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Pentagon Makes Changes To Be More Family Friendly
Published February 15, 2016 at 4:08 AM CST
There's an old line about family and the military. It goes, if the military wanted you to have a family, they'd have issued you one. Well, these days, the Pentagon is trying to be more family-friendly, offering better benefits, more maternity leave and this, a program that will pay for active duty troops to freeze their eggs and sperm. We called Brad Carson of the Defense Department's Personnel and Readiness Program to find out why.
BRAD CARSON: It really came about from talking to women in the force, just about their experiences, how we could make life better for them. There was a culture of women who say upon turning 30, their mentors would come to them and say, you should go freeze your eggs; pay for it yourself because this is something that will be valuable to you in 10, 12 years.
KELLY: OK. So one goal is trying to retain women to stay in the military. Is another one to give both women and men in uniform peace of mind that if they get hurt on the battlefield, they could still have children?
CARSON: That is partially the reason as well. We know from the last 15 years of war, traumatic brain injury but also genito-urinary injuries are really the signature wounds of these conflicts.
KELLY: Really? I did not know that.
CARSON: Well, you can imagine the IED blasts, which are the most prevalent traumatic battle wound - they're devastating to your lower extremities. And indeed, we've developed a lot of expertise over the last few years about trying to work on genital reconstruction, on developing gear you can wear, a so-called ballistic underwear. It is a very common injury. And so it's the right thing for us to try to offer this benefit.
KELLY: Let's tick through some of the questions that are being raised about this program. And one is that freezing eggs, in particular, is very new technology. It doesn't always work. How do you weigh that risk, that you might be asking a woman in her 20s or 30s to sign up for this, to freeze her eggs, and then she might discover - I don't know, age 40 - that it didn't work?
CARSON: We don't oversell the science. We know that the best studies suggest that it works in perhaps 25 percent of cases. But we're not asking anyone to do this. It's an option to people.
KELLY: Is there a risk, though, that the option becomes an expectation?
CARSON: No. It's just about expanding options for women. Our enhanced child care, our lactation rooms, our expanded maternity leave are all part of this ambition to make the Department of Defense the nation's most progressive employer.
KELLY: Freezing genetic material raises all kinds of legal issues. Who owns the sperm or the eggs in the case of divorce or death?
CARSON: Well, in the private practice of providing these services, there's been a lot of thought about the ethical and legal issues. And there it has now become common practice that people who freeze their eggs or sperm sign a declaration that prescribes what is to be done in the event of death. Typically, these options would include things like destruction of the material, donation, remanding the material to their next of kin. And so, as I said, there's already a fairly elaborate regime of rules and regulations that govern this that we will supplement where necessary but hopefully build upon as well.
KELLY: If I may inject a personal note into this conversation, I'm told you served on an explosives disposal team in Iraq. And I'm assuming you had young team members working with you. Was the ability to have a family something that you talked about? Was it a concern for you and for them?
CARSON: Those are folks who really are at the tip of the spear in these conflicts. And there is no question that concerns about pelvic injuries are ones they know are very real. It wasn't much talked about. The culture is not one that kind of openly talks about these kind of concerns. But everyone is keenly aware that it is never far from their minds. [CLARIFICATION: Brad Carson served alongside explosive disposal units in Iraq. He was not an explosives ordnance disposal technician.]
KELLY: Brad Carson, thanks for your time.
CARSON: Thank you.
KELLY: Brad Carson runs the Defense Department's Personnel and Readiness Program. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
Corrected: February 22, 2016 at 11:00 PM CST
Brad Carson served alongside explosive disposal units in Iraq. He was not an explosives ordnance disposal technician.

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Glória é uma antiga freguesia portuguesa do concelho de Aveiro, com 6,85 km² de área e 9 099 habitantes (2011). A sua densidade populacional era 1 328,3 hab/km². Era uma das freguesias urbanas da cidade de Aveiro.

Está integrada, desde 2013 na freguesia de União das Freguesias de Glória e Vera Cruz, no âmbito de uma reforma administrativa nacional, tendo sido agregada à freguesia de Vera Cruz, para formar uma nova freguesia denominada União das Freguesias de Glória e Vera Cruz com sede em Vera Cruz.

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Trilce
Translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Seiferle
Subjects: poetry, literature in translation, bilingual, Spanish poetry
"Hernandez (1910-1942) was one of the constellation of poets whose virtuosity and vigor helped make Madrid a literary nerve center in the 1920s and early '30s. His later poetry gave lyrical expression to the Loyalist cause in the Spanish Civil War. It also landed him in one of Franco's fearsome prisons, where he died. Honig, a poet and author best known for his accomplished translations of Lorca, has selected a sampling from Hernandez's five collections of poetry to introduce this sensual, fiery poet to English-language readers. It's a praiseworthy undertaking: from the ardent sonnets of The Unending Lightning to the anguished defiance of his prison poems, Hernandez's poetry is muscular, soulful and formidably imagined."—Publishers Weekly
Trilce, originally published in Spanish in 1922, was the last collection of poetry to be published in Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo's lifetime. He identified himself with Peruvian landscape and experience, and attempts throughout this book to elude European forms and return to the Inca culture and language. The translator of this bilingual edition is herself a New Mexican poet whose style is uniquely suited to the hazards of translation.
Cesar Vallejo was born in 1892 in Santiago de Chuco, a small village of the Peruvian sierra. He was imprisoned as "the intellectual instigator" of a local conflict that occurred during a chance visit he made to his family. He was eventually released after a group of writers and scholars protested his incarceration. He published Trilce, and, shortly thereafter, disappointed by the book's reception left for Paris. He spent the rest of his life in Paris and did not publish any more poetry during his lifetime. He continued to publish essays, political pieces, a play, and short stories. He also became a Marxist and was very involved in the Spanish Civil War. He died in 1938 on Good Friday.
