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Reader Mail – 12/22/2013 To 12/28/2013
Craig commented on Joyent And node.js Vs. Ben Noordhuis.
When a troll can be so blatant and also be 90% factually accurate, it's a sure sign that your project sucks.
An Example Of How Banks Steal Via Derivatives
It's been awhile since I've been posting. Recently, I decided to participate in a flamewar in a Internet forum, something I haven't done in awhile. I'm also posting my analysis here, so it isn't wasted.
In this thread, I mentioned how negative real interest rates feed derivatives markets. I'm posting my example as a separate thread.
>FSK
Can you walk us through that math?
I buy a call, bank sells it. For example, if that works as a start.
>Complex financial instruments do provide some value in some places. For example, they're a relatively cheap form of insurance in some instances; say, an airline wants to lock in the price of jet fuel. But they've been very poorly regulated and net net, their cost to society exceeds their benefits.
Actually, that was the example I had in mind, an airline making an oil price hedge. I'm more familiar with the rules for equity markets, but futures markets are similar.
Suppose the airline wants to hedge the price of oil. Suppose they decide to buy a $1B underlying 1 year call spread, locking in a price range of $80-$120 per barrel. (i.e., they pay at most $120 and at least $80 per barrel, and if the price is between $80 and $120, that's what they pay).
The airline enters a derivatives contract with a bank.
The quant at the bank is using the Black-Scholes pricing model. The bank borrows money and buys oil futures, hedging the trade with the airline. The bank can borrow money at the Fed Funds Rate (or 1 year Treasury Rate), say 0.25%. The implied interest rate in the option contract is 0.25%.
However, the bank adds on fees and spread when they sell the call spread to the airline. What the airline actually buys has an implied interest rate of (say) 3%.
This is a great deal for the airline. If the airline issued bonds to finance their oil speculation, they would pay 6% or more. They instead got to borrow at 3%, via the derivatives transaction.
This is a great deal for the bank. They are borrowing at 0.25% and lending at 3%. They are taking on some risk that they misestimated the volatility or don't hedge correctly, but it's a positive expectation bet for the bank.
Also, true inflation is 10%-20% or more. On average, oil prices will go up at least 10%. It's a great deal for the airline to hedge at an implied interest rate of 3%.
Both parties book an immediate profit on the transaction. The bank is borrowing at 0.25% and lending at 3%, a sure profit for them. The airline is borrowing at 3% instead of their normal cost of capital of 6%, a sure gain for them, especially when you consider that oil prices will (on average) go up 10% or more per year.
Where are these profits coming from? Is it because the bank traders and airline hedging desk are such geniuses? That's what they think, but that's not what's actually happening.
When the bank borrows money to finance the transaction, they are borrowing BRAND NEW MONEY from the Federal Reserve, either directly or indirectly via another bank. This new money causes inflation. The inflation caused by this new money is actually greater than the profits earned by the banker and airline.
So, the airline and bank make a profit. But the rest of society experiences greater inflation and greater prices. Via this mechanism, wealth is transferred from the average working stiff to the big banks and the large corporations that get to borrow cheaply. Also, this mechanism usually destroys wealth; the inflation caused is greater than the profits earned.
You can say that the banker is a swell guy for making the airline more efficient. However, it's a corrupt financial system that makes this transaction profitable. It's impossible to have real reform, because the big banks literally have an unlimited lobbying budget. They get this huge firehose of free money via negative real interest rates, and spend a lot of that free money lobbying to keep the scam running.
Some people say that banks do good things when they finance businesses. However, they rigged the monetary system so that borrowing from the bank is the best option. With negative real interest rates, borrowing is always going to be more attractive than reinvested earnings.
It's a very clever scam. The details are not taught in school, on purpose, to keep the slaves clueless about what's going on. It isn't taught in "mainstream economics", because the #1 employer of economists is the Federal Reserver. It isn't an accident. The people who set up the financial system knew exactly what they were doing. They set up all kinds of smoke and mirrors fake reforms. The real problem is negative interest rates and a corrupt monetary system.
Illidanek commented on Real GDP Is Crashing, 2000-2011.
Exactly. The whole Keynesian model focuses purely on short term profit, at the expense of the long term one. A lot of people realised this decades ago, but the farce has kept going. I might even add that this has benefited quite a few influential personages... :O
cwstechnology commented on Offshorng Software Development Does Not Save Money.
i like the concept that you mention above that mange good poeple locally rather than manage the offshore team.
Joyent And node.js Vs. Ben Noordhuis
This story is hilarious. Someone made a change to node.js, changing all gender-specific pronouns (he/him) to gender-neutral pronouns (they/them). Ben Noordhuis thought it was a pointless change, and rejected it. It led to a controversy that shows how childish the node.js crowd is, and Ben Noordhuis stopped contributing to node.js, having previously been a very active contributor.
As I pointed out before, server-side Javascript is a pants-on-head retarded idea. Lately, I've been doing a lot of Javascript work.
The performance of Javascript is nowhere close to PHP or C. I wrote a video poker solver in Javascript, intending to do all the calculation on the client. It finds the optimal strategy for a video poker hand by checking all the cases. The performance was unacceptable, taking 48 seconds in Firefox and 1.6 seconds in Chrome/V8. I'm going to try a PHP version for comparison, but haven't finished it yet. I had written a C program that did the exact same calculation, and it was much faster.
The performance of Javascript is horrible compared to an adult language, which is why you're an idiot to use it on a server.
The controversy involving Ben Noordhuis shows that node.js is run by children and not adults. Only a defective personality type is attracted to node.js. If you evaluate hype and not technical merit, you'll think node.js is amazing. Some intelligent people get tricked into working on node.js, because they don't understand how something can be very popular and awful.
Why would someone make a commit changing gender pronouns? First, there are some people who really get uptight about that sort of thing. Second, if their change is accepted, they can say on their resume "I'm a node.js core committer! I submitted a patch that was accepted!", and then all sorts of idiots will line up to hire them. Many employers are looking at GitHub profiles now, which has led to people making superficial changes so they can list all the projects they've contributed to.
Another point is that Joyent is the "owner" of node.js. They control the repository. They own the trademark for "node.js". The more fools that Joyent can con into using node.js, the bigger their revenue. Also, if you're an "early adopter" of node.js, you run the risk of your experience becoming worthless when node.js is exposed as useless, so any node.js programmer has to actively defend node.js at every opportunity.
Ben Noordhuis works for Strongloop, Joyent's biggest competitor. Joyent "gains" by forcing Ben Noordhuis out of node.js, because now they have tighter control of node.js. However, they lose, because they risk a fork. They exposed themselves as children.
There's another serious loss, driving major contributors out of an open source project. If the "owners" of an open source project drive out all the contributors, it will die and stagnate. For example, the current MAME team is angering most of the people who did the hard work years ago. The project is now stagnating. If the only serious node.js contributors are Joyent employees, that will lead to the death of the project eventually. This incident will make other highly competent people reconsider, before actively contributing to node.js.
This conflict between Joyent and Ben Noordhuis is another example showing that node.js is run by children and not adults. Only a fool would voluntarily use Javascript as a server-side language.
nemo commented on More node.js Observations.
"They can barely implement anything without breaking something else on the site"
HOW is it possible if they have tests? I really do not understand how you can even see they had something broken...
Unless, you have no CI on place and people commit all shit they just have on their EOD not running any tests prior to that. This is really bad practice and terrible teamwork - to spoil work of the other teammates. I would either made a revolution in such 'project' or just change the job.
Also, I don't understand what you mean by 'excessive tests'. Writing good tests is not trivial problem. If you're feeling these tests they/you write are 'excessive' - maybe they are not testing anything important? The idea is to have a good 'test harness' to protect existing functionality from breaking in case of e.g. refactoring. This is critical for long-term projects for and big teams. This stuff really saves lots of time and effort (money!) in longer scope.
Actually, there are no tests. It's just me clicking around and noticing that stuff that worked a week ago is now broken. I gave up reporting bugs. About 10% of the time, the site fails completely on page load.
They don't even unit test, i.e. "Test that the thing I just wrote works." or "Test that the thing I just wrote didn't break anything on the same page."
Given their gross incompetence, I see how a lot of automated tests would reduce the risk of them tripping over their own drool. However, if it's that bad, it's hopeless anyway. I don't see them allocating a lot of time for automated tests when they're already ridiculously behind schedule.
They are making a lot of other mistakes. They are using angular.js, which I now see is a turd like Ruby on Rails, but that's the subject for another post. Based on my experience and personal productivity, finishing one "screen" every 3 days is a reasonable rate of progress if I was working solo using my choice of tools. They're doing one "screen" every two weeks, and they have a 4 person team.
I'm just working there, and I'm not the CTO. So I'm watching the disaster, but powerless to do anything about it. My part of the project works. I'm doing financial calculations in plain Javascript (nothing fancy). They're working on the rest of the site.
