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A-team: What's coming to new building on Clemson Boulevard in Anderson?
abe hardesty
Anderson Independent Mail
Q: What is being constructed at 3433 Clemson Blvd., next to the Goodyear store?
A: Scott Burgess, a real estate agent with Colliers International, said the building under construction on Anderson's busiest highway will soon be home to two businesses — Kay Jewelers and a tenant still to be determined.
Kay Jewelers has leased about 2,200 square feet for what will be its second Anderson location. The 102-year-old chain operates about 1,100 stores in 50 states. Upstate outlets include stores in Greenville, Taylors, Easley, Simpsonville and Anderson.
The store is scheduled to relocate its operations at the Anderson Mall storefront to the new facility in October.
The store will offer engagement rings, wedding rings, diamonds, gemstones, gold, contemporary metals and watches.
Retail space in the other half of the new building is available. For information, contact Burgess at Scott.Burgess@Colliers.com or call 297-4950.
The dual storefront, located in front of the North Hill Centre, will fill one of the few remaining retail spaces along Clemson Boulevard. Office Depot, Academy Sports and TJ Maxx operate stores at North Hill Centre.
The highway attracts an average of 30,400 vehicles per day in that area, according to the state Department of Transportation.
Southerland Construction of Greenville is the general contractor on the building.
Reporters Abe Hardesty and Mike Ellis make up the A Team. Their weekly column is dedicated to answering any and all of our readers' questions. To submit a question, email ateam@independentmail.com or send a letter to the Independent Mail at 1000 Williamston Road, Anderson, SC 29621. The question-and-answer articles will appear in print on Saturdays as well as online at independentmail.com and on our Facebook page.


When Barbara Deschenes was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011, she felt conflicting senses of fear, confidence and resolve. She had a lot of questions.
In 2012, a year later and cancer free, Barb Deschenes along with co-founders Suanne Craib and David Wilson (both cancer survivors as well), decided that the Western Maine region needed a place where people diagnosed with cancer could go; with the goal to help patients diagnosed with cancer navigate the emotional terrain of diagnosis and treatment; what to do with life after facing the prospect of death and to provide spiritual well-being.
For this group of survivors, a local center seemed logical especially when Stephens Memorial Hospital started offering chemotherapy infusions in that same year. In addition, Patti-Ann Douglas, the hospital's Cancer Patient Navigator (hired in 2012) also realized the need for a center after hearing many emotional survival stories. Over the next few years, an informal group began meeting regularly at the hospital to discuss how their dream could become a reality.
During the fall of 2014, visits were made to three Cancer Centers; one in South Portland, one in Lewiston and one in Ellsworth which resulted in generating more enthusiasm and positive energy. In January 2015, a steering committee was formed and through months of meetings and visioning sessions the Cancer Resource Center of Western Maine was officially born. The vision for the Center is to provide education and support for the person with cancer and their family by offering free programs in a warm and welcoming environment. Realizing they needed an actual space, a small room located in the Oncology building of Stephens Memorial Hospital at 199 Main Street became the new home of the Cancer Resource Center of Western Maine.
A group of volunteers helped to make the room warm and welcoming by painting it a pretty light blue, adding sofas and chairs, pillows, curtains, a rug and inspirational wall art. Local artist Pam Morra volunteered her time to paint a beautiful tree with a red cardinal on one of the branches....this tree symbolizing immense and enduring strength. Many people from the community have come forward to share their ideas, resources and talents to help the Center become a reality.
The Cancer Resource Center of Western Maine has drop in hours two days per week. We have support groups for both men and women. We offer wellness programs, we have comfort items, educational material and we offer creative services such as knitting, drawing/coloring, jewelry making and much more. We offer all these services free to anyone impacted by cancer. In addition to all these services, the Center can help provide some "Hope, Strength, Courage and Support".
Our logo was designed by Tamara Cox who is originally from South Paris, Maine, but now lives in Dover Foxcroft with her husband and family.
Tamara happened to see some posts regarding the new Cancer Center and she messaged Barb to offer her services with designing and creating our logo. For many of us Cancer has hit close to home in one way or another and Tamara was no exception. Her inspiration, in her words " Well, to be honest, it was a visual thing for me. I just didn't want to create the typical logo in a box. People who are challenged with a Cancer diagnosis shouldn't be pigeon holed into feeling or experiencing things exactly the way society may want them to. This logo reflects a calm, somewhat disorderly reflection of what I felt when my mum was diagnosed." Thank you Tamara for our beautiful logo and for capturing the emotion and symbolization of immense and enduring strength.
Amanda Dempsey Award Goes to Norway Women Who Started Cancer Center!
Congratulations Barb! Thank you for all you do!


5151 Museum Drive Mobile AL 36608.
For more information on the gardens, visit mobilebotanicalgardens.org.
except July and November. In December we have a Christmas party that is held on a day decided by the Herb Society.
If you're interested in joining, please fill out a membership form and email it to us, or bring it to the next meeting.
call the Botanical Gardens at (251) 342-0555.
Mailing Address: PO Box 81817, Mobile, AL 36689.


Sometimes thinking big, means thinking really, really small.
Nearly a decade ago, Medtronic set out to revolutionize medical devices, to shrink them, by up to 90 percent.
"We didn't want to make them small for "small's sake," but to make them smaller and less invasive while providing the same or better therapy for patients," said Paul Gerrish, director of technology at the Medtronic facility in Tempe, Arizona, where much of the miniaturization work took place.
But these fears proved wrong.
Using the same technology that compressed computing into the palm of your hand, micro-electronics experts in Arizona, along with designers, engineers and medical experts in Minnesota and elsewhere, found they could reinvent medical devices, using just a fraction of the space.
Thanks to micro-electronics, ultra-low-power medical devices now use less energy when turned on than smartphones do when turned off, allowing them to be much smaller in size.
The first of those high performing devices are beginning to reach patients.
After surviving a stroke, Bill Thompson now wears a tiny implanted heart monitor called Reveal LINQ™ Insertable Cardiac Monitor (ICM).
Bill needed a monitor to help determine whether heart problems caused his stroke. Traditional external technology could only monitor his heart for a few days or weeks, and the existing implantable heart monitors were significantly larger than the LINQ device. But at just one-third the size of a AAA battery, the LINQ device monitors his heart 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for up to three years, on a battery that wouldn't last three minutes powering a light bulb.
"I think this is a major step forward," said Dr. Gary Boliek, cardiologist at Lexington Health Systems in Kentucky. "Many patients that have atrial arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation in particular, atrial flutter as well, won't be recognized unless this loop recorder is inserted," he said. See more of Bill's story and how two Medtronic technologies are helping him recover.
Medtronic also has developed a new type of pacemaker the size of a large vitamin. At less than one-tenth the size of a traditional pacemaker, it is implanted directly into the heart and does not require the use of wires ("leads") to deliver pacing therapy, thereby reducing potential sources of complications seen with conventional pacing systems.
"By making things small enough, what we're able to do is dramatically change the procedure of how these devices are used, to make them much less invasive which is better for the patient," said Chris Zillmer, vice president of Research and Technology.
Medtronic scientists and engineers envision a day when even smaller implanted devices, too small to be built by human hands, could help patients stay healthy by monitoring their internal activity for warning signs of new problems.
That could also mean smartphone displays of that real time data, to help patients constantly stay on top of their health.
Medtronic engineers believe it is still possible to make devices much smaller, perhaps up to ten times smaller than the miniaturized devices are today. After all, they've done it before.
Because it turns out thinking small, can lead to something really, really big.
Treatment with a Reveal LINQ Insertable Cardiac Monitor is prescribed by your physician. This treatment is not for everyone. Please talk to your doctor to see if it is right for you. Your physician should discuss all potential benefits and risks with you. Although many patients benefit from the use of this treatment, results may vary. For further information, please call the Medtronic toll-free number at 1-800-551-5544 (7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday-Friday, Central Time) or see the Medtronic website atwww.medtronic.com.
• symptomatic bradycardia-tachycardia syndrome or sinus node dysfunction (sinus bradycardia/sinus pauses), as an alternative to atrial or dual chamber pacing when atrial lead placement is considered difficult, high risk, or not deemed necessary for effective therapy.