Rebecca Seiferle is the author of The Ripped-Out Seam which won the Bogin Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Writers' Exchange Award, and was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. She is currently an instructor at San Juan Community College.
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Movies News / Merline Erda
Published: January 22 2014 00:51
Katherine Heigl reveals the difficulty of leaving her family for work
Katherine Heigl is a Hollywood actress
She sometimes has to leave her family for filming
Katherine says she hates having to leave them
Being a Hollywood star and trying to bring up a family is never an easy thing to do, as there are often occasions when you need to make some very big decisions. There are some cases when a family can all stay together during filming a project but, there are also times when the family must stay at home, while the star heads off on their own.
Katherine Heigl loves her family
Hollywood actress Katherine Heigl has spoken about the difficulty of having to leave your family at home, while heading off to shoot a movie. Katherine says that she has been fortunate enough that she has not had to leave her family too often but, for a recent movie she did have to leave them, something which she found very difficult.
Heigl told Yahoo!, "I recently went and did a film in Cleveland. It was just a three-week shoot, 18 days, but I couldn't bring my family. It's the first time I haven't been with them. Usually, they come with me for the whole shoot. We make a home and set up camp where we are and I feel good because I have my family with me. So it was hard on me this time, actually."
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Fans of Katherine Heigl will be pleased to know that she has a number of movie projects coming up over the course of the next year or so. Not only that but it was also recently confirmed that Katherine Heigl has landed the lead role in the new NBC series State of Affairs Things are certainly looking good for the star who was labelled a difficult diva by Hollywood insiders.
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Archive for March, 2011|Monthly archive page
free market, freedom, money, profit
Thank Goodness for Child Labor
In Economics, Everyday Life, Financial, Opinion on March 27, 2011 at 12:17 pm
IT'S CAPITALISM, STUPID, NOT CAPITOLISM
A PERSONAL STORY ABOUT CHILD LABOR
Child Labor – we only outlawed it because we could, because capitalism improved productivity enough that we could let the kids go to school instead of making a living for their families. It's not like mom and dad were sitting at home living off their kids' wages. Everyone was working and conditions sucked.
The employers of those pitiful kids were driven by the profit motive. That term is better stated as one's desire to own the fruits of one's labor and to have the freedom and the ability to dispose of that fruit as one sees fit. That one word – Freedom – is the key. If you try to eliminate the profit-motive, you are eliminating freedom, simple as that.
The profit motive, freedom, is the reason – and the only reason – we were able to write "child-labor" laws and let the kids spend the first 18-22 years of their lives being sponges instead of having to earn their way.
Can it really be true that it was a businessman's "greed" and evil that made him hire children for $.10 per hour (or whatever it was) instead of hiring his mother or father for $5.00 to toil in his factory? It was a necessity, it was the only way he could make a profit, and without a profit, the job wouldn't have existed, the child and his family would starve. Without the potential to make money, the businessman could not have borrowed or otherwise raised the money it took to build the factory to begin with. It had to start somewhere.
Were there examples of "evil" and crooked businessmen who abused their power over a small portion of the labor force? Of course there were. But, be serious – if that practice were as widespread as we're often led to believe, where were all the complicit, cruel parents, and why did they sit idly by? The kids were working because the family needed them to, don't you think? If the vast majority of the businesses that employed child labor were the monsters we often see portrayed, and the families didn't really need the extra money, wouldn't the parents have let their kids stay home or at least do the work themselves? The jobs were low-skill, low-pay jobs that enabled the factory owner to keep the factory open – and open the next one and the next one, increasing productivity and replacing, eventually, the kids with machines. God bless those factory owners who fed families – including his own, by the way – while building a world in which the next generation of kids could spend their youth contemplating and protesting the evils of child labor, instead of shoveling manure out of the family barn.
Do you really think, for example, that a small businessman, a family farmer in Davenport, Iowa in 1905 worked his whole family from dawn 'til dusk because he hated his only son, Frank E. Neal, Sr., or because he wanted to, God forbid, make a profit off of his own child? No, we know he did it that way, because otherwise the family wouldn't have had enough to eat – Frank, Sr. would have starved.
Because he didn't starve, and since we live in a free country where innovation is driven by the profit motive, that farmer's son later moved to Tennessee, became a letter carrier for the US Postal Service and sent his third son to Isaac Litton High School in Nashville. That son then attended an insurance company's training program, sold property and casualty insurance for several local and national agencies, and raised six children, four of whom make their living working for the independent insurance agency he founded in 1975.
Which of those two men – the farmer in Davenport or the businessman in Nashville – is an ogre, using the labor of his children to line his own pockets. Neither. My father, Frank E. Neal, Jr., is the same man as his grandfather and his father – just standing on their shoulders. I'm grateful that my great-grandfather pushed my grandfather out of bed every morning to milk the cows and tend the crops. If that's abusing child labor, I'm all for abusing child labor.
Glenn Beck and Finance
In Financial, Opinion, Regulation on March 27, 2011 at 10:31 am
Mr. Beck,
You contributed to the downfall of America on March 1 by perpetuating a couple of myths.
