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How Payday Loans Work and Lower Cost Alternatives
Posted: August 8, 2018 | Updated: November 17, 2020 | Mike Capuzzo | Debt Help
You're a hard-working single mom, and your refrigerator breaks.
You don't have the money to fix it and the Tooth Fairy didn't leave $1,000 under the pillow for one of those gleaming new 2-door uprights at the box store. Deadbeat dad is nowhere in sight.
But you need $400 to fix the damn refrigerator. Your kids have to eat. What do you do?
What millions of Americans do is go looking for a small-dollar loan from a lender who isn't a loan shark. The easiest source of fast money is payday loans, but that's a predatory business that critics say is only a step or two above loan sharks.
Payday loans typically run from $100 to $1,000 with the average loan going for $375. The only real requirement is that you have a job and a checking account. An estimated 12 million people use the service and we'd like to tell you the total amount payday lenders handed out in 2017, but we can't accurately do that. More on that in a moment.
The point is that a lot of people rely on payday loans to solve financial emergencies like work out refrigerators. Walk down a major street in most any city, especially areas near low-income housing, and you'll find a payday loan shop. There are 16,000 of them in the U.S., and a kazillion more online.
Fast money has joined fast food as easily identified landmarks on the American landscape.
"Here in Alabama," President Barrack Obama said in a speech in Birmingham in 2015, "there are four times as many payday lending stores as there are McDonald's. Think about that, because there are a lot of McDonald's."
Borrowers Struggle to Repay Payday Loans
They call them payday loans because you're supposed to pay them back with your next paycheck. Many people do, and it works out swell for them.
But most don't. Instead, they take out second payday loan to pay off the first one, then a third … and fourth … and so on. That's the reason we can't give you an accurate accounting of how much money payday loan stores lend.
If someone borrows $500, but can't pay it back and borrows a second and third time, did they borrow $1,000 and then $1,500? No, they still only borrowed $500, but they're paying more in fees each time they borrow.
Pew Charitable Trusts senior research officer Alex Horowitz, who has done considerable study on this matter, said the only meaningful numbers are these:
Payday loan borrower take out a median number of eight loans every five months.
They spend roughly $9 billion in fees and interest to pay off those loans.
That means the average payday loan borrower spends $750 in fees for a $375 loan.
As President Obama said, "You don't need to be a math genius to know that it's a pretty bad deal."
How to Find the Payday Loan, If it's Your Only Option
Getting a payday loan isn't always easy. Fifteen states have banned them as predatory under criminal usury laws, especially in the northeast, or regulate them heavily.
Prominent academics and media people line up to hate payday loans nowadays. It's as automatic as saying they like children, pets, and organic low-fat ice cream.
It got so bad Freakonomics did a radio show, "Are Payday Loans Really as Evil as People Say?"
Yes. And no. Like a beautiful pit bull dog, it depends on how you handle it.
President Obama's Alabama speech in 2015 decried the loans that look like "easy money" but trap the unwary in a vicious "cycle of debt."
"You take out a $500 loan at the rates that they're charging at these payday loans — some cases 450% interest — you wind up paying more than $1,000 in interest and fees on the $500 that you borrowed," he said.
He's right. The rollovers are the killers.
"If you're trapping hard-working Americans into a vicious cycle of debt, you've got to find a new business model," Obama said. "You've got to find a new way of doing business."
His administration directed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to devise new federal rules to regulate payday loans.
The most important reforms, designed to prevent borrowers from getting caught in the catastrophic spin cycle of interest and fees debt, require lenders to establish proof that borrowers can repay in full, and ban more than three rollovers.
The rules aren't in effect yet, but they're already shaking up the industry.
Payday loan shops are shifting away from the two-week loan that will be regulated by the new rule, said Eliza Platts-Mills, a Clinical Professor in the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, in an interview with Debt.org.
Instead, she said, "they're offering longer-term, installment loans that are largely unregulated and still very harmful to borrowers. The installment loans still carry very high interest rates and fees."
The new rules may put the industry out of business.
But that would be a shame for the people it helps, said Professor Robert DeYoung, an endowed professor at the University of Kansas School of Business and co-editor of the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, in an interview for this column.
He's no fan of people making the "terrible business decision" of rolling over payday loans again and again. He says reforms limiting rollovers are needed.
But payday loans work well for millions of people who have no other option. Here's how:
How Payday Loans Can Work Well for You
Sebastian McKamey, a young Chicago man employed at a supermarket for $8.45 an hour, who was ticketed by the police for smoking outside the bus station.
He didn't see the signs. True story.
Imagine banning a trickle of cigarette smoke where buses are pumping oceans of exhaust like bad-breath T-Rexes. It's life in the big city.
The fine was $150!
He tried to blow it off, but the city was prepared to make it even costlier and more painful.
Problem was, Sebastian couldn't even pay his $45 phone bill. His credit was already up in smoke.
So, he went down the street and got a payday loan for $200. It was easy.
"The appeal of the payday loan is that it is easy to access since there are lots of payday loan stores and they are open long hours and it is available to borrowers even if they have poor credit," said Professor Platts-Mills.
You just need proof of income, either from a job or from government benefits, and a bank account. You give them a post-dated check or permission to do an electronic funds transfer from your bank account.
(Note: this is your collateral. They take your money when you don't pay back on time).
Sebastian was smart. He paid the smoking fine. He paid his phone bill. He had enough left over for a hot dog and coffee.
Then he paid off the payday loan from his next paycheck.
The young man ended up paying $50 in interest and fees for the tiny loan, which figures out to an APR of 300%.
That's horrific interest, but this is a happy ending. It got him out of a jam. That's how it's supposed to work.
"If you just take out one payday loan and pay it back on time, a payday loan can be a useful bridge during hard times," Professor Platts-Mills said.
When it works well, it works like a rental car. You can buy a new Toyota Corolla for about $20,000.
If you have to rent one at $300 a week, it'll cost you more than $15,000 in a year.
"Borrowing money (from a payday lender) is like renting money," Professor DeYoung said. "You get to use it two weeks and then you pay it back. So, this isn't about interest. This is about short-term use of a product that's been lent to you."
There are several alternatives to payday loans for small-dollar needs.
Mom and Dad or some other relative or friend. By far your best source for both good rates and agreeable terms. Problem is whether they have money to loan.
Go to your bank, credit union or employer. Banks were urged in 2018 by the Comptroller of the Currency to get back in the small-dollar loan business. Credit unions have a program – Payday Alternative Loan – specifically designed for this. Some employers still make a loan until the next payday. The problem: Only a few in each category actually do make small-dollar loans.
Try online. There are a lot of sites in the online loan business and you might find a taker. Problem is that, in most cases, the interest rate is in the 35%-40% range or higher.
Community Loan Centers. This is a new source, mainly located in Texas, but there are versions popping up around the country. Check for one in your area. Rates are agreeable – 18%-30% — and you usually get a year to pay the money back.
Nonprofit Debt Consolidation. Consider consolidating debt with a nonprofit credit counseling agency who will work with you to lower your interest rates and reduce late fees.
Mike Capuzzo
Mike Capuzzo is the New York Times-bestselling author of Close to Shore and The Murder Room. A former staff writer for The Miami Herald and The Philadelphia Inquirer, he has won more than a hundred journalism awards. Publishers have nominated his books and articles for the Pulitzer Prize six times. Mike can be reached at mcapuzzo@debt.org.
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The "Vulnerable Road User" concept is a new and powerful tool — and it's taking root throughout the country.
Recent legislative successes include the "Access to Justice for Bicyclists Act of 2012" in Washington D.C., the recent endorsement of a vulnerable user ordinance by the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors and a statewide law in Utah. While VRU protections have proliferated in the past five years, they continue to take many shapes.
So, in this edition of Bike Law University, we explore the current laws and the concept behind them.
Automobiles provide a shell of protection for their users — creating a safety disparity between cars and other road users. This is not to say non-automobile forms of transportation aren't safe, but simply that there is a difference between what occurs when a car is hit at 25 miles-per-hour and what occurs when a pedestrian is hit at 25 mph. While the percentage of motorist deaths has fallen, the percentage of road fatalities that are bicyclists and pedestrians has grown in recent years (from 12 percent to 16 percent).
Vulnerable Road User laws increase protection for bicyclists and other road users who are not in cars. They are relatively new and states have chosen to protect vulnerable road users in a variety of ways. This includes usually involves 1) harsher penalties for the violation of existing laws when that violation impacts a defined set of road users or 2) the creation of new laws that prohibit certain actions directed at a defined set of road users.
Safety: The vast majority of VRU laws provide for increased fines or civil liability in cases where a vulnerable road user is injured or killed because of negligence or as the result of a traffic violation. These laws increase the cost of unsafe practices that impact bicyclists and provide an incentive for safer driving practices, especially around cyclists and pedestrians. In this way the laws are much like increased fines in work zones, which promote construction worker safety. VRU laws recognize that the type of simple negligence or traffic violations that may result in minor collisions between cars can have disproportionately severe results when a vulnerable road user is involved and provide ways to address those divergent results.
Justice: In some states VRU laws include the option or mandate that a person convicted of injuring or killing a vulnerable road user attend a hearing. Without these laws, a driver who injures or kills a bicyclist may simply pay a fine through the mail — despite the severity of the impact of his or her actions. These hearings can provide a chance for both sides to meet and tell their stories, similar to victim impact panels that are a feature of DUI offenses. The League believes the experience of a hearing is a valuable tool for addressing the separateness between motorists and bicyclists — and endorses requiring a hearing as part of our Model Legislation
Messaging: VRU laws may be an important and effective part of messaging about road safety. The VRU concept is inclusive and multi-modal. It provides a messaging and legal framework for a wide range of advocates interested in road safety that highlights and increases awareness of the inherent safety disparity between road users encased in a protective shell and those who are not. As a newer concept, it has the potential to engage law enforcement, judges, and juries in a way that they have not been been before and shift perceptions. While these individuals or groups may not always understand what it is like to be a cyclist, at one time or another everyone has been a vulnerable road user.
Enforcement: A VRU law may increase access to justice. Vulnerable road users, unlike automobile users, may lack the evidence and expensive property damage that is created in a car crash. Statutory civil penalties may provide an incentive for lawyers to work with vulnerable road users to recover damages and recognize the serious of vulnerable road user crashes. Criminal penalties provide an additional enforcement tool for police and a framework for better traffic enforcement.
Who has them?
Five states – Delaware, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington – have VRU laws that define a set of road users as vulnerable and provide specific processes and penalties for actions directed at those users. The District of Columbia and 17 other states in some way address vulnerable road users by prohibiting certain actions — such as harassment or the throwing of objects — or by providing the ability for persons to be charged with greater penalties when their actions result in the injury or death of a vulnerable road user.
The first state to pass a vulnerable road user law, which defined a set of road users as vulnerable and provided specific penalties for actions directed at those users, was Oregon, in 2007. Many of the other laws that protect vulnerable road users from certain actions were passed in response to tragedies caused by motorist-bicyclist collisions. As of the last revision to the Uniform Vehicle Code (UVC) in 2000, there is no UVC section equivalent to vulnerable road user laws. The closest relevant section is UVC 11-1111, which deals with glass and other substances likely to injure on a roadway. Some variation of UVC 11-1111 has been adopted in a majority of states.
Spotlight State: Oregon
Oregon enacted the first Vulnerable Road User law in the U.S. in 2007. The law provides a definition of vulnerable users and sets out distinct penalties for the serious physical injury or death of vulnerable road users under the careless driving law. Careless driving is a Class A or B traffic violation — depending on whether it involves a crash — and requires a hearing when it involves the serious physical injury or death of a vulnerable road user. The penalties are significant when that careless driving results in a serious physical injury or death of a vulnerable road user: a fine that's six times the standard maximum fine for a Class A traffic violation and a one-year suspension of driving privileges.
In addition, Oregon addresses vehicular assault against bicyclists and pedestrians as a separate Class A misdemeanor. This vehicular assault law can complement or provide an alternative to a citation for a violation of Oregon's safe passing law, giving law enforcement options to account for different driver behavior or enforcement concerns related to the safe passing law.
Learn more about how the vulnerable road user law was developed and enacted here. Since the initial law, advocates, like the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, have worked for improvements, including an amendment in 2011.
Ken McLeod
Legal Specialist, Advocacy Advance
Ken joined the League in 2012 after graduating from William & Mary School of Law. He is a licensed attorney in the state of Virginia. During law school he worked for a private law firm in Cambodia and the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. Prior to that, Ken worked at a law firm in Orange County and a legal services provider in Seattle. He graduated from Pomona College in 2007 with a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He began using his bike regularly after college and has been car-free since February 2012.
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Posted on 11th November 2010 16th September 2015 By Benjamin L.
If you have been using the database as a cache storage mechanism (Eg. <slow_backend>) and you have a large number of SKUs, you will start to see a database that increases in size by quite a measure.
A customer of ours with around 160k SKUs, had a "core_cache" table that had grown to just under 10Gb and around 960k rows - causing difficulties during some operations due to table locks. Whilst it is safe to empty the table, truncating a 10Gb table will take quite a long time, and all the while it will be locked, causing connections to queue up, eventually maxing out the available connections for your MySQL user/total - not good.
To make it a little more manageable, we quickly added a little intelligence to the table, so that it can "self-rotate". This could be applied in the PHP itself, but for now, it was quicker to address the issue via the DB directly.
Looking at the number of rows, and volume of data, a safe average was for every 100,000 records stored, it consumed 1GB of space. To make the DB a little more manageable, we wanted to add a 100,000 row ceiling to the DB (we could also try to cap by size, but InnoDB cannot report an accurate size). The cap was put in place using a MySQL trigger. Essentially, when the table hits 100,000 records, it will rotate off the row that expires the soonest to allow room for the next row.
There is probably more efficient methods than this, but as a temporary resolve, it should keep things in check.
It may also be worth commenting/modifying any thread_stack definitions in your MySQL configuration if you run into errors when inserting rows.


