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The Trump tariff and the dumb market
Imagine five American firms, each of which lays off New York workers.
Firms 1, 2, and 3 close their New York widget factories.
Firm 1 builds a new widget factory in Mexico.
Firm 2 builds a new widget factory in South Carolina.
Firm 3 does not set up a new factory anywhere. Instead, it buys widgets from a separate company which built a widget factory in Mexico and imported them into the U.S. This separate company never had a U.S. factory.
Firm 4 closes its New York call center and lays off all its employees. The firm opens a new call center in the Philippines.
Firm 5 keeps its New York widget factory open but replaces half its employees with robots.
In all five cases New York workers lose their jobs. Firms 1 and 4 move New York jobs to foreign countries while Firm 2 moves New York jobs to South Carolina.
President-elect Trump's proposed new 35 percent tariff would apply to Firm 1, and specifically to goods imported into the U.S. from the new Mexican factory that replaced Firm 1's now closed New York factory.
It appears his policy would not apply to Firms 2-5. Based largely on his recent interview on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, here is my best read of Mr. Trump's intent.
The policy clearly does not apply to Firm 2, which "moves jobs" within the U.S.
He said the policy would apply to a company that "wants to move to Mexico or another country." Firm 3 isn't moving anything. Firm 3 shuts down a U.S. factory, while a separate firm makes the replacement goods and imports them.
Firm 4 is outsourcing services, not goods. (I think) his policy would apply only to manufactured goods.
The tariff also doesn't apply to Firm 5, since while jobs are lost, no jobs are moving.
Over the next few months Team Trump will have to address the following four questions about his proposed tariff.
Question 1: Will it work? Will the threat of an import tariff prevent the case of Firm 1? In the short run, yes. A punitive tariff can be set high enough that it outweighs the cost advantages of cheaper foreign labor and a less burdensome foreign regulatory environment. The tariff would in effect trap domestic manufacturing capacity and prevent it from moving outside the U.S., and that's the intent.
At some point, however, another firm without existing U.S. manufacturing workers can set up a factory in Mexico and start making similar goods at lower cost than Firm 1's trapped U.S. manufacturing capacity. Those goods would not face the import tariff since this separate firm didn't move jobs out of the U.S. Firm 1 will struggle to compete with these less expensive imports and may eventually shut down its New York factory despite the policy designed to help those workers. In the long run Firm 3 can probably beat Firm 1.
Question 2: Is the Firm 1 case the result of unfair trade? Chris Wallace described Firm 1 as making a free market decision. The president-elect replied "No, that's the dumb market… I'm a big free trader, but it has to be fair." Mr. Trump seems to be conflating two things:
a foreign government's trade policy or a negotiated trade agreement ("bad trade deal") that disadvantages U.S. producers relative to foreign producers; and
a competitive market advantage to producing goods overseas unrelated to trade policy: things like cheaper labor or resource inputs, or lower tax and regulatory burdens.
The president-elect and his advisors now need to explain why, in the absence of the first, the second is not a free market, why they think it's unfair trade. If there is something in NAFTA that tilts the playing field away from the U.S. and toward Mexico, I've never heard Team Trump explain it. In the case of Mexico, Mr. Trump's "dumb market" is also a free market, just one in which he doesn't like the outcome of competition.
Question 3: What share of laid off manufacturing workers see their jobs outsourced to foreign countries? New Yorkers in all five of the above cases are laid off. How many of them are in the first case relative to the others? To answer this you'd need to measure automation vs. outsourcing, domestic vs. foreign outsourcing, and services vs. manufacturing, as well as make a guess about how many firms would choose the Firm 3 path when confronted by a tariff that applies only to Firm 1.
If laid off Firm 1 New Yorkers are only a small portion of all laid off New Yorkers in Firms 1-5, by itself that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to help those in Firm 1. It does mean you'll need to explain why you're trying to help some laid off workers and not others. That brings us to the political and communications challenge…
Question 4: Is the policy fair and will it be perceived as fair? What do you tell the laid off workers of Firms 2-5 when they ask why you're not helping them as well? The affected workers, their families, and the local economy, probably care less why New York jobs disappeared than how many did. Team Trump could argue their policy is narrowly tailored to solve only a specific problem, that of manufacturing jobs outsourced overseas because of unfair trade policies or bad trade deals. The laid off New Yorkers probably don't care whether their jobs were shipped to Mexico, shipped to South Carolina, or taken by robots. If Team Trump can't answer question 2 convincingly and explain why Firm 1's workers were harmed by unfair trade policies or agreements, rather than by the harsh realities of the free market on a level playing field, then their justification for helping some workers but not others could fail. And if Firm 1's laid off New Yorkers are only a small portion of those laid off in all five firms, then Team Trump will face an even greater political and communications challenge.
Rather than an import tariff that may not work in the long run, is unfair to other laid off workers, and undermines free market competition, I'd like to see President-elect Trump dedicate his energy to pushing the other policies he referenced on Sunday: those that make it less costly for firms to employ American workers by lowering tax and regulatory burdens. Make America a great place to invest, expand, and create new jobs. A flexible and rapidly growing U.S. economy is also the best way to help Americans who lose their jobs (for any reason) find new ones quickly.
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The Goatman Urban Legend
In this article we will be taking a look at the strange entity behind the Goatman urban legend that has surfaced around Beltsville in Maryland, Louisville in Kentucky, and Fort Worth in Texas.
Does an axe-wielding half man/half goat creature really exist…or are the rumors nothing more than urban legends?
The Goatman Legends
For just over half a century now, teenagers in the small town called Beltsville have passed down stories involving a sinister creature. This creature is thought to haunt the local woods and a stretch of road which 'doubles' as a lovers lane.
The first real 'report' involving this creature comes from 1957, when a randy couple decided to park on this secluded road for a bit of private time (the road is actually known as Fletchertown Road).
Without warning, something big hit the front bonnet of the car, making a terrible crashing sound.
When they looked up, they saw an extremely tall horned figure staring down at them…holding a double-edged axe!
For some reason the creature didn't hang about, and ran off into the night just seconds after frightening them.
This 1957 sighting was the first ever recorded incident involving the Goatman…but many more followed over the years.
It is said to be between 7-8 feet tall and weighing 300 pounds. It has a normal (yet tall) upper body with the head and legs/feet of a goat.
Some witnesses claim that the creature is completely covered with a strange fur, whilst others have reported it only being partially covered in hair.
Over the years the creature seems to have got more and more violent in it's ways. The first few incidents involved the entity merely watching young lovers – scaring them.
Move on a couple of decades, and the legend now involves the creature chasing a young man through the forest and eventually decapitating him!
This report was followed by hundreds of locals claiming that the Goatman had captured and killed their pet in the middle of the night.
The Sexual Predator
Why does this strange creature have such a fascination with young lovers?
Well, modern-day incidents seem to indicate that the Goatman is now creeping into homes in the middle of the night…and raping unsuspecting men and women.
Is this what he/she has learned over the years – from watching numerous young lovers in their cars?
Many believe the stories began due to the presence of an old hermit that lived in the area in the 1960's. This strange man was often seen walking down Fletchertown Road in the dead of night.
Another theory involves a scientist that used to work in the area – carrying tests out on goats. He apparently went mad (for no particular reason!) and started to stalk the area at night…dressed as a goat!
The most popular theory simply centers around a local farmer who lost his temper after local youths killed some of his goat herd. He then took to the woods and road to exact revenge…night after night.
Stories of a similar creature are also told in Fort Worth, Texas and Louisville, Kentucky. A real entity…or nothing more than a local urban legend?
Please leave your thoughts and opinions in the comment section below.
Categories: Entities, Mysteries Tags: Cryptozoology, Goatman, Urban Legend 6 Comments
Could Dinosaurs Still Exist?
The blockbuster Hollywood movie Jurassic Park suggested that dinosaurs could live through our planet's current conditions – many cryptozoologists even believe that certain dinosaur species survived the big bang.
The Mokèlé-Mbèmbé
Abbé Lievain Bonaventure was a French missionary who published works on his travels through the Congo River region in 1776.
Some of his writings told about a huge clawed monster footprint he had come across that was over three feet long.
It is thought that this is the earliest known reference to the western world of Mokèlé-Mbèmbé – a famous water beast that pops up in Congo folklore.
This beast tends to divide opinion – certain locals believe it is a real beast, of flesh and bone, whilst others believe it is a powerful spirit.
Over the last few decades, numerous cryptozoologists have taken an interest in this beast. After a lot of research, and interviews with the local tribe people – they believe that this creature is in fact a Sauropod dinosaur.
Numerous expeditions, dating back as far as over two centuries ago, have set out to try and capture the Mokèlé-Mbèmbé.
Over the last decade a number of television shows have filmed documentaries following attempted expeditions to find proof on the creature.
Unfortunately, none of them have been able to locate any concrete proof on the creature's existence…but many of them have encountered large unexplained tracks near rivers.
Some expedition members have even reported hearing loud 'demonic' roars throughout the night.
Back in 1959, a group of missionaries stumbled across a tribe who told them that the Mokèlé-Mbèmbé had recently been captured and killed.
The tribesmen who slayed the beast, apparently devoured it's meat and died shortly afterwards.
They believe that the creature's meat still harnessed some of it's amazing powers – and that's what killed the men who consumed it.
Lake Tele
In 1988 a Japanese film crew captured some aerial footage over Lake Tele for a documentary…and it seemed to capture a beast that looked like the Mokèlé-Mbèmbé.
The footage shows some sort of object causing a disturbance and a noticeable wake in the water – it appears for about 15 seconds in total.
Numerous cryptozoologists believe that this could well be the fabled beast…whilst many skeptics point to the fact that it is probably some sort of elephant.
Another breed of dinosaur, that natives believe still lives in Africa, is the Emela-ntouka species.
On top of this there are reports of the Ngoubou, which is said to have 6 horns on it's head and the Nguma-monene – a dragon-like creature that also lives in the water.
In 1932 two photographs surfaced from the Congo that captured the beast known as Kasai Rex. This beast was apparently in the process of attacking, and killing a rhinoceros when the images were snapped.
The photographs were eventually proven to be fakes, but there have been numerous other reports covering this Tyrannosaur over the years.
One of these reports claims that a man was killed when driving his jeep through the valley. Apparently Kasai Rex appeared from nowhere and snatched him right out of the jeep as it sped past!
Do Dinosaurs Still Exist?
These are just some of the modern-day dinosaur reports that are floating about – there are many, many more.
Australia has the Burrunjor, whilst Scotland has the world famous Nessie (The Loch Ness Monster)…
If you have any cryptozoology examples you would like to include in this article, please leave them in the comment section below.
Categories: Mysteries Tags: Congo, Cryptozoology, Dinosaurs, Lake Tele, Mokèlé-Mbèmbé 4 Comments
The Cottingley Fairy Incident
I can remember coming across the photographs from the Cottingley fairy incident in a school library publication when I was about 10 – at the time, they completely blew me away!
In this article we will be taking a look at the story behind the famous paranormal images Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright gave to the world…only to take them back again in the 80's…
Frances and Elsie
Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright were relatives that ended up living in the same house in mid 1917. The two young ladies got on like a house on fire, and spent every waking hour together.
Most days they could be found messing about at the stream that ran through the bottom of the Cottingley property.
When the adults would ask what they were doing down there – they would simply reply that they were playing with the fairies!
Before long the two girls got sick of the adults laughing at their fairy claims, and borrowed a family camera to take down to the stream to prove their existence.
The girls returned about an hour later and handed the camera to Elsie's father, Arthur, who set off to his amateur darkroom to develop the photographic plate.
At first Arthur was shocked by what he saw – images of the girls playing around the stream with fairies dancing by them…but then he passed it off as a clever teenage joke!
Several months later the girls returned to Arthur with a picture of Elsie holding out a hand to a gnome…
Enough was enough – he banned the girls from using his camera again!
Are These REAL Fairies?
A few years later, Elsie's mother was attending a lecture on fairies at the Bradford Theosophical Society. Because of the lecture subject – she decided to take the fairy photos along.
Things seemed to snowball a little bit from here – the public got hold of these images pretty quickly!
Most people decided that these images were clever forgeries, so Edward Gardner, head of the national Theosophical Society, stepped in to find out if they were indeed tampered with.
The experts he contacted concluded the images were real and genuine, with no apparent tampering.
In 1920, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) and Edward Gardner decided to ask the two young ladies if they could maybe capture some more images of these wonderful creatures.
They handed the girls a brand new camera, and Gardner waited for them as they went down to the stream – apparently the fairies would not appear if Frances and Elsie brought visitors with them!
They returned about an hour later with several new shots of the fairies. Gardner contacted Doyle immediately and Doyle was over the moon – a famous spiritualist, Doyle had been waiting for years to get his hands on some sort of confirmation of the paranormal.
The photo's appeared in the December 1920 issue of The Strand Magazine, to mixed reactions, and Doyle started receiving reports from all over the world…involving incidents with fairies.
With these reports, he eventually created a book in 1922 titled The coming of the Fairies – resulting in many questioning his credibility and integrity.
The Fake Fairies
The girls managed to keep the act up until old age – in 1983 the two cousins admitted to faking the photographs.
The fairies were actually cut out female figures from a book titled Princess Mary's Gift Book. They then suspended these figures on hatpins for the photos.
Once the photos had been taken, the two girls threw the paper fairy constructions into the stream, so all the evidence was washed away!
Frances passed away in 1986, followed by Elsie in 1988.
It's worth noting that both girls were still convinced that 'real' fairies lived at the end of their garden…even though the photographs they produced were fake…
If you have any thoughts or opinions on the Cottingley fairy incident, please leave them in the comment section below.
Categories: Entities, Mysteries Tags: Cryptozoology, Fairies, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Cottingley Fairy Incident Leave a comment
The Missouri Monster Sightings
Bigfoot, the Yeti and Sasquatch all seem to grab the headlines when is comes to big hairy cryptids running around rural locations…
But how many of you have heard about Momo?
In this article we will be taking a look at the less famous Missouri Monster sightings – which rocked the area during the early 1970's.
Early Sightings
The earliest sightings of Momo came from hunters before the area of southeastern Missouri was drained to become a rich farmland.
Numerous hunters describe taking aim and shooting at a large, dark-haired beast.
The sightings then seemed to stop for nearly thirty years.
Then, without warning, the beast reappeared in 1968 in a St. Louis suburb, when it ambushed a child playing in it's backyard, and tried to drag it off into the woods.
The child's aunt, noticed what was going on through the kitchen window, and chased the beast off – luckily it dropped the child before darting off into a nearby wooded area.
Joan Mills and Mary Ryan
Joan Mills and Mary Ryan were in a middle of a journey along Highway 79 in 1971 when they decided to stop off and have a spot of lunch – a picnic.
They were busy tucking into their food when the two of them were overcome with a terribly foul odor.
They looked up to see a strange half-ape and half-man creature in the nearby woods.
Ryan later stated that the beast had a human face, but it's body was completely covered in hair, except for it's hands.
It started to make a move towards the women, making a gurgling sound as it walked. The two women managed to make it to their car and lock their doors.
The creature started pulling at the car doors…and the women had forgotten to pick up the car keys…so they frantically started to honk the horn.
Thankfully, the sound of the horn was enough to scare the creature back into the thicket.
The Harrison Brothers
In July of 1972, eight-year-old Terry Harrison, and his little brother Wally, were busy messing about in the woods behind their house.
Doris, their elder sister, was in the house doing some chores…she suddenly heard the two boys scream out in terror.
She looked out of the window and saw a hairy beast over seven feet tall standing right next to her brothers – it held a dead dog in it's hands.
The family dog managed to bark the creature and it's dog-corpse off into the woods…but mysteriously fell seriously ill afterwards.
A local investigation later discovered clumps of hair, and several footprints were in the area next to the house.
The Gail Suddarth Hoax
Gail Suddarth was seven years old when the hysteria surrounding Momo the monster struck the Louisiana area in 1972.
On a summer day, when she was bored, she decided to create her very own 'monster footprint' in the mud.
She then told her parents that she'd found a Momo footprint…and they believed her!
Before she could admit to what she'd done – experts were all over her garden taking plaster casts of the monster footprint. They also believed it was the real deal…
If you have any thoughts or opinions on the Missouri Monster sightings we have covered here today, please leave them in the comment section below.
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The Ghost Moose of Maine
In this article we will be covering the ghost moose of Maine – first reported back in the early 1900's.
Is this giant white creature (nearly 10 feet in height) based on fact…or fiction?
Eyewitness Hunter Reports
This paranormal creature first came to light through hunter's eyewitness accounts. They claimed it had a very strange glowing white hue to it's coat and it's antlers were completely over-sized (when compared to 'normal' moose breeds!).
Many of these reports also claim that the animal had a near supernatural sense of hearing and smell – whenever it was approached, no matter how quietly, it would suddenly disappear and materialize meters away.
A lot of these hunters actually set out to capture or kill this paranormal beast but were always thwarted when they took aim – the strange entity would simply disappear before they could pull the trigger!
One report that exists, involving hunters named Gilman Brown and Granville Gray, claims that both men managed to get the moose in their sights, from different vantage points…but the creature simply disappeared before they could shoot.
The First Sighting
The first sighting of the Ghost Moose of Maine was reported by a man named M.A. Cushing. He apparently came across this glowing animal in the Chairback Mountain area in the Katahdin region.
This first encounter seemed to be the catalyst for numerous other sightings, it was constantly spotted in the forests of the Chesuncook region up until about 1938.
A Rare White Moose Filmed in Sweden
The most famous of these '38 sightings was from a witness listed simply as 'Houston'. He claimed to be crossing a particularly tricky bog to get to a herd of moose.
Right next to this herd was a small gathering of larger bull moose…one of which glowed a pure brilliant white. He also claimed that this moose stood at least a meter taller than it's surrounding counterparts.
Unfortunately, this Houston character was well known for liking a drink or two – so skeptics immediately jumped on the bandwagon and claimed he had mistaken a white horse for this moose.
Houston hit back at these claims pointing out that he was completely sober and he was an experienced hunter, besides, how could a white horse suddenly spout antlers?
The Ghost Moose
Was this spectral animal nothing more than an albino addition to the moose family or was it indeed a paranormal entity?
More recent reports have had this 'white moose' popping up in Canada – these incidents have led to a Canadian forest being nicknamed White Moose Forest.
Cryptozoology, paranormal entity or mistaken identity – what is the explanation behind this strange beast?
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Kikiyaon – Terrifying Mythical Creatures
In this article we will be covering one of the most terrifying mythical creatures in African folklore – the Kikiyaon.
Is this cryptid animal based on a age-old bedtime story or is there some truth behind it's existence?
The Kikiyaon
The Kikiyaon is a cryptozoology subject that has been reported numerous times in the Gambia, Africa.
Often referred to as 'soul cannibal' or 'soul eater', it is said to resemble a huge feathered owl with a 20 foot wingspan (approximately).
There are also other reports that label the creature as more of a humanoid gargoyle-looking entity that can transform into an owl-beast and take to the skies.
It is known to have deep red eyes with clawed feet – it also has long razor-like nails on each hand.
The Undead Power
The Kikiyaon is often referred to as the 'soul cannibal' or 'soul eater' because of it's magical abilities to transform it's victims into zombies.
Numerous African tribes are convinced that this creature can capture a man's soul and leave him an empty vessel – the walking dead!
The creature has vampire-like qualities that deliver this soul eating blow – it's said to creep into people's bedrooms at night to sink it's long teeth into their neck. When it has finished with it's bite – it has captured the victim's soul.
The zombie state that the Kikiyaon unleashes does not last forever. Once it's teeth has broken your skin, and your soul is captured, an illness takes over the body…that claims it within days.
I recently read an article that claimed this 'Kikiyaon illness' was the inspiration behind the zombie disease used in the classic Night of The Living Dead – Although I've not been able to confirm this.
Over the years, African locals have reported seeing this cryptid dash across the Gambian plains at ridiculous speeds. They also claim that a strange rotting smell follows the creature, wherever it goes!
A well known cryptozoologist named Bernard Heuvelmans decided that it was about time someone looked into this African 'myth' – he was famous for certain reports that covered the Loch Ness Monster and the Yeti.
After months of research in Africa, he came to the conclusion that this vampire-like creature was nothing but mistaken identity. He suspected that the locals had turned a 'regular' creature into something it was not – a legend brought to life by fear.
Local African tribes do not agree with his findings.
What are your thoughts on this creature – fact or fiction?
Do you believe this so-called myth actually exists or do feel it is nothing more than mistaken identity?
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The EDM community is congratulating Mama Lunoe on her absolutely precious, newborn daughter, and welcoming Willa into this crazy, beautiful world of music with open arms!
Baby girl isn't even a day old yet, and she's already getting hit up for producer credits, collaborations, and more — rightfully coming into her own as "Willa the Princess of Hyper House" (shoutout Major Lazer for that fitting title). Zeds Dead, Jauz, Valentino Khan and more have expressed their love for the newest addition to the EDM fam and we're expecting a continuous outpouring of congratulations (and, record deals) for some time.
It's clear the excitement that fellow DJ/producers, labels, and others in the industry are feeling for Anna Lunoe and family. And, while she makes for an incredible artist, no doubt she'll make an even better mom!
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When it comes to fascinating food – with an eye on sustainability – the Creameries in Chorlton is one of the shining lights of this thriving south Manchester suburb. Chef-proprietor Mary-Ellen McTague develops new dishes according to the best available local produce, sustainable ingredients and historic local recipes (her butter pie will bring back happy memories for all you Lancastrians). They also have the admirable aim of becoming zero waste, or as near as possible, by the end of the year.
We're here to sample the new five-course supper menu, alongside paired wines selected by new restaurant manager, the peerless Kimberley McBride, formerly of CT-fave Erst, not to mention Salut and Mary-Ellen's previous restaurant, Aumbry in Prestwich.
The venue is modern with a nod to tradition, much like the menu
The venue is exactly what you'd want from a neighbourhood bistro, decked out with lush foliage, candles and elegant artwork. It's modern with a nod to tradition, much like the menu.
The wines are a must. Each glass plays a huge part in the overall experience, complementing particular elements of each dish and enhancing specific flavours, at the same time introducing the diner to a rich world of wine-making techniques. If, like me, you're keen to learn more about wine, this is the ideal way – in a delightfully relaxed setting, guided by someone with a genuine love for, and vast knowledge of the grape.
With any luck you'll have the privilege of trying the split pea chips and mushroom ketchup
The courses change frequently, according to local supply, but with any luck you'll have the privilege of trying the split pea chips and mushroom ketchup – a thick stack of crunchy-on-the-outside fluffy-inside chips with a swirl of eye-rollingly rich mushroom ketchup to dip them into. Again, it taps into those childhood memories while adding all-new far-out elements.
Other courses include wickedly moreish sourdough bread with two types of butter (cultured and whipped brown butter) plus an obscenely good goat dripping; a delicious squash soup, as wholesome as a cuddle from your favourite auntie; a fantastic partridge pie held up with buttery, crumbly pastry; and to finish, a pupton of apple, made with whey caramel, Pedro Ximinez and chamomile.
A meal that matches up to the best fine dining menus across the North
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If you're like most parents, you'd choose having fun with your children rather than those feelings of frustration and guilt that arise from sibling fights and rivalry. In as much as you may not totally be able to eliminate the fight, how about strategies to make your kids become more cooperative, self-sufficient, empowered and able to keep fights to a minimum? Let's get going!
GEMs mean Genuine Encounter Moments. It means focused attention. It means being physically and mentally present. Frequently, children come to their parents to connect. In our ever busy and fast-paced world, we miss this window to give them the desired connection and love. Unfortunately, in a child's parlance, negative attention is better than no attention. It's therefore interesting to note that one of the top reasons kids fight is to gain their parents' attention. After all, when you begin to hear, smell or see the chaos, you notice little miss/master!
When you fill a child's bucket of attention appropriately, he'll have no need to seek it inappropriately. So, plan on seeing the world through your child's eyes by giving each child at least one moment of positive, individual attention every day and all of a sudden, your kids will learn they don't have to fight to get you to look their way!
It's a shame that when you look globally at what happens when people fight over territory, philosophy, resources etc, you see war.
Our children are our future and as parents, we have a huge role in contributing to world peace. When children learn win-win negotiation skills in childhood, then, they could bring these skills into our government, the society and our world at large.
We need to encourage the values of peaceful cooperation and it starts by dealing with sibling fights in a manner that grooms children to solve their problems in peaceful manners.
When sibling fights get the problem-solving attention it deserves, our children will learn win-win negotiation.
Train them on how to take turns, use "I feel" statements, walk away and control their temper (counting to 10, taking a deep breath, etc.), and you'll be able to ward off a lot of sibling arguments before they begin!
When you do hear a disagreement between your kids, ignore it—busy yourself elsewhere. Give them a chance to work it out on their own, and at the same time, you'll remove the payoff they get from your attention.
Thou Shall Not Be a Judge.
If your kids clearly can't reach an agreement, or if the fight escalates, you might have to step in. Listen to each child, encouraging "I feel" statements as they tell their story. For example, I feel hurt when tongues are stuck out at me. This a statement of fact rather than an attack or accusation of the other person. Then, without placing blame or taking sides, ask them to come up with some solutions. If no one is able to come up with a workable resolution, suggest a few yourself, and help them reach an agreement. This is the way to calm the conflict.
Put them all in the same boat.
If your kids still can't agree, it's time to put them "all in the same boat." Hand down a consequence, for instance, "Either you can take turns with the game, or I will put it away for the rest of the day." Then follow through. So, if you recall the aircraft scenario from last week, should the girls have not been able to agree, I get the privilege of the window seat!


