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Jussi Kukko
Associate, Helsinki
Jussi is a Senior Associate in our Helsinki office, and focuses on private equity and M&A transactions.
His experience includes advising private equity firms and industrial clients in their cross-border M&A transactions and other corporate matters in Finland. Jussi also has significant capital markets experience through work relating to public M&A as well as international equity and debt offerings by Finnish and other Nordic companies.
Jussi joined the Firm in 2014 after graduation from law school.
Finnish Bar Association
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
Representation of Valmet, the leading global developer and supplier of process technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries, on its acquisition of PMP Group, a Polish provider of technologies and services for the paper industry with operations also in China, Italy and the United States.
Representation of HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, on a funding round from some of its key global strategic partners with a first closing of US$230 million.
Representation of Evolver Equity, a Finnish private equity investor specialized in Nordic small-cap buyouts, on the acquisition of Arktis AS, Nolliplan AB and Micro Aided Design Oy in parallel transactions from private sellers. All three companies are specialized providers of open-source building information modelling (Open BIM) tools and solutions for architecture, engineering and construction industries. Through the transaction Evolver establishes a group that has a product portfolio, a range of competencies and a geographic footprint that enables provision of unique customer benefits and reinforces the companies' positions as market leaders within Open BIM market.
Representation of Accent Equity, a Nordic mid-market investor, on the acquisition of Lunawood from funds managed by CapMan and other shareholders. Lunawood is the global leader in thermally modified Nordic softwood, a sustainable and rapidly growing alternative to traditional building materials and a substitute for tropical hardwood in decorative surfaces. The company, headquartered in Lahti, Finland, has three production facilities in Finland, sales employees in Finland, Germany and France and representatives in Russia and China. The company's products are sold in 50 countries.
Representation of Nordic Capital, a leading private equity firm in the Nordic region, on the acquisition of iLOQ from Sievi Capital and other shareholders. iLOQ is a leading provider of self-powered digital and mobile locking systems which transform the way access to buildings is handled into a highly secure, functional and sustainable system, founded in 2003 and based in Oulu, Finland, with local branches in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, France and Spain.
Representation of The Blackstone Group, a US-based private equity firm, on its recommended public tender offer for all shares in Sponda Plc, a Finland-based property investment company specializing in commercial properties in the largest cities in Finland. With assumed debt, the total value of the transaction is €3.8 billion.
Representation of Motherson Sumi Systems Ltd., a leading specialized automotive component solutions provider based in India, on its €571 million voluntary recommended public tender offer for all shares and stock options in PKC Group Plc, a producer and distributor of electronic components, systems, and parts.
Representation of Munksjö Oyj, a specialty paper company, on the combination of Munksjö and Ahlstrom Corporation, a provider of fiber-based materials, through a statutory absorption merger.
Representation of Tokmanni Group Corporation, the largest general discount retailer in Finland measured by number of stores and revenue, and its selling shareholder, the Nordic Capital company Cidron Disco S.à r.l., on the IPO and Nasdaq Helsinki listing of the shares in Tokmanni.
Representation of SSAB AB, a Sweden-based steel producer, on its €1.1 billion recommended share exchange offer to Rautaruukki Corporation's, a manufacturer of steel products, shareholders, including the secondary listing of SSAB's shares issued as offer consideration on Nasdaq Helsinki.
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Common types of car accidents involve collisions from head-on or the side. Less common, but so very dangerous, are rollovers. A head-on collision is also especially dangerous and is likely to cause serious injury or death to the occupants of both vehicles.
But the most common type of two-vehicle accident of all is the rear-end collision. These types of accidents happen when the driver in front has to hit the brakes suddenly to avoid a collision or when the driver in the rear loses concentration and impacts the vehicle in front. In many cases because of sudden deceleration the driver of the car or cars behind may not have time to react. This is especially true if they are following too close. Rear-end collisions account for nearly half of all two-vehicle accidents.
Experts say about one-third or 1 in 3 multiple-vehicle accidents involve one vehicle smashing into the rear end of another. In the United States every year there are about 1.7 million rear-end collisions, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (a PDF of the report is here). Rear-end collisions cause many injuries and fatalities.
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for children and the second leading cause of accidental death for adults, claiming more than 30,000 lives annually. Now the good news: That toll is down from more than 50,000 deaths every year from 1966–1973, even though today there are far more drivers on the road.
Yet in 2012 alone, more than 1.7 million rear-end crashes killed more than 1,700 people and injured 500,000 on American roads. And more than 80% of those deaths and injuries might have been prevented or mitigated with another technology: collision avoidance systems.
A side-impact car accident is when one vehicle hits another vehicle on the side. This is often referred to in slang terms of being broadsided or T-boned. The severity of the accident varies with speed of the vehicles, trajectory and other factors like vehicle weight, slipperiness of the roads, etc. These types of accidents frequently happen on the highway when passing and often at high speeds, in parking lots or at intersections.
Broadside crashes are sometimes described as T-bone accidents when the first vehicle hits the second vehicle head-on on the side. They are also called right-angle collisions. Sometimes these crashes are so severe the vehicles wrap and warp around each other at the point of impact.
One or more vehicles may roll over or be smashed into other vehicles in side-on collisions. Out-of-control cars can strike other vehicles, pedestrians, bicyclists or occupied buildings.
As with all types of vehicle accidents, safety can be enhanced with features like airbags or very good vehicle construction with side-impact bars built into the doors.
Front-impact accidents caused 54 percent of the deaths in passenger vehicles in 2016, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Highway Data Loss Institute reports. The Institute says that side impacts accounted for 25 percent of auto crash deaths.
By far the largest number of motor vehicle crash deaths are occupants of passenger vehicles including cars, minivans, pickups, SUVs and cargo/large passenger vans. The likelihood of crash death varies markedly among these vehicle types according to size. Small/light vehicles have less structure and size to absorb crash energy, so crash forces on occupants will be higher. People in lighter vehicles are at a disadvantage in collisions with heavier vehicles.
Pickups and SUVs are proportionally more likely than cars to be in fatal single-vehicle crashes, especially rollovers. However, pickups and SUVs generally are heavier than cars, so occupant deaths in SUVs and pickups are less likely to occur in multiple-vehicle crashes.
Head-on crashes or front-impact collisions are among the deadliest type of auto accident. Head-on crashes are not just with oncoming vehicles. Drivers also smash into trees, utility poles, buildings and structures, bridges, animals and other objects and obstacles.
Side-swipe collisions can be quite serious, though you might think they would usually be just minor accidents. These accidents are usually between two vehicles traveling in the same direction. If the swipe is forceful enough, a car can go wheeling off the road and even roll over.
Sometimes drivers overcompensate or over-correct with the steering wheel when a side-swipe happens. Their tires can dip off of the pavement and they can even end up running into a bridge structure or tree.
The fact is, many times one driver side-swipes a vehicle adjacent to him on the road because of an object in his lane or because an oncoming car crosses the center line. It may not be entirely his fault.
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration says about 85 percent of fatal rollovers involve just one vehicle. These accidents account for only about 3 percent of all accident types, but rollovers cause 30 percent of fatalities, Consumer Reports says.
Rollovers are complex crash incidents and are particularly violent in nature. Rollovers, more so than other types of crashes, reflect the interaction of the driver, road, vehicle, and environmental factors. So, while vehicle type does play a significant role, other factors such as driver behavior and road and environmental conditions can also cause a vehicle to roll over.
Excessive speed is a factor in about 40 percent of fatal rollover crashes. And about three-quarters of such accidents are in zones where the speed limit is posed at 55 mph or even faster than that.
Impairment can result from any blood alcohol concentration (BAC) above .00. Even a small amount of alcohol will negatively affect your judgment, muscular coordination, and vision, making you more likely to lose control of your vehicle.
Many fatal rollovers occur on country roads that have no barriers or divisions. Nearly three-quarters of rollover crashes happen in rural areas.