Calculations that I know would take less than a millisecond in C are taking 1000-2000 milliseconds in Javascript, even in Chrome/V8. That's why I question why anyone would want to use Javascript as a server-side language. Even worse, I rewrote fragments of the other programmers' code (still in Javascript, same language as them), and got a 30x-100x performance improvement. I haven't looked at much, but I am concerned.
Actually, the CTO is above-average compared to the others I've worked with, but he's totally architected/designed them into a corner. The rank-and-file workers are competent, but horribly mismanaged. As usual, the CTO is deflecting the blame to the subordinates (other than me), even though he caused it with his bad decisions. Naturally, the CTO can't admit he made a mistake and that things are headed in the wrong direction.
They have an MVP (more of an MVPOS) that sort of works, but is slow and buggy. For a startup like theirs to succeed, they need a great product, but their actual website is mediocre and barely functional. They actually have a business plan that I don't laugh at when they explain it, but they'd need a great website and to do a great job recruiting customers, to succeed. Right now, I see them blowing through their funding and then failing.
I've been slacking on my posting recently. I should finish off my "Angular.js Sucks!" post so it can start a flamewar like the node.js posts. I learned jQuery recently, and like it. I don't see how angular.js is an improvement. Like Ruby on Rails, angular.js adds a lot of overhead, as you write framework-compliant code in addition to your actual business logic. They're using Git, so I'm also working on a "Git Sucks!" draft. I've had enough with detached head state, rebasing, and refloging.
"Find a new job!" isn't as easy as it sounds. I already decided to start actively looking, but there probably won't be any progress until January.
commented on Chesapeake Energy CEO Stole $1B From Shareholders.
I Keith McCloud driver trainer EMP#082004
Decorated veteran!
And a stock holder in Chesapeake Energy Corporation and I also work for a Chesapeake owned company Oilfield Trucking Solutions.
Within 3 weeks time: I was discriminated against and unjustly fired from my job.
Joe Stumpf (304) 406-2619 was told by nick Schrader (724) 324-2205 the main boss to get rid of me in a driver evaluation. But instead Joe wrote me a good report this made Joe Stumpf loose his position as driver trainer on night shift. This undermined my ability to train because Joe told other people Nick's intention and why listen to me because I was on my way out the door.
Joe might not be willing to tell hr about this for fear of it getting back to Nick Schrader and becoming a target himself, but I do believe Joe is a good guy in all this. And if the phone call came from the unemployment office he might just tell the truth about it. Because Joe would not want to see me totally destroyed without any income. But in the end we were all in job preservation mode with OTS. This is because of the treachery of upper management.
I then was appointed driver trainer position again by Nick upon my request on 8/29/13 because I was the best at what I did per Nick Schrader. Even then Joe warned me about Nick being out to get me fired. I was in disbelief because of the promotion.
About a month later I was asked if I would train John Martucci by James Sexson I told him yes so john was appointed new driver trainer John Martucci.
When talking to other drivers about procedure they complain that I am being too picky about little things and John feeds the fire and agrees with them taking me even more notches from our goal of being spill free (Dave Disantis would not listen to me after I told him 3 times not to disconnect the way he was and he had a spill with three days off) john is not a team player. He gives me no backing.
John Martucci blamed me for a problem with Nate Smith 1 (830) 317-0226 a team leader from Pearsall Texas because he didn't have time to spend with John. John told me he started to go with him one night and Nate took him back to the yard and left him there and went out by himself this upset john very much. I explained to john it was not my fault but he was still angry with me about that. He used aggressive words like wtf am I a nobody? I had asked Nate if I could go to the frac and observe drivers and Nate said okay but Nate had other plans for him and he became very angry about it.
I had keys to pickup truck to go to observe drivers John demanded I give them to him. Instead of pressing the issue I gave him the keys and took the van. I found this very strange as well when I asked him about it he said I have the pickup too much. He told me I needed to be in trucks asking me when was the last time I was in a truck. Confusing when Nick told us both to be in pickup trucks watching everyone.
11/7/13 John told me that he knew about vent lines two nights ago 11/5/13 4:00 am that we didn't have to use them on containment. When I had an in depth discussion with him about a driver that was not using it. I had to hear first hand from another driver we don't have to use vent lines when sucking on containment (surprisingly when most condensate vapors come from inside the tank on the truck but what do I know?). He said it was too early to tell me about it 4:00 am he has texted me earlier than that before. Then he forgot about it and he said I sounded like his wife. I left the conversation at that point I felt he might have been trying to get a rise out of me.
I found that John Martucci being new was extremely confident in challenging me on a daily basis. And someone new in that position would be more willing to learn.
I originally spoke with John about talking about problems on night shift before moving forward with them to management and before we put a target on their head that we discuss it first. (He went straight to management with chuck Spangler (304) 904-5088 and made a mild issue into Spangler having time off without pay.) I found this troubling.
It seems that john don't care what I say.
John also led me to believe that we were to ride along with Spangler while he drove and that Paul and Luke both made jokes about it saying how they will pray for him and hope he don't decide to just turn the wheel all at once. He said that was f***** up that they would joke about that!! If any of that is true !!! I was perplexed about the whole matter and refused to believe Paul or Luke would say such a thing. After all that has been said about Spangler. That was when I called nick about him driving. Nick said absolutely not! we were to drive. John said he had a head cold and didn't mean it to sound like we were riding and Spangler was driving even though I expressed great concern over the situation. (John said he has to go because he stinks and has bad breath) this was well known but very discriminative. This situation all started from a tire going off the road once when john was riding with Spangler this happens quite often on the back roads. John did this to me as well he told Luke while we were doing the behm frac that I was driving reckless. An escort Gary see 740-792-0031 overheard the conversation and at that time. I had just left my position as driver trainer previously. He also told Laverne my replacement driver trainer to put me on pad work I heard this myself and he said I didn't do anything. He was bitter about me back then. Laverne also used reckless driving on a few people that I know of Steve Rawlings this seems to be common practice when someone don't like another these are all kids games.
John would not talk to me about Spangler but led me to believe there was a major problem that he could not discuss with me. If it's a secret why make it sound so grave? Why not downplay it. So I am not so concerned I am in fact a driver trainer and it concerned me.
John said he is left out and I was always included. We were doing a jsa meeting and because James Sexson didn't mention him to be one to call he took it out on me and said I should have spoke up.
I tell john all info I am told I include him even in the tests I make up. He continues to keep things from me I find he has other plans other than me being a driver trainer.
John told me he was the one that worked with the other drivers and they respect him and come to him. I have no idea what he is trying to prove. John is smoking in trucks with other drivers makes him more popular among the ranks I follow policy and don't smoke in the company vehicles the smokers don't like me cause john would smoke with them.
John sits there while Fred Battista (412) 225-2117 tells me to get the f*** away from him on the Baxter frac while I was trying to explain procedure to him and john says nothing. But tells me he was scared to drive with him because he might take a swing at him. But he treats him like a buddy. Instead of discussing it with him. I'm not sure I completely understand his angle but it should have never gotten this far. Fred received a promotion to go to Pearsall Texas to train. I was approached by Christian a driver trainer from canton he was dropping off a pickup truck. My last night of employment on Thursday 11/21/13 around 11:30 pm and he told me Fred Battista was not following procedure and I told him I know. And he asked why we were still having spills and I told him I have no backing. And no sop to work with.
After I just told John Martucci that Scott Dever 724-986-3965 was to be shadowed for a week by another driver. Because John was new without asking me he sent him by himself to the Kestner pad that very night alone. Randy Williams was supposed to go with him but Randy Williams
304-871-1185 or 304-975-0347 truck was not back at the yard yet. That's what happened to Laverne Seidle (412) 403-3263 He went in and told Paul I was being argumentative and god knows what else. I tried to talk to Paul about my side and Paul refused to hear it. He said we will get Rich Gunther involved corporate? I tried to put all this on the table in the meeting with Rich Gunther but I was immediately silenced and told I have to change. I expressed how I didn't want to lose my job in the meeting and how I tried to reach out to my team leaders and once again I was silenced but I was told in the meeting no one was going to lose their job. I was also told by James Sexson in the meeting said to call him if I have issues so we can talk about them together and work them out before taking it that far to Rich Gunther I agreed. But I also stated that I tried to talk to Paul about it before it went to Rich Gunther. That fell on a deaf ear as well. I know this meeting was recorded ask them for the recording. 4:00pm 11/8/13.
