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Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Canadian Dairy & Trump's Tariffs

NAFTA isn't free trade.

Amazon is free trade. If I sell something to an American through a platform like Amazon and there are no extra fees or taxes from the government because I am a Canadian trading with an American, then we have free trade.

The regulatory legalism of NAFTA is a far cry from a natural progression of liberal values. Somewhere in the 19th or 20th century, liberal ideas unglued and merged with untested theories of social democracy and socialism.

Ergo, the state of the world in 2018.

So let's break down what Trump's tariffs mean in this world where central banks and governments "float" fiat currencies against one another.

Forget Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations. Adam Smith popularized the labour theory of value. As far as I'm concerned, the man was a goddamn communist.

Let's instead focus on Ricardo's Law of Association and Mises' deductive study of human action. While not "scientific" in the materialist sense of the word, up until the 20th century, this method of knowledge was at least respected for what it was: sound logic from sound axioms.

Free trade works. It is a specialization of labour. The head of every household never wants to pay more than he needs to. He has a family to raise.

The liquor store isn't brewing its own beer, they're buying from the brewery. The brewery isn't building its own delivery trucks, they're buying from established car dealers. The car dealer doesn't build the cars either, he is the middleman between the manufacturer and the consumer.

The insurance underwriter cares for none of this. She buys from the liquor store carrying her favourite beer. Her purchase helps employ individuals and maintain the supply chain.

When categorized as an entire "industry," individuals in the supply chain may argue for their own self-interests. Normally, this isn't an issue, since free trade promotes harmonious competition. Like in sports.

Politics captures the violent element of humanity. When self-interests are employed through the legislature, interests come at the expense of others.

It is precisely the same problem Henry Hazlitt was dealing with during his lifetime. And here we are still making the same mistakes, Trump notwithstanding.

The issue isn't tariffs per se. Considering only the immediate effects on special groups while neglecting to consider the long-term effects on the everyone is the problem.

It's always this problem.

I never liked American politics with or without Donald Trump, but I must say, from a pure entertainment standpoint, he is by far the best president that country has ever had. When I hear his voice on the radio, it's pure gold.

So, let's take this from the Canadian perspective first.

With Trump slinging insults and mocking political sensibility, Canada's dairy lobby has taken issue.

They're saying Trump is wrong. Supply management is not the same as a tariff. Supply management protects Canadians and dairy workers. Maxime Bernier challenged this view and was subsequently robbed the leadership of the federal Conservative Party for it. Later, he was kicked out of the Conservative shadow caucus for again challenging this idea.

Supply management is not a tariff per se since the Canadian government is not charging American dairy producers fees for imports. The Canadian government doesn't allow American dairy producers to import at all.

The Canadian dairy lobby believes it will be a national disaster if the Canadian government ends supply management, effectively allowing American dairy producers to compete in the Canadian marketplace.

Just like how the telecommunication lobby believes it will be a "national disaster" if the Canadian government ends their cartel, allowing American internet and phone providers to compete in the Canadian market.

Canadian milk is, on average, $4.50 per gallon, unless you're in Atlantic Canada, where it's more like $5.70 per gallon. (I know, we go by litres, but, for milk, gallons are easier.)

Americans can probably sell Canadians milk at $3.20 per gallon.

That's right. Are your panties in a bunch because of something Trump said/did? Are you watching too much network news? This "issue" comes down to about $1.30 worth of savings in milk.

Personally, I don't even drink the stuff. I prefer we talk about the Bank of Canada or something, but I guess I can get to that in another post. The Fed is hiking rates.

Anyway, Canada's dairy cartel doesn't consist of a roundtable of evil conspirators. They're normal people like you and me thinking of the thousands of people they employ, and the consumers whose spending, in turn, creates their employment.

Throw them out of work and you create unemployment. The issue is simple. Supply management wins.

Also, American milk is gross. Hormones and stuff. GMO. Puss. "I'm not going to argue with you!"

Never mind that you can still freely choose, as a consumer, to drink the same milk you always have.

And that not all American milk is mass produced. I'm sure there are local Wisconsin and Minnesota dairy farmers willing to sell organic, even raw, milk to the people of Manitoba and Northern Ontario.

Why is some invisible line guarded by real people standing in the way?

Because Canada's dairy lobby looks after their own interests at the expense of everyone else. There is simply no other way to use the government apparatus.

And what of Canadians interested in becoming dairy producers themselves? Supply management is a barrier to entry if there ever was one.

Supply management is not a tariff. It is worse.

Supply management doesn't help Canadians in the same way that Trump's tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum producers ultimately harms Americans.

If all goes as planned, Trump will help bring American steel jobs back.

The cost of Canadian steel to the American buyer may be so high that Americans find it profitable to enter the steel business in whatever fashion (use your imagination here, it's not just "steelworkers" but entrepreneurs starting new factories, existing corporations branching off into new developments and capital investments, insurance companies finding new clients with these new steel producers, janitorial services for the expanding factories, construction companies to build the new infrastructure, and other positive externalities in the community such as steelworkers shopping at local vendors).

It all looks so real. But American consumers would be subsidizing this industry. Every piece of steel and aluminum produced in the US would be at the expense of the purchasing power of consumers.

Trump would bring jobs back. Americans would be employed in the steel and aluminum industries who had not previously been employed in these industries.

But there would no net addition to the country's overall wealth.

This is a crucial distinction.

Americans would be paying more to artificially prop up the steel and aluminum industries. Insomuch that the steel and aluminum industry would prosper, hundreds of thousands of other industries may shrink. In order for Americans to be employed in the steel industry, fewer Americans would be employed elsewhere.

It's hard to see these consequences. Trump's tariffs may bring back American jobs and this would be seen, it would be visible.

Perhaps then, just as a Trump presidency is making us rethink our nuclear weapon policy, perhaps Trump's tariffs will remind people of the "unseen" in economics.

Trump's results would be palpable. But the reduction in other industries, the loss of jobs somewhere else, would not be so easily noticed. Even statisticians are at a loss to know precisely what the incidence of the loss of other jobs would be. Call it the uncertainty principle of human action.

The loss is spread over too many people and obscured further by inflation. But, the loss exists. The wealth created from Trump's tariffs would be an optical illusion.

There may be more Americans in the steel industry, but there is no real increase in wages in general as a result of the tariffs. Just as there is no net increase in the number of jobs, no net increase in the demand for steel or aluminum, and no increase in the labour productivity in these industries.

Labour productivity is in fact reduced since they won't have to compete with us Canadians anymore.

American land and capital are redirected from what's more market efficient to what's more politically efficient.

All right, this is already going long. And there's plenty more I want to get to. Simply, tariffs work for the specific producers but make everyone else poorer. Including those specific producers, in the long-run.

Yet... the fallacies coming from Trump's tiny lips are the same ones I hear coming out of Canadians fat mouths. And this is whether they politically identify with the Orange Dingbat or not.

This idea that "we don't need no Americans, we got all the resources here in Canada, let's just build our manufacturing base here!"

And how do you suppose we do that? By discouraging exports through tariffs? How about the outright nationalization of crude oil, cars, gold, refined petroleum oils, automotive parts and accessories, petroleum gas, sawn and chipped wood, aluminum, and turbojets industries?

We could always raise the price of manufactured goods in Canada, demand Canadian entrepreneurs step up to the plate...

But how could we be expected to do this in a regime with punitive taxation and a costly and unnecessary government bureaucracy? Where business decisions are increasingly and fundamentally the will of bureaucratic enforcement instead of the entrepreneur?

Canadians, if they don't want to sound like Trump cut from a different cloth, should consider looking at the long-run effects on everyone as a whole instead of the immediate effects on a single group of people.

And about Canada's dairy cartel?

It's true -- they will be hurt if supply management ends. As some people have developed specialized skills surrounding supply management, they may suffer permanently. That is, until they learn a new skill. If they can. Perhaps they're in their 50s or 60s and without sufficient savings.

Such is life. It's unfair. Once upon a time, mutual aid societies like the Lions Club or the Odd Fellows played a much larger role in civic life. Like with everything else, the state has made this unaffordable. It has unintentionally fostered dependence on itself. It has crowded out private investment, including social capital.

We are now at the end of the experiment in social democracy and socialism. It may last another 20 years. But this is the end.

Fair or unfair, facts don't lie. It is a fallacy to say supply management or tariffs "provide employment," or "protect consumers" or any of that nonsense.

So far as our standard of living is concerned, it does the complete opposite.

We are poorer with tariffs and we are poorer with supply management. We're probably better off with NAFTA then without it, but, ultimately, we need to focus on the Federal Reserve if we're ever going to get anywhere.

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Bike-sharing startup Spin is getting into scooter-sharing

Because there are not enough ways to get around major cities and campuses, Spin is working to launch stationless electric scooter-sharing. These aren’t the electric scooters you see in San Francisco, operated by Scoot Networks. These are essentially electrified Razor-like scooters that can go up to 15 mph and cover 18 miles on a single charge.

Spin’s mission is to transform cities and campuses with smart mobility solutions,” Spin co- founder and President Euwyn Poon said in a statement. “We believe in multiple modes of last-mile transportation and the electric scooter is a fast, fun option for short distances. The introduction of the electric scooter marks the transition of Spin into a true multi-modal mobility platform for cities and campuses.”

In order to deter theft, Spin’s scooters require riders to unlock the wheels with the app. There is also a built-in GPS on each scooter.

Last August, Spin brought its stationless bike-share program to South San Francisco after launching in Seattle earlier that year. Then, just last month, Spin unveiled its stationless electric bike.

Although the company is based in San Francisco, it’s going to be a little while until it can launch its stationless bike-share in the city. That’s because the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency granted an exclusive 18-month pilot to JUMP for stationless bike-sharing.

It’s not clear if the SFMTA’s permit with JUMP prevents other companies from launching other types of stationless transportation sharing services. I’ve reached out to the SFTMA and will update this when I hear back. During a demo of the scooter, Poon told me the company is in early talks with the SFMTA and expects its stationless bikes to receive a permit “soon.”

Unlike Spin’s bikes, which you can rent for $1 for 30 minutes, the scooters will be a bit more expensive to rent, costing $1 to unlock and then 15 cents per minute. Spin’s plan is to first launch these scooters in some of its existing markets, which include Seattle, Washington D.C. and Dallas.


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J003-Content-Technological-Tyranny_SQWe hear a lot about how millennials are changing the business world to make it more employee-friendly. The BYOD movement is offered as evidence of this, and I’ve frequently heard long-time IT professionals lament the loss of control that they feel these days, as young upstarts bring with them the expectation that they’ll be able to hop online and access their social media accounts or play their online games during their break times.

The benefits of BYOD to users – convenience, customization, and control – are obvious. The benefit to the business’s  budget is reduced capital expenditure to provide company-owned devices to employees. However, the disadvantages are now rearing their ugly heads. Not only does it make for more work for the IT department insofar as troubleshooting and supporting all these different brands, models and platforms, but it also presents a serious security challenge.

We know that one of the laws of physics is that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, and there’s another side to this story that is no doubt a reaction to the aforementioned trend. In some companies, the pendulum seems to be swinging back the other way, with management cracking down and imposing stricter rules and more monitoring of what their workers are doing and accessing both on company premises and even on their “off” time.

A growing segment of the software industry is that of employee monitoring solutions. Many of these solutions even go as far as promising to track every moment an employee spends at work. A recent ad for one such product caught my eye because it led with the catchline: “Are your employees really working for you? Gain absolute control over your company.” Going to the web site, I read how this solution will enable you to get a complete view of any user’s activity in real time – not just web sites visited but also what apps they’re using, the connection/disconnection of external devices, printing of documents, use of files on local and network drives, deletions of data on disks and more. You can set it to take snapshots of users’ screens and can also monitor use of terminal services to access remote sites.

That claim of “absolute control” isn’t far off track. I’m not going to name this product because I don’t want to appear to be either promoting it or singling it out for criticism. There are many other similar products and services available for those companies that want or need this level of insight (some would say “intrusion”) into their employees’ activities.  The question is: How does this trend impact us all and how far will companies go in tracking everything their employees do and say?

The answer to the second question might be “Just as far as they can (technologically and legally).” This Employer as Big Brother model is gaining hold in more corners of the working world. Technology is becoming more sophisticated all the time, with the ability to go beyond even what George Orwell imagined. Privacy in the workplace is becoming an obsolete concept.

It’s not just employees’ computer usage that’s being monitored these days. Video surveillance is commonplace everywhere now; security cameras are watching (and often recording) in our homes, in stores and restaurants, on the street, and in the workplace. Supervisors track employees’ movements and locations through GPS in vehicles and on phones. Calls made on company phones are logged and even the conversations can be recorded.

Some would say that when you’re on the company’s clock, you should have no right to privacy since you’ve effectively traded it, and control over what you do, for a paycheck. Others would counter that your obligation is to get the work done, and as long as you do that, whether or not you play computer games or visit the National Enquirer web site during the day is irrelevant.  The counter to that is that by running unauthorized applications or visiting unapproved sites while connected to the employer’s network, a user exposes himself, other users of the network, and sensitive data and systems to security risks.

Some employers have gone even further and monitor not just what employees do and say at work but even what they do and say on their own time, at home – especially in regard to posting on social media. Employees have been fired over posts on Facebook, even when those posts were not made on company time or with company equipment. In some cases, the fired workers have gone to court and gotten their jobs back. In other cases, the terminations were upheld.

According to the National Labor Relations Board, some activities and speech by employees are explicitly protected under federal law, such as comments or complaints about wages, working conditions or work hours or discussion of unionization. On the other hand, some courts have upheld actions against employees for what they post on social sites; in one such case a teacher was suspended for a year for making fun of a student’s name on Facebook.

Police officers and other public officials have been fired over social media postings that their agencies deemed to constitute “conduct unbecoming,” such as the officer who was fired in 2015 for posting to Facebook a photo of himself wearing boxer shorts decorated with the Confederate flag.

The argument over whether employers have the right to terminate an employee for expressing political opinions on the Internet – whether on social media sites, email discussion groups, website forums or otherwise – is still far from settled, and the legal outcomes have been different depending on the jurisdiction and the circumstances of the individual cases. If you are an “at will” employee, your company doesn’t have to have a good reason – or any reason – to fire you, as long as you aren’t let go because of your race, religion or gender, or because you acted as a “whistleblower” regarding illegal activity or health and safety violations in the workplace.

You’re not generally considered an at-will employee if you have an employment contract for a specific time period – but be sure you read that contract thoroughly. If prohibitions against certain types of social posts (or even against all such posts) are part of an employment contract to which you agreed when you accepted the position, you might find yourself without a leg to stand on in case of disciplinary action or firing, since you could be found to be in breach of the contract. Of course, the law is a complicated thing and vary from state to state and country to country, so if you find yourself at risk of losing your job because of employer monitoring, you’ll need an attorney to sort out your rights.

Even if you can’t be fired for your social posts, though, it can be disconcerting to know that your boss is reading them – along with your email – and listening to your phone calls, or that video of you putting on your makeup at your desk or scratching itches in embarrassing parts of your body is being recorded and possibly reviewed by someone you say “hi” to every day.

Like it or not, though, we live in a surveillance society. Even in the middle of the dessert or on the deck of a ship at sea, satellite “eyes in the sky” can beam our images halfway across the world without our knowledge. The NSA reportedly can turn on your phone’s camera and use it to spy on you. Everybody and his dog (sometimes literally) is carrying or wearing a camera lately: cell phones, dash cams, webcams, body cams, cameras in glasses, GoPro-equipped helmets, and yes, even pet cams that attach to your dog’s or cat’s collars so you can find out what they were up while you were gone (or send them out into the neighborhood as undercover agents to collect photographic evidence on your neighbors).

In a constantly monitored world, there’s plenty of potential for abuse of the technology – by governments, corporations and individuals. There’s also potential to use the collected data to make our lives safer, more convenient and more efficient. Crimes can be deterred (or solved), lost children found, work done faster and more accurately. It’s up to us – through the policies we set, politicians we put in power and practices we endorse – to determine whether the future will bring limitations and balance between progress and privacy, or we’ll march further down the path to technological tyranny, at work and elsewhere.

If you want to improve your employees’ productivity, manage bandwidth and internet usage whilst also securing downloads without too much intrusion or tyranny, GFI WebMonitor might be the ideal solution for you. Try our free 30-day fully functional trial!


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parents yellingI was chatting with a friend who mentioned that she caught her own teen with a fake ID. Her son is a good kid: he is on the honor roll, in extracurricular activities, has a great social group, and doesn’t get into trouble. So she was extremely surprised to catch him with a fake ID and even more surprised when he told her the ID’s come in a 3 pack, so he’d just use another one if she confiscated it. This is the second friend who has recently told me they found their teen’s fake ID. Neither of them were expecting their kid to have one.

In Washington state, there is talk of a bill that would raise the legal age to purchase tobacco from 18 to 21. Marijuana was legalized for recreational use, but is still illegal for anyone under 21, just as it is for alcohol. Her first thought was that her son might use the ID to purchase one of these substances that is illegal for him to possess. When my friends found the fake ID’s one of their first questions was, “what do you need this for?” The response wasn’t to buy alcohol or purchase weed, but the teens did use them to go to movies rated higher than PG-13 and get into dance clubs.

Next, my friends had to determine what to do now that she’d confiscated one of the ID’s. Should she be concerned? Is it really a big deal? What’s an appropriate consequence?

As we talked, we didn’t necessarily come up with any ‘slam dunk’ answers, but here were our conclusions:

1. If your teen does a behavior that goes against your family rules/expectations there should be a consequence. In this case, my friend confiscated the ID she found.

2. Be consistent with the consequence and follow through. If you decide your teen should not be allowed to use their cell phone after dinner for a week, follow through with the consequence, don’t give them their phone back on Tuesday if you just started on Sunday.

3. Consider talking to the parents of their friends. Rather than ‘telling’ on your teen, you may ask if they’ve ever found a fake ID in their teen’s possession and if so, what did they do.

4. Ask your teen what some of the benefits of a fake ID are. Perhaps there are alternative strategies the teen could use to get the same benefit. In my friend’s case, her son wanted to go to a rated R movie and go dancing. They decided to discuss being taken to a movie instead of sneaking into one.

Have you found a fake ID in your teen’s possession? What did you do? Maybe you had a fake ID as a teen? What’s your advice for other parents?


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Everest Base Camp Trek in 30 Photos !

#01 The journey starts with a flight from Kathmandu to Lukla.  The weather at Lukla is extremely unpredictable and volatile. I had to wait for four days to reach Lukla due to bad weather. Most of the aircrafts are 16 seater, you can literally watch the pilots controlling this complicated machinery  if sitting  at front row. It’s preferable to sit at left side to get a glance of the Himalayas. The thrill while landing at Lukla can’t be explained in words, but can only be experienced.

#02 Lukla Tenzing – Hillary Airport (2860 m). Lukla is one of the most dangerous and deadliest airport in the world with a very short airstrip abruptly ending to the valleys.

#03 Prayer wheels en-route Lukla – Phakding. You’ll come across a few small villages and chortans during this 3 hr journey.

#04 A suspension bridge en-route Lukla-Phakding. There are total seven suspension bridges in EBC route.

#05 Phakding (2651 m) First stop in EBC trek.

#06 A small village en-route Phakding – Namche Bazaar. This is the toughest of all with steep ascent most of the route.

#07 Lunch point ! EBC route is extremely commercialized with tea-houses, lodges and restaurants throughout the way. Dal-bhat is one of the most common food item. Wi-fi is available at most of these restaurants on chargeable basis.

#08 After this point, there is steep ascent till Namche Bazaar. You need to move onto the next mountain through the upper suspension bridge. Crossing the bridge was an amazing experience in itself.

#09 Namche Bazaar (3438 m), second stop in EBC trek. Most of the trekkers stay here one day for acclimatization.

#10 First glimpse of Mt. Everest and Ama Dablam. Trekkers climb till Everest view lodge for a better view.

#11 Namche Bazaar market. This is the last major market in EBC route. All trekking gears can be found here, but with a higher price tag.

#12 A Chortan en-route Namche Bazaar – Tengbonche

#13 The Split ! One to Gokyo-Ri and the other to Tengbonche. EBC through Gokyo-Ri is a more difficult, but scenic trek.

#14 Tengbonche (3870 m), third stop in EBC trek. There is a monastery of Lord Rinpoche. To the right, there is a small hike to get a better view.

#15 View from Tengbonche

#16 Sun-set view of Ama Dablam(6812 m). Though it is around 2000m shorter than Mt. Everest, but it is lot more difficult to climb due to its steep ascent and treacherous trail.

#17 The landscape takes a drastic change after Somaroi and the height of trees get reduced to shrubs. It looks like green patches.

#18 A mesmerizing view en-route Tengbonche – Dingboche.

#19 Dingboche (4360 m), fourth stop in EBC trek. Most trekkers stay here one day for acclimatization and either hike till Nagarjuna Peak or till Ama Dablam base camp.

#20 Nagarjuna Peak (5088 m) This is a 2.5 hr hike from Dingboche. Ama dablam, Lhotse, Peak 38 can be seen from here.

#21 View of Ama Dablam from Nagarjuna Peak.

#22 Valley to the left (way to Pheriche) en-route Dingboche – Lobuche.

#23 Lobuche (4940 m), fifth stop in EBC trek. Mt. Pumouri can be seen in the background.

#24 Gorakshep (5170 m), the last stop in EBC trek. The no. of lodges is very limited here.

#25 Kala pathar (5545 m), a 2 hr hike from Gorakshep. It’s around 700 ft higher in altitude than EBC. The route is extremely steep, rocky and windy. One can see the best view of Mt. Everest, EBC, Everest summit last trail, Lhotse and Mt. Pumouri from its peak on a clear sunny day.

#26 View of Everest Base camp, Mt. Everest, Khumbu Glacier from Kala Patthar peak.

#27 South-side view from Kala Patthar peak.

#28 Everest Base Camp (5364 m), the Final Destination.

#29 A close-look of Everest base camp and Khumbu glacier.

#30 The prayer flags, the devotee and the mountain (EBC). Smell of accomplishment and sweetness of satisfaction was in the air.


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 In addition to her own books, Teri’s work has been published with these publishers and zines, 2011- Present.

The Harvest, at The Society of Classical Poets

Room 3327 at Solarcide

The Clean House, at Out of the Gutter Online

Anthology, Solarcidal Tendencies, story, THE LOVE, Independent anthology from Solarcide, Sixteen up and coming authors

Anthology, Terror Train, story, The Juliet Express, also includes a contribution by author William F. Nolan, co-author of the sci-fi classic, Logan’s Run.

Anthology, Flash Me! The Sinthology, story, Maybe, Independent Anthology from Solarcide

Strange Comfort, at Punchnel’s

Satisfaction, story originally published at Phantasmagorium, republished Solaricide

Perfectly Balanced, at Solarcide

Writing As Kathryn Soverane

Antares Lariat, at Juked

The Second Honeymoon, at SYW Magazine

I Am Gypsy, at Thunderdome

With All the Romance, at Thunderdome

The Need, at SYW Magazine

Silent Night, at Thunderdome

With All Fine Corpses, at Thunderdome

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I'm paying Shaw (Canada) for 150 Mbps / 16 Mbps. When I run a test at speedtest.net it always shows me ~180 / 16, even when the page has trouble loading or when it won't find my local server. Our internet experience seems a lot like network congestion, occurring at almost exact times each day - Shaw says it is not this. Everything on my end is good, or at least it can be when their service works. Their techs have tested my line for spikes as well, and tell me I have a really good physical coax connection.

Average Testmy.net download test is ~24 Mbps minimum, 180 Mbps max (shown in attachment) - and I've done thousands of tests from the Dallas server during the last couple months. I'm certain it is the ramp-up time and +100% signal variance that is causing our bad internet experience. If I was really getting the service I was paying $100/mo for, would Testmy.net's graph show me a flat response (with no ramp up and low variance) at ~150 Mbps? Is that what it should look like?

Most frustratingly, while dealing with Shaw, our internet dramatically improves just before they contact us about my service call requests. When I call for support and they call back, our speed stays good for the rest of the day, then by the next day, it has degraded once again. Has anyone else ever noticed this happening to them before? After 10 service callbacks, and three techs to our place, I know that this happens, but it does seem they are trying to help - which is always a waste of my time, because they never see the issue. My next step is the CRTC complaint, but since Testmy.net is my only source of information on what's really going on, I want to get my ducks in a row first.

Testmy.net has been invaluable for telling me where our internet speed is really at. At best, when things are really good, I'll get a minimum speed of ~50 Mbps and a max of 180 Mbps. There is always a ramp-up at the beginning of the tests as shown in my attachment. But sometimes, the Testmy.net download test gives me only 7 Mbps download - and when this happens, the graph response line is completely flat with 0% variance. Does this possibly indicate my provider has set me at a baseline speed of 7 Mbps?

Thanks in advance for any responses or advice. My effort with them is ongoing since there are no better providers in my area.

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 HALEY, JAMES EVETTS, SR. (1901–1995). J. Evetts Haley, historian, rancher, and political activist, was born in Belton, Texas, on July 5, 1901, to John Alva and Julia (Evetts) Haley. The family moved in 1906 to Midland, where John Haley established a hardware business and later a hotel. He also purchased a small ranch near town and a larger one east of the Pecos in Loving and Winkler counties. As a boy, Evetts worked on area ranches and competed at local rodeos. In the fall of 1920 he entered Midland College, where he excelled in both academics and athletics, winning a letter in football. When that college closed the following year, Haley transferred to West Texas Normal College at Canyon. There he became senior class president and served as business manager and columnist for the school newspaper, the Prairie, and as editor-in-chief of the annual, Le Mirage. Upon graduating in 1925, he was appointed field secretary of the Panhandle Plains Historical Societyqv and began interviewing pioneers and gathering artifacts and archival material, including the voluminous and important XIT Ranch papers. In the fall of 1925, Haley entered graduate school at the University of Texas, where he studied under Eugene C. Barker. After completing a thesis on Texas cattle trails, he received a master's degree in history in 1926 and resumed his duties with the Panhandle Plains Historical Society.

In 1927 officials of the former Capitol Freehold Land and Investment Company commissioned the twenty-six-year-old scholar to write a history of the XIT Ranch. Haley's critically acclaimed The XIT Ranch of Texas and the Early Days of the Llano Estacado, which appeared two years later, established the author as a premier interpreter of the western range cattle industry. The book, however, was also the subject of libel suits totaling $2.2 million. The first of these actions was tried in state district court in Lubbock in 1931. Although acquitted of the charges, Haley and his co-defendants subsequently agreed to withdraw the book from the market and paid the plaintiffs $17,500 to settle all pending claims. By this time Haley was hard at work on the biography of legendary Texas rancher Charles Goodnight, whom he had first met in 1925. In the fall of 1929 the University of Texas hired Haley to establish an archival field program. During the Great Depression, he headed the Texas Historical Records Survey. He published major articles in such diverse journals and magazines as the Southwestern Historical QuarterlySouthwest ReviewRanch RomancesNature, and the Panhandle-Plains Historical Review. He wrote thirteen articles for the Cattleman alone between 1925 and 1949 and, from 1947 to 1964, a series of more than three dozen historical sketches for the Shamrock, a publication of the Shamrock Oil and Gas Corporation. In 1936 Houghton Mifflin published Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman, a masterwork that further enhanced Haley's reputation as an writer and scholar. That same year, he also coordinated the UT history department exhibits commemorating the Texas Centennial.

During the early 1930s Haley became an increasingly vocal opponent of the New Deal policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. After being elected chairman of the Jeffersonian Democrats of Texas, a conservative anti-Roosevelt faction of the Democratic party, Haley directed that organization's political activities during the 1936 presidential campaign. In September the University of Texas, citing budgetary constraints and a shortage of grant funds, did not renew his contract. Haley contended that he was fired for political reasons. Bitter and exhausted, he returned to the Panhandle to recuperate. Early the following year he accepted a commission to write the biography of Texas banker-cattleman George W. Littlefield under a grant from the Littlefield Fund for Southern History at the University of Texas, and to undertake the biography of frontier lawman Jefferson Davis Milton for Houghton Mifflin. In 1937 he also became manager of the Zeebar Cattle Company in Arizona, owned by Texan L. L. Dent, and purchased a small ranch of his own, the JH, in Hutchinson County. He later managed the Atarque and Clochintoh Ranches in New Mexico for Dent and W. A. Wrather. In 1939 J. M. West hired Haley to manage an extensive ranching enterprise that stretched from Clear Lake, near Houston, to the Chupadero on the lower Rio Grande, to the Figure 2 in West Texas. He served in this capacity until West's death in 1942, at which time Haley again returned to the Panhandle. In 1943 the University of Oklahoma Press released Haley's George W. Littlefield, Texan. The next year the Texas State Historical Association published Charles Schreiner, General Merchandise, a short biography of a Kerrville businessman. This book marked the first of many distinguished collaborations between the author and El Paso book designer and printer J. Carl Hertzog, Sr.

In the early 1940s Haley became embroiled in a controversy between University of Texas president Homer P. Rainey and the UT Board of Regents over the issues of academic freedom and university governance. Haley sided with the regents and produced a series of essays, published in the San Antonio Express and subsequently issued in a pamphlet entitled The University of Texas and the Issue. In 1948, Haley completed his fourth major biography, Jeff Milton, A Good Man with a Gun. An important regional study, Fort Concho and the Texas Frontier, won Haley a literary award from the Sons of the Republic of Texas four years later. During the early 1950s, Haley served as president of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society and became the first director of the Institute of Americanism at Texas Technological College. He resigned the latter position in 1955 but accepted Governor R. Allan Shivers's appointment to the Texas Tech Board of Regents. During his tenure Haley was instrumental in establishing a history archive known as the Southwest Collection. He also continued to expand his ranching operations by purchasing range near Sallisaw, Oklahoma, in 1952.

Haley ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1956 on a platform that endorsed segregation and states' rights and opposed labor unions and federal price controls on natural gas. The following year he and other conservative Texans formed the political action group Texans for America. Haley was elected state chairman. During this same period the federal government charged him and his son with violating the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1936 by exceeding their wheat acreage allotment on their Oklahoma ranch. The Supreme Court eventually heard the case and overturned a lower court ruling favoring the Haleys. Never far from the political arena, Haley was both lionized and vilified for his best-selling polemic, A Texan Looks at Lyndon, issued during the 1964 presidential election campaign. He continued to support conservative candidates and causes. In 1976 he completed his last major book, a family chronicle entitled Rough Times-Tough Fiber: A Fragmentary Family Chronicle. Haley's library and personal papers became the cornerstone of the Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library, opened that year in Midland. Haley received many honors, including investiture in the Knights of the Order of San Jacinto by the Sons of the Republic of Texas in 1978, an Award of Merit from the American Association of State and Local History in 1981, induction into the Hall of Great Westerners at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center (Oklahoma City) in 1990, and similar recognition by the Heritage Hall of Fame at the State Fair of Texas in 1994.

He married Mary Vernita Stewart, a college drama teacher, on August 27, 1928, in Alpine. The couple had one son, born in 1931. After his wife died in 1958, Haley remained unmarried until 1970, when he married Rosalind Kress Frame in Savannah, Georgia. He died in Midland on October 9, 1995, and was buried in Moffat Cemetery, Bell County, Texas.

Hervey E. Chesley, Adventuring with the Old Timers, ed. B. Byron Price (Midland: Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library, 1979). Dallas Morning News, October 11, 1995. James Evetts Haley Papers, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. B. Byron Price, Crafting a Southwestern Masterpiece: J. Evetts Haley and "Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman" (Midland: Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library, 1986). B. Byron Price, "When a Good Man with a Gun Met a Good Man with a Pen," Journal of Arizona History 33 (Spring 1992). Chandler A. Robinson, J. Evetts Haley, Cowman-Historian (El Paso: Carl Hertzog, 1967). Chandler A. Robinson, ed., J. Evetts Haley and the Passing of the Old West (Austin: Jenkins , 1978).

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The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.

William E. Bard, "ADAMS, WALTER R.," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fad08), accessed March 19, 2015. Uploaded on June 9, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

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The AAA Texas 500 took place at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday. According to the Fort Worth, Texas officials, one person, who was attending the race, died after becoming sick from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Witnesses reported that the two men were sick inside of the converted bus. 49-year-old Cameron Hickman was identified, as the individual, who passed away.

He died on Sunday, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office on Monday. The Flower Mound man died after being transported to a local Fort Worth hospital.

The converted van was in the infield at the track for Sunday’s AAA Texas 500.

Kyle Clay, the Forth Worth Fire Department spokesman, said that a gasoline-powered generator was likely the cause for the poisoning. Clay said that it was not properly ventilated.

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SY Kim

Say what you want about women's sport but you simply can't argue with numbers.

Every person, man, woman or child, who has played the game and knows the difficulty of even shooting your handicap just has to respect what SY Kim did this week in Phoenix.

She shot -27 for her four rounds to win by five.

Which simply put is world class.

Paige Spiranac

Now this might be controversial and I'm even questioning myself whilst writing this but whilst girls like SY Kim are getting it done on tour Paige is... well... watch the video.

As red blooded males we're all for hot girls. But let's be realistic, don't make yourself out to be an aspiring hard working tour pro when you are jumping about in slow motion without any clothes on for Golf Digest's 58-year old fondling audience.

PS This isn't an attempt at 'negging'.

Jason Day

The world is a confusing place. Back end of last year there was a 'Big Three', then the likes of Adam Scott, Bubba Watson and Rickie Fowler chucked some wins in, whilst Spieth and McIlroy have been misfiring (Well apart from Jordan spanking -30 one week)

Then quietly Jason Day spanks 65-66 Thursday and Friday at Bay Hill to lay a platform for a win at Arnold's event.

So how on earth are we meant to pick someone for The Masters with all this going on?

Ben Curtis

The 2003 Open Champion has been fairly quiet in the 12 years since. He made a few dollars on the PGA Tour and even won a couple of times but in recent years he's been pretty rank.

