This is it, folks! (Well, maybe. Kinda. See below.) This is the day by which all of you who have no insurance, whether you couldn't afford it, chose as a free human being not to buy it, or had it ripped away from you by Nanny State (in the form of the Democratic Party (1) and their Affordable Care Act (2)), had to enroll and pay for a government-approved plan — with higher premiums, larger deductibles, bigger co-pays, services you didn't want or need, and smaller provider networks that may not include your doctor.
And what does America think on this most momentous of days?
A new poll finds support for Obamacare slumping to an all-time low as the administration hits its deadline to register consumers for coverage on Jan. 1.
According to a CNN/ORC International survey released Monday, 35 percent say they support President Obama's signature domestic achievement, a drop of 5 points in under a month. Nearly two-thirds, at 62 percent, say they oppose the health law, a rise of 4 points since November.
The push to boost low enrollment figures has targeted young people and women, but the new CNN poll finds that more women now oppose the health care law. Sixty percent of women have a negative view of Obamacare, up from 54 percent in November.
The survey finds that 63 percent believe the law will cost them more for their health care, with just 7 percent saying the amount they pay for medical care will drop. Nearly 3 in 10 say it will not change.
Overall, 42 percent say they will be personally worse off and 16 percent say they will be better off under Obamacare. Forty percent say the law will have no effect.
For some reason, a majority think they'll be able to keep their physicians and provider network. Expect that to change as people start trying to see their physicians in the new year.
The number for women is almost staggering, since that tends to be the demographic that most closely watches healthcare issues and has been generally supportive of doing something to spread the safety net, if not particularly an ACA-style solution. But, if numbers among women are cratering like that… Well, I hope Obama ordered a double mai-tai in Hawaii.
Great work, Democrats! What a wonderful present for the people for this Christmas season! I'm sure many millions will remember what you've done for to them, come November, 2014.
BREAKING: Obama rides to the rescue!
While writing this, I saw that the administration of President Peron Obama has extended –without congressional authority– the deadline for enrolling in Obamacare insurance.
At midnight Monday, the official deadline arrives for Americans to sign up through the new federal health insurance exchange for health plans that begin Jan. 1. But, without any public announcement, Obama administration officials have changed the rules so that people will have an extra day to enroll, according to two individuals with knowledge of the switch.
Over the weekend, government officials and outside IT contractors working on the online marketplace's computer system made a software change that automatically gives people a Jan. 1 start date for their coverage as long as they enroll by 11:59 p.m. Christmas Eve.
Note that the changes were made secretly, because they were afraid their "repaired" site might crash under the load of last-minute enrollments. But they didn't want to tell anyone that, lest people delay further. And, oh yeah, it's another in the long, lengthening string of unilateral changes, exceptions, and waivers the administration has made to deal with the never-ending problems Obamacare is creating.
RELATED: Jim Geraghty surveys the latest bad news for Obamacare apologists. Yuval Levin says the administration is pounding on the panic button. An editorial from last summer, but still spot-on: Obamacare is a 19th century solution to a 21st century problem.
California's health insurance exchange is holding firm to its enrollment deadline today for customers who want coverage beginning at the start of the year, officials said Monday.
Earlier in the day, the White House announced the federal deadline was being delayed 24 hours — from 11:59 p.m. Monday to 11:59 p.m. Tuesday. Officials said they made the move for Healthcare.gov customers as part of a good-faith effort to ensure those who needed coverage by Jan. 1 would be able to log-in and sign up.
California, which operates its own health insurance exchange, said customers must act Monday.
(1) Remember, not a single Republican voted for this mess, and we've voted repeatedly to repeal it and bury its staked corpse at a crossroads at midnight.
(2) George Orwell! Paging Mr. George Orwell!
(3) Fingers crossed tightly. He's a very nice guy, and I can only imagine what he's going through today.
I wouldn't make too much of this. North Korea threatens flaming death almost weekly; it's almost a hobby with them.
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I followed this amazing sky colors early in the morning, and parked on top of a small hill that over look a highway. We don't have many days like this where I live, so when the opportunity presented itself, I had to take my chances.
The afternoon turned cloudy with just touches of light pink cloud hovering our entire area! Rain, we had so much rain these past two weeks, and heavy wind. Nature is telling us time is changing, and another season is around the corner.
Before turning to bed, the moon called my attention. I set my point and shoot camera for night scene, and crossed my fingers for a good shot.
love all your sky pictures, Icy, it's very inspiring and moving, I would do the same thing too, stop and just enjoy them.
These are great. I like the idea of taking sky shots of one day. I do have to say that the morning shot is my favorite.
Wonderful series of shots. It was great to see the sky at different times of the day. I love the morning shot (I'm so rarely up at that time).
This is my 1st time participating in Sweet Shot Tuesday and I enjoyed seeing your work.
These sky shots are just gorgeous and that lovely moon is second to none. Just brilliant colors and details.
The colors in your sunrise against the black tree silhouette are gorgeous. But I like the moonshot and time quote the best. So very, very true.
Three wonderful shots in one day! Glorious.
Nice shots and great quote.
gorgeous photos and I LOVE that quote!
Love that first shot, and the one of the moon too, it is great. I've tried taking photo's of the moon with my point and shoot, but so far not succeeded in getting a good photo.
Beautiful photos all of them. I like when the trees are like silouttes and make abstract grafic shapes. Gives a great contrast in the pictures. The first photo is a clear favorite!


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A wooden crate can be made without sheathing or with it, and it comes with a self-supporting structure in both cases. In order for a wooden container to become a crate, all the sides that it has,have to be placed around the structure, in order for the container to gain the necessary strength. Crates are not the same thing as wooden boxes. The wooden box has its strength measured in the amount of weight that it can hold without all the side put in place, while the crates strength is measured by the amount of weight it can hold with the sides put into place. But, even though the wooden box and the wooden crate are not the same thing, sometimes, the term crate is used when actually speaking about a wooden box.
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IT HAPPENED IN PITTSBURGH – IT CAN HAPPEN ANYWHERE!
by AFSI Staff
Etz Chayim synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh, this past Shabbat, October 27, was the scene of a slaughter, displaying pure evil and baseless hatred. While a bris, celebrating new life and joy was scheduled to be held, a heinous and vile attack was committed against innocent Jewish lives while they prayed. There has never been such an attack against the Jewish community in America with eleven lives lost and a number wounded – some very seriously. We pray it may never happen again.
Israeli emergency response group ZAKA's international unit is waiting at the scene of the Pittsburgh attack for permission to enter and treat the bodies of the murdered, which are still at the scene.
Here is a summary of what leaders around the world are saying:
"…We just don't seem to learn from the past. There must be no tolerance for anti-Semitism in America or for any form of religious or racial hatred or prejudice," stated President Trump. The President is planning to visit Pittsburgh to pay his personal condolences to the bereaved families.
"The shooting in Pittsburgh is a painful reminder of continuing anti-Semitism. Jews across the world continue to be attacked for no other reason than their identity. Anti-Semitism is a menace to democratic values and peace, and should have no place in the 21st century," UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a statement. Though AFSI appreciates Guterres' truthful statement, we'd like to see his words turn into action at the agency he heads. With all the anti-Jewish-anti-Israel-anti-Semitic actions and hypocrisy at the UN, his words have no meaning unless the UN reverses course NOW!!
"To all the anti-Semites out there on Twitter: Am Yisrael Chai!," tweeted Ambassador Ron Dermer.
"When Jews are murdered in Pittsburgh, the people of Israel feel pain. All Israel are responsible for one another," said Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett, who visited and met with the community in Pittsburgh and participated in the funerals of those killed in the attack.
Horrible memories of the Fogel family attack in Itamar surfaced for Israel's Consul General in New York, Dani Dayan, who is also in Pittsburgh now.
An excellent editorial in The New York Sun, "The Tree of Life Massacre," for further reading is HERE.
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In a sample of 125 respondents, 62 boys and 63 girls, who attended the first grade of primary schools in Subotica with average age of 7.39 decimal years, a measurement of basic anthropometric characteristics was performed, general motor skills were determined based on seven motor tests, and body composition was determined using the In Body 230 device. Regression analysis showed that the predictor system of variables for assessing body composition (amount of body fat, the total amount of water and the total amount of muscles) was statistically significantly associated with the criterion defined as general motor factor and with it describes 39% of common variability in boys (R=0.63; p<0.05) and 34% in girls (R=0.58; p<0.05). Standardized regression coefficient indicated that both for boys and girls aged 7.39 decimal years, statistically, the total amount of body fat, body weight, negatively affect general motor skills and for the girls, statistically, body height has a positive effect.
KEY WORDS: General motor skills; Body composition; Primary school.