Audition for one or both of our summer productions - Barefoot in the Park and Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore!
Barefoot in the Park will begin rehearsals in May and runs from Thursday, June 13 through Sunday, June 16.
H.M.S. Pinafore will begin rehearsals in late June/early July (with possible earlier musical rehearsals for leading roles) and runs from Thursday, August 1 through Sunday, August 4.
Auditions will be held on Sunday, February 10 beginning at 6 p.m. and Tuesday, February 12 at 6 p.m. (pick one date).
NO audition required for Pinafore chorus only.
No monologue required. We will read sides from the show(s) for which you opt to audition. For Pinafore, please bring in a song of your choice to sing (along with a copy of the music for the accompanist).
The story takes place aboard the ship H.M.S. Pinafore. The captain's daughter, Josephine, is in love with a lower-class sailor, Ralph Rackstraw, although her father intends her to marry Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty. She abides by her father's wishes at first, but Sir Joseph's advocacy of the equality of humankind encourages Ralph and Josephine to overturn conventional social order. They declare their love for each other and eventually plan to elope. The captain discovers this plan, but, as in many of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, a surprise disclosure changes things dramatically near the end of the story.
Chorus of First Lord's Sisters, His Cousins, His Aunts, Sailors, etc.


SPIRAL International is developing a US-China Dual Diploma program which would allow tuition-paying Chinese students to study at and, upon successfully fulfilling graduation requirements, receive a diploma from Vermont public schools.
The US-China Dual Diploma Program is initiated by SPIRAL International whose aim is to promote international education and exchange between schools of Vermont and China. The US-China Dual Diploma Program will offer a specially-designed curriculum that meets Vermont school academic standards, and validate that offered classes meet the graduation requirements of both Chinese schools and Vermont schools through establishing an articulation agreement. The program will provide Chinese students with an opportunity to study at Vermont schools for two semesters during the school year, as well as attend two intensive summer programs taught by Vermont teachers. Upon successful completion of the program, Chinese students will earn a Vermont American High School Diploma, and the participating American students will receive agreed-upon academic credits that contribute to graduation requirements.
We believe that this US-China Dual Diploma Program will benefit Vermont school in four ways: 1) develop high-quality educational experience for cultural competency through curricula activities coherent with existing school academics, 2) create organized international exchange that inspire Vermont students to foster their abilities, aptitude, and disposition to become an empowered workforce in the world affairs, 3) provide opportunities for Vermont school teachers to teach in a classroom of a foreign country and gain a first-hand understanding of different social and cultural environments, which in return will enhance international education in our schools, and 4) utilize Vermont school educational resources to promote American advanced education theory and practice beyond borders. American education has been viewed as the foundation of the country's democracy and citizenship, and as the educational exemplar for western civilization by many countries, especially China. This proposed dual high school diploma program represents a way for Chinese students to receive an American education with limited time studying abroad while simultaneously offering American students the opportunity to learn about a new culture without traveling afar.