On 11/18/13 we had two trainees that had just come to night shift I asked John if he would mind riding with Elroy Kunselman (304) 266-5988 and I would ride with John Hinman he firmly refused to the point of being argumentative. Tony martin witnessed this 304-997-3621 or 304-644-2880. I later that night asked him why he was being like that. He became enraged to the point I had to leave the room again. I called Luke Sexson like I was instructed to do in the prior meeting. To talk to someone about it. Luke called Paul and Paul told me not to speak to John for the rest of the night and he would tell John to do the same. And that this incident was going directly to the top again. John took that information about me not talking to him and changed out my work assignment through dispatch I called dispatch and confirmed that at 7:44 pm 11/18/13 ( this is a text msg. I sent Paul Mcguinnes (724) 621-2238 Luke Sexson (304) 871-0711 and boss nick Schrader :(724) 324-2205::(Called Michael Williams with dispatch at 7:44 pm after receiving a text msg that I was not going to be with Kunselman I asked who told him to put randy Williams with him and he said john Martucci did. John never even consulted with me about this either. Daring me to confront him after Paul Mcguinnes said not to talk with him. I'm very frustrated) Paul and Luke took that straight to Rich Gunther as well after Luke told me in the meeting to call someone and talk about it. The meeting is recorded if there is doubt.
There are a fair share of arguments that happen every day at work. We are in the trucking industry even drivers confronting management on a regular basis. Yelling and cursing back and forth between management and drivers I once again was mild. I had certain job functions to do every day and I was constantly being hindered in my job performance By John Martucci. I never had a spill I had 1 returned paper the entire year and 1/2 I worked there I didn't put a barrel count on my trip ticket and everyone was confused as to how much to even put on a paper management kept changing how many barrel we could haul. They could not find any fault in me at all. Other than when being provoked by a peer about safety issues. I spoke up. There are however the few choice people that follow everything that Nick tells them that get to keep their jobs after major accidents involving trucks and major spills. To name a few Chris Colman, Fred Batista, Jim martin.
I was terminated 11/22/13 by phone call at 6:04 pm I was given the excuse that I was not getting along with my peer a new fellow driver trainer. And this has happened before. With the attitudes floating around that building and no direction Luke,Paul, and Nick all cursed drivers this confrontation with my peer was very mild. Most all of the guys get warnings or three days off because of the attitudes they have I didn't even get three days off to think about it I found this discriminative. No warning not a suspension ever the whole time in employment. Just a termination.
Laverne Seidle Previous driver trainer 412-403-3263 was constantly battling with her peer Joe Stumpf Previous driver trainer (304) 406-2619 Joe went to dayshift to work and Laverne kept her night shift position. There was no termination that took place at all. Neither one even received a suspension. Once again the disagreement I had with John Martucci was mild. I would have been happy with a demotion or even 3 days off. A termination was something deeper that was not brought to my attention in the termination phone call.
Joe still works on dayshift.
Laverne ended up being terminated for allowing a driver to drive a truck that was inexperienced and he had a major accident. I can understand that reasoning a little. My opinion is he couldn't drive a truck. Why hire him? (Driver Eugene Crowder) she unfortunately took a fall for Paul McGinnis's lack of intelligence and poor leadership. Paul loved to test drive in automatics because they had nicer passenger seats in them for him to be comfortable. That is not the real world. In the real world 18 speeds govern most of our fleet.
I have never called hr on a single person throughout my year and 1/2 with OTS but I loved my job and I loved the work I did. I have never had a spill, never argued with management and never had a write up.
I was also told in my termination phone call that Nick presented that I bring a lot to OTS but in the same breath he fired me. He said that he has told me time and time again about my attitude. Baring the most recent problems which were 2 incidents that were recorded.
1. Disagreement with John Martucci
Two other were in the past of anything that Nick could even attempt to call problematic.
1. One of those was a personal and Safety issue that was quickly resolved and did not include any employee with OTS about a year ago. How can one personal and safety issue outside of work be included as an episode?
2. Was I was confused there for a time who was my boss was. Scott Davis, head of dispatch firing people that I liked and did good work. And at the time no one knew who he was. We had a meeting about it and nick said he has the power to fire me and Scott Davis corrected him in the meeting and said he Himself couldn't. I walked away from that meeting just as confused as my termination phone call. I asked who Scott Davis was and that turned into an issue about 7 months ago. The entire time I have been employed with OTS. If Nick says there are more please have him supply the documentation with my signature or my voice I would like to see or hear his answer. Excluding any personal issues that were never brought to my attention. There was absolutely no reason for my termination I know there is nothing in my file and that I am spotless in this decision.
Given all that was said I'm not so sure John Martucci was actually acting on his own or going off of instructions from Nick like Joe Stumpf. Either way there is a discrimination going on at OTS that needs to be addressed. During the 2week stand down it was said that Jessica steel lost her position as safety coach not terminated for arguing and fighting with Paul Mcguinnes I believe she had brought a lot to the table about Paul in a discriminative session against her with rich Gunther as well is this a pattern or a problem? But talk behind closed doors told me they didn't want her there. (Nick himself told me this) the following week she was in an argument with Paul during the stand down and she was transferred.
Now there are no women in the field and no black men. The perfect Aryan race. I'm sure it was all recorded, and they started an argument with her as well just like me but they knew I would not disagree with management. just like me but a little different she was transferred and got to keep her employment to save her job she felt she was to defend herself in an argument with Paul Mcguinnes. We had a black man working there that was run off due to poking and prodding his name was Ben Terry I enjoyed my time with him. He had to choose a different job because of the back stabbing going on. He put in his two week notice to give them time to replace him and the let him go as soon as he gave it to them. Ben was nothing but positive his whole time there. And we all know about Laverne and how she took a fall for Paul McGuiness. Hell I was even told by tony martin a driver trainer that OTS wouldn't hire a woman because Nick told him she was too pretty at one of their recent job fairs even though she could drive a truck and had all the qualifications. Said it would cause problems among the guys. (unreal)
Everything said is factual and very true I know from talking with people in the know nick is in a weed out process to get people in to help him do his dirty work for him. I refuse to step down to no moral values when it comes to right or wrong. About an employee who does there job and supports their family. I'm not the first and I won't be the last. They even go as far as to open hatches on trucks that people cant check during pre trips and bleeder valves to make people have spills (Paul McGuiness)and then laughs about it (Baxter frac). I find it pathetic seen this first hand. They also drilled a hole into Ben Terry's (black man) valve so he would have a spill. Also they beat up Jessica steels pickup truck to blame it on her. They tried to get me to drive a vehicle 4quarts too full of oil so the engine would blow up. Paul McGuiness and matt dreas. I have mats text msg saying it was fine to drive and I have a recording of Paul. I'm sure Paul will have a nice retirement waiting for him at Waste Management. (This is the company struggling to get water rights with Chesapeake energy) this is the company Paul McGuiness is from. After he is finished destroying OTS with Nick these are all deliberate actions that are very costly to the stock holder.
James Luke Sexson told Nate Smith another team leader from Pearsall Texas to have a fun time with a matrix that came out on Fred Battista telling him to have fun with it and rip him up over it. I find this to be very unprofessional as well. So did Nate.
Everyone in Management Paul, Luke, Jessica and Nick ended all their sentences with "If you don't like it there is the door" like kids playing games with families and people depending on college money, food and livelihood. It Seems feeling's from upper management trickle's down every time. I brought it to their attention with no response or maybe their response was termination without suspension or warning.
Paul Mcguinnes also told me that all the drivers were idiots and garbage men have more brains than they do I'm sure this is recorded somewhere as well. It is like a bunch of kids in management.
Sop= Standard Operating Procedure:
During the stand down that cost drivers and stock holders 800,000.00 they tried to implement their sop that would not work. They said that they would never change it. I have a copy if needed. I told them it would not work. Nick brought john (don't know his last name) down from canton to check into our findings. John I guess wrote the sop. After many driver trainers trying to convince him that it was wrong. I had a discussion with him and he said that he received an e-mail from Chesapeake that no pressure was to be put on the valves I told him at that point it was suction that we are talking about. I found after our conversation he decided to go with the trainer's decision. Still months after the stand down there was still no sop. I stated my concern time and time again to no avail. I finally saw the so called completed version with all the corrections in a conference call with nick and and via e-mail. I'm sure that this is all recorded as well. I made finishing touches on the final draft in a conference call at that time. They forgot steps that I informed them about and it was finished. Then I was fired. What a reward? Ask anyone! All I wanted to do is to make sure the drivers were equipped with all the knowledge they needed to keep their jobs and not to have spills in the field. I never wanted to prove anyone wrong at any time. Nick extracted knowledge from me for personal gain then got rid of me.
