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Right now, I'm blogging on paper, jotting ideas down frantically on a notepad with my fountain pen as soon as they enter my head. To think, a few hours, I'll type and post this shit …What did they call bloggers before there was blogging? Oh yeah, diarists. Fuck it. I like blogging better.
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Do I see the light? Well, kinda
I haven't put anything up here in more than a week. I have been absolutely upside-down jammed with working both jobs. I filed stories for New York magazine and British GQ since I last blogged, and I'm working on another for my dream publication (no names yet, sorry). And, of course, I'm still cranking out articles like crazy for CPA Magazine — I finished three last night and have another five or six to crank out this weekend.
But, I'm still finding time to have some fun. Ron Melendi, the manager of De La Concha, is launching a new blog, and I'll be helping to fill it with content over the coming weeks, months and years. Also, though I haven't been writing here, I have been writing. And pitching. I came close to Conde Nast Portfolio. It didn't work, so I still have a kickass story to pitch around.
Day job has been keeping me pretty busy, as well, but you know I'm not going to talk much about that here. But, if you see my boss, tell him to give me the weekend off. I could use it.
An update on my intense editorial effort
Okay, I have been writing all fucking weekend. Of the 18 software reviews I was assigned on Friday, I have knocked out 12 so far, and the 13th is in progress. So, I am moving along, even though I am plagued by the thought that this is nowhere near my best work.
The first 10 were brutal. They invovled a topic I had never covered before, and available information was thin. So, it was an absolute battle. Oh, and those are due tomorrow; I had some real pressure on me with them. The other eight (two of which are out of the way), don't have to be turned in until Thursday. But, the way my weeks have been, I really should nail them down today, or I could wind up in an uncomfortable spot in a few days.
Writing these articles hasn't been fun, but I am looking forward to the feeling of relief and accomplishment when this death march is behind me. That feeling can't be manufactured. It only comes from taking on a huge task and putting it to bed through nothing but intellect and determination. I just can't wait for that sensation to arrive. Earning it is a real bitch.
Why do people talk to me?
I don't think I look terribly approachable. In fact, I've always thought that I give off a "fuck off" vibe. Well, this apparently is not the case. Some lady saw me having a cigar while writing on a bench on Central Park West. Some other people were indulging on another bench nearby. "So, I guess this is the smoking section," she greeted us. I shot her a "fuck off" look and left it at that.
I wouldn't be an asshole if others didn't invite it.
Funny Writing Moment Today
This afternoon, I was working on a particularly boring article. Seriously, I can't imagine how anyone's going to read the fucking thing. But, I'm sure someone's interested somewhere, validating the entire exercise. I have to fill around 600 words on this one (still not finished yet), and I have no idea how I'm going to get there.
Then, I remembered the experience of my mentor, Homer Simpson. When he had a gig as a food critic, his first assignment was a disaster. Homer J. lamented the fact that 500 words was so long. To reach the word count, he just repeated "Screw Flanders" over and over.
Obviously, the editor was not impressed.
Once I remembered this episode, I was stuck. I just couldn't get Homer's "solution" out of my head. So, I had to sit down and type "Screw Flanders" into the document several times. This gave me a chance to chuckle, delete the "effort" and move on with my article.
It really is amazing, the shit I have to do in order to stay focused. I'm not always this bad, but sometimes, the ADD just beats the hell out of me. Maybe I'll finish the article tomorrow, unless I think of something else Homer Simpson did. Homer would be proud of himself, having kept someone else from getting any work done.
Making time to write
I spent the drive home from Philly lecturing a friend of mine about the need to write every day if you want to do it for a living. It's true. He and I are something of a support group for each other, necessary in this line of work. We get together from time to time to discuss leads with magazine, kick around ideas and generally bitch about how little respect writers get. Yeah, it's true.
Well, for all my lecturing, I realized that I haven't done much writing lately … and day job doesn't count. I mean the interesting stuff: hunting for a story, putting the screws to reluctant sources, hashing out an idea, finally putting pen to paper. Sure, I've been busy, but that's no excuse. I need to make more time to write.
So, I got some writing done last night. My article on Montreal is finally coming together; I hope to have it submitted by tomorrow. Also, I filed my Saatchi magazine story on Richard Prince. I felt like I'd covered some ground, and I felt great. It didn't matter that I'd passed on two hours of sleep; I didn't need it anyway.
You have to do this stuff every day if you want to get good at it. If you want to stay good at it, it takes even more effort. It's funny that pain is rewarded with more pain, but I guess I dig it.
Writing Update
My new travel column will be launching on Monday. I'll provide more details once all is confirmed. Also, if you work wiht a magazine and are intereted in running my column (after my 60-day exclusive has expired), please let me know.


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I had the pleasure to meet Wild Turkey Master Distiller Jimmy Russell at this past Fall's whiskeyfest. Jimmy is a true legend in bourbon distilling, having been at it for 54 years. One thing Jimmy has learned in his years is that the perfect cocktail for the Kentucky Derby is the Mint Julep.
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BWW Interviews: Doing What He Wants To Do: Stephen Powell In San Diego Opera's PAGLIACCI
He has great analytical skills, approaches his roles with remarkable intelligence, and even accompanies himself at the piano. Baritone Stephen Powell, who sings his first Tonio in San Diego Opera's opening production of Pagliacci this season, embodies the phrase, "multi-talented." True to form, the affable performer enters the room singing.
EM: Are you going to sing for me, too?
SP: I hadn't thought of that (laughs).
EM: Where are you from originally?
SP: I'm from Pennsylvania, born in West Chester.
EM: You started out as a pianist?
SP: I was a piano major at Northwestern. But I quickly found out I wasn't cut out for eight hours a day of practicing piano by myself. And everybody's really good when you get to that level. But I loved music, so I started to do a lot of accompanying, which I still love, and play for a lot of violinists and singers. That's how I began to learn opera repertoire.
EM: Were you singing yet at that point?
SP: I'd always sung for fun. In high school I was in musicals, a rock band - which was a lot of fun - and sang in the choir. For the ensemble requirement, I sang in the University chorale and the vocal jazz ensemble. I dabbled in a lot of things to try and figure out what I wanted to do. I loved everything I was doing but needed to center on something, to focus on a vocation, as so many people do in college. But I always knew it had to be music. I was in a work study program doing recitals, practice sessions, rehearsals and recordings and started playing for many studios, in particular for Norman Gulbrandsen, who eventually became my voice teacher. He had heard that I sang, too, and he said, "I'd love to hear you sing someday." And I said, "Ah... no, I'm fine." But eventually I sang for him and he encouraged me to take lessons. At the end of the day he would do a half hour lesson with me, run scales and such. He was very generous with his time.
EM: And did you enjoy that more than you imagined?
SP: I did. I didn't think of it as a focused vocational avenue yet, but I realized there was something there worth pursuing. By my junior year I had switched from being a piano major to a theory and composition major.
EM: Where did that come from?
SP: Composition was also an interest of mine. I really wanted to be Billy Joel growing up. I wrote a lot of songs on my own with my brother, who was also a voice major in college. But composition at that time was very modern electronic music, Milton Babbitt sort of thing. I didn't love writing it, but it allowed me to take other courses outside my piano major, and freed me up to do other things and still get my degree. By that time I was studying fairly regularly with Mr. Gulbrandsen, still playing a lot of piano. So I graduated with a theory and composition degree, which was worth pretty much nothing.
EM: Except that you know how to analyze a score.
SP: I can, and sometimes it helps. After that I spent four years working in music, teaching piano and accompanying recitals and auditions in Chicago, taking lessons and doing anything I could to make a living. I sang with Chicago Symphony Chorus. Looking back now, I realize some of the best musical experiences I had were in that chorus, with Georg Solti conducting. He was one of the greatest musical minds of all time.
EM: What a fantastic opportunity.
SP: Fabulous. In '89 we did a tour of London and Salzburg, Berlioz' Damnation of Faust. So I got to travel. But my voice teacher was encouraging me to pursue singing, and I thought, "Oh my God, opera, the stories are so silly."
EM: But you did get the exposure.
SP: I did. I sang in the chorus for Don Giovanni and had a lot of fun, but I didn't think of it as a vocation. I loved playing opera and enjoyed the music, but I was also a gigging musician, freelancing in a wedding band playing piano and singing pop music till three a.m. with a guitar blaring in my ear. Getting by. I was twenty-five when Mr. Gulbrandsen, who had moved from Northwestern to De Paul, said, "I want you to come get your Master's degree in voice." I said, "What, really?" They were doing Figaro, and my voice teacher said, "You need to audition." After talking with friends and family I decided to get my Master's, paying my way by playing for opera workshops, vocal classes and auditions. I auditioned and got the role of Figaro - I had worked on the arias and played the role for many singers - and I thought, "What am I getting myself into?"
EM: Not just any role, either.
