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CHAPEL HILL — For once, there were smiles instead of scowls, and something to celebrate instead of something to mourn. For the first time in awhile, the North Carolina band on Saturday played the alma mater, and the Tar Heels stuck around and savored the moment instead of slinking away back to the locker room, beaten.
North Carolina coach Larry Fedora has made a habit of counting down days to the start of a season or to a marquee game. He likely knew, then, that it had been 49 days since the Tar Heels had experienced what they did on Saturday: a victory.
Its definitely something we should try more often, Jabari Price, the North Carolina senior cornerback, said after the Tar Heels ended their misery, and their four-game losing streak, with a 34-10 victory against Boston College at Kenan Stadium.
During his years at UNC (2-5, 1-3), Price had never been a part of a losing team. Yet he feared that amid all these defeats close ones against Georgia Tech and Miami, a lopsided one against East Carolina that his teammates might become numb to it all.
Like I told the guys Friday, Price said, I didnt want losing to become an OK feeling. Like guys just being OK with it. And thats my biggest fear. And instead of that happening, we kind of did the opposite. Guys came out with a sense of urgency and played.
In a season of lows, the Tar Heels greatest triumph came after they experienced their greatest sense of despair. UNC nearly beat then-No. 10 Miami last Thursday before the Hurricanes scored the game-winning touchdown with 16 seconds to play. The defeat left UNC crushed, Fedora said.
He was as curious as anyone to see how the Tar Heels might respond. Fedora had said earlier in the week that he had been losing sleep over a lot of things including the thought of whether his players were mentally strong enough to rebound from what happened against Miami.
I know everybody questioned the frame of mind of our kids, and its understandable, Fedora said. (Theyve had) great attitudes in practice, and were getting after them in practice, now. Its not like were out there putting our arms around them with hugs and kisses.
UNCs defense surrendered a 90-yard touchdown drive late in that loss against the Hurricanes. On Saturday, the Tar Heels recovered a fumble on the first series of the game, and the turnover set up UNCs first touchdown, which came on Bryn Renners 13-yard pass to freshman receiver Ryan Switzer.
Huge play, Jeff Schoettmer, the UNC linebacker said of the fumble, which he recovered. It really boosted the morale of the whole team.
The Tar Heels maligned defense, which has had a habit of making opposing offenses look faster and more potent than they might be against other teams, gave its finest performance of the season. Andre Williams, the Boston College senior running back, gained 172 yards, but outside of that the Eagles (3-4, 1-3) generated fewer than 100 yards.
Even Williams struggled at times, outside of his 56-yard touchdown run that gave the Eagles a 7-6 lead midway through the first quarter. The Tar Heels took the lead for good on A.J. Blues 1-yard run early in the second quarter, and Renner, who completed 18 of his 21 attempts for 227 yards, threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Bug Howard, who gave UNC a 20-7 lead just before halftime.
As they did against Miami, Renner and Marquise Williams shared time at quarterback. They both accounted for two touchdowns, and Williams, the third-year sophomore, led UNC with 55 yards rushing four of them coming on a touchdown that gave the Tar Heels a 34-7 lead with about nine minutes to play.
Marquise Williams described the postgame scene in UNCs locker room as one of joy which is something that for more than a month and a half had been absent from the Tar Heels postgame environment.
Coach has been showing us examples of how some teams that have been 0-5 and 0-6, but they turned it around and won the next seven to get to a bowl game, he said. So thats what were feeding off of.
The Tar Heels began the season with aspirations of winning the Coastal Division and improving on its 8-4 finish in 2012 in Fedoras first season as head coach. Those goals, though, evaporated amid a stretch of futility in which UNC was at times its own worst enemy.
The difference between those days and Saturday was clear enough to Fedora.
A lot fewer mistakes (today), he said. I mean, really a lot fewer mistakes. A lot cleaner game.
There were no touchdowns called back because of a penalty, like there had been, at one point, in three consecutive losses. There were no bizarre errors like flubbing the coin toss and kicking off twice to start both halves, or enduring a critical delay of game penalty at the worst time, which cost UNC against Miami.
Instead, at last, there was a victory for the Tar Heels, and a celebration that had been a long time coming.
We (knew) our season could take one of two turns, said Kareem Martin, the UNC senior defensive end who had two of North Carolinas four sacks. And we wanted to make the best turn.


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Clean Power Alternatives for Energy Independence
PSN on April 3, 2006 - 12:07pm
The public is fed up. They know that every barrel of oil we import from the Middle East helps regimes who don't share America's interest. Every gallon of gas burned on America's roadways contributes to asthma for children. And every time we import our energy, we're creating jobs abroad instead of here at home. There are alternatives to America's current dependence on foreign energy supplies. But don't look to the federal government to solve them. Their response to America's energy crisis is to give tax breaks to multinational energy companies raking in record profits -- a solution that is as short-sighted as it is unhelpful.
But where D.C. has dropped the ball, states are picking it up with more solutions than ever. The solutions are also building new and unique coalitions in the state -- between conservationists worried about climate change, unions and contractors interested in building jobs, public health advocates who want cleaner air, and national security voters who want to see America less dependent on the Middle East.
So what are states doing?
One set of approaches includes regulations to encourage the use of renewable fuels and to promote conservation generally. Among the policies being considered and enacted are:
- Renewable Portfolio Standards (also known as Renewable Energy Standards) require energy wholesalers to buy a set share of their energy portfolio from clean renewable sources and Renewable Energy Targets set statewide goals for renewable energy development--policies that have been adopted in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, D.C., Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
- Renewable Fuel Standards increase alternative fuel use at the retail level, especially at the gas pump -- a key tool for cutting oil imports that have been enacted in Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, and Washington.
- Small Appliance Energy Efficiency Legislation requires appliances to use less energy, helps families save money, and helps the environment -- Arizona, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington all have standards tougher than the federal government.
Other measures use the taxation and budgetary power to drive development of energy alternatives:
- Bonding Issues help drive investment in renewable energy technology and efficiency measures and are in place across the country, including California, Montana, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania.
- Investing public funds in renewable development and energy efficiency through Public Benefits Funds (also known as Systems Benefits Funds) already operating in 25 states.
- Public Pension Investments, as being tried in California, can allow states to harvest the public benefits and profits from renewables development.
- There are also a number of Tax Incentive strategies for promoting renewables development.