First, oil speculators CAN NOT force the price of oil up. In every futures contract, there is a 'long' side and a 'short' side. For a speculator to make money on the way up, someone has to lose money; for there to be a gain on the UP position, some third party will have speculated on the opposite movement, DOWN, and his loss is the first speculator's gain. So, unless there is a complicit, knowing loser on the other side of the trade, forcing the price up by speculation is impossible. To say otherwise is to feed fear, the last thing we need.
Second, you spoke at some length about "bear-runs" – circumstances where companies' stock prices were "forced" down by short sellers. For starters, see above – there are two sides to every trade – some one else believed the opposite, that the share prices would be stable or rise. In addition, the examples of Bear Strearns and Lehman are telling. The problems in those two situations were not the short-sellers; the main problems were those companies' business plans, plans which the short sellers believed would fail. The short sellers invested their money such that they would profit if their assessment of the plans turned out to be accurate.
In the case of Bear, that problem was worsened by US Treasury Department intervention to (1) assume all of the liabilities of Bear Stearns and (2) sell the remaining assets for a price that didn't take that $30 Billion white-wash into account. JP Morgan stole the company with the government's sanction, getting to keep the assets with the assurance that the contingent liabilities that were on Bear's balance sheet would be paid by the government – nice work, if you can get it.
With Lehman, the government doomed Lehman when it said "we're not saving Lehman." (I'm not suggesting the government should have 'saved' Lehman – the government should have never been involved in the matter.) We will never know if Lehman could have made it out of their over-commitments to real estate, but they were never given the chance. Instead government intervention and mark-to-market accounting forced them into insolvency. Eventually, Lehman filed for bankruptcy and, notwithstanding all the predictions to the contrary, the world did not end. The market deals with failure almost as well as it does success. It cleanses the system of bad business plans, and government intervention to keep the market from finding the bottom, so it can bounce, prolongs the pain and moves the bottom DOWN further.
Much can and has been written – much of it wrong – about the financial crisis of 2008. More populist, anti-Wall-Street-trader rhetoric will not help the country avoid future crises. More regulations, more government and more mud throwing will all worsen the problem and lead to worse outcomes. A more clear understanding of how markets function – including how they function to punish failure – will make for a less interventionist government and better outcomes.
economics, free market, money, wealth
Tax Cuts for the Rich!
In Economics, Financial, Humor on March 17, 2011 at 10:28 am
The Tax System Explained In Beer – by unknown author.
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer & the bill for all ten comes to $100.
If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this :
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1
The sixth would pay $3
The seventh would pay $7
The eighth would pay $12
The ninth would pay $18
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59
So, that's what they decided to do.
The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve ball.
"Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20". Drinks for the ten men would now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes.
So the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men- the paying customers?
How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share?
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer.
So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by a higher percentage the poorer he was, to follow the principle of the tax system they had been using, and he proceeded to work out the amounts he suggested that each should now pay.
And so the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100%saving).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% saving).
The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7 (28% saving).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% saving).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% saving).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% saving).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But, once outside the bar, the men began to compare their savings.
"I only got a dollar out of the $20 saving," declared the sixth man.
He pointed to the tenth man, "but he got $10!"
"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar too. It's unfair that he got ten times more benefit than me!"
"That's true!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back, when I got only $2? The wealthy get all the breaks!"
"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison, "we didn't get anything at all. This new tax system exploits the poor!"
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had their beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, boys and girls, journalists and government ministers, is how our tax system works.
The people who already pay the highest taxes will naturally get the most benefit from a tax reduction..
Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore.
In fact, they might start drinking overseas, where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
For those who understand, no explanation is needed.
For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.
Welfare vs. Self-Reliance or Pay Up or Shut Up!
In Economics, Opinion on March 6, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Some months ago, Chris Matthews of MSNBC said without hesitation or qualification that America[ns] should pay reparations to 'black people' (defined to include the current President of the United States? Is he black or white under your proposed program?). He averred that a lot of white people are wrong on the matter and that something should happen, and soon.
OK, Mr. Matthews, do you really believe that? If so, how much is due and owing? Take that number and divide by 100,000,000 (approximate number of adult white men/women in America). Now send your check in that amount to your favorite African American, Michelle Obama comes to mind. If she doesn't want or need your handout, we will let her decide what to do with your money.
Do you find that idea objectionable? Why? Because you think I should write a check too, or because ALL taxpayers should contribute? Or just because you don't really have a program in mind that would benefit the First Lady?
In any case, you want to force me (and a few million other people) to do something we find objectionable for any number of reasons. I would never do that to you. I have merely suggested that you do something that you [claim to] support – pay reparations. I will always permit you to do what you think is right. PAY UP or shut up, really. Why are you trying to force me do something I think is wrong, or prevent me from practicing and preaching the things I believe?
See, I believe in self-reliance as fervently and with as much thought and compassion as you believe in welfare. I will not stop you from practicing what you believe; I ask only, please, that you let me retain the same liberty.
Job Creation Fallacies
Some months ago, Congressman Kucinich proposed encouraging early retirement to make room for newly hired employees who will cost less. He said it would create one million jobs. And not one of the brains on multiple news programs could find any of the dozens of fundamental flaws with that idea.
One of the commentators even said, "If the money comes from returned TARP funds, then it's cost neutral, right?" Are you kidding me? Another said that it might sound like a good idea, but it would actually cost more to hire and train someone new than to keep the older person on the job. Maybe that's true, but it's not relevant, is it?
So, euthanasia is next? When we decide that Grandpa has taken someone else's spot on ACME Inc's payroll, we're going ask him to 'volunteer' to retire. What will stop us when we decide he's eating someone else's meal; we'll ask him voluntarily to go on a 'diet.' And, when Grandma's taking up someone else's time on the mammogram; tell her to take a pill?
