the relatively small percentage of undecided voters. With Ryan as his running mate, Romney will no longer be able to hide behind strategic ambiguity about his budget and tax cut plans. To date, a lack of key details has made those proposals hard to analyze, which has obviously been intentional. Nor does the Republicans' presumptive nominee want to be pinned to the details of Ryan's Medicare plan, which would shift thousands in health care costs onto the backs of future generations of seniors; one of the talking points the campaign distributed to help Republicans discuss Ryan's selection is that, as president, Romney will have his own Medicare proposal. But absent necessary details about Romney's proposal, Ryan's plan will and should stand as a fair campaign proxy.
Second, the reality is that you simply can't accomplish what Romney and Ryan hope to — that is, a large, new across-the-board tax cut while tackling the long-term federal budget deficit — without hitting both middle-class and moderate earners. A recent analysis by the nonpartisan, well-regarded Tax Policy Center illustrated that very point. It showed that Romney's vague assertion that he could pay for his new tax cut by closing loopholes and deductions, but without targeting those important to the middle class, was undoable. If Romney hews to his resolution to pay for his tax cut through loophole closings, the elimination of deductions would be so extensive that the average middle class family would see a tax hike, according to the center's analysis.
Of course we already know that Romney considers the Tax Policy Center to be a Democratic front. The difference in approaches?
Now, with the baby boomers retiring and increasingly drawing on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, the nation faces a large gap between future spending commitments and future revenues. But though tax cuts helped create the problem, Romney and Ryan insist it must all be solved through spending cuts. That flies in the face of several recent bipartisan deficit commissions, which have said that policy makers should rely on both spending cuts and new revenues.
President Obama, by contrast, wants tax breaks for upper earners to expire, which would mean more revenue, and thus lighter cuts in future spending. Because Obama wants to keeps the tax breaks for families making less than $250,000, substantial spending cuts will still be required, including reductions in entitlements. Obama has left many of those details for the future. But that failing is less egregious than Romney's. Obama, after all, would recapture $750 billion or more (over 10 years) by ending the Bush tax cuts. And the president isn't proposing a large new tax cut.
We can only hope that the Democrats can define Paul Ryan as successfully as they were able to define Mitt Romney.
Photograph by SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS
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est un temple de l'école Omuro du Bouddhisme Shingon  situé à Itano, préfecture de Tokushima au Japon.

Jizō-ji est le  sur la route du pèlerinage de Shikoku. On y accède, depuis le temple 4 Dainichi-ji, après une marche d'environ .

L'image principale est celle d'Enmei Jizō Bosatsu. Le temple aurait été fondé par Kōbō Daishi qui en a gravé l'image. Le hondō (1711–16), le daishidō (1711–16), le fudōdō (1751–1830), le kyōgura (1810) et le Gohyakurakandō (1922) ont tous été inscrits dans le registres du patrimoine culturel du Japon.

Entre le hall principal (Hon-dō) et le daishidō, on peut voir un gingko agé de 800 ans et un puits, on peut entendre le bruit d'une goutte d'eau frappant la surface.

Le hall Goyaku renferme environ 200 statues de bois de Rakan, disciples de Bouddha ayant atteint l'illumination.

En 2015, Jizō-ji est désigné Japan Heritage avec les 87 autres temples du pèlerinage de Shikoku.