Finally, there are strategies that simply alter the energy market landscape to make energy companies friendlier to renewable development and encouraging entrepreneurship. All this takes is a little shifting of incentives from old ways of thinking.
- Net Metering and Interconnection help small alternative energy producers sell off excess energy directly onto the energy grid, replacing the old model where only major power plants could distribute energy to consumers. New energy micro-projects allow for small producers to become players in the energy marketplace, as long as barriers don't stand in their way. Interconnection legislation makes it more affordable for small producers to join transmission networks. Net Metering ensures that when small producers create more energy than they use, and feed that excess into the transmission system, that they are fairly compensated for their power. New Jersey leads the nation in these policies, which are key to creating clean energy entrepreneurship.
- Oregon realized that utilities had a disincentive to promote energy efficiency and came up with a unique Decoupling policy to ensure that the business interest and the public interest are the same.
The lesson in state-after-state is that all that is holding back renewable energy development is a lack of federal leadership and the limits of our own imaginations.
The Impact and the Opportunity: Broad Coalitions for New Energy Solutions
Pushing forward on the energy debate isn't just good policy. It's also great politics, as coalitions across the country are learning. In state after state, coalitions are building to suppoer America's clean energy future with alliances that include environmental groups, labor, agriculture, business, and religious groups.
One need look no further than the coalition of support behind the Apollo Alliance to see the strength of potential coalitions.
- Business Organizations -- At a national level, renewable energy companies form the bulk of businesses supportive of renewable energy legislation, but independent contractors, ski resorts, and other environmentally-based businesses have a stake in clean energy.
- Conservation Organizations -- Environmental groups are among the strongest advocates of renewable energy development in the country. With national organizations like the National Wildlife Federation, League of Conservation Voters, and Sierra Club throwing their weight behind the Apollo Alliance, strong allies can be found in virtually every state. Additional allies can be found with state and local environmental organizations, as well as the State PIRGs, which have a long history on energy issues.
- Labor Unions -- Since the beginning, industrial unions like the United Steelworkers have been heavily supportive of the Apollo Alliance. Their endorsements from labor now include the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, Electrical Workers, Mine Workers, SEIU, Teamsters, and UAW, plus many other unions, state federations, and labor councils.
- Religious Organizations -- Religious voters overwhelmingly approve of the goals of the Apollo Alliance -- better jobs, an independent America, and a cleaner planet. The Evangelical Environmental Network demonstrates the possibility of outreach to even the most conservative religious voters with mainline denominations an easier target for outreach.
The coalitions for energy change can be huge, because demand for real solutions is so widespread. A few simple steps can keep those coalitions in place. With the right tax incentives, many local businesses see new opportunities to build home-grown energy businesses in their states as an alternative to imports. With a commitment to make sure those new in-state jobs pay a decent wage, labor is an enthusiastic backer for these policies. The key is to recognize that we don't have to choose between a clean environment and decent jobs -- they go hand in hand with the right policies.
Preventing the Right from Undermining Clean Energy
While many honest conservative legislators recognize the need for new directions in energy policy, the oil lobby continues to support a rightwing political movement bent on undermining any alternatives to the carbon economy, a point highlighted in Progressive States' recent report on state rightwing efforts.
They try to dress their opposition up in a lot of rhetoric, but the right knows that their position on energy policy is wrong and unpopular. Nothing made this more clear than President Bush's declaration in his State of the Union address that "America is addicted to oil." Of course, Bush's own record belies his words. He is about as interested in ending our addiction to oil as he is in exposing Jack Abramoff's activities.
The Bush Administration has increased our dependence on foreign oil, proposed cuts to renewable energy development, and proposed biofuel cuts. Amazingly, only hours after declaring to help cut back on the addiction, Bush sent out surrogates explaining that there was no real effort in place to cut back on the addiction.
Fortunately, the American public believes in progressive strategies on energy. Polling demonstrates more than 2/3 of Americans support increased funding for research into ethanol development. More than 3/4 support tax cuts for renewable energy companies (more than half oppose tax cuts to oil companies). And nearly 9 in 10 voters nationally express support for "an energy security program that would decrease oil dependence through higher fuel efficiency, more solar power, research and fuel cell technology." Support for a progressive agenda even cuts across party lines.
Who delivers the message does matter, however. Surveys show that voters see religious leaders, business leaders, and workers interested in better-paying jobs as some of the most effective advocates for these policies -- one reason clean energy coalitions including these groups have been so effective in recent years.

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Forget Diversity: Saturday Night Live Has a Viewership Problem
If a show amps up its diversity and people aren't there to see it, does it matter?
Ordinarily, a new Saturday Night Live cast member wouldn't capture national attention, but when that cast member is one of only a handful of black women to join the show in 40 years, people take notice. After months of public pressure and a well-publicized casting process, Sasheer Zamata will make her debut this weekend. Interest in the new hire has been running high, but Nielsen figures show that interest in actually sitting down and watching SNL has fallen to nearly all-time lows.
NOTE: Starting on Dec. 25, 2006, figures include live viewing plus any time-shifted viewing within the same day (such as recording the show on TiVo and watching it later).
Source: Nielsen
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The numbers above show both the share of total households that were tuned into the show (a measure known as the "rating") and the share of TVs that were in use during SNL's time slot that were tuned in (the "share"). That means that, of all TVs that were on late on a Saturday night during the 1978-79 season, nearly 4 in 10 were tuned into SNL. Thus far this season, that share is at only 9 percent.
What has pushed these figures down? In part, the proliferation of cable (and therefore alternatives for late-Saturday viewing) has eaten into the show's popularity, says Nick Marx, assistant professor of media studies at Colorado State University and editor of the 2013 book "Saturday Night Live and American TV." In addition, online SNL viewing options like Hulu have pulled people away from their TV sets.
But these numbers also suggest that SNL simply doesn't have the culturally central place that it once did. It's not simply that people aren't watching as much TV; among those who do, far fewer are watching SNL.
"Its relevance is relatively limited, as is a lot of broadcast television nowadays, given the abundance of competition it has," Marx says. "Its dwindling numbers are a little more of a result of that than any shift in cast or funniness from season to season."
If SNL has indeed shrunk as a cultural force, the phenomenon then raises a question akin to the age-old problem of the tree falling in the forest: if SNL pushes for more diversity and no one is there to watch, does it matter?
