Another day, another article arguing that we shouldn't be focused on
deficits when the real problem is economic growth. EJ Dionne argues,
drawing on Bruce Bartlett, that much of our deficit is driven by "one
time factors" like the Bush tax cuts and the financial crisis. Return to
economic growth, and our problem goes away.
The logic is, of
course, absolutely correct. Though I try not to use too many household
metaphors when talking about national finance, here's one that fits.
There are two ways to pay off $30,000 worth of credit card debt on a
$40,000 income: radical austerity, or increasing your income. Of the
two, adding income is probably less painful, which is why Dave Ramsey
frequently advises listeners to pick up a newspaper route or deliver
pizzas for a while.
With robust economic growth, our debt-to-GDP
ratio will start to decline, our tax revenues will start to rise, and
the rolls of programs like unemployment insurance and food stamps will
start to fall. All sorts of problems start looking easier with robust
economic growth.
So why are people focusing on the tedious and
painful business of austerity, when growth would be so much better? For
the same reason you've probably opted to pay off the Mastercard, rather
than waiting until you have time to publish a bestselling novel: it's
not so easy to deliver robust economic growth on demand. Whatever you
may have heard, no one has a plan in their pocket to increase the trend
rate of economic growth--indeed, so far we've failed to get it back to
the levels that preceded this "one time factor". Telling budget wonks
that "we need more growth" is a bit like telling a cancer patient "you
need more health". I mean, yes, Dr. Insight, but can you be more
specific?
To be sure, we do know how to boost growth in the
short run: borrow a bunch of money and throw it into the economy. But
this is exclusively a short term strategy. Moreover, stimulus doesn't
fix our budget problems; it increases them. The current federal tax take
is somewhere south of 20% of GDP. That means that for stimulus to pay
for itself, budget-wise, it needs to have a multiplier of 5--which is to
say that every dollar the government spends must generate $5 worth of
GDP growth. Recent estimators of the multiplier during the Great
Recession were more like 1.5, which means that for every dollar we spent
on stimulus, we generated an additional 10 cents in tax revenue. This
is not a financing strategy that can be kept up forever. A lot of
liberals seem to be thinking of stimulus the way that some conservatives
think of tax cuts: as a sort of perpetual motion free money machine.
There is no such thing.
There's always a risk of another "one
time factor". No one saw this one coming. If we have another, the debt
we're accumulating now will leave us in a worse position to pay for it.
Of course, we could have a happy growth surprise too--but it's not
unreasonable to say that we should prepare for emergencies, not
unexpected growth. Presumably, if it materializes, we'll have little
trouble spending it.
High levels of debt (and the taxes needed
to pay for it) have a negative effect on growth. By the end of this
year, the federal debt held by the public will probably be something
like 78% of GDP. That may not be high enough to exert a serious drag on
growth, but it's getting pretty close.Like most of you, I'd seen the
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an aside, because I know what you're thinking: infrastructure! But at
this point, infrastructure isn't going to turbocharge growth, because we
already have a lot of infrastructure. In Vietnam, putting in a paved
road and a modern port facility can easily pay for itself in higher
growth, because right now, it's very hard for goods to move or factories
to be built. But the United States already has paved roads and modern
port facilities. Infrastructure investments here are often repairs or
replacements, not radical capacity improvements. That's not to say that
we shouldn't do them. But this spending is in the category of "keeping
ourselves from getting poorer", not "making ourselves richer"; we
shouldn't expect it to raise the trend growth rate. Even things that
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are not going to deliver an extra 1% of trend growth every year. That
doesn't mean that we shouldn't spend money on needed infrastructure. But
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I
believe, along with a lot of economists, that there's no particular
reason to hurry austerity. The US still borrows on easy terms, so we can
afford to ease into it while the economy recovers.
However, I
also believe, along with a lot of economists, that eventually, the US
needs to get its books in order. And the easiest way to do that is to
start planning now. If we wait until the market forces us into it, all
the ugly adjustments that we'd rather not make will have to be
undertaken at the maximally painful time, in the most brutal possible
way.
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2013年1月28日 星期一
Audi's self-parking car
I am standing outside the luxury Mandarin Oriental hotel in Vegas,
and up pulls a high-end Audi A7, a car that bristles with technology.
Nothing very remarkable about that, but the car doesn’t have a
driver.We've had a lot of people asking where we had our make your own bobblehead
made. No, though it looks totally stock, this car can both park itself
and then, with a click of a smartphone app, be summoned from the lot and
pull up in front of the hotel entrance. We watched it do all of this
stuff.
Demonstrations like this can make it seem that self-driving cars are right around the corner, but in fact it’s made possible by sophisticated (though commercially available) sensors both in the car and along the route that help it pinpoint an exact location, detect obstacles and other vehicles. Because of that, this A7 can’t just take off across town to pick up the milk, though Audi has a license to do that in the state of Nevada and has other vehicles — bristling with expensive cameras, sensors and lasers — that can run up Pikes Peak and handle public highways.
Annie Lien, a senior engineer with the company’s research lab, calls what the A7 does “piloted parking.” She doesn’t expect tech like that to be commercialized until about 2023, but she does see applications like that coming — part of the incremental push toward autonomous driving. Lien is actually worried that valet parkers could lose their jobs.wind turbine
Working with suppliers like Bosch, Audi is looking at nearer-term applications such as traffic jam assist, which could let your car inch forward on your own in gridlock conditions while you relax with the daily paper. Closer still is technology that will allow the car to change lanes on its own, after you indicate intent with the turn signal.
Scott Winchip, a chassis control executive at Bosch, points to a current system that can mitigate collisions (by pre-tensioning seatbelts and pre-charging brakes, then intervening directly to apply the brakes if the driver doesn’t respond). Video cameras can help with another existing system, lane departure warning, which sends signals when you start to wander, and then, if needed, steers you back in line.
