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Minutes after midnight, having just won the Democratic presidential primary in California, Robert F. Kennedy was shot in the kitchen of Los Angeles's Ambassador Hotel while shaking the hand of a busboy. It was June 5, 1968, 50 years ago today. By the end of that year, the journalist David Halberstam, renowned for his reporting on the Vietnam War, published The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy, about RFK's presidential campaign and his unrealized potential. In 1969, Halberstam spoke to Studs Terkel about RFK, an interview you can hear at the Studs Terkel Radio Archive, which is managed by the Chicago History Museum and WTTW's sister station the WFMT Radio Network.
Halberstam and Studs discuss RFK's transformation from a distant, rich boy into a progressive champion of civil rights, the anti-war movement, and a defender of the impoverished. "More than anybody in American life at that time, he understood what we had become, and where we were failing, and what our priorities were," Halberstam says. "There was a strength in him. He was not always a graceful man, and in his early days, he was not always a generous man. There were a lot of warts on him and limitations, but I think that on the important things he was good, and there was this great strength to him, a decency and simplicity and a willingness to listen and a willingness to learn." Revisit RFK's legacy on the 50th anniversary of his assassination with the interview, and stream an American Experience special about him for a limited time.


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General Causes of Modern Obesity
The risk factors and contributory causes of obesity – a disease of excess body fat characterized by a body mass index of 30+ – include a range of well-documented genetic and environmental factors. But the relative effect of these causes on the development of obesity, remains unclear. Before examining possible causes, note that obesity, especially severe clinical obesity like morbid or malignant obesity, carries greater risks of morbidity and premature mortality than simple overweight.
Problem 1: Diagnosing Causes For Sudden Rise in Obesity Levels
Any explanation of the root causes of the current obesity epidemic must account for its sudden appearance. Six million American adults are now morbidly obese (BMI 40+), almost twice as high as 1980 severe obesity rates, while another 9.6 million have a BMI of 35-40. The percentage of overweight children 6-11 has nearly doubled since the early 1980's. (Source: US Census 2000; NHANES III data estimates). Thus genetic causes are unlikely to be significant. Because while a predisposition to obesity can be inherited, the fact that obesity has increased so much in the last few decades appears to discount genetics as a major main cause. Also, the fact that each succeeding generation is heavier than the last indicates that changes in our environment are playing the key role.
Problem 2: Separating Genetic Causes From Environmental Causes
Obesity tends to run in families, suggesting a genetic link. Yet families also share common dietary, physical exercise, attitude and lifestyle habits that may also contribute to obesity. Separating these from purely genetic factors is not an easy statistical or diagnostic task.
Environmental Causes of Obesity
In view of the sudden rise in weight levels – which is a worldwide trend as reflected in the new word "globesity" – environmental factors must be the prime cause of modern obesity.
Overconsumption – A Possible Root Cause
Eating too many calories for our enery needs must be a major candidate for the main cause of the modern obesity epidemic. According to Dr. Marion Nestle, Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University, US agribusiness now produces 3,800 calories of food a day for every American, 500 calories more than 30 years ago — but at much lower per-calorie costs. Increases in consumption of calorie-dense foods, as evidenced by the growth of fast-food chains and higher soft drink consumption, also point to a higher energy-intake.
NOTE: For an explanation of how surplus calories – from dietary fat, protein or carbohydrate – are stored as body fat, please see: Body Fat/Adipose Tissue – Why We Gain Fat
Eating Too Many High-Fat or Refined Sugary Foods
The type of food eaten may also play an important role in the rise of obesity. Researchers continue to discover more metabolic and digestive disorders resulting from overconsumption of trans-fats and refined white flour carbohydrates, combined with low fiber intake. These eating patterns are known to interfere with food and energy metabolism in the body, and cause excessive fat storage. Associated health disorders include insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes as well as obesity. Incidence of these "modern" diseases is increasing worldwide.
Reduced Energy Expenditure – A Possible Root Cause
People who eat more calories need to burn more calories, otherwise their calorie surplus is stored as fat. For example, if we eat 100 more food calories a day than we burn, we gain about 1 pound in a month. That's about 10 pounds in a year. Over two decades this energy surplus causes a weight gain of 200 pounds!
Assessing the contribution of lack of exercise to obesity is hampered by lack of research. According to existing surveys, only 20 percent of the population are frequent exercisers. In addition, only a small minority of children (1 in 5) regularly participate in after-school sports or extra-curricular physical activity. Since 1990, among adults there has been a per capita decline of 15 percent in frequent exercise activity (100+ days per year in any one activity). Among teenagers and adolescents aged 12-17, the plunge is 41 percent.
However, data on correlation between BMI and exercise frequency is almost non-existent, so we are unable to say exactly what effect lack of exercise has on obesity. What we do know is that severe clinical obesity leads to serious mobility problems caused by respiratory and musculoskeletal disorders. Thus the fitness capacity of obese individuals, especially those suffering from morbid obesity, is typically diminished.
Family Influence – A Major Contributory Cause to Obesity
Parental behavioral patterns concerning shopping, cooking, eating and exercise, have an important influence on a child's energy balance and ultimately their weight. Thus family diet and lifestyle are important contributory causes to modern child obesity, especially at a time of rising affluence. Since obese children and adolescents frequently grow up to become obese adults, it's clear that family influence also extends to adult obesity.
Genetic Causes of Modern Obesity
Genes affect a number of weight-related processes in the body, such as metabolic rate, blood glucose metabolism, fat-storage, hormones, to name but a few. Also, some studies of adopted children indicate that adopted children tend to develop weight problems similar to their biological, rather than adoptive, parents. In addition, infants born to overweight mothers have been found to be less active and to gain more weight by the age of three months when compared with infants of normal weight mothers, suggesting a possible inborn drive to conserve energy. Research has also shown that normal-weight children of obese parents may have a lower metabolic rate than normal-weight children of non-obese parents, which can lead to weight problems in adulthood. All of this suggests that a predisposition to obesity can be inherited.
However, the fact that obesity has increased so much in the last few decades appears to discount genetics as the main cause. According to Stephen O'Rahilly, professor of clinical biochemistry and medicine at Cambridge University, the influence of genetics on modern levels of obesity is insignificant:
"Nothing genetic explains the rise in obesity. We can't change our genes over 30 years."
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Oldham M & S development: Have your say on retail and housing plans
A consulation is being held over plans to build a Marks and Spencer's along with other stores and 800 homes at Mumps
Ruhubia Akbor
16:00, 25 FEB 2015
Artists impression of the new M&S at Prince's Gate at Oldham Mumps
The public are being given the chance to give their opinions on the new M&S development.
Plans are in place to build 800 new homes and new shops – including a Marks and Spencers store – as part of a multi-million pound regeneration scheme.
The Prince's Gate at Oldham Mumps hopes to rejuvenate the eastern gateway into the town.
People can view the plans and quiz the project design scheme at a drop-in consultation event taking place this week.
Council leader, Coun Jim McMahon, said: "Prince's Gate at Oldham Mumps is vital to the future of our town centre.
"With the arrival of the Metrolink line, our eastern gateway is opening up as a fantastic new opportunity and we must capitalise by attracting new high street names, offering quality town centre living options and finding a modern use for the Old Bank building. That's why this is a really exciting scheme – a gamechanger – that is all about our aspirations for Oldham town centre.
"This is a fantastic opportunity to get the right facilities people want to see here in Oldham – and to significantly improve what it offers residents, businesses and visitors.
"To help us get this right it's essential that we hear your views.
"Whether you're a local trader, shopper or resident, I would urge anyone with a few minutes to spare to drop in to this event and view the plans.
"Your input could be vital in shaping the final scheme."
Artists impression of the Prince's Gate at Oldham Mumps site
The plans can be viewed at 17-19 Mumps, next to the Kava Coffee Shop, from 10am to 5pm tomorrow or from 10am to 4pm on Saturday.
They will also be available online at oldham.gov.uk/princesgate from tomorrow.
The new M&S store is set to open by 2017.
Councillor Jim McMahon
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FORT WORTH, Texas – Just like usual in early January, Kurt Busch was back in the cockpit of a car at a track doing testing.
"It's just good to have that racetrack smell back in your nose," Busch said Thursday.
He was at Texas Motor Speedway instead of Daytona and taking part in a Goodyear tire test rather than an open test for Penske Racing.
With NASCAR's new ban on testing at all of its sanctioned tracks, including the traditional "preseason" Daytona 500 testing that usually would be taking place about now, the tire test at Texas provided a now-rare chance to run test laps on a track where Sprint Cup races will be held.
The testing ban is a cost-cutting measure designed to help teams save millions of dollars this season, when a tough economy has tightened budgets and made sponsorship money extremely difficult for teams to find.
David Reutimann, who drives the primary car for Michael Waltrip Racing, said sponsorship for his car is lined up for only half the season.
"It's definitely a tough situation," Reutimann said.
Reutimann is confident he will be able to run a full season and limits on testing help ease the financial burden.
Busch, Reutimann, Jeff Burton and Travis Kvapil participated in the Texas test, the first official session this season for Goodyear and likely the only NASCAR test of any kind on the 1<MD+,%30,%55,%70>1/<MD-,%0,%55,%70>2-mile high-banked track that will host two Cup races.
Busch knows he's fortunate to be part of Penske Racing with sponsorship from major corporations and Burton is with Childress Racing, but Reutimann and Kvapil – who finished 22nd and 23rd, respectively, in the Cup standings last year – are with teams scrambling for money.
The test session was the first time Kvapil was back in a car since his career-best seventh-place finish at Homestead to end last season for underfunded Yates Racing. Kvapil doesn't yet have a primary sponsor lined up for the 2009 opener at Daytona.