In Marx's opinion, the public is still "really invested in the show and its diversity" for two main reasons. One is that the long-running show has a prominent place in American culture but has not reflected that culture in its cast.
"It's had a really bad history of diversity, especially among African-American and female comedians, going all the way back to John Belushi famously saying women weren't funny, to the present day when they made really sort of a PR push to make sure people knew they were looking for a black female cast member," says Marx.
People pay attention, he says, to see if that will change, but they also pay attention to the show because it is both live and timely. The fact that the show covers current political and cultural issues – and does it on the anything-can-happen high wire of live TV – is also a draw.
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Despite declining viewership, the show still carries considerable societal weight because of that timeliness. For example, though the show's ratings had fallen considerably by 2008, Tina Fey's Sarah Palin impersonation became ubiquitous.
The show's ability to maintain that kind of cultural cache is thanks in part to SNL's online presence, Marx adds.
"I personally think it's working to its advantage if, even if its live broadcast numbers are dwindling, that its cultural footprint seems to be at least the same and possibly growing through online media," he says.
That means anyone who doesn't watch Zamata's debut live can rest assured that there will be at least one clip on their Facebook feed come Sunday.
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---- — EMPIRE — A suspicious package reported near Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore at about the time two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon turned out to be a part of a weather balloon.
Ranger Nate Mazurek was the first to respond Monday to a 4:13 p.m. call of a suspicious item near a boundary marker at Voice Road and LaCore Street in Leelanau County's Empire Township.
He said he immediately recognized the Styrofoam box likely was part of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather balloon, but proceeded with caution following the events in Boston.
"There were some wires visible which I'm sure could be disconcerting," he said. "I imagine people could think it was all sorts of things. There was nothing it to indicate it could be a weather balloon."
National Lakeshore rangers, Leelanau County Sheriff's officers and local fire departments all responded to the call. Mazurek said the scene was cleared after he consulted with Sheriff Mike Borkovich and verified it probably was a weather balloon transponder.
The instrument is still in the National Lakeshore offices, but Keith Berger, observing programs leader at the National Weather Service office in Gaylord, said he is confident based on the description that it is a radiosonde that was attached to a weather balloon.
Radiosondes collect weather information as they are carried up by balloons that reach up to 100,000 feet in the air before they return to earth by parachute.
Berger said based on wind patterns the device likely was launched from a Green Bay, Wisc. weather station. He said it probably fell into the water because it's biodegradable cardboard shell and mailing instructions were missing.
Mazurek believes someone found it on the shore and brought it to the National Lakeshore boundary marker where officials could find it. He said the fact that the device turned out to be harmless shouldn't stop onlookers from reporting suspicious items.
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Set and get current colormap
cmap = colormap
A colormap is an m-by-3 matrix of real numbers between 0.0 and 1.0. Each row is an RGB vector that defines one color. The kth row of the colormap defines the kth color, where map(k,:) = [r(k) g(k) b(k)]) specifies the intensity of red, green, and blue.
colormap(map) sets the colormap to the matrix map. If any values in map are outside the interval [0 1], you receive the error Colormap must have values in [0,1].
colormap('default') sets the current colormap to the default colormap.
cmap = colormap retrieves the current colormap. The values returned are in the interval [0 1].
colormap(ax,...) uses the figure corresponding to axes ax instead of the current figure.
Files in the color folder generate a number of colormaps. Each file accepts the colormap size as an argument. For example,
creates an hsv colormap with 128 colors. If you do not specify a size, a colormap the same size as the current colormap is created.
The built-in MATLAB® colormaps are illustrated and described below. In addition to specifying built-in colormaps programmatically, you can use the Colormap menu in the Figure Properties pane of the Plot Tools GUI to select one interactively.
The named built-in colormaps are the following:
autumn varies smoothly from red, through orange, to yellow.
bone is a grayscale colormap with a higher value for the blue component. This colormap is useful for adding an "electronic" look to grayscale images.
colorcube contains as many regularly spaced colors in RGB color space as possible, while attempting to provide more steps of gray, pure red, pure green, and pure blue.
cool consists of colors that are shades of cyan and magenta. It varies smoothly from cyan to magenta.
copper varies smoothly from black to bright copper.
flag consists of the colors red, white, blue, and black. This colormap completely changes color with each index increment.
gray returns a linear grayscale colormap.
hot varies smoothly from black through shades of red, orange, and yellow, to white.
hsv varies the hue component of the hue-saturation-value color model. The colors begin with red, pass through yellow, green, cyan, blue, magenta, and return to red. The colormap is particularly appropriate for displaying periodic functions. hsv(m) is the same as hsv2rgb([h ones(m,2)]) where h is the linear ramp, h = (0:m–1)'/m.
jet ranges from blue to red, and passes through the colors cyan, yellow, and orange. It is a variation of the hsv colormap. The jet colormap is associated with an astrophysical fluid jet simulation from the National Center for Supercomputer Applications. See Examples.
lines produces a colormap of colors specified by the axes ColorOrder property and a shade of gray.
pink contains pastel shades of pink. The pink colormap provides sepia tone colorization of grayscale photographs.
prism repeats the six colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.
spring consists of colors that are shades of magenta and yellow.
summer consists of colors that are shades of green and yellow.
white is an all white monochrome colormap.
winter consists of colors that are shades of blue and green.
Create a surface plot of the peaks function.
figure; surf(peaks);
Change the colormap to the summer colormap.
Load the spine data set to get array X. Use the image function to display the data in X.
load spine
Change the colormap to the bone colormap.
Select a built-in colormap with the Property Editor. To modify the current colormap, use the Colormap Editor, accessible from Edit > Colormap on the figure menu.
Each figure has its own colormap property. colormap is a function that sets and gets this property.
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Steve Denning, Contributor
I write about radical management, leadership, innovation & narrative
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this infallible sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
It is clear to anyone who has studied the financial crisis of 2008 that the private sector's drive for short-term profit was behind it. More than 84 percent of the sub-prime mortgages in 2006 were issued by private lending. These private firms made nearly 83 percent of the subprime loans to low- and moderate-income borrowers that year. Out of the top 25 subprime lenders in 2006, only one was subject to the usual mortgage laws and regulations. The nonbank underwriters made more than 12 million subprime mortgages with a value of nearly $2 trillion. The lenders who made these were exempt from federal regulations.
