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2024.05.16 04:30 ArtfullyAwesome Does anyone know what dragon toy I used to have?
Sorry, I don’t have a picture because the toy broke a long time ago. Back sometime in 2009-2010 I was at a yard sale and found an awesome dragon toy. It was fully articulated, even the neck was broken into several plated segments. The jaw opened too. The chest also had a small cavity that opened up, though I never knew why. It was highly sculpted and detailed, unlike most toys. It reminds me sort of how Yugioh’s art style is highly detailed, though I can’t find any Yugioh toys that matched it. From what I remember the main body color was a dark green, though I could be wrong. It was sort of fragile feeling because all the moving parts and eventually broke from playing. I almost wonder if maybe it wasn’t a toy meant for playing, but rather a collector item of some sort.
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2024.05.16 01:55 TheGoldenLeaper Enravel Overview
Enravel (Seattle)
Date of Incorporation: 9/14/2009
Governing Persons: Rony Abovitz (Governor); Scott Henry (Governor); Anastasia Lang; Richard Taylor; Jennifer Fitzpatrick; Joseph Tsai https://www.sos.wa.gov/corps/business.aspx?ubi=602954597
Enravel, which presented at the April Innovation Showcase, followed up the presentations with an update and product demo. The company, led by UW mechanical engineer Brian Schowengerdt [former UW & Microvision employee], has developed a laser-based “pico projector” that could be built into mobile electronics like cell phones, digital cameras, and even eye glasses. The 1 mm x 9 mm projector —about the size of a grain of rice—uses “scanning fiber” technology to then scan an image from the device, and project an enlarged image back onto a larger surface, like a wall. The company, which has put most of its resources into developing the projection technology so far, plans to now turn its focus to streamlining the light source modulator to improve image quality.
https://xconomy.com/seattle/2010/07/15/technology-alliance-showcases-four-new-companies-in-biotech-and-cleantech-and-revisits-one-past-presente2/
Linden Rhoads [at the time Vice Provost-IP, Commercialization, Innovation at the University of Washington] introduced this startup by pulling out her iPhone and iPad (yes, one of those) and talking about the devices’ display capabilities. “These are great, these are fun, but they’re going to be so much more fun when there are projectors available for them,” she said. “That day is very, very close at hand.”
Enravel is led by UW mechanical engineer Brian Schowengerdt, an expert in alternative displays, user interfaces, and human visual perception. He co-founded the company in 2009 to commercialize a laser-based “pico projector.” The idea, he says, is to “take a display of iPad size and compress it into the size of an iPhone.” More specifically, to shrink a projector to “the size of a grain of rice” and use it to project on-screen images, video, games, websites, e-mail—you name it—onto any larger surface.
The core technology is a “scanning fiber” projector that uses fiber optics and a vibrating element to scan an image and blow it up, for example, to a size of 17 inches across from just five inches away. A matchbook-size assembly of laser diodes (off the shelf) provides the light source to project the image. You could imagine such a projector might be crammed into a smartphone and used anytime you want a bigger display to interact with, for reading text or watching a video, say.
Enravel has five employees, and its technology was built over the past few years using $8 million in funding for a related endoscopic imaging project (led by Eric Seibel) and $100,000 in grants. The company expects to finish its portable prototype by next month, and to have a standalone product by the end of next year.
https://xconomy.com/seattle/2010/04/22/technology-alliance-showcases-five-companies-in-sensors-mobile-displays-and-drug-therapies-investors-take-notice/?single_page=true
Thanks to for mentioning Enravel
Jump to Q3 2019
UW Researcher Spotlight: Eric Seibel, Mechanical Engineering Written by CoMotion Staff / September 27, 2019
Eric Seibel: "Scanning Fiber Endoscope: This is an ultrathin and flexible scanning fiber endoscope (SFE) for the early detection and treatment of cancers within the body. The goal is to advance minimally invasive medical imaging by using ultrathin flexible endoscopes that allow access to regions of the body that were previously inaccessible to permit less invasive treatment of cancers before they have spread from their place of origin. It was licensed to startup VerAvanti for medical endoscopes and Magic Leap for AR displays as well as a few other related licenses."
https://comotion.uw.edu/comotion-spotlight-on-a-uw-researcher-eric-seibel/
August 26, 2019 - Veravanti announces a new subsidiary and the opening of a nanofabrication facility
"The opening of the Avanti Nanofabrication facility enables VerAvanti to manufacture its patented Scanning Fiber Endoscope (SFE), a new, extremely small imaging modality designed to access small arteries to illuminate stroke and cardiovascular risks."
https://veravanti.com/news/2019/8/26/veravanti-announces-a-new-subsidiary-and-the-opening-of-a-nanofabrication-facility
Some information on Veravanti in relation to Enravel:
Research: Large field-of-view short-wave infrared metalens for scanning fiber endoscopy Mirror 1 Mirror 2
Near-Infrared Imaging of Artificial Enamel Caries Lesions with a Scanning Fiber Endoscope
Other Scanning Fiber Endoscope Projects
Endoscope Surveilence
SFE For Dental Care
SFE For Bladder Surveillance
The scanning fiber endoscope is an ultrathin and flexible endoscope for the early detection and treatment of cancers within the body. The SFE can be used as a surveillance device with the goal of improving our chances of survival from cancer.
A scanning fiber endoscope is a technology that uses a flexible, small (< 6Fr) peripheral or coronary catheter to provide wide-field, high-quality, full-color, laser-based video imaging. These differences distinguish SFE applications from current imaging approaches such as IVUS and Intracoronary OCT. Applications for the device (which was pending FDA review and approval as of 2017[needs update]), are expected to include medical diagnosis and support in determining interventional treatments such as surgery or biopsy. Providing both full-color images and a wide-field, real-time surgical view into the inner depths of arteries, enables physicians to circumnavigate hard to reach internal tissues to assess for potential disease.
REDMOND, WA (August 26, 2019) – VerAvanti, a developer of a new class of scientifically-advanced solutions to help physicians find answers to treat strokes and heart attacks that often strike without warning, today announced that its new subsidiary, Avanti, has opened a Nanofabrication facility in Bothell, Washington. The facility includes a 9,300 S.F. ISO 9001 cleanroom, the second largest in Washington State.
The first-of-its-kind facility on the Eastside will support high-volume component production of wafers and chips with nanoscale features. Because of the inconceivably tiny parts made from unconventional materials, these components aren’t practical, economical or even possible to fabricate at commercial foundries. The lab capabilities include photolithography, wet and dry etch, atomic layer deposition, Sputtering, Deep Reactive Ion Etching, scanning electron microscopy, Multiphysics simulation, design, and proprietary piezoelectric fabrication. The Avanti Nanofabrication will provide services to VerAvanti and the other businesses seeking these specialized services.
VerAvanti Founder and CEO, Gerald McMorrow explained why VerAvanti launched its new nanofabrication subsidiary. McMorrow stated, “The opening of the Avanti Nanofabrication facility enables VerAvanti to manufacture its patented Scanning Fiber Endoscope (SFE), a new, extremely small imaging modality designed to access small arteries to illuminate stroke and cardiovascular risks.” With the price point advantages this subsidiary enables, VerAvanti is positioning for a highly competitive market launch of its innovative SFE device.
About VerAvanti
Founded in 2013, privately-held VerAvanti is using advanced science and automation to commercialize the world’s first Scanning Fiber Endoscope (SFE)), to help physicians close treatment gaps and proactively identify interventions for the 200,000 individuals (U.S.) who suffer ischemic strokes due to an unknown cause1. Protected by more than 30 patents licensed by VerAvanti, the SFE is a micro-imaging catheter equipped with an extreme depth of focus camera that provides physicians a previously unseen surgical view into hidden intravascular anatomy, enabling more proactive diagnosis and treatment of individuals at-risk for stroke and cardiovascular events. Visit VerAvanti to learn more and review scientific papers and SFE images.
About Avanti Nanofabrication
Avanti Nanofabrication, a subsidiary of VerAvanti, is a nanofabrication facility located in Bothell, WA. The facility includes a 9,300 S.F. ISO 9001 cleanroom, the second largest in Washington State. Lab capabilities include photolithography, wet and dry etch, atomic layer deposition, Sputtering, Deep Reactive Ion Etching, scanning electron microscopy, Multiphysics simulation, design, and proprietary piezoelectric fabrication.
DEVELOPMENTAL STATUS (VerAvanti)
2019:
2017:
submitted by TheGoldenLeaper to enravel [link] [comments]
Date of Incorporation: 9/14/2009
Governing Persons: Rony Abovitz (Governor); Scott Henry (Governor); Anastasia Lang; Richard Taylor; Jennifer Fitzpatrick; Joseph Tsai https://www.sos.wa.gov/corps/business.aspx?ubi=602954597
Enravel, which presented at the April Innovation Showcase, followed up the presentations with an update and product demo. The company, led by UW mechanical engineer Brian Schowengerdt [former UW & Microvision employee], has developed a laser-based “pico projector” that could be built into mobile electronics like cell phones, digital cameras, and even eye glasses. The 1 mm x 9 mm projector —about the size of a grain of rice—uses “scanning fiber” technology to then scan an image from the device, and project an enlarged image back onto a larger surface, like a wall. The company, which has put most of its resources into developing the projection technology so far, plans to now turn its focus to streamlining the light source modulator to improve image quality.
https://xconomy.com/seattle/2010/07/15/technology-alliance-showcases-four-new-companies-in-biotech-and-cleantech-and-revisits-one-past-presente2/
Linden Rhoads [at the time Vice Provost-IP, Commercialization, Innovation at the University of Washington] introduced this startup by pulling out her iPhone and iPad (yes, one of those) and talking about the devices’ display capabilities. “These are great, these are fun, but they’re going to be so much more fun when there are projectors available for them,” she said. “That day is very, very close at hand.”
Enravel is led by UW mechanical engineer Brian Schowengerdt, an expert in alternative displays, user interfaces, and human visual perception. He co-founded the company in 2009 to commercialize a laser-based “pico projector.” The idea, he says, is to “take a display of iPad size and compress it into the size of an iPhone.” More specifically, to shrink a projector to “the size of a grain of rice” and use it to project on-screen images, video, games, websites, e-mail—you name it—onto any larger surface.
The core technology is a “scanning fiber” projector that uses fiber optics and a vibrating element to scan an image and blow it up, for example, to a size of 17 inches across from just five inches away. A matchbook-size assembly of laser diodes (off the shelf) provides the light source to project the image. You could imagine such a projector might be crammed into a smartphone and used anytime you want a bigger display to interact with, for reading text or watching a video, say.
Enravel has five employees, and its technology was built over the past few years using $8 million in funding for a related endoscopic imaging project (led by Eric Seibel) and $100,000 in grants. The company expects to finish its portable prototype by next month, and to have a standalone product by the end of next year.
https://xconomy.com/seattle/2010/04/22/technology-alliance-showcases-five-companies-in-sensors-mobile-displays-and-drug-therapies-investors-take-notice/?single_page=true
Thanks to for mentioning Enravel
Jump to Q3 2019
UW Researcher Spotlight: Eric Seibel, Mechanical Engineering Written by CoMotion Staff / September 27, 2019
Eric Seibel: "Scanning Fiber Endoscope: This is an ultrathin and flexible scanning fiber endoscope (SFE) for the early detection and treatment of cancers within the body. The goal is to advance minimally invasive medical imaging by using ultrathin flexible endoscopes that allow access to regions of the body that were previously inaccessible to permit less invasive treatment of cancers before they have spread from their place of origin. It was licensed to startup VerAvanti for medical endoscopes and Magic Leap for AR displays as well as a few other related licenses."
https://comotion.uw.edu/comotion-spotlight-on-a-uw-researcher-eric-seibel/
August 26, 2019 - Veravanti announces a new subsidiary and the opening of a nanofabrication facility
"The opening of the Avanti Nanofabrication facility enables VerAvanti to manufacture its patented Scanning Fiber Endoscope (SFE), a new, extremely small imaging modality designed to access small arteries to illuminate stroke and cardiovascular risks."
https://veravanti.com/news/2019/8/26/veravanti-announces-a-new-subsidiary-and-the-opening-of-a-nanofabrication-facility
Some information on Veravanti in relation to Enravel:
Research: Large field-of-view short-wave infrared metalens for scanning fiber endoscopy Mirror 1 Mirror 2
Near-Infrared Imaging of Artificial Enamel Caries Lesions with a Scanning Fiber Endoscope
Other Scanning Fiber Endoscope Projects
Endoscope Surveilence
SFE For Dental Care
SFE For Bladder Surveillance
The scanning fiber endoscope is an ultrathin and flexible endoscope for the early detection and treatment of cancers within the body. The SFE can be used as a surveillance device with the goal of improving our chances of survival from cancer.
A scanning fiber endoscope is a technology that uses a flexible, small (< 6Fr) peripheral or coronary catheter to provide wide-field, high-quality, full-color, laser-based video imaging. These differences distinguish SFE applications from current imaging approaches such as IVUS and Intracoronary OCT. Applications for the device (which was pending FDA review and approval as of 2017[needs update]), are expected to include medical diagnosis and support in determining interventional treatments such as surgery or biopsy. Providing both full-color images and a wide-field, real-time surgical view into the inner depths of arteries, enables physicians to circumnavigate hard to reach internal tissues to assess for potential disease.
REDMOND, WA (August 26, 2019) – VerAvanti, a developer of a new class of scientifically-advanced solutions to help physicians find answers to treat strokes and heart attacks that often strike without warning, today announced that its new subsidiary, Avanti, has opened a Nanofabrication facility in Bothell, Washington. The facility includes a 9,300 S.F. ISO 9001 cleanroom, the second largest in Washington State.