SP: Yes. I got hooked. After all this searching, finally being on stage, being able to act, with the language, the text, the character, the music all combined, it made sense. I found my niche. I pursued it with vehemence and got my two year degree in one year, then right out of De Paul I auditioned for the Lyric Opera apprenticeship program and got in. I was there from '93-'95. Then I went to New York and started singing. I joined New York City Opera in the fall of '95.
EM: What was your first role at City Opera?
SP: I was on a weekly contract, so I had five or six operas that year. Papageno in Magic Flute, Mikado, Rosenkavalier, and the musical Cinderella, with Jean Stapleton and Jane Powell, which was a thrill. Then my agent called and asked if I wanted to cover William Stone in Hindemith's Mathis Der Maler. I didn't think it was a big deal, but when I looked at the score I realized I should have thought about it a little. Meanwhile I was learning two other roles. Then Bill blew out a vocal chord and suddenly I was "on" for the Opening Night of the season, singing from the pit while Bill walked the part on stage. That was my debut! I remember thinking, if I could get through that, nothing's going to bother me from here on. That's turned out to be true, but I learned to be careful what I say yes to.
EM: And your first stage role at city opera was Papageno?
SP: Yes. That's where I met my wife (soprano Barbara Shervis). She sang in Mathis, and Pamina in Flute, and we sang together in Mikado and Rosenkavalier. We pretty much couldn't get away from each other. We've been together ever since. My Met debut the fall of '96 was Marullo in Rigoletto. Now I've moved from lyric, like Figaro and Ford in Falstaff, to more dramatic roles.
EM: Now that you're able to get into the heavier ones, which roles do you enjoy the most, or feel most comfortable with?
SP: It was a slow progression from the lyric repertoire to the lower tier Verdi like Germont and Ford. Now I'd say Rigoletto is my favorite role. I just did Iago for the first time last year and Falstaff at Virginia Opera, and those were fantastic. They're actually best suited for me now. This summer I did Rodrigo (Don Carlo) for the first time.
About Author
screenwriter, author, lecturer and poet. A native of Detroit, she studied violin at Boston
University with Boston Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Joseph Silverstein, where she
graduated cum laude; the New England Conservatory of Music, and the Tanglewood Music Center, summer home of the Boston Symphony, where she performed with such celebrated conductors as Leonard Bernstein. She continued her studies with Mr. Silverstein at the New England Conservatory of Music, and went on to perform with the prestigious Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for twenty-one years, where she worked closely with much-respected maestro James Levine and numerous other luminaries of the opera world.
After retiring from the Met, Erica drew upon her lifelong love for writing as her creative outlet and studied screenwriting in Los Angeles with screenplay guru Linda Seger. Erica?s screenplays awards include such recognized competitions as Santa Fe and the Writer?s Digest. Her debut novel, TRAVELS WITH MY LOVERS, won the Fiction Prize in the Direct from the Author Book Awards. Subsequent published novels include the first in Erica?s FOUREVER FRIENDS novel series chronicling four teenage girls coming of age in the volatile 60s. Her suspense thriller MURDER IN THE PIT, a novel of assassination and intrigue at the Metropolitan Opera, has won rave reviews across the board.
Erica?s lectures, seminars and workshops have received kudos throughout California and the Pacific Northwest, and she has won top ratings as a special lecturer for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. An active contributor to OperaPulse.com (http://www.operapulse.com/author/ericaminer/) and LAOpus.com (http://www.laopus.com/search/label/Erica), she also contributed a monthly ?Power of Journaling? article series for the National Association of Baby Boomer Women newsletter (http://nabbw.com/expert-columns/books-and-authoring/journaling/the-power-of-
journaling-part-2/). Other writings have appeared in Vision Magazine, WORD San Diego,
Istanbul Our City, and numerous E-zines. Erica?s lecture topics include ?The Art of Self- Re-invention,? ?Journaling: the Write Way to Write Fiction,? ?Solving the Mystery of Mystery Writing,? and ?Opera Meets Hollywood.? Details about Erica?s novels, screenplays and lectures can be found on her website (http://www.ericaminer.com.


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Georgia farmers are expected to produce the smallest crop of peanuts in more than two decades because of bad weather and a shift toward other crops.
As a result, the price of peanuts is up.
That is good news for farmers, but it could be bad news for you if you like peanut products.
A Tift County farmer is one of the lucky ones. He is optimistic that he will yield a good peanut crop. And says irrigation is the reason.
South Georgia farmers will begin picking peanuts soon, but they'll pick a lot fewer than usual.
"This year we have the least amount of peanuts, acre wise, planted in the state that we have had since I think 1982," says Wes Shannon, Tift County Peanut Farmer.
Tift County farmer Wes Shannon usually plants 200 acres of peanuts, but this year he only planted 160 acres.
"This has been a tough year from the beginning, warm temperatures during the spring and very dry," says Shannon.
Many farmers planted more corn and cotton this year. Many of the peanuts they did plant didn't do well because weather conditions were so bad.
"Some of the vines do not have as many peanuts on them as we like, burned some of the pegs off, the ground was so hot, even on some of the irrigated land, we do not have the crop we would have, had it been a good rainfall year," says Shannon.
But Shannon is happy he stuck with peanuts, now more than ever because the small crop could mean higher prices for his peanuts.
"It is very good that the price of peanuts is up because if not, we would have one of those disasters, economic disasters, where we spent the money to make the crop and the returns just are not there," says Shannon.
He says he needs good returns because it cost so much to irrigate this year.
To cover his 160 acres of peanuts with one inch of water, it costs him about $2,400.
"To put an inch of water is very expensive and that is the benchmark to do a crop some good," says Shannon.
As an eternal optimist, he says he is looking forward to a better peanut season next year.
Wes Shannon says he is cautiously optimistic because he doesn't really know what kind of harvest he has, until he plows it up from the ground.
He will start harvesting peanuts by the end of this week.
You should get ready for a jolt at the grocery store.
The makers of Jif peanut butter have said they expect to raise prices by 30-percent because of higher peanut costs.
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Happy birthday to one of my bestest friends, Stephadorkie🎉🎈 I can't believe your 14! You're such a big blessing in my life. I love how we're crazy whenever we're together and the fact that we're always laughing when we take pics! I hope you had an amazing day today and may God bless you with an amazing life and MANY birthdays in the future! Love you to pieces😘❤
Epic smack cam done on me by @jacey_trufin. It's still hurts. #blurry #whengirlschoirgoestipizzahut #ohmy
Happy sweet sixteen to this lovely girl I call my role model😊🎉🎈True friends come and go, but Becky, you were always there for me in my best and worst times. I can never thank you enough for you support. I know I can always trust you:) You always know how to cheer me up with anything you say or do! I remember meeting you that day at the pool in 1st grade. After you moved from Park View, I thought I would never see you again…and I guess we both kind of forgot about each other. I'm just so thankful that God has sent you in my life 3 years later and that we're friends again. I pray that you grow stronger in your relationship with God and also for him to bless you in countless ways. Happy birthday once again to the cutest Stirbu I know! Love you lots😘❤😍🎉🎈💝☺💞💕💗💖💋💜💚💙💛🎀 #selfiesinmybathroomfordays #werespecial
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Going into Saturday's fight with Quinton Jackson, aka "Rampage", Lyoto Machida is at a cross-roads. Less than a year ago he was seen as the most successful technical innovator to hit MMA in years. As the undefeated champion of the UFC's marquee light heavyweight division he made a strong case for Shotokan karate as a style that could revolutionize the sport when blended with Muay Thai, Sumo and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to create the style he calls Machida Karate-Do.
We certainly spent more than our fair share of time and space trying to figure out what made Machida tick. We studied his book. We watched his DVD set. We asked if he was the second coming of Royce Gracie. We looked at the statistics. We discussed the difficulty of following his Shotokan path. We wondered how he could be beaten. In the end we nearly convinced ourselves that Joe Rogan was right, this was "the Machida era".
Two fights with Mauricio Rua, aka "Shogun", later and we're all wondering if Machida Karate-do is for real or was a flash in the pan.
We'll find out Saturday, but in the meantime we can look back at our previous break downs of Machida's unique and innovative style:
- The Karate Wizardry of Lyoto Machida
- The Karate Kuzushi Waza Foot Sweeps of Lyoto Machida
- Lyoto Machida Blends Muay Thai and Jiu Jitsu
And don't miss the head to head stylistic comparison of Rampage vs Lyoto Brent Brookhouse did earlier this week. In the full entry we'll look at some of Machida's finest moments that we haven't covered and we'll hear from Lyoto himself as he discusses applying those techniques in MMA.
On the right we see Lyoto landing one of his trade mark straight lefts on Sam Hogar at UFC 67. Note how Machida waits for Hogar to throw a punch before counter-attacking.