Voir aussi

 Aizen-in
 Pèlerinage de Shikoku

Notes et références

Temple bouddhiste dans la préfecture de Tokushima

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Current Season Calendar
Track & Field | 2019-20
Cross Country 2019
Trophies & Points
Age Group Managers
Officiating Events
Duty Requirements
FLAC Constitution
Trophies - Track & Field
Every athlete from each male and female age group will be awarded with a trophy for their efforts during the season. Athletes will receive one of the following trophies (in order of distribution); Age Group Champion (1st, 2nd or 3rd), PB Champion, Encouragement Award or Participation Award. Once an athlete is awarded a trophy they are no longer eligible for a subsequent trophy, therefore an athlete cannot receive multiple awards.
Age Group Champions (1st, 2nd & 3rd)
Throughout the season athletes are awarded points for their attendance, participation and performance. At the end of the season points are totalled and the three highest point scorers (1st, 2nd & 3rd) in each age group, male and female separately, are recognised and awarded as their respective age group's champions.
Personal Best (PB) Champion
Throughout the season athletes are awarded a 'PB Star' every time they better a previous best. At the end of the season the athlete in each age group, male and female separately, who has earned the most PBs is recognised and awarded their age group's PB Champion. Note: this award cannot be received by an Age Group Champion.
Encouragement Award
This award is determined by the Age Group Manager for each age group, male and female separately. It is typically awarded to an athlete who has shown a great display of dedication, commitment, perseverance, sportsmanship, encouragement and friendship throughout the season.
Trophies - Cross Country
Every athlete from each male and female age group will be awarded with a trophy for their efforts during the season. Athletes will receive one of the following trophies (in order of distribution); Age Group Champion (1st, 2nd or 3rd) or Participation Award. Cross Country also has a PB Champion award that is awarded to the athlete, from all age groups combined, that has earned the most PBs for the season.
Throughout the season athletes are awarded points for their attendance and performance. At the end of the season points are totalled and the three highest point scorers (1st, 2nd & 3rd) in each age group, male and female separately, are recognised and awarded as their respective age group's champions.
Throughout the season athletes are awarded a 'PB Star' every time they better a previous best. At the end of the season the athlete who has earned the most PBs is recognised and awarded the ultimate Cross Country PB Champion. Note: there is only one standalone PB Champion fr Cross Country.
Competition Points
Athletes will be credited with 2 points for each FLAC competition day they attend. Attendance is satisfied by participating in 1 of the events from the scheduled competition program.
Event Participation (not applicable to Cross Country season)
Athletes will be credited with 1 point for each event they participate in from the scheduled competition program
Event Result
The first 10 athletes in each event from the scheduled competition program will be credited with the following additional points based on their overall age group placing:
1st Place 10 points
2nd Place 9 points
3rd Place 8 points
4th Place 7 points
10th Place 1 point
Points Example
If an athlete attends a meet and competes in two events and places first in each event, they will receive 24 points for the meet:
Attendance: 2 points
Participation: 2 points (1 point per event)
Place Points: 20 points (10 points per first place)
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Gardens are where weary workers retreat to get away from the stress of city life. People use these places to connect with nature and forget about deadlines, bills, and most other worries. But, gardens don't come about out of nowhere; they're significant investments in a property. If you take into account not just the garden supplies, but its design as well, considerable amounts of money can go into your outdoor sanctuary.
Some gardens take the expense more easily than most, and the amounts spent on some of the world's most lavish gardens are astounding.
The Leonardslee Garden in West Sussex is a lush 225-acre property bursting with flowers, wallabies, lakes, waterfalls, and one-of-a-kind trees. Bought by an anonymous bidder in 2010, the gardens collected a sum of £5 million.
The Chelsea Flower Show is an annual event hosted by the Royal Horticultural Society, and is the world's premiere horticultural event. Fantastic displays of plant-life and artistic garden design adorn the exhibits year-in and year-out. But, 2010 was special because of one particular entry.
Entitled the 'Ace of Diamonds', renowned garden designer David Domoney, using simple gardening supplies, created one of the most successful fusions of luxury and nature to date. The garden featured plants named after jewellery, and jewellery inspired by plants. Overall, the entire garden cost £18,706,237.
