To build and then preserve wealth you have to be an investor not merely a saver. And no matter what you invest in, your investments will have an element of risk associated with them. But there are ways you can turn these risks to your advantage. Here are a few strategies for dealing with some of the most common risks you could face.
Just one basket? How you can diversify.
It's classic advice, but definitely true: Don't keep all your eggs in one basket. Most of us get the diversification we need in our investment portfolios through mutual funds. Each mutual fund holds many investments, so you can immediately acquire a good degree of diversification by investing in any one fund. If you hold several mutual funds, your diversification increases dramatically.
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Rocky road? How you can cope with a volatile market.
No one promised you that the trip is always smooth. Some investments are volatile. But if you stay the course when your investments hit a pothole, you'll do well over the longer term. The fact is, most of us don't need to know how our investments fare over the short term. If you are in the market for the long term, say 10 years or more, investment volatility really isn't a risk factor at all. History tells us that equity-oriented investments like stock mutual funds tend to rise in value over the years, regardless of the short-term ups and downs in the market.
Remember that volatility tends to be a short-term problem. If you're going to need your money in the near future within a few weeks or months or even several years you probably shouldn't be buying stocks or equity mutual funds. These more volatile investments could drop in value in the short term, right when you have to sell. A better strategy? Consider investing in less volatile, fixed-income investments for your short-term needs. A good choice would be a high-quality money market mutual fund.
When buying investments, you can manage the day-to-day market price swings by making your purchases on a regular basis. We call this strategy dollar-cost averaging. Suppose you invest in a mutual fund from every paycheque or once a month. Your regular purchases will buy more fund units when the unit price is lower and fewer units when the price goes up. Overall, your average purchase price will tend to be lower than the highest price you paid.
Rising costs? How you can beat inflation.
If something costs you a dollar today, it could cost you two or three times as much 20 or 30 years from now. That's inflation. And that is why you need more than a savings account or just fixed-income investments in your portfolio. These days, to counter inflation you need to have at least some growth-oriented investments, such as equities or equity mutual funds, that tend to rise in value over the years. And don't stop holding these funds once you retire, because inflation doesn't stop. With potentially 20 or more retirement years ahead of you, you need to keep your money growing at a good rate.


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WNBA playoffs: All fired up
The No. 3 Connecticut Sun are heading to Vegas in pursuit of their first WNBA Championship after besting the No. 2 Chicago Sky 72–63 in last night's winner-take-all Game 5. Down to the wire.
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The GIST: Let's hear it for the underdog. The No. 3 Connecticut Sun are heading to Vegas in pursuit of their first WNBA Championship after besting the No. 2 Chicago Sky 72–63 in last night's winner-take-all Game 5. Down to the wire.
Game 5 recap: Connecticut promised mess and they certainly delivered, pulling out a scrappy victory, capped off by a 22-2 fourth quarter run. What's more, Connecticut held Chicago scoreless for the final 4:46 of the game. Speechless.
Proving that winning truly is a team effort, all five Sun starters hit double digit points, with DeWanna Bonner and Jonquel Jones leading the effort with 15 apiece.
As for Chicago, Kahleah Copper (22 points) tried to will the defending champs back to the big dance, but the Connecticut D stifled other top scorers, holding Candace Parker and Allie Quigley to just 10 points combined.
What's next: Game 1 of the finals, baby. The best-of-five series against the No. 1 Las Vegas Aces begins this Sunday at 3 p.m. ET, and we're guaranteed a first-time winner. Hungry for more? Cue up yesterday's episode of The GIST of It and keep an eye on your inbox for a full rundown in Sunday's Scroll. Can't wait.
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The Rams' offensive line is playing the best it has all season
Cameron DaSilva
For the first 12 games of the season, the Los Angeles Rams had a different starting offensive line each week. Injuries absolutely decimated that position group, with every starter except for Rob Havenstein missing at least two games.
The backups started to go down, too, from Tremayne Anchrum Jr. to Chandler Brewer. The Rams even set a record for the most starting offensive line combinations in a team's first 12 games.
That's why it's hardly surprising that they were one of the lowest-graded offensive lines in the league for most of the season. That's beginning to change, however. In the last four weeks, the Rams' O-line has played better and more consistently than it has all season.
It's no coincidence that during that stretch, they've actually had some continuity up front, which has led to improved play. Take a look at the chart below, which shows the Rams' pass-blocking grade by week.
According to Pro Football Focus, the Rams had an 88.1 pass-blocking grade in Week 16 against the Broncos, by far their highest of the season. Their lowest grade in the last four weeks was 74.4, which is their second-highest grade of the season.
The run blocking hasn't been on the same level recently, but their grades have been steady, ranging from 57.5 to 65.6 in the last four games. Currently, Ty Nsekhe, Matt Skura, Coleman Shelton, Oday Aboushi and Rob Havenstein make up the starting offensive line, though when Brian Allen is healthy, he lines up at center with Shelton at right guard.
This season may be lost for Los Angeles, but it's good to see some improvement along the offensive line.
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tv Panel Discussion on Politics CSPAN March 25, 2016 9:55pm-10:57pm EDT
country had survived. >> we have time for a couple of questions. are you aware of any decision with the notes either mentioned before support of the decision? [inaudible] >> supreme court -- for most of its history has been careful not to cite directly to the notes, but they tend to cite to the federalist papers which were written by madison and hamilton during this time when they were very close. so i don't think that this book is going to change specific issues but what i do think it will do is that people that believe on this may have some
original is on that is sometimes good. it is not the idea that you lose history and constitutional interpretation. but original is on is the claim that the only legitimate way to read the constitution is what people in 1787 that wrote the document were people that ratified it thereafter thought what the constitution meant and that no other meetings are acceptable. and so i think for that the people the sense of how difficult it was even at the moment for people to understand what the constitution was, and at that moment, will be a little bit complicated. >> coming back to my original question about madison who oftentimes thought he was bowed father of politicians. if you look at what he did in terms of trying to change them a little bit to reflect his
evolving views, is it fair to think of them? is the father of the constitution? >> the thing i came away from his how important this is. not the objective record but as a way for us to understand how difficult it was that they faced. i came away with enormous respect for how close the country was falling apart and how much different people with different opinions try to double to hold it together and how remarkable the document was that was written in philadelphia. and how different it looks to us. and this is not the document that they thought that they were writing. the fact they ended up playing cards would be a great surprise to all of them.
>> we will see the life-size models for how short james madison was which could be a real victory for short people. and the book will be on sale on the library outside. i want to thank mary for sharing this information with us. >> thank you for having me. [cheers] [applause] >> booktv is in prime time on c-span2 starting on monday night at 8:30 p.m. eastern. each night we will feature a series of programs on topics ranging from politics and education to medical care and national security. plus encore presentations from recent book decibels. tune in for booktv in prime time all next week on c-span2. go to booktv.org for the complete schedule. ♪
>> for this year's studentcam contest, students talk about issues that they want the candidates to discuss during the 2016th presidential campaign. equality, education, and immigration were all top issues. thank you to all of the students and teachers they competed. every weekday in april starting on the first, one of the top 21 winning entries will air at 6:50 a.m. eastern on c-span. all of the winning entries are available for viewing online at studentcam.org. >> when i tune into the weekend usually it is authors sharing new releases. >> on c-span they can have a longer conversation than delve into the subjects. >> booktv weekend brings you author after author that spotlights the work of
fascinating people. >> ila booktv and i am a c-span fan. >> welcome to the eighth annual tucson festival of books. one of the largest book festivals in the country and i am glad to see such a good crowd.d there must be a lot of political junkies in the room. and so i want to thank c-span which is actually broadcasting this panel live as we speak. also booktv and cox communications for sponsorship of the venue.il the presentation will last about one hour and the last 15 or 20 minutes we will preserve for
questions and answers to our panel. your and we ask you to hold your questions until the end and we will make sure that we give that full 20 minutes to questions. and right after the session everyone will be available to sign books. you go to the bookstore tent, number 153, which is sponsored by the university of arizona bookstore. the books, as i said, are going to be available at that location. if you are wanting to meet all of the panelists and just so you know that samara klar will be doing an interview immediately following the session and she will be a little bit late. but hold on because she will be there in due course.ave but i assume that you are all enjoying the festival.