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Q: org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartException: Failed to parse multipart servlet request I'm using Spring Boot 2.0.0 for uploading files to the server and I'm getting this error :

Servlet.service() for servlet [dispatcherServlet] in context with path
  [/project] threw exception [Request processing failed; nested
  exception is org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartException:
  Failed to parse multipart servlet request; nested exception is
  java.io.IOException:
  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.FileUploadException: Unexpected
  EOF read on the socket] with root cause
java.io.EOFException: Unexpected EOF read on the socket   at
  org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11InputBuffer.fill(Http11InputBuffer.java:722)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11InputBuffer.access$300(Http11InputBuffer.java:40)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11InputBuffer$SocketInputBuffer.doRead(Http11InputBuffer.java:1072)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.coyote.http11.filters.IdentityInputFilter.doRead(IdentityInputFilter.java:140)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11InputBuffer.doRead(Http11InputBuffer.java:261)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.coyote.Request.doRead(Request.java:581)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.catalina.connector.InputBuffer.realReadBytes(InputBuffer.java:326)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.catalina.connector.InputBuffer.checkByteBufferEof(InputBuffer.java:642)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.catalina.connector.InputBuffer.read(InputBuffer.java:349)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream.read(CoyoteInputStream.java:183)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  java.io.FilterInputStream.read(FilterInputStream.java:133)
  ~[na:1.8.0_161]   at
  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.util.LimitedInputStream.read(LimitedInputStream.java:132)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.MultipartStream$ItemInputStream.makeAvailable(MultipartStream.java:977)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.MultipartStream$ItemInputStream.read(MultipartStream.java:881)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  java.io.InputStream.read(InputStream.java:101) ~[na:1.8.0_161]    at
  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.util.Streams.copy(Streams.java:98)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.util.Streams.copy(Streams.java:68)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.MultipartStream.readBodyData(MultipartStream.java:572)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.MultipartStream.discardBodyData(MultipartStream.java:596)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.MultipartStream.skipPreamble(MultipartStream.java:614)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.FileUploadBase$FileItemIteratorImpl.findNextItem(FileUploadBase.java:865)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.FileUploadBase$FileItemIteratorImpl.(FileUploadBase.java:845)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.FileUploadBase.getItemIterator(FileUploadBase.java:256)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.FileUploadBase.parseRequest(FileUploadBase.java:280)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.parseParts(Request.java:2869)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.parseParameters(Request.java:3216)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.getParameter(Request.java:1137)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade.getParameter(RequestFacade.java:381)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.springframework.web.filter.HiddenHttpMethodFilter.doFilterInternal(HiddenHttpMethodFilter.java:75)
  ~[spring-web-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]     at
  org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107)
  ~[spring-web-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]     at
  org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilterInternal(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:200)
  ~[spring-web-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]     at
  org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107)
  ~[spring-web-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]     at
  org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:199)
  ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]    at
  org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:96)
  [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]     at
  org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:496)
  [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]     at
  org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:140)
  [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]     at
  org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:81)
  [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]     at
  org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:87)
  [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]     at
  org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:342)
  [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]     at
  org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:803)
  [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]     at
  org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
  [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]     at
  org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:790)
  [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]     at
  org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1459)
  [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]     at
  org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
  [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]     at
  java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
  [na:1.8.0_161]    at
  java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
  [na:1.8.0_161]    at
  org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
  [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.28.jar:8.5.28]     at
  java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [na:1.8.0_161]

This is my frontend:
<form class="form"  enctype="multipart/form-data"  >

                <select id="dropdown-category" name="options" class="form__input" required>
                    <option value="0">Wählen Sie eine Kategorie aus</option>
                </select>

                <select id="dropdown-subcategory" name="options" class="form__input" required>
                </select>

                <input type="text" class="form__input form__input--blue-border" placeholder="NAME" id="filename" required>
                NAME

                <textarea id="description" class="form__input form__input--blue-border " rows="4" cols="50" name="comment" form="usrform"
                    required> BESCHREIBUNG
                                </textarea>

                <input class="input-file" id="fileStream" type="file" required>
                Datei hochladen

                <input class="input-file"  type="submit">
                Dokument hinzufügen

        </form>

 JS
   var data = new FormData();
    data.append("fileStream", file);
    data.append("metadata", new Blob([JSON.stringify(doc)], { type: "application/json" }));

    return $.ajax({
         type: "POST",
        url: '/my/path',
        data: data,
        enctype: 'multipart/form-data',
        cache: false,
        contentType: false,
        processData: false

    });

BACKEND:       my controller:
 @RequestMapping(value = "save",headers = "content-type=multipart/*", method = { RequestMethod.POST
 }, consumes = "multipart/form-data")
 @ResponseBody
 public void saveDocument(@RequestParam("fileStream") MultipartFile   multipartFile,
 @RequestPart(name = "metadata", required = false) @Valid Document uploadedDocument)

I added also a multipart resolver
 @Bean
  public MultipartResolver multipartResolver() {
    MultipartResolver resolver = new StandardServletMultipartResolver();
    return resolver;
  }

 @Bean
  MultipartConfigElement multipartConfigElement() {
    MultipartConfigFactory factory = new MultipartConfigFactory();
     factory.setMaxFileSize("5120MB");
     factory.setMaxRequestSize("5120MB");
    return factory.createMultipartConfig();
 }

application.properties:
spring.servlet.multipart.max-file-size=5MB
spring.servlet.multipart.max-request-size=10MB
spring.servlet.multipart.enabled=true

Tomcat context.xml
  <Context allowCasualMultipartParsing="true" path="/">
    <Resources cachingAllowed="true" cacheMaxSize="100000" />
   </context>

Tomcat web.xml
<session-config>
    <session-timeout>60</session-timeout>
</session-config>

Tomcat servlet.xml
  <Connector port="1050"
maxThreads="400"   minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
           enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100"
           connectionUploadTimeout="36000000" connectionTimeout="60000" disableUploadTimeout="false"
/>

What could be the reason for this error?