Elliptical trainers are the ultimate workout equipment for all-around fitness. They are non-impactful to the knees, making it a better choice for people suffering from bone and joint conditions. Certain models have movable poles or upper body handles that work similarly to ski poles to give your arms some exercise.
Improved cardiovascular health is the main reward for breaking a sweat on this equipment. A 30-minute workout five times a week is enough to give your heart a vigorous training. An elliptical machine makes it easier to achieve your heart rate goals without getting out of breath fast.
Working out on this machine for half an hour at a moderate level can help you burn more than 200 calories. Its design is built for comfort, and won't stress your feet, knees, and hips out during the training.
This equipment puts your arms at constant work, allowing you to tone more muscle groups than just by running. Pedaling your feet in reverse, adjusting the incline, and increasing the resistance levels provides a tougher training for your muscle tissues.
Modern ellipticals have innovative features to help reach new heights in fitness. Understand the proper way of exercising on it to avoid injuries and reap all the health rewards you can get with this machine.
Proper spending and budgeting are the foundations of every financial plan. Regardless of whether you're living pay-check to pay-check or own a business earning six-figures annually, you need to know where your money goes to improve cash flow.
Contrary to what many might believe, proper budgeting isn't all about stopping yourself from buying enhancements for your business or eliminating all the enjoyment out of life. It's about knowing how much money you have, where it goes, and determining where to allocate those funds.
If times are tight and you need to pay a bill, advertise, or put money into a new project, consider cost cutting. Look at features you can control and minimise to a large degree, and think whether this will not hurt your business.
Budgeting and bookkeeping are two tasks that consume time. Hire business accountants to help you with your financial modelling.
Budgeting should not put you and your people in a financial straitjacket. Instead, it should make everyone responsible for keeping the business on schedule in reaching your target financial objectives.
Budgeting should be the first method in your financial planning. Do this well, and it can put you on the road to financial security and success.
Teaching your kids to get dressed independently is a welcome challenge. With the right preparation and patience on both you and your child's part, you can find ways to teach your kid to dress up without your help.
Get your kids excited about dressing by letting them choose their clothes. But don't overwhelm them with too many choices. Limit the selection to two or three funky outfits.
Give your little one loose clothing items to try out and put on. In most cases, you may need to put half of the clothes on and let your child do the rest.
Purchase dolls or toys that have buttons or a bowtie. These will give your child an idea and improve the dexterity in their fingers.
Put clothes where your kids can easily access them. Place them in bottom drawers or low racks. You can include cute or funky clothes that your toddlers will want to wear.
Don't scold your kids when they do it wrong. Always remember that kids respond better with praise or appreciation. If your child puts the shirt inside out, still acknowledge the effort and teach them the right way to it.
Keep in mind that teaching your child to get dressed is a learning experience. While there may be some frustration along the way, your little one will master putting on clothes eventually.
Just as your feet ache after a long walk, your tires also get tired of the beating they take when you drive for long hours. While you can't feel their pain, they can give you signs that it's time for a replacement. No matter how smoothly you drive, tires will eventually get old and wear out. A tire blow-out while you're in the middle of the road is dangerous, so make sure to bring your car to repair centers before your tires become too old or worn for driving.
Here are some warning signs that clearly indicate you need new tires.
If the tires slip every time you hit the brakes, it's one indication that you need a tire replacement. This often happens when making turns. Have your tires replaced right away, as even a small glide can lead to a big mishap.
Bald tires are not just an eyesore, they also indicate that you need a tire replacement. These tires are especially dangerous when the road is wet. Replace them immediately if you can see the tread wear indicator on your tires.
Bulges on some areas of a tire sometimes appear as it starts to wear out. This can result in a sudden tire blow out, for which you will pay a higher price than a replacement.
Whether you own a brand new or used car, inspecting your tires should be one of your priorities. A little tire inspection can go a long way towards road safety.