He's capitalizing on what he calls the "kyo" -- the moment when an opponent has no defense because his attention is totally focused on launching his attack.
Here's Machida talking about Kyo after UFC 98, "In my karate, it's a time called the "kyo", which basically means when your opponent has no defense. I always make sure when I attack it's at the right kyo. I timed his properly."
In his book "Machida Karate-Do: Mixed Martial Arts Techniques" Machida discusses his philosophy of intercepting his opponents' attacks (p. 82):
"Although intercepting attacks involves some risk, it has many advantages. Most fighters are used to throwing a strike, hitting or missing their target, and then dealing with your counter to that strike. When you land your strike while he is in the middle of throwing his strike, you often disrupt his striking rhythm, which creates an opportunity for you to immediately follow up with a combination. In addition to this, hitting your opponent while he is moving forward drastically increases the power of your shot."
On the left we see Machida scoring a take down on Tito Ortiz. He discusses this move in his book "Machida Karate-Do: Mixed Martial Arts Techniques" (p. 150):
The outside leg trip is one of my favorite wrestling takedowns to execute when tied up in the neutral over-under clinch. The option here works the best when your opponent moves backward or tries to pull away from the clinch.
Once I have secured the bodylock, I step my left leg deep behind (Tito's) right leg, closing off all space between our bodies. This step is very important. If you take a shallow step or give up space, your opponent will most likely defend against the attack.
I plant my left foot on the mat directly behind (Tito's) heel. Notice how all space has been closed off between our bodies. Next, I start corkscrewing my body in a counterclockwise direction and pull his upper body toward my left side. It's important to note how I clamp down on his right arm with my left arm, trapping it to my side.
Still corkscrewing my body in a counter clockwise direction, I pull (Tito) over my left leg. Because my leg is serving as a barrier, he sits over my left thigh and collapses to the mat.
With this technique it is imperative that you stay tight to your opponent's body and execute all the steps in one fluid motion. If you allow space or hesitate between steps, your opponent will likely defend against your attack.
This is a great example of Machida's blended style and the fruits of his extended study of Sumo wrestling as a young man.


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Did I not get here to say the same about the 4th to you? I am really getting old. I hope that you had a great Independence Day.
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This weekend all Ugandan football fans eyes will be on UBC TV to watch one of the most important games in Uganda's history as the cranes only need one point from Luanda to qualify for the Africa cup of nations in which it last participated 30 years ago. Many of us were not yet born and most of the players in that squad have died, others are coaches in different clubs and others in private work.
We has to many players in the squad with this being their last campaign and if they fail to qualify which I feel is next to impossible they will never have a chance to play in the Africa nations cup for example the Captain of the cranes Sekagya.
The team is currently Camping in Kenya and all the players are in good shape with Obua who joined early Thursday morning and the captain who reached last will have no chance to train with teammates as they have to depart for Luanda early Friday.
The many times Uganda has played with Angola, Uganda Cranes looks to be on a better side though Angola has participated in international competitions including the world cup. And this is proved when it comes to FIFA rankings. However, that should not make Cranes Relax but work hard to make the dream of every Ugandan come true because we have for sure spent a lot time with out participating in the most fancied tournament on the Continent.
The squad has all the best players out of Uganda like Denis Onyango(1)Plays in South Africa, Simeon Masaba (2) Ugandan League, Vincent Kayizzi, Godfrey Walusimbi, Ibrahim Sekagya (5) From Red Bull Salzburg in Austria, Nestroy Kizito, Modde Mussa , David Obua from Hearts in Scotland, Godfrey Massa, Abby Dhaira, Patrick Ochan, Tony Mawejje, Andy Mwesigya, with Bobby Williamson as the head Coach the squad is for sure going to Discipline Angola at their home on Sunday.
The group J table standing
P W D L F A Pt
Uganda 4 3 1 0 6 0 10
Angola 4 2 0 3 5 7
Kenya 4 1 1 2 4 4 4
Bissau 4 1 0 3 0 3 3
Uganda leads the table with 10 points followed by Angola with 7 then Kenya with 4 and Bissau last with 3 points which means a draw for Uganda is enough to see them next year in the Africa nations cup since that one point will push
Uganda has 12 points four points ahead of Angola with one game remaining at home in Nambole were no team has ever registered a win in this campaign. Our Counterparts Kenya and Bissau will play on Saturday 3th which i think CAF has to look into to avoid syndicate possibilities. However, Let's hold our Rosaries hard and one should pray in the language he knows best for Uganda cranes and we wish them the best. We go, We go Uganda Cranes we go.


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"I Guess We'll See In Five Years": A 2/2 At 562 W. Arlington In Lincoln Park
We've chattered about this 2-bedroom in the 4-unit vintage building at 562 W. Arlington in Lincoln Park twice before.
The building was converted into upscale condos in 2005 with custom finishes.
The kitchen is described as a "gourmet wraparound" with Viking and SubZero appliances.
There is a spa like bath in the master bath, central air, washer dryer in the unit and gated secure parking.
Back in 2008, it was originally listed at $699,000 and many of you thought that was reasonable for the location.
See our February 2008 chatter here.
But G tried to talk some sense into you.
"I'm with you, Tipster. The responses here indicate why some prices will be very sticky on the way down.
But down they will go. Anyone who buys anywhere near 2005 prices will learn this all too well."
Kenworthey, an early poster on this site, was doubtful that Lincoln Park prices would fall below the 2005 price of $600,000.
"I'm not trying to sound like the NAR here, but there is SOMETHING to be said for the idea that real estate is at least sometimes local. When I think of Chicago's bubble, I think of downtown and its immediate environs (Streeterville, South Loop, River North, Gold Coast) with a frenzy of overbuilding purchased by speculators. I also think of the sketchier far-out neighborhoods (like Englewood, Rogers Park, Bronzeville, Humbolt Park) being inflated by lax and often fraudulent lending.
In contrast, areas like Lincoln Park and Hyde Park–stable, not particularly overbuilt–were certainly not immune from the bubble, but I do think that they weren't as inflated. If they didn't go up as much, they shouldn't come down as much. Which is why I think a place like this–asking $700K on a street where virtually all of its neighbors are 1.5 million and above–as not an unreasonable price.
I guess we'll see in five years."
In June of 2011, it came on the market again, listed at $595,000 but it never sold.
It's now 5 years later.
The unit came on the market at $559,000, or $66,000 under the 2008 price, and $41,000 under the 2005 price, and almost immediately went under contract.
Some have e-mailed me and said, "wow, look how hot the market is. This vintage apartment went under contract almost instantly."
Is it truly "hot" or was it simply finally priced right?
And has G been vindicated in his belief that prices everywhere- even in Lincoln Park- would keep falling?
Mary Ann Genellie at Prudential Rubloff has the listing again. See the pictures here.
Unit #2: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, no square footage listed
- Sold in June 2005 for $600,000
- Was listed in February 2008 for $699,000
- Sold in August 2008 for $625,000
- Was listed in June 2011 for $595,000
- Withdrawn
- Re-listed in January 2013 at $559,000
- Under contract within days
- Assessments still $200 a month
- Taxes now $9091 (they were $8623 in June 2011)
- Central Air
- Washer/Dryer in the unit
- Gated parking included
- 2 decks- one on the front and one on the back
- Bedroom #1: 15×11
- Bedroom #2: 13×11
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A fellow coworker wants to buy a house right now. But he is afraid prices still may come crashing down. This conversation began with ten people over lunch. I am surprised how so many people have adopted the "hedge fund mentality". Essentially if they are right they keep the profits. If they are wrong then they will let the house go.
He will buy a house this Spring. He is going to put 3% down (he has good credit). If prices still go up he will keep the house. If prices come down then he will let the house go.
It doesn't surprise me though. Banks, hedge funds, General Motors were all too big to fail. The American taxpayer saw how the connected were taken care of and all of a sudden the regular rules of capitalism were suspended. At the same time they are told to play by the rules. May God help our country.
two good things about being the middle floor;
1. your heating bill is alot smaller
2. you get used to the noise faster as its more constant as if there are no feet stomping above then you usually have yelling/talking from below
"If prices still go up he will keep the house. If prices come down then he will let the house go. "
how long is he planning on living in said home to make this determination? If prices go down immediately, is he going to cut bait and run, or if they remain steady for five to ten years and then another recession hits or something else brings the market down, will he then say "honey, pack up, we're getting a rental!"
My prediction is that this spring a lot of people will test the market by putting their homes up for sale. Overall they will be priced below Boom era prices but still a tad higher than the market would suggest. Some will make quick corrections, others will either withdrawl or hope for that one buyer who really loves their wainscotted bathroom. Those who can wait a month or two and then put it on the market will have the benefit of being the fresh listing that beats out the stale ones.
"A fellow coworker wants to buy a house right now. But he is afraid prices still may come crashing down." WHAT? More decreases? It's already more expensive to rent than to buy—so if prices come down further then the return for investors will be greater. LOVE it.
