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266: Principle Overtired
Posted on December 11, 2021 December 11, 2021 by Brett
This episode ranges from Twitter anti-semitism to very expensive Adele tickets. You won't believe #9.
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Overtired 266
[00:00:00] Brett: Hey there, you're listening to overtired because you you're an overtired fan. Maybe, maybe you will be soon. Anyway, I'm Brett Terpstra. I'm here as always with Christina Warren, Christina.
[00:00:17] Christina: I'm doing okay. I'm doing okay. How are you doing bread?
[00:00:19] Brett: We got our first real snow we had, we got a respectable six inches of snow hit. I don't know if I like it once. Like, there's that first in November I get like, super, like, I'm not ready for snow. I can't handle it yet. Don't let it happen. But then by December, I'm just like, yeah, bring it on.
[00:00:40] Christina: Yeah, by December, you're like do it. So that's, that's nice. So, um, So.
[00:00:44] it's like six inches. Yeah.
[00:00:45] Brett: Yeah. And, and I had a choice this year. Like I can afford to buy a real snowblower now, like I've been using this shitty electric one for a couple of years. Um, and I can afford a good one, but we had the choice between buying a, you know, $500 [00:01:00] snowblower, or just setting up a snow removal service and not having to pay maintenance fees and not having to pay gas.
[00:01:09] You know, just not having to worry about it. So, you know, me, I opted for the ladder and we got our driveway cleared for us this morning while we sat and sip coffee. And it was luxurious.
[00:01:22] Christina: I mean, I personally feel like you did the right thing. Um, I'm always in
[00:01:27] Brett: much the same in that way.
[00:01:28] Christina: We are like, like I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm completely in favor of this. N, uh, pain, someone else to do it, plus not having to, I mean, you have a house, so like you could store the snowblower, but like, it's not going to be there, like being unused.
[00:01:42] And like you said, not having to do the maintenance and the other stuff and Yeah. I'm a big fan of that.
[00:01:47] Brett: Yeah. Yeah. So, so it's been a good morning. And so just full transparency. We're recording on Saturday because I think, I think you agree with me that it's just better to [00:02:00] record Saturday mornings.
[00:02:01] Christina: It is.
[00:02:02] Brett: It's so much more relaxed and. Uh, so we're going to record a couple of times this week and get ourselves ahead so we can still publish on Fridays, but enjoy recording on Saturdays.
[00:02:13] I think I realize what the difference is for me on weekdays. I, I get up and I do my own coding before work starts, and I get into like, whatever project I'm working on and to get into that head space and then work starts, and I have to make that shift. And then to ask myself to make another transition, two hours later to record a weekday spot or like a weekday over tired.
[00:02:40] My brain just doesn't handle transitions well enough. Whereas like on a Saturday, I, I don't get into coding projects in the morning. I have a nice relaxed morning. Watch some YouTube, drink some coffee, and I'm like, uh, there's no major transition. I'm just ready to record.
[00:02:57] Christina: Yeah. Yeah. And, um, and I [00:03:00] like it too, because when we were, and I was fine doing it, but like, we would need to record it like 6:00 AM or 7:00 AM my time, which is, you know,
[00:03:11] Brett: It's way or w
[00:03:12] Christina: way earlier.
[00:03:13] Brett: I'm awake. I'm always awake at that time. Like in my, like in 6:00 AM central time, I'm always up, but I'm not conversational.
[00:03:23] Christina: Yeah, that's the thing. I'm usually a, I'm usually not up, and B if I am, which I should be, because then I am more productive, but that's a whole other thing we've talked about that before, but I I'm ha I'm having to work on myself to get there, but even if I am, it's one of those things where I'm like, okay, I'm not at that conversational.
[00:03:41] part.
[00:03:41] So it's been this thing where I've been happy to do it. But ideally I would be awake for At least you know, 30, 45 minutes before we record.
[00:03:51] Brett: I did. I did like two hours. I don't even like being asked questions until I've been up for a couple hours. I just cannot handle [00:04:00] input at all.
[00:04:02] Christina: Yeah, no. So I think that Saturdays are going to be better, but Yeah, but we're going to be recording, um, uh, twice this week to get, get ahead of things. That also means that our show will be slightly less topical, but we're not like a super topical like news show anyway. So I don't
[00:04:15] Brett: we're not like 24 hour news. We don't have to follow the stories that closely. If any, if at any point there is a topic in current events that is so that we have to have a hot take on. We can publish an extra, like a bonus episode here and there as needed. We'll get on, we'll talk it out for 15, 20 minutes and we'll put out a bonus episode.
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[00:04:45] Christina: That is true. true.
[00:04:47] Maybe we should let us know.
[00:04:48] Brett: I have been, I have been, I have been approached several times in the last couple of weeks about both for overtired and for my own personal projects, setting up Patriots. I've just never [00:05:00] gotten around to looking into it. Like I'm a patriotic supporter of other people and maybe it's not that big a deal, but.
[00:05:07] Christina: Yeah.
[00:05:08] Brett: I just haven't ever, I haven't never researched it.
[00:05:11] Christina: Yeah. I mean, I've looked into it.
[00:05:12] cause I wanted to do a newsletter. And so I've like looked at sub SAC. I've looked at review, have looked at rolling my own thing. Um, but yeah, so
[00:05:22] Brett: did I ever tell you about the Marc newsletter snafu? So I make this app called mark it's for writers and, uh,
[00:05:32] Christina: it's a good.
[00:05:33] Brett: And I send out a newsletter, uh, irregularly and. Uh, writing app, I tend to be very careful about my grammar, spelling, punctuation in those newsletters. And then one time I made some last minute edits didn't reread what I was sending his send.
[00:05:53] I've got a mailing list of about 8,000 people and didn't realize until it had finished [00:06:00] sending the. To not one, but two agregious grammatical errors in the newsletter. So I immediately wrote an apology newsletter and sent it out and I was just like, Hey, I'm sorry. I should have run my own newsletter through the app that it's about and caught these errors.
[00:06:21] And, and I have never gotten a warm. I haven't never gotten as much response or a warmer response. Then I did two publicly admitting my mistake. I got so many emails. Hey, don't worry about it. It's great to hear from you. Like I love these newsletters and it was, it was heartwarming.
[00:06:40] Christina: That's actually, that's really lovely. I thought that was going to go in like a very different place. I was like, oh no.
[00:06:46] Brett: cause it's not only writers. It's also nerds. So you, you would expect.
[00:06:50] Christina: Well, no, cause I was expecting, it was like, how dare you send me so many emails? Not so that's, that's where I was expecting this to go partially because the internet has broken me this week. [00:07:00] But, uh, also, um, I just, uh, yeah, um, that's that makes me very happy. I'm very glad to hear about that.
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[00:08:38] Twitter mobs, attack
[00:08:38] Brett: I have some notes. You had like a real fresh air quality to your read today.
[00:08:44] Christina: Oh, thank you.
[00:08:45] Brett: Yeah, I, and, and I wrote in the word God into the sponsor read and you acted it out. You did an actual exasperated side.
[00:08:54] Christina: I tried,
[00:08:55] Brett: That's quality. That's quality entertainment folks.
[00:08:58] Christina: This is what happens when I'm up like many, [00:09:00] many hours before.
[00:09:02] Brett: So, so the internet has not been kind to you lately. What's going on.
[00:09:06] Christina: Um, no. So, um,
[00:09:13] there's a local election that took place in Seattle, uh, this week. Um, there was already a, uh, an election for city council, uh, for, for a couple of people and, um, for, um, because certain districts go up at different times and for mayor. That was in November, but there was a recall election to recall a council woman on the Seattle city. That did get enough. Um, I guess like, like votes or, or signatures or whatever to appear on a ballot, but they weren't, it didn't appear on the November ballot. So they had a special election this week and the, the council women that they, um, wanted to recall.
[00:09:52] Uh, it happens to be my council woman. So the, I live in, I live in her district and, um, the council woman is a woman whose [00:10:00] name is, um, so Shama. She is, um, I would say controversial is a completely like objective way to put it. She is a, she's a self avowed, Marxist, and Trotskyists, she is not, she is part of the, her own organization called socialist alternative.
[00:10:21] She thinks that people like AOC are sellouts and have gone too far to the. And, um, I'm not a fan of hers to be completely honest. I, I, I, some of her, the things that she purports to fight for and agree with are great. In theory, I personally think she's kind of an egotist and in grand stander and in the four years that I have lived here, I haven't actually seen any positive impact on her being my city council person.