Chronic back pain significantly affects the quality of sleep. For years, scientists and doctors in South Jordan have speculated that the mattress may be the reason behind people lacking the much-needed rest.
When it comes to mattresses, the hard way isn't always best. Research shows that medium-firm bed greatly improves the quality of sleep. That's why airbeds aren't just for camping anymore. The air support of the inflatable mattress can support your body in a neutral position.
Switching your existing mattress with memory foam from a South Jordan mattress store may be the key to a reduced back pain and better sleep. The foam allows the body to remain in its natural shape and alignment, a circumstance that doctors believe could relieve pressure on the back.
An alternative to foam mattresses, latex mattresses are for those who prefer firm and bouncy support. This type is still by far one of the most widely used. It's great for relieving back pain, as they offer the best combination of comfort and support.
Getting a good night's sleep depends on many different factors. As there's really no science to what mattress to choose, just find one that is most comfortable to you.
Many people, including minors, suffer from alcohol abuse or addiction. They can't resist the temptation because their bodies have developed tolerance to alcohol. As a result, they tend to have the urge to drink more. It's easy to know if you're getting addicted to alcohol. Here's how.
Alcoholic beverages affect your mind and actions. You feel happier and more confident after drinking. That's why many people drink alcohol whenever they're sad or angry. Remember that drinking is not the right way to solve your problems. Talking to someone you love or trust is your best option.
Once your body becomes tolerant to alcohol, you'll start craving for more. You'll feel incomplete whenever you let a day pass without drinking. The safe amount is two standard drinks for both males and females. But experts recommend having at least two alcohol-free days per week to prevent addiction. If you're under 18, you should avoid drinking any alcoholic beverages.
When you drink alcohol more frequently than recommended, you may think of drinking as a 'need' rather than a 'want'. This is a clear sign of alcohol addiction.
Conquer alcohol addiction before it takes over your life. Talk to a person or a group knowledgeable about controlling alcohol-related problems. Entering a rehab facility is your best option if you're experiencing serious addiction.
Home design experts in Australia and interior design companies in Perth suggest that soft yellow is the colour of 2014. People are bombarded with different hues and they want something happier and more energising, but relaxing at the same time. Being the soft and neutral colour that it is, yellow serves this purpose perfectly.
Good news for acrylic lovers: clear chairs and tables are making a comeback this year. Apart from being light, clear furniture pieces go with everything. This is why they are perfect for traditional and contemporary interiors.
Moving on from2013's nature-inspired prints of birds and butterflies, old-world patterns and ethnic designs will become a hit this year. Hire an interior design firm and turn your plain living room into an ethnic wonder by incorporating Moroccan furnishings and tribal patterns in your home design.
Don't be out of style this 2014. Paint your home yellow, buy acrylic furniture, and incorporate ethnic patterns in your interior design to keep your home stylish all year round.
The online mobile accessories market has seen a surge in recent years, thanks to products that made people clamor for more convenience. The biggest shift in the market is marked by functionality and accessibility made available through mobile apps.
While the market remains available for cases and skins, intelligent apps have made consumers adopt smartphones largely. With the increased use of mobile apps, hardware accessories have also seen increased opportunities to complement mobile devices.
As smartphone devices are of high value, people invest in their protection. The manufacturers of mobile accessories that sell their products online provide more advanced solutions. Charging capabilities and storage are now a part of many cell phone accessories.
There have been significant upgrades in the visual and audio features of many smartphones for better user experience. For this reason, smartphones have become the main source of entertainment at home or while on the go.
As consumers rely on their phones for almost all their activities, developers have introduced many charging solutions to make sure users will never get disconnected. Now, consumers can choose from wireless charging, simultaneous charging, battery boosts, and alternative power sources.
The market for mobile accessories has changed dramatically, and there's no telling when all of these may slow down. As long as people continue to look for better ways to achieve convenience, manufacturers will also continue to supply those demands.