The first-of-its-kind facility on the Eastside will support high-volume component production of wafers and chips with nanoscale features. Because of the inconceivably tiny parts made from unconventional materials, these components aren’t practical, economical or even possible to fabricate at commercial foundries. The lab capabilities include photolithography, wet and dry etch, atomic layer deposition, Sputtering, Deep Reactive Ion Etching, scanning electron microscopy, Multiphysics simulation, design, and proprietary piezoelectric fabrication. The Avanti Nanofabrication will provide services to VerAvanti and the other businesses seeking these specialized services.
VerAvanti Founder and CEO, Gerald McMorrow explained why VerAvanti launched its new nanofabrication subsidiary. McMorrow stated, “The opening of the Avanti Nanofabrication facility enables VerAvanti to manufacture its patented Scanning Fiber Endoscope (SFE), a new, extremely small imaging modality designed to access small arteries to illuminate stroke and cardiovascular risks.” With the price point advantages this subsidiary enables, VerAvanti is positioning for a highly competitive market launch of its innovative SFE device.
About VerAvanti
Founded in 2013, privately-held VerAvanti is using advanced science and automation to commercialize the world’s first Scanning Fiber Endoscope (SFE)), to help physicians close treatment gaps and proactively identify interventions for the 200,000 individuals (U.S.) who suffer ischemic strokes due to an unknown cause1. Protected by more than 30 patents licensed by VerAvanti, the SFE is a micro-imaging catheter equipped with an extreme depth of focus camera that provides physicians a previously unseen surgical view into hidden intravascular anatomy, enabling more proactive diagnosis and treatment of individuals at-risk for stroke and cardiovascular events. Visit VerAvanti to learn more and review scientific papers and SFE images.
About Avanti Nanofabrication
Avanti Nanofabrication, a subsidiary of VerAvanti, is a nanofabrication facility located in Bothell, WA. The facility includes a 9,300 S.F. ISO 9001 cleanroom, the second largest in Washington State. Lab capabilities include photolithography, wet and dry etch, atomic layer deposition, Sputtering, Deep Reactive Ion Etching, scanning electron microscopy, Multiphysics simulation, design, and proprietary piezoelectric fabrication.
DEVELOPMENTAL STATUS (VerAvanti)
2019:
2017:
- June - Awarded $286K NIH Research, Phase 1 Grant. entitled “Optical visualization to efficiently guide coronary intervention of chronic total occlusion”
- May - Awarded $300k NIH Research, Phase 1 Grant entitled “4-Channel Multimodal Ultrathin-Flexible SFE for cancer diagnosis and therapy”
- April – Established in-house MEMS production facility.
- SFE console design complete.
- Quality system certified to ISO 13485 by Notified Body (DEKRA).
- David Auth, PhD joined VerAvanti board of directors.
- Patent Issued: "Closed Loop Optical Feedback Synchronization System for Imaging Application" (9,258,108)
- Scale-ready infrastructure, implemented including quality systems, NetSuite ERP, CRM, an accounting system and other automated business processes
- Established Clinical Advisory Board.
- Began development of automated catheter production.
- Identified and retained sales executives for USA and Europe with known track records.
- Design Concept – Coronary / Peripheral Scanning Fiber Endoscope
- Established manufacturing clean-room environment that operates at Class ISO 8 levels.
- Established corporate offices and R&D center of excellence.
- VerAvanti Inc. founded.
- Acquired exclusive worldwide rights to license SFE technology, consisting of more than 20 patents.
- Hired core development and engineering staff.
- Established automated document control system.
2024.05.16 00:59 lfg1985wb [WTS] Proof Sets, Wheaties, World Silver & Gold!
Welcome to the Wednesday Sale!
[Will consider trades for 2.5 pesos or Napoleon 10 Francs]
Proof: https://imgur.com/a/i7nVZk7
World Coins: https://imgur.com/a/ocqOP4K
1/4 Pahlavi (.0589 agw) - $152
2021 Niue Owl - $33
2019 Phil - $31
Wheaties: https://imgur.com/a/tcs6vGM
Roll of 50 (All 1930’s) - $9
Better Date Flips - Prices on flips in link. Did my best pricing these. If I’m off on any please let me know and I’m sure we can work out a deal.
Proof & UNC Sets:
1985-1992 - $6 each
1994-1998 - $6 each
1999 D & P UNC - $6 for both
2000-2003 (No Quarters!) - $3 each
2006-2007 (No Quarters!) - $3 each
2008 (No Quarters or Dollars!) - $3
2009 (No Quarters, Dollars or Cents!) - $2.50
2010-2016 (No Quarters or Dollars!) -$3 each
2015 Complete Proof Set - $30
2017 (No Quarters!) - $4
Shipping Note: Below pricing is for most of the above. If more than 3 sets are bought we can work out best priced shipping in chat.
Please add $6 for USPS Ground Advantage or $9 for Flat Rate.
If better pics/descriptions needed feel free to reach out in chat.
All items will be packaged secure. Items in capsules will ship with them. Once hand delivered to the post office and scanned my responsibility ends. I accept Venmo and PayPal f/f or add 4% for g/s. Reasonable offers and bundle deals welcome! Worst I can do is counter. Thanks for looking!
submitted by lfg1985wb to CoinSales [link] [comments]
[Will consider trades for 2.5 pesos or Napoleon 10 Francs]
Proof: https://imgur.com/a/i7nVZk7
World Coins: https://imgur.com/a/ocqOP4K
1/4 Pahlavi (.0589 agw) - $152
2021 Niue Owl - $33
2019 Phil - $31
Wheaties: https://imgur.com/a/tcs6vGM
Roll of 50 (All 1930’s) - $9
Better Date Flips - Prices on flips in link. Did my best pricing these. If I’m off on any please let me know and I’m sure we can work out a deal.
Proof & UNC Sets:
1985-1992 - $6 each
1994-1998 - $6 each
1999 D & P UNC - $6 for both
2000-2003 (No Quarters!) - $3 each
2006-2007 (No Quarters!) - $3 each
2008 (No Quarters or Dollars!) - $3
2009 (No Quarters, Dollars or Cents!) - $2.50
2010-2016 (No Quarters or Dollars!) -$3 each
2015 Complete Proof Set - $30
2017 (No Quarters!) - $4
Shipping Note: Below pricing is for most of the above. If more than 3 sets are bought we can work out best priced shipping in chat.
Please add $6 for USPS Ground Advantage or $9 for Flat Rate.
If better pics/descriptions needed feel free to reach out in chat.
All items will be packaged secure. Items in capsules will ship with them. Once hand delivered to the post office and scanned my responsibility ends. I accept Venmo and PayPal f/f or add 4% for g/s. Reasonable offers and bundle deals welcome! Worst I can do is counter. Thanks for looking!
2024.05.16 00:49 Free2nd Are the mono songs on Revolver and Sgt Pepper Super Deluxe any different from the 2009 Mono CD set?
I have the Beatles In Mono 2009 CD box set, which I love, but I’ve read that they are from digital masters, unlike the vinyl version which is supposedly from the original analogue masters.
I noticed that the Super Deluxe versions of Revolver and Sgt Pepper for sale on HD Tracks also contain the mono mixes of those albums, but I don’t know if they are remasters or simply duplicates of the 2009 Beatles In Mono CD versions.
Does anyone know if these are the same versions or if they are different? If they are proper remasters from the analogue masters then I will shell out the cash for those super deluxe editions, otherwise no.
submitted by Free2nd to TheBeatles [link] [comments]
I noticed that the Super Deluxe versions of Revolver and Sgt Pepper for sale on HD Tracks also contain the mono mixes of those albums, but I don’t know if they are remasters or simply duplicates of the 2009 Beatles In Mono CD versions.
Does anyone know if these are the same versions or if they are different? If they are proper remasters from the analogue masters then I will shell out the cash for those super deluxe editions, otherwise no.
2024.05.15 22:00 prm36 Advice on capital gains tax and property held in trust
I wonder if I can ask for some clarification of something relating to capital gains tax and beneficial ownership.
I have owned an investment property in my own name since 2009. We both lived in the property for several years before starting to rent it out in 2016. In 2016, I created a trust which confirmed that I held 50% property on trust for my wife, as follows:
“I, (My Name), declare that I intend to create a trust to transfer 50% of the profit from sale of the property described as (Property address) to my wife, (wife’s Name) , without the transfer of legal ownership. By making this declaration, I acknowledge that (Wife name) is entitled to 50% of any income derived from the sale of the property. This is a bare trust, no conditions or restrictions are attached to the transfer of beneficial interest. I understand that this declaration does not require registration with the Land Registry, nor does it necessitate the delivery or witness of signatures. The trust becomes enforceable from the date of this declaration.”
We have recently sold the property, which was registered in my name only, and on which I had a mortgage in my name only. There is a gain of about £80,000 before any CGT allowance/s. As far as I am aware, CGT is based upon beneficial ownership so, given the above trust, we ought to be able to use both allowances, with two CGT declarations.
As per HMRC (in its Capital Gains manual, at CG70230) lists the following as indicators that a person is a beneficial owner of land:
I wonder if I could get any advice as to whether my interpretation is correct, and that we should each make a declaration relating to 50% of the gain, (or otherwise).
I hope the above makes sense, and am grateful for any help.
Edit: In Scotland
submitted by prm36 to LegalAdviceUK [link] [comments]
I have owned an investment property in my own name since 2009. We both lived in the property for several years before starting to rent it out in 2016. In 2016, I created a trust which confirmed that I held 50% property on trust for my wife, as follows:
“I, (My Name), declare that I intend to create a trust to transfer 50% of the profit from sale of the property described as (Property address) to my wife, (wife’s Name) , without the transfer of legal ownership. By making this declaration, I acknowledge that (Wife name) is entitled to 50% of any income derived from the sale of the property. This is a bare trust, no conditions or restrictions are attached to the transfer of beneficial interest. I understand that this declaration does not require registration with the Land Registry, nor does it necessitate the delivery or witness of signatures. The trust becomes enforceable from the date of this declaration.”
We have recently sold the property, which was registered in my name only, and on which I had a mortgage in my name only. There is a gain of about £80,000 before any CGT allowance/s. As far as I am aware, CGT is based upon beneficial ownership so, given the above trust, we ought to be able to use both allowances, with two CGT declarations.
As per HMRC (in its Capital Gains manual, at CG70230) lists the following as indicators that a person is a beneficial owner of land:
- Holding legal title; occupying the land; receiving rental income from the land; providing the funds to purchase the land; or receipt of sale proceeds from disposal of the land.”
- the trust on it's own confirms beneficial ownership.
- whether all five of the conditions need to be satisfied, in addition to the trust, in order to confirm beneficial ownership, or
- whether the two that she satisfies, along with the trust, confirm beneficial ownership.
I wonder if I could get any advice as to whether my interpretation is correct, and that we should each make a declaration relating to 50% of the gain, (or otherwise).
I hope the above makes sense, and am grateful for any help.
Edit: In Scotland
2024.05.15 21:54 kayakero What is the Bitcoin Rainbow Chart and how to use it?