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Obituary: Donald Russell Feint, of Dryden
by Guest Contributor December 20, 2018
This is an obituary submitted by Perkins Funeral Home. It was not written by The Ithaca Voice. To learn how to submit obituaries, email obituaries@ithacavoice.com.
Donald Russell Feint, age 85, of Gee Hill Road, Dryden, New York, passed away at home, surrounded by his family on the family farm where he was raised and where he raised his family, on Wednesday, December 19, 2018.
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Don was graduated from Dryden Central School and in 1954 he was married to the former Helen Anderson. She died in 2000. After a few small jobs, he began working at International Salt Company in Lansing. When the salt mine closed, he found work with the Johnson Museum curator at Cornell University. He was instrumental in transitioning that museum into the one we currently know. He retired in 1994. Don was a "Jack of all trades" and excelled at anything he put his mind to. He restored the historic barn on his property and after many years, at the age of 80, he again was instrumental in saving the original 4 square barn.
Never perfect but close to it, Don is survived by his children, Wayne (Judy) Feint, Audrey (John Cannon) Feint, Cindy (Bill) Rich; daughter in law, Noelle Feint; grandchildren, Nadeen, Lyza, Rachel, Baylie, Brennen, Rocco, Celina and Tesla; 6 great-grandchildren; sister, Lorna Burns; nephews, Mike and Dan Hill. In addition to his parents and wife, he was predeceased by his son, Stephen; sister, Janice (Francis) Trigo; brother in law, Donald Burns and nephew, Larry Hill.
Funeral services will be held, Thursday, December 27, 2018 at Perkins Funeral Home, 55 W. Main St., Dryden, NY. Friends may call from 4-6 PM Wednesday at the funeral home. Interment will be private in Willow Glen Cemetery, Dryden. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Alzheimer's Assoc. of CNY, 441 W. Kirkpatrick St., Syracuse, NY 13204.
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1) What is your organization's history and structure (local & global if applicable)?
Milton Data is a small data consulting firm, focused on providing a range of services to media and marketing companies. Although majority of their work is based nationally, they still have some projects that involve internationally based companies. They have specific expertise in many areas, including consumer modelling, segmentation, tv audience analyses, productivity systems, and strategic marketing review. For all their engagements, Milton Data can provide project and operational support as required. By carefully analysing data, Milton Data provides analytics and consulting services to the media and marketing industries.
Although Milton Data is a consulting firm, the majority of the work and history is attributed to one man. The head of the company is managing director Ian Garland. There are two other employees there, who deal with heavy duty data science, but majority of the work is completed and presented by Ian. Some of the work that has been completed by Milton Data over the last few years includes doing promotion optimisation and tv analyses/reporting for BBC, business process review and property valuation for Fox Sports, and reach/frequency modelling and process administrating for Commercial Radio Australia (MiltonData.com).
Ian's career and background is remarkable. He established the television ratings system for Nielsen Singapore, where he was the managing director. While he was the head of Nielsen Australia's Interactive Services division, he developed Nielsen's first measurement services for the internet and worldwide web. As managing director of Nielsen Media Australia, he integrated the formerly separate media measurement divisions of Nielson Australia into a single unit of 180 staff, covering TV, internet, radio, multi-media research and advertising expenditure. After all of these positions at Nielsen, Ian decided to venture off and do his own consulting work, which lead him to Milton Data (ChippendaleCreative.com).
2) What is your organisation's mission &/or objectives? Explain what the organisation is doing to achieve these objectives.
Milton Data's objective is to provide analytical services and data management to help media and marketing companies make better business decisions by understanding consumer behaviours. Milton Data takes many steps in order to achieve these objectives. Primarily, Milton Data attempts to analyse the television ratings provided by OzTam on a daily basis to see who is watching what and where they are watching it. OzTam is the official source of television audience measurement (TAM) covering Australia's five mainland metropolitan markets and nationally for subscription television.
OzTam TV ratings are audience estimates based on actual viewing behavior in 5,250 panel homes in Australia's five mainland capital cities – Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. They also track the behavior of 2,120 homes nationally for subscription television (OzTam.com). Milton Data takes these ratings and analyses them throughout different reports, which include video player measurement (VPM) reports, to see how people are viewing their television content. The VPM report breaks up viewership based on video on demand, mobile, tablet, laptop, and live television (Oztam.com).
Milton Data has started to pay attention to how people are watching television, since the media landscape has change so rapidly over the past few years. Therefore, when Milton Data has a project with a major television network, they pay attention to men and women aged eighteen to thirty-nine. Millennials are constantly on the go, and view their media in less traditional ways than adults over the age of forty. To show this, Milton Data looks at how the viewership of on-demand television on computers and mobile devices have significantly increased over the past few years in younger adults.
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Without Considering the Partnership Opportunity, What Would Be Sanjay's Expected Monthly Salary at Gentle Lentil? How Does This Compare to His Monthly Salary at the Consulting Firm?