Evan knows how to take it easy, especially on Sundays. He even has the right tools to make it happen.
See those beds all tossed around on the floor there? Those are Evan's beds, in large part because he's the only cat in the house who will use kitty beds. Evan loves to take it easy and sleep in them, and to drag them around the room (with a little help from his paralyzed hind legs, but who's judging?).
Once he has his beds situated just right, he'll choose one in which to curl up and snooze.
Sadly, though, he's often interrupted. Just like these pre-easy selfies of his were interrupted.
Resident model Thimble says that no one gets their photo taken without her permission.
Truly, Thimble usually shows up to any and every photo shoot, no matter who is the intended star of the photo shoot. She says that she's the photogenic one around here, so that camera should be pointed at her. To be honest, the other furbabies around here don't usually mind when Thimble takes that flashy box out of their face. Better her than them. In fact, right after Thimble took over the spotlight in this very photo shoot, Evan happily settled down in one of his kitty beds and napped away.
Are there any other camera hogs out there? Or are most of you like Evan and just want to take your nap in peace?
We hope you all take it easy this Sunday!
I'm thinking today's doodle might require a tad bit of an explanation. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned here before that I am one of those whom you might consider a fan of the Harry Potter series. As a lifelong fan of fantasy, I happily grew up reading the books. Some of my favorite parts of the books were of course the moments with various creatures, both magical and non-magical.
In the world of Harry Potter, each young witch or wizard entering Hogwarts, the castle that serves as a school for witchcraft and wizardry, gets to bring with them their choice of a cat, owl, or toad as a magical pet. It would seem that most students in this whimsical world chose to bring an owl. Now, don't get me wrong, because I think owls are amazing, majestic creatures. Bu, if I had been given the choice to bring a cat to school, you better believe I would have chosen that option before the blink of an eye. I never understood why more cats weren't featured in Harry Potter, and I always wished that more had starred in the books.
So, where am I going with this completely random and rambling rant on Harry Potter and the Curious Case of the Missing Cats? Well, I have decided to scribble up doodles of some of the main characters in Harry Potter, but this time I'm making their magical pets all cats. To begin, Harry Potter himself had a snowy owl named Hedwig. I have actually always been a huge fan of Hedwig, but guess what? Hedwig is now a cat.
Today, our Spay/Neuter Awareness Month tip is all about behavior. Yesterday we gave some examples of how spaying and neutering can benefit a cat or dog's health, and the same can be said for their behavior. For example, a cat or dog who is not spayed or neutered will often be more inclined to escape outside, such as to run off and find a hot date. Nobody likes the scare of a loose or lost furbaby, and especially not if they come back with news of a surprise pregnancy. So, to reduce any hormonally-induced escapes, of course have your furbabies spayed or neutered. This is not the only behavior affected by hormones and spaying and neutering, though. Cats and dogs who are not spayed or neutered are also often more likely to display aggression, also often due to their hormones. In addition, there is the chance that they will spray or mark their territory, as well as the chance that they will be more vocal and might yowl, such as at windows or doors, especially if they are in estrus and therefore instinctively calling for a mate. These and other potential behavioral concerns can often be reduced or eliminated altogether if a cat or dog is spayed or neutered. So, in case you didn't already have enough good reasons, please spay and neuter your cats and dogs!
A right cat bed is a special thing. We sure know, as we are always sort of looking for them.
I love my beds too and that selfie is way too cute!!!
We all have our favorite beds too. Such a great selfie. You all have a wonderful Sunday.
Good for Evan.....he probably asked Thimble to come and interrupt the selfie-taking because he KNEW she'd take over and he could curl up and SLEEP!!!!!!
Evan knows exactly where he wants his beds. Thimble made me laugh.
Sweet handsome Evan, I love that you arrange your beds just so. Thimble, none of our cats like getting pictures taken, you are one of a kind - MOL!
Evan! 2 beds! How do you choose? And I gotta say, Thimble is an excellent photobomber!
Happy Easy and Selfie Sunday to ALL of you!
Mudpie definitely prefers napping in peace. That doesn't get to happen very often though thanks to her camera happy Mommy :) In my defense, I have to preserve all that cute!
Evan is a cutie and photobomber Thimble is too :) Joanie actually enjoys the camera and modeling. I like the drawing. Excellent tips too.
Well, as much as we all love Thimble, i am glad you got a couple of pics of Evan before she took over! None of mine care either way about photos.
Nice doodle, and smart tips.
Poor Evan :-) You are a sweetheart.
Hahaha! Brilliant shots of Thimble!


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Hernán Siles Zuazo was inaugurated on 10 October 1982 and formed his cabinet.

MNRI – Revolutionary Nationalist Leftwing Movement

ind – independent

MIR – Revolutionary Left Movement

PCB – Communist Party of Bolivia

PDC – Christian Democratic Party

PRIN – Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left

MRTK – Tupaj Katari Revolutionary Movement

mil – military

Notes

Cabinets of Bolivia
Cabinets established in 1982
Cabinets disestablished in 1985
1982 establishments in Bolivia
1985 disestablishments in Bolivia

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Le Hundun ( est à la fois une créature sans tête issue de la mythologie chinoise, et le chaos primordial et la matrice universelle dans la cosmologie chinoise. Ce dernier est une notion commune au taoïsme et au bouddhisme chan (également son, thiền ou zen, branche chinoise du bouddhisme mahāyāna).

Hun
L'origine (yuan) contient en son sein le chaos, (hun, ), indifférencié, et le un (zhenyi ), différencié. Le hundun est une outre prégnante faisant partie du temps infini (hunyuan).

Il est décrit dans « Livre des Monts et des Mers » comme animé par la musique. Il s'agît d'une outre informe unie, contenant toutes choses non encore créées. Ses voisins le scindent en plusieurs parties de leurs flèches foudroyantes, y percent sept orifices correspondant aux sens, il succombe à cette initiation. C'est de sa mort qu'est né le monde.