How does this (or any other government 'stimulus') idea "create" any thing new? Does it reduce the amount of food we need to exist tomorrow? Does it create a new task or product? Does it increase the output of the economy? Does it in any way ADD anything to anything?
And one of the Republicans' counter-proposals that Mr. Obama seems to approve is a $5,000 tax credit for a new hire – is that a good idea?
When I ran a company, I never hired a new employee because I thought it was my responsibility to 'create a job', because I wanted that person to have a job, so that person could afford health care, so Obama could get more votes in his reelection campaign, or so John Boehner could be Speaker instead of Minority Leader. I ONLY did so whenever I had something for him to do that was productive and valuable to me.
And I sure as hell didn't fire one person to make room for another, no matter how old my CFO might have been, or even if the government was willing to 'pay' 10% of the new-hire's salary – I would still be stuck with the other 90% for a gal who would stand around looking for something to do.
When we BUY something (hiring a new person is buying more labor) we buy it because we need it, not because a door-to-door salesman told us it was the best vacuum cleaner ever made and it is 10% off today, and today only. And it's even better than that old Hoover in the closet, too!
Would telling everyone they get a 10% rebate from the government encourage someone without the means to do so to buy a new Jaguar convertible? Of course not. Nor will $5,000 encourage any employer to hire someone he otherwise would not hire. It affects economic behavior, if any, only on the margins, bridging the gap between what the employer and employee think is the fair wage.
Want new jobs? Here's the answer. Repeal all laws that breach the Federal government's constitutional limits on power, or short of that, leave the federal law books alone and take a five-year break from making any new laws. Adjourn Congress, subject to national security emergency declaration by President Obama, so that businessmen can figure out how to be productive even when weighed down by the tens of thousands of pages of rules and regulations that purport to control and improve economic behavior. In five years, America will have out-innovated even the most energetic regulator, and for a generation or so not even Congressman Waxman will be able to catch-up to turn off the wealth creation machine.
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Glenn Beck is fanning the wrong flames
In Opinion, Political Critique on March 1, 2011 at 9:25 pm
First, I believe that Mr. Beck's intentions are pure. I fear, however, that the attacks on him have, understandably, triggered innate defense responses. Consequently, he's fighting and waging the wrong battle. He's fighting hate with fire; that will not end well. I admit that understanding what we are facing is necessary, but it is not a complete, winning strategy. Inflaming the left without making the contrary arguments calmly and repeatedly will result in a power struggle to the death of the Republic.
Support for freedom and individual rights thrives if, and only if, it is nurtured. Beck's TV shows (so too the opposition's) are filled with telling his audience who to be against. He cites polls showing this or that preference of some position by some majority. Over and over he suggests that the supporters of the majority view, as revealed in that magic crystal ball called a poll, needs rise up and impose its will on the rest of the country.
He will never be more wrong. We must not tolerate our politicians or TV pundits mimicking Joe Barton (See his Tea Party speech here) who wrongly thought he could pander to the Tea Party Patriots by identifying with the tank driver in Tiananmen Square, likening the Democrats to the little girl. I don't want to cajole anyone to agree with me, I want to be free, including free of Democrats or Republicans passing laws that tell me how to live and where my money should be "invested" by the federal government. A government that is not neutral is tyrannical.
The sovereignty of the individual as set forth first in the Declaration of Independence, all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, is the most important and radical political statement in the history of mankind. Never before was the individual recognized as the center of all things. That uniquely American, foundational truth gets overlooked when the power struggle for a majority begins. Candidates bob and weave to bundle together enough votes from disparate interest groups to form a majority. Then, once in office, the newly-powerful elected official hides behind the "voice of the people," the power of democracy, and a "mandate" to [unlawfully] infringe on the freedoms of the people who voted against him in favor of those who voted for him.
That cycle will accelerate the downfall of the Republic that Mr. Beck genuinely claims to be working to avert. I pray he finds his bearings and stops preaching fire and brimstone, and instead instructs his opponents about salvation. Even during violent battles, Abraham Lincoln saved the union by appealing to his enemies best nature, not by attacking their worst flaws.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Please rediscover that spirit, America. Please.
– See Lincoln's Sword by Douglas Wilson for a scholarly treatment (and inspirational read) of President Lincoln's use of rhetoric to save the Union.


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Carson McTeer was the first owner and he played this tuba in the Cincinnati Symphony.
It's a wonderful, easy to play flexible instrument that has been used successfully in a number of big orchestral auditions, to include New York Philharmonic, National Symphony and Montreal.
It comes with an Altieri bag made with extra padding in fair condition.
It's had a full spa treatment, chem clean, polished, new felts, etc..
I'm in Atlanta and would rather not ship.
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You should check out the pics, they're really pretty.
On your link, silver plate is $18,400, which is stated in my original post and I included that actual link.
From the take your PCK of the litter thread there are 5 PCK's for sale including mine.
The first link is for $11,500. That is much lower than my price, but it's in Portugal.
The second link is for $13,000, but has no pictures and not all that far away from my price.
The fourth the price is listed in the Facebook ad as $12,000, which is less than mine, but it has a replacement leadpipe in raw brass and has some bell scarring from that modification.
Mine is in great condition, it's plays great and was played by someone in a major symphony (Carson McTeer in Cincinnati in case you didn't see that).
I guess it's hard for me to see my price as interesting, but you're welcome to make an offer. If you're here to kick the tires and say that maybe my silver plated horn needs to be $10 less than Dillon music's raw brass horn, I'll give you that discount.