82-80 at his Bay Hill invite didn't quite get it done leaving him at 1098 in the world rankings which to put it into context is five places behind me and only three ahead of Bruce Forsyth.

A quick look at his form shows more MCs than So Solid Crew.

Andy Sullivan

What's not to like about the Nuneaton lad? He has a great all around golf game, plays with a smile on his face and is a normal, grounded working class boy.

We love Sulli, who is rising up the World Rankings consistently, especially as he helped promote our golf day but mainly because we dared him to dab on the final green if he made a birdie.

Unfortunately not many birdie the 18th at Bay Hill but look out for the wee lad chucking a dab out in future weeks, should be worth the wait!

Justin Rose

There is absolutely no doubting the class of Justin but we he gives off the impression that he is wetter than an otter's pocket.

He's probably a nice guy to be fair but we want to see more of the Ryder Cup celebration and less posts with pointless hashtags about iced tea with lemonade (Possibly the wettest drink ever created)

Chris Wood

Another top lad, another English talent, another one climbing those rankings. Woody always gets involved with #GCW and the giant Bristolian had a good week at Bay Hill too.

Yes as a sneaky outside Masters bet. No to his dodgy Michael Jackson back catalogue tastes. And yes to him being a top lad and promoting our charity event!

Time and the inability to travel through it

Getting sick of waiting for The Masters now. We want to be able to travel through time straight to that beautiful Thursday, the only time where men give a shit about flowers, where we can watch superstar golfers four putt and where we all know every inch of the course and recommended shot shapes after watching with a glass of red or two for so many years.

Bring it on and piss off to the laws of the universe and Stephen Hawking for not working out time travel yet, pull your finger out son!

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Tom Friedman thinks Obama is replicating FDR's approach to the economic crisis - the implementation of several different strategies and a willingness to try different things:

When you total up all the emergency economic policies that Mr. Obama

has now put in place — a nearly $800 billion stimulus, mortgage relief,

a private-public program for buying up toxic assets and a huge capital

injection into the banking system by the Federal Reserve to lower

interest rates and expand credit — they constitute one big experiment. Together,

these policies — call them Obama Rescue Phase I — represent a huge bet

that the administration can confine this economic crisis to a really

nasty recession, the sort of thing that might constitute a long chapter

in an economic history and not a 21st-century Depression that would

trigger a whole bookshelf on the theme of: “How Barack Obama Won an

Election and Lost an Economy.”

My sense is that Obama is being far too cautious with his treatment of Wall St, and has wasted political capital he could have used to nationalize the banks and take the country in a truly different direction. While he is adopting an FDR approach, he shouldn't expect FDR results if the experiments aren't bold enough.


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Monday 20th February 2012

A new range from Sydney-based Blacklist Studio Prints

Some faves from the new Blacklist Studio Prints collection

The clever creatives at Sydney-based Blacklist Studio Prints are once again on our radar this week, with a brand new homewares, prints and soft furnishings collection entitled 'To The Sea'.

In a similar vein to their earlier work (blogged here), the typographic prints combine sweet and somewhat schmoopi phrases with sleek shiny graphics - I so love the 'you make me happy when skies are grey' print in cheerful gold and yellow.  (Although, seriously, what kind of perfect boyfriend would allow this kind of schmoop to hang on public display!?  I wanna meet that guy).

On the flip side, the retro-style wall hangings and cushions have a much more pared-back, vintage beach-house vibe going on.  The cushions have been created from custom-printed yardage, linen and leather, and are available in a range of geometric graphics and florals in beautiful muted hues.

But we reckon the showstopper in this collection are Blacklist's new vintage-inspired wall hangings.  The 'LoversXO' and  'Dreamers' vertical banners (below) are just so smile inducing - definitely worth re-arranging a room for!

To view the full product range, take a peek at this super cute short video, or have a browse through the Blacklist website and sweet blog!

LOVE these new vertical banners from Blacklist Studio Prints - definitely worth re-arranging a room for!

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10 November 2014.

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Ring The Bell: This Is Our Future – John James
I have been asked to describe the world under 2,3 or 4 degrees and what it would be like in our lifetimes and those of our children? This is my answer, based on what most of us are likely to experience during the next few decades……. unless!

Methane Erupting From East Siberian Arctic Shelf
Nations are ignoring this growing danger. As the oceans keep warming, the Gulf Stream will keep moving ocean heat into the Arctic, triggering increased methane eruptions from the seafloor that threatens to further accelerate warming in the Arctic, resulting in ever more methane being released .. ad infinitum.

California County Makes History By Passing Self-Governance Law
Over the past century, both corporations and state governments have restricted the authority of municipal corporations so the people have very few rights. Your right to govern your own county has been canceled out by the “rights” of corporations, and the authority of the State to preempt your lawmaking. This measure, though “illegal”, is about changing the law by challenging the law. Openly, frontally, and directly. The current system of law does not allow you to say “no” to fracking within the County. You therefore have a choice – you can either accept that current status of the law, or you can challenge what the law “is” and adopt a new system of law which enables you to control what happens in the County.

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São Paulo with 20 million people is suffering its worst drought in at least 80 years, with key reservoirs that supply the city dried up. Humidity from the Amazon has dropped dramatically, are all because of deforestation. That is altering the climate in the region by drastically reducing the release of billions of liters of water by rainforest trees. It is a collapse like we have never seen before. The severity of the situation in recent weeks has led government leaders to finally admit Brazil’s financial powerhouse is on the brink of a catastrophe.

The collapse of the Amazon is one of the anticipated tipping points. Its massive rain forests have been soaking up enormous quantities of carbon, as well as keeping the planet’s weather equitable. Neither of these benign effects can be expected in the future. John

Abdul Kareem: a seed sent from heaven.
Almost 40 years ago, Abdul Kareem bought five acres of land in what was then a sparsely inhabited area in northern Kerala. Shortly after, he bought some more land, and in just a few years, his 32 acres were transformed into a thick, vibrant forest, making Abdul Kareem one of the few people in India to have actually created a forest—and that too almost single-handedly.

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Mitchell Inks Three-Book Deal

Mitchell Inks Three-Book Deal

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June 29, 2017

ATHENS, Ga. – Fresh off of a Super Bowl Championship, former Georgia Bulldog wide receiver Malcolm Mitchell continued his work off the field by signing a three-book deal with Scholastic, a children’s book publisher.

The deal features a newly illustrated edition of his self-published, “The Magician’s Hat”, with a release date of May 2018, followed by two original works.

Mitchell released “The Magician’s Hat” prior to his senior year at Georgia in 2015 and has proceeded to be an advocate for children’s literacy since getting drafted last year by the New England Patriots. The Valdosta, Ga. native is the Patriots “Summer Reading Ambassador,” encouraging young students to read as much as possible during the summer months. In addition, he has hosted reading rallies all across the New England area.

Read With Malcolm is a youth literacy initiative founded by Mitchell in 2015 with the aim to introduce book ownership to students in households where reading is not a priority and to improve literacy in schools with below grade-level reading skills. In the last few years, Mitchell has received numerous awards off the field including the 2016 Georgia Writer’s Association Children’s Author of the Year honor, an American’s Promise Alliance Hero Award, a National Haier Ultimate Achievement Award, an Atlanta Sports Council Community Service Award and more.

In his rookie season with the Patriots, the fourth-round pick logged 401 receiving yards on 32 receptions and four touchdowns. During Super Bowl LI, Mitchell snagged six catches for 70 yards in New England’s 34-28 come-from-behind win over the Atlanta Falcons to seal the organization’s fifth championship.

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How To Choose and Wear High Tops

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High top trainers have walked off the basketball court and right into the world of fashion. Whether you’re looking for a way to style your favourite pair of Vans, or you want to invest in a pair of high-end Balenciaga’s, our guide to choosing and styling high tops has got you covered.

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Choosing the High Tops

High top trainers can either be worn in an understated fashion. or as a statement piece. It all depends on which style you choose, so choose wisely.

If you go for anything other than grey, black or blue, then you are inevitably going to be making a statement. Opting for something brightly coloured is going to catch everyone’s eye and have them automatically saying ‘nice shoes!’ (whether they mean it or not is another matter). That’s not to say that wearing bright high-tops is difficult; they are a great, effortless way to inject some personality into a simple outfit.

That being said, if you are about to purchase your first pair of high tops, then it’s best to start out with a more neutral colour. Black, blue and grey are all safe options that can easily be thrown on with pretty much any pair of jeans, leaving you free to go wild and wear whatever takes your fancy on your top half.

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How to Wear High Top Vans

On a side note, white trainers will make a statement the first few times you wear them; the sort of statement someone’s teeth make after they’ve used too many whitening products. Once you’ve got them covered in mud, they’re essentially a dark shoe that can be worn with anything.

Not too long ago, high tops were synonymous with basketball and skateboarding; this sporting shoe has now been picked up by top footwear brands and turned into a wearable, everyday piece.

If you want to keep things casual and classic, then Converse is without a doubt your go-to brand. Their canvas ‘All-Star’ date back to the 1920’s, when they were endorsed by basketball player Chuck Taylor, and are now a popular choice due to their comfort and versatility. Vans are heavily associated with the skateboarding generation, but when worn with a smart-casual outfit, they can easily be pulled off.

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How to Wear High Top Sneakers

The golden rule when it comes to high tops, is to keep it simple. You can forget about your chinos and suit trousers, and you can sure as hell put your tracksuit bottoms down; jeans are the best way to go. If you’ve got white trainers, then you’re best off with a light wash denim, and a darker or black denim works for all other colours.

There’s a lot of choice out there when it comes to high tops, from the high street and high fashion, to block colours to prints, here are our top picks of the best high tops in store.

Smart Casual

An easy way to achieve the smart casual look is to pair a crisp shirt, or classic roll neck, with your high tops. Finish off the look with some simple chinos and or slim fit jeans. Choosing a plain shirt from an established brand will ensure that you remain stylish, and won’t detract from your fancy footwear.

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Street Style

For a look that you can wear on a daily basis, you can’t go wrong with a basic t-shirt and hoodie. Whilst high tops and skinny jeans might be teetering on the edge of skater style, if you choose a subtly branded t-shirt, then you can remind everyone that fashion is your main priority; not skateboarding.

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If you’re planning on wearing your high tops out in warm weather, you don’t have to go for a traditionally light and summery look. Break the mould by embracing darker tones in loose fits, working a plain pair of high tops together with a simple black T-shirt and denim shorts.

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If you’re feeling a little braver and have decided to rock a brightly coloured shoe, then the simplicity of your outfit is more important than ever. You can’t go wrong with black jeans and a white t-shirt, or, if you want to create more of a contrast, opt for an all black look, with your shoes being the only source of colour.

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How To Choose and Wear High Tops

  • When you’re looking at how to wear high top shoes it’s best to let your shoes do the talking, and keep the rest of your outfit simple.
  • Choose from labels like Vans and Converse for a classic finish.
  • Opt for simple black or white trainers to match with casual, everyday styles.
  • Try statement coloured sneakers and match them with an all black outfit for a bold contrast.
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On That Note

You should now be fully prepared to go out and grab yourself some high tops, or at least give the old Converse at the back of your wardrobe a new lease of life. As long as you stick with a simple outfit, you can’t go wrong. Unless your idea of a simple outfit is a suit; that could go very wrong.

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Distilled in glass three men who look like me:
An actor, a musician, and a philosopher.
Each bear my weary eyes, my face, my body,
But each in trade before my eyes now differ.
The first, connected to a childhood dream,
Speaks wonders with a thousand masks on stage.
The second, conceived as a teenager it would seem,
Rocked strings to songs self-inked upon a page.
The third, however, by the time a beard
Could thickly grow to sculpt my face a mane,
Discovered me in ancient books and cleared
Vain, desperate follies aching for bright fame.
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We have now begun extensive editing of our footage and we are quite satisfied with some of the shots we have captured. However, we had initial difficulties after losing a portion of our edited footage but I managed to restore the data previously lost and we can now continue.

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UPDATE – Disney Responds to Han Solo “Gun Ban” Controversy

Han may yet shoot first, as Disney has made a clarification regarding the minor controversy surrounding the removal of guns from movie posters for Solo: A Star Wars Story.

According to Screen Rant, Disney states that the posters in question were for the Brazilian release of the film, and will not be used in the United States.

Brazil has had its own recent national debate over firearms, but that’s not even the reason their posters look different. Screen Rant has spoken with Disney about the posters in question and they’ve verified that the posters are specific to Brazil, and they are likely that way because Brazil is trying to push a more family-friendly image for Solo (or “Han Solo” as it’s marketed there) in that region. The posters aren’t distributed in the US, and the change has nothing to do with the gun issues in the US.

So there we have it. The changes to the Solo movie posters had nothing to do with the recent gun controversy, and those weaponless posters will likely never see the light of day outside of Brazil.

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Well, hopefully the movie does really well, or the blogosphere may kick into hyperdrive once again.

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It’s Always a Good Time for Pizza . . . and for Lean Six Sigma

DKFGAnother yummy blog from our sales guy Dave Knowles.  See why he thinks you should  Take a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt to Lunch and why the lunch should be pizza!!! #itsalwaysagoodtimeforpizza

Right up front I must confess . . . I LOVE ALL KINDS OF PIZZA!  The pizza can be frozen, homemade, chain-store or independent store; basic or gourmet; thin crust, hand-tossed, thick crust, stuffed crust; made of “dough”, bread, pita, or English muffin–“ I love all of them!”  In fact, I have never eaten a pizza that I didn’t like . . . crust . . . sauce . . . cheese . . . what’s not to like? And I do have a history here: during my 25+ year professional career as the Director of Dining Services and Summer Conferences at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, I was responsible for purchasing, making, and serving, over half a million slices of pizza to my students, clients, friends, family, and myself.

The story of this wonderful food begins in antiquity and the word pizza was first documented in AD 997 in Gaeta (central Italy).  One of the earliest forms of pizza in Italy was a flat bread known to the Romans as panis focacius. Modern pizza, when tomatoes were added, was developed in Naples in the late 18th century.  Pizza came to America via Italian immigrants in the 19th century but didn’t become popular until after World War ll.

SO . . .Pizza is a delicious and satisfying meal!

What are its similarities to Lean Six Sigma (LSS)?

A.  Both are satisfying and provide VALUE to the customer

Pizza is attractive to view, delicious to your olfactory senses and your taste buds, fills-up your stomach, and is reasonably priced.  (One large national chain still offers a 12-inch pizza for as low as $5.00!) Pizza is Sooo popular that the US pizza market is $44 billion (and the world pizza market is estimated to be $128 billion). That’s a really big deal and a BIG VALUE!

Lean Six Sigma is a methodology used to innovate and solve problems.  It combines the strategies and tools of Lean and Six Sigma. The principles of Lean Six Sigma focus on VALUE – defined from the perspective of the customer.  The goal is to increase value-add activities in a process and decrease non-value add (or wasteful) activities.

B.  Both have basic ingredients/components

Pizza–as anyone over the age of two knows — is comprised of dough (made from flour), tomato sauce, and cheese! (OK. . .sometimes toppings, too.)  The three basic ingredients are usually layered and then baked in a very, very hot oven (500 degrees or greater).

Two basic ingredients of LSS are lean and Six Sigma. Lean focuses on removing wastes while six sigma focuses on removing variation.

Removing waste from processes allows the creation of more value for customers with less work and less resources. The result is an instant gain in the speed of processes and a reduction in the cost of getting things done.

Removing variation from processes improves the quality of those processes because the processes consistently deliver value.

When you combine the efficiency of lean with the effectiveness of six sigma the result is a work team doing the right things (waste has been removed) and doing things right (variation has been removed).

C.  Both engage people

Pizza is loved and eaten by everyone! The pizza industry claims that Americans eat 100 acres of pizza daily.  (I have personally eaten several acres of pizza in my lifetime!) According to research firm Technomic’s 2016 Pizza Consumer Trend Report, pizza consumption has climbed to its highest level in the past four years. 41% of consumers polled say they eat pizza once a week and a Harris Poll found pizza is Americans’ No. 1 favorite comfort food.

LSS utilizes many different tools that actively engage people in the improvement process!  One tool, called “Value Stream Mapping” (VSM), involves a team of employees analyzing and mapping the current state of a process, envisioning the “perfect” state,  and then designing an implementable future state for this process — with the goal of eliminating steps within the process that are not necessary.   Through VSM, trust and transparency are developed within the team and an understanding of each person’s point-of view and the importance of their individual tasks are created.  Engaged team members often develop a greater sense of ownership, accountability, and see an increase in their own effectiveness.

DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) is a structured method for with problem-solving.  The process is robust and engages team members in a systematic order to identify the root causes of a problem.  The results-oriented DMAIC process allows team members to make data-driven decisions about cause-effect relationships.  In short, the DMAIC process can help a team to know what to tackle and in what order to have the greatest impact with problem-solving.

D.  Both are versatile

The 76,723 pizzerias in the US serve a wide variety of pizza:

  • Chicago-style pizza is deep-dish
  • New York-style pizza is wide, thin, and has foldable slices
  • New Haven-style pizza, known as apizza (pronounced ah-BEETS), is not perfectly round or rectangular
  • St. Louis-style pizza is thin crusted and comes in small, handy square servings
  • Stuffed pizzas have a thin layer of dough as a base in a high-sided pan, toppings (meats, basil, and oregano) and cheese placed next and an additional layer of “sealing” dough on top

Do I really need to go on?

