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Political Skew of Sportsfans
I just thought this chart was interesting. The source reported it as evidence that ESPN's strategy of being more explicitly political and skewing Left makes no sense given its audience. I don't particularly care if ESPN skews Left or Right, it is their decision to add political content of any sort to all their programming that has turned me off. (source)
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ErikTheRed:
Monster truck and extreme sports fans leaning left is an amusing surprise.
FarmBoy11B:
What's interesting to me is where UFC, WWE, and super truck fans fall on this chart. None of the rest surprise me. Is there actual data behind this?
J_W_W:
Note to PGA, go SJW and you're gonna end up cooked....
I was very surprised by where the LPGA appeared on this spectrum. Men's PGA? Not so much.
Supercross, the sport of true equality!!
Extreme sports don't surprise me, since they tend to be both practiced by a mostly urban population and also concentrated in certain left-leaning states like California and Colorado. Monster truck fans appear to be largely centrist (at least by whatever index has been constructed here), but also below-average in terms of turnout. This tells me that they either are not terribly engaged in politics or simply don't hold sharply partisan views on a majority of issues.
craftman:
I'd be interested to see this chart corrected for race, age, and gender (no to go all liberal arts college on you). But of course old white men watching the PGA are more likely to vote and vote Republican. This is not news.
In other words, I'm guessing that correcting for those 3 factors moves most of these bubbles very close to dead center. Which ones still have a large skew in either axis? You might be able to tease out something interesting from that chart.
March 9, 2017, 12:01 pm
I don't think the point is to suggest that there is a causal relationship between being a fan of a given sport and holding particular political beliefs. Socioeconomic variables and selection effects probably account for much of the correlation between fandom and political orientation. It's a largely descriptive analysis, but an interesting one nonetheless.
Dan Wendlick:
Two conclusions: Wealthy people vote, men vote Republican.
Yeah I agree I would be skeptical of someone attempting a causal analysis - but my point was is this chart even interesting or is it just a sports-fan-demographic chart? If it zeroes itself out, so to speak, upon controlling for that, I don't find it interesting at all.
I agree with others that - as is - the WWE and UFC bubbles were not what I expected.
I'd say its value lies in attempting to quantify what many of us already suspected. From a social science standpoint, the next step would be to investigate what accounts for membership in these fan groups, including the factors you suggested. I wouldn't be surprised if marketing departments of some of the larger leagues already had a great deal of information on this, but haven't really extended it to questions of political leanings.
LPGA doesn't surprise me. The people who watch women's golf are likely to be the hard-core golf fans, skewing older and richer than the population generally. I've also heard from several golf fans that he women's game is closer to what the typical weekend golfer plays, with less emphasis on distance and more on shot selection and precision. Women's basketball doesn't correspond to this, because of the general criticism that they play a style of basketball that the men's game abandoned by the early 1970s, i.e. the pick-and-roll, look for the open man, jump-shot, instead of the slash and drive, above the rim plus three point game played in the NCAA men's and NBA. Golf is largely watched by those who play the game; basketball is not.
And widespread political apathy
Well, yes there's that too ;-)
The point is to the sports. Bring left wing social justice signaling into your sport at great peril.
For one example, I now actively cheer agains Missou in college supports because of their despicable SJW efforts. I used to just not care about them at all.
Apparently ESPN is dumber than a box of rocks then based on how they're skewing their coverage....
After some more thought, ESPN has become Howard Cosell's revenge. The endless parade of ex-jocks has been put to pasture; the Jockocracy overturned. It has become a network not of and for sports fans, but a network of and for sports reporters. When sports reporting became a professional discipline, in part because of the market created by outlets like ESPN, it was populated by people who had interest in sports, but not enough talent for the game. Just like political reporting, It is inhabited by people jealous of those they cover; a jelousy that breeds contempt.
marque2:
Even if folk tended neutral when adjusted as you want, then ESPN coverage should be neutral, not way left. Better yet, we tend to watch to heat the latest about sports, not how bad Hillary or Trump are, why not talk sports instead of politics unless there is a strong sport related issue like Football brain injury.
johnmoore:
The modern corporate world is, these days, led by captains of progressivism, rather than capitalists. Sure, they seek to make a lot of money, but they also largely come from colleges where they were steeped in progressive ideas, and their friends are the same way.
Our society has stratified, and those at the top, contrary to what the left always claims, are lefties, except in a few areas directly tied to their profits. Look at how many companies boycotted North Carolina for refusing to bend over for the latest craziness in the sex war.
Matthew Slyfield:
So explain the WWE.
Poor so not many vote, but I would think they have that big a female audience.
Peabody:
I would have guessed that WWE trends low turnout, white, blue-color dems that vote Democrat for historical reasons. I couldn't find anything regarding methodology, dates, etc. but I would be surprised if the 2016 presidential election was strongly included in this.
I can believe some of these, but Monster Trucks is politically neutral? UFC?
UFC isn't really neutral. It's very slightly Democratic.
UFC and Pro Wrestling on the Democrat side. Who would have thought that the SJW crowd would go for blood sports (well a fake blood sport in one case)?
markm:
Perhaps there's a significant block of the monster truck fans that are union members, and strongly Democrat.
Craig:
Inside every sportswriter is a little Paul Krugman wanting to emerge. Look what happens every time sports and politics converge - sportswriters jump at the chance to espouse their lefty politics.
jon spencer:
One of the reasons that I watch the LPGA is that the women hit the ball roughly the same distance that I did. Although they are much, much more accurate. Putt better too.
When a male pro pulls out a 8 iron and the yardage is near 200, I cannot relate.


