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Fictional food is more real than you think
What does Winnie the Pooh have in common with Lorelai and Rory Gilmore? They all love food.
In fact, they don't just love food—food is their ticket to winning the hearts of their audiences. From Popeye, to Garfield, to Kevin Malone from The Office, food is a means for fictional characters to express themselves and become more lifelike. But what happens when this is taken too far?
With vision distorted by anorexia, I remember reading the book, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter. The main characters in the novel are geniuses training to become spies—not exactly your average girls.
Despite being average myself, I remember being able to relate to a character named Macey. Not because I was a genius. Or a spy-in-training. Or the proud owner of a "diamond nose stud at least a carat and a half."
No, the reason I related to Macey was because we ate the same number of calories each day.
In the book, the main character says, "I started to mention the crème brulee, but then Macey exclaimed, 'I eat eight hundred calories a day.' Bex and I looked at each other, amazed. We probably burned that many calories during one section of P&E (Protection and Enforcement) class. Macey studied us skeptically, then added, 'Food is so yesterday.'"
Not only is Macey's anorexia normalized, it's glorified. The girls react to her restrictive eating with amazement, when they should be horrified. They go on to extol Macey's thinness by referencing her "supermodel legs" and her "shot at being on the cover of Vogue."
Fictional food behavior was hardly the main factor in my illness, but it certainly affected my own eating, which led me to wonder…how much do the food choices of fictional characters affect the general population? Can a person predisposed to certain eating behaviors be "pushed over the edge" by being exposed to them in the media?
Ohio State University researchers state that when people are exposed to fiction, they vicariously experience the thoughts and emotions of characters through "experience-taking." For instance, one study showed that participants who identified with a character who overcame obstacles to vote were more likely to vote themselves.
Another study measured participants' empathy toward gay people; empathy was higher after reading a story and finding out the character was gay at the end.
These facts are important to take into consideration when viewing or creating fictional characters. When creating your own fictional characters, ask yourself how to portray characters' eating habits in a healthy manner: Even if the character has unhealthy behaviors, find a way to present them in a safe and thoughtful way.
When exposing yourself to fiction, be mindful of how you are applying a character's eating patterns to your life; question if that character's eating behavior is within the range of normal eating.
What it all comes down to is this: You are not a fictional character. What you eat is reality. Don't let the media's representation of eating change your eating.
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Skyler says:
Gotta say… I do buy lots of popeye spinach simply because it makes me feel all… kuk kuk kuk kuk!
Absolutely wonderful.
I totally totally agree. Fictional characters have the capability to affect you on an extreme level. Since we often find solace in fictional characters they become heroes in our mind and a way to escape from pressure and stress. If a pressure or stressor is presented in a book then of course the reader could be immediately affected by what the book suggests. Having the character that you consider to be a hero, the type of person you would like to be, the character you identify with when you are lonely telling you something negative would of course affect you.

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The Flatcoated Retriever remains a "dual-purpose" breed; combining good conformation with working ability, but while the Show side of the breed has gone from strength to strength with a very high proportion appearing in the show ring, the numbers being used in the shooting field, whilst difficult to measure, have fallen, and those entering field trials have declined significantly.
The causes of the decline in the popularity of working Flatcoats are too many to discuss here and it is unrealistic to think that somehow the clock can be turned back on over 100 years of breed history. However, for those that continue to work the breed; picking-up, in working tests and in field trials, they know that for very many the true beauty of a Flatcoated Retriever lies in its natural marking, hunting and game finding abilities.
• to support the maintenance and preservation of a "dual-purpose" Flatcoated Retriever.
Following the AGM in March 2017, the Sub-Committee will communicate regularly with the membership concerning training, working tests, field trials and other working gundog matters using email, social media and this website.
We know that for many, training needs to be provided locally. Through the Sub-Committee and the support of others in the Society, we will encourage the provision of training suitable for the breed to as many Society members as possible. When the Society is unable to provide local training we will work with Gundog Clubs, Trainers and others to provide training opportunities.
The Flatcoated Retriever Society is privileged to be authorised by the Kennel Club to run Field Trials, including an Open Trial that can provide entry to the prestigious International Gundog League annual Retriever Trials Championship. The Sub-Committee recognises that only small numbers of the membership will want to work their dogs at Field Trials but we are keen to ensure that the Society remains able to offer this level of competition to its members. We will therefore be working hard to encourage more members to compete in field trials; we will provide opportunities to participate in field trial training days, mock field trials, and cold-game tests that simulate trialling but without the competitive pressures and in the hope that some of you "catch the bug".
In addition to a number of working tests that will be run by the Area Working Test organisers, we shall also run the Shirley Radburn Nationals and the Inter-Area Team Challenge, details of which can be found in following pages. We will also run Show Gundog Working Certificates and Shooting Dog Certificates during the year. We also plan to look at the development of a tiered assessment system that will enable handlers and their dogs to undertake a range of tests that demonstrate the essential attributes of a working Flatcoat.
We hope that these schemes will assist members and breeders alike in selecting dogs that are "generously endowed with working ability' as required by the Flatcoated Retriever breed standard, and enable us to maintain a "dual-purpose" breed for future generations.


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Fish Creek Provincial Park
Local nameFish Creek Provincial Park
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Fish Creek Park is a provincial park located in the southern part of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is the second largest urban park in Canada after Rouge National Urban Park in the Greater Toronto Area, and followed by Pippy Park in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. It is also one of the largest urban parks in North America, stretching 19 km from east to west. At 13.48 km2, it is over three times the size of Vancouver's Stanley Park.
The growth of Calgary has left the park bordered on all sides by the city. It is also bordered on the west by the territory of the Tsuu T'ina Nation, a First Nation.
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This hymn in honor of Enki, "the crafty god" (Kramer and Maier 1989), seems to commemorate his blessing of Nisaba, perhaps on the occasion of her (annual?) visit, in the guise of her statue, to his sanctuary at Eridu. As the personification of both reed and grain, Nisaba was patron-goddess of both scribal art and agriculture, and both characteristics are celebrated in this hymn.