I was going to Delete porky's post, but Bill did a fine job with his reply.
If you really wanna hear what it sounds like in the back of an orchestra!
Depending on timelines, Carson may have used this in Cincinnati recordings issued on TELARC.
I'm open to offers! (Sorry no trades).
Re: Gronitz PCK for sale Open to offers, no trades.
A really great example of this model of tuba. Someone is missing out on a great instrument!
So here are some pop music sound clips that I used the Gronitz on.
The first is with Blair Crimmins and the Hookers, the tone of the overall track is supposed to sound like an old radio, but you can tell how nice and clean it can play.
The next two are from a singer songwriter type album and like most of them, they bury the tuba track, but there are at least two tracks on each in different octaves. You'll feel it more than hear it especially with a subwoofer.
It's really a great horn and I'm open to offers.
Re: Gronitz PCK for sale Open to offers, new sound clips .
Would really like to move this horn soon!


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MLB Playoffs – Which pitchers are ruling the World Series
ByGary Tanaka
Jeff PassanESPN
ESPN MLB insider
Author of "The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports"
PHILADELPHIA — In the fifth inning of the first game of this World Series, a barrel-chested left-handed reliever named Jose Alvarado jogged out of the Philadelphia Phillies' bullpen, ascended the mound to face the middle of the Houston Astros' lineup and secured three outs on seven pitches. The first was a sinker that bore in at 99.4 mph, the next another at 99. That was merely an appetizer: Three more sinkers clocked in at 100.6, 100.8 and 101.2 mph before Alvarado threw his version of an off-speed pitch, a 95 mph cutter. He finished his scoreless outing with one last sinker at 99.9 mph and decamped for the bench, job complete.
Teammate Brad Hand marveled from the bullpen, not just at what Alvarado did but at how triple-digit fastballs are no longer the domain of a select few. This postseason, buoyed by Alvarado and 13 other pitchers who have cracked the 100 mph threshold, average velocity has jumped to 95.3 mph. In the first two games of the World Series, it's 95.6 mph, a number that once was unimaginable to Hand and David Robertson, his veteran teammate in the Phillies' bullpen.
"Me and D-Rob joked about how there need to be two different plates," Hand said. "One if you throw 95-plus, and another one a little closer if you don't, just to make it fair."
Welcome to Major League Baseball, 2022 style, where if you don't throw hard, you probably don't throw much at all. Gone with few exceptions are the nibblers and soft-tossers, relics of a time when only the finest fastballs kissed 90 mph, replaced by live arms that reliably launch bolts. Back in 2008, the first year MLB tracked all pitch data, pitchers threw three fastballs of 100 mph or greater in the playoffs. This year, there have already been 164. And with Game 3 at Citizens Bank Park postponed because of rain in Philadelphia, the teams' rested bullpens will only add to the list.
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What has happened this MLB offseason? A look at the moves made so far in the AL and NL Central. – Boston Herald
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BMW M Performance Steering Wheel - A Reason to Buy a BMW?
BMW M Performance Steering Wheel – A Reason to Buy a BMW?
Now this is a great idea by BMW engineers. The race in technology among companies has done wonders for safety and CO2 emissions, but now it seems that they are kind of running out of ideas. Well, of course they are not. It's just that most of these wonders we can't see. They are carefully hidden in statistics. Of course those loads of airbags make you a lot safer, but I have never heard a car lover say something like: "I have to show you this car. It's got 12 air bags". No, they are always talking about horsepower, torque and great gadgets. Well, this is a great gadget. It's actually a steering wheel that will make your BMW seem like a Formula 1 racing car, at least for a bit. So, let's have a look at it. The first thing you will notice is an OLED display at the top of the rim and two additional LED readouts on the sides. After a bit closer look you will see two tiny buttons near the place where your thumbs should be. These are used to control the various functions of the wheel.
There are three modes of operation. In ECO mode, the display shows you how to drive most economically, and in the end, it shows how well you have done in relation to the average and expected numbers. Pretty useful. But that is not why someone would buy this steering wheel. It's a nice bonus, but not the reason.
Sport mode is the second. Here the wheel is a stop watch and it records your fuel consumption. But it also shows the G force, and this is a nice idea. Since G force is something that is measured mostly in turns, it is kind of difficult to see it with the steering wheel upside down. So the engineers in BMW decided to let the score linger for a while when the wheel is back in the starting position.
The Race mode is the most interesting one. It has the lap timer with numerous split-time functions, measured and displayed very accurately. Lap trigger is also very interesting in this mode and it measures lap times, but also 1/8 mile, 1/4 mile times, as well as o-60 mph and numerous others. But for the full racing feel, you also get the countdown indicator, as well as a finish one. The shift indicator is a great idea as well, and this is the thing that actually helps a lot, since you don't need to watch the rev counter. The LED lights start blinking and you know it's time for a shift.
In all three modes you can read radiator and oil temperature. It is quite expected, but worth a mention, that the system has a memory option so you can show off in front of your friends who don't believe what a racing driver you are.
The price of it is about $1,600 so you can calculate how badly you want it.


When speaking about Partners In Health, depending on the audience, we may talk about the needs of people we serve or the needs of institutions that serve them, but rarely both in equal measure. If it's a social justice crowd we share stories about the lives of patients and their immediate and often desperate needs. If it's development practitioners or public sector or institutional partners, we talk about capacity building and effectiveness and sustainability.
These conversations often prioritize either the individual or the system – as if one is more important than the other. And that's too bad, because those distinctions are irrelevant in practice. It's never just one or the other that our doctors or nurses or patients need to worry about.
So we – the collective 'we', meaning everyone who believes this work is important – need to think about and be aware of all of it too, all of the time.
PIH Canada had the privilege of seeing 'all of it' in action a few weeks ago with a visit to Toronto from the indomitable Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, Vice Chancellor of PIH's University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), former Minister of Health for Rwanda and full-time social justice firebrand. Dr. Agnes gave a talk at the University of Toronto in the morning, had some meetings in the afternoon, and attended an evening Canadian premiere screening of Bending The Arc, the captivating new documentary film on PIH in which she plays a starring supporting role.
Dr. Agnes doesn't just straddle the worlds of people and institutions; she's neck-deep in both. She calls out global health institutions for their hypocrisy on matters of cost effectiveness, deriding policies and policymakers who say what is "cost effective" in one country (in the West) is unsustainable in another (in Africa), openly mocking the value of human life of poor people. Rwanda has been so successful in advancing and implementing pro-poor health policies because its systems and institutions have matched its public rhetoric about the dignity of all citizens. The country designed policies to make health advances happen and held leaders at all levels accountable for achieving them.
Dr. Agnes Binagwaho answers a question from an audience member during a her talk "The Equity Imperative"
Sometimes people suggest that Rwanda is inherently different from other African countries — someone said it at the U of T talk — but Dr. Agnes won't stand for it. "We are not different," she retorts. "We are not different." Again and again. The only thing that comes from saying Rwanda is different, she says, is absolving other leaders from their responsibility to take care of their people.
When PIH began in the 1980s, it focused exclusively on the people and the injustice. PIH set up a system of community health workers in the Central Plateau of Haiti not as part of some national plan, but because it turned out to be the best way to bring health care to people who had been trampled on by larger forces. At the other end of the spectrum today are bureaucratic institutions who too often fail to see the human trees amidst the forest … unless the forest is being burnt by wildfire or destroyed by earthquake or hurricane or some other natural calamity. How to be less risk-averse from a distance, to help people in the here and now because lives have inherent worth independent of 'natural' disasters, or the strength of institutions, or a performance management plan, is the ongoing challenge.
We need more of the kind of urgency from institutions that drives family members or health care providers when a loved one or patient is directly in front of them. It's eminently possible for governments and universities and any kind of organization to be disruptive in this way, provided they remember to think about people. At UGHE, doctors-to-be will spend many hours of their training listening to and learning from community health workers. Yes, you heard that correctly. The most esteemed members in society will take guidance from individuals whose basic job requirements are that they know how to read and write and have the respect of their community. So the UGHE curriculum holds an important lesson for us all: for institutions that care about equity and actual people, the knowledge held by those actual people needs to be respected and heard and fed back into policy and practice. Effective work can't happen any other way.
PS – For those curious about seeing Bending The Arc, we promise to be back in touch soon with more information!


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Paris is one of the few cities in the world that virtually everyone knows. Is there anyone who hasn't heard of Paris? I think everybody who has spent a few years in any sort of school must have heard of this city. And probably everyone who hasn't been there has their own image of Paris. Sometimes this image might be very remote from the reality and when they come to the French capital for the first time, they are surprised to find out that the City of Lights is completely different from what they had imagined. Sometimes the reality will exceed their expectations, sometimes they will be disappointed.
You may like Paris, you may love it, or you can hate it, but you cannot deny that for a travel photographer the French capital city is a paradise. Very few cities can boast so many landmarks and tourist attractions as Paris.
Good months to visit Paris are: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. Honestly! Every season in Paris has its fans and every season is great in its own way. Winters can be cold or rather chilly, but for the most part not too harsh. Summers are fantastic, but it gets very crowded, prices go up and you have to stand in long queues to the main attractions.
By "long queues" I don't mean "15-minute queues", it's more likely to be one or two hours of waiting before you can enter e.g. the Notre-Dame Cathedral or go to the top of the Eiffel Tower. As a matter of fact, the Notre-Dame Cathedral has two separate queues: one to visit the church interior and another one to visit the tower and see the breath-taking panorama from there.
If you want to avoid the longest queues, save a little money on accomodation and still have at least some chance for warm and pleasant weather, then spring (April, May) or autumn (October, November) might be good times for you to visit the French capital.
What to see and what to photograph in Paris?
The number of attractions and photogenic places in Paris is bewildering. Make sure you take enough memory cards, or if you are an analog photographer – enough rolls of film. Some people will say: "oh, the main sights, such as the Eiffel Tower or the Louvre have been photographed a bazillion of times…" Yes, and so what? Not by me!
If you're a travel photographer and you're visiting this city, it is difficult not to take photos of the Eiffel Tower. Yes, it has been photographed countless times, but it is your job to photograph in a new way, find an interesting perspective, be there at the right time at catch great light. Because of its height, the famous Iron Lady, as they call it, is visible from many places in the city. Therefore, it may not be so difficult to come up with an original perspective as it could seem, provided you have enough time to explore the city. Two very common viewpoints are the Trocadéro and the Champ de Mars ("Field of Mars" in English). Even though these places are extremely popular among tourists, if you arrive there at the right time and the light is beautiful, you have a good chance to take fantastic, original and memorable photos of the Eiffel Tower. If you would like to capture this best known Parisian landmark from a distance, there are many great spots along the banks of the Seine river.
Paris has a relatively flat topography with very few hills, and therefore good and easily accessible natural vantage points are scarce. In this regard it is somewhat similar to London and cannot compete with such cities as for example Lisbon, Prague or Hong Kong. Nevertheless, there are some hills in the City of Lights and Montmartre with the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur is the best known and most visited one. It is easily accessible, to get there use metro lines 2 or 12 and get off at Anvers or Pigalle. It is relatively far from the city center, but the view is quite nice. I would not call it spectacular, though, but it definetely is still worth a visit, if you have enough time.