There is no character in management Nick never pays attention on matters that can help the driver even when requested by people who know what they are talking about. He would rather fire someone who is trying to help and is dedicated rather than to think his plan won't work. Nicks understanding of truck utilization was get a truck loaded from any pad and sit on it until we can get it unloaded somewhere while the clock ticks so the truck was stealing money from Chesapeake and at least his numbers was up look at the records this went on for months before the stand down (unbelievable). Everyone understood this was a problem and eventually it would hurt the drivers which it did. Hours were cut on them and Nick won't allow much overtime only for certain drivers. And everyone wonders why we have so many incidents with spills and dot accidents and why the stand down took place. There was and is still no direction with a sop for drivers to do procedure the correct way. James Tranovich was fired for having a spill according to the old sop. I was in the office while Luke and Paul laughed while they wrote his bad report using safety as an excuse. And yet I was silenced in the meeting when I brought up a safety issue. It was no secret Paul did not like Tranovich ask anyone. This is why we spent 800,000 dollars on a stand down to walk away with no sop I find this in itself very perplexing. We were working on one and it got declined and still nothing up to the day I got terminated. I mean wasn't this a problem even going into a stand down in the first place? More than a month has passed and we have had 5 spills because people still have nothing concrete. It's hard to train without directives. Everyone was still doing their own thing in the field. I begged for something concrete to go by. Even during my interview for team leader with Nick. Maybe this is part of the reason I was terminated. Still they are firing people for being confused and causing spills. Ask Elroy Kunselman about the old sop. He is new but very smart we talked about it in depth and he agrees you will have a spill with it. An 87 step sop is not the answer! All the employees deserve direction and should have had something by now. Chris Bersaurd had multiple complaints from many drivers there about management. And still nothing changes. Where is the Leadership? There are many great drivers at OTS that need to support their families. Management is a bunch of Kids in a candy store. OTS was a great place to work till Nick Came along to put his Fingers In everything He has no Idea About. Everyone in Management needs to be severed and put people in there that know the work and the Field. Or Drivers will Keep Getting fired because of poor management. No one in current management knows oil field operations it's like the blind leading the blind. Jessica steel knew more than them and they got rid of her too. Absolutely pathetic. One thing management Nick Schrader, Paul McGuiness and James Sexson are good at is that they know how to get rid of people who know more than them.
Chris Bersaurd I beg you to put someone in to replace Nick Schrader I know he is a friend but He is destroying many Families who depend on an income for survival. Remember in my termination recording he begins saying I bring a lot to the table. And in the same breath he says I'm fired. Is that helpful to the company? Or would give me 3 days off first? You decide you seem very intelligent to me! Unless you are giving him these directives in any case I will give you 3 days to respond. You deserve that because I don't know you. Then all this go's viral.
Keith McCloud
My cell number is 1-740-632-7878
This isn't the first time and won't be the last time someone was unfairly fired from a job. The best thing to do is to focus on finding a better job.
I can tell that you're under a lot of stress. Don't go all postal/Christopher Dorner. Try to avoid being hospitalized with a "mental illness", the treatment is horrible.
Take a couple weeks off (if you can afford it), and start looking for a new job. That's why you always keep a reserve of savings.
Yes, they cheated you. Let it go and move on to the next thing.
It's pretty disappointing to realize that you have no recourse when you're cheated, but that's the way it is.
nemo commented on Only Idiots Use Java For High Frequency Trading.
You don't have much knowledge about Java, do you? You shouldn't comment on things you have no clue then.
Really, there are different options to configure GC, and its behavior may differ very much on the particular JVM used. It doesn't do the STW (Stop-the-World) process anymore. Also, there can be something called immortal and scoped memory additionally to normal Java heap. These areas are not GC'ed.
If we assume that HFT is a Real Time computing case - then you may get familiar with RTJS spec...
Summing up - saying that $LANGUAGE (this case - Java) is wrong for some big project is simply stupid. In case of real performance-oriented systems you usually find them heterogeneous - different parts written in different languages, running on different hardware. BUT, you never do this at the beginning, so even writing the whole thing in Java may be a good choice. Then, you may start to optimize stuff, maybe rewriting critical bits in Assembler or C. You may spread it onto some processing farm or whatever will get you to the required performance. But only if you really need that. There is this saying:
Don't do it
Don't do it yet
You may of course start with Assembler at the first place... but this is ALWAYS about money. Will a big app written in Assembler be cheaper than the hybrid?
Anonymous Coward commented on Reader Mail - 11/24/2013 To 11/30/2013.
What do you make of the following news story about a United Kingdom marine being sentenced to life in prison for shooting a probably fatally wounded Taliban fighter, originally shot by a helicopter.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2519606/Alexander-Blackman-Royal-Marine-murdered-Taliban-fighter-jailed-life.html
I'm touched a British military judge cares so much about life (note this said in a sarcastic tone)!
Is this hypocrisy?
Is the government responsible more than this solider?
Bear in the the other side hang limbs of British soldiers from trees after than have been blown up.
nemo commented on node.js Is VB6 - Does node.js Suck?.
"That's the biggest lacking feature of modern programming languages, support for multiple cores and multiple threads. "
Do you - by any chance - know why is it so?
No dude - it is just because it is f* difficult to solve these problems. And actually things build around Reactor Pattern are one of the solutions, which remove parallel processing from your design of your application. The other solution would be e.g. pure functional programming - which results in the same thing - you're not thinking how this is going to be calculated - it just gets calculated.
Also, if you complain that e.g. Node is not using multiple cores - you are pretty clueless by yourself. It is really not that these all cores will be ide when it comes to production deployment, seriously...
There is the other advantage to Node-like design (single thread, event-based). It is that it is ready-to-go for computing clouds. Try to spawn threads in your app for e.g. Google App Engine :). With Node app - you just deploy as it is and you can add/sub the processes (virtual CPU cores) as you need.
Again - you are not thinking about your target env. - you JUST scale it without planning for it.
"Even my sister thought that "test driven development" was stupid. Why would you write the tests before writing the website? The idiot has the illusion that he's working, when he's writing a bunch of tests."
Dude, you have no idea what are you talking about... have you ever try to really read about TDD and the concepts? Do you ever worked on any bigger not-trivial project within a big team and had to support your product for longer period of time?
Test driven development and excessive automated tests are a waste of resources. The coworkers at my current job have me wondering sometimes. They can barely implement anything without breaking something else on the site. I'm there 2 days a week, and I look at every page each time. They break more things than get new things finished. I can see how, if you're clueless, automated testing can avoid some problems, but then you're doomed anyway.
Francesco commented on Open Pandora, PSP, or Android?.
Go the Open Pandora way! There is quite no device like it. It's been a pleasure to play and tinker with it (15 days now). The community is great, games are very professionally crafted/packaged, repos are very active (they post on FaceBook every update/release, today a version of Metroid was published, for free), and emulation is ready "out of the box" (with full list of emulators and howTos to choose the best ones).
My 1GHZ device runs smoothly at 1.244MHz: overclocking is a matter of dragging a slider, there is also a CPU stress test software that will find the right clock speed for you.
The device is FAST and SNAPPY, the OS is clean and so thin compared to Android (or anything else, really). XFCE is cool and feels perfect. It runs a full version of desktop Firefox, on heavy sites, quite fine (and you can scroll with the d-pad as arrows). You can even use the Pandora as an external bluetooth HID device to a tablet/phone: as a mouse+keyboard+joystick for your phone/tablet (you move the pad on the Pandora and the mouse cursor moves on the phone, you type on Pandora.. etc.., software is called "Master Control"). The two SD slots mean you can add a *LOT* of stuff to it: 2 x 128GB means 256GB of space! Of course multiple OSs are an option (keeping data in one slot and some OS in the other). Anyway, if you do it for fun, get the Pandora.
I've been seriously thinking about it. They're switching to "Open Pandora 2", primarily because it's no longer possible to get parts for the current version.
If it isn't a preorder disaster like the Open Pandora, I might order it from stock.
One problem with the current Open Pandora it that it's a couple years obsolete hardware. My phone has so much more power. I might go for an ubuntu phone.
commented on Only Idiots Use Java For High Frequency Trading.
I write HFT/ultra low latency trading software with extremely complex business rules and algos for a living and it's all done in C++ simply because Java isn't nearly fast enough. At times we even write code for bare metal to squeeze out that extra microsecond.
Spoken like a true idiot. Yes, if you're incompetent and work with a bunch of incompetent fools, then it's indeed not possible.
DeAnn commented on Healcare "Reform" - "You Will Be Able To Keep Your Doctor" Is A Lie.
Wow... such visceral emotions over a simple discussion of facts. It's a terrible thing to have your illusions ripped away from you. But, Dear FYA, every day it is becoming more and more apparent, those who should be our protectors are promoting one lie after another to hide the impending truth.
NOW is the time to have honest discussions. A few years from now there will be no way to repair this, and the Great American Experiment will have come to an end. Honesty is our only hope.
commented on Reader Mail - 11/17/2013 To 11/23/2013.
FSK, what happened here? Your site used to be a daily informative read and it's become a jumble of double-dipped reader comments (reposting them from the comment sections as actual articles). It's a mess. Please return to form.
I know I've been slacking. I'll try to get back on it.