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First, get a solid structure put in place. A solid structure is a combination of accountability, daily prayer, Bible reading, and regular consultation with a pastor, mentor or Christian counselor. Find yourself a good men's accountability group, or a good Christian therapist. An accountability group is a great option since connection is a necessity to having transformation in your life! I encourage you to also begin a daily habit of devotion, personal prayer, and some time spent reading scripture. Let your wife know, in writing preferably, what your structure is. List the name of your group leader, your counselor, and the schedule you're adopting. Give her a copy so she knows what program you're following, and tell her she can watch you to see if you're sticking to it. You'll probably be surprised how much trust this alone can build.
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Q: What is the output of a cascaded amplifier? I wanted to make an comparator with cascade of amplifiers of equal gain, output impedance etc. We know that we can approximate it as single pole system , thus a resistor and a capacitor in the output will do the approximation.  I was able to calculate the gain for first stage i.e $$-g_m * R_o * \frac{t }{R_o C_o} $$
This is when t<< time constant.
Now as stages increases , I want to derive the speed and delay. Can someone help me or share materials that contain this derivation?

A: Assume that \$V_i = 1\$. It doesn't change the essence of the problem since a linear time invariant system is assumed. Just multiply the final answer with \$V_i\$.
The step response is approximated as \$k\cdot t\$ in equation (6.2), where \$k\$ is some constant (\$\frac{g_m}{C_0}\$). So the corresponding (approximate) impulse response is \$k\ u(t)\$, the unit step function. So, you need to convolve the output of previous stage with this impulse response to get output of next stage.
Input of first stage is unit step. Output of first stage is \$k\ t\$ equation (6.2).
So, the input of second stage is \$k\ t\$. When convolved with \$k u(t)\$ we get the output as
$$
\int_0^t k \cdot u(\tau) \times k\cdot (t-\tau)\ d\tau = k^2 t^2 - k^2 t^2/2 = k^2  t^2/2
$$
This is the input of the third stage. When convolved again with \$k u(t)\$ we get the output as (checked via Wolfram Alpha)
$$
\int_0^t k \cdot u(\tau) \times k^2 \cdot (t-\tau)^2/2\ d\tau
= k^3 t^3/(2\cdot 3)
$$
Continuing, the nth stage output is \$k^n t^n / n!\$.
This is what is given in (6.4).
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If you are familiar with Laplace transform, the difficult to perform convolutions simplify to multiplication. Try that route if convolutions are difficult for you.

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Photo from Sound Vision, used with permission.
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So far? It looks like it's working.
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After drinks at the Channel 4 studios where I was invited to a screening of something my wife is in, we all piled into the Albert nearby in St James. It was pretty functional and I imagine they get a lot of passing tourist trade. Victoriana crossed with coffee shop chain décor, some seasonal Christmas ales (one of which was the Hobgoblin one, I forget the other). They also do 50p off for CAMRA members although don't advertise it. Overall I'd say it's the sort of pub you'd be happy to go with work colleagues, or after a visit to Channel 4 but nothing spectacular otherwise. I did think the shape of the building was impressive and beautifully contrasted against the modern office buildings either side of it.
"beercritic" seems to be obsessed with this pub, judging by the amount of comments s/he posts. Very strange behaviour.
Paul the manager trying to inject some life into this pub which is a big tourist attraction. In need of a refurb to bring it to to date. Would help if they did away with mock victorian theme.Staff very good. Suffers from the coffee bar syndrome whereby too many tourists think it is a starbucks to the detrement of people who actually want a drink.
An attractive looking pub close to Victoria Railway Station. Wonderful engraved window glass. London Pride OK and the place had a friendly, comfortable atmosphere. But why of why the need for loud rock music. Completely out of place in the Victorian surroundings. People wanted to drink and talk, not get deafened by that row. The Chelsea Pensioner on our table tucked into his steak & kidney pudding and chips which looked nourishing. Not a bad pub at all.