Yes, logically many sellers will list in spring–people who have wanted to list over the past few years but couldn't stomach the loss. The question is — will the new level of listing inventory be +/- buyers who are tired of rent increases and lack of affordable rentals out there?
"My prediction"
So, Icky, which one describes your strategy? The 'wait 2 months', right? Any fear you miss out on the couple-tree motivated buyers potentially interested in youtr building?
"So, Icky, which one describes your strategy? The 'wait 2 months', right? Any fear you miss out on the couple-tree motivated buyers potentially interested in youtr building?"
The wife and I go back and forth on it almost nightly. Even the most optimistic calculations tell me that I'd still bring too much money to the table, money I don't really have. And unfortunately the current Real Estate model is 'put your home on the market and see what happens", not "lets see if there are buyers interested in your cookie cutter condo in a non-gz hood and introduce you."
G is the best poster on the CC site, hd is next.
Icky if/when you rent it out how much will you need to put in (including your own reserves for issues). Do you really want to get the middle of the night calls that a ceiling fan is broke or the call of my sink is leaky and you havent fixed it in a month so i am not going to pay you rent for that month.
wouldnt it be better to just take the hit and be done with it. you young and kidless your money will come back.
'If they are wrong then they will let the house go'
I'm not understanding this jason. So they just quit paying their mortgage and walk away from the house? Or, do they sell it? Wouldn't walking away ruin his good credit?
Walking away was SO common here in southern CA that it became the norm. A friend actually rented out his house while it was going thru the long foreclosure process (over a year), and made money each month he received the rent checks. Now that the market is 'hot' here again, flipping is becoming the new norm… from the same people that walked away from their places just a few years ago. Somehow they manage to to get the money and buy again. Yes, god help us all.
"wouldnt it be better to just take the hit and be done with it. you young and kidless your money will come back."
Groovy, if you have $25K burning a hole in your bank, I'd be happy to take a no/low interest loan from ya, which I'd gladly pay back Tuesday 2021!
Buy today and walk away is a dumb idea. Nobody is doing that. The default rate on newly seasoned mortgage is something like 0-2% and is basically lower than it's ever been. The person with whom you were having that conservation was a moron. Just like my clients who are like "I don't want to have a mortgage escrow because I can pay my own taxes. Why am I going to let the bank make interest off my money?" And then two years later their mortgage payment jumps 100% when the bank finds out that they haven't been paying their real estate taxes and they go into foreclosure. Stupid and moronic and hard to take people that say that stuff seriously.
Walking away is the rage, especially if you own a home with deferred maintenance that you paid $300k for and is worth $170k today; and especially if you overpaid for a condo in some sub-par area and the condo has lost 75% of it's value. That's happening everywhere, all the time. Everyday in fact.
"Walking away is the rage…especially if you overpaid for a condo in some sub-par area[.] That's happening everywhere, all the time. Everyday in fact."
What's the walkaway strategy for icky? Can he walk away and buy the sfh of his dreams?
I think he should either stay where he is for 6-8 years (depending on when he has kids) or suck it up and buy the new house now.
"two good things about being the middle floor;
1. your heating bill is alot smaller
2. you get used to the noise faster as its more constant as if there are no feet stomping above then you usually have yelling/talking from below"
I can't believe that people would pay that much money, for a two bedroom (one very small) and really, no dining room, and then have to put up with being sandwiched between two other units and the noise that comes with vintage..no matter what the location.
I guess I was never ment to be an urban animal!
"I guess I was never ment to be an urban animal!"
or your an logical person and would rather rent a place like that for a few years then BUY something that doesnt have those flaws.
wonder where we would be if logical thought was put to use.
Serious question: Could you get around a foreclosure ruining your credit by buying through a corporation (LLC, sole-proprietorship)? Some friends of mine bought a 4-flat with an LLC and lived in 2 units and rented out the other 2. Is that only possible because it was income earning and not a personal residence? I assume it doesn't work this way, otherwise it would be SOP…
"Could you get around a foreclosure ruining your credit by buying through a corporation (LLC, sole-proprietorship)? "
Maybe, but you'd have to find a lender that didn't require any individual guarantee. Which, for a single-asset entity, I believe would be challenging.
"Could you get around a foreclosure ruining your credit by buying through a corporation (LLC, sole-proprietorship)"
Generally, no, to get a mortgage for an entity like this is going to be a lot harder and the collateral will be far higher. And a sole proprietorship is not a corporation.
Yeah it's really hard to buy something without a personal guaranty unless you're a big corporation with lots of assets. The only way to avoid destroying your credit is to use someone else's like your wife's or business partners credit but then they really own the property not you.
Not to mention that living in that middle-floor space may clue you in to Too Much Information about the upstairs' neighbors' love life. And, a few months' later, the exact times that the kiddo wakes up for the night feedings.
" A friend actually rented out his house while it was going thru the long foreclosure process (over a year), and made money each month he received the rent checks"
I know a guy here who is still doing that I believe. And his sister was doing in too but wanted it over. She went to court and the bank told her they werent ready to take control of her condo yet, so she kept doing it. Not sure where things stand today.
just checked on the guys place. went lis pendens in fall 2010, nothing since. I believe he gets 2k/mo rent and has been paying zero towards mortgage since late 09. messed up.
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Aviation Security:
Enhancements Made in Passenger and Checked Baggage Screening, but Challenges Remain
GAO-06-371T: Published: Apr 4, 2006. Publicly Released: Apr 4, 2006.
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Securing commercial aviation is a daunting task--with hundreds of airports, thousands of aircraft, and thousands of flights daily carrying millions of passengers and pieces of checked baggage. It has been over 3 years since the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) assumed responsibility for passenger and baggage screening at commercial airports. This testimony focuses on the progress TSA is making in strengthening airline passenger and checked baggage screening and the challenges that remain. Particularly, this testimony highlights TSA's efforts to (1) enhance the performance, management, and deployment of the transportation security officer (TSO) workforce; (2) strengthen procedures for screening passengers and checked baggage; and (3) leverage and deploy screening technologies.
TSA has taken steps to enhance the TSO workforce's performance, management, and deployment, yet continues to face challenges in allocating staff and ensuring that training is available. For example, TSA developed a Screening Allocation Model to determine TSO staffing levels at commercial airports. However, some assumptions in the model--such as that 20 percent of the TSO workforce will be part-time--may be flawed, given that federal security directors (the lead TSA authorities at U.S. airports) have had difficulty filling this quota and some said they have not been able to hire up to their authorized staffing levels. In addition, while TSA has taken steps to improve the training offered to its TSO workforce, insufficient staffing and a lack of electronic connectivity to access on-line learning have prevented TSOs from taking full advantage of training opportunities. TSA is proposing changes to its screening procedures to enhance detection capabilities in part based on risk assessments, as GAO has previously advocated. Since April 2005, TSA has gathered, vetted, and tested a variety of new procedures for passenger and baggage screening. Some passenger screening procedure changes are based on risk-related factors, including results of covert (undercover, unannounced) tests that are designed to reveal system vulnerabilities. Our ongoing work on how TSA makes these changes indicates that TSA could do more evaluation to ensure the changes achieve the desired results. TSA has taken steps to develop and deploy technologies to strengthen commercial aviation security; however, challenges in funding and planning have created impediments to implementation. For example, TSA has deployed explosives detection systems--either stand-alone or incorporated in-line with baggage conveyor systems--to detect explosives in checked baggage. A TSA cost-benefit analysis of the in-line systems being installed at 9 airports showed that they could yield significant savings for the federal government. However, their deployment has been hampered by a lack of planning and funding strategies. TSA is currently assessing financing options to support the deployment of in-line systems and has begun prioritizing which airports would benefit from their deployment.
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Phillies host 100th consecutive sellout
Club has sold out 272 of 540 games since park opened in '04
PHILADELPHIA -- It seems like something that happens only at Wrigley Field, Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium.
It is happening at Citizens Bank Park, too.
The Phillies had their 100th consecutive sellout Thursday night against the Giants, and drew 45,449 fans, their biggest crowd of the season. Perhaps more impressive, the club has sold out 272 of 540 regular-season games (50.3 percent) since the Bank opened in 2004.
"It's amazing," Phillies president David Montgomery said. "We've been so fortunate to enjoy such tremendous fan support. There's a tremendous bond between the players and fans. It's neat that the players notice it. It definitely gives us an edge when we're playing clubs. And clearly that fan support has allowed us to keep this group together and do other things."
The Phils left Veterans Stadium in '04 for a warmer, more fan-friendly ballpark across the street. That coincided with more talent on the field.
Combine a better team with a better ballpark, three National League East titles, two NL pennants and one World Series championship, and it is easy to see why the Phillies are drawing well.
The trick is keeping it up.