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the nokomis dandy
January 22, 2023 January 21, 2023 / puckstruck / 1 Comment
Fulll Wool: Born on a Tuesday of today's date in 1918 in Nokomis, Saskatchewan, Elmer Lach centred Montreal's famous Punch Line, when he was healthy, skating between Toe Blake and Maurice Richard. He's pictured here (in glorious woolens) in October of 1945. Lach died in April of 2015 at the age of 97. (Image: Fonds La Presse, BAnQ Vieux-Montréal)
bryan trottier: just wanted to be one of those guys that can be relied on all the time
December 28, 2022 December 27, 2022 / puckstruck
At the age of seven, Bryan Trottier told his mother he wanted to be a teacher when he grew up.
A year later, Jean Béliveau changed his mind. Trottier can't forget the moment that fixed his future: it was 1965, April, when he watched the Canadiens' captain take hold of the Stanley Cup. "He didn't pump it up over his head the way players do now," Trottier recalls. "Instead, he kind of grabbed it and hugged it." There and then, Trottier told his dad: someday I want to hold the Cup just like that.
Better get practicing, his dad told him.
So Trottier, who's now 66, did that. The son of a father of Cree-Métis descent and a mother whose roots were Irish, Trottier would launch himself out of Val Marie, Saskatchewan, into an 18-season NHL playing career that would see him get hold of the Stanley Cup plenty as one of the best centremen in league history. Before he finished, he'd win four championships with the storied 1980s New York Islanders and another pair alongside Mario Lemieux and the Pittsburgh Penguins. Trottier was in on another Cup, too, as an assistant coach with the 2001 Colorado Avalanche. His individual achievements were recognized in his time with a bevy of major trophies, including a Calder Trophy, a Hart, an Art Ross, and a Conn Smythe. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1997.
Trottier reviewed his eventful career in a new autobiography, All Roads Home: A Life On and Off the Ice (McClelland & Stewart), which he wrote with an assist from Stephen Brunt, and published this past fall. In October, I reached Trottier via Zoom in Garden City, New York. A version of this exchange first appeared at sihrhockey.org, the website of the Society for International Hockey Research.
What brought you around to writing an autobiography now?
I've been asked to write a book for a long, long time, probably 40-some years. But when I was playing and coaching, I just didn't want to give any secrets away, or strategies. I'm a little more of an open book now, like when I do speaking and going into Native communities and talking to the kids. And they enjoy the stories, and those are the stories I love to tell. I really don't dwell on negatives all that much, I really kind of look toward the positives. And there have been a heck of a lot more positive than negatives. I think when people are looking at headlines — negative headlines always seem to make stories a lot more interesting. But I'm not like that. I try to move on as fast as I can, and start making good things happen for me and my family. So that's really what I'm talking about.
All Roads Home is a very positive book, all in all. But you're also very frank about the challenges you've faced, including the deaths of your parents, and being diagnosed with depression. Those can't have been easy subjects to get down on the page.
No, well, because I'm kind of an open book, I really don't have a problem talking about a lot of stuff. The things I focus on are obviously the more … fun stuff. I bring the other stuff up to let people know that this is part of me, I'm human, there's nothing that horrible about it. The really cool thing is that, out of that, you get some introspection, you get an opportunity to feel loved and supported, especially by family and friends, and the hockey world in general. And the stigma about some of that stuff is … you always say to yourself, oh my god, it shows weakness, or whatever. It doesn't. It just shows that you're human. And people rally. I rally for my friends when they have troubles or hardships.
This COVID thing really left a lot of people like disconnected. It was really rough on a lot of different folks. And those moments of darkness, there's nothing wrong with that. That's just human. A little bit of struggle: don't worry about it, you know, just reach out. And you reach out, you'll be surprised how people rally for you. Mental wellness and mental health is kind of a hot topic right now, thank god. So, yeah, whatever I can do through just stating something in a little book like this, if it helps a few people, great.
You worked with the writer Stephen Brunt on this project, one of the best in the hockey-book business. What was that like?
Stephen was fantastic at jogging my memory and reminiscing and checking up on me every once in a while, my memory, when I stumbled. But what I found was that the chronological order that he provided, and the structure that he provided, was fantastic. We did it all by phone. And the manuscript was thick, then we had to review it and edit it and condense it, throwing some stuff out, while still making it sound like my voice. So that was a little process.
And Joe Lee was a great editor, and you need that, I needed that, because I was a rookie writer. It was really kind of fun how it formed. And my daughter, who's a journalism major, she was of great help. And then my other daughter was my sounding board. So I had a good team, it's kind of like hockey, you know, we all rely on each other. Looking back, I call it my labour of joy.
The book starts, as you did, in Saskatchewan. Talk about a hockey hotbed: Max and Doug Bentley, Gordie Howe, Glenn Hall, Elmer Lach, and you are just of the players who've skated out of the province and on into the Hall of Fame. What's that all about?
[Laughs] Go figure how that happened. But yeah, I'm so proud of Saskatchewan. When I found out Gordie Howe was from Saskatchewan, that really gave me a boost. When you're little province producing really great hockey players, it gives us all a sense of pride, about where we come from, our roots, our communities. I think every little town in Saskatchewan is like my little town. We've got grain elevators, a hotel, we've got a beer parlor, a couple of restaurants. We definitely have a skating rink and curling rink, right? I think a lot of little towns in Canada can relate to this little town of Val Marie, because it really is a vibrant little community.
He had the audacity to be from Quebec, but on and off the ice, Jean Béliveau was such an icon, for his grace and style as much as his supreme skill. What did he mean to you?
He was the captain, he was the leader. He played with confidence and, like you said, he had this style and grace. He just looked so smooth out there. He was just a wonderful reflection of the game. Everything that I thought a hockey player should be, Jean Béliveau was. And Gordie Howe, too, Stan Mikita. These guys were my early idols. George Armstrong, Dave Keon. I'd go practice, I'd try to be them. But Béliveau was above them all. And my first memory of the Stanley Cup was Jean Béliveau grabbing it.
You talk in the book about the Indigenous players you looked up to, growing up. How did they inspire you? Did they flash a different kind of light?
Well, they were just larger than life. Freddy Sasakamoose … I never saw him play, I just heard so many stories about him from my dad, who watched him play in Moose Jaw. He was the fastest player he'd ever seen skate.
When I saw players like Freddy Sasakamoose and George Armstrong and Jimmy Neilson, I said, maybe I can make it, too, maybe there's a chance. Because those are the kind of guys who inspire you, give hope. So, absolutely, we revered these guys. They were pioneers.
There's a lot in the book highlighting the skills of teammates of yours, Mike Bossy and Denis Potvin, Clark Gillies, Mario Lemieux. Can you give me a bit of a scouting report on yourself? What did you bring to the ice as a player?
I didn't have a lot of dynamic in my game. I wasn't an end-to-end rusher like Gilbert Perreault. My hair wasn't flying like Guy Lafleur's. I didn't have that hoppy step like Pat Lafontaine. Or the quick hands of Patrick Kane or Stan Mikita. I was kind of a give-and-go guy, I just kind of found the open man. And I made myself available to my teammates for an open pass. Tried to bear down on my passes and gobble up any kind of pass that was thrown at me.
I think when you work hard, you have the respect of your teammates. I wanted to be the hardest worker on the team, no one's going to outwork me. It's a 60-minute game, everything is going to be a battle, both ends of the ice, I would come out of a game just exhausted.
And I really prided myself on my passing, on my accuracy, and I really prided myself on making sure I hit the net — whether puck went in was kind of the goalies fault. And I prided myself on making the game as easy as possible for my teammates, at the same time. If they threw a hand grenade at me, I gobbled it up, and we all tapped each other shinpads afterwards and said, hey, thanks for bearing down. That's what teams do, and what teammates do, and I just wanted to be one of those, one of those guys that can be relied on all the time.
You mention that you scored a lot of your NHL goals by hitting "the Trottier hole."
Yep. Between the [goalie's] arm and the body. There's always a little hole there and I found that more often than I did when I was shooting right at the goal. We always said, hit the net and the puck will find a hole. Mike Bossy was uncanny at finding the five-hole. He said, I just shoot it at his pads and I know there's always going to be a hole around there. So I did the same thing: I just fired it at the net. If the goalie makes a save, there's going to be a rebound. If I fire it wide of the net, I'm backchecking. It's going around the boards and I'm going to be chasing the puck.
But Mike had a powerful shot. And Clark Gillies, he had a bomb. When I shot, I'm sure the goalies were waiting for that slow-motion curveball. They often got the knuckleball instead.
The last thing I wanted to ask you about is finding the fun in hockey. You talk about almost quitting as a teenager. With all the pressures for players at every level, I wonder about your time as a coach and whether that — bringing the fun — was one of the things you tried to keep at the forefront?
Coaching was fun for me on assistant-coaching side because you're dealing with the players every day, working on skill, working on development, working on their game. As a head coach, you're working with the media, you're talking to the general manager, you're doing a whole bunch of other things, other than just working with the players. But you know, the fun of coaching for me it was really that that one-on-one aspect. There's so many so much enjoyment that I got from coaching. And I hope the players felt that. When the coach is having fun, they're probably having fun.