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As already stated in previous posts, one of the ways to make money publishing content on Hubpages is to link your Amazon affiliate account to Hubpages. In this post, we will learn how to set up an Amazon affiliate account using HubPages profile as our website on Amazon affiliate registration form. We will also learn how to link our Amazon account o HubPages and start making money with it.
This post explains how to set up Amazon affiliate account from the scratch (for those who are not already affiliated) using Hubpages as your website.
Go to amazon associate website. Click join for free and you will be taken to where you can enter your email address. Enter your email address and select "I am a new customer. Click on "Sign in using our secure server".
You will be taken to the registration page where you can fill in your details. Be sincere in filling your details, as some of the information cannot be changed.
Enter your payee information. This may be your details or the details of the person through which you will receive your money i.e. if you want to use another person's domiciliary account (for Nigerians where other Amazon affiliate payment options are not feasible. A domiciliary account is an account that will help you to accept and process foreign checks in Nigeria).
For website profile, since you are not using your own website but Hubpages; enter the details of your HubPages account. Once you sign up on HubPages and published contents on the platform you will have a unique URL (your HubPages profile address) that will point to all your published contents. Enter this URL as your website URL.
To locate your profile address, sign in to your Hubpages account and click on your profile, which is revealed when you hover your mouse over your name. Copy the address from the address bar and paste into amazon registration form.
Enter what your website is about, which is the theme of your Hubs i.e. the subject matter you want to create Hubs on. The contents you publish on HubPages are called hubs. Select the type of Amazon products you want to display on your Hubs.
Select content and niche as your website type.
Select SEO for the method of driving traffic.
Select contextual advertising and eBay for how you monetize your website.
Select "Content management system" for how you build your links.
For the number of unique visitors, you may choose "Less than 500" since you are just starting out.
Select "To monetize my site" as the reason for joining.
Select "Word of mouth" as for how you heard about us.
Agree with the terms and conditions by checking the box indicated and you are done creating your amazon associate account using Hubpages as your website. The Next thing to do is to choose your payment options. Amazon has three payment options.
Payment by check which is the only one recommended for Nigerians living in Nigeria.
Payment by amazon gift cards.
For payment by check, $15 is charged for processing fee and a minimum payout of $100 (as at the time of writing this article). To receive your payment in Nigeria, you need to have a domiciliary account which must bear the same name you enter as your payee during registration. You can, however, change your payee information if you intend to use another person's domiciliary account. A good bank to consider for a domiciliary account is GTB.
Finally, copy your tracking code and enter it to your Hubpages account in order to activate it.
The other affiliate programs one can make money with on Hubpages are the eBay program and the Hubpages earning program. For the eBay program, you need PayPal account which is the only means through which eBay pays their affiliates. But quite unfortunately, Nigeria is one of the countries blacklisted in the PayPal program.
Although a lot of people claims they can help you open and verify a PayPal account without any issue here in Nigeria, one cannot testify to the reliability of such claims, considering a lot of scams on the internet. I still recommend you be contented with making money with the Amazon program and AdSense program. The key to success with both of them is hard work and consistency.
For the Hubpages affiliate programs, you will need to provide your tax payment information before you can enrol for the earning programs and apprenticeship program, irrespective of your country of residence. This may not be feasible for many Nigerians, considering our tax payment system.
There is no better place on the internet to publish content without a website of your own (and make money from it) like Hubpages. Apart from making money publishing contents on Hubpages, it is a good way of getting backlinks to one's site (for those who have website/blog).
For example, Hubpages allows one to provide two links to related articles on one's site, for every article published on Hubpages. But make sure that the topic of where you are linking to on your website is related to what you published on Hubpages, if not your publication will be rejected, deleted or your account banned. The content should also be of high quality and contains additional information related to the information in the article you are linking from.
This article how-to-make-money-online-without-a-website-of-your-own explains the concept of making money online with Hubpages platform. As already stated above, one of the ways of making money online with Hubpages is Amazon and eBay earning programs.
So let's quickly discuss how to link an Amazon affiliate account to Hubpages.
Amazon capsules (what you use to display Amazon products on Hubpages is known as Amazon capsule) can be used in Hubs (contents published on Hubpages are known as Hubs) to sell products that pertain to your hub.
Before you can make money with the system, you have to activate Amazon account, which you can do from "My Account > Earnings > Settings. For those who are already affiliated, all you need to do is to copy your affiliate ID code into your Hubpages account. The code is usually found at the top left-hand corner of your Amazon affiliate homepage once you have signed in. What you see there depends on what you use as your tracking code during registration.
Copy the tracking ID and head over to Hubpages, go to My Account > Earnings > Settings. Scroll down toward the end of the page, and you will see where you can paste the code.
Click on get started on the left of the word Amazon. Once you've clicked on get started, you will be directed to where you can paste your tracking ID. Paste it and click on save, and your account will become active.


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I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful in my God, for He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation: and with the robe of justice He hath covered me, as a bridegroom decked with a crown, and as a bride adorned with her jewels. For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, ans as the garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the nations.
I hoped to post pictures of the sticky notes here, since colors jog my memory much more profoundly than words do, but I am encountering technical difficulties. Maybe later.
In September, faced with a decision about leading a small group and wondering why I was at Baylor in the first place, I sat on a swing and cried to God. He simply told me, in a voice I could nearly hear, "I brought you here for a reason." I decided to lead the small group and to wait and see what His purpose was for me at Baylor.
I do my hair in front of a $5 mirror in my dorm room. The mirror is surrounded with brightly-colored sticky notes and various printouts. Seeing His words every day on those sticky notes grew me in more ways than I remembered.
A friend tells me that someone I thought was genuinely interested in being a friend wants nothing more than a physical relationship. I fear going to Matrix Theory.
I learned that I am so weak and broken and prone to failure. God taught me that the only way to survive any of this was to rely on him. He was my strength and I trusted His guidance, though I had no idea where He was leading me.
It goes on a green sticky note.
Rachel comes over to sit in the papasan as one or the other of us cries.
We yodel on the way to ODE.
I fear so many things, so many people.
It also goes on a green sticky note.
I learn about God's discipline. He truly disciplines us for our good. I devour the book of Lamentations.
God begins to kill sinful desires in me.
It goes on an orange sticky note.
I watch one He loves blossom and find joy in life again.
I watch another He loves battle so many demons.
Every day we brush past objects of incalculable worth to God: people!
Pink sticky note. Minus the sticky bit.
I try to encourage a friend in too many late night talks in the HRC.
I collapse before my church leadership in fear of this friendship.
I discover life in my CG. I wonder at God's ability to do anything worthwhile through me. I trust and love them.
For God is working in you, giving you the desire and power to do what pleases Him.
I face tough questions and powerful images in colloquium. God uses Ordinary Men to ask me what I would do, and How (Not) to Speak of God to show me how incredibly powerful His call is. I love Him so much.
God uses an incredibly slow-healing wound to teach me that I cannot get out of my own messes on my own.
The Lord disciplines those he loves.
So take a new grip with your tired hands and stand firm on your shaky legs. Mark out a straight path for your feet.
This is the first April since I caught West Nile that I've made it through without illness.
I encounter Ezekiel and Covenant language. The words about a new heart and a new spirit ignite my soul.
I learned again to follow and trust God completely blind. I see now, as I write this, that these were only the first steps: He turned out the lights when I could follow Him on just a gravel road, barely enough to trip me. With this training, I will now be able to follow Him blindly wherever He leads. I feel like this is preparation for much more treacherous roads.
And the verse about silver?
God, I'm tired. Just plain tuckered out. My schedule is run, run, write, do this, A Cal, maybe sleep, run some more. I just want a pause button on life so I can stop, rest, sort out my muddled brain, and catch up on some much needed time just sitting at Your feet.
Your burden is light, yet I don't know how to get to You. My mind is cluttered and my hands are busy fulfilling the commitments I've already made, though yes, I worry about the future, which is in your hands. You know and you hold in your hands my fellowship application, my graduate school application, and my future love. I don't know how to be a good steward of these talents you've given me and to honor You by resting at Your feet. Show me.
You are the Word, the λογος, that sustains the weary. I do not live on bread or sleep or school or discussion or CG alone, but on every Word that comes out of Your mouth.
Lord, Father, restore my soul.
I just read Isaac Asimov's Nightfall in which a planet with six suns experiences a terrifying and maddening night of Darkness once every two thousand years.
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!
How strange it is in our modern world that we can avoid the sky. Sure, it's obvious the sky is around when the clouds pour down rain or a particularly brilliant sunset paints the sky, but in my normal go-to-school-do-homework-get-some-sleep life I don't stop to look up.
On camping trips I love to look at the night sky, especially when you're far enough away from the city lights to see the Milky Way in all her glistening glory. Once we didn't start cooking dinner until nearly 10:30 because our whole group was entranced by the stars, looking for shooting stars, contemplating the theology of extraterrestrial life, musing on notions of gravity and space.
The ancients understood the majesty of the sky, believing the gods lived in and moved across it in great chariots and that the heroes looked down from among the stars. The medievals ascribed attributes to each of the wandering planets and believed God was the great Prime Mover beyond the Fixed Stars.
What glory, what majesty, what immensity lies above.
Who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.


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you've outdone yourself this time –these are absolutely great shots!
The "looks" are so expressive! The story that doesnt need words!
I've seen that look before! Ha! What happened? Her balloon popped? Awwww….. Those are fabulous photos.


Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger complained his side were denied a goal and a penalty as Jese Rodriguez enjoyed a dream start to his Stoke City career by scoring the winner against the Gunners.
Former Real Madrid winger Jese, who was thrust straight into Mark Hughes' side after arriving from Paris St-Germain on Wednesday, slid in from a tight angle after being left unmarked to pick up Saido Berahino's pass.
The Spaniard's strike came just 90 seconds into the second half, after an opening 45 minutes the visitors had dominated.
Wenger felt his team should have been given a first-half penalty when Hector Bellerin fell under a clumsy challenge by Mame Biram Diouf.
And Arsenal thought they had equalised when Alexandre Lacazette rifled in, only for the France striker to be ruled offside by a tiny margin.
"We know we don't get penalties," said Wenger. "Look at the numbers and you will see.
Wenger's side was awarded six penalties last season, a tally bettered by only five other Premier League sides. Four of those were given at Emirates Stadium, only Tottenham (seven) and Bournemouth (five) won more at home.