Annexes

Notes et références

Bibliographie

Mythologie chinoise
Taoïsme
Bouddhisme
Créature de la mythologie chinoise


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August Mist
August 10, 2010 August 10, 2010 / Terrill Welch / 10 Comments
Today, Tuesday August 10th, is one year since David had his stroke. He has almost completely recovered – so much so that you may not notice the difference from before and after. There are little things he is still working on. But aren't we all? I give thanks for the continued gift of his company, his love and his full engagement in life.
Sunday. I walk alone.
Through the mist flies a great blue heron over the quiet sea. Time reaches into infinity and wraps us in the moment…
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A driftwood stump waits for the next tide to continue its journey. Fog and misty rain keeps us both company.
Meditative careful steps along the shore as hushed resilience springs forth.
It is morning, in the misty rain on the west coast of Canada.
Low tide.
Humid.
August.
Sprout Question: What are you noticing today?
Note: Creative Potager has a new page Artist Biography and yesterday I posted an announcement for my solo exhibition "SEA, LAND AND TIME." Please share both as appropriate.
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From Mayne Island, British Columbia, Canada
February 23, 2010 March 24, 2011 / Terrill Welch / 6 Comments
With David L. Colussi's permission, I share his poem "DWELLING" with you today as part of my creative focus in February on the theme of "home." I will be placing this poem in a new page I'm developing for the Creative Potager blog about la casa de inspiracion – our home.
This first image of David is a personal favourite of mine rendered as an oil painting. David is reading with his drug-store glasses which he likes better than his prescription lens. They are usually slightly askew as he softly turns the pages.
This next image best introduces the poem which reflects on the reflections of la casa de inspiracion and the meaning of "to dwell."
[1 DWELLING = ERROR]
Watching sunlight and darkness from this house of glass
suspended on the ridges of a valley,
the human history of dwelling plays across the scene in drama or in documentary.
Darkness dwells the way that we once did in wandering across the land.
Its home is east of the sun, where it moves ahead in gypsy fashion,
and west of the sun, where it follows as a hunter.
The hunter waits for the sunlight to hit the tops of western valley cliffs at progressively acute angles,
and when the sunlight overshoots the cliffs completely
the darkness rushes over the valley walls like water over Niagara Falls
and submerges all the valley into one big reservoir of night.
Presently it rises up and silvers all the windows and the stained glass tears.
This house of glass becomes a house of mirrors.
[2 DWELLING = INTROVERSION OBSESSION]
Now every light inside the house is captured in the window glass.
Everything that we illuminate is gathered and sent back for us to dwell on and elucidate.
The corner window down the hall shows part of my face in profile.
I look up through the skylight and against the tree tops seen in silhouettes
my hands are on the keyboard moving in some stopped-action like some marionettes.
The corners of the windows in the room downstairs contain some pieces of me I forgot were even there beneath the table.
I am all picassoed over on the window walls in fragments and distorted in stained-glass tears
because this house of glass has turned into a house of mirrors.
[3 DWELLING = HOME]
I work away at putting all my pieces back together.
Memories of things that happened decades long ago appear in casement window frames –
I turn my head
And see myself in childhood and remember questions that I thought I'd answered years ago.
They're all still there waiting to present their supplementaries.
I wonder how I managed to survive with all these pieces some are missing some still there.
They fit together best when you are here.
According to David's notes, which record his history of development and changes to the poem, David started researching "to dwell" and writing this poem on July 24, 2009. I knew he was researching "to dwell" as we had discussed it at length on more than one occasion. He had also told me he was writing a poem for my birthday and that he was just about finished. I begged for clues as to what it was about but as usual he just laughed and held to his secret surprise. My birthday is on August 28th. It wasn't until I was back home on Mayne Island for a mere 24 hours on Saturday, September 5, 2009 that I happened to open his blue notebook, which he had innocently placed on his desk, and discovered David's latest work that he had last revised the night he had his stroke August 9, 2009.
Sprout Question: Who champions your creativity?
p.s. Who is David L. Colussi?
David L. Colussi retired in 2002 after an expansive career in education and management in both the provincial/federal government(s)… His background includes:
– Master of Arts degree in English
– Diploma in Alternative Dispute Resolution from the Canadian Institute for Applied Negotiation in Ottawa
– Teaching English and critical thinking for 3 years at Niagara College, Ontario
– Internal management consultant with federal government in Ottawa for two years
– BC provincial government manager for almost 30 years, with the ministries of Attorney-General, Health, Advanced Education, and central agencies including as Executive Director of Human Resources in the Ministry of Health
– With his late wife, founded a private non-profit Montessori pre-school and elementary school in Victoria 1979-1998, served as its first board chair, and remains an honorary member of its Foundation board
– Member of the patron group of Pearson World College of the Pacific
– Chair of BC StudentAid Appeal Committee for the past 5 years.
With children and step-children grown, some with partner's and children of their own, David now lives a quiet life on Mayne Island in B.C. Canada with his wife Terrill Welch, executive leadership coach, writer, photographer and artist.


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FPT continues to report solid performance
FPT Corporation has reported a 22.6 per cent year-on-year increase in profit before tax and 19.4 per cent increase in revenues in the first four months of the year.
They were respectively VND1.34 trillion (US$57.4 million) and VND7.79 trillion ($333.29 million).
The profit after tax (PAT) and PAT attributable to parent company's shareholders were VND1.1 trillion and VND887 billion, up 21.2 per cent and 22.3 per cent over a year.
Earnings per share were up 21.7 per cent annually at VND1,446.
A key growth driver, the technology sector recorded revenues and profit before tax of VND4.18 trillion and VND536 billion, up 22 per cent and 45.3 per cent.
The software outsourcing segment had revenues of VND3.13 trillion, up 38.1 per cent. Its profit before tax was VND469 billion, up 39.6 per cent.
The telecom segment's revenues and profit before tax were VND3.18 trillion and VND504 billion, up 17.6 per cent and 10.8 per cent.
Overseas revenues were over VND3.3 trillion, up 35.7 per cent and profit before tax was VND513 billion, up 33.8 per cent.
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333: The true number of the beast?
Exeter's most dreaded history paper is back for another spring term.
Students gather in the Library Commons to work on their History 430 term papers.
As spring unfolds on Exeter's campus, nearly 300 students are confronting one of the most daunting academic challenges presented them during their time at the Academy: the "333." The notorious U.S. history term paper, with a required length of 12 to 15 pages — or approximately 4,000 words — is meant to train students in the type of independent research, critical thinking, analytical writing and time management skills they will need in their college careers.
Uppers, along with some seniors and a few ambitious lowers, take on the assignment as the capstone of the final course in the History Department's three-term American history sequence. Since 2016, this course has been called History 430: U.S. History 1941–Present, but before that it was known for three decades as History 333. While the numbering change was intended to reflect the academic rigor of the course, the 333 term paper was by then considered an integral rite of passage at the school — and the name stuck.
The famous Louis Khan-designed Class of 1945 Library serves as the students' hulking home base during the four weeks they spend working on their 333s. Roughly 15 class sessions of History 430 are devoted to the project, with students spending most of that class time working independently or conferencing one-on-one with their teachers.
It's the school's most infamous paper, so obviously everyone's going to have some anxiety around it."
Arya Palla '23
To help students avoid last-minute, late-night writing binges, History 430 teachers set careful guidelines along the way, including notes, detailed outlines and a rough draft. The timely completion of these mini-assignments factor into the final grade for the paper, which comprises 40% of a student's grade for the course.
"A lot of students can sit down and fire out a four-to-five-page paper at the last minute," says Instructor in History Sally Komarek, who is teaching four sections of 430 this term. "But the longer the paper gets, you need an outline, and you need to think about how things are organized. We try to get them to build those habits now."
The 333 process begins with pre-research, or some "low-stakes perusing," as Komarek puts it. The students can write on any topic related to U.S history; she tries to get students to choose topics they are passionate about, to make the project easier and more enjoyable. After taking copious notes — some students use Google Docs, or a software program called Noodle Tools, while others rely on old-fashioned index cards — the students settle on a single-focused research question and are required to hand in a detailed outline. Students need a minimum of eight to 10 sources for their 333's bibliography, including reference books, secondary sources, periodicals and scholarly articles, and the majority is expected to be made up of primary sources.
One of Komarek's students, Arya Palla '23, is writing about U.S. intervention in Nicaragua in the 1980s, and the public perception versus the reality of America's activities there. He's making good use of the many archived newspapers and other online resources the Library provides access to, and has found that completing the smaller assignments along the way have relieved much of the pressure inherent in the term paper.
"It's the school's most infamous paper, so obviously everyone's going to have some anxiety around it," Palla says. "But since it's so structured, I think it becomes a lot easier to go through the process. Before you know it, you've kind of already written the paper through your notes.
I don't think it's as scary as people make it out to be. But I also haven't finished it yet."
Lally Lavin '23
For her topic, Lally Lavin '23 chose the 1995 self-help book The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right. "It's a little bit more recent, but the authors address a lot of changing social norms throughout the 1900s," she explains. "I've used it as an opportunity to explore what's going on with feminism, women entering the workforce, education rates and all of that from the 1960s to the '90s."
Though aware of the paper's fearsome reputation, Lavin is pleasantly surprised — so far — at the reality. "I don't think it's as scary as people make it out to be," she says. "But I also haven't finished it yet."
Because not all sections of History 430 can meet in the library at once, and many teachers teaching multiple sections need to manage their own workload, the students are completing their term papers in waves. By early May, while Palla, Lavin and their classmates are buckling down for some serious writing, Komarek's other two sections are just beginning the process. And other students are basking in the warmer weather, along with the knowledge that they have made it through this Exeter milestone.
"I remember being a prep and a lot of the uppers in my dorm at the time talking about the 333," says Keanen Andrews '23, who wrote his paper on the rise of the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as "Black Wall Street," and its destruction at the hands of white rioters in 1921 for History Instructor Nolan Lincoln's 430 class. "It was in the back of my mind when I was a younger student, and now that it's done, I know it was difficult and challenging, but I do feel complete. I put everything into the paper, and I enjoyed it."
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Q: Why do we only need a double integral to compute the centre of mass in this problem I am confused with the following;
Asked to find the centre of mass of the part of the sphere $x^2+y^2+z^2=25$ above the plane $z=4$.
In the solutions, it uses that $$M=\iint_{S} \delta dS$$ where \delta is constant.
But I am confused, I thought when calculating centre of mass in three dimension we use the triple integral over the volume
Can someone please help to explain this to me why they are equivalent?