Lean was created by Henry Ford and, as a manufacturing concept, focused on creating efficiencies and effectiveness on his automobile assembly line. After World War II, W. Edwards Deming took Lean into Japan and guided the reconstruction of Japan’s industries.  In 1986, Motorola developed Six Sigma to enhance its process development and eventually used it in its manufacturing operations. In the later decades of the 20th century, these two methodologies were combined and became a managerial concept call Lean Six Sigma.  Other industries soon recognized the benefits of this versatile approach. Today, LSS is used widely in banking, healthcare, and the US military.

LSS continues to spread into new areas–like public education– through the work of companies like LEAN Frog!

SO . . .now that you realize that there are similarities between Pizza and Lean Six Sigma, why not “Solve a Problem and Fill Your Tummy” with your new-found knowledge?  This past Tuesday (September 5th) was NATIONAL CHEESE PIZZA DAY.  However it’s always a good day for a good pizza.  Take a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt to lunch and celebrate the joys of pizza and the benefits of applying Lean Six Sigma for innovation and for problem-solving.

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And, while you are at lunch- if “The Moon Hits your Eye Like a Big Pizza” — enjoy this Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis rendition of  “That’s Amore

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College Republicans Endorse Coulter for President

Coulter says he "is pleased" by the endorsement.

The Lee University College Republicans have endorsed Dr. Chris Coulter, their faculty sponsor, as the Republican nominee for President, reflecting a growing dissatisfaction with Mitt Romney.

“I’m honored to receive the endorsement from such a diverse group of white, male political science students. I’m going to take this momentum into the Nevada primary, where I’ll be competing against the ‘establishment candidates’ as the truly conservative alternative to Mitt Romney,” Dr. Coulter said.

President Nathan Croft, a white, male political science student, said that the decision ultimately came down to a choice between Dr. Coulter and Dr. Gingrich, a former professor at West Georgia College.
“We liked a lot of Dr. Gingrich’s policy positions, but Dr. Coulter is definitely more electable against Obama,” Croft said.

Former President Zack German, a white, male political science student, added, “He’s the ideal family-values candidate due to the fact that he’s not a Mormon and has two less ex-wives than Newt Gingrich.”

Former President Daniel Diffenderfer, a white, male political science student, added that their decision to endorse Dr. Coulter was officially cemented when they checked their lifetime ratings on

“Dr. Coulter has a lifetime clarity rating of 3.5, while Dr. Gingrich was rated at just 2.2. What we need is clear leadership in Washington, and that’s what made the difference,” Diffenderfer said.

Cleo was the first to officially endorse Coulter.

Dr. Coulter has been a member of the Lee faculty since 1994 and has been described as being a “VERY vocal Republican” by one student on Rate My Professor. His views have made him incredibly popular among students of his English classes, who hail him as the next Barry Goldwater.

According to his biography, “Dr. Coulter likes reading, target shooting, and walking his female basset hound, Cleo.”

Cleo the female basset hound was unavailable for comment.

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Time is a healer, just not yet

So I kind of fucked up my attempt at assertiveness – mainly by trying to see what my mom wanted before telling the sister to calm her bossy boots down and my mom was all, why are you asking, why what, it wasn’t a big deal? And then it sort of became a tiny bit of a deal.  She did wonder why I didn’t come over and she was a bit lonely with my dad working four days in a row, but she didn’t call me or tell me that.  I said she had to promise to call me if she was lonely and this suddenly had aspects of burdening her with having to explain what she was feeling.

But it’s not.  The lyric goes, if you call, I’ll come running to see you again.  Not if you have any sort of negative emotion, my telepathy will ping and I will teleport/time travel to you so that you never have to feel it in the first place.  More tuneful, too.

But I basically ended up sending a facebook message to the sister back that said I was doing the best I can, I’ve been over a lot, I’m going to be back over a lot, and that’s all I care to say about it.  And there’s been no reply as of yet.  SO, somehow, I am certain, the wrong person has been told the wrong thing and someone’s back is up and I…am sorry for that.  I’m sorry that my mom did, for a few moments, feel lonely.  But it doesn’t change, for a moment, the fact that I am just trying to live and do and serve my many mistresses without malice.

I have had feelings about this that have been subsumed under other feelings and other tasks.  This is how life goes.

Today, I got home, put a pizza in the oven, wondered why I wasn’t suddenly making all these massive changes I could be making for half a second, and then watched women’s indoor volleyball and then…saw a film on TV that caught my eye.  I know now that it was Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?

It caught my ear more than my eye as the film was absolutely drab and the film quality was dated and aged and didn’t look meant to be shown on high-def tvs, but quotes were essential.  Without a time nor place to be bound to, these were top-level truisms.

“Time, mister, it’s not a thief. It’s an embezzler staying up nights, and juggling the books so you don’t notice anything missing when you wake up.”

It’s really amazing.

You should just watch this part.  Maybe you’d get something out of it, too.

Now a hundred words to say that I am playing Skyrim.  I’ve had it for a couple years, but it’s so NOT Dragon Age and that made it pretty impossible to enjoy.  However, I think I might kind of like it.  In a backwards, goofy sort of way.  A hundred words to say that I take a deep breath and I deflate.  That I read it everyday, every single day – what we wrote together.  That’s pointless, but it’s pleasurable so I do it.  I hit these buttons one right after the other so the draft never gets in so long as I never stop.

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"Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." -George W. Bush, 10/3/03

I guess someone forgot to tell the United Kingdom, France, Russia, Israel, India, Pakistan*, and...oh yeah, the United States!

* Just to be fair, I should note that Pakistan is not a "free nation" today (there was a military coup in 1999), but it was when they developed their nuclear weapons.

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The United States has not developed or built and new nuclear weapons since the middle of the old Bush administration.

But with a current arsenal of 19 million who needs anymore?

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remine2.JPG Remine is a technology tool that aggregates data from multiple sources, including public records, the MLS, consumer marketing firms and many more, to help you spot business opportunities and take action. It’s a high-tech, high-touch platform that enhances your ability to find potential buyers and sellers as well to engage with them. Remine also helps you uncover factors that affect a property sale like property ownership, mortgage age, or liens attached to the property. Remine creates an opportunity for you to save time door knocking and become the neighborhood expert, so you can spend more time closing leads and less time finding them.

 Showing Time.JPG ShowingTime allows you to request showings online with the click of a button. You can easily request showing feedback about one of your listings from an agent who showed it. ShowingTime also allows you to create personal profiles for sellers displaying feedback, showings and more. Receive and confirm showings simply by request via email, text, or voice.

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CLOUDCMA.JPG Cloud CMA is a REALTOR only benefit designed to help you create dynamic reports that will impress your clients on listing presentations.  You can create CMA Reports, Buyer Tours (which are great for Open Houses), Detailed Property Reports and Promotional Property Flyers.

“In a recent survey, the National Association of REALTORS®, found that CMA’s are so effective than 94% of their members use them in listings presentations.” – National Association of REALTOR®

HOMESNAPHomesnap is a great mobile app that makes it easy to get property information when you’re on the go. Whether you’re driving around a neighborhood on caravan day or just happen to be passing by a home that interests you, Homesnap can instantly provide you with photos, property details and more!

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Things  to Consider When Choosing a Mortgage Broker

It is important that you get a broker who is knowledgeable about the market if you want to secure a good mortgage option. You should pick a broker who is very experienced in the field in order to get the best deals. They are quite many in the market; therefore there are several factors that you should consider when looking for one who will serve your purpose.

You  should consider the factor of price. Before choosing a broker, it is important that you do a market research so that you find out how the service charges vary. This is because different agents provide services at varied prices. You need to make certain you pick one who will match your budget but nevertheless offer you the best services. If you are lucky to find a broker who offers free insurance review and does not charge you before finding the best mortgage option for you, then you should not think twice about hiring him or her.

You should also consider coverage. If you want to get the best mortgage deal, you need to take your time and analyze the many options available in the market. You should choose a broker at with a lucrative penetration into the market. They should have the ability to get what you would like and provide as you wish. Therefore, it is extremely important that you ask the broker the number of mortgage providers they are armed with before they advise you on the mortgage options available.

It is advised that you also consider the reputation of the mortgage broker at The technological era has made everything easier for business people. Business institutions are taking advantage of online platforms to market their products and services to potential clients. You should take your time and discover out about different brokers through the social networking platform and discover out what individuals have to say about these. You ought to check reviews and see the comments people write about a particular agent so that you have a clear image of what to anticipate in case you decide to hire them.

Convenience is another factor that should not be swept under the carpet. When making your comparisons, then you need to seek out a lender who you feel is very suitable to serve your purpose. You need to list down everything you expect your preferred broker to have so that when you are performing your assessment and find a broker matching all of your expectations, it will not be a difficult decision to decide whether to choose them or not.

There are a lot of other factors to be considered when trying to find a mortgage agent aside from the ones mentioned previously. It is important that you do your study intensively So that you finally make the right decisions. To read more on how to select the best mortgage broker, visit

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That’s right, Facebook has done it again. They keep changing the image sizes & layouts from time to time, and we all have to start updating our pages AGAIN. So here’s a guide of the new sizes that will be rolled out to business pages on 4th April 2014. If you haven’t already adjusted your pages, it’s time to get it done…

Facebook Pages – Cover Photo & Profile Image

Cover photo – 851 px x 315 px
Profile Image – 168 px x 168 px

I would suggest saving the images in PNG format as it seem to have the best quality when uploaded.

If you want to do a more creative design together with the profile pic, the spacing on the left size between the cover photo and profile pic is 23px and from the top is 210px.

If you upload anything smaller than a 851px width, Facebook will stretch it to re size.

Here are some other sizes you might need if you manage Facebook Pages.

Photo Posts – 470 px x 394 px
Link Images – 246 px x 470 px
Anything smaller than 154 px will be reduced to 90 px ×90 px

Facebook Individual Profile

Individual profile sizes are given below, which are similar to the Facebook Pages dimensions as well.

Cover photo – 851 px x 315 px
Profile Image – 168 px x 168 px

Facebook Groups

Cover photo – 784 px ×250 px

Facebook Events

Event Photo – 784 px ×295 px

The event photo preview will be a 100 px x 100 px

So there it is folks. Hope it helps! Till next time Facebook decides to change things.. cheers!


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Broker Policy

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POLICY: Our agent/broker fee is a referral fee for walking in your client. Like most builders, we have a strict policy of requiring agents/brokers to accompany their clients on their first visit to a neighborhood, preview event or information seminar. We do not credit any commissions to the buyers through escrow, and we do not pay a commission to a principal buyer. See full Broker Cooperation Terms and Conditions below.

PRIORITY ORDER: To best assist your client, they need to register on our Priority List through our website at Your client will receive a Priority Position to purchase. We can only sell to a buyer (client) who has a Priority Position (not agents/brokers Priority Position). We will attach the agent/broker to the client only if the agent/broker accompanies the client into the community on their first visit, including preview events prior to Model Opening such as private tours, dusty shoes and VIP events and information seminars.

REGISTERING: On your client's first visit to the community or on their first visit to preview event (you must accompany them), you must complete our Broker Registration form. If your client has not visited the community or attended a preview event before, we will allow you to register them and attach you to their file. While you are always welcome, from that point forward you no longer need to accompany the client on future visits.

MARKETING: The New Home Company understands that in order to successfully sell real estate brokers must also have thoughtful marketing campaigns. Although we support local broker efforts to market our neighborhoods for sale, we maintain the exclusive rights to all text, imagery and video assets located on our website or other New Home Company created marketing material. Use of any marketing assets requires approval by The New Home Company.

1. Broker cooperation shall be paid only for New Home Company communities in which The New Home Company specifically advertises the availability of broker cooperation.
2. Broker cooperation may not be offered for all residences in a community.
3. Broker cooperation amounts and terms may differ from community to community and residence to residence.
4. The New Home Company is not obligated to offer broker cooperation and, if offered, the broker cooperation shall be in an amount and terms determined by The New Home Company in its sole discretion.
5. The New Home Company may withdraw an offer of broker cooperation or change the terms of such offer, including the residences covered by the offer, at any time without notice.
6. If offered, broker cooperation shall be offered only to licensed California Real Estate Brokers.
7. Home purchasers who are licensed California real estate brokers or salespersons shall not be entitled to broker cooperation.
8. The broker must accompany the purchaser at the purchaser’s first visit to the community, preview event or information seminar.
9. At such first visit the broker and purchaser must execute and deliver all broker cooperation documents and materials required by The New Home Company (“Co-op Documents”).
10. The Co-op Documents shall apply only to the community and residence described in the Co-op Documents and not to any other community or residence.
11. The Co-op Documents may not be assigned by the broker or purchaser.
12. The broker cooperation fee shall be paid if any only if the purchaser closes escrow for the residence specified in the Co-op Documents. If escrow does not close for any reason, including the fault of the seller, no broker cooperation amount shall be paid.
13. The New Home Company shall have no obligation to provide the cooperating broker with notices or other information of any kind regarding the purchase of a home by the purchaser.
14. Broker and any salesperson representing the purchaser under Broker must have valid California real estate brokers/salesperson license at the time of execution of the Co-op Documents and the close of escrow for purchaser’s purchase of the residence described in the Co-op Documents.

**Broker co-op terms and conditions are subject to change without notice. If there is any conflict between the listed terms and conditions and the terms and conditions of the Broker Cooperation Agreement, the Broker Cooperation Agreement shall control.


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Outsourcing in the Philippines: “The Best Is yet to Come”- CBRE

“The BPO [Business Process Outsourcing] industry has come a long way from its humble beginnings as a single call center to the mammoth it is today. Only the best is yet to come,” said CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) Philippines founder, chairman and chief executive officer Rick Santos.

CBRE is the leading real estate advisory & services firm in the country. The firm cites the Philippines as one of the best outsourcing destinations in Asia as its latest research indicated the country is competitively priced as far as property prices are concerned.

Speaking in a press briefing held in Makati City, Santos stated, “The Philippines is one of the most cost effective real estate markets in Asia. For instance, it is significantly less expensive than Hong Kong and Singapore which is around 12 times more expensive. This is also why demand in the office services sector in terms of business process and knowledge process outsourcing has been growing in the country. This year’s projected take-up of office space in Manila is anywhere between 330,000 and 360,000 square meters which is quite large when compared with Singapore’s 150,000 square meters a year. We see continued expansionary demand from multinational companies as there is good value in the Philippine real estate market.”

Most Preferred Outsourcing Destination

Santos also alluded to Manila’s (Capital City of the Philippines) current position as the world’s second most important place for outsourcing, as listed in the latest Tholons’ Top 100 Outsourcing Destinations, and the presence of seven other Philippine cities – Cebu City, Davao City, Sta. Rosa (Metro Laguna), Bacolod City, Iloilo City, Baguio City, and Metro Clark.

He also believed that the country is the “bright spot of Asia” and is poised to be the BPO capital of the world as the industry has contributed immensely to the growth of the national economy during the past decade, even creating a market of 1.3 million jobs by 2016 and an annual growth of 17 percent. “Since we started 20 years ago, the Philippines is now at its peak. We can be considered the call center capital of the world, and this speaks volumes of our success story as a nation,” Santos stressed.

Moreover, he also believed that even the cities outside of Metro Manila can expect continuous growth as more BPO companies are looking to tap other competitive areas in what CBRE calls as “next wave cities.”

“We are optimistic on the movement of the real estate market, as more investors are flocking in to take part in the opportunities outside the major CBDs [central business districts] like Clark, Iloilo, Davao, and Cebu. The playing field is much more exciting now with the creation of developer and investor-driven CBDs and the strong momentum of the BPO sector in the coming years,” stated Santos.

Outlook Upgrade

Fitch Ratings announced last week that it has upgraded the Philippines’ credit rating to “Positive,” citing the country’s external finances as a key contributor to its credit strength. “The Philippines has run current account surpluses since 2003, underpinned by high levels of worker remittances and revenue from the business process outsourcing industry,” said the credit watcher.

Jason Escartin of F. Yap Securities Inc. also referred to the latest revision on the country’s outlook as an attractive factor for investors to reconsider the country’s strong current account surplus, anchored on proceeds from the industry of outsourcing in the Philippines.

Improved Global Competitiveness

Furthermore, the country climbed five notches in the latest World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Global Competitiveness Index, the annual ranking on how institutions, policies, and other factors affect the level of productivity of a country. The Philippines also got the highest ranking in terms of macroeconomic environment followed by market size and business sophistication.

The sustained growth of the industry of outsourcing in the Philippines reflects the country’s stronger economy. With these overwhelming figures, we likewise believe that this is just the beginning of more favorable outcomes for this thriving industry in the country. Start building your offshore team here today.

The Outsourced Accountant  supports Australian and New Zealand accounting firms by helping them understand and implement outsourcing solutions to help them become more proactive and truly add value to their clients. If you want to know more about outsourcing, call us at 1300 896 522/0800 452 853, and download our e-book.

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