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Q: Label not raising in light mode but raising in dark mode - PyQt5 I am writing a program that shows the camera feed within a QPixmap. When I press the start button, the camera feed is captured and fed into a method that continuously updates the label image_label.
When I press the stop button, I want to clear the contents of the label so the last frame of video capture does not remain. I do this by raising and lowering a label.
I use qdarkstyle, which applies a stylesheet to the program when the system detects the operating system is in dark mode. Starting the program displays a video as expected, and pressing this button again raises above the camera feed in "dark mode", as expected.
However, when starting the program in "light mode" and raising the label above the camera feed, the label seems to malfunction and not work, despite it being the same lines of code.
The bare minimum code is as follows:
from PyQt5 import QtGui, QtWidget
from PyQt5.uic import loadUi
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QWidget, QApplication
from PyQt5.QtCore import pyqtSignal, pyqtSlot, Qt, QThread
from PyQt5.QtGui import QPixmap
import numpy as np
import sys
import darkdetect
import qdarkstyle
import cv2
import time

class VideoThread(QThread):
    change_pixmap_signal = pyqtSignal(np.ndarray)

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self._run_flag = True

    def run(self):

        wCam, hCam = 640, 480

        # capture from web cam
        cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
        assert cap.isOpened()
        cap.set(3, wCam)
        cap.set(4, hCam)

        while self._run_flag:
            # Get image frame
            success, img = cap.read()
            if not success:
                break

            if success:
                self.change_pixmap_signal.emit(img)
            # shut down capture system
            cap.release()

    def stop(self):
        self._run_flag = False
        self.wait()

class MainWindow(QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super(MainWindow, self).__init__()
        loadUi("mainwindow.ui", self)
        self.setWindowTitle("Hand Tracker")
        self.display_width = 640
        self.display_height = 480
        self.firsttime = 1
        if darkdetect.isDark() == True:
            self.setStyleSheet(qdarkstyle.load_stylesheet_pyqt5())

        # start the thread
        self.gesture.clicked.connect(self.gotowindow2)
        self.startbutton.clicked.connect(self.startvideo)
        self.darkmodecheck.clicked.connect(self.darkmode)

    def darkmode(self):
        print(darkdetect.isDark())

    def gotowindow2(self):
        widget.setCurrentIndex(widget.currentIndex() + 1)  # changes index by 1 to change page

    def startvideo(self):
        # Change label color to light blue
        self.startbutton.clicked.disconnect(self.startvideo)

        self.clearlabel.lower()
        # Change button to stop
        self.startbutton.setText('Stop video')
        self.thread = VideoThread()
        self.thread.change_pixmap_signal.connect(self.update_image)
        # start the thread
        self.thread.start()
        if self.firsttime == 0:
            time.sleep(4)
            self.firsttime = 0

        self.startbutton.clicked.connect(self.thread.stop)  # Stop the video if button clicked
        self.startbutton.clicked.connect(self.stopvideo)
        self.firsttime = 0

    def stopvideo(self):
        self.thread.change_pixmap_signal.disconnect()
        self.clearlabel.raise_()
        self.startbutton.setText('Start video')
        self.startbutton.clicked.disconnect(self.stopvideo)
        self.startbutton.clicked.disconnect(self.thread.stop)
        self.startbutton.clicked.connect(self.startvideo)

    def closeEvent(self, event):
        self.thread.stop()
        event.accept()

    @pyqtSlot(np.ndarray)
    def update_image(self, img):
        """Updates the image_label with a new opencv image"""
        qt_img = self.convert_cv_qt(img)
        self.image_label.setPixmap(qt_img)

    def convert_cv_qt(self, img):
        """Convert from an opencv image to QPixmap"""
        rgb_image = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
        h, w, ch = rgb_image.shape
        bytes_per_line = ch * w
        convert_to_Qt_format = QtGui.QImage(rgb_image.data, w, h, bytes_per_line, QtGui.QImage.Format_RGB888)
        p = convert_to_Qt_format.scaled(self.display_width, self.display_height, Qt.KeepAspectRatio)
        return QPixmap.fromImage(p)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    widget = QtWidgets.QStackedWidget()
    a = MainWindow()
    widget.addWidget(a)
    widget.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

My Ui file is :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ui version="4.0">
 <class>Form</class>
 <widget class="QWidget" name="Form">
  <property name="geometry">
   <rect>
    <x>0</x>
    <y>0</y>
    <width>1001</width>
    <height>650</height>
   </rect>
  </property>
  <property name="windowTitle">
   <string>Form</string>
  </property>
  <widget class="QLabel" name="image_label">
   <property name="enabled">
    <bool>true</bool>
   </property>
   <property name="geometry">
    <rect>
     <x>180</x>
     <y>20</y>
     <width>640</width>
     <height>480</height>
    </rect>
   </property>
   <property name="styleSheet">
    <string notr="true">QLabel{
border: 1px solid grey;
border-radius: 10px
}</string>
   </property>
   <property name="text">
    <string>Img</string>
   </property>
   <property name="alignment">
    <set>Qt::AlignCenter</set>
   </property>
  </widget>
  <widget class="QPushButton" name="startbutton">
   <property name="geometry">
    <rect>
     <x>340</x>
     <y>520</y>
     <width>111</width>
     <height>31</height>
    </rect>
   </property>
   <property name="mouseTracking">
    <bool>false</bool>
   </property>
   <property name="styleSheet">
    <string notr="true">QPushButton{
border-radius: 10px;
border: 0.5px solid grey;
} </string>
   </property>
   <property name="text">
    <string>Start Video</string>
   </property>
  </widget>
  <widget class="QPushButton" name="darkmodecheck">
   <property name="geometry">
    <rect>
     <x>170</x>
     <y>520</y>
     <width>113</width>
     <height>32</height>
    </rect>
   </property>
   <property name="text">
    <string>PushButton</string>
   </property>
  </widget>
  <widget class="QPushButton" name="gesture">
   <property name="geometry">
    <rect>
     <x>550</x>
     <y>520</y>
     <width>113</width>
     <height>32</height>
    </rect>
   </property>
   <property name="styleSheet">
    <string notr="true">QPushButton{
border-radius: 10px;
border: 0.5px solid grey;
} </string>
   </property>
   <property name="text">
    <string>Gestures</string>
   </property>
  </widget>
  <widget class="QLabel" name="clearlabel">
   <property name="enabled">
    <bool>true</bool>
   </property>
   <property name="geometry">
    <rect>
     <x>180</x>
     <y>20</y>
     <width>640</width>
     <height>480</height>
    </rect>
   </property>
   <property name="styleSheet">
    <string notr="true">QLabel{
border: 1px solid grey;
border-radius: 10px
}</string>
   </property>
   <property name="text">
    <string>Img</string>
   </property>
   <property name="alignment">
    <set>Qt::AlignCenter</set>
   </property>
  </widget>
 </widget>
 <resources/>
 <connections/>
</ui>


Today we released Version 10 for use at Trampoline, DMT and Tumbling events.
Please be sure to check it out yourself before using it. There are so many rule variations and special features that you need to be sure it's all behaving as you expect for your particular event configuration. In particular, some of the class options have changed, and you don't want to have to reset lots of flags and switches in the middle of a competition.
This version includes a preview of the Artistic Gymnastics functionality that we are adding to TScore. We welcome feedback on this feature, which is currently undergoing beta testing to adjust it from its current strictly rules-based implementation to accommodate the different ways people really run local events.
To go with version 10, the forums are also now live – please post your questions there; all customers should now have received logon instructions.