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Vice President and Congress Getting Raises Too
An executive order was issued Thursday which will make the end to the pay freeze for the federal workforce official in the spring. But federal employees aren't the only ones who are getting a pay raise from the deal.
By Ian Smith December 28, 2012 1:14 PM Categories Current Events, Federal Employee Pay News Leave a comment
An executive order was issued Thursday which will make the end to the pay freeze for the federal workforce official in the spring. But federal employees aren't the only ones who are getting a pay raise from the deal – VP Biden and members of Congress will see salary increases also. The increases will be effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning after March 27, 2013.
Who is the winner among them? Joe Biden will see a 2.83% pay increase when his annual salary goes from $225,521 last year to $231,900 after the increase takes effect.
Members of Congress will see a 0.5% increase (the same as civilian federal employees) when their annual salaries go from $174,000 (the 2012 annual salary) to $174,900. Just like the federal workforce, Congress has been under a pay freeze since 2010.
The complete list of the new salaries for the vice president and Congress as reported by OPM is included below.
Vice President $231,900
Senators $174,900
Members of the House of Representatives $174,900
Delegates to the House of Representatives $174,900
Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico $174,900
President pro tempore of the Senate $194,400
Majority leader and minority leader of the Senate $194,400
Majority leader and minority leader of the House of Representatives $194,400
Speaker of the House of Representatives $224,600
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GLENDALE —For the second home game in a row, the Glendale Community College football team faced a new conference opponent.
Playing Los Angeles Valley College was nothing new, but this season the game had extra meaning with both being part of the American Metro Conference.
The Vaqueros kept it close through the first quarter, but after that the disparity between the two squads became more and more obvious, as the Monarchs came away with a 69-18 victory Saturday afternoon at Sartoris Field.
Glendale (1-7, 1-3 in conference) was coming off its first win of the season, but could not continue the momentum against L.A. Valley (6-3, 4-1). The Monarchs remain in second place in conference with the win. The Monarchs sit just behind Chaffey College, which the Vaqueros lost to, 37-0, in their last home game.
"There was just a physical disparity between their athletes and ours," Rome said. "We can hang, like we did with Chaffey, for a while, but eventually they can make plays and we can't.
L.A. Valley over-matched the Vaquero offense across the board. Glendale ran one more play than the Monarchs, but was outgained in yards, 662-198. Through the air it was 314-141. It was even worse on the ground, where the hosts were outgained, 348-57.
Monarch Darian Albrecht led all rushers with 95 yards in 11 carries with two touchdowns. L.A. Valley also got 79 yards from reserve quarterback Julious Sabastiano, while Dawson Schick had 77 yards in six carries with two scores.
L.A. Valley received the opening kickoff, and seven plays later the Monarchs got three points on the board via a Jake Calver 20-yard field goal.
Glendale's first possession ended after two plays when Adayus Robertson fumbled and Marquis Deweert recovered. The visitors soon turned the mistake into points on a one-yard touchdown run around the left side by Albrecht for a 10-0 Monarchs advantage.
Glendale broke through with 15 seconds left in the opening quarter to score the Vaqueros' first points against L.A. Valley, and first in awhile, after being shut out the last two years in nonconference play. Job McGinty received a punt at the 27-yard line. The sophomore built a head of steam and got loose down the right sideline, taking it 73 yards for a touchdown.
The score was 10-7 after the first. However, after that things started to get out of hand.
Sabastiano took over at quarterback for the Monarchs in the second quarter and led two touchdown drives. The first one concluded with a two-yard pass to Kareem Miles. The second was a 40-yard run by Schick in which he was barely touched.
Glendale did mount a drive at the end of the half that culminated in a 27-yard field goal from Chris Wood, a Crescenta Valley High product. At the break it was 27-10 for the visitors.
If they hadn't already, L.A. Valley put the game away in the third quarter, outscoring the Vaqueros, 21-0. The first touchdown came three plays after McGinty made an ill-advised attempt to field a bouncing punt and muffed it for a turnover. The second came on a 73-yard over-the-top pass from Sabastiano to Miles. The third came on a two-yard fumble return after Wood bobbled a snap on a punt attempt standing on the goal line.
The teams combined for four touchdowns in the final five minutes of the contest. The first was a Albrecht 46-yard run up the middle. The second of came when Glendale quarterback Nathan Eldridge found Christopher Lee in the back left corner of the end zone for a 14-yard touchdown.
Eldridge finished 14 of 30 for 141 yards with one score and one interception.
On the ensuing extra-point attempt after the Lee score, holder Matt Bejanian bobbled the snap, but the sophomore scrambled to his right and, after not finding an open receiver, ran the ball in himself for a two-point conversion to make it 55-18.
L.A. Valley added two more touchdowns in the final 1:10 on a Schick run and an interception return.