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Everybody loves President Obama. Ok, well not everyone, but the the coolest president since Bill Clinton has a plethora of supporters and they all have their reasons to love him.
From celebrity royalty like Beyonce and Jay-Z to the average Joe, President Obama gets his love from far and wide. #TeamBeautiful caught up with a few celebs and asked them what it was about the president that they loved so much.
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Ukraine's daily coronavirus death toll hits new maximum
Ukraine on Tuesday registered a new daily maximum coronavirus death toll, as 838 people died in the country in one day, raising the overall number of fatalities to 77,985, the country's Health Ministry said, News.Az reports citing Anadolu Agency.
Over the same period, 16,308 cases were added to the country's tally, which currently stands at over 3.24 million, and 21,914 got better, bringing recoveries to 2.66 million.
Since the beginning of its vaccination campaign, more than 12.3 million people have been fully immunized against COVID-19 in Ukraine.
Since December 2019, the pandemic has claimed more than 5.1 million lives in 192 countries and regions, with over 253.8 million cases reported worldwide, according to the US' Johns Hopkins University.
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Shimon Shteynberg (; ; alternative Latinized spelling: Simon Steinberg; 21 June 1887, Odessa – 20 July 1955, Chernivtsi) was a Ukrainian composer and a music director of the Ukrainian State Jewish Theatre.

Biography
Shteynberg was born in Odessa into a Jewish family of modest means. He started playing violin at an early age being first taught by his stepfather, a renowned local wedding toast-master and fiddler, and later by M. Chait in Karl Lagler's Music School. After working in city's theatre orchestras for several years, he was accepted into a newly founded Odessa Conservatoire where he studied composition under Witold Maliszewski. Upon graduation in 1919 Shteynberg continued composing, contributing to various theatres in Ukraine. He became music director and a major composer of the Ukrainian Jewish Theater since its inception in Kharkiv in 1925, working through its existence in Kiev (there theatre was popularly known as Kiev GOSET), and later in Chernivtsi, until its liquidation in 1949, at the height of Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign. In his latter years he taught in Chernivtsi Music College.

Compositions
Shteynberg composed music to more than 150  plays, including "Tevye the Milkman", "Wandering Stars", "Stempenyu" by Shalom Aleichem,"Favourful people" after Mendele Mocher Sforim, "Uprising in Ghetto" by Peretz Markish, "In fire" by M.Daniel, "Russian People" by Konstantin Simonov, "The Merchant of Venice", "The Taming of the Shrew " by William Shakespeare etc. Along with Lev Pulver and Lev Yampolsky, he was one of the major contributors to the bulk of incidental music for Jewish theatres of the former USSR. Shteynberg was also a prolific writer of symphonic and chamber music, songs, and arrangements of ethnic tunes by peoples of Jewish, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Uzbek and other origins. His music, rooted into a late-romantic tradition of the turn of the 20th century as well as Jewish cantorial and klezmer heritage, was recognized for its beauty, expressivity, compositional depth and sophistication. However, it fell into obscurity due to decades-long attitude of Soviet authorities toward everything Jewish. In December 1987 the Music College of Chernivtsi commemorated his 100th anniversary with an evening of his music, which was warmly received by the public. There are no known audio recordings of his music available.

References
 Soviet composers - concise biographical directory, Moscow, Sovetskiy kompozitor, 1957, page 669 (in Russian)
 T. Shklover. Anniversary of a Jewish composer, Birobidzhan, Birobidzhaner Shtern, issue 6, 1988 (in Yiddish)
 Moisei Love. Music was his life, New York City, "Di Tsukunft" (magazine), volume 1, 1991 (in Yiddish)
 Russian Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. 3, Moscow, Epos, 1997, page 426 (in Russian)
 Moisei Love. Stolen muse, Kyiv, Dukh i litera, 2004 (in Russian)

