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The Longest Face
BoJack Horseman is a bleak, brilliant comedy about a talking horse.
By Willa Paskin
Aug 22, 20149:54 AM
BoJack (voiced by Will Arnett) in Netflix's BoJack Horseman.
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BoJack Horseman (Will Arnett), the star of Netflix's new animated series, BoJack Horseman, available Friday, is a horse—and a drunk and a cynic and a former sitcom star.* Nearly two decades ago, in the '90s, BoJack starred in a Charles in Charge-ish type show called Horsin' Around, playing the father figure to three human children. Now, living in a fancy house his sitcom built, in an L.A. populated by coexisting (and copulating) humans and anthropomorphic animals, BoJack begins to take baby steps toward relevance, or at least, infamy. BoJack, like the characters Arnett has played in Arrested Development or Running Wilde, is charming and rakish despite being, generally, a heel: He's too self-obsessed to be good, but too insecure to be committed to doing bad. He just wants approval, or barring that, attention. BoJack is a horse suffering both from a heady dose of ennui and an even headier dose of himself.
In the first episode, BoJack is harangued by his very stressed-out and nearly insolvent book editor—a penguin, fittingly—to deliver the memoir he's allegedly been working on for years. The penguin suggests that BoJack hire a ghostwriter, Diane Nguyen (Alison Brie), a level-headed realist who happens to be dating Mr. Peanutbutter (Paul F. Tomkins), a sunshine-y golden retriever who starred in a sitcom extremely similar to Horsin' Around and who drives BoJack crazy. BoJack is initially hesitant to work with Diane, because he doesn't want to open up to anyone ever, but their collaboration undergirds the show, which has more episode-to-episode continuity than cartoons usually do. Rounding out the cast—which, in nearly every episode, features other celebrity guests—is the beanie-wearing Todd (Aaron Paul), a guy who has been crashing on BoJack's couch for five years, accepting abuse and toaster strudel. And then there's Princess Carolyn (Amy Sedaris), a cat as well as BoJack's agent and ex-girlfriend, on hand to get him out of trouble and capitalize whenever she can. (To give you a sense of the show's raunch level, picking up a call from Carolyn, BoJack says, "I told you I don't know where it is! Don't put things in my butt if you want them back.")
BoJack is perhaps a little more clever than it is uproariously funny, but it is often very clever, and, moreover, well-tuned to the ludicrousness of the sort of low-level fame that surrounds BoJack. In one episode, Todd sells tickets to BoJack's house by pretending it is David Boreanaz's, whoever exactly that is, Todd's not sure. Another episode features Sarah Lynn (Kristen Schaal), who once co-starred as a little girl on Horsin' Around and then turned herself into a sexpot pop star with an anthem called "Prickly Muffin." Now at 30, Sarah Lynn is a blithe drug addict dating Andrew Garfield and being out-sex-potted by a 14-year-old dubstep dolphin star named Sextina Aquafina. (The animals and their names are, generally speaking, delightful. There's a rooster who runs by every morning screaming "Wake up!" and a chicken who, when startled, craps out an egg. There's even a maggot mortician who slithers toward coffins.) BoJack, feeling guilty about not being there for Sarah Lynn when she was younger, takes her in, lets her destroy his house, and then starts sleeping with her, making himself as much a part of her problem as everyone else. The sex is even photographed by two paparazzi—birds—who spend the next three episodes trying to get BoJack on the phone to blackmail him. He doesn't answer, though, because he doesn't accept calls from unknown numbers.
In a move perfected by 30 Rock, BoJack often presents big ideas without having to commit to them. BoJack asks Diane what she makes of Sarah Lynn, and Diane replies:
Well, I don't really think about her all much. Obviously, I'm a fan of her early work, which both satirized and celebrated youth culture's obsession with sex. But I do wonder as a third-wave feminist if it's even possible for women to "reclaim" their sexuality in this deeply entrenched patriarchal society. Or if claiming to do so is just a lie we tell ourselves to more comfortably cater to the male gaze. On the other hand, I worry conversations like this one often dismiss her as a mere puppet of the industry, incapable of engaging in this discussion herself, an infantilization which is itself a product of the deeply misogynistic society we live in. But like I said, I don't think about her that much.
BoJack greets this speech with stupefaction, ignoring it to get to the point: Does Diane think it's cool that he's letting Sarah Lynn crash at his house?
Similarly, in the second episode, while at the supermarket, BoJack takes a box of muffins from another customer who claims he was saving them. The customer turns out to be Neal McBeal the Navy SEAL (a real seal, obviously) who goes on MSNBC (Keith Olbermann voices the anchor, who is a whale) to accuse BoJack of not caring about the troops. The anchor insists that even BoJack must admit that the "troops are heroes," but BoJack, self-righteous and worked up, blunders, "I don't agree to that! Maybe some of the troops are heroes, but not automatically. I'm sure a lot of them are jerks, most people are jerks already, and it's not like giving a jerk a gun and telling him it's OK to kill people makes that jerk a hero!" This obviously precipitates an even greater PR crisis that BoJack, because he cares about his reputation more than his positions, is willing to get out of, allowing the show to raise the point without haranguing its audience.
Not all of the BoJack's storylines are as meaty or engaging. Diane and BoJack visit her family, a Bahwston clan that loves Ben Affleck and hates Derek Jeter. It feels staid. In another, Todd is working on a terrible rock opera that Diane encourages BoJack to help him with, but even BoJack can't make a bad rock opera bearable. At least at the end of that episode, we see BoJack mercilessly sabotage Todd's chances in a genuinely twisted sequence: He doesn't want Todd to succeed, because then he'd move out and BoJack would be alone.
For a show about an animated horse, BoJack Horseman is very comfortable with darkness and the deep well of loneliness residing inside its main character. It's a mood captured by the glorious, eerie opening credits, a close-up on BoJack's long face as he glides through his mansion, parties, and swimming pools, startled and alone, until the camera pans out on BoJack floating on a raft in a swimming pool. Life may be bleak, but it is funnier when a talking horse is involved.
* Correction, Aug. 25, 2014: This piece originally misstated that Bojack Horseman is Netflix's first animated series. Turbo FAST was the network's first. (Return.)


Wheelchair basketball is a fast-paced, hard-hitting, competitive sport played by two teams where the object is to shoot the ball into?the opposing team's basket. Every team is comprised of five players and seven substitutes.
Wheelchair basketball in Canada is played in accordance with the ตู้สล็อต ออนไลน์International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) rules, which have been modified from Federation Internationale de Basketball (FIBA).
In accordance with IWBF rules, a wheelchair basketball?game consists of four periods of 10 minutes. If the score is tied at the end of four quarters, an overtime period of five minutes is played. If the score remains tied at the end of this period, additional overtime periods will be played until a winner is determined.
A player may wheel the chair and bounce the ball simultaneously, however, if the ball is picked up and/or placed on the player's lap, he or she is only allowed to push twice before being?obligated to shoot, pass, or dribble the ball again. There is no double dribble rule in wheelchair basketball. A traveling violation occurs if the player takes more than two pushes while in possession of the ball without?dribbling. A player is not allowed to touch the playing surface with his or her feet.
An offensive player may not remain in the key area for more than three seconds.?On an in-bounds play, the offensive player is not allowed to go into the key until the ball is handed to the in-bounding player by the referee.