How then could the Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg say the following at a business breakfast in mid-town Manhattan on November 1, 2011?
It was not the banks that created the mortgage crisis. It was, plain and simple, Congress who forced everybody to go and give mortgages to people who were on the cusp. Now, I'm not saying I'm sure that was terrible policy, because a lot of those people who got homes still have them and they wouldn't have gotten them without that. But they were the ones who pushed Fannie and Freddie to make a bunch of loans that were imprudent, if you will. They were the ones that pushed the banks to loan to everybody. And now we want to go vilify the banks because it's one target, it's easy to blame them and Congress certainly isn't going to blame themselves."
Barry Ritholtz in the Washington Post calls the notion that the US Congress was behind the financial crisis of 2008 "the Big Lie". As we have seen in other contexts, if a lie is big enough, people begin to believe it.
Even this morning, November 22, 2011, a seemingly smart guy like Joe Kernan was saying on CNBC's Squawkbox, "When the losses at Fannie and Freddie reach $200 billion… how can the 'deniers' say that Fannie and Freddie were enablers for a lot of the housing crisis. When it gets up to that levels, how can they say that they were only into sub-prime late, and they were only in it a little bit?"
The reason that people can say that is because it is true. The $200 billion was a mere drop in the ocean of derivatives which in 2007 amounted to three times the size of the entire global economy.
When the country's leaders start promulgating obvious nonsense as the truth, and the Big Lie starts to go viral, then we know that we are laying the groundwork for yet another, even-bigger financial crisis.
So let's recap the basic facts: why did we have a financial crisis in 2008? Barry Ritholtz fills us in on the history with an excellent series of articles in the Washington Post:
Looking at these events it is absurd to suggest, as Bloomberg did, that "Congress forced everybody to go and give mortgages to people who were on the cusp."
Many actors obviously played a role in this story. Some of the actors were in the public sector and some of them were in the private sector. But the public sector agencies were acting at behest of the private sector. It's not as though Congress woke up one morning and thought to itself, "Let's abolish the Glass-Steagall Act!" Or the SEC spontaneously happened to have the bright idea of relaxing capital requirements on the investment banks. Or the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency of its own accord abruptly had the idea of preempting state laws protecting borrowers. These agencies of government were being strenuously lobbied to do the very things that would benefit the financial sector and their managers and traders. And behind it all, was the drive for short-term profits.
As one surveys the events in this sorry tale, it is tempting to consider it like a Shakespearean tragedy, and wonder: what if things had happened differently? What would have occurred if someone in the central bank or the supervisory agencies had blown the whistle on the emerging disaster?
The answer is clear: nothing. Nothing would have been different. This is not a speculation. We know it because an interesting new book describes what did happen to the people who did speak out and try to blow the whistle on what was going on. They were ignored or sidelined in the rush for the money.
The book is Masters of Nothing: How the Crash Will Happen Again Unless We Understand Human Nature by Matthew Hancock and Nadhim Zahawi (published in 2011 in the UK by Biteback Publishing and available on pre-order in the US).
In 2004, the book explains, the deputy governor of the Bank of England (the UK central bank), Sir Andrew Large, gave a powerful and eloquent warning about the coming crash at the London School of Economics. The speech was published on the bank's website but it received no notice. There were no seminars called. No research was commissioned. No newspaper referred to the speech. Sir Andrew continued to make similar speeches and argue for another two years that the system was unsustainable. His speeches infuriated the then Chancellor, Gordon Brown, because they warned of the dangers of excessive borrowing. In January 2006, Sir Andrew gave up: he quietly retired before his term was up.
In 2005, the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, Raghuram Rajan, made a speech at Jackson Hole Wyoming in front of the world's most important bankers and financiers, including Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers. He argued that technical change, institutional moves and deregulation had made the financial system unstable. Incentives to make short-term profits were encouraging the taking of risks, which if they materialized would have catastrophic consequences. The speech did not go down well. Among the first to speak was Larry Summers who said the speech was "largely misguided".
In 2006, Nouriel Roubini issued a similar warning at an IMF gathering of financiers in New York. The audience reaction? Dismissive. Roubini was "non-rigorous" in his arguments. The central bankers "knew what they were doing."
The drive for short-term profit crushed all opposition in its path, until the inevitable meltdown in 2008.
On his blog, Barry Ritholtz puts the truth-deniers into three groups:
1) Those suffering from Cognitive Dissonance — the intellectual crisis that occurs when a failed belief system or philosophy is confronted with proof of its implausibility.
2) The Innumerates, the people who truly disrespect a legitimate process of looking at the data and making intelligent assessments. They are mathematical illiterates who embarrassingly revel in their own ignorance.
3) The Political Manipulators, who cynically know what they peddle is nonsense, but nonetheless push the stuff because it is effective. These folks are more committed to their ideology and bonuses than the good of the nation.
He is too polite to mention:
4) The Paid Hacks, who are being paid to hold a certain view. As Upton Sinclair has noted, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Barry Ritholtz concludes: "The denying of reality has been an issue, from Galileo to Columbus to modern times. Reality always triumphs eventually, but there are very real costs to it occurring later versus sooner ."
Behind all this is the reality that the massive expansion of the financial sector is not contributing to growing the real economic pie. As Gerald Epstein, an economist at the University of Massachusetts has said: "These types of things don't add to the pie. They redistribute it—often from taxpayers to banks and other financial institutions." Yet in the expansion of the GDP, the expansion of the financial sector counts as increase in output. As Tom Friedman writes in the New York Times:
Wall Street, which was originally designed to finance "creative destruction" (the creation of new industries and products to replace old ones), fell into the habit in the last decade of financing too much "destructive creation" (inventing leveraged financial products with no more societal value than betting on whether Lindy's sold more cheesecake than strudel). When those products blew up, they almost took the whole economy with them.
The current period of artificially low interest rates mirrors eerily the period ten years ago when Alan Greenspan held down interest rates at very low levels for an extended period of time. It was this that set off the creative juices of the financial sector to find "creative" new ways of getting higher returns. Why should we not expect the financial sector to be dreaming up the successor to sub-prime mortgages and credit-default swaps? What is to stop them? The regulations of the Dodd-Frank are still being written. Efforts to undermine the Volcker Rule are well advanced. Even its original author, Paul Volcker, says it has become unworkable. And now front men like Bloomberg are busily rewriting history to enable the bonuses to continue.
The question is very simple. Do we want to deny reality and go down the same path as we went down in 2008, pursuing short-term profits until we encounter yet another, even-worse financial disaster? Or are we prepared to face up to reality and undergo the phase change involved in refocusing the private sector in general, and the financial sector in particular, on providing genuine value to the economy ahead of short-term profit?
And see also: The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
Steve Denning's most recent book is: The Leader's Guide to Radical Management (Jossey-Bass, 2010).
Follow Steve Denning on Twitter @stevedenning
right and the community investment act fannie mae and freddie and barney frank & chris dodd had nothing to do with this? who was buying all of these mortgages–the tooth fairy?
Apparently you didn't read this article. If you did so you would have seen that your question was in fact answered.
Mr Denning — I worked for one of the evil banks in question, and I know first hand that Chris Dodd was our "guest" at numerous expensive events. He was also a "guest" of several of our competitors that I know of (and probably lots more that I don't).
Chris Dodd lost his re-election bid because he was getting preferential loans from Countrywide, and was a regular "guest" at AIG Financial… Those are just the things made public.
The most frequent visitor to the Obama White House is JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon. Bob Rubin went from Goldman to Clinton White House to Citibank. Henry Paulson went from Goldman to Bush Treasury.
Most of the Presidents of the NY Fed are recent departures from Goldman.
Wall Street ***IS*** Washington, Washington ***IS*** Wall Street. The two are the same.
You and Ritzholz come off as just stunningly naive
And your point would be?
I'm pretty sure that of the .5% of the American public who have a generally informed view of what's going on in this country, 80% realize that your assertion is generally valid.
Unfortunately, the propagandists, political hacks, and the politicians themselves, all invariably insist that it's only true of their opposition…enabling the cancer to grow unopposed till the nation dies.
Right on the money (no pun intended). Shorter version: The financial sector has turned into a collection of bookies, many of whom take the bets placed with them and bet the money in their own names.
A piece you missed: According to Michael Lewis ("The Big Short") some of the derivatives included each other in their portfolios. In Excel that would be considered a circular reference, where one derivative increasing in price would cause another to increase; that increase would cause the first to increase, and so on in an infinite loop with no actual underlying change in value to drive the cycle.
What is the best way to shop for a mortgage refinance? It is a good idea to contact at least three to five lenders for input on mortgage programs and rates. Also search online for "123 Refinance" they found me 3.32% refinance rate really fast.
Following my read of , Griftopia, the big short, too big to fail.
Your concise article, has reduced all the massive amount of talking points, blame game, and total fabrication, to a small fraction. The truth.
Isn't the missing bullet point here
"Millions of Americans willingfully went into debt far beyond their ability to pay. Rather than responding prudently to real estate appreciation that was clearly unsustainable, they continued their spending binge by extracting every penny of their new found and predictably temporary equity by taking second mortgages to pay for vacations, boats, and other luxury items. They now blame the bankers who offered them these loans for their present predicament."
In 17 bullets points outlining the litany of blame, no mention of the profligate and irresponsible spending of the American consumer, 75% of whom had negative net worth even before the housing market crash?
In 2000, being unable to afford the home I wanted to buy on a standard mortgage, the realtor I was working with suggested that I take out a variable interest loan, with which I could qualify for a larger loan, because the low interest rates and lack of a principle payment for the first 3 years would lower my monthly payments.
I said No.


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Fall Season 2009: Defeated Frank Sickman of Valdosta State in singles at the Thomasville Invitational.
Freshman Year: Owen Long joined the Seminole team in the spring. He competed in doubles with Chris Reiman against Maryland.
High School: Ranked as high as No. 5 in and No. 30 in singles doubles in the state of Florida... was a semifinalist at the 2006 and 2007 FHSSA state tournament... 2006 and 2007 Tallahassee Democrat Big Bend Player of the Year... 2006 Bush Open finalist in doubles... 2005 Florida mixed doubles champion... 2006 ITA Summer Circuit doubles semifinalist... won three district titles in singles between 2004-2007.
Personal: Born July 28, 1988... majoring in sport management... son of Allen and Marie Long... father coached current teammate Drew Bailey... member of Fellowship of Christian Athletes.


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It's midnight and I roll into the Jackson Gore Inn for Okemo's Media Weekend.
Tired and wanting to get sleep for the morning runs, I take the goodie bag and place it on the table in the suite.
I turn around but stop.
"Whoa, what's that?"
The light-fabric hat with the blue, black and white design was tucked into the bag and it stood out.
"This is cool."
It was the Skida Nordic hat, a lightweight, form-fitting lid that just caught the eye. An afternoon ride down the Timber Ripper mountain coaster proved it was warm, functional (it can also be worn as a helmet liner) and fashionable ("You have one of those?" the attendant said.)
Skida began in 2007, when Vermont skier Corinne Prevot picked up what she calls "some fun fabric" and started making hats for her Burke Mountain Academy teammates and some friends.
She says that the demand for the colorful hats grew, as did the variety of prints. New products (like bandanas) joined the line, she said.
She graduated from Burke in 2009, and is now attending Middlebury College. She still owns and operates Skida from Vermont and "on the road."
The unlined Nordic hat retails for $30 and the lined Alpine hat goes for $36.
Ordering can also benefit cancer patients when ordering through the Skida - Plus One program. For every order placed with a special promotional code, Skida donates a hat to a selected cancer center.
By the way, I have received about seven compliments on the hat in two weeks.
It comes it a variety of patterns.


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At the Forge - MongoDB
Lately I've been teaching programming courses in both Python and Ruby, often to seasoned developers used to C++ and Java. Inevitably, the fact that Python and Ruby are dynamically typed languages, allowing any variable to contain any type of value, catches these students by surprise. They often are shocked to find that a given variable can, at any point in the program, be assigned to contain an integer, a string or an instance of an object, without any constraints. They wonder how it is that anyone could (or would) use such a language, given the possibility for runtime type errors. One of my jobs, as the instructor of this course, is to convince them that it is possible to work in such a language, but that doing so might require more adherence to conventions than they are used to.
So, it's ironic that during the last few months, as I have begun to experiment with non-relational databases, that I have found myself experiencing something akin to my students' shock. My long-standing beliefs about data integrity and what constitutes a reliable database have gone through a bit of a shake-up. I'm still a bit wary of these non-relational (or NoSQL) databases, and I'm far from convinced that the time has come to throw out SQL and the relational model in favor of something that is often easier to work with.