Routine driving situations in single-vehicle accidents all point to extreme danger from these factors of distraction, inattention, speeding and drunken driving.
Multi-vehicle accidents often involve dozens of cars, if the road is icy, wet or snow or in low-visibility conditions. Multi-vehicle accidents happen in chain-reaction events. If traffic on the highway is traveling at 70 miles per hour and an accident occurs, often people do not have time to react, especially if it's foggy or raining or snowing hard. This is one reason it is important to keep a good distance between your vehicle and the vehicle or vehicles in front of you.
When driving, you should keep at least two seconds behind the vehicle in front. When it passes a sign or other landmark, two seconds should pass before you reach the landmark. Count slowly to 2, and keep that much distance between your vehicle and the other driver's automobile.
Sometimes people survive multi-vehicle pile-ups, but when they exit their vehicles they get hit by other oncoming traffic. Or they may be seriously injured and trapped in a big pileup and help doesn't arrive in time to get them out to a hospital. Also, sometimes these accidents happen far away from cities where victims can get quick medical treatment.
This Wikipedia article gives a list of some of the bigger massive pile-up accidents, some involving 100 or more vehicles.
Also, spilled gasoline may leak onto the road and spread fire to adjacent cars and trucks. And if the pile-up happens in a tunnel, fire, fumes and noxious gases can complicate matters a lot and kill even more people than in an open area.
This category of accident, caused by drug-impaired or drunken driving, is really a terrible thing for victims and survivors. None of these accidents need have happened if not for the impairment. People can lose loved ones or be seriously injured with lifelong disability because of the callous disregard for safety that impaired drivers display.
About 29 people die daily in the United States in drunken-driving accidents. That's one every 50 minutes, or more than 10,000 per year. The fact is, not only do these people die, but the families and relatives are deprived of their loved ones, some of whom are breadwinners for the family. And injuries can be severe enough that the victim can't work anymore.
More than half (range: 53%-62%) of teens (13-19 years) and adults aged 20-44 years who died in crashes in 2016 were not buckled up at the time of the crash.
More than 23,000 people die in accidents yearly in the United States. Many could survive, and others could have no or less-serious injuries if they buckled up.
Safety belt use is one of the most effective ways to avoid injuries or death in an automobile accident. Make it a habit to connect your safety belt at all time when you or your passengers are in your vehicle.
And it's not just fatalities that happen in multi-vehicle pile-up, rollover crashes and all these other types of accidents we've been describing in this posting. People can be seriously injured with broken bones, internal injuries, head trauma, burns or even paralysis.
While attorneys can't heal people or raise the dead, they can pursue justice in court or in other legal venues such as arbitration. Lawyers can get people compensation for past and future medical bills and wages. We can also win compensation for you for pain and suffering and loss of consortium or companionship with a spouse.
A personal-injury lawsuit can force insurance companies to compensate you if their customer caused you harm or injury. Lawyers file personal-injury lawsuits when victims need financial compensation for injuries. To file a claim or lawsuit, you must have an injury that you can prove resulted from the negligence action of the other party.
Another type of lawsuit is a wrongful death case, when someone negligently caused a close relative's death or even did so maliciously. Sometimes it's not just that you are deprived of your loved one's company, sometimes for many years, but the person could be a father or mother who supports the family financially. Wrongful death cases can be devastating on many levels, including emotionally and financially.
A number of factors will determine whether you have a valid claim and if pursuing a personal injury lawsuit is the right choice for you. Contact Krasney Law to schedule a free consultation with an experienced personal injury attorney. Let the personal injury specialists in San Bernardino evaluate your personal injury case. Remember, if we are unable to get you a settlement or Judgment against the other party, we don't get paid any fees. We only get paid if you get paid!!
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Game Notes: Strong Showing For Swain
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- After catching only two passes thus far in the preseason and missing last week's game against Indianapolis, wide receiver Brett Swain broke out in a big way on Thursday night in the preseason finale at Kansas City.
Swain, who sustained a torn ACL in his left knee last season in Week 7 at Cleveland covering a kickoff, led Green Bay with six receptions for 130 yards (21.7 avg.). Swain's receiving yardage total was the most by a Packer in a preseason contest since teammate Greg Jennings posted 131 yards vs. Atlanta on Aug. 19, 2006.
"I think it builds my confidence a lot," Swain said. "Not only in running the offense, but in all aspects of the game. We were able to make some plays out there. We were able to find some holes in some zone coverages. Just to know that you can do that and make some plays, it builds your confidence a whole lot."
Swain had five catches for 53 yards in the first half, including a 22-yard pickup on a short pass over the middle from quarterback Matt Flynn. Three plays later, he picked up 14 yards on a pass over the middle to convert a third-and-11, absorbing a big hit from safety Kendrick Lewis.
Swain had a bit of a scare with less than two minutes remaining in the first half on a 9-yard reception near the sideline, limping off after being tackled by safety DaJuan Morgan. It was the second time this preseason that Swain left the field due to his knee, but he said Thursday night's injury was simply a bruise from banging it on the ground. In the opener against Cleveland, another player rolled into his knee from behind, and Swain said experiences like those help build confidence in his knee because he knows he can take a hit and still be OK.
"Just to know that you can deal with those types of pains during the game and work through it," Swain said. "Just know that it is going to calm down over time and just be able to pop back in there.
"They say it takes about a year to fully recover. I am getting close, and I am still going to have to deal with the bumps and bruises along the way and everything that comes along with it. I just have to keep fighting through it."
Swain returned to the game on the Packers' first offensive series of the second half, and made a big play to set up Green Bay's only touchdown of the night. On second down at the Green Bay 18, Flynn executed a play-action fake, and found a wide-open Swain deep down the right sideline for a 77-yard gain all the way down to the Kansas City 5. The reception was the longest by a Packer in the preseason since Jennings posted an 89-yarder vs. Tennessee on Sept. 1, 2006, and set up running back Kregg Lumpkin's 1-yard touchdown run up the middle two plays later.
"It was a play-action pass and I think they had bit on the run so hard that they just kind of forgot about me," Swain said. "It was just perfect timing on that play and we were able to complete it.
"It wasn't so much just a blown coverage as it was a good offensive call. It was a great play fake by Matt and I was able to fake a run block and kind of scoot up the field and was able to get open."
Throughout training camp, Swain was on a one-a-day schedule for practice as he worked his way back from the knee injury. After beating out veteran Ruvell Martin last training camp for the fifth wide receiver spot largely due to his special-teams contributions, Swain has been anxious to show off his pass-catching abilities but also knew that he needed to be patient with his knee.
One of Swain's main competitors for the fifth receiver spot, Charles Dillon, finished the preseason strong with six catches for 85 yards on Thursday night. Having missed last week's game against Indianapolis, a performance like Thursday night's comes at a good time for Swain with final roster decisions looming this weekend.
"Especially with the injury that I had, I don't think you can stress out about time," Swain said. "Time is of the essence with this injury. If you come back too early and you try to push things too fast too early, you can find yourself in a bad situation with swelling and stuff like that. Time is the best thing for this injury. You can't put your mental notions over the fact that you still have to heal and you still have to recover.
"I felt like I had a chance to come in and compete with the 1s and the 2s and I felt like that was an opportunity to come out and make some plays, not just to show the coaches and the organization what I could do, but just for myself. "
Next man upThursday night was the final audition for punters Chris Bryan and Tim Masthay, and they were dealt a bit of a surprise late in the first quarter.
Long snapper Brett Goode, who has handled the snapping duties in every game the past two seasons, left the game after sustaining a blow to the head and did not return. Second-year guard/center Evan Dietrich-Smith, who hadn't snapped in a game since his senior year at Idaho State, handled the snapping duties the rest of the night.