[00:10:47] And I'm just, I'm not a fan. But the thing is, is that this election was getting out-sized public attention because it was a recall election and the boats were going to come in and we didn't know [00:11:00] which way it was going to go. We still actually don't know it hasn't been certified yet. It looks like she might've survived by maybe 50 votes.
[00:11:07] Um, I mean, that's how close it was, but I sent out a tweet thread after voting after the polls. on.
[00:11:14] Tuesday, basically trying to be instructive for national media outlets, who would write about this, because I didn't want there to be this gigantic story about how this, this, you know, like, uh, left. She is the most left wing politician, I think, in the United States at this point, like she's absolutely the furthest to the left.
[00:11:34] Um, and, uh, I didn't want this to be like this rush of articles, talking about how Seattle is becoming like more conservative. Because that's not true. Uh, even if she would have been voted out, it wouldn't be Republicans and like people who are like, you know, like, you know, make, uh, people who are getting her out.
[00:11:54] Like the people who live in her district, like overwhelmingly are not, they're just people [00:12:00] who like, for me personally, I've gotten tired of her bullshit and people who would like to have a member of the city council who can actually work with the rest of the city council and get things done and not just, you know, scream and yell.
[00:12:11] Anyway, I made a comment about that. That basically I was trying to do a thread to basically just try to inform, I didn't want a bunch of articles coming out saying that that wasn't true. I made an offhanded comment, which I shouldn't have made, but it made an offhanded comment in the thread that, you know, she's not part of DSA, cause she's not, uh, she, uh, has some sort of alignments with DSA, but she is not part of DSA.
[00:12:32] Um, and, and I said that that many people in DSA she's, she's too far left, even she's too extreme, even for them, including my. Well, DSA did. I did not like that. DSA is the democratic socialists of America. Um, it's a national organization and they have local chapters and, uh, it, I, where they land on things is very much kind of a locally driven thing, which, uh, I [00:13:00] guess I should have considered more before I, I tweeted that, but again, I wasn't going for a local audience.
[00:13:04] I was going for a more national audience anyway. The, uh, the socialists came after me pretty hardcore and, uh, I'm PSYOPs I'm, uh, uh, I sh I should be like, uh, um, excavated from the city. I'm scum. I'm apparently Jewish, which is a bad thing because I got sent lots of antisemitic memes and stuff, which fun. Um, they, uh, uh, you know, like DSA Seattle DSA tried to dox me, which was super fun.
[00:13:37] Um, and, and try to lie and say that, like, I'm not a member of the organization. Well, apparently I guess the roles haven't been updated, but I checked and like I was charged $175 a couple of months ago. So I paid ESA. Don't really know if I'm updated on their roles or not. Cause you can't manage your account through their freaking website.
[00:13:57] So that's not really my concern to be completely [00:14:00] candid. I don't really care. Um, but, but they tried to like, make it look like I was a liar and I'm not, I don't, they're like, well, you didn't technically violate our terms of conduct or code of conduct, but this and that, I'm like, no, I didn't violate your terms of conduct because I never said I was speaking for the organization ever.
[00:14:15] I, I made it very clear in all of my tweets that it was my opinion and my criticism of her was pretty mild considering.
[00:14:25] Brett: Yeah, it seems like an outsized response.
[00:14:27] Christina: Uh, I think so, but the net result has been, I haven't been able to use Twitter in five days.
[00:14:33] Brett: Oh, this explains I was looking at your stars and there were a couple of links to re uh, get up repositories that were for deleting Twitter history and deleting your entire account.
[00:14:45] Christina: Yup. Yup. So, so what I'm going to do is after this calms down, Because then again, people were starting to go through my old tweets and they do the same shit that the, the, the Nazis did when, when they were talking to me four years ago, it's the exact same [00:15:00] fucking stuff. And so, or three years ago, or whenever it was, they, they try to find anything they can to try to play gotcha.
[00:15:06] Stuff. I was apparently all over Reddit and all over there hangs cause I was getting texts and all kinds of stuff from people like wishing me well, and I'm like, I'm just not responding to it. So I'm just going to delete, I've been on Twitter for, for 14. I'm just deleting my, my tweets. I'm just not dealing with it.
[00:15:21] Like I'm not going off of Twitter, but I'm not going to give like bad faith actors, like a reason to take stuff out of context or, or to send me like massive levels of harassment. I'm just not doing it.
[00:15:34] Brett: Is there any, any value to having. Uh, archival tweets, like, is there, has it ever served anyone well to have someone go back in time and say, well, you tweeted this four years ago.
[00:15:47] Christina: No, honestly, probably not. And I personally have held off doing it all these years because I don't like to break links and, and, and, and I, and I, I don't like, I don't like to do that, but at this point, [00:16:00] I mean, like my, my friend sent me a text while I was going through this. She was like, well, UVA, she was like the, the, the Nazi sick for math for you.
[00:16:07] And now DSA is like, it's the full spectrum. I was like, yeah, that's true.
[00:16:11] Brett: From right to left.
[00:16:15] Christina: I have to say the Nazis are maybe meaner, but they lose interest more quickly. Um, but no, but they ha they both hate Jews a whole lot. At least these two groups of people, which. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Both groups completely. Like if you support someone, that's fine. It looks like she survived. The recall that's mine, that's democracy, but I don't have to agree with her and me not agreeing with an extremely polarizing politician does not mean that I'm somehow like a conservative, like that's a ridiculous statement.
[00:16:50] Like many people, if they looked at her policies and they looked at the things that she stands for and wants to do and seeing how far she goes would be. Yeah, no [00:17:00] dude, like I actually want stuff to get done, you know, like, like again, I had people who were telling me you're a sell out just like AOC and I'm like, okay, if this is where we are, I can't have like a conversation with you.
[00:17:15] Brett: Are you ready for what may be my best segue ever?
[00:17:19] Christina: Yes, please.
[00:17:20] Brett: You know what Nazis in the DSA have in common,
[00:17:24] Christina: What's that?
[00:17:25] Brett: they can both be hard to buy gifts for.
[00:17:29] Christina: That's actually.
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[00:19:08] Job title fuckery
[00:19:08] Brett: We're just knocking off the sponsor reads today.
[00:19:11] Christina: I know, I love it. I love it. So. Um, okay, so we're talking about deleting my sweets and then I see the next thing that's kind of on our list here is should I resurrect Slugger by you? Which actually that's Slugger was like your, your app that like monitored all of your social activity and everything you did, and like put it into a digest.
[00:19:29] Brett: right. It was a plug-in base. Uh, command line tool that you would schedule. And once a day, it would go out and get like your blog posts, your Twitter posts, your, your like, uh, activity trackers, uh, your good reads reviews. And it would just collect everything that you had posted on social media that day and create like, uh, day one entries.
[00:19:52] Uh, it could also store like just marked down files, but. I kind of, [00:20:00] I got out of the habit of using day one, so I stopped keeping it up and it just kind of fell into disrepair because, you know, it's, it has to deal with like 20 different API APIs. And every time an API changes, it means Slugger breaks in some way.
[00:20:15] And it's a lot to keep up, but I've been kind of missing it lately.
[00:20:20] Christina: Yeah. I mean, I think that if there were a way. That you could somehow, I guess, like keep up the API process, then, then that would be ideal. And cause, cause some of the, tools just like they don't even have APIs anymore and some of them have gotten better. Like Twitter's API is actually a lot better now than it, than it was when you were doing Slugger, I think.
[00:20:38] Um, but it's not as good as it was like before they killed RSS and uh,
[00:20:46] Brett: with OAuth. Uh, there were a couple of plugins for Slugger that had already conquered the OAuth, uh, authentication process. But these days, like every plugin you'd have to have, you'd have to do a [00:21:00] token. Yeah.
[00:21:03] Christina: Which, which, I mean, I think the thing is I look at it this way. I think that if you want to try and maybe revive it for yourself first and see how far you get and if you can make it work for you. That's great. I think that the challenge that might even be bigger than keeping up with the, um, um, like API stuff would be, if you were trying to support it in any way.
[00:21:24] So I would, I know that you host most of your stuff yourself, but like, that would be one that I would definitely put on GitHub and I would like let other people
[00:21:30] Brett: Yeah. Well, the previous version is out on GitHub, uh, and it got a couple of contributors. Uh, I think partly it was an early attempt of mine at like a larger scale Ruby application. And I didn't do a great job with the plugin architecture and I think it just was difficult for people to, to write their own plugins or to maintain what was there.
[00:21:57] I think I could do a lot better job now. [00:22:00]
[00:22:00] Christina: I bet. I mean, that'd be interesting. I mean, I,
[00:22:03] Brett: so much Ruby, just this last year. I've been like, I started using Ruby when I wanted to write text mate extensions. Like that's why I learned Ruby. And for 20 years, I really haven't gotten much better at Ruby, but this year, man, a lot of stuff clicked for me.