Shortstop Jimmy Rollins said Thursday the fan support has been great and that it absolutely helps them on the field. But he also acknowledged a packed house in 2010 does not guarantee a packed house in '11 or '12 or beyond.
"If we keep winning, they'll keep showing up," he said. "If we don't do that, believe me, they will not be here."
The Phillies should be NL contenders for at least a couple more seasons. They have a payroll of more than $140 million, which is one of the highest in baseball. It has allowed them to lock up talents like Ryan Howard, Chase Utley and Roy Halladay. It also allowed them the flexibility to acquire Roy Oswalt before the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline.
"The reality is that we now have a range in which we think we can anticipate our attendance to be each year," Montgomery said. "It's a higher range than we would have guessed two or three years ago. It has enabled us to make contractual commitments to retain some key players here. There will always be decisions about who those players are, but look at what we did with Ryan and Utley. Halladay is here for a while."
Of course, how long can the streak last? Phillies vice president of sales and ticket operations John Weber pointed out that the Phils have tickets remaining for 21 of their remaining 23 home games. But whenever the streak ends, it will be the first time since July 6, 2009, they have not sold out a game. They sold 41,458 tickets that night against the Reds.
Capacity at the Bank is 43,651, although they often draw much more because of standing room tickets. They need to sell at least 42,900 tickets to be considered a sellout.
"We've averaged over 3.1 million in the seven years at Citizens Bank Park," Weber said. "It's always been about the ballpark, our homegrown winning team and the fans. Those three components make our job so much easier."
Manager Charlie Manuel acknowledged those fans in a brief speech before Thursday's game.
"I'd just like to say you're the best fans I've ever seen in baseball," he said. "And your energy and the fact you pull for us every night is going to help us get to the World Series again."
And the fans cheered.
Howard could rejoin club by weekend
PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies could have Ryan Howard back in the lineup before the end of the weekend.
The club announced Thursday that Howard will begin a rehab assignment Friday with Class A Lakewood. He is scheduled to play Saturday with Triple-A Lehigh Valley. The Phillies have not said what might happen after Saturday, but there is a chance he could rejoin the Phillies for Sunday's series finale against the Nationals at Citizens Bank Park.
"We'll just have to see how it goes," manager Charlie Manuel said.
Howard, who has been on the disabled list since Aug. 2 because of a sprained left ankle, was unavailable to comment.
The Lakewood BlueClaws will retire Howard's No. 29, which he wore when he played there in 2002, before Friday's game. He will be the first former BlueClaws player to have his number retired.
The Phillies are expected to option outfielder Domonic Brown to Lehigh Valley once they activate Howard.
If Howard is not ready Sunday, Monday's series opener against the Astros is likely.
Todd Zolecki is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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George "Machine Gun" Kelly
Privileged Life
In 1991, Bruce Barnes wrote Machine Gun Kelly: To Right A Wrong. Barnes, the second son of George Kelly Barnes and his first wife Geneva Ramsey, attempts to create an image of his father after what he feels was a life time of crass questions from inconsiderate people. While Barnes does shed a good deal of light on Kellys early life, his coverage of his fathers criminal career is far from complete and contains inaccuracies.
In his acknowledgements, Bruce Barnes gives much credit for the book to Geneva Barnes, my mother, for her unfaltering memory. Indeed much of the book seems to be influenced by Geneva and her six years of marriage to George Barnes. His criminal career doesnt begin until three-quarters of the way into the book.
In Barnes biography of his father he states that George Kelly Barnes was born in Chicago in 1900. Previous information indicated that Barnes was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1897 or 1895.While many of the famous bandits of the Mid-West Crime Wave came from poor families and had limited education, George Barnes was born into an upper middle-class family and is one of the few celebrated outlaws who actually attended college.
The Barnes family moved to Memphis from Chicago when George was two years old. Barnes despised his father from an early age while loving his mother dearly. As a teenager, Barnes saw his father, an insurance company executive, arrive at the home of a woman with whom he was having an affair. While his first reaction was to run home and tell his mother, he thought about how he could make this profitable for himself. The next day he skipped school, went to his fathers insurance office, confronted his father with what he had observed and demanded a higher weekly allowance and use of the family automobile. His father quickly gave in.
While Barnes was attending Central High School in Memphis, he was already doing a little bootlegging Tennessee had begun state prohibition in 1909 now that he had the use of an automobile. During his sophomore year, Barnes was arrested in Memphis for possession of alcohol. He called his father to bail him out knowing that he had quite a bit of influence in the city. Before he graduated from Central High School, Barnes mother, Elizabeth Kelly Barnes, passed away. Young George Barnes was devastated. He blamed his father's infidelity for causing his mother to die of a broken heart. His relationship with his father continued to deteriorate. Years later, when Barnes first marriage was falling apart and he had turned to alcohol, he attempted suicide one night by taking bichloride of mercury. He then called his father.
Im committing suicide. Will you bury me Dad? he asked.
Gladly son, came his fathers reply.
At the hospital his father coldly told him, George, why dont you stop botching up every move you make in your life? The next time you try something like this, use a gun and make a clean job of killing yourself.
After graduating from high school, Barnes enrolled at Mississippi A & M (today Mississippi State University) to study agriculture. His college career lasted a mere four months. In the first semester, he picked up 31 demerits and 24 more during the first few weeks of the second semester. His highest grade was a C-plus, which he received in a Physical Hygiene course. He received a zero in Woodwork and an incomplete in Military Science. He once climbed the school flagpole and repaired a pulley in an effort to erase demerits. Perhaps he could have been nicknamed flagpole Kelly.
Barnes college experience was over. He decided that he had enrolled only because his mother wanted him to, so he quit and headed home to Memphis. Barnes had developed a taste for higher class young ladies and at one social outing he met Geneva Ramsey the daughter of a local well-to-do businessman, George F. Ramsey. Barnes was persistent in his pursuit of Miss Ramsey, whose father had heard of Barnes reputation and forbade his daughter to see him.
Barnes efforts paid off and one night on a drive in Mississippi he convinced Geneva to elope. When their car broke down, they did just that. Taken in by a girlfriend of Genevas, who happened to be the daughter of the governor of Mississippi, the happy couple partied a few days before returning to the Ramsey family household.
George Ramsey proved to be a positive influence in the life of Barnes. Years later while at Alcatraz, Kelly told his son, Bruce, if your Granddad Ramsey had been my father, my life would have been entirely different.
Ramsey had developed a prosperous business building levees and railroads in the Mississippi River Valley. He offered Barnes a job and the two men, working together, developed a mutual respect for each other. Ramsey could see Barnes making an effort to turn his life around. The respect Barnes received from Ramsey and the father figure he came to represent caused the transformation. In the mid-1920s George Ramsey died after an accident with a stick of dynamite. This incident devastated the young married couple and sent Barnes into a tailspin.
Ramseys wife sold the business and tried to help her daughter and son-in-law get a fresh start. A used car business didnt work out and neither did a goat farm. Discouraged, Barnes tried the insurance business with help from his father, but when this didnt produce the results he wanted he turned back to bootlegging.
Geneva was furious with her husbands actions. Once, after he was arrested and she had to borrow $200 from her mother to bail him out, she threatened to divorce him. By this time the couple had one son, George Jr., whom they called Sonny. Barnes was not a good father and paid little attention to his first son. During one heated argument with Geneva, Barnes picked up his son and hurled him across the room. Later, Sonny would fear and resent his father and never have anything to do with him.
Barnes didnt seem to have the willingness to stay with any legitimate job. Some considered him lazy. Increased drinking led to his abusing his wife and son on a regular basis. Geneva left him on several occasions for short periods of time, but would return. She suffered one miscarriage before she had a second child, Bruce. Barnes loved his second son and doted heavily on him, showing favoritism in front of Sonny.
After more fights, Barnes left for Kansas City, where he got a job in a grocery store as a checker. Once more he convinced Geneva to give him another chance. She and the children soon joined him there. A short time later she realized he was stealing from the store. After an argument that turned physical, Geneva packed the family up and went back to Memphis leaving Barnes for good. She was later granted a divorce.
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Cleaner Production Tools -- ISO 14000/EMAS
[ ISO 14000 | EMAS | ISO-EMAS Comparison | ISO/EMAS Links ]
ISO 14000 and the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) are Environmental Management Systems (EMS). ISO 14000 is a product of the International Standards Organization while EMAS is a product of the European Union (EU). ISO 14000 is an international standard while EMAS applies to the European Union. Both ISO14000 and EMAS are considered tools to achieving Cleaner Production. It is possible to implement Cleaner Production without applying for certification, but even in these circumstances most firms use one or the other standard as the model for their environmental management system.
The sections below give a brief outline of ISO 14000 and EMAS and provide links to sites with more detailed information, including ISO 14000 organizations in China.
The ISO defines ISO 14000 on its web site as "a series of international, voluntary environmental management standards." These standards "address the following aspects of environmental management:
More information on ISO 14000 including an elaboration and definition of the topics listed immediately above see the ISO web site at ( http://www.tc207.org/FAQ.asp )
and Audit Scheme (EMAS)
The overall objective of the EMAS is to promote continuous environmental performance improvement in industrial activities by committing industrial sites to evaluate and improve their environmental performance and provide relevant information to the public. The scheme is voluntary and based on common principles throughout the European Union. It is open to companies in the industrial sector operating in the European Union and the European Economic Area. The scheme does not replace existing European Community, national environmental legislation or remove a company's responsibility to fulfill all its legal obligations under environmental legislation or standards.
Registration in the scheme requires a company to adopt a company environmental policy containing the following key commitments:
At the site, an initial environmental review is undertaken. In the light of the review and the company's environmental policy and environmental programme and environmental management system is established for the site. Site environmental audits, covering all activities at the site concerned, must be conducted within an audit cycle of no longer than three years and, based on the audit findings, environmental objectives set and the environmental programme revised to achieve the set objectives. On completion of the initial environmental review and the set objectives. On completion of the initial environmental review and subsequent audits or audit cycles a public environmental statement is produced.
The scheme has been operational since 1995. Detailed information is available on the European Union website.
The ISO on its web site briefly examines the difference between the ISO 14000 and EMAS standards. (see http://www.tc207.org/FAQ.asp ). According to the web site the ISO 14000 standards are voluntary instruments which are intended for use in countries at all stages of economic development and under a range of government systems. EMAS is a regulation, developed to meet the specific needs of governments, citizens and consumers in European Union member countries. EMAS can take a more prescriptive approach while the ISO 14000 standards rely on voluntary acceptance of all parties. EMAS currently applies to manufacturing industries while ISO 14000 can apply to all types of organizations.


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Fear Sells, But Who's Buying?
February 11, 2013 § 16 Comments
I flew home from the PASA conference late Saturday night, having been bumped to first class after my regular seat had somehow been assigned to someone else. It was a short flight, and I was tired enough that I wasn't inclined to accept the attendant's repeated offers for free drinks and premium snacks, but still I found some pleasure in the absurdity of the situation. There I sat amidst the beautiful people of first class, shod in my "good clothes": The shirt procured at a thrift store for a quarter, the pants hand-me-downs from a dear, departed friend, so loose around the waist that only my belt (a repurposed cow collar) stood between myself and sheer embarrassment (this simple fact had made security particularly challenging; when the TSA officer ordered me to take my hand off the waist band of my pants before passing through the human microwave, I had to explain that what the ramifications would be and was furthermore forced to admit that no, I wasn't wearing underwear. He grunted and waved me through), the shoes another thrift store find, and finally, my socks, a product of the annual Darn Tough factory seconds sock sale for a buck-fifty. All-in-all, a five or six dollar wardrobe.
The conference was fantastic. I had the enormous honor and privilege of sharing keynote duties with Charles Eisenstein. If you're not familiar with his work, I urge you to get thee to your local book seller and demand a copy of his most recent book, Sacred Economics. It will rock your world as surely and profoundly as a digitally remastered copy of AC/DC's Back in Black turned up to 11. Even better were the conversations that blossomed practically everywhere I went. Although I am often invited to these sort of events to share my perspective, my barely-kept secret is that I almost always return home with so much more knowledge and experience than I arrived with. So, to any conference-goers who might be reading this, thank you.
In my hotel room, on the morning of my keynote, I awoke early. It was partly the result of the inevitable nervous energy that accompanies speaking in front of a couple thousand people, and partly the result of habit. No matter how certain I am that I will sleep in on the rare morning when my chore routine is disrupted, it never happens. So there I lay at 4:30 in the A of M, worrying that my belt would fail in front of the entire conference population, and unable to retreat into slumber. In my weakness, and seeking distraction, I reached for the remote and tuned into CNN, which was embroiled in round-the-clock coverage of Mega-Hyper-Storm Nemo (I hereby proclaim today Windy Monday Wendy), punctuated by repeated clips of the California cop-killer who, it was being said, had transformed southern California into an abyss of fear and rage.
I watched for an hour, transfixed. As you may know, we do not have a television, and the rich saturation of visual and aural stimulation, coupled with the endless mantra of disaster and death, was riveting. Or at least in was in these pre-dawn, hotel-room, keynote-jitters hours.
Finally, I snapped myself out of my stupor and shuffled to the bathroom to rinse myself of both sleep and, I hoped, the toxicity I'd absorbed over the previous 60 minutes. And as I stood there under the hot stream of water, I couldn't help but think how different my life might be for only that one, simple element. I couldn't help but think how profoundly I'd been impacted by a mere hour of contemporary television news media. One hour. And I couldn't help think about how different the world might be if we all just said "no," if we all resolved to save our attention and emotional space for the people and world at our fingertips, rather than allow them to be hijacked by stories of disaster and tragedy over which we can have no influence.
Yeah, I know: Fear sells. I get it.
So I guess the question I have is this: What if we just stopped buying?
§ 16 Responses to Fear Sells, But Who's Buying?
I have to admit that during Nemo I turned on the Weather Channel which I really dislike. I got a semisadistic pleasure out of listening to those meteorologists proclaiming this as another northeast disaster. The reality is the farther you get from the population centers the more in stride people took the storm. Contagious hysteria seemed to be the product of the day.
I think for me that removal from "engaged gawker" started with the tabloids. I decided in one moment, at the grocery check-out that what was on the shelf as I stood there waiting my turn simply wasn't worth my attention. Then I quickly figured out that my local organic food store had everything I needed and NO magazines. Then I cancelled my newspaper subscription because I used it more to line my garden and could get that from neighbours. Cable disappeared with a reno to the part of the house that the dish sat on. Discovered we didn't miss it. My children don't like my radio station – too much talking. And so it happened. By attrition we are tragedy free. My husband listens to local talk radio in his truck so I get bits of hot topics up for discussion. The only thing that I think of sometimes is breaking news on events that would genuinely impact us. But my guess is the community would be pretty chatty about those topics and I'd get it anyway.
What? You can't get underwear second hand?
I heard you speak at PASA and went to the Q&A session following. I feel you have a way of putting into words what I have felt in my heart and innermost being for years, but I have never been able to articulate. I have 3 children. We homeschool – perhaps with a bit more structure than others, but I wouldn't trade having my children at home learning through our daily life and our upkeep of a 3-acre urban farm in Pittsburgh and our growing, measly 3000 square foot permaculture "farm" on our own small plot for anything. So thank you for being a voice and for helping others not be afraid or not have the power or will to be a simple voice for change. Even if it mostly just through our actions. (perhaps the most important voice.)
You crack me up, Ben – I loved this post! I'm just finishing your book now (both funny and informative – though I knew much of it already, just not the highly researched details you shared) and have Chris's on my table already, next in line. I, too, am one of the lucky ones who came back up here nearly 7 years ago to our sane (insane?) VT world and decided to live without a TV. What a difference an un-brainwashed mind can make! Without the 'box' emitting garbage 24/7 (save for the few morsels of PBS shows or the HISTORY channel), a person can find clarity of thought, desire for community, inspiration for a more creative life, groundedness, and the innate desire to create a more compassionate, caring world – both within and without. Food safety and the health of this planet (thus, ourselves) are the most important topics to be worked on today by every human that exists. Unfortunately, the political atmosphere that exists currently has served only to muddy the waters and create a division amongst our greater population (deliberately, I would conjecture, to prevent an uprising as intimated (suggested?) by our fore-fathers), so that most people don't think clearly about what they are doing or how they are adding to the mess of our world. And, so I thank you for being the voice of sanity (insanity?) for bringing this information to the masses in a way that will get the message through. It's time for people to WAKE UP and say ENOUGH! and to step into their birthright (role) as an activist instead of a changeling of the corporate beast. We CAN change things – if we simply TURN OFF all the noise that distracts us. We can also quickly change things by becoming an UNCONSUMER of all things new made by the huge corporations who simply concern themselves with increased profits and not with their environmental or social impacts. It's up to us now – to be the change we want to see.
I heard your keynote and your Q&A at the PASA conference but was a little overwhelmed by the experience to comment to you in person. I am one of those folks whose lives are dependent upon many of the things that envelope modern society. Living right outside DC in our bungalow house with the maximum mortgage really effects your perspective on both the helplessness of living in a world controlled by corporate greed. My family also is controlled by the health care system through my son's Cystic Fibrosis. I do still think that I can slowly back away step by step from at least some of these influences through eye opening speeches like yours and Mr. Eisenstein. For some of us, it's the most we can do. I appreciate your perspectives and the way you include photos of your kids as ways to let a little light into the lives of those not quite as free as your own.