1887 births
1955 deaths
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"Gayborhoods" and Heat Waves at This Year's AEA Meetings
Jon Hilsenrath of The Wall Street Journal reports on the most offbeat papers of this year's American Economic Association meetings. One of our favorites — in light of our recent "Are Gay Men Really Rich?" podcast — is this one:
FIND A NEW "GAYBORHOOD" FOR BETTER HOUSING RETURNS
Janice Madden of the University of Pennsylvania and Matthew Ruther of the University of Colorado studied census tract data and the American Community Survey to examine the locations of gay male and lesbian partnerships in 38 large U.S. cities. They found that census tracts that start the decade with more gay men experienced significantly greater growth in household incomes and, in the Northeast and West, also greater population growth over the next decade than those census tracts with fewer gay men. Census tracts with more lesbians at the start of the decade saw no difference in population or income growth.
Another favorite examines the long-term outcomes of children conceived during heat waves.
More Predictions, From Bad to Worse
Our "Folly of Prediction" podcast made these basic points:
Fact: Human beings love to predict the future.
Fact: Human beings are not very good at predicting the future.
Fact: Because the incentives to predict are quite imperfect — bad predictions are rarely punished — this situation is unlikely to change.
A couple of recent cases in point:
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted a particularly bad Atlantic hurricane season this year but, thankfully, were wrong, as noted by Dan Amira in New York magazine. It is hard to imagine that many people are unhappy about that.
Here, as noted by Ira Stoll in the New York Sun, are the picks by ESPN experts at the start of the 2013 baseball season. How bad were their picks?
It's the Weather, Stupid
We've written in the past about how weather can have a surprisingly strong effect on things like civil war and riots. (Short story: rioters don't like getting rained on and droughts can start a war.)
The political scientist Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard has a new paper on the topic in Public Choice (abstract; PDF) called "It's the Weather, Stupid! Individual Participation in Collective May Day Demonstrations." The bolding is mine:
"We investigate the possible explanations for variations in aggregate levels of participation in large-scale political demonstrations. A simple public choice inspired model is applied to data derived from the annual May Day demonstrations of the Danish labor movement and socialist parties taking place in Copenhagen in the period 1980–2011. The most important explanatory variables are variations in the weather conditions and consumer confidence, while political and socio-economic conditions exhibit no robust effects. As such accidental or non-political factors may be much more important for collective political action than usually acknowledged and possibly make changes in aggregate levels of political support seem erratic and unpredictable."
Who Suffers in Bad Weather?
The weather — its effects on the environment, behavior, sports, and society — has long been of interest to Freakonomics. Now a new working paper from Warren Anderson, Noel D. Johnson, and Mark Koyama explores the effects of cold growing seasons on discrimination against Jewish communities between 1100 and 1800:
What factors caused the persecution of minorities in medieval and early modern Europe? We build a model that predicts that minority communities were more likely to be expropriated in the wake of negative income shocks. We then use panel data consisting of 785 city-level expulsions of Jews from 933 European cities between 1100 and 1800 to test the implications of the model. We use the variation in city-level temperature to test whether expulsions were associated with colder growing seasons. We find that a one standard deviation decrease in average growing season temperature in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was associated with a one to two percentage point increase in the likelihood that a Jewish community would be expelled. Drawing on our model and on additional historical evidence we argue that the rise of state capacity was one reason why this relationship between negative income shocks and expulsions weakened after 1600.
How We Perceive the Weather
A new study looks at how ideological and political beliefs affect people's perceptions of the weather. The authors surveyed 8,000 people across the U.S. between 2008 and 2011 and found that while floods and droughts were remembered correctly, temperature changes were a different story. From Ars Technica:
In fact, the actual trends in temperatures had nothing to do with how people perceived them. If you graphed the predictive power of people's perceptions against the actual temperatures, the resulting line was flat—it showed no trend at all. In the statistical model, the actual weather had little impact on people's perception of recent temperatures. Education continued to have a positive impact on whether they got it right, but its magnitude was dwarfed by the influences of political affiliation and cultural beliefs.
And those cultural affiliations had about the effect you'd expect. Individualists, who often object to environmental regulations as an infringement on their freedoms, tended to think the temperatures hadn't gone up in their area, regardless of whether they had. Strong egalitarians, in contrast, tended to believe the temperatures had gone up.
Should You Ignore the Weather When Buying a New House or Car?
An NBER working paper (full PDF here) by Meghan R. Busse, Devin G. Pope, Jaren C. Pope, and Jorge Silva-Risso explores the role of projection bias when choosing a new car or house. It turns out that weather conditions are a huge factor when consumers are debating big purchases like houses or cars. The abstract:
Projection bias is the tendency to overpredict the degree to which one's future tastes will resemble one's current tastes. We test for evidence of projection bias in two of the largest and most important consumer markets – the car and housing markets. Using data for more than forty million vehicle transactions and four million housing purchases, we explore the impact of the weather on purchasing decisions. We find that the choice to purchase a convertible, a 4-wheel drive, or a vehicle that is black in color is highly dependent on the weather at the time of purchase in a way that is inconsistent with classical utility theory. Similarly, we find that the hedonic value that a swimming pool and that central air add to a house is higher when the house goes under contract in the summertime compared to the wintertime.
In Case of Rain
In the town where we stay on the New Jersey shore the local movie theater advertises: In case of rain, we will have an extra show at 1PM on weekdays. Pretty clever. If it's rainy, the demand curve for going to the movies shifts rightward—who wants to go to the beach in the rain. Accordingly, the theater increases the amount of showings supplied to the market. But why don't they raise the price of tickets on bad-weather days? Presumably because it would create bad will among customers who might feel exploited, but perhaps there are other reasons. (I can't imagine that it is difficult to alter prices on a daily basis.)
The New Yorker Geoengineers Itself
Michael Specter has written a good and interesting New Yorker article about the history and current state of geoengineering, called "The Climate Fixers: Is There a Technological Solution to Global Warming?"
Let me rephrase:
Michael Specter has written a good and interesting New Yorker article about the history and current state of geoengineering, called "The Climate Fixers: Is There a Technological Solution to Global Warming?," which is essentially a New Yorkerized version of Chapter 5 of SuperFreakonomics , all the way down to the Mount Pinatubo explosion and the reliance on scientists Ken Caldeira and Nathan Myhrvold.
Riots and Rain
May Day has already brought some rioting to San Francisco, and as Dashiell Bennett's Atlantic Wire piece points out, New York is bracing for the same:
Tensions are likely to be pretty high, especially in New York City, [where] some leading organizers were reportedly visited at home by New York police and FBI agents yesterday who interviewed them about their plans. (The high temperatures and 80% chance of rain won't help either.)
What If It Rained on the Tea Party Parade?
My latest Bloomberg View column with Betsey is all about the Tea Party. Well, actually, it's really about some superb research about the Tea Party, by Andreas Madestam, Daniel Shoag, Stan Veuger and David Yanagizawa-Drott. Their big question: "Do Political Protests Matter? Evidence from the Tea Party." We know that lots of people turn out to Tea Party rallies. But does it really change anything?
Collateral Damage from the Japanese Tsunami Disaster?
A reader named Mark Weitzman calls our attention to a Yomiuri Shimbun article with a provocative claim:
Quake efforts blamed for rise in snow mishaps
This winter's heavier snowfall has seen more than 500 people across seven prefectures die or become injured in snow-related accidents, including cases in which they had been trying to remove snow, it has been learned.
People are trying to remove snow themselves using shovels and other tools because of delays in municipal-led snow removal. The delays have been caused by a shortage of dump trucks–many of which are being used in areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake for reconstruction work–to transport snow.
According to data compiled by the Akita, Aomori, Ishikawa, Nagano, Niigata, Toyama and Yamagata prefectural governments, the death toll from such snow-related accidents had reached 31 as of Wednesday, while 479 people had sustained injuries.
Football Freakonomics: The Frozen Conundrum
Well, it's January. And even though my team stumbled into inglorious, injury-plagued defeat, the most exciting football is yet to be played — some of it in very cold weather.
So we thought it was time to take a look at the various effects, and hidden side, of cold weather. That's the focus of our latest installment of Football Freakonomics.
It is no secret that weather, cold or hot, has a significant effect on athletic performance. I don't want to start an argument here about what constitutes a sport and what doesn't, but I will say that the most frustrating six hours of my life was spent on a lake in upstate New York trying to coax some walleye through a hole in the ice. Brrr!
An Algorithm that Can Predict Weather a Year in Advance
In our latest podcast, "The Folly of Prediction," we poke fun at the whole notion of forecasting. The basic gist is: whether it's Romanian witches or Wall Street quant wizards, though we love to predict things — we're generally terrible at it. (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here.)
But there is one emerging tool that's greatly enhancing our ability to predict: algorithms. Toward the end of the podcast, Dubner talks to Tim Westergren, a co-founder of Pandora Radio, about how the company's algorithm is able to predict what kind of music people want to hear, by breaking songs down to their basic components. We've written a lot about algorithms, and the potential they have to vastly change our life through customization, and perhaps satisfy our demand for predictions with some robust results.
One of the first things that comes to mind when people hear the word forecasting is the weather. Over the last few decades, we've gotten much better at predicting the weather. But what if through algorithms, we could extend our range of accuracy, and say, predict the weather up to a year in advance? That'd be pretty cool, right? And probably worth a bit of money too.
That's essentially what the folks at a small company called Weather Trends International are doing. The private firm based in Bethlehem, PA, uses technology first developed in the early 1990s, to project temperature, precipitation and snowfall trends up to a year ahead, all around the world, with more than 80% accuracy.
Freakonomics Poll: When It Comes to Predictions, Whom Do You Trust?
Our latest Freakonomics Radio podcast, "The Folly of Prediction," is built around the premise that humans love to predict the future, but are generally terrible at it. (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen live via the media player above, or read the transcript here.)
There are a host of professions built around predicting some future outcome: from predicting the score of a sports match, to forecasting the weather for the weekend, to being able to tell what the stock market is going to do tomorrow. But is anyone actually good at it?
Study Shows Animals Starting to Move to Higher Latitudes, Elevations
A new study out of the University of York shows that animals are moving to higher latitudes and elevations as a result of global warming. The research, which is a meta-analysis of previous individual studies, finds that about 1,300 species are shifting habitat faster than had previously been assumed. But they're not all moving toward cooler temperatures. The data are mostly skewed toward Europe and North America. Here's the abstract:
The distributions of many terrestrial organisms are currently shifting in latitude or elevation in response to changing climate. Using a meta-analysis, we estimated that the distributions of species have recently shifted to higher elevations at a median rate of 11.0 meters per decade, and to higher latitudes at a median rate of 16.9 kilometers per decade. These rates are approximately two and three times faster than previously reported. The distances moved by species are greatest in studies showing the highest levels of warming, with average latitudinal shifts being generally sufficient to track temperature changes. However, individual species vary greatly in their rates of change, suggesting that the range shift of each species depends on multiple internal species traits and external drivers of change. Rapid average shifts derive from a wide diversity of responses by individual species.
Baseball's Rainy Season
Major League Baseball is off to one of its wettest starts ever. The league came into this week having already postponed 26 games, which is 6 more than were washed out all of last season. According to Dailybaseballdata.com:
From 2006-2009, each season had from 33-38 rainouts. But 26 through mid-May puts us on a pace to wash out 100 games this year!
Today's weather forecast and schedule looks to spell more rainouts.
Against (Discretionary) Snow Days
I awoke last week to another foot of snow adding a third blanket of winter to our city of Elms. I am reminded of the joy I felt as a child waiting to learn if school was canceled. Something has been lost in our age of instant information — who can forget huddling around the radio, holding your breath while the radio announcer lists the seemingly endless roster of closings? Today, we received the decidedly less romantic robo-calls at 5:33 in the morning.
What Costs $25,000 an Inch on Weekdays?
And $35,000 an inch on weekends?
If You Can Bet on the Rain, Watch out for Rainmakers
A few days ago, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange began selling futures contracts on rain. As this Marketplace report points out, the Merc – best known for selling agricultural commodities and futures – "already sells futures for temperature, frost, snow – even hurricanes."
Do Hurricanes Prefer Cities?
A new study argues that the moisture levels and landscapes of cities influence hurricane movements. Professor Johnny Chan's research team claims that "cities impose greater friction on the swirling flow because of the tall buildings . . . tropical cyclones tend to be 'attracted' towards areas of higher friction."
Mayor of Moscow Versus Mother Nature: A Winner is Declared
This fall, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov made a bold declaration. With the help of the Russian Air Force, he was going to use cloud seeding techniques to keep it from snowing in Moscow this winter. Did Luzhkov vanquish Mother Nature as he predicted he would?
If It's Raining, You Might Want to Reschedule That Interview
It is no secret that weather affects mood, and even behavior. The Bagel Man we wrote about in Freakonomics, who ran an honor-system business, received lower payments during foul weather. Now along come Donald Redelmeier and Simon D. Baxter from the University of Toronto with an interesting question: do applicants to medical school suffer if they happen to be interviewed on a rainy day?
When the Weather Puts Food on Your Table
A lot of industries are obviously weather-dependent — agriculture, tourism, etc. — but I hadn't known that the traditional production of roofing slate in the U.K. was also at the mercy of the weather. Here is but one of many fascinating things you can learn from Simon Winchester's excellent book The Map That Changed the World, about the proto-geologist William Smith:
Will There Be Snow in Moscow This Winter?
Not if the mayor of Moscow Yury Luzhkov has his way. According to Simon Shuster at TIME magazine,
For just a few million dollars, the mayor's office will hire the Russian Air Force to spray a fine chemical mist over the clouds before they reach the capital, forcing them to dump their snow outside the city. Authorities say this will be a boon for Moscow, which is typically covered with a blanket of snow from November to March.
Can't NASA Find a Better Launch Site?
After bad weather foiled several launch attempts, the Space Shuttle Endeavor finally took off last night from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida's Cape Canaveral. With stormy weather so typical there, why does NASA continue to use it as a launch site?
Vortex Voyeurism
| Next month, a small army of meteorologists armed with 40 sensor-loaded vehicles and a flying drone will stalk America's southern plains, trying to get an unprecedentedly detailed look at tornadoes as they form. The project, the largest and most ambitious of its kind, aims to unravel some mysteries of how these giant storms are born. Once we understand that, . . .
How Valid Are T.V. Weather Forecasts?
Eggleston and his daughter two minutes before it began to hail. Says Eggleston, "Hail was not in the forecast." A gentleman named J.D. Eggleston recently wrote to us with a rather interesting report, a nice piece of D.I.Y. Freakonomics concerning the accuracy of local T.V. weather forecasts. I thought it was interesting enough to post in its entirety here on . . .
The FREAK-est Links
Wildlife refuges bring in impressive revenues. Researchers analyze goalkeeper jumps in stopping penalty kicks. (Earlier) Have your genomic profile read for just $1,000. New ranking scale helps experts predict winter storms. (Earlier)
What Should We Really Be Doing About Global Warming? A Freakonomics Quorum
We have blogged occasionally about different pieces of the global-warming puzzle (see here, here, and here), and we touched on the subject briefly in a New York Times Magazine column. It is an extraordinarily interesting issue, to say nothing of its importance and complexity, in part because there are so many foundational economic principles at play: not just supply and . . .
And Today Is…
August 28 is the day in 2005 when Mayor Ray Nagin ordered a full evacuation of New Orleans in anticipation of Hurricane Katrina. Little did he know that his order would temporarily drop the city's crime rate to zero.


Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is not even shipped on OS X.
I think this is a duplicate of issue #868, but that has languished for two years now and, since this is such a simple fix, I figured I would bring it to attention again.
See pull request #569 for my suggested solution.
It is definitely intended that Vera is used on Unix, and Courier New on Windows; the documentation is wrong in this case.
As for Mac OS X, #868 seems to imply that font selection is even more broken, and it needs a more comprehensive fix.
In that case, I believe a third case for font selection should be added, since by default Vera will not work on OS X and the package is broken out of the box.
Sure. Which font is the best default nowadays? Menlo?
Courier lacks italics (it has obliques though). The default font used in Terminal is Menlo, which comes with Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic.


The purpose of the workshop is to raise awareness on the gender inequality in the field of high energy physics, and in physics in general. Two sessions will be devoted to gender issues, with talks by experts (scientists as well as representatives of research organisations). The other two sessions will comprise overview talks on recent interesting developments in String Theory.
Week 1: 19-23 October 2015 - School Week 2: 26-30 October 2015 - Workshop. The theme of this two-fold activity is to bring together string theorists, particle physicists and cosmologists, and to foster a dialog between theory and data. Speakers include on the one hand expert phenomenologists familiar with current and near-future experiments (ranging from colliders to satellite experiments), and on the other hand theorists, both model builders and more formal string theorists.


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2005 November 17 Thursday
Low Standards Allow Marseilles To Trumpet Success
The city of Marseilles France would like us to believe they are handling immigrants better than the rest of France.
Mr Gaudin's graphically enhanced point is that Marseilles' natural borders – steep hills to the north, east and south, with the sea to the west – have forced it to build HLMs, or high-rise council flats, in the city centre. He contrasts this with most French cities, which have housed their poor immigrants in outer-city suburbs – the infamous banlieues – physically and psychologically excluding them from the bourgeois city centres.
But before the Muslim riots Marseilles was losing 5 to 10 cars a night to arson!
As other French cities burst into flames, Marseilles stayed calm. At the peak of the riots, about 35 cars were burnt a night in the city, hardly more than the pre-riots average of 5 to 10 a night.
Diminished expectations.
Marseilles has police no-go zones.
Yet Marseilles is far from an idyll of racial harmony. There are police no-go zones, and police recently discovered a cache of weapons, including machine guns and a rocket launcher, in one such area.
Relative comparisons between decaying societies tend to cause people to underappreciate just how much is going wrong.
A bit of historical perspective brings home just how much has been lost.
EVREUX, France - Three white-haired women stood before the burnt wreckage of their beauty salon, reminiscing about the days when they still felt safe walking the streets of this Normandy town after dark.
"We were happy here," said one of them, an 80-year-old. "Now we're afraid."
Another looked at her watch and reported it was almost 4:30 p.m. the time that school lets out and when this group of older ladies makes sure they're at home, behind locked doors.
Evreux is like many towns in France, with its prim flower beds, its towering stone cathedral and streets left scarred from a night of fury that has changed the way people live.
80 year old ladies shouldn't have to flee from the streets when schools are let out.
Share | By Randall Parker at 2005 November 17 12:07 AM Immigration Culture Clash
Marvin said at November 17, 2005 4:10 PM:
De Villepin wants to give the insurgents autonomic zones within which to operate freely. No more police raids to uncover weapons and explosives caches. Live and let live. C'est la vie.
Kurt said at November 18, 2005 4:57 PM:
Randall,
You may want to reconsider some of what you are saying. There is a French man who has replied to Steve Sailor who says much of the rioting is being perpetrated by Sub-saharan Africans rather than Arabs (I believe North Africans are mostly Arabs and some Berbers) and that one of the reasons why Marseilles is somewhat calmer, is due to the fact that they have almost exclusively Arab immigrants and hardly any sub-Saharan Africans. On the other hand, he did ask the questions if liquor stores are being looted. This is the first thing that happens in an American riot.
I do notice that these riots are relatively "peaceful" compared to American riots in that there have been very few reported fatalities and there does not seem to be much looting. Of course there could be lots of looting and fatalities and the French press could be keeping a muzzle on it to avoid open discussion of the 800lbs gorillas in the room, which brings me to my next point:
You, I, Steve Sailor, Fred Reed and everyone else yammering on this issue have a lack of contact with French people who are seeing the riots with their own eyes. We need to find and contact people there who can tell us what is really going on. Of the above mentioned people, Steve Sailor seems to have the most insightful comments about these riots.
Marvin said at November 20, 2005 9:47 AM:
"There is a French man who has replied to Steve Sailor who says . . ." Rather than hearsay, why not give the actual link to the reply of the "French man" so that we can read it ourselves.
These riots are relatively "peaceful" compared to American riots, except that these riots go on for years, with a dozen or more cars burned a night. These "riots" are merely simmering in the broth, waiting for main entree. Just heating up. These riots are waiting for the critical mass, and that takes time, mon ami.
Meanwhile, Chirac and de Villepin proceed with their plan to create autonomous zones for muslims, where muslim miscreants may be judged by the muslim council. There is no longer need to consider these zones a part of France. Consider them "New Gaza".