I've been a semi-regular listener to NPR's All Songs Considered podcast for years now and have discovered more than a few amazing bands from it. One of my most recent and surprising discoveries is the music of Kishi Bashi (stage name of K. Ishibashi). Podcast host Bob Boilen picked Kishi Bashi's 151a as his favorite album from the first half of 2012 and I can't disagree. Kishi Bashi's music is lush with orchestral finesse and energetic whimsy. When a friend made me aware of a him playing a free show at Cincinnat's hipster watering hole Mayday I immediately put it on the calendar. Upon arriving at Mayday and having a few tasty microbrews my friend and I noticed Ishibashi setting up his merch table and milling about in the bar area with Mike Sevino of the opener Tall Tall Trees before soundcheck. I always love to see musicians who don't spend the pre-show time in a bus or greenroom. It's refreshing to see musicians who are just regular guys – regular guys with insane amounts of talent.
Tall Tall Trees frontman Mike Sevino took the stage first by himself. He played a unique brand of bluegrass infused indie rock with a loop station and a banjo, creating a sound unlike any I've heard. The crowd was still a little sparse, but filling in as the sounds made their way into the bar area. His set was somewhat plagued by technical difficulties, which he shrugged off and trudged forward with a few self-depricating, playful jabs at himself and his gear. Unflustered, he finished the majority of his set before inviting Kishi Bashi to join him for a climactic violin and banjo tune that had everyone in the crowd in a frenzy.
A few minutes passed before Kishi Bashi took the stage for his set. He was joined by Sevino for the majority of it as the duo managed to make very convincing renditions of the complex songs from 151a and his EP Room For Dream. Between the two of them they looped violin, banjo, bass, vocals, beat boxing, percussion and more. It was truly a clinic in looping and a tribute to the mastery of arranging. Kishi Bashi's songs Bright Whites and Manchester were the clear standouts as Sevino even managed to sing harmony on the Japanese language parts of Manchester. One of my favorite things about the stage at Mayday is that there is no exit except through the crowd, creating a sense of intimacy rarely felt as a show comes to it's close and the first thing the band/artist does is step down into the crowd to greet the eager fans.
It's rare to see that amazing of a show by such a talented musician and not have to pay a dime. If you weren't there you definitely should keep an eye out for the next time he comes through the tri-state area.