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New Horizons in Science made its way to Gainesville, Florida in 2013, hosted by the University of Florida as part of ScienceWriters2013. Science sessions were held at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center Sunday and Monday, in conjunction with the annual meeting and workshops of the National Association of Science Writers.


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Automotive Heat Exchanger Market Research Report by Design, by Vehicle, by Application, by Region - Global Forecast to 2027 - Cumulative Impact of COVID-19
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Automotive Heat Exchanger Market Research Report by Design (Plate-Bar and Tube-Fin), by Vehicle (Conventional Vehicles and Electric Vehicles), by Application, by Region (Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa) - Global Forecast to 2027 - Cumulative Impact of COVID-19
The Global Automotive Heat Exchanger Market size was estimated at USD 20.19 billion in 2020 and expected to reach USD 21.56 billion in 2021, at a CAGR 7.16% to reach USD 32.76 billion by 2027.
Market Statistics:
The report provides market sizing and forecast across five major currencies - USD, EUR GBP, JPY, and AUD. It helps organization leaders make better decisions when currency exchange data is readily available. In this report, the years 2018 and 2019 are considered historical years, 2020 as the base year, 2021 as the estimated year, and years from 2022 to 2027 are considered the forecast period.
Market Segmentation & Coverage:
This research report categorizes the Automotive Heat Exchanger to forecast the revenues and analyze the trends in each of the following sub-markets:
Based on Design, the market was studied across Plate-Bar and Tube-Fin.
Based on Vehicle , the market was studied across Conventional Vehicles and Electric Vehicles.
Based on Application, the market was studied across Air Conditioning, Exhaust Gas Heat Exchanger, Intercoolers, Oil Coolers, and Radiators.
Based on Region, the market was studied across Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa. The Americas is further studied across Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and United States. The United States is further studied across California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The Asia-Pacific is further studied across Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. The Europe, Middle East & Africa is further studied across France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom.
Cumulative Impact of COVID-19:
COVID-19 is an incomparable global public health emergency that has affected almost every industry, and the long-term effects are projected to impact the industry growth during the forecast period. Our ongoing research amplifies our research framework to ensure the inclusion of underlying COVID-19 issues and potential paths forward. The report delivers insights on COVID-19 considering the changes in consumer behavior and demand, purchasing patterns, re-routing of the supply chain, dynamics of current market forces, and the significant interventions of governments. The updated study provides insights, analysis, estimations, and forecasts, considering the COVID-19 impact on the market.
Competitive Strategic Window:
The Competitive Strategic Window analyses the competitive landscape in terms of markets, applications, and geographies to help the vendor define an alignment or fit between their capabilities and opportunities for future growth prospects. It describes the optimal or favorable fit for the vendors to adopt successive merger and acquisition strategies, geography expansion, research & development, and new product introduction strategies to execute further business expansion and growth during a forecast period.
FPNV Positioning Matrix:
The FPNV Positioning Matrix evaluates and categorizes the vendors in the Automotive Heat Exchanger Market based on Business Strategy (Business Growth, Industry Coverage, Financial Viability, and Channel Support) and Product Satisfaction (Value for Money, Ease of Use, Product Features, and Customer Support) that aids businesses in better decision making and understanding the competitive landscape.
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The Competitive Scenario provides an outlook analysis of the various business growth strategies adopted by the vendors. The news covered in this section deliver valuable thoughts at the different stage while keeping up-to-date with the business and engage stakeholders in the economic debate. The competitive scenario represents press releases or news of the companies categorized into Merger & Acquisition, Agreement, Collaboration, & Partnership, New Product Launch & Enhancement, Investment & Funding, and Award, Recognition, & Expansion. All the news collected help vendor to understand the gaps in the marketplace and competitor's strength and weakness thereby, providing insights to enhance product and service.
Company Usability Profiles:
The report profoundly explores the recent significant developments by the leading vendors and innovation profiles in the Global Automotive Heat Exchanger Market, including AKG Thermal Systems, Inc., Alfa Laval AB, American Industrial Heat Transfer Inc., Constellium N.V., DENSO, G&M Radiator, GEA Group, Gunter GmbH & Co. KG, MAHLE, and SGL Carbon Technic LLC.
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Poata: Seeing Beyond the Horizon : a Memoir
Author(s): Tama Poata
Tama Te Kapua (Tom) Poata, 1936-2005, founded the Maori Organisation On Human Rights in the 1960s to campaign for Maori land rights and social justice, and against the Vietnam War and apartheid. His activities fused with Nga Tamatoa and Te Roopu o te Matakite and culminated in the Maori land march in 1975. Later Tama was a pioneer in the pursuit of Maori intellectual property, as an initiator of the Wai 262 claim. Tama had a high profile in HART - Halt All Racist Tours - and coined its name. He ran onto Athletic Park to disrupt the 1970 All Black trials, and during the 1981 Springbok tour was a marshal in the Molesworth Street confrontation with the police. As a filmmaker Tama Poata will always be remembered for his 1987 screenplay, Ngati, a landmark in Maori film. He acted in, directed and was involved in many other films, and promoted indigenous filmmaking in Aotearoa and overseas. This colourful memoir combines vivid storytelling - tales of growing up in Tokomaru Bay in the 1940s and '50s - with detail of the campaigns and cultural initiatives in which Tama Te Kapua Poata was a visionary, passionate and articulate leader.
"one of our quiet revolutionaries who changed our world for the better, in so many different areas ... a worker, an actor, a movie-maker, an artist, a unionist, an activist fighting for human rights, a devoted father and a loving grandfather." - Tariana Turia.
Publisher : Steele Roberts & Associates Ltd
Imprint : Steele Roberts & Associates Ltd
Produced in : New Zealand
Dewey classification : 323.11994420092
Author : Tama Poata
Illustrations : Colour and black and white