it is one of the real pleasures that we have in the city of tucson and i just want to it knowledge that bill was here a minute ago. and there he is right there. and bill and brenda urges thends critical players in making this happen with lots of volunteers and we've knowledge the great work that they have done. because you are here and i hope you are enjoying the session and the whole event, that you will be a member of the friends of the festival program and you can make a tax-deductible donation free of charge to the public. >> the donald trump calling you. >> he heard that we were having
a civil discussion. >> you know, it happens. >> unlike "meet the press", we are going to go along with the schedule program. [laughter] okay, now i am good.ti [laughter] and let me finish about the friends of the festival program. if you make a tax-deductible donation will allow them to continue without charging the public. as you know they donate literally thousands and thousands of dollars every year to local charities and that is another reason to hopefully donate.ere you so to do so and become a friend in person you can go to this area where you can go to the website for the festival. so now the warning that i should have given myself. out of respect for everyone,
please turn off your cell phones and turn off your phone entirely for the duration. so now it is my pleasure to introduce our panelists. i'm going to the journalist fellow at the nation institute, ari berman, he has written articles in a variety of outlets where the magazine, rolling stone is also zero times as you may have heard him on npr today so he has contributed to both msnbc and npr.ck until seated next to him is john nichols who is coming back to the festival. he was here last year and i was able to moderate on his panel ae well. m
he is a correspondent reporter writer with many publications on the one we will be outstanding t is that this is a very provocative book about where wee are. assist in the last is samara klar who is an assistant professor at the university of arizona at the college that i graduated from. and it was a time of great being excitement here and it was particularly exciting. she will be one of our three panelists today. so a little at about the books. a book written by john and also robert. and it talks about where we are in our democracy and where the
economy of our country is goingr and where it's taking us. and we will take steps to change the way the system works and the economy works, the political system and the way it is driven. his book, give us the ballot. "give use the ballot: the modern struggle for voting rights in america." i love john's book and i love samara klar as well. and i love what happened after, before and after the votingas rights act was enacted back in 1965 when lbj was president. it is a history that i had never really heard or learned before. it's one of the most incredible people that you could ever meet.
and this includes the importance of their work and also what hase been happening to the voter act since 1965 and that is an important issue for us knowing that we have states across the country where these votingou rights will be enacted. so i want to welcome you all and i want to pose the first question to you to our panelists. so thank you. independent politics.
the subtitle is how americans fe disdain for parties leads to political inaction. "independent politics: how american disdain for parties leads to political inaction." there is a wide range of views. and what that means for the view of the the political discourse and political action in oure country.scribe and the embarrassment as she described the people have to be. described as partisan and how that plays out with how people actually vote. so we thank you. so we asked him to give you a very brief overview and giving each panelist and turn the ability to do the same areas when they talk about what is
going on in our country right now it is an extraordinarily challenging and different kind of election period. i was telling samara klar thati in the politics of my youth i had never seen anything like it. it is pretty incredible what is going on. so i would like the panelists to discuss how the theme or for perspective -- what it says about where we are in this election. j >> binky so much for that kind introduction and it is great to be on this panel. so i have to get everything ande now. u but it's really great. [laughter] >> thank you all for sticking it out. many of you have been here and this is my first visit to tucson. i enjoy the hiking in the tacos
and everything else are you it'e been really nice to be here. my book, as ron has mentioned, was a history of voting rights since 1965. everything that came after this was the most important piece ofs civil rights legislation of the 1960s. i really began covering the issue after the 2010 election when many states flipped from blue to red or became a lot more red. we begin to see a wave of new voting restrictions in things like making it harder to register to vote, cutting back on early voting, were hiredse strick forms of id that you never needed in any previous election. disenfranchising people, half the states in the country past new voting restrictions after the 2010 election and it wasn't really getting any coverage. so i became the first national reporter to cover this first rolling stone and then for the nation magazine and i really covered this issue all the way through the 2012 election.
hi one in florida because. [inaudible] we saw a six-hour line ont election day in 2012 and president obama when he was reelected said that we have to fix that. what happened after the 2012 election is the supreme court struck down a key part of the voting rights act it was the centerpiece but said that those states were the longest histories of voting discrimination and had to approve their voting changes with the federal government. that part of the law blocked 3000 discriminatory voting changes from taking effect from 1965 through 2013. it was an extremely important part of the most important civil rights law of the 1960s. it was at that point that i really decided i wanted to write my book. because i knew that this wasn't just history were telling the stories about people like john
lewis. as remarkable as they are, it's about the people were living d there. he said he felt like history was repeating himself and that he was fighting for things that he thought that he had 15 decades later. just to talk about where we are in 2016, this is very relevant to my book. the 2016 election of the first presidential election in 50 years without the fullll protection of the voting rightss act. this is the first presidential election since the supreme court gutted the voting rights act. sixteen states now have new voting restrictions in place foi the first time. very important swing states like wisconsin and ohio and north carolina and virginia. so i know that there has been so much coverage in the media over who people are going to vote for and what the polls are going to say. a i'm v i have been asking a different question which is will every d
eligible voter he able to cast a ballot. i'm concerned that they will not be able to. so when you talk about the o direction of our we and the theme of this panel, i don't think you can talk about itig without talking about what is going on with voting rights and what is happening to the voting rights act. the last thing i will say is that there have been 20 presidential debates and the issue of voting rights has not come up. and i think that that is a 2 national tragedy because i don't believe this is a fringe issue worries tied issue, i believe that this is one of the most fundamental issues in the 2016 election and regardless if you are a democrat or an independent or a republican, you should be committed to seeing that everyone will once to vote and they should be able to in 2016.t [applause]g means for >> let's ask john the same question about your book and what it means, what it means fo- the 2016 presidential election.
>> first law if you don't have these books, get them. >> so your name again? >> samara klar. >> i'm never going to get it right. i've done both, and they are absolutely fabulous books. get them. i know these are tough times. but they are vital books. wrote >> because i did not anticipate it, i'm sort of excited by the fact that my colleague and i wrote about the 2016 election campaign and we just didn't know that we were doing that at the time. bob and i have talked about a lot of books and we have written about media and democracy and we are going to sum this up once more.
so then i was over in europe and in europe they actually are interested in media and democracy and they invite you to talk about it. i got a conference of think a tanks dealing with technological change, digital progress and how w automation.e i was struck by the fact that everyone was talking about eliminating jobs. about how we were going to progress. how these companies are going to make more money in the next stage of our digital andet automation advancement by getting rid of immense numbers y of workers. another that can sound very esoteric so let me sum it up. how many folks in the room saw "time" magazine and the cover story was on the driverless card. in the car works. we've been to google, we have seen him.
there are thousands of those cars that have been on the road already. the thing is that you can be on the road in the san francisco bay area and be passed by driverless car in which a blind person is at the wheel or in which a 95-year-old, a couple of 95-year-old women are sitting in front the talking to each other while the car drives by. this is working. the driverless car works. it's been an incredible progression and it's going to be so big in the next 10 years. another factoid. the number one job for men in america is driving. they drive trucks, they drive cabs, they drive buses. but with men this is a disproportionately big job. they used to do things like this but we have pretty much eliminated it. and this is a baseline of work.