Sometimes, it's hard not to feel trapped by forces that one can't control. In my family's life, it's the health care system more than the mountain of debt we have but I do understand that we all have a cross to bear. I wish you continued success and hope you realize that although we can't all emulate your life, just knowing that it exists in spite of the all of the crazy things happening in the world helps to lessen my burdens.
Jim, the point is not to emulate Ben or anyone else, but do what you can, where you are with the circumstances you are living. Being the change you want in the world is a very democratic thing. And little things count–over the years they add up. Best wishes.
Ben, my 15 year old daughter and were in the audience for your keynote at PASA as well. We were riveted! I read The Town That Food Saved a few years ago; I had her read it before we came to the convention. It is a title that continues to be in my top book recommendations. We'll be getting your others as well. We live on 14 acres south of Pgh (hi Alyssa!), and my girl and her 4 other sibs are learn-at-homers, and always have been. So much of what you said resonated beautifully with us. And we found ourselves checking out the hay in your pics, whispering to each other "Man, that is some great-looking hay." I check out hay like some people check out the opposite sex. I too never feel richer than I do with a loftfull in November. We raise sheep for pastured lamb, laying hens, and are looking forward to building a dairy goat herd and to the first calf this summer from our first cow. Our kids are active in 4-H, and in the world of our home, and community, which we love and love to care for. Thanks for your writing and your words at PASA. We count on the conference to re-charge our tanks with much needed optimism,enthusiasm, and determination. Thanks for your contribution of fuel.
Ben, I attended my first PASA conference this past weekend and I also heard you speak for the first time. I just wanted to thank you for your thought-provoking, engaging, interesting, and at times amusing speech (I could probably go on, but I'll spare you my attempts to describe the thoughts going through my mind both during and after your speech). You are inspiring and have caused me to think about my life and how I want the way I live, my actions, and my words to reach those around me and to reflect what I truly believe to be most important in this world in which we live.
I can't wait to read your books and I've begun to read your blog, both current posts and older posts. I enjoy the glimpses of your life (and love the pictures of your adorable boys!) and the way your stories reach out to your readers, sometimes to convey profound ideas/thoughts, and other times, to simply display your joy in life and your family. So, thank you, again!
For 16 months, I lived in my granddaughter's computer room while I prepared for hip replacement surgery and post-op recovery…without a television. Fast forward another 16 months and I have rehabbed a small house, moved in, and still no tv. All I can say is…the silence is golden, I read a book a week, and I no longer need anxiety meds. Keep spreading the word!
Windy Monday Wendy….hehehehe…you crack me up. We were commenting over here in NH how now we've got to name storms so everything can get so personal to everyone. Can't just be a nor'easter anymore, it's gotta have a name. Something you can pinpoint to disdain as you're shoveling those 30″ of snow we got. And we weren't even snowed in for long, as you know, we in New England have snow removal pretty much down. Yet if you turned the tv on during it, well the world was coming to an end right along with it. Yep, I don't watch a whole lot of TV myself for the exact reason you named. After 9/11 happened and I saturated myself in everyone else's fear and anger I learned my lesson. I had my own grief to deal with at the time, and didn't need to take on everyone else's through repeatedly beating that dead horse day after day.
I love to see the jump in comments when you speak somewhere. And that's how I found you myself, after all. Fun stuff. ~Vonnie
perfectly said! i truly would love love love to live in a home without television, unfortunately the other four members of my household (being my parents, not my children) would not have such a thing. live would certainly be a different place without it.


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Legislation banning the sale of electronic cigarettes � or e-cigarettes -- to minors as approved 22-1 by an Iowa House committee 22-1 Monday, but faces an uncertain future despite what its sponsor called its �relatively simple nature.�
House Study Bill 566 also bars minors from purchasing e-cigarettes, which use batteries to heat liquid nicotine and produce a vapor users can inhale, according to floor manager Rep. Chip Baltimore, R-Boone.
Although retail and tobacco producer advocates and consumers support the measure that now goes to the full House. However HSB 566 falls short of the restrictions anti-smoking advocates call for.
Public health advocates want e-cigarettes placed under the same regulations as traditional tobacco products that are taxed higher and have restrictions on where they can be used.
Baltimore and a majority of the committee resisted an amendment offered by Rep. Chris Hall, D-Sioux City, to treat e-cigarettes like traditional tobacco products.
�Only by legislative creation can we turn something into something that it is not,� Baltimore said. The amendment, which he called worthless, would �turn simulated smoking into smoking and nicotine into tobacco. It does nothing for this bill other than to convolute� it by making it subject to the state ban on smoking in the workplace and a �taxation scheme� at some future time.
�In as much as they were condescending,� Hall responded, Baltimore�s comments were �worthless.�
His amendment failed 9 to 14 when all Republicans and one Democrat voted against it.
The bill then passed 22-1 with only Rep. Dawn Pettengill, R-Mount Auburn, voting against it.
�It�s a good start,� said Rep. Jim Lykam, D-Davenport, but said it faces an uncertain future if it gets to the Democratic-controlled Senate.


text: When it comes to labeling on alcohol, there's always controversy and sulphites are no exception. In 2OO9 the European Commission implemented mandatory registration of sulphite use and it has been hotly contested by growers' organizations ever since. After three years of lobbying by European wine growers, who claimed the measure was disproportionate, inefficient and inapplicable, the Commission backtracked and is putting an end to the registration policy. The new ruling recognizes the need to reduce administrative burdens and admits that, because sulphites are added at different stages of wine production, the final content does not tally with the amount of sulphites indicated. "Our small enterprises of independent wine growers are particularly penalized by the burden of red tape and administrative tasks," said Thomas Montaigne, chairman of European growers' organization CEVI. Montaigne said that growers' agreed with the need for traceability but not to spiraling administrative requirements.


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We know now that there wasn't enough water pressure and water in Seaside Heights to help the firefighters get the boardwalk fire under control before it destroyed 50 businesses. We also know that a report back from 2006 clearly states the government officials understood that they needed to upgrade the infrastructure, the water mains and the fire hydrants in the area.
After Hurricane Sandy the local tax payers paid $8 million to repair the boardwalk and now the Governor has pledged that another $15 million in taxpayer money will now go to help get businesses back on track after the fire.
It only took 15 minutes for the fire to blaze out of control and while officials say that they have been working on the town's water infrastructure for four or five years it didn't seems to be up to par when this blaze occurred. However, Seaside Heights officials believe that their infrastructure was "adequate" and they blame the 35mph gusts of wind for the fire catching on so quickly and spreading down the boardwalk.
Even though officials feel like their water supply was "adequate" firefighters were still forced to put hoses into surrounding pools and even use water from the Barnegat Bay to put out the fire.
The fire started due to faulty electrical wires underneath the boardwalk which dated back to the early 70's.
Seaside Heights safety code states that any development that does not have adequate fire hydrants within 500 feet of their building is supposed to upgrade them, which clearly was not the case here.


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The heavyweights of emergency response in Laurens County met on the football field Saturday.
The matchup dubbed the Laurens County Super Bowl pitted EMS technicians against deputies from the sheriff's office in a flag football game aimed to give the winning organization some bragging rights and help raise money for the John Love Foundation, according to the sheriff's office.
The John Love Foundation supports family members who have lost someone to suicide, educates the community about the effects of suicide and assists those contemplating suicide.
Laurens County EMS took the honor this year, defeating Sheriff Ricky Chastain and his deputies 56-26.
The game was held in the Laurens Middle School football field on Main Street.
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"We make Ratt n' Roll music for Ratt n' Roll people" — Stephen Pearcy circa 1990.
This is the best Ratt greatest hits to date. You have 20 tracks all re-mastered. This is the perfect soundtrack for 80s rock lovers! A few of the tracks are from the 90s, but are in the same sonic tradition.
I like how the set list is in non-chronological order. And I like how their biggest hits are spread across the cd. Unlike, older Ratt best of compilations "Round in Round" doesn't appear at the beginning. I give them credit for starting things off with "Dangerous but Worth the Risk." An excellent song that never had a video or was played on the radio.
The only gripe I have is they included the clunky "Head I Win, Tails You Lose" again. So many better songs they could've picked. They should've scratched that and included a ballad like "I Want to Love You Tonight" or "Giving Yourself Away."
Also, because this is primarily the Atlantic years era there is nothing from their legendary self-titled e.p. Fingers crossed that the entire back catalogue gets revamped and reissued. A big cheese Ratt box set with rarities and live tracks would be sweet too.
I saw these guys live this summer and I can't wait for many more years of Ratt n' Roll!


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Norovirus (Stomach Flu)
What is Norovirus?
Norovirus is a group of viruses that cause acute gastroenteritis, often called the stomach flu or winter vomiting disease. This is not influenza or the flu, which is a respiratory infection caused by the influenza virus.
Norovirus outbreaks occur in B.C. communities every year. Outbreaks of illness are common in nursing homes, daycare centres, schools, children's camps and on cruise ships.
What are the symptoms?
Within a day or two of being exposed to a norovirus you may have an upset stomach and start vomiting, often followed by cramping, chills, fever and diarrhea. The illness usually begins suddenly and lasts only for 1 to 3 days. Complications may occur if people lose too much fluid from vomiting and diarrhea and do not drink enough fluids. This is more likely to occur with babies, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. Severe illness is very rare and hospital care is usually not required.
How does the virus spread?
Norovirus can be found in the vomit and diarrhea of people who are sick. When someone vomits, people nearby may become infected by swallowing tiny droplets from the air.
The virus can also be spread on surfaces like countertops. The virus can survive for a long time on surfaces such as countertops or sink taps if not properly cleaned.
People can become ill when they touch these surfaces and then place their hands or fingers in their mouth. The virus can be spread among people if they do not wash their hands or if someone with this illness handles food, water or ice.
Is there a treatment?
Currently, medications are not usually used to treat norovirus. People infected with norovirus usually get better within a few days.
Antibiotics should not be taken for norovirus. Antibiotics only work to fight bacteria and not viruses.
It is important that you drink enough clear fluids, such as water, so you do not get dehydrated. You should also drink other fluids such as juices, clear soups, or oral rehydration fluids for vomiting or diarrhea.
See a doctor if diarrhea or vomiting lasts more than 2 or 3 days, or if dehydration is a concern. If 3 or more people are ill at the same time, report this to your local public health unit.
How can the virus be prevented?
- There is no vaccine or medication that can prevent norovirus infection.
- The key to preventing the virus or reducing it from spreading is hand washing, especially after using the toilet, changing diapers or before eating or preparing food. Proper hand washing requires warm running water, soap and cleansing of the hands for about 30 seconds. For more information see HealthLink BC File #85 Hand Washing for Parents and Children.
- Bathrooms used by sick people should be disinfected with a dilute bleach solution (1 part household bleach to 9 parts water).
- Any food that has been handled by a person with the virus or exposed while a person vomited should be thrown out.
- Dishes and utensils should be washed with hot water and detergent or in a dishwasher.
- Laundry soiled with vomit or diarrhea should also be washed with hot water and detergent.
- People who are ill and work as food handlers or care providers should stay away from work while they are sick and for 2 days after they are better. Even when diarrhea and vomiting have stopped, the virus can still be in the stool (bowel movement) for as long as 2 weeks. Be sure to wash hands carefully and often.
- If someone is ill with norovirus, discourage visitors to the home. It is best to wait for a couple of days after everyone is better and the house is cleaned and disinfected.
- When a family member is sick with vomiting or diarrhea, it is a good idea for that person to try to stay in a separate room and not be around others. Everyone in the family should wash their hands often with soap and water. Use different towels or paper towels for drying hands to help stop the spread to other people.
How can I reduce the risk of getting infected from cleaning up vomit or diarrhea?
If you are cleaning up vomit or diarrhea, you can reduce the risk of getting infected by doing the following:
- Wear disposable gloves. Reusable rubber gloves may be used, but they should be washed after use.
- Use paper towels to soak up excess liquid and put the paper towels and any solid matter directly into a plastic garbage bag.
- Clean the soiled area with soap and hot water. The same cleaning cloth or sponge should not be used to clean other areas of the house as this may spread the virus.
- Disinfect the area that has been washed with a freshly made bleach solution. Make a solution of bleach by mixing 1 part of bleach to 9 parts of water. Household cleaners other than bleach do not work for most of the viruses that cause vomiting and diarrhea.
- Put all cleaning cloths and disposable gloves into a plastic garbage bag.
- Wash your hands well using soap and warm water for at least 30 seconds.


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Oracle Open World '04 just wrapped in San Francisco and this year, Oracle's main challenge was to combine two formerly separate user groups, Oracle Open World and Oracle Apps, into one for the general session. With a much larger audience than previous years – but the same budget – Oracle Creative Director Paul Salinger and Creative Producer Don Richards brought in executive producers Kerry Williams and Cory Burton from Invision Communications. They in turn enlisted Obsurca Digital of San Francisco, Radium and Lightswitch. Together, they conceived the idea of developing a set composed entirely of video.
Rather than using a more tradition set, the environment was created by a total continuous display area that was 400' in length and 18' high. Two center video screens formed the anchor, with four additional screens off to each side. The spaces between were filled with Main Light Soft LED curtains with fiber optics. With a total of 18 individual video feeds to coordinate, not only with each other, but with the lighting design – and only one day to load in – Lightswitch's Norm Schwab and the rest of the design team quickly realized that all of the design work would need to happen in advance. So they turned to Tom Thompson and his team at Prelite San Francisco.
Obscura Digital developed the content, with Radium producing some of the video used, all of which was deployed on Obscura's proprietary media servers. The design concept used the 18 video feeds discretely, sometimes with different images, sometimes with the images handed off from one feed to the next – for example, a train moving quickly through all 18 projectors, from one side of the stage to the next – with tightly integrated lighting to reinforce the image produced.
To facilitate the intricacies of the programming, Prelite deployed ESP Vision software, which allowed the video imagery to run native on the visualization software. With Norm Schwab and Paul Efron acting as lighting designers, Phil Shearer as automated and media programmer and Eric Fedler as conventional programmer, the system was set up to run all of the automated lighting and media from one Whole Hog 2 with the conventional lighting run from a second Whole Hog 2. MIDI from one Hog was used to issue serial commands to the media servers. Steve Swanson acted as production manager.
Schwab comments "This was an interesting challenge. We had to deal with the differences in resolution between the projectors and the LED curtains, and use the lighting to reinforce the imagery produced. With only one day on site, we had three days in the Prelite studio, with the first two days devoted to lighting and the third to integrating the video. This type of project is perfect for Prelite."
Prelite's Thompson adds, "It was interesting to see a different approach to controlling media with a lighting console. We mostly see designers using DMX controlled media servers such as NEV, MBox and Catalyst, so we were excited to see the Obscura system. While it is quite different than the others, it was an impressive sight to see 18 monitors in the front of the room displaying 18 feeds of video. Although it can currently only show one video source, it was great to see the video displayed with the lighting in ESP's Vision software."


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Just wanted to keep everyone informed with the Bisons. Jeremy Guthrie today lowered his ERA to 1.00 (2-0) and Sowers has a 0.47 ERA through two games.
Until the end of the month you can watch Buffalo Bisons games for free on www.milb.com - just click on multimedia and follow it from there. Sowers pitches at 6:05 on saturday for anyone who's interested in seeing him.


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Chicago at Boston
TD Garden
Offensive Efficiency
Boston: 99.4 points/100 possessions (20th)
Chicago: 105.7 points/100 possessions (2nd)
Defensive Efficiency
Boston: 94.6 points/100 possessions (3rd)
Chicago: 93.8 points/100 possessions (2nd)
Probable Chicago Starters: C.J. Watson (PG) Ronnie Brewer (SG) Luol Deng (SF) Carlos Boozer (PF) Joakim Noah (C)
View from the Opposing Bench: By The Horns
Injury Report
Boston: Jermaine O'Neal is questionable. Brandon Bass (knee) is out for 7-10 days.
Chicago: Derrick Rose is out. Rip Hamilton (thigh) is questionable.
Friday night's loss to the Raptors was one of the ten worst regular season games the Celtics have played during the Big Three era. Today, we find out if it was just an anomaly, a schedule loss and the product of a team taking it too easy after an emotional game against the Lakers. Or something else. If it was an aberration, the Celtics should come out strong today against one of the measuring sticks in the Eastern Conference and Doc Rivers will not be forced into expletive-laden tirades. If not, expect quick action by Rivers, who is in no mood for that kinda nonsense.
This Bulls team is a monster. They're the second best team in the league on both offense and defense. Of course, without Rose, things change, especially on the offensive end. Rose has a 29.05 usage rate, and in late game situations, he's both ball dominant and the primary creator of shots. Boozer and Deng are going to have to carry the offensive burden today, and that's good news for the Celtics because Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce should be just twitchy to get out there and redeem Friday's effort. And neither Boozer nor Deng is a great creator of shots.
Even with Rose, the Bulls are going to choke off Boston's offensive options, especially penetration where they rotate well (Boozer being a notable exception at times). So, quick, smart ball movement and accurate jumpshooting may carry the day for the Celtics. Expect too, a strong performance from Rajon Rondo, who's still smarting from his all-star snub and his struggles the last couple of games. He should look to push the ball off defensive stops. With any luck his teammates will be running with him.
But beyond any sense of the tactical, we want to see this Celtics team lean into this game, play with force and results aside, cast the Raptor loss to the condensed-season winds.
Without Rose, the C's should take this one.
Boston 92 Chicago 87