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19 September 2006

Carbon Footprint Map - Air Travel

See how much CO2 your flying puts in the air

Carbon Footprint Map Air Travel

"By calculating the distance between your origin and destination city, based on their latitude and longitude. This is a standard trigonometric calculation. If you wish to calculate the effect of stopovers, simply enter the legs of the flight as separate trips.

Next you are categorised by flight as a short, medium, or long-haul trips. Because planes burn more fuel at takeoff and landing than at cruising altitude, short-haul trips are less fuel-efficient per mile flown.

For each of the three types of trips, a different carbon index that indicates the amount of fuel burned, on average, per mile of the journey. By multiplying this index by the distance of your trip, it is calculated how much fuel was burned per passenger for that particular flight."

18 September 2006

Photo GPS

Always know when and where your pictures were taken with the Sony GPS-CS1. Now you can keep track of your digital photos with satellite precision.
Sony GPS
"Keep track of your photo locations and dates easily with satellite precision. The GPS-CS1 calculates and records position data. When used with the supplied GPS Image Tracker software, the GPS-CS1 allows you to match the time and location data in the device with your photos. And by using the Picture Motion Browser software, supplied with certain Sony cameras*, your photos will be shown on an online map, giving you a whole new way to organize, manage and enjoy your pictures"

Simple operation
No need for complex set-up or connection. Turn on the GPS unit and check its positioning status, match the data and enjoy the new photographic enjoyment.

Handy,Compact and lightweight, weighing only 55g (not including batteries).
Store data up to one month
Holds approximately 360 hours (31MB) of data, equivalent to one month of tracking recorded at 15 second intervals. Number of log entries may differ depending on satellite coverage and signal strength.
Low power consumption
Efficient design allows up to 10 hours of use with alkaline batteries, or 14 hours with Ni-MH batteries.
Records location every 15 seconds
The GPS Unit records a location log every 15 seconds. When a photo is taken between two log points, the supplied GPS Image Tracker software estimates the locations by extrapolating from logs recorded before and after (before or later) photos are taken. the software creates an estimated location between the two recorded locations. Also If the user takes a photo when there is no satellite signal available, such as when going underground or indoors, the software makes its estimation in the same way. based on the two nearest location logs.

Supplied Accessories
GPS Unit
USB cable
CD-ROM (GPS Image Tracker)
Cleaning Cartridge

Easy GeoRSS Maps

GeoRSS Feeds now easy to use and display on a Google Map.

Easy GeoRSS Map

Example here was
'Try it' bar
http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=UKXX1899&u=f +Go
(you may need to zoom out)
Refresh if live traffic or weather data.

Suggest multiple GeoRSS inputs for comparing results
and set an overview or less zoomed in map after clicking go.

More info

UK Emissions Map - Greenspace

Emissions Map UK
Map shows UK Emissions on a Google Map

Emission Sources:
  • Energy Production: SNAP 01 (Combustion in Energy Production and Transformation)
  • Domestic Combustion: SNAP 02 (Combustion in Commercial, Institutional, Residential and Agriculture)
  • Industry Combustion: SNAP 03 (Combustion in Industry)
  • Industry Process: SNAP 04 (Production Processes)
  • Offshore: SNAP 05 (Extraction and Distribution of Fossil Fuels)
  • Solvents: SNAP 06 (Solvent Use)
  • Road Transport: SNAP 07 (Road Transport)
  • Other Transport: SNAP 08 (Other Transport and Mobile machinery)
  • Waste: SNAP 09 (Waste Treatment and Disposal)
  • Agriculture: SNAP 10 (Agriculture, Forestry and Landuse Change)
  • Nature: SNAP 11 (Nature)
  • All: Sum of all the above grids including point sources
More info

15 September 2006

WMS layers in Google Earth (Beta 4)

What is WMS?

"Web Map Service (WMS) produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically from geographic information"

WMS Layer World Population in Google Earth

WMS in Google Earth showing World Population (data source:FGDC)

How to add WMS Layer in Google Earth (Beta 4 Build 4.0.2080 only)

Add > Image Overlay>Refresh>WMS Parameters
Google Earth will check services are available (some will fail)
check the layer of interest and 'Add layers'
Wait - after stop any zooming or panning or scrolling.
waiting (a loading/progress would be useful here)

WMS images will load (be patient on slow internet connections)

When panning-zooming-scrolling after it is loaded, a transparent reload icon will appear indicating a new request to the WMS Server.

Source and help Ogle Earth

update: Google Earth Beta 4 has had a few bugs fixed
now on build 4.0.2091 (PC) & 4.0.2093 (Mac) s

minor fixes:
- Joystick/flight controller now has a disable option and is off by default
- Problem with Mac time animation is now fixed
- A few Mac Japanese translations restored
- Linux version now updated
- Faster network performance for non-US users
source: gearth

Windows version is now 4.0.2091, Mac version is now 4.0.2093

14 September 2006

Temporal Mapping in Google Earth (Beta 4)

One of the New Features in Google Earth (Beta 4 Build 4.0.2080) -clicking update inside Google Earth does not update to this version.

The temporal aspect of data and time is now represented in a easy way to understand.

Whale Shark Migration November 2005
August 2005

Whale Shark Migration August 2005
November 2005

The image represent Whale Shark migration between August and November (2005)
The kml file is available from google services

Other updates include:

A new interface for viewing time-stamped/time-range image overlays
Improved printing option for turn-by-turn driving directions with satellite imagery
New KML folders options with radio button style placemarks (under my places)
Support for Web Mapping Service(WMS) image/data overlays (now in free version too)
Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system grid overlay

13 September 2006

Archaeology Google Map with Yahoo Integration

A nice clean integration of Google Maps API and Yahoo API

Windows explorer navigation on the left interacting with the map on the right.
Use the extra icons to refine search (uses yahoo geocoder).

"When you click Find, it grabs the L/L (Long/Lat) from Yahoo geocoder and then centers the map, and loads all of my records within the bounds of the new view - so it's actually by design that a lot of markers are loaded. I'm using it as a 'search by area' function. I might try to add a small circular polyline around the L/L point that Yahoo gives me so that people know where it is - like Multimap."

Credit to SteveW

12 September 2006

Digitizing in Windows Live Local

Microsoft have done some Major Updates to Windows Live Local

Digitizing in Windows Live Local
Digitizing in Windows Live Local

Digitizing is now a reality and your can re-edit Points, Lines and Polygons

"Draw on your maps. In the last release of Live Local we introduced the Collection feature, allowing you to draw a series of pushpins on the map, save them, and easily share them with others via a simple perma-link. With this release, we've extended Collections with the ability to add lines and closed shapes to your map. Along with the familiar pushpin tool on the Scratchpad, you'll now find a bunch of drawing tools like this:"
Digitizing Tools

Go Digitize

Source: Virtual Earth Blog

A Developers Update

Live Trains Times Map for the UK

A very helpful and useful visual guide to trains and their location.

Choose your Location or Destination and see the trains arrive (on time?)

Simliar to the Dublin Live Trains Map +(zoom in)

via Programmable Web

Useful if can use this service on a Mobile Device.

11 September 2006

UK Tourist Information Maps

A nice clean interactive map for tourists visiting the UK.
London Tourist Information Map
Drill-down to the area you are visiting.
London has lots of places of interests and is up-to-date.

More information is available by clicking on the relevant legend icon or on the map.

08 September 2006

Spot the Difference - Google Maps

Google have updated satellite images and some enhancements on the map tiles for the UK (and possibly other Areas.)

Better resolution and true colour in places.

Thanks to Mike Williams you can put google map additions side by side and cross-reference them.
Try the TeleAtlas vs NavTeq some interesting differences....
and now more updates across the world

an update by CCA

07 September 2006

GeoChat 2 - GIS and Instant Messaging Meet

ArcGIS and Instant Messaging (Version 2)

The ESRI Prototype Lab is proud to announce the second release of Geochat. Geochat can be downloaded from here on ESRI's ArcScripts website. This release of Geochat is compatiable with ArcGIS Desktop 9.1 and 9.2UC.
What's new with GeoChat 2 for users?
1) New user interface (see screenshots),
2) Office-sttle alerts when new geochat messages arrive,
3) Support for adding/removing/grouping jabber users,

What's new in GeoChat 2 for developers?
1) Full source code is included,
2) Object model diagram provided for core chat assembly (ESRI.ArcGIS.Chat.dll),
3) Migrated to .NET 2.0,
4) Includes sample executeable called "ChatSample",
5) Added new message type called "CustomMessage". This allows developer to send any .NET serializable object.

via mrrichie

06 September 2006

UK Geocoder for Google Maps

UK Addresses Geocoding site

Find me '10 Downing Street, London, UK'

map.centerAndZoom(new GPoint(-0.1275, 51.5032), 4);

Find Me 'London, UK'
map.centerAndZoom(new GPoint(-0.1271, 51.5063), 4);

Geocoding Addresses

Good Work 'emad'

other services
GeoUrl Mashup | Google Maps Route Planner | Reverse Address and Stats Finder | Free Geocoder

Dusk till Dawn World Map

A World Map that show Day-time and Dusk-time and Night-time.

For Local Times use Earthtools

For Realtime World Time Zones use Qlock

05 September 2006

Catch the Pigeon (with Pollution Mapping)

+ 'click' Map
Homing pigeons with GPS enabled electronic air pollution sensing devices capable of sending real-time location based air pollution.

Via Google Maps Mania

Clever Sony Sat Nav GPS

Position Plus covers for short losses of satellite reception, such as when travelling through an underpass or between tall buildings, by using acceleration and direction sensors to keep track.
Via Stuff

04 September 2006

British Airways and Google Earth

British Airways shows all its Destinations and Prices via Google Earth
British Airways and Google_Earth
"British Airways has added a "layer" to Google Earth that lets you fly straight to 111 World Offer destinations from the comfort of your own home. Research your holiday or business trip with high-resolution satellite images, learning information from how far your hotel is from the beach and restaurants, to how much your British Airways flight will cost."

01 September 2006

New Shiny MapVu

Maps International have updated the bespoke MapVu Range.
Enhancements are:

  • Higher Resolution (254dpi tiles was 164dpi)
  • Increased Colours (256 colours was 64 colours)
  • Improved Specification (Warmer Colours, No White background)
  • LWZ Compressed Tiffs equals faster display (was Png)
  • London is Enhanced (Major landmarks, major bulidings, bridge names and parks added)

MapVu 10k London_Enhanced

What makes this different to any other Mapping Product.

MapVu Specification does not change through the scales. Map scales are 1:10,000, 1:40,000, 1:100,000, 1:200,000, 1:625,000 and 1:1,000,000

New MapVu Data on the Website is currently being updated.


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by on July 17, 2011 at 7:04 am in Uncategorized | Permalink

1. What’s up with Incan khipus?

2. Italy vs. Japan, a good puzzle.

3. Do people mean what they say?

4. Markets in everything (beware: the link has a photo of a woman in a bikini).

5. One look at the Khan Academy.

Andrew' July 17, 2011 at 7:11 am

5. How are we going to measure this?

Andrew' July 17, 2011 at 7:17 am

2. Thank God. A PK joint that didn’t make me do a full body purge. I probably didn’t understand it.

Rahul July 17, 2011 at 8:50 am

Re 5:

Gary Stager, a longtime educational consultant and advocate of laptops in classrooms, thinks Khan Academy isn’t innovative at all. The videos and software modules, he contends, are just a high tech version of that most hoary of teaching techniques—lecturing and drilling.

What’s wrong with lectures and drilling? How does one teach something like multiplication tables, trigonometric identities, or integration-formulae, if not through drilling? In the craze for “innovative” teaching sometimes efficient time-tested methods end up being an unnecessary casualty.

AndrewL July 17, 2011 at 10:17 pm

I totally agree. Math is about technique, and learning the technique requires practice. It is the perfect subject to be teaching via lectures and practice, there’s nothing creative about math at the grade school level. Rather, all the math you learn in grade school is like a toolbox full of tools. You can use these tools to invent new tools, or build buildings.

Math should be easiest subject to teach: it’s so easy to track progress and there’s no ambiguity about it.

TGGP July 19, 2011 at 12:11 am
jk July 17, 2011 at 9:14 am

I do not ideologically agree with Krugman and his Keynsianism, but he makes interesting points. He finds connections that may not manifest themselves in a few years. He brought up Austria’s leveraged exposure to Eastern European banks, it was amusing to read the vitriol of the comments.

My only criticism of him is that he fails to mention when the supply-siders actually score points. I know all economies in the world are hybrids of some sort, but he never mentions how countries of Germany are doing good probably due to increases in productivity from labor regulation reforms and getting rid of the drag of minimum wage. Germany does not have a federal minimum wage! But yes, they do have high tax and unemployment regulations/”protections”.

Indy July 17, 2011 at 9:48 am

Italy vs. Japan: One thing to look at would be currency movements to reconcile the nominal interest rate difference with the real purchasing power difference. The yen is at an all-time high vs. the dollar having appreciated over 50% in the last 4 years. (And yet inflation in both countries is near 0% despite the huge adjustment in relative purchasing power? Isn’t that a bit odd?).

Since the crisis began in 2008 – the Yen has also appreciated 50% against the Euro – though much of that rise occurred in the last quarter of 2008. Everything given up in the Tsunami aftermath has been quickly regained.

If the market expectation is that the yen will retain it’s real, global-commodity-bundle purchasing power with very low default risk, but that the Euro will have to decline eventually, with an unknown but significant chance of random default-like event, then the split in interest rates seems perfectly reasonable.

celestus July 17, 2011 at 10:02 am

5. I’m not sure I get why the Khan Academy works so much better than a textbook (or Wikipedia for that matter) as far as math, but I guess some people learn better through lectures than through reading (or never do the reading).

His econ/finance stuff is pretty bad though- the first time I heard of the site I watched the video on “why the bailouts can’t possibly work” and was pretty disturbed. I just now watched his video on leveraged buyouts (he had no idea what he was talking about) and a couple hedge fund videos (some odd moments there as well).

Japan July 17, 2011 at 10:28 am

Here is what I posted.

The political economy of Japan is such that financial institutions recycle domestic savings mostly into JGBs. What you have to understand from the Japanese perspective is that they cannot comprehend how national banks would be unwilling to fund national deficits? You could see the enormous effort undertaken by ordinary Koreans during the Asian Financial Crisis, thing in these countries work differently. The profit motive in Japanese (Korean and Chinese as well) banking does not exist to the same degree as in the US or Europe. Banks are supposed to act in the interest of the nation, the interest of the nation being right now the avoidance of a default. Can you imagine the public pressure banks would be under in Japan if they failed to obey politics and divested the savings in a ‘foreign adventure’ and caused yields to spike? The decision making process is totally different in the US. US banks and funds see themselves as agents that tell the state ‘look, those deficits are out of proportion, we want a higher return as compensation for the risk’. In Japan it quite the opposite ‘ok, the nation is going through tough times, so of course we will do our best to support the nation’.

You just have to look at the way chaebols or keiretsu are and were financed to understand that Japanese banks will fund the nation’s deficits out of sheer duty.

Of course, there’s much more to it, but this aspect explains a lot.

Jamie_NYC July 17, 2011 at 2:30 pm

Very good comment, I agree completely. Krugman is clueless about how the real world works, as usual.

anonymous July 17, 2011 at 10:32 am

#3: as the article points out, we know that small changes in wording and framing can drastically affect the percentages of people who answer survey questions one way or the other. And then we promptly forget it.

For instance, we constantly hear of international surveys which “discover” that people in country X are more likely to ____ than people in country Y. These are certainly featured often enough in “assorted links” here, and on other websites. And people solemnly debate the sociological and cultural implications without ever stopping to think that the entire statistical effect could very likely simply be an artifact of translation.

The most recent example: the Kinsey Institute tells us (in their recent widely-commented “men like to cuddle” report) that both Japanese men and women are more sexually satisfied than Americans. Who knows, perhaps it could even be true. And yet a nuance here, a connotation there, the difference between “satisfied” and “content”, perhaps a subtle choice of wording that triggers a philosophical “count your blessings” moment of introspection, and that could account for the whole difference right there.

PLW July 17, 2011 at 10:58 am

Does anyone know of something like Khan Academy for Principles of Economics?

8 July 17, 2011 at 11:25 am

2. It’s only a puzzle if you think the real world should look like an economic model. There are a number of hedge fund managers who are taking the opportunity to go short Japan, due to the current low cost.

JonF July 17, 2011 at 12:31 pm

Re: beware: the link has a photo of a woman in a bikini

Mercy! Pass the smelling salts! Send the children out of the room! :)

Martin July 17, 2011 at 3:14 pm

2. Italy may be exposed to more outside risk than Japan, but the biggest difference is probably the culture of the two countries. The ability of the Japanese to make hard and responsible choices and the length they will go to avoid the humiliation of default is bigger than that of the Italians.

ChrisA July 17, 2011 at 9:38 pm

Japan vs Italy – simple. Japan can print its own currency, Italy can’t. Italy is on a quasi gold standard.

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Warning: Euro May Trigger Global Collapse

What Democracy Really Looks Like

Over the last week, I’ve been watching events unfolding with growing concern, and while I truly hate the idea that I might inadvertently offer myself up as just one more “Chicken Little,” I must in all candor tell you that because the sky is not falling now, do not assume it will not fall tomorrow.  We’ve listened to the media talking heads, the pundits, the analysts, the economists, and even the politicians, and virtually all of them have made rosy predictions and hopeful prognostications for the immediate future, and your federal government feeds this view with its own phony numbers, endlessly amendable and adjustable statistics, and a common lie that consists of telling you: “It’s all going to be just fine.”  As I’ve reported to you within the last few weeks, more downgrades were coming, and banks moved Euro liabilities under cover of FDIC, but now the downgrades are here.  There will be more.  When the Euro falls, it may very well take the United States with it.  The time to prepare has very nearly expired, and there will be no turning back.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am now going to tell you the truth, and I will place no bunting of red, white and blue around it, because you deserve to know it all lest you be left penniless and homeless and starving in the streets, unable to defend yourself from the cold, never mind the brigands that will likely swarm our cities:  If the Euro collapses, the blow-back may not merely damage our economy, but thoroughly destroy it, and there is absolutely nothing we can do but deepen and worsen the results by more delaying tactics.  Businesses are scrambling to come up with options if the Euro collapses, but the truth is that many of them are now in a position from which they will not recover.   The choices you make now may mean the literal life or death of you, but it’s important that you know how we arrived here so that if ever there is a chance to arise anew, you will already know the answer.  Even now, the statists of Europe are seeking ways to loot you. One world government will come riding in on the back of this nightmarish trojan horse.

It is a truism that few wish to acknowledge that one cannot consume more than one produces without eventually becoming subject to the sort of collapse we now face.  It goes for nations as well as people,  and just as people can hide the growing disparity between their financial underpinnings and their lifestyles for a time, nations can do so, and for even longer and to a greater degree because they can pilfer the value of the few still producing among their citizens.  The problem is that just like individuals, even nations and unions of nations run afoul of nature’s basic truism requiring one to produce at least as much as one consumes.  Herein lies the sickening truth of the impending Euro collapse, and the collapse of all those who have tied themselves to the Euro, including the United States.  For far too long, far too many of us have lived without producing while others camouflaged their bankruptcy, willingly or [more often] unwillingly carrying their burdens.  No nation can survive that.  No people can sustain that.

The single currency of the European Union was advertised to make them more competitive as a trading bloc with the United States and Asia.  In truth, that’s not the whole story.  The Euro was also devised as the means by which to buy a little more time before the welfare states of Europe failed.  No rational person ever thought otherwise, and every politician from Rome to Madrid to London to Paris and Berlin has known this for two generations or more.  Your politicians right here in the good ol’ US of A have known it too, and yet when they had a chance to do something to change it, they instead accelerated it.  You might ask: “Why?”

The answer has ever been the same, and it is the endless pursuit of power at the cost of any and every principle.  This ambition has blinded mankind almost from the very start of the first civilizations.  In our modern society, if you think politicians are the greatest bribe-takers, I urge you to think again: Modern politicians are the greatest source of offers in bribery but the greatest recipients are we the people.  You wonder who is guilty?  He who offers a bribe is powerless in the face of rejection, but he who accepts that bribe is guilty for all his days.  In small increments, and in bits and pieces, the people of Europe were convinced to surrender their liberty in exchange for small bribes.  Over time, the bribes became so large that to maintain them demanded more and more from the producers, until the relative few producers began to join the gravy train.  While they bribed your silence and your complicity with the get from your neighbors’ pockets, be assured that they have been busily lining their own.

The Euro was concocted to hide this.  All those nations whose fiscal problems are now manifest have always been unstable, and it’s because successive generations of politicians in those nations have been carrying out this sort of bribery of its citizenry from time immemorial.  The French revolution was a Marxist affair, though not known by that name in those days, and nations such as Greece, Italy, and Spain haven’t been fiscally responsible for centuries.  The disease is not heritable, but it often visits subsequent generations, because it is born of a bad idea that is passed from one to the next.  That idea is statism.  Statism is the ruin of mankind, and always has been, because its fundamental claim is that man exists to serve the state before himself.  Whether statism took the form of Monarchy, Theocracy, Democracy, or some brand of Totalitarianism, it has ever been the bane of human existence, and yet no idea has more staying power among people than this one.  It plays upon one of mankind’s greatest weaknesses:  The temptation of covetousness and envy, born ever of sloth.  It is enabled  by the deadliest sins against nature, or nature’s God.  It offers the false promise of a life without discomfort, effort, or pain, but in the end, it returns only misery.

A little more than a century ago, this idea began to catch on even in  America.  It has slowly grown as a cancer, and it has spread its tendrils through every community, on every level, and in all things.  We’ve been hiding it, too.  This disease has its own fuel, and the Federal Reserve provides it, and not surprisingly, has been providing it for most of the time in question: Easy money.  Low interest rates and plentiful credit has made this possible.  Consider the individual who runs up a pocket-full of credit cards, and struggles to make the monthly minimum payments.  That’s our nation.  Just as a weak-minded, or necessity-driven person can quickly run into debt to a dangerous level, so too can a country, and just as the easy availability of credit can act as an inducement for an individual, so does it work as a great temptation to nations.  Nations fall when they permit politicians to bribe them with credit.  Look around you: How many votes have been bought by a budget that is nearly two-thirds entitlement programs?

As has been reported this week, our own Federal Reserve loaned out over $7 Trillion at impossibly low interest rates.  That’s half the GDP of the United States, in loans.  Yet you may rightly ask:  Where does the Fed get the money?  Answer: It loans it into existence, i.e., it prints it.  Only the promise of the debtor to pay gives it any value, but if that debtor defaults, well, the value of the dollar is diminished accordingly, but even if the debtor makes payments, there is always risk attached, and that risk is shown in inflation.  This is why the Credit rating of the US Government has been such a big deal:  It is the single largest debtor, and substantially so. As our government looks less and less likely to be able to repay its debts, while it continues to borrow money at an increasing pace, what do you suppose will happen to the value of your money?  Why did Thanksgiving dinner cost an average of 13% more this year than last?  Next year’s will cost 20% more, or worse.

This is the real truth of this situation, and unless and until you are ready to confront it, and to reject the myriad bribes from politicians, you are going to see things grow much worse.  Perhaps most frightening, they may have successfully engineered not only the collapse of the Euro, but also the Dollar, and every other major currency on the planet, but what they will offer as a “fix” is a global currency that will make of us all slaves to the same masters.  They will offer you more bribes, or at least threaten to take away the ones you currently enjoy, all so you will go along.

Ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake about it:  With the current crisis ready to explode in Europe, and with the state of our own economy, under the willfully absent leadership of Barack Obama, we are waiting on the edge of collapse.  This may be a most un-Merry Christmas, and it only promises to worsen.  If we somehow survive as a nation, it will be surprising, but it will only have been possible if we reject calls for a global currency even at the expense of the bribes we are now so accustomed to taking that we believe them to be our entitlements.  From now until then, you can spend your time in contemplation: Do you prefer life as a slave?  Many of your neighbors will say “yes” without flinching.  Somehow, somewhere, we must find the strength to say “No.”   Prepare, my friends, and by the strength of your preparations may the republic endure.

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  • Tracy

    More great writing, Mark. All completely true. My husband and I have been preparing for two years and still don't feel ready. Everything in my gut is screaming that the collapse is near. I pray that it's not but I am a realist. I see nothing optimistic in our future. Things have been getting bad since Obama was elected (the only time I actually cried during an election) and each day the damage being done is growing at a faster and faster rate. We are coming very close to the point of no return. What I find very sad are the people who still don't see what's right in front of their faces. It absolutely boggles my mind. None of my family members are paying attention and when I have tried to inform them don't believe it. This is going to hit them very hard but we can only do so much to wake people up. If more people had been paying attention this would have never gotten this far. We have only ourselves to blame. My heart is very heavy but I'm ready to fight. God help us all.

  • Chris Rafferty

    How have you prepared?

    • Tracy

      All the necessities that are needed to survive for about 2 years. Food, fuel, clothing, shoes, guns, ammo. Batteries, candles. Where we would be in trouble, just like others, is if we lose power. You can only store so much fuel. We have a generator but again it needs fuel to run. We have a well but need electricity to run the pump on the well. We are also going to buy some alcohol and cigarrettes. We don't smoke or drink anymore but they would be good for bartering. We've prepared as much as we can.

      • eyetooth tom

        Nothing wrong with getting ready for hard times. No problem here with that.
        Did that with Y2K. Bought lots of stuff in '99, ammo and all. Already had machinery to use since granddaddy was gunsmith from pre-1900.
        Food put up in 30 gallon cleaned out chlorine barrels , sealed with silicon sealants, pumped free of oxygen with nitrogen.
        Guess what…couldn't eat it all. Never even tried. Gave it to survivalist in area who is likely dead now from old age. Still have machinery and whatnots.
        Unless you live on rocky top how many clips are you going to get off before city folks swarm on you?
        So you pick off a few. But you still never see if you won.

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  • http://gravatar.com/1thinkingwoman 1thinkingwoman

    Mark, Awesome work, as always!

    I see Costco now sells "survival kits" with food lasting up to 20 years shelf life, and "shelf Reliance" survival pack.

    Why are our elected officials and news media not even discussing this imminent economic disaster? Family and friends are out shopping, spending, without a care in the world, with or without the facts, consider "me" the loon.

    I have heavy heart this Holiday season. It feels like our country is being run into the ground by amateurs and those that actually want to see America, it's promise, it's future collapse into a 3rd world ghetto.

    Give more facts to someone like the Wikileaks guy? Rush? Hannity? Off cable – get you on ABC, NBC, and CBS??

    • Tracy

      1thinkingwoman. I hear you on the loon thing. My brother-in-law actually said that he was worried about me. Pissed me off at the time. Now it just makes me laugh and then I move on.

  • mimsborne

    You certainly have a flair for writing, Mr America. My favorite lines: "one of mankind’s greatest weaknesses: The temptation of covetousness and envy, born ever of sloth", and "It offers the false promise of a life without discomfort, effort, or pain, but in the end, it returns only misery." Very quotable.

    • http://www.markamerica.com MarkAmerica

      Thank you! You're very kind to say so!

  • CharlaStar

    As FDR said, "If it happens in government, you can bet it was planned that way." Look what the international bankers did to Germany when they started to buck the system. They made sure nobody bid on Germany's bonds. This a conspiracy of INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL BANKERS to take the world to its knees and reshape everyone in the image of SERFS. Too bad Jesus didn't do a better job in throwing them out of the temple, but then, he was only 12 at the time.

  • Gwen

    Should I move back to New Zealand?

  • Kenneth

    To Gwen, I think it might postpone the inevitable, but not for very long.

    • Tracy

      I agree with you, Kenneth. This will not stop in the US. It's like a virus spreading throughout the world.

      • Gwen

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Keith Olbermann, Jon Stewart: Out-crazying Glenn Beck

Keith Olbermann’s segments on Glenn Beck’s Rockefeller Center lunacy the past two nights have been hysterical. Do not miss these:

The clip above is from Thursday night’s installment of Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. In it, Keith analyzes Glenn Beck’s analysis Wednesday night on Fox News of assorted “progressive” or “communist” or “fascist” propaganda symbols supposedly hidden in various pieces of art in and around New York’s Rockefeller Center.

But wait — there’s more!

Friday night, Keith Olbermann topped even that outstanding performance with this one, pointing out just how “progressive” the Rockefellers were, among other things, before spinning out into a joyous and triumphant celebration of random raving that will make you laugh, cry, and wet your pants all at once.

Updates: Jon Stewart parodies Glenn Beck

On the November 5 installment of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart satirized the Glenn Beck show (yes, Christopher Hitchens, this is satire) by putting forward a makeshift conspiracy theory regarding Beck’s appendicitis and subsequent appendectomy.

The “11/3 Project” segment above is “brilliant, dark, stunning” and, Mark Karlin also notes, a tour de force that Stewart nailed.

Then, on March 18, 2010, Jon Stewart unleashed perhaps the most hilarious Daily Show segment ever, “Conservative Libertarian,” a parody of Glenn Beck which, in Daniel Kurtzman’s words, “achieved the near-impossible: out-crazying Glenn Beck.”

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Market Hall Performing Arts Centre is proud to celebrate its 15th year of Creativity Camps.

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Whiskey Jack Presents Stories & Songs of Stompin’ Tom. Coming to Peterborough on April 17th.

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Why household formation drives homebuilder demand (Part 5)

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The pent-up demand combined with a lack of construction in recent years means homebuilders have a great set of circumstances

Housing has been the story of the economy since 2004. During the bubble years, housing and construction employed a lot of people—not only construction workers, but also professionals who work in the real estate industry. This boom caused unemployment to drop below 5% during the salad days.

The Great Recession was driven by a banking crisis, which had at its root a residential real estate bubble. When that bubble burst, many people lost much of their net worth and their jobs. By some estimates, over half the jobs lost during the Great Recession directly or indirectly related to the real estate industry. The lack of a robust housing sector has been the primary reason why this recovery has been so anemic and unsatisfying.

But that circumstance is changing. As the housing recovery has taken hold, many would-be buyers are finding a lack of inventory. Part of this scarcity is due to geography. In judicial states, the shadow inventory (or homes in foreclosure) has been held off market due to a congested legal system. In non-judicial states, that inventory has been bought, largely by professional investors. Either way, homebuyers meet with inadequate supply.

This leaves the homebuilders like KB Home (KBH), Lennar (LEN), Toll Brothers (TOL), Standard Pacific (SPF), and NVR in a great position. As the economy recovers, they’re finding themselves having to meet the demand for first-time homebuyers and for move-up homebuyers. Earnings reports from the builders have been strong, with increases of 50% or more in sales and backlog. It’s important to remember that while growth is coming from distressed levels, current production is still well below historical averages and doesn’t take into account the additional demand that will release as household formation numbers increase in the future.

With pent-up demand of roughly 2 million households, housing starts of under 1 million per year for the past five years, and an obsolescence rate of roughly 300,000 units per year, there’s a tremendous amount of pent-up demand that the homebuilders must satisfy. This supply and demand imbalance will drive homebuilder earnings for years to come.

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  • http://www.residentialmarketingblog.com/ Daniel R. Levitan

    Household formations typically are produced by population growth fueled by employment growth. Both of these factors can be tracked well in advance of actual household formations thereby providing a glimpse into future demand.

  • Hopeglory

    Labor force participation rates are on the decline as the Bureau of Labor Staticistics reported in January of 2014. Is this low workforce participation rate tied to low household formation? I think there is a link here. Also, if anyone thinks the recession ended in 2009 they haven’t been looking at the economic conditions of the USA, which I assert is still in the midst of a recession, no matter what any Ivy League trained economist may tell you.


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The upcoming FOMC meeting

With a relatively light week data-wise, the market will probably just fret about the upcoming FOMC meeting

This week is relatively data-light, as the big report was last Friday’s jobs report. This week, we’ll get some inflation data through import prices and the PPI. We will also get retail sales, which will cover back-to-school shopping and give us a read on how the consumer is doing.

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Wednesday, September 11

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  • Wholesale Inventories

Thursday, September 12

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  • Import Prices
  • Monthly Budget Statement

Friday, September 13

  • Producer Price Index
  • Retail Sales
  • University of Michigan Consumer Confidence

Earnings Releases this week

Monday, September 9

  • Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV)

Implications for mortgage REITs

After not mattering for quite some time, inflation numbers are now relevant as far as Fed policy goes. REITs like American Capital Agency (AGNC) or Annaly (NLY) will focus on the import price index and the producer price index. If the Fed starts seeing some inflation, it will not only breathe a sigh of relief, but it will also probably accelerate the unwinding of quantitative easing. Needless to say, next week will basically just be a week of marking time, waiting for the FOMC meeting.

Implications for homebuilders

Homebuilder earnings are largely done, with only Hovnanian (HOV) left. That said, there’s a lot of economic data of interest to builders like Lennar (LEN) and KB Home (KBH) this week. Retail sales will give clues as to how the consumer is faring—a happy consumer spending money is good for the economy and new home sales in particular. The back-to-school shopping season is second to the holidays in importance for retailers. Watch to see how different sectors of the retail space are performing and compare them to the builders. Is it the high end that is doing well?  (Tiffany and Toll Brothers), or is it the lower end (Walmart and Pulte). Finally, the University of Michigan Consumer Confidence number is big, as consumer confidence is a big driver of homebuilders.

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goats cheese and pomodorino tomato cannelloni

Is it possible to suffer from a surfeit of tomatoes? Not in my experience and if you like tomatoes, you will love this deliciously tangy pasta dish, which uses two varieties of tomato. This is popular with vegetarians and meat-eaters alike and is a great "hands-on" recipe too; everyone seems to really enjoy rolling up the lasagne sheets to make their own cannelloni. Mucky pups that they are!

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Preparation time: 1 hr 20 mins

5 tbsp fruity olive oil
750g ripe pomodorino (baby plum) or cherry tomatoes
2 tsp dried oregano
2 tsp golden caster sugar
6 tbsp fresh green pesto (Either make your own, or buy a good quality fresh pesto, not the stuff in a jar. It always seems to taste rancid!)
225g soft rindless goats cheese
12 x fresh lasagne sheets
350g ripe vine tomatoes, sliced very thinly
3 tbsp freshly grated parmesan
fresh basil leaves, torn

  1. Preheat oven to 220C / Gas Mark 7.
  2. Oil a large shallow baking dish.
  3. Halve 250g of the baby plum or cherry tomatoes and set aside.
  4. Heat the oil in a large frying or saucepan and add the rest of the whole baby plum or cherry tomatoes. Cover and cook over a moderately high heatfor about 5 minutes, shaking the pan every so often so that the tomatoes don't stick. They will eventually collapse.
  5. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar, the oregano and seasoning. Check the taste and if necessary add the rest of the sugar and more seasoning. Set aside.
  6. Beat the pesto into the goats cheese.
  7. Spoon half of the tomato sauce mixture onto the bottom of the baking dish.
  8. Lay out the fresh lasagne on a chopping board and spread the cheese mixture over each sheet of pasta.
  9. Put a layer of the sliced vine tomatoes on top of the cheese, then roll up the pasta to form a cannelloni tube and continue until all 12 sheets have been rolled up.
  10. Place the cannelloni tubes on top of the tomato mixture.
  11. Spooon over the rest of the tomato mixture.
  12. Scatter over the cherry tomato halves.
  13. Cover with foil and bake for 25 to 20 minutes.
  14. Uncover and sprinkle with cheese and bake for a further 10 minutes.
  15. To serve, sprinkle with torn basil leaves.

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Bridgett said...

This sounds like the ultra comfort-food pasta with the goats cheese in there as well. My Roma tomatoes are starting to redden on the vine in this California heat and this recipe will be a great one to try when they are ripe.
I love your blog and thank you so much for taking the time to comment on mine. I look forward to reading more of your posts. Take care!


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'Showbiz Tonight' Flashpoint: First look at 'Jersey Shore' season 4
July 19th, 2011
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'Showbiz Tonight' Flashpoint: First look at 'Jersey Shore' season 4

Although Italy might not have been excited about the “Jersey Shore” cast filming there, a clip of the cast shooting in Florence is surely giving hardcore fans something to fist pump about.

MTV just released a trailer for the new season, which debuts on August 4. Avid watchers will see the cast take part in their usual antics that we all know and love - despite the language barrier - like clubbing, hooking up and a whole lot of fighting.

The trailer gives us a glimpse of the news we heard about while the gang was taping. Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi gets put in “Italian jail” (as Michael "The Situation” Sorrentino calls it) after she hits a police car and sends two cops to the hospital. We also saw the aftermath of the fistfight between The Situation and Ronnie - someone leaves the house on a stretcher - as well as the build-up to the brawl.

Are you excited to watch the new season of “Jersey Shore” as the cast takes on Italy? Let us know what you think below and be sure to watch today's "Showbiz Tonight," exclusively at 11 p.m. ET/PT on HLN.

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  3. MoJo

    That Jersey Shore is like are a STD epidemic. What a disgrace they to all Americans.

    July 20, 2011 at 4:30 pm | Report abuse |
  4. the_dude

    My apologies to Italy. What can I say Americans are retarded.

    July 20, 2011 at 11:11 am | Report abuse |
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  6. Sebastian Van Goober

    The show and the players are pure dogManure.

    July 20, 2011 at 8:20 am | Report abuse |
  7. Micha

    A bunch of untalented wannabe's

    July 20, 2011 at 5:57 am | Report abuse |
  8. Tonya Ferguson

    The show is total crap.

    July 20, 2011 at 5:52 am | Report abuse |
  9. charlie crack

    Ooooh I loves me some J-Woww! D@mn! And she's rough too....i'd let her smack me around the beach....

    July 20, 2011 at 12:38 am | Report abuse |
  10. fernace

    @ tracie, you Juan Banuelos should Definitely hook up! @ Jamal, these are the type of white people you Do Not want your kids to emulate! Laugh at, sure but that's all!!

    July 19, 2011 at 11:49 pm | Report abuse |
  11. @holly

    Wanna play a game of old maid ?

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  13. jamal

    Its a funny show. No kidding. The kids in my neighborhood love it.

    July 19, 2011 at 5:28 pm | Report abuse |
  14. Evel Knievel

    Garlic eating guineas.

    July 19, 2011 at 5:24 pm | Report abuse |
  15. alecia

    Jamal, for crying outloud! PLEASE stop those children! The real thing is bad enough!

    July 19, 2011 at 5:24 pm | Report abuse |
  16. jamal

    This is a very big show amongst us African Americans. I live in Chicago and often see members of our community immitating the kids on Jersey Shore. My son likes it also.

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  17. the punisher

    Tracie, you are not well. The only thing you have on your mind is poop. I guess that makes you a $h!thead. Snooki, on the other hand, is just trailer trash with a Jersey accent.

    July 19, 2011 at 4:20 pm | Report abuse |
  18. tracie

    I would like to run my nose up The Situation's buttcrack and sniff.

    July 19, 2011 at 4:08 pm | Report abuse |
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    Cheeseballs & steak sandwiches!

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  20. alecia

    People wonder why et's havent visited Earth recently. Its probably because they are getting transmissions of 'Snookie' and 'the Situation' (sorry just vomited a little in my mouth) and have decided that no, theres not intelligent life there. Next!

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Celebs play 'Words With Friends' for charity
September 26th, 2012
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Celebs play 'Words With Friends' for charity

It’s no secret that "Words With Friends," Zynga’s word-building game, is popular among celebrities. Just ask Alec Baldwin.

And starting Thursday, celeb wordsmiths like Kristen Bell, Edward Norton and Snoop Lion will play the Scrabble-like game for a cause.

In addition to bragging rights, players are taking part in Zynga and American Express’ "Words With Friends" Celebrity Challenge for the chance to win $500,000, which they’ll donate to the charity of their choice, according to a press release.

Fans can get in on the action by playing “Words With Friends” on behalf of their favorite celebrity, or by donating to one of eight charities through CrowdRise, a fundraising site founded by Norton.

“We are all about making fundraising fun through competition and games at CrowdRise, so this couldn't be a better partnership for us,” Norton said in a press release. “Zynga knows a thing or two about social gaming, and it's awesome to see them using that knowledge to engineer impact.”

Other celebrities taking part in the tournament, which runs through October 3, are Jonah Hill, John Legend, Eva Longoria, Paul Pierce and Sophia Bush.

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  1. williamsstephenn

    Words with friend is most popular crossword game. Most of the celebs used to play this game. They play it for novel cause such as charity etc. Best part is that one can play it on the behalf of their favorite celebrity. http://www.brilliantpuzzles.com/

    October 1, 2013 at 12:26 pm | Report abuse |
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    Words With Friend is very popular and multi-player crossword game. Celeb like Kristen Bell, Edward Norton play this game for a cause and one can play 'http://wordswithfriends.net/ on behalf of their favorite celebrity.

    September 12, 2013 at 8:09 am | Report abuse |
  3. alberto

    @ck_one – you may also have to tell @Sokman that Penn is one of the 8 Ivy League universities just in case @Sokman didn't know ;-)

    September 27, 2012 at 12:14 pm | Report abuse |
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    i eeejoy watching ssstarsss out there.

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  5. ck_2

    good idea

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  6. ck_one

    @ Sokman, you're so right. John Legend, who has a degree from the University of Pennsylvania in English, is probably going to struggle spelling two syllable words. Eva Longoria might struggle too. She may have to return her degree to Texas A&M. Not all celebrities are airheads.

    September 27, 2012 at 10:06 am | Report abuse |
  7. Sokman

    Pretty sure Edward Norton is the only one one that list that can spell a two syllable word

    September 26, 2012 at 7:30 pm | Report abuse |
  8. Hollywood

    I enjoy seeing celebs out there doing some form of charity. Its better than reading about bad news.

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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on Sol 44
This picture is a thumbnail version of a larger image, video frame, or onboard focus merge product from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) aboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. MAHLI is located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm. MAHLI took the larger parent image on September 20, 2012, Sol 44 of the Mars Science Laboratory Mission, at 08:25:09 UTC.

MAHLI thumbnails are approximately 8 times smaller than the original, parent image. Because the amount of data that Curiosity can send back to Earth each day is limited, small versions of MAHLI's images are sent as soon as possible after a new picture is acquired or produced. The larger image is returned on a prioritized basis, sometimes right away, but often not for several days, weeks, or months. Some images are never returned. Typically, in these cases, an image was acquired to determine autofocus or was intended to be focus-merged onboard the instrument.

When MAHLI obtained the parent picture, the focus motor count position was 12758. This number indicates the internal position of the MAHLI lens at the time the camera acquired the image (or, for focus merge products, it is the position of the first image merged). This count also tells whether the dust cover was open or closed. Values between 0 and 6000 mean the dust cover was closed; values between 12500 and 16000 occur when the cover is open. For close-up images, the motor count can, in some cases, be used to estimate the distance between the MAHLI lens and target. For example, in-focus images obtained with the dust cover open for which the lens was 2.5 cm from the target have a motor count near 15270. If the lens is 5 cm from the target, the motor count is near 14360; if 7 cm, 13980; 10 cm, 13635; 15 cm, 13325; 20 cm, 13155; 25 cm, 13050; 30 cm, 12970.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

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