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Costumes 1 - 4 are now ALSO sold by your Garrison <Battle Pet Master> (A / H) and purchased with Блестящий оберег для питомца (new Draenor item).
Costumes 1 - 4 are now ALSO obtained via Набор для ухода за питомцем (quest reward) during Children's Week. These bags can be chosen in lieu of the offered quest rewards.
Costumes 5 - 7 are purchased during the Hallow's End world event with Тыквовинские сладости (event currency) via the Candy & Toy Vendor (A / H).
Costume 8 is sold by Валадар Звездная Песня only during the Lunar Festival. However, since it is not BoP and does not 'Require the Lunar Festival' you can trade/mail/AH this item (also, presumably at any time of the year).
Costume 9 is obtainable once per YEAR per character via Тщательно упакованный подарок (yields 3-5). Can also be sold on the AH.
If you can't see the Карликовый пугель in your battle pet list, find the achievement Ищу всех! in your achievement list under Dungeons & Raids, and mouseover the achievement point number to see which character has completed it. It should say "Earned by: Altcharacter" when mouseovering the number, as well as "Not completed by: Currentcharacter".
Log on to the character that shows up when mouseovering the achievement number as having completed the achievement, and you should see the Карликовый пугель on the pet list. Drag it onto the active pet battle team, and you should now be able to find it on all of your alts who haven't completed the achievement.
Пугели, хоть и маленькие, могут быть опасными, если их раздразнить.


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Our friendly and caring staff are fully aware of the importance of the legal issues facing each client and always aim to deliver good service.
The legal fees charged are discussed and explained and vary according to the nature of the legal work carried out.
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Q: C#: Populating a UI using separate threads I'm trying to make some sense out of an application Ive been handed in order to track down the source of an error. Theres a bit of code (simplified here) which creates four threads which in turn populate list views on the main form. Each method gets data from the database and retrieves graphics from a resource dll in order to directly populate an imagelist and listview.
From what Ive read on here (link) updating UI elements from any thread other than the UI thread should not be done, and yet this appears to work?
Thread t0 = new Thread(new ThreadStart(PopulateListView1));
t0.IsBackground = true;
t0.Start();

Thread t1 = new Thread(new ThreadStart(PopulateListView2));
t1.Start();

Thread t2 = new Thread(new ThreadStart(PopulateListView3));
t2.Start();

Thread t3 = new Thread(new ThreadStart(PopulateListView4));
t3.Start();

The error itself is a System.InvalidOperationException "Image cannot be added to the ImageList." which has me wondering if the above code is linked in some way.
Iis this method of populating the UI recommended and if not what are the possible complications resulting from it?
Update:
I may have given some misinformation by referring to a 'form'. The application is a windows forms application but the code is from a plugin application based on a usercontrol. The threads are created inside an initialise method publically exposed by this control. The listviews etc are also part of this plugin usercontrol.

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*DO NOT USE threads for that - if you have to do that async, use WOrkItems on a THreadPool. Thread usage in general should be reseved for long running items - a THreadPool or the new .NET 4.0 tasks API are way better suited for that.

*UI elements should only be namipulated from the element creation thread. It "works" or not depending on what version of the .net framework you use or what the control really is if you break this.

A: As others have stated, you cannot update your UI from any thread other than the one it was created by.
If a thread wants to update the UI, it needs to invoke a method on the UI control on the same thread that created it using BeginInvoke.
PS: I am assuming when you say UI, you mean a WindowsForms and not WPF. I have used the above solution successfully in WinForms.
Update: Here are a couple of articles that explain the concept in-depth:
* Threading in Windows Forms
* WinForms UI Thread Invokes: An In-Depth Review of Invoke/BeginInvoke/InvokeRequred
Also, related question from SO: In WinForms, why can't you update UI controls from other threads?

A: Within your threads methods, such as DoWork() for the BackgroundWorker class, for example, you will need to instiate a delegate method to populate your UI control. Then, verifying whether your UI control requires to be invoked (InvokeRequired property), then invoking it when it'srequired to.
private delegate IList<MyObject> PopulateUiControl();

private void myThread_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e) {
    PopulateUiControl myDelegate = FillUiControl;

    while(uiControl.InvokeRequired)
        uiControl.Invoke(myDelegate);
}

private IList<MyObject> FillUiControl() {
    uiControl.Items = myThreadResultsITems;
}

It is not a precise working code, as I can't take the time to do the research, etc. but this shall put you in the path to succeed.
In the end, I agree with the others, try to avoid such things in the future, as it can get tricky to debug or reveal some strange behaviour. Perhaps .NET 4 has some improvements on the topic as Microsoft has worked hard to make parallelism easy for the use of multicore processors for developers.

A: Never update UI from a worker thread. Program may work sometimes, but this is undefined behavior. Add this line to the program initialization code:
Control.CheckForIllegalCrossThreadCalls = true;
After this every incorrect UI update attempt fails, allowing to fix all errors in the code.

A: If this is done because getting the values fr the listviews takes time, then get the values in a background worker and then use the main thread to bind the data to the listview.

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Consider all resources before seeking investment.
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There are so many resources for early money to validate an idea, turn it into a product and increase the value of the company before professional investors come into the picture. Starting with credit card debt or a personal loan and working through money from friends or family, or simply consulting to earn money for investment, entrepreneurs should consider early resources for capital to produce a prototype, do market research or start to build a team.
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San Diego-based Resource Nation , an online business-to-business marketing provider, has acquired the brand name, domain, and assets of Business.com , the firm announced today. JMI Equity General Partner Peter Arrowsmith and Vice President David Greenberg have joined Resource Nation's board as part of the acquisition. Resource Nation said that it would retain a number of current and former Business.com sales and account managers, as well as other key employees as part of the buy.
Thursday, February 26, 2009 -- The 3rd SoCalBio Human Resources Conference.Organized annually by the Southern California Biomedical Council (SoCalBio), this HR conference provides a forum for information sharing among HR executives in device and biotech companies, HR service providers, bio-recruiters, educators, and workforce training professionals to address human capital and employment needs of Southern California's life-science industry.
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Thursday, October 28, 2010 -- Navigating the Path with Sure Footing: Building a Life Science Company with Cost- Saving Flexible Resources. With the continued resource constraints life science companies at all stages face, utilizing flexible external resources and/or virtual teams offer companies an attractive business model.
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Terellia whitei is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Terellia of the family Tephritidae.