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Liu: No Choice Now But Depression or Hyperinflation
by NBBooks Fri Jan 25th, 2008 at 07:07:40 PM EST
In Asia Times Online, the inestimable Henry C. K. Liu lays out the terrifying reality of where the world financial crisis is headed. In a lengthy article entitled, The Road To Hyperinflation, Fed Helpless In Its Own Crisis, Liu responds to the former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's defensive but arrogant article in the December 12, 2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal, in which Greenspan blamed the current world financial crises on China and the developing world for "saving too much." Liu harshly condemns Greenspan, explains how Greenspan engineered the mess during his tenure as Fed chairman, and concludes that now there are only two options left:
The Fed has a choice of accepting an economic depression to cut off stagflation, or ushering hyperinflation by flooding the market with unproductive liquidity.
The first web page of the article is rather dry, as Liu reviews the fundamentals of how the U.S. Federal Reserve functions. Along in the second web page, things get more interesting. First, Liu demolishes the idea that the current bi-partisan "stimulus" package in the U.S. will do any good, and heaps scorn on the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2004 as ill-conceived and implemented without preparation of proper incentives for new investment. And Liu is not shy about pointing directly at the underlying problem:
... for the last two decades, even in boom time, the US middle class has not been receiving its fair share of income while increasingly bearing a larger share of public expenditure. The long-term trend of income disparity is not being addressed by the bipartisan short-term stimulus package.
Liu then surveys the explosive growth of credit swaps (CDS) (now at $45 trillion, three times the size of U.S. GDP) and collateralized loan obligations (CLO), and details why and how the loan insurers like MBIA and Ambac Financial were brought to their knees, and explains how the crises is now heading toward territory outside the banking system and will soon cause the collapse of companies other than banks.
For the insurers to maintain the necessary triple-A rating, their capital reserve would have to be repeatedly increased along with the premium they charge. There will soon come a time when insurance premium will be so high as to deter bond investors. Already, the annual cost of insuring $10 million of debt against Bear Stern defaulting has risen from $40,000 in January 2007 to $234,000 by January of 2008. To buy credit default insurance on $10 million of debt issued by Countrywide, the big subprime mortgage lender, an investor must as of January 11, 2008 pay $3 million up front and $500,000 annually. A month ago, the same protection could be bought at $776,000 annually with no upfront payment.
Credit-default swaps tied to MBIA's bonds soared 10 percentage points to 26% upfront and 5% a year, according to CMA Datavision in New York. The price implies that traders are pricing in a 71% chance that MBIA will default in the next five years, according to a JPMorgan Chase & Co valuation model. Contracts on Ambac Financial, the second-biggest insurer, rose 12 percentage points to 27% upfront and 5% a year. Ambac's implied chance of default is 73%.
As big as the residential subprime mortgage market is, the corporate bond market is vastly larger. There are a lot of shaky outstanding corporate loans made during the liquidity boom that probably could not be refinanced even in a normal credit market, let alone a distressed crisis. A large number of these walking-dead companies held up by easy credit of previous years are expected to default soon to cause the CLO valuations to plummet and CDS to fail.
At he begins to wrap up, Liu is not interested in taking prisoners.
The last decade has been the most profligate global credit expansion in history, made possible by a new financial architecture that moved much of the activities out of regulated institutions and into financial instruments traded in unregulated markets by hedge funds that emphasized leverage over safety. By now there are undeniable signs that the subprime mortgage crisis is not an isolated problem, but the early signal of a systemic credit crisis that will engulf the entire financial world.
Both former Fed chairman Greenspan and his successor Ben Bernanke have tried to explain the latest US debt bubble as having been created by global over-saving, particularly in Asia, rather than by Fed policy of easy credit in recent years.
Yet the so-called global savings glut is merely a nebulous euphemism for overseas workers in exporting economies being forced to save to cope with stagnant low wages and meager worker benefits that fuel high profits for US transnational corporations. This forced saving comes from the workers' rational response to insecurity rising from the lack of an adequate social safety net. Anyone making around $1,000 a year and faced with meager pension and inadequate health insurance would be suicidal to save less than half of his/her income. And that's for urban workers in China. Chinese rural workers make about $300 in annual income. For China to be an economic superpower, Chinese wages would have to increase by a hundredfold in current dollars. . .
Not only do Chinese and other emerging market workers lose by being denied living wages and the financial means to consume even the very products they themselves produce for export, they also lose by receiving low returns on the hard-earned money they lend to US consumers at effectively negative interest rates when measured against the price inflation of commodities that their economies must import to fuel the export sector. And that's for the trade surplus economies in the developing world, such as China. For the trade deficit economies, which are the majority in the emerging economies, neoliberal global trade makes old-fashion 19th-century imperialism look benign.
The role central banking plays in support of this systematic fleecing of the helpless poor everywhere around the world to support the indigent rich in both advanced and emerging economies has been to flood the financial market with easy money, euphemistically referred to as maintaining liquidity, and to continually enlarge the money supply by financial deregulation to lubricate and sustain a persistently expanding debt bubble.
Concurringly, deregulated financial markets have provided a free-for-all arena for sophisticated financial institutions to profit obscenely from financial manipulation. The average small investor is effectively excluded from reaping the profits generated in this esoteric arena set up by big financial institutions.
Greenspan blames "the Third World, especially China" for the so-called global savings glut, with an obscene attitude of the free-spending rich who borrowed from the helpless poor scolding the poor for being too conservative with money.
Yet Bank for International Settlements (BIS) data show exchange-traded derivatives growing 27% to a record $681 trillion in third quarter 2007, the biggest increase in three years. Compared this astronomical expansion of virtual money with China's foreign exchange reserve of $1.4 trillion, it gives a new meaning to the term "blaming the tail for wagging the dog".
Liu's conclusion is stunning in its brutal truth:
While the equity markets are hanging on for dear life with the Fed's help through stealth inflation, the bond markets have collapsed worldwide, with dollar bond issuance falling to a stand still, euro bonds by 66% and emerging market bonds by 75% in Q3 2007. Lenders are simply afraid to lend and borrowers are afraid to take on more liabilities in an imminent economic slowdown. The Fed has a choice of accepting an economic depression to cut off stagflation, or ushering hyperinflation by flooding the market with unproductive liquidity. Insolvency cannot be solved by injecting liquidity without the penalty of hyperinflation.
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I will post to DailyKos in about 13 hours. (4.00 / 6)
NOTE: I will post this on DailyKos in about 13 hours, when it is morning in the eastern United States. I suspect it would probably be wasted on a Friday night. I will also post this at the Agonist and at TPM Cafe.
by NBBooks on Fri Jan 25th, 2008 at 07:10:05 PM EST
Holy Mackerel! (none / 0)
The blackest of black pictures, and yet it all makes sense. I think my weekend is going to disappear checking into his own website.
You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Jan 26th, 2008 at 02:18:36 AM EST
Henry Liu (4.00 / 4)
A complete list of his Asia Times diaries
It reads like an ET diary list:
PART 2: Deregulation: Global war on labor
PART 2: Bank deregulation fuels abuse
Part 1: The rise of the non-bank financial system
Central bank impotence and market liquidity
Economics of denial
A dialogue of the mute
Liquidity boom and looming crisis
China's misguided 'experts' on the US
Beyond Munich: Geostrategy and betrayal
Liu and Rubbino (sp?) (4.00 / 3)
are both showing up in MSM more now, because they are known critics who have been allowed a pulpit (or, at least, a soapbox) for awhile now. Trouble is - as you imply above - what about solutions? Even my favorite econometricist, John Williams, is all about criticism and almost nothing about policy.
One thing that NBBooks and Jerome are doing is cross-posting. I wonder if we could cross-develop some solution-oriented pieces. We could post them on a bunch of different sites and assign one of us to each site to keep the discussion going as long as possible.
I suppose that the main problem might be agreeing on the policies. Chris doesn't want to hear about socialistic programs. Others think Chris' dialectic is naive. And I'm quite sure that there are other mutually-exclusive tendencies here, too. What do you think, Sven? Worth a try? Doable?
by paul spencer (spencerinthegorge AT yahoo DOT com) on Sat Jan 26th, 2008 at 12:24:43 PM EST
Re: Liu and Rubbino (sp?) (4.00 / 2)
Paul - I totally support Chris C' vision, and I know he has had the experience for his unique insight. We are working jointly and separately on some RW projects that could put some of the concepts into action. I don't have Chris' financial background and I am largely just a lightweight cheerleader for the intellectual views expressed here. But I do know the media.
For both Chris and I (and others), putting these ideas into practice is the only way to disprove the 'naivity' criticism. We are also both lucky to be operating in a Nordic environment that has less entrenched views of what works and what doesn't.
I certainly agree that solutions are needed, I'm just not sure we ETers can agree on what they might be. I personally believe that chaos is necessary before a new paradigm can emerge. I can't speak for Chris on that view though ;-)
by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Jan 26th, 2008 at 01:27:47 PM EST
I totally support Chris' vision, too. (4.00 / 2)
I may have some doubts about the inevitability of it, though - as, I think, do others here at ET. Also, I think that Chris' theory may give too little consideration to the roles of government and contract. As far as 'vision', though, kudos to Chris, to you, to Solveig, and so on.
Particularly, his concepts justify/rationalize the role of the investor. That part had eluded me for the whole of the 40 plus years that I've been interested/involved in the co-operative movement. His approach is holistic, and his system is both just and fair. Can't say much better than that.
Meantime, my main point above should say something like this: What type and level of policy can we collectively agree to promulgate and publicize? If we can generate some policy recommendations, can we organize to publicize them broadly?
Re: I totally support Chris' vision, too. (4.00 / 2)
Chris doesn't want to hear about socialistic programs. Others think Chris' dialectic is naive
Not quite: firstly, I agree with the aims and values of both Socialism and Communism. I go back 3 generations as a "Labour" man: but this UK government has got f..k all to do with Labour as I knew it.