I can't iterate enough how excited I am for the warmer seasons and fun events they bring to Cape May! Especially the events that bring music to our shores! Trust me when I say there's no shortage of fantastic festivals that call Cape May home, whether you're coming for the traditional Exit 0 Jazz Festival, either the spring version or the upcoming fall edition, November 11 – 13, or staying for the variety of performances included in the Cape May Music Festival, May 29 – June 16.
Another fun musical event that Anna Marie and I enjoy is the Summer Concert Series at our lovely Cape May Convention Hall! These concerts are perfect for mid-week guests as the performances are on Monday nights at 8 p.m. with two extra performances on Saturday to bookend the series.
Tickets may be purchased online or at the box office at Convention Hall. Individual tickets are $42 with the exception of Tanya Tucker's performance at $49 per ticket and the Philadelphia Boys Choir & Chorale at $20, $15 for seniors, and $10 for groups of 10 or more. The Convention Hall box office is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day and staff can be reached at 609-884-9563.
You know Anna Marie and I love the exceptional dining options in Cape May, so we recommend that you make a night of it by visiting a nearby restaurant prior to the show! Union Park Dining Room or The Mad Batter are two excellent choices, though Anna Marie and I are happy to make a suggestion if you're in the mood for something specific!


Physiology is an essential curricular element in health professions programs and many biomedical graduate programs. At Georgetown University Medical Center, there are four similar physiology graduate courses as well as significant physiology content in the systems-based modules of the first year medical curriculum. Physiology content has traditionally been delivered in these curricula mainly in lecture format, with some additional problem solving exercises and clinical presentations. This project's aim was to enhance student learning outcomes by developing technologically-based learning materials to be deployed in the graduate courses and medical school modules to foster self-directed learning and to allow more "flipped learning" classroom exercises, reducing the amount of passive learning. Serial development of materials for the main sub-disciplines of physiology has allowed deployment across the various courses and medical school modules, which is ongoing over the three-year project period.
The biggest gain is a renewed focus on methods and quality of teaching in our Medical Center courses, by us, other instructors, and the administration. The grant has encouraged, even forced, us to critically examine our pedagogy and given us the opportunity to devote significant time to improving our teaching.
Over the first eighteen months of the project, major progress has been made in Cardiovascular Physiology and Gastrointestinal Physiology. In these areas, in multiple courses, the ITEL project team—led by Principal Investigator Adam Myers and including many faculty members—has developed an online environment based on common templates. These include electronic versions of syllabi, readings, objectives, handouts, practice quizzes, self-directed learning exercises, lecture captures, PowerPoints on a new template, and short videos on selected concepts. In the classroom, faculty are implementing flipped learning sessions interwoven into the lecture sequence, and clicker exercises are used throughout lectures. As these efforts continue in these two subject areas, other subdisciplines of physiology have had other technological innovations integrated into the curricula more recently. Online quizzes are now being used in multiple subdisciplines and innovations designed for specific courses are being adapted in other courses.
The team is collecting data on student use of electronic resources and surveying students on their attitudes about the usefulness of these resources. The data to date suggest widespread student acceptance of and satisfaction with new teaching tools and modalities. Student performance has generally been comparable or higher compared to pre-implementation. Ultimately, the materials are also leading to greater efficiency in teaching and are forming a basis for an online course and a resource for medical students reviewing for exams or preparing for clinics. Although this is a multi-year project, preliminary findings show positive feedback from students.
The project team is also doing research to capture, trace, and visualize the spread of technology-enhanced instructional tools (TEIS) and strategies across medical education. Their mapping of the spread of TEIS in networks showed the benefits that can arise from a single input node, namely, this ITEL project. Once inside the network, TEIS moves around without the direct need of intervention from the PIs. A surprising finding from this network analysis was that students were the driving force behind the spread of TEIS in the Georgetown School of Medicine community. This research suggests that as more individuals and departments adopt the given TEIS standards, the cost of implementing the technology and strategies decrease in the future.
Myers, Adam. "Technology Enhanced Learning and Flipped Classroom Exercises in Physiology." Presented at the 2014 Colloquium for Educators in the Health Professions at the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Education, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, June 2, 2014.
Whitney, Jennifer. "Using Self-Directed Learning (SDL) Workshops for Flipped Classrooms." Accepted to be presented at the 2015 Colloquium for Educators in the Health Professions at the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Education, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, June 2, 2015.
Mulroney, Susan, Jennifer Whitney, and Adam Myers. "Use of a Learning Management System and Related Technology to Improve Physiology Classroom Teaching." Presented at Experimental Biology 2015, Boston, MA, March 30, 2015.