[00:22:19] I learned a lot.
[00:22:21] Christina: That's awesome.
[00:22:22] Brett: Yeah. I, uh, I, I, so we had that reorg at work. And, uh, in the process are, are, are what's what do you call it? The org chart got flattened a little bit, and that meant more responsibility for each of us in different ways. I went to my PM and I was like, and I, and I really, I didn't want to alienate any coworkers. I was just noticing that I had these increased responsibilities and I was being, uh, like they were bringing questions about content decisions to me that would have formerly gone to my manager. [00:23:00] And I said, you know, that's all fine, but I would like a job title to reflect.
[00:23:06] That increased responsibility. You just advocating for myself. Uh, so it didn't come with a pay bump, but they a hundred percent agreed that I think they're going to go with like principal rather than senior.
[00:23:20] Christina: Oh shit. Well, then you should be definitely getting a paper.
[00:23:25] Brett: Well, they said it would be noted in the next review, which is fine. The weird thing is when they looked at the job tickets for all three of us writers were already all level four out of. Five four hour position in the org chart. So we're technically all already principles, which is just the way the job tickets were written apparently, or like the job descriptions.
[00:23:52] I don't feel, I don't understand how any of this stuff works. All I know is I got my job title and hopefully someday it'll it'll mean a pay bump, but [00:24:00] in the meantime, I really hope I haven't alienated any coworkers by advocating for myself.
[00:24:06] Christina: I don't think so. I mean, if anything, I hope that maybe if there are some of them that like, are feeling the same thing, that they will take the, um,
[00:24:13] Brett: Initiative.
[00:24:14] Christina: initiative and, and go for it. And obviously it's easier for you as like, White dude, to do it. Um, you know, but, but I would hope that like, I mean, it's, it's like there's a website called levels.fyi, which is actually really useful for anybody who works in tech because it compares salaries as well as levels at different companies.
[00:24:34] So you can see if I'm a level, this at Microsoft, that's what it would translate at Oracle. And you can also see people like submit their salaries. And it's anonymously and they kind of put them in aggregate and you can see a list of what people are making and how many years of experience they have and other stuff.
[00:24:49] And that's really useful information when it comes to advocating for your own promo and for, for other things.
[00:24:57] Brett: Oh, yeah. There's all these I'm looking at this [00:25:00] site. Huh? All right. I have to go like Oracle has. Uh, aria and you can like look up and see exactly what everyone's position. You can't see salaries, but you can see everyone's position in the org chart. And I should, I should learn this shit. I don't, I don't understand how any of this works.
[00:25:21] Christina: I mean, they, they purposely make it up to, you know, to do, but, but it seems like if you were leveled the right way, you just didn't have the right title, then maybe that's one thing. But if they're at least going to give you the right title, like that, that seems like really solid.
[00:25:35] Brett: Yeah. Yeah, no, I'm, I'm, I'm happy. I, I, I make enough money to be perfectly content as it is. Like, I'm not opposed to making more money, but like, I don't find myself in desperate need of a, a pay bump right now. Yeah. Yeah. I'm super happy. Like this is the happiest I've been in a long time. I enjoy [00:26:00] my job. I enjoy, I enjoy the problem solving.
[00:26:02] We came up with it. All new plans for how we're going to make our jobs more fun. And the, and the managers were all on board and now I'm being recognized for increased responsibility. And I don't know what more I could ask for it's. This is pretty, pretty slick.
[00:26:18] Christina: Yeah. that's great. Very, very happy for you. So, um, but, uh, so, so things seem like they're going well, like two weeks in or whatever we are and to enter the.
[00:26:28] Brett: Yeah, Yeah, I think it's, I think there are still some, some things left to shake themselves out, uh, to see where everybody lands. It is a little. Weird to me, how quickly a lot of the upper management of my team was willing to switch to other divisions. Um, like I don't, I don't know any of the details of that, but these were people that were very invested in the mission statement of our team [00:27:00] that we all live in a period of a few days.
[00:27:04] I'll jump ship, which is, I don't know, leaves me, leaves me wondering about motivations and loyalties, I guess, but.
[00:27:14] Christina: Yeah, I mean there and there could also just be, it depends on how long people have been in a certain role and if they want to try something else, you know, I mean, there, there are lots of reasons why people leave that aren't always about like, it's a bad place or something, you know, sometimes it is a sign like everybody's going and you're like, okay, maybe I should pay attention to that.
[00:27:31] But sometimes it might just be, you know, people have been at something for a long time and, uh, want to go someplace else.
[00:27:38] Brett: Yeah, well, maybe, I don't know if someone, if someone were to say, Hey, We think you're doing great work where you're at, but we have this new team that's going to be doing X, Y, Z. And we think you'd be great for it, especially if it was within the same company. And I wasn't like leaving behind a company that I had [00:28:00] developed any loyalty toward.
[00:28:02] I think I would be open to switching teams. Like
[00:28:05] Christina: Oh, yeah.
[00:28:06] Brett: that's not, I don't feel like that's a huge, like stabbing anyone in the back or anything.
[00:28:10] Christina: Oh, no, not at all. Not at all. I mean, I did it famously. Incredibly quickly, um, uh, far more quickly than they recommend, but in my case, it, I was hired to the wrong org to begin with. Um, I had the most amazing manager though, who really made me feel better about it, but I was so nervous when I told him, um, because I, you know, he'd been so kind to me and I, I felt bad, but, um, he just, the first words out of his mouth were congratulations.
[00:28:37] Cause he was just a great manager. Great person. I couldn't have asked for a better manager when I joined Microsoft than, than Luke, but Yeah.
[00:28:43] I think if you can find like what somebody told me, I'll say this to anybody who's listening, who's in any sort of job thing. Somebody who I'd met at Microsoft, who, um, he actually listened to, um, to this week in tech and reached out to me when I joined and we had lunch a few times and he made a comment to me when I was telling him [00:29:00] about whether, what I wanted to, you know, take the informational to switch teams or not.
[00:29:04] And he said, well, do you think that you would. Provide more value to the company in this new role. And I said, yes. And he said, well then there you go. And when he put it in that perspective, that lake changed it. And so I think that that's real. It goes like if you think of there's some other place where you might be able to offer more value, I feel like that's like a great reason to go to.
[00:29:27] Brett: Makes sense to me. Um, um, man, I had a, uh, I had one more segue in my head. I've I lost it. Well, we'll wait until I come up with a better one. Um, let's see, where are we in our, in our little bullet list. So potential topics. Did you upgrade your main machine to Monterey yet?
[00:29:49] To upgrade or not to upgrade?
[00:29:49] Christina: Yeah, because.
[00:29:51] Brett: Oh, right. Cause you just got a new computer.
[00:29:53] Christina: Right. So, yeah, I have, but, um, I'm having like all kinds of crashes, [00:30:00] like on mail.app and stuff like it's. I think that from what everything I've read, it seems to be like people's upgrades are going better than they went from. You know, but, Um, cause I still have some older machines like I have, well, I guess my iMac, I guess it's a Monterey now, but I had like, um, I still have like my 2017 MacBook pro that thing is still in Catalina.
[00:30:20] I haven't even put fixer on that. I won't.
[00:30:22] Brett: my, I upgraded my Intel MacBook pro to Monterrey while it was still in beta, just because that's what I was testing software on. Um, I have not upgraded my, my M one mini yet. I just got updates to, uh, audio hijack and sound source that said they had full Monterey compatibility, which is one of the things I was waiting for.
[00:30:49] Um, on my laptop, I haven't had any, any issues. I actually forget that I upgraded it at points.
[00:30:57] Christina: Yeah. I mean, I think it's very similar, um, [00:31:00] from, you know, from, from most of the things I've seen, the only weird issue that I have, and this is a weird one is, and it's apparently cause, um, um, uh, Soren looked at the logs. Apparently there is some sort of issue with HTTP three and mail.app because my mail app will crash.
[00:31:17] Like every, like if it's just running in the background, it will crash like every 10 minutes.
[00:31:23] Brett: There's an HTTP three.
[00:31:26] Christina: Yeah. Apparently.
[00:31:27] Brett: Um, man, I am out of it, whole new protocol and I didn't even know it existed. Okay.
[00:31:35] Christina: I mean, I didn't either. And that surprised me, but apparently like it's, it's, um, it's supported by a lot of things and it's. Guests like the, so the mail servers versus accounts I use upgraded to it or something. And that's anyway, where it looks like the crashes. I'm not the only one somebody else on their forums had the exact same issue, but no response happened.