Signal Close Action: Bryan Trottier buzzes Ken Dryden's net at the Montreal Forum on the Sunday night of December 10, 1978, while Canadiens defenceman Guy Lapointe attends to Mike Bossy. Montreal prevailed 4-3 on this occasion; Trottier scored a third-period goal and assisted on one of Bossy's in the second. (Image: Armand Trottier, Fonds La Presse, BAnQ Vieux-Montréal)
This interview has been condensed and edited.
hockey players at home: an ultramod pad on the outskirts of the city
December 14, 2022 / puckstruck
Stars And Stripes: Cliff Koroll and Keith Magnuson at home in 1971, enjoying coffee (as the original caption divulged) "at the dining end of their black, white, and silver living-dining room. The table is smoked glass on a chrome pedestal, with matching chairs." The hockey art on the wall, I fear, is unattributed.
Keith Magnuson made his debut as an NHL defenceman in 1969 for a Chicago Black Hawks team that lined up Stan Mikita and Bobby Hull, Pat Stapleton, Pit Martin, and Tony Esposito.
On the domestic side, the 22-year-old Magnuson found an apartment with fellow rookies Jim Wiste (a left winger) and Cliff Koroll (he played the right), both 23. All of them were Saskatchewan-born — Magnuson was from Saskatoon, Koroll from Canora, and Wiste from Moose Jaw — and they'd all played together, too, at the University of Denver.
Domiciling in the NHL, they found a place in Schiller Park, 24 kilometres from downtown Chicago, in what a visiting Saskatoon reporter classified as "a development for single people."
On the ice, Wiste got into 26 games and notched eight assists. Koroll collected 18 goals and 37 points, while Magnuson had 24 assists (no goals) to go along with his NHL-leading 213 penalty minutes.
Vancouver claimed Wiste in the NHL's expansion the following summer, so he moved out: as the new season rolled around, Chicago reporters noted that the apartment previously known as Bachelors III was now Bachelors II.
Or — sorry, apartment doesn't do the place justice. The proper terminology is contained in a Hawks' profile that Robert H. Bradford wrote for The Chicago Tribune in December of 1970: Magnuson, Wiste, and Koroll were roosting in an "ultramod pad on the outskirts of the city."
Koroll described the set-up: "We're six minutes from the airport and there is limousine service right at our door. We have three bedrooms downstairs and three upstairs. We also have a den and a coloured television. It costs us $375 per month."
The question is, in years ensuing, did Magnuson and Koroll make a move or did they just redecorate? Stay tuned: more to come on this.
just play the game
November 28, 2022 November 28, 2022 / puckstruck / 2 Comments
Slapper: Born in 1941 on a Friday of this date in Big River, Saskatchewan, Jim Neilson made the switch from left wing to defence as a junior in Prince Albert. Loosing a shot here in 1971, when he was a veteran of 30, Neilson made his debut with the Rangers in 1962, and manned the blue line in New York for 12 years before joining the California Golden Seals for the 1974-75 season. He was captain in California and for the Cleveland Barons, too, after the Seals moved north. He finished his career with a season in the WHA with the Edmonton Oilers. "I'm an easygoing guy," he said in the '80s, looking back on his career. "I never look far ahead and I've used that philosophy all my life. I just play the game. It's over, and there'll probably be one again tomorrow." Jim Neilson died on November 6, 2020, at the age of 78.
brothers in blue
November 17, 2022 / puckstruck
Brothers Act: The New York Rangers heralded the rise of new brotherly duo in the fall of 1943 when 18-year-old left winger Billy Warwick (on the right) joined his brother Grant, a right winger, three years older, on the roster. For a team that had had multiple Cooks, Patricks, and Colvilles star for them, the prospect was an exciting one. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, on a Monday of today's date in 1924, Billy Warwick only lasted 14 games in the NHL, going on to a long and distinguished minor-league and international career. All three of his NHL goals were scored this month in '43, with the first coming on November 7 in New York when he beat Benny Grant in the Toronto goal during a 7-4 Leaf win.
st. philip's
September 30, 2022 / puckstruck
A day for remembering today, for truth and reflection and commemoration. On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we honour the survivors of Canada's residential schools as well as those who never returned home.
From the collection of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, this photograph shows students from the St. Philip's Residential School in Saskatchewan in 1940. Run by the Catholic Missionary Oblate Sisters, St. Philip's history dates back to 1902 and the construction of a boarding school on the Keeseekoose First Nation, a Saulteaux reserve near Kamsack. The NCTR page for St. Philip's (here) tells this story:
Poor conditions in the school led to its closure in 1914. It reopened in 1927 as the St. Philip's school. In 1957 the school farm ceased operation and the boarding school was increasingly used as a residence for students attending local day schools. During the 1960s, a period when sexual and physical abuse was a widespread problem at the school, a school supervisor was dismissed for mistreatment of students. The school closed in 1969.
As the NCTR also notes, a National Residential School Crisis Line has been established to provide support to former students. This 24-hour Crisis Line can be accessed at: 1-866-925-4419.
four at the door
June 5, 2022 / puckstruck
Rejected: No, not Jean Béliveau — he wouldn't start wearing Montreal's number 4 for another nine years after this photograph was taken at New York's Madison Square Garden on Sunday, February 11, 1945. Trying his luck on net here is Canadiens' defenceman Leo Lamoureux. Turning him away is 20-year-old Ranger netminder Doug Stevenson, from Regina, Saskatchewan, on a night off for New York's regular 1944-45 goaler, Ken McAuley. Canadiens eventually prevailed on this night, leaving town with a 4-3 victory sealed Elmer Lach, another Saskatchewanist, whose winning goal was his second of the game.
tuning peg
April 3, 2022 / puckstruck
It's A Wrap: Born on a Thursday of this same date in 1913, Peggy O'Neil played the right wing for the Boston Bruins in the 1930s. He was named James at the start, Jim, originating in Semans, Saskatchewan, which you'll find on the map between Punnichy and Elmer Lach's hometown of Nokomis. (O'Neil played parts of couple of seasons with the Montreal Canadiens, too.) Here, in a scene from February of 1937, O'Neil undergoes a restorative wrapping by Bruins' trainer Win Green at Boston Garden. (Image: ©Richard Merrill, Boston Public Library)
aeros dynamic
March 31, 2022 / puckstruck
Houston, We Have A Dynasty: Born in Floral, Saskatchewan, on a Saturday of this date in 1928, Gordie Howe was 45 in 1973 when he decided to become a Houston Aeros legend. He'd played a bit over the years with the NHL's Detroit Red Wings, retiring in 1971 to take a job in the Red Wings' front office. When that didn't take, he went to the WHA to play win sons Marty (who was 20) and Mark (18). Howe Sr. finished the year with 31 goals and 100 points, good enough for third in league scoring. He led the Aeros to an Avco World Trophy championship that year, as well, and the Aeros repeated as champions in 1975. For good measure, Howe also collected the Gary L. Davidson Award as regular-season MVP in his first WHA season. Two years later, the WHA saw fit to re-name that same prize: in 1975-76, it became the Gordie Howe Trophy.
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March 1, 2022 March 1, 2022 / puckstruck
Starting Siblings: The brothers Bentley line up during the 1938-39 season, when five of them skated for the Drumheller Miners of the Alberta Senior Hockey League. From left they are (eldest to youngest) Roy, Scoop, Reg, Doug, and Max. Born in Delisle, Saskatchewan, on a Monday of today's date in 1920, Max, who was a 19-year-old centreman here, went on to a 12-year NHL career with the Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and New York Rangers. Like brother Doug (Black Hawks and Rangers), he'd end up in the Hall of Fame. (Reg played briefly in Chicago, too. joining his brothers on a line.) Missing from the photo is another brother, Jack, as well as seven Bentley sisters: Ruth, Jane, Grace, Pearl, Tannis, Florence, and Mary — hockey players all, in their day.
do you want to look fancy, or do you want to get the job done?
January 27, 2022 / puckstruck
Fancy This: Terry Harper aims a fist at Bruins' centre Forbes Kennedy at Montreal's Forum this week in 1964. The Bruins prevailed on the night 6-0. Looking on is Bruins' #4, defenceman Bob McCord. (Image: La Presse)
"Do you want to look fancy," Terry Harper was saying in 1978, "or do you want to get the job done?" Harper, who's turning 82 today, was talking generally about hockey at the time, but he might have been professing his own personal creed, the one that saw him through a 19-year career as highly effective and hard-to-daunt NHL defenceman. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, on a Saturday of this date in 1940, Harper won five Stanley Cup championships with the Montreal Canadiens between 1962 and 1972. He went on to play for — and captain — the Los Angeles Kings and the Detroit Red Wings in the '70s. He skated for the St. Louis Blues, too. He was an assistant coach for the Colorado Rockies in 1981 when, as a 41-year-old, injuries saw him drafted into the line-up for a 15-game run. "The game is 95 per cent mental," Harper opined back in '78. "A lot of people say it's less than that, that it takes a lot of ability. It doesn't. It's 95 per cent or more here," he said, tapping a finger to his head.
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So sorry to see the news tonight of the death of Clark Gillies at the age of 67. Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, in 1954, Gillies played a dozen unrelenting years on the left wing for the New York Islanders in the 1970s and early '80s, captaining the team for three seasons and winning four Stanley Cup championships. He played his final season-and-a-half in the NHL with the Buffalo Sabres before his retirement in 1988. The Islanders retired his number, 9, in 1996, and in 2002 he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. The Islanders paid their respects tonight: they're here.


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Phase 3 of the urban master plan for the historic center of Meerssen, developed in 1997, is now being realized. The different parts of this Master Plan as the extension of the marketplace, the realization of the Maison de Ville, with the Customer Contact Center of the municipality in conjunction with five apartments above and the apartment complex Nieuw Proosdij, located around the former, transformed monastery will be added to the already implemented plan components. The extension of the underground carparking phase 1 and the completion of the revitalized park, designed by landscape architect Office Verbeek, are part of the final implementation of the Master Plan. This concludes a developement, which will make the center of Meerssen future-proof and adaptable to the ever-changing needs of the organism town. What was missing was the connection of the market square with the park in an urban structure, which allows the increased market square, as well as the enlarged Park to be embedded in an urban space frame. Coenen Sättele Architects, is responsible for the design and detailed final design of the Maison de Ville and the complex Maison Proosdij, including the garage and defined the contours of the design of public spaces.
Meanwhile, the building process of the Maison de Ville has been completed and the Customer Contact Center KCC moved into in June 2015. The implementation of the Maison Proosdij consisting of 19 residential units and a small commercial space, launched in November 2014, is completed in the end of 2015, together with the design of the public spaces.


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The Central Bank of Bahrain has successfully completed a test of the JPMorgan JPM Coin. The latter was used to send real-time payments to counterparties in the U.S.
The Central Bank of Bahrain has announced that it has completed a test of JPMorgan Chase's JPM Coin solution. Published on Jan. 5, the announcement states that the bank's vision to "improve customer experience for safe and efficient settlement solutions" using the JPM Coin System underwent a successful test.
JPM Coin revival
The JPM Coin was used by banks to initiate real-time payments for Aluminium Bahrain (ALBA) to benefit ALBA's counterparties in the U.S. The system was a permissioned one that helps as a payment rail and in keeping track of deposit accounts. The officials from Bahrain seem very keen on upgrading their financial infrastructure, saying that it is committed to a significant uplift to deliver the highest quality experience.
The test was applauded by executives from all stakeholders. The Governor of the Central Bank of Bahrain, Rasheed Al Maraj, said,
Through our work with ALBA, Bank ABC and Onyx by J.P. Morgan, we aspire to address and eliminate the inefficiencies and pain-points which exist today in the traditional cross-border payments arena.
JPM Coin was first announced in 2019 and was called the first bank-backed cryptocurrency. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, whose project is a competitor to the asset, does not believe that JPM Coin will be a threat. Indeed, there hasn't been too much in the way of news on the matter.
New solutions for governments and financial institutions
The use of permissioned blockchains among central banks and established financial institutions has taken place before. This use case about blockchain technology was once quite a common topic of discussion, though in recent years central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) seem to have taken over.
Generally speaking, governmental figures and agencies prefer not to allow cryptocurrencies to play a great role in economies. Worldwide organizations like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Bank for International Settlements (BIS) have also made their reservations known.
But the general technology is quickly being adopted by these established entities. It's clear that there are benefits to the technology, and so they are proceeding to work into current systems. Whether or not they will find a place alongside cryptocurrencies remains to be seen.
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The Stargate Conspiracy
By Faylin
April 15, 2020 in Off-Topic
Faylin
So I've been reading this book called "The Stargate Conspiracy." I got the book because of the topic, I haven't read anything in it about stargates yet though. What I have read is it claims that their are secret rooms being excavated in the great pyramid, claims of a moblike group running the pyramid in the 90's, some stuff about edger caycee's theories on atlantis and their role in egypt. It also talks about how theirs some sort of conspiracy to hide historical data found in egypt by egyptologist.
Has anyone else read or is reading this book and do you have any idea of when it actually starts talking about stargates.
Gobekli
Sounds like it rips off the Stargate shows for their own alien conspiracy theories...Edgar Cayce is a giveaway. I'm an archaeologist and researcher in real life, there's always some semi insult on how so called primitive people couldn't possibly have built pyramids, etc.
I haven't read the whole thing, the book suggest that ancient egypt was more advanced than people admit I think the idea, later in the book suggest that egypt found and hid a portal, ive heard the theory before with the ishtar gate being a portal so/
Edited April 16, 2020 by Faylin
millard_audene
Ok so this isn't a ripoff of the Stargate series. Look up John Anthony West. He died last year, but he was extremely well known in the "fringe" Egyptology circles. In a nutshell, the emerging belief is that the ancient Egyptians, as we know them, did not construct the pyramids, or the Sphinx. Ancient texts very clearly state, that Khufu organized the REPAIRS to the Great Sphinx, not constructed it. Even their list of kings goes back tens of thousands of years. Anyways, in the mid-90s, West conned a very respected geologist/geophysicist, to go to Egypt, where he would be be personally guided to all of the major sites in Egypt. When they were at the Sphinx, Schoch was distracted by the hydroerosion patterns on the walls inside the sphinx enclosure. Further study led him to the belief that the only way that kind of erosion could have occurred, would have been massive amounts of rain of many, many years, and that the last time that part of Africa had seen weather like that, was roughly 9000 years ago, long before the Sphinx is currently accepted to have been constructed. He later presented his paper to his peers, and almost all accepted it as factual.
When you factor in multiple sites that have since been discovered, such as Göbekli Tepe, which has been dated to just under 12,000 years old, and evidence of advanced agriculture techniques that have been long believed to have been invented 6000 years LATER by the Sumerians, as well as a pyramid in Indonesia, that is definitely man-made, and has organic material collected from inside, using core sampling, that dates to 26,000 years ago, there very likely was an advanced global human civilization that was eradicated by some massive global disaster. In essence, resetting the clock. The whole Stargate franchise is partly based on a book written by Erich von Danniken in the 60's, called Chariots of the Gods. You might recognize him from the show Ancient Aliens.
Even the Egyptians that were present when the Greeks settled ancient Egypt said they didn't know who built the pyramids, or any other megalithic structure. And, there is proof that there was a "great flood", in the form of tsunami on colossal scale, as well as rapid sea level rise of more than 400 feet, in a matter of weeks. Plus, last November, a paper was published that established a celestial impact on Greenland was the likely culprit of the rising sea levels and the corresponding brief ice age. Think about it, where are the bulk of human settlements right now? On the shorelines. So where are any potential metal structures? Likely all rusted away. the Titanic has been on the bottom of the Atlantic for just over 100 years, and is rapidly deteriorating.
And I haven't even touched on the Indian vedas, the army of monkey-men (likely neanderthals), and the Ramayana, where a road was built across the sea to modern Sri Lanka, so that the god Rama could rescue his wife, who was kidnapped. Interestingly enough, images from satellites show the underwater remnants of a man made road, stretching from mainland India to Sri Lanka.


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Šolta (pennant number OB-02) is a  patrol boat in service with the Croatian Navy. Completed during the 1980s as Mukos (PČ-176), it was the sixth ship of a class that was being built for the Yugoslav Navy in the Kraljevica Shipyard.

During the Croatian War of Independence, Mukos was part of a tactical group tasked with enforcing a naval blockade of the city of Split. On 14 November 1991, Croatian Navy commandos disabled the vessel with an improvised torpedo, leaving the vessel drifting and abandoned by her crew. The crippled ship was then tugged away by Croatian locals to the nearby island of Šolta. She was subsequently repaired and entered service with the Croatian Navy as Šolta. As of 2014, Šolta remains in service with the Croatian Coast Guard, an integral part of the navy.