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Ted Katsigianis Talks 30 Years at Biltmore
Ted Katsigianis is a walking encyclopedia of all things Biltmore. His extensive knowledge of the Biltmore grounds is a result of 33 years of service on the 8000-acre estate. He currently serves as Vice President of Agricultural Sciences, working to keep up George Vanderbilt's original vision for the estate to be a self-sustaining working farm. Ted maintains that emphasis on agriculture, a daunting task that includes oversight of Biltmore's extensive bodies of livestock and farmland with assistance from a 50-person crew. "That includes the equestrian programs, the farm, and agritourism," Ted explains. "We also do a lot of work with school groups to teach kids where their food comes from. We host about 60,000 kids a year. Most of them visit our farmyard where we teach about breed diversity. For example, we have fiber goats and meat goats and milk goats, so we educate kids about the different purposes of livestock. It's all part of the North Carolina Science curriculum." Ted calls conducting tours and managing the agriculture and equestrian programs his "night job," yet he dispenses much of his knowledge during the day when the estate is inundated with patrons.
Although the services Biltmore offers its visitors are expansive, the growth is calculated. "We like to say, 'start small, learn, and grow,'" Ted tells me from the lobby of The Inn on Biltmore Estate overlooking one of the estate's many majestic backyards. Some of the vegetables and meats for Biltmore's seven restaurants are sourced in-house. Ted speaks proudly of the estate's investment in naturally growing its farm animal population and crops. "We started out with 29 purebred Angus brood cows [in 1983], and now we have almost 300. All of that is organic growth. We haven't brought any other females in. The same with our sheep. We started with 24 Dorset sheep [in 1994], now we have almost 300 White Dorper sheep."
Ted also spoke about the process of keeping all of the estate's restaurants stocked with estate-grown products. "Looking at our meats, right after our busy Christmas season, I meet with our food and beverage buyer and all of our chefs. Sitting down together, I give them an idea of the products we're anticipating. We then develop a cut sheet for each species that determines which of Biltmore's several restaurants receives what product. For instance, with beef, the cut sheet might say 'Cedric's [Tavern] gets the tenderloin and Stable Cafe gets the hamburger and Chef Kirk [Biltmore Catering] gets the beef brisket.' Our process is really a friendly negotiation that we've done for years. We do the same with our lamb, pork, hens, our free-range chicken and our eggs. Most of our eggs are currently going to Cedric's where they make Scotch eggs."
With Ted as our guide, we got a firsthand account of exactly how things are done at Biltmore. Each division of the estate works like a well-oiled machine that fuels the daily operations of the entire grounds. In September of last year, Vivian and her mom (Miss Scarlett) accompanied a shuttle of approximately 30 fans of A CHEF'S LIFE on a tour of Biltmore's farmland that included stops along the ground's most remote pastures and a visit to the property's state-of-the-art hydroponic greenhouse where lettuce and a variety of microgreens flourish. "Most of the public areas of the estate, the east side of the property, are pretty well traveled, especially by our 100,000 pass holders," Ted adds. The grounds boast 75 acres of breathtaking, manicured gardens. But, Vivian like many guests, was surprised by the way sustainable environmental practices are worked into the aesthetic of the property. "We grow canola and make our own canola oil. So that's been a fun project," Ted shares. "When canola is in bloom, it's gorgeous and the bright yellow blooms of the crop fill the estate's fields in a sea of yellow. It's a show stopper. So not only do you produce a crop of edible oil that is used in our fryers and then is processed on the farm into biofuel, but our guests love the visual detail that the crop brings to a visit to the estate."
Some guests take guided Segway tours that allow access to the estate's west side where agriculture takes center stage. The west part of the estate leads to Long Valley Vineyard which silhouettes the French Broad River that bisects the property. "Imagine the vineyard in October when the air is crisp and the leaves have changed," Ted encourages. "It's spectacular."
Biltmore has undergone major changes since Ted first arrived in Asheville as an animal scientist from the University of Maryland some thirty years ago. "It was a dairy farm in transition that needed a lot of work-- fencing, upgrading and all that. It was pretty overwhelming. There were something like 200, 000 visitors then, so tourism was viable but nothing like the 1.4 million annual visitors we see today." He continues, "I was asked to come in 1982 and help make the transition from dairy farm to a grazing livestock operation. So I consulted for the estate before moving to Asheville in 1983 for 'a couple of years'– time flies when you're having a good time! There have been a lot of challenges to overcome, a lot of neat opportunities, but most of all it's been a lot of fun."


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Baristas Refuse to be Victims
By Nicki Kenyon, March 31st 2014
After a string of robberies in less than a month at Jitterz Java in Spokane, WA, the coffee shop owner and her employees decided they were going to take responsibility for their own safety. Sara Chapel is not only encouraging her staff members to bring their tools of self defense to work with them, but she's keeping a firearm in the stand just in case it's needed. This is a refreshing change from cowards who insist their employees remain defenseless while on the job, and even punish and fire their workers for daring to stand up to armed thugs! Yes, we're looking at YOU, Shell station in Nashua, NH and you, Dominos.
The video from the last robbery attempt at Jitterz Java shows that the employee merely had to grab her firearm to make the would-be thieves soil themselves in fear and run away after trying to break their way into the store through a drive-through window. As it happens in so many self-defense cases, all the potential prey had to do was brandish the firearm to stop the crime. Researcher John Lott writes in More Guns Less Crime, that "in many defensive cases a handgun is simply brandished, and no one is harmed ..." This may be one reason why recorded instances of defensive gun uses in America seem to fall short of actual incidents. Since no one is harmed and the firearm is never discharged, police are never notified.
Customer response appears to have been positive so far, with shop patrons encouraging employees to take responsibility for the safety of their place of work and themselves, and thus far there has been only one vocal, condescending arrogant misogynist who opened his maw and spewed forth an offensive generalization about armed women. "Whoa, maybe you girls shouldn't have them because when you're angry you do things you shouldn't," he reportedly said.
Really? What, no PMS reference to complement the obnoxious, reprehensible bigotry?
Fact is women serve in America's and other nations' armed forces, participate in shooting competitions, and hunt. Gun ownership among females is on the rise, and we have seen no increase in negligent or overreactive discharges as a result.
And yet, this "women are too emotional to use guns" argument has been used as justification by petty tyrants in three-piece suits to deny the right to self defense for all students on college campuses.
The owner of Jitterz Java correctly believes that everyone deserves the ability to protect themselves and to take personal responsibility for their own safety, and despite the thankfully rare bout of misogynistic ignorance, it appears the response to the coffee shop's "protect yourself and your place of employment" policy has been overwhelmingly positive.
Unlike the sniveling, hoplophobic crybabies who haunt the grunge scene-y, fluffy couches of Starbucks, and who demand a ban on firearms, circulate petitions and arbitrarily call police whenever they see an armed citizen, this shop actively encourages armed self defense, and its employees set a stellar example!
Kudos, Jitterz Java!
Here's to a long, profitable existence!
Nicki Kenyon has been an avid gun rights advocate since she returned to the United States from an overseas Army tour in Germany. She began writing about Second Amendment issues in 2001 when KeepAndBearArms.com published her first essay, "The Moment.". She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Arts degree in National Security Studies from American Military University. Her area of expertise in those fields is European and Eurasian affairs. When not writing about gun rights or hanging out with her husband and son, she practices dry-firing her M1911 at the zombies of "The Walking Dead."