Dietrich-Smith, who said he only snapped on extra points and field goals in college, started off with a high snap to Bryan on a punt at the end of the first quarter. Bryan did a good job to get the kick off, but it only went for 37 yards.
"(Punts) was what I was worried about," Dietrich-Smith said. "The guys had a lot of faith in me. They just came out and said, 'Don't worry about it. Just get the ball back there and we'll take care of the rest.' I thought it went pretty smooth.
"I took a couple of field goal snaps (on the sideline) and they were a little rocky at first. I calmed it down and found my range. I feel good on the field goal stuff and don't really worry about that."
Dietrich-Smith snapped for one more punt, a 37-yarder for Tim Masthay early in the fourth quarter, as well as Mason Crosby's two field goals and one extra point.
"It throws the timing and rhythm off a little bit because Evan had to come in last second and just do the best he could do," Masthay said. "He did a good job. He was hitting the frame, but sure, just because we haven't worked together very often, it can disrupt timing. I thought he did a good job.
"It was a little curveball, but it happens in football. So we just dealt with it and did the best we could do."
Masthay finished the preseason with a 44.0-yard average with a 34.0-yard net average on eight punts, while Bryan registered a 42.0-yard average with a 38.6-yard average on eight punts. Now both punters get to play the waiting game until final cuts are made on Saturday afternoon.
"The next 48 hours will be long," Masthay said. "I am pretty pleased with the body of work that I have been able to put together, since March really. I have done the best I can do and now it is just up to the personnel department and the coaching staff.
"I think I have definitely progressed as a punter really since I got here in March, the work process that Shawn (Slocum) and Chad (Morton) and Mike have put me through. So I think I have benefited from working with all of these guys and putting in a lot of work and just getting better."
Tough startAfter posting a 75-yard punt return for a touchdown on his only return of the preseason last Thursday against the Colts, first-year wide receiver Jason Chery was looking to make the most of a more extensive opportunity against the Chiefs.
With No. 1 punt and kickoff returner Will Blackmon sidelined because of a setback in his knee rehab, Head Coach Mike McCarthy said earlier in the week that Chery would handle all of the returns, both punts and kickoffs, on Thursday night.
On the opening kickoff of the game, Chery dropped the ball after catching it, then gathered himself before fumbling at the Green Bay 16. Fullback John Kuhn recovered to maintain possession for Green Bay.
"Just not being prepared," Chery said. "My gloves were wet. I came out early and it was raining. I should have been prepared. I should have looked it in but I was so ready to go out there. I caught the ball clean, but then I couldn't get a good grasp of the ball.
"That is not an excuse. I should have caught it and secured it more. That was my fault."
Chery finished the night with a 16.0-yard average on three kickoff returns, with a 9.0-yard average on three punt returns.
"With Jason, I need to watch the tape," McCarthy said. "Anytime you're in a perimeter position, and you're handling the football, you always start, number one [with ball security], and ball security was not a positive tonight.
"I thought he did a pretty good job of making the first guy miss, and from the view that I have, I don't know how many opportunities we really gave him as far as the blocking unit in front of him, so we'll take a close look at that."
At the helmMcCarthy, who also serves as the offensive play-caller for the Packers, relinquished those responsibilities on Thursday night to offensive coordinator Joe Philbin.
"I thought he was a juggernaut," McCarthy joked. "I'm not going to let him do it again because he is too good."
The Packers posted 433 yards of total offense on Thursday night, their highest total this preseason. Green Bay registered 430 yards last Thursday against Indianapolis, and entered the game ranked second in the NFL this preseason with an average of 397.0 yards per game.
Injury/participation updateThe injuries to Goode and Swain were the only ones reported by McCarthy from the game.
Quarterback Aaron Rodgers, running back Ryan Grant and cornerback Charles Woodson did not play (coach's decisions).
Also not dressing on Thursday night were Blackmon (knee), cornerback Brandon Underwood (shoulder), linebackers Clay Matthews (hamstring), Desmond Bishop (hamstring) and Brad Jones (shoulder), tackle/guard Bryan Bulaga (hip flexor), tackle Chad Clifton (knee), defensive end Cullen Jenkins (calf), and tackle/guard Allen Barbre (back).
The defense featured three rookies in the starting lineup with Mike Neal getting the nod in Jenkins' place, Frank Zombo for Jones, and Sam Shields for Woodson.
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Coffee has a special place in many people's lives. For me, I love the invitingly warm aroma that's like a hug from an close friend. It's a comforting yet stimulating drink, that somehow helps create an intimate atmosphere.
Earlier this week, my friends and I took an impromptu trip to American Apparel but were then enticed by Swiss Water's pop-up. Walking by I could just smell the coffee and I had to stop by; The bitter aroma lured us in.
Ever have those moments when you want coffee but can't because you have to be up early? Me too. Specializing in decaf coffee (yes, decaf), Swiss Water aims to serve the best possible tasting coffee without the caffeine. There are times when I want to unwind with a cuppa and still be able to fall asleep. I've never been one for decaf coffee but Swiss Water has changed my outlook on it.
All their coffee is organic, fair trade and is decaffeinated naturally, no chemicals are used.
Set in a minimalistic studio, their pop-up allows you to experience their coffee in different forms: cold brew, black and speciality made. Each station allows you to explore the background and versatility of the coffee. If you have time, you can also take one of their coffee classes then sit back and unwind to the live DJ. If not they have covers available.
At the moment they have three blends of coffee: Panama, Ethiopia and "Wink."
Lattes, cappuccinos, mochas..anything your little coffee lover heart desires, they'll make it for you--Latte art included.
The final station we visited was the grinding station. Swiss Water lets you choose your favorite blend, they then blend according to your coffee maker (french press, chemix, etc) and pack it for you to take home.
I had a wonderful experience at Swiss Water and I'm hoping to go as many times as I can before they close. If you're interested in buying their coffee, they will be selling them at cafés around NYC such as Joe's Coffee and Café Grumpy to name a few.
You can find Swiss Water's pop-up at 300 Lafayette St. in Soho across the street from REI. Their pop-up closes up on November 8th. They're open daily from 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m.
For more info, check them out here. Be sure to use their hashtags: #artwithoutcaffeine and #swisswaterdoesny on instagram.


"The U.S.-China trade war is on hold but that doesn't mean tensions between the countries are easing. Two days of trade deliberations in Washington ended with both sides arguing all night over what to say in a joint statement… but without Beijing acceding to a demand to cut the U.S. bilateral trade deficit by $200 billion. The standoff left Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declaring the Trump administration is 'putting the trade war on hold,' and won't apply tariffs on Chinese imports while the countries seek to hammer out a deal. They are at an impasse over how detailed to get on the trade of specific goods" [Wall Street Journal].
If venture capitalist J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy, had run for the Senate in Ohio, he would have run as a Republican. So that's two reasons he's ideal for Booker.
"Hillary and Bill Clinton Go Separate Ways for 2018 Midterm Elections" [New York Times]. "[I]n the 2018 election campaign, Hillary and Bill Clinton have veered in sharply different directions. Mrs. Clinton appears determined to play at least a limited role in the midterms, bolstering longtime allies and raising money for Democrats in safely liberal areas. Her husband has been all but invisible. And both have been far less conspicuous than in past election cycles, but for different reasons: Mrs. Clinton faces distrust on the left, where she is seen as an avatar of the Democratic establishment, and raw enmity on the right. Mr. Clinton has been largely sidelined amid new scrutiny of his past misconduct with women. Mrs. Clinton is expected to break her virtual hiatus from the campaign trail this week, when she will endorse Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York in a contested Democratic primary, her spokesman, Nick Merrill, confirmed." Wait, wait. Last I checked, Cynthia Nixon is a woman. Isn't there a special place in hell for women who don't help out other women?
"Clinton to be honored at Harvard for 'transformative impact'" [The Hill]. Irony is not dead.