A: You should use a triple integral, indeed, when the solid is 3-dimensional.
But here, you are dealing with a surface, which is a 2-dimensional solid (in a 3-dimensional space).
Perhaps you misunderstood the difference between a sphere and a ball.

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David Scott séance
Recorded: March 14th 1966
"This truth will take the fear out of life
and the fear out of death"
David speaks with George and Betty on the subject of spirit rescue
- helping people who have died, who know nothing about the afterlife.
He says that some people remain attached to their Earth life
and need help to understand what has happened...
He explains that we cannot escape from ourselves - even in death
and suicide is not even a release from the effects of mind.
David says war can attract all kinds of souls, both good and bad,
and that some souls can stay around and affect the living…
He says that some people will not accept the idea of an afterlife,
until they are ready for it, but having an open mind and some knowledge of the spirit world can make a great difference to all of us...
'David' is believed to be an earlier incarnation of Rudolph Valentino,
who was said to have experienced a lifetime in Scotland, long ago.
Note: This vintage audio has been enhanced from a degraded original recording.
The recording is quiet at first but improves, although the volume fluctuates slightly.
Please read the transcript below as you listen...
Present: Betty Greene, George Woods, Leslie Flint
Communicators: David, an unknown voice, Mickey.
I thought I recognised you.
Greene:
You're Scotch aren't you?
There's a crowd of people here. ….and I don't think... um...um... I don't think many of them have been before.
I think that some are a bit new.
How are you today Mr Woods?
Woods:
Oh, very well. Very well indeed. Very well. We're very pleased to hear you come through.
[Brief silence]
Come along friend, we can hear you quite well.
Voice:
Oh yes... that's right...
Aye, that's alright. You can try if you want to. But you'll find it difficult at first, I expect. Well, you're not used to it you see.
He's talking to somebody...
Oh, I see...
David: [Louder]
Are you sending those tapes out?
Yes, we are.
Aye. I bet that keeps you pretty busy one way and another, now?
It does, yes.
We also do transcriptions as well, you see.
Aye, you write it down and get it typed out. Is that what you mean?
Woods / Greene:
Yes. Yes.
Aye. I should imagine you have a very big correspondence, one way or another, at getting these things out and about?
Oh we... we have quite a big correspondence...
That's quite a room that you've got there.
Greene: [Laughing]
Have you seen it?
If you were to move...
It's what they're talking about. You're going to have quite a bit of stuff to shift and get organised.
And that's no joke.
No, well, never mind.
Please, who is it speaking?
Aye...David. Well, that's the name you can call me by. David.
David? Haven't you been before, David?
Aye, a long time back now.
I thought you had.
At least I think so. I think this time business is always a problem. But I think it was a while since I last came and spoke to you. How is your... how are you now? Are you better now?
Because you you were very sick at one time.
You know, you were really run down.
Yes. It was an operation, you see.
Aye. I heard all about that. You had a pretty bad time.
Yes, I'm alright now...
But you're alright now?
Aye, that's the good attention and care that you get, I expect, from the lady.
Flint:
Huh!
He's been very good this summer really - and he's been travelling.
What? I was going to say is, summer's hardly started yet.
The past winter, he's been really quite good.
What are you doing...uh, David; on that side?
Rescue work most of the time.
Rescue work?
Aye. It's been my main interest; helping people over. Quite often, you know, get sad cases of souls who are in really great need and they're very close to Earth and Earthbound; held down by thoughts and things, you know.
Mmm...
Then of course, you get some of these young people that come here. They're very resentful, some of them, of being taken away from Earth. Their mind is full of material things. It's not always easy to get them to, sort of, adjust themselves. And then they cling to their homes, and that sort of thing, and parents and friends.
And you get some of these terrible things, you know, that happen with people... uh, sent over here, you know. It's like being in your world one minute and the next thing they're out of the body, you know. They're still, sort of, in a way, attached to the body - clinging to things, you know.
Like you get someone killed in a car crash, you know. It all happens so quick and...uh, and before you can say 'Jack Robinson'*, they're out of the body and they can see what's happened. And at first they don't realise it's themselves, that they've... they don't always cotton-on** to these things straight away.
*'Jack Robinson' = something happening quickly.
**cotton-on = grasp / realise
Some do, of course, but it's always problematic. You feel that they're trying to get back, you know, sometimes, into the body. It's very difficult. I've been working on a case just now of a young laddie who was killed in a car. He hit a lorry, you know - well, the lorry hit him.
And, uh, of course, he was out... in a split-second almost, you might say. But, of course, there was all the terrible mess, and all that, and the ambulance. He was clinging to himself, you know. He went with the ambulance with the body in the hospital, and everything, at the mortuary and he... he couldn't, sort of, adjust himself to the idea that he was dead.
It was a weird thing in a way, because he was still, sort of, clinging to the material things and... anyway, then he went to his home and to his parents and clung there, you know, and... of course, they had only just heard the news and it was a terrible upset there, naturally, and...
He was trying to bang on the table and trying to attract their attention and let them know he was alright; that he was there. But, of course, they did not see him and that made him furious. He got so cross, you know, and, uh... It seems odd to talk about a soul that's out of the body, getting annoyed and getting cross.
But when people first come here, they're no different to what they were, you know, in the body. And they still have the same outlook and the same, sort of, ideas. And he was furious, because no one could see him or take any notice of him. He tried everything he could think of to attract attention. But, of course, he was not able to do anything spectacular, uh... which might have made them sit up and think.
I mean, you get some of the souls, uh, that are able to move objects around a room or... or tilt a table up and down or do something crazy like that, you know - just to let people know. But he did not know how to do any of these things. He was just walking around and he went to his funeral and everything and all his friends and tried to go to them and help them, you know - tried to make them know that he was about, but it did not have an effect, you know.
Anyway, I was able to help him, gradually, to get away from things and change his outlook a wee bit - but he was very strong, in a material sense. He was more of the Earth than he was anything else. Took me quite a while to get him free.
How did you get through to him David. How did you manage it?
Oh... I have my own methods, you know, but different souls on this side who act in that, sort of, capacity, they... they have... some have different methods to others, it's true - according to their own individual light and idea of things and certain people need certain... a certain way of being treated, and they... I was... well, I just went around with this boy - he didn't see me at first of course, because he was so blind to anything of the spirit.
He was so immersed in himself and material things. But gradually, when began he to feel, in a sense, lost, you know, he did not get anywhere with all his tantrums and banging and one thing and the other, to attract attention.
Then he began, no doubt, from what I can gather anyway... and his mind seemed to change a wee bit. It's as if he, sort of, opened up. And then, of course, he became conscious of other things, and me in particular. And I was chummy and pally* with him and talking to him and trying to make him see some sense. And I said, 'what's the point of you hanging around here, laddie? You'll not get anywhere, because no one is going to take a blind bit of notice of you. Best thing to do is to come with me and I'll be able to help you a lot.'
*chummy and pally = friendly