we started with two other industries and we found example after example after example ofit automation changes that are going to eliminate massive numbers of jobs. >> it's not just the iphone issue, an issue that is huge that is not discussed by mediaca and that this will be the major issue of the next 25 years.saidh and we will anticipate the thin future. the editor was a brilliant womat and said that one of the thingsc they suggest is the when this p starts to head and people start to become conscious, they could
go to very extreme places politically. some places in the past one moments like this have come, you have actually had possibly fascism and things like that. people exploring rabid, horrific, dangerous responses, rather than looking at the big economic and social changes that are taking place, you actually have started to blame others may be immigrants or something like that. so this is a dangerous moment coming on. at and then we thought, okay. we warned you. and we are going to have to throw donald trump at you andie the fact of the matter is that we did not anticipate donald trump. but the truth is that if you go to a bernie sanders rally will meet 18, 19, 20 years old who grew up marinating in this technological progression, they know more than some of the ceos know. they know it is reality.
so they look at the future with immense concern and fear andndwl uncertainty and they see a t future in which they have a hard time imagining how they will pay for student debt, get a job and begin to approximate the existence of their parents or grandparents. the idea of a socialist it says that i am trying to organize a more humane economy seems more attractive and they're not particularly scared by these words. but then if you see a donald trump rally, and you see a guy e that is laid off and returning to work in a warehouse job, heus is now saying that the work he was doing is being reduced because they have a robot that does it. that guy at that rally does not know it but he is actually having the same concerns as a kid. they are politically opposite and they won't go the same way. but there is a parallel in what
draws people to very unimagined responses and is a couple of years ago. and all i will say is that this is either the last election of the 20th century or the first election of the 21st century. we will make choices this year that will either end an era of not dealing with fundamental issues that will not behe avoidable or we will begin to address them this year and potentially get ahead of them ii a to have the rational humane and decent responses that are possible. that is the edge that we are on in the most important election of your life. i know that you're told that every four years. it is a reality now. thank you.
>> next is samara klar who comes to us from canada. she loves tucson. and we have the audacity to elect this young guy that has all of his progressive ideas. [laughter] so can you talk a little bit about your book and also the implications for the election. >> i have lived in tucson for three years and am very happy tu be here. and i want to thank you for hosting this panel. and i'm just going to give you a brief description of my book. i many of you know that the largest number of people are now independent and many of you might identify yourselves as independents. we have more independence now that we have either democrats om republicans and we have more now than we have ever had the order.
so this is really a big phenomenon in american politics. so i have a co-author is working with me. deciding what to investigate why so many people are calling themselves independents. is there something unique about american politics that makes people want to separate themselves from the parties and finally are there broadnegative consequences for american are political system. what we have found is that there is this growing negative stigmay associated with the democrats and republicans. [inaudible] when you turn on your television or you look at the internet newd every day, what you tend to seeo our people yelling at each other, screaming at each other,f each defining aggression, most persons do not want to be associated with that. i so instead of associating themselves with this negative organization a huge number of
americans upon themselves independents. the secret that they hold is that they do truly support theie party. about 80% of independents who vote for the same party are after your period when you ask them if they preferred a parade party they do leather prefers the democrats are the republicans and they do generally only vote for that party. so why is it that they are calling themselves independents? it is this negative stigma associated. the problem is that this negative stigma also discourages people from participating in one of the activities of the parties really needs to send you things like admitting who you are supporting in public. putting a yard yahrzeit on your lawn, wearing a sticker, the same motivation is also discouraging as grassroots activism. we see this turn towards nonestablishment candidates, people are rejecting the establishment in favor of
candidates to make them feel as though they're no longer supporting the same party and they are tired of being on the news. so what is the implications of this election i think that's it is pretty self-evident and what we have seen in 2016 is this monumental turn toward what we think of as outsider candidates, donald trump, bernie sanders and ted cruz, candidates that are not associated with the talisman. as we have argued that this is because people are sick and tired of washington parties and they don't want to be associated with either of them. [applause] >> thank you.le >> okay, so i have a series of questions from analysts. let me start over here to describe this book and thek implications. there's so much in there. i encourage you to read all then books.s. your book was particularlyy important because of the
involvement with the attempt to change the decision that the supreme court had made in the bill that was introduced when i was a cosponsor and hopefully one day it will emerge. but i wanted to ask you to talk a little bit about this situation not odd and so we can talk about what happened and hor it occurred and how it can be, how can i be reversed.14 >> first when we first met, ront told me that he lost his election in 2014 by 157 vote. so anyone who thinks that voting does not matter, 157 votes.
there are three times as many people in this room at this point time. and so you are my new case study as to why it matters. it's interesting what happened after the passage of the voting rights act. on the one hand it did become of him is out this out to you and it enabled the election of moderate white democrats like jimmy carter and and bill clinton that would not have been elected if it wasn't for the voting rights a. [inaudible] but he would not have been able to vote in 1965. so it's too simplistic to say bt that it turned the south republicans said there was certainly a very large backlash not just because of the voting rights act but because the related pieces of civil rights in general. if you look at american history
there was this remarkable time of reconstruction in the integrated government in the south for the first time. when people who were enslaved became the first lack senators and governors of states like louisiana and mississippi and there are 22 african-american members of congress from the south during reconstruction in the 1860s and 1870s. and that has spawned a vicious white supremacy backlash whererm we saw things like tactics and grandfather clauses and property requirements, and it was called redemption.ap redeeming the whiteout. i think something similar happened after the passage of the voting rights act where millions of people were were registered in a place like alabama were only 2% were registered to vote and you had
to be able to name all the judges on the voting rolls in order to be able to vote. something that many would not have been able to do as they faced a test. all of a sudden you have thousands of african-americans registered in a period of days because of the voting rights act and to act really shifts the power dynamics and so because of his you've got people like andrew young and john lewis elected to the congress whichin was unfathomable in 1965. there is a significant backlash against that and they began organizing in a lot of different ways. they began organizing on the local levels and then they realized they were more conservative whites in their work newly registered african-american voters.ut the and we have appealed to the
conservatives a white backlash. so they actually build to get to the congress, they failed to get the executive branch. and they made a determined effort to change the reflection of the courts over a 50 year time frame. so we moved from this in 1966 on the first anniversary anniversary of the bloody sunday march, they a overwhelmingly upheld in the t three to one decision. seven years later they gutted the act. it wasn't that the country had changed so dramatically although it had changed dramatically, what had changed was that all the presidents like richard nixon and ronald reagan and george w. bush had appointed the
justices on the court and thatit the strategy that had begun as a backlash in 1965 was able to capture a majority of the republican party to the way they cannot do the things five decades later they were unable to do after the passage of this in the 1960s. soon i think you very much. let me turn next over to john. your book always has provocative but insightful quotes and i would like to share a couple of these with our audience today and ask you to expand. in one part uses the gadgets are new but the relationships are all old. then you go on to say that it's simply absurd to engage in wishful thinking that says that capitalistic society that prioritizes profitable somehow involved for the better. it has never been done and it never will. and he also talked a little bit
about how the polling shows that the vast majority of americans think that there is business that has too much control over their lives and government. with that in mind i think that you alluded to it that we have two candidates and that they were both appealing, it seems, to that notion. to that idea that the people feel that big business corporate entities, the 1% and all that have way too much influence and i heard on tv that people are saying that i'm not sure. i might vote for donald trump or i might vote for sanders and i think how is that possible to have that dilemma. can you comment on what is similar about these two candidates and their appeal and what is different and what it might say about the electorates? >> thank you.
one of the moderators actually reads books. so it is a wonder. [laughter] >> a rare member of congress. [applause] >> and then they also suggested -- and the wonder of him is that he knows the issues. however, let me suggest that the answer to your question is one that takes us to a place that's far beyond this. the truth of the matter is that i cannot imagine more people are fundamentally different than bernie sanders and donald trump area i believe that they are on the opposite end and an ideological spectrum they could find with some high variation or something like that. they are completely different. and the supporters of bernie sanders are disproportionately
young. they are working class but they tend to be members of the working class but have never really done a lot of chance to work. and there really is quite a difference there. but the donald trump individuals tend to relate more in that they are people that maybe once identified in this way and they are so furious and angry. if you go to a donald trump rally going to find backers of hate their own party when they do the other parties. that is an amazing concept. and donald trump says i think i'm going to bash on you guys for a while. and everybody is like okay. the crowd loves that. because they despise bishop of their party. that's not so true with the bernie sanders folks. they are not as nearly like
that. but what is this thing that is drawing people forward with responses that would not have been possibly discussed in the past? it's the time, if the circumstance and it isn't a candidate. i know that it is a jarring thought for anyone who has watched the media coverage of this campaign, which has been lifestyles of the rich and political. it is a totally ridiculous, the worst coverage of the campaign that i have ever seen in the history of my life. it is irresponsible and they had tightened one candidate up to a level that is absurdly high and even if it's negative coverage it is still coverage. it has denied candidates in his own party. >> part of this is that our economy is radically changing and we are going through changes that are going to be more
jarring than the industrial revolution. there is simply no question of this. he said this is going to be the big issue. and that the people are kind of on to this thing. and so they are pushing the limit out very rapidly but without any attempt by the media or most of the political individuals to put it into context. until that happens here is the bottom line of it. is that it is on you and you're going to have to fix this thing. it is not what happened. it is right. if i could return to paradise i would do it. if i can lead you in, someone else can we do out.
about. the fact of the matter is that the dynamic of where we are at is going to define our political future. what you have to demand is a deeper and better debate than what we are getting. you have to scream and yell and beg and push and fight for it. and some of you may vote for candidates on either side or you could find people to become vehicles for this. but the key thing is to make a corrupt and dysfunctional center that can make people start to talk about fundamental issues of our time. until that happens you're going to have campaigns have become more volatile and extreme because people won't hear anything in the mainstream politics of their time reflects the reality of their experience. the fact of the matter is that we have gone through this before. 200 years ago in the first industrial revolution the first response was brilliant, wonderful people that responded to change that was so jarring
that they decided to break the machine. they were put down, they didn't succeed. but they kept thinking how are we going to deal with this. essentially they became chartist and demand that reforms that brought them to the table. the answer that we are going to is not a political party or in app or a candidate. the answer to the time that we are going into is going to be dramatically more democracy that says that you, the people of this country, have a right not just to make decisions on election day but to make decisions on the shape and scope and character of our democracy and our economy. if we don't have a say on the future of the economy than our future is going to be staggeringly dire, not just economically but socially. >> and on that light note. [laughter] >> thank you, john.
john always tells it like it is. [laughter] >> they are going out to organize. >> there you go. >> they are not going to wait until the end of this panel, they are going to fight right now. >> speaking of organizing and how people choose to identify themselves. when i ran for congress, one third of the voters in my district -- i think the independence now are second in registration in the state of to arizona. so i would like to quote a a couple of things which i thought were particularly interesting. one by paul who i love reading. he said that by and large given the vast differences in partiese these days, independent voters are basically confused and whose clueless people. and that is emporia. and pundits and political operatives believe that independence can be persuaded
are wrong. if that last quote is correct, what does that mean they are not persuadable?? because from my perspective those are the folks that you go after. because you know who your bases in each party. you go after the independent because that is how you win races and competitive districts. can you tell us why they are not persuadable? >> they are not because the vast majority have a preferred party, they have always voted for that party and they know exactly who they are going to vote for. at most, 7% of americans are independence without any party preference. well over 90% actually do or for a party.he the reason that they will not come out and say it is because they do not want to be associated with that party.ar so we have found is that americans actually think independents are more trustworthy. independence in the mass public. they think that the independents
are more physically attractive. they think that the opinions are more likable. so people want to be known as the independents are not known as partisan. so it is a bit more productive for media, first of all, to spend so much time focusing on the independence when the independents are not really there to persuade, they know exactly who they are voting for. so i suppose i would disagree on this point that they are not clueless people and they are wih informed voters, many are very engaged, they just don't want to be associated with either party. >> and they may be more attractive. [applause]betty >> anyone who feels like they are independent and not attractive enact. >> there so many things to discuss. going through a quick lightning round before we get to the question from the audience. i would like to focus for a moment on justice scalia.
there was a quote in your book that i should not be astounded because it was him that it said that the voting rights act is a phenomenon that is called a perpetuation of racial entitlement. so i read in your book that john lewis was sitting in the court when he made those statements and i can only imagine how shocking that was to him. but what can you say about his demise and the potential for a new justice depending upon what president gets to do it in terms of the voting rights act and other laws that govern how people get to vote? >> well, that comment, and i was sitting there, you are sort of looking around, trying to figure out which one is talking at any given point in time.
but justice scalia talked about why the voting rights act is so popular and instead of talking about how i got millions of new people into this instead of relating to the fact that it is the most important piece of civil rights legislation of the 1960s and talking about the fact that it really made thect u.s. a democracy, instead he said that support for the voting rights act was attributable to a perpetuation of racial entitlement. and he said the people of talked about it. and the courtroom last when he said that an john lewis was sitting in the front row nicad thinking how is john lewis reacting to this.we i interviewed the congressman the next day and he told me that he nearly cried.ried w and right after that john lewis
red a pilgrimage to alabama with members of congress and i was on that trip. and we re-created the march in selma where he was brutally ala beaten by the alabama state troopers and i thought about all of the things that the congressman went through to get the voting rights act asked what he nearly died to get this law passed in here you have a justice of the supreme court talking about this law as a perpetuation and i thought that it was so important and that is a prelude to saying that i believe that the supreme court is the most important issue in the 26th election and we say that every single election, but now it is true. because i have lived with this
for my entire life and i believe that that has been the biggest change in this country and i believe that it is no in it is coincidence. i believe that it is no coincidence that the suprememe court gave us the citizens united decision in the voting rights act. because having visited the supreme court they believe theya want to make it easier to buy an election and harder to vote in one. and so that is why the stakes of this election are so high. and i think that it's great that there is a robust race between hillary clinton and bernie sanders and it's healthy for democracy. the difference between who they
appoint compared to ted cruz or donald trump or even john kasich would appoint to the supreme court you are talking about having justice scalia or justice sotomayor and the difference is between those two people so unbelievably dramatic. and i think that it's so high when she passed away. >> the decisions that you mentioned are pretty important have major verifications were country. and that was another election decision that really changed the country and can only imagine that. john, i wanted to ask you a little bit about the reference in your book to fascism, neofascism, there's been a lot going around particularly in the donald trump campaign. where would you go with that. do you think that it is a neofascist movement? to think that he's really
appealing to that? >> i think that a lot of the media loves to blame the people. because after you blame the politicians and after you blames the people, you know, usually you have everybody pointing at each other and that works out pretty well. he would not possibly point to yourself. one of the greatest journalists of the 20th century and i would argue the greatest media critic of the start of the 21st century, the guy wrote about this and he died a few days ago at the age of 96. and so what they than predicted was that as we dramatically consolidated our media as we were placed civic and democratic values with commercial and entertainment values and we started to cover our politics ae