UPDATE "Why does Trump get away with corruption? Because Bill and Hillary Clinton normalized it" [Josh Barro, Business Insider].
"Hayden: The Intel Community and Presidents — Facts vs. Vision" [RealClearPolitics]. Hayden on Presidential transitions and the intelligence community: "HAYDEN : We knew that if it were to be a President Trump this [transition] would be a big speed bump because these attributes I described over here, I think the creator gave him an extra measure. He is inherently instinctive, spontaneous, not very reflective, prone to action, has an almost preternatural view of his own preternatural confidence in his own a priori narrative of how things work. So we well, this one's gonna be tough. To your point, it is a national tragedy and a perfect storm that the first time we had to do that with the new president, we knew it's always tough but it was gonna be especially tough with this one, through no one's fault, it was on an issue as you described. An issue that other Americans, not the intel guys, other Americans were using to challenge his legitimacy of President of the United States." "Not the intel guys." Really?
"Reform vs. Revolution" can be a false dichotomy within the context of real Leftist conversation sometimes.
The Jobs Guarantee might be such a reform, but the devil will be in the details. #MedicareForAll, too?
UPDATE "'ACORN and the Firestorm': Uprooted" [People's World]. Sure is odd the liberal Democrats didn't spin up a new organization to replace ACORN's voter registration function.
UPDATE "Progress! States are finally replacing touchscreen voting machines — which provide no means for voters to know if their votes were recorded correctly — with new touchscreen ballot markers, which also provide no means for voters to know if their votes were recorded correctly … Wait what?" [Medium]. Nice Daily Mail-style headline!
Chicago Fed National Activity Index, April 2018: "After slowing at the outset of the year, the national activity index — led by manufacturing and employment — is back at its expansion best" [Econoday]. "This index still has a way to go before it begins signaling inflation risk…. Note that revisions, given lagging data, can be extreme in this report with only 51 of 85 indicators included so far [!!] for April's initial reading." And: "This suggests economic activity was above the historical trend in April (using the three-month average)" [Calculated Risk].
Five Horsemen: "Microsoft is just below a record high in late morning trade" [Hat Tip, Jim Haygood].
Rapture Index: Closes down on wild weather. "The lack of activity has downgraded this category" [Rapture Ready]. Record High, October 10, 2016: 189. Current: 182.
"In 2015, Niamh Geaney, a 28-year-old Irish woman, was approached by a TV production company to participate in an unusual competition: a race to find her twin stranger, a stranger who looks exactly like her. Within two weeks of scouring social networks and every other available outlet, she'd found a dead ringer, Karen Branigan, from Dublin. Then she found another match, Luisa Guizzardi, from Genoa. And then another, Irene Adams, from Sligo. Identical quadruplets by appearance, in reality they were unrelated" [Aeon].
This entry was posted in Guest Post, Water Cooler on May 21, 2018 by Lambert Strether.
identical quadruplets, unrelated? So much for eyewitness testimony!
Also facial recognition (especially in court).
That's it. The end of 'armless robots. Robots from now on will form a army of 'armfull robots.
I'm not too sure that this was what Dr. Asimov originally had in mind.
We have no business possessing bear arms, regardless of regulation.
But do we have the right to arm bears?
The only way to stop a bad bear (with or without a gun) is with a good bear with a gun.
Re: Clinton endorsing Cuomo over a woman. I just figured that's because the special place is better than the part of hell she'd go to otherwise.
Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) commented on this on Twitter and has been getting lots of wickedly sarcastic comments re HRC, Madeleine Albright's comment, and that special circle of hell. Not sure Cuomo is going to benefit from this endorsement. Cynthia is probably smart enough to turn Albright's earlier comment into a TV advert.
Honestly, I would love to see Cynthia Nixon go there. But as she herself was a Clinton supporter in 2016, I don't think we'll see the likes of it. She will probably reason that she needs those voters in the general. And much as it pains me to say it, that would be right. She can ill afford to make Clinton's biggest mistake: alienating her primary opponent's supporters.
Well, HRC endorsed Cuomo over another woman, Zephyr Teachout, in the 2014 primary.
So at least you can't accuse her of waffling on this issue (i.e. the superiority of Cuomo to women as NY Democratic candidates). And I think this may earn her access to the Dante/Albright "special second circle of hell". So that's another win for her.
Maybe she's just keeping up with the 'Status Cuomo'?
Maybe her animus finds something in Cuomo's anima worthy of endorsing.
It's pretty long, so get some coffee and settle in.
I am looking forward to reading what appears to be a special, special work.
Re: "Stopping Mueller to Save Us All" – using legal process, special prosecutors, etc. to prevent any anti-establishment candidate from running (and if they win, to make sure that they do not leave their box) is entirely intentional.
What I want to know most of all about Mueller, is why does the 'e' remain silent, what's he trying to hide?
I wouldn't want a name that sounds like mewler. Who would?
Hey if Hillary hadn't run would Trump be president? Very transformative. She's the queen of Krazytown.
Meanwhile the self-described feminist leader is married to someone keeping a low profile because of his reputation for sexual misbehavior. Irony indeed not dead.
I would not be surprised if she wins a Nobel in literature.
Except Nobels for literature are not being given out right now because of corruption scandal at Swedish Academy (including still more sexual misbehavior).
I think she's going to write about that, and win one for that effort.
Maybe. She does make everything up as she goes along. Truth is flexible to her. She can live for extended periods within dreamworlds. Pretty good skills for a writer of fiction to have.
Would there have been a potential for Sanders? Or would the lack of a celebrity such as HRC, who is basically a sitting President in profile, have delayed awareness of a primary to the last minute with doofuses such as Tim Kaine, Hillary's hand picked successor, and Corey Booker running?
How bad is the rot in the Democratic Party? Or the perception of the Democratic Party? The narrative of a secret liberal Hillary has existed, but would Timmy have been a beneficiary of said narrative or would he just be the co-chair of Lieberman 2004?
On the GOP side, did the sense of Hillary inevitability drive Trump as the original none of the above candidate? The doofus nature of Jeb and the long standing issues with the 41/Romney wing of the party versus the Evangelical and movement conservatives probably shaped the desire for an outsider, but I imagine there was a sense of throwing votes at the most likely to throw rocks.
I know you disagree but I think a lack of Hillary may have prompted Biden to run, and win, against Trump. Call it personality counter programming. Plus the male chauvinist factor is not to be underestimated even if Hillary is always whining about it.
Not that we wouldn't still be in Krazytown with this result. The Blob is forever. But perhaps only Hillary and her minions could cook up a Russiagate (with plenty of Obama minion help).
Where does pq live? We've been having eighties and nineties, even a few hundreds in the urban heat sink centre of town this last few weeks. We being domiciled in southern Mississippi. The locals are saying that we skipped spring and went straight from winter to summer this year. The weather pattern the last weeks is summer like here.
Has the jet stream dropped to the south for the foreseeable future?
Our daffodils came out in late February to early March this year.
Yet another indication of how large America is.
Re. jet stream: flew Munich->Charlotte last Wednesday, like I've been doing about twice a year since 2011. Always make landfall at least by New England, if not Newfoundland, then down to NC just inside the east coast. This time, made landfall at the NC-VA border, heading due west. What great circle route ;>) ? Don't know if it was the jet stream, but must have been somehow weather related.
That's possible. Avoiding jet stream headwinds when going East and 'hitching' a ride with jet stream winds when going West would seem to be logical for an aircraft to do.
I got the directions above reversed. In the Northern Hemisphere, the jet streams generally run from West to East. So, to avoid headwinds means you're going West. 'Hitching a ride' on a jet stream means you're going East.
Not to worry. I made the same mistake; originally wrote "made landfall … heading due east" but the edit link is my friend … when it works!
It's very quaint to hear talk of east, west, etc in describing the jet stream. Last five years have been very different.
Is this of recent origin? Connected to the loss of high albedo snow cover?