Distribution
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Iran.

References

Tephritinae
Insects described in 2013
Diptera of Asia


"God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent. Hath he said it, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? (Numbers 23:19, KJV).
Therefore, when He speaks, obedience is the only expected response, and that–without question. But, this all begins with a personal relationship.
Who is God, and why should we obey him? (Exodus 5:1-3, KJV). This is the same question, Pharaoh asked, when Moses requested–"Let My People Go." (Exodus 5:1,KJV).
The king of Egypt, did not believe in the God Moses encountered at the "Burning Bush"–until he was convinced by ten plagues. It was only after Pharaoh's first-born had died, he decided to let the people go. Even then, his heart became hardened in stubbornness and rebellion, so that he pursued the people in the crossing of the Red Sea, where all of his armies got drowned.
Like Pharaoh–In spite of all that God has said and done, we persist in stubbornness and rebellion, from one generation to another.
Our number one sin is our unbelief. The root of all doubt and fear–so we rebel.
Out of an estimated three million souls that came out of Egypt, only Caleb and Joshua entered the promise land. If they did not enter because of unbelief, neither will we enter that rest God promised.
"Let us, therefore, labor to enter that rest, lest any man falls after the same example of unbelief…Let us come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need." (Hebrews 4:11,16, KJV).
We must grow up in Him, in all things. Why continue repenting when we can instead, learn to be obedient. When we're obedient, there's no need for repentance. We learn and grow. Even Jesus—"Though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things he suffered." (Hebrews 5:8. KJV).
In the garden at Gethsemane, Jesus prayed with such intensity that, his sweat was as drops of blood. He prayed–saying the same words not once, but three times, as he wrestled in agony… finally submitting he cried, "Father if it is possible, let this cup pass from me, nevertheless not my will but thine be done." (St. Matthew 26:36-46, KJV). Jesus surrendered himself to the will of the father as he, learned obedience. (Hebrews 5:8, KJV).
If Jesus had to learn this life-altering principle, so to must we as the children of God. He encourages us… "Take my yoke upon you and learn of me." (St. Matthew 11:28, KJV).
The word disciple comes from the word discipline–which means to follow or to learn. Every believer is expected to learn and grow-up to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
In (Hebrews 6:1), we're admonished to leave the principles of the doctrine of Christ and go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works. In other words, when we're obedient, there is no need for repentance.
The Hymn says: "Trust and obey for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey." Jesus often encouraged… "Only believe." Hence the Bible warns—"when the son of man cometh shall he find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8, KJV).
Faith is simply–hearing God's word and acting accordingly, even when it seems illogical or impossible. For with God—all things are possible. (Mark 10:27, KJV) Jesus said, to Mary and Martha "Didn't I tell you, if you can believe, you can see the glory of God." (St. John 11:28.KJV).
He's speaking right now—are you listening?
Disobedient by nature, we continuously fashion ourselves according to the course of this world. Living a life contrary to the word of God. Choosing rather–friendship with the world than a relationship with God.
Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him as righteousness, therefore he was called the friend of God.
Friendship requires trust, confidence, and above all obedience.
Unbelief, has and always will be the root of all rebellion and disobedience. Ever since the beginning of time mankind has always questioned the authority and authenticity of God's word. Whatever and whenever, God say do—we don't. When He says don't—we do.
By one man's disobedience, all were made sinners." Likewise, by the obedience of one many are made righteous.
It's already done, Jesus paid the redemptive price for sin. "We is free." By a single act of repentance, we can all begin a new life of obedience to God.
It's foolish to continue suffering in sin, knowing the consequences; when it's so much easier to learn obedience.
LET US PRAY: Heavenly Father– I come to you, just as I am. I confess I have sinned against you in so many ways…I'm sorry for all that I've done to offend you and others. Father help me to learn obedience. I ask for your forgiveness and mercies because of Jesus.…AMEN.


I launched this new website to kick-start my new full-time profession. My wonderfully-supportive husband-to-be agreed that I could leave traditional work in order to establish a business doing something I love: making art. In exchange, I promised I'd learn how to cook. Although I have been doing art my entire life, and taking commissions for nearly 10 years, art has always been relegated to a mental back-burner; a pastime that would never actually pay the bills. Now, you can read along as I put that theory (and myself) to the test.
This is only my 3rd 'official' day as a freelance artist/homemaker/wedding planner/home remodeler but I'd like to report that so far, things are pretty darn great.
In short: Squarespace.com comes with blogging capabilities, so I thought, "I better start a blog to get my money's worth." I have high hopes for blogging about the new discoveries I am making in any of the areas listed above as part of my newly-acquired profession.
Squarespace.com - I've been a Wordpress gal for quite some time, but since this service touts itself for displaying portfolios, I thought I'd give it a whirl. My initial reactions were: "Dang! that's expensive!" but I splashed out because it has lots of built-in applications like e-commerce and invoicing. Also, I'd heard a lot people talk about how easy it is. Reactions that came later: I'm not really too crazy about the layout function of content editor, or the fact that my image files aren't stored in a handy online library. On the plus side: I started this blog.
I used a Magic Eraser for the first time on a staircase railing that had turned brown and gummy from finger-grease. It worked really well! So well, in fact, that I only cleaned half the railing so everyone could admire the difference.
Let's focus on relocating the cat hair tumble-weeds before moving on to bigger projects.


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Fumio Iwai (Japanese: ) (born 17 July 1960), is a Japanese politician who currently serves as the ambassador of Japan to Saudi Arabia, and previously served as the Ambassador of Japan to Iraq.

Diplomatic work
Fumio Iwai was appointed to the "Japanese Foreign Ministry" and served as:
 Ambassador of Japan to Iraq
 Ambassador of Japan to Saudi Arabia