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Innovator From the Deep
Once in a while a Jazz musician comes along and changes the course and direction of music, an instrumentalist that takes his instrument into a new direction that [all those] others after him follow like a beacon. These innovators, to name a few, include: Charlie Parker on alto sax, Wes Montgomery on guitar, Oscar Peterson or Bill Evans on piano.1
However, on the bass, there is only one: Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke, raised in Philadelphia, burst onto the music scene as a teenager in 1971, arriving in New York straight out of the Philadelphia Academy of Music. He immediately landed jobs with famous bandleaders such as: Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Pharaoh Saunders, Gil Evans, Stan Getz, and a budding young pianist composer named Chick Corea.
Before Stanley Clarke, the traditional role of the bassist in the band was that of [the] timekeeper; and also [functioning as] the foundation, the person in the band that played the lowest note in the chord, the note that the chordal structures of the songs were built upon. Stanley came along with a deep sense of melody crafted from years of listening to all of the musicians that came before him, not just the bassists. He also had an intense command of the instrument, because of his height, large hands and sincere and total dedication.
He began to pull away from the traditional role of the bassist and started to bring his instrument into the forefront. Stanley pushed himself towards perfection with relentless attention to be the best. His efforts catapulted him to the front of the stage as a viable melodic bass soloist where his dream manifested first in the Grammy Award Winning jazz-fusion band "Return to Forever". RTF recorded eight albums, two of which were certified gold ("Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy" and "Romantic Warrior"); and one, "No Mystery", won a Grammy award.
One of Stanley Clarke's fellow bassist's, Victor Wooten, an accredited bassist of the new era who followed in the tradition, presented the 2006 Bass Player Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award to him and had this to say: "There's no way I would pass on the chance to present this award to Stanley Clarke, a man who has changed the lives of so many musicians, created opportunities for all of us bassists, and been a huge influence on me and my playing.
Presenting Stanley Clarke with a Lifetime Achievement Award is a dream come true." Wooten continued, "Scoring movies, making recordings, and touring the world, Stanley Clarke has paved the way for all of us by spreading low-end love all over. To me, that is what a Lifetime Achievement Award is all about. It's not just what you've done with your life, but also what you've done to help others improve their lives. I believe that Stanley has done more than he realizes in that regard".
Clarke is a man of "firsts"— having been the first bassist in history who could double on acoustic and electric bass with equal ferocity, as well as the first bassist ever to headline tours, selling out shows worldwide. Clarke recorded what is now considered to be the must-know bass anthem, "School Days." To this day, accomplished and aspiring bassists continue to imitate his style seeking to master his pioneered techniques.
Lloyd Gregory
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The Problem Is...
Have you ever come to a point in your life where it feels like nothing is happening?
You don't know what to do next, where to go or what you want and it's not a mental health issue. Life has just become...blah.
It's a tough spot to be in, especially when you see other people around you actually looking like they're enjoying life. Sure yours may be exciting from the outside, or maybe you have something that people around you want and you take for granted. But you don't see it that way.
The worst part is that because there's nothing giving you an edge or spark, you start something else for yourself. Drama.
I'm referring more to the busybodies out there.
I've rarely met someone who has a very little spare time and uses what little they do have to make trouble for others just to balance out their life.
Most busy people have either a really full life that doesn't require interference by other parties, others just don't have the time for it because they've already got so much happening.
I'd say I'm a half-half kind of person.
As mentioned in earlier posts and as a lot of people in my life know, I juggle work, uni and some semblance of a social life. Sometimes all three keep me busy beyond what I think I can handle, other times I have a few moments spare and when I'm not using them productively, it's not really a great outcome for me.
I think the problem for most people is, there is no problem.
There's a quote I've come across many times which says something along the lines that most of the problems people have are ones of their own causing, or problems are created by reacting to things differently. I'm not sure but they both kind of make sense.
When I think of busybodies, I think of meddlers. They have nothing exciting to do, so they see problems where there aren't any and try to fix them which actually creates a problem.
I've been known in the past to do similar things, although most of the time it's only affected me and my mental state rather than anyone else.
I tend to overcompensate in some things, when you're a people-pleaser it's what you do. You go out of your way to make others feel great so they'll make you feel great for making them feel great.
The problem there is that you can't control how people will react, and that creates a problem for you. You also can't control how much people will demand of you once they realize what you're doing. That creates another problem for you. But worst of all, you derive your value from doing the things that you do and therefore from the people that you do them for. It's almost like fighting a losing battle.
I, like I'm sure many others as well, have found myself at different times, not so much creating a problem that doesn't exist, but throwing so much of myself, of my energy at another person and been bitterly disappointed when they didn't return it or appreciate it as much as I'd hoped or more accurately, expected they would.
When there's something or someone that I want, think I want or tell myself I want, I look at what's stopping me from getting that or them and list all the reasons or ways to make that happen, even if it's a seemingly futile dream, and invest time that could really be spent doing better things, on that.
With guys in the past, I've looked at their lifestyle or what I know of it, and listed then convinced myself of all of the reasons why I would the best thing for them, why they should be with me, and try as innocently and subtley as possible to make it happen, although in every case I can think of it's never worked. It's being selflessly selfish or vice versa.
If someone looked happy, I'd convince myself that they really weren't and imagine all the ways I could make them so. Most of the time they were, and if they weren't, it wasn't my job to bring it to their attention, let alone actually do something about. I hated that feeling.
Stuff is an easier thing because it's just stuff. Most of the obstacles are monetary or logistical. If you want something badly enough you can save up and then you're off to some kind of a start.
The problem also comes down to control. When you or whoever it is doesn't have a great deal of control over their lives, or just feels like they don't, they overcompensate and try to take over other peoples.
When I lived at home with my family, I had very little control over anything, or at least that's how it felt most of the time. To make up for it I would reach out to people whose lives I envied immensely and tried to suck up to them as much as possible, it felt like the only thing I could do.
When my attempts didn't last long or just failed completely, I would mope around and think even worse things about myself. My insecurities would reign over me and I was remiss to find something that would make things better for me.
I kept thinking that there was something wrong with me, that people just didn't like me and didn't want to dwell on the reasons why. In most cases either people didn't need a reason, or I was way off track.
That's the thing when you don't have anything better to do, you think the worst and convince yourself that it's real and true. Then when you tell people they laugh it off because your thinking and their reasoning is so far apart it's hilarious.
Most of the time the problem is that there isn't a problem, but in order to fill a void in our own lives, we create one.
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Carnival Q3: Revenue Up, AU Realignment
Ticket and onboard revenue were on the rise in the third quarter for Carnival Corporation, as adjusted net income was also higher, rising to $1.7 billion from $1.4 billion, with an earnings beat. Company stocks were up over 4 percent in early Tuesday trading
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Net income was down year-over-year, from $1.4 billion in 2016 to $1.3 billion this year.
The company notably took a noncash impairment charge for ships, trademark and goodwill of $392 million, driven by the "decision to strategically realign business in Australia."
Arnold Donald, president and CEO, said that that this move was due to the P&O Cruises Australia brand, which has higher operating costs with "less efficient" assets. The company plans to replace these vessels over time with more efficient ships.
"Australia is a strong market for us and will continue to be," Donald noted.
He added the company continues to be on pace to remove one to two ships a year, replacing them with newer, more efficient ships.
Next year, the neoClassica and Adonia will both leave the fleet.
Revenue was nicely up in all categories in the third quarter for Carnival. Passenger ticket revenue rose from $3.8 billion to $4.1 billion, while onboard spending went from $1.1 billion to $1.2 billion, and tour revenue was also up.
Year-over-year, total revenues for the company in the third quarter rose nicely, from $5 billion to $5.5 billion.
Net income per passenger day was $56.54, down from $62.14 in the third quarter in 2016.
The decrease was attributed to higher operating costs across the board, according to the company's third quarter earnings report, released before market open on Sept. 26.
Fuel and other ship operating expenses were well up year-over-year.
Expenses are expected to continue to increase in the fourth quarter; the company cited both weather-related voyage disruptions and higher dry-dock costs.
David Bernstein, CFO, said bookings were running ahead of last year at higher prices across the board. Bernstein added company was "very well" booked for the fourth quarter, but did admit there had been some quiet days during the recent trio of hurricanes.
As for China, talk was limited, with Donald noting the successful introduction of Majestic Princess.
Donald, responding to a question on China capacity for 2018, as reported earlier on Tuesday by Cruise Industry News, said it did not matter whether it was flat or down 13 percent, as the market was still in its early stages of development, and could someday be the largest cruise market.