I have an inventory of plantidotes (good for me, but sometimes the timing is a bit off).
All those Uber drivers Neil Mueller has been using these last six years should send him a thank-you note for shoving his automobile ownership expenses off on them.
Snark aside, how about a class action suite against Uber for profit sharing based upon individual drivers' "investment" in the scheme?
I couldn't finish reading that article. The snark was stinking it up.
The benefits that this analysis arrives at only work when you treat two variables as fixed (cost of car ownership and cost of Uber).
Uber's pricing is dynamic—price goes up when demand exceeds supply, and this is outside the control of the rider. Annual cost of car depends on the actual car bought, as well as local factors (cost of parking, fuel, maintenance, etc.), so car costs won't be the same across all rider segments.
Just because using Uber is cheaper than owning a car for the author doesn't mean it will be true for every driver (or "actual mileage may vary").
And what about this quote: " car ownership cost $11,783 per year"…maybe for Neal it does. I spent $22K to buy a car in 2006 that I'm still driving today. No way have I spent $144K on that car in the past 12 years…even including the sale price or with inflation adjustments. I'd say the cost of my car has been about half of Neal's estimate.
I don't want to deny Neal his happiness, and I'm no car lover either, but that article was just icky.
Yes exactly- uber is a 'saving' vs owing a car that devalues by 50k!
And the same jerk thinks making '2x minimum wage' for reading hacker news in the front seat of an uber pool is an act of genius.
Judging by his blog, Neal owns expensive cars.
He mentioned in his blog that he owned a BMW M3. That is a very expensive vehicle to maintain. It's a high performance car that can easily cost thousands each year out of warranty. They are expensive and depreciate like mad.
Between the very high maintenance costs, insurance, fuel, and the high depreciation, I could easily see it being ~$12000 a year.
. . . The joys of Uber and Turo are many (any ride you want when you need it). The toils of car ownership are many (parking, keeping it clean, you have to drive).
With an M3, that should have been a joy.
E30 or E36 maybe, later ones probably not. They have become ponderous and rather soulless to drive. Fast, but the car's limits are so high that on the street one never comes close enough to the edge to have fun. And the self-destructing engines are such an absurdity. I don't know what BMW means anymore, they've gotten so far from their roots.
Indeed. I can't even remember the last time they made an aeroplane engine.
> And the self-destructing engines are such an absurdity. I don't know what BMW means anymore, they've gotten so far from their roots.
Neal Mueller was either smart or lucky to get rid of it when he did. He had the 2008 M3 with the V8 (E90, E92 or E93) They are not lasting very long.
From the September 2016 Roundel and the great Mike Miller's "Tech Talk".
. . . the M3 forum has recently indicated that the V8 M3 is experiencing main-bearing failure at 80,000-120,000 miles . . .
. . . the bearing question is not new. It's been going on for years and only in the M cars. There are two theories among technicians. (Neither is universal) The first theory says that it's the result of a combination of poor maintenance in the form of overextended engine oil and filter exchange intervals changes, using the wrong oil, failure to wait for the oil to reach operating temperature before calling for high engine speeds, race track service demands, and a general hot-shoe driver profile.
The title of the letter and response was "This Is Going To Sting a Bit".
The "Bit" part is a humorous understatement.
BMW has lost their way. They now cater to people who consider driving a toil.
What's the next level beyond a 'Flawed Democracy" for U.S.?
And can we expect Mongolian exchange students to show up en masse, now that we are aligned with them in terms of equivalence?
I would definitely enjoy studying eagle hunting as an exchange student to Mongolia.
Mouth singing for me. Imagine being a human didgeriedoo.
I've always thought it was Tuva throat singing.
I'll have to hunt up that PBS program about Feynmans quest for Tannu Tuva to find out.
Throat singing it is. Both Tuvan and Mongolian. With music videos no less!
With sounds like this, I'm surprised some of the more adventurous hip hops haven't picked up on this. It would really add some 'funk' to modern 'urban' music. H—, music in general.
Now this lady, Anna-Maria Hefele takes it to the stratosphere with her polyphonic overtone singing: Two simultaneous tones, dancing around each other!
Brave must be the falconer who hunts wolves with eagles.
I think he is correct in his usage (of depreciation as an expense). Using the depreciation on an $80,000 BMW sorta stacks the deck, though.
Not sure why depreciation isn't effectively an expense for this discussion, despite all the undoubtedly bright people you know?
Otherwise, I agree with you. He (30 something single) had two cars, one was overkill (M3) and the other (Jeep) was either a toy for his beach safaris (Wrangler) or his commuter (Grand Cherokee?) and the M3 was the toy. Anyway, he can't count that stable as "normal auto expenses".
I would like to see many, many more cars removed from the road, but Uber is a scam way to do it.
Workers are now officially road kill. The vultures won't have to mind their table manners.
Thanks for the LaborNotes link 'slim!
I'm a full-time troublemaker and shop steward and absolutely LOVE LaborNotes. I'm not sure my local union feels the same way, but the only way to change that is to hit the bricks and keep organizing.
The last of the ISIS fighters were bussed out of Yarmouk today. Damascus is now officially jihadi free. Next up will probably be the big blob around Daraa.
A question for the crowd.
Bernie Sanders just sent out an e-mail saying that he is running for re-election to the U. S. Senate from Vermont. Embedded is an appeal for contributions, something like his crowdsourced Presidential run in '16. Now that I'm getting some Social Security, I can afford a few coppers for worthy causes. However, this funding mechanism is being run by ActBlue. I remember there being some questions about the "truth, justice and the American Way" as ActBlue does it.
ActBlue is reliable, or not? They are asking for all my basic information: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number. I hate being on databases if I can avoid it.
Maybe I'll just finesse the issue and send a tenner to Lambert.
That's what I did. I sent a check-y-poo to Lambert.
Just ask him for his address. He'll be happy to accept your check.
Some of that personal info is necessary because it's a campaign contribution and FEC filings must list contributors by name, address, occupation, and amount.
That said, I share the distrust and disgust with ActBlue.
How did the Sanders campaign raise and co-ordinate all those $27 doses of money? Did they save that money-raising structure? Can they revive it? Or were they using ActBlue or such things because that's all there is anyway?
Most if not all of the candidates are using ActBlue, so I've been making donations with them for the last two years with no problem. You don't have to let them save your card info.
I would send a check in the mail. I made the mistake of contributing to Sanders' presidential campaign through Act Blue, and now get funding requests from all kids of "blue" candidates I have no desire to support, even though I closed my "account". It is clear that they got my information from Act Blue and not the actual Sanders campaign, too.
Not necessarily. If one of the candidates you donated to is a card-carrying DNC/DCCC pick, they're more likely to have sold off your info than ActBlue.
I've made numerous donations via ActBlue, and the only email I get is from the campaigns of the candidates I supported. The DCCC and DSCC, on the other hand, I finally had to list as spam in Gmail in one instance before I could get unsubscribed. The other hand (yes, they found me somehow) I literally had to threaten them with legal action after numerous attempts to unsubscribe were ignored.
It costs a-buck-and-a-half for a small money order. Put a bogus name, address, etc. on the info. Trust me, he will cash the check, and you will never be annoyed by Act Blue or anybody else.
And on the receiving end of a postal money order, the recipient can go to any post office and get cash for it, no questions asked.
Bernie will be watched and I hope/assume his people know that.
Agreed, dcblogger. Violating campaign finance law is not the way to help Sanders!
Deaths from walking has been a persistent problem ever since sprawl became the dominant pattern of development. Pedestrian-friendly mixed-use (stores / offices among the residences) cuts vehicle miles traveled roughly in half. … and it's healthier if walking is part of daily life. With mixed-income neighborhoods (apartments among the mansions), this can even alleviate affordable housing problems, without diminishing marketability.