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Q: data sources won't appear on devexpress blazor reportdesigner I'm creating a web app using devexpress blazor reporting that contains a simple page
<div style="margin: auto; width: 80%;">
    <DxReportDesigner
        ReportUrl="HelloWorld" Height="1000px" Width="100%" AllowMDI="true">
            <DxReportDesignerWizardSettings UseFullscreenWizard="false"/>
    </DxReportDesigner>
</div>

Based on documentation I've registered the data source wizard type provider on the Startup.cs file
services.AddScoped<ReportStorageWebExtension, ReportStorageWebExtension1>();

            DevExpress.XtraReports.Web.ReportDesigner
                .DefaultReportDesignerContainer.RegisterObjectDataSourceWizardTypeProvider<GDataTypeProvider>();

My GDataTypeProvider looks like this:
public class GDataTypeProvider : IObjectDataSourceWizardTypeProvider {

        public IEnumerable<Type> GetAvailableTypes(string context) {
            return new[] {
                typeof(SampleObjectTypes.DataSource),
                typeof(SampleObjectTypes.DataSource2)
            };
        }

When I run the project the designer shows  the 'Add Data Source' is not visible, what am I doing wrong??

A: You need to register your implementation of the IObjectDataSourceWizardTypeProvider as described in the Register the Declared Types help topic:
using DevExpress.DataAccess.Web;
...
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
   services.ConfigureReportingServices(configurator => {
       configurator.ConfigureReportDesigner(designerConfigurator => {
          designerConfigurator.RegisterObjectDataSourceWizardTypeProvider<GDataTypeProvider>();
       });
   });
}

The way you are doing this now is applicable for ASP.NET WebForms / MVC applications only.

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using Core.Collections;
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Core.Extensions
{
  public static class IEnumerableExtension
  {
    // preserves order
    public static IEnumerable<T> RemoveDuplicates<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source, Func<T, int> getHashCode = null, Func<T, T, bool> comparison = null)
    {
      if (getHashCode == null) getHashCode = t => t.GetHashCode();
      if (comparison == null) comparison = (a, b) => a.Equals(b);
      ISet<int> hashes = new HashSet<int>();

      foreach (var item in source)
      {
        if (hashes.Add(getHashCode(item))) yield return item;
      }

    }

    public static IEnumerable<T> TakeWhile<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source, Func<T, bool> predicate, bool inclusive)
    {
      foreach (T item in source)
      {
        if (predicate(item))
        {
          yield return item;
        }
        else
        {
          if (inclusive) yield return item;

          yield break;
        }
      }
    }
    public static bool IsNullOrEmpty(this IEnumerable enumerable)
    {
      return enumerable == null || enumerable.IsEmpty();
    }
    public static bool IsEmpty(this IEnumerable enumerable)
    {
      return enumerable.GetEnumerator().MoveNext();
    }

    public static IEnumerable<T> ObservableWhere<T>(this IEnumerable enumerable, Predicate<T> predicate)
    {
      FilteredEnumerable<T> filtered = new FilteredEnumerable<T>(enumerable, predicate);
      return filtered;
    }
    public static IEnumerable<TResult> ObservableSelect<TSource, TResult>(this IEnumerable<TSource> enumerable, Func<TSource, TResult> selector, Predicate<TSource> predicate = null)
    {
      var result = new EnumerableSelection<TResult, TSource>(enumerable, selector, predicate);
      return result;
    }
    // Creates a dictionary with multiple key entries per element
    public static IDictionary<TKey, TElement> ToMultiDictionary<TKey, TElement>(this IEnumerable<TElement> elements, params Func<TElement, TKey>[] selectors)
    {
      IDictionary<TKey, TElement> result = new Dictionary<TKey, TElement>();
      foreach (var element in elements)
      {
        foreach (var selector in selectors)
        {
          result[selector(element)] = element;
        }
      }
      return result;
    }

    public static IEnumerable<T> Do<T>(this IEnumerable<T> self, Action<T> action)
    {
      foreach (var it in self)
      {
        action(it);
      }
      return self;
    }
    /// <summary>
    /// returns true if enumerable's elements are all unique according to the compare function
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="self"></param>
    /// <param name="compare"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static bool AreUnique<T>(this IEnumerable<T> self, Func<T, T, bool> compare)
    {
      return self.Distinct(compare).Count() == self.Count();
    }

    public static IEnumerable<T> Distinct<T>(this IEnumerable<T> self, Func<T, T, bool> compare)
    {
      var comparer = new DelegateEqualityComparer<T>(compare);
      return self.Distinct(comparer);
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// returns the source enumerable without the specified value
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="source"></param>
    /// <param name="value"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static IEnumerable<T> Except<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source, T value)
    {
      return source.Except(new[] { value });
    }
    /// <summary>
    /// returns true if the count of the enumerable is equal to count
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="self"></param>
    /// <param name="cardinality"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static bool CountIs<T>(this IEnumerable<T> self, int count)
    {
      return self.Count() == count;
    }
    /// <summary>
    /// returns the number of uniquer elements in the enumerable
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="self"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static int Cardinality<T>(this IEnumerable<T> self)
    {
      return self.Distinct().Count();
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// checks to see if all elements of what are contained in the enumerable
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="self"></param>
    /// <param name="what"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static bool ContainsAll<T>(this IEnumerable<T> self, IEnumerable<T> what)
    {
      return self.Distinct().Intersect(what.Distinct()).Count() == what.Distinct().Count();
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// returns true if self contains any of the elements in what
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="self"></param>
    /// <param name="what"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static bool ContainsAny<T>(this IEnumerable<T> self, IEnumerable<T> what)
    {
      return self.Distinct().Any(i => what.Contains(i));
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// returns true if any of the varargs are contained in the ienumerable
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="self"></param>
    /// <param name="args"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static bool ContainsAny<T>(this IEnumerable<T> self, params T[] args)
    {
      return self.ContainsAny((IEnumerable<T>)args);
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// checks to see if all params are contained in enumerable
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="self"></param>
    /// <param name="args"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static bool ContainsAll<T>(this IEnumerable<T> self, params T[] args)
    {
      return self.ContainsAll((IEnumerable<T>)args);
    }
    /// <summary>
    /// makes a size 1 array of T out of a single T element
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="_this"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static IEnumerable<T> MakeArray<T>(this T _this, bool emptyIfNull)
    {
      if (_this == null && emptyIfNull)
      {
        return new T[0];
      }
      return new T[] { _this };
    }
    public static IEnumerable<T> MakeArray<T>(this T _this)
    {
      return new T[] { _this };
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// creates an enumarable out of this
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="self"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static IEnumerable<T> MakeEnumerable<T>(this T self, bool emptyIfNull)
    {
      if (self == null && emptyIfNull) yield break;
      yield return self;
    }
    public static IEnumerable<T> MakeEnumerable<T>(this T self)
    {
      yield return self;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// alias for !.Any()  also synonomouse with IsEmpty
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="_this"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static bool None<T>(this IEnumerable<T> _this)
    {
      return !_this.Any();
    }
    /// <summary>
    /// concats a single item to the end of the enumerable and returns the new enumerable
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="_this"></param>
    /// <param name="item"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static IEnumerable<T> Concat<T>(this IEnumerable<T> _this, T item)
    {
      if (_this == null) return item.MakeArray();
      return _this.Concat(item.MakeArray());
    }
    /// <summary>
    /// returns the indeox of a in an enumerable (depending on the actual type of the neumerable the index may vary
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="_this"></param>
    /// <param name="a"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static int IndexOf<T>(this IEnumerable<T> _this, T a)
    {
      var i = _this.IndexOfNoThrow(a);
      if (i < 0) throw new Exception("could not find element");
      return i;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// returns -1 if element was not found
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="this"></param>
    /// <param name="a"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static int IndexOfNoThrow<T>(this IEnumerable<T> @this, T a)
    {
      int i = 0;
      foreach (var it in @this)
      {
        if (a.Equals(it)) return i;
        i++;
      }
      return -1;
    }
    /// <summary>
    /// returns truye if a comes before b in the sequence (based on their indices)
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="_this"></param>
    /// <param name="a"></param>
    /// <param name="b"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static bool IsInPartialOrder<T>(this IEnumerable<T> _this, T a, T b)
    {
      var indexOfA = _this.IndexOf(a);
      var indexOfB = _this.IndexOf(b);
      return indexOfA < indexOfB;
    }

    public static bool IsSubsetOf<T>(this IEnumerable<T> _this, IEnumerable<T> other)
    {
      return other.IsSupersetOf(_this);
    }
    public static bool IsSupersetOf<T>(this IEnumerable<T> _this, IEnumerable<T> other)
    {
      return !other.Except(_this).Any();
    }
    public static bool IsProperSubsetOf<T>(this IEnumerable<T> _this, IEnumerable<T> other)
    {
      return _this.IsSubsetOf(other) && other.Count() != _this.Count();
    }
    public static bool IsProperSupersetOf<T>(this IEnumerable<T> _this, IEnumerable<T> other)
    {
      return _this.IsSupersetOf(other) && other.Count() != _this.Count();
    }
  }
}