Design and construction

Šolta was laid down as Mukos (PČ-176) in the Kraljevica Shipyard as the sixth ship in a class of patrol boats that were being built for the Yugoslav Navy (JRM). It was launched on 18 November 1982. She measures  in length, has a draught of , a  beam and a standard displacement of  or  when full.

Powered by two SEMT Pielstick 12PA4 200VGDS diesel engines that spin two propellers, Šolta has a maximum speed of  and a continuous speed of . She has a range of  at  and an autonomy of four to five days that can be extended to eight days during wartime.

The ship's original armament consisted of a single Bofors 40 mm D70 gun mounted on the ship's bow, a quadruple Strela 2 launcher behind the bridge and a quad 20 mm M-75 gun on the stern. Eight MDB-MT3 depth charges could be carried for anti-submarine warfare duties. Located on the sides were two double-barrel 128 mm illumination launchers. Sensors included a Racal Decca RM 1216 A surface search radar and a Simrad SQ 3D/SF sonar.

Service
During its service in the Yugoslav Navy, Mukos was part of the border patrol detachment. In November 1991, during the Croatian War of Independence, Mukos was part of the "Kaštela" tactical group that was tasked with enforcing a naval blockade of the port of Split and the surrounding islands. On 14 November, at around 17:30, while on patrol in the Split strait between the islands of Brač and Šolta, Mukos was hit with an improvised torpedo launched by special forces of the Croatian Navy (HRM), effectively starting the Battle of the Dalmatian Channels. The HRM command constructed the torpedo from a small outboard motor boat loaded with explosives. A former missile technician from the Yugoslavian navy had, while receiving training on Saab missiles in Sweden, picked up some remote control plane parts in a hobby store. Handed over to HRM, the gear yielded the ability to remotely control the unmanned vessel. The explosion ripped a hole in the forward section of the hull, causing the bow to flood and killing three crew members. The remaining crew was rescued by a Shershen-class torpedo boat Pionir II (TČ-224) while Mukos itself was left adrift.

During the evening of 15 November the ship was tugged away by a Croatian fishing ship to the nearby Nečujam cove, where the vessel was beached to prevent her from sinking. In the early hours of the same day, the remaining JRM ships opened fire in retaliation for damaging Mukos. As Yugoslav forces left the area, the ship was towed to an overhauling shipyard in Šibenik on the night of 17/18 November, after being salvaged by HRM divers with the help of Brodospas. The ship was repaired and renamed Šolta, entering service with the HRM on 15 May 1992 with Mile Tomas in command.

The Croatian Coast Guard was formed in October 2007, and Šolta was assigned to the 1st Division, based in Split. During the same year the ship underwent a modernisation that included the installation of a new Sperry Marine radar, gyrocompass and GPS.  A second refit that occurred sometime between 2007 and 2013 included the deletion of the Strela launcher and the stern 20 mm M-75 gun to create space needed for a RHIB and a hydraulic crane used to lower it into the sea. The pennant number was changed from OB-62 to OB-02.

See also
 List of active Croatian Navy ships
 List of ships of the Yugoslav Navy

Notes

References
Books

News reports

Other sources

1982 ships
Ships built in Yugoslavia
Ships of the Yugoslav Navy
Ships of the Croatian Navy
Captured ships
Naval ships of Croatia

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What Germans think about bioeconomy
The majority of Germans are in favor of sustainable economic activity, but still have difficulty making sacrifices. This is shown by the latest TechnikRadar conducted by acatech and the Körber Stiftung.
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Only about 15% of Germans are in favor of green genetic engineering in agriculture - according to the TechnikRadar survey 2020.
What do Germans think about technology? This is what the TechnikRadar from acatech and the Körber Stiftung has been investigating since 2018. The third issue of the magazine focused on the bioeconomy for the first time. In a representative survey last autumn, around 2,000 people were asked about the biobased economy. The conclusion: the majority of Germans are in favor of bioeconomic change. However, many people still have difficulties with personal restrictions.
Climate and environmental protection are necessary
On issues of climate and environmental protection, the position was clear: 70.2% were in support of Germany leading by example in climate protection. 74.4% also considered it necessary to reduce consumption to protect the environment. When asked about concrete measures, however, the picture was different: Only 29.5% of those surveyed would be prepared to give up their cars for the sake of the environment, and only 40% would therefore eat less meat.
"We can see that sustainable management is fundamentally important to Germans. However, opinion formation on the bioeconomy is still in its beginnings," comments Tatjana König, member of the Executive Board of the Körber Stiftung. König sees this as an opportunity "to take people with us to look at the enormous potential, but also possible side effects" and advocates "more knowledge transfer" and a debate on an equal footing with the developers of corresponding technologies.
Attitude towards bioplastics and biofuel mainly positive
A clear majority of 88.4% were in favor of replacing conventional plastics with bioeconomic products made from renewable resources. Half of the respondents expect this to lead to greater independence from the oil market and a competitive advantage for the German economy. The opinion was also mainly positive for biofuels. According to the survey, 76.8% think it makes sense to use biological waste and residual materials for fuels and to promote this development. Nevertheless, only a few respondents (42.1%) would welcome a biofuel production plant in their neighborhood.
TechnikRadar 2020
The TechnikRadar 2020 focuses for the first time on the bioeconomy and reflects the attitude of Germans towards the biobased economy. More information on the study can be found here:
To the study on the acatech website
Skepticism about laboratory meat and green genetic engineering
The TechnikRadar also shows a differentiated picture in the areas of nutrition and genetic engineering. Only 40% are of the opinion that the world's food supply can be ensured by doing without meat. For 57.8% of those surveyed, meat bred in the laboratory from animal stem cells is also not a suitable alternative for securing global nutrition and protecting the climate.
Opinions are also divided on green genetic engineering, which is being discussed in connection with the bioeconomy. In this form of breeding, genes of one's own or an alien species are incorporated into the genome of plants in order to make them more resistant to diseases and extreme weather conditions and improve crop yields. Only 14.9% of Germans are in favor of green genetic engineering. In contrast, conventional crossing methods meet with greater approval (59.7%).
Change of heart through corona crisis?
Head of studies Ortwin Renn, acatech board member and scientific director at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) Potsdam, is convinced that the corona crisis has not fundamentally changed the Germans' attitude to the bioeconomy. "It is possible that the assessments of bioeconomy topics, such as sustainability or climate protection, would be somewhat different today than at the time of the survey due to the crisis experience, but dramatic changes are not to be expected in these fields of technology."
The fact that the corona pandemic is making people more aware of climate protection and sustainability was also shown by a survey conducted in March as part of the Science Year 2020.
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John McTiernan Headed To Jail For Lying About Wiretapping 'Rollerball' Producer, Not For Actually Making Film
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John McTiernan has been handed a one-year sentence for committing perjury during the trial of P.I.-to-the-stars Anthony Pellicano. During the investigation into Pellicano's nefarious dealings, it came to light that McTiernan hired him, paying $50,000 to wiretap "Rollerball" producer Charles Roven. McTiernan inititally lied to the FBI about his involvement. He ended up initially pleading guilty in 2007 and being sentenced to four months in prison. However, he withdrew his plea, was ordered to have a new trial and has now ended up being sentenced to one year. He's also been fined $100,000 and ordered to serve three years probation. He is currently out on bond and his lawyers plan to appeal. Well, at least something interesting came out of the dreadful "Rollerball." The once hotly in demand action director --"Predator," "Die Hard," "The Hunt For Red October" all bear his name --hit the skids with both "Rollerball" and "Basic," and of course, this very trial. Last month it was reported he was set to return behind the camera to direct the action pic "Shrapnel."
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol
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Have you guys been following the trainwreck that is Victoria Jackson?
I knew she was very rightwing, but boy... she's also very crazy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcYYs0eaiEE
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leave it to someone without a career to go f'in nuts. I don't wanna see dudes kiss either, that's why I don't watch Glee.
Pubrick
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Location: erf
Quote from: RegularKarate on March 22, 2011, 01:46:31 PM
nothing new here, she's always making an idiot of herself about anything a reasonable person would have no problem with. she's a rightwing idiot who only gets on tv because fox news has very few "celebrity" pundits or i should say "pundits" with as much free time as this old hag.
she's just worthless and despicable.
under the paving stones.
Jeremy Blackman
I was skeptical going in, but she's so articulate and makes some really good points. I'm sold.
Living life big time
I heard this quote sometime last week, can't remember who was being quoted, but it stuck with me, and it's definitely relevant here. Paraphrasing: "You can tell a society is in decline when it moves toward self-parody."
Chris Brown rages after TV interview about Rihanna
Chris Brown allegedly exploded in a rage after an interview on Good Morning America today (March 22), in which he was asked about Rihanna.
In 2009 Brown was charged with two felonies as a result of an attack on his then-girlfriend Rihanna. When asked by presenter Robin Roberts about the incident he repeatedly attempted to try and steer conversation back to his new album, 'F.A.M.E'.
Watch footage of the interview by scrolling down and clicking below.
TMZ.com quotes a source as saying that that after the interview Brown "freaked out, storming into his dressing room screaming so loud that the people in hair and make-up became alarmed and called security".
Brown was then said to have "smashed a window in his dressing room", ripped off his shirt and refused to do another performance he was scheduled to do for ABC.com.
Sources says that Brown confronted a producer and "got in his face and stared him down".
The singer tweeted from Twitter.com/chrisbrown: "I'm so over people this past shit up! Yet we praise Charlie Sheen and other celebs for their bullshit." He later deleted the tweet.
Following the incident Roberts claimed she had got the OK from Brown to ask him about Rihanna before she started the interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNWyk7iS-T0&feature=player_embedded
Good to know his anger management issues are "in the past."
I am absolutely not a reliable narrator.
Dat dude is garbage. Just pure trash. Always has been, always will be.
Falling in love is the greatest joy in life. Followed closely by sneaking into a gated community late at night and firing a gun into the air.
I'm really happy to see him fuckin' up. He didn't deserve a career in the first place and now he has an actual reason to be hated. I'm just glad the rest of the world feels the same way I did about him when he first came out. I knew he was an asshole, I could just see it in him.
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YOU KNEW, AND YOU DIDN'T WARN RIHANNA???
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Planet of Apes' actress arrested in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES -Actress Estella Warren is facing a slew of charges after a late-night crash that led to her allegedly assaulting a Los Angeles police officer then trying to escape custody. Officer Sarah Faden said Tuesday that Warren, famed for her roles in "Planet of the Apes" and "Kangaroo Jack," crashed into three separate cars parked in the city's Wilshire area. A resident heard the crashes, called police then pursued Warren and forced her to stop. Faden says when police arrived, Warren was arrested on suspicion of DUI. She then allegedly assaulted an officer so was re-arrested for felony battery. At the police station, Warren allegedly slipped out her handcuffs then ran out of a holding area before being recaptured. A call to Warren's manager was not immediately returned.
Didn't Tim Burton tell her that the shoot ended ten years ago?
Dave Grohl kicks out "fan"
His voice sounds like he's 60 years old.
French actor Gerard Depardieu urinates in plane in front of passengers after toilet locked
The 62-year-old actor was caught short on a delayed flight from Paris to Dublin on Tuesday evening, but his demands to be allowed out of his seat fell on deaf ears according to another traveler speaking to French radio station Europe 1 on Wednesday morning.
"Je veux pisser, je veux pisser," implored Depardieu, according to Daniele, who was among the 127 passengers on board the Air France jet left reeling by the antics of the giant of the French screen.
"The attendant said 'I'm sorry, you'll have to wait fifteen minutes, [when] we'll be in flight. The toilets are locked'," Daniele added. Depardieu said he could not wait, unzipped his trousers and proceeded to urinate on the carpet.
"You could tell he'd been drinking," the disgusted passenger claimed.
The jet was forced to return to the gate and was delayed for a further two hours as ground crew cleaned up the mess.
Depardieu, arguably France's most celebrated living actor, has enjoyed a career spanning four decades and well over a hundred films. He is best known outside France for the film "Green Card," for which he won a Golden Globe best actor award.
Air France confirmed the incident took place in a statement to national TV station TF1, but said it was unclear what or whether action would be taken against the movie actor as the flight was operated by City Jet, a subsidiary of the national carrier based in Ireland.
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6 How do you change a battery in an old G-Shock like the DW-5200 that has various age-related issues?
See the Repair and Disassembly page for general information on opening up a G-Shock.
It's not too hard to do it yourself. Just be careful, and use the proper tools.
To keep the G-Shock waterproof you should always lubricate the rubber gasket with silicone grease. If the gasket has deteriorated in some way from age then you need to replace it with a new one.
Also see the G-Shock Features Chart for battery information.
How do you change a battery in an old G-Shock like the DW-5200 that has various age-related issues?
Go ahead and use the CR2016 battery instead of the original CR2320 one. I've been using them for years in place of the 2320, when I couldn't get the 2320, and have not had a problem.
Don't remove the battery gasket unless you really need to as they're a pain to reinstall. You have to kinda fit it around these little metal tabs and....geez, it's just not worth it. Not really sure why you want to remove it. I guess if it's got battery acid on it (but then you'd have a larger problem).
FYI - The main difference (only difference, as far as I know) between the module 691 and 901 is that they take different batteries - the 901, which takes the smaller 2016, just has a thicker gasket.
If the bleeding has disappeared be aware that it can come back. That's happened to me on other modules. Unless you just have a burning need to remove those bezel screws you can simply break off the old bezel and installl the new over them. Works like a charm, just ream out the holes a bit on the new bezel.
For all of you who left the Casio PRG series watch without light for 6 month and now it doesn't work, there is no need to buy a new CTL1616 battery. Just take the battery out of the watch and charge it with 1-2ma for 12 hours, put it back and reset the watch (by connecting with a wire the (AC) point to the (-) point for two second, and .. WOW, the watch works again like new.