At that time I discovered too that he'd been very fond of an animal - a dog - and, um, although he didn't know this at the time, he didn't realise of course, when... when he'd been going to his parents place, the dog was there, but he didn't cotton-on to the fact. He didn't realise that, although he could see the dog, he did not realise that the dog itself was the dead dog. He just couldn't appreciate that at all. He was, sort of, all caught up in the material side of things.
Anyway, the dog followed him around too, trying to make himself, sort of, you know, known, as it were, you know. And gradually, as the boy became more aware, and I was able to bring this dog to him, you know - to his consciousness, as it were, you might say - he began to realise, that because the dog had died some few years previously... and that helped him in a way, because he was happy to be with the dog.
Also, then his grandparents - I was able to contact them and they were able to make a link and gradually he opened up his mind to things that were of... of the spirit...
...and he was gradually loosening his hold on material things. And then I took him to a Spiritualist meeting - I thought perhaps that might be of some help in some way; if he could get through and...uh, sort of, make a link, you know.
Well, actually, I... I was able to manage to make a contact there with the medium, but he did not succeed in that. Anyway, he could see the possibility of getting through and getting over, you know, and that gave him a, sort of, a lift-up, a bit. But at the same time, he... he was still very suspicious of... of... well, I think he was suspicious, in a way, of all sorts of things - quite apart from the mediums and that sort of thing. He didn't cotton-on too easily to mediums, but he began to realise the possibility.
But, of course, what annoyed him I think, after that, he went to several places and none of these mediums seemed to cotton-on to him being there. They did not seem to see him, although he tried desperately to show himself, and I think that made him a bit edgy and irritable. So I thought, the best thing to do was not to try that at all, not to force that at all, you know, but to wait a while.
Anyway, he's now very settled over here and he's taking an interest in various things, uh...things, which on Earth, he did not do. As a matter of fact, I suppose, being so young too, he had no formative ideas; no strong, sort of, ideas about what he wanted to be - at least he didn't give that impression to me.
He was...um, rather, shall we say, quite happy to get in a car and go speeding around, and all that sort of thing. I'm not surprised that he met his death that way because, in a way, he was rather [stupid in a car].
He was not the sort of deep thinking sort of person. Actually, he was rather a difficult case and, in a kind of way, he was his own enemy. He was not a bad lad, but at the same time he was thoughtless and rather self-centred, and it took him a little time to get adjusted.
But now he's making good headway* and he's taking a great interest in music and art and he's beginning to study and beginning to settle down and meeting interesting people and he's beginning to form something, you know, of himself, you know.
*headway = progress
Yes. Is he living with his... with relations or...?
Aye. He's with his grandparents and his mother's now just about to come over and I guess she'll be here very soon. I think that will make him very happy too. Of course, you see, there again, we come back to this timeelement. Time is nothing, it's an illusion... and I think that his mother, she... after he, you know, sort of, had this accident, she lost all interest in life. I think this was sad too, in a way, but he'll be happy when she joins him, which would be any day, I expect, now.
But, um... he's settled down. He's very much happier, a very fine fellow too, a nice lad now - much better actually than he was when he was on Earth, because he was the sort of boy who did not take much interest in anything or anybody, only himself.
His parents had done pretty well in a little business that they had and, you know, they, sort of, spoiled him; sent him to a good school and all that, gave him all the opportunities and I think he was a rather selfish young man, there's no doubt about that.
David, I often think about these air crashes we have, you know. People in them, they must, sort of, hang around the place [don't they]?
Ah, that's another kind of thing that's very bad. When you get these sort of things happening, when people... it's always worse when people come like... sudden like that, you know.
It's very bad indeed.. and, uh, we've had many of those cases... when there have been bad air crashes, you know.
I've helped in quite a number of instances like that.
Uh... uh... what happens to these men who have been electrocuted or hanged - they're actually Earthbound aren't they?
You mean for a punishment?
Well that's bad too, because... well, that's in a way worse, because often they have a resentment towards society and sometimes they cling to Earth and they can be... some of them cling to Earth for a very long time and they can do a great deal of harm. But sometimes they impinge their thoughts and impinge themselves on a person on your side who, probably in the normal way, is quite a decent sort of person. Sometimes they even influence that person to do wrong things.
There's no doubt about it that you do get souls who were certainly, uh, not very good people, and did some, perhaps, pretty bad things, and they don't necessarily change immediately, as you well know, and sometimes they get earthbound and cling to people. Indeed, in quite a lot of mental asylums and places, there's a lot of earthbound spirits - mischievous and sometimes very bad spirits - around people there who are weak-minded.
As a matter of fact, there are crowds of souls from this side; doctors and people who specialise in helping mental patients on your side, trying to influence them for good, of course, and they help to them to get mentally 'straightened out' and get them physically fit and well.
But we are always battling against the bad forces and you must always remember there are dangers. There are souls who are, not necessarily always evil or anything like that, but who really can be very disastrously... you know, uh... inclined and, uh, sometimes do harm. We do what we can to get them away.
David, how do you get rid of a spirit who has possessed somebody? How do you get him out of the person or out of the person's auric condition?
Well that's a ticklish* question to ask me, because...
*ticklish = difficult / awkward
Is it? Sorry.
Well, why should you be sorry, because what may affect...or may be effective in one way... with one person, may not be effective in another. There are various methods that are used and there are various people, on this side, who specialise in dealing with cases of what you call 'obsession'.
But a great deal depends on the individual case... uh, usually we are successful, but, um, there are cases, of course, where it's very difficult to remove the obsessing spirit - particularly when they take, more or less, complete contr... complete, uh, possession.
If it's only a, kind of, borderline case, it's not too bad. But sometimes those who've really got complete control over someone else's physical body, it's a very, very, difficult thing indeed. And there have been instances, of course, where people have gone through the rest of their life...uh, [and] the body has been obsessed by some other soul... uh, and this has been one of the worst things [unintelligible].
You know, a lot of people in mental asylums are not mad - in as much that, they are not responsible. Sometimes they have obsessing spirits and that's why you get these cases of people who are perfectly normal for a while and then, all of a sudden, they start to do something which is irrational and it's obvious that someone else has taken control.
Actually, I think it's a pity that psychiatrists and people who deal with mental patients, don't know more about possession and don't know more about this sort of thing, this subject - which you know quite a bit. It would be a great help to them.
…[unintelligible]… yes.
I think that they should know more about this, you know.
I once mentioned possession to a psychiatrist and he just looked at me and said, 'that went out with the ark'*, or something like that, you see.
*went out with the ark = outdated / from the past.
Aye, well...
[Unintelligible]
...they don't understand.
Yes. What about suicides David? I mean, they can be possessed too can't they?
Oh, there are many instances, of course, where people have committed suicide when they've been under a bad influence. But of course, quite often, most suicides [are] due to the individual themselves.
They get into a depressed unhappy state and, in consequence, they take their own life, thinking to escape, but of course they can't escape from themselves. That's the thing that people should be made to realise - that death doesn't necessarily mean an escape.