In 2013, the Republican Party called for a "forward-leaning vision" to address the concerns of women voters. Congressional Republican translation: distort must-pass legislation with anti-women's health measures and oppose efforts to advance women's economic security.
With what can only be described as obsessive fervor, some extremists in Congress have tried to force through restrictive amendments that attack women's reproductive health care at any cost. Their efforts sank popular, bipartisan legislation such as the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, a bill intended to protect the most vulnerable girls and women.
Noticeably absent from the GOP leadership's opening agenda are policies that help women thrive in the workplace, including paid sick leave, paid family leave and elimination of the gender wage gap. Their rhetoric may tout support for women in the workplace, but their record says otherwise: Every 2016 Republican senator who is a likely presidential contender voted against a budget amendment in favor of paid sick leave.
Following their 2012 defeat, many Republicans also called on conservatives to "embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform." Yet today, they are set on dismantling the Obama administration's efforts to fix our broken immigration system, leaving millions of eligible individuals and their American families in limbo in the process.
Finally, despite its own sensitivities over being branded "the Party of No," Senate Republican leadership continues to obstruct the nomination of Loretta Lynch, an eminently qualified nominee to serve as attorney general. Lynch, who would be the first African-American woman to serve as attorney general of the United States, has been twice confirmed by the Senate as a federal district attorney. Yet by the time Congress returned from recess Monday, her nomination had remained stalled in the Senate for more than 150 days, and the length of time that has elapsed since her nomination is longer than the last seven attorney general nominees combined.
Throughout Lynch's 30-year career, she has established herself as a proven and effective leader, and has gained the respect of colleagues across the political aisle. Yet, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky continues to hold Lynch's confirmation for reasons completely unrelated to her qualifications. In fact, Republicans have struggled to articulate any legitimate reason for holding up her nomination.
It's time to move past the disingenuous rhetoric and hold leaders accountable for the substantive reality of their policies and actions.
Americans support access to reproductive health care, support work and public policies that help women and families succeed, believe that we must fix our broken immigration system and want a qualified attorney general such as Loretta Lynch to lead the Justice Department.
If Republicans don't start heeding their own advice to do more than pay lip service to the issues that matter to an increasingly diverse electorate, they will only continue to grow more out of touch and obsolete.
Cecile Richards is president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Neera Tanden is president of the Center for America Progress. Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, also contributed. They wrote this for CQ-Roll Call.


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Luigi Riccoboni, född omkring 1675 i Modena, död den 6 december 1753 i Paris, var en italiensk teaterledare och författare.

Riccoboni blev 1699 direktör för en teatertrupp i Lombardiet och verkade för italienska teaterns ombildning efter franskt mönster samt sökte bortdriva commedia dell' arte. År 1716 begav han sig till Paris och ledde där med stor framgång en italiensk teater i Hôtel de Bourgogne. Riccoboni utgav 1718 sina egna ungdomsdramer under titeln Nouveau théâtre italien. Bland hans övriga skrifter äger Histoire du théâtre italien (2 band, 1728-31) värde.

Riccobonis son Antonio Francesco Riccoboni, född 1707, död 1772, vann framgång som lustspelsförfattare och med arbetet L'art du théâtre (1750), och dennes hustru Marie Jeanne (född Laboras de Mézières 1713, död 1792), författade känslosamma och på sin tid högligen omtyckta romaner i brevform. Hennes Oeuvres complètes utgavs bland annat 1786 (i 8 band), 1818 (i 6 band) och 1865 (1 band).

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Welcome. Here you'll find information and maps to guide you through some of the province's most stunning landscapes as you explore BC's Trans Canada Trail.
Located in the Similkameen region of south BC, Princeton is an ex-mining town that now runs on forestry and tourism. Many old and new trails around the area invite cyclists to explore.
Home to the Kettle Valley Rail Trail portion of the Trans Canada Trail, Penticton is a city located in between Hope and Princeton. Hiking & cycling are listed as the top activities for visitors.
Home of Axel Merckx, a former professional Canadian cyclist, Kelowna is a destination for tourism year round thanks to winter and summer festivals/events.
In 1991 CP Railway abandoned the railway that runs through Grand Forks and this has been claimed as part of the Trans-Canada Bike Trail.
Located on HWY 3, in the Kootenay Boundary region of south British Columbia, the Greenwood area has an incredible abundance of trails for cyclists to explore.
Remarkable natural beauty, native arts, culture, and trails for both hiking & cycling. Duncan is a quaint little community north of Victoria on Vancouver Island.
Victoria BC, capital city of the province, has many bike trails in and around the beautiful city.


My theory was that making records, first and foremost, was always going to be a commercial enterprise and therefore not pure. It was a ridiculously pompous attitude, considering that all the music I was learning from was on records. … As exciting as it was to be actually making a record, when we listened back … we just sounded young and white … I still felt we were falling short of the mark in some way.
Clapton, not yet having truly found his footing in the music world, much less having made the decision to be a professional musician, had been doing work for his grandfather, a master mason and plasterer. "I was in the best shape of my life," he said. But musically, he had become somewhat of a blues purist and by his own admission, an arrogant one at that.
Yardbirds singer Keith Relf knew of Clapton's playing and invited him to hear the band play at the Crawdaddy. Clapton liked what he heard and in October of 1963, joined the band. He was 18 years old and had, by now, been playing guitar for about 5 or 6 years.
As I mentioned in my Yardbirds post, over time that ensemble has become recognized as one of the most important bands ever in rock and blues music. They were famous for stretching their live songs out to five and six-minute lengths, which were unheard of at that time.
Clapton, not yet having settled on a Stratocaster – and now able to afford good quality guitars – alternated between Fender Telecasters and Gibson semi-hollowbodys, similar to BB's. And as I mentioned in my Police series, guitarist Andy Summers says he sold Clapton that Bluesbreakers Les Paul.
Clapton, being somewhat of a blues purist and musical snob, left the Yardbirds just as they were gaining fame. As I relate in my Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton album post, it was, for him, blues or nothing. That record was made with John Mayall, whom he joined a month after leaving the Yardbirds.
Bluesbreakers, like all other bands, slogged up and down the M1 motorway and all around England, gaining a following. Bear in mind, the Beatles and the Mersey sound had by now been popular in the UK for two years. So the blues scene was related but different, with not necessarily a lot of overlap between fan bases.
In August of 1965, the band went into the studio and recorded a song called "I'm Your Witch Doctor." But I like the flip side, "Telephone Blues" better. Producer? None other than Immediate Records' new guy, a session guitarist named Jimmy Page. (My head has now completely exploded.) Page and Clapton recorded a couple of blues together that later showed up on compilation albums.
As I mentioned in the Bluesbreakers post, if there's any hallmark of the blues scene in London in the early '6o's, it's that of instability. Unlike the Mersey bands who tended to stay intact as a unit, the blues guys were more like jazzers in that they tended to move around a lot and were generally more nomadic.
In 1968, after their turbulent, wildly successful ride, Cream broke up. And by now, Clapton – having heard Music From Big Pink – wanted to join The Band in the worst way. He wanted to leave guitar heroics behind and move towards a simpler sound. The guitar, he now felt, should support the song, not the other way around.
In reading about Clapton, I find that there was in those days something very unassertive and non-confrontational about him. He seemed to just drift in the wind. Certainly he wasn't in the least bit interested in taking on any leadership role, leaving that in Cream to Baker/Bruce and in Blind Faith, to Winwood.
The album reviews were generally good but Clapton felt ill at ease from the beginning, worrying that his little side project with Winwood would turn into another supergroup. Which of course, the public wanted and the record company ensured would happen. What he really craved and needed was just to be another member of the band.
Clapton had heard the debut album of a group known as Delaney and Bonnie and Friends and loved it. It was laid back, had good playing and a nice R and B feel. So he arranged to have them open for Blind Faith's American tour.
By August of 1969 – the same month their album was released – Blind Faith had broken up. (For historical reference, same month as Woodstock.) Clapton says in his autobiography that had it not been for his exposure to Delaney and Bonnie, Blind Faith might have continued to keep on keepin' on.
But between being ignited by their music and Delaney's exhortation that he find his own voice, literally and metaphorically, Clapton realized he couldn't continue in that same vein.
After Blind Faith inevitably fell apart, Clapton decided it was time to do his own solo album. Till then I think he never really felt comfortable being the front man. So with Delaney's help, he made the album Eric Clapton, which was released in 1970, exactly one year after the Blind Faith record.
This debut album, which some critics called a Delaney Bramlett record with Clapton guesting, is actually pretty good and it was hard to pick just one song for this post. This is the album that includes both "Let it Rain" (co-written with Delaney and Bonnie) and "After Midnight," Clapton's first J.J. Cale song.
I should also note here that Clapton had been about as far from a saint as one can be. By his own admission, he was a pretty serious drinker, smoker and drug user. His substance abuse was far from uncommon in the Sixties and Seventies and the trail of rock casualties speaks to that. Seems to me, Clapton has a pretty strong constitution. Unfortunately he also has somewhat of an addictive personality.
And so by 1970, Clapton was going in two directions at once – deeper into drugs as a part of his lifestyle and further and further into a background role. He succeeded at both all too well.