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My research is now part of the Smithsonian's permanent collection.
I stopped by the American history museum of the Smithsonian and was superexcited to see three objects that I have encountered in my research were now on exhibit and part of the museum's permanent collection The kata grills from Gary Ono, which were used to make superearly fortune cookies in the Japanese Tea Garden in […]
Fortune Cookie Seating
Shin Azumi for Lapalma has designed a fortune cookie-shaped chair which was presented at Imm Cologne 2011, though there has been some controversy about it since then. According to Swiss Miss, it is built from a single sheet of plywood. While it looks fragile, it's actually incredibly stable, thanks to the clever weight distribution achieved via a specifically […]
Like "A Year of Living Biblically," but With Fortune Cookies
Every day for a year, a writer, Matt Kelsey, is going to follow the advice of a fortune cookie and play the lucky numbers, to see if it really will make a difference. Here is his press release, which I was fascinated by in part because it's on the Kansas City Star website. Sort of […]
Wear Your Fortunes Around Your Neck! On Etsy.
Love these fortune cookie fortune scarves on Etsy for $22. They read "Success is a journey, not a destination," which is actually a fortune I have on a giant roll I got from Wonton Food.
Fancy Fortune Cookies deal on Groupon!
I was amused to see that Fancy Fortune Cookies is doing a Groupon, $15 for $35 worth of cookies, in various cities. The owner of Fancy Fortune Cookies, Mike Fry, is a former Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus clown who had the vision of selling flavored fortune cookies come to him in a […]
Fortune Cookie Fortune Nightstand
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
In the guest room in Atlanta where I stayed. Total coincidence. The owner had been collecting them since she was young.
Oops. Wrong Cookie?
This fortune, which the host got during a taping of a PBS interview about my book, is one of the funnier fortunes I have gotten. It's from Wonton Foods. Some fortune cookie writer had a sense of humor or was incredibly bored.
Historic Fortune Cookie Grills Donated to the Smithsonian
Breaking news! Gary Ono, who is descended from one of the earliest fortune cookie manufacturers, is donating historic fortune cookie grills, known as kata, to the Smithsonian — thanks to a connection I made. Armed with the contact information I gave the museum, research specialist Noriko Sanefuji went out to investigate and met Gary, who […]
Homemade Fortune Cookies at the Smithsonian
Noriko Sanefuji of the Smithsonian made homemade fortune cookies for my visit to the Smithsonian using a recipe she had found. They were really fragile though, so only three survived, which she gave me.
Beijing Fortune Cookie Exporters
I just got this e-mail sent to me on the contact form on my site. I find it amusing that they have been exporting for "many years" and that their cookies have "enjoyed popularity in both China and abroad" Dear Sir / Madam We wish to inform you that We have been exporters of cookies for […]
The Census is Coming To You Via Fortune Cookies
The Seattle Times is reporting the Census Department is using fortune cookies as a marketing device . Tsue Chong Co., a Seattle fortune company that also sells "unfortunate cookies", is inserting five different census messages into 2 million cookies being shipped to restaurants and groceries across Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. They have messages such […]
One Thousand Marijuana Plants Found at Old Fortune Cookie Factory
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
The Oakland Tribune has a great crime story about 1,000 marijuana plants — up to four feet tall — which were found at an old fortune cookie factory in Oakland. The estimated value? About half a million dollars. The factory, originally owned by the Kar Mee fortune cookie company, appears to be founded in 1977. […]
Fortune Cookie Christmas Tree Ornaments
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Urban Outfitters is offering a fortune cookie Christmas ornament for sale online. I wonder what meaning it would derive from having a fortune cookie hanging on their pine tree.
Now You Can Get Fortune Cookies on Your iPhone with a Ching Chong voice.
A new iPhone app called LuckyFortune now gives you a fortune cookie in your pocket. You can shake it and the cookie rolls around (real video, not CGI, the company said) and breaks to the sound of (of course) a gong. Then (yikes) this faux Chinese-y accent comes on and reads your fortune. It definitely […]
Fortune Coo-keys!
Sent to me via Twitter by @ascottfalk.. "Fortune Cookeys" for keys. It reminds me that early spelling of fortune cookies was actually "fortune cooky" as of the 1950s. And before that "fortune tea cakes." I wonder if the "fortune cooky" was an intentional or unintentional mis-spelling by the part of the Chinese entrepreneurs.
Fortune Cookies on Your Hotel Bed
Went to the Dana Hotel in Chicago this weekend and was amused that instead of chocolates, they placed chocolate-covered fortune cookies during their turn-down service. The cookies were very good.
The Rubber Bands Are Heading in the Right Direction.
This is a fortune that was sent to me by a reader: I'm sending you a picture of a fortune I got out of a cookie about five or so years ago. It's the strangest fortune I've ever received and I thought you might like to see it. I've kept it pinned on my bulletin […]
Song Lyrics Exclusively From Fortune Cookie Fortunes
This is an amusing stop animation video on YouTube where all the song lyrics are derived from fortune cookies. The funny thing is I've seen some of these fortunes before, like "The first and only love is self-love." At 7 minutes, it looks like it took a long time to put together!
This Paper is Not Edible
My friend Tomoko, who lives in Tokyo, went to an upscale Chinese restaurant called Si Chuan Do Hua and had fortune cookies served to her. It was the first time it had happened to her. The fortune was in Japanese and English. The more amusing thing is that on the back it warned, in small […]
LAT: Bringing Fortune Cookies into the 21st Century.
A Los Angeles Times columnist, Gregory Rodriguez, writes about Kenny Yee, who bought one of L.A.'s four Chinese fortune cookie factories. (Good luck, the margins are awful.) I wonder which four there are. There is Amay, Peking Noodle, now-defunct Hong Kong Noodle…which else. I'm a bit sad about this part of his piece. I hate […]
About Time I Got Out of That Cookie
This is the most hysterical fortune that someone at my talk at the Richmond Jewish Community Center (which has a water slide!). Those people over Wonton Food are getting quite frisky.
Baby meets Mexican Fortune Cookies, Dichos!
My college roommate, Amy, was served the Mexican fortune cookies called dichos, that I've written about before. She lives in Phoenix and was served them in Bisbee, just 5 miles from where they are made. Yes, it seems that Bisbee is in the middle of nowhere. And their supercute son, Alex, loved them too. Or […]
Fortune Cookie Pendants, Some for $1,100.
Friday, October 31st, 2008
My friend's mom bought me this fortune cookie pendant as a present, adding to my collection of fortune cookie trinkets. It even has a tiny fortune inside. I've been surprised at the use of fortune cookies in jewelry. Out of curiosity, I Googled "fortune cookie pendant" and was surprised to find that you can find […]
My Worlds Converge: Fortune Cookies meets City Room
This piece by Willie Neuman talks about fortune cookies (protesting the M.T.A.) on City Room. Some of the sayings (none by Confucius, as much as we can see) "If you cut transit service, this cookie will give you heartburn." "Raising transit fares will wreak havoc on your love life." "In a tough economy, it is […]
Who was the mysterious fortune cookie king?
Got an email from a reader. Does anyone know who this mogul could have been? In the late 1980s and early 90s I worked for a small arts publisher then located on the north side of Spring Street between Crosby and Lafayette in Soho. On the floor below us there was a small, ancient, one-man […]