Another option to take beautiful panoramas of Paris is to use man-made structures as vantage points. The most obvious one would be of course the observation platform at the top of the Eiffel Tower, if you have enough patience to stand in the extremely long queue to get there. The disadvantage of this particular vantage point is that you cannot have… the Eiffel Tower itself in your photographic masterpiece.
The Eiffel Tower might be the most obvious vantage point in Paris, but in my opinion it is not the best one. The towers of the Notre-Dame Cathedral are open to visitors and the view with the Seine and the Eiffel Tower in the distance is simply amazing. Other great options are the observation decks at Tour Montparnasse or the Arc de Triomphe. Whichever place you choose, make sure you have enough memory cards and charged batteries. The views can be spectacular if the weather plays along! It is up to you to capture them in great photos, which you will be proud to share with your friends.


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Benedictine Military School
Parent: The experience with Benedictine Military School has been outstanding. Communications from administration, college preparatory courses and structure helped to build character, confidence and brotherhood. The school takes into account what students and parents think would make the school better and incorporate changes into curriculum. The focus on JROTC is a positive. There is a culture at BC that is truly built around brotherhood. The alumni and community are supportive of the school. Absolutely the right choice for my son.
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Niche User: This school set me above and apart in college readiness! Thanks to the best little college prep school for kids like me seeking top notch academics and full support in college admissions and matching me with the right sports team and academic program.
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St. Vincent's Academy
Alum: Most people that rate SVA low are the ones that have a gripe because they didn't get their way OR they didn't put anything into it while here. Overall, my experience was very good. They aren't perfect, but what school is! Anyone that tells you their school is perfect must be getting their way 100% on something. There seems to be more parents and students thinking that they should be calling the shots. When they don't, they leave or bash us on some social media outlet (or Rate your School!). SVA works to be better and is willing to listen to us when we want something improved. They just don't always agree with us on how to do it. There are some teachers that are fantastic, some that are very good, some that are good and some that need a kick (not many)...
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Veritas Collegiate Academy
Alum: As a Veritas graduate, I'm very honored to be part of such a diverse and international group of students and schools. I'm so happy to see the many campuses our small school has become, especially the campuses in China and Hungary. Pretty cool. In today's atmosphere of people looking inward and becoming a littke too nationalistic, it's great to see my school consistently looking outward and being inclusive of the world we live in. Too many "Christian" schools discriminating. As a minority, I always felt welcome. As a graduate, I was able to utilize a lot of what I learned on the collegiate level, especially the Thesis project and the years of learning Latin (don't worry, you may not know it now, but will realize on the future, those years are worth it). I'm Very proud to be a Veritas Spartan. Proud of what the Elgut's have done! Wow! Way to go, Veritas!
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Once again, I found some amazing Atomic Age radios on Radio Salon.
Crosley - 1951 in "Firebird Red"
Westinghouse - 1955 "Atomic Dial"
Arvin - 1958 in "Flamingo Pink"
Capehart - 1952 "Deluxe 6"
I saw this amazing mid-century modern model of the Berkeley West Building by architect Charles M. Wickett on Ebay.
I found these great vintage majorette photographs here.
The new collection of David Hart & Co. is now available on Bergdorf Goodman's website.
When Disney's Mary Blair was working to design "It's a Small World" for the 1964/1965 World's Fair in New York City, she was incredibly up to date with art and design of the era. Below are photographs of the ride's facade at Disneyland.
Below are concept sketches for the facade by Mary Blair, along with a video where she talks about the design process with Walt Disney prior to moving the ride to Disneyland from the World's Fair.
Blair may have been influenced by the work of Charles & Ray Eames, Alexander Girard, and Stig Lindberg; all who were incredibly popular at the time and were working with stacked shapes. Other artists may have included glass artist Georges Briard and fine artist Louise Nevelson.
The original World's Fair ride also incorporated a kinetic sculpture titled "The Tower of the 4 Winds" designed by Rolly Crump. Unfortunately the tower was torn down when the fair ended.
Crump and Disney with a model of "The Tower of the 4 Winds"
I found these great old photographs of at home radios and record players. These are great!
Originally performed by Howard Morris. The Jetsons music video featuring 'Jet Screamer' from the 1960's TV show.
The Sartorius Muscle, also know as "The Tailor's Muscle" is the longest muscle in the human body. There are three hypotheses as to the genesis of the name "The Tailor's Muscle": One is that this name was chosen in reference to the cross-legged position in which tailors once sat. Another is that it refers to the location of the inferior portion of the muscle being the "inseam" or area of the inner thigh tailors commonly measure when fitting a pant. A third is that the muscle closely resembles a tailor's ribbon. Thanks to my med-student friend Beth for introducing me to the bodies most "fashionable" muscle!
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OWASP Top 10 Overview
Nov 6, 2019 10:25:38 PM By Erik Dietrich
OWASP is a very cool community dedicated to helping organizations build software that can be trusted. It came online in 2001 and was established as a non-profit in April of 2004.
Its core purpose is to be the thriving global community that drives visibility and evolution in the safety and security of the world's software. And its core values are to be open, innovative, global, and to have integrity.
There have been several iterations of the OWASP Top 10 since 2003. You can think of the Top 10 as basically a list of how not to get hacked. The official document provides information about determining your vulnerability, prevention strategies, examples, and testing strategies.
