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As bass player, singer and songwriter in iconic post-punk outfit The Chameleons, Mark Burgess can lay claim to having influenced a multitude of artists worldwide. Previously cited by the likes of Interpol, Editors and The National, The Chameleons might not have enjoyed the same levels of commercial success as some of their peers but the band's legacy lives on.
Having formed in 1981 only to split in 1987 before briefly reforming in 2000, the Mancunian four-piece left behind a flawless back catalogue including three of the most pioneering long players of the post-punk era in Script Of The Bridge, What Does Anything Mean? Basically and Strange Times.
Soon after their initial parting of ways, Burgess formed The Sun And The Moon, releasing a well-received self-titled album in 1988. Since then, he's put out records as Mark Burgess & the Sons Of God as well as embarking on various collaborations such as Invincible (with Yves Altana) and Black Swan Lane (with Jack Sobel and John Kolbeck). Having briefly reunited The Sun And The Moon in 2008, he joined forces with original Chameleons drummer John Lever the following year, putting together Chameleons Vox. With the band's sets largely focusing on Chameleons material, the flame has been reignited somewhat. Several line-up changes later - Lever is no longer involved in the project - Chameleons Vox are about to hit the road again, touring The Chameleons seminal debut Script Of The Bridge throughout the month of May.
DiS caught up with Burgess during a break from rehearsals. Here he gives one of his most candid interviews in years, discussing band members both past and present, The Chameleons legacy, and why his former band will never reform.
DiS: What are you up to at this moment in time?**
Mark Burgess: Me and the band are rehearsing for some Script Of The Bridge performances that we're going to be playing from the end of April then throughout May. I'm also working on new material in the demo room down in the bunker here. I'm also currently negotiating on a second edition of 'View From A Hill' to come out and there's also a possibility of a kindle version to go along with it. We're just proofreading that at the minute.
DiS: Very busy by the sounds of it then?!
Mark Burgess: Yeah, very busy.
DiS: Whereabouts are you based these days?
Mark Burgess: For the last few years I've been based back in Manchester. I do float around a lot though. I spend a lot of time in the States as well when we're not busy. I just got back a couple of weeks ago. I'd been out there since Christmas. The rest of the time when I'm working I tend to be in Manchester.
DiS: Do you see any parallels between the current Manchester music scene to when you first started out with The Chameleons?
Mark Burgess: I don't think it's changed in terms of the amount of creativity and talent that's around. I just think it's changed in the way that talent is received. I haven't been out for a while in Manchester, but I went through a phase of going out not so long back. There's this band I saw opening for New Order called The Evil Poor and they blew me away, so I went to see them again in Manchester and it was only a fiver for a ticket yet the room was just half full. In my day you'd go and see a local band of that calibre and pedigree playing a similar sized venue and it would be rammed. I've tended to find that a lot of students come to Manchester purely because of the musical heritage; it's become a very desirable place to live; and they all sit around and talk about that stuff but when it comes to supporting new or local music at ground level they generally don't want to know. I understand that it's more expensive to go out and watch live music these days than when I was a teenager. I used to go out and see three or four bands a week and I was earning a pittance. But in certain situations where they're trying to subsidise and counter that it's not being supported and it pisses me off to hear kids rattling on about Manchester music when they won't go out and support the local scene themselves.
DiS: What do you think is responsible for creating that difference?
Mark Burgess: Firstly, it's tougher for smaller venues to operate in central Manchester. Their overheads must be huge. In my day, a lot of places would charge very little to get in on the door so the band would take all of the ticket money and the proprietor would have the bar takings. Because ticket prices were so cheap it was a win-win situation all round. Venues were full and punters were drinking lots of the proprietor's beer. These days, the beer's too expensive and a lot of the time so are the ticket prices. Even on some of the bigger arena sized events, £70-100 to see an act is ridiculous.
DiS: Do you think the number of middlemen being involved such as booking agents and tour managers has been a contributory factor in rising ticket prices?
Mark Burgess: It could be but I generally think it's because of the economic climate we live in making the overheads so huge they really have no choice. You're right in saying that all these other people such as agents, managers and road crew need their cut, but the bulk of the cost is purely a result of actually making the show happen. It's hitting bands that are not big more because they're trying to put tours together yet the cost of hiring a van, filling it with diesel and then driving up and down the country is more expensive than it's ever been. And that's before you even think about touring overseas. And then they're also expected to make a living out of it. If you're super big it can be done, but when you're at that intermediate stage still trying to find your audience it's really difficult. So bands in general suffer because the only way they'll get better is by playing more shows. Even if they're rehearsing regularly it doesn't count. They need to play in front of people to get better. That's always been the case. Any band can rehearse together 24/7 every week but they'll only show real signs of improvement by playing in front of 30,40,50 people. That's when you really start to become a band.
DiS: It's a catch 22 scenario for new bands as their best opportunity to earn any money comes from playing live, yet if they can't afford to go out and play it hampers their long term recording prospects as a result.
Mark Burgess: Absolutely. For a lot of bands that is their main source of income when they're touring.
DiS: Would a band like The Chameleons have found it more difficult - struggled even - to break through in the current climate than in the early 1980s?
Mark Burgess: Definitely, without question. Where can you go now for national coverage in the media that are giving you at least four new bands every week? We had John Peel. What have they got? I know there are still BBC sessions. I know there are still people doing it, but not to that scale. John Peel would quite often have two brand new bands per night in session.
DiS: A lot of young musicians and artists nowadays are probably unaware just how influential John Peel was back then.
Mark Burgess: I know, but at least he has left a legacy. A lot of bands that came through the Peel shows and eventually had their sessions released, he's become a myth of those bands' very existence. People like The Cure for instance. They're still attracting fresh audiences so people will go back into their catalogues and realise just how good those Peel sessions really were. I apply that to The Chameleons as well. We've done versions of songs that are on our records for John Peel that I much prefer to the produced versions we did much later on. From that point of view they'll probably get it, but in terms of the overall exposure to new music through someone like John Peel that's totally lost. He used to attract a huge audience so once you were on the show you had a good chance of making it. Nowadays they have the Internet but it's such a huge jungle the chances are more good stuff gets lost than discovered. There's so many people doing the same thing that it makes finding your audience that much more difficult. You can put as much music as you like on the Internet but if nobody's bothering to check it out what's the point? That's why it's so much tougher now for bands than it was when we started. And we thought it was hard enough back then! We had sixties and seventies musos telling us what we had to go out and do. They were always telling us to go out and play gigs and we just thought what's the point of doing that? We thought nothing would really happen that way so we decided to focus on writing songs instead. Focus on writing the music rather than playing in pubs to empty rooms or people that don't really give a shit. We'll push the music, push the songwriting. And we did that, which managed to catch John Peel's attention and he eventually put us on. But at the time, everyone was telling us that was the wrong way to do it. However, the flip side of that is we then found ourselves on CBS and we're opening for someone like Altered Images in front of 2000 people and we haven't got a clue what to do! So then we had to learn on the sly how to play live, because all the rehearsing in the world doesn't prepare you for that. We were comfortable in the rehearsal room but when it came to standing in front of people with their arms folded going blow my socks off, that's when the nerves and adrenalin start to kick in. That's when the pressure's on but then that's also what makes you better by experiencing that. Having as many different experiences as a group is what binds you together.
DiS: Because it's so difficult to get signed now, more and more bands have taken to releasing their own music which in turn has seen an increase in independent DIY labels appearing.
Mark Burgess: And I take my hat off to that. The true ethos of punk. I spent a lot of time in San Francisco's underground music scene and one thing that caught my attention was how kids were more interested in buying vinyl off the merchandise stands than CDs. Vinyl LPs were selling out almost immediately. No one was bothered about the CDs. So it comes back to that idea of people wanting to own a record. People think a record is actually worth paying for, whereas a lot don't think a CD is. People know they can download it for free, not to mention the excessive price tag considering they cost next to nothing to make. That did feel like Manchester circa 1978 or '79, but that's exactly what was going on then. People were literally making their own records, distributing them and selling them at gigs. So to see it all happening again was just great.
DiS: The Chameleons were also very prolific in that released a lot of music over a short period of time. What's also worth noting is how your sound developed considerably with every subsequent record. Compare that to nowadays where it seems some bands are almost afraid to put out new music at times. Did you consciously set out to evolve as quickly as possible, both musically and from a songwriting point of view?
Mark Burgess: We tried to. There was nothing contrived about us when we got together to make music. We never knew what was going to happen. For example, you could get something like 'In Shreds', which really excited us at the time, but then everyone suddenly expected us to come up with another ten versions of that. So when 'As High As You Can Go' came out, which is completely different, it threw everybody. People couldn't understand what we were trying to do. And I can relate to that as a consumer because I bought 'Hand In Glove' by The Smiths as soon as I heard it. It's such a great single, but then what came next? 'This Charming Man', and at the time everyone was puzzled. Not because it's a bad song. It isn't, it's great, but a lot of artists get judged by the first song they put out, so there's then this perception that everything they do afterwards will be the same as that. The Chameleons were never like that because we had no idea what we were going to do next. Obviously there was a guitar sound. Dave (Fielding, guitar) had a sound. Reg (Smithies, guitar) had a style. I ha a style. The drums had a style in keeping with a lot of the stuff John (Lever, drums) was into. However, in terms of what we actually produced with that sound was varied. There was nothing typical about it. The only reason why the second album sounds remotely like the first one is because a lot of the songs which ended up on it were written around the same time but didn't end up on Script Of The Bridge for one reason or another. I think there's only two or three brand new ideas on the second album. The rest were all done around the same time as Script.... Songs like 'Looking Inwardly' and 'Singing Rule Britannia' especially we'd been playing for such a long time. That's why the third album Strange Times seems such a big departure because it was all started afresh. We were writing things like 'Seriocity' and 'Caution' which were a completely different style to us, and I think that's why that album ended up mostly in that vein.
DiS: You were always very difficult to pigeonhole which is perhaps one of the reasons your music hasn't dated. It's interesting reading some of the descriptions given to The Chameleons; first wave goths, post-punk and prototype shoegaze being three that spring to mind.
Mark Burgess: We never fitted in. And as for being called goths. A lot of our songs people associate with that scene such as 'Second Skin', goth didn't even exist when that song came out. Goth did not exist. You had the Banshees who were the Banshees and you had the Birthday Party who were the Birthday Party but there was no umbrella. We were definitely post-punk. I was the one most into punk out of all of us. Dave and Reg weren't really into that much. Their heritage lay in bands like The Who and lots of other seventies stuff. In fact, Dave really liked Joni Mitchell and Mike Oldfield. I remember him being the first person that ever played me Tubular Bells. John was big on Peter Gabriel and Genesis. That was more his thing. I initially came through glam rock into punk. It was punk that got me off my arse and made me want to play. Dave and Reg had already been playing for 3,4, maybe even 5 years before they asked me to join. I'd been playing about 6 months. We all brought different shapes and ideas to the mix. It was never about having people in the band who had to like a certain genre or group of bands. You put four people with the same influences in the same band and what's it going to sound like? Dreary. But we were all school friends who'd grown up together. Me, Dave and Reg particularly. John's from a different part of town and he came along later. What bonded us together was we'd all known each other since we were about eight years old, but also we all brought something different to what we were already doing. And I think that's why people have problems trying to pigeonhole us into any one thing.
DiS: Script Of The Bridge has been cited by many bands as a major influence on their careers. Interpol, The National, Editors and Diiv being four that spring to mind.
Mark Burgess: And Moby as well. Moby gave an interview in the NME a few years ago where he stated being a confirmed bachelor, so the next qustion asked what would a woman have to be for you to consider marrying her. An he replied Script Of The Bridge would have to be her favourite album of all time! Now if you compare Moby with those names you've just mentioned plus several others you can see the diversity among those people who've cited that album as being an influence. Even when I talk to people at our shows the majority of them tell me they play, so maybe we were more of a musician's band?
DiS: You created a very unique sound with two lead guitars and the whole layering technique, almost to the point where the second guitar acted as a bass in some ways.
Mark Burgess: That's certainly very true. For myself that was probably more true in the punk band I formed initially because I only had one guitar player and all he could play were bar chords. So I had to fill in on the bass. But when it came to Dave and Reg I couldn't do that because they were accomplished already, so there wasn't that space. The sort of things they were playing, someone had to anchor the root because neither wanted to play out and out rhythm. The root is what the melodies are based on, so the bass became an anchor for the root of the arrangement allowing Dave and Reg to do anything they wanted around those roots. So the sound became very interesting because they had complete freedom. No one had to hold the root because I was doing it. And because I was singing at the same time it helped me as I didn't have to be accomplished in what I was doing. All I needed to do was give it the feel and the sound in with the drums and anchor the root of the music. It wasn't just that though. All of us were involved in the arranging of the music and I had a flair for arrangement. I was quite happy to do that because the intricacies of the music; and especially in what Reg was doing. He'd come up with unusual riffs and patterns where I'd immediately spot the root, which would even surprise him as he didn't hear the root.
DiS: Were there any songs off Script Of The Bridge that proved difficult to revisit? Daunting even?
Mark Burgess: Not off Script Of The Bridge, no. Because all of them had just been us four in a room working them out. We'd also been playing them live for a long time before we decided to tour Script Of The Bridge. Some of the songs off the second record stretch us a bit. For example, 'P.S. Goodbye' is very untypical of anything we've ever done as a band. We wrote it in the studio, put it together in the studio and basically did it one piece at a time. 'Home Is Where The Heart Is' as well, we'd never played before. So if we were to tour the second album we'd have to think about it a lot more. It wasn't as organic as Script... was. And Strange Times is the same. 'Seriocity' and 'I'll Remember' for instance were quite problematic at the time. We used to just play the ones that were easy to arrange and ignore the ones that weren't. Script Of The Bridge is probably the least problematic from that point of view.
DiS: Who's in the current line-up of Chameleons Vox?
Mark Burgess: Currently it's myself, Neil Dwerryhouse on guitar who I worked with in the Sons Of God some years back. Chris Oliver also plays guitar and now we've got Yves Altana playing drums. He's a long time collaborator of mine. Yves is with us because we've mysteriously lost John (Lever), so at the moment I'm the only original member of The Chameleons playing in the current line-up. Why we've lost John is a mystery. We don't know.
DiS: I saw your show at Nottingham Rescue Rooms in December and noticed John wasn't playing drums that night.
Mark Burgess: That would have been easier to explain because John did suffer an injury last year. He didn't know how serious it was going to be but there was talk of him having to see a specialist and possibly have surgery and we knew there was a tour coming up. We were concerned whether he'd be able to do it and when he came in to assess the situation it was hopeless. Fortunately, Yves was on the periphery anyway. He was producing the new record and co-writing some of it so he asked if he could do the tour, which meant we wouldn't have to get another drummer in. He initially filled in for John in Lisbon; John actually came out with him to offer moral support although he couldn't play and everything was fine. Because he couldn't play, we were still unsure about whether to cancel the tour but Yves then agreed to fill in until John was able to come back. When we put that to John he was fine with it. We had a gig in Paris and had planned to sit down with John when we got back, find out how he was getting on and hopefully have him back playing for the Manchester Ritz show. We didn't know how bad the injury was. But somewhere in the middle of all that mix something happened. When we got back from Paris we started reading all over the Internet that we'd fired him. We were still trying to work out what happened because as far as we were concerned he was still in the group. No one had fired him or anything, so it's all a bit of a mystery at the moment. But as it stands, it's the line-up that toured in December.
DiS: How would you compare the musicians you're playing with now against those you've previously played with?
Mark Burgess: In terms of playing Chameleons music? I enjoy it now a lot more than I ever did. I think it's probably the best line-up from my point of view as a performer. The amount of passion these guys have got for this music is equal to that of those who pay to see it. That's why they want to play it, because they were all influenced by it in certain ways. So to be actually performing these songs with members of the original group is a dream. And that passion, focus and commitment is something we never really had first time around. Or even the second time around. As a performer playing live, I'm really enjoying it because I'm not carrying the whole thing any more. There's a lot of energy on stage which wasn't present before, so from my point of view I'm having the time of my life. That's the reason I'm doing it. I've gone through phases where I haven't wanted to play this stuff. There've been times where I've just wanted to do something different for a bit. But then you can never say never either. Sometimes, you reach that saturation point where it's no longer a buzz, but that hasn't happened yet to me with this line-up. I can carry writing new material, carry on making a new record, but also carry on playing these shows as well.
DiS: It's interesting hearing you say that as I saw your set at Primavera Sound in Barcelona two years ago and you seemed to be having the time of your life. Did that get your appetite back for playing live?
Mark Burgess: Not really. I did enjoy that day but I'm not a great fan of festivals to be honest. From a performing point of view I'd much rather play in a proper gig venue like the Ritz. Or even smaller. We played a Script Of The Bridge show a couple of years ago to 100 people in a punk club in New York, and those at the front were pretty much nose-to-nose with us. They were climbing up the walls at the side. It seemed they'd somehow got 150 people into a space for 100. It was totally rammed. I enjoy all different kinds of stages but festivals I don't tend to enjoy as much. It's all very rushed, very frantic. Getting people off on time, getting people on on time. Everyone's running around while you're sat waiting for hours. I don't enjoy that experience and I don't enjoy massive moats between me and the audience. I feel as if I can't connect. I like to be closer to the people that I'm playing to. I did enjoy Primavera, although that was a very different thing again. The band's development at that time wasn't about replicating The Chameleons sound. I wouldn't have gone out to do a Script Of The Bridge performance with that line-up. The spirit of what we're doing, what those people could bring to the songs was the whole point of that. What was fresh to me was not having to worry about keeping the band tight. All I had to do was sing, and their job was to get me to a level where I could perform those songs vocally with the intensity they needed. That shifted when I decided to go back on bass. I went out to San Francisco and played bass on somebody else's sessions. From that I started getting the hunger back to play. So then I needed to go back on bass, and right away it made a massive difference. It felt like we'd really taken a step forward. From our point of view, Chameleons Vox isn't really a band anyway. It's more like a cooperative of people who love The Chameleons music. It's not a band in the traditional sense. People have come and gone and are still around and still support us. Most of the people in this band have other things going on. It's not like a set line-up. There's been a whole lot of people come into this temporarily and helped us move on that aren't necessarily connected right now. I didn't want it to be a set band.
DiS: You also announced during that set there would be a new album out in 2013. You've since released the M + D = 1(8) EP and 'Time Enough' single with Periscope for Save The Children. Is the album near completion?
Mark Burgess: Initially I had a whole load of ideas for a new album that I pretty much ended up binning. Some of them ended up on the EP. But on the whole, they weren't really doing it for me. I couldn't feel anything fresh about it. I work better when I collaborate with people. For example 'Sycophants' was co-written with Chris (Oliver). And then I started collaborating with Yves (Altana) and we've got the makings of something really special. The reason why it didn't happen last year was because we did have a lot of problems that held us back. I can't really go into that without it looking like I'm putting blame on other people, which I don't want to do. I'm as much responsible for it not happening as anybody else. Ultimately, I think that will turn out to be a positive thing because in the meantime we carried on writing. And what we're doing now is far more interesting than what we were doing then. So I think we'll have a better record for it in the long run.
DiS: Would you ever consider working with former Chameleons Dave Fielding and Reg Smithies again?
Mark Burgess: No. I don't have anything to do with Dave any more. There's nothing positive in that relationship at all. I don't bare him any ill will or anything. It's just that our relationship is toxic. And I'm as responsible for that as he is. Reg I do see regularly. Me and him are fine. And up until last October me and John (Lever) were fine too. We're all still trying to work out what happened there. I wanted him back on drums for that Ritz show. I was even talking to the guy who played drums on the EP - John didn't play on that as he wasn't fit enough at the time - about him setting his drum kit up alongside John's as well, so he could do the new stuff while John would only need to focus on Script Of The Bridge. So I was expecting John to be back for the Ritz. I only found out what happened when the whole thing went public. We've tried to sit down with him but he won't talk to us. All I know is John did one and none of us know what happened or why.
DiS: You've already mentioned The Evil Poor as being one of your favourite new bands. Are there any others who've grabbed your attention in recent years?
Mark Burgess: I know I keep mentioning The Evil Poor, but as live performances go they're the best thing I've heard come out of Manchester in a long time. When I was in San Francisco there was a band there called Blasted Canyons who blew me away. They were just really original but then unfortunately they just imploded after South By Southwest last year. That seems to be the case with me whenever I get into a new band from the underground. They just stop! Efterklang are another band I love who've just announced they're jacking it in. So I don't want to mention too many names as it feels like I'm giving them the kiss of death! Obviously I love Editors and Radiohead. They're just stalwarts. I do listen to a lot of underground music and the scene in San Francisco when I was there was really reminiscent of Manchester in the late 1970s. I'd even go as far as saying it's the most exciting place I've been to musically in years.
DiS: You're playing the Classic Indie All Dayer at Manchester Academy in May with The Wedding Present, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and many others. Which other bands on the line-up are you looking forward to seeing?
Mark Burgess: The Wedding Present. I went to school with David Gedge. I bought all those early twelve inch singles and George Best. I'm really looking forward to it. We're trying to produce something here as well. It's not just going to be four guys up there ploughing through the songs. We actually are trying to present a show that's themed musically and visually around Script Of The Bridge in as much of an interesting way as we possibly can. It's not just a question of turning up, playing the songs and going home.
DiS: What have you got planned for the visuals?
Mark Burgess: I don't want to say. I don't want to spoil it. We're still producing it at the minute, throwing ideas around. We are trying to do something which evokes that record in terms of what you see and hear. Fingers crossed we can pull it all off. We haven't seen all the rooms we're playing on this tour so that could also be a factor in whether we can do the visuals at every show. We'll just try and adapt it as we go.
DiS: The Chameleons attracted a very partisan fanbase back in the day, particularly the "away crew" that followed the band on tour and in some cases went to every single gig. Do you think their involvement was a major factor in you and the band attaining such a cult status?
Mark Burgess: I don't really know. To me that's bittersweet. It's about the music and the band so keep it in perspective. Some of those people are obsessed beyond sanity really. It's like a religion or something. They're that fanatical about it. And that freaks me out. I appreciate that music can profoundly change people's lives. I've had music profoundly shape me over the course of my life but I've not made a religion out of it. Sometimes you just don't know what to say. I've had people in front of me in tears because the music has meant so much to them. The emotion of it. They're just standing in front of me crying and sobbing and I don't know what to do in that kind of situation. I don't feel worthy of that kind of attention. They have this idea of you that's not based on reality. And that disturbs me. I don't think that kind of adulation is healthy. And I'm not just talking about me personally, I'm talking about the way all four members are perceived. None of us could ever live up to that level of adoration. It's great to be appreciated, but my philosophy is simple. If you like it buy a record, come to a show, support the band. I'm happy with that. It disturbs me that I'm in a situation where I don't know what to do. I don't know what to say to these people.
DiS: It's the same with people who run Internet forums. It almost becomes a personal crusade targeting band members and journalists too who don't fall in line with their blinkered viewpoint.
Mark Burgess: I've had criticism on forums for playing these songs with people that weren't around when they written, and I have no guilt for that whatsoever. At the end of the day, the people that were in this band and aren't playing this music are people that didn't want to. Because if they wanted to they would be.
Chameleons Vox are touring the UK in May and can be seen at the following:-
15 London The Garage
16 Brighton Concorde 2
17 Tunbridge Wells Forum
18 Leicester Academy
19 Reading Sub 89
20 Cardiff The Globe
21 Leamington Spa The Assembly
22 Newcastle Academy
23 York The Duchess
24 Manchester Academy (Classic Indie All Dayer w/ The Wedding Present + more)
25 Leeds Brudenell
26 Hull Fruit
27 Glasgow Broadcast
For more information on the band visit their official website.


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Personal income rose modestly in September but wages & salaries were healthy. Meanwhile, spending was up notably while inflation was mixed. Personal income in September edged up 0.1 percent, following a 0.1 percent dip in August. The latest number fell short of the consensus forecast for a 0.3 percent gain. Importantly, the wages & salaries component rebounded 0.3 percent, after declining 0.1 percent in August. Sluggishness in income was from a dip in interest income and from flat government benefits.
Consumer spending ramped up, gaining 0.6 percent, following a 0.2 percent rise in August. The September figure beat analysts' median forecast for a 0.3 percent increase. By components, durables jumped 2.2 percent after a 1.1 percent decline in August. Nondurables increased 1.1 percent, following a 0.6 percent rise. About half of the nondurables increase was price related. Services rose 0.2 percent after a 0.3 percent gain in August.
Turning to inflation numbers, the headline PCE price index increased 0.2 percent after gaining 0.3 percent in August. The consensus called for 0.2 percent gain. The core rate slowed to no change from up 0.2 percent in August. The market expectation was for a 0.1 percent rise.
Year-on-year, headline prices are up 2.9 percent, compared to 2.9 percent in September. The core is up 1.6 percent on a year-ago basis, down slightly from 1.7 percent in August.
Today's report is relatively strong-at least for this recovery. Headline income is sluggish but the important wages & salaries component is moderately healthy. Personal spending is robust although price gains played a partial role. Core inflation softened and this gives the Fed room for further accommodation if the FOMC chooses.
On the news, equity futures slipped a bit.
Growth in benefit costs eased substantially in the third quarter and helped to bring down the employment cost index to a quarter-to-quarter plus 0.3 percent in the third quarter from outsized 0.7 percent and 0.6 percent gains in the prior two quarters. The reading is far below the Econoday consensus for plus 0.6 percent. The year-on-year rate slowed to 2.0 percent vs the prior quarters' 2.2 percent and 1.9 percent.
Benefit costs slowed to plus 0.1 percent in the third quarter, down from 1.3 percent and 1.1 percent in the prior two quarters. Wages & salaries rose a respectable 0.3 percent, following a run of 0.4 percent gains. But the year-on-year rate of plus 1.6 percent, the second in a row, is below the core CPI rate of plus 2.0 percent and well below the overall CPI rate of plus 3.9 percent.
Finally, Europe has a dealRemember when our banks were required to "raise their capital requirements?" Immediately Hank Paulson pushed for, and got, the ability to pay the banks for "excess reserves." Those "excess reserves" are now parked to the tune of $1.6 Trillion, all earning interest paid for by the people of the United States. The Europeans are simply taking from the playbook of the U.S.. All you need to do, then, is look at the result here – the stock market zoomed for a few months and then petered out, while simultaneously creating inflation for the things people need to live. There you go, expect more un/underreported inflation, and expect to revisit the Euro problem again and again until the people finally remove those who control the production of money.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- European Union leaders announced an agreement early Thursday on debt crisis measures, including a hard-fought deal with private sector investors to take a 50% loss on Greek bonds.
The agreement came at the end of marathon talks to finalize the policy response to the government debt and banking problems threatening the stability of the euro currency and global economy.
The response aims to resolve three related problems: the debt crisis in Greece, instability in the banking sector and a sorely outgunned bailout fund.
Under the new plan, Greek bondholders voluntarily agreed to write down the value of Greek bonds by 50%, which translates into €100 billion and will reduce the nation's debt load to 120% of economic output from 150%.
Charles Dallara, director of the Institute of International Finance, which represented the private sector in the talks, welcomed the agreement. In a statement, he said private investors agreed to the 50% discount "with the support" of €30 billion of official private sector funding.
The agreement also calls for a new €100 billion financing program for Greece, which will be funded partly by the International Monetary Fund, according to an official EU statement.
Stronger bailout fund: The leaders agreed on two ways to increase the firepower of the EU bailout fund, known as the European Financial Stability Facility. The methods will each leverage the fund by four or five fold, the statement said, boosting its resources to about €1 trillion.
The fund will be used to partially insure new issues of government bonds. In addition, it will be supplemented by the creation of one or more special investment vehicles, which will be open to private sector players such as sovereign wealth funds.
China has already expressed interest in backing the special investment mechanism. The possibility that China could back the the rescue effort helped lift U.S. stock prices late Wednesday.
Bigger bank reserves: The EU government heads also agreed to raise capital requirements for banks vulnerable to losses on euro-area government bonds.
"The overarching goal of the exercise is to foster confidence in the European banking sector," said European Council president Herman Van Rompuy.
Banks would be required to sharply increase core capital levels to 9% to create a buffer against potential losses.
Based on market rates in September, banks will need to raise a total of €106 billion to meet the new targets, according to the European Banking Authority.
That compares with estimates from the International Monetary Fund and private sector economists that ranged between €100 and €300 billion.
The banks would have until the end of June 2012 to meet those new requirements, according to a statement.
José Barroso, president of the European Commission, said the technical work needed to complete the measures will be completed "in the coming weeks."
"The key is implementation," said Barroso. "It is not enough to make commitments."
EU Sets 50% Greek Writedown, $1.4T in Rescue Fund"Long on words, short on details…" That's because when you are making money from nothing, you don't want to tell the world exactly how you're going to do it, but it doesn't matter because printing money from nothing is still printing money from nothing, all of which goes to benefit those who produce it – the further you are from that production, the more economically disenfranchised you will be.
European leaders cajoled bondholders into accepting 50 percent writedowns on Greek debt and boosted their rescue fund's capacity to 1 trillion euros ($1.4 trillion) in a crisis-fighting package intended to shield the euro area.
The 17-nation euro and stocks climbed while bond spreads narrowed after leaders emerged early today from a 10-hour summit in Brussels armed with a plan they said points the way out of the quagmire, albeit with some details still to be ironed out.
"Overall the outcome is better than we anticipated one week ago," Laurent Bilke, global head of inflation strategy at Nomura International Plc in London, said in an interview. "There are several issues left open, but I do believe that getting a more necessary debt relief for Greece is a pretty important step."
Last-ditch talks with bank representatives led to the debt- relief accord, in an effort to quarantine Greece and prevent speculation against Italy and France from ravaging the euro zone and wreaking global economic havoc. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will address the nation at 8 p.m. in Athens to outline the summit's ramifications for the country at the eye of the two-year sovereign debt crisis.
"The world's attention was on these talks," German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters in Brussels at about 4:15 a.m. "We Europeans showed tonight that we reached the right conclusions."
ECB Role
Measures include recapitalization of European banks, a potentially bigger role for the International Monetary Fund, a commitment from Italy to do more to reduce its debt and a signal from leaders that the European Central Bank will maintain bond purchases in the secondary market.
The euro advanced to a seven-week high against the dollar, rising above $1.40 for the first time since September. It was at $1.4007 at 11:48 a.m. in Brussels. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index surged 2.6 percent.
"It's long on words, short on detail," said Peter Dixon, an economist at Commerzbank AG in London. "The solution that's been put in place now gives us enough ammunition to stave off any immediate problems but we may well run into other problems down the track."
The summit was the 14th in the 21 months since Europe pledged solidarity with Greece, and came amid mounting global pressure for the bloc to deliver a credible anti-crisis toolkit before a Group of 20 meeting Nov. 3-4 in Cannes, France.
HighlightsWoohoo, paartay!
Economic growth finally strengthened in the third quarter-and the component mix is more favorable than expected. GDP growth improved to a 2.5 percent annualized increase in the third quarter, following an anemic 1.3 percent in the second quarter. The advance estimate matched market expectations for a 2.5 percent gain.
Demand numbers also improved as final sales of domestic product increased an annualized 3.6 percent in the third quarter after a 1.6 percent rise the prior quarter. Final sales to domestic purchasers (excludes net exports) gained 3.2 percent, following a 1.3 percent gain in the second quarter.
Strength was led by business fixed investment with personal consumption expenditures gaining momentum also. PCEs advanced 2.4 percent, following a 0.7 percent rise the prior quarter. Strength was led by durables with services also accelerating. Nondurables growth was soft. Net exports improved but at a slower rate. Inventory growth was positive but at a slower pace. Government purchases-on weakness in state & local spending-were flat but an improvement over a modest dip in the second quarter. Residential investment posted a modest gain but slowed from the prior quarter.
On a year-ago basis, GDP is up 1.6 percent, matching the pace in the second quarter.
Economy-wide inflation according to the GDP price index held steady at a 2.5 percent pace and equaled consensus forecasts for a 2.5 percent boost.
Today's report is good news, showing that economic momentum has picked up a bit. The component mix is particularly encouraging as final sales have picked up.
HighlightsThis number needs to be below 350k to reflect real job growth, it's been years of nothing but job shedding. Taking credit for "jobs saved," is nothing but more fraud designed to cover-up Fraud.
Initial jobless claims are holding steady in a narrow range just above 400,000. Claims came in at 402,000 in the October 22 week, a bit better than expectations. The four-week average of 405,500 is 10,000 below the month-ago period to hint at mild improvement for the October employment report.
Continuing claims in data for the October 15 fell 96,000 to 3.645 million with the four-week average of 3.701 million nearly 50,000 lower on the month-ago comparison. Improvement for continuing claims is an uncertain mix between hiring and benefit expiration. The unemployment rate for insured workers dipped one tenth to 2.9 percent.
There are no special factors in today's data, data continuing to suggest that employers, busy with production, are not scaling back their workforces.
The volume of mortgage applications bounced back from the prior week's Columbus Day lull. Purchase applications rose 6.4 percent in the October 21 week with refinancing applications up 4.4 percent. Rates were steady in the week with the average 30-year fixed-rate loan at 4.33 percent for conforming loan balances ($417,500 or less) and up slightly to 4.68 percent for jumbo loan balances ($417,500 or greater).
The headline is sluggish but outside of transportation, durables orders are showing broad-based strength. New factory orders for durables declined 0.8 percent in September after slipping an unrevised 0.1 percent the prior month. The September decline was in line with analysts' estimate for a 1.0 percent drop. Excluding transportation, durables rebounded 1.7 percent, following a 0.4 percent decrease in August. The market median forecast called for a 0.5 percent boost in durables excluding transportation.
The only major industry category to decline in September was transportation which dropped 7.5 percent after rising 0.6 percent in August. Weakness was primarily in aircraft with defense down 33.9 percent and nondefense down 25.5 percent. Some of the weakness in transportation was in autos, which is baffling, given recently healthy sales. Motor vehicles dipped 2.7 percent after a 9.1 percent drop in August.
Outside of transportation, orders were healthy across the board. Increases were seen in primary metals, up 2.6 percent; fabricated metals, up 1.9 percent; machinery, up 1.8 percent; computers & electronics, up 1.0 percent; electrical equipment, up 1.9 percent; and "other," up 1.0 percent.
Looking at private capital equipment related numbers, nondefense capital goods orders posted a healthy 2.4 percent gain, following a 0.5 percent rise in August. Shipments for this series, however, softened with a 0.9 percent dip in September but followed a strong 3.1 percent jump in August.
Overall, durables orders point to continued gains in manufacturing. Again, hard data are running stronger than surveys and anecdotes. On the news, equity futures improved somewhat.
I announce my candidacy for the Libertarian Party nomination for President of the United States. Now here's my promise to you; if elected as your President, I will take office on January 20, 2013 – interestingly, that occurs on my 65th birthday. I promise that on that day, I will do three things:
1. I will put an end to government borrowing. No More National Debt! The United States will replace Federal Reserve Notes by re-issuing debt-free U.S. Notes, and gradually pay off the National Debt with them.
2. I will put an end to the ability of commercial banks to control the Quantity of money in our system through what is essentially counterfeiting. This has been a massive fraud on the people of the United States. We, the people, will take back the money power from the big banks and return the American economy to monetary stability and prosperity.
To ensure this system is enforced, I will appoint a Special Prosecutor experienced in matters of fraud to prosecute to the full extent of the law those who have abused our system in the past to serve as an example for the future.
3. I will abolish the Internal Revenue System and the income tax – both personal and corporate — and implement a fair, simple and equitable consumption tax in accordance with the U.S. Constitution. This is how we funded our government for the first 100 years, and we can do it again.
Home prices, at best, may be stabilizing according to Case-Shiller data that show no change in the adjusted composite-20 index for August. The reading ends three prior months of 0.1 percent declines (July revised downward from no change). The unadjusted reading, at a very weak plus 0.2 percent vs plus 0.9 percent and plus 1.1 percent in the two prior months, points to price contraction in August given that monthly readings in this report are three-month averages. Nevertheless, the unadjusted year-on-year pace of minus 3.8 percent is the best reading since February in what hints at a flattening in the slope of price contraction. At 10:00 a.m. ET this morning, the FHFA house price index will be released.
When examining debt, it is wise to always consider the income that is there to support that debt. Unfortunately, debt has been allowed to far outstrip income. An important concept is that Debt Saturation actual works to cap income - this is because the weight of carrying more and more principal and interest stifles real economic activity! And this is why increasing debt into a debt saturated condition actually causes unemployment to worsen. Note in the chart below how Federal Receipts have stagnated in relation to Federal Debt, that is a debt saturated condition:
Index of Federal Receipts Vs. Federal Debt:
Note in the chart above that these values have been indexed in order to get them on the same scale - in reality income is much smaller as a percentage of debt with Federal Receipts only $2.5 Trillion.
The national activity index improved to minus 0.22 in September from a revised minus 0.59 in August, still below zero to indicate below trend growth for the sixth straight month. The three-month average improved to minus 0.21 from an unrevised minus 0.28.
Employment-related indicators moved to slightly positive ground as did production-related indicators. Sales, orders & inventories also moved to the positive side. Consumption & housing improved slightly but remains deeply negative.
PMI Group Mortgage Insurance Unit Is Seized by Arizona; Payouts Cut to 50%
PMI Group Inc. (PMI), the mortgage insurer that was ordered in August to stop writing policies, said a unit that sells such coverage was seized by Arizona authorities and will pay out claims at 50 percent starting tomorrow.
The Arizona insurance regulator has full possession, management and control of the unit, PMI Group said in a statement on its website. Bill Horning, a spokesman for PMI, didn't respond to a message seeking comment.
In August, the Arizona Department of Insurance told PMI that the unit, PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., was to halt sales of new policies and stop making interest payments on $285 million in surplus notes. PMI, which is based in Walnut Creek, California, said it needed to provide the regulator with a plan to improve its ability to meet policyholder obligations.
"The department may take appropriate action, including commencing conservatorship proceedings" if PMI fails to satisfy regulators' demands, the company said on Aug. 19.
That same month, PMI Group posted its 16th straight quarterly loss.
The worst U.S. housing crash in seven decades has pressured mortgage insurers, which pay lenders when homeowners default and foreclosures fail to recoup costs. Home prices fell 3.3 percent in the 12 months through July as a U.S. unemployment rate of more than 9 percent sapped the confidence of potential home buyers.
DEBT SATURATION - Occurs when collective income can no longer service more principal and interest under current credit terms & conditions. Debt saturation can occur for you personally, for your family, and it can occur for the people collectively. It can also occur, and has occurred, for local municipalities, city, state, and Federal governments, as well as corporations (financials in particular). Because the same income earners ultimately are responsible for all these debt (a key concept), there is a point that occurs overall, that point I call Macroeconomic Debt Saturation. Debt saturation can occur and then recur as credit terms are changed - for example, the lowering of interest rates moves the allowable amount of debt prior to reaching saturation up.
DIMINISHING PRODUCTIVITY OF DEBT - Is the phenomena of decreasing real productivity gains for a given amount of debt creation. In a non-saturated economy, the introduction of credit does work to increase productivity. However, approaching the Macroeconomic Debt Saturation point, the productivity gain begins to decrease, and at the saturation point is zero, turning negative as we get beyond the Debt Saturation point.

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Is alcohol costing you more than money?
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Cornerstone Therapeutics Announces Alastair McEwan as Chief Financial Officer
CARY, NC--(Marketwire - Nov 7, 2012) - Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: CRTX), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on commercializing products for the hospital and related specialty markets, announced today the appointment of Alastair McEwan as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective November 6, 2012.
Mr. McEwan is a pharmaceutical industry executive with more than 30 years experience. He has been instrumental in numerous strategic initiatives, notably in the healthcare sector, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, divestments and capital restructuring, and organizational restructuring and combinations. He has served in many senior management positions and on executive boards and Boards of Directors including those of Averion International and Inveresk Research. He is a previous chairman of the Cornerstone Board of Directors.
"We are delighted to have Alastair join our executive management team as CFO," said Craig A. Collard, Cornerstone's Chief Executive Officer. "This is an exciting time at Cornerstone as we continue to grow through the acquisition of companies and products that fit within our core focus areas in the hospital market. Alastair shares our strategic vision for the Company and will play a critical role as we work to further establish our presence and reputation as a leader in the hospital and related specialty markets."
Mr. McEwan earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Edinburgh, and is a chartered accountant under the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
About Cornerstone Therapeutics
Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: CRTX), headquartered in Cary, N.C., is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on commercializing products for the hospital and related specialty markets. Key elements of the Company's strategy are to focus its commercial and development efforts in the hospital and related specialty product sector within the U.S. pharmaceutical marketplace; continue to seek out opportunities to acquire companies, marketed and/or registration-stage products, and late-stage development products that fit within the Company's focus areas; and generate revenues by marketing approved generic products through the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Aristos Pharmaceuticals, Inc. For more information, visit www.crtx.com.


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It's Good To Be Bad
Jasmine In Dirty Santa
We have endless amounts of energy in our youth, especially when it comes to letting our hair down, it's a time to really live life to the full. This ebony beauty's life is a nonstop party. She's hired a Caribbean hideaway with a pool as a way to meet new people, but mainly to get to know new cocks.


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Layers and layers of thin, tender whole-wheat crêpes and smoked salmon make a stunning multilayered cake-like torte. To serve, cut into small wedges for an appetizer or into slightly larger wedges to accompany a salad.
- Yield
- Makes 16 servings
- Crêpes
- 1/2 cup whole-wheat flour
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/4 cups whole milk
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- Smoked-Salmon Filling
- One 8-ounce package cream cheese at room temperature
- 1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons roughly chopped scallion, green part only
- 2 teaspoons capers, drained and rinsed
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons whole milk
- One 4-ounce package smoked salmon
- To prepare the crêpes, stir the whole-wheat flour, all-purpose flour, and salt together in a medium bowl. Whisk the milk, eggs, and melted butter together in a small bowl. Pour half of the milk mixture into the flour mixture and whisk until smooth. Add the remaining milk mixture and continue whisking until the batter is completely smooth. Strain the batter through a fine-mesh strainer. Let the batter rest for half an hour before cooking.
- Line a tray with parchment paper. Heat a crêpe pan or a 7-inch nonstick sauté pan or skillet over moderately high heat. Spray the pan lightly with cooking oil or brush with melted butter. Pour 1/4 cup of batter into the side of the pan and swirl to coat the bottom, forming a thin layer. Cook until bubbles appear on the surface of the crêpe and the edges begin to brown lightly. Flip the crêpe over using a spatula. Cook the second side for about 10 seconds and turn the crêpe onto the prepared tray to cool. Continue cooking crepes until all the batter is used. You should have 11 crêpes (see Note).
- To prepare the filling, in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a blade attachment, process the cream cheese until smooth, about 30 seconds. Scrape the bowl with a rubber spatula and add the scallion, capers, lemon juice, milk, and salmon. Process for another 15 seconds, then scrape the bowl with a rubber spatula again. Blend for another 10 seconds or until the mixture looks fairly smooth. Divide the filling into 10 portions, each about 2 heaping tablespoons.
- Place a crêpe on a serving plate and spread one portion of filling completely and evenly over its surface with a metal offset spatula or the back of a spoon. Top with another crêpe and carefully spread another portion of filling on top, making sure you spread to the edges. Continue until all of the filling and the crêpes are stacked, ending with a plain crêpe on top. Cover the torte with plastic film and chill for at least 1/2 hour before slicing and serving.
- Cut the torte into small wedges with a sharp knife. Clean the knife between cuts to make a neat sliced appearance. Any remaining pieces of torte can be wrapped tightly with plastic film and stored in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.
The crêpes and the filling can be made a day ahead and refrigerated. Let the filling come to room temperature and assemble as directed.
From Savory Baking:Warm and Inspiring Recipes for Crisp, Crumbly, Flaky Pastries byMary Cech. Text copyright © 2009 by Mary Cech; photographs copyright © 2009 by Noel Barnhurst. Published by Chronicle Books LLC.


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Lego Unveils Geeky New Sets For Star Wars, Lone Ranger Fans
Lego Unveils New Geeky Sets
NEW YORK — Lego fans get excited when the company unveils its latest batch of franchised toys, and this year there's a lot to geek out over.
The company revealed at the 110th American International Toy Fair this week its latest sets coming to shelves. Not only is it the second time a Spiderman Lego figurine has ever hit the market — and a first for Peter Parker's workplace, the Daily Bugle — the upcoming film Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp will also get the toy bricks treatment.
As expected, Lego is also adding to its Star Wars line and is bringing back the retro-looking Yoda. The company also added to the Lord of the Rings collection, and even included a figurine of director Peter Jackson during his cameo scene on the pirate ship.
Check out the gallery above and let us know what you think of the new models in the comments below.
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The subtitle for this part two memoir is a summary in a nutshell: 'A Mennonite Finds Faith, Meets Mr. Right, and Solves Her Lady Problems'. This is Rhoda Janzen's sequel to Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, which I thought was funnier and fresher, but then sequels often find it hard to compete with the original. It is still vintage Janzen: funny, honest, grateful, and self deprecating. This is a brave story cloaked in dark humour. Janzen teaches creative writing at Hope College and has a Ph.D. from UCLA. She is a poet and knows how to write.
In the first book she survives the end of her marriage and a serious car accident. In the second book she enters a new love relationship, finds a new church home, and battles a serious cancer, not necessarily in that order. Her life has undergone some significant changes. Although her faith language can be a bit rough around the edges and delightfully irreverent at times, the journey she shares speaks volumes about how much she appreciates her roots and is surprised by faith at every turn. Barbara Brown Taylor said this and I agree with it. "Rhoda Janzen is one of the few people I trust to write about faith without using God to clobber me."
My best takeaway from Janzen's books is that even though inevitably things happen in life that we do not choose and are not able to change, what we do have control over is choosing our attitude about it. This is a great responsibility, but also a great freedom.


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The surf is starting to pick up on the South shore. I stopped by in the morning to think about recent events as the mesmerizing sets rolled in and opened my mind. And my heart. I'm not exactly sure what happened this week. There were so many amazing ups. And only one down. But the ups lost all meaning when I found myself spiraling down. Down into the depths of despair. Like wandering in the ghostly plains of Kaupe'a. Where the wandering souls drift aimlessly about. Darkness descended so quickly upon me that I was caught off guard. Embedded so deeply. I can't pull you out without ripping and tearing myself apart. So I have no choice but to leave you there. And move on. What is the sense of having everything you ever wanted in life when you start to realize that the one part you are still missing. Is the only thing you ever really wanted in the first place...
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New Ritzy Cinema to Offer Bitsy Price Omaha World-Herald (NE) – Monday, April 17, 1989
"Movie One Theaters of El Paso, Texas, is the operator, has 87 screens now and is expanding by 100 screens this year."
"…each theater will seat from 180 to 250 patrons…"
"That will bring the number of discount screens in Omaha to 16, including the original Gemini Twin , Millard 4 and Maplewood Twin." [32 screens at that time, half were discounted.]
Back in the 1990s, they would show movie serials on Saturday mornings. If memory serves, they would accept a canned food donation in lieu of the $1 admission.
3 Superheroes Will Descend On Summer Cinema Series Omaha World-Herald (NE) – Friday, June 8, 1990
"Super Saver Cinema 8 will show a children's film and an installment of a 1941 serial in a special series to generate food donations for the needy.
The 10-week series kicks off June 16 with 'Batman: The Movie.'
Three superheroes – Captain Marvel, Superman and Batman – will make appearances at the theater.
Rumor has it, manager Mike Curtis said, that the Joker may try to rob the box office.
Movies will begin each Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Admission will be 75 cents plus a canned good for the Omaha Food Bank.
Each Saturday, a segment of the 1941 serial, 'Adventures of Captain Marvel,' will be shown. "
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This weeks house mouse challenge is to make a card or anything you like to wish someone well! Sooooo, it certainly seems like I have lots of people I can send this too lately... and since I have a mess I thought I would go ahead and make this before I cleaned it up.
You really can't see it in this picture, but I used a liquid glaze on the puddle and the raindrops.
Thanks for hopping by!
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House Mouse Challenge #35 - wish someone well
Posted by Nina at 10:30 PM
Labels: card making, cards, handmade cards, housemouse, housemouse stamps, paper crafting, stamping, stamps
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I love your blog Nina!I love the template..I was thinking about using it too, until I found the birdie one.
Fabulous card. Did you stamp it and then color in? I have never done that!
see ya later!
- May 4, 2009 at 11:08 PM
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Fresh Memory: Learning Aid
When memorizing facts, learning, storing, and processing internalizes the subject matter. The Fresh Memory program offers various methods to help you anchor the facts in your memory.
In some situations, it's what you know that counts. Although "learning how to learn" has merit, knowing the right way to search for chemical elements on Google is of little use if you don't have local Internet access. The solution? Learning something by heart.
Modern educators might not prefer this method, but students rely on it nonetheless. To learn something by heart, you either need to read the facts repeatedly (drill and practice) or use a card file to help you memorize (spaced repetition). Fresh Memory offers both variants with the aid of virtual flash cards.
Under the Hood
Fresh Memory is written in C++, uses the Qt framework, and supports Unicode (UTF-8). Currently, binaries are only available for Ubuntu and Windows XP/7. The Ubuntu package works fine on many other Debian-based distributions, but I used Ubuntu during testing. The application is available with English menus and localizations for Czech, Finnish, Russian, and Ukrainian. The developers are still looking for volunteer translators for other languages.
Flash Cards
Before you can work with the software, you first need a stack of cards with the relevant facts. The cards are stored in a file in the ~/.config /freshmemory/dictionaries subdiectory with a .fmd file extension. After launching the program, you can load a stack of cards and work through them using one of two methods.
The software identifies the structure of the stack (Figure 1).
The two related concepts are located in two or more columns. To start learning, you need to select two columns. The countries-europe example illustrates this very nicely.
The three columns allow four exercises: mapping countries to capitals, capitals to countries, flags to countries, and countries to flags – but not capitals to flags or vice versa. If you want to add this feature, you can use the stack options, which you can access by pressing Ctrl+1 (Figure 2).
Drill and Practice
Memorizing usually starts by trying to remember the mappings. To start this training session, press the Word drill icon or select Tools | Word drill in the menu. While working through the word list, you see the question at the top and the answer below if you check Show answers (Figure 3).
The program shows how many times you have been through the stack and how many questions from the current set are still waiting for you. If you have not selected the Show answers option, you will see the Show button instead of the answer. When pressed, the program displays the answer. Alternatively, you can just proceed to the next question.
What you don't have in the word drill – as you do in the spaced repetition module – is an opportunity to enter an answer for the program to check. This is left up to the user. However, the effort involved in checking answers is disproportionate: Questions such as mapping countries to flags or names to mathematical formulas are so different in terms of their structure that it would take an enormous effort to return meaningful results. If you feel confident, you can repeat the test with the help of the spaced repetition method (Figure 4).
In the spaced repetition method, the question appears in the upper box, and the solution is hidden behind the Show answer button. Status displays located at the bottom of the dialog box tell you the number of currently unanswered questions and the percentage of correct (green), not quite correct (yellow), or unanswered (red) questions. The meaning of the row of disabled buttons with numbers from 0 to 5 becomes apparent as soon as you press the Show answer button (Figure 5).
When the answer appears, the software lets you indicate to what extent you knew the answer by pressing one of the buttons, where 0 indicates not knowing the answer, and 5 indicates answering the question correctly. The higher the number, the fewer the repetitions required (Table 1). This act of reflection is one of the important parts of the learning process. If you want to be successful, you need to provide an honest answer. On the basis of your answers, the program later focuses on the facts with which you had the most difficulties.
New Session
Creating your own exercises is very simple: Press the stack icon button or select File | New. An empty stack with the columns Question, Answer, and Example appears. Start by saving the file in ~/.config/freshmemory/dictionaries.
Images are commonly used instead of questions or answers, and you need to store the corresponding images in a subfolder with the same name as the stack itself. In the corresponding column of the stack, enter a reference to the image using the code <img src="%%/<imagename>.png"> (Figure 6).
The software interprets the double percent signs as a subfolder with the same name as the card stack.
Creating card indexes to help you learn facts is also easy; however, the software only supports plain text in UTF-8 (Unicode) or images for the questions and answers. If you want to create a card index for binomial formulas, your only option is to grab a screenshot of the formula editor. The same principle applies for chemical formulas.
Like many programs in this category, Fresh Memory suffers from a lack of interaction with the student. If the learner is undisciplined, the program is not very useful, but if you take the trouble to report your progress to the program, Fresh Memory will meet the expectations that a learner has while attempting to memorize facts.
Educators will enjoy the easy-to-use interface that makes creating card indexes a simple process. If you expect more than just text and images in the questions and answers, the program may be a disappointment. Nevertheless, Fresh Memory turns out to be a useful little tool, and not just for memorizing vocabulary.
The Author
Karl Sarnow has been a fan of computers since the days of the TRS 80 Model 1. As a teacher of mathematics, physics, and computer science, Sarnow formerly designed networking concepts for Linux and related applications for schools, as well as writing a book on the subject, Linux in der Schule [in German]. Since retirement, Sarnow devotes his time to his hobbies of photography, traveling, and astronomy
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10 tips for a healthier holiday season
It should be the happiest time of the year. Instead of getting frazzled, gaining 10 pounds and feeling blue, there's a lot you can do to help make it a healthy, wonderful season for others and for yourself. Here are some tips to inspire you.
Nurture your spirit
Go to your church, synagogue, temple or other favorite place of worship during non-prime times, as well as attending the busiest holiday celebrations. And plan your own quiet times for spiritual rejuvenation. Meditate, pray, light a candle, write or say a daily affirmation.
Santa had the right idea about making a list and checking it twice. Before things get too hectic, sit down and plan your gift list. Make or update your holiday card list, if you have one. List parties and holiday visits and things you'll need for each. If you're going out of town, make and confirm airline or other travel arrangements, or if it's due, take your car in for an oil change and checkup.
Now that you've made your lists, see what you can eliminate from each. If the time seems right, contact those on your gift list who might agree it's time to exchange greetings rather than gifts this year (you may be surprised how many feel the same way and are relieved and grateful you've suggested it). Consider checks, gift cards or donations in the recipient's name. Send cards only to out-of-town loved ones and offer in-person greetings to locals. Consider a switch to e-mails and e-cards. Have cards do double duty to send holiday invitations of your own or accept or send regrets to invitations from others.
Walk around your neighborhood or the mall and enjoy the holiday decorations. Give a friend or relative an early gift of a gym membership or series of exercise or yoga classes and make a date to join for a few sessions to establish new habits during the holidays. Follow up with a healthy breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Eat right
Don't skip breakfast or show up at parties famished and prone to binges. Pick one indulgent treat at a buffet, then load up on veggies and less caloric treats. Limit alcohol consumption and choose sparkling water or herbal teas instead of, or between, calorie-laden beverages.
Support groups
If you're a recovering addict, or in therapy for mental or physical illness, PTSD, or grief or anger management, this is definitely not the time to skip meetings, therapy sessions or doctor's appointments. If you're not in a support group, but think you should be, join up now. It could be the best holiday gift you ever give yourself and those who care about you.
"When you most feel like giving out, give outward," Tenny Hale said, and it's good advice on many levels for the holiday season, when so many suffer from blues and depression. Clean out your closets and contribute usable goods to your favorite charity. (Get receipts for tax purposes). Volunteer to help at local organizations. Reach out to others who may be feeling sad and lonely.
Plan healthy treats
Research healthier versions of your holiday favorites and share at parties and office gatherings. Pack salads for two and invite a friend or coworker for lunch at a nearby park. Buy yourself a new workout outfit, shoes or exercise equipment. Join or form a caroling group and spread some joy.
Forgive and give thanks
Count your blessings during this blessed season. If there are feuds or hard feelings among friends or family members, this could be a good time to reach out to heal and make peace. Start a gratitude journal and resolve to make a few entries every day for a year, even (especially) when you're most tired and stressed.
Have fun
This is a warm and wonderful season, full of uplifting music, pageantry, beautiful decorations and the spirit of love, generosity and kindness. Even if you're far from home and loved ones, there are public events, many of them free, to help you get in the spirit of the season. Visit luminaria displays, Christmas tree lightings, religious services, festivals and bazaars throughout the region. Show up, and you could be inspired and make some new friends.


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SAN FRANCISCO—As the Oakland A's were set to take on the Giants in the adjacent baseball stadium, few in the Polo Grounds bar seemed aware that another event was taking place—the launch party of the controversial social geo-location app, SceneTap.
The Chicago-based startup debuted in the city by the Bay Friday evening after it caused a bit of a stir locally during the week. This is despite the fact that SceneTap has operated previously in several other cities around the country largely without a hitch. Several San Francisco bars that originally agreed to partner with SceneTap said that they have pulled out, largely due to negative media attention and potential privacy concerns.
The app, using facial detection and video cameras, plots bar activity on a Google Map, with pushpins revealing data like: "Crowd: >70% full | Women: 52% | Men: 48%."
SceneTap representatives have stressed to multiple media outlets (including Ars) that the company is not storing images. The only stored data are historical trends of male and female ratios and estimates of customer ages. The company says that once it has accumulated such data over time, it will make it available to bars as an analytical tool to evaluate bar traffic.
However, CEO Cole Harper spoke with two reporters from Ars at the launch (Cyrus Farivar and Matt Braga). Ars pointed out that not storing images was not the same as agreeing not to retain any of the facial data, and that's what many privacy advocates were concerned about. Harper said he would consider making a change to the company's privacy policy.
By the following day, Saturday, Ars received an e-mail alerting us to this modification: "No facial mapping metrics, measurements, or other data used to predict demographics are stored."
After surveying a few people in the bar, patrons seemed unaware of what SceneTap did both in-bar and in-app. That was despite the young women passing out SceneTap-branded items, the large banner in the back of the bar, and a free drink offer if you showed the app to a server. In addition, there seemed to be no indication to customers of SceneTap's camera, nor how it worked.
Some bar-goers seemed unconcerned with the presence of the cameras and the related privacy issues. Rather, they seemed interested in the potential benefit to them and their peers.
"If I was a single dude living in the city, I would use it," said Sean Silva, a local actuary.
Further reading: Facial detection cameras ready to creep out San Francisco bar patrons by Cyrus Farivar.
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