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Pros and Cons of Bitcoin Rainbow ChartBitcoin Rainbow Chart is a powerful resource that, like any other analysis tool, has its pros and cons.Pros:
BRC: Statistical modelLogarithmic regression is a statistical model used to evaluate the decline or growth of a process that slows down over time . Some variables that are usually represented with a logarithmic regression are the acidity of a solution or the intensity of a sound.This method is very useful to establish relationships in cases where it is not appropriate to perform a linear analysis. This is the case of Bitcoin (with massive initial growth), whose price and timing best fit a logarithmic representation. https://preview.redd.it/od5huj8j8n0d1.png?width=850&format=png&auto=webp&s=bbb2a5cc6da398b452788b2f5fea954de437ba30 Bitcoin Rainbow Chart Use CasesThe use cases for Bitcoin Rainbow Chart are varied. Among other things, it is used to:
Trading Bitcoin Rainbow ChartReading the graph is simple . Bitcoin Rainbow Chart is based on the price movement since 2014, whose line is framed in the rainbow. Right in the middle, the yellow band serves as a starting point.Towards the top, we enter hot zones (red and orange bands), which would indicate the formation of bubbles due to an overvaluation of the asset. Profit taking usually occurs after a prolonged price run into these areas. https://preview.redd.it/51rtvh9w8n0d1.png?width=850&format=png&auto=webp&s=982303c2f8070563a050655199fc2ec910dcedef Let's look at an example. On November 8, 2021, Bitcoin was in the light orange band. The price was close to $67,500. A couple of months later significant profit taking was observed. https://preview.redd.it/ty4huscz8n0d1.png?width=850&format=png&auto=webp&s=830bf7f1bb13b3cca41e2259ea37eba2f369f9f1 Below the central band, we find the cold zones (green and blue bands), linked to buying and accumulation sentiments. In this region of the rainbow, we will most likely be able to buy Bitcoin at a good price. For example, Bitcoin was in the blue zone during the 2020 crash, when the price plummeted to $5,000. The lower band is known as the fire sale zone, ideal for accumulation periods. https://preview.redd.it/roaoawg29n0d1.png?width=850&format=png&auto=webp&s=33614cd12525a24bea27dd67c1c93c765bc7b251 ¿Is Bitcoin Rainbow Chart a reliable indicator?Since its first version, the BRC has been quite accurate. To date, the price has behaved as expected based on the band it was in (both in bearish and bullish phases). Its reliability can be reinforced by complementing the reading with other indicators, as well as with specific models (for example, the S2F).https://preview.redd.it/ak2uzpza9n0d1.png?width=850&format=png&auto=webp&s=58001a47098ab14ad347144220fe71f1c51863e1 BRC: ConclusionBitcoin Rainbow Chart is a useful tool for long-term Bitcoin price analysis . Its precision is a point in favor of the model, which ignores the noise generated by short-term factors (for example, intraday volatility).By combining BRC readings with traditional indicators, much more accurate forecasts can be made. In fact, by itself, it is a tool that can be reduced to the definition of overbought and oversold zones. BONKbot Telegram User Guide: Sniping 1000x Memecoins Unibot User Guide Top 7 Telegram Bots Get a $100 bonus trading with Binance |
2024.05.15 17:31 Joshh170 Minecraft Is Giving Away Free Items for the Game's 15th Anniversary
 | Minecraft will be giving away free items to players during the latter half of May to mark the game's 15th anniversary. Mojang Studios' popular sandbox experience is set to receive a major update that will introduce a host of new content. submitted by Joshh170 to GameGeeks [link] [comments] Before fully launching in late 2011, Minecraft had long been publicly available to PC users, with the very first version of the game releasing on May 17, 2009. A campaign to mark the title's upcoming 15th anniversary has just been unveiled, and those who participate in the event will be given a number of special in-game rewards. As part of Minecraft's 15th anniversary celebration, players can log in every day between May 15 and May 29 to claim a free Character Creator item. The Character Creator is Minecraft's customization system that gives players the ability to modify their skins with free and paid-for cosmetic items. Each of the 15 rewards featured in the anniversary event will represent a different year in the history of Minecraft, which is one of the best-selling game franchises of all time. Mojang Studios revealed in October 2023 that Minecraft had already surpassed 300 million sales at the time. In comparison, the title's closest rival, Rockstar Games' critically acclaimed Grand Theft Auto 5, had sold 195 million copies as of February. Minecraft's success can be attributed to several factors, such as its core promise of endless creative freedom, varied game modes, dedicated community, and regular updates. Minecraft 15th Anniversary Free Items Event Duration May 15 to May 29, 2024 The upcoming 1.21 update for Minecraft, Tricky Trials, is expected to arrive in mid-2024. Aside from implementing a long list of tweaks to things that are already in the game, this release will introduce several new blocks like the Crafter, a Redstone-powered tool that can be set up to automatically craft items. Tricky Trials will also add procedurally generated underground structures called Trial Chambers to Minecraft that will contain new Copper-related blocks and offer players new hostile areas to explore during the mid-game. This combat-focused update features two new Minecraft mob types, the Bogged and Breeze, as well. The Bogged is a moss and mushroom-covered Skeleton variant that shoots poisonous arrows and naturally spawns in either swamps or mangrove swamps. The cunning and hostile Breeze behaves like a wind-oriented version of Minecraft's Blaze mob that only appears in Trial Chambers. Breezes can deflect all forms of projectiles, which forces players to engage in close combat while avoiding the mob's explosive Wind Charge attack. |
2024.05.15 14:48 PunnyHeals Misrepresentation of house price data by Realtor.ca
 | TL;DR: submitted by PunnyHeals to newbrunswickcanada [link] [comments]
I have been looking to buy a house for the past several years in the Fredericton area and have been checking the online listings regularly through Realtor.ca since it is the most common real estate listing website used in New Brunswick. What I liked about Realtor.ca was its ability to provide the average sell price for a house every month with graphs that showed the average sell price for a house in Fredericton for the past 12 months and 10 years. Looking for a house for an several years, I felt that I had a good idea of the market conditions and price ranges. My anecdotal evidence was that the average house price was much higher than Realtor.ca’s estimate of 288,300. I wondered if my anecdotal evidence could be supported by data. The objective of this report is to collect list price data from all available listings within the Fredericton area. Once collected, I can take the average price and see if it matches the average price shown by Realtor.ca. **Average/Median Methodology** When you use Realtor.ca, you can filter results by the property type. There are six property type categories: Residential (single family home), condo/strata, vacant land, recreational, multi-family, and agriculture. For each of these property types, the asking price and address were copied into an Excel file. The data was collected on May 10, 2024, and included all listings within Fredericton; duplicate listings were removed. Once all data was collected, the average and median for each property type was calculated (Table 1). I compared my calculated average to the Realtor.ca average to determine if my anecdotal evidence of thinking the average house price was higher than what Realtor.ca said was justified. **Results** There were 107 listings for residential houses (referred simply as “house” in this report), 245 listings for vacant land, 5 listings for recreational, 7 listings for multi-family, 2 listings for agriculture, and 10 listings for condos (Figure 1). The average listing price was $543,878 for houses, $177,026 for land, $227,080 for recreation, $826,100 for multi-family, $829,450 for agriculture, and $317,410 for condos. The median listing price was $474,900 for houses, $64,900 for land, $229,900 for recreation, $799,000 for multi-family, $829,450 for agriculture, and $289,900 for condos (Table 1). **Realtor.ca MLS System Average House Price Claim** When you search for “houses for sale in Fredericton, NB”, you will see the top search results show Realtor.ca. This is not uncommon since Realtor.ca and its Multiple Listing Service (MLS) have the highest number of listings of any other online real estate listing service for the Fredericton, NB, area. Having most real estate listings concentrated on one system can provide users with a general idea of greater market conditions beyond individual listings, such as averages and trends for cities. Realtor.ca provides this data in the form of “Market Price (CAD)” price trends for the past 12 months, and price trends for the past 10 years (Figure 2). These figures are prominently displayed at the end of the first page of the Fredericton real estate listings (URL: https://www.realtor.ca/nb/fredericton/real-estate). This leads us to the first claim by the Realtor.ca MLS system claim and our initial objective of this report. Claim: The average market price in Fredericton sits at $288,300 as of May, 2024. Analysis: When a user views these figures, it is a safe assumption that when a price is displayed, the user is inclined to believe that “Market Price (CAD)” is the average house price in Fredericton. This is further reinforced if the user reads the description above the figures which states: “Use our home price trends to better gauge local market conditions and plan your next move. The graphs below show benchmark or average prices of homes sold in the area. Data generated by MLS® Systems and the MLS® Home Price Index (HPI) — Canada’s most advanced tool to gauge local home price levels and trends.” This small paragraph specifically states, “The graphs below show benchmark or average prices of homes sold in the area.” Based off the graphs and their statement, we can safely interpret that Realtor.ca is explicitly saying that the average home price in Fredericton, NB, currently sits at $288,300; leaving no room for interpretation on how the data can be viewed. The reason I wanted to be explicitly clear on this thought process is that if you look back at the results section of this paper (Table 1) and see that the calculated average of all house listings was $543,878, it represents an 88.65% difference. A couple assumptions that could explain this difference are:
Since there is such a large discrepancy in my calculated average and the average from Realtor.ca, I expanded my analysis to other categories. I combined my residential house data set with the other five property types to see if it would alter our initial average and how close it would come to the calculated Realtor.ca average (Table 2). Realtor.ca claims the average house price in Fredericton was $288,300, which seems to be closest to my calculated average for the combination of house and land listings. With the addition of these combinations, it suggests that Realtor.ca calculates average housing price using houses and land listings. Realtor.ca MLS’s claim of the average house price in Fredericton, NB being $288,300 is a misrepresentation of the true market value and conditions. If a company were to calculate averages of an entire real estate market within an area, why would they only include house and land and not the other 4 categories? **Misleading Representations by Realtor.ca** The conclusions made from my analysis were made with plenty of explanations and assumptions. Given that the MLS system is a pay gated system, and their patented house price index algorithms are private, I feel it is reasonable to assume that my data is closer to true market prices. This leads us to the next question, if my data isn’t correct, why are the figures, calculations, and methodology misleading users on market conditions? The average user is not going to spend a significant amount of time manually collecting data and putting it into Excel to double check Realtor.ca. The company is the largest multiple listing system used in New Brunswick and holding that status comes with some form of implicit trust that the public holds for information it publishes. In this section, I will lay out sections and guidelines from the Competition Act and why I believe that Realtor.ca is violating the Act. **Competition Act** For the below, I will be using the most updated version of the Competition Act R.S.C., 1985, c. C-34, last amended on December 15, 2023 (https://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-34/page-1.html) and the “Application of the Competition Act to Representations on the Internet” published by Competition Bureau Canada (https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection\_2010/ic/Iu54-1-2009-eng.pdf) *Section 2.2, Paragraph 4 of the Application of the Competition Act to Representations on the Internet* “Businesses should not assume that consumers read an entire Web site, just as they do not read every word on a printed page. Accordingly, information required to be communicated to consumers to ensure that a representation does not create a false or misleading impression should be presented in such a fashion as to make it noticeable and likely to be read.” Explanation: Section 2.2 applies to the average house price and accompanying figures (Figure 2). Realtor.ca shows the average house price in text and graph form but does not disclose that these are house and land price average if my calculations are accurate. *Section 4.1, Paragraph 1 of the Application of the Competition Act to Representations on the Internet* “If qualifying information is necessary to prevent a representation from being false or misleading when read on its own, businesses should present that information clearly and conspicuously. Businesses frequently use disclaimers, often signalled by an asterisk, to qualify the general impression of their principal representation when promoting their products or services. As mentioned earlier, the general impression conveyed by the representation, as well as its literal meaning, are taken into account in determining whether a representation is false or misleading.” Explanation: Section 4.1 applies to Realtor.ca house price indices and other methodologies. A disclaimer in this case would be located within the same small paragraph above the figures. Instead, they use their own house price index to obfuscate their methodologies (Figure 2). Another option they give is below the graphs as “Ask a realtor for more detailed information” which creates an additional barrier to the users right under the Competition Act. Specifically, the “to qualify the general impression of their principal representation when promoting their products or services.” The “ask a realtor” hyperlink brings you to an additional page where you can find their realtors in your area. This is incentivizing the user to use their services over others to access more information. Realtor.ca has a majority market share in New Brunswick which further reinforces their monopolistic practices over real estate that hurts consumers. *Section 4.1.3, Paragraph 1 of the Application of the Competition Act to Representations on the Internet* “Businesses may effectively draw attention to a disclaimer so that it is more likely to be read by using attention-grabbing tools to display the disclaimer. In doing so, businesses must be careful not to design attention-grabbing tools in other parts of the advertisement in such a way that they distract the consumer’s attention away from the disclaimer, making it unlikely that the consumer will notice the disclaimer or recognize its importance.” Explanation: Section 4.1.3 is further evidence of obfuscation and misrepresentation of their graphical aids and calculations. Similar to section 2.2 in the Application of the Competition Act to Representations on the Internet, Realtor.ca placed those figures at the bottom of the first page of listings to draw the user’s attention to their interpretation of data. *Section 52 (1) of the Competition Act: False or misleading representations* “No person shall, for the purpose of promoting, directly or indirectly, the supply or use of a product or for the purpose of promoting, directly or indirectly, any business interest, by any means whatever, knowingly or recklessly make a representation to the public that is false or misleading in a material respect.” Explanation: Section 52 (1) is the main argument for this report. I believe that Realtor.ca knowingly or recklessly misrepresented the average house price in Fredericton using deceptive graphical aids and created a home price index to further obfuscate the methodology. I am not a lawyer, so I could be misinterpreting the sections of the Competition Act. I believe Realtor.ca has reached the threshold of violating the Competition Act since Section 52.1.1 states: “For greater certainty, in establishing that subsection (1) was contravened, it is not necessary to prove that (a) any person was deceived or misled; (b) any member of the public to whom the representation was made was within Canada; or (c) the representation was made in a place to which the public had access.” This amendment to the Competition Act removed the threshold of proving that an individual or the public were deceived or misled. I believe that Realtor.ca has violated all three elements of section 52.1.1 ensuring that they have met the threshold of violating section 52.1 of the Competition Act. **Conclusion** I have given numerous caveats to my analysis, so it is possible I have come to the wrong conclusions given the lack of transparency in methodology and limited time frame. One thing I can conclude with certainty, is that Realtor.ca is misrepresenting market conditions through their figures displaying average house prices, pay gates to information, and methodology disclosures guised as a patented as a housing price index. I believe that Realtor.ca should make it clear to the user how their housing price index is calculated. Realtor.ca and the MLS system has succeeded in market capture and fights to keep this information pay gated to only people that benefit from these misleading claims. Regardless of their reasons, these monopolistic practices only benefit anyone under their system through the restriction of information to shape the way the public perceives the market conditions, a clear violation of the Competition Act and a disservice to the public. There was a lot more I wanted to cover like if Statistics Canada (u/StatCanada) sourced their data from the MLS system and the broader implications of sourcing data that could be misrepresentation. Again, I could be wrong and would welcome any additional relevant information. https://preview.redd.it/awfmkl0x6l0d1.png?width=1681&format=png&auto=webp&s=c9c4be8b6139c4f079ff343637b159b85e79cd3b https://preview.redd.it/za540m0x6l0d1.png?width=3816&format=png&auto=webp&s=8c16fdcbc34795f46b38bdf502e1576fb43887dd https://preview.redd.it/h5lz8p0x6l0d1.png?width=4166&format=png&auto=webp&s=3a76bdd71e64435fbaa38a768469d287b508946a https://preview.redd.it/5qz74m0x6l0d1.png?width=3262&format=png&auto=webp&s=ab9363605bd6b31f324b5bb58f1fcc847f17a67b |