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What are we supposed to think about homosexuality today? Can sexual desires change? How can we be conduits of God's love and truth to those in the LGBTQ+ community? The Equipped to Love team joins leaders at Bethel Church in this 5-part series presented to Bethel's School of Supernatural Ministry. Hear their stories of freedom and the expertise that was shared in this comprehensive look at homosexuality.
DISC 1: Testimonies of Freedom from Homosexuality
DISC 2: Homosexuality in Scripture with Rich Schmidt
DISC 3: Science and Homosexuality with André Van Mol, MD
DISC 4: Leadership Perspectives on Homosexuality with Kris Vallotton
DISC 5: Demystifying Homosexuality
DISC 6: Bonus Footage - Temptation, Deliverance, Identity & Helping Others
This video series is hosted by Equipped to Love (ETL) founders Rodger Gaskin, Ken Williams, and Elizabeth Woning, who vulnerably share their stories to unpack the experience of homosexuality so others may disciple those who struggle themselves and minister to the growing need. ETL is joined by leaders at Bethel Church in Redding, California, who have important perspectives on the topic of homosexuality: its impact on society, what Scripture says about it, and the scientific evidence regarding the genetic origins and biological effects of homosexual behavior.
Prophet Kris Vallotton is a bestselling author, is the Senior Associate Leader of Bethel Church (Redding, CA), and the founder of Moral Revolution. Rich Schmidt holds a Bachelor's degree in Business, a Master's of Divinity, and is the Lead Bible Instructor for Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry in Redding, CA. André Van Mol, MD, is a board-certified family physician, serves on the boards of Bethel Church (Redding, CA) and Moral Revolution, and speaks and writes on bioethics and Christian apologetics.
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Data theft of 100 million users in India: Debit and credit card information is being sold on dark web, most data leaked from Juspay server
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Leaked data include cardholders' names, mobile numbers, email IDs, card digit details
Credit and debit card data of more than 70 lakh users of the country was stolen in December
Once again there are reports of data theft of credit and debit cards of Indian users. Cybersecurity researcher Rajasekhar Rajharia of Cyber Security Affairs claimed that the data of around 100 million (10 crore) credit and debit card holders in the country are being sold on the dark web. Most of the data on the dark web has been leaked from the server of Bangalore-based Digital Payments Gateway Jaspe. Last month, Rajasekhar had claimed that the credit and debit card data of more than 7 million (7 million) users in the country was leaked.
According to the researcher, this data is being sold on the dark web. The leaked data includes the names of Indian card holders along with their mobile numbers, income levels, email ID, permanent account number (PAN) and the first and last four digit details of the card. He has also shared screenshots of it on social media.
Juspay reported lower number of users
The company told that during the cyber attack there has been no agreement with any card number or financial details. According to the report, data leakage of 100 million users is being reported, while the actual number is much less.
A spokesperson for the company said in a statement that on August 18, 2020, an attempt to reach our servers unauthorized was detected, which was intercepted. It did not leak any card number, financial credit or transaction data. Some non-confidential data, plane text emails and phone numbers were leaked, but their number is much less than 100 million.
Data being sold through bitcoin
Here Rajaharia claims that the data is being sold on the dark web at an undisclosed price through crypto currency bitcoin. Hackers are also making contact via telegram for this data. The payment card industry follows the Data Security Standard (PCIDSS) in storing users' data. If hackers can use a hash algorithm to create a card fingerprint, they can also decrypt the masked card number. In this situation, the account of all 10 crore card holders may be threatened.
The company has recognized that the hacker had access to a developer of Juspay. Data leaked are not considered sensitive. Only a few phone numbers and email addresses have been leaked. Nevertheless, the company had informed its merchant partner on the day the data was leaked.
Data of 7 million users was leaked in December
Last month, the data of more than 7 million (7 million) users in the credit and debit cards of the country was leaked. Rajasekhar Rajaharia discovered the Google Drive link on the dark web, which was given the title of "Credit Card Holders data". It was available for download via the Google Drive link. This included not only the names of Indian card holders but also their mobile numbers, income levels, email IDs and Permanent Account November (PAN) details.
There are many websites on the Internet that do not fall under the mostly used search engines like Google, Bing, and general browsing. These are called dark net or deep net. Such websites can be accessed with the help of specific authorization procedures, software and configurations. The Information Technology Act, 2000 provides the statutory framework for addressing all kinds of prevalent cyber crimes in the country. Law enforcement agencies take action according to this law when they come to notice of such crimes.
Three parts of internet access
1. Surface Web: This part is used daily. For example, search results like search engines like Google or Yahoo. Such websites are indexed by search engines. These are easily accessible.
2. Deep Web: These cannot be reached through search engine results. To access any document of deep web, one has to login to its URL address. For which password and user name are used. These include accounts, blogging, or other websites.
3. Dark Web: This is only part of Internet searching, but it cannot be found on search engines in general. This type of site requires a special browser, called Tor, to open. Dark web sites are hidden with the help of Tor encryption tool. In such a case, if any users reach them incorrectly, then their data is threatened.
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I agree with this. That's why I prefer the FOIS.
Or maybe these 'fanboys' just have a different opinion to you?
You have no evidence to support your supposition that, 'the plethora of available pre-owned Speedmasters can most definitely be attributed to buyers remorse'.
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A solid, iconic, mechanical work of art with supremely interesting provenance is on your wrist.
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I originally sold my 2254 Seamaster Professional to buy a Speedmaster Professional. On arrival I was underwhelmed by the Speedmaster and had instant regreat. The Speedmaster did quickly grow on me and I bought another Seamaster too.
You must have overlooked the "In part" bit of my statement. Watchfora are full of watches from all kinds of brands that are for sale because their owners either became disenchanted with them, or they needed/ prefer to free up cash rather than hang on to them. People don't tend to part with the things they are enamored with, unless they've fallen out of love, or are in need of cash. All other explanations are just sugarcoated fluff. The fact that speedmasters represent a huge chuck of those watches is a testimony to this.
In addition, depending on how long they kept their watch, flippers that bought their speedmasters at msrp are most likely to be struck with buyers remorse once they become aware of the severity of their negative return on investment.
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I love the look of the Speedy in all the pics I see on here, and over the years have owned 2, my favourite being the original manual wind plexi.
But ultimately they are just not for me, it's just not got that special ness that I find with my Subby, or my Pam Zero.
That's the beauty of our hobby there are watches for all, but also a good pointer for newbies, the watch that everyone on WUS loves is not necessarily the watch you personally will love.
I luv me some Speedies. Not a well kept secret.
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You must have overlooked the "In part" bit of my statement. Watchfora are full of watches from all kinds of brands that are for sale because their owners either became disenchanted with them, or they needed/ wanted to free up cash rather than hang on to them. People don't tend to part with the things they are enamored with, unless they've fallen out of love, or are in need of cash. All other explanations are just sugarcoated fluff. The fact that speedmasters represent a huge chuck of those watches is a testimony to this.
'the plethora' meaning a large or excessive amount of something. You have no way of knowing that 'the large or excessive amount of Speedmasters available pre-owned can, most definitely be attributed to buyers remorse'.
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Google during it Developer conference has announced Android Wear platform for Wearables. Google has already released SDK for Android Wear. Android Wear brings Android capabilities to wearable devices. Android Wear will help OEMs to manufacture device without worrying about Software.
Android Wear comes with host new UI, integration with Android smartphone. Android Wear devices will come with Google search functionality with the "OK Google" command.
Android Wear comes with card like interface. Whenever any notification appears the watch will vibrate and you can tap the watch to see the notification. Any app downloaded on Smartphone will come in the smartwatch. Developers will also develop apps specifically for Android wear devices.
After Several leeks of LG G Watch, Google has also announced LG G watch and Samsung Gear Live powered by Android Wear. Both of these watches are up for pre-order. Google has also showed off Motorola Moto 360 smartwatch which will go on sale from Summer.
The LG G Watch features a 1.65-inch 280×280 pixel IPS display. It runs on 1.2GHz Qualcomm SnapDragon 400 processor with 512 MB RAM.
LG G watch has 4GB of internal storage. For connectivity it has Bluetooth 4.0 and 9 axis sensor. It has 400mAh battery which lasts for one day after complete charge.
LG G Watch comes with IP67 protection which keeps the device safe from dust and water. It can be dipped into 1 meter water for 30 minutes without damaging the device.
It will be available in black Titan and gold color. Its strap can be replaced with any 22m strap available in market.
LG G Watch is priced at $199 and up for pre order on Google Play store. It will ship from 7 June.
The Samsung Gear Live features a 1.63 inch Super AMOLED IPS display with 320×320 pixel resolution. It runs on 1.2GHz processor with 512 MB RAM.
Samsung Gear Live has 4GB of internal storage. For connectivity it has Heart Rate Sensor, Bluetooth 4.0 and 9 axis sensor. It has 300mAh battery which lasts for one day after complete charge.
Samsung Gear Live comes with IP67 protection which keeps the device safe from dust and water. It can be dipped into 1 meter water for 30 minutes without damaging the device.
Samsung Gear Live is priced at $229 and is up for pre-order on Google Play Store.