I do think, as I outlined in last month's column, that these databases offer a type of storage and retrieval that often is a more natural fit for many data-storage requirements. And, just as memcached offered an alternative storage system that complemented relational databases rather than replacing them, so too can these non-relational databases perform many useful functions that would be difficult with a relational database.
One of the best-known contenders in the non-relational database space is MongoDB. MongoDB is an open-source project, sponsored by New York-based 10gen (which intends to make money from licensing and support fees). It is written in C++, and there are drivers for all popular modern libraries. The software is licensed under the Affero GNU General Public License, which means if you modify the MongoDB source, and if those modifications are available on a publicly accessible Web site, you must distribute the source to your modifications. This is different from the standard GPL, which does not require that you divulge the source code to server-side applications with which people interact via a browser or other Internet client.
MongoDB has gained a large number of adherents because of its combination of features. It is easy to work with from a variety of languages, is extremely fast (written in C++), is actively supported by both a company and a large community and has proven itself to be stable in many situations and under high-stress conditions. It also includes a number of features for indexing and scaling that make it attractive.
MongoDB, like several of its competitors, describes itself as a document database. This does not mean it is a filesystem meant to store documents, but rather that it replaces the model of tables, rows and columns with that of "documents" consisting of one or more name-value pairs. I find it easier to think of documents as hash tables (or Python dictionaries), in which the keys are strings and the values can be just about anything. Each of these documents exists in a collection, and you can have one or more collections.
In many ways, you can think of MongoDB as an object database, because it allows you to store and retrieve items as objects, rather than force them into two-dimensional tables. However, this object database stores only basic object types—numbers, strings, lists and hashes, for example. Fortunately, these types can store a wide variety of data, flexibly and reliably, so this is not much of a concern.
To download MongoDB, go to mongodb.org, and retrieve the version appropriate for your system. For my server running Ubuntu 8.10, I retrieved the 32-bit version of MongoDB 1.2.2. There is an option to retrieve a statically linked version, but the site itself indicates that this is a fallback, in case the dynamically linked version fails.
After unpacking the MongoDB server, create a directory in which it can store its data. By default, this is /data/db, which you can create with:
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Start the MongoDB server process with:
Now that you have a server running, you need to create a database. However, this step is unnecessary. If you try to connect to a database that has not yet been defined, MongoDB creates it for you. I tend to do most of my MongoDB work in Ruby, so I downloaded and installed the driver for Ruby from GitHub and started up the interactive Ruby interpreter, irb. Then, I typed:
irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems' irb(main):002:0> require 'mongo'
With the MongDB driver loaded, I was able to connect to the already-running server, creating an "atf" database:
irb(main):005:0> db = Mongo::Connection.new.db("atf")
After this, db is an instance of the Mongo::DB class, representing a MongoDB database. Each database may contain any number of collections, analogous to tables in a relational database. By default, this example database contains no collections, as you can see with this small snippet of code:
irb(main):008:0> db.collection_names.each { |name| puts name } => [ ]
The return value of an empty list shows that the database is currently empty.
You can create a new collection by invoking the collection method on your database connection:
irb(main):012:0> c = db.collection("stuff")
Once you have created your collection, you also can see that MongoDB has silently created a second collection, named system.indexes, used for indexing the contents:
irb(main):032:0> db.collection_names => ["stuff", "system.indexes"]
Because MongoDB is a schema-less database, you can begin to store items to your collection immediately, without defining its columns or data types. In practice, this means you can store hashes with any keys and values that you choose. For example, you can use the insert method to add a new item to your collection:
irb(main):017:0> c.insert({:a => 1, :b => 2}) => 4b6fe8983c1c7d6a6a000001
The return value is the unique ID for this document (or object) that has just been stored. You can ask the collection to show what you have stored by invoking its find_one method:
irb(main):021:0> c.find_one => {"_id"=>4b6fe8983c1c7d6a6a000001, "a"=>1, "b"=>2}
Notice that two things have happened here. First, the keys have been turned from Ruby symbols into strings. Indeed, MongoDB requires that all keys be strings; because symbols are used so pervasively in the Ruby world for hash keys, they are translated into strings silently if you use them.
Second, you can see that another key, named _id, has been added to the document, and its value matches the return value that you received with your first insert.
You can ask the collection to tell how many documents it contains with the count method:
irb(main):026:0> c.count => 1
As you might expect, you can store and retrieve data using any number of different languages. Although you are likely to work in a single language, MongoDB (like relational databases) doesn't care what language you use and lets you mix and match them freely.
In the above examples, I used Ruby to store data. I should be able to retrieve this data using Python, as follows:
>>> import pymongo >>> from pymongo import Connection >>> connection = Connection() >>> db = connection.atf >>> db.collection_names() [u'stuff', u'system.indexes'] >>> c = db.stuff >>> c Collection(Database(Connection('localhost', 27017), u'atf'), ↪u'stuff') >>> c.find_one() {u'a': 1, u'_id': ObjectId('4b6fe8983c1c7d6a6a000001'), u'b': 2}
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Not least because the present TYA are ensuring that it stays alive.
I've heard that argument before, RS, and its not one I understand. When exactly did the music die? Alvin still performs his signature songs live; the original TYA albums are still available...and to be frank, the constantly German touring TYA may be bringing in new listeners, but not on any grand scale and certainly not worldwide.
I would like to add once again that I don't doubt that TYAN are a fine band. They just aren't the same band, and the missing ingredient is the reason I became a fan.
I don't understand what the dispute is ,Tya ric and the gang are top notch for sure,its just the orgi.TYA tunes that Alvin put on top cannot be copied the approval of REAL TYA fans! is that so hard to understand,Joe and the gang needs to make their own mark!And I know they can do it !!They are holding themselves Back!
"They just aren't the same band, and the missing ingredient is the reason I became a fan".
It does'nt get much clearer than that Toni . I feel pretty much the same way. I'll give the TYA rythm section their dues as musicians, and from the samples I've heard JG is a decent guitarist (although not my bag), but I would'nt actualy pay to go see them without Alvin, as I would definitely pay to see Alvin.