Caroline Wong (@CarolineWMWong) first learned about the OWASP Top 10 years ago while she worked at ebay, where she launched her infosec career. These days, she's Chief Strategy Officer for Cobalt.io and teaches the subject on LinekdIn Learning. You can learn in much more detail about the OWASP Top 10 through her courses there.
To teach this subject matter, Caroline makes use of memorable analogies, which is what the rest of the talk will cover.
#1 Injection
Injection, loosely speaking, involves tricking systems into interpreting untrusted data as trusted commands (e.g. SQL injection)
To understand this, think of a file cabinet, and a robot that you tell to fetch files. "Robot, give me all files from 2019." With an injection attack, the attacker alters the instructions to the robot to "give me the files from 2019… and also all of the other files."
#2 Broken Authentication
Broken authentication happens when functions related to authentication are implemented incorrectly and can be exploited.
As an analogy, think of a Hide-A-Key that looks like a rock. Except, you don't actually hide the key very well at all. And then, a burglar just stumbles across the Hide-A-Key left, say, on your door mat, extracts the key, and uses it.
#3 Sensitive Data Exposure
In this scenario, sensitive data, such as PII, lacks adequate protection within a system.
Think of baby gates. With a baby gate, you limit the area to which the baby has access, allowing you to baby-proof a smaller area of the house. With sensitive data, put it somewhere special, and implement lots of security there.
#4 XXE (XML External Entities)
This is a category that has to do with over-extending trust, like category 1. In this case, the system puts too much trust in the information in an XML resource.
There is XXE attack called "billion laughs," also known as an XML bomb. In this scenario, an attacker submits a small, harmless string, but it begins to expand into many more such strings, which do the same until the system experiences a denial of service.
#5 Broken Access Control
This happens when restrictions on what users are allowed to do are not properly enforced.
Imagine that you're at the airport and you present your boarding pass and ID to the gate agent. This person then authenticates you and allows you into the boarding area, which ultimately grants you access on the plane to your seat. You're not allowed to, say, wander into the cockpit, unless access control is broken.
#6 Security Misconfiguration
Security misconfiguration happens when you have manual, ad hoc, or incorrectly configured controls.
Many applications come insecure out of the box. For instance, imagine your phone. You have to go in and setup a passcode, fingerprint, or facial recognition. Without that, you have a de facto misconfiguration.
#7 Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
Cross site scripting allows attackers to execute scripts in the user's browser. It's another scenario where trusting data you shouldn't can cause issues.
For instance, Caroline's daughter attends a pre-school where some children have severe food allergies. Parents can't send children to school with food. This effectively represents XSS-prevention, in that a parent can't create an issue for another child via their own child's lunch.
#8 Insecure Deserialization
This happens when an application receives hostile serialized objects and doesn't properly guard against them.
To understand insecure deserialization, imagine someone messing with a puzzle in the box. They're swapping out pieces, breaking them, and otherwise tampering. When another person then attempts to do the puzzle, it has been vandalized.
#9 Components with Known Vulnerabilities
This occurs when libraries and components run with the same trust-level as the application, and have known issues of their own.
Consider product recalls. The NHTSA allows you to search for all kinds of different recalls in automobiles. And, just as you'd want to keep yourself apprised of safety issues in things such as your car, you should do the same with your software.
#10 Insufficient Logging and Monitoring
Most security breaches are not discovered by the organization that has been breached, but rather by its users. Insufficient logging and monitoring means that the organization is not taking enough steps to become aware of breaches.
For a final analogy, think of this screenshot from Toy Story 3.
While logging is important, logging without monitoring is useless. To make an escape, the characters disable the monitoring monkey's ability to notify anyone about what's happening. So the escape is logged, but the alert mechanism (the monkey) doesn't work, meaning there is effectively no monitoring.
This is the OWASP Top 10...as they stand today. Expect this list to change.
This post was written by Erik Dietrich. Erik is a veteran of the software world and has occupied just about every position in it: developer, architect, manager, CIO, and, eventually, independent management and strategy consultant. This breadth of experience has allowed him to speak to all industry personas and to write several books and countless blog posts on dozens of sites.
Photo by Magda Ehlers


My name is Matt Parker. I built one of your father's PowerHouse engines and exchanged emails with you during that build. I believe you even have a link to my video of it running on the forum. Anyway, I just thought I'd share a couple of "in the process" build pics from my current engine. It is the 1906 Bill Engine. I pretty well have the engine itself finished (aside from minor detail work) and have started the radiator build. Another fun and challenging build. I should add expensive too. That dog gone brass has gotten expensive. Hopefully I will be sending pics and/or a video of the completed engine in the near future. I just hope I did the engine justice.
Looks great Matt! Thank you for sharing. You never know how many other builders are inspired!


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Mr. Casey is the main contributor through James Cravens to CBII, in particular the Chinese Boxing Synthesis philosophy. This relates a good part to the martial studies in CBII. Mr. Casey taught a focus on boxing principles while respecting the individual arts as taught to him by several teachers primarily in Taiwan. The mind technique of Mr. Casey was his strength as his art was very practical. If ever there is such a thing as "smart boxing", Mr. Casey would certainly be a contributor. He died early and his thinking is surely missed by all of us at CBII.
Yan Gaofei began teaching Mr. Cravens Chen Taiji in 1995. He brought his master Chen Quanzhong from Xian, China over to the states on three occasions. He would stay for a month and teach privately and teach seminars as well. Master Chen is 19th generation master of Chen Taiji. Master Chen is known for his older Large Frame Chen Taiji.
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