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The state of Texas doesn't require any license of foundation contractors in Dallas County TX, so there's no state standard for competence in new foundations or foundation repair.
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Methods of foundation stabilization include plate anchors or drilling helical piers into a deeper layer of more stable earth when foundations rest directly on loose soil or limestone which are soft and contribute to foundation sinking, buckling or cracking. Helical piers are suitable for lighter structures like most homes. Steel piers may be used in the same manner for heavier structures. The need for radical foundation stabilization or foundation sinking repair measures might be avoided with preventative repairs of small problems immediately such as when you first notice foundation cracks or cracks in the walls or floors of your home. These could be the result of only foundation settling but they could be the sign of a larger problem that will cost less to repair now than later. A foundation inspection should be performed immediately.
Many homeowners are familiar with the more common problems associated with foundations, including foundation cracking and settling. In such instances, a foundation contractor who specializes in foundation repair can perform procedures to fix the problem, such as slabjacking (drilling holes in the foundation and filling them with polyurethane, epoxy, or other mixed fills), which is usually cheaper than replacing an entire slab.
But there are more complicated issues that can be caused by changes in the environment or poor original workmanship. The best foundation contractors in Dallas County can remedy those potentially hazardous problems as well. Certain events, including landslides and earthquakes, may call for more intensive remedies, such as house re-leveling, seismic retrofitting, shoring and hillside work on the property, or complete replacement of the failing foundation by pouring a new foundation.
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Because so many foundation problems are the result of poorly compacted fill dirt, foundation contractors undertaking house foundation repair must use a variety of methods to approach the real problems that lie beneath the building foundations. Often schooled in soil engineering, the best foundation contractors in Dallas County deal with problematic fill by installing pier and grade beams, soil nailing, soil anchoring, and new underpinning. They can densify and strengthen the foundation soils to hinder permeation and prevent future settling of the slabs of the foundation. Some of the specialization of foundation repair is directly related to methods of remediation and mastery of the equipment required.
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The Logan JV boys had an easier time than the girls did, as they won 38-24 in their first full JV game of the season.
In the final game of the evening, the Trojan varsity faced a quick and athletic Titan team who was quick to draw first blood as they took a 9-13 lead in the first quarter and led 23-31 at half. Nobody can say that the Logan team gave up, as they came back and had the game tied a couple times during the fourth quarter. In the final seconds, the Titans made a couple free throws to go up by three and defeated the Trojans 49-52. The next game for LHS is against the neighbors to the north, Northern Valley, on Tuesday, January 17th in Almena.
Logan boys win Sagebrush Shootout!!
Logan beats Hill City by one point!
Trojan Ballers Place 4th at State!