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The earth is about to lose one of its two polar ice caps. According to Philip Sutton, Founder of Green Innovations, the only way to stop this is to cool the earth down, and he says building power stations, as suggested in Victoria, is not the best way to go about it.
Fact 1: The earth is about to lose, during summer times, one of its two polar ice caps, likely within 5 years.
Fact 2: The Victorian Government just approved the building of 2 power stations fuelled by fossil energy (one using coal and the other gas) and the New South Wales Government wants a new coal-fired power station too.
This juxtaposition illustrates the wild disconnect between the rapidly developing climate change disaster and our society's response.
Since 1988 the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued four reports drawing together the work of thousands of climate scientists. The reports prove that humans are causing the world to warm significantly, posing a very serious threat to human wellbeing and security and to the survival of a great many other species. The warming is largely caused by emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning - of gas, oil, and coal.
Why does the pursuit of new fossil-fuelled power stations by Australian Government's matter so much?
In the summer of 2007 the area of sea-ice in the Arctic shrank 22% compared to the previous record low. Something very serious was underway. For some time scientists had expected the Arctic ice, which used to cover an area as large as Australia, to take another 100 years to disappear. But recent scientific modelling work has revised the estimate down sharply to 30 years.
Even so, the scale of the big melt in 2007 shocked scientists, driving them to intensify work on the Arctic to find out why the computer models were so far behind real-world events. They found the thickness of the ice had declined steeply in recent decades. As a result more than 80% of the mass of Arctic ice had already been lost. And Wieslaw Maslowski from the US Naval Postgraduate College projects the full loss of all Arctic sea-ice by about 2013. So within five years, we are likely to have only one polar icecap in summer, a condition unknown in the whole period of human civilisation.
To lose one of the earth's two ice caps, almost without noticing until the last moment, is , well, startling!
And it matters for two crucial reasons.
Firstly, while a white, ice-covered Arctic Ocean reflects about 90% of incoming sunlight back into space, a blue Ocean, without ice, absorbs about 90% of the sunlight. This change will cause the average temperature of the Arctic in summer to rise around 5 degrees. This regional warming will subject most of Greenland's very large glaciers and ice sheet to rapid melting, contributing to metres of sea rise in the second half of this century.
Not good for the children's real estate!
Secondly, elevated Arctic temperatures each summer will dramatically accelerate the melting of the sub-Arctic permafrost. Dead plant matter, accumulated over hundreds of thousands of years in the frozen soils, will rot, releasing carbon dioxide and methane, which is another potent greenhouse gas. There are 500 billion tonnes of carbon in the permafrost that could be released rapidly under the influence of strong Arctic warming, more than the total quantity of carbon emitted by all human activity so far. So global warming will get a huge boost just because we lose the Arctic sea-ice.
Is the total loss of the arctic sea-ice inevitable? Regrettably: Yes - given the inertia in our fossil fuel economy and the likelihood that the ice will be fully gone within five years.
Is the loss irreversible? No...... Thank goodness.
If we cool the earth by about a third of degree and the Arctic by about 5 degrees, in a couple of decades we can get the sea-ice back to its normal area and to an adequate thickness.
So, how do we cool the earth?
Clearly we mustn't emit any more greenhouse gases that will add to warming. And we must remove the overload of carbon dioxide from the air - 200 billion tonnes of carbon in fact - and store it safely - for example by growing plant matter and converting it to agrichar for very long term storage in the soil). And for some decades we may have to actively cool the earth by boosting its reflectivity.
The Arctic melt has rewritten the rule book. Even Garnaut seems unaware of this. The bottom line is that we can no longer afford to have any fossil fuel emissions from any source, wether from coal or gas, new or old. We must act with emergency speed over the next 10 years to build a new energy economy based on efficiency and renewable energy.
Fossil-fuelled power stations, of any sort, no longer fit into a safe-climate future.
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Q: Does the $R^2$ depend on sample size? It's well known that adding more regressors can only improve the  $R^2$. What about the number of observations? Say you have a sample of size $N$, and you draw a random subsample of size $n < N$. How should, in principle, the  $R^2$ change?
Two things are fairly intuitive:

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*The closer the subsample size to the full sample, the lower the variance and the closer the average to that of the full sample. Naturally, once the sample is the same, the distribution of the average $R^2$ degenerates to that of the full sample.

*The smaller the subsample, the closer $R^2$ is to 1. In effect, when the number of observations is equal to that of variables, $R^2=1$.
Thus, the answer to the question seems to be along the lines of the following relationship
$$ R^2_\text{sub-sample} = (R^2_\text{full-sample})^{\dfrac{n-k}{N-k}} $$
where $k$ is the number of regressors. The curvature of the relationship might depend on multiple factors.
I had a go in R, and the above is sort of confirmed. The plots show the density plots of $R^2$ for $10,000$ sub-samples of a given dataset ($N$=790), for three different sub-sample size -- $n$ equal to $25,$ $50,$ and $500$ respectively. You can see that the $R^2$ is further away from the full-sample one (blue line) the smaller $n$ is.
So, how does the $R^2$ depend on sample size? Are you aware of a theorem about this?
$n = 25$

$n = 50$

$n = 500$

# Import data

library(data.table)
mydata <- fread('http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/datasets/csb/ch1a.dat')

# Compute benchmark R2 - all sample

fit <- lm(V3 ~ V2 + V4 + V5, data=mydata)
R2_benchmark <- summary(fit)$r.squared

# Compute R2 for M subsamples of size n

set.seed(263293) # obtained from www.random.org
M <- 10000
R2 <- numeric(M)
n <- 500

for(i in 1:M) {

  mysample <- mydata[sample(1:nrow(mydata), n, replace=FALSE),]
  fit <- lm(V3 ~ V2 + V4 + V5, data=mysample)
  R2[i] <- summary(fit)$r.squared

}

# Compare

plot(density(R2))
abline(v = R2_benchmark, col="blue")

t.test(R2,mu = R2_benchmark, alternative="two.sided")

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No, the expectation of estimated $^2$ will not change, but the variance
  of its estimate will decrease along the sample size.

– user158565

We need to take the statement "The smaller the subsample, the closer
  $^2$ is to 1" advisedly. Although it's true that the chance of a
  sample $^2$ being close to 1 might increase with smaller sample
  size, that's only because the sample $^2$ becomes more variable as
  the sample size decreases. It definitely does not tend to grow closer
  to 1! The theorems therefore focus on the distribution of a sample
  $^2$ and, especially, on its variance. That distribution is directly
  related to the F ratio distribution of the regression F statistic. See
  your favorite regression text for details.

– whuber

A: It seems that you are trying to describe what is known as the "Adjusted R-squared", which indeed depends on the number of observations n and the number of model parameters p:
$$R^2 = 1- \dfrac{SSRes}{SSTotal}$$
$$R^2_{adjusted} = 1- \dfrac{n-1}{n-p}\dfrac{SSRes}{SSTotal}$$

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US President Donald Trump has said that war with Iran is not a good idea even as he threatened Tehran after Iraqi supporters of pro-Iranian regime factions attacked the American embassy in Baghdad, forcing its diplomats to stay inside for safety.
His statement came hours after hundreds of angry Iraqi Shiite militia supporters, including women, broke into the US embassy compound in high-security zone on Tuesday after smashing a main door near parking and setting fire to a reception area chanting "death to America" in anger over air strikes that killed at least 25 fighters of the Iran-backed militia in Iraq, the Kataeb Hezbollah.
President Trump, in his brief interaction with reporters, said that the situation in Iran has been handled very well.
"We had some great warriors come in... this will not be a Benghazi... they got in there very quickly," he said in response to a question as he walked up to the grand ballroom at Mar-a-Lago for the New Year's eve party.
Asked about the possibility of a war with Iran, the US President said: "I don't think that would be a good idea for Iran... I like peace... I don't see that happening".
Earlier, Trump threatened Iran after the attack on the American embassy which was one of the worst in recent years.
"Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities. They will pay a very BIG PRICE! This is not a Warning; it is a Threat. Happy New Year!" he warned in a tweet.
"The US embassy in Iraq is, & has been for hours, SAFE! Many of our great Warfighters, together with the most lethal military equipment in the world, was immediately rushed to the site. Thank you to the President & Prime Minister of Iraq for their rapid response upon request...," trump said in another tweet.
Soon thereafter, the Pentagon announced deployment of additional troops in Iraq as part of its effort to secure its personnel in Baghdad.
"At the direction of the Commander in Chief, I have authorised the deployment of an infantry battalion from the Immediate Response Force (IRF) of the 82nd Airborne Division to the US Central Command area of operations in response to recent events in Iraq," US Defence Secretary Mark T Esper said.
Approximately 750 soldiers will be deployed to the region immediately and additional forces from the IRF are prepared to deploy over the next several days, he said.
"This deployment is an appropriate and precautionary action taken in response to increased threat levels against US personnel and facilities, such as we witnessed in Baghdad today. The United States will protect our people and interests anywhere they are found around the world," Esper said.
On Tuesday, Trump spoke to Prime Minister Adil Abd al-Mahdi of Iraq.
"The two leaders discussed regional security issues and President Trump emphasized the need to protect United States personnel and facilities in Iraq," the White House said in a statement.
According to State Department spokesperson, their first priority is the safety and security of US personnel.
"US personnel are secure and there has been no breach. There are no plans to evacuate Embassy Baghdad," said the official.
US Ambassador to Iraq Matt Tueller has been on previously scheduled personal travel for over a week and reports that he has been evacuated are false.
"He is returning to the Embassy," the State Department spokesperson said.
The Iranian-backed demonstrations in front of the US embassy should not be confused with the Iraqi protestors who have been in the streets since October to decry the corruption exported to Iraq by the Iranian regime, the official said.
"We have made clear the United States will protect and defend its people, who are there to support a sovereign and independent Iraq. We are closely monitoring the situation in Iraq and call on the Government of Iraq to protect our diplomatic facilities as per their obligations," said the spokesperson.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the US is continuously monitoring the situation.
"The embassy is being monitored. It's safe. The actions that we took today were prudent. Under President Trump's direction, our team worked together today to quickly, decisively, prudently take the appropriate responses to keep our American people safe," he told CBS.
Responding to questions, Pompeo said that the US never contemplated evacuating the facility.
"But the American people should know that President Trump and our team are working diligently to make sure that we keep this facility secure.
"We've known for a long time that there was this risk. It's been 40 years that the Islamic Republic of Iran has been at this, and we've watched them continue to take actions. We saw them take actions that killed an American in Iraq just this past week. We saw the United States act decisively to respond to that in a way to signal to them that we would do precisely what I've said, precisely what President Trump said we would do, when American interests and American lives were at stake," Pompeo said.
The Secretary of State described this as a serious situation.
"It's a serious situation. We're watching. We'll make sure that we're doing all the things that we need to do, and we'll continue to ask the Iraqi government to do the things that they have a responsibility to do," he added.
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Hi my brother has an 87 TII with bad injectors I seem to recall that someone used mitsubishi turbo injectors or something like that. Does anybody know anything about this or any type of injector I can use to save him from having to pay $250 per injector. For that price they better come with the salesmans daughter and or wife. What are they made of gold I think the japs have fucked use on that price.
anybody got any ideas? Or if you have any injectors lying around I'll buy them if the price is right.
You can use GSL SE injectors for the secondaries. Otherwise hit ebay and partstrader.com for used injectors. You can always have them rebuilt for $25 a piece at RC engineering.
thanks that sounds great. The messed up part about it is that I just tore apart a GSLE 13B and can't find the injectors I think I may have thrown them away not thinking I would ever need them.
new injectors from RCE are not that expensive, more like $90 each I think.
I just bought 4 550cc low impedance injectors from them and the total was just shy of $400.
Does RCE have a website? And who is RCE? $400 is a cheap price compared to $1000 for 4 new factory ones is that for all 4?
RC engineering = RCE i'm guessing.
up to 550cc is reasonable, once you go past that the price practically doubles.