External links
  Official Website

References

Living people
1951 births
People from Tokyo
Japanese expatriates in the United Kingdom
Ambassadors of Japan to Saudi Arabia
Ambassadors of Japan to Iraq
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Williams Attributes Drop in Warming Credence to 'People Less Sensitive to Environment'
Published: 10/22/2009 8:24 PM ET
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NBC's Brian Williams allocated a few seconds Thursday night to how a new Pew Research Center for the People & the Press survey discovered the percent of Americans who, in his words, "believe there's solid evidence of global warming...has dropped off significantly" while "the number of people who say they don't believe in climate change at all has doubled in that time." (If it's a scientific issue, what does "belief" have to do with it?)
But instead of crediting Americans for recognizing the media-fueled case global warming is a threat has been undermined by reality since global temperatures have not risen an iota since 1998, Williams attributed the change to how "in a down economy, people are less sensitive to the environment."
Or at least less sensitive to NBC's hysteria. Just a month ago, on the September 20 Nightly News, Lester Holt set up a typically panicked story on how "a new study warns rapidly melting ice in Greenland could result in a colossal rise in ocean levels." Reporter Anne Thompson ominously warned: "For thousands of years...the Earth's climate has endured changes, but slowly enough to allow humans to adapt. Now, change is picking up speed."
Really? As BBC weather presenter and climate correspondent Paul Hudson wrote on October 9, "the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998." Indeed, "for the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures."
And, in an anecdote that certainly would have been blown into a big mainstream media story if the temperature had been a record high, this past Saturday's Washington Post reported:
Something happened in Washington on Friday that had not occurred in 138 years of weather history: For the first time since the National Weather Service began compiling daily data here, the high temperature for Oct. 16 was below 50 degrees.
The short item from Williams on the Thursday, October 22 NBC Nightly News:
Evidence tonight that a major opinion poll has picked up on a major change on a big issue. For the past three years, over 70 percent of Americans have told pollsters from the Pew Research organization they believe there's solid evidence of global warming. This year, however, that number has dropped off significantly. Now just 57 percent say they believe it. The number of people who say they don't believe in climate change at all has doubled in that time. One theory offered today: in a down economy, people are less sensitive to the environment.
The Pew poll, "Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming," determined:
There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. And fewer also see global warming as a very serious problem - 35% say that today, down from 44% in April 2008.
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Sept. 30-Oct. 4 among 1,500 adults reached on cell phones and landlines, finds that 57% think there is solid evidence that the average temperature on earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades. In April 2008, 71% said there was solid evidence of rising global temperatures.
Over the same period, there has been a comparable decline in the proportion of Americans who say global temperatures are rising as a result of human activity, such as burning fossil fuels. Just 36% say that currently, down from 47% last year.
"No solid evidence" of global warming has jumped from 17 percent in 2006 to 33 percent this year, while "not a problem" has increased from 9 to 17 percent.
- Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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Skype's first employee: How Taavet Hinrikus left Skype and founded TransferWise
Entrepreneurship, Interviews, Technology	- Posted: March 20, 2012
When does Skype's first employee decide it's time to move on and start his own start-up? I invite Taavet Hinrikus to YHP to share the story behind leaving Skype and the early days of TransferWise.
Taavet Hinrikus is the Co-Founder at TransferWise
Below is the full interview
Hi Taavet, thanks for doing this with me, I know you are very busy at the moment
It's my pleasure
Can you give us some background information about yourself, were you the entrepreneurial type growing up?
I'm Estonian, but I was born in the Soviet Union as Estonia at the time was part of the USSR. During those times you had to be very much hands on when you needed anything – the shops were empty and the only thing people had plenty of was time. One really had to take charge and solve problems in a creative way to get anything done.
In general Estonia now is very entrepreneurial – to get proof of that look at all the start-ups coming from Estonia at the moment – Erply, GrabCAD, Pipedrive and many more. This small country is producing a number of start-ups that is completely disproportional to the size of its population.
How did you end up being the first employee in Skype? How did you find out about the vacancy and how did you get the job?
I started working with Niklas and Janus on a different project before Skype existed. Later we started working on the idea that became Skype and so I ended up being the first employee in the team.
What was it like working with the founders when the company started, what were some of your early Skype memories?
In the beginning it was a very small and tightly knit team that was working together very hard to build this little application. That little application then became a global communication company. We valued speed above all and I remember one of the records being that we got a new feature launched and to the first 10k users in about 4 hours.
Leaving a big company can be very hard especially when you are the first employee, How did you know it was time for you to leave and why did you leave?
There's always a world outside, so for me it was quite obvious that at one point you need to move on. In 2008 I had spent more than six years on Skype already and I was pondering what to do next. I figured that the next challenges in Skype would take me 2-3-4 years to accomplish, committing to that would have meant that I had spent 10 years in one place by the time I'm 30, so I figured its time for something new.
What would you say were some of the key things you learnt from that experience?
Stay humble and hungry. The experience of building a global company that touches everyone's lives is invaluable.
Tell me about the early days, how the idea for TransferWise came about?
I move from Estonia to London around 2006. That's when I started feeling the pain of international money transfer. I realised that when I send money between Estonia and the UK the banks take a cut of 5% at least. What's even more upsetting is how they do it – most of the charge is hidden in the exchange rate. The banks try hard to make it extremely difficult to understand what you're paying for. There is no transparency in the market!
What we started doing with TransferWise's co-founder Kristo was a peer to peer model – I would transfer money locally to Kristo's account in Estonia and he would do the same in London. Both of us making local payments which are free or very inexpensive. And we looked up the interbank rate on Reuters for exchanging GBP and EUR. Very soon we had saved each other thousands of pounds.
We utilised that model for a couple of years and then in 2010 started thinking about how to provide a similar service to everyone else who needs it. Quick check at how many people either live, work or study abroad revealed that there are in excess of 200M expats in the world – the need for these people to transfer money is huge!
What would you say was the hardest part of starting the business?
I think there is no such one thing, getting a new company off the ground is very difficult in general. The hardest could be the most important part – that is creating the best team. Finding the smart people that want to work together and create something meaningful.
How were you able to fund the business?
There are two sides to this – first lets talk about funding. Both me Kristo have put some money aside over the years. For me it also helped that I had stock options in Skype and I made a bit of money when Skype was sold to Ebay in 2005.
The other side of this is how much you spend. One of the big changes that has happened over the past 5-10 years is that starting a new business does not cost that much any more – you can be very lean at first and build the first prototype with not that much at all. As the company grows and you hire other people to work with you then of course your financial needs become higher, but by that time you many more options for funding.
What is TransferWise? Tell me how it works?
Essentially what we do is international money transfer. We save people time and money when they transfer money overseas.
Your local bank will take a 5% cut of any money you send overseas and often times you need to walk to the bank branch to make a foreign payment – we do it for a very low cost and in a very convenient way online.
We charge a fee for every transaction. The fee is 1 EUR for transfers up to 300 EUR and slightly more for larger transfers.
Are you profitable?
Not yet, we are still in the growth and investment phase.
How has your market changed in the past few years? How has your business changed to keep pace?
We launched our business about one year ago. What we've learned over this time has very much re-enforced the point – the service provided by banks is exceptionally poor and expensive. We continuously have customers emailing us stories about how their banks are over charging them for anything.
During the first year we have helped our customers save half a million euros. Otherwise that money would have been paid to banks in various charges and hidden fees. This simply means that some banker's bonuses are smaller thanks to this.
There is a wave of disruption happening in consumer finance where new specialist companies are taking over parts of banking and we're a great example of this. Additionally you can see that Zopa and Lending Club are revolutionizing lending using the power of peer-to-peer, Bilbus and MarketInvoice are changing invoice factoring and working capital management and many more examples. Technology again is revolutionizing how consumers get their service and win. The times of banks charging ludicrous fees and providing really poor services to their customers are hopefully soon over!
What is an average workday like for you?
I usually start working around 9 in the morning and from there on its solid work for 10-12 hours also very often on weekends. Most of the work I do is with the great people that we have - we're a team of 10 people now covering areas from marketing, development and operations to customer support.
Being an entrepreneur means that your job is not limited to 9-5 and then you go home and forget about it. Your business comes with you everywhere and you keep on spending cycles thinking about this all the time.
How is your company different from other competing and similar platforms out there?
People have called us the Skype of currency exchange, but rather we like to think of us as the EasyJet of money transfer. We're low cost, fast and get the job done with no frills. Or even going farther, we could be like IKEA. What both IKEA and EasyJet have done is democratizing the world by disrupting some industry and making those services much more affordable and available to a large audience - that's what we do as well!
What we value above all is transparency and keeping our customers happy. By saying transparency I mean that we always exchange money at the mid-market rate and clearly show what we charge for our service. There are no hidden fees or charges that get added at the end of transaction.
Above all we want our customers to be smart about their money and help them spend it cleverly.
What could you say has been some of the key things you've learnt so far as an entrepreneur?
You need the best team that will work in good times and also the bad times. Your business idea can change (and very likely will change in the early days of your company) making the team the biggest asset.
What has been your most memorable moment so far on your entrepreneurial journey?
Getting an email or phone call from a customer where they applaud us for great service is the highlight. That makes us understand that we're doing something valuable for them. Lucky for us, we get quite a few of these.
What trends, startups, technology are you personally looking forward to in 2012?
Aside from the world of finance I think its exciting to look at everything that happens around mobile – we're being continuously plugged in to high speed connection and having a powerful computer with us in our pocket. I think that we're just seeing the beginning of what this means. Also there will be lots of interesting things happening in the intersection of medical/health technology and the power of internet and mobile.
What are your other plans for TransferWise in 2012?
Very simply put, our goal is to grow further and add new currencies. We will grow our transfer volumes by an order of magnitude this year. And we will be introducing new currencies very soon.
What pieces of advices could you give to aspiring entrepreneurs out there looking to start their business?
Success rarely comes overnight, if you are convinced of your idea then commit to it and make it happen. Don't get scared after the first problem you encounter. Be prepared for a rollercoaster ride that is fun and risky with many ups and down.
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'Stranger Things' Cast and Creators Dish About Season 2
Ashley Dize February 9th, 2017 - 5:08 PM
Let me be the millionth person to note that Halloween is too far away.
Season one of Stranger Things was a critical and social success, inundating our day-to-day lives with Eggo references and a reignited love for science fiction. Now that the season two teaser has been released, audiences are clamoring for any information they can find. Thankfully, the creators of Stranger Things spoke with Entertainment Weekly and put (some of) our worries to rest.
Almost a year has passed in the world of Stranger Things. The dust has settled from the boys' adventure, now that the mysterious Eleven has gone and their pal Will has returned. Matt Duffer, the series co-creator, told EW that Will is still experiencing "some sort of post-traumatic stress disorder."
Naturally, this makes sense, considering he was hunted for quite some time in the Upside Down. But he's not the only one experiencing emotional aftershocks. Joyce, Will's mother (played by the talented Winona Ryder), is trying to ease his experience as much as possible. Ryder herself says, "She's trying to mask a lot." And with a newfound relationship with her high school sweetheart (played by Sean Astin), Ryder says, "I think she's made this choice with Bob because she wants a good father figure in her sons' lives."
Will can certainly get all the help he can get. The creators also told EW that there's going to be a new dynamic with the iconic friendship between Will and his friends when a new brother and sister duo roll into town. While the sister seems amiable, Billy is not so receptive to the boys' amiable nature. Matt Duffer promises some major antagonists for the season, saying, "Stephen King always has really great human villains. The evil in the real world is often as bad or worse than the supernatural evil, so we wanted to introduce a character like that."
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For the second year in a row Mortgages for Business has been awarded the title of both Best Broker Customer Service and Best Broker Website at the What Mortgage Awards 2016.
The awards ceremony was held at Bounce in High Holborn, London on Wednesday 20th July which meant that winners could celebrate with a cheeky game of ping pong.
Voted for by the general public, the awards are designed to recognise and reward the best businesses in the UK's mortgage and personal finance market. This year Mortgages for Business was recognised with the title of Best Broker Customer Service and Best Broker Website.
"We really are thrilled at being crowned winner of these two categories for the second year in a row! Being recognised by our clients for our high level of customer service really is heartwarming and I'd like to take this moment to thank all of the team here at MFB for their continued positive attitude and helpful nature.
Collecting the trophies on behalf of MFB were Jenny Barrett, Amy Earl and Zoe Podesta.


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Renault Considers Giving Up on Diesels since Regulations Might Become too Strict
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It's a well-known fact that Europe is the place where diesel engines thrive regardless of the type of vehicle we're talking about. You'll find three-cylinder compression-ignition engines in vehicles so small, you could be fooled into thinking they were pedal cars.
Before the scandal, it was Volkswagen's TDIs that had stolen the show in the mainstream segment, but other manufacturers were making very good power plants of their own. PSA's (Peugeot & Citroen) 1.6-liter HDi unit is one competent example, but so is Renault's 1.5-liter dCi. Even though it has been replaced for some years by a larger 1.6-liter version, the 1.5 can still be found in some models, especially those coming from subsidiary brand Dacia.
What the 1.5-liter dCi engine lacked in refinement, it more than made up in its feeble fuel appetite. The engine rattled like a pan full of pebble, but everything was forgiven when it constantly returned over 60 miles per gallon (under 4 l/100 km). However, more recent understandings of how diesel engines work - and, more to the point, the components of their exhaust fumes - have convinced authorities to enforce stricter limitations for this particular type of engine.
Some had to use defeat devices even before these new regulations came into effect, but others are starting to think very seriously about how they're going to cope with the real-world testing and the low emissions standards. And the simple conclusion is that they can't.
According to the BBC, Renault is acknowledging diesel engines might phase out, and that has got to be a difficult thing to admit for a manufacturer that has been investing heavily in the technology. Still, Renault-Nissan isn't sitting too badly as far as electric cars go either, so that might make the transition easier for them.
It will be a while before we see anything else power large SUVs that don't have anything to do with sportiness, so diesel pumps won't just disappear overnight from all gas stations in Europe, but a decline is inevitable. In fact, it has already started with 2015 being the first year when diesel car sales in Europe haven't been going up.
The fact that the automotive industry needs to find an alternative to this heavy-polluting fuel isn't news in itself, but having one of Europe's major car makers admit it, that's very important. Together with Volkswagen's newly found love for electric cars, it shows these companies have got the message. It's not like they're trying to do the good thing all of a sudden - no, they're still out there for profit or at least staying alive - but at the end of the day, it's all the same to us.
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Q: problem in quartz 2D drawing touches began I have drawn 5 circles in in my app one above the other . But i want to perform different operations when i touch each circle and there is only one touches began where I can perform touches for the entire  view.. can anyone help me how to do that.

A: Either process the coordinates of the touch to "grab" a specific circle (you know their coordinates if you have the origins and radii), or put each circle into its own view, and make five subviews/circles of a parent view. Pass the touch down the view chain until the coordinates overlap.


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Former UGA star and two-time Super Bowl Champion Terrell Davis talks to Channel 2 Action News.
Former University of Georgia star running back Terrell Davis talked to Channel 2 Action News Wednesday about his time in Athens, how Georgia became "Running Back U" and his message for Todd Gurley and Sony Michel heading into the Super Bowl.
Davis, who won two Super Bowls during his Hall of Fame career, said he'll reach out to fellow Bulldogs Gurley and Michel before Sunday.
Davis told Channel 2 he'll probably text them a few pieces of advice.
Davis, Gurley and Michel are three of a handful of superstars to play running back for the Dawgs. But as Davis pointed out, the trend started well before he was in Athens.
Davis told Channel 2 he thinks Georgia became "Running Back U" over time, and he's proud of the success other running backs have had.
The San Diego native also shared a story about how he ended up playing for the Dawgs.
He also talked about his time in Athens and how it still holds a special place in his heart.


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Irish People Need To Face Up To Their Role In The Deaths Of Hundreds of People In The Mediterranean
April 19, 2015 ~ Muireann O'Dwyer
As news breaks of another horrific, and almost inconceivable, level of human death and suffering in the mediterranean it can be very easy to distance ourselves. [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32371348] The water where these people drown can seem very far away from our little island. But this distance is false. It is dishonest.
These people died because they attempted to enter Europe. It was European policies that helped create the circumstances that drove these people. And it is European policies that made that journey even more dangerous.
There is a common experience of being an EU member, that makes it difficult for us to comprehend ourselves as both drivers and recipients of EU policies. When discussing issues that impact on us, like agriculture policy, austerity, or consumer laws we are fully versed in the grammar of the EU. But when it is others who are at the end of EU policy, we forget that we are the EU.
It was decisions made in Brussels that killed these people. Decisions made with our representatives present. With our representatives' agreement. With our agreement. But we do not debate this. We do not ask these representatives why they agreed to make it harder to save lives, we do not make it an election issue.
This year is worse than others. This is because the Italian government, after spending huge amounts patrolling their seas, stated the cost too great, and begged the EU to take responsibility. They agreed, and replaced those patrols with a paltry presence utterly unsuitable for the scale of the task. This is the same Italian government grappling with austerity controls from Brussels. With the spending limitations drawn from the Fiscal Compact Treaty that we voted to approve.
Irish politicians don't talk about the deaths of migrants, of men, women and children, on the EU's borders. They don't like to talk about that. But, it makes sense. That would mean talking about bodies, and as we know, the Irish government hate to talk about bodies of anyone they don't immediately recognise as like them.
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