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Arisaema triphyllum és una espècie de planta herbàcia i perenne que creix a partir d'un corm. És una espècie molt variable que fa de 30 a 65 cm d'alt. És nativa d'Amèrica del Nord i es troba en boscos humits des de Nova Escòcia a Minnesota, i pl sud fins a Florida.

És una planta amb una sexualitat vegetal variable segons els seus estadis de creixement.

Descripció
Les fulles són trifoliades; cada folío fa 8-15 cm de llarg i 3-7 cm d'ample. Aquestes plantes es confonen de vegades amb l'heura verinosa. La seva inflorescència té forma irregular i fa fins a 8 cm de llarg. Els fruits són llisos i verdosos, són baies d'1 cm de diàmetre. Maduren a finals d'estiu.

Conté oxalat de calci i cusa irritació a la boca i la gola si es consumeix.

Els indígenes americans la consumien com a planta medicinal.

Subespècies
A. triphyllum consta de tres subespècies: A. triphyllum subsp. stewardsonii i A. triphyllum subsp. pusillum són diploides, i A. triphyllum subsp. triphyllum és tetraploide originada com híbrid de les dues anteriors.

Referències

Enllaços externs

 Flora of North America: Arisaema triphyllum
 NRCS: USDA Plants Profile: Arisaema triphyllum

Aròidies
Plantes verinoses

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Letter to Lord Kelvin
Extract from a Letter dated Cleveland, Ohio, August 5th, 1904, to Lord Kelvin from Profs. Edward W. Morley and Dayton C. Miller. (1904)
Edward W. Morley and Dayton C. Miller
related portals: Relativity.
Philosophical Magazine, S. 6, Vol. 8. No. 48, Dec. 1904, pp. 753-754, Online
589393Extract from a Letter dated Cleveland, Ohio, August 5th, 1904, to Lord Kelvin from Profs. Edward W. Morley and Dayton C. Miller.Edward W. Morley and Dayton C. Miller1904
IN 1887 Michelson and Morley made an experiment on the relative motion of the earth and the luminiferous ether. They could detect no relative motion equal to one sixth of the earth's velocity in its orbit.
To explain this result, FitzGerald and Lorentz suggested that the stone slab on which the apparatus was constructed might have its dimensions changed by its drift through the ether.
There was a remote chance of detecting such an effect by repeating the experiment of 1887, but with different materials. If the FitzGerald-Lorentz effect exists, it may affect all materials to the same amount, independently of the nature of the material. But it is also possible that the effect is one which depends on the physical properties of the material, so that pine may be affected more than sandstone. In this case, if sandstone gives no displacement in an experiment like that of 1887, an apparatus supported by pine, which would be compressed more than sandstone, would give an effect of the sign opposite to that suggested by the original simple theory.
Such an experiment has now been made. We first made a structure of pine, which we floated on mercury as in 1887. While this structure was new, we obtained good observations with it. But after the wood had been affected by steam-heat for one season, it was not possible to maintain it in adjustment for five minutes. We therefore made a structure in which the distance of the mirrors depends on pine rods, but all other circumstances depend on steel. Two very stiff steel girders cross symmetrically, and are floated on mercury. Two holders, each carrying four mirrors, are fixed at the ends of two arms of this cross. Two other mirror-holders are suspended freely. Pine rods reach from the fixed holders to the free holders, and springs maintain stable contact. These pine rods are carried in brass tubes which constitute a sort of truss; the distance of the two sets of mirrors depends solely on these pine rods.
Observations were made by noting the place of the central black fringe on a kind of eyepiece micrometer. They were made at sixteen equidistant azimuths, and commonly at a rate of one revolution in little more than a minute, readings being made to the tenth of a wave-length. Two times were selected in which the motion of the earth was in the plane of the apparatus. In the first part of July, the direction of motion at these two times apparently differed by 115°; the morning and evening sets of observations were combined by taking into account this difference. In all, more than 250 turns were observed.
The velocity of the earth in July may be assumed to be 33·5 kilometres a second. The length of path in our apparatus was 32·2 metres, and the effect to be expected (on the original theory) is 1·4 wave-lengths.
We have established that, if there is any effect, it is not more than 0·015 wave-length.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1925.
The author died in 1941, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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Home Academic Analysis Early NAPLAN results show promise, but we don't know the full impact...
Early NAPLAN results show promise, but we don't know the full impact of COVID school closures yet
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Sonnemann, Fellow, School Education, Grattan Institute
The early NAPLAN results for 2021 released today suggest the average impact of COVID school closures on literacy and numeracy in 2020 has been relatively small.
This was the first NAPLAN test since students moved to remote learning, and involved 1.2 million students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9.
The results show the national average for literacy and numeracy in 2021 has held up fairly well despite last year's disruptions. There has been little change in the NAPLAN average results in 2021 compared to 2019 in all states and territories, including Victoria, which had the longest period of remote schooling in 2020.
To understand how well children are doing at school, it is important to look at the progress of students' learning over time, not just where they are at any one point in time.
According to our student progress metric for NAPLAN, Victoria's progress in literacy and numeracy is generally in line with the national average over 2019-21. We can also see progress at a national level for 2019-21 was similar to historical rates of progress.
These results are a testament to the hard work of students, parents, teachers and school leaders around the country. But it is too early to claim victory.
We will have to wait until the full NAPLAN data is released in December to understand what the impact has been on vulnerable students, in particular.
It's also important to remember that NAPLAN only tests literacy and numeracy. Gaps that may have emerged in other parts of the curriculum, such as science and the humanities, aren't picked up in this data.
Nor do these results help us understand the impact of school closures on broader students' social development and mental health.
They don't change the fact governments should be carefully planning how to get kids back to class safely, and as soon as possible.
Disadvantaged students may have fared worse
Students around the country missed a significant amount of school in 2020, especially in Melbourne where some students missed around 21 weeks of school. In New South Wales, schools were closed for around seven weeks.
Many disadvantaged students are likely to have found remote schooling harder than other groups. Our 2020 report estimated the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students widens at up to triple the rate when kids are trying to learn at home rather than in regular class.
Disadvantaged students may have lost 1 month of learning during COVID-19 shutdown. But the government can fix it
Students most likely to be impacted by remote learning are those from low socio-economic families, Indigenous backgrounds or remote communities, as well as those with poor mental health, disabilities and special learning needs.
Students in the early years who are still developing foundational skills in reading and writing are also at risk of falling behind.
Emerging international data suggests COVID school closures have had significant negative impacts on student learning in some countries and that disadvantaged students have suffered most. The findings of different studies vary, but one study from Holland estimates learning loss is 60% greater for struggling students.
Given the potential negative impacts for vulnerable students, the NSW and Victorian governments made significant investments in new tutoring programs to help these students catch up. These programs have been in place since the start of 2021.
Victoria and NSW are funding extra tutors to help struggling students. Here's what parents need to know about the schemes
Opening schools safely should be a national priority
The early NAPLAN data is promising, but our leaders need to stay focused on getting children back to school.
For disadvantaged students in particular, there may be other negative impacts on learning we don't yet know about.
Academic performance aside, there are broader implications of sustained school closures. There are real concerns about the potential impacts on students' mental health and social development.
Nor is it clear what the cumulative effects of school closures may be on students or teachers. As remote schooling continues in Victoria and NSW and now the ACT, fatigue is setting in.
Fatigue is setting in for many students learning from home.
The Murdoch Children's Research Institute has shown closures are associated with increased harm to children's physical and mental health – and welfare – due to social isolation, increased anxiety, neglect, or even abuse. These findings are reinforced by growing overseas evidence.
Are the kids alright? Social isolation can take a toll, but play can help
The COVID pandemic continues to upend the daily school routines for millions of young Australians, interrupting their learning, development and friendships.
The NAPLAN results give us reason to hope that with hard work from students, families and teachers – along with targeted supports when schools reopen – we can keep students' learning on track, despite the odds.
But we must ensure the students who have struggled the most get the help they need to remain engaged in school and to keep progressing in their learning. Getting all children back to school, safely, should be a national priority.
Grattan Institute received funding from Origin Energy Foundation to support our report Covid catch-up: helping disadvantaged students close the equity gap.
Julie Sonnemann does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
– ref. Early NAPLAN results show promise, but we don't know the full impact of COVID school closures yet – https://theconversation.com/early-naplan-results-show-promise-but-we-dont-know-the-full-impact-of-covid-school-closures-yet-166737
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Q: Separate Values based on Delimiter in a result set for only 1 Column with 2 Columns? I have data stored the following way in [Table]:
WEEK   | Number | Restrict
2018-1 | 1      | 101;102;103
2018-2 | 2      | 101;102;104;105
...