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Iriri River folk may be forced from their homes to protect their environment
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11 April 2016 at 9:25 (Updated on 14 September 2020 at 12:02)
The colonos and beiradeiros live sustainably, but a new ecological station created around them could force these rural people from their lands.
We left the indigenous village of Tukaya early in the morning, and later that day reached our final destination: the ESEC-TM (Terra do Meio Ecological Station), which we'd come to study. Our focus was the people who had settled there before the preserve was set up — people the government was asking to leave.
We arrived first at the house of José Alves Gomes de Silva (universally known as Zé Boi). He and his wife, Cleonice Neves da Silva, gave us a friendly welcome, cooking up large pans of fried fish, with manioc flour and rice. Zé Boi, credited in those parts with knowing the Iriiri River like the back of his hand, was to be our pilot and guide for most of the rest of our trip upriver and into the forest.
Born in the region, Zé Boi and his wife are both illiterate and have long struggled to make sure their children don't face the same fate, despite the lack of schools along the river. That's a major undertaking, considering that they've had 16 children, with only one having died in infancy.
Zé Boi, Dona Cleonice, their daughter Chica and her children. Photo by Maurício Torres
Eleven years ago, they sent one of their older daughters, Francisca (Chica), to Altamira, a city of over 100,000, to look after her younger sisters while they attended school. But she always missed home. Her father wrote to her, dictating letters to a literate neighbour. When Chica came back, she married a local man who had waited for her, and they had three children.
"That's enough!", she said decisively. "We're not having any more."
Now that sterilization is readily available in Brazil, most of the younger women in this part of the Amazon have taken the same decision. Very few of Zé Boi's children want their mother's life of double-digit pregnancies.
Zé Boi's family has a tame paca (Agouti paca), a large Amazonian rodent which they extracted from its dead mother's womb and reared, using a baby's bottle. Like most families, they love paca meat, but they are very fond of this young pet. When it reaches maturity, they say, it will disappear into the forest. While the paca sleeps during the day in a special box especially made for it, it wanders happily around the room in the evenings, often rubbing Zé Boi's ankle.
Brazil nut tree. Photo by Ricardo Scoles
Life in the Amazon wilds
Like most locals, Zé Boi's family owns several emaciated dogs. One night while staying there, I woke to the commotion of their loud barking. The next morning I asked Zé Boi what the din had been about: "A band of boars passed by at the back of the house", he replied.
How did he know? "The dogs have a different bark for different animals," he replied, demonstrating the sort of intimate knowledge he and other families have of the forest and the creatures that live in it.
Daily life on the Iriri, in the heart of Amazonia, can be disrupted by things much worse than dogs. Zé Boi tells of the frightening encounters his family, and other families, have had with Kayapó Indians over the past century.
Zé Boi's brothers and father were out collecting açaí (a tropical berry) once when Kayapó Indians arrived back at their hut. The warriors killed his grandmother and one of her sons, and took eight-year-old Isaura hostage. She was not recovered. Years later, Zé Boi's father met Isaura again: fully integrated into indigenous society. She had married and had five Kayapó children. There was no talk of her returning to "white" society.
Zé Boi in the forest. Photo by Maurício Torres
This isn't the only trouble the family has experienced over the years. Like others, they endured violent threats from grileiros (land thieves) in the 1990s.
"It was turning this area into an ecological station that saved us", explained Zé Boi. "We have conflicts now with ICMBio [the federal conservation authorities] and they are now telling us we must leave [because of the creation of the preserve], but they brought us a real blessing by getting rid of the grileiros."
Brazil nutting
While staying with Zé Boi and his family, I and two biologists from our team joined him on a visit to his castanhal, the area where he collects Brazil nuts. A short boat ride and an hour-long walk through the forest, accompanied by the the sound of birds, insects and occasional monkeys, got us there. On the way, Zé Boi pointed out and named trees we passed, telling us their uses, often as a cure for common ailments.
I noticed that the bark of some trees had been scraped off. Zé Boi told us this was the work of tapirs. Biologist Ricardo Scoles, added to the natural history lesson, explaining that the animals "need salt and their stomachs are adapted to absorb bark," much like North America's porcupines.
When we reached the castanhal, we found that many ouriços (nutcases, the size of small beach balls, but far harder) had fallen to the ground. Zé Boi warned that there were many more still hanging on the tree far above us.
"I'll keep an eye on the weather", he said. "They fall most often when there is a heavy shower of rain and then the sun comes out." Zé Boi is right to be cautious: many locals have been injured by a blow on the head from a plummeting ourico.
An unusually large ouriço. Photo by Ricardo Scoles
We were particularly careful near a large, spreading tree called a milouriços (1,000 ouriços). "Can it really carry that number of ouriços in a single harvest?" I asked. "Not every year," Zé Boi responded. "And I think this year will be poor —but often it has more." Quite incredible to see such a prolific tree.
Zé Boi pointed to a neat hole bored into some ouriços on the ground. "It was an agouti that did that", he said. "No other animal has sharp enough teeth."
When I asked if he was afraid the agoutis would damage the harvest, he shook his head. "We always wait until the river has risen a bit more, so we can take our boat down a creek and get nearer the castanhal", he said. "The agoutis take what they need first and we take the rest. There is enough for us all."
Biologist Ricardo Scoles examining a Brazi nut tree. Photo by Natalia Guerrero
Ricardo explained that, when the agoutis have had their fill, they dig holes and bury the remaining nuts to eat later. But, just like squirrels, they often forget where they have buried them, thus helping to scatter the trees.
"Humans have played a role too", he added. "We don't yet know the extent of human involvement in the distribution of useful trees and other plants [in the Amazon], though we are certain that they played a role. There's a lively debate on this issue between biologists, anthropologists and archaeologists."
This long-occurring interaction between forest and people debunks the facetious claim made in the 1970s by the military government that the Amazon was "a land without men" needing to be colonized by wealthy Brazilian urbanites looking to make a quick profit on cattle, logging and mining.
Forced to leave the land they care for?
A few days later we visited the homes of some colonos (settlers). Peasants from various parts of Brazil, they began migrating to the Iriri River valley in the 1990s. In this particular case, the settlers had occupied plots of land beside a road going from the Iriri River to a cassiterite (tin) mine, operated by the Canopus mining company, a subsidiary of Rhodia, a multinational chemicals manufacturer.
When the Brazilian government officially established the 3.4 million hectare (13,000 square mile) ecological station, known as Estaçāo Ecológica da Terra do Meio (EsecTM) in the early 2000s, they launched a major crackdown on the illegal deforestation being perpetrated by large scale ranchers and farmers and land thieves within the preserve.
Representatives of about 60 colonos made contact with ICMBio, the environment agency, to plead their case. They told how they had occupied the land in good faith, long before the ecological station existed. They were willing to leave the conservation unit, they said, provided they were given equivalently productive land and resettled together (so that they could maintain the mutual help community networks they had set up). ICMBio has so far not offered alternative land, so they've stayed on, though are clearly troubled by the uncertainty.
Map of the Iriri River by Mauricio Torres
The colonos we met all lived along the Iriri River and, rather unusually, were nearly all single men in their 60s and 70s. Although most had led restless lives, on the move constantly, leaving behind wives and children, they seemed happy enough. One of them, José Carlos Alves de Souza, 62 years old, showed us around his land, where he is cultivating food crops (maize, manioc, cacao and more). He has also planted fruit trees including Brazil nut seedlings, even though he knows that he won't live long enough to collect the nuts.
This year he is going to visit a rare spot in the forest where uncut mahogany trees can still be found to collect seeds. He will plant them in his plot. "We can't let these trees die out", he said.
The lunch he offered us in his spotless kitchen was delicious — corn on the cob, rice cooked with pumpkin (lovely!), beans, and pork from a boar that he'd shot himself and cooked in a stew. He had never married, but has children in another Brazilian state, with whom he keeps in sporadic contact. Like the other colonos, his main worry today is that he might be evicted without compensation.
José Carlos Alves de Souza, who cooked lunch for the team. Photo by Maurício Torres
The colonos think of themselves as somewhat different from the beiradeiros [the river folk] in that they see themselves fundamentally as farmers: "My heart belongs to my crops" is how one of them put it.
They also don't have the same fierce attachment to this particular river valley as do the beiradeiros. Yet, as they also recognise, their lives are in many ways very similar to those of the beiradeiros. The colonos live within the rhythms and patterns of nature in Amazonia, eating fish almost every day, for example. "The river is my fridge", said one. And many collect Brazil nuts.
After we left the region, some colonos sent a letter to ICMBio. In it they asked for a similar study to be done on their lifestyle as the one we were doing on the beiradeiros' way of life. The idea: to show that the colonos too are living sustainably, with little impact on the ecological integrity of the ESEC-TM that now surrounds them, that they should be allowed to stay on. In fact, these river people may be enhancing nature's value for themselves, and possibly humanity.
Indigenous pottery. Photo by Maurício Torres
Both colonos and beiradeiros know the value of terra preta, the incredibly fertile but mysterious black earth found in patches along the river, and many families have chosen to homestead and farm on that ground.
Indigenous communities produced this rich soil some time in the past, though no one knows quite when or how, and our study team frequently stumbled on hard archaeological evidence of that presence — pottery shards, axe heads and other flotsam.
Unlike the sandy soil beneath most of the forest, terra preta is extremely productive and, remarkably, stays that way. No matter what is grown in it, it retains its fertility — even though nothing is done to replenish it.
It is a phenomenon well worth studying. Unlocking its secrets could potentially benefit rainforest crops all across the Amazon and even throughout the tropics, where soil nutrient depletion remains a serious economic problem.
This is another valid reason to allow these river people to remain living within the ecological station. Like the indigenous people before them, the colonos and beiradeiros appear to be an integral part of their ecosystem — they are custodians of the land they love.
A Brazil nut collector. Photo by Ricardo Scoles
Indigenous pottery shards lying atop terra preta, a rich black soil with extraordinary lasting fertility — something rare in the tropics. Photo by Maurício Torres
Zé Boi and biologist Ricardo Scoles. There's much science can learn from the Iriri river people who live very close to nature. Photo by Maurício Torres
– This report was originally published in Mongabay and is republished by an agreement to share content.
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Look What The FBI Dragged In
Posted on September 28, 2011 by Killian Bundy
Why, it's yet another homegrown Muslim jihadi plotting to kill his fellow Americans and any other infidels that might cross his Islamic path.
Man, 26, charged in plot to bomb Pentagon using model airplane
A 26-year-old Massachusetts man with a physics degree was arrested and charged Wednesday with plotting an attack on the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol with a remote-controlled model aircraft, authorities said.
Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen from Ashland, Massachusetts, planned to use model aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives, authorities said.
As a result of an undercover FBI investigation, Ferdaus, who has a physics degree from Northeastern University in Boston, was charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to al Qaeda for attacks on U.S. soldiers overseas, authorities said.
Read the criminal complaint
Federal agents charge Ashland man with targeting Pentagon, Capitol with aerial explosives
Timeline of alleged terror plot
Officials search home of Ashland terror plot suspect
Ashland neighbors shocked at arrest
Man accused of plotting drone attacks on Pentagon, Capitol
Feds: Mass. man planned to blow up Pentagon
Mass. musician accused of D.C. terrorist plot
Man arrested in 'step-by-step' plot to blow up Capitol, Pentagon
Ashland man arrested and charged in terrorist plot against the Pentagon and US Capitol
Witness describes scene at Framingham, Mass. storage facility
US Man Charged With Pentagon, Capitol Attack Plan
Mass. man accused of plotting attack on Pentagon, Capitol
FBI: Mass. Man Arrested For Plot Against Pentagon, Capitol
And remember, there is no Muslim extremist problem here in the United States. After all, Islam is the religion of peace and tolerance.
/it's just a super freaky coincidence that almost every last terrorist the FBI arrests turns out to be a Muslim jihadi
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War By Any Other Name
China is at it again, waging a back door war against the West. Usually, they just try and steal our technology, now they're going to try and cripple our technology production.
China Signals Further Rare-Earth Cuts
Chinese officials are signaling plans to further reduce rare-earth exports next year, sustaining its controls of the metals—key ingredients in high-technology batteries and defense products—that have already severely frustrated foreign governments.
Reducing the export quotas is under consideration, but it's too early to talk about any reduction rate," Lin Donglu, secretary general of the Chinese Society of Rare Earths, told Dow Jones Newswires on Tuesday. The state-run English-language China Daily on Tuesday quoted an unnamed Commerce Ministry official suggesting that cuts of as much as 30% from already-trimmed 2010 levels are possible. A Commerce Ministry official declined to confirm the report and the ministry didn't reply to faxed questions Tuesday.
Speaking at a conference on rare-earth elements in southeastern China on Tuesday, Chinese officials, including a Commerce Ministry deputy director, Jiang Fan, highlighted their concern about aggressive development of the country's resources, attendees said. One official there suggested China, by far the world's largest producer and consumer, could even become an importer.
"Their main thrust was China needs to work to protect its rare-earth industry," said Nigel Tunna, managing director of Metals Pages Ltd., host of the conference.
China's decision in recent months to impose tougher quotas on rare-earth metal exports has sparked outcry from Tokyo to Washington.
China, which uses around half of its output of the elements and produces around 97% of world supply, says its limits—which this year aim to cut exports around 40% from 2009—reflect its growing environmental awareness, are perfectly legal and won't be used as a policy tool.
Yet, foreign importers worry reductions are designed to lift their metals import costs, undermine their high-technology industries and unnerve their defense departments. The metals, 17 chemically similar and expensive-to-mine elements, are critical to the manufacture of products from iPhones to smart bombs.
China reins in rare earth exports
China to Cut Rare Earth Export Quotas by Up to 30%, Daily Says
Report: China to Reduce Rare Earths Exports
China Halts Shipments to U.S. of Tech-Crucial Minerals
China Official Says No Plans to Cut Rare Earth Quotas
UPDATE 1-US checking if China halted rare earth shipments
China-Japan Rare Earth Fracas Continues
Japan Looks for Rare Earth Alternatives
Kan Says Japan Should Consider Stockpiling of Rare-Earth Metals
Decline in Rare-Earth Exports Rattles Germany
China's Rare Earths Gambit
More on Rare Earths: Looking for a Way out From Under a Monopoly
Obviously, this isn't a good development because there's not a hell of a lot we can do about it unless we want to start an all out trade war. They're got most of the rare earth metals and we're dependent on it.
/at a minimum, expect prices to rise for any technology that requires these metals
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There are many reasons for this, such as perfectly healthy and natural human greed^. The problem is that greed and other evolutionary adaptations have been allowed to spiral out of control by a broken educational system^. Insufficient education allows profit-seeking entities to exploit evolutionary weaknesses. They profit by making individuals invest into items and activities of no real value (no increase in happiness and no profit for the individuals or their families).
This social weakness has brought with it the perpetuation and success of a class of dangerous individuals^. People of otherwise great potential, but who are successful because of a dangerous disconnection from the society they should (as skilled individuals and leaders) be taking care of. These people only behave this way because it's possible. They can (still) get away with it.
At the very core of economic unfairness lies the manufacture of money out of thin air. Or, more precisely out of paper and ink. Actually, in the Information Age^, money is made out of electricity (lots of it^). Cryptocurrencies, for all their rebellious hopefulness, epitomize the ridiculous of the times we live in: billions are created based on something as fickle as public opinion, unsubstantiated ideas and charismatic individuals (Musk, anyone?^).
The fact that money is fake has never been more evident than it is today. We've also never had more debt than today. Most money in the world is, actually, debt. It is an instrument of distraction that has been used masterfully for thousands (yes, thousands) of years. But that's history and we shouldn't let ourselves condemned by it. Let history be history and look towards the future. Besides, back when money was invented, we didn't have the technology we have today.
We are fortunate to have evolved to a state of awareness that allows us to make some significant leaps forward when it comes to knowing right from wrong^. Economic structures that were inconceivable decades ago are now gaining traction. We have concepts such as ethical consumerism^ and ethical banking^.
Technology today, in fact, allows us to very accurately measure each individual's contribution to society. And ethics today allow us to discern meaningful contributions from wasteful or even toxic contributions.
Society usually adapts to new ethical principles on a generational level. But ethics can change from one minute to the next. One of the catalysts of prosperity is a society's ability to quickly adapt to changes in the way humans relate with each other. A social life with reduced friction ensures that individuals can channel more energy into constructive ventures.
The implementation of ethics into law is sometimes very sluggish. The economic system of the future, however, has to be able to adapt, sometimes in a matter of hours, to people who might exploit it. Think about how an antivirus company works. Once the company is aware of a dangerous application, they release a software update that allows their product to protect users from that application. The same can be done with all sorts of harmful social behaviors.
It is therefore imperative for our future financial institutions to continuously adapt and climb to a high moral ground. Having "Financial institutions" and "moral high ground" in the same sentence is almost laughable in this day and age; but things will change. The alternative is to continue living in a state of perpetual financial seizure where an ever-increasing number of people suffer during economic downturns.
Through the use of cryptocurrencies, we can create a highly adaptable financial system. This would consist of a world-wide currency that would then split itself into regional (state-level) denominations, then city-state level denominations and then further down to villages, families and even per-individual currencies. The purpose of this fragmentation would be to drill down to where actual value is created: the individual.
All currencies would feed back into the planetary currency, a sum yielding the total value generated by the entire species. How such a hierarchical cryptocurrency system could be implemented is homework for those that are experts in this field.
The fusion of economy and ethics can be called econoethics. This could be achieved, for example, through the implementation of an ethical layer within the global cryptocurrency we discussed earlier. Such a construction can bring the concept of dollar voting^ into the foreground of our economic lives.
This ethical cryptocurrency would be both hierarchical, fragmented and subject to localized ethics transformations. This means that for a social structure located in a certain area, the currency's development will be influenced (transformed) by the ethical principles valid in that area. Indeed, ethics should be culture and region-specific.
What this means, in practice, is that a manufacturer that produces a good that is considered undesired in a certain society will not make that much profit off of it. Or, citizens that have an important contribution to their surrounding society will enjoy better pay. In a society governed by different laws, roles might reverse.
Implementing such systems is not easy and would require a lot of testing and brainstorming. But make no mistake, this is already doable with today's (primitive) technology. All that is required is some good will and the courage to experiment.
I have faith in the thousands of engineers, thinkers and tinkerers around the globe to come up with the foundations for a new financial framework; one that will give us a more transparent, cleaner and healthier economic development during the following centuries.