Yes it is repectless from the NTYA to play, Here Me Calling. I woke Up This Morning, Love Like a Man, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl,Love to change the world,Choo Choo Mama, I am Going Home, etc,etc,live,while Alvin Lee still is playing these (Alvin Lee written songs) on stage himself nowadays. Worse it is , to put those Alvin Lee written songs on the NTYA live album. And take credit for them.
But i think the money rules it all with the NTYA.
That is what it makes it so sad,confusion and misleading for the real fans. So silly of them to compete with Alvin ,by using Alvin`s songs. It is like making a copy of a picasso or a Rembrand and take credit for it.
Man Pieter!! thats really gonna start em VIBRATIN!!!!
Yeah, I agree that TYAN performing songs Alvin wrote is in bad taste, especialy since Toni had mentioned TYA did'nt even bother to extend an invitation to Alvin to play with them. I don't have so much of a problem with them doing something like "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl", considering that every blues man on earth has done a variation on it already, from John Lee Hooker to Johnny Winter, from Junior Wells to The Yardbirds. But for them to perform "I'd Love To Change The World", and then tout it as "the first time ever played live", like they're doing something special, is just not cool at all. And the sample of it I heard, I have to agree with Toni, sounds out of tune and just, well, cheesy. Nothing like the passion in the original version.
The whole thing that TNYA is still playing Alvin`s songs live and on there records is embarrasing and a shame for such a fine person as Alvin Lee.
Alvin deserve not to be compared with his own songs with the other band.
There IS no comparison!!!
You know, Rob, I continue to be delighted with your posts. You're younger than most of us who gather here, so its great to know who have such cool taste in music. Hooray for older brothers and sisters!!!
Thank you Miss Toni, I feel honored.
you where doin alright there,until you said Miss TONI,Dang!!


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This is a "how-to" drawing book for beginners. It gives step-by-step instructions on how to draw cartoon airplanes.
Steve Barr, the author, briefly explains the advantage of this simple type of drawing: "there are no rules" with cartoons. After a brief introduction, the rest of the book has different pictures to draw with step-by-step instructions and some drawing tips.
When I first chose this book from a list, I didn't expect cartoons. I expected basic drawings that were not extremely detailed. But once I realized that it was cartoons, I warmed up to it. After I read it, I handed it to my kids.
Over the years, I have bought my share of drawing books and borrowed many from the library. Generally, my kids were not too interested. They would open the books up briefly and then close them. It was completely different with this book and the other books of this series. They sat for hours and hours, drawing hilarious adventure scenes.
If you have children who do not gravitate to art, this may be your solution. If you have a child who likes to doodle, this book may provide good direction. I really enjoyed watching my kids enjoy this book and the others in this series.


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By DOUG EADS, CJ Correspondent
Commonwealth Journal
Somerset —
Maybe it was only fitting that last night's game between Danville and Somerset at The Briar Patch was for a regional crown, as these two old foes met in the finals of the Touchstone Energy 12th Regional All A finals.
Much like a post-season game, this game was for the most part a half-court, grind-it-out affair with neither team able to gain a comfortable lead.
However, thanks to a modest spurt by Somerset in the third period led by reserve Chandler Purcell, it was the Briar Jumpers punching their ticket to next week's All A State Tournament in Frankfort with a hard-fought, 58-48 victory over Danville.
"One good thing about this Class A thing is that the game's have the same kind of intensity and atmosphere that you're going to get in the district and regional tournaments," stated a very happy Somerset head coach Jeff Cothron after his club's win.
"That was good for us, and I was glad to see us perform under those conditions," continued the SHS coach. "Danville did a really good job of mixing up defenses tonight. They played a triangle and two, a diamond and one, and things like that. That kind of stuff can throw you off for a little while, but I thought our kids really did a good job of adjusting to that and making plays when they had to."
For the Briar Jumpers, last night's win over Danville marked the first time Somerset had won the All A 12th Regional crown since an 85-49 victory over the Admirals in the regional finals way back on January 25th, 2008.
That's right — it had almost been five years since the Briar Jumpers had punched their ticket to the All A State Tournament, but last night, Cothron's club was able to do just that.
However, it didn't come easy.
In a very low-scoring, defensive affair, the Jumpers led Danville 22-20 at the half, but found themselves down early in the third quarter, thanks to a three-point bucket by Danville's Christian Gateskill-Fuqua.
His first of five treys in the second half gave the Ads a 27-25 lead, but that's when Cothron put his faith on what he sees each day in practice.
The Somerset coach inserted little-used Chandler Purcell into the game at that juncture, and the Jumper sophomore responded big time in a big-time environment.
Purcell — with his club trailing Danville by that 27-25 margin — hit back to back three-pointers putting his club back out in front of the Admirals 31-27.
Somerset made only four field goals in the third period, and Purcell accounted for three of those, scoring 11 points off the Jumper bench in the victory.
"The way I do things and what I go off of is what I see in practice," pointed out Cothron.
"When I develop confidence in a kid at what he's doing in practice — that gives me confidence to put him into the game," continued the Jumper coach. "He's been playing well, and he obviously showed that tonight. He came in and played with no fear, and played with confidence and played well. He gave us a big lift out there tonight."
Early in the fourth quarter, after back to back baskets by Somerset's Tyson Williams extended Somerset's lead out to seven points — 41-34 — Danville would try to fight back one more time.
A three-pointer from Gateskill-Fuqua trimmed the Jumper lead down to a basket at 41-39, but that's when Ryan Dishman scored back to back baskets — his first two field goals of the second half — which helped Somerset stem that tide and finally give the Jumpers some breathing room.
Dishman's last field goal extended the lead out to 45-39, and after a pair of free throws by Cam Cheuvront eased the margin out to 47-39, the Ads would never threaten again in this one, as Somerset would go on for the 58-48 win to improve its season record to 14-5 on the year.
However more importantly, the win gave Somerset its first appearance in the All A State Tournament for the first time in five years — something that didn't go unnoticed by the Briar Jumpers first-year head coach.
"This is very gratifying for all of us to get back to the All A, because these kids have worked very hard and I'm just happy for them," stated Cothron.
"This group in particular has not had much success through their careers, so I'm really happy for them, because like I've said, they worked extremely hard over the summer to get to this point," Cothron added.
The Briar Jumpers will begin play in the Boy's All A State Tournament next Thursday night at 6 p.m. at Frankfort's Convention Center.