I would like to be able to select the results of [Number] and [Restrict] for a selected week, and then split the [Restrict] into individual results in a temp table.
Based on what I've found so far, I can use the following to split the [Restrict] column into individual rows, based on this article: Break down a delimited string into a temporary table
USE [database];

DECLARE @Week nvarchar(50);
DECLARE @Restrict VARCHAR(MAX);

SET @Week = '2018-1';
SET @Restrict = (SELECT [Restrict] FROM [dbo].[Table] WHERE [Week] = @Week);

DECLARE @ExclusionData TABLE (
    [data] nvarchar(50) NULL
    )

INSERT INTO @ExclusionData(data)
SELECT data
FROM dbo.Split(@Restrict, ';') s

SELECT * FROM @ExclusionData

How could I also return the 'Number' column beside each of the 'Restrict' values?

A: I think this will do what you need.  I am pretty sure there is a better way and will think on that, but this should do it:
USE [database];

DECLARE @Week nvarchar(50);
DECLARE @Restrict VARCHAR(MAX);
DECLARE @Number INT

SET @Week = '2018-1';

-- this is assuming you can only have one row returned
SELECT @Number = Number,
@Restrict = [Restrict]
FROM [dbo].[Table]
WHERE [Week] = @Week

DECLARE @ExclusionData TABLE (
    [data] nvarchar(50) NULL
)

INSERT INTO @ExclusionData(data)
SELECT data
FROM dbo.Split(@Restrict, ';') s

SELECT @Number, * FROM @ExclusionData

// updated with possible solution but it is not tested   If you can provide table stucture and data insert scripts for test data I can test this out.  You should be able to do something like this though
select t.Number, x.Data
FROM [dbo].[Table] t
cross apply (select data FROM dbo.Split(t.[Restrict],';') ) x
WHERE [Week] = @Week

A: You can use cross apply :
SELECT t1.[WEEK], t1.[Number], t2.Data as Restrict
FROM table t1 CROSS APPLY
     dbo.Split(t1.Restrict, ';') t2
WHERE . . .;

A: My solution may be overkill for your project but ...
The correct way technically would be to create another table that had a key  back into the current table.  Tables should never have arrays in them.
Your current table would lose Restrict column and would serve as the primary table.
The second table would point back to the primary via a foreign key.  Based on what you are saying, this would look identical to the primary table (Week, Number). It would also have the Restrict column in it, but only one value.
so a primary table record may be 2018-1 | 1 and the secondary table's records for that record may be
2018-1 | 1 |101, 2018-1 | 1 |102, 2018-1 | 1 |103 ... etc.
You could create a primary key on the primary table if you'd like, then use that as a foreign key into the secondary table.
With this solution you could count how many 102 records you had, etc etc, without re-parsing the table.  You could also index on that field. You could add/delete child records to the parent one much easier.

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The challenge was a super easy one for me, and it even matches with my Latenightstamper's challenge for the week to make a card for your favorite holiday. The posting of this cards is NOT going quite as easy. Not sure what is up with my computer lately but it keeps freezing up and is working REALLY slow. Very frustrating! So this may end up short and sweet, lol!
I decided to make a cute little gift card holder for Christmas using the new Melon Mambo and Rich Razzleberry in colors. So fun don't you think. I cute the stocking shape by hand.
This is how it opens. I may have to make a few more of these I think they turned out really cute. The stitching is done with a marker and the mat pack and piercing tool.
Other: mat pack with paper piercer, marker, scallop edge punch, velcro dots.
Be sure to click on the link above to see what the other gals did with the challenge, they are ALL so talented and they always have great ideas. I will be back tomorrow with some more Christmas Cards! Happy Today!
Your stocking is so adorable, love the colors and the faux stitching! Great job.
MJ, this is an AWESOME gc holder!! So cute!! And I looooove the colors! so pretty together!
Very Cute! - Love the colors and I thought that was "real" stitching, it looks fabulous.
What a CUTE idea and fabulous execution! VERY creative!! I love it!! hugs!
Wow that is awesome. I love it. This is a very unique gift card holder.
You started a craze girl...I have seen these posted all over now on SCS...Great job!


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Q: Mac file won't print properly on Win 7 networked printer I have an HP Photosmart 7150 networked on a Win7 PC. I followed the below directions to set up the share on my Mac with SnowLeopard. My issue is that a file that is, say 700 kilobytes gets transmitted to the spooler as several megabytes. As a result when I print a file it runs through all of the paper in the tray. If there is enough paper loaded it will eventually print the file. Somewhere in the middle it will print several pages of garbage.

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*Make sure your printer is on and connected to the USB port on the router.

*In OS X go to System Preferences.

*Click on Print & Fax.

*Click the lock (to unlock) to make changes. Enter your password if you need to.

*Click on the plus (+) sign at the left to add a printer.

*In Leopard/Snow Leopard click on the IP tab.

*In the Protocol drop down, select HP JetDirect - Socket.

*In the Address drop down, type the IP Address of your printer (192.168.1.10)

*Leave Queue blank.

*Give a descriptive name [Network Printer].

*Give a descriptive location.

*In the Print Using drop down either select your driver or choose the "select a driver to use" option.

*Choose the appropriate driver for your printer.

*Press OK and then click Add.

A: See if you can print a different file from the same program, a webpage, and a textedit page. Don't worry about spooling sizes. Even a single page in notepad under Windows itself can "register" as 1.5+ MB when spooled out to the printer. Your problem is likely:
An incorrect choice for the Macintosh's printer driver.
A particular post-processing setting on the Printer Preferences is throwing off the HP at the other end of the wire.
If the files are in PDF format, mismatched PDF output levels could be wrong (like Adobe software using PDF level 3 instead of 1 or 2.)
Save yourself sanity and troubleshooting time: just connect your printer and Mac once via USB  and test printing again before you start making settings changes.


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Contractual construction principles in sporting selection disputes
by Simone Bailey	· February 26, 2014
Laidlaw v Ski and Snowboard Australia CAS 2014/A/3473
In this matter Mr Holmes QC, sitting as a sole arbitrator in the Appeal Arbitration Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport ("CAS"), was called upon to determine the proper construction of the Nomination Criteria relevant to athletes seeking to represent Australia in the sport of Alpine skiing at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Arbitrator Holmes QC applied contractual construction principles to construe the relevant criteria, and dismissed the proceeding.
This dispute arose out of a decision by Ski and Snowboard Australia ("SSA") to nominate the two Affected Parties to the Australian Olympic Committee ("AOC") for selection to the 2014 Australian Winter Olympic Team for Alpine skiing, and not to nominate the two Applicants. The Applicants appealed their non-nomination.
The issue in dispute was whether quota places allocated to Australia pursuant to the results and consequent rankings of individual athletes, could be filled by athletes of either gender, or whether the national federation was obliged to nominate an athlete of the same gender as the athlete who earned that place.
The Arguments before CAS
The sole ground of appeal relied upon by the Applicants was under 13.1(5)(a) of the Olympic Team Selection By-Law ("the By-Law"), which allowed an appeal where "the applicable Nomination Criteria have not been properly followed and/or implemented."
The Applicants' submitted that clause 2 of the Ski and Snowboard Association Nomination Criteria Alpine Skiing was misconstrued by SSA. Clause 2 states:
For the purposes of nomination to the AOC of Athletes for selection to the 2014 Australian Olympic Winter Team Ski & Snowboard Australia will:
(1) nominate the male Athlete(s) and female Athlete(s) (relevant to the number and gender of any quota places for Australia) with the highest ranking on the Olympic FIS Points List in any Alpine discipline (Down Hill, Slalom, Giant Slalom, Super-G and Super Combined) as published by FIS on 20th January 2014. However, Athletes ranked outside the top 100 for Super Combined on the Olympic FIS Points List on 20th January 2014 will not be eligible for nomination based on the Super Combined ranking alone; (Emphasis added)
Quota places were allocated in accordance with the International Ski Federation ("FIS") Qualification Systems for the XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014. As Arbitrator Holmes QC noted, it can be seen from the provisions of the FIS Qualification Systems that the allocation process allocates quota places to the National Olympic Committee ("NOC") and not individual athletes.
The Qualification System provided for a 'basic quota' to be allocated to all NOCs. It was accepted by all parties that this basic quota was gender specific and must be filled by one athlete of each gender.
The Qualification System thereafter provided for the allocation of an additional male and/or female quota place dependent upon an athlete or athletes being ranked in the top 500 of the Olympic FIS Points List, and a similar (but additional) entitlement upon an athlete or athletes being ranked in the top 100.
The Applicants' argued that these additional quota places were not gender specific and should be filled by athletes with the highest ranking and best results in a non-gender specific comparison. The Affected Parties argued that the additional quota places were gender specific.
Arbitrator Holmes QC considered that contractual construction principles applied to the construction of the Nomination Criteria, being a contractual document. He noted that the principles to be applied to the process of construction are well established. Both individual clauses and the agreement as a whole must be construed objectively: Toll (FGCT) Pty Ltd v Alphapham Pty Ltd (2004) 219 CLR 165.
Arbitrator Holmes QC found that the ordinary and natural meaning of the relevant contractual provisions were clear on their face and there was no ambiguity in the language used:
The natural and ordinary meaning of these words in parenthesis and of clause 2 as a whole, is that the SSA is also obliged under the express terms of the Nomination Criteria to nominate athletes according to the gender of the quota places earned for Australia.
Holmes QC went on to explain 'On a female athlete achieving the required ranking the NOC is allocated a gender specific quota place for a female athlete, and must select a female athlete of the requisite ranking to fill the place.'
The Applications were therefore dismissed.
This decision is a useful reminder that in sporting disputes, including the nomination and selection process of our Olympic athletes, the usual rules for contractual construction apply. That is, the particular provision must be construed objectively and when there is no ambiguity in the language used, the ordinary and natural meaning must be given.
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Stella Damasus and many other other Nigerian celebrities were at the 'Between' movie premiere in the Greenwich area of London.
The film was directed and co-produced by her husband and award-winning film director, Daniel Ademinokan.
The premiere also had Hilda Dokubo, Wale Gates, Weird MC, Victoria Inyama, and Mike Aremu in attendance.
The London premiere of 'Between,' is coming eight months after this USA premiere in Downey, California.
Stella Damasus looked absolutely stunning at the premiere, and fans can't wait to see her new film.