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Neymar injured, Richarlison scores for Brazil at World Cup
Source: https://apnews.com/article/2022-world-cup-brazil-serbia-match-nov24-48608a07c6a97103cc6f9d4514ab9901
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LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — With Neymar limping off the field with an ankle injury, Richarlison came through for the "Seleção."
A spectacular acrobatic kick followed an easy tap-in from close range as Richarlison scored both goals in Brazil's 2-0 victory over Serbia on Thursday at the World Cup.
After the match, the Tottenham striker learned of the extent of Neymar's injury.
"The most important thing for us it to have him at 100% for the next match," said Richarlison, whose first goal came after a buildup started by Neymar. "When I get to the hotel I'm going to go and see how he is doing."
Brazil team doctor Rodrigo Lasmar said Neymar sprained his right ankle. He declined to speculate on whether he would be available to play in the team's next match against Switzerland on Monday.
"We put ice on it while he was on the bench and then in physiotherapy," Lasmar said. "There is no test scheduled for now but we will schedule it if needed. He will be under observation. We will know more tomorrow."
Neymar was also injured at the 2014 World Cup. Playing at home in Brazil, his tournament ended with a back injury in the quarterfinals against Colombia when he had to be taken off the field on a stretcher. Brazil ended up losing to Germany 7-1 in the semifinals.
Neymar was fouled nine times in the match against Serbia, four more than any other player so far at this year's World Cup. But while taking care of Neymar, the opposing defense couldn't stop Richarlison.
He had his back to the goal when he used one touch to get the ball up in the air near the penalty spot, then spun around and leapt off the ground before knocking the ball into the net with his right foot in the 73rd minute.
"My childhood dream has come true," said Richarlison, who is playing in his first World Cup. "We knew it was going to be difficult to get past them. I'm used to playing against defensive teams like this in England. I wanted to take advantage of the opportunities that I had and I did."
Brazil had struggled to get past the Serbian defense until Richarlison scored from close range in the 62nd. Vinícius Júnior assisted on both goals.
Neymar, seeking his first major title with Brazil, stayed at 75 goals for the national team, two shy of Pelé's scoring record.
He was tackled hard a few times and sprained his right ankle in the second half. He was crying on the bench after being substituted in the 79th and was limping as he left the stadium.
Brazil coach Tite started with an attack-minded squad that included four forwards — Neymar, Vinícius Júnior, Raphinha and Richarlison. Attacking midfielder Lucas Paquetá played alongside Casemiro, the lone defensive midfielder.
But Serbia had several players back and was able to keep Brazil from creating many significant opportunities. Neymar tried to control the pace but struggled to get free. He, Vinícius Júnior and Raphinha all squandered chances early on.
Brazil's best chance before Richarlison's opening goal had been a low long-range shot by Alex Sandro that hit the post in the 60th. Neymar had his best opportunities with a free kick in the 50th and a shot from near the penalty spot in the 55th.
Serbia had its own injury issues for the match.
"We have three key players who are injured — it's too much for us," Serbia coach Dragan Stojković said. "We are not Brazil with 200 million people. We are a very small country."
The 30-year-old Neymar arrived to his third World Cup as Brazil's main attraction. He helped the "Seleção" win the 2013 Confederations Cup and its first Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, but has yet to win a major title with the national team.
Brazil, trying to win its first World Cup in two decades, is unbeaten in its last 20 opening games, with 17 victories. It has finished first in its group in the last 10 World Cups.
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Robert Hall: Secular Stagnation in the US
Robert Hall at Vox EU:
This column is a lead commentary in the VoxEU Debate "Secular Stagnation"
Secular Stagnation in the US, by Robert E. Hall: The disappointing post-crisis performance of the US economy and even more disappointing performance of continental Europe and Japan have revived interest in the possibility of secular stagnation. Under stagnation, real incomes fail to grow or even shrink, and the economy's output falls farther and farther below its earlier upward trend. Rising unemployment may also occur. Summers (2014) ignited interest in the possibility of secular stagnation.
One important factor in stagnations is the inability or reluctance of the central bank to lower interest rates as low as would seem to be appropriate, given the ability of low rates to stimulate output and employment. The Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan have kept rates slightly positive since the crisis, while the ECB did the same until recently, when it pushed the rate just slightly negative. All three economies had combinations of high unemployment and substandard inflation that unambiguously called for lower rates, according to standard principles of modern monetary economics.
Extreme slack persists in continental Europe and Japan, but in the US, several labor-market indicators, such as low short-term unemployment and high levels of unfilled job openings, indicate the end of the period of slack that followed the crisis, while others, such as long-term unemployment and involuntary part-time work, still show slack but are declining and will probably reach normal levels in the coming year.1 Forecasters believe that the Fed will unpin the short-term interest rate in the middle of 2015 or a bit later in the year. Markets for forward rates agree.
European versus US secular stagnation: Demand versus supply factors
Thus a consensus is forming that inadequate demand will no longer be a factor in whatever US stagnation occurs in coming years. In Japan and Europe, on the other hand, the case for boosting demand is strong and inadequate demand is almost surely a main cause of the stagnation.
Despite the resumption of normal conditions in the US labor market and the consensus that slack is gone, the US economy is stagnated in the sense that the standard of living stopped growing around 2000. Family purchasing power today is just the same as in that year. Figure 1 shows that it grew briskly during the 1990s, slowed markedly prior to the crisis, dropped below its 2000 level as a result of the crisis, and grew slowly in recent years.
Two episodes of low purchasing-power growth despite a growing economy appear in the figure. From 2002 through 2007 (recovery from the 2001 recession), and 2010 to 2013 (the recovery from the 2008-09 Great Recession). The unemployment rate reached 4.8% in 2007 – well below the long-run average rate of 5.8% and is right at that long-run rate today. The evidence is strong that inadequate demand is not behind the general stagnation of purchasing power, though it was a factor in the period immediately following the Crisis. As of 2014, the US has had a decade and a half of a new kind of secular stagnation, one associated with declining supply.
Causes of US secular supply stagnation
Four factors account for the stagnation of purchasing power in the US economy: 1) declining labor share; 2) depleted capital; 3) reduced productivity growth; and 4) declining labor-force participation. I will discuss indexes that capture each of these factors in turn using indices that all start at unity in 1989. An index of total purchasing power from earnings is the result of multiplying the four indexes together.
Labor's declining share of income.
Figure 2 shows an index of labor's share (including fringe benefits) of total US income. It tends to be level in recessions, fall during the first half of ensuing expansions, then rise back to a high level at the next recession. But superimposed on that pattern is a general decline that cumulates to about 10% over the period. Like the general declining trend in earnings, the decline in the share seems to have started around 2000. Economists have pursued multiple explanations of the decline, but no consensus has formed.
Slow overall productivity growth.
Figure 3 shows that productivity grew rapidly from 1989 to 2007. The Great Recession caused a dip in productivity, as did past recessions (due mainly to idle facilities). Though productivity grew at normal rates during the recovery, it did not make up for the shock of the crisis, so the average growth since 2006 has been below par.2 Household earnings suffered proportionately. See Fernald (2014) for further discussion of productivity.
Depleted capital per household.
Figure 4 shows the third factor – the amount of capital available to equip the average worker. With more plant, equipment, and software, workers earn more. Capital per household rose rapidly during the 1990s, but more slowly after 2000. Capital per household actually fell during the Great Recession, and its more recent growth has not come close to placing capital per household where it would have been if the trend of the 1990s had continued.
Low labor-force participation.
Figure 5 displays the average household's involvement in the workplace as measured by an index of annual hours of work of household members. Hours per household grew rapidly until 2000, fell as usual during the recession of 2001, flattened but did not grow during the boom of 2002 through 2007, unlike previous booms, collapsed in the Great Recession, and have risen during the recovery that is still underway. The decline in hours since 2000 is the single biggest factor in the decline in household earnings.3 Recent growth in hours per household offers some hope for the return of earnings growth in coming years.
Why hours worked declined
Because declining hours account for the biggest part of the stagnation of earnings, I will dig deeper, by breaking them down into three components: Labor-market participants per household; fraction of participants working; and hours per worker.
Figure 6 shows an index of participants per household.
As the chart illustrates, participation rose during the 1990s, especially in the second half of the decade, but has fallen since. The Great Recession depressed participation only slightly and does not appear to have been an important determinant of the overall decline in involvement in the labor market. Of course, the recession was a time when fewer participants were actually working and more were looking for work.
Economists have been working hard on trying to understand the surprising decline in participation, which exceeds forecasts that were made in earlier years. Most research agrees that the slack labor market had a relatively small discouraging effect. Another suspect that has been found to have at most a small role is changes in the composition of the working-age population – the negative effect of aging of the population on participation just offsets the positive effect of higher educational attainment. A large increase in the fraction of households subject to taxes imposed on families benefiting from food stamps, disability, and other safety-net programs may be a factor.
Figure 7 shows an index of the fraction of participants who were actually working – the remainder were unemployed and actively looking for work.
This factor was flat on average, falling in recessions and rising in the ensuing recoveries. It has risen recently, as unemployment has fallen to the upper-five-percent range. It is not an important element of the stagnation of earnings as of today.
Figure 8 tracks hours of work per week for the average household.
It was quite constant over most of the period, but fell sharply during the Great Recession and recovered only about half of the decline since. It is too early to judge whether hours per worker will return soon to its earlier level or remain as an element of the stagnation of earnings.
Work versus other time uses
Some indication about the changing balance between work and other uses of time comes from the American Time Use Survey, which began in 2003. Table 1 shows the change in weekly hours between 2003 and 2013 in a variety of activities.
For men, the biggest change by far is the decline of 2.5 hours per week at work, a big drop relative to a normal 40- hour work week.
A small part of the decline is attributable to higher unemployment—the unemployment rate was 6.0% in 2003 and 7.4% in 2013.
The decline for women is much smaller, at 0.8 hours per week.
For both sexes, the big increases were in personal care (including sleep) and leisure (mainly video-related activities). Essentially no change occurred in time spent in education. Women cut time spent on housework.
Is there hope for a return to normal growth of household purchasing power?
Capital seems likely to continue to return to its historical growth path, as Figure 4 suggests. For the three other major categories, forecasting is a challenge. There has been no sign of a reversal of the decline in labor's share of total income and no body of research that supports the idea that it will. Productivity growth is definitely under way, at rates similar to those in the 1970s and 1980s, but well below the rates of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1990s. In particular, there is no sign that a burst of productivity growth will make up for the complete stall in productivity growth around the crisis, as Figure 3 shows.
Most importantly, there is no sign suggesting a departure from the decline in labor-force participation shown in Figure 6. Some commentators have declared a turnaround in participation based on recent monthly data, but Figure 9 suggests this is wishful thinking. Participation has declined along a straight line during the period of improving conditions in the labor market, suggesting a complete disconnect between participation and the state of the labor market.
One possibility for growth in purchasing power is that unemployment may dip below 5.5% -- the level that some believe defines full employment. The unemployment rate reached 3.8% in 2000 and 4.4% in 2007, in both cases at the ends of long expansions, without triggering inflation much above the Fed's target of around 2%.
I reiterate that these conclusions apply to the United States. In continental Europe, the case is strong that demand has far from recovered. In Japan, unemployment is at low levels but the performance of the economy is substandard.
Fernald, John (2014). "Productivity and Potential Output Before, During, and After the Great Recession", NBER Macro Annual, 2014, forthcoming.
Lawrence H. Summers, "U.S. Economic Prospects: Secular Stagnation, Hysteresis, and the Zero Lower Bound" Business Economics Vol. 49, No. 2 National Association for Business Economics
1 Complete backup for all of the calculations is available from my website, stanford.edu/~rehall
2 See Fernald (2014) for a discussion of the evidence.
3 See Foote and Ryan (2015).
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Cathy4836 has 16 years experience and works as a Diploma RN.
Dear fellow nurses, What would cause someone to do this kind of act ? I understand the brother said Adam Lanza was Autistic, he was very smart , he was a loner, friends said " that sounds like something he would do."
Society already throws those with mental illnesses (and our elders) away. Now we're going to demonize the autistic kids? Now every kid with autism has to be watched and monitored?
Now...autism is an 'explosive' disorder?
Since when and, more importantly, why?
...because the media said so?
Your question bothers me on so many levels and I don't even have a mental illness.
Any one of us can suffer a traumatic event (or not) and end up stricken with a mental illness. Post-Partum Depression, PTSD...hello?
Every individual dealing with a mental illness isn't 'one in the same'. Every individual who has a mental illness isn't low-functioning or a human powder keg ready to explode.
If people tried to UNDERSTAND, the loved ones of these individuals wouldn't feel compelled to sweep it under the carpet.
"Well - Johnny just stays in his room. It's odd that he doesn't have much of a social life. This week he's hardly moved at all. Just been in bed... but he's probably ok. I guess...."
Well - why don't you open a line of communication and stop assuming, dear loved one? TALK TO 'Johnny' and find out.
I agree with you 100%! I too feel that you can not put all mental illness in the same basket! I have worked in the field of psych & am very much aware of the differences. My question was how can we help these patients & their families, so that they are not wrongly classified as monsters!
In many cases, they fall through the medical insurance cracks & have no way to get the help that the pt. & family need.
Interesting article linked on another thread about this issue.
What do you think are some of the best places to work in psych?


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Training VCU Basketball Team Is Part Of This Former Navy SEAL's Amazing Story
By: Rob Sievers
It's 5:45 in the morning at Belle Isle in Richmond, Virginia.
"Hooyah!" John McGuire yells.
"Hooyah!" yells back a gathering of people shrouded in the pre-dawn fog, eager and ready to go.
After a quick warm-up, teams form and scatter to their boats in the James River. For the next hour McGuire and his team of instructors lead activities and exercises designed to make getting and staying in shape fun.
"The more you keep fitness fun, the more likely you are to stick with it," says McGuire, who spent 10 years working as a Navy SEAL. "Have you ever heard of people doing push-ups on a kayak in the middle of a river early in the morning?"
On many mornings, those having this kind of fun with McGuire are doctors, lawyers, teachers and community leaders. They clean off their unrecognizably muddy faces, wring out their wet, stained clothes, get in their cars and drive away so tired they can barely sit upright -- then do it again the next day.
But during some parts of the year, this is the type of training that has helped the Virginia Commonwealth basketball team earn five consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, including a Final Four berth in 2011.
"Instructor McGuire has the unbelievable feel for what it takes to put a team together," VCU coach Shaka Smart says. "I thought it was great fun for our team. A lot of stuff that is directly related to basketball."
Before each of the past four years, McGuire spends a week with the Rams, and then makes follow-up visits during the season. His intense team-building exercises are designed to help them think and react like a team, rather than a group of individuals. Whether it's rowing boats across the James River, doing push-ups on the sandy shore or completing point-to-point missions, the goal is the same: It's to push everyone to maximize physical and mental abilities under pressure and exhaustion.
McGuire's success with teams such as VCU and Illinois has helped boost his national profile. His business, SEAL Team Physical Training, Inc., is thriving, and he has made guest appearances on CNN for his expertise on being a Navy SEAL.
His story is all the more remarkable, considering how unlikely it was that he became a SEAL in the first place.
When John McGuire was 5, his mother put him in the family car, drove him into downtown Richmond and left him on a street corner with nothing. In and out of foster care, McGuire attended nine different elementary schools. In the seventh grade, McGuire wanted to be a fighter pilot. In high school, he wanted to become Top Gun.
"It was right when the movie came out," McGuire says. "Those guys were the best, and I wanted to be the best. I wanted to be cool."
McGuire was studying martial arts at the time, and he still remembers the advice he heard from his sensei: "If you become a pilot and they take your plane away, you're no good. But if you become a Green Beret, you are a weapon."
But McGuire still wanted to fly. When a friend gave him a copy of the Navy SEAL issue of Gung Ho magazine, McGuire took it to his sensei, and asked him what do you think about Navy SEALS? "I'll never forget his response," he says. "He told me that they were a bunch crazy m------, and that there was no way I could make it. I decided right then, that's what I wanted to be."
After high school graduation (which only happened, McGuire says, because schools were tired of dealing with him), he told a Navy recruiter that he wanted to be a SEAL. The recruiter said he was too small to qualify. McGuire would not take no for an answer. The recruiter ultimately caved, and off McGuire went to Florida for Navy Boot Camp and volunteered for Navy SEAL training.
The first day they were told to swim 500 yards and they had to use either breast stroke or side stroke. While waiting in the water before the start, McGuire turned to the guy beside him and said, "Hey, buddy, what's a breast stroke?" As it turns out, McGuire, who was about to embark on one of the most intense -- water centric -- training programs in the world, didn't know how to breast stroke or side stroke.
"All I could ever do is walk down the diving board on my hands, flip into the water and make it over to the side of the pool," he says. "We were kids. We liked to show off."
McGuire spent countless hours in the pool to become one of the strongest and fastest swimmers in his class. The survivor who'd been essentially figuring things out on his own since he was 5 not only learned how to swim, but he ultimately became a member of one of the most elite military programs in the world, the Navy SEALs.
In 1998, after ten years of serving his country all over the world, and cataloguing experiences too clandestine to discuss, McGuire needed to focus on his family life. "I'd be gone up to 11 months at a time," he says. "I remember coming home one day after being gone and my 5-year-old daughter ran away from me and hid, because she was scared of this stranger in her house."
To devote the time and attention to his family that he wanted and needed, McGuire left the military. Needing work to support his family, McGuire got a job at a temp agency, and also did odd jobs such as shoveling snow, mowing lawns and raking leaves. "I go from counter drug missions in South America, to temping behind a desk," he says. "it was a real culture shock."
While at the temp agency, McGuire was left with mostly empty time on his hands. But born of this boredom came a concept that has changed the lives of countless people and boosted athletic programs all over the country: His SEAL Team Physical Training business. It has expanded beyond Richmond to Charlottesville, Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia. Miami is next. The founding principle was simple.
"It takes Everyone to win, One person to mess it up, and if someone is confused, Help them out, E1H," McGuire says. "There really is nothing like teamwork to bring out the best in people."
Developing the business however, was anything but simple. "I thought I was going to get 750 members in the first three months, but it took me almost 15 years to reach that many members," he says.
Although McGuire has successfully prepared young men and women for careers in special ops, he is always quick to say that he is not training people to become Navy SEALS. "You have to join the U.S. Navy for that," he says.
He is teaching people to believe in themselves, and know that "we can do more than we think." The principles of teamwork, leadership, communication and confidence apply to being a Navy SEAL, running a fitness company, team building and motivational speaking. McGuire and his team of expert instructors apply their teachings in all of these settings.
By October 2006, the business had grown from less than 15 members to nearly a thousand, and he was a mainstay in his five children's lives. Life for McGuire was perfect.
Then while doing back flips on the family trampoline, he landed awkwardly and broke the C-4 vertebrae in his neck. He was paralyzed instantly.
"It seemed like forever that I was lying there, and I couldn't move," he says.
McGuire was swiftly taken to MCV hospital in Richmond, where he was told he was not likely to make it through the night and that if he did, he would never use his arms and legs again.
That night, as he lay in bed, McGuire reflected back on his SEAL training, and decided then and there that he would not only survive the night, but that he'd be doing more pushups than anyone within two weeks. The next day he had surgery to fuse his neck, and a few short weeks later he felt movement in his fingers.
As McGuire began the long road toward recovery, the doctors were amazed by his progress. Each day he would endure formal physical therapy, but there was so much more. Rather than following doctor's orders to rest afterwards, he stayed awake all night trying to move his toes, or his fingers, or whatever else the doctors thought he would never be able to do. A month and a half after breaking his neck, McGuire was released from the hospital.
"They gave me this fancy, expensive wheelchair to take home," he says. "I told them to donate it to charity," he said. "I just couldn't see myself in a wheelchair, and I wasn't going to use it."
For the next three months, McGuire crawled around his home on his belly, until he was finally strong enough to crawl on his hands and knees. A few months later, he began walking on his own. All told, it took McGuire about 12 months to walk somewhat normally.
Since breaking his neck, McGuire can no longer do the 20 one finger pull-ups he once did daily. He can no longer swim more than ten miles in open water like he once could, and he can no longer do flips off the diving board to impress his friends. But none of that matters more than what he can do: Inspire and lead others.
When McGuire is asked to talk about his positive impact on those who experience his teaching, he is quick to deflect to those who he works and trains with.
"It's not about me, it's about them," he says. "Once when a woman told me how positive of an influence I had been on her children, I looked at her with a smile and said, 'I just do push-ups, ma'am.'"
As a result of his successful role with VCU's basketball team, McGuire and his team now train several of the school's varsity teams, among 10 other colleges. Gallaudet University, a school for the deaf and hard of hearing, had its best record in baseball in more than 25 years after its coach, Curtis Pride, asked McGuire for help.
"John's training taught me a lot and I learned more about each player and how they respond to different degrees of challenges," Pride says.
But McGuire's most fulfilling projects might be the ones who face the longest road. Chris Crawley was one of those people who signed up to train at 5:45 in the morning along the river. In December 2012, he was 27, and he weighed 350 pounds. He wasn't sure if he'd make it to 30. He couldn't run 20 feet without losing his breath, and he couldn't do a single sit-up. Chris heard about SEAL Team PT through friends and decided to give it a try.
Two years later, Crawley has lost more than 80 pounds, has run his first 10k and completed a half-marathon. One of McGuire's many sayings is "If you'll cheat yourself, who won't you cheat?" That has particular meaning for Crawley.
"I personally lack the self-motivation when left to my own devices," he says. With SEAL Team PT, "if you miss more than a day or two, suddenly people start to check in. We hold each other accountable."
"If I waited until I was in better shape to join SEAL Team PT, I'd have died before ever getting the chance."
-- Follow Rob Sievers on Twitter @SportsEsquire or email him at sportsesquire@gmail.com.
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Q: Which sentence is more correct: "They are playing by the river" or "They are playing at the river"? I know that both sentences can be used to express proximity, to be near something but "by" sounds much better to me than "at" in this case. In which situation is "at" preferable?

A: Like many things, this depends on context; both are correct, but they have slightly different meanings.
"They're playing by the river" - I would understand you to mean that they (presumably children) are at a playground at or near the riverbank.  I would also understand you to mean that they aren't actually going into the water.
"They're playing at the river" - Here in Southern California, I hear this phrase fairly often.  It usually means that they (adults and/or children) have traveled to the Colorado River and are enjoying various water-related activities - waterskiing, whitewater rafting, innertubing, etc. - in addition to camping next to the river.
In other parts of the world, "the river" in question would obviously be different!  However, I think that the distinction between by meaning "close to, but not in" and at meaning "in and around" will hold in most locales.
Also, the distinction between children playing by the river, and all ages playing at the river may be restricted to Southern California; many adults are reluctant to refer to their recreational activities as "playing"...

A: I would use "by the river" to indicate their location if their play is incidental to the fact that the river exists.  For example, "They meet by the river every afternoon to play chess.  On the other hand, if the presence of the river is fundamental to their activity I might use another preposition.  A second example, "They meet every afternoon at the river to fish."  Like many preposition questions, the difference is subtle and, sometimes, ineffable.  "I have a house at the lake and you are welcome to visit and go fishing or swimming,"  paints a different image than "I have a house by the lake and at dawn it is bathed in the most beautiful golden light."  Here we have the same house located in the same place but the selection of prepositions depends on the tone of the remark.

A: It depends on what you are trying to say. Are they near the river at any point? You should use by the river.

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China's Man in Washington, Named Trump
by Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times
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Our president is bolstering a nation, but it's not the United States.
President Xi Jinping of China with President Trump in Beijing in 2017.Credit…Nicolas Asfouri/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
"Nobody has been tougher on China than me," President Trump has declared repeatedly, and he is trying to exploit anti-China feelings for his re-election. He portrays Joe Biden as soft on China, and his backers have run ads denouncing "Beijing Biden."
All that is preposterous, for it is Trump who has been China's stooge, a sycophantic flatterer and enabler of President Xi Jinping. If that wasn't already evident, John Bolton's new book, "The Room Where It Happened," portrays Trump as practically kowtowing to Xi.
The kowtow meant prostrating oneself before the emperor or a patriarch and knocking one's head on the ground. Today it takes the form of a fawning American president publicly declaring, "President Xi loves the people of China" and hailing Xi's "very capable" handling of the coronavirus.
I've been gasping as I read an advance copy of Bolton's book, particularly his chapter on relations with China, because China policy perfectly captures Trump's soaring hypocrisy wrapped in venal incompetence.
The passage in the book that got the most attention concerns a telephone conversation between Trump and Xi last year.
"He [Trump] then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China's economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win," Bolton writes.
The government clearance process redacted Trump's exact words, but Vanity Fair says he told Xi, "Make sure I win."
Yet perhaps what troubles me even more is Trump's kowtowing to China's human rights abuses to win favor with Xi.
On June 4, the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Trump refused to issue a White House statement," Bolton writes, quoting Trump as saying, "Who cares about it?"
Xi has imprisoned some one million Muslims in modern concentration camps in the Xinjiang region, in what may be the largest internment of people based on religious categories since the Holocaust.
"Xi explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang," Bolton writes. "According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which he thought was exactly the right thing to do."
Trump has also largely abandoned two Canadian citizens whom China has imprisoned as hostages to try to prevent Canada from extraditing a prominent businesswoman, Meng Wanzhou, to the United States. The United States should stand with Canada to end such hostage-taking; instead, Trump has validated it by suggestingthat he can interfere with the legal process to solve problems.
Trump has denied making some of these comments, but then again Trump has made more than 19,000 false or misleading statements since assuming the presidency, by the count of The Washington Post. Moreover, the White House's main objection to Bolton's book is that it publishes classified information — and statements are considered classified only if they are true. The White House thus provides backdoor confirmation of the book's general truthfulness.
It has always been ludicrous for the Trump campaign to denounce "Beijing Biden," when Trump publicly lavishes more affection on Xi than on Melania. "President Xi is extremely capable," is "strong, sharp and powerfully focused," is "doing a very good job," and is "a man who truly loves his country," Trump has said on various occasions this year alone.
My own view as a China-watcher who lived for years in Beijing is that we should stand up to Xi where we need to — while also negotiating on trade and seeking ways to cooperate on climate change, pandemics and more. Trump does the opposite: He bungles trade and achieves nothing there, fails to cooperate on climate or health, damages America's alliances and ignores Xi's worst abuses, all while flattering Xi in apparent hopes of getting re-election help.
A joke in China suggests that Trump's Chinese name is Chuan Jianguo, or "Build-the-Country Trump." That's because Build-the-Country is a common revolutionary name among Communist patriots, and it's mockingly suggested that Trump's misrule of the United States is actually bolstering Xi's regime.
In other words, Trump seems to be doing his utmost to make a country great again. It's just not America.
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While we earlier noted that prisons intentionally cluster a violent population, they nevertheless fail to isolate it.
Reportedly, prisoners are smuggling cellphones into prison. This means that prisons not only fester violence, they also spread it.


Senior citizens in Northern Ireland could be facing darkened streets due to strict budget cuts.
It was revealed broken lights on streets close to mainly elderly-owned bungalows will not be repaired or replaced.
The Ulster Unionist Party has warned tha tthe savings by one department could mean increased costs for the already stretched health service.
East Antrim MLA, Roy Beggs, said: "Faulty lights in the vicinity of pensioners bungalows are not to be repaired until maintenance programmes are reinstated. This is likely to result in an increased number of falls with expensive, painful stays in hospital for some of the most vulnerable in our community. It is cheaper to fix bulbs rather than have to fix fractures. I would urge the Executive to carefully plan how they spend their money so that they are not being penny-wise and pound-foolish.
Department of Regional Development (DRD) Minister, Danny Kennedy, said: "Street lighting is particularly important to pensioners as it increases their level of security and reduces the risk of anti-social behaviour. In addition, with adequate street lighting, pensioners as it increases their level of security and reduces the risk of anti-social behaviour. In addition, with adequate street lighting, pensioners are less likely to trip and fall. I believe that it is a false economy for the Norther Ireland Executive to impose short-term cuts."
The DRD released a statement saying: "Until further notice, our in-house contractor will endeavour to deal with as many street lighting defects as possible. However, they will not be able to provide the service the public would expect in normal circumstances."


On 13 July 1929 Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Bellonte attempted to cross the North Atlantic westbound, from Paris to New York, returning after 17 hours due to weather. On 27-29 September 1929 they set the world's distance record 7905 km from Paris to China. In 1-2 September 1930, Costes with Maurice Bellonte, flew from Paris to New York 37 hours 18 minutes.


On the southern outskirts of Kharkiv, on the right bank of the river Udi is an interesting archaeological place - Donets settlement (travel - by train to the station Karachevka or through Simferopol highway to Pokotilovka).
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In the lower layers of the settlement were found fragments of pottery, flint knives, arrowheads, fragments of polished stone axes pertaining to the Bronze Age. Above this layer is underlain Scythian items belonging, apparently, agricultural tribes melanhlenov. It was at this time - in the VI. BC. e. - There were built the first fortifications. In the VIII century. at this place arose early Slavic settlement, which developed primarily as a trade and craft center. In the tenth century it was attacked by the Pechenegs, but it was soon restored. Entering the time of Svyatoslav of Kievan Rus, the settlement became an important military and defensive point of gradually turned into the city Donets.
Donets was burned by the Mongols in 1239, but lives on this land is completely stopped. Some archaeological finds and references to Donetsk settlement that occur in later written sources - "paintings patrol points" of the Ivan IV and the "Book of the Big Drawing" in 1627 confirms that even in the XIV century there were some settlement. According to modern archaeologists, Donetsk settlement gradually grew in Kharkov and gave rise to the modern Kharkiv.
Donetsk fort occupies a narrow triangular cape on the right bere-gu district. Uda, which rises above the level of the river is 20 m. At this a legendary place and now we can see the remains of fortifications.
On the north side of the cape is protected by a moat and a large shaft, which is a continuation in the VIII-X centuries. They were simple wooden walls, and in X-XIII centuries. - More complex defensive walls with timbered towers. On the south side of Cape remains of three more small shafts with two deep ditches between them.


I am looking to carve wood with intricate detail down to a depth of 50mm below the top of the stock.
I can only find ball nose end mills in small diameters with 50mm overall length. Can anyone point to a source of longer small diameter ball nose cutters or perhaps somewhere that could make some custom tooling for me.
What sort of diameter are you looking for? Wealden Tools do long core box carving bits - the smallest diameter is 4mm.
Have a look here 75mm long, superb cutters to use, not cheep but very very good.
Thanks for the links. Could you explain what a 'core box carving bit' is please and how it differs from other bits.
I won't know how small I need to go until I experiment. 4mm might do it.
Phil is right - of course you wouldn't use the core box cutters on their own. You would use them for shallow finishing passes after you have done the main roughing out with a bigger end mill.


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Issue: January/February 2014
Energy tops agenda at CSChE Conference
BY: CIC
More than 900 researchers, academics, students and governement and industry representatives descended upon New Brunswick last October for the 63rd Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, held in picturesque Fredericton. The conference theme, "Resources, Environment, Energy," addressed the critical issues facing chemical engineers today in Canada and around the world. Symposia included the latest advances in forest biorefinery, nanotechnology, ...
Centennial celebration at U of S
The University of Saskatchewan Department of Chemistry celebrated 100 years of graduates during last October's National Chemistry Week in Saskatoon.
Access to science journals reinstated
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) and the American Chemical Society (ACS) have entered into an agreement that will provide access to chemistry journals at Canadian universities without a download-based model. In 2012, the ACS proposed changing its pricing model to one that is based upon the number of downloads at each institution. This potentially would have driven the prices...
Solar guru shines message on Chemistry Week in Edmonton
Harry Gray, Arnold O. Beckman professor of chemistry and founding director of the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology spoke to hundreds of university...
National Chemistry Week slimes Ottawa
The Chemical Institute of Canada Ottawa Section celebrated last October's National Chemistry Week by making slime for attendees to the Canada...
University of New Brunswick students nab plant design prize
Four University of New Brunswick (UNB) students took home top honours in the 2013 SNC-Lavalin Undergraduate Plant Design Competition held by the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE) last October...
Dining on chemical caviar and solving murders at Université Laval
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Gregory Jerkiewicz, professor of chemistry at Queen's University and Editor-in-Chief of Electrocatalysis, has been appointed to the Advisory Board of FC Cubic, the Fuel Cell Cutting-Edge Research Center Technology Research Association. FC Cubic is supported
Beer brewing 101 at Simon Fraser University
BY: Tim Lougheed
Beer brewing is one of humanity's oldest chemical undertakings, undoubtedly dating from a prehistoric period when we first began to appreciate how to employ yeast for converting sugars and grains to alcohol. The appeal of that process, and its finished products, has persisted for thousands of years. A further testament to that appeal is the introduction of a course on the subject at Simon Fraser University, starting this semester.
New quantum laboratory opens at University of Waterloo
The advent of electronic systems that can operate at the level of quantum interactions promises to usher in an era of unprecedented computer processing speed and information storage. Before this revolution can begin, however, scientists need to make the raw materials that will go into this new equipment. This past December, the University of Waterloo opened up a laboratory to do just that.
Imaging boost for fuel cells
The same tomographic imaging technique that provides doctors and surgeons with vital views inside their patients is now being adapted to improve the performance of hydrogen fuel cells. Researchers at Simon Fraser University are working with Burnaby-based Ballard Power Systems to apply a new tool for testing and characterizing these devices.
Size counts when it comes to contrast agents
Radiographic images produced by X-rays have been a staple tool of medical diagnosis for many decades and this technology remains one of the health care system's workhorses. Nevertheless, important physiological features, such as the emergence or growth of tumours, ...
Making the most of minerals
This past fall, the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) opened the Mineral Processing Pilot Plant to enhance the Canadian mining industry's capabilities in Western Canada and beyond.
Atmospheric chemistry mission celebrates 10th anniversary
Doing science in space is always a difficult business, where even the best laid plans suffer from the challenges of cold, vacuum and radiation.
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As we settle into 2014 and think about tackling our holiday expenses, I thought this would be a good time to address how intellectual property can get the money train rolling.
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Dead mice don't get headaches. So why are scientists on the island of Guam stuffing them with acetaminophen, the widely used painkiller? The hope is that the acetaminophen will give a major headache to brown tree snakes. More than a headache in fact.
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Analyzing oligosaccharides to detect adulterated juice
In the mid-1980s, a Florida citrus growers' organization offered $50,000 to anyone who could develop an analytical technique for detecting orange juice adulterated with cheap beet juice. Graduate student Nicholas Low, who was working on enzymes responsible for carbohydrate hydrolysis, thought he had a solution.
With the longest coastline in the world, and an export economy founded upon natural resources, shipbuilding and ship repair is arguably Canada's most iconic industry. Rubber has been a key part of Canadian shipping since the 19th century, becoming ubiquitous in shipbuilding and shipyards, where it was used for everything from hoses to protective coatings...
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If you're ever in Devon I highly recommend a trip to Dartmoor Zoo. It's world famous as the subject of the book and movie We Bought a Zoo - you're unlikely to see Matt Damon or Scarlett Johansson wandering around, but the movie was actually filmed here (even though they changed the story to set it in America). The book, which I haven't read, is the true story of how Benjamin Mee bought the zoo - and what I like about the film is that Mee and his children appear as zoo visitors at the end.
I went to Dartmoor Zoo over the August bank holiday as I was visiting a friend who lived nearby. I went with my friend, her husband and their fantastic two-year-old daughter and another friend, and had a great time watching falconry displays, singing happy birthday to a lion and watching her unwrap a present, petting goats and enjoying seeing all the other animals.
Living in Greater London I'm used to zoos being expensive - London Zoo costs £24.25 for an adult entry, whereas Dartmoor Zoo costs just £8.95, while children under five are free. The gift shop was also very good value - I couldn't resist buying a cuddly toy for my husband as something of an in-joke. So I was a bit surprised that the café - actually called the Jaguar Restaurant - wasn't particularly cheap.
We could have taken a picnic with us but didn't and decided to eat in the restaurant. There isn't a lot on the menu - it's mainly panini with a few main meals like chicken tagine and roasted squash and goat's cheese risotto, and also a children's section of smaller meals. They had run out of the cheese and ham panini my friend wanted already so she had a pizza style panini with a side of cheesy chips. I had a falafel, roast onion, baby spinach, carrot and aioli panini (£5.95) - and some of the chips. I would normally go for ham and cheese but fancied trying something different and this was really good.
We also spotted the guy doing the falconry display in the restaurant - I wonder if he was feeding the owl?
The zoo isn't huge but there is plenty to see and we had a really fun day out; I took lots of photos as usual!


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ESME's Kathleen Laccinole
Georgene Huang on improving the workplace for women through honesty
Once upon a time, there were two women: Georgene Huang and Romy Newman. Both worked at Dow Jones, but between running different departments and rushing home to mother their children, it was hard to connect despite having much in common.
When Huang was let go from her job—then discovered she was pregnant—she set out to find a new job while trying to keep her pregnancy a secret. But it was difficult to get the scoop on companies from a woman's perspective. As a young mother-to-be, she had legitimate and daunting concerns. Where would she find the information she needed? Whom could she speak to about benefits, maternity leave, and child care? Oh my! She realized there was an information gap on the Internet.
It was a lonely time for Huang and difficult for women in the workplace in general. So she decided to do something about it. She would create a website for women, by women.
She took her own unpaid maternity leave, Newman left her job, and together they founded Fairygodboss (FGB)—a review site where women can share their workplace experience openly and honestly.
Q: What exactly is Fairygodboss?
A: It's a free and anonymous site. Women contribute their work experiences and thoughts in the form of a job review. Our goal is to improve the workplace for women by creating transparency around what it is like to work somewhere—the good and bad.
Our professional community reviews and crowdsources information so you can learn what women are paid, the hours they work, whether they believe their company is fair . . . We're a place to discuss work-life balance and working motherhood, wherever you are in your career.
Q: Can anyone read the site, or does one have to join?
A: Anyone can see a good deal of content. For example, you can look up a company and see how many people reviewed it and its overall score—in the sense that we ask a few questions, "Would you recommend this company to another woman?" etc.
Then there are the reviews themselves that get into a little more detail. We ask what advice you'd give other women interested in working at the company. And because opinions are often only as good as those they come from, we also ask demographic questions: "What's the title of your department?" "What are your salary ranges?"
You can preview these things for about 20 seconds. Because we're really trying to build a constructive community, we ask people to contribute their own story. The only way we can grow and be more useful is if people add their voices.
Q: Why did you start FGB?
A: It was personal, actually. I never set out to start a company for women. I have two small children. My son is three today, and I have a 15-month-old—so you can imagine.
I was two months pregnant when I was let go from a management job, and I left in the awkward position of looking for work while not being able to tell people I was pregnant. This was a very different situation than any previous job search I'd had. I needed to find out about things like benefits, maternity-leave policies . . . things you can't typically find out from employers, things you can't ask in advance. There was word of mouth, asking around, using Internet research, but there really wasn't a resource with data about benefits.
I also had workplace questions: Could I leave at 6:00 p.m.? Work from home? Is it a good place for moms? Would I get stuck in a position where I'm never promoted? I'm very career-oriented and couldn't find the information I needed.
I thought about building the site just for moms, but when I started interviewing women to determine what they wanted to know, I found it wasn't only moms. All women have unique experiences and need information from other women.
I ended up stopping my job search, and when my daughter was one, we started working on this.
Q: How did you and your business partner get together?
A: I was let go of my job. [Newman] left hers because she was looking for something different. Between us, we've worked in tech, media, finance, beauty, law, advertising, and information services, which means we've had to do a lot of career research and know that a little empathy can go a long way. Through it all, we've been the humble beneficiaries of the difference that women who help women can make.
Q: How did you get FGB off the ground?
A: It was about putting in the work—and it was a lot of work. I'd never started my own business completely from scratch, but I'd helped start other businesses within a different context. I had some sense of what needed to be done—a laundry list of things. But our content is user generated.
Q: How did you spread the word?
A: Initially, it was through people we knew and predominantly social media. There are many groups online: mom groups, feminist groups . . . women who are more inclined to understand and care about what we stand for—women helping women. We reached out to these logical organizations. I even told my bank teller about it the other day.
Q: How can FGB best serve the Solo Mom?
A: The Solo Mom is more likely required to work. She needs to know very particular information, like which departments would work for her, if she can work from home, if certain policies apply to every department, etc. These details are impossible to acquire unless you find someone already at the company to answer your questions. We've seen activity where women message each other to find out specific information.
Q: How do you motivate women to write a review?
A: People who leave reviews are not normal people. They care. I was worried it would be a bunch of disgruntled employees. This hasn't been the case. I think it's how we built the site. It doesn't help other people if all you are doing is complaining.
We initially targeted people by where they work. On Facebook, you can reach people by employer. The people who tend to post on Facebook don't post negative things. It's almost 50/50—the negative and the positive.
We actually spent a lot of time calling and interviewing women about why they wrote good reviews. Much of the time it was about altruism: "I remember being in that situation and want to tell women what they are getting into," or "I had such a positive experience with my employer that I want to tell women they should work here." I'm so glad these people exist.
It's been a very uplifting social experience.
Kathleen Laccinole, ESME's Dating Resource Guide, has penned numerous films and parenting books but is best known for producing the highly lauded Greta, age 20, and William, age 16.
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Although the Mode Project New Year card began as a tactile experience, we were too charmed by the illustrations and messages to leave it there. We couldn't resist bringing some of our favorite elements to life; still capturing the handmade, lo-fi feel of the original. We teamed up with our friend and illustrator Jesse Hora to create this card of new year sentiments. Printing by the talented folks at Rohner Letterpress. Go with your gut, and trim the sails. You got this!


Alarmed by the growing number of Palestinians who are emigrating from the Palestinian territories, the Palestinian Authority's mufti has issued a fatwa [religious decree] forbidding Muslims to leave.
The sources said most of the applicants were young men seeking work abroad. They said the majority of them wanted to move to the US, EU and Canada.
Can you blame them? Like Bush said, every human being longs for freedom and opportunity. But a Palestinian Mufti thinks better.
Entitled "No Permission to Emigrate from Palestine," the fatwa reads: "There has been much talk in Palestine about emigration, especially among the young people, due to the difficult security and economic situation. This is being done in search of a better life abroad. Many are continuing to rush to the gates of the embassies and consulates of the Western nations with requests for visas in order to reside permanently in those countries.
Got that Palestinians? Your spiritual leaders demand that you must not only perform physical suicide for Allah but he also wants you to suffer economically.
Yeah. Right. Like they'll really come back once they've tasted a civil and rewarding life.
A recent public opinion poll conducted in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip showed that that 82.7 percent of the Palestinians are pessimistic regarding their conditions. The survey, conducted by the Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah University in Nablus, also reported that 92% of respondents feel insecure because of the growing lawlessness in the PA-run areas.
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Existential ennui? No problem. Fill the void with sacrifice. Sacrifice to the bub god.
Q: Who is bub god?
Aa: The god of bub.
Ab: The bub of god?
Q (if Aa): What is bub?
Q (if Ab or Ba): Is bub love?
By sacrificing your hard earned coin to the bub god you will be granted: higher and higher tiered ranks in the bub god's religion (actually true), supernatural powers such as invisibility, ornithomancy, matter ingestion, and many more (totally fake), a tailor made hat for each tier (probably real... eventually), and supplementary material revealed to me directly from the bub god (patently false).
Q: What will you do with this money?
A: Spend it on expressly frivolous things while reciting a prayer to the bub god with every purchase. If somehow the following of the bub god grows beyond a couple dollars a month I will immediately begin creating hats and patches to give to everyone. If it grows further I will begin donating a majority of proceeds to charity.
Q: Is it sacrilege for me to sacrifice to the bub god?
A: It really depends on your (actual) religion. The bub god is expressly not real, so as long as you keep that in mind I think any higher power is probably ok with it. Seriously though, consult someone with more authority on the subject, I am not a theologian, just a boy made of bub.
Q: Ok, what do I actually get from sacrificing to the bub god, beyond eternal bliss and great hair.
A: No matter what tier you sacrifice at you will (actually) receive supplemental blog posts, parables, choose your own adventure catechisms, that sort of thing, related to the bub god. There's no overarching plot, just a slowly developing canon of bub related nonsense. And of course, the hidden secrets of bub.
The bub god does not demand worship, only sacrifice. Bub for the bub god.
From this moment forward, all members of the Friends of the Bub God must refer to you as Your Eminence, Beloved Disciple [your name]. That is, not only the first time you're introduced in conversation, but at every possible opportunity they must refer to you as Your Eminence, Beloved Disciple [your name]. You have been inducted into the friends of the bub god, and given freely of your wealth such that the bub god may bub.
Supernatural Powers Bestowed at this Tier Include: The ability to induce sneezing in yourself.
By donating five dollars a month you achieve the rank of Holy Abbot, and are thus a respectable member of the bub god's society. From the bub you (retroactively) have come, and to the bub you will (probably) return. Within a day of donating your mind will open to hidden possibilities (it will not actually do this) and you will begin to be able to see around corners (by walking toward them).
Supernatural Powers Bestowed at this Tier Include: The ability to just, you know, be in the moment sometimes... like, our problems aren't superficial, but a lot of them are just, so distant to this moment. You feel me?
By donating this amount you prove yourself ready for the next tier of mystery, that of the Pious Schemamonk. From this point onward the higher tiers will be revealed to you, and you will possess both the gate, the bub within your own soul, and the key to the gate, the bub within the heart of the universe.
Supernatural Powers Bestowed at this Tier Include: Increased appreciation for showering and performing daily hygiene tasks, mad dance skills (after months of practice).
I don't know who you are, but you must have something to atone for to sacrifice this ludicrous amount to the bub god. You receive all the powers of the previous tiers and are crowned the Mystery Pope.