You still have to face up to yourself. You can never escape yourself. Yourself is always there.
Do you have difficulty with them?
You see, that's the trouble. When you (as you do quite rightly, naturally) ask certain questions about whether it's suicide or obsession...uh, it's very difficult to give a clear-cut* answer, because what may apply in one instance or one case, doesn't necessarily apply in another. Every individual case is an individual...uh, case, in itself... every person is not the same.
*clear-cut = accurate/definitive
The reasons for people being as they are, are not the same; the conditions, the circumstances are variable. What may apply in one case doesn't apply in another, you see.
Mmm...most interesting.
In Vietnam* they must have a terrific lot of Earthbound spirits there.
*The Vietnam war was headline news in 1966.
Well, of course, the whole condition around there is obsessed with, uh...well, obsessed with spirits of all kinds; good, bad and indifferent. And the whole atmosphere is charged with forces which are very difficult, sometimes, to overcome.
Those of us who act in the capacity of helping souls over, those who act in the way of trying to lift them out of the conditions, sometimes come up against great problems, great difficulties. There are so many souls there, around there - earthbound souls too. The whole atmosphere around that part of the world... wherever there is intense hatred and fighting...
...and where there is all the 'evils', that you might say, of the Earth let loose - obviously the conditions are such, that it's very difficult at times to pierce. Of course, we do succeed obviously, and we are able to help many people, but at the same time, the conditions are appalling.
You must feel pretty dreadful when you have to enter those conditions?
Aye. Well, one... one, sort of, well... accustoms one's self to it. It's one's work and one loves to help people and, after all, the lower a person sinks, the greater is their need and the more help is given.
But of course, we cannot do very much until the individuals themselves begin to show a desire for assistance, a desire for guidance, a desire for help.
It's the same with you people. With all your work that you do, with the best of heart and the best of intention, you cannot make anyone accept something or re-awaken or awaken an interest in something, until they themselves are, more or less, ready for it.
Quite right, yes.
People have got to be co-operative. In other words, unless they're co-operative, there's not much you can do about it.
Aye. You can... you can put the thing there, right under their nose, but if they don't want to see it, then there's nothing you can do about it.
No. Quite right.
You just can do only the best you can and try not to get too depressed in the process.
You're bound to get disillusionments and disappointments. But just think, that one person that you've helped and guided and made happier and given greater faith and confidence, then at least it's been worth it.
In any case, you meet interesting people and you learn something about people anyway. Life is always interesting, there's no such thing as dullness where work of the spirit is concerned, believe me.
Ah, I always feel that you do a remarkable work, considering the many obstacles that you have, one way and another. The tragedy of course, is that, often, the people that you would have thought would have been a... well, a great help, that would have co-operated with you, are often the people who... who put the obstacles up.
Yes...
We find that too. You'd be surprised. We get all sorts of obstacles put in our way. And some of the people that we have to contend with - if we hadn't got a sense of humour, I don't think we could carry on. Fortunately I have, myself, got a very good sense of humour, but we get some weird cases, one way and another.
You get some people who, really, you think to yourself, 'this man really is so stupid', you know. And people with so-called brains or intelligence when on Earth... highly cultured types too, some of them, that you would have thought would have been very quick to learn, very quick to take unto themselves new knowledge and experience, who'd be only too glad to be helped. Often they prove, sometimes anyway...uh, very difficult to help.
They've probably got a one-track mind...
Aye. The religious ones are always the worst. I think their prejudice is so strong and they are so concerned with themselves and their salvation and they're... they're so convinced that they're eventually going to be given a great reward. I think it's a great shock to them when they realise, that the only reward they're going to have, is what they've had to work darn hard to get; and it can't be just had for the sake of saying, 'I believe in this' and there it is. You've got to work for it. There's nothing given away.
Aye. It's a very interesting life. I'm very glad to know that I can do what I do. But the great joy of it is that one is living all the time, experiencing and meeting and encouraging and helping other people - and you're learning from them, as they are learning from you. There's not a dull moment.
No-one need fear dying. It's the greatest thing that can happen to anyone. It would be terrible to go on and on and on in a material sense.
You know, sometimes it amazes me with some of these people who get scared, you know, of dying and just want to cling to the Earth. One feels sad and sorry for them, but you know, they just don't know, don't realise what a wonderful future, what a wonderful life there is, what excitement, what interest, what wonderful things can be done and achieved - the new interests that they can have, and they can do all the things here that they may have wanted to do and couldn't do on Earth...
And there's no old age, no aches, no pains; only a complete and absolute freedom of spirit and of mind - once you release yourselves from your prejudices and the old ideas that have held you back. Here, there are no limits... limitations, and you can go as high as you like.
But you have to go steady, you have to learn and feel your way, but there's never any feeling of frustration - if there is any frustration, it's that which you create within yourself. If your mind and your heart is open to receive truth and knowledge, then everything is there for you. It depends on you. You've got to make the effort...
Yes, of course...
...and you've got to do the digging, you know. You've got to... you've got to lay the foundations before you can build a house.
David, what happens to people who have got the firm conviction that when they're... when they die or they don't exist any longer... now how do they... what sort of conditions do they come over in? What sort of conditions do they make for themselves?
Well... depends. There again, we mustn't generalise, but there are some who are soon reawakened, you know, to new thought and new ideas and soon change their views and outlook. There are others who, perhaps, sleep, as you say - they're not sleeping in the sense that you call it sleeping...
...but, in a kind of state where they have not a consciousness or awareness...uh, and gradually, of course, things begin to dawn upon them and they begin to realise things. It depends so much on the individual case, it depends on the reasons why they are or think they... as they do and the circumstances and background and all sorts of things.
All these things can affect and apply. But...um, invariably, most people anyway, if one talks in a general sense, most people when they leave your side, soon readjust themselves, soon realise the new life that's there and are conscious of all the conditions and the surroundings and the people that are help... helping them and the loved ones they have known in the past that are welcoming them over.
In other words, the average person has nothing to fear. Indeed, no one has anything to fear of course really, in a sense, in passing from your life to this. But, to some extent, it depends on the individual, as to the kind of life which they find and the kind of setting which they create. I mean, everyone creates... you see, that's another thing that people don't realise; to a great extent, indeed, it's true to say, that you create for yourselves accordingly.
If you think on the wrong lines and if you have many prejudices, if your mind and heart is closed to truth, then obviously, it's going to be more difficult; it's going to take longer, it's going to be harder for you to grasp things. But if you've got an open free mind, if you have knowledge - like you have - before you come here, it's a great asset, a great blessing and it will make all the difference to when you do come here... uh, there's none of the drawbacks that so many people have.
The worst drawbacks, I'm sure, I'm right in saying, are the very strong prejudiced ones. Have no prejudices, always have an open mind...