Somerset will face Newport Central Catholic in the opening round of the tournament.
DANVILLE — Gateskill-Fuqua 19, Burnside 11, Alcorn 10, Woolridge 5, Karapandzic 3.
SOMERSET — R. Dishman 14, Williams 13, Purcell 11, Cheuvront 8, Weddle 8, Gordon 4.


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Chives is part of the Allium genus and its scientific name is Allium schoenoprasum.
The smallest member of the onion family, chives are a common herb that grows in clumps of small, dark green spear-like leaves that are hollow. The flowers are hermaphrodite and are pollinated by bees and butterflies. Because of their clumped growth habit, they are rarely referred to in the singular.
The leaves are usually chopped up and used to add a mild onion-like flavor to soups, stews, salads and other dishes. Chives are more pleasing in taste when they are used fresh, and the leaves can be snipped anytime after the plant is about 6" tall, cutting close to the ground-leaving about 2". One of the best ways to store chives is by freezing the chopped pieces flat on a cookie sheet. After completely frozen, scoop them up into a plastic zip-type bag. Doing it this way gives you the ability to use as needed. It also retains the flavor. Chive flowers can also be used in salads and vinegars, and impart their own strong flavor. Chives can be over-wintered indoors for "winter harvesting".
Chives do not need a lot of care. You may want to divide up the clumps every few years to share with your friends. It's a great way to start a friends herb garden!This variety has a spicy fragrance and typically grows to 3.0 cm (1.17 inches imperial) in diameter, blooming in the following colours: Electric purple and Bright lavender. The mature flowers are of a pompon form. This variety typically produces fruit in the following colours: Ao green. The leaves of this particular variety normally show as Ao green and Apple green colour. Chives grows as a perennial and is a flowering edible herb / vegetable. Being a perennial plant, it tends to grow best over several years (approx 3 years and greater). Chives is known for its forb habit and growing to a height of approximately 25.0 cm (9.75 inches). This plant tends to bloom and harvest throughout the year. Try planting Chives if you'd like to attract bees to your garden.
Chives is great for inexperienced gardeners and those that like low maintainance gardens.
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Chives are very tolerant of heavy harvesting, regular cutting of the leaves ensures a continuous supply of young leaves and prevents the plants flowering. Keep watered well in dry weather.Plant in a location that enjoys full sun / partial sun and remember to water moderately. Zone 3 to 9 are typically the USDA Hardiness Zones that are appropriate for this plant (although this can vary based on your microclimate). Chives requires a sandy, clay or peat-rich soil with a ph of 5.2 - 8.3 - it grows best in weakly acidic soil - weakly alkaline soil. Keep in mind when planting that Chives is thought of as hardy, so this plant will survive close to or on freezing temperatures.
Growing Chives from seed
If sowing indoors, sow seeds indoors 4-6 weeks before transplanting, 1/4" deep and 1" apart in all directions. If direct sowing, sow at any time in the year when temperatures are favorable for germination. The best temperature for germination is 20-25°C. Do not exclude light as this helps the seeds to develop. Grow on in cooler conditions.Try to aim for a seed spacing of at least 0.98 inches (2.5 cm) and sow at a depth of around 0.51 inches (1.3 cm). Soil temperature should be kept higher than 15°C / 59°F to ensure good germination.
By our calculations*, you should look at sowing Chives about 28 days before your last frost date .
Transplanting Chives
Chives will grow in any well drained soil, in full sun or partial shade. They are also ideal for pots and borders
Can be transplanted as soon as soil can be worked.1 Clumps may be divided and transplanted in spring after first season. Harvest often by cutting 5 cm from the ground.
Harvesting Chives
Snip greens as needed. The leaves can be snipped anytime after the plant is about 6" tall, cutting close to the ground-leaving about 2".
Cut leaves for salads, potatoes, soups anytime 70 to 90 days after planting when leaves are 4" tall or more. Stop harvesting three weeks before the first frost date to allow flowering and for the clump to expand.3
Seed Saving Chives
Chives reseed themselves readily. Collect the small black seeds from dried flower heads.
Companion plants for Chives
These plants have been known to grow well alongside Chives so consider planting:
Carrots (deters carrot fly), roses (deters rose black spot) and apples.
Chives loves Apple
Ring chives around the bottom of the apple tree
Repellent plants for Chives
These plants will not grow well with Chives so avoid planting these within close proximity:
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Chives Folklore & Trivia
Chives are mainly used for culinary purposes, however, they are a great blood cleanser. They're not used in aromatherapy due to the odor but are used in some medical preparations for colds and coughs.2
Other names for Chives
Wild chives, Green Onions, Onion chives, Ciboulette
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Club teams from the Great Southern and Central Zones once again drove north and reaching the end of the Brand Highway, most horse trucks turned off to the right, instead of the usual left, and headed towards Mingenew for the Irwin Polocrosse Tournament.
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The Southern Highlands 2009 season wrapped up with a zone carnival at the Bong Bong grounds on 20 & 21 June. Despite a wet and bitterly cold weekend everyone enjoyed themselves with the highlight of the carnival being the Saturday Sundown Shoot-Out Competition.
The Greenough Polocrosse Tournament in Western Australia held on the weekend of July 25th & 26th 2009.
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We fell into a trap, cultivated a myth of the working middle class as a huge economic powerhouse. Their income fueled consumption, and consumption fueled income. This makes some superficial sense. After all, it means that a healthy middle class will allow our nation to maintain economic supremacy.
What a shame that our beliefs were misconceptions.
The root of the dilemma took hold in the 1950s. President Dwight Eisenhower promised a car in every garage and a chicken in every pot. I'm guessing the Chinese middle class is hearing the same thing. But, by the end of his term, Ike was concerned about such economic houses of cards. He warned us of the emerging military-industrial complex. Meanwhile, General Motors was telling us what was good for GM was good for the nation.
The theory is the principle of circular flow of income. The idea is that spending by consumers results in income for corporations, which translates into income for wage-earning consumers. This flow is argued to be the economic equivalent of the Energizer Bunny.
If we subscribe to this wishful thinking, we enjoy a number of false securities. We have been convinced our economy is invincible so long as we keep spending. Our consumption serves a higher purpose than the mere satisfaction of our wants and even takes on a patriotic dimension. With more middle-class consumers than in any other country, until lately, this ensures we maintain our perch as the sole economic superpower.
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