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Headlines across the emerging markets globe this morning:
Indonesia: Jakarta Gov. Joko Widodo has claimed victory in Indonesia's neck-and-neck presidential election. The Wall Street Journal reports that rival Prabowo Subianto, a former army general, is disputing the unofficial vote count and refused to concede defeat. More on Indonesia's election results from the WSJ here.
Sweet refrain: Rapid growth in emerging market chocolate demand is behind the spike in cocoa prices, WSJ reports.
Postcard from Seoul: Societe Generale's Alain Bokobza is in Korea discussing asset allocation and included the following in a missive today:
"The behaviour of emerging markets was also at the centre of debate across the asset classes. One question highlighted a degree of frustration: why does the MSCI continue to tag Korea as an emerging market when GDP per capita at U.S. $25,977 is now only 49% short of the USA? The MSCI said not to an upgrade again only a month ago, and for now Korean assets remain vulnerable to any swings in sentiment regarding EM exposure. We continue to think that as EM assets are, for the most part, 'super cheap', they are less vulnerable to Fed tightening than history may suggest. We find that Korean investors are super sensitive to the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary policy. "
With a nod to Tuesday's German World Cup victory over Brazil, Bokobza added Asia is "a welcome relief from all the unnecessary pessimism I hear in London and Paris. That said, all the Germans in my family are suddenly feeling more optimistic – but don't feel obliged to buy the DAX or Bunds, we are averse to both."
Currency concerns have taken a bite out of Korean stocks in the new year. During the last two days, the Korean Stock Exchange KOSPI index fell more than 3.2% as a strong won and a weak yen undermined the competitiveness of the country's huge export companies.
Samsung Electronics (SSNLF) fell 1% today, on top of a 5% decline on Thursday. Hyundai Motor (HYMTF) fell 0.22%.
But Credit Suisse analyst John Sung and his team argue that foreign exchange issues are overdone. In a note released today, they write:
…after JPY's more than 20% depreciation against USD and about 30% against KRW over a one-year span, we are seeing no material changes in, for example, market shares of Korean and Japanese automobiles. In case of IT and consumer electronic segments, we actually saw further share gains by Koreans. As such, we continue to believe that it is more a sentiment than a fundamental factor for Korea's key exports.
Until the dust settles, the Credit Suisse team suggests sticking with core, domestic names among banks and consumer companies. The names they highlight include, LG H&H (051900.Korea), Hyundai Department Store (69960.Korea), Shinhan FG (055550.Korea), Hana FG (086790.Korea) and IBK (024110.Korea).
The Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.37% to 2,149.56In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index rose 0.19% to 23,249.8
The China's official manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index climbed to 51.4 in October from 51.1 the previous month, beating estimates and marking an 18-month high. But officials acknowledged that growth remains unbalanced and small businesses continue to struggle. The WSJ's "China Realtime Report" offers a flurry of reactions from economists.
Long considered to be one of the most direct ways to bet on Chinese economic growth, prices of iron-ore and copper have risen in recent months amid a flurry of positive signals out of the world's second-biggest economy. These indicators have dovetailed with a ramp-up of Chinese demand for the commodities.
The S&P BSE Sensex Index hit an all-time high and broke its closing record for the third straight day Friday. The index rose 0.15% to end at 21,196.8.
The Bovespa fell 0.8% to 53,816.3 inmorningmarket action.
The FT.com reports that Brazilian businessman Eike Batista will sit on both sides of the debt talks involving his failed oil enterprise OGX (OGXBY). Why? His oil services company OSX is one of the biggest contractors of OGX with claims estimated at $2.6 billion. Moody's Investors Service warned that the size and treatment of this obligation could negatively impact recovery value for OGX's unsecured notes,
On Thursday, Moody's downgraded OGX's credit rating to "C" from "Ca" to reflect its forecast of a low recovery rate for the bonds. Moody's expects recovery to be less than 20%
The ruble headed for a two-week low and Russian bonds fell as speculation the Federal Reserve will pare stimulus curbed appetite for riskier assets.