I also like the sound of systems that detect drowsiness (by, among other things, noticing that you’re not moving the steering wheel). A coffee cup icon warns you to stay awake, Winchip said. I tried out all these systems in a Bosch driving simulator that was amazingly successful at imitating forward movement. Its animated scenarios said Florida but looked like Europe.
Audi, meanwhile, is looking for new challenges. “We’ve already done Pikes Peak,” Lien said. “We wanted to show off something that was closer to production.” The technology in the self-parking A7 isn’t prohibitively expensive, but the hurdles to this and other sooner-than-later self-parking applications are more legal and regulatory. Plus, people have to get used to the idea of cars that park themselves.
The company with the most road miles in autonomous vehicles isn’t an automaker — instead it’s Google, whose motivations in the space are somewhat mysterious but always interesting. Dr. Christina Simon, Audi’s self-parking project chief, said, “Google is doing good work, and they have millions of miles of on-road experience.Site describes services including Plastic Mould. But we bring an automaker’s know-how to the table.” And that means automakers (GM and Volkswagen are also players) are getting serious about cars without drivers.
Since Baton Rouge and Baker voters approved a tax to support the buses in April, the system has been subject to quarterly accountability meetings.
"The system has lacked good service for such a long time, and this is an opportunity to turn that around. So that's what we're committed to," said CATS CEO Brian Marshall.
Marshall promises even more improvements for the long-struggling system. In addition to technological updates to bus security systems, he says buses are much more timely. A recent study suggests CATS could be even more effective if they contract management from private companies. Marshall believes that to be an unnecessary expense.
"We've been dedicated to the city.Manufactures and supplies laser marker equipment. We've been dedicated to the system, and everybody who works at CATS really wants to see improvement and we're working hard for that kind of improvement," said Marshall. "We're not spending those dollars on administration. We're spending those dollars on the street."
Bus riders say they hope those dollars will be used to make the buses they rely on more reliable.
"I'm still waiting for them to come with out with the GPS tracking system, so we know where they are. I mean that's the bad thing about it is we don't know where the bus is, and we've got to wait a whole hour or two hours," said Ladda Bounnavong, who has been riding CATS buses for 18 years.Laser engravers and laser engraving machine systems and supplies to start your own lasering cutting engraving marking etching business.
"It's more convenient when you know where you stops is, but now it's much harder," said Michelle Stewart, another bus rider. "They changed them."
Marshall points out that in about a year from now, CATS will launch a new route structure, along with new buses.
"For those who felt like they weren't feeling an expansion of the transit system, we know that December 31st we will prove them wrong. They will be so proud of our city. They will be happy users of a good transit system," said Marshall.
Demonstrations like this can make it seem that self-driving cars are right around the corner, but in fact it’s made possible by sophisticated (though commercially available) sensors both in the car and along the route that help it pinpoint an exact location, detect obstacles and other vehicles. Because of that, this A7 can’t just take off across town to pick up the milk, though Audi has a license to do that in the state of Nevada and has other vehicles — bristling with expensive cameras, sensors and lasers — that can run up Pikes Peak and handle public highways.
Annie Lien, a senior engineer with the company’s research lab, calls what the A7 does “piloted parking.” She doesn’t expect tech like that to be commercialized until about 2023, but she does see applications like that coming — part of the incremental push toward autonomous driving. Lien is actually worried that valet parkers could lose their jobs.wind turbine
Working with suppliers like Bosch, Audi is looking at nearer-term applications such as traffic jam assist, which could let your car inch forward on your own in gridlock conditions while you relax with the daily paper. Closer still is technology that will allow the car to change lanes on its own, after you indicate intent with the turn signal.
Scott Winchip, a chassis control executive at Bosch, points to a current system that can mitigate collisions (by pre-tensioning seatbelts and pre-charging brakes, then intervening directly to apply the brakes if the driver doesn’t respond). Video cameras can help with another existing system, lane departure warning, which sends signals when you start to wander, and then, if needed, steers you back in line.
I also like the sound of systems that detect drowsiness (by, among other things, noticing that you’re not moving the steering wheel). A coffee cup icon warns you to stay awake, Winchip said. I tried out all these systems in a Bosch driving simulator that was amazingly successful at imitating forward movement. Its animated scenarios said Florida but looked like Europe.
Audi, meanwhile, is looking for new challenges. “We’ve already done Pikes Peak,” Lien said. “We wanted to show off something that was closer to production.” The technology in the self-parking A7 isn’t prohibitively expensive, but the hurdles to this and other sooner-than-later self-parking applications are more legal and regulatory. Plus, people have to get used to the idea of cars that park themselves.
The company with the most road miles in autonomous vehicles isn’t an automaker — instead it’s Google, whose motivations in the space are somewhat mysterious but always interesting. Dr. Christina Simon, Audi’s self-parking project chief, said, “Google is doing good work, and they have millions of miles of on-road experience.Site describes services including Plastic Mould. But we bring an automaker’s know-how to the table.” And that means automakers (GM and Volkswagen are also players) are getting serious about cars without drivers.
Since Baton Rouge and Baker voters approved a tax to support the buses in April, the system has been subject to quarterly accountability meetings.
"The system has lacked good service for such a long time, and this is an opportunity to turn that around. So that's what we're committed to," said CATS CEO Brian Marshall.
Marshall promises even more improvements for the long-struggling system. In addition to technological updates to bus security systems, he says buses are much more timely. A recent study suggests CATS could be even more effective if they contract management from private companies. Marshall believes that to be an unnecessary expense.
"We've been dedicated to the city.Manufactures and supplies laser marker equipment. We've been dedicated to the system, and everybody who works at CATS really wants to see improvement and we're working hard for that kind of improvement," said Marshall. "We're not spending those dollars on administration. We're spending those dollars on the street."
Bus riders say they hope those dollars will be used to make the buses they rely on more reliable.