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There are certain pop culture experiences that just perfectly lend themselves to quotation. When I worked in the call center from Hell, you couldn't swing a cat without hearing a quote from 'Anchorman', while the quotable movie of my college years was 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.' As a child of the 1970s, my childhood cultural quotability touchstones were evenly split between 'Caddyshack' and the work of George Carlin (especially troubling in elemental school) and I still have a special love for most of Val Kilmer's dialogue from 'Real Genius,' and Gene Wilder's brilliant turn as Willy Wonka. I even have a silent, terrifying suspicion that, somewhere, a generation of children is repeating the dialogue of 'Rick & Morty' the way my friends and I absorbed the movie 'Heathers' back in the Clinton administration, leading to today's repetitious query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, "misquoted") will take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again, What is the most quotable movie or character in your experience?
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The Princess Bride is one of the best….
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Uuno Turhapuro, from Finnish comedy film series of the same name.
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"Peter. What's—– Happening?"
"You know, I never really liked paying bills, I don't think I'm gonna do that either."
"Why should I have to change -my- name? He's the one who sucks!"
And my favorite.
"So you're gonna make a lot of money?"
"And it's not yours?"
"Well… it -becomes- ours…"
"And how is that not stealing?"
vixyn on August 2, 2018 8:04 am
What?!?! My life is an endless series of quotes! Movies, songs, tv shows, there is nothing off limits. I don't know how I could narrow it down to just one! Anyways, I suppose if I were to narrow down to a person that does get a lot of quotes, it'd be Robin Williams. His movies lend themselves to endless quotes. From Aladdin to DPS to Birdcage, there is always a Robin quote for the situation.


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Gay scouts and troop leaders may be able to take part in Boy Scouts
By Spartan Newsroom | February 15, 2013
By Lia Kananipuamaeole Kamana
Ingham County Chronicle staff writer
Last week the Boy Scouts of America announced that it is considering an end to the organization's ban on gay troop leaders and scouts. A national board meeting in May will decide the issue. If the board were to decide to lift the ban on gays, it would still leave the final decisions on membership and leadership up to the individual troops and sponsors. "I believe it would cause animosity and trouble amongst troops that are OK with it and those that aren't," said Irfan Mir, a current MSU junior majoring in neuroscience, who once was a part of Troop 164 in Okemos, Mich.
Tyler Beck, a junior at Michigan State University who was involved with Troop 292 in Kalamazoo prior to it moving, said that the he believes the lift of the ban would cause problems with older members and sponsors.


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My friend John invited me to come to his birthday party. At first, I didn't want to go, but then I changed my mind and decided to go. There were many people at the party and they all enjoyed themselves. I talked to all of them but I didn't spend too much time with anyone. And then I saw her. She wore a beautiful red dress but she looked a little bit clumsy in it and for a moment I thought it wasn't hers. I saw she looked herself in the mirror and thought that she was very pretty. I decided to meet her. I went out to my friend's garden because I knew there were red roses in it. I wanted to pick one and give it to the girl. There was a knife in the garden and I took it to cut the rose, but I cut myself. I went to the bathroom to try to find a bandage and it took a long time. When I came out of the bathroom I went to the girl to introduce myself. She looked lovely and I fell in love with her in a second.
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In a field, a couple workers talk about Jean-Paul Sartre and the belief in God. One of them believes there's no use succumbing to a higher power, because, like the cucumber, we return to the dirt. "Existence is discovery," he says. We move from the field to the factory, where the workers lament their jobs. Then the cucumbers become pickles, they move to the store. Some people eat them. Others throw jars at peoples houses.
Jeff (Jim Carrey) seems to be ready to date now that he and Vivian (Ginger Gonzaga) are together, though he realises it's short term, given she's on her way to death. But it's possible he might've been getting ahead of himself by going to tell Jill (Judy Greer) about it. He's beyond happy about this new relationship, even if he's not getting a text back from Vivian.
At the same time, Deirdre (Catherine Keener) worries about her brother, and, in turn, the show. Seb (Frank Langella) continues pushing his capitalist agenda onto his daughter, playing on her insecurities. He's already outsourcing Mr. Pickles to Vietnam. He asks his daughter: "Build me a Jeff."
While Jeff's concerned about the text he isn't getting he's also scared kids might possibly get dangerous ideas from his television show, brought on by Shaina saying her life was saved by the show. In his mind this equates to it could "take a life," too. Seb guarantees his son this would never happen because they're a puppet show. Afterwards, a hilarious scene brings us back to 1992 where a young black kid tells his mom he's off to "Pickle Barrel Falls" just like the opening of Mr. Pickles' Puppet Time where Mr. Pickles goes over a waterfall with a homemade parachute. It doesn't turn out well for the boy, though we're not privy to the aftermath.
Jeff tells his sister, very honestly, how he was with Vivian sexually and "loved her in the pussy." This made me literally spit out a drink— thanks Jim Carrey, you nearly ruined my keyboard! Deirdre gives her brother advice about the text message, and it's clear Vivian is most likely purposely not replying to him, she probably doesn't want to get close to anyone when she only has little time to live.
Kids have heard on the "dark web" that Jeff was actually a brutal military man years before. There are rumours he's killed all kinds of people. So, he uses this to scare one of Will's (Cole Allen) pot smoking buddies. He finds his son, trying to get help with his cellphone. This takes Jeff to a store, where he sadly tries getting someone to fix his phone because he's sure it's broken— Will sweetly diverts the depressing attention away from his father. There's also mention of a second number on his account, which Will hears. His dad says it belongs to the guy who hit the vehicle the day Phil died. Whoa. Wonder how it'll affect Jill's relationship to Jeff if she hears about that.
"Hate doesn't punish who you think it does"
At home, Deirdre lies in bed with Scott (Bernard White), who finally tries telling the truth about himself to his wife. She knows what he's trying to say. She simply doesn't want to let their family fall apart, already sick with worry about her daughter and what a divorce would do to her. All this forces her towards making the new Jeff, an image for them to sell as a marketable tool. At work, Jeff finds his sister working on the big giant head looking exactly like his face. Uncanny stuff. Deirdre laments not being able to protect him like it was when they were younger, and particularly before the worst tragedy of his life, losing a child. All this may only push him further into a worrisome psychological state.
That night, Jill goes to see Jeff. She finds him continually lost in his memories. She's also angry at him for paying bills for the guy who killed their son, unable to comprehend why he would do such a thing, and, worse, not tell her about it. The Mr. Pickles in Jeff makes him feel compassion for anybody and everybody. Jill can't bring herself to do that. This is when he begins seeing his wife genuinely doesn't love him anymore, as well. Jill tells him the man he's paying bills for is fleecing him, that he doesn't actually have an injury. She takes this time to also school him on the hard truth of Vivian not returning his text. One big ouch of a scene. Except right after, Jeff does get a reply— her phone was broken. Maybe there's hope amongst all the nihilism. Jill hasn't entirely moved on like she pretends, either. She sometimes sleeps in the top bunk above her still living son, just as Phil would if he were alive.
There's also a light of hope in the house we saw the jar of pickles get thrown at earlier, where the boy who went over the falls all those years ago is now a man, walking with a cane but alive and well. Because the barrel floated with the parachute sheet. Because sometimes – just sometimes – magic things happen in real life. Perhaps Jeff's living half between reality and half between an idyllic place isn't all bad.
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Tuesday, 8.–I spent the day with Elder Rigdon in visiting Elder Cahoon at the place he had selected for his residence, and in attending to some of our private, personal affairs; also in the afternoon I answered the questions which were frequently asked me, while on my last journey but one from Kirtland to Missouri, as printed in the Elders' Journal, vol. I, Number 2, pages 28 and 29, as follows:
Seventh–"Do the Mormons believe in having more wives than one?"
"No, not at the same time. But they believe that if their companion dies, they have a right to marry again. But we do disapprove of the custom, which has gained in the world, and has been practiced among us, to our great mortification, in marrying in five or six weeks, or even in two or three months, after the death of their companion. We believe that due respect ought to be had to the memory of the dead, and the feelings of both friends and children.


Why is it that some companies always seem no matter the business climate, to continue to be successful? The answer to this questions is complicated and surely contains a range of factors that are different depending on the business and industry, but there are some commonalities for consistently successful businesses that can be studied and duplicated. One for example is great leadership. Having a great business leader like Robert Stefanowski, who understands how to manage an enterprise for continuous growth, is a core requirement for the success of any business. And there are other important elements that need to be a part of the business as well. Here is a list of some of the most important.
Some businesses start with a foundation that is designed to adapt to market variations and customer changing attitudes. IBM is a great example of this. In the 1970s International Business Machines was as its name implied, a maker of office business machines primarily typewriters and such. When it was clear that computers would play a role in business, they got heavily into that area; first in mainframe computers and then servers, and in the 1980s they began selling small and portable personal computers, and finally laptops toward the end of the decade. In fact the first office PC was an IBM computer.
IBM was once the largest seller of office computers and when that business plateaued they sold the majority of it and were already focused on their newly powerful business area, business services. Today they are one of the largest providers of business services in the world with a business valued at more than $100 billion dollars. Throughout their existence IBM did not only have to continually remake itself and learn several new product categories, they had to do so in marketplaces where consumers were also in transition. Their ability to adapt to the needs of the marketplace and the needs of customers, is what has allowed it to remake itself and enjoy decades of success in the fast moving technology industry.
Part of the reason IBM was able to adapt is because its founders and executive management team ran a company that invited and in fact thrived on change. The company has had some rough spots but its adherence to this principal keeps it relevant no matter what is happening in the marketplace. An ability to adapt is based in having a mindset of paying attention and also being honest about where you sit in the scheme of things.
Are you positioned to win? Are you making the right decisions for growth? What are your customers' needs today and tomorrow and are you prepared to meet them? This process of constantly looking outward and inward is necessary for a business to always be on top.
When you are in business you should expect that some of your best ideas will simply fall flat. An idea becoming a success story occurs because of many factors some which are, and others that are not fully in your control.
You launch a great product and there is a recession, your production factory has a fire and you cannot get it into the marketplace during a critical launch period, a war breaks out in a critical market for your company; these are dramatic but real occurrences that can derail the success of a product no matter how prepared, competent, or smart your team is and no matter how many resources you have at your disposal. So because you should expect failures, you also need to be resilient.
When something fails many people take it personally. The team that put the hard work in sometimes feels like they let everyone down and perhaps they are not fit to continue in their roles. The great companies fight through this. Apple computer knew they had better products that people would buy, but they were too far ahead of their time. If Steve Jobs would have given up on their dream of a company that leads in design, functionality and technology, after so many products that were well received but never reached their sales potential, there might not be an Apple Computer today. So resilience is a key attribute needed for a company to keep shining. Great businesses take it on the chin, and keep fighting.
In the business world, good advice is a rare and sought after commodity. Use this information to make yourself a better businessperson and your company more successful.


Small Business Saturday, the day after Black Friday, and two days before Cyber Monday, is a relatively new national campaign to drive business to stores once known as Mom & Pop Shops. While we think of Black Friday as the day to shop department store deals and Cyber Monday as a day to shop online deals, Small Business Saturday is a day to shop local and support non-franchised stores. Independent bookstores have their own name for this day: Indies First Day.
I wish I could show you around my two favourite independent bookshops in Norwich (UK). One is The Bookhive, the other Dormouse Books. Real treasures!
The next time I'm in England, I'm coming for a visit! I've wanted to visit Norwich. I can only imagine how special those bookstores are.
Katia, feel free to post photos of them here. I'd love to see them!
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El tacuarembó, tacuarembó roquy (Chusquea ramosissima) es una especie de planta de la familia Poaceae (gramíneas) de la subfamilia del bambú que crece en Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina.

Descripción
Es una planta perenne leñosa, con abundantes ramificaciones dendroides, gran altura, gran tamaño de los culmos, hasta de 2 dm de diámetro; internodos sólidos de 5-10 cm de largo, glabros. Posee la condición de trepadora facultativa,  pudiendo subir adosada a los árboles,  alcanzando 4-10 m de altura pero puede llegar a 20 m,  situando su follaje en estratos medios del bosque. Las hojas son lanceoladas, de 10-15 cm de largo, lígula en base de hojas; pecíolo pubescente 1-2 mm de largo.

Inflorescencia en panícula abierta, de 3 cm de largo con pocas espiguillas.

Ecología
La presencia de lluvias y fuertes vientos (y en las zonas serranas los deslizamientos de ladera) pueden aumentar la heterogeneidad del paisaje con caída de árboles y formación de aclareos, que son ocupados por plántulas de diferentes especies (por ej. por bambúceas, especialmente Chusquea ramossisima, planta heliófila que forma grandes macizos aprovechando estas aberturas del dosel), quienes pueden inhibir la regeneración de otras especies que necesitan de claros para crecer.

Etnobotánica
Keller en un artículo sobre el mito en torno a la Chusquea ramosissima, conocida en la nación "Ava Chiripa" como "el cuchillo del escarabajo"; uniendo las características de luciérnagas, búhos, escarabajos y de esta bambúsea, originados durante el transcurso de un antiguo eclipse solar.

Secuenciación genónima
Se tiene el secuenciado del gen cloroplásmico "rpl16".

Taxonomía
Chusquea ramosissima fue descrita por Carl Axel Magnus Lindman y publicado en Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar, n.s. 34(6): 24, t. 14. 1900.
Etimología
Chusquea: nombre genérico que viene del muisca chusky, que según manuscritos coloniales significa "Caña ordinaria de la tierra". Al parecer el nombre científico fue asignado por José Celestino Mutis durante la Expedición Botánica.

ramosissima: epíteto latino que significa "la más ramificada".
Sinonimia
 Chusquea affinis
 Chusquea peruviana
 Chusquea phacellophora
Chusquea sandiensis

Nombres comunes
Tacuarilla, tacuarembó, tacuarembó roquy.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Keller, H. A. Origen mítico de Chusquea ramosissima (Poaceae), el antiguo cuchillo de los Guaraníes. Universidad Nacional del Nordeste.