2024.05.15 14:47 PunnyHeals Misrepresentation of house price data by Realtor.ca
 | TL;DR: submitted by PunnyHeals to fredericton [link] [comments]
I have been looking to buy a house for the past several years in the Fredericton area and have been checking the online listings regularly through Realtor.ca since it is the most common real estate listing website used in New Brunswick. What I liked about Realtor.ca was its ability to provide the average sell price for a house every month with graphs that showed the average sell price for a house in Fredericton for the past 12 months and 10 years. Looking for a house for an several years, I felt that I had a good idea of the market conditions and price ranges. My anecdotal evidence was that the average house price was much higher than Realtor.ca’s estimate of 288,300. I wondered if my anecdotal evidence could be supported by data. The objective of this report is to collect list price data from all available listings within the Fredericton area. Once collected, I can take the average price and see if it matches the average price shown by Realtor.ca. **Average/Median Methodology** When you use Realtor.ca, you can filter results by the property type. There are six property type categories: Residential (single family home), condo/strata, vacant land, recreational, multi-family, and agriculture. For each of these property types, the asking price and address were copied into an Excel file. The data was collected on May 10, 2024, and included all listings within Fredericton; duplicate listings were removed. Once all data was collected, the average and median for each property type was calculated (Table 1). I compared my calculated average to the Realtor.ca average to determine if my anecdotal evidence of thinking the average house price was higher than what Realtor.ca said was justified. **Results** There were 107 listings for residential houses (referred simply as “house” in this report), 245 listings for vacant land, 5 listings for recreational, 7 listings for multi-family, 2 listings for agriculture, and 10 listings for condos (Figure 1). The average listing price was $543,878 for houses, $177,026 for land, $227,080 for recreation, $826,100 for multi-family, $829,450 for agriculture, and $317,410 for condos. The median listing price was $474,900 for houses, $64,900 for land, $229,900 for recreation, $799,000 for multi-family, $829,450 for agriculture, and $289,900 for condos (Table 1). **Realtor.ca MLS System Average House Price Claim** When you search for “houses for sale in Fredericton, NB”, you will see the top search results show Realtor.ca. This is not uncommon since Realtor.ca and its Multiple Listing Service (MLS) have the highest number of listings of any other online real estate listing service for the Fredericton, NB, area. Having most real estate listings concentrated on one system can provide users with a general idea of greater market conditions beyond individual listings, such as averages and trends for cities. Realtor.ca provides this data in the form of “Market Price (CAD)” price trends for the past 12 months, and price trends for the past 10 years (Figure 2). These figures are prominently displayed at the end of the first page of the Fredericton real estate listings (URL: https://www.realtor.ca/nb/fredericton/real-estate). This leads us to the first claim by the Realtor.ca MLS system claim and our initial objective of this report. Claim: The average market price in Fredericton sits at $288,300 as of May, 2024. Analysis: When a user views these figures, it is a safe assumption that when a price is displayed, the user is inclined to believe that “Market Price (CAD)” is the average house price in Fredericton. This is further reinforced if the user reads the description above the figures which states: “Use our home price trends to better gauge local market conditions and plan your next move. The graphs below show benchmark or average prices of homes sold in the area. Data generated by MLS® Systems and the MLS® Home Price Index (HPI) — Canada’s most advanced tool to gauge local home price levels and trends.” This small paragraph specifically states, “The graphs below show benchmark or average prices of homes sold in the area.” Based off the graphs and their statement, we can safely interpret that Realtor.ca is explicitly saying that the average home price in Fredericton, NB, currently sits at $288,300; leaving no room for interpretation on how the data can be viewed. The reason I wanted to be explicitly clear on this thought process is that if you look back at the results section of this paper (Table 1) and see that the calculated average of all house listings was $543,878, it represents an 88.65% difference. A couple assumptions that could explain this difference are:
Since there is such a large discrepancy in my calculated average and the average from Realtor.ca, I expanded my analysis to other categories. I combined my residential house data set with the other five property types to see if it would alter our initial average and how close it would come to the calculated Realtor.ca average (Table 2). Realtor.ca claims the average house price in Fredericton was $288,300, which seems to be closest to my calculated average for the combination of house and land listings. With the addition of these combinations, it suggests that Realtor.ca calculates average housing price using houses and land listings. Realtor.ca MLS’s claim of the average house price in Fredericton, NB being $288,300 is a misrepresentation of the true market value and conditions. If a company were to calculate averages of an entire real estate market within an area, why would they only include house and land and not the other 4 categories? **Misleading Representations by Realtor.ca** The conclusions made from my analysis were made with plenty of explanations and assumptions. Given that the MLS system is a pay gated system, and their patented house price index algorithms are private, I feel it is reasonable to assume that my data is closer to true market prices. This leads us to the next question, if my data isn’t correct, why are the figures, calculations, and methodology misleading users on market conditions? The average user is not going to spend a significant amount of time manually collecting data and putting it into Excel to double check Realtor.ca. The company is the largest multiple listing system used in New Brunswick and holding that status comes with some form of implicit trust that the public holds for information it publishes. In this section, I will lay out sections and guidelines from the Competition Act and why I believe that Realtor.ca is violating the Act. **Competition Act** For the below, I will be using the most updated version of the Competition Act R.S.C., 1985, c. C-34, last amended on December 15, 2023 (https://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-34/page-1.html) and the “Application of the Competition Act to Representations on the Internet” published by Competition Bureau Canada (https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection\_2010/ic/Iu54-1-2009-eng.pdf) *Section 2.2, Paragraph 4 of the Application of the Competition Act to Representations on the Internet* “Businesses should not assume that consumers read an entire Web site, just as they do not read every word on a printed page. Accordingly, information required to be communicated to consumers to ensure that a representation does not create a false or misleading impression should be presented in such a fashion as to make it noticeable and likely to be read.” Explanation: Section 2.2 applies to the average house price and accompanying figures (Figure 2). Realtor.ca shows the average house price in text and graph form but does not disclose that these are house and land price average if my calculations are accurate. *Section 4.1, Paragraph 1 of the Application of the Competition Act to Representations on the Internet* “If qualifying information is necessary to prevent a representation from being false or misleading when read on its own, businesses should present that information clearly and conspicuously. Businesses frequently use disclaimers, often signalled by an asterisk, to qualify the general impression of their principal representation when promoting their products or services. As mentioned earlier, the general impression conveyed by the representation, as well as its literal meaning, are taken into account in determining whether a representation is false or misleading.” Explanation: Section 4.1 applies to Realtor.ca house price indices and other methodologies. A disclaimer in this case would be located within the same small paragraph above the figures. Instead, they use their own house price index to obfuscate their methodologies (Figure 2). Another option they give is below the graphs as “Ask a realtor for more detailed information” which creates an additional barrier to the users right under the Competition Act. Specifically, the “to qualify the general impression of their principal representation when promoting their products or services.” The “ask a realtor” hyperlink brings you to an additional page where you can find their realtors in your area. This is incentivizing the user to use their services over others to access more information. Realtor.ca has a majority market share in New Brunswick which further reinforces their monopolistic practices over real estate that hurts consumers. *Section 4.1.3, Paragraph 1 of the Application of the Competition Act to Representations on the Internet* “Businesses may effectively draw attention to a disclaimer so that it is more likely to be read by using attention-grabbing tools to display the disclaimer. In doing so, businesses must be careful not to design attention-grabbing tools in other parts of the advertisement in such a way that they distract the consumer’s attention away from the disclaimer, making it unlikely that the consumer will notice the disclaimer or recognize its importance.” Explanation: Section 4.1.3 is further evidence of obfuscation and misrepresentation of their graphical aids and calculations. Similar to section 2.2 in the Application of the Competition Act to Representations on the Internet, Realtor.ca placed those figures at the bottom of the first page of listings to draw the user’s attention to their interpretation of data. *Section 52 (1) of the Competition Act: False or misleading representations* “No person shall, for the purpose of promoting, directly or indirectly, the supply or use of a product or for the purpose of promoting, directly or indirectly, any business interest, by any means whatever, knowingly or recklessly make a representation to the public that is false or misleading in a material respect.” Explanation: Section 52 (1) is the main argument for this report. I believe that Realtor.ca knowingly or recklessly misrepresented the average house price in Fredericton using deceptive graphical aids and created a home price index to further obfuscate the methodology. I am not a lawyer, so I could be misinterpreting the sections of the Competition Act. I believe Realtor.ca has reached the threshold of violating the Competition Act since Section 52.1.1 states: “For greater certainty, in establishing that subsection (1) was contravened, it is not necessary to prove that (a) any person was deceived or misled; (b) any member of the public to whom the representation was made was within Canada; or (c) the representation was made in a place to which the public had access.” This amendment to the Competition Act removed the threshold of proving that an individual or the public were deceived or misled. I believe that Realtor.ca has violated all three elements of section 52.1.1 ensuring that they have met the threshold of violating section 52.1 of the Competition Act. **Conclusion** I have given numerous caveats to my analysis, so it is possible I have come to the wrong conclusions given the lack of transparency in methodology and limited time frame. One thing I can conclude with certainty, is that Realtor.ca is misrepresenting market conditions through their figures displaying average house prices, pay gates to information, and methodology disclosures guised as a patented as a housing price index. I believe that Realtor.ca should make it clear to the user how their housing price index is calculated. Realtor.ca and the MLS system has succeeded in market capture and fights to keep this information pay gated to only people that benefit from these misleading claims. Regardless of their reasons, these monopolistic practices only benefit anyone under their system through the restriction of information to shape the way the public perceives the market conditions, a clear violation of the Competition Act and a disservice to the public. There was a lot more I wanted to cover like if Statistics Canada (u/StatCanada) sourced their data from the MLS system and the broader implications of sourcing data that could be misrepresentation. Again, I could be wrong and would welcome any additional relevant information. https://preview.redd.it/rnsd41ym6l0d1.png?width=1681&format=png&auto=webp&s=51589de251bac87748c5ee7e9f0c24a2408fc4a0 https://preview.redd.it/apw3q2ym6l0d1.png?width=3816&format=png&auto=webp&s=3d0ce2c2c103032e343793ae147411338d107375 https://preview.redd.it/bi9hg2ym6l0d1.png?width=4166&format=png&auto=webp&s=911c5cfd60b58f658e0048552760efc2ec785561 https://preview.redd.it/ki25gaym6l0d1.png?width=3262&format=png&auto=webp&s=3dd741f4fead9c6782e24c8193062135238209d5 |
2024.05.15 13:25 NaturalCharity4345 DLF Chisholm Apartments Sector 24
There are apartments for sale in DLF Phase 2, Gurgaon, at DLF Chisholm Apartments. Look for properties that fit your preferences and needs; DLF Chisholm Apartments were put into possession in March 2009.DLF Chisholm Apartments Sector 24
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2024.05.15 03:41 ddgr815 Detroit killed the sedan. We may all live to regret it
Last week, General Motors announced that it would end production of the Chevrolet Malibu, which the company first introduced in 1964. Although not exactly a head turner (the Malibu was “so uncool, it was cool,” declared the New York Times), the sedan has become an American fixture, even an icon, appearing in classic films like Say Anything and Pulp Fiction. Over the past 60 years, GM produced some 10 million of them.
With a price starting at a (relatively) affordable $25,100, Malibu sales exceeded 130,000 vehicles last year, a 13% annual increase and enough to rank as the #3 Chevy model, behind only the Silverado and the Equinox. Still, that wasn’t enough to keep the car off GM’s chopping block. The company says that the last Malibu will roll out of its Kansas City, KS, factory this November; the plant will then be retooled to produce the new Chevy Bolt, an electric crossover SUV.
With the Malibu’s demise, GM will no longer sell any sedans in the U.S. In that regard, it will have plenty of company. Ford stopped producing sedans for the U.S. market in 2018. And it was Sergio Marchionne, the former head of Stellantis, who triggered the headlong retreat in 2016 when he declared that Dodge and Chrysler would stop making sedans. (Tesla, meanwhile, offers two sedans: the Model 3 and Model S.)
As recently as 2009, U.S. passenger cars (including sedans and a plunging number of station wagons) outsold light trucks (SUVs, pickups, and minivans), but today they’re less then 20% of new car purchases. The death of the Malibu is confirmation, if anyone still needs it, that the Big Three are done building sedans. That decision is bad news for road users, the environment, and budget-conscious consumers—and it may ultimately come around to bite Detroit.
When asked, automakers are quick to blame the sedan’s decline on shifting consumer preferences. Americans simply want bigger cars, the story goes, and there’s some truth to it. Compared to sedans, many SUV and pickup models provide extra cargo space and give the driver more visibility on the highway. In a crash, those inside a heavier car have a better chance of escaping without injury—although the same can’t be said for pedestrians or those in other vehicles. (That discrepancy inspired a headline in The Onion: “Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident.”)
This narrative of the market’s dispassionate invisible hand tossing the sedan aside holds intuitive appeal, but it leaves gaping holes. For one thing, federal policy has, in many ways, ]distorted the car market to favor larger vehicles](https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution). Fuel economy regulations, for instance, are more lenient for SUVs and pickups than they are for smaller cars, nudging automakers to produce more of the former and fewer of the latter. Another egregious example: Small business owners such as real estate agents can save thousands of dollars by writing off the cost of their vehicle—but only if it weighs more than 6,000 pounds, a stipulation that effectively excludes sedans entirely.
Carmakers, for their part, powerfully influence consumer demand through billions of dollars spent on advertising. Because SUVs and pickups are more expensive and profitable than sedans, manufacturers have a clear incentive to tilt buying decisions away from small cars and toward larger ones (which helps explain ad campaigns designed to confer an undeserved green halo on SUVs).
Even those who don’t want a big car may feel pressure to upsize, if only to avoid being at a disadvantage in a crash or when trying to see what lies ahead on the road. Such people find themselves trapped in a prisoner’s dilemma, preferring that everyone had smaller cars, but resigning themselves to buying an SUV or pickup since others already have them.
For all these reasons, modest-size sedans like the Malibu are disappearing from American streets, supplanted by SUVs and pickups that seem to grow bulkier with every model refresh. (The Chevy Bolts produced at GM’s Kansas plant will be bigger than the previous Bolt model, which was retired last year.) This pattern of ongoing vehicle expansion, a trend I call car bloat, is especially advanced in North America, but it’s visible worldwide. In 2022, SUVs alone comprised 46% of global car sales, up from 20% a decade earlier.
From a societal perspective, the decline of the sedan is a disaster. Consider road safety, an area where the U.S. underperforms compared to the rest of the rich world, especially for pedestrians and cyclists (deaths for both recently hit 40-year highs). Larger cars have bigger blind spots, convey more force in a collision, and tend to strike a person’s torso rather than their legs. They’re also heavier, with propulsion systems that guzzle more gasoline (or electrons) to move, producing more pollution in the process. Their weight also catalyzes the erosion of tires and roads, spewing microscopic particles that can damage human health as well as aquatic ecosystems.
Despite the myriad problems of car bloat, the federal government has taken no steps to restrain it. In the absence of regulations or taxes, carmakers have ample reason to abandon their sedan models in favor of SUVs and trucks. The higher margins of larger cars is especially precious now, as the Big Three scrabble for money to invest in electrification and autonomous technology, as well as to pay for the rising costs of wages and benefits that they agreed to last fall during negotiations with the United Auto Workers.
Realistically, it would be a Herculean task to pivot back toward selling small cars, even if American automakers wanted to. Although adept at selling high-priced, feature-laden SUVs and trucks, they’re far less experienced at the low-margin, high volume business of producing cheaper small cars. That is one reason (though hardly the only one) that China’s booming market for EVs, including many modest-size and affordable models, is sowing fear throughout Detroit—and in Washington, too.
Where does the shift from sedans toward SUVs and trucks leave everyday Americans? With a strained wallet, for one thing. With its MSRP starting at $25,100 the Malibu has been one of the most affordable U.S.-produced cars, costing barely half as much as the average new vehicle, which exceeded $47,000 in February (the Malibu is also at least a few thousand dollars cheaper than the Bolt that will replace it at the Kansas factory).
Especially when factoring in higher interest rates and spiking insurance premiums, cars are becoming a financial strain for many Americans. According to the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the average annual, inflation-adjusted cost of owning a vehicle and driving it 15,000 miles hit $12,182 in 2023, an increase of over 30% in just six years.
Over time, the elimination of sedans leaves the Big Three vulnerable if consumer preferences shift away from enormity. “Legacy car companies haven’t done a great job of thinking long term,” said Alex Roy, a cohost of the Autonocast podcast. “Gutting lineups is probably good for manufacturing efficiency, but not having one vehicle in a given product segment is short-sighted.”
Due to sprawled development patterns and woefully underfunded transit, many American families will still want a car even as they become more expensive. But, as I argued previously in Fast Company, a surge in vehicle prices could compel some households to swap a second or third car for a minicar or e-cargo bike that offers limited range, but costs only a fraction as much. Already, golf carts are popping up in places far removed from the retirement and beach communities where they have been a mainstay: In New Orleans, they’ve become so popular that the city is adopting new ordinances.
With the Malibu’s death, is clearer than ever that Detroit has abandoned the affordable sedan. They may yet live to regret it.
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With a price starting at a (relatively) affordable $25,100, Malibu sales exceeded 130,000 vehicles last year, a 13% annual increase and enough to rank as the #3 Chevy model, behind only the Silverado and the Equinox. Still, that wasn’t enough to keep the car off GM’s chopping block. The company says that the last Malibu will roll out of its Kansas City, KS, factory this November; the plant will then be retooled to produce the new Chevy Bolt, an electric crossover SUV.
With the Malibu’s demise, GM will no longer sell any sedans in the U.S. In that regard, it will have plenty of company. Ford stopped producing sedans for the U.S. market in 2018. And it was Sergio Marchionne, the former head of Stellantis, who triggered the headlong retreat in 2016 when he declared that Dodge and Chrysler would stop making sedans. (Tesla, meanwhile, offers two sedans: the Model 3 and Model S.)
As recently as 2009, U.S. passenger cars (including sedans and a plunging number of station wagons) outsold light trucks (SUVs, pickups, and minivans), but today they’re less then 20% of new car purchases. The death of the Malibu is confirmation, if anyone still needs it, that the Big Three are done building sedans. That decision is bad news for road users, the environment, and budget-conscious consumers—and it may ultimately come around to bite Detroit.
When asked, automakers are quick to blame the sedan’s decline on shifting consumer preferences. Americans simply want bigger cars, the story goes, and there’s some truth to it. Compared to sedans, many SUV and pickup models provide extra cargo space and give the driver more visibility on the highway. In a crash, those inside a heavier car have a better chance of escaping without injury—although the same can’t be said for pedestrians or those in other vehicles. (That discrepancy inspired a headline in The Onion: “Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident.”)
This narrative of the market’s dispassionate invisible hand tossing the sedan aside holds intuitive appeal, but it leaves gaping holes. For one thing, federal policy has, in many ways, ]distorted the car market to favor larger vehicles](https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution). Fuel economy regulations, for instance, are more lenient for SUVs and pickups than they are for smaller cars, nudging automakers to produce more of the former and fewer of the latter. Another egregious example: Small business owners such as real estate agents can save thousands of dollars by writing off the cost of their vehicle—but only if it weighs more than 6,000 pounds, a stipulation that effectively excludes sedans entirely.
Carmakers, for their part, powerfully influence consumer demand through billions of dollars spent on advertising. Because SUVs and pickups are more expensive and profitable than sedans, manufacturers have a clear incentive to tilt buying decisions away from small cars and toward larger ones (which helps explain ad campaigns designed to confer an undeserved green halo on SUVs).
Even those who don’t want a big car may feel pressure to upsize, if only to avoid being at a disadvantage in a crash or when trying to see what lies ahead on the road. Such people find themselves trapped in a prisoner’s dilemma, preferring that everyone had smaller cars, but resigning themselves to buying an SUV or pickup since others already have them.
For all these reasons, modest-size sedans like the Malibu are disappearing from American streets, supplanted by SUVs and pickups that seem to grow bulkier with every model refresh. (The Chevy Bolts produced at GM’s Kansas plant will be bigger than the previous Bolt model, which was retired last year.) This pattern of ongoing vehicle expansion, a trend I call car bloat, is especially advanced in North America, but it’s visible worldwide. In 2022, SUVs alone comprised 46% of global car sales, up from 20% a decade earlier.
From a societal perspective, the decline of the sedan is a disaster. Consider road safety, an area where the U.S. underperforms compared to the rest of the rich world, especially for pedestrians and cyclists (deaths for both recently hit 40-year highs). Larger cars have bigger blind spots, convey more force in a collision, and tend to strike a person’s torso rather than their legs. They’re also heavier, with propulsion systems that guzzle more gasoline (or electrons) to move, producing more pollution in the process. Their weight also catalyzes the erosion of tires and roads, spewing microscopic particles that can damage human health as well as aquatic ecosystems.
Despite the myriad problems of car bloat, the federal government has taken no steps to restrain it. In the absence of regulations or taxes, carmakers have ample reason to abandon their sedan models in favor of SUVs and trucks. The higher margins of larger cars is especially precious now, as the Big Three scrabble for money to invest in electrification and autonomous technology, as well as to pay for the rising costs of wages and benefits that they agreed to last fall during negotiations with the United Auto Workers.
Realistically, it would be a Herculean task to pivot back toward selling small cars, even if American automakers wanted to. Although adept at selling high-priced, feature-laden SUVs and trucks, they’re far less experienced at the low-margin, high volume business of producing cheaper small cars. That is one reason (though hardly the only one) that China’s booming market for EVs, including many modest-size and affordable models, is sowing fear throughout Detroit—and in Washington, too.
Where does the shift from sedans toward SUVs and trucks leave everyday Americans? With a strained wallet, for one thing. With its MSRP starting at $25,100 the Malibu has been one of the most affordable U.S.-produced cars, costing barely half as much as the average new vehicle, which exceeded $47,000 in February (the Malibu is also at least a few thousand dollars cheaper than the Bolt that will replace it at the Kansas factory).
Especially when factoring in higher interest rates and spiking insurance premiums, cars are becoming a financial strain for many Americans. According to the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the average annual, inflation-adjusted cost of owning a vehicle and driving it 15,000 miles hit $12,182 in 2023, an increase of over 30% in just six years.
Over time, the elimination of sedans leaves the Big Three vulnerable if consumer preferences shift away from enormity. “Legacy car companies haven’t done a great job of thinking long term,” said Alex Roy, a cohost of the Autonocast podcast. “Gutting lineups is probably good for manufacturing efficiency, but not having one vehicle in a given product segment is short-sighted.”
Due to sprawled development patterns and woefully underfunded transit, many American families will still want a car even as they become more expensive. But, as I argued previously in Fast Company, a surge in vehicle prices could compel some households to swap a second or third car for a minicar or e-cargo bike that offers limited range, but costs only a fraction as much. Already, golf carts are popping up in places far removed from the retirement and beach communities where they have been a mainstay: In New Orleans, they’ve become so popular that the city is adopting new ordinances.
With the Malibu’s death, is clearer than ever that Detroit has abandoned the affordable sedan. They may yet live to regret it.
2024.05.14 23:25 psychopathologist Rare Hoodie from 2009 for sale - Size Medium
Howdy y'all! I am selling a rare hoodie from the Constellations era that no longer fits me. I got this when they toured with Underoath and Emery in 2009. It is a size medium and in excellent condition. Willing to cut a deal if anyone wants to get it directly from me to avoid eBay fees. Sale is listed below!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/226146301180
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/226146301180
2024.05.14 23:00 toyodaforever Ford got rid of the Ranger "due to demand". But..if you look at sales for the F150, they also fell between 2005-2009. SOOO many people I talk to still want a small pickup truck. The sales for the F150 almost halved between 2005 and 2009, but Ford didn't kill it off "due to demand".
 | submitted by toyodaforever to fordranger [link] [comments] |
2024.05.14 14:48 djosephm [WTS] Silver Silver Silver! ASE Rolls
Proof
2009 sold
2010 sold
2013
2016
2020
$620 per roll plus $5 shipping per roll. Venmo only please. All coins sigma verified.
Got 5 ase rolls up for sale. One of the coins from all rolls has toning as noted in the photo. Great condition!
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2009 sold
2010 sold
2013
2016
2020
$620 per roll plus $5 shipping per roll. Venmo only please. All coins sigma verified.
Got 5 ase rolls up for sale. One of the coins from all rolls has toning as noted in the photo. Great condition!
2024.05.14 13:01 FelicitySmoak_ On This Day in Michael Jackson HIStory - May 14th
 | 1975 - Michael had a private meeting with Berry Gordy to discuss the Jackson Five's future & after being denied creative freedom once again, the brothers started shopping for a new record deal. The Jackson Five had begun to ask to produce, write and record their own material in the previous year but all their requests for creative control had been denied. submitted by FelicitySmoak_ to WhereWasMJToday [link] [comments] 1985 - Michael met Ronald & Nancy Reagan at White House for the launch of a campaign against driving under the influence of alcohol. In the spring of 1984, Michael's team received a call from the Secretary of Transportation, Elizabeth Dole, asking for Michael to give "BEAT IT" as background music for a television commercial and a 35 second radio spot on the dangers of driving a car under the influence of alcohol. Even though the initiative was initially rejected by Michael, once he meditated a bit, he explained to his representative, John Branca "You know what? If I can get some kind of prize from the White House then I will give them the song. How about?".Branca was given the task of obtaining a positive response in the shortest time possible, which was not entirely difficult due to the fascination of the Reagans with show business. And so, the meeting was scheduled for the morning of 5/14/84 For such an important occasion, President Reagan dressed in a navy blue suit, a gray and navy blue striped tie & a white shirt. Nancy,on the other hand, chose a white suit, Adolfo brand, adorned with buttons and gold stripes. Nothing too spectacular to overshadow Michael's attire: an electric blue sequined jacket, adorned with sequined laces, a band of golden sequins, and epaulettes with golden sequins. He also wore his famous white sequined glove. https://preview.redd.it/nn68194tj80d1.jpg?width=406&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=710f061825c711906a69bd169dbeb02f8c8c0b51 Two thousand people in total, including officials, admirers and security met in the central garden to see Michael. Once everyone was up on stage, the Republican president pointed out that: "Michael Jackson is proof of what a person can accomplish through a lifestyle free of alcohol or drug abuse. People young and old can respect that. And if Americans follow his example, then we can face up to the problem of drinking and driving, and we can, in Michael's words, beat it."- a brief speech of just 5 and a half minutes. Then he handed a plaque to Michael, a gesture that he thanked before the microphone with an even more brief intervention, saying a mere 13 words: "I'm very, very honored. Thank you very much, Mr. President and Mrs. Reagan."https://reddit.com/link/1crpctu/video/r07t0142k80d1/player https://preview.redd.it/educ10awj80d1.jpg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60f980e7749f52943df3a56972887cbe3731dbdf During his tour of the halls of the presidential residence, he showed his fascination with a portrait of Andrew Jackson, dressed in a military suit very similar to the blue sequins he wore that day. Until Michael's visit, only Elvis Presley, received this distinction, in 1970, when President Richard Nixon opened the doors of the Oval Office. Michael would return to the White House twice more during the terms of George W. Bush, Sr & Bill Clinton https://reddit.com/link/1crpctu/video/o2x9r4cyj80d1/player 1985 - Michael Jackson received a royalty check from Epic Records for $53 Million for sales from his Thriller album. 1988- Michael is on the cover of Fresh! magazine https://preview.redd.it/eii45a57k80d1.jpg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=771d58c37d792dbc52221fc861f8f58e34cc8100 1996- Michael visits Chateau de Pierrefonds in Northern France, rumors were he wanted to purchase a French chateau. The Château de Pierrefonds, classified as a historic monument and managed by the Center des monuments nationaux, was not for sale. Michael was aware of this so his visit was simply a pleasure visit. https://preview.redd.it/j8gz337bk80d1.jpg?width=281&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5163fff4c29fb985acf401c2933c7dde4af8a672 https://preview.redd.it/54lp837bk80d1.jpg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=97e7a8931a213c4bc1247332b95d9bb3fcd5a3b6 The guides at the Château de Pierrefonds keep the memory of this arrival, completely unexpected, on 5/14/96. They speak with pleasure of this moment when the King of Pop arrived, surrounded by his bodyguards, to discover this castle worthy of fairy tales. According to one of the guides, he arrived in a limousine which he parked in front of the village pharmacy. Michael, in fact, came in a station wagon type car which parked as close as possible to the entrance to the castle. Wearing a red jacket and his mask, Michael arrived late in the morning when there were not too many people. However, it was school field trip time and a group of children were present. One of the guides explains that he then hid in a corner, near the stairs where the visit to the castle begins, so as not to be seen and disturbed Michael paused for a long time in front of the model of the castle, located at the end of the guard room. Made in 1878 for the Universal Exhibition, this stone model built at 1/50 scale remains impressive (height: 145cm, width: 250 cm, length: 350 cm). Michael's bodyguards reportedly took a lot of photos and it is said that Michael asked for the plans of the model. What is certain is that Michael had a model of the castle made for his Neverland ranch. It measured 269cm x 335cm x365 cm. A little larger than the model present at the castle. Michael's model sat in the middle of his living room, with, for a time, a framed photo of the castle on the wall. https://preview.redd.it/xo80inzdk80d1.jpg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3aed3bef7fb02ecd40e0d243da43dbdc7e0c4ac0 The model was one of the objects that Julien's Auctions wanted to sell at auction in 2009, before Michael prevented this sale. https://preview.redd.it/1gyyvzlfk80d1.jpg?width=465&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a9058ccf99ded3d7f6c290163dfb33578fb68bd Although shy and discreet, Michael did not hesitate to pose for photos with the employees, who were quickly aware of his presence Michael also leaves a strong memory of his visit with employees through his visit to the site's souvenir shop. He spent a large sum on history books, an amount which, according to the guide, “is not seen every day here” . 2004 - The Defense team, headed up by Thomas Mesereau, have decided to agree with the DA's Office of Santa Barbara to uphold the gag order in the case against Michael. Mesereau wrote that he and his client support the gag order and withdrew any objections to it made by Jackson's prior counsel. In court documents filed , Attorney Theodore Boutrous, who represents the news organizations, criticized Santa Barbara County DA Thomas Sneddon's condemnation of the intense media coverage. "Eliminating the gag order will ensure that more accurate information will be disseminated, and will reduce the amount of rumors, speculation and gossip about which the District Attorney complains," Boutrous wrote.The news organizations have been annoyed by Sneddon's clampdown on information about the case. They have asked the California Supreme Court to overturn the gag order on the grounds that it violates the freedom of speech guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Thomas Sneddon and Gerald Franklin, filed a motion earlier in the week, to the California Supreme Court to uphold the gag order in this case. He argued that the media was hoping to profit by pandering to a "gossip-hungry readership." He proceeded to write in his letter, "Despite the perhaps inevitable leaks, the public knows little more about the facts of this case than that Michael Jackson has been indicted on serious charges and that a jury will be asked to consider the evidence that may be presented to determine his guilt or innocence based on that evidence. And that's the way it should be." Mr. Sneddon's letter was a response to the media's attorneys that wanted the gag order lifted which was imposed by the sitting judge in the case, Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville. The gag order prohibits participants involved in the case to discuss any particulars about the case to the media. Sneddon argued in his letter that the news organizations have no standing to challenge the gag order because it applies only to case participants, not the media. He also said that such an order is required in a case that has drawn sensational worldwide attention. "What is reported as fact becomes the nucleus of intense speculation, conjecture and discussion among commentators, particularly in the tabloid media and the audience they appeal to," Sneddon wrote. "Gossip -- and the 'news' tidbits that are gossip's grist -- translate into income."2009 - In the last Family gathering Michael, Prince, Paris & Blanket attend Katherine & Joe's 60th wedding anniversary at the Indian Restaurant, Chakra in Beverly Hills with the whole family including all the grandchildren. Randy is the only one not in attendance. This is when most of Jackson siblings saw Michael for the first time since the 2005 Trial.This is also the last time Michael will see most of his family, including Janet & LaToya https://preview.redd.it/yyw70rljk80d1.jpg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13c64c13471bde6c759ef250917f23766cccb0c2 https://preview.redd.it/3me9vj0mk80d1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4b1e035ea10d1a0a7b2872c14ef2cf6f86b586f https://preview.redd.it/2tri5abqk80d1.jpg?width=735&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4849e4072e91965e16498a8b6bd32356c1e1a25d 2009 - AEG sent a 2nd email to Conrad Murray https://preview.redd.it/5ulbvu3xk80d1.jpg?width=516&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9db53b68d8f441482e6350635a576acaeecac0f2 2012 - Katherine Jackson & Brett Livingstone Strong give an interview on Piers Morgan Tonight. They show some of Michael's artwork Brett Livingstone Strong is the artist responsible for "The Book", the only portrait that Michael ever posed for https://preview.redd.it/gglbctazk80d1.jpg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e83dfc6cf3f6d505bb31a59f7c494cd269f62e2 2013- Day 11 of the Jackson vs Aeg Live trial |
2024.05.14 04:16 esProc_SPL Put Records with Specific Values at the Beginning During the Sort
Problem description & analysis
There is an EMPLOYEE table in the database. The data is as follows:| EID | NAME | SURNAME | GENDER | STATE | BIRTHDAY | HIREDATE | DEPT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rebecca | Moore | F | California | 1974-11-20 | 2005-03-11 | R&D |
| 2 | Ashley | Wilson | F | New York | 1980-07-19 | 2008-03-16 | Finance |
| 3 | Rachel | Johnson | F | New Mexico | 1970-12-17 | 2010-12-01 | Sales |
| 4 | Emily | Smith | F | Texas | 1985-03-07 | 2006-08-15 | HR |
| 5 | Ashley | Smith | F | Texas | 1975-05-13 | 2004-07-30 | R&D |
| 6 | Matthew | Johnson | M | California | 1984-07-07 | 2005-07-07 | Sales |
| 7 | Alexis | Smith | F | Illinois | 1972-08-16 | 2002-08-16 | Sales |
| 8 | Megan | Wilson | F | California | 1979-04-19 | 1984-04-19 | Marketing |
| 9 | Victoria | Davis | F | Texas | 1983-12-07 | 2009-12-07 | HR |
| 10 | Ryan | Johnson | M | Pennsylvania | 1976-03-12 | 2006-03-12 | R&D |
| EID | NAME | SURNAME | GENDER | STATE | BIRTHDAY | HIREDATE | DEPT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Victoria | Davis | F | Texas | 1983-12-07 | 2009-12-07 | HR |
| 7 | Alexis | Smith | F | Illinois | 1972-08-16 | 2002-08-16 | Sales |
| 5 | Ashley | Smith | F | Texas | 1975-05-13 | 2004-07-30 | R&D |
| 3 | Rachel | Johnson | F | New Mexico | 1970-12-17 | 2010-12-01 | Sales |
| 1 | Rebecca | Moore | F | California | 1974-11-20 | 2005-03-11 | R&D |
| 2 | Ashley | Wilson | F | New York | 1980-07-19 | 2008-03-16 | Finance |
| 4 | Emily | Smith | F | Texas | 1985-03-07 | 2006-08-15 | HR |
| 6 | Matthew | Johnson | M | California | 1984-07-07 | 2005-07-07 | Sales |
| 8 | Megan | Wilson | F | California | 1979-04-19 | 1984-04-19 | Marketing |
| 10 | Ryan | Johnson | M | Pennsylvania | 1976-03-12 | 2006-03-12 | R&D |
Solution
We write the following script p1.dfx in esProc:| A | |
|---|---|
| 1 | =connect("demo") |
| 2 | =A1.query@x("SELECT * FROM EMPLOYEE").sort(EID).align@as(eid.split@pc(),EID) |
Set a script parameter eid, whose value is 9,7,5,3.
A1 Connect to the database named demo.
A2 Return query result as a table sequence and auto-close database connection when the query is finished. Sort the table sequence fist by EID then by the comma-separated sequence of numbers defined through parameter eid. Put the non-matching members at the end during the second sort.
Refer to How to Call an SPL Script in BIRT to learn about the method of integrating the SPL script with BIRT.
2024.05.14 03:43 NibVulture [WTS] Pilots 823(A)
Here I have some Pilots for sale Verification
All prices include US shipping. (+20 for international) Free ink sample for US buyers.
Pilot 91 $100 Nib: SM (soft medium) Condition: B/C Date code 909 (September 2009{I think}) This is the smaller version of the pilot 912, just like how the 74 is the smaller version of the 742/743. There is a splotch on it which may have been left from the sticker being removed.
Pilot 74 $100 Nib: B Condition: B Date code: 614 (June 2014?) Not much to say, a Broad pilot 74.
Pilot 823 Smoke $210 Nib: M Condition: A2 Date code: 522 I'm reposting this one here with a slightly reduced price. It comes with a box, but if you don't want it, I can lower the price for the offset shipping. I also have a new 60ml bottle of pilot namiki black for +$5
$395 if you want everything listed.
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All prices include US shipping. (+20 for international) Free ink sample for US buyers.
Pilot 91 $100 Nib: SM (soft medium) Condition: B/C Date code 909 (September 2009{I think}) This is the smaller version of the pilot 912, just like how the 74 is the smaller version of the 742/743. There is a splotch on it which may have been left from the sticker being removed.
Pilot 74 $100 Nib: B Condition: B Date code: 614 (June 2014?) Not much to say, a Broad pilot 74.
Pilot 823 Smoke $210 Nib: M Condition: A2 Date code: 522 I'm reposting this one here with a slightly reduced price. It comes with a box, but if you don't want it, I can lower the price for the offset shipping. I also have a new 60ml bottle of pilot namiki black for +$5
$395 if you want everything listed.
2024.05.14 00:48 Ombersnip [WTS] Various rounds of silver for under spot, 1 oz A-Mark, Norfed , other silver rounds and a 2 oz Egyptian Gods Horus Round
https://imgur.com/a/br329rL
Hello everyone! I have some nice items for sale today.
Note: if it’s in a capsule , you get the capsule!
All sold!
Miscellaneous Silver Coins:
Egyptian Gods 2022 2 oz .999 HORUS Series #7 - $sold
1 Troy Oz .999 Fine Silver Round 2023 Year Of The Rabbit Lunar Calendar- $sold
(3) 1 OZ Buffalo Rounds- $28 each
(4) American Silver Eagle Design 1 oz Generic Rounds- $28 each
(3) Blood Axe 1 oz Silver Round- $28 each
Illinois Statehood Replica 1 oz round- $28
Indian Head Generic 1 oz round - $28
1983 Liberty Bell A-Mark 1 oz silver round - $sold
Golden State Mint 1 oz Indian design - $28
2009 Norfed 1 oz silver round - $sold
Abraham Lincoln Penny 1 oz silver round - $28
JBR Recovery 1 oz silver round - $28
Granite Recovery 1 oz silver round- $28
Liberty 1 oz silver round- $28
Bitcoin 1 oz silver round - $29
Morgan style 1 oz silver round $28
Bill of Rights 1 oz silver round - $28
International universal trade unit 1 oz silver round - $29
(2) Apmex 1 oz silver rounds in TEP - $sold
(1) Christmas 1 oz silver round- $27
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Indian Head Generic 1 oz round - $28
1983 Liberty Bell A-Mark 1 oz silver round - $sold
Golden State Mint 1 oz Indian design - $28
2009 Norfed 1 oz silver round - $sold
Abraham Lincoln Penny 1 oz silver round - $28
JBR Recovery 1 oz silver round - $28
Granite Recovery 1 oz silver round- $28
Liberty 1 oz silver round- $28
Bitcoin 1 oz silver round - $29
Morgan style 1 oz silver round $28
Bill of Rights 1 oz silver round - $28
International universal trade unit 1 oz silver round - $29
(2) Apmex 1 oz silver rounds in TEP - $sold
(1) Christmas 1 oz silver round- $27
All items will be shipped via USPS . I always pack safely and securely. Shipping is: $5 for first class under 8 oz and $10 priority for anything over 8 oz. Payment methods: zelle with no notes. Thanks for checking out my listing.
2024.05.13 20:44 Legitimate-Shape3203 Are there any cars that I can buy for under 10K USD that are as fun to drive as an RX-8
(TLDR: I've always wanted an RX-8 because it was the best driving car I'd ever been in. It seems like I'm not going to be able to ever get one. Are there any alternatives?)
When I was 16 my parents gave me a 2009 Honda Civic (I don't remember the trim). It was a pretty standard car but it was in good shape and felt pretty good to drive. Unfortunately I was young and dumb and made a mistake that ended up totaling it.
I went to look for a new car using the insurance money and I wanted something small and quick. Because I was a dumb teenager, I started by looking at sports cars I had no business buying. While I was going through autotrader looking at cars I couldn't afford I stumbled upon an RX-8 for sale.
Since it was in my price range and looked pretty cool, I decided to do some research. Overnight I was smitten. It was fast, revv'd to the moon, had the coolest engine design I'd ever seen, and the car WANTED you to drive it like a bat out of hell. I spent hours researching, learning about all the problems, reading all the ways to mitigate them, and found a checklist of everything that I should check before buying one.
We found a private seller that had an 05 RX-8 with sub 60k miles in our price range and was willing to let a teenager test drive it. It felt fantastic to drive, granted I didn't have a ton of experience at the time but I loved it. Then we got back to the owners house and started talking stuff over for awhile. It seemed like I was going to be able to drive it but the owner mentioned that the engine had flooded out on him before and he'd had to tow it to the dealership to get it fixed. I knew about the flooding issue, I knew that the ignition coils on the 05's were weak and that flooding became less of a problem if you replaced them with stronger coils. My mom wanted they seller to start it again for us. He went to start it and flooded his engine.