a sport and as a theater rather than something that is incredibly important to the people and that very quickly you would see the lives of master manipulators who would use the dogma beast character of our media and feed the little factoids in bits and pieces politically. now, you can look at history and say that in the past a neofascist or an authoritarian had taken over the media and use it as a tool to advance the a political goals and i would suggest that it did not have to occur. we have a media now that foster is a fully dysfunctional set of politics in america and it is a [a disastrous media and so unfortunately people do fit into roles and there are things happening at trump rallies now
that are so jarring and so horrifying and so unsettling and also such a group thank. we need to pull a break and say that this is unreasonable. and to treat donald trump when he sits there and says things happen at rallies and i think it's the bernie sanders sanders activists under the problem here, no, no, i saw a couple weeks ago the doctor was on television. and they asked about a mussolini quote. a and he said you know, no, it was a good quote. and at that point rather than say are people following this guy, how are they acting and how are they behaving which is awful and a serious issue, what we
ought to be saying is that this man, no matter where he is coming from is he is too much of a fool to not know that mussolini was the ally of adolf hitler and the advancement of the genocidal war against humanity and a war in which hundreds of thousands of americans sacrificed their lives and their body, if he sits there, he got a good quote now and again. that is the point where the media system ought to say this is not bias. this is not opinionated journalism but it is a fact and to cruel and unusual to be the president of the united stateses of america. >> let me just give you an
opportunity to address another question. >> you know, you might think with so many people registering with no party affiliation they might be calling for us. so why are they not hard for us to be more bipartisan. and so tell me about that. tell us about that. that move what is it about the movement towards independence and why people are not calling for more bipartisanship. >> that is one of the more troubling findings of which are from our research. and also we find is that when independents are asked in one
all americans are asked what they want from the representatives, most people say compromised in their ads toco achieve compromise to try to break the gridlock. but ultimately when people are told that their congressperson sacrifices their principles in order to reach a compromise, people are furious very at they do not want their own compromise, they want the other party spurs and compromise. and so the problem for american democracy and that the independence are pretending tha' they don't support the party that they support that they will do very little to actually help that party. and they are calling for compromise when this occurs in both parties and that they believe that compromise means the other party is going to make sacrifices. until they are willing to sacrifice her own party struggles we will not achieve
that. >> well, thank you, that is very helpful.stions >> asking the question briefly, going over to you, the gentleman over here. >> thank you. i would really appreciate what the panel has in talking abouts and i have been trying to psycho analyze my own reaction to this campaign season and politics ise my number one hobby. i have always been interested, my parents tommy politics around the kitchen table when i was a kid. but because there is only five or six huge corporations run by multimillionaires, they are running this campaign just like a reality show came to me last night that it is a reality show and my wife loves these reality shows. i kind of get sucked into them.
i realize that i was kind of getting off on that.. in our media has abandoned this informing the people, the one thing that i think is that they have the internet and lots of great sources of information and so it's not like there's no way to learn. but myself, i get sucked into the mainstream media giving them hours of my time. so my question is about donald trump in the way that he has played up the violence, manipulating it, even today. and with that black protester.
and i am concerned. in there is a way to a tube down this maelstrom. >>. >> here is the bottom-line. kin to be all just get along? in the media system appears to be literally incapable of what they're dealing with. but here is the bottom-line to go to those fundamental issues you cannot have debate where the moderators literally ask, the other day trump will, what were you referring to there? i mean this is such trivia it is an. to? you become stupider by watching
the debate and if you didn't watch them. [applause] the bottom line is this, the bottom line is this. he said journalists must understand their duty is into their bosses. their duty is into some bottom line. their duty is to the people. we have a free press as an underpinning of democracy in thy america and the fact of the matter as i believe there are people at trump rallies who could rise to a higher level who could rise to a higher discussion that i don't expect donald trump is going to take them there but i would hope that our media would be forcing it to that higher level. t i do believe hillary clinton and bernie sanders now and again tried but here's the bottom line john kasich also tries but here's the bottom line we are not discussing the fundamental issues that are at the core of his campaign. until we discuss the fundamentam issues this trivia will continue to degenerate towards uglier and
more volatile places because when you are sick and you ugoda doctor before you go you are filled with fear and tension and concern and you are open to any possibility. i don't care what that doctor tells you, no matter how tired your diagnosis is once you know the diagnosis, once you know the problem then you can start to address it in spain sane in realistic ways. all that our media is doing is keeping it us and many for candidates in the place where we have not gotten to the doctor yet and this is going to get more and more dangerous, and i have to blame our media for an awful lot of this. [applause] >> a brief question. bel >> i heard on democracy now harvey wasserman say that any state with a republican governor and a republican secretary of state with voting mne
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From the 2016 Tucson Festival of Books, panelists talk about politics and democracy
Donald Trump 12, Bernie Sanders 7, Samara 6, John Lewis 6, Tucson 5, Klar 4, Npr 2, Europe 2, Alabama 2, John Kasich 2, Clinton 2, Harvey Wasserman 1, Washington 1, North Carolina 1, Virginia 1, Google 1, San Francisco 1, Louisiana 1, Bel 1, Wisconsin 1


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Dubai ruler must pay ex-wife over 5 thousand crore rupees in divorce settlement
A court in Britain has ordered the ruler of Dubai to pay his ex-wife and their children close to 550 million pounds ( 730 million) which is over 5 thousand INR, in one of the most expensive divorce settlements in British history, Press Trust of India reported.
The High Court said Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum must pay 251.5 million pounds to his sixth wife, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, and make ongoing payments for their children Al Jalila, 14, and Zayed, 9, underpinned by a bank guarantee of 290 million pounds.
The total amount the children receive could be more or less than 290 million pounds, depending on factors including how long they live and whether they reconcile with their father. The settlement includes 11 million pounds a year to cover security costs for Princess Haya and the children while they are minors.
Judge Philip Moor said the family needed water-tight security," and that absolutely uniquely, the main threat to them came from Sheikh Mohammed, rather than outside sources
Haya, 47, fled to the UK in 2019 and sought custody of her two children through the British courts. The princess, who is the daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan, said she was terrified of her husband, who is alleged to have ordered the forced return to the Gulf emirate of two of his daughters.
Sheikh Mohammed, 72, is also the vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates and a major horse breeder. The founder of the successful Godolphin horse-racing stable, he is on friendly terms with Queen Elizabeth II.
Haya, a graduate of Oxford University, is also a keen equestrian and competed in show jumping for Jordan at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
A separate British family court judge ruled in October that Sheikh Mohammed had authorised the hacking of Princess Haya's phone during their legal battle.
Judge Andrew McFarlane said the sheikh gave his express or implied authority to hack the phones of the princess and her attorneys using Pegasus spyware produced by NSO Group of Israel, the court said. The software is licensed exclusively to nation states for use by their security services.
Sheikh Mohammed denied knowledge of the hacking.
McFarlane earlier ruled that Sheikh Mohammed had conducted a campaign of fear and intimidation against his estranged wife and ordered and orchestrated the abduction and forced return to Dubai of two of his adult daughters: Sheikha Shamsa in August 2000 and her sister Sheikha Latifa, in 2002 and again in 2018.
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Public invited to national monument management workshop in Shin Pond Aug. 8
August 7, 2017 Outdoor RecreationElliotsville Plantation Inc., Katadin Woods and Waters National Monument, Shin Pond, Tim Hudson
If you've been curious about the management of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, or want to have your voice heard, you'll have that opportunity at a workshop that will be held Aug. 8 at Shin Pond Village. The meeting, which will run from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m., will cover just the Lower Shin Pond Area.
A sign welcomes visitors to Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. (BDN photo by John Holyoke)
According to a press release from monument superintendent Tim Hudson, the workshop follows a series of listening sessions that were held during September of 2016 in the Katahdin region.