"I'm still waiting for them to come with out with the GPS tracking system, so we know where they are. I mean that's the bad thing about it is we don't know where the bus is, and we've got to wait a whole hour or two hours," said Ladda Bounnavong, who has been riding CATS buses for 18 years.Laser engravers and laser engraving machine systems and supplies to start your own lasering cutting engraving marking etching business.
"It's more convenient when you know where you stops is, but now it's much harder," said Michelle Stewart, another bus rider. "They changed them."
Marshall points out that in about a year from now, CATS will launch a new route structure, along with new buses.
"For those who felt like they weren't feeling an expansion of the transit system, we know that December 31st we will prove them wrong. They will be so proud of our city. They will be happy users of a good transit system," said Marshall.
Legislator's query doesn't make the grade
In the same spirit as the Indiana General Assembly, which seems bent
on assigning A to F grades to public schools and labeling teachers, I
think it is only fair to give our elected officials letter grades. I am a
lifetime public school educator, and I recently had a chance to grade
state Rep. Tim Wesco's homework when he sent a survey to my house. After
reading his survey, especially those questions regarding teacher
unions, I felt that he needed some feedback ... so here is his report
card.
I noticed in the question itself, it appears that Wesco copied his work from the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce regarding how the teacher union dues are collected. His premise that union dues are automatically withdrawn without authorization is just wrong! Had Wesco done his research,We've had a lot of people asking where we had our make your own bobblehead made. he would know that there is already a law addressing this issue.This existing law says that a school employer may only deduct professional association dues after having written authorization from the employee.
As an elected lawmaker, Wesco should not jump to conclusions and should work harder to find the facts before making statements.
Unfortunately, Wesco also failed to read and study the existing laws regarding political contributions. If he had done his homework, he would know that not one penny of Indiana State Teachers Association dues is sent to political candidates. If Wesco really wanted to find the truth about PAC money, he would have discovered that ISTA follows the same PAC rules and regulations as other organizations -- including the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, which is the sole organization behind the dues question in the first place.
It troubles me that, with the serious economic and social issues facing this state and nation, Wesco's devotion in his questionnaire to what amounts to a routine bit of software operations for most school corporations, was more than a little "off topic." He should stick to the subjects he was elected to address, the welfare of Indiana residents.
So, due to the lack of creditability, originality and real effort on his part, I have no choice but to give Wesco the grade for his work -- F.
I hope that every politician learns from this lesson and makes a stronger effort to stay focused on the real issues facing our state, to stop attacking Indiana public school teachers and to not be distracted by special interest groups such as the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce.
Ranked among the world′s top 5 cities of Mercer′s Quality Living Ranking for four years, Vancouver is pursuing a Green City Plan to address urban challenges including the optimization of transportation over a 30 year period. To achieve its Green Transportation goal of accomplishing 50% of all trips by foot, bicycle or public transportation, Translink asked US systems integrator Cubic to create an efficient, secure and future-proof transit system powered by NXP’s MIFARE? technology.
Vancouver is introducing the Compass Card, which will enable passengers to enjoy fast, convenient and secure transactions across buses, sky trains and ferries using just one contactless smart card. In addition, passengers can add travel products or values to their Compass Card at vending machines, online, by phone, or at a walk-in customer service centers. The new MIFARE DESFire EV1-based transport scheme including NXP‘s infrastructure solutions is currently being installed.
“Vancouver has identified smart contactless ticketing as a key way to expand the appeal and convenience of its citywide transportation network. Its selection of MiFare DESFire as the technology to deliver this further expands NXP’s footprint in smart cities around the world. ABI Research forecasts the consumption of secure smart card tickets in transportation to grow by 86% by the end of 2017”,wind turbine said John Devlin, group director security and ID with ABI Research.
“With urbanization being a significant megatrend in the 21st century, one of the greatest concerns for modern cities is ensuring that residents, vehicles and the economy itself is able to keep moving,” says Ulrich Huewels, vice president and general manager,Site describes services including Plastic Mould. card security business line, NXP Semiconductors. “NXP solutions can address this challenge by optimizing public transport systems and individual traffic. NXP provides a complete end-to-end solution validated by more than 650 cities worldwide, and used by up to 1.2 billion passengers per day in megacities such as London, Moscow, Los Angeles or Beijing.”
The MIFARE DESFire open architecture platform is based on open global standards for both air interfaces and cryptographic methods.Laser engravers and laser engraving machine systems and supplies to start your own lasering cutting engraving marking etching business. In addition to offering data transfer rates of up to 848 kbit/s, MIFARE DESFire utilizes a triple DES, 3K DES, and AES hardware cryptographic engine for securing the data on the smartcards and data during transmission. Further, the MIFARE DESFire platform enables seamless extensions of ticketing solutions on banking cards or on NFC-enabled mobile devices both working with NXP’s SmartMX? high security microcontroller technology, leveraging NXP’s leading position in the overall Identification market as well as in market segments such as transport ticketing, access, banking,Manufactures and supplies laser marker equipment. e-government or NFC.
“FrontStream is excited to offer MobileTransact as a fully compatible mobile payment solution to our customers,” said Nina Vellayan, Chief Executive Officer and President of FrontStream Payments. “We believe that businesses of all types should have access to smart solutions that make doing business seamless and enhance the end user experience.”
Familiar card swipe process provides customers with ease of use and eliminates concern over handwritten credit card information identity theft.
Lowers merchants’ cost of accepting credit cards by eliminating card-not-present fees.
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Security. Credit card fraud and data breaches are on the rise. FrontStream’s proprietary ArgoFire Payment Gateway is PCI compliant, and provides “end-to-end” encryption, a unique encryption key per swipe, immediate card data tokenization and card authentication. This protects customer information from the moment a card is swiped.
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I noticed in the question itself, it appears that Wesco copied his work from the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce regarding how the teacher union dues are collected. His premise that union dues are automatically withdrawn without authorization is just wrong! Had Wesco done his research,We've had a lot of people asking where we had our make your own bobblehead made. he would know that there is already a law addressing this issue.This existing law says that a school employer may only deduct professional association dues after having written authorization from the employee.