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SHC extends Mustafa Kamal, others' interim bail in illegal land allotment case
Web Desk On Oct 15, 2019
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court extended interim bail of former Karachi mayor Mustafa Kamal and others in illegal land allotment case until October 29, ARY News reported on Tuesday.
Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chief appeared before a bench of the high court today along with co-accused in the case.
Prosecutor of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) told the court that amenity plots in the city were allotted to builders after lease. No accused has denied the charge of illegal allotment of the plots, the prosecutor further said.
Chief Justice Ahmad Ali M Sheikh during the court hearing, remarked that Kamal may have forgotten but everyone in city remembers what happened during his tenure. He did this for the poor, "They were all 'poor' who were allotted these amenity plots," chief justice said.
The NAB prosecutor will continue his arguments in next hearing of the case.
The accountability bureau, in a reference, has charged Kamal of illegally allotting 137 plots on 5,500 acres of land near Sea View. He even gave permission to a private construction firm to construct a multi-storey building in the area, the bureau claimed.
The land was leased out to hawkers and shopkeepers in 1980, NAB said, adding that it was leased out to a private firm in 2005.
Former Director-General of the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) Iftikhar Qaimkhani, Fazalur Rehman, Mumtaz Haider, Nazir Zardari and others are among the co-accused in the case.


Pretty Terrible | 2017 Capclave Schedule!
I'll be heading to Capclave tomorrow afternoon, where I am hoping to see many excellent people and attend some excellent panels. I'll also be on three panels that, I hope, will also be excellent.
I hope to see some of you there! Please say hello if you see me!


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Onlookers watch rows of poll staffers tackle the first wave of recount ballots inside an Orange County Supervisor of Elections warehouse on Nov. 12 2018.
After taking the dispute to federal court, the Florida Department of State on Wednesday also went to a state appeals court to fight an attempt to suspend ballot-recount deadlines.
The department's attorneys filed a notice at the 1st District Court of Appeal as an initial step in challenging a ruling by Leon County Circuit Judge Karen Gievers to suspend recount deadlines because of equipment problems in Palm Beach County.
Gievers sided Tuesday with Democrat Jim Bonfiglio, who is locked in a recount for the House District 89 seat in Palm Beach County. The Department of State's notice filed Wednesday at the 1st District Court of Appeal automatically stayed Gievers' ruling, according to the filing.
It also came after the department on Tuesday gave notice that it was taking the Bonfiglio case to federal court because the dispute involves federal constitutional issues.
That touched off a flurry of filings in federal court. Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher has said she will not be able to complete four machine recounts by a 3 p.m. deadline Thursday.
Those recounts are in Bonfiglio's race and the races for U.S. Senate, governor and agriculture commissioner. As a result, Gievers ordered suspension of deadlines for machine recounts and subsequent manual recounts if needed.


Hiya everyone, Hope your weekend is off to a great start. I have a card share today using Simon Says Stamp Suzy's Take My heart watercolour panels from Hey Love collection. I coloured a bunch of them and made a set of cards. Shared one of them on valentine's day. Here is another.
1. Card base is Desert Storm kraft cardstock.
2. Coloured the panel with Zig clean colour brush pens and water brush.
3. Added highlights using Sakura white gel pen.
4. Die cut the panel using the largest postage stamp edge die from Simon Says Stamp Postage Stamp Edge die set.
5. Adhered the panel on the card front using foam adhesives.
Couple of closeup shots of the card.