"At those sessions, local Shin Pond residents raised questions concerning the possible development and management of the monument lands around Lower Shin Pond," the press release said. "In particular, they were concerned about what developments would be allowed, but would not be required, by the previous owner, Elliotsville Plantation, Incorporated, as recorded in the deed language. They were also concerned about public access to the area.
"On Aug. 8, Park managers will meet with Shin Pond property owners, local government officials and other members of the community to listen and discuss those particular topics, as well as any other questions concerning the monument in the Lower Shin Pond area," the release said. "EPI representatives will also be in attendance. The meeting will be held at Shin Pond Village. The public is invited to attend."
For further information, call 456-6001.
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SCC Internet Safety and Cyber Bullying Project Award 2014
"Not Such a Sweet Tweet" and "The Anti-Social Network"
Eastlands Primary School
Nominated by: Jo Corrigan
'The Anti-Social Network' is a film aimed at primary aged children to raise awareness of the sensitive subject of cyber bullying. This film was created by the Year 5 class (2012/13) with funding from Warwickshire Crimebeat and Eastlands Parents and Staff Association (PSA) in collaboration with Jam-Av Media Production.
The aim of the project was to build upon the school strengths (OFSTED 'Outstanding' Behaviour and Safety', SWGFL 360 degree E-safety accreditation) in Child Protection and Safeguarding by children working with professionals to create teaching and learning resources to 'fill the gap' in the market for appropriate resources aimed at Primary aged children. The resources were created with funding donated by charitable/professional organisations.
The school has actively shared the resources with the local, national and global community to positively impact on the lives of children and adults through original and innovative resources raising awareness and informing them of the positive and potentially negative aspects of the internet, along with educating about responsible use.
Testimonials state the resources are of extremely high quality and used throughout the world.
Filmed 'on location' at Warwick Crown Court, the film is a courtroom drama outlining the case against a pupil accused of sending malicious messages to another pupil and the impact it has on the victim once others become involved in the cyber bullying. The film follows the trial with pupils playing all the lead roles as the cases for both the defence and prosecution are put before the jury. As the drama unfolds in court, several flash backs show the extent of the cyber bullying and how it has made the victim feels.
With the defendant under questioning, a shocking twist emerges to show to reveal the truth. The Anti-Social Network provides a dramatic backdrop to an all too important message regarding internet safety and cyber bullying. Kelly Griffiths from the Community Education Awards commented: "We were astounded by the professionalism and level of detail involved in the production of the film. The courtroom scenes were fantastic and it was incredible to see how hard the pupils had worked come to fruition with a widely acclaimed, excellent film."
Following the huge success of the 'Anti-Social Network', the school have moved on to another project which is a travelling theatre. Children decided what the production would be about and shared their ideas on what would be their new e-safety project. The production looked to incorporate the Hansel and Grettel story and this formed the basis for 'Not Such A Sweet Tweet'.
After the pupils devised a script and rehearsed their play, they visited a number of schools to put on their production which received from teachers and pupils alike.
Kelly Griffiths added: "We are delighted to add a Community Education Award to the growing list of accolades the school's e-safety work has been given. The outstanding level of quality behind the pupils' tireless efforts to promoting internet safety means they are worthy winners of the SCC Internet Safety and Cyber Bullying Project Award."
For the third consecutive year running, SCC sponsored the Internet Safety and Cyber Bullying Project Award as part of the Community Education Awards in association with The Police Community Clubs of Great Britain, rewarding school projects based on Internet Safety. In 2013, they funded over 1,000 copies of 'Caught in the Web' to be placed in local Birmingham schools.


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MARK MORAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER State Rep. Gerald Mullery poses with some of his Rams gear. He became a fan after receiving a jersey as a child.
NEWPORT TWP. — State. Rep. Jerry Mullery says he's among the "small fraternity" of Los Angeles Rams fans in Pennsylvania.
So how did a Pennsylvania politician end up supporting a team from the other side of the country?
It all started one day when he was 8-years-old during a trip to a local sporting goods store. His father took him and his best friend to Lewis-Duncan Sporting Goods in Edwardsville. They both looked forward to getting a helmet of their favorite team at the time, the Pittsburgh Steelers.
But the store only had one.
"My father said be a good friend and let Jimmy get the Steelers helmet," Mullery recalled.
As a compromise, Mullery could pick a helmet and get a custom-made jersey of another team.
He liked the look of the Rams helmet and picked that one. The owner of the store only knew of one Rams player and made Mullery a Jack Youngblood No. 85 jersey.
"I said, 'I'll take it,'" Mullery recalled.
Mullery has been a Rams fan ever since.
"I got to see them a lot on TV, even though it was a LA Team, so it made it pretty easy to follow them," Mullery said.
While he never took in a home game in Los Angeles or when they moved to St. Louis for a decade, Mullery has gone to Rams games in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and New York.
He recalls watching them play at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia during their Super Bowl-winning season in 1999-2000. With star players like Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk, and Issac Bruce, that team adopted the nickname as "the greatest show on turf" due its electrifying offense, especially on its artificial turf home field in St. Louis.
"That's when you started seeing a lot more Rams fans showing up at games," Mullery said.
The Rams opponent in this year's big game is the New England Patriots, a rematch of the 2002 Super Bowl. In that game, the Rams were 14-point favorites, but the Patriots won and started a dynasty that continues until today.
Mullery is hoping the Rams "exact revenge." While he knows many will be pulling for the Rams in the Super Bowl, he said he had little company during the rest of the season.


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I'm new to sketchup, I'm planning to 3d print some components. Part of the component is a sieve like mesh of tiny holes, I've worked out how to do one hole, but I can't copy and paste it as a hole, only as a shape that then needs to be pushed through into a hole. And I'm not going to do that a hundred thousand times!
a) is what I'm trying to achieve achievable, will the computer/any 3d printer be able to cope with such a high number of shapes?
b) if so, how can I duplicate the holes?
Make the main 'slab' bottom face only.
Draw a circle on theat face and delete its face to make one hole where you want to start.
Use the Move tool + Ctrl to make a copy.
Pick the center of the circle[using inference] as the start point.
Drag the copy orthogonally using the in-built axial inferences.
Type the desired spacing + enter to set the first offset.
Now immediately type NNNx + enter, where NNN is the number of copies you want in that direction.
An Array of holes should now be made in the 'slab' bottom face.
Select - using a fence to copy only the many holes' edges.
Use Move again + Ctrl to copy those holes perpendicularly to the rest, typing in the desired offset etc.
Now again type in MMMx + enter, where MMM is the number of copies you want in that direction.
An Array of holes in two directions should have now been made in the 'slab' bottom.
Select the slab bottom and PushPull it to the desired thickness.
It extrudes making the 2d holes into 3d holes.
Thank you TIG, that's very helpful - I've got as far as duplicating my 'holes' horizontally, but whilst they go all the way through, i.e. I can see their circles on both sides of the slab, the middle is still filled in, I've copied the faces but not the actual 'hole'. I'll keep trying to see what I'm doing wrong, but is there something I've missed?
Try creating the holes on a 2D surface. The circles (and holes) should then copy. Then pushpull the surface once the holes are created. Copying holes on a 3D block is weird. By which I mean SketchUp does not behave as you might expect when attempting to copy holes across a 3D plate.
You may want to consider making your holes as components, less geometry to create.
Some print software will recognise wrapped components as a solid and print them as one, mine does.
If not you can explode the components and a bit of cleanup and you have a solid with holes.
I've edited my post to make a clearer set of instructions.
Basically I suggest you work on a single bottom face and make a hole, then use the Move+Ctrl+NNNx to array that hole across the face in the two directions.