[00:31:57] So obviously I filed radars, but you know, [00:32:00] like it's not as if anyone reads those. So, um,
[00:32:03] Brett: I keep getting requests from bunch users to support focus modes, because bunch can toggle do not disturb, but it doesn't do any of the fancy new focus mode stuff. I don't even know if it's possible yet.
[00:32:17] Christina: Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if they have those open Ford focus. Modes are cool. Here's my issue with focus modes and I can't figure out a way to turn this on or off they go on or off for all of your devices. So if I have focus mode, I'm on my Mac, then it is also on my iPad and on my phone, I did not want that
[00:32:35] Brett: Okay.
[00:32:36] Christina: because sometimes I would like my phone to still have stuff come through.
[00:32:42] Brett: No, that makes sense. I can think of a lot of times I would want.
[00:32:45] Christina: And, and some, maybe the inverse of the shoot. Maybe I want.
[00:32:47] my phone on site, you know, maybe I want my phone not to have anything, but I still want things to come through my Mac. That would be less common, but the inverse is definitely the case. Whereas like sometimes like, no, I want to be able to get alerts and stuff on my phone.
[00:32:58] Like. Like [00:33:00] messages come through and stuff. Um, or, or phone calls rang, you know, like it just that if there is a way to be able to set it selectively, I haven't found it. But that whole thing to complete, like has made me not use focus mode because I'm like, okay, well all or nothing. We've had multiple devices.
[00:33:20] And if you are potentially now not going to be able to get alerts on stuff where you might need it, that that's a no go for.
[00:33:28] Brett: Yeah, I haven't played with it at all. I ha I don't, I can't think of a time when I need selective notifications like that. I either want it all on or all off.
[00:33:42] Christina: Yeah, well, again, like for me, I might be able to, I might want to turn it off.
[00:33:46] on my computer, but I still want it on my phone.
[00:33:49] Brett: Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I'll figure it out. Just, just to be clear, toggling do not disturb via a Mac application is 100% not [00:34:00] a public API. You have to, you have to read and write nested Pilates. Data blobs and then reboot the processes that watch for changes in do not disturb status. Like it is a very hacky thing to do to begin with.
[00:34:21] And unless they've opened up API APIs, I just don't see hacking any deeper into the pea list into the nested P list just to make focus modes work.
[00:34:33] Christina: Oh, Update. I did Look into this. This was not here. Last time I looked at it, but there is an option at least on the macro west side to share across devices. When you go into different focus modes, which I turned off, which means now I can turn it on, on my Mac and it won't be turned off on my phone.
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[00:37:38] The day the music died
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[00:37:47] Christina: So, So I see on this thing that you've apparently stopped listening to music. Did you finally get your Spotify like unwrapped or something?
[00:37:54] Brett: I didn't even bother because something happened at some point early in [00:38:00] 2021. I just, I started listening to audio books. I never opened Spotify. I never opened apple music. I just haven't. If I've listened to music, it's been an accident. Like my, I turned my car on and it started playing like the A's from apple music instead of my audio book.
[00:38:21] And I'll let it go for a little while, but I just, haven't been interested in music and I don't know what's going on.
[00:38:28] Christina: Interesting
[00:38:29] Brett: Yeah. It's really weird for me. Cause like I have.
[00:38:32] Christina: because you're used to shun.
[00:38:33] Brett: Music has been very important to me my whole life. Like a lot of my identity is wrapped up in what music I like and, and what I know about music.
[00:38:44] And I just, I don't have any inclination lately to listen to a song.
[00:38:52] Christina: That is, that is that's interesting. And the kind of little, I don't know that if I were, I'm not trying to freak you out, I would be a little freaked out by [00:39:00] that.
[00:39:00] Brett: I I'm concerned. I I'm not freaked out. I I'm, I'm slightly concerned. I think I figured it will come back when it first snowed when we got our, like we had a, an inch last week to, uh, once there was snow on the ground, I did find myself. Like, especially when I drive in the snow, I love like speed metal. I like a hard, fast, cold music when I'm driving.
[00:39:27] And that inclination did come back to me. And I did listen ex I went with the exploited, um, not I wouldn't punk rock and set of speed metal, but the exploited is hard and fast stuff. So I did, I. I was relieved to have at least that inclination come up.
[00:39:47] Christina: I'm very glad to hear that. So that's an interesting segue. Um, so I'm sure you did not follow any of this cause I'm, I'm sure you don't care, but Adele tickets went on sale this week. Alleging.
[00:39:59] Brett: [00:40:00] Oh,
[00:40:00] Christina: Um, meaning. So, so Adele is doing a Vegas residency over a weekend. She's doing, I think it's 24 shows, but she it's going to be from, from the end of January through like the end of April or something at Caesar's palace at the Coliseum.
[00:40:15] And, um, she, uh, So there are only going to be, you know, kind of, you know, not, not, not a ton of shows. It's not like, you know, like, like sling beyond when she was doing it. I think she, I don't know if she was playing every night or if she was doing, you know, like, like multiple nights a week, but she, you know, she, her residency was like years and like Brittany's residency was years and, um, Adele's is, is for now.
[00:40:39] Anyway, it's only a theater. And so Ticketmaster had this whole verified fan thing, which they've done for other artists before. And I've used other artists before where the idea is you register with your account and then you're in some sort of lottery. And then if you are chosen, you are given The opportunity to then [00:41:00] like wait in a queue and then buy tickets when they become available.
[00:41:03] Brett: to wait Nike. I understand. Yes. It just sounded funny.
[00:41:07] Christina: Exactly. Well, but the thing is, is that there's no like general pre-sales. So it was, it's only, it's like a legendary, a smaller group of people going up for it. Well, I signed up grant signed up. I had friends who signed up. We were all wait-listed. Um, one person that I know online did get, um, uh, uh, Um, but first that the tickets were supposed to go on sale on, I think it was Tuesday.
[00:41:32] Um, and, uh, uh, AWS went down and took a second master down with it. So they had to reschedule the presale for some of the shows for the next day. And, um, you know, my friend who had access because I told him, I was like, if you get in. I will pay whatever the price is because you could buy up to four tickets.
[00:41:52] I was like, I will pay whatever. Um, just, just, if you could get two extras and even though you waited in line all the way to the end, the thing reset, and [00:42:00] he was never able to get tickets. So I'm now in this thing, cause I wanted to take my mom. I took my mom to see a Dell five years ago, um, in Atlanta. Um, I actually had bought the tickets a year in advance.
[00:42:10] Um, I couldn't get us tickets at Madison square garden, but I was able to. In Atlanta and I got us good seats and we went in and she loved it. And my mom's never been to Vegas and I wanted to take her. Um, and, and it'll be, you know, her 75th birthday in August, the concert would be before then. I really wanted to, to do this.
[00:42:27] And I I joked earlier in turns out I was way off. I was like, I'm going to wind up paying a thousand dollars a ticket. Our and I, yeah, I wish that I'd paid a thousand dollars a ticket. Um, I don't know if I should share how much I paid because. The prices are insane. I've never seen anything like it in my life.
[00:42:47] They won't last that the ones that are going for $30,000 a piece, there's no way they will ever get that much money for them. I can't tell if I paid too much or not, but regardless I did get us [00:43:00] tickets.
[00:43:00] Brett: I can tell you.
[00:43:01] Christina: I mean, you're going to say I did, but I mean like this.
[00:43:05] Brett: Even if you paid a thousand dollars, you paid too much.
[00:43:09] Christina: Sure, but like, it's, it's an experience thing is for my mom, like, you know, it's a different
[00:43:15] Brett: blame this on your mom.
[00:43:16] Christina: I'm not blaming it on my mom.
[00:43:17] Uh, she, she, I don't ever want her to know how much I spent on the tickets, um, because she would be very upset with me. Um, but I had like a, I had like a number I wish the seats were better.
[00:43:30] The thing is, is that the, the price to get the better seats was so much more. I just, even if I had like, and I have the money, but it's like one of those things I'm like, that would be dumb regardless. I will be taking my mom to Vegas in March. And I'm, I'm very excited, but I'm also like, I'm so mad. Like it seems like everything like inflation, like supply chain, everything is just ridiculous.
[00:43:57] And I'm like, I'm so mad that [00:44:00] like the whole point of this verified fan program was supposed to be, so fans could get tickets. And not resellers and scalpers. And yet it seems like every single person who got them just immediately went to flip them for a whole bunch of money, which like. I get, but I also don't get, like, to me, here's the thing.