Meanwhile, the good news: California State law now mandates roads built for new development be "Complete Streets" (i.e. accommodate something other than just cars).
One organization to thank: the Planning & Conservation League.
I thought we learned last week that it was SUVs that were responsible for the rising death toll.
Isn't the answer as simple as people constantly looking @ their ball & chain in the guise of an electric tether and not paying attention to anything else, as to the reason for the uptick in pedestrian deaths?
Multiple causation is a thing, mkay?
Though IIRC there's overlap in these cases; SUVs are higher off the ground, so they strike pedestrians higher on the bodies, that is more lethally.
I suspect that I've been racking up "Troll Points" like mad recently, but, a big thank you to all who responded to my 'Toothache' query yesterday.
Not only did I get a ton and a half of needed moral support, but some good practical advice as well.
Yes, it still hurts, but only when I laugh, as the saying goes.
Trust you to get to the 'root' of the problem.
High quality punsmanship too. None of this 'pulp' humour.
The U.S. is the world's top producer of both petroleum and natural gas. Oil production has almost doubled over the past decade and natural gas has had major increases as well.
It's a good thing that we've encouraged the exports of this stuff or else all we'd have for the damage to the environment is cheap gasoline.
I would have hoped that one positive of the increased production in the US would be a lesser need to favor Middle Eastern dictatorships, but that hasn't happened.
The Obama excuse that we needed to increase natural-gas production for "energy independence" was one of his earliest scams. The NG for which people are being poisoned and experiencing increased levels of earthquake activity in places that hadn't seen earthquakes for centuries, if ever, was always intended for export. Why else plans for all those pipelines to the coasts and processing plants for them to service?
But, hey, if people near those fracking wells run out of heating fuel, maybe they can just turn on their faucets and light them up.
And isn't it convenient that NG was in the first round of sanctions against Russia, followed quickly by negotiations to replace it with gas imported from the US to Europe?
Will we see the day when rare earths are priced and traded in Chinese Yuan?
Once all the American oil and NatGas is gone gone gone, the foreign deposits of "easy" oil and NatGas will become more important than ever.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott promised "swift" action following last week's school shooting and he's already taking strong measures. He has scrapped plans to give away a "Texas-made shotgun" after a gunman used a shotgun in a Friday rampage that left 10 dead in a high school near Houston. Instead he will give a $250 gift certificate.
So bleeding hearts (and lungs and livers and extremities and ….) can't say he hasn't done anything to reduce gun violence; that's one less shotgun in Texas.
The only thing that stops a bad governor with a shotgun, is a good giveaway with a gift certificate?
"Hillary Clinton today accepting full responsibility for the election loss, except for the part where she blamed Comey, Putin, Wikileaks, misogyny, and the media." No ellipsis, and barely a pause at the first comma. So even CNN gets it right twice a…year?
But seriously…that article has a lot of praise for "hand-marked" ballots that are not hand-counted (OCR, Optical Character Recognition machines, do the counting). 1) Do we accept the premise of this article, that this is significantly better than the "no paper trail" screen systems? 2) How much worse is this system than manual counting in terms of election integrity?
I can certainly accept that a human-readable paper trail is better than not, as this always permits manual recounts (if the paper trail is kept–Florida destroyed the paper ballots after a public records request for them in a 2016 election. But if the machines do the counting, then they either have to have some way to communicate these results to a central repository (e.g. modem or wireless connection which is subject to "hacking"), or some person or persons has to do it manually, from multiple machines at multiple sites.
So hand-vote/hand-counted > hand-vote/machine-counted > electronic jiggery-pokery? Or is this just bait-and-switch, like pretending to be for #MedicareForAll while actually being for "eventually, maybe, for most, and never ever single payer #ProfitsforAllInsuranceCompanies"?
And what about electronic ballot images? Some people see them as a solution (with a nice Stalin quote "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."), but they still seem hackable, at least to me. Without the actual paper ballots for comparison, and a regular comparison mechanism, how can you verify that the electronic images have not been modified?
I'll never get the logic behind NOT counting hand marked paper ballots by hand in public.
Is it really that important to have the count completed within an hour or two of the polls closing? Are their any real labor cost savings with all of these expensive high tech voting machines that require maintenance and periodic replacement? How much can a couple of extra poll workers really cost?
Absolutely. What would happen to the credibility of the MSM if they couldn't "call" elections the very same evening, often within a minute of the polls closing?
If elections didn't exist, the MSM would have to invent them.
Is it really that important to have the count completed within an hour or two of the polls closing?
Huey, you seem to have forgotten about W's adventures with chad in (IIRC) Florida. Took weeks to get a (the right) result.
Chris, that's an outlier case that's nearly two decades old, not to mention those ballot errors were caused by voting machines.
Keep it super simple and don't let them pile the @#*^ too high to obfuscate matters. Paper ballots, counted in public.
When the election is a big complex multi-office and multi-question election, people would have to accept that hand-counting would take a long time.
I think that greatly depends on how many people you employ to do it, or not? It seems to me that the more workers, the quicker we get through each item on the ballot, the quicker we get through ballots period, regardless of how complex they are. There's no real reason it couldn't be done fairly quickly. Or am I missing something? How do other countries do it?
In Canada's federal elections we still fill in and hand count in public (scrutineers) paper ballots. Have plenty of polling places, plenty of poll workers, training beforehand for all temporary employees, and prompt payment of workers.
fair elections, employment at a decent wage, and not huge time lags because of the number of workers.
Elections Canada prefers to pay workers than to allow billion-dollar campaigns.
Stephen Harper tried hard to mess up the system but largely failed.
The big complex multi-office multi-question election almost looks like a clever scheme to geld real democracy, by giving the people their right to vote, and giving it to them good and hard.
If it's important to democracy for the count to be completed the night of the election (and it might be, I don't know), then the sheer size of ballots is a problem for democracy.
Make the paper ballots one issue each per piece of paper, inserted into one box per issue, to be counted in parallel by as many tables of people in a hall as you feel like hiring on the night. If you don't think you can afford the tables or the hall space, hold off the less important counts for a day and count in series, using the halls, tables (and counters) you hired for the important counts for another day.
If democracy can't afford that, maybe quit electing so many offices, and make more of them appointments by the oficers we do elect. Nobody elects the Secretary of State, they elect the President, and let the President appoint the Secretary of State.
You can't. As soon as bits get involved then there is the possibility for the bits to be modified if any of the systems concerned are compromised. You can encrypt, which offers security once it's done, but something still has to do the encryption and something else has to decrypt at the other end, and either of those could potentially be compromised. Plus encryption typically relies on either a key exchange or a reliable certifying third party, both of which open up other attack vectors.
There are security risks even with hand counting (one or more of the counters could be corrupt or acting in bad faith) but it's extremely difficult to scale any attack, and recounts can generally catch any wrongdoing in any scenario short of large scale corruption. Neither is true of electronic attack vectors (in cases where there is no paper ballot, it's not clear what a recount even means).
> You can't. As soon as bits get involved then there is the possibility for the bits to be modified if any of the systems concerned are compromised.
Oregon, at least my county, uses hand-vote/electronically counted ballots, audited and then kept for 5 years (IIRC). The mail-in system means that all ballots go to the county elections office; from there someone sends the count to the Sec. of State office – probably on paper, for the official count.
There is an error rate in the electronic counting, but I don't know what it is. My county, relatively affluent, goes to considerable lengths to count all possible ballots – they'll call you if your ballot has a problem. I'm pretty confident in the Oregon vote, but this isn't Florida, or even California. We did have one case of cheating at the elections office, a county near Portland: a Republican elections official was filling in unvoted positions – for the Republican, of course. She got caught, went to jail. The way to prevent this would be to have a "not voting this position" bubble for each slot.
My chief concern with our system is that it would be possible, in small counties where everyone knows everyone else's business, for an official to discard ballots from people they disapprove of, since the names and signatures are on the outside – separated from the ballot before any counting. So that could be another glitch.