Sometimes, the clichés the losing team's players feed to sports reporters can have hidden meaning. So it is with Project Status Reports, especially for projects in trouble.
After the game, the reporters descend on the locker rooms. Most fascinating to me are the quotes from players in the Loser's Locker Room. They're feeling bad, yet most of the time they manage to say something that doesn't have to be bleeped. "They wanted it more than we did," or "The ball just didn't bounce our way." Some of these clichés have hidden meanings, and if you know the team well enough, you can understand what the players are really saying.
So it is with project status reports. Sometimes we struggle to put the best spin on the facts, or to convey indirectly a message that we cannot — or dare not — convey directly.
Have you learned to read, write, and speak Status-Report? Status-Report is a language that uses the same grammar and syntax as your own language, but the words mean something different. If you want to learn Status-Report, here are some examples.
Forward progress continues to be inhibited by external difficulties.
This month we made good progress toward implementing the necessary infrastructure.
We're still trying to figure out what the heck we're supposed to be doing.
Fortunately, the delays have provided us with an opportunity to address other outstanding issues.
We're finding work for everybody so we won't lose them while we're waiting.
Requirements of important users for new versions with enhanced capabilities have driven us to provide alpha releases.
Sales has been beating us up so bad that we had to send them something. Heaven only knows if it works.
Progress toward completing this work has been slowed by an assortment of problems in other parts of the system.
We're stuck. We have no idea for how long. Pray.
The requisition to purchase the new software is running into some approval problems.
The recent reorg has had political implications. We might have to cut a deal.
It was determined that we will continue to watch the situation and assess our options at a later time.
We have no clue what to do about this.
No deliverables are completed at this time.
There is disagreement about the meaning of "completed." Or maybe "deliverable."
A detailed project plan cannot be created at this time because it is not yet known exactly what system will be designed and built.
One problem could be lack of manpower. It was decided that if this was a major hindrance, we should look at ways of allocating resources for this purpose. The executive committee will follow up.
Management doesn't want to fund this project at an adequate level. We will try to get people to work on it anyway.
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Ferris hockey falls to Alabama-Huntsville 2-0
Charger goalie stops 42 Bulldog shots
By John Raffel
Published 12:36 am EST, Sunday, January 10, 2021
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- The Ferris State University men's ice hockey team outshot the Alabama-Huntsville Chargers 42-18 on the night, but were unable to crack UAH goaltender David Fessenden in a 2-0 loss in Western Colleguate Hockey Association play on Saturday at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Ala.
The Bullldogs, 0-8 overall and 0-4 in the WCHA lost to Huntsville on Friday 5-4 in overtime (see related story).
Ferris State had shot advantages of 10-3 in the first period, 13-10 in the second, and 19-5 in the third, but Fessenden managed to keep the Bulldogs off the board.
Further, Ferris State doubled the Chargers in shot attempts (72-36) overall. The Chargers, on top of 42 saves from Fessenden, blocked 16 shots. Senior forward Marshall Moise had a game-high five shots on goal in the loss.
The Chargers opened the scoring at 17:04 of the second period when Connor Merkley scored on a break down the middle.
Shortly after, the Chargers made it 2-0 when Tyrone Bronte scored on the power play at 18:27 of the second period on a shot that deflected off of Bronte, and then a Bulldog who was defending the cross ice pass before it dipped into the open goal.
Ferris State went 0-6 on the man advantage while the Chargers went 1-4. In goal, freshman goaltender Logan Stein made 18 saves for the Bulldogs.
The Bulldogs return home to take on the Michigan Tech Huskies on Friday and Saturday at the Ewigleben Ice Arena in WCHA action.
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Q: Does anyone know what "discoverd" daemon is? Saw this process running in Activity Monitor.  Not sure what it does...anyone seen this before?
Tried searching for list of "normal" mac os daemons but most lists are incomplete.  Have not found any sites which listed "discoverd" as one of the standard daemons.  Is this a malware?