[00:44:18] If you were just going to do that, then just make it a free for all, for everyone, at least give us all a shot to get in. Cause I was going to have to pay it. I had to pay a scalper anyway. You know what I mean? Like the only, only pseudo advantage I see here is now allegedly fans are the ones who get to scalp more than like the, the traditional scalper bot people. Ticketmaster, you could solve this bot problem if you wanted to, but they don't care. They have, um, the only, only person ironically, that sort of losing in this is Ticketmaster has a third party, um, sales site that they do, you know, where they'll sell, like, like, you know, overpriced tickets for stuff.
[00:44:54] They aren't selling them for the Adele show. But so I had to go to StubHub and get them, and, and [00:45:00] then there were like some other things, but like Ticketmaster, you can't get them, you know, from, from, from their platform. Um, it's just, uh, it's ridiculous. Um, if I still worked it, you know, as a journalist, I might've been able to score comp seats, but, uh, I, I, wasn't willing to take a chance on anything for that this time.
[00:45:19] So. It's very expensive concert seats. Aren't even great. I mean, they're fine, but like they're not as good as I would like them to be for what I'm paying. Um,
[00:45:32] Brett: I hope I hope you and your mother have a wonderful time.
[00:45:34] Christina: Well, see, I was going to say that this is what I'm excited about though. And I w I going to talk more about this as we get closer to it, I've just decided to go all out. I've spent this much on tickets. I'm just like, okay, we're going to say at a really nice hotel, I'm going to take her to see, um, uh, the Beatles Cirque du Soleil show.
[00:45:50] I'm going to take her, you know, there's nice dinners and stuff. And we're just going to like, have like a baller, like birthday, you know, celebration weekend for my mom, like [00:46:00] six months earlier.
[00:46:02] Brett: There goes your retirement.
[00:46:03] Christina: I mean, basically. Yeah, well, uh, well, okay. In fairness, Microsoft stock is doing incredibly well, so, you know,
[00:46:11] Brett: Fair enough. I increased my, my 401k savings to 15% this week.
[00:46:17] Christina: oh, hell Yeah.
[00:46:19] Brett: Yeah.
[00:46:20] Christina: That's great.
[00:46:22] Brett: I got an email that said you should be saving 15%. So I said, okay, whatever. Um, anyway, we should save some for the next episode that we're going to record in a few.
[00:46:33] Christina: Yes, absolutely. So, yeah, but, uh, yeah, that was just so, uh, you know, the worst part about being like basically unable to be on Twitter this week. It was, I couldn't even complain about how about like, getting like fucked on Adele. I gets like, I.
[00:46:51] Brett: Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. Kvetching.
[00:46:54] Christina: Yes. Well, I love, I love a good Twitter bitch sesh. So anyway, but yeah, so, [00:47:00] uh, I will be trying out some of those delete all your tweets tools and, uh, I've just, I've just been waiting for the drama to die down because I just, I haven't even, I've had my friends looking on my account for me, but I haven't even been logging on.
[00:47:14] I've been like, Nope, not doing it.
[00:47:17] Brett: That seems that seems mentally healthy.
[00:47:20] Christina: You know what I learned from the last time this happened and I was like, yep, I don't need to see it. I don't need to care. Donate. Don't need to know does it, I'm not going to change anybody's mind. And also genuinely I don't give a shit with these people. Think of me.
[00:47:37] Brett: Fair enough. Well, enjoy, enjoy a week of not checking Twitter.
[00:47:42] Christina: Well, I'm, hopefully I'm hoping to be back
[00:47:45] Brett: Well, we all, we all hope you'll be back, Christina.
[00:47:49] Christina: I mean, you know, sort of addicted, but anyway,
[00:47:52] Brett: All right. Well, get some sleep. See.
[00:47:54] Christina: thank you. Get some sleep, Brett.
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Q: Changing system time without affecting ACNL time I just got my 3DS back from repair. They removed the batteries, resulting the system time to reset. When I started the game, my town was filled with weeds, and it was fall. I asked Isabelle to change time, but the weeds were still there. After a few days, I recovered my town to a better state. But now, the system time remains still at January 2011. I want to change it, but I'm worried about having weeds in my town again. How can I change system time without affecting ACNL time?

A: You cannot change the system time without affecting ACNL time. You should have changed your system time to the proper time before starting the game up again the first time or at least before you picked all of the weeds.
What you can do to prevent the most headache is change your town ordinance to Beautiful town so that it minimizes the number of weeds that appear. Although over 2 years it might fill up anyway. Then you can hire Leif to pick weeds each day. Leif can pick a lot at a time so you should easily be able to keep up. It'll take a while again but it is not the end of the world. Leif sells this service only after you have upgraded Nook's to at least T.I.Y. though.
Now you know for next time.
P.S. Thinking about it, if you ACNL time is actually correct (as in today's actual date) through changing it through Isabelle, changing you system time will affect your ACNL time but it also might only change it to whatever your system time is, which will be the same as it is now and therefore you wouldn't time travel at all.
Or it will change it relative to your system time in which case you'd have to time travel twice. Once to align your system time with ACNL and once to align ACNL with real time.
So, in conclusion, you very likely have to time travel but you might get lucky.

A: you should try changing your system setting date and then when you click on your characters profile tell Isabelle "I need help first..." before starting up your file.  Change the date to the exact same date that you set your system setting date for.  Afterwards, start your file.  (I have not tested this, however, It's your best bet for fixing the date without messing up the game because it does not auto-save your progress in the game until you tell Isabelle to start up your file.)

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Much of the credit for this must go to the JCPOA and the constructive interaction between Tehran and the IAEA in the framework of the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and the Additional Protocol thereto which is in effect in Iran on a temporary basis. We are grateful to IAEA Deputy Director General Massimo Aparo for additional information on Iran's recent decision concerning the development of its nuclear programme. The corresponding moves, we believe, fully fit into the framework and parameters of the JCPOA.
We welcome the balanced and wise reaction of the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the subversive actions of Washington and Iran's continued and full compliance with the JCPOA even under the current crisis conditions provoked by the US decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal, reintroduce its national sanctions against Iran and, moreover, to lend them an extraterritorial character. In other words, the US has not only withdrawn from JCPOA, but is trying to hinder other states' continued compliance with the agreement.
Russia is profoundly disappointed with US actions that represent a substantial departure from the JCPOA and violate UN Security Council Resolution 2231. To remind, the final point in the preamble to that resolution invokes Article 25 of the UN Charter which makes UNSC resolutions binding on all member states. The sad irony is that it was Washington that originally insisted on including this item in the resolution. Likewise, it is clear that the US decisions run counter to the relevant resolutions of the IAEA Board of Governors of 2015. Considering that the Report of the IAEA Director General on inspections in light of UN Security Council Resolution 2231 confirms Iran's full compliance with its obligations, the American cavils over Tehran's nuclear activities are specious and in our opinion serve as a smoke screen for settling political scores with Iran. In fact, the US has discredited itself by demonstrating that it is not a reliable partner that honours agreements.
We deeply regret that the ill-thought-out and ungrounded US policy with regard to the JCPOA undermines confidence in the IAEA international safeguard system, puts into question its effectiveness and casts a shadow on the agency's conclusions and authority in terms of verification. All this conspires to shake the nuclear non-proliferation regime based on the NPT at which Washington delivered a serious blow, unthinkingly and with disregard for the consequences.
The Russian side remains committed to complying with the JCPOA. We count on further interaction with the remaining partners within the group of six countries and all the parties concerned in keeping the nuclear agreement afloat. The IAEA, as before, plays a key role in this process. We hope that at this difficult juncture the agency will be able to cope with the role of independent and unbiased arbiter.
Our position is that the US decision to ruin the comprehensive agreements of 2015 effectively deprives the American side of any rights in the framework of the JCPOA and UN Security Council Resolution 2231. We express hope that comprehensive agreements on the Iran nuclear programme will still work for peace and stability. The Russian side will do all it can towards this end.


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Star Magpie Beams steps away from AFL
Dayne Beams - AAP
Star Collingwood midfielder Dayne Beams has stepped away from the AFL indefinitely to concentrate on his mental health.
Beams played nine games with the Magpies this year after returning from a stint with Brisbane, but did not feature after round 11 as he took a break to deal with mental health issues.
"Trying to improve my quality of life and meet the demands of playing and training for football at the elite level continues to be a struggle," Beams said in a club statement released on Friday.
"My health and football have come to feel like competing priorities, which is not a position that is helping or enabling me to meet my responsibilities.
"I have been trying to meet this challenge for a number of years but, with a series of debilitating recent injuries and my mental health a work in progress, I have reached a point where I know that stepping away from football is necessary.
"I want to thank all who have supported me and my family. I look forward to a brighter future."
Beams described himself as a "broken man" in a heartfelt social media post made soon after the club announced he would take indefinite leave in early July.
He returned to the club later that month but was still hampered by a hip injury that required surgery.
The 29-year-old stepped down as captain of the Lions last year as he struggled to come to terms with the death of his father.
The Pies' second-round pick in 2008 was traded to the Lions after the 2014 season to be closer to his dad and returned to Collingwood during last year's trade period.
Pies chief executive Mark Anderson praised Beams for his courage and pledged ongoing support.
"Dayne has made a difficult and brave call that we support completely," Anderson said.
"Collingwood will continue to support and assist Dayne, his wife Kelly and their children as Dayne works towards a return to full health."
"Dayne and his family have asked that their privacy now be respected. As such, Collingwood will not be making further comment."
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Catalans chairman defends Folau signing
Catalans chairman Bernard Guasch has defended the controversial signing of Israel Folau and believes he can become a role model for youngsters in the game.
Tahs coach faces old mate in Super debut
New Zealander Rob Penney will coach against his former assistant Scott Robertson when he makes his Super Rugby coaching debut for NSW Waratahs on Saturday.
Tahs blood young backs against Crusaders
Five-eighth Will Harrison and winger Mark Nawaqanitawase will make their Super Rugby debuts against the champion Crusaders in Nelson on Saturday.
Soldo backs Tigers' twin ruck option
They combined to win Richmond an AFL premiership last year so Tigers' big man Ivan Soldo sees no reason to abandon the pair's dual ruck roles.
AFL finals pain a spur for Lions: Birchall
Grant Birchall endured tough finals losses before Hawthorn's AFL flag three-peat and he is planning to pass that experience on to his new Brisbane teammates.
Rance return less likely, says Balme
The prospects of Alex Rance coming out of retirement for Richmond are becoming less likely, according to Neil Balme.

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Argument: The ECB Needs to Know Its Place The ECB Needs to Know Its Place...
The ECB Needs to Know Its Place
The European Central Bank has far overstepped its mandate as a guardian of monetary stability. And a backlash is coming.
By Philippe Legrain
| April 22, 2015, 6:27 PM
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY - DECEMBER 04: (EDITORS NOTE: This image was processed using digital filters.) Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank pictured during his first press conference following the monthly ECB board meeting in the new ECB headquaters on December 4, 2014 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)
"End the ECB dictatorship!" shouted Josephine Witt as she leapt onto the podium where Mario Draghi was giving a press conference on April 15, throwing confetti over the European Central Bank (ECB) president. While the lone protester's "manifesto" was muddle-headed, she highlighted a genuine issue: The ECB is the world's most extremely independent central bank and it abuses its vast, unaccountable power by acting in a brazenly political way on issues well outside its monetary-policy remit. It needs to be put in its place.
The ECB's power is exceptional. Other operationally independent central banks are ultimately subservient to elected governments: While Treasury Department officials do not meddle in the day-to-day conduct of monetary policy, it is inconceivable that the U.S. Federal Reserve would refuse to buy Treasury bonds in a crisis if the federal government demanded it do so. But the unelected ECB does not have a political master. There is no eurozone government. The central bank floats above the 19 national ones, paying some heed to Berlin, but refusing to cooperate with the Eurogroup, the meeting of eurozone finance ministers. As panic ripped through the eurozone from 2010 on, Frankfurt (where the bank is based) ignored pleas for it to do "whatever it takes" to quell the run on many countries' sovereign bonds — until finally, in July 2012, Draghi uttered that magic phrase and investors took him at his word.
The ECB's inordinate independence is entrenched in the EU treaty, which can only be amended if all 28 European Union governments, parliaments, and, in some countries, a popular vote, agree. Like an absolute monarch, it is further insulated by a German-inspired political taboo on questioning its independent actions and powers, as if it were a crime of lèse-majesté. Such immense power in the hands of unelected officials requires proper accountability, yet the ECB deigns only to a dialogue with members of the European Parliament, to whom it provides insufficient information to thoroughly scrutinize its activities. Nor can the parliament sanction ECB officials for failing to perform their duties or abusing their power.
At the very least, independent, unaccountable central bankers ought to "stick to their knitting," as Willem Buiter, the chief economist of Citigroup, has argued. Yet the ECB lectures, bullies, and even dictates to governments on issues outside its remit, notably opposing debt restructuring and demanding fiscal consolidation and structural reforms. To get its way, it has even, in effect, threatened to illegally deprive the Greeks and the Irish — and by extension, others, too — of the right to use their own currency, the euro, as legal tender.
The rot began under Draghi's predecessor, Jean-Claude Trichet. The former governor of the Banque de France fought tooth and nail to prevent a restructuring of an insolvent Greece's debt in 2010, which would have imposed hefty losses on French banks. To give credence to the spurious claim that Greece was merely going through temporary funding difficulties, the ECB then started buying Greek government bonds. That gave Frankfurt a further reason to oppose the subsequent restructuring of Greece's market-issued debt in 2012 — and the ECB's threat to inflict chaos on the eurozone if it was disobeyed greatly limited the debt relief that Athens obtained, as I explain at length in my book European Spring. Both Trichet and Draghi have threatened, in effect, to force Greece out of the euro if it defaulted. Now, the ECB's ownership of Greek bonds is a further obstacle to the debt relief that Greece needs. Frankfurt is also squeezing Greek banks to pressure the government to comply with its eurozone creditors' demands in a nakedly political manner.
Trichet's treatment of another crisis victim, Ireland, was equally outrageous. In November 2010, he threatened to cut off Irish banks' access to ECB funding — which would have forced Ireland out of the euro — unless the government applied for an EU-IMF loan, bailed out the banks' (often German) creditors, and implemented austerity and structural reforms. That abuse of power lumbered Irish taxpayers with some 64 billion euros ($68.4 billion) in bank debt — 14,000 euros for every person in Ireland.
Irrespective of the merits of fiscal consolidation and structural reforms, it is not the role of unelected central bankers to demand them — let alone dictate them. Yet ECB officials routinely do. Trichet repeatedly espoused austerity, claiming (falsely) that it would be expansionary. Until he changed his tune in Jackson Hole last August, Draghi, too, demanded that eurozone governments tighten their belts. The president of Germany's Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, regularly lectures foreign governments, notably France's, on what they ought to do. Yet were French officials to give the Bundesbank advice, Weidmann would scream bloody murder.
It's not just inappropriate jawboning. In the summer of 2011, Trichet and Draghi wrote to Italy's then-prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, demanding that he embark on austerity and reforms as a condition for the ECB buying Italian government bonds to limit the panic that threatened to force it to default. When Berlusconi failed to comply, the ECB, in effect, forced the elected prime minister out of office, by letting it be known that it would only buy Italian bonds if he was replaced with a more pliable technocrat.
In December 2011, when it seemed as if panic could cause the euro to collapse within weeks, Draghi demanded that eurozone governments agree to a "fiscal compact" that would entrench much tighter discipline, hinting that this might prompt the ECB to step in to quell the panic. Eurozone governments duly complied and are now locked into this new fiscal straitjacket through treaty obligations transposed into national constitutions.
The ECB has also had a direct hand in setting fiscal policy and economy-wide reforms as part of the Troika (which also includes the IMF and the European Commission), which has run countries that have received EU-IMF loans — Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Cyprus — as quasi-colonies.
Power corrupts. And unaccountable power corrupts absolutely. The ECB ought to stop meddling in political issues that are outside its remit for monetary policy and financial stability. It ought to relinquish its newly acquired powers to supervise and resolve eurozone banks to a separate agency that is independent of the banks and properly accountable to elected parliamentarians. It ought to be much more open and transparent about its activities, not least whom it conducts financial transactions with, and on what terms. Its officials ought to be sanctioned — and if necessary dismissed — by the European Parliament if they fail in their duties, or abuse their powers.
If the ECB were wise, it would volunteer to do all this — or even call for such changes to be implemented in legislation. Since there is no sign of that happening, it will eventually face a much bigger democratic backlash than a lone protester throwing confetti.
Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images
Philippe Legrain is the founder of OPEN, an international think tank on openness issues, and a senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics' European Institute. Previously economic advisor to the president of the European Commission from 2011 to 2014, he is the author of four critically acclaimed books, including Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them and European Spring: Why Our Economies and Politics Are in a Mess—and How to Put Them Right. Twitter: @plegrain
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How to reduce hair fall and grow new hair quickly, is described here.Hair is made up of proteins named as keratin. The scientific term for hair loss is alopecia. Hair loss can be of types male hair loss,female hair loss and alopecia areata. The cause of hair fall is mostly due to hyper tension and more stress Alopecia areata(Spot Baldness) is a kind of hair loss in which one or more patches of baldness is found after the hair fall. In males the hair loss is due to their genetics and male hormones, In female the reason is still unclear and the cause of alopecia areata is autoimmune.