There's no such thing as a foolproof system. There was plenty of cheating when all ballots were hand marked and hand counted; dead people used to vote then. Much depends on administration and enforcement.
We love the mail ballot system. Allows voting at leisure, if you don't leave it till the last minute, like we just did. There's an odd camaraderie among those dropping off their ballots at the last minute. And Oregon provides the Voters Pamphlet, which is loaded with information.
Netflix say the former US President and First Lady have "entered into a multi-year agreement" with the service.
"Barack and I have always believed in the power of storytelling to inspire us," said Michelle Obama.
Exact details of programming have yet to be announced.
Obamas to make TV and films for Netflix, Radio NZ (22 May 2018).
Fooled them once in getting the votes.
Fool them again by getting them to watch that.
I love reading and discussing that story every year with second graders. It advances my cause of turning them into skeptics, and sows tiny seeds of anarchy.
Which sprout just in time for third grade!
Is that "the same old okey-doke"?
As in my part of my town, where said arterial is the one and only through route – except the railroad, a couple of blocks away. Which might be one reason so many people walk on the railroad.
The solution to protecting pedestrians here is a series of crossings with dividers and blinking yellow lights controlled by a button. People use those a lot. Proviso: the town mostly has good drivers and good traffic enforcement. People do respect those yellow lights. Don't know about cities with more scofflaw cultures.
Wow! Whats that about stuff floating? You know the phrase. Penn is definitely a floater. Given the various Monday Morning QB takes on the 2016 election, I would have thought this doofus's loss to Obama in 2008 would get more play at least when explaining how HRC had already blown a lay up election and not by very much, mostly not knowing how the rules.
But 3 were Irish, greatly increasing the odds. It's the Italian that's surprising.
Ethnicity does matter when it comes to genetics. We were exposed to this when our son had a bone marrow transplant. He happened to have a family donor (me – quite unusual); but those who didn't were in trouble if they came from an unusual background. One mother was starting a Latin American registry, since they were drastically underrepresented on the existing ones. And we heard of a family friend who, IIRC, was out of luck because he came from such an unusual cross.
If you're inclined to see resemblances, they're everywhere. But sometimes they disappear abruptly when you see the people together, as happened yesterday at the store.
Very impressive resemblance, but they show only one of the matches.
She's "black Irish," improving the odds on the Italian.
re Kali Akuno (under "Realignment and Legitimacy"), some good interviews with him at Black Agenda Radio, below for example. Also, he'll be one of the speakers at Left Forum in NYC first weekend in June, which I'm going to for the first time…has anyone ever attended past forums?
Tricia, please let us know what you think of the conference (never heard of it) and particularly of Akuno. He edited and wrote most of "Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy," about building cooperative economy in Jackson, MS. I'm impressed with the quality of his thinking, and that project is something to keep an eye on.
Well put, and directing the gaze toward the social conditions we'd like to try, and away from a morbid overfocus on the system that is decaying all around us. Okay, that is just how I am reading it, possibly not at all what Akuno meant. I also don't like the phrase "morbid overfocus" but not sure how else to describe our inability to escape the context of markets.
"The author bio caught my attention: "Hi, I'm Neal. I'm a product lead at Google and a serial adventurer…" — I suppose spoiling all the ensuing autohagiographical information-dumping, a kind of adult Type A version of the laundry list of "fabulous extracurriculars" which is now de riguer among college applicants, with "…and I work for one of the most profoundly evil entities in all of human history" would be kind of a downer, eh?
I wouldn't count "Spying on billions of people's boring online lives" an adventure. Maybe a serial if you count it as being repetitive.
I watched the entire "Harry and Meghan" Royal Marriage, having only intended to watch a bit of it. Two Billion people joined with me. I had loved the People's Princess, Diana. Now, the creepy English Monarchy is being re-formed by her two boys, William and Harry. Diana would be so proud.
This wedding was a celebration of simple, unsullied Christianity- the Big Tent that calls EVERYBODY in.
In just one week, Kanye West and Candace Owens changed the USA political map. The Wedding of Harry and Meghan will also. What a powerful narrative!
In our innocence, we are drawn to Prince and Princes Fairy Stories. They light-up timeless, archetypal pathways forward, during these uncertain times. Ordinary human beings (like Meghan and Harry) make unbreakable vows, before God.
How can we not talk about this wedding?
The Royals are figureheads for a class of people who we from the cheap seats feel ourselves to be in existential conflict with. That said, we can sympathize with the individuals, but not with the class. To the extent that a public private event, such as this wedding, is a display of wealth, ostentation, and general class privilege, it stands as an example of the unnecessary divisions within the society. It highlights the inequality.
We too refuse to watch much television. Not only because of the depraved nature of so much therein, but also because of the low standards exhibeted in the scripting and production values. Good drama teaches the viewer something, or at least tries to do so. When the reason for a program is excess, then we descend into Grand Guignol and burlesque.
I've 'shot myself in the foot' here too many times to count, but, with this d—-d tooth teaching me a new appreciation for pain, I'm in no mood to be happy about anyone elses' wedding today.
That was exactly my point! The leadership of the Monarchy has shifted to William and Kate and Harry and Meghan. They all seem to me to be thoroughly decent people.
"If only we could get good people in office, corruption would end" is Third World-style politics, IMNSHO.
Here's some "bah, humbug" on the Royal Wedding.
Interest in the wedding seems harmless enough–a kind of reality TV show–but then I didn't watch it. I do disagree that there's nothing good on television these days and will just cite shows like Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul or Game of Thrones. PBS plays some good stuff. Can't speak to US network television as even I rarely watch that.
We hesitated watching Breaking Bad when it was in prime-time, as it was full of meth-odd actors, and anything methy is usually a downer, man.
And then we found religion and binge watched it, eager for the next stanza in the lives of sedulous meth makers, and circumstances ensued.
The best tv series ever.
This may be ignorance, not prejudice. I had to buy some dress shirts from a bourgeois retailer because my arm / neck combo isn't close enough to three-sizes-fits-all and they keep sending me catalogs. In 2018 the men fashion models are all unshaven. I haven't been counting but my estimate is N = ~ 50 and every single one has 3 – 5 days of stubble on their faces.
Clean-shaven is now close to if not downright deplorable.
Being a greybeard, who shaves irregularly, I'll say that it blows our minds too. Why, just last month I had a head full of auburn locks. I swear it!
That was the coolest thing in a feline-y video i've ever seen.
Of all the various types of varieties @ Cat Haven in Dunlap, Ca., I was smitten with the Canadian Lynx, as seen in the amazing wailing and approach of the duo of film fame, who didn't seem to care that humans weren't that far away.
Do check out their website and all of the different felines on site, really an amazing place worthy of a visit if you're headed to Grant Grove or Cedar Grove on Hwy 180.
When the Rough Fire was raging on it's way to consuming 151,000 acres in 2015, a good many of the cats had to be evacuated, as fuego loomed large nearby. What an undertaking that would have been, I mean where do you put a Barbary Lion?
Hey guess what? The Supreme Court has okay'd an arbitration requirement by employers as a condition of employment.
Well, that should solve all the problems in the gig economy, for starters. Well played, Justice Gorsuch.
Vlad on How to Opt Out of Airport Face Scanning: Don't FlyGuy Fawkes mask?


We recently reported a rumor that Apple were to reboot the iPod brand with a new release of the iPod Touch. Namely the 7th generation model.
These rumors have now been backed up by model references found in the iOS 12.2 code.


Beam: You can create your own beam or you can buy a laminated beam. One example of how to construct a beam is to sandwich two two-by-eight boards on both sides of 1/2-inch plywood of the same size. Wood glue is applied to all surfaces and the boards are tightly nailed together.... However, the I-beam, designated S 6 X 17.25, can support 10,400 lbs. for a span of 10 feet. It is a safe assumption that it will be good for 10,600 lbs. for the smaller span of 8 feet. It is a safe assumption that it will be good for 10,600 lbs. for the smaller span of 8 feet.