...even with things you're not sure about... uh, just say, 'well I don't know' and keep it in your mind if you can. But, at the same time, never discard anything, never, sort of, say to yourself, 'well I don't want that',because there many be some value and truth in it somewhere.
The point is; strike out for the highest that you can achieve and if you fall a wee bit, at times, by the wayside, that's to be expected - at least you're having a wee rest [from] taking up the... the... the, you know, taking up the challenge again and struggling on.
People have got to realise that there are many ways, there are many aspects, there are many roads. But the point is, that some are long and wearisome, and some are difficult and hard and there's very... very rare an easy path. But the truth... you... you learn a wee bit here and wee bit there and everyone can make some contribution. No one is so bad, no one is so good. There's every opportunity for every soul to find his own happiness and his own way, on different levels of consciousness.
We can't all be on the same level, on the same sphere, but we can all aspire - and it is through aspiration and making the attempt that we achieve what we do achieve. And I think, that to have the knowledge that you have, the realisation that you have, this is a great joy and a great blessing and you help many people - especially those who are sad and sorrowing and those who are afraid. This truth will take the fear out of life and the fear out of death and that's what really matters.
Anyway, it's always a joy to talk to people like you and I'll come again sometime, if I may.
Oh thank you David.
Anyway, I must go now, but all the very best to you both now.
Goodbye and God bless now.
Thank you for the lovely talk.
Bye-bye.
Mickey:
Goodbye Mickey, thank you Mickey.
Thank you Mickey, very much Mickey.
See you on the 28th!
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Lessons from the Rubble
By Alvaro Vargas Llosa
WASHINGTON—Earthquakes and hurricanes tend to invite two cliches—that nature hits the poor hardest, and that the government is incapable of performing its basic functions. Like most cliches, these contain an element of truth. They have now re-emerged in Peru in the wake of the Aug. 15 earthquake that killed more than 500 people, injured more than 1,000 and left more than 100,000 homeless. Rebuilding alone will cost between 0.5 percent and 1 percent of the country's gross domestic product.
As in other natural catastrophes around the world, self-help efforts on the part of the population, along with private-sector and foreign assistance, have made up for the failure of governments—national, regional and local—to respond effectively. It wasn't for lack of trying and much less for lack of resources—the Peruvian state is awash with cash thanks to an export boom. There is so much money nowadays that many regional and local governments are spending only half their budgets because they don't know how to spend the rest. The central government in Lima is running a surplus, has built up record reserves and has reduced the ratio of debt to GDP below 30 percent.
It wasn't because of a lack of personnel, either. There is one public employee for every 28 citizens in Peru—a country that has three times more civil servants than does Chile with a population that is only 1.8 times larger. If we also consider that the epicenter of the earthquake was less than three hours south of Lima, rather than a remote volcano in the highlands, the government's inadequate response comes across as pitiful.
Some say that the privatizations of the 1990s reduced the state to rubble long before this earthquake leveled the port city of Pisco. Baloney! The size of the government increased in the 1990s. Regional governments more than made up for the small reductions in central bureaucracy, and a barrage of regulatory bodies, social programs and new ministries replaced the public service companies sold off to private interests. Fiscal spending rose substantially and the trend has continued. The payroll is so bloated that the government spends almost all of the money in salaries and pensions—its "investments" don't even add up to 3 percent of the nation's GDP.
Those who complain that Peru lacks "enough government" because the system of civil defense failed during this earthquake mistake the symptom for the cause, which is too much government for too long. Nevertheless, government often fails to deliver—in recent years, the absence of law and order in poor neighborhoods of the nation's capital has led to the spontaneous lynching of thieves and rapists. Anyone watching the news or traveling to where the earthquake hit hardest will be amazed at the amount of government representatives on site—politicians, bureaucrats, soldiers, police. It looks as if the entire state had set up camp in the region known as "Little South."
The system of civil defense relies heavily on local and regional as well as central government structures, and partly on the military. All of those structures were in place during and after the earthquake. If they did not perform properly, it can only be because the government is a poor civil defense system.
This is not to say that private companies are beyond reproach. The reasons given by Telefonica for the collapse of all the phone lines is half acceptable. True, any service hit by a massive upsurge in demand will have a hard time running things smoothly (3 million phone lines went dead in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in the United States). But the extent of the collapse reflects inefficiencies that may have to do with the monopoly conditions under which that company operated for many years.
In any case, the cliche is back—this government doesn't work. For some years, there has been talk of "reforming" the Peruvian government, which is the child of over half a million contradictory, overlapping and utopian laws passed by governments that periodically tried to reinvent the wheel since Peru gained its independence in 1824. But getting the government to do fewer things with less bureaucracy will take a monumental amount of political courage.
Under the current circumstances, with an export boom, a government receiving record revenue and a tragedy that has many people lamenting the lack of "enough government," there is no way Peru will opt for the painful sacrifices that a true reform would require so that the next earthquake doesn't catch the authorities so unprepared.
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Alvaro Vargas Llosa is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute.
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A Mountain Man's Adventure
By: Arlen Blumhagen
Narrated by: Jay Dyess
Arlen Blumhagen captures the feel of the western wilderness of the late 1800s in this story of one man's adventures across the American wilderness. Mount leads a simple life, using his skills to survive in his cabin on the side of a mountain. When circumstances require him to make a trip into St. Louis, Mount thinks it will be a quick visit to the big city and then home. What he isn't prepared for is the request of Andrew Worthington to lead his family through the wilderness and up through the Oregon Trail.
Fun pre-pioneer story (1840's)
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Mount II: The Next Adventure
Everyone's favorite mountain man returns! The year is 1843. On his way to Fall Rendezvous, Mount meets up with his old friend Patch, along with Sunshine, Patch's traveling companion. What starts out as an expedition for fun soon turns to an epic struggle for survival amid the dramatic and exciting Western wilds. The biggest escapade for Mount lies ahead in Oregon City, as his past adventures catch up with him in the form of the woman he loves...and is determined to make his own.
Great continuation. Worth the credits!!
Mount III: The Adventures Continue
Mount, Book 3
It's 1844, and Mount has returned to his secluded cabin nestled in the Rocky Mountains, bringing with him his new bride, Sandra, and stepson, Andy. The new family is happy beyond words, and just starting to build a wonderful future. Suddenly, their lives are shattered, and that happy future in jeopardy, when Sandra is kidnapped by a ruthless band of outlaws led by the notorious assassin, Li Zhang. The resulting adventure is packed full of excitement, danger, and surprises, and, of course, plenty of Mount's special brand of humor.
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Quotes about the Labor movement or labour movement.
Eugene V. Debs, "An Ideal Labor Press," The Metal Worker (May 1904).
Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and depriving working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice. I have no use for those -- regardless of their political party -- who hold some vain and foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when organized labor was huddled, almost as a hapless mass. Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Speech to the American Federation of Labor, New York City, September 17, 1952 .
[T]he Nazi years had already accustomed Germans to an all-encompassing labor organization through the Labor Front, which had enjoyed considerable appeal among workers, not least because of its insistence on broad inclusiveness and equality between 'workers of the hand and the mind.
Martin Luther King Jr.,Speaking to the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) on Dec. 11, 1961 Source: Now Is the Time. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Labor in the South: The Case for a Coalition. Booklet prepared by the Southern Labor Institute under the auspices of the Labor Subcommittee of the King Holiday Commission, designed by the AFT and printed by AFSCME. January 1986.
Adolf Hitler, as quoted in The 12-year Reich: A Social History of Nazi Germany 1933–1945, Richard Grunberger, Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1971] p. 47.
John L. Lewis, Speech to United Mine Workers of America members, September 8, 1937 .
Frances Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew (1946), ch. 17.
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How often do you wander around a familiar environment and not really pay attention?
We immediately looked around saying "what"?, and not seeing anything out of the ordinary.
Taylor then pointed out the curious visitor you see in the picture.
So are you paying attention, or are you missing out on life's curiosities?
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Washington, Feb 21 (IANS) US President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet the Dalai Lama Friday morning at the White House.
The White House made the announcement Thursday while releasing Obama's daily schedule, adding the meeting would be closed to press, reported Xinhua.
It will be the third time that Obama meets the Dalai Lama. Their previous meetings in February 2010 and July 2011, respectively, drew strong protests from China.
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And I wanted to start another one here on Lady Out Loud called Friday Favorites! As I'm sure you can guess, on Fridays (some Fridays, not every Friday) I will be sharing some fascinated, currently coveting and my favorite finds and reads from around the internet. What's included in this list will vary from fashion items, news articles, and just general digital tidbits that I stumble upon throughout the week. I may share some life updates, details on my weekly ramblings, and just chat. What I'm feeling, loving, living. I would love to tell you that I'll be doing these every week, but I'm not sure it's feasible enough. We'll start with once a month, and see how that works out. For all I know, I will want to spill everything I see and find interesting with you guys.
But without further ado, let's jump into this Friday's Favorites!
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Daniel McCarthy
Data privacy, customer management, customer-based corporate valuation
Methodological
Data fusion, limited data, computational methods, causal inference
Published or Forthcoming Papers:
McCarthy, Daniel; Oblander, E. Shin (2020), "Scalable Data Fusion with Selection Correction: An Application to Customer Base Analysis," Marketing Science, 40(3), 459-480, Link (Download)
Winner: 2019 Marketing Strategy Meets Wall Street Conference's 2019 Best Paper Award
Fader, Peter; Hardie, Bruce; McCarthy, Daniel; Vaidyanathan, Ramnath (2019), "Exploring the Equivalence of Two Common Mixture Models for Duration Data," The American Statistician, 73(3), 288-295, Link
McCarthy, Daniel; Winer, Russell (2019), "The Pareto Rule in Marketing Revisited: Is it 80/20, or 70/20?," Marketing Letters, 30(2), 139-150, Link
McCarthy, Daniel; Fader, Peter (2018), "Customer-Based Corporate Valuation for Publicly Traded Non-Contractual Firms," Journal of Marketing Research, 55(5), 617-635, Link (Download)
Third most downloaded SSRN Marketing Science paper of all time: SSRN
Finalist, 2018 Paul Green Award
Media Coverage: ASA (7/24/17), American Marketing Association (8/5/17), Business Insider (9/27/17), CNBC (Jim Cramer) (9/28/17, 5/2/2019, 4/6/2020), Gartner (12/18/17), EmoryBusiness (1/2/2018), Wall Street Journal (2/12/2018, 2/22/2018, 2/23/2018), Barron's (2/12/2018), Forbes (2/13/2018), Bloomberg (2/22/2018 [44:07]), Boston Globe (2/22/2018), Internet Retailer (5/22/2018), Bloomberg News (8/29/2018), WSJ (11/1/2018, 2/25/2019, 5/2/2019), Fortune (5/16/19), Boston Magazine (10/1/19), Boston Globe (2/28/20), CNBC (6/16/20)
Morgan Stanley report: Download
McCarthy, Daniel; Zhang, Kai; Berk, Richard; Brown, Lawrence; Buja, Andreas; George, Edward; Zhao, Linda (2018), "Calibrated Percentile Double Bootstrap for Robust Linear Regression Inference," Statistica Sinica, 28, 2565-2589, Link (Download)
McCarthy, Daniel; Fader, Peter; Hardie, Bruce (2017), "Valuing Subscription-Based Businesses Using Publicly Disclosed Customer Data," Journal of Marketing, 81(1), 17-35, Link (Download)
Most downloaded SSRN Marketing Science paper of all time, top 120 of all time across all disciplines: SSRN
Finalist, 2022 Sheth Foundation/Journal of Marketing Award (AMA)
Winner, 2018 Don Lehmann Award (ELMAR)
Finalist, 2017 MSI H. Paul Root Award
Finalist, 2017 Shelby Hunt/Harold Maynard Award
Media Coverage: Knowledge@Wharton (1/26/16), Dow Jones MarketWatch (5/18/17), Penn News Today (5/24/17), Business Radio on Sirius XM (5/25/17), Harvard Business Review (12/19/17)
Methodology Applied to Blue Apron: Wall Street Journal (6/27/17, 6/28/17), CBS News (6/28/17), Barrons (6/28/17), Fortune (6/29/17), TheStreet.com (6/29/17), Business Insider/Slate (6/30/17, 6/30/17, 7/7/17, 7/20/17), Sina (6/30/17), RetailWire (6/30/17), AdExchanger (7/11/17), Food & Wine (7/14/17), The Motley Fool (7/17/17), PYMNTS (1/9/2018), FT (2/13/2018), PitchBook (9/10/2019), Bloomberg (3/27/2020)
Methodology Applied to HelloFresh: Barrons (11/1/17), Fortune (11/2/17), BBC/NPR (11/2/17), Der Tagesspiegel (11/2/17), Handelsblatt (11/2/17), FT (11/2/17), AdWeek (11/20/17), Wall Street Journal (1/8/18), Food Dive (2/12/18), The Economist (4/12/18), Inc (6/28/18)
CBCV Infographic: (11/23/17)
Methodology Applied to Slack: Yahoo! Finance (6/20/19)
McCarthy, Daniel; Jensen, Shane (2016), "Power Weighted Densities for Time Series Data," Annals of Applied Statistics, 10(1), 305-334, Link
Brown, Lawrence; McCarthy, Daniel (2016), "Comments on the paper, "An Adaptive Resampling Test for Detecting the Presence of Significant Predictors," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory and Methods, 110, 1446-1449, Link
Damodaran, A.; McCarthy, Daniel; Cohen, M. (2022), "IPO Disclosures Are Ripe for Reform," MIT Sloan Management Review, Link
McCarthy, Daniel; Fader, Peter (2020), "How to Value a Company by Analyzing Its Customers," Harvard Business Review, 98 (1), 51-55, Link
Oblander, E. Shin; McCarthy, Daniel, "Persistence of Consumer Lifestyle Choices: Evidence from Restaurant Delivery During COVID-19," Revising for third round resubmission at Marketing Science (revise and resubmit), Link
Media Coverage: New York Post (4/29/21), The Food Institute (4/29/21), Wall Street Journal (4/30/21), Restaurant Business (4/30/21), New York Magazine (5/5/21), NPR/WABE's All Things Considered (5/18/21), The Economist (5/26/21), Axios (6/17/21), WSJ (9/16/21), Bloomberg (9/16/21), HowStuffWorks (12/16/21), Fast Company (1/25/22), Modern Retail (2/1/22), Dow Jones Marketwatch (2/8/22), Wall Street Journal (12/9/22), NPR/WABE's All Things Considered (12/12/22), Earnest Analytics (1/5/23)
MSI Research Grant Award Winner ($9,600) (Link)
Kim, Kyeongbin; McCarthy, Daniel, "Wheels to Meals: Measuring the Economic Impact of Micromobility on Food Service Demand," Revising for fourth round review at Journal of Marketing Research (revise and resubmit) Link
Media Coverage: Spin (3/11/21), Bird (3/11/21), CBS (3/18/21), CBS (3/23/21), Bird (12/2/21), Zag Daily (12/6/21), Morningstar (12/16/21), Zag Daily ( 1/10/22), International Downtown Association (7/20/22), Earnest Research (7/21/22), NABSA (8/4/22)
Selected Research In Progress
Kim, Kyeongbin; McCarthy, Daniel; Lee, Dokyun, "Deep Learning Methods for Customer Base Analysis: Evidence from 1000 Companies Over 6 Years"
McCarthy, Daniel; Oblander, E. Shin; Park, Young-Hoon, "The Impact of a Subscription Program Within and Across Categories: Evidence from Restaurant Delivery"
Winner, Stanley Sun Faculty Global Research Award ($10,000)
McCarthy, Daniel, "CBCV: Reshaping the Practice of Corporate Valuation Using a Customer-Driven Approach"
Winner, Gary Lilien ISMS-MSI-EMAC Practice Prize (video)