Baldness in men is a sequential process.
Generally, there are a lot of medication treatments for hair loss and hair transplant surgery is also one of the common methods to replenish hair in a person. Initially hair loss was a sign of ageing old because of thinning of hair due to involutional alopecia. Sometimes hair loss can also be hereditary trait .
How to reduce hairfall ?
Regular exercise helps in cleaning the hair pores by sweating which overall reduces the hairfall.
Avoiding bad habits such as smoking, drinking alcohol as smoking slows down the rate of blood circulation in your body and hence refinement of blood in the scalp is slow. And drinking alcohol affects your immune system as a result hair fall increases.
Having diet rich of proteins and vitamins, as proteins are the main source of building tissues and hair is formed of these tissues(keratin). Vitamin A, B12, and E are mostly required for proper blood circulation in your body ,hence helps in fighting hair loss.
Proper check up on regular basis from therapists.
Regular oil massage on the scalp enhances the hair follicles to increase growth of hair and makes hair healthier.
Lastly, but most important point is to be relaxed and not be stressed.
How to Reduce Hairfall and increase hair growth?
Hairfall is a common threat to every person through out the world. It can be a sign of various diseases which are growing in your body. It makes people unattractive too. So reducing hairfall and increasing the growth of hair is a common desire of every person.
Taking foods rich of iron makes hair healthier.
Vitamin A, C, and biotin serves as a booster for hair growth.
Onion juice in hair is also quite useful.
Substances like olive oil, henna, turmeric keeps the hair clean and safe and hence are useful for hair growth.
Honey, rice water, ginger can also be used for remedial purpose.
Egg, yog hurt, fish oil, etc. are also advantageous regarding the growth of hair.
Reduce Hairfall for male naturally?
In men hair loss is generally due to the shortage of male hormones, genetic disorders, and hyper tension(stress).
Avoid lot of medications as many of them have different side effects which can cause hair fall.
Avoid heating of scalp under sunlight for a longer period of time, which is bad for hair growth.
Have diets rich of proteins, vitamins and minerals.
Wash your hair with mild shampoo regularly.
Don't brush your hair when it is in wet state as in wet state your hair is in the weakest state and can easily be pulled out.
Have proper hydration, drinking enough water is a must for proper blood circulation and hence for hair growth.
Avoid smoking and drinking alcohol as smoking slows down the blood circulation process and alcohol affects the immune system.
Oil your scalp regularly for strong and healthier hair.
How to Prevent Hairfall for Female?
Women are much associative and sensitive towards their hair. And long hairs are generally considered as a female's beauty. But hairfall is one the main reason of their worries world wide. For a woman, it is natural of losing 50-100 hair strands a day. They use a variety of products to keep their hair safe and healthier. But lots of chemicals present in them play many side effects which reduces their hair growth.
Healthy foods rich with iron, vitamins and proteins must be taken .
Avoid chemical processings in hair and natural methods must be followed.
Avoid hairstyles that pulls out the hair from their hairline. This makes the hair more weak and are prone to fall out.
Always massage your scalp with natural oils to make the hair more strong and healthy.
Topical medications such as minoxidil which is derived from rogaine, can be used to stimulate the hair follicles and as a result increase the growth of hair.
How to stop hairfall immediately and grow new hair?
Apply ginger, onion or potato juice regularly on your scalp.
Applying egg on your scalp provides a egg mask to your scalp as it is highly protein rich.
Avoid taking lot of medicines as they have a lot of side effects.
Apply green tea or amla juice on hair to make it safe and healthier.
Massage your scalp regularly with natural oils, which stimulates the hair follicles and makes the hair stronger.
Follow these steps and get result within a month.


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Kaam Chee Mun
Brian Kaam
Exporting Country:
No. 15, Jalan PJS 11/16, Taman Bandar Sunway, 46150 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Allegedly a resident of Malaysia; according to the U.S. Department of Justice, involved in conspiracies to illegally export, to prohibited entities and to Iran, numerous U.S.-manufactured commodities with potential military applications, including use as components in the construction of improvised explosive devices (IED) similar to those being used in Iraq and Afghanistan; effective September 22, 2008, added to the U.S. Entity List due to actions contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States, and no export or re-export involving this entity and any item subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR) is permitted without a license from the U.S. Commerce Department, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS); on September 11, 2008, indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury for allegedly participating in a conspiracy to export U.S.-manufactured electronic components and other commodities to prohibited entities and to Iran via the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Malaysia, England, Germany, and Singapore in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and United States Iran Embargo.
Additional parties indicted Ali Akbar Yahya, F.N. Yaghmaei, Mayrow General Trading, Atlinx Electronics, Micatic General Trading, Majidco Micro Electronics, Al-Faris, Neda Industrial Group, Bahman Ghandi, Farshid Gillardian, Djamshid Nezhad, Ahmad Rahzad, Majid Seif, Eco Biochem SDN BHD, and Vast Solution SDN BHD.
Allegedly was the executive director of Eco Biochem and an associate of the company Ace Hub System SDN BHD in Malaysia; shares the same address as Eco Biochem.


The Pier Hotel has just undergone a complete refurbishment to showcase the Hotels new, modern and fresh ambience.
The Pier Hotel is conveniently located close to the Ennis/Shannon, Cork/Kerry and Dublin roads allowing you easy access to all routes in and out of Limerick.
The Pier Hotel is an ideal base for visiting all of the famous spots in Limerick including King Johns Castle, The Hunt Museum and the main vibrant shopping thoroughfare of O Connell Street, to name a few.
Had a lovely stay, staff very friendly and the food was lovely, great location, rooms basic but nice.
Town centre location right beside Sarsfield bridge. Stayed on a Saturday night and was quite noisy but rooms clean and functional. Food was good quality but was served on low tables in the bar as groups were in the restaurant. Staff very friendly and efficient. Breakfast on the basic side with extra charged for cereal etc.
Rooms a bit small for a triple room, toilet was falling off the wall. Food was excellent, slow service for breakfast though.
Stayed with 2 adults, 2 children for Feile 2013. Could not fault anything about hotel. Room was clean and compact. Good breakfast and evening food. Hotel is very central and has lovely views. Would stay again if down that part of the country. Staff could not be helpful enough and we really enjoyed our stay in Limerick. Thanks for your hospitality! My niece is in unniversity in Limerick and have told her about it so she will recommend!
Excellent location. Room was very basic-dressing table had stamper ink on it and mirror in the bathroom had black marks on it (probably from wear and tear). For a twin room it was quite small. Dinner in the hotel was lovely and we also received 'Free glass of wine' voucher when we checked in. Breakfast the following morning was average.


Job tenure has a very direct impact on leadership style and effectiveness. Myths abound regarding CEO job security, but in reality, research shows that Australian CEOs typically hang on to the job for 8 years before retiring with a golden parachute. The point at which you find a leader within their tenure has a clear influence on strategic business planning and investment decisions.
The reason is simple. The willingness and ability of individuals to implement change is greatly influenced by how long they expect to remain in the job. It is much easier to make an unpopular decision if you don't expect to be around for the consequences.
Infrastructure and major business investment decisions can easily be skewed in these situations. Project feasibility and Return on Investment (ROI) can be incredibly subjective, depending on your measurement time horizon. For a leader with a definite exit date, investments with long term payoffs have little downside.
While promising something you can never achieve is second nature for politicians, in the past they were usually smart enough to promise policy changes. Now we have political parties promising to rip up commercial contracts without compensation, and junk newly built infrastructure assets while simultaneously demanding that the infrastructure be delivered faster for their own constituents.
On that basis, national infrastructure now only has the life of any given parliament to achieve a ROI.
In this environment, it is little suprise that the media roll their eyes and start quoting Sir Humphrey Appleby whenever a politician announces a new feasibility study for a project.
While government feasibility studies are usually ridiculed by project opponents, they can be a valuable resource. A typical federal government feasibility study is a combination of business case, stakeholder consultation, and project design document. Many large businesses could certainly achieve better investment outcomes if they used a similar process for their own large investments.
Railway infrastructure investments have been political poison in NSW for decades. Since the 1970s, many projects have started without construction funding being agreed, and then been quietly shelved.
When the Prime Minister visited Wollongong recently, a flurry of government announcements covering infrastructure priorities appeared. Wollongong is clearly feeling enormous pain as Australia's manufacturing industries continue to move offshore. In addition to being one of the first locations to receive NBN high speed Internet services, a freight rail project which was killed in the 1980s was thrown a lifeline.