However, the I-beam, designated S 6 X 17.25, can support 10,400 lbs. for a span of 10 feet. It is a safe assumption that it will be good for 10,600 lbs. for the smaller span of 8 feet. It is a safe assumption that it will be good for 10,600 lbs. for the smaller span of 8 feet.... Fasten a post-to-beam connector to the top of each vertical post with 16d galvanized nails. Place cross beams (can be 4-by-6, 4-by-8 or 4-by-10 inches wide) into the connectors, one cross beam at the front of the deck, and one at the back.
All too often I see small 8-inch-tall steel beams in the basement of homes with steel columns every 8 or 9 feet. This isn't necessary if you go with a taller beam. This isn't necessary if you go with a taller beam.... 26/05/2011 · I am building a small storage loft (about 10'x10') in my shop and want to build a beam to span 9'6", made from 2 - 10' long 2x8's with 1/2" OSB sandwiched between and fastened together with Liquid Nails and 16d nails every 8" or so.
A wood girder is generally made of a number of pieces of 2 X 8, 2 X 10 or 2 X 12 lumber nailed together. Do not attempt to build or construct the girder in position. Place the pieces of lumber on a flat surface or on a group of saw horses and nail each piece to the piece adjacent to it, the use of construction adhesive between pieces of lumber adds a dramatic amount of strength.... It has been my experience to never use a beam smaller than a two ply 2 x 8. No matter what the specs say. These small areas are usually door opening on the interior and people are trained that these areas are the strongest place in a house to be in the case of an emergency.
A 1/8" X 1/2" would be scale to a 2x8 (close enough for this purpose) A 1/4" X 1/4" balsa stick would be approx scale to a 4x4. For illustration purposes place two supports 10 - 12 inches apart. Place one 1/4 x 1/4 stick on top of another and press down with a finger. You'll see the upper and lower pieces slide a little against each other.
Place cross beams (can be 4-by-6, 4-by-8 or 4-by-10 inches wide) into the connectors, one cross beam at the front of the deck, and one at the back. The cross beams should be parallel with each other. Connect the beams to the post-to-beam connectors with 16d nails.
23/10/2017 · Our beams take about 2 hours to build (depending on size), and can be cut to length before they're installed. For this project, you'll need to know how to measure and cut a board, and fasten screws. For this project, you'll need to know how to measure and cut a board, and fasten screws.
The engineer spec'd 2 nails every 8" oc. When you generally do this you do 3 every 16" oc? My main question was more do the nails fall in a straight line parallel and perpendicular to the beam or do you purposely offset them to avoid any potential splitting pressure that nails in a straight line on the same grain would induce.


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I am sure most of the east coast, as well as the country, agrees that this has been a crazy summer. Hotter then normal and here in Jackman, we have had more humidity then normal.
One thing that stays the same here at Cozy Cove is the incredible skies especially as the sun begins to set. Rain or shine, what a fabulous view.
It did not go as planned though. The T Rex intended to run after the jeep but Kevin found that the legs of the costume were just too short to run in. We also planned to have T Rex sounds coming off the jeep but due to some technical difficulties, it did not happen. OH well, they still won best vehicle.
The rest of the parade was fun as usual and the best clown?
This pretty bird rambled onto the yard strutting around like he owned the place. Walked up to a couple cabins then back. I think someone was feeding him and he wanted another snack. Pretty though.


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فیض‌پور, محمدعلی, رادمنش, سعیده, شاه محمدی مهرجردی, ابوالفضل. ظرفیت‌های خالی در صنایع تولیدی ایران و نقش آن در افزایش تولید ملی. مجلس و راهبرد, 1395; 23(86): 175-205.
در ادبیات اقتصادی ایجاد بنگاه‌های جدید و رشد بنگاه‌های موجود دو عامل اساسی در افزایش تولید محسوب می‌شود. این در حالی است که در مقایسه با ایجاد بنگاه‌های جدید، رشد بنگاه‌های موجود ـ خصوصاً زمانی که بخش عمده‌ای از ظرفیت این بنگاه‌ها خالی رها شده و تولید کمتر از اندازه کارا صورت می‌گیرد ـ زمینه را برای تخصیص بهینه منابع تولید که نیروی کار و سرمایه از عمده‌ترین آنها محسوب می‌شود، فراهم می‌کند. بر این اساس، این مقاله می‌کوشد تا با تخمین ظرفیت‌های بهینه صنایع تولیدی و مقایسه آن با ظرفیت‌های موجود، امکان افزایش تولید این بخش را از مسیر رشد بنگاه‌های موجود بررسی کند. بنگاه‌های تولیدی با 10 نفر کارکن و بیشتر در مقاطع زمانی 1386-1384، داده‌های این پژوهش را تشکیل داده و برای تخمین اندازه کارا بر‌حسب تولید از روش‌های کومانور ـ ویلسون در سطح کدهای چهاررقمی ISIC استفاده شده است. نتایج نشان می‌دهد در مقاطع زمانی مورد بررسی، بیش از 90 درصد از بنگاه‌های صنایع تولیدی ایران کمتر از اندازه کارا فعالیت کرده و با دستیابی آنها به این اندازه افزایش تولید تا چهار برابر امکان‌پذیر است. این در حالی است که از حیث سیاستگذاری نیز، دستیابی به این اندازه ضروری‌ترین مسیر در تخصیص بهینه نیروی کار، سرمایه و در نتیجه افزایش تولید ملی در بخش صنعت است.
The creation of new firms and the growth of existing firms are considered as two key factors to increase the production in the economic literature. Whereas, in comparison to the first factor, the growth of existing firms, especially when the main fraction of firm's capacity is left unused and in other words, the production level is less than optimal size, provides the basis for efficient allocation of production resources such as labor and capital. Accordingly, this paper attempts to estimate the optimal capacity and compare it with existing capacities of manufacturing industries to examine the increase of production by the growth of existing firms during 2005 to 2007. To estimate the optimal size of firms with ten and more employees in terms of production, the Comanor & Wilson Approach is used at the four-digit industry levels. The results indicate that more than 90 percent of manufacturing firms produce less than their optimal size and if the firms increase the production to achieve this size, the production level will increase at least by three to four times. Whereas, also in terms of the policy, achievement to the optimal size is very necessary to efficient allocation of production resources and thus increase national production in the industrial sector.
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by Stephen House
Bennett goes to the beach each day to sit and read the paper. One day a man dies in front of him on the jetty, and a stranger comes over to comfort him. But it's not a stranger, it's Clive, someone special Bennett knew nearly fifty years before. As Clive's reappearance throws havoc and distress into Bennett's long-time marriage to Mabelene, we see and feel the result of the past coming into the now, and the dramatic effect hidden secrets and lies can have.
Winner of the 2006 Messenger Press Light Year Award for Best New Script.
"A gritty, powerful piece that sees a relatively happy, normal couple find their relationship has been built on a foundation of quicksand." - Matt Byrne, Adelaide Sunday Mail, 6 September 2006
"Stephen House's gently-observed script is in a different key to the turbulent guignol of his recent works...but it suits his purpose well... A perceptive and carefully-weighted three-hander." - Murray Bramwell, Adelaide Review, October 2006
"House has crafted a fine piece of work." - Rip It Up
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EXTRACT: Gilbert died about a year ago, a heart attack someone told me; alone in a chair watching TV. He was only sixty eight. He had never married again; apparently devoted his whole life to his kids, and then their kids. I went to his funeral, by myself; never told a soul; picked a single flower from a bush in that same playground from all that time ago, and left it on the grave, just for him, just like that. I wish I'd rung that phone number now, that night thirty years ago. I really wish I had.
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