Also, if you need that many holes, it's best to lower the segment count on the circle or else your mesh will be unmanageable. Depending on the diameter of the holes, 4 segments for each circle should be plenty, and the file size will be 1/6 the size. Manageable file size is important both for Sketchup and the slicing/printing operation.
Not to mention scale, sounds like a tiny face issue waiting to happen.
We've all kind of ignored whether what you want to do is possible.
Showing us what you are actually wanting to do would be a better way to get a full solution.
Sounds like a 3D print issue, too. If the maximum printing area of 3D printers is mostly smaller than about 300 x 300 mm, it means that Tony is trying to cram in about 1.3 holes for every square millimeter. I don't think this kind of precision is possible.
Click in sequence on the scenes tabs of this SU file for ideas.
Beware that this will crete a large file if your circles have many segments.
Draw larger than real life to avoid problems with segments that are too small (beyond SU's limit) then scale down to correct size when done.
Thank you all for the clarification.
As to what I'm trying to do - I have some larval peppermint shrimp, their food is newly hatched brine shrimp, which are a couple of hundred microns in size, and I need to be able to flow water out of their tank whilst retaining the food. To do this I need a (relatively) large surface area of many tiny holes, otherwise the food gets sucked against the holes. Twice a day, the sieves are removed and cleaned, and replaced temporarily with a sieve of larger holes, large enough for the old food to pass through whilst retaining the peppermint shrimp larvae, then new food is added. It is this constant removal, cleaning and replacement that means a mesh stuck to something doesn't work, eventually if always gets a tiny hole, big enough for the brine shrimp or peppermints to go through.
but I need to cover the four sides and bottom with 150 micron holes.
From your responses, I think square holes are going to be more practical than round ones. As to the possibility of printing, the printer I'm looking at says it has a resolution of 80 microns, am I misunderstanding what they mean by this, will it not be able to produce such fine detail?
I'm currently creating the hollow square box by pulling up a rectangle into a solid, then creating an offset and pushing it back down, this won't work with the hole creating methods described above, I guess I need to create each side individually then find a way of putting them together?
I wonder if printing a screen or mesh would work rather than trying to print holes?
How does that differ, is a mesh not just a series of holes?
I mean like a screen on a screen door. So the printer would lay down a set of parallel beads in one direction, then the second layer would be a series of beads running in a perpendicular direction to the first set. I don't if something like that is Printable.
You can still use the single skin idea on a box.
Array the holes on each side then PushPull the face into a slab with perforations.
The shape of the holes is academic.
At that size a square or circle will probably print the same.
The 80 micron size is the layer thickness.
Each printer will have its limitations.
The nozzle size will be much coarser… perhaps 1/10 mm not microns !
Why not make the box with a much bigger mesh size, then glue a fine aquarium mesh over the insides of the sides/bottom [before gluing on the top section connector].
That way your coarser 3d printed mesh will support the fine mesh ?
Then you can simply cut a piece of fine aquarium mesh and fix it into a roll.
Then insert that inside the cylinder.
Your top/bottom parts an have a groove to hold the mesh against the inner face of the cylinder.
This'll be easier that messing on with square pieces etc ?
As to the possibility of printing, the printer I'm looking at says it has a resolution of 80 microns, am I misunderstanding what they mean by this, will it not be able to produce such fine detail?
What kind of printer are you using? The resolution number can be misleading - it may print layer heights (Z axis) of 80 microns, but if the nozzle diameter is 0.35 mm your X and Y resolution can't possibly be smaller than that.
I guess I need to create each side individually then find a way of putting them together?
Correct, like using the outer shell tool.
So the printer would lay down a set of parallel beads in one direction, then the second layer would be a series of beads running in a perpendicular direction to the first set. I don't if something like that is Printable.
Holes are gaps left between solids, so as long as the "solid" bits are greater than the 3D printing nozzle then it shouldn't be a problem. Draw one "beam" and replicate it to form an array with the gap necessary (move one then type [x99]), then duplicate the array (paste in place) and flip it to form a mesh. Then "weld" it all together.


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The Monadnock Alliance for Sustainable Transportation (MAST) and the Southwest Region Planning Commission (SWRPC) are seeking businesses and organizations in Troy and Hinsdale to participate in Rack it Up!, a community based bike rack initiative that works to increase bicycle infrastructure and bike parking space availability in the Monadnock Region.
Over the past two years, the Rack it Up! Program has provided 230 secure bicycle parking spaces in Keene and Swanzey at locations such as Monadnock Food Co-op, Savings Bank of Walpole, Stratton Free Library, and Brewbakers Café. Due to the program's success, NH Magazine featured Rack it Up! in its "Best of New Hampshire" 2015 awards.
Keith Thibault, Chief Development Officer for Southwestern Community Services, and a 2014 program participant, says Rack it Up! helped to address bicycle parking needs for employees. "Before [our employees] had to chain their bikes to a tree or a fence. Now they know they have a secure and convenient place where they can place their bikes."
Bicycling is an affordable, and increasingly popular mode of transportation that has significant community health and environmental benefits. Expanding parking options to include cyclists also accommodates a wider range of users and supports healthy lifestyles. To apply, go to www.mastnh.org/rackitup, or contact Liz Kelly for more information.
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The Rack it Up! initiative is a program of the Monadnock Alliance for Sustainable Transportation (MAST) that provides free or subsidized bicycle racks to businesses, non-profits, and community institutions in Cheshire County. Started in 2014 with a grant from the NH Charitable Foundation, the program is currently funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention through the Partnership to Improve Community Health. To date, the program has provided 230 secure bicycle parking spaces in Keene and Swanzey. To learn more, go to www.mastnh.org/rackitup.
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Review: Diving Belles – During our trip to the States this summer, I had the pleasure of meeting the two editors with whom I worked on Black Flower. I'll write more about that experience later, but today I wanted to talk about a book that was given to me by Jenna, the New York editor who was the first to work on my translation. It is a book of short stories called Diving Belles, and it is the first book published by a British author named Lucy Wood. Although the book was published in the UK in January, the US version (which differs only in that some epigraphs were added at the beginning of some of the stories to help readers understand them) was published at the beginning of August. Jenna gave me an advance reading copy of the US version with the condition that I let her know which story was my favorite. I started reading the book on the plane and finished after we returned to Korea, and now that the book is out I thought I would write a review of sorts.
Diving Belles is a very interesting collection of stories and one that appeals strongly to me because it deals with folklore. More specifically, it takes the folklore, fairy tales, legends, and ghost stories of the Cornish coast and brings them into modern times. The first story tells of a diving company that takes women down in a diving bell to bring back husbands who have been lured away by mermaids (thus the title of the story and the collection). The second story tells of another coastal town where the residents occasionally turn into standing stones. The third story tells of a widowed mother who is in love with a "little person," otherwise known as a brownie. The twelve stories all deal with some tale or legend, but bring these tales out of the starlight of folklore and into the sun of the modern world.
When it comes to reviews, I'm not one for suspense, so I'll just give you my conclusion now and gradually unravel (or at least attempt to unravel) the why: I enjoyed the book very much and would recommend it to anyone who wants to read something a little different. In fact, if you have any love in your heart at all for magic and fantasy, you should get your hands on this book. If you're curious or require more evidence, though, read on.