It's just that to date it has been impossible to implement either Socialism or Communism: similarly Cooperativism (if that is a word), which should be a no-brainer.
IMHO that is because the legal protocols - in particular, in the case of Socialism, those relating to the relationship of "the State" and the Citizen - simply do not work in practice.
Secondly; I don't do Dialectic. I'm a dyed in the wool Pirsig ("Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" man, and I believe that we lost as much as we gained when we took the route of Reason and the Dialectic.
Where I am working is the "Both/And" space between "either/or".
Now that is high praise, Paul, which I hope I can justify in working with inspired people like you, Sven, and anyone else here on ET who is "up for it".
by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sat Jan 26th, 2008 at 03:20:24 PM EST
The Vision I Get, But Not in Practice (4.00 / 7)
I will not contribute to a debate about Chris' policies here, but i wish to put the first plank down on our economic foundation of "solution oriented pieces."
Many of us agree that energy policy is the underpinning to today's economics, and that a tidal shift is necessary. There is strong agreement that a forced global investiture in massive energy efficiency programs and a subsequent greater push towards wind and solar will be one of the cornerstones of a new economy.
All the aspects of a media sexy story are there: jobs, local industry, circular local cash flow, based upon technologies where if not manufacturing, at least assembly provides a huge economic stimulus.
Not to mention it diminishes the warfare necessary to protect the establishment's energy sources. Not to mention it mitigates the untimely death of millions from the pollution caused by our society's energy failure. Not to mention it still allows cows and soybeans to graze uninhibited amongst the spinning wind machines and silent solar collectors.
I'd like to spend an hour with Mr. Liu, and i'd bet he'd then be on board with helping develop the global policy necessary to put a dent in this madness.
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
by Crazy Horse on Sat Jan 26th, 2008 at 04:04:21 PM EST
Re: The Vision I Get, But Not in Practice (4.00 / 2)
solution oriented pieces
Yup. It's about "What Works".
If I can put in place a few "Community Energy Partnerships" in the US, UK, wherever, and they actually work the way I reckon they will, then off we go.
If it happens, it will happen, "Bottom Up" not top down, because the conventional Capitalist Fish rots from the head down.
This may be difficult, but I'd love for you to outline a proposal for such a "Community Energy Partnership" here on ET in a diary. I instinctively like your ideas, but being the numbskull I am I can't quite grasp how they work. The application to an actual project might help me (and others!) understand.
by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Sat Jan 26th, 2008 at 05:15:59 PM EST
That's a challenge!
You mean I actually have to write about it in language people might understand? Solveig says I should do that, too, but it doesn't come easy after a life spent writing Civil ServiceSpeak and CitySpeak....
I'll do my best in a Diary later in the week when I get back from London.
by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sun Jan 27th, 2008 at 04:14:25 AM EST
Re: The Vision I Get, But Not in Practice (none / 1)
Our new 'digs' is located in an area that is prime territory for solar/wind power generation. (At least to my ignorant eyeballs.) If nothing else it would be a good area for solar/wind companies to Field Test, QC, QA, and quantify their equipment.
Just to add to the Sales Pitch, there is land available at cheap or free for a company to put their buildings/offices.
AND there is incentive money available for already existing companies to move here.
What the wide eyed radicals concerned citizens here want are (1) decent jobs (2) with a future (3) that doesn't rape the landscape (4) in a company that intends to stick for the long-term.
There is a power line transmission project being planned and it wouldn't take that much political fiddle-dee-dee to get it to run close enough to our area to be usable for a local power generation station. Naturally it would be even easier if we could go to the state with Letters-of-Intent in hand. (hint hint. :-)
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
by ATinNM on Sun Jan 27th, 2008 at 08:23:16 PM EST
if only he had come out and said "the common interests of the world's workers are now in plain view."
you are the media you consume.
by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Sat Jan 26th, 2008 at 08:18:26 PM EST
Chris - (4.00 / 2)
you and Steve Nieman are definitely on the same track WRT the Zen approach. As far as my use of the word "dialectic", I realize that that is my brand of term, not yours. And, as you are probably aware by now, I am not abandoning that term - or Reason, for that matter.
Briefly - the socialist, the communist, the co-operativist, the regulatory-approach-to-capitalist systems - every recent politico/economic thing except capitalism itself - have not been 'alive' long enough - they have not seen enough iterations and evolution - to have proven or disproven much of anything. The legal protocols have barely been tested, let alone shown to prove anything in practice. And we need to factor in the hostile environment that every such experiment has encountered.
Capitalism encountered the same type of environment and underwent the same sorts of trials. It succeeded - and this only recently in historical terms - partly because the natural practitioners took essentially consistent slogans and raised them continually in a variety of national and political contexts - sort of a 'whack-a-mole' strategy, except that they were the moles. The 'nobles' who were doing the whacking got tired of it and joined their movement.
The plutocracy is (mostly) not going to join us in our endeavor, so it will be a longer, more difficult struggle. We have barely begun, even going back to Marx and before. The point, though, of the foregoing paragraph is that we need to consistently put forward as much as we can mutually support. Crazy Horse says it well - and illustrates the point - with his example below of the major emphasis that should be placed on the renewable-energy-systems-development-and-implementation elements of policy.
So - what else can we all basically agree upon in terms of policy and program, rather than criticism of the existing system(s)? You agree with the "aims and values" of socialism and communism. How far can we stretch that toward program? Won't there be some level of administration or adjudication outside of the interaction of individuals? Will there be some national or regional inspection service for quality or safety levels of common trade products? When we have large-scale, capital-intensive projects, such as installation and maintenance of high-speed rail service, won't we need some kind of large-scale organization to control and optimize the implementation?
I'll start by stating complete agreement with your concept of money grounded in common, concrete value, such as kw-hour units. Where can we go from here? Shall we list points and take a vote?
Re: Chris - (none / 1)
Won't there be some level of administration or adjudication outside of the interaction of individuals?
won't we need some kind of large-scale organization to control and optimize the implementation?
The problem is "Organisations" like the State, and Corporations which exist outside of us as individuals.
Them and Us.
The simple but radical thing about the "Open" Corporate is that it is a framework within which individuals self organise.
The UK LLP is the first ever entity that I am aware of that combines the collective "joint" responsibility -in pursuit of a common purpose - of Partnership, without the individual "several" responsibility.
Limitation of Liability (as in the UK LLP, which is the first example of an "Open" Corporate) is a red herring: it's a sort of protective semi-permeable membrane which lets Value in, but not out.
LLP's are conventionally being used as an alternative form of "organisation" - indeed, that is why it was conceived - to give professional partnerships the benefit of limitation of liability.
But the possibility is now there of creating networked , non hierarchical frameworks, which are capable of linking neighbourhoods, to "self Organise "Areas"; to link "Areas" to self organise regionally, and to link Regions, to self organise nationally.
In this "Open Corporate model, LLP's don't own anything, employ anyone, or do anything: but their members do, in pursuit of an agreed common purpose.
Individuals will of course make the planning decisions as they do now: but it will be on the basis of a delegated responsibility, not an imposed "top down" capability imposed either through representative democracy - and the tyranny of the majority - or by dollars as votes, through the Corporation.
Anyway: gotta run, cos I'm in London for a few days, so the best I'll be doing until Thursday is having a quick browse, I suspect.
Btw, I'll respond to your Klickitat LLC when I get back.
I'm trying to post all over the place (none / 0)
I also posted this on PBS's Bill Moyers Journal, and on The Agonist. If anyone misses the writings of Stirling Newberry, The Agonist is where he has been posting the past year or so. I think his view is that U.S. and European elites are going to blunder their way further into an economic morass, but it really doesn't matter whether we end up with a Depression or with hyper-inflation, because where we're really headed is into war with India and China over petroleum and other resources. A very scary prospect, but so far he's been correct on the unbelievable imbecility of political, economic, and media elites.
As far as solutions, I think a good start is Thomas Palley's page, http://www.thomaspalley.com/?page_id=17. And you should definitely get a copy of the book Financialization and the World Economy. The introduction by Gerald Epstein, Co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, is here: http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/programs/globalization/financialization/chapter1.pdf
by NBBooks on Sat Jan 26th, 2008 at 04:48:03 PM EST
Re: I'm trying to post all over the place (4.00 / 3)
The pluts are in a bind.
War uses up oil fast. If they go to war to grab oil then the oil they use to grab oil will exceed the oil they grab.
Second, the Lebanon/Israeli War gave solid backing to the thesis the advantage has moved to the defense. Anti-Tank, anti-air, and anti-ship missile systems ensure the attacker, who must be exposed, is at a severe disadvantage; we're talking World War I kind of disadvantage.
Finally, they've stolen all the excess money and the only way to get the money needed to fund a war is to tax themselves. (ha!)
In theory, they could use neutron weapons to kill the populace without destroying the infrastructure and resources they want to grab. In practice? I'm not so sure. Using nuclear weapons in a war of conquest is a new book, yet to be written. Exactly how it would develop is unknown. Simply from that I don't think they could get (enough) of the high-ranking military to go along.
Re: Holy Mackerel! (none / 1)
But will the international circuit of financial capital break?
The United States is not as critical to that circuit as it was even a decade ago ... if China is eager to sell goods to nations on credit, there are any number of nations whose credit ought to be no worse than that of the United States ... perhaps not Zimbabwe, but much of Africa, for starters.
I understand this analysis if the choice is between demand driven inflation or depression ... but cost push inflation needs some other driver to turn into a hyperinflation. The most common source of hyperinflation is a structural inability to meet outstanding obligations in a foreign currency ... the Latin American debt crises of the 1890's, the War Reparations hyperinflation of Weimar Germany, the recycled Petrodollar lending hyperinflation of 1970's Brazil, the complete collapse of the social and physical infrastructure of the Congolese Economy in the last decade of the kleptocracy of Mobuto Sese Seko etcetera etcetera.