The Terminal was based on a real person's story, an Iranian who became stuck at a Paris airport for a number of years, but if you were looking for realism then director Steven Spielberg was not the man to give it to you here. This was one of the famed filmmaker's underperforming works, not a devastating flop exactly, but not the high achieving hit that his name on the credits had become synonymous with. The premise is not a bad one even if it was Hollywood-ised, and it was evident that the intent was a slice of Capra-corn for the twenty-first century, but the result tended towards the sickly.
Essentially, Viktor is trapped in the airport for as long as he is not allowed to enter America or leave for his home. Bureaucracy would appear to be the enemy here, all summed up in one character, the administrator Frank Dixon (Stanley Tucci takes this thankless role), and it's this which prevents the various colours of the world from getting together and having a good time regardless of who is telling them where they can and cannot go. Viktor swiftly learns English thanks to the wonder of travel guides and begins winning his way into the hearts of the staff, all of whom hail from a selection of parts of the globe.
The airport, we're supposed to see, is like America a microcosm of the world and if it wasn't for big bad governments that are in charge (that'll be Dixon, then) we could all get along swimmingly. It's a simplistic view, and that about sums up the tale presented here, with Viktor as a sort of magical fairy godfather who sprinkles a little enchanted glitter over the lives of everyone he meets. So while he's stuck, he for example acts as a matchmaker between one worker (Diego Luna) and the object of his affection (Zoe Saldana) who he is too shy to speak to face to face.
In addition, Viktor is awarded a romance of his own with air stewardess Amelia (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who he has believe that he is passing through the terminal and their meetings are a coincidence, but her on-off relationship with a married man could sabotage their blossoming connection. Again, there's nothing poignant in this when you can see the gears and machinery working so nakedly to get from point A to point B in the clichés that pass for plot. A better approach would not be so contrived and make the film more realistic, but considering they spent a mint on building their own airport terminal then a focus-grouped fable is all they were willing to bank on. When you don't believe the leading man's accent, never mind the twists and turns of the story, then it's clear there was nothing challenging about this and The Terminal was heading straight down the easy to please route with banal results. Music by John Williams.
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1. Nancy Astor was a Conservative MP; who served between 1919 and 1945. Nancy Astor was the first female to take her seat as MP in the House of Commons. Nancy Astor's presence in the House of Commons made waves in politics for the women that have since become MPs.
2. Barbara Castle was a Labour MP, who served from 1945-1979; she put through the 1970 Equal pay act. This Equal pay act demands that men and women are treated the same with regard to pay and employment conditions.
3. Jackie Ballard was a Liberal Democrat MP who served as MP from 1997-2001 and her defeat in the 2001 election was said to be attributed to her efforts in the first attempt at banning fox hunting. Her courage to speak out against blood sports resulted in the ban on fox hunting being enforced in February 2005.
4. And finally Caroline Lucas, the first ever Green MP. Caroline Lucas' mission was not self-promotion but rather to encourage efforts to make the environment hospitable for future generations. Upon Caroline's success in 2010 to take a Green Seat in parliament she resigned as the Green Party's leader as an effort to boost the profile of her Green colleagues for the next general election in 2015.
Thank you Nancy Astor, Barbara Castle, Jackie Ballard, and Caroline Lucas for not only making waves for matters important to yourselves but also allowing others to test the waters too! As a side note, I love people introducing me to new areas of interest, so I hope this article gets the ball-rolling for others to write articles such as '4 female scientists' that made waves or '4 female sketch-artists' who made waves because if you were to ask me on the street to name 4 female scientists or 4 sketch artists, I would not be able to answer, so please give me a voice!


Abstract This paper assesses how shocks to bank capital may influence a bank's portfolio behaviour using novel evidence from a UK bank panel data set from a period that pre-dates the recent financial crisis. Focusing on the behaviour of bank loans, we extract the dynamic response of a bank to innovations in its capital and in its regulatory capital buffer. We find that innovations in a bank's capital in this (pre-crisis) sample period were coupled with a loan response that lasted up to three years. Banks also responded to scarce regulatory capital by raising their deposit rate to attract funds. The international presence of UK banks allows us to identify a specific driver of capital shocks in our data, independent of bank lending to UK residents. Specifically, we use write-offs on loans to non-residents to instrument bank capital's impact on UK resident lending. A fall in capital brought about a significant drop in lending in particular, to private non-financial corporations. In contrast, household lending increased when capital fell, which may indicate that – in this pre-crisis period – banks substituted into less risky assets when capital was short.