That was that, my parents concluded that this was an unreliable piece of shit and I couldn't be trusted to look for a car myself. They took me to a dealer we had a family connection with and bought the first car he recommended, an 08 Nissan Altima. The transmission blew up after a year and a half, thankfully while it was under warranty , but two months after that a tree fell on the car.
While I was looking for a new car my parents and I got into an unrelated argument and they decided to go back to the same dealer that sold us the Altima and buy the first car he suggested. It's an 09 Chevy Malibu and I hate it. I've been driving it for around 5 years and it's killed all the love I used to have for driving and working on cars. It's slow and it handles like it's way bigger than it actually is. I'm so tired of it but since it's still driveable, I haven't looked into buying anything else.
Yesterday on a whim, I decided to try looking for a new car. Lo and behold I found my old dream car on sale for super cheap. An 09 RX-8 for 2,500 USD ... with 101,627 mi. So I started doing all the research again and remembered the fun thing about the RX-8, no one wants you to buy this car. I was reminded of all the reasons that this car is a bad idea. Premium gas with shit fuel economy, lots of upkeep, no parts being made. With no way of knowing if the previous owners had properly maintained the car, my main worry is the engine compression. So I called a Mazda dealership near the seller to see how much getting a test done would cost. As soon as I mentioned an RX-8 the tech immediately started trying to talk me out of buying one because the parts are non-existent and there's only one Renesis engine left in the US.
The world has finally convince me, getting this car as a daily driver is a bad idea. But I can't get it out of my head, I've wanted this car for nearly a decade. I'm still considering getting the car as a project without selling my Malibu since it is so cheap, but I'm not rich and $2500 is still a good chunk of money and the compression test is $640. So I'm turning to the good people of whatcarshouldIbuy, would I be a fool to buy this car? Is there any car that can drive as good as an RX-8 within my price range? Can I ever be free of this masochistic obsession with a car I've barley had a chance to drive but have longed for almost as long as I've been driving?
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When I was 16 my parents gave me a 2009 Honda Civic (I don't remember the trim). It was a pretty standard car but it was in good shape and felt pretty good to drive. Unfortunately I was young and dumb and made a mistake that ended up totaling it.
I went to look for a new car using the insurance money and I wanted something small and quick. Because I was a dumb teenager, I started by looking at sports cars I had no business buying. While I was going through autotrader looking at cars I couldn't afford I stumbled upon an RX-8 for sale.
Since it was in my price range and looked pretty cool, I decided to do some research. Overnight I was smitten. It was fast, revv'd to the moon, had the coolest engine design I'd ever seen, and the car WANTED you to drive it like a bat out of hell. I spent hours researching, learning about all the problems, reading all the ways to mitigate them, and found a checklist of everything that I should check before buying one.
We found a private seller that had an 05 RX-8 with sub 60k miles in our price range and was willing to let a teenager test drive it. It felt fantastic to drive, granted I didn't have a ton of experience at the time but I loved it. Then we got back to the owners house and started talking stuff over for awhile. It seemed like I was going to be able to drive it but the owner mentioned that the engine had flooded out on him before and he'd had to tow it to the dealership to get it fixed. I knew about the flooding issue, I knew that the ignition coils on the 05's were weak and that flooding became less of a problem if you replaced them with stronger coils. My mom wanted they seller to start it again for us. He went to start it and flooded his engine.
That was that, my parents concluded that this was an unreliable piece of shit and I couldn't be trusted to look for a car myself. They took me to a dealer we had a family connection with and bought the first car he recommended, an 08 Nissan Altima. The transmission blew up after a year and a half, thankfully while it was under warranty , but two months after that a tree fell on the car.
While I was looking for a new car my parents and I got into an unrelated argument and they decided to go back to the same dealer that sold us the Altima and buy the first car he suggested. It's an 09 Chevy Malibu and I hate it. I've been driving it for around 5 years and it's killed all the love I used to have for driving and working on cars. It's slow and it handles like it's way bigger than it actually is. I'm so tired of it but since it's still driveable, I haven't looked into buying anything else.
Yesterday on a whim, I decided to try looking for a new car. Lo and behold I found my old dream car on sale for super cheap. An 09 RX-8 for 2,500 USD ... with 101,627 mi. So I started doing all the research again and remembered the fun thing about the RX-8, no one wants you to buy this car. I was reminded of all the reasons that this car is a bad idea. Premium gas with shit fuel economy, lots of upkeep, no parts being made. With no way of knowing if the previous owners had properly maintained the car, my main worry is the engine compression. So I called a Mazda dealership near the seller to see how much getting a test done would cost. As soon as I mentioned an RX-8 the tech immediately started trying to talk me out of buying one because the parts are non-existent and there's only one Renesis engine left in the US.
The world has finally convince me, getting this car as a daily driver is a bad idea. But I can't get it out of my head, I've wanted this car for nearly a decade. I'm still considering getting the car as a project without selling my Malibu since it is so cheap, but I'm not rich and $2500 is still a good chunk of money and the compression test is $640. So I'm turning to the good people of whatcarshouldIbuy, would I be a fool to buy this car? Is there any car that can drive as good as an RX-8 within my price range? Can I ever be free of this masochistic obsession with a car I've barley had a chance to drive but have longed for almost as long as I've been driving?
2024.05.13 18:57 PoppaSquot The standard characteristics of all Japan's New Religions - including Soka Gakkai - see how many you recognize
I tells ya, so much falls into place here. This comes from Helen Hardacre's book Kurozumikyō and the New Religions of Japan, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1986. First, some background:
Also here and here and especially HERE - DEFINITELY with the "faith healing".
As far as the "textual erudition" goes, Toda's post-WWII lectures on the Lotus Sutra were expected to be accepted as the "gold standard" of textual interpretation, and today, SGI members study Ikeda's lectures on texts rather than the texts themselves - see here and here. Who needs any priest??
Here is the chart that illustrates this thinking; you can clearly see the basis for "A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind". There is no scientific basis for this kind of delusion; ignorant people just LIKE believing it. "Look how IMPORTANT and INFLUENTIAL I am!! Everything is all about MEEE!!!" The Soka Gakkai has been in existence (in a continuous state) for some 80 years now; if this sort of thing DID happen, we'd see it. We already know Ikeda had such high hopes for his followers, but the truth is that the membership never lived up to Ikeda's expectations. No "world leaders" emerged from Soka Gakkai ranks; they didn't even become rich! That simply isn't something that happens because of "this practice", no matter how much Ikeda misled all the gullibles. Daimoku is obviously NOT "the perfect solution for all problems".
Here Ikeda likens the Soka Gakkai practice to the magic lamp of the "Aladdin" story. And it only works for Soka Gakkai members, of course.
(3) the quest for sincerity, and
(4) the adherence to paths of self-cultivation.
So much for the supposed "novelty" of Dickeata's supposedly eternal "clear mirror guidance", eh? Oh, and EVERYBODY owes Scamsei and the SGI their eternal gratitude, too, and you NEVER EVER get to finish your "human revolution" ("self-cultivation")!
See SGI is actively OPPOSED to social justice and thus will NEVER contribute meaningfully to world peace and More on why SGI will never make any significant changes to society.
Back when Japan's medical system was primitive, with limited availability, the new religions advertised "faith healing", as seen above and here. But as medical care improved and, most importantly, became widely accessible, that became people's healing option of choice, so the new religions (and all the rest) had to drop it as a selling point, because nobody was buying it any more. Within the ignorant and indoctrinated ranks of SGI members, we can STILL see claims of "faith healing"; they apparently don't realize this isn't a compelling sales pitch any more. Except that in house, the superstitious, magical-thinking culties still eat it up with a spoon 🙄
But you can see Ikeda here explaining that medicine is unnecessary to treat various ills; there must be a "faith" component or the treatment will inevitably be ineffective. OR that having faith will make even a nonsensical nontreatment effective! Also slamming medicine as harmful and condemning members as somehow "deserving" of terrible illnesses.
And remember when Ikeda told "girls" they didn't need to go to college? That was fun. And how Icky denigrated university graduates??
Let's not forget how the Soka Gakkai has always been anti-union and has never established any charitable services anywhere, not even for the needy within its own struggling membership.
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The contemporary religious scene in Japan is commonly divided into the "established religions" (kisei shūkyō) and the "new religions" (shinshūkō). These categories are further divided into Buddhist- and Shintō-derived varieties of each as well as into further subcategories.The titular "Kurozumikyō" is a Shintō new religion founded in 1814 by the Shintō priest Kurozumi Munetada. As of this publication, it had a total membership of 220,000.
Founded by a priest of the "established" Shintō tradition, it is one of the oldest of the so-called new religions and seems to combine aspects of both new and established types. (p. 3)A source I read recently noted that the Soka Gakkai grew from poaching members of other new religions; it seems this demographic was the most fluid and changeable of Japan's religious demographic. However, at just 30% of the population, even if the Soka Gakkai had managed to claim 100% of these new religions' memberships, it would still have fallen short of Ikeda's self-defined minimum requirement of 1/3 of the population.
THE NEW RELIGIONS OF JAPAN
The new religions and their members represent an important and distinctive sector of Japanese society. In spite of the great variety of their doctrines, new religions share a unity of aspiration and world view significantly different from those of secular society and from the so-called established religions. New religions constitute the most vital sector of Japanese religion today and include perhaps 30 percent of the nation's population in their membership. (p. 3)
Among the doctrines of the new religions there is great variety, since doctrine frequently originates in revelations to a founder. (p. 5)Here is the Soka Gakkai's version:
Founders tend to be charismatic individuals who attract a following through faith healing rather than through ordination and textual erudition.The Soka Gakkai version:
Also here and here and especially HERE - DEFINITELY with the "faith healing".
As far as the "textual erudition" goes, Toda's post-WWII lectures on the Lotus Sutra were expected to be accepted as the "gold standard" of textual interpretation, and today, SGI members study Ikeda's lectures on texts rather than the texts themselves - see here and here. Who needs any priest??
The new religions tend to recruit their following through evangelistic proselytization and dramatic conversion, at least in the first generation. They promise followers "this-worldly-benefits" in the form of healing, solution of family problems, and material prosperity. In ethics they emphasize family solidarity and qualities of sincerity, frugality, harmony, diligence, and filial piety. Between laity and leaders there is only a vague dividing line, and for the most part, anyone may acquire leadership credentials, including women. Frequently the new religions recognize no sacred centers but those of their own history. (pp. 5-6)While the Soka Gakkai initially embraced pilgrimages ("tozan") to the Nichiren Shoshu Head Temple Taiseki-ji, their regular activities were centered on Soka Gakkai buildings ("kaikan", or "centers") rather than on Nichiren Shoshu temples. In fact, this was an early source of conflict, as the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood justifiably questioned WHY the Soka Gakkai was putting so much more effort and resources into building NEW Soka Gakkai centers than on building Nichiren Shoshu temples, which would have been the proper function of any religion's legitimate lay organization. Add to that the bad optics of Ikeda's cult's attempted steeplejacking of established Nichiren Shoshu temples, and there was DEFINITELY something rotten in Denmark, so to speak. The Soka Gakkai's focus was trained on IKEDA rather than on the priests of the order they supposedly belonged to as a lay organization. That's some fucked up priorities and it was only a matter of time before that became an open, obvious problem. Of course Ikeda hoped to delay that reckoning until he was in a position to seize the entire Nichiren Shoshu religion for himself. Too bad, so sad, the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood headed him off at the pass and spoiled all his beautiful plots.
The world view of the Japanese new religions conceives of the individual, society, nature, and the universe as an integrated system vitalized by a single principle. Every level represents the manifestation of that principle on a larger scale. The relationships among the levels, however, are not static. They must be maintained in balance, harmony, and congruence. These qualities are manifested in conditions of happiness, health, social stability, abundant harvests, and regular succession of the seasons (free of such calamities as flood, drought, and major earthquakes). The opposite conditions (unhappiness, illness, social unrest, scarcity of food, and natural disasters) are symptomatic of a lack of harmony or congruence. Everything is interconnected so that a change in one dimension, no matter how small, eventually ripples out and affects other dimensions in a larger context. Religious practice is a striving for continuous integration of self with the body, society, nature, and the universe. This involves careful management of the most basic components: the self, the faculties of mind and emotion, and the personality. (pp. 11-12)This thinking was the basis for Nichiren's Rissho Ankoku Ron, or "On Establishing the etc. & whatever".
Here is the chart that illustrates this thinking; you can clearly see the basis for "A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind". There is no scientific basis for this kind of delusion; ignorant people just LIKE believing it. "Look how IMPORTANT and INFLUENTIAL I am!! Everything is all about MEEE!!!" The Soka Gakkai has been in existence (in a continuous state) for some 80 years now; if this sort of thing DID happen, we'd see it. We already know Ikeda had such high hopes for his followers, but the truth is that the membership never lived up to Ikeda's expectations. No "world leaders" emerged from Soka Gakkai ranks; they didn't even become rich! That simply isn't something that happens because of "this practice", no matter how much Ikeda misled all the gullibles. Daimoku is obviously NOT "the perfect solution for all problems".