I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Jan 26th, 2008 at 07:00:44 PM EST
Joseph Stiglitz (4.00 / 4)
US slides into dangerous 1930s 'liquidity trap'
Professor Stiglitz, former chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said it takes far too long for monetary policy to work its magic. This will not gain much traction in the midst of a housing crash.
"People have been drawing home equity out of the houses at a rate of $700bn or $800bn a year. It's been a huge boost to consumption, but that game is now up. House prices are going to continue falling, and lower rates won't stop that this point," he said.
"As a Keynesian, I'd say the biggest back for the buck in terms of immediate stimulus would be unemployment assistance and tax rebates for the poor. That will feed through quickly, but set against the magnitude of the problem, even a fiscal stimulus package of $150bn is not going to be enough," he said
"The distress is going to be very severe. Around 2m people have lost all their savings."
my bold
Re: Joseph Stiglitz (4.00 / 2)
Necromancy, I think: it's a dark art.
Shades of Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars....
Return of the Jedi is needed, I think, what say you, Chewy?
by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sat Jan 26th, 2008 at 06:42:25 AM EST
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Re: Liu: No Choice Now But Depression or Hyperinfl (none / 1)
The Fed has a choice of accepting an economic depression to cut off stagflation, or ushering hyperinflation by flooding the market with unproductive liquidity. Insolvency cannot be solved by injecting liquidity without the penalty of hyperinflation.
So which is politically less hopeless? My guess is that the US government is currently suited to only meaningless gestures and will waffle until we get stagflation.
by rootless2 on Sat Jan 26th, 2008 at 02:39:57 AM EST
Meaningless gestures (none / 0)
And all of this will come into public view way before the US November elections. There is going to be great anger and imo there is not a single candidate with the credentials to lead in such a situation.
It is hard to find one in Europe either...
Re: Meaningless gestures (4.00 / 3)
too many years of empty keynsianism in the usa. None of that fake money went into infrastructure, education, building local economies.
Don't forget the Shock Doctrine. (none / 1)
Might be time to turn the tables, if we can get policy recommendations accepted among us, and then disseminate them. As Milton F. sort-of said, you can't win the lottery, if you don't buy a ticket.
Re: Liu: No Choice Now But Depression or Hyperinfl (4.00 / 2)
If we are lucky the US will engage in meaningless gestures and will waffle.
If we aren't so lucky, they will engage in a stimulus package for the super wealthy, and increase military spending.
aspiring to genteel poverty
by edwin (eeeeeeee222222rrrrreeeeeaaaaadddddd@@@@yyyyaaaaaaa) on Sat Jan 26th, 2008 at 06:13:52 AM EST
Pointing fingers at the plutocrats (4.00 / 6)
The Telegraph goes increasingly prole
To appreciate the growing gap between the very rich and the rest, you have only to look at the ratio of bosses' pay to that of employees in general. An annual review by Income Data Services showed that the median total earnings of the chief executives of the FTSE 100 companies - the UK's 100 largest quoted companies - in the financial year 2005/06 was £2m, up 20pc on the previous year.
By contrast, the gross median pay for full-time British employees in April 2006 was £23,600, up a mere 3pc on the previous year. So the typical FTSE 100 boss earned 75.2 times what the typical employee was paid - and just one year's pay rise for that typical boss was £400,000, equivalent to 17 times the total pay of the typical employee.
In the obscene necrophilia of the US it is upwards of 450:1. In Finland around 40:1
The sums of money now accruing to top talent, especially in financial services, have become absurdly large. Some people are earning in a single year sums that they would not be able to spend in a lifetime, or indeed the lifetimes of their children and children's children.
Why should any of us care? For one thing, it's not healthy for democracy. The new super-rich have the means through the financing of political parties, the funding of think-tanks and the ownership of the media to shape Government policies or to deter reform of a status quo that suits them.
Not just unhealthy for democracy. The Death of Democracy.
They are victims, too, of the collapse of a British private sector pensions system that was until recently the envy of the world. The super-rich may be effortlessly becoming richer, but millions of people have been obliged to contribute more cash than they have ever done to guarantee even a modest income in retirement. Hard-pressed company pension schemes that were once a model of enlightened paternalism are now being transferred to specially created new companies backed by the super-rich - who see in them an opportunity to make a fortune for themselves, though not for pensioners. There is something unseemly in the way that the retirement hopes of millions of people who have saved all their lives can be bought and sold as though they were no different from Mars Bars.
Ordinary people are seen by the plutocracy as mere numbers. But it is those numbers that will eventually defeat them. Our job, as we often state, is to find ways to activate those numbers.
Re: Pointing fingers at the plutocrats (none / 0)
Yup. The numbers have votes.
I'm an optimist though. I think Napsterisation is changing everything.
And this current discrediting of the hyperfinancial system is just going to speed up acceptance of what we have been talking about ;-)
Maybe now, at last, an article outlining a constructive solution - without slagging off the edxisting one (the system speaks for itself, it needs no help!) might just get printed?
This is where Milton Friedman's economic policies have led in the past and, 'zounds, that's where we are.
How completely expected.
European Tribune - Liu: No Choice Now But Depression or Hyperinflation
I'm still at a loss as to whether there is actually a sensible theory behind this "savings glut" accusation, or it is just a term thwy throw around to shift blame and pretend that they know what they're talking about.
We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Feb 3rd, 2008 at 04:44:25 PM EST
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Comic Review: She-Hulk #1
Cover Art by Kevin Wada Credit: Marvel.com
Cover Art by Kevin Wada
Credit: Marvel.com
As one of the company's most iconic characters, Jennifer Walters, the original She-Hulk, has been relatively successful at sustaining a fanbase, by proving that she's both capable of starring in her own series, as well as being part of a team book.
In recent months, she has been both a part of the recently ended FF, and the recently begun Mighty Avengers. The new She-Hulk title, along with Ms. Marvel, Black Widow, the upcoming Captain Marvel and Elektra, are a very strong sign of of All-New Marvel NOW!'s commitment to have more of Marvel Comics' female superheroes getting the chance to star in their own solo series.
The question is, however, does the new She-Hulk #1 by the creative team of Charles Soule, Javier Pulido and Muntsa Vincente add to her enduring legacy, or detract from it?
The discovery that the issue had a self-contained story called "Motion" was a pleasant surprise. In this day and age, writers often take any excuse they can to drag out an often simple story into five or six issues, with the knowledge that it will come out in a collected edition or trade paperback within months of the story ending. Having a story that doesn't have the reader feeling somewhat frustrated due to a cliffhanger ending and/or limited exposition to move the plot forward is a truly welcome change.
Interior art by Javier Pulido
"Motion" is a pretty straightforward story, but it is the way it is told and resolved that elevates it beyond the cliché. Indeed, the reader gets a very satisfied feeling at the end of the story that this adventure could only happen in a She-Hulk book. Kudos therefore go to writer Charles Soule for truly "getting" the Jade Giantess and for writing a story that truly captures the essence of Jennifer Walters.
The other wonderful thing is the way the writer weaves in all these comic book trivia without a second thought – it reveals his affinity for continuity, but not at the expense of a new reader. Instead, little things that would entertain long-time fans, like expressing the entire convoluted history of Tony Stark's commercial empire, is instead used as a tool to emphasise the annoying behaviour of the story's antagonist. It does not feel extraneous at all.
Colour art by Muntsa Vincente
Throughout the book, the combined talents of artist Javier Pulido and colour artist Muntsa Vincente set the tone for a quirky, lighthearted yet heartfelt story. Pulido's wonderfully minimalist art and brilliant use of panels is complemented strongly by the deft hand of Vincente, who dabbles in such subtle changes in shading that it looks deceptively simple.
As Dan Slott did for the character back in 2004, Charles Soule seems to be toying around with a tried and tested formula for She-Hulk, that is, focusing on her legal career but never forgetting that she is still a superhero. What has yet to be revealed, however, is whether this recipe for success is going to be a long-term concept, or if Soule has the intention of changing things up. Honestly, I have no problems if he sticks to what has worked in the past. After all, he has already proven that he isn't the second coming of Slott, so it probably won't be feel like a rehash or a rerun.
In summary, if you like strong characters, figuratively and literally in this case, and/or legal adventures, She-Hulk is the title for you. Also, at $2.99 each month, it won't do much damage to your wallet.
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I'm writing this column on Friday afternoon before the great presidential election of 2016 — otherwise known as the dirtiest, filthiest, crummiest, most scoundrelly, crudest, most uncivil election in my 73 year-old memory.
Never in my life did I think that the only two candidates for president would both be dyed-in-the-wool, thoroughly-urbanized New Yorkers. But, I did my civic duty and cast my ballot early this week.
Folks, it wuz a lot like making a choice of which manure lagoon you had to swim in — the local corporate hog guy's or the local commercial feedlot owner's. Finally, I just closed my eyes, held my nose and jumped in and hoped for the best.
I'll say no more, and by the time you read this column the nation's votes, legal and otherwise, counted or otherwise will have set our nation's course for at least the next four years and possibly for the next 40.
In light of the foul mood the nation is in preceding this election, I decided to finish this column with some of the most inane, shallowest rural jokes I could find.
To complete the deed, I dug off my bookshelf a dog-eared tome entitled "Jokes: Hours and Hours of Great Laughs," copyrighted in 1980 and published by the Waldman Publishing Corp (of you guessed it — New York).
Folks, it wuz a simpler life 36 years ago, it was also less politically correct and funnier, too.
• What do you call a minor accident between a duck and a goose? A feather bender.
• What do you call a lady rural mail carrier? How about a mail female.
• Do ears of corn get dandruff? Sure, haven't you ever heard of corn flakes?
• What happens when two porcupines fall in love? They get stuck on each other. What happens when two skunks fall in love? They have a smell of an attraction to each other.
• Do chickens jog? No, but turkeys trot.
• Can a pig drive a car? Sure, everyone's familiar with a road hog.
• A whooping crane is really a stork with pneumonia.
• You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.
• A pessimist is an optimist who tried to practice what he preached.
• A rural philosopher is one who, instead of crying over spilled milk, consoles himself that milk is four-fifths water.
There, that ought to be enuf drivel to keep your mind off the election results.