A: https://launchpad.net/discoverd:

DiscoverD is a collection of discovery and monitoring daemons to scan
  and collect all information available about any active host running on
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Verizon just confessed to overcharging 15 million wireless customers. It's a tiny part of a much bigger problem for the wireless giant.
Verizon Wireless padded the bills of 15 million customers with unnecessary charges, the company admitted in a terse statement released on Sunday afternoon. Verizon (vz), which clearly hoped to bury the matter quickly, wouldn't specify either the average or the total amount of the overcharges. It simply said that most were small, a few dollars per customer, and promised full refunds. Total overcharges could run as high as $90 million.
It's easy to assume the worst — that Verizon's overcharges were a too-convenient "mistake." The wireless industry has a long history of rounding bills in its own favor. (A 61-second cellphone call typically counts as two minute of use, for example.) Verizon is also under intense pressure to boost revenue from data, as opposed to traditional phone calls, which is just what the recent overcharges happened to do.
At the heart of the issue lies the ticklish question of how to charge for wireless data. Right now most cellular customers who use data services pay for a bucket of monthly phone minutes and an unlimited amount of data usage. The customers Verizon overcharged, however, pay for data per download, at a rate of $2 per megabyte.
That's exactly how most people will pay in the future. Just two weeks ago Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg announced that the company would be moving away from all-you-can-eat data plans to systems in which people pay by the megabit. AT&T (t) made a similar announcement. It's all part of a tectonic shift in the wireless market. Today Verizon and other companies make most of their money charging customers by the minute, not the megabit.
Like AT&T and its other competitors, Verizon desperately needs people to pay more for data service to continue a three-decade-long run of growth. Last quarter, Verizon's wireless data revenue shot up $900 million from the year before—a fortunate thing, since otherwise a decline in its core wireless calling market would have dragged down Verizon's overall wireless revenue by $200 million.
Selling bits will ultimately expose the fact that wireless customers are being overcharged for all sorts of wireless services—including the old-fashioned phone calls and text messages that still form the core of Verizon's business. Right now phone calls and text messages, neither of which take too many bits to transmit, bring in a wildly disproportionate number of dollars per megabit compared with data applications.
Text messages are an especially egregious example. After the Big Four carriers all raised rates in lockstep a few years ago, the Senate launched an antitrust investigation. Somehow texting prices kept going up even as the already negligible cost of sending a text fell ever lower.
What, then, about wireless? What happens as wireless customers start going over-the-top, paying by the megabit? Won't wireless companies be made into dumb pipes too?
Verizon and its competitors have built their businesses around selling services, not bits. There's one price for phone service, another for text messaging, another for web access. Yet wireless customers increasingly don't want to buy a service — they want to buy bits. That's the great trend in telecom: consumers demanding raw digital communication capacity that they control.
The recent overcharging brouhaha is likely to be one of many stumbles as Verizon migrates its 92 million–customer business toward billing by the bit. The ultimate outcome, however, will be to weaken the industry's ability to overcharge for services like talk and text. Compared with that, the $60 million to $90 million Verizon overcharged for unused megabits barely registers.
You could get angry at the folks at Verizon for messing up their new by-the-bit billing system. But it might make more sense to pity them for having to go through the brutal transition in the first place.