Although the new religions inevitably adopt the system I have just described, they state it in different idioms. They may use Buddhist, Shintō, or colloquial terms for the self, calling it variously the kokoro (heart-mind or heart), konjō (guts), *reikon (spirit), tamashii (soul), and other terms. Similarly, they may name the principle vitalizing all existence by Shintō, Buddhist, or other terms: kami-nature, Buddha-nature, karma, ki, yōki, and so forth. They may predicate the existence of a variety of supernaturals who exist on a different plane than human beings, intervening in human affairs from time to time. These may be kami, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, or ancestors. Alien to the system is the notion of a single deity standing outside the whole and manipulating it by means of an unknowable will. The supernaturals of the integrated system are subject to its rhythms and generally conform to its principles. The system is compatible with a variety of cosmological ideas and world pictures, including horizontal and vertical cosmologies seen in Japanese myths and in Buddhism's many-tiered realms of existence. (pp. 12-14)Because "Earthly desires ARE enlightenment", right?? And all that other Buddhism stuff, well, that's all obsolete now, "as useless as last year's calendar", right??
Because self-cultivation is the primary task of all, textual erudition, esoteric ritual, and the observance of abstinences are rejected or relegated to secondary significance.
The notion of kokoro is a hallmark of Japanese culture, and it is the central pillar of the world view of the new religions. Consider the following proverb, one that could be endorsed by the new religions and is a stock saying in secular society: "Both suffering and happiness depend on how we bear the kokoro." Kokoro is borne or carried in a certain way, good or bad, and according to that we suffer or are happy. We are in control. An ordinary, nonreligious interpretation of this proverb would say that our attitude toward circumstances determines in large part whether we are happy or unhappy, or that an attitude of "positive thinking" can improve our experience of unfavorable situations even if the circumstances are not thereby altered. (p. 19)You can see Ikeda alluding to this here:
And remember - NO COMPLAINING!!Even a man who has great wealth, social recognition and many awards may still be shadowed by indescribable suffering deep in his heart. On the other hand, an elderly woman who is not fortunate financially, leading a simple life alone, may feel the sun of joy and happiness rising in her heart each day.An interpretation of the proverb among the new religions is likely to be much stronger, to hold that human beings certainly have the power to be happy, depending solely on the manner in which one bears kokoro. We need only exercise that power by self-cultivation.
Moreover, the idea that circumstances can be changed by the power of diligently cultivated kokoro is pervasive. It is a question not only of a change of attitude but sometimes of radical material change, such as an improvement in economic situation or a miraculous healing. It is understood that the cultivated kokoro has the power also to change external persons and events, and that nothing is impossible. Exercising the full power fo the kokoro is possible for anyone who practices self-cultivation through the spiritual disciplines of the particular religious group. (pp. 19-20)Isn't that the whole basis for the idea of "human revolution"? How else could anyone understand "You can chant for whatever you want!"? Don't the Dead-Ikeda-cult SGI culties love to talk about "making the impossible possible"?? Hmm..I wonder why they never do...🤨
Here Ikeda likens the Soka Gakkai practice to the magic lamp of the "Aladdin" story. And it only works for Soka Gakkai members, of course.
We chant to make the impossible possible, we want extraordinary, not ordinary. Let's get those benefits flowing, let's appreciate those challenges that allow us to grow and win and share those victories with others so that they can be inspired and win. SourceWhile the terminology of the self is basic to understanding Japanese constructions of self, the patterns of action and affect in which these are embedded constitute the functioning of the world view of the new religions. Here I identify four such patterns:
(1) the idea that "other people are mirrors,"
(2) the exchange of gratitude and repayment of favor,(3) the quest for sincerity, and
(4) the adherence to paths of self-cultivation.
So much for the supposed "novelty" of Dickeata's supposedly eternal "clear mirror guidance", eh? Oh, and EVERYBODY owes Scamsei and the SGI their eternal gratitude, too, and you NEVER EVER get to finish your "human revolution" ("self-cultivation")!
Each of these patterns represents an indispensable element of Japanese culture, and thus their implementation in Japanese religions is not unique. (p. 21)Nope. The Soka Gakkai is just bog standard for a Japanese New Religion. Nothing unique or special. Just like all the rest.
The idea that other people are mirrors makes the individual totally responsible in all circumstances. Although the burden is heavy, there is also a tacit message that the self can control any situation. Placing blame and responsibility on the individual also denies the idea that "society" can be blamed for one's problems; hence concepts of exploitation and discrimination are ruled out of consideration. On the whole the new religions are uninterested in political action to improve society; to them it is a question of individuals improving themselves individually and collectively through self-cultivation. (p. 23)Remember, this author ISN'T talking about Soka Gakkai here! This a feature of ALL Japan's new religions!
Since self-cultivation is the primary determiner of all human affairs, notions of fate or divine wrath (karma or bachi, for example) are reinterpreted, ignored, or denied.Or introduced when necessary to blame a member when the promises of SGI leaders are proven empty and false. It's always the MEMBERSHIP's fault somehow, never that the teachings are wrong or deceptive.
In like manner, because of the primacy of self-cultivation, the concept of pollution cannot be fully credited, and this opens the door to greater participation by women than is the case in the established religions.In the case of the Soka Gakkai, "greater participation by women" has been implemented as "greater exploitation of women". The women of the Soka Gakkai were expected to deliver daily newspapers for no pay throughout the Soka Gakkai's history; it is only recently that their numbers have declined so catastrophically and they have aged so much that the Soka Gakkai finally had to contract with a delivery service - which of course Soka Gakkai has to PAY now. Newspapers are SO much more profitable when you can find some suckers to deliver them at no cost to YOU!
Thus the new religions stress unquestioning performance of their established disciplines, fully aware that the demand for uncomprehending obedience (at least iat the beginning) will cause the convert frustration. Also involved as a minor theme is the pedagogical principle that "physical action can be perceived as isomorphic with spiritual change." Thus, for example, polishing floors can be assumed to "polish" the self. If one enters through form, eventually the kokoro will follow.Speaking of exploiting women, who else heard that when women were cleaning the toilets for free at the local SGI center, they were "cleaning their karma"??
The hardship entailed is not to be avoided; no one denies that it is punishing to polish floors by hand, recite sutras, or endure cold water ablutions. Hardship in itself is virtuous and confers compassion and maturity.Isn't that the essence of SGI's much-vaunted "youth division training"? Basically, it's SGI leaders getting off on forcing young people to do all sorts of scut work and to engage in unpleasant activities just because they can - somebody has to do the grunt work, right? Make THEM do it! Tell them it's "training" when actually it's just training them to allow themselves to be exploited. For a funny example of this attitude, see how this colossal doofus was trying to cajole and coerce his employee into joining SGI before he aged out of the youth division, so he could get him some of that gooooood "youth division training"!!
That's ONE way to duck an annoying self-important SGI stalker-nag! "Sorry, can't talk - have the plague..."Meanwhile, now I worry about Chad, who has only a few months left to obtain YMD training, to whom I had to slip September Living Buddhism under his door, since his subscription is on the internet, and I want him to start working on the Introductory Exam material. Yesterday he did not answer or reply when he was supposed to be at work. (He is paid per day of work from his home.) Today when I arrived he was not even there. So I have been chanting for his welfare. He recently reported to me a medical difficulty he has that may be interfering with his efforts, or worse.
All the new religions agree that a person's real potential cannot be fulfilled without suffering, and in this they share with secular society the suspicion about someone who has failed that perhaps kurō ga tarinai, "the person hasn't suffered enough." That is, if one had endured sufficient trials before the present ordeal, one could have conquered this hardship. Accordingly it is important to establish how much leaders and founders have suffered in the course of their own self-cultivation. (p. 28)See More myths about how the young Ikeda suffered so much and was so sickly wah wah
All problems can be traced to insufficient cultivation of self. Thus it is misguided to expect fundamental social change from political ideology. Instead, society can be improved only through collective moral improvement, the doctrine of meliorism. Similarly, attempting to cure disease simply by treating the body alone is useless. Healing can come about only through rededication to ethical values; hence medicine is effective only in a provisional way. Education and secular achievements apart from faith and cultivation of self are houses of cards, castles on sand. Accordingly, media-sponsored presentation of thoroughly secularized views of life are disapproved. (p. 14)You can see the clearest examples of this thinking in the teachings of Ikeda and the Soka Gakkai from the 1960s, before people understood how immediate and pervasive "political ideology" could effect fundamental social change, as in the US when the anti-race-mixing "anti-miscegenation" interracial marriage legal prohibitions were swept away in the US Supreme Court's 1967 judgment on "Loving v. Virginia". That changed society more fundamentally and pervasively than any religion's doctrines that people's "hearts" must be changed FIRST before anyone could hope to see societal change realized, or in the terms above, "collective moral improvement". No. Remove unjust laws and establish penalties for behaving unjustly, and voilà! Society changes!
See SGI is actively OPPOSED to social justice and thus will NEVER contribute meaningfully to world peace and More on why SGI will never make any significant changes to society.
Back when Japan's medical system was primitive, with limited availability, the new religions advertised "faith healing", as seen above and here. But as medical care improved and, most importantly, became widely accessible, that became people's healing option of choice, so the new religions (and all the rest) had to drop it as a selling point, because nobody was buying it any more. Within the ignorant and indoctrinated ranks of SGI members, we can STILL see claims of "faith healing"; they apparently don't realize this isn't a compelling sales pitch any more. Except that in house, the superstitious, magical-thinking culties still eat it up with a spoon 🙄
But you can see Ikeda here explaining that medicine is unnecessary to treat various ills; there must be a "faith" component or the treatment will inevitably be ineffective. OR that having faith will make even a nonsensical nontreatment effective! Also slamming medicine as harmful and condemning members as somehow "deserving" of terrible illnesses.
And remember when Ikeda told "girls" they didn't need to go to college? That was fun. And how Icky denigrated university graduates??
Let's not forget how the Soka Gakkai has always been anti-union and has never established any charitable services anywhere, not even for the needy within its own struggling membership.
This was a primary issue within the Soka Gakkai that festered until Ikeda brought it to a full boil out of his obsessive desire to BE the object of worship. The Soka Gakkai/Nichiren Shoshu alliance, while expedient for the Soka Gakkai and undeniably profitable for Nichiren Shoshu, was nonetheless an uneasy alliance, given the Soka Gakkai's defining characteristics as a "new religion" and Nichiren Shoshu's "established religion" status. Those two simply don't mix. Especially on this last point, you can see that it is a characteristic of a "new religion" to have the fundamental attitude that "priests are unnecessary". Ikeda simply wanted to USE Nichiren Shoshu for his OWN convenience, in service to HIS plans, instead of directing the Soka Gakkai to function as a legitimate lay organization whose focus was their religion, Nichiren Shoshu. Ikeda made it all about himself and his goal of maximizing his own power and control. Ikeda was never a religious person.Lacking justification for a strong differentiation between the religious lives of priests and laity, the tendency to make the laity central is strong and pervasive. (p. 14)
2024.05.13 17:10 Wandereru 2009 Lancer with Volkswagen 2.0 engine - Is it a good buy?
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I am looking to buy a Lancer which is currently on sale but have questions about it and want to hear your opinions.
How good/reliable is the 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer 2.0 DID INSTYLE? It has a Volkswagen 2.0 turbo diesel engine with 140bhp. The owner told me he removed the DPF filter 10 years ago as it was causing the DPF filter light to go on. (Unsure how it goes through annual inspection).
It has 280k kilometers on it. Has new springs(?) and shock absorbers, new brakes front and back, new front brake calipers. At 270k he said he did general maintenance on the engine.
It has 18 inch rims with tyres for 1 more season 16 inch rims with winter tyres are included but are also only good for 1 season
Price is 5000€ but will likely go down as I don't want the roof rack and box he is providing with it and generally haggling is expected at a good 4000€.
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Kind regards
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I am looking to buy a Lancer which is currently on sale but have questions about it and want to hear your opinions.
How good/reliable is the 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer 2.0 DID INSTYLE? It has a Volkswagen 2.0 turbo diesel engine with 140bhp. The owner told me he removed the DPF filter 10 years ago as it was causing the DPF filter light to go on. (Unsure how it goes through annual inspection).
It has 280k kilometers on it. Has new springs(?) and shock absorbers, new brakes front and back, new front brake calipers. At 270k he said he did general maintenance on the engine.
It has 18 inch rims with tyres for 1 more season 16 inch rims with winter tyres are included but are also only good for 1 season
Price is 5000€ but will likely go down as I don't want the roof rack and box he is providing with it and generally haggling is expected at a good 4000€.
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Kind regards
2024.05.13 17:05 Wandereru 2009 Lancer with Volkswagen 2.0 engine - Is it a good buy?
Hello!
I am looking to buy a Lancer which is currently on sale but have questions about it and want to hear your opinions.
How good/reliable is the 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer 2.0 DID INSTYLE? It has a Volkswagen 2.0 turbo diesel engine with 140bhp. The owner told me he removed the DPF filter 10 years ago as it was causing the DPF filter light to go on. (Unsure how it goes through annual inspection).
It has 280k kilometers on it. Has new springs(?) and shock absorbers, new brakes front and back, new front brake calipers. At 270k he said he did general maintenance on the engine.
It has 18 inch rims with tyres for 1 more season 16 inch rims with winter tyres are included but are also only good for 1 season
Price is 5000€ but will likely go down as I don't want the roof rack and box he is providing with it and generally haggling is expected at a good 4000€.
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submitted by Wandereru to lancer [link] [comments]
I am looking to buy a Lancer which is currently on sale but have questions about it and want to hear your opinions.
How good/reliable is the 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer 2.0 DID INSTYLE? It has a Volkswagen 2.0 turbo diesel engine with 140bhp. The owner told me he removed the DPF filter 10 years ago as it was causing the DPF filter light to go on. (Unsure how it goes through annual inspection).
It has 280k kilometers on it. Has new springs(?) and shock absorbers, new brakes front and back, new front brake calipers. At 270k he said he did general maintenance on the engine.
It has 18 inch rims with tyres for 1 more season 16 inch rims with winter tyres are included but are also only good for 1 season
Price is 5000€ but will likely go down as I don't want the roof rack and box he is providing with it and generally haggling is expected at a good 4000€.
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