Before I talk more specifically about the book, I should mention that the Cornish coast has a special place in my heart. When I studied for a semester in London as an undergrad, I took a trip to Cornwall and walked along the coast near Tintagel. Of all the time I spent in England, that brief trip to the Cornish coast occupies a disproportionately large place in my memories. I remember the tussocks of grass along the cliffside trail, the white foam on the rocks below, and the sea stretched out like a slate to the horizon. At one point during the walk I sat down on one of those tussocks and began to write down a poem on a piece of paper. I don't remember what the poem was about, but it was most likely inspired by the land around me. I do remember, though, that I was reading the poem over after I had finished when suddenly the wind rose up and ripped the paper from my hand. Before I could move, the white paper twirled through the air toward the cliff's edge, and then with a snap the wind whisked it down toward the sea. I sat there in silence, but before I could make up my mind how I felt about this turn of events, the paper came floating back up over the edge of the cliff and fluttered to rest beside me. I looked at it sidelong for a moment, and when it didn't move I picked it up, folded it, and put it in my pocket. To be honest I was a bit disappointed, as if the sea had thought my poetry not worth keeping. At the time I only wrote down poems after I had fully composed them in my head, so losing the paper wasn't a terribly big deal. She could have just kept it.
So although the time I spent in Cornwall was brief, it left a lasting impression on me, and I suppose there is a chance that my experiences colored my perception of Diving Belles. But even though it is the folklore of Cornwall that breathes life into these stories, a familiarity with Cornwall is not a necessity. More broadly, if you are familiar with the sea, I think you will appreciate a lot of the imagery here—although it is not present in all of the tales, I believe the sea is the undercurrent that runs through this book. More importantly, the very act of reading Diving Belles feels like being at sea, adrift at night in a dinghy that rises on the crests of great waves before sliding down the other side into the troughs. I felt like I was on the surface of something very deep, and at times I felt somewhat lost, with only glimpses of distant shore lights to guide me. But it was a wonderful and mysterious feeling.
That may sound rather cryptic and perhaps a bit too lyrical, so let me explain in more concrete terms. The stories in Diving Belles, as I mentioned above, all deal with some aspect of Cornish folklore. However, Lucy Wood does not feel the need to explain exactly what these elements of folklore are—that is, we do not get the folklore or folktale first and then the modern interpretation of it, we just get the modern interpretation and are left to guess at what the folkloric element might be. Sometimes it is fairly clear, but at other times it is more obscure. This is where that feeling of being lost comes from, like you are merely scratching at the surface of something. I think this mystery works, though—it is telling that I did not feel the need to actually research any of the folklore referenced in the stories, which is saying a lot for a folklore researcher. It's kind of like how you almost don't want to know how a particularly impressive magic trick is done, lest that knowledge spoil the magic. I think it was a wise choice to let the folklore speak for itself, and it was probably what made me love this collection of stories so much.
To wrap this up, I will talk briefly about four stories that I enjoyed. I imagine that some of the things I say in this part of the review could be considered "spoilers," so if you have any desire to read this book at all, you should probably just stop reading and go buy the book. On the other hand, I doubt that anything I say next will spoil your enjoyment of the stories—as much of that enjoyment comes from the author's style, voice, and particular skill at weaving tales—so if you are curious, read on.
"Lights in Other People's Houses" is a ghost story, so right there that ticks off a box on my "list of things I enjoy." It is the story of a young couple whose lives are interrupted by the ghost of a wrecker (someone who combs shipwrecks for salvage). Unlike in many other ghost stories I've read, though, the ghost is not an object of terror. He upsets their routine, certainly, and makes them uncomfortable, but he doesn't actually scare them. The couple treat him like a guest who has overstayed his welcome but whom you just can't kick out. Even though it is a ghost story, it definitely feels more about the people being haunted—especially the young woman—than the ghost doing the haunting. I particularly enjoyed how the ghost insisted on taking everything out of the boxes that were still lying around the house (even though the couple had been living there for eight months) and sorting their contents into items that had value and items that did not. The young woman would put the items back into the boxes and the ghost would take them out again. The symbolism in this was quite effective.
"Notes From the House Spirits" is a rather unique story in this collection. It is exactly what it says on the tin: a series of comments made by the spirits of a house. Some of the comments are long, stretching to several paragraphs, while others are a single sentence. People come and go, but the house spirits remain, commenting on the residents that move through their space. There is a narrative, but we only catch fleeting glimpses of it, like snatches of landscape through the windows of a fast-moving train. As a result, a tremendous amount of time passes in only seventeen pages, and when I finished reading I felt much older than I had been when I started. I will confess right now that this was my favorite story of the collection, and I wish I could tell you why. In the end, all I can say is that I really enjoyed the atmosphere and the mood, and it triggered the strongest emotional response in me.
"Blue Moon" is a clever tale, but it does not rest on its conceit and turns out to be quite a touching story. The conceit is not really a spoiler, because most readers will figure it out within the first two pages: the narrator works in Blue Moon Nursing Home, which turns out to be a nursing home for witches. I call this clever because I think it is a brilliant idea, but also because the word "witch" is never used once in the story—once again, we are given a rather fantastical situation that is presented to us as if it were quite real, and not once does the author wink at us. I don't really want to say too much about this story, because although voice and atmosphere are as important to this tale as they are to the others, the plot here is much more distinct. There is a very clear narrative here that begins in medias res and then backtracks to show how the protagonist ended up where the story began, and why. I found it rewarding, so I will leave that for you to discover.
"Some Drolls Are Like This and Some Are Like That" is the last story in the collection. It was perhaps preordained that I would like this story, as it is about a storyteller—the sort of person that folklore researchers would seek out for their research. The problem is that this storyteller (or "droll teller") has lost his stories, as his memory is not what it used to be. Still, when a couple turns up for a "story tour" that is not going to happen (because the man who runs it has gone on holiday), he sees an opportunity to make some quick money. For most of the tour he stumbles through his tales, but when they reach the end (and yeah, this is a spoiler), suddenly everything comes rushing back and he finds that he hasn't lost his stories after all. It's actually not nearly as trite as my description might make it sound, and when the story—and the book—ended with "and now here he was beginning again; somehow, despite everything, he was beginning again," I had a big smile on my face. It just seemed fitting that a book that draws so heavily on folkore—which has no real beginning and no real end—should end in this way. Again, my own particular experience and field of study probably influenced me on this one, but I enjoyed it a lot.
So, there you have it. A bunch of words that don't begin to do justice to what they are ostensibly about. To tell you the truth, I started writing this entry weeks ago, and if you count my disjointed email to Jenna, this review has been in the works for over a month. I have written and rewritten, cut and polished, and shuffled words around in what I hope is a more pleasing arrangement—but I suspect that I will still not really get at the heart of what I loved about Diving Belles. So I will end simply: it is a good book, written very well with a haunting atmosphere and captivating voice, and it woke up the magic inside of me.


A well-loved food all over India, Paav Bhaaji is western Indian in origin. Paav means "a small bun," while Bhaaji means "vegetable." Paav Bhaji is so wholesome you can have it as a meal.
Paav Bhaaji is also a hot favorite Indian street food and scores of vendors can be seen in streets all over Bombay (Mumbai) where it is probably most popular, energetically stirring up its ingredients on huge sizzling pans.
Heat a large, wide,heavy-bottomed pan on a medium flame. Add 3 tablespoons of butter and allow to melt.
Add the onions and fry till translucent. Add the all the other veggies and garlic. Mix well and sprinkle the Paav Bhaaji masala over the veggies. Add salt to taste.
Cook till the capsicum is tender and then begin to mash with the back of a slotted spoon. Mash to a coarse texture. Add a tablespoon of butter, mix and cook for a few more minutes.
Heat a griddle on a medium flame till hot. While it is heating, split the Paavs/ buns in half horizontally and butter heavily.
Place the buns open and face down on the pan. Press down on them with a spatula and cook till golden and crisp. Flip and repeat on the other side.
Serve the Paavs with piping hot Bhaaji, garnished with finely chopped onion and lemon wedges.


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