In a little remembered incident, a third freight train line connecting Wollongong to the rest of NSW was partially built in the 1980s, before being cancelled by the NSW government – leaving half built bridges, kilometers of cuttings through mountains, and involving serious amounts of wasted effort and money.
Infrastructure Australia was recently asked to consider funding the completion of the rail line, and commissioned a new feasibility study for the Maldon to Dombarton freight rail link. The goal of the project, to reduce the huge volume of trucks carrying heavy cargo on steep mountain roads into and out of Port Kembla.
In an outcome that could hardly have been unforseen, the feasibility study found the $650m rail link was not viable – based on financial measure of return on investment. The major exporters and importers using Port Kembla told the study authors that they will not use rail transport, preferring to clog the roads in the region with hundreds of heavy trucks hauling freight up steep mountain passes. As a result, the project was found to be a financial basket case.
Regardless, the Prime Minister announced that the project would be progressed to initial construction, and further substantial funding was granted.
Major business investments and decisions should not be made by whim, or with disregard to financial reality. But it is important for business leaders to have a vision, and communicate clearly the path forward for the organisation. Sometimes it boils down to an exercise in communications, and winning over the doubters. But it should be little surprise that when a leader has one eye on the door, they might simply view risks and rewards very differently to those around them.


The City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning is developing proposals for single family (R1-1) zones to provide specialized regulation regarding single-family houses. This is a follow-up to the existing Interim Control Ordinances (ICO) for various neighborhoods as the Baseline Mansionization Ordinance, or "BMO," adopted in 2015 and set to expire in March, 2017. One of these areas is Lower Council District 5, which includes all of the R1-1 zones in Melrose Village.
The Planning Department is holding a series of Open Houses/Public Hearings regarding the proposed changes. The event that will include our area will be held on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at the Henry Medina Building, 11214 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064. (This is just east of the I-405 freeway.) The Open House starts at 5:30 p.m., with a brief presentation at 6:00 p.m., and the Public Hearing at 6:30 p.m.
The proposed new single family zones for the affected areas would involve a zone change from R1-1 to R1V2, a proposed new zone, which allows flexibility in the location of a new second story above the first floor of a house, and would regulate a floor area, depending on lot size, of between 35% and 45%. These proposed new single family zones will supersede the existing R1-1 (or BMO) regulations, for a more tailored zoning solution to preserve neighborhood character.
Text of the proposed Neighborhood Conservation Ordinances will be available at the Open House/Public Hearing and online at http://planning.lacity.org under "What's New".
For questions, please contact staff: Christine Saponara, 213-978-1363.
Click here for a copy of the mailer sent to homes in our area.
And click here for a presentation showing some of the proposed details.


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KPN launches €3B rights issue in bid to reduce debt
Details of KPN's much anticipated €3 billion (US$3.9 billion) rights issue have finally emerged, as the debt-laden Dutch operator seeks ways to prop up its balance sheet in the face of tough competition in its home mobile market and elsewhere.
The operator is issuing 2.84 billion new ordinary shares in the 2-for-1 rights issue at €1.06 per share, which The Wall Street Journal noted represented a 62 per cent discount to the closing share price ahead of the rights issue announcement. The exercise period runs to 15th May 2013.
Carlos Slim's América Móvil, which owns a 29.77 per cent stake in the Dutch operator, has committed to subscribing to the issue. Indeed, analysts noted that the discount practically makes it an imperative for shareholders to subscribe.
"The deep discount is basically forcing all shareholders who still own KPN shares to subscribe," Bloomberg quoted Corne Aben, a fund manager at Optimix as saying. "If you don't take part, you will face a huge dilution of your stake and lose quite a lot of money."
The rights issue forms part of KPN's efforts to strengthen its balance sheet and maintain its position in a highly competitive European mobile market. The company also recently decided to scrap planned dividends for 2013 and 2014. Reuters has estimated the company's outstanding debts at €14.4 billion, while The Wall Street Journal said the debt pile is around €12.5 billion.
The WSJ also warned that extra capital would not be enough on its own to resolve KPN's problems. Although it noted that net debt would fall to 2.2 times EBITDA from 2.8 times, the operator is planning to make a considerable investment in Germany, where it operates the E-Plus network, and also faces a new competitor, Tele2, on the Dutch mobile market.
- see this Wall Street Journal article (sub. req.)
KPN posts 12% drop in Q1 earnings, cancels dividend
KPN mulls rights issue as Telefónica eyes German tie-up
Vodafone Netherlands, KPN push job cuts to slash costs
KPN, Vodafone, T-Mobile and Tele2 bid €3.8B in Dutch LTE auction
Analysts: América Móvil may push KPN to invest more in networks
KPN CEO pushes for network sharing with O2 Germany
KPN cancels Belgian BASE sale over 'unsatisfactory' offers


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Lovers of the sea can enjoy a full range of water sports on Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu, including snorkelling, canoeing, sailing and windsurfing.
Novice or passionate, the underwater world is at toe tip. Unique species, mesmerizing colours and absolute silence are the fascinating features of the Maldivian dive sites. Discover the Baa Atoll with our PADI certified dive school.
Boutique & gift shops, 24-hour reception, laundry and valet service and excursions. Wi -Fi connection available at Lagoon Villas, Sunset Lagoon Villas, Conch Bar, lobby and at Coco spa lounge.
Расположен в Baa атолле, перелет на гидросамолёте занимает не более 45 минут.
Атолл славится многообразием подводного мира. На домашних рифах отелей, из постоянных обитателей, частые гости морские черепахи, при отеле даже имеется специальный центр по лечению и реабилитации морских черепах, есть возможность,вблизи полюбоваться черепашками и даже покормить под наблюдением морского биолога.
Остров очень богат разнообразной экзотической флорой, обработка от комаров проводится каждый день, поэтому не желательное соседство не тревожит.
Как водные так и пляжные виллы, как в общем и вся инфраструктура отеля ( Спа, Рестораны) выполнено в Мальдивском стиле, все очень просто и из натуральных материалов, вообще экологическая концепция в отеле является основной, на острове нет пластика и прочих вредных для эко среды материалов. Экзотичное убранство отеля, тишина и спокойствие, пение птичек на рассвете, способствует полному расслаблению. Отель располагает к спокойному, уютному отдыху. Семье с активными детишками будет наверное скучнова-то.А вот парам, любящим тишину,желающим провести спокойные и размеренные каникулы, в натуральной и экзотичной атмосфере- просто идеальная рекомендация.
А, фишкой отеля, является-то, что для пар желающих ещё большего уеденения, желающих провести время ТОЛЬКО ВДВОЁМ в 10 минутах на лодочке от отеля находится собственный остров с 1 виллой в стиле Робинзон, не нужно думать что там уж совсем хибарка, там аккуратно построенная хижина со всеми удобствами) Но вот окон и дверей не предусмотрено. Потому как пару оставляют на целом острове только вдвоём.! Очень популярная экскурсия для молодожён. Многие специально возвращаются именно в этот отель, для того, что бы провести время наэтом острове. Ну и цена-качество конечно радует!


King David — a prolific figure throughout a good portion of the Old Testament who God used to lead His chosen people.
But what if David's prosperity didn't come from his strength or power, and instead, an acceptance of inadequacy? Dr. Dharius Morshun Daniels thinks so.
On Wednesday, February 7, Daniels gave students, faculty, and staff present at University Chapel a simple yet challenging charge — to abandon the notion of control over life and surrender it to Christ.
Daniels is no stranger to higher education. He has a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and obtained a Doctorate of Ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary.
He said seasons in which we relinquish control are full of ambiguity. However, surrendering our will to God's, he said, puts us under his control. It's from this place of submission that we can live as he intended.
In Psalm 23, Daniels believes David articulates the blessings a believer submitted to Christ lives in, painting a resounding picture of such a life.
"Control won't lead you to green pastures and it will not lead you to still waters," said Daniels.
"I'm not advocating apathy in any sense, but I am trying to free us from the illusion that we are responsible for more than we're actually responsible for," Daniels added.
Daniels pointed to King David as a prime example of someone who, "knew how to embrace ambiguity, who knew it was ok to have a plan and to allow God to wreck it," said Daniels.
It was because of the simple courage to trust God with his life — not by hustling, fighting to direct the course of his life, or any act on his own behalf — that God carried David, through a series of supernatural occurrences he ordained, from his victory over Goliath as a humble shepherd boy to becoming ruler of Israel.
"I think when it was all over, I'm sure as David reflects on his life, he's probably glad that somebody besides him was leading it, ordering his steps," Daniels said.