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Estee Lauder Cos. ' Chris Good announces retirement – WWD
Another C-suite executive announced his retirement plans Estee Lauder Cos. Inc.
Chris Good, beauty, beauty The chairman of the giant corporation, North America, will retire effective June 30, 2022. The company has yet to appoint a successor.
Good's time with the company lasted only 25 years, five of which were spent leading Lauder's home market. His efforts in the region have paid off, with geographical gains in FY 2021. In the first quarter of FY 2022, all categories saw "business growth. strong net income," according to a statement from the company.
Prior to joining North America, he was appointed president of the company's sales for the UK and Ireland in 2014, and has held a multitude of other roles with the company, after joining in 2014. 1987.
Fabrizio Freda, president and chief executive officer of Estee Lauder Cos., in a statement.
"We are grateful for Chris's immense contribution to our business, and the determination and dedication he has shown to push boundaries, invent the unexpected and bring the best out of the world. best for Estée Lauder Cos and beyond," said William P. Lauder, executive chairman, in a statement. "He has championed our company values and embodied our culture both in the field and alongside his teams, constantly fostering collaboration and creativity."
News of Good's retirement comes after news of Cedric Prouvé, who served as group president, international, and will also retire effective June 30, 2022.
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How to top-up an Indian mobile number with a non-Indian bank card?
Continuation of: Is there a possibility to preserve an unused Indian mobile number for a period of time?
TLDR: People who travel to India couple of times a year keep one Indian SIM card with them. To keep the same number active, they top-up the number once a year for Rs. 200. Pretty easy to top-up online if you have an Indian bank card. Not easy if you don't. Big websites I've seen (Freecharge, PayTM, etc.) don't take international bank cards.
Which website to use to top-up an Indian mobile number with a non-Indian bank card?
I don't want to bother my folks in India to do it for me.
Oxigen USA website does the job with EXACT $ to ₹ exchange rate and zero fees. None. Zilch.
Accepted my EU debit card for an Indian mobile phone bill payment.
Small downside: my EU bank fee for converting € to $.
Fee can be avoided if you have a bank account with new age startup banks like Monzo (£), N26 (€) or Revolut (£/€).
Edit: now that the promotion period is over, the conversation rate is appalling on the website. Also the minimum transaction has to be Rs. 500. Still does the job though.
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Late yesterday evening when I got home from work, Martin and Daniel was cooking some food in the kitchen at the academy. Strolled over and took some photos. They where cooking, mashed potatoes, ribs, broccoli, gravy and some apple-cream. For desert they made creamcheese sorbet with rasberries and caramelised chocolate. Yummie right! I had salmon instead of ribs since I eat no meat. A simple tip is the broccoli which was fried in oil and then drenched in butter adding salt. Very delicious.
It has been a long work week and now I am enjoying my weekend and are working on some travel-related upcoming posts.
Oh wow. I could live off those desserts. Fabulous food.