As an elected lawmaker, Wesco should not jump to conclusions and should work harder to find the facts before making statements.
Unfortunately, Wesco also failed to read and study the existing laws regarding political contributions. If he had done his homework, he would know that not one penny of Indiana State Teachers Association dues is sent to political candidates. If Wesco really wanted to find the truth about PAC money, he would have discovered that ISTA follows the same PAC rules and regulations as other organizations -- including the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, which is the sole organization behind the dues question in the first place.
It troubles me that, with the serious economic and social issues facing this state and nation, Wesco's devotion in his questionnaire to what amounts to a routine bit of software operations for most school corporations, was more than a little "off topic." He should stick to the subjects he was elected to address, the welfare of Indiana residents.
So, due to the lack of creditability, originality and real effort on his part, I have no choice but to give Wesco the grade for his work -- F.
I hope that every politician learns from this lesson and makes a stronger effort to stay focused on the real issues facing our state, to stop attacking Indiana public school teachers and to not be distracted by special interest groups such as the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce.
Ranked among the world′s top 5 cities of Mercer′s Quality Living Ranking for four years, Vancouver is pursuing a Green City Plan to address urban challenges including the optimization of transportation over a 30 year period. To achieve its Green Transportation goal of accomplishing 50% of all trips by foot, bicycle or public transportation, Translink asked US systems integrator Cubic to create an efficient, secure and future-proof transit system powered by NXP’s MIFARE? technology.
Vancouver is introducing the Compass Card, which will enable passengers to enjoy fast, convenient and secure transactions across buses, sky trains and ferries using just one contactless smart card. In addition, passengers can add travel products or values to their Compass Card at vending machines, online, by phone, or at a walk-in customer service centers. The new MIFARE DESFire EV1-based transport scheme including NXP‘s infrastructure solutions is currently being installed.
“Vancouver has identified smart contactless ticketing as a key way to expand the appeal and convenience of its citywide transportation network. Its selection of MiFare DESFire as the technology to deliver this further expands NXP’s footprint in smart cities around the world. ABI Research forecasts the consumption of secure smart card tickets in transportation to grow by 86% by the end of 2017”,wind turbine said John Devlin, group director security and ID with ABI Research.
“With urbanization being a significant megatrend in the 21st century, one of the greatest concerns for modern cities is ensuring that residents, vehicles and the economy itself is able to keep moving,” says Ulrich Huewels, vice president and general manager,Site describes services including Plastic Mould. card security business line, NXP Semiconductors. “NXP solutions can address this challenge by optimizing public transport systems and individual traffic. NXP provides a complete end-to-end solution validated by more than 650 cities worldwide, and used by up to 1.2 billion passengers per day in megacities such as London, Moscow, Los Angeles or Beijing.”
The MIFARE DESFire open architecture platform is based on open global standards for both air interfaces and cryptographic methods.Laser engravers and laser engraving machine systems and supplies to start your own lasering cutting engraving marking etching business. In addition to offering data transfer rates of up to 848 kbit/s, MIFARE DESFire utilizes a triple DES, 3K DES, and AES hardware cryptographic engine for securing the data on the smartcards and data during transmission. Further, the MIFARE DESFire platform enables seamless extensions of ticketing solutions on banking cards or on NFC-enabled mobile devices both working with NXP’s SmartMX? high security microcontroller technology, leveraging NXP’s leading position in the overall Identification market as well as in market segments such as transport ticketing, access, banking,Manufactures and supplies laser marker equipment. e-government or NFC.
“FrontStream is excited to offer MobileTransact as a fully compatible mobile payment solution to our customers,” said Nina Vellayan, Chief Executive Officer and President of FrontStream Payments. “We believe that businesses of all types should have access to smart solutions that make doing business seamless and enhance the end user experience.”
Familiar card swipe process provides customers with ease of use and eliminates concern over handwritten credit card information identity theft.
Lowers merchants’ cost of accepting credit cards by eliminating card-not-present fees.
Prevents missed sales opportunities caused by not taking credit or debit cards remotely. Data coverage is available for 98% of the US population.
Security. Credit card fraud and data breaches are on the rise. FrontStream’s proprietary ArgoFire Payment Gateway is PCI compliant, and provides “end-to-end” encryption, a unique encryption key per swipe, immediate card data tokenization and card authentication. This protects customer information from the moment a card is swiped.
Reporting. With FrontStream Payments, you can access detailed reporting on all of your payment and donation activity, with portable data that easily integrates with existing CRM, donor management and accounting systems.
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An armed carjacker, whom police described as having “leathery skin,”
failed to rob three women in the same shopping center parking lot in
Oceanside, Calif. The first drove away. The other ignored him and
proceeded to a store, where she called police. The third victim obeyed
his order to remove the steering wheel lock and get out of the car,Site
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but then she activated a kill-switch that disabled the ignition and
locked him inside. He smashed through a window and fled on foot.
Security researchers exposed plans for a Russian cyberheist using fake wire transfers to steal millions of dollars from 30 big U.S. financial institutions when the purported brain behind the operation, known as “VorVzakone”, posted notices in a criminal online forum advertising for accomplices. Cybersecurity experts at Massachusetts-based RSA blogged that VorVzakone’s notice said “accomplice botmasters” would be trained “boot camp style” and receive “a percentage of the funds they will siphon from victims’ accounts into mule accounts controlled by the gang.”
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that bosses could fire workers they see as an “irresistible attraction,” even if the employees haven’t engaged in flirtatious behavior or made other advances. The case involved a dentist who fired an assistant that he and his wife decided was a threat to their marriage.
Doctors at the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank, Scotland, saved a man who overdosed on Brussels sprouts on Christmas. They said the traditional holiday vegetable contains plenty of vitamin K,We've had a lot of people asking where we had our make your own bobblehead made. which counteracted the effect of anticoagulants the man was taking because he had a mechanical heart. “We think this is possibly the first-ever admission to hospital caused by the consumption of Brussels sprouts,” hospital chief executive Jill Young said.wind turbine
Police revoked the concealed-carry permit of Gary Quackenbush, 61, after he wriggled in his seat while watching a movie in Tillamook, Ore., and shook loose a loaded weapon. A seventh-grade student found the weapon the next day with a round in the chamber and the safety off. “In a time of crisis, like somebody barging into a mall or a theater, you don’t have time to do a two-handed cocking of the weapon,” Quackenbush explained in a brief letter to the local news media after the incident. “It is my mindset everywhere I go.” His letter noted that the movie, “The Hobbit,” was “overly long and fairly boring.”
The number of people seeking hospital treatment after consuming energy drinks has doubled in the past four years, according to a government survey, jumping to an estimated 20,000 cases. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration said most cases involved teens and young adults. “A lot of people don't realize the strength of these things,” Howard Mell,Manufactures and supplies laser marker equipment. an emergency physician in suburban Cleveland, said.Laser engravers and laser engraving machine systems and supplies to start your own lasering cutting engraving marking etching business. “I had someone come in recently who had drunk three energy drinks in an hour, which is the equivalent of 15 cups of coffee,”
Falling furniture killed 349 Americans between 2000 and 2011, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC. It estimated that tipped-over items, mostly television sets, injure about 43,000 people a year, 59 percent of whom are children climbing, hitting or kicking them or playing nearby. “Small children are no match for a falling dresser, wall unit or 50- to 100-pound television,” the CPSC said.
After Lynette Lee told police in Clarksville, Tenn., that a man she met online raped her, she admitted lying. The investigating detective reported she said they’d been on a date and had consensual sex, but she claimed rape because “she did not enjoy it, and it was bad.”
Sheriff’s deputies who arrested Jennie Scott, 50, for battering her 32-year-old boyfriend explained she attacked him because the two “were giving each other pleasure in the bedroom” and he “finished first and stopped pleasuring her.”
A judge acquitted Dalton, N.H., Town Clerk Sandy York of taking $100 from town funds after Police Chief Mario Audit admitted he never checked to see if any money was actually missing. Although a security video showed York putting cash in her pocketbook, Audit never asked her for an explanation, but witnesses testified that York often took large bills to the bank after closing the office to get smaller bills to make change. An accounting showed no shortage.
Police at the scene of a fatal accident in Oklahoma City arrested Thomasine Harjo, 25, after she drove past officers and crime scene tape. Several officers tried to get her to stop, but she ignored them and nearly hit one of them. When she finally stopped, officers smelled alcohol, but she denied drinking. When they asked her why she didn’t stop when she saw the barricade, she told them she was following the car in front of her, although no other vehicle was in the area. When they arrested Harjo, she said she couldn’t go to jail because she had to appear in court the next morning for driving under the influence.
After a third-grade student at a school outside Calgary was found unconscious stuck in the door of a washroom stall with a lanyard around his neck, Alberta authorities banned lanyards in all its 2,000 schools. The lanyards were used for hall passes, washroom passes and identification.
Security researchers exposed plans for a Russian cyberheist using fake wire transfers to steal millions of dollars from 30 big U.S. financial institutions when the purported brain behind the operation, known as “VorVzakone”, posted notices in a criminal online forum advertising for accomplices. Cybersecurity experts at Massachusetts-based RSA blogged that VorVzakone’s notice said “accomplice botmasters” would be trained “boot camp style” and receive “a percentage of the funds they will siphon from victims’ accounts into mule accounts controlled by the gang.”
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that bosses could fire workers they see as an “irresistible attraction,” even if the employees haven’t engaged in flirtatious behavior or made other advances. The case involved a dentist who fired an assistant that he and his wife decided was a threat to their marriage.
Doctors at the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank, Scotland, saved a man who overdosed on Brussels sprouts on Christmas. They said the traditional holiday vegetable contains plenty of vitamin K,We've had a lot of people asking where we had our make your own bobblehead made. which counteracted the effect of anticoagulants the man was taking because he had a mechanical heart. “We think this is possibly the first-ever admission to hospital caused by the consumption of Brussels sprouts,” hospital chief executive Jill Young said.wind turbine
Police revoked the concealed-carry permit of Gary Quackenbush, 61, after he wriggled in his seat while watching a movie in Tillamook, Ore., and shook loose a loaded weapon. A seventh-grade student found the weapon the next day with a round in the chamber and the safety off. “In a time of crisis, like somebody barging into a mall or a theater, you don’t have time to do a two-handed cocking of the weapon,” Quackenbush explained in a brief letter to the local news media after the incident. “It is my mindset everywhere I go.” His letter noted that the movie, “The Hobbit,” was “overly long and fairly boring.”
The number of people seeking hospital treatment after consuming energy drinks has doubled in the past four years, according to a government survey, jumping to an estimated 20,000 cases. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration said most cases involved teens and young adults. “A lot of people don't realize the strength of these things,” Howard Mell,Manufactures and supplies laser marker equipment. an emergency physician in suburban Cleveland, said.Laser engravers and laser engraving machine systems and supplies to start your own lasering cutting engraving marking etching business. “I had someone come in recently who had drunk three energy drinks in an hour, which is the equivalent of 15 cups of coffee,”
Falling furniture killed 349 Americans between 2000 and 2011, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC. It estimated that tipped-over items, mostly television sets, injure about 43,000 people a year, 59 percent of whom are children climbing, hitting or kicking them or playing nearby. “Small children are no match for a falling dresser, wall unit or 50- to 100-pound television,” the CPSC said.
After Lynette Lee told police in Clarksville, Tenn., that a man she met online raped her, she admitted lying. The investigating detective reported she said they’d been on a date and had consensual sex, but she claimed rape because “she did not enjoy it, and it was bad.”
Sheriff’s deputies who arrested Jennie Scott, 50, for battering her 32-year-old boyfriend explained she attacked him because the two “were giving each other pleasure in the bedroom” and he “finished first and stopped pleasuring her.”
A judge acquitted Dalton, N.H., Town Clerk Sandy York of taking $100 from town funds after Police Chief Mario Audit admitted he never checked to see if any money was actually missing. Although a security video showed York putting cash in her pocketbook, Audit never asked her for an explanation, but witnesses testified that York often took large bills to the bank after closing the office to get smaller bills to make change. An accounting showed no shortage.
Police at the scene of a fatal accident in Oklahoma City arrested Thomasine Harjo, 25, after she drove past officers and crime scene tape. Several officers tried to get her to stop, but she ignored them and nearly hit one of them. When she finally stopped, officers smelled alcohol, but she denied drinking. When they asked her why she didn’t stop when she saw the barricade, she told them she was following the car in front of her, although no other vehicle was in the area. When they arrested Harjo, she said she couldn’t go to jail because she had to appear in court the next morning for driving under the influence.
After a third-grade student at a school outside Calgary was found unconscious stuck in the door of a washroom stall with a lanyard around his neck, Alberta authorities banned lanyards in all its 2,000 schools. The lanyards were used for hall passes, washroom passes and identification.
Credit Unions May Gain Mobile Payments
The country's largest credit union service organization,wind turbine
with about 1,400 credit union participants in its shared branch program
totaling about 4,400 branches, has extended components of the shared
branching model to digital commerce, using centralized processing
resources to allow credit union consumers to access mobile payments and
other digital capabilities.
In this model, a consumer's account, routing and transit numbers can be used to accept and process transactions among the large network of credit unions, similar to the way a consumer who is a member of one credit union can walk into the branch of another credit union and perform banking transactions. Only in this case, the consumer is using mobile banking to transfer funds, execute a person-to-person payment, access digital banking at a branch, or make a deposit via a mobile remote deposit capture app that's downloaded from CO-OP's shared tech bench and processed via the centralized network.
"We've even simplified it to the point where a consumer doesn't have to put a routing or transfer number into the credit union's mobile device to execute a transaction. The member just has to pick a credit union name from the list of participants, put in the account number and we're off and running," says Jim Hanisch, executive vice president of network operations and corporate development for CO-OP.
CO-OP's electronic payments processing business has already been expanding. It established new annual, monthly and daily transaction volume records in 2012. It processed 2.5 billion transactions for the year,Laser engravers and laser engraving machine systems and supplies to start your own lasering cutting engraving marking etching business. a 13.6% increase from 2011, including cardholder debit, credit, ATM and shared branch payments. It hopes that by offering a simple way to execute mobile transactions, that growth will increase further, as will its ability to offer cross-institutional transaction capabilities not available in banking.
"Shared branching is a stable, slow growth type of business. We're not only capturing the deposit items, but we've also got a couple of pilots going in person-to-person payments and have a huge effort in teller automation," says Hanisch.
The shared branch model has been used by CO-OP to centralize credit union and intra-credit union commerce for decades. Hanisch says that if you were "look under the covers," the CO-OP digital banking model operates similar to an electronic funds transfer switch, or a means to capture, authorize and route payment initiated by different payment modes. "The difference is that rather than being activated with a card and PIN, the member's routing number, transit and account number are used.Manufactures and supplies laser marker equipment. That's something the banking industry doesn't have yet — a standardized way [across institutions] to electronically access an account in an online manner in real time using routing, transit and account numbers."
CO-OP, which is also accelerating its chip and PIN migration, uses mobile banking technology provided by mFoundry and handles its transaction processing in-house. Hanisch says that while mobile transactions are not a huge portion of CO-OP's processing business right now, CO-OP should be well-positioned to take advantage of growth in mobile commerce. He says that even though the transaction has been acquired in a nontraditional manner such as a mobile device, processing takes place though CO-OP's existing processing system. "Whether the transaction is acquired through a Square terminal or a dial up terminal, there's really no material processing difference from our perspective," he says.
CO-OP,We've had a lot of people asking where we had our make your own bobblehead made. which is also accelerating its chip and PIN migration, uses mobile banking technology provided by mFoundry and handles its transaction processing in-house. Hanisch says that while mobile transactions are not a huge portion of CO-OP's processing business right now, CO-OP should be well-positioned to take advantage of growth in mobile commerce. He says that even though the transaction has been acquired in a nontraditional manner such as a mobile device, processing takes place though CO-OP's existing processing system. "Whether the transaction is acquired through a Square terminal or a dial up terminal, there's really no material processing difference from our perspective," he says.
On opening the flap, you have a backlit chiclet keyboard which is quite pleasing. You cannot adjust the brightness, but can turn the backlight on or off. The keys are well-spaced and have ample travel. It lacks a dedicated number pad.
There is sufficient space for the palm rest and you will find a spacious single-slab trackpad. Although we aren’t great fans of single slab trackpads as it gets tricky when it comes to actual clicking, the Aspire V5’s trackpad supports soft touch which is quite a relief, so you don’t need to press hard on the track pad to register a response except maybe when you right-click.Site describes services including Plastic Mould.
The 14-inch touchscreen is a finger-print / smudge magnet and that becomes very evident while your screen is dark. It has edge-to-edge screen, but the bezel around the base and top is much thicker than those on the sides. The response is quite fluid but at times when you apply a little pressure while playing games or while swiping, you will notice that some ripples around the edges which are caused due to the different layers of the panel touching each other.
In this model, a consumer's account, routing and transit numbers can be used to accept and process transactions among the large network of credit unions, similar to the way a consumer who is a member of one credit union can walk into the branch of another credit union and perform banking transactions. Only in this case, the consumer is using mobile banking to transfer funds, execute a person-to-person payment, access digital banking at a branch, or make a deposit via a mobile remote deposit capture app that's downloaded from CO-OP's shared tech bench and processed via the centralized network.