Mount Rushmore National Memorial is literally South Dakota's biggest attraction. It covers 1,278 acres (5 square km) and draws over two million annual visitors. It depicts 60-foot (18m) carvings of US Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln, representing the first 150 years of American history.
Together with 400 workers, Gutzon Borglum sculpted Mount Rushmore between 1927 and 1941. Costing under one million dollars, it's somewhat remarkable that nobody died from the dangerous nature of the work during its creation.
Interestingly, the artist originally intended the faces to have bodies. The sculpture is controversial among Native Americans as a previous treaty had granted the land and mountain, known as Six Fathers to the Lakota tribe.
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Committee Advances USMCA at Business Meeting
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a committee business meeting.
At the business meeting, the committee advanced H.R. 5430, United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act by a vote of 16 to 4.
To watch the full business meeting, click here.
"Before we begin the markup, I want to take a moment to congratulate and thank the senators on our committee who worked to pass two important pieces of legislation through the Senate this past week.
"On Thursday, the Senate passed the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act.
"Senator Sullivan and Senator Whitehouse partnered together to shepherd this bill through the Senate.
"Both of them were on the floor of the Senate last evening talking about all of the benefits of this legislation that passed our committee unanimously as well as the Senate unanimously.
"The legislation will help reduce the amount of plastic waste floating in our oceans, and will spur innovative solutions to prevent more plastic pollution.
"Also on Thursday, the Senate passed America's Conservation Enhancement Act or the ACE Act.
"Ranking Member Carper and I introduced the ACE Act.
"Senators Cramer, Cardin, Capito, Van Hollen, Inhofe, and Boozman joined as cosponsors.
"The ACE Act helps conserve wildlife and wildlife habitat.
"The legislation addresses the threats of emerging wildlife diseases, like Chronic Wasting Disease.
"It protects livestock from predators, and it combats invasive species.
"The ACE Act has received broad support from states, environmental groups, and stakeholders.
"Now, the Senate has passed the legislation unanimously.
"The House of Representatives should follow our lead and pass this historic, bipartisan conservation legislation into law.
"In today's markup, we will consider one bill, H.R. 5430, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act.
"President Trump promised a strong, fair, and updated trade agreement with our neighbors, Canada and Mexico.
"President Trump has delivered on his promise.
"The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement – also known as USMCA – was signed by the leadership of all three countries more than a year ago.
"Mexico gave its final approval of the agreement last June.
"Canada is waiting for us, here in Congress, to approve the agreement before taking it up.
"It is critical that Congress approves this trade deal to continue to fuel America's strong, healthy, and growing economy.
"H.R. 5430 will implement the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
"At the end of last year, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to approve the legislation.
"The bipartisan vote tally was 385 to 41.
"There is good reason for the broad support.
"USMCA builds on the certainty and progress achieved through recent trade agreements with Japan and China.
"It is going to expand market access for a host of U.S. products, and it will sharpen U.S. exporters' competitive edge.
"Trade is certainly very important for my home state of Wyoming.
"We trade our agricultural and energy products, including our number one cash crop – beef, all around the world.
"Above all, USMCA will benefit American workers.
"The agreement will protect and create millions of jobs here in the United States.
"American manufacturers overwhelmingly support USMCA.
"It isn't perfect, but it's still a win for American workers and families.
"It is also a win for the environment.
"The United States already has strong environmental protections.
"The phrase 'made in America' is good for the environment.
"The agreement does not change those protections or give Washington new authorities to regulate.
"Instead, the agreement recognizes that our partners should have strong environmental records like we do.
"Our committee is one of several Senate committees that have jurisdiction over the legislation.
"Under fast track rules, the committee cannot amend the bill.
"We will vote today only on whether to favorably report the bill.
"I urge my colleagues to support passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, so we can continue to support our strong, healthy, and growing economy."
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HomeTrains From BangkokTrains from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima
Trains from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima
By train it takes between 4 and 6 hours to complete the journey from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima, which is located on the branch of the North Eastern Railway Line which runs from Bangkok to Ubon Ratchathani. Sleeper berths are available on Trains #139, #23 and #67 although on short journey like this we recommend that you take the sprinter train #71 departing at 10:35 which allows you to enjoy the scenery on route.
Train Times from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima
There are 6 direct trains a day from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima (known locally as Khorat).
Bangkok Nakhon Ratchasima Train No. Service
06:10 10:01 21 Special Express
07:10 12:12 135 Rapid
10:35 14:27 71 Express
The fastest train from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima is Train #21 departing at 06:10 which is scheduled to complete the journey in 3 hours 51 minutes.
The slowest train service from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima is Train #06:10 departing at 23:05 which is scheduled to the complete the journey in 5 hours 14 minutes.
Buy Tickets from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima
Use the Search Box below to buy your train tickets from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima:
After purchasing your train ticket you will be sent an electronic booking voucher and then the train tickets by e-mail. The State of Railways of Thailand now accepts tickets shown on a mobile phone screen, however, we recommend that you print out your tickets in case your phone runs out of power or you lose internet connection when you need to show the ticket to the conductor.
Ticket Prices from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima
Buying your train tickets online the costs is 250 to 290 THB more than buying the same train ticket at a train station in Thailand.
2nd Class A/C Sleeper 745 to 1,085 THB 495 to 795 THB
2nd Class A/C Seat 575 THB 325 THB
2nd Class Fan Seat 415 THB 165 THB
The advantage of booking online is that you can guarantee the seat type of your choice on the train you wish to travel on. 2nd Class sleeper berths and 2nd Class A/C seats on sprinter trains tend to sell out in advance of the day of travel and if you buy your ticket at the station just before you travel the only seats which are likely to be available are 3rd Class seats in carriages without air-conditioning.
Bangkok Train Station
From the 19th January 2023 the main railway station in Bangkok is Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal Station (also known as Bang Sue Grand Station).
Nakhon Ratchasima Railway Station is located 2.3 km from Suan Rak Park.
About Nakhon Ratchasima
The train journey from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima passes through Ayutthaya and some fantastic scenery particularly between Autthaya and Pak Chong. It is well choosing to take a daytime train train on this journey as there is plenty to see on route. Nakhon Ratchasima, also known as Khorat, is a medium sized city with a population of over 140,000 and a long history. Because of its location the city has passed between the control of the Siamese people, the Laotians and the Khmer people of Cambodia over the last 1,000 years. As recently as 1862 armed forces from Laos captured the city, with the local people forcing the Laotians out of Nakhon Ratchasima some 2 years later under the leadership of the enigmatic Lady Mo who is a local folk hero.
Wat Phra Narai Maharat
The two most popular tourist attractions in Nakhon Ratchasima are Suan Rak Park and Wat Phra Narai Maharat.
Suan Rak Park means 'Love Park' in Thai and this popular municipal open space features a large lake, a museum housed within a fortress like building and a range of statues and sculptures. Large numbers of Thai visitors come to Suan Rak Park to pay homage to a shrine to Lady Mo which features a statue of the Lady herself and depictions of the local people defeating the Laotian invaders with farm implement. Near the lake there are a collection of clever modern style sculptures of things associated with the city, particularly the famous Khorat cat breed known in the West as the Siamese Blue.
Wat Phra Narai Maharat is a temple in the middle of a man made lake which contains some of the biggest water monitor lizards you will see anywhere in Thailand. These lizards have grown old and fat under the protection and regular food of the monks at the temple. The temple itself is famous for the three very old sandstone Buddha statues located there which were made by the Khmer people who famously constructed Angkor Wat.