ramosiss

Flora del sur de Sudamérica
Flora de América del Sur continental

Plantas descritas en 1900

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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Finance & Development, June 2008
The June 2008 issue tackles the crisis in financial markets in industrial countries from a number of angles. Articles look at the origins of the crisis in the subprime mortgage market in the United States and track its spillover into other markets. Then authors examine what can be done to prevent future crises. Other articles look at bank capital adequacy rules and Basel II, whether emerging markets and industrial economies are decoupling or converging, capital flows to low-income countries, efforts to achieve the MDGs, and currency intervention. Back to Basics looks at over-the-counter (OTC) markets and the People in Economics column profiles Jacques Polak. Picture This is on the digital divide.
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A Crisis of confidence… and a lot more
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Policy implications
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Failing to materialize
Guarding against shocks
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The dramatic growth in private capital flows to low-income countries (LICs) around the world over the past quarter century is one of the good news stories of development. Capital flows and capital-like flows, such as aid grants and remittances that can substitute for capital flows, are at historic highs, spearheaded by a sharp rise in foreign direct investment in LIC economies.
While government-to-government grants and loans to these developing countries have grown only in line with the rise in LIC GDP, private-source inflows have quadrupled relative to LIC GDP since the 1980s, and foreign direct investment (FDI) has risen even more dramatically, helping to spur development. The rise is taking place at a time when promised large increases in official aid to poor countries have so far failed to materialize, and the UN Millennium Development Goals—which include reducing poverty and improving living standards—remain stubbornly out of reach.
The LICs are a diverse group united by little other than low per capita incomes. India is the biggest, with more than a billion people and a 2006 GDP of $772 billion. It is classed with Brazil, Russia, and China as one of the "BRIC" major emerging markets. The littlest is Dominica, with about 70,000 people and a GDP of $0.02 billion. The LICs can be found around the globe: in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, eastern Europe, Latin America, and the south Pacific.
Capital flows to LICs are a poorly understood and poorly researched topic. Most of the attention so far on international capital flows into developing economies has focused on the large emerging markets, in part because LICs account for a relatively small share (5–20 percent) of developing country capital inflows in most asset and liability categories. And the work that has been done specifically on LICs has focused on capital flight from these countries and on official flows, with a heavy emphasis on official debt and official debt forgiveness.
But new work by the IMF attempts to remedy this omission by analyzing trends in capital and capital-like flows to LICs (Dorsey and others, 2008; see box). This article looks at the story behind the numbers relating to this dramatic change in financing for the world's poorer countries and examines whether there are downsides to this trend.
If LICs were simply poor economies that received proportionately lower inflows than other developing countries, the absence of a specific focus on LICs in the capital flow literature would not matter. However, the reality is that the composition of capital flowing into LICs is very different from that going to higher-income countries. Loans from government and foreign aid grants are much more important in LICs than in higher-income countries, whereas loans from banks and sales of stocks, bonds, and other securities are less important in LICs than in emerging markets.
Capital inflows are net changes in liabilities to other countries (for example, foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio flows such as stocks or treasury bills, and loans).
Capital-like inflows: The umbrella term "capital-like flows" is used in this article to cover current transfers (official and private), debt forgiveness, and other capital transfers in the capital account.
Other balance of payments flows may be substitutes for capital inflows even though they do not result in a change in ownership of an asset. Foreign aid (grants or official transfers) and debt forgiveness can substitute for official (government-to-government) loans; the use of foreign exchange reserves can substitute for new borrowing; and private transfers, such as remittances, are substitutable for official development assistance in some circumstances.
Asset outflows: The assessment of the benefits and other effects of capital and capital-like inflows depends in part on how these inflows are used. Inflows could be spent on exports or to acquire foreign assets. This study focuses on the changes in international reserves and the accumulation of other financial assets. Net errors and omissions, which are sometimes considered a proxy for disguised or unrecorded capital flows, are also included as asset outflows.
For the purposes of this study, we identified LICs as the 78 countries eligible for loans from the IMF's concessional lending facility, called the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility.
What we found is that capital and capital-like inflows to this group of countries increased from about 4 percent of LIC GDP in the 1980s to more than 10 percent of LIC GDP by 2006 (see Chart 1)—with the growth driven almost entirely by inflows from private sources. Indeed, private inflows, such as FDI and remittances, have risen from about half of total inflows in the 1980s to become the dominant source of inflows by the current decade.
Chart 1Cascading capital
Inflows to poor countries are rising sharply, driven by capital from private sources.
Citation: 45, 2; 10.5089/9781451922370.022.A012
Source: IMF, World Economic Outlook database.
Increased flows are being attracted by improved economic policies, a liberalized trade and investment environment, and more stable economic performance in many countries.
A number of poor countries, particularly in Africa, have been given a fillip by recent debt relief from official creditors, including the IMF and the World Bank. And although circumstances in individual countries vary, overall new inflows are associated with improving current account balances and are not building up new unsustainable debt.
In terms of official flows, government-to-government grants and loans have grown only at the same pace as LIC GDP, and their share of total inflows has fallen steadily. But there is a pronounced trend within official flows toward the substitution of grants for loans (see Chart 2). Consistent with announced donor policies, official current transfers (grants) tripled from roughly 0.5 percent of LIC GDP in the early 1980s to 1.3 percent of GDP in 2006.
Chart 2Failing to materialize
Promised increases in official aid have not been forthcoming, but grants are taking over from loans.
Mirroring this, official lending to LICs (net of debt forgiveness) declined from an inflow of about 1.5 percent of LIC GDP through the 1980s and 1990s to an outflow of about 0.2 percent of LIC GDP by 2006. If debt forgiveness is not netted out from the changes in official lending (that is, if debt forgiveness is counted as a capital outflow), official lending (measured as the change in liabilities to official creditors) turned negative in 2006.
As for private flows, the study shows that they have grown more than fourfold since the 1980s (see Chart 3). The most striking feature of the shift in capital flows to LICs is the more than tenfold increase in FDI as a share of LIC GDP between the 1980s and 2006. FDI inflows averaged only 0.2 percent of LIC GDP in the early 1980s, but rose steadily to more than 3 percent of GDP by 2006.
Chart 3Leading the way
Foreign direct investment has led the increase in private capital flows.
Only slightly less striking is the rise in private current transfers, which include workers' remittances and other private transfers. This category more than tripled as a share of LIC GDP since the 1980s, rising from 1.1 percent of GDP in the early 1980s to 3.6 percent of GDP in 2006. Private inflows other than FDI and private transfers averaged only about ½ percent of LIC GDP in the 1980s and 1990s, but rose to just above 1 percent of GDP between 2003 and 2006.
Along with the increased inflows, LICs have also been accumulating official reserves (see Chart 4). The stock of reserves in LICs rose from the equivalent of 3.1 months of imports of goods and services in 1995 to 6.5 months by 2006. This self-insurance may be a contributing factor to the reduction in borrowing because the higher reserve levels allow LICs to forgo borrowing in the event of shocks and draw down reserves instead.
Chart 4Guarding against shocks
Poor countries are building up a cushion of reserves.
Is India or the other Asian LICs driving these results? In other words, do the results also apply to Africa? This is a fair question given the vast differences among LICs and the fact that differences in region, size, and other factors may have implications for economic analysis and performance. India accounts for roughly half of LIC GDP, and African LICs and south and east Asian LICs each account for roughly one-fifth of LIC GDP. LICs in all other regions (the Caribbean, the Caucasus region, southeastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and the Pacific Islands) account for the remaining 7 percent.
As it turns out, capital flows across the three larger regions all exhibit rising private inflows and relatively steady official inflows. Private flows have surged in Africa, India, and other south and east Asian LICs in broadly similar proportions, rising from 1 percent to 3 percent of GDP in the 1980s to at least 6 percent and as much as 10 percent of GDP by 2006.
There are some differences in the composition of private inflows across regions. FDI is the most important source of inflows to the African LICs, but private transfers are more important in south and east Asian LICs, including India. However, both components are increasing strongly in all three regions.
Official flows started at very different levels in the three regions—consistently higher in African LICs than in south and east Asian LICs and very low in India. Private flows to African LICs have converged with those in Asian LICs in recent years, suggesting that the disincentives to investment in Africa in prior decades are dissipating.
The increase in private flows is broad based across other dimensions of LIC diversity as well. For example, the surge in private inflows takes place across mineral- and oil-rich countries and nonmineral countries in roughly similar proportions. Mineral- and oil-rich LICs have higher levels of FDI, whereas nonmineral LICs have higher levels of remittances and other private transfers (Dorsey and others, 2008). The increase in private inflows and broadly parallel trends in other dimensions of this story apply across LICs with different indebtedness and debt-relief histories.
The reasons for the dramatic shift are diverse. Privatization or the opening of the economy to foreign acquisition of existing firms may create one-off opportunities for FDI. In addition, some LICs that had restricted even new greenfield investment by foreign firms may now be more open. These policies are hard to quantify, but there appears to have been a trend toward liberalization in recent years (Reddy, 2007).
Improvements in the general investment environment, including trade policies and policies affecting the ease and cost of setting up and operating businesses, also help (Busse and Groizard, 2006; Bénassy-Quéré, Coupet, and Mayer, 2007; and Naudé and Krugell, 2007). As with direct regulation of FDI, there has been a trend toward liberalization of trade and the business environment in LICs that coincides with the increase in FDI.
Broader policy considerations may also encourage investment in LICs. Inflation and the fiscal and external balances in LICs have improved in the past decade (Selassie and others, 2006), and this has strengthened the investment environment. Other factors such as political stability are harder to quantify but have undoubtedly promoted greater FDI where conditions have improved.
Economic developments elsewhere in the world may also have fostered increased FDI. The decline in yield on investments in advanced and emerging market economies has led to a search for higher-yielding investments, including "frontier" LIC markets. Also, the rapid increase in assets in sovereign wealth funds has added impetus to the hunt for new investment opportunities in underexplored venues such as the LICs.
Remittances are closely associated with outward migration, but policies matter, too. Lower transactions costs (Suro and others, 2002; Fajnzylber and Lopez, 2007) and the absence of exchange restrictions, black market exchange rate premiums, and unstable macroeconomic environments (IMF, 2005) have been associated with higher remittances. However, these studies are drawn mostly from the experiences of migrants from middle-income countries, and more work is needed to assess the applicability of this literature to LICs.
In any case, there is a broad consensus that remittances are less volatile than other private and official capital flows (Buch and Kuckulenz, 2004) and that remittances tend to move countercyclically with recipient country income (Chami, Fullenkamp, and Jahjah, 2005).
Should policymakers be concerned about the size of these flows? After all, large or increasing capital inflows often give rise to concerns that the inflows are financing unsustainable current account deficits or increasing countries' vulnerability to capital account crises. Some key considerations in evaluating capital inflows include
whether inflows are financing a large or widening current account deficit,
whether they are creating potentially unsustainable debt accumulations, and
the extent to which countries are saving some of the inflows in the form of international reserves.
By each of these criteria, the capital and capital-like inflows to LICs appear benign. The aggregate current account deficit of LICs shrank from about 3 percent of LIC GDP in the mid-1990s to near balance in 2006. Reserve accumulation moved from about zero in the late 1990s to steadily increasing inflows, reaching nearly 4 percent of GDP a year by 2006— providing some insurance against external shocks or a slowdown in inflows. Only a small part of the inflows have been debt creating because they are dominated by equity FDI and transfers. And there is little sign of offsetting nonreserve outflows (for example, capital flight). However, the trends and their policy implications should be interpreted cautiously in light of the severe problems with LIC data. IMF staff estimates have had to fill in where national data are unavailable because of long lags and substantial gaps.
The bottom line is that the trends in capital and capitallike flows to LICs do not appear to carry large risks, but they do present several new challenges for policymakers.
First, the shift from official to private financing implies a less direct role for LIC governments in determining the uses of external financing. The greater stability of these private flows and the fact that the shift to private-to-private flows may empower heretofore underdeveloped LIC private sectors suggests the trend is a positive development. With the predominance of private flows, the savings-investment and other choices for the use of inflows are being made by private parties, and government influence on these flows diminishes.
Second, the higher private inflows imply more stable and diversified financing for LICs. However, private inflows may increasingly become the main sources of external vulnerability in LICs because they could be reversed in a manner not under the control of LIC policymakers. These new inflows may require authorities to reconsider policies to address concerns about sustainability, effects on relative prices and competitiveness, and accompanying policy and institutional reforms.
However, it is difficult for LIC policymakers to calibrate their response to shifts in private flows to the extent that they cannot monitor them. Weaknesses in national balance of payments data may undermine the basis for LIC economic decision making. To the extent that timely data are unavailable to LIC policymakers, policymaking may be flying blind. Thus, it is in the interest of LIC authorities to improve balance of payments data, with priority given to these rapidly increasing sources of private inflows.
Third, regardless of data uncertainties, external sector policies in LICs need to focus on policies relevant to the new inflows. Strong debt management and good donor relations are particularly important for encouraging and managing official lending. However, maintaining a stable macroeconomic environment, a favorable business climate, and efficient mechanisms for international transfers by households are likely to be more important for private inflows.
Thomas Dorsey is a Division Chief in the IMF's Policy Development and Review Department.
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The University of Toronto is building a 14-storey academic tower using timber on its campus in downtown Toronto. Once complete, it would be the tallest mass timber and concrete hybrid building in North America.
The university's wood tower will be financed in part by government subsidies, and through university funds and philanthropy, according to Gilbert Delgado, U of T's chief of university planning, design and construction.
The tower will be built above the Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport and will house a number of academic units. The university is working on the project with Patkau Architects of Vancouver in partnership with MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects of Toronto and Blackwell Structural Engineers.
The new tower will be built with cross-laminated timber (CLT) – a method that allows producers to create larger, stronger wood pieces in more consistent dimensions. Many of the tower's components will be manufactured offsite so by the time the pieces get to the construction site, they can be assembled easily, quickly and quietly, according to Watson.
U of T's academic wood tower is still in the design phase of development, awaiting zoning changes to increase the height allowance for tall wood buildings.
Construction is expected to begin at the end of 2019.
As part of the Ontario government's tall wood building incentive program, the province has established a Mass Timber Institute, bringing together organizations from across the province, including U of T and other academic institutions, to study the building practices and benefits of wood construction. MTI's interim director is Anne Koven, an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Forestry.
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