"We've even simplified it to the point where a consumer doesn't have to put a routing or transfer number into the credit union's mobile device to execute a transaction. The member just has to pick a credit union name from the list of participants, put in the account number and we're off and running," says Jim Hanisch, executive vice president of network operations and corporate development for CO-OP.
CO-OP's electronic payments processing business has already been expanding. It established new annual, monthly and daily transaction volume records in 2012. It processed 2.5 billion transactions for the year,Laser engravers and laser engraving machine systems and supplies to start your own lasering cutting engraving marking etching business. a 13.6% increase from 2011, including cardholder debit, credit, ATM and shared branch payments. It hopes that by offering a simple way to execute mobile transactions, that growth will increase further, as will its ability to offer cross-institutional transaction capabilities not available in banking.
"Shared branching is a stable, slow growth type of business. We're not only capturing the deposit items, but we've also got a couple of pilots going in person-to-person payments and have a huge effort in teller automation," says Hanisch.
The shared branch model has been used by CO-OP to centralize credit union and intra-credit union commerce for decades. Hanisch says that if you were "look under the covers," the CO-OP digital banking model operates similar to an electronic funds transfer switch, or a means to capture, authorize and route payment initiated by different payment modes. "The difference is that rather than being activated with a card and PIN, the member's routing number, transit and account number are used.Manufactures and supplies laser marker equipment. That's something the banking industry doesn't have yet — a standardized way [across institutions] to electronically access an account in an online manner in real time using routing, transit and account numbers."
CO-OP, which is also accelerating its chip and PIN migration, uses mobile banking technology provided by mFoundry and handles its transaction processing in-house. Hanisch says that while mobile transactions are not a huge portion of CO-OP's processing business right now, CO-OP should be well-positioned to take advantage of growth in mobile commerce. He says that even though the transaction has been acquired in a nontraditional manner such as a mobile device, processing takes place though CO-OP's existing processing system. "Whether the transaction is acquired through a Square terminal or a dial up terminal, there's really no material processing difference from our perspective," he says.
CO-OP,We've had a lot of people asking where we had our make your own bobblehead made. which is also accelerating its chip and PIN migration, uses mobile banking technology provided by mFoundry and handles its transaction processing in-house. Hanisch says that while mobile transactions are not a huge portion of CO-OP's processing business right now, CO-OP should be well-positioned to take advantage of growth in mobile commerce. He says that even though the transaction has been acquired in a nontraditional manner such as a mobile device, processing takes place though CO-OP's existing processing system. "Whether the transaction is acquired through a Square terminal or a dial up terminal, there's really no material processing difference from our perspective," he says.
On opening the flap, you have a backlit chiclet keyboard which is quite pleasing. You cannot adjust the brightness, but can turn the backlight on or off. The keys are well-spaced and have ample travel. It lacks a dedicated number pad.
There is sufficient space for the palm rest and you will find a spacious single-slab trackpad. Although we aren’t great fans of single slab trackpads as it gets tricky when it comes to actual clicking, the Aspire V5’s trackpad supports soft touch which is quite a relief, so you don’t need to press hard on the track pad to register a response except maybe when you right-click.Site describes services including Plastic Mould.
The 14-inch touchscreen is a finger-print / smudge magnet and that becomes very evident while your screen is dark. It has edge-to-edge screen, but the bezel around the base and top is much thicker than those on the sides. The response is quite fluid but at times when you apply a little pressure while playing games or while swiping, you will notice that some ripples around the edges which are caused due to the different layers of the panel touching each other.
2012年1月3日 星期二
Scottsdale Brush Bar pairs pints, painting
Allante Battle is not a painter. At least, that's what he insisted before picking up a brush last weekend and becoming the star student at the Brush Bar in Scottsdale.
The 22-year-old Tempe resident pulled a Thomas Kinkade on his inebriated (some) and admiring classmates.
Maybe he was hustling them with the "I can't paint" bit. Maybe he's naturally gifted and had no idea. Or, maybe it was the liquid inspiration from the Blue Moon beer beside his easel.
The Brush Bar is Bob Ross with booze. The downtown studio features a beer and wine bar in front and a painting area in the back, allowing aspiring Picassos to relax with a Michelob while painting their next, or first, masterpiece.
Gia Ciliento and Brett Strachan, both 26, of Scottsdale, own the place with Ciliento's father, Angelo.Ciliento and Strachan tag-team instruction and bartending, keeping the mood light and fun. An upbeat soundtrack from Ciliento's iPod helps get people singing and dancing, too.
Ciliento and Strachan were inspired by the Denver-based Canvas and Cocktails concept. The Brush Bar opened in August and has stayed pretty busy since, booking private events, conducting outreach to local schools and hosting family nights, open studio time and evening classes.
Classes range in price from $25 to $40, and include all supplies and one drink. After that, it's a cash bar. Some may want a second glass of wine, and others may pony up for a bottle. And, yes, the bar is open during the day when the studio is open for drop-in painting.
"There's no right or wrong to this," Ciliento said into a headset mike in front of a class of 19 who signed up to paint a piece called "Lover's Lane" on a Friday night.
The bar assigns paintings to various evenings throughout the month, so everyone in the class is painting the same subject. Interpretation is up to the artist. Each painter fills his own palette with squirts of acrylic paint from bottles on the side, and then mixes them according to how the teacher instructs, or how their creativity guides them.
The sample "Lover's Lane" featured a rain-slicked, burgundy-toned street, lighted by tall lampposts that reflect into the dark night sky. Battle's interpretation of "Lover's Lane" featured a slate-colored street hugged by snow-capped evergreens and lit by lamps encased in icicles.
"This is the first time I've painted on canvas before. I love it," Battle said, seated next to his impressed girlfriend, Kelsey McCormick. "I was totally thinking this was going to be paint-by-number. I didn't know what to expect."
Lindsay Nordstrom, 33, of Phoenix, was pretty happy with her efforts. She followed Ciliento's instruction as close as she could, shading where she suggested and sticking with the colors on the sample piece.
"If you lean back, it's pretty cool," Nordstrom said, taking in her painting from a few inches back. "It's pretty good. It's OK."
The 22-year-old Tempe resident pulled a Thomas Kinkade on his inebriated (some) and admiring classmates.
Maybe he was hustling them with the "I can't paint" bit. Maybe he's naturally gifted and had no idea. Or, maybe it was the liquid inspiration from the Blue Moon beer beside his easel.
The Brush Bar is Bob Ross with booze. The downtown studio features a beer and wine bar in front and a painting area in the back, allowing aspiring Picassos to relax with a Michelob while painting their next, or first, masterpiece.
Gia Ciliento and Brett Strachan, both 26, of Scottsdale, own the place with Ciliento's father, Angelo.Ciliento and Strachan tag-team instruction and bartending, keeping the mood light and fun. An upbeat soundtrack from Ciliento's iPod helps get people singing and dancing, too.
Ciliento and Strachan were inspired by the Denver-based Canvas and Cocktails concept. The Brush Bar opened in August and has stayed pretty busy since, booking private events, conducting outreach to local schools and hosting family nights, open studio time and evening classes.
Classes range in price from $25 to $40, and include all supplies and one drink. After that, it's a cash bar. Some may want a second glass of wine, and others may pony up for a bottle. And, yes, the bar is open during the day when the studio is open for drop-in painting.
"There's no right or wrong to this," Ciliento said into a headset mike in front of a class of 19 who signed up to paint a piece called "Lover's Lane" on a Friday night.
The bar assigns paintings to various evenings throughout the month, so everyone in the class is painting the same subject. Interpretation is up to the artist. Each painter fills his own palette with squirts of acrylic paint from bottles on the side, and then mixes them according to how the teacher instructs, or how their creativity guides them.
The sample "Lover's Lane" featured a rain-slicked, burgundy-toned street, lighted by tall lampposts that reflect into the dark night sky. Battle's interpretation of "Lover's Lane" featured a slate-colored street hugged by snow-capped evergreens and lit by lamps encased in icicles.
"This is the first time I've painted on canvas before. I love it," Battle said, seated next to his impressed girlfriend, Kelsey McCormick. "I was totally thinking this was going to be paint-by-number. I didn't know what to expect."
Lindsay Nordstrom, 33, of Phoenix, was pretty happy with her efforts. She followed Ciliento's instruction as close as she could, shading where she suggested and sticking with the colors on the sample piece.
"If you lean back, it's pretty cool," Nordstrom said, taking in her painting from a few inches back. "It's pretty good. It's OK."
2012年1月2日 星期一
Hockney in dig at Hirst art process
Painter David Hockney has criticised the likes of Damien Hirst, saying artists should create their own work.
Yorkshire-born Hockney, 74, whose major exhibition of landscapes opens at the Royal Academy this month, told the Radio Times that it was "insulting" for an artist to employ others to make their creations.
A poster for his show at the Royal Academy reads: "All the works here were made by the artist himself, personally."
Asked if he was having a dig at Hirst, famous for covering a human skull with 8,601 flawless diamonds and suspending a shark in formaldehyde, Hockney nodded and said: "It's a little insulting to craftsmen, skilful craftsmen."
He added: "I used to point out at art school, you can teach the craft, it's the poetry you can't teach. But now they try to teach the poetry and not the craft."
Hockney quoted a Chinese saying that to paint "you need the eye, the hand and the heart. Two won't do." "The other great thing they said - I told this to Lucian Freud - is, 'painting is an old man's art'. I like that!," Hockney said.
Hockney, who returned to his native Yorkshire after decades in California, has been working on his latest show for more than three years. "It took me three days to say, 'Yes, OK...' There was quite a lot of work, but I'm an opportunist... We rose to the occasion," he said.
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture spans a 50-year period to show the artist's long exploration and fascination with the depiction of landscape. The Royal Academy show will include a display of his iPad drawings and a series of new films produced using 18 cameras. A retrospective of Hirst's work opens at Tate Modern in April.
Hirst has defended using assistants to make his spot paintings, saying that they could do the work better as he found it boring to paint them himself.
Hockney was appointed a member of the prestigious Order of Merit by the Queen at the weekend.
Yorkshire-born Hockney, 74, whose major exhibition of landscapes opens at the Royal Academy this month, told the Radio Times that it was "insulting" for an artist to employ others to make their creations.
A poster for his show at the Royal Academy reads: "All the works here were made by the artist himself, personally."
Asked if he was having a dig at Hirst, famous for covering a human skull with 8,601 flawless diamonds and suspending a shark in formaldehyde, Hockney nodded and said: "It's a little insulting to craftsmen, skilful craftsmen."
He added: "I used to point out at art school, you can teach the craft, it's the poetry you can't teach. But now they try to teach the poetry and not the craft."
Hockney quoted a Chinese saying that to paint "you need the eye, the hand and the heart. Two won't do." "The other great thing they said - I told this to Lucian Freud - is, 'painting is an old man's art'. I like that!," Hockney said.
Hockney, who returned to his native Yorkshire after decades in California, has been working on his latest show for more than three years. "It took me three days to say, 'Yes, OK...' There was quite a lot of work, but I'm an opportunist... We rose to the occasion," he said.
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture spans a 50-year period to show the artist's long exploration and fascination with the depiction of landscape. The Royal Academy show will include a display of his iPad drawings and a series of new films produced using 18 cameras. A retrospective of Hirst's work opens at Tate Modern in April.
Hirst has defended using assistants to make his spot paintings, saying that they could do the work better as he found it boring to paint them himself.
Hockney was appointed a member of the prestigious Order of Merit by the Queen at the weekend.
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