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How the Cheetahs turned things around
The Currie Cup final looks to be a memorable one, despite the tournament losing its allure. The Cheetahs and the Lions both love keeping the ball, which should be a treat for spectators.
By: Simnikiwe Xabanisa
24 August 2019: The Cheetahs celebrate during their Currie Cup game against Western Province at the Toyota Stadium in Bloemfontein. They won 38-33. (Photograph by Johan Pretorius/Gallo Images)
This time last year, the Free State Cheetahs were free-falling down the rugby Currie Cup log in a slide that would end in them fighting for their Premier Division status in a promotion-relegation match against the South Western Districts Eagles.
A year later, they have hit the domestic rugby version of the jackpot by not only making the Currie Cup final but also hosting the Golden Lions in Bloemfontein on Saturday 7 September. Because there is no payout for South African teams that win competitions – the only tournament that offers prize money is the R500 000 SuperSport Rugby Challenge – hosting a final is the nearest thing to a windfall.
Having become a "blink and you miss it" event by being shortened to a single-round affair over the past two seasons, the oldest domestic rugby competition in the world has come to mean little to its intended public as well as those more closely involved, especially if you consider that this is a Rugby World Cup year.
But try telling the Cheetahs that the approximately R2.5 million net profit they stand to make by hosting the Currie Cup final and the victorious "pre-season" they've had for the Pro 14, which begins later this month, is something to be scoffed at.
How Cheetahs turned things around
Even by sport's oldest adage that a year is a long time in any game, the Cheetahs suddenly finding themselves in the hunt for their sixth Currie Cup title has been some turnaround. But if you're looking for tall tales of outgoing coach Franco Smith mixing good old-fashioned blood, sweat and tears with a sprinkling of gold dust, you're not going to get it.
Certainly not if you ask the man himself: "There was an overlap between the Currie Cup and the Pro 14 , and people don't understand how difficult it is to split your squad in two, especially when you've had some new players come in like we did last year. That unfortunately led us to finish bottom of the log. This year, we had our whole squad throughout the competition, so I believe that's the main difference."
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The lack of overlap between the two competitions was less coincidence than shrewd business move by Cheetahs chief executive Harold Verster. He is said to have quietly canvassed the powers that be at SA Rugby for an earlier Currie Cup after last year's flirtation with relegation.
With that taken care of, the lessons learned in the Pro 14 meant they were a team apart for the majority of the season. Because we don't watch much of it, other than in highlights packages, South Africans hold the erroneous belief that rugby in the United Kingdom is of an inferior quality. But the reality is quite different.
Smith prefers to highlight the cohesion in his squad that six months of playing in last year's Pro 14 engendered, as well as the laudable work of conditioning coach Quintin Kruger. But the Cheetahs' superior work at the breakdown – an emphasised area in the United Kingdom – has been as responsible as anything for the upturn in their Currie Cup fortunes.
Ruan Pienaar's homecoming
A bit of luck for the Cheetahs was the return of former Springbok scrumhalf Ruan Pienaar, 35, after nine years overseas and fullback Clayton Blommetjies after a disastrous one-season spell at the Scarlets in Wales.
Pienaar's case is an intriguing one. Born and bred in Bloemfontein, he only made his debut for his home team in this year's Currie Cup, having left school for the Sharks and later moved to Ulster in Ireland and French side Montpellier.
After the Cheetahs rescued him from a life of obscurity at the Blue Bulls, Blommetjies thought he'd finally hit the big time when he signed with the Scarlets. But after playing only six games for them last season and being loaned out to the Leicester Tigers owing to a lack of conditioning, the club claimed, he came back to the one place that seems to know how to get the best out of him.
Lizo Gqoboka's balancing act
What nobody could have predicted was the telepathic relationship he would have with Pienaar. While the older man has pulled the strings from halfback, Blommetjies – still full of elusive running – has run off him to devastating effect.
In addition to Pienaar and Blommetjies, players across the Cheetahs roster have taken their turns in the spotlight.
Flyhalf Tian Schoeman may not be highly rated outside of Bloemfontein, but when he has played in Currie Cup games, the Cheetahs have won. Hooker Joseph Dweba is the latest in a lengthening line of robust, ball-carrying hookers in South Africa. No.8 Henco Venter, nephew to the late Springbok flanker Ruben Kruger, is indefatigable in the carry. And flanker Junior Pokomela is starting to realise the immense potential he displayed as Curwin Bosch's teammate at Grey High School in Port Elizabeth.
31 August 2019: Lock Sintu Manjezi during the Cheetahs' Currie Cup semifinal against the Sharks in Bloemfontein, which the Cheetahs won 51-30. (Photograph by Johan Pretorius/Gallo Images)
Cheetahs' secret weapon
But the man who has become the Cheetahs' secret weapon, towering over his Cheetahs teammates, is 2m-tall lock Sintu Manjezi. He has gone from being an ex-blindside flank who, as a skilful player, liked the velvety side of the game to being knee-deep in the dirty work.
Manjezi – once a right-arm fast bowler as a junior cricketer, until a certain Kagiso Rabada encouraged him to reconsider his options by nearly taking his head off with a bouncer at the Coca-Cola Khaya Majola Week tournament for young cricketers – has thrown his 109kg about to impressive effect for the Cheetahs. A better-conditioned and more physical Manjezi has done ridiculous work either side of the ball.
The 24-year-old is the second-highest turnover merchant in rucks in the competition, the second-highest ball-stealer in line-outs, one of the Cheetahs' top tacklers, the main source of momentum for their rolling maul and the chief staller of the opposition's line-out drive. Plus, he's also the first arrival at both the first attacking and defensive rucks.
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What the latter part means is that Manjezi is a lock forward who moonlights a little heavily as an openside flanker. What that suggests in English is that at any given time he is marking two people, his direct opposite number and the opposition's openside – in the Lions' case, Marvin Orie and Marnus Schoeman.
While the Cheetahs may have struggled to move tickets for the final – they had sold 32 000 of a potential 45 000 at the time of publication – the game itself should be something approaching a classic between two teams as skilful as they are supremely conditioned.
Aside from skill and fitness, other similarities between the two sides are that they both love keeping the ball away from the opposition, for two to three minutes at a time, and they both do their most lethal work in the final quarter. This means we're in for a match that will likely be clinched in the last minutes of the game. The differences are that the Lions kick more than the Cheetahs, who rely on turnover balls to punish the opposition.
To that end, the Lions will look to exploit the Cheetahs' back three of Tian Meyer, William Small-Smith and Blommetjies, the former two because they are essentially a scrumhalf and a centre, and the latter because he backs his ability to run the ball back so much that bravado could expose his team. For a competition to which nobody has paid much attention, the Currie Cup final promises to be a memorable one.
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Italy's fashion leaders urge Rome to lift restrictions on industry
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FILE PHOTO: A seamstress makes cashmere wool garments in the studio of Italian clothing designer Brunello Cucinelli in the Umbrian village of Solomeo October 7, 2009. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi/File Photo
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's fashion leaders called on the government on Thursday to loosen restrictions imposed in response to the coronavirus crisis to allow them to resume some production, warning that a prolonged lockdown risked irreparably damaging the sector.
"Fashion is a seasonal industry, and certain dates are not compressible. Not reopening shortly would mean giving up almost a year's turnover," said Carlo Capasa, the chairman of Italy's National Fashion Chamber (CNMI), in an online interview on the website of daily Corriere della Sera.
Current lockdown measures in Italy - the country with the third highest number of confirmed cases after the United States and Spain - have been imposed until May 3.
The government has not disclosed how and when it will start easing a nationwide ban on business activities deemed as non-essential.
Fashion and textile plants throughout the country have shut as they do not fall into the category of essential businesses.
Many labels have reconverted production to make medical devices such as masks and medical overalls to meet rising demand during the emergency.
With a turnover of 95 billion euros ($98 billion) and 600,000 workers, Italy's fashion and textile industry is the second most important nationwide.
It accounts for a 41% share of the sector in Europe, followed by Germany, which represents 11% of the total.
Capasa suggested April 20 as a date to gradually reopen manufacturing activities in order to deliver fall/winter collections on time to shops around the world, and start production of spring/summer collections.
"We are closed, but other countries like France, Spain, Portugal, Turkey are starting to reopen" said Claudio Marenzi, who is in charge of fashion at business lobby Confindustria, pointing out that the ban also had implications for Italy as a supplier.
"This means that some brands may decide to switch to another supply chain, which in Italy is mainly made up of small companies. And once a company closes, you lose the know-how and you never recover," he added.
Confindustria Moda represents 65,000 companies in the textile, fashion and accessories sectors. Most are small firms with only 15-20 employees, with sales highly dependent on foreign buyers.
Marenzi said Confindustria Moda had signed an agreement with unions over stringent health and security measures to adopt at production sites once these are allowed to reopen.
"(The deal) shows that entrepreneurs and workers are aligned in their will to restart activities and save the Italian fashion industry," he said.
"An economic epidemic could cause more lasting damage than the health one. If we have to live with this virus for so long, then let's live with it," Marenzi said, adding that if the industry could safely make masks and gowns, it could also make clothes.
(Reporting by Claudia Cristoferi; Editing by Giulia Segreti and Jan Harvey)
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Bahamas – John Tinker, Governor of the Bahamas (1740–1758)
Bengal – Adam Dawson, President of Bengal (1749–1752)
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 Angola – António de Almeida, Governor of Angola (1749–1753)
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Thread: FC Mods
TerryF
Location: Round Lake Beach
FC Mods
Ok, first I should apologize for not posting about these mods and my experience with them sooner, but better late than never eh??? Also, I apologize for no pics, they will be forth coming.
So I bought my SB/FC a couple of years ago from a fellow in Yorkville IL. it has the double sofa layout, one of which is a foldout. The good news is that it was in decent shape and mostly original and unmolested, the bad news is that it was mostly original and unmolested.
So it had none of the mods done, which was fine by me because at least they weren't done wrong and I could do them to a level of quality that was of my own choosing.
Here are my projects more or less in order:
Swing out radiator mod:
What a giant pain in the ***! I am so happy that this will never be necessary again. Unfortunately I used angle iron and hinge sleeves that were just barely up to the task so I'll probably redo this part of the project with something more substantial when I tackle the steering pump replacement (more on this later) but at least it works for now.
Replacing the water heater:
I chose to replace the original with the original and I was impressed with robustness of the unit. Honest to God it's built like a brick s-house. Along with this I had failing valves and the twist dial cable setup was only just barely functioning. So I went with electric valves which complicated the process somewhat. But really the big difficulty is finding a way to comfortably get the job done. Even though there is a ton of easy access, and everything is open more or less, it's just so back-breaking to sit Indian style and reach down 12" passed your ankles. I know I'm not the first one to mention this unique aspect but it bares repeating. It just looks so much easier than it turns out to be and you should expect a sore back. I just never found a comfortable way to work in this area and wound up just suffering through it.
Re-gearing:
I had Mike H. re-gear the rear from the 4.89 to 4.11 (not cheap) which then led to a leak from the bearing seals on the drivers side which Mike graciously fixed for free (Thanks Mike) The difference is an appreciable reduction in acceleration and climbing ability but nothing that wasn't expected. Here's the up side, 2,000 rpm is now a respectable highway speed and one that nets an absolutely insane increase in MPG (genuinely mind boggling) and the ability to run at 75MPH if you so choose, and you can run 80-85 down hill if you don't mind 3,000RPM and the possibility that a rod might exit the block and enter your body at any moment. The big girl does get very smooth and directionally stable at speed though, so there's that.
Bathroom tile:
I found a good deal of the plywood was rotted so I replaced it all. But it turns out that it was not the culprit that I expected. Not the shower or the sink nor was it the toilet which I initially suspected. Nope the rot was coming from the Kitchen under the wall and seeping in to the bathroom (more on that later). White octagon with Blue Bird blue random accent tiles. Eh, I think it looks good and it's now absolutely stable and water proof.
Rebuilding the kitchen cabinets:
This was rotted almost completely through in places. Mainly the back of the upper cabinets. Fairly straight forward tear out, rebuild and replacement. Here's what I found. There is an angle iron which helps to spread the load against the inside of the steel wall here and it supports the back of the upper cabinets. But it also makes a niffy path for the water which (I think) enters from the refrigerator vent, to access the back of the upper cabinets and then run down behind the microwave like a little spigot and saturate the area under the kitchen gas furnace which nestles up against the bathroom wall. The water simply wicks into the bathroom from under the wall.
Reducing the dinette and expanding the aisle:
I hadn't read this one on WOG anywhere, i just couldn't stand it anymore. I was getting really annoyed by the narrow space between the dinette benches, table and the other side of the aisle. So I cut them down to the size of the bases underneath the branches. This is only a gain of 6" or so but it makes all the difference in the world for livability. Of course I gave up some bench space and I have a smaller table now but I also gained a more open and easy to enter/exit dinette and most importantly a dinette that doesn't intrude so annoyingly into the aisle way.
Raising the bedroom door frame:
I'm 6' 4" so I got a little sick of skinning the top of my head on the bedroom door traveler. This is a no-brainer, it took maybe 30 minutes and raised the door frame 3-5 inches. What you will wind up with if you raise it up to the maximum, is a cut down sliver of the wood above the slider track and it will just wind up being a spacer for the track so that the track is level and just touching the ceiling on the one side. In my case I took it up as far as was possible, until it just touched, you might chose a lower version. It will raise the bottom of the door of course, so you'll have to take that into account if it's a concern for you, it wasn't for me. The bleeding and cursing was much more of a concern for me.
Power steering filter/synthetic fluid:
Makes a BIG, BIG difference, unfortunately my lines leak like a sieve and got the belt and pulley all soaked in power steering oil. So it still slips and squeals. It'll do for now but I think a new pump and pulley is in the near future. Not being able to steer when you spin around a corner and you're facing oncoming traffic is a bit of an ***-clencher eh?
Caster angle:
I did try to do this myself but I screwed with it for a couple of hours and wound up snapping my 1" drive socket wrench. So off it went to the local Mack dealer. I did have to talk them into working on it but in the end they made the adjustment for me and charged me $380. I think that's a bit high but this was their first time doing it, so it might be cheaper for the next guy or gal eh? CIT trucks in Grayslake IL. Alex is the shop foreman and their phone number is 844-223-6665. Even though $380 was a bit steep it was worth every penny to me. It's night and day how much better it goes down the road and the steering feel is so much improved it's like driving a different truck. A truck that doesn't require constant, incessant corrections and one that doesn't feel like an anxiety ridden chore to drive. It's now almost a two finger affair but there is a bit more reaction to grooves and the road surface, not necessarily in a bad way, it's just something that you feel a bit more but it's also more controlled, slowed down and predictable. Well worth it at almost any price.
You also might want to ask Mike H. about these things he's just up the road, around about Milwaukee and knows these things inside and out.
Whew, that's a lot! I guess I shouldn't wait so long to post eh?
~Terry
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1983 FC SB
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