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Category: Awards
2022 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation Award Honorable Mention: Paul Kindsgrab
Paul Kindsgrab, will be awarded an honorable mention at the 2022 NTA Annual Conference, on November 10, 2022 in Miami, FL. Paul received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2022. His primary fields of interest are public finance and labor economics. Paul's research empirically studies how tax policy impacts the economy,… Read more »
2022 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation Award Honorable Mention: Maggie Shi
Maggie Shi, will be awarded an honorable mention at the 2022 NTA Annual Conference, on November 11, 2022 in Miami. Maggie Shi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She will join the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2023. She received her… Read more »
Valeria Zurla, 2022 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation Award Winner
Valeria Zurla, Brown University, has won the NTA's Outstanding Dissertation Prize for 2022. She will accept the award at the 2022 NTA Annual Conference, on November 10, 2022 in Miami, FL. Valeria Zurla is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Population Wellbeing Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin and an Assistant Professor of… Read more »
Jane Gravelle, 2022 Holland Medal Recipient
The Daniel M. Holland Medal was created in 1993 in the memory of Daniel Holland, a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and long-time editor of the National Tax Journal. The Holland Medal, the most prestigious award given by the National Tax Association, recognizes lifetime achievement in the… Read more »
Martin Sullivan, 2021 Davie-Davis Award Recipient
Martin A. Sullivan is the recipient of the 2021 Davie-Davis Public Service award. Sullivan is the chief economist and contributing editor for Tax Notes, Tax Analysts' daily and weekly publications and blog. An expert on the federal tax system, especially corporate taxation, he has written over 500 economic analyses for Tax Analysts' publications and is the author… Read more »
2021 Dissertation Award Honorable Mention: Daniel Prinz
Daniel Prinz, Harvard University, will be awarded an honorable mention at the 2021 Virtual NTA Annual Conference, on November 19, 2021 on Zoom. Daniel is a Research Economist and Country Programme Manager at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Centre for Tax Analysis in Developing Countries. His work covers topics in public finance, including… Read more »
2021 Dissertation Award Honorable Mention: Daniel G. Garrett
Daniel G. Garrett, Duke University, will be awarded an honorable mention at the 2021 Virtual NTA Annual Conference, on November 19, 2021 on Zoom. Daniel is currently an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School. His research is at the intersection of public finance and corporate finance. He explores how the… Read more »
Augustin Bergeron, 2021 Dissertation Award Winner
Augustin Bergeron, Harvard University, has won the NTA's Outstanding Dissertation Prize for 2021. He will accept the award at the 2021 Virtual NTA Annual Conference, on November 19, 2021 on Zoom. Augustin Bergeron is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford King center on Global Development. He will join the University of Southern California (USC) as… Read more »
Rosanne Altshuler, 2021 Holland Medal Recipient
The Daniel M. Holland Medal was created in 1993 in the memory of Dan Holland, a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, who was an internationally recognized researcher, teacher, and practitioner in public finance. The Holland Medal, the most prestigious award given by the National Tax Association, recognizes… Read more »
Joan Youngman, 2021 Steven D. Gold Award recipient
The Steven D. Gold Award was created in 1997 in memory of Steve Gold, who had an exemplary career as an analyst, researcher, and teacher, specializing in issues related to state and local public finance and intergovernmental relations. The award is given annually by the National Tax Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures —… Read more »
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Vasundhara Raje government has made tremenduous efforts for the development of Rajasthan. Under the leadership of Smt. Vasundhara Raje, all untouched and undeveloped sectors of the state are making progress. In fact, CM Raje has provided employment to the state. She has promised to provide employment to 50 lacs and her government has successfully provided it to 44 lacs. Now, it is busy in generating more jobs by December 2018. Know more.
Under employment generation schemes of state and central governments, the Industries department has been striving hard to meet the target of creating more ways of providing employment. To create more opportunities, the Industry secretary of Rajasthan issued the directions to generate employment under the Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme of central government and Bhamashah Rojgar Srajan Yojna of state by December 31. There are also instructions for the establishment of MSME facilitation units at all district centers.
To fulfill these targets, the officials are now given responsibility. They have been asked to keep a check on proper implementation of employment generation programs. They are also warned not to be negligent in their duties. A draft of cluster development by end of this month is also needed. Rajasthan Industry Department is busy in achieving best results in limited time.
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Darż (do 1945 roku niem. Daarz) – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie zachodniopomorskim, w powiecie goleniowskim, w gminie Maszewo.

Leży w odległości 4 km od Maszewa, przy drodze wojewódzkiej nr 141.

Historia
Pierwsza wzmianka o wsi w dokumentach pochodzi z 1493 roku, ale archaiczna forma wsi wskazuje na jej znacznie wcześniejszą metrykę.

W 1580 roku wieś ta została odnotowana w wykazie dóbr hrabiego von Eberstein. W danych z 1628 roku część majątku wchodzącego w skład wsi była w posiadaniu członków rodów von Stettin i von Flemming. Po wygaśnięciu rodu Eberstein wieś Darż przejęty został przez domenę. Miał wówczas wielkość 1433 mórg. W spisach z 1749 roku domena składała się z wsi, folwarku i młyna w Darżu.

Wieś Darż była wsią rycerską, potem domenalną. W XVII wieku liczyła 18 gospodarstw chłopskich i 2 zagrodników. W 1815 roku gospodarstwa stały się własnością dziedziczną. W 1872 roku we wsi było już 32 właścicieli ziemi. W 1932 roku w Darżu znajdowało się 61 budynków mieszkalnych i 91 gospodarczych oraz zamieszkiwały 454 osoby. Areał gruntów wynosił 1144 ha. Wśród zagród chłopskich wyróżniał się chłopski folwark wielkości 143 ha. Średniowieczny kościół, wzmiankowany w 1493 roku został rozebrany, a w 1885 wybudowano nowy.

Folwark – w 1825 roku młynarz J. CH. Pinno zakupił folwark i na jego ziemiach w 1840 roku założył dodatkowo folwark o areale 540 morgów nazwany Nowym Darżem. W 1844 oba folwarki zostały sprzedane. W 1851 zakupił je właściciel Parlina, W. F. Schumann. W ich posiadaniu Darż był do roku 1945.
Około roku 1862 przebudowano część budynków majątku i wzniesiono nowe. Areał majątku w wielkości 563 ha nie uległ zmianie do 1945 r.

W 1945 roku wieś znalazła się w granicach Polski. Po 1945 roku we wsi utworzono PGR, istniały tu także gospodarstwa rolników indywidualnych.

Przypisy

Maszewo (gmina w województwie zachodniopomorskim)

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