When you call most companies today, you get a complex "IVR" (menu with speech or touch-tone commands.) In many cases the IVR offers you a variety of customer service functions which can be done far more easily on the web site. And indeed, the prompts usually tell you to visit the web site to do such things.
However, have we all not shouted, "I am already at your damned web site, I would not be calling you to do those things!"
And they should know this. So if you're on the web site, and you've done more than just click on the "Contact Us" tab, then when you finally do click on the tab asking for a phone number, you should not get the same phone number that is given to newcomers or printed in non-web locations.
You should get a special phone number that says, "This customer is already on the web site. Don't bother offering things that can be done far more easily on the web site."
Now I understand why they offer these things. Agents cost money and they want to divert customers to automated systems if at all possible. But If I'm already at the automated system, I am usually calling for just a few reasons. Perhaps I want web site support, but I probably need an agent to do something that's hard or impossible to do on the web site. Why frustrate me?
Of course, even better is if you have an eCRM system that integrates the call center and the web experience. Many companies now have a click-to-call link on their page. Some even connect you with an agent who has your information already from the history on the web site, but this is annoyingly rare. All this stuff is expensive and involves buying new tools and fancy reprogramming. What I propose is pretty trivial -- a much simpler menu gated by the phone number the person came in on. Any IVR can do that with a small amount of work.
Now I see one hole. The "Gets to an agent fast" number might of course be spread around, and people would want to use it for all their calls, defeating (to the company) the purpose of all those menus. But today, numbers are cheap. You can get a block of 100 numbers and change the magic one every day. Or, with a little bit of programming, really not that much, you can have the web site tell the true web-sourced callers "Dial extension xxxx when you get connected." That's a little fancier, requires the IVR be programmed to know about a changing extension, but again it's not nearly so hard as buying a whole eCRM system.
I know that companies don't want to frustrate their customers, they think the IVRs are saving them enough money to offset the frustration. But in this case, they are costing money, as the person wastes time listening to a pointles s IVR. Let's stop it!
I'm linking to it tomorrow in an editorial about how ISPs can use multiple phone numbers to improve customer service. A key subtopic is, "don't do it because they do." I fear that many small companies think they'll look big if they have a cumbersome IVR. It's not logical, but much of business is bureaucracy and imitation instead of innovation.


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Who can belong to the Life Ascending?
The Life Ascending is a movement for lay men and women. It is for all those we describe as senior citizens, older men and women, the retired and elderly or those who have reached a 'certain age.' An age when one realises that one is at a turning point in life. An Life Ascending group offers these men and women an opportunity to meet each other through regular group meetings.
The local Life Ascending Group is an important instrument in the way that Life Ascending helps its members grow in faith, prayer and love. For practical reasons, these groups are usually made up of people from one parish or one locality. The wider the mix of people, middle aged, old, this or that cultural or social background, the better it is for the Group. Hoping this information helps you to understand the ethos of this movement for the retired.
Group members are those who are active and free to enjoy the regular parish meetings.
Associate members those men and women who are unable to join a specific Group for one reason or another.


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LulzSec Explains Itself, Sort Of
The hacking pranksters have issued a kind of manifesto
To mark their thousandth tweet, the prank-happy hackers at Lulz Security have posted a manifesto of sorts on Pastebin. Normally, we would give you a brief background on the group, but theirs is funnier:
For the past month and a bit, we've been causing mayhem and chaos throughout the Internet, attacking several targets including PBS, Sony, Fox, porn websites, FBI, CIA, the U.S. government, Sony some more, online gaming servers (by request of callers, not by our own choice), Sony again, and of course our good friend Sony.
Most of the group's attacks so far have seemed random or pointless, aside from giving them the lulz (Internet speak for laughs) they've said are the only reason they're in the hacking game. But with today's missive, the group leaves the random prankster category and enters the activism camp, simply because its members do, it seems, have a point to make after all. Basically, they're here to show you how flimsy security is, all over the Internet.
Do you think every hacker announces everything they've hacked? We certainly haven't, and we're damn sure others are playing the silent game. Do you feel safe with your Facebook accounts, your Google Mail accounts, your Skype accounts? What makes you think a hacker isn't silently sitting inside all of these right now, sniping out individual people, or perhaps selling them off? You are a peon to these people. A toy. A string of characters with a value.
This is what you should be fearful of, not us releasing things publicly, but the fact that someone hasn't released something publicly. We're sitting on 200,000 Brink users right now that we never gave out. It might make you feel safe knowing we told you, so that Brink users may change their passwords. What if we hadn't told you? No one would be aware of this theft, and we'd have a fresh 200,000 peons to abuse, completely unaware of a breach.
Whether you think they make a good argument or can't forgive them for knocking out EVE Online, at least the explanation is out there. LulzSec is on the record as not just in it for the lulz.
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We may mention in this connection a remarkable late Deuteronomic interpretation of the presence of God in the temple at Jerusalem. 16) a saying of Yahweh's to Solomon after the consecration of the temple runs : I have consecrated this temple which you have built, by leaving my name there for ever ; my eyes and my heart also shall be there for all time. The well known Deuteronomic saying about the name of God dwelling in the sanctuary is explained and supplemented by an otherwise unknown expansion.
Is the synonymous parallel to 'plan' Çësâ) : May he grant you your heart's desire, and fulfil all your plans ! 5 the Yahwist talks about the forming of the plans of the heart which are only evil. Since the criteria of plans and actions have to be considered in the heart, I. comes to take on the meaning 'conscience', for example in I Sam. ' In the same way, in II Sam. 10 it is the heart as conscience that beats, or smites David. The reason given for the 'beating' of the heart in the respective contexts shows that the writer does not mean the beating of the heart, either in the physiological sense, or in the sense of excited emotions; what is being described is the reaction of the ethical judgment formed by the conscience.
75 The same is true according to Prov. 5 Since human life is reasonable life, the hearing ear and the properly directed tongue are the essential organs for man. In so far the central Deuteronomic 'Hear, Ο Israel' (Deut. 4) is picking up the oldest call to the patriarchs and the voices of the prophets, as the word which is the essential ground of human life and its renewal. For the ear and the mouth provide not only the specifically human exchange between men, but also that between Yahweh and Israel, between mankind and its God.


Few things invigorate on a 96-degree Baltimore day. Our garden being the first stop on the three-day summer expedition of the prestigious Hortus Club of New York did just that.
With membership limited to 30 horticulturalists from the finest nurseries, botanical gardens, arboretums, and universities in New York, the level of experience and knowledge among these visitors was exceptional. We so enjoyed sharing the garden here on Walnut Hill with them and hearing their comments.
In a shady spot on the lawn, we began with a short history of the garden. Members then browsed the hillside, woodland and terrace gardens. They wandered the paths, talking to us about some of the plants that Kurt Bluemel had found, particularly the Davidia involucrata, Disanthsus cercidifolius and the Hakonechloa macra, a refreshing shade of lime on a steamy morning.
Of other interest to some was our collection of Acers, particularly the old variety, Acer palmatum var. dissectum 'Viridis,' at the top of a woodland and the size of the Acer palmatum var. dissectum 'Seiryu' by the terrace. The yellow Clivia miniata we grow in pots on the terrace struck several. We've had good luck with them, and they seem helped by summering outdoors in a shady spot.
Having visitors to the garden is always instructive. On of the Hortus Club members was a holly specialist, so we learned the possible cause of a problem we're having with the hollies in the woodland. They may have been planted too deep in an area that collects water.
The biggest surprise with our visitors from New York was that the mystery plant up by the house was identified. With florets like lilacs, and on a woody shrub, we've always suspected from its leaves that it was part of the hydrangea family. After no one could settle on just what it is, one member took a photo and texted it to someone at the New York Botanical Garden. Immediately, the answer came back: Platycrater arguta, an unusual Asian plant in the Hydrangeacaea family.
Thank you, Hortus Club, for mid-summer invigoration, investigation and a lot of fun.