Ukraine's debt rating was cut to the same junk level as Greece by Standard & Poor's, which said the government is struggling to weather a shortage of foreign currency, increasing the likelihood of a hryvnia devaluation.
The Korea Stock Exchange KOSPI Index rose 0.46% to end at 2,039.4.
South Korea's exports last month handily beat expectations to set a record and a private survey showed the manufacturing sector expanded for the first time in five months — brightening prospects for sustained growth in Asia's fourth-largest economy.
Indonesia's finance minister Thursday reduced his growth projection for the country, as higher interest rates and a tepid global view continue to cloud the country's economic outlook.
Mexico's congress increased a proposed junk food levy as it passed a tax bill championed by President Enrique Pena Nieto to reduce the nation's dependence on oil revenue and promote growth.
The Bovespa Index rose 0.15% to 54,256.2
Embraer (ERJ) fell 2.6% to $29.39 after it posted an unexpected drop in quarterly profit on Thursday due to delayed aircraft deliveries. The world's third-largest commercial plane maker stood by its 2013 forecasts on hopes for a strong fourth quarter.
Gerdau (GGB) rose 2.12% to $7.95 after the largest steelmaker in the Americas reported a -than-expected quarterly profit, with rising sales volumes and cost controls in Brazil offsetting declining margins in North America, Europe and India.
Eike Batista's oil company OGX Petroleo e Gsa Participacoes (OGXPY) said Thursday it will receive a payment of $66 million that will allow it to continue operating during its bankruptcy process. Bloomberg reports that the OGX agreed to sell its only producing asset hours before filing for bankruptcy protection.
The country's economy grew at the slowest pace in a year in the third quarter, as a weak global recovery reduced demand for the island's exports. GDP rose 1.58% from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said in a preliminary report in Taipei today, after increasing 2.49% in the second quarter.
The Kospi Index slid as Korean Air Lines plunged in local market action, losing the most in two years on concern it may provide further funding to its affiliate Hanjin Shipping.
Known by some as the Craigslist of China, 58.c0m, (WUBA) jumped more than 42% to close at $24.20 in its debut on the NYSE. The shares fell 1% in afterhour's action.
The MSCI Emerging Markets Index lost 0.7% to 1,035.71 as of 11:46 a.m. in London, paring this month's gain to 4.9%. Economists at Citigroup and Barclays said yesterday's Fed policy statement left open the possibility of reduced bond purchases as soon as December.
The news today is centered on Wednesday's bankruptcy filing by OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes (OGXPY), the oil firm controlled by Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista.
In a front page story, The Wall Street Journal details how Batista presided over "one of the most breathtaking rise and fall stories in the history of business." OGX is Latin America's biggest ever bankruptcy and caps the demise of Batista's $30 billion empire. It has also entangled some big Wall Street firms.
OGX shares fell 26% Wednesday, ending at 0.17 reais ($0.08), down 96% over the past 12 months. They are expected to be suspended from trading on the São Paulo stock exchange, Bovespa, until a restructuring is completed. The decline of OGX sent shares tumbling across the rest of Batista's empire, wiping out most of his wealth.
Also suffering today is OSX Brasil (OSXB3.Brazil). The ship building company is part of Batista's troubled industrial conglomerate and also had OGX as its main client and is still due some major payments for oil platforms that it built and leased to its sister company. Shares fell 6.45% Thursday to0.58 reais.
The Bovespa Stock Index rose 0.35% in early trading Thursday
The Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.87% to end at 2,141.61 Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index fell 0.4% to end at 23,206.37.
China's money-market rates fell and interest-rate swaps retreated from the highest level since June as the central bank added cash to the financial system for the second time this week.
58.com (WUBA) is set to list on the NYSE on Thursday, the first in a string of Chinese Internet companies looking to debut on U.S. markets in coming months. The WSJ reports that this IPO will offer the best indicator yet of whether U.S. investors have found a taste for Chinese stocks again after a two-year case of indigestion.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz said Wednesday during a trip to Beijing that China is willing to discuss a coordination agreement on the use of strategic petroleum reserves.
Chinese personal computer maker Lenovo Group (LNVGY) is hiring the American actor Ashton Kutcher to help design its tablets, its latest ploy to market its brand to U.S. consumers.
India's commodities futures market regulator has sought an audit of the Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. after a related spot bourse failed in August.
Russian stocks fell the most in a week with the Micex Index losing 0.7% to 1,505.65 as of 2:26 p.m. in Moscow.
The Korean Stock Exchange Kospi Index fell 1.4% to end at 2,030.09.
South Korean officials on Thursday largely shrugged off the U.S. Treasury Department's latest admonition about intervening in currency markets, saying they will continue to stabilize the Korean won whenever necessary.
South Africa posted a trade deficit of 18.9 billion rand ($1.9 billion) in September as strikes curbed car and mining exports and oil imports swelled.
During the last four months, Korea has attracted $14.5 billion in net foreign buying. Is it getting crowded?
You hear it all the time: Trades get overcrowded, and when sentiment changes, the panicked race for the exit can get ugly.
And in the last four months, the iShares MSCI Korea Capped ETF (EWY) has climbed 21% to $65.18.
Bu Credit Suisse analysts Sakthi Siuva and Kin Nanf Chik remain Overweight on Korea, arguing that it still has room to outperform, reasoning that "Korea has become less under-owned rather than crowded."
Some might roll their eyes at that bit of word play. After all, is a person short or "vertically challenged?" But Siuva and Chik base their call on the following:
The Communist Party of China will hold a key meeting, known as the Third Plenum, in Beijing from Nov. 9 to Nov. 12, according to a statement from the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau issued on Tuesday.
China's central bank on Tuesday moved for the first time in days to inject cash into the country's financial system,
Chinese stock indexes were mixed as financial stocks outperformed, limiting broader losses amid worries concerns that the country may have reached the peak of its economic recovery, The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index finished down 1.1% to 2111.13. The Shenzhen Composite Index fell 0.8% to 1045.88. But Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index inched higher.
Ping An Bank climbed 7.5%, while Industrial Bank Co. advanced 4.8%. NQ Mobile (NQ) extended its three-day plunge to 62% in local market action after Muddy Waters last week accused it of fabricating revenue. And PetroChina (PTR) the target of a government corruption probe that has ensnared a former chairman, posted a 19% increase in third-quarter profit as retail fuel pricing reforms reduced refining losses.
India's central bank Tuesday raised its key lending rate for the second time in as many months, intensifying its battle against rising prices even as the economy grows at its slowest pace in a decade. The WSJ's Abheek Bhattacharya weighed in on the matter in today's Heard on the Street column.
Sugar exports from Brazil's busiest port have slowed since a massive fire earlier this month destroyed the country's biggest sugar terminal. Still, sugar prices are retreating from a one-year high as traders judge that record stockpiles in China and accelerating exports from India will more than offset lost supplies.
South Korea's Kospi closed 0.2% higher.
SK Hynix (000660.Korea) dropped 3.5% as profit-taking emerged after the world's second-largest maker of memory chips reported a sharp increase in its third-quarter net profit. The company also announced it is ramping up chip output due to a shortage of memory chips caused by a fire that broke out in China in September.
Standard Chartered (SCBFF) said its earnings outlook is brightening for the fourth quarter and 2014 after continuing problems in its South Korean business and volatile markets pushed the emerging markets-focused bank's third-quarter revenue lower.
The WSJ explains how gold is fading from the investment picture after Russia's central bank cut its gold holdings for the first time in a year in September. Brazil:
Thailand's SET was the day's biggest gainer among stock indexes in Southeast Asia, up 0.4% in its last hour of trading. Indonesia's JSX, however, fell 0.6% and Malaysia's KLCI lost 0.2%. Singapore's FTSE Straits Times was flat while the Philippines composite was up 0.1%.
Thailand's public prosecutors charged former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his deputy with murder in connection with a crackdown on antigovernment protesters in 2010, a step that could help the ruling Puea Thai party force a controversial amnesty bill through Parliament.
It's a point I've raised before, but it's worth making again: Japan's bond buying is killing Asian equities.
Here's Societe Generale's chart showing flows into Japanese funds and those into emerging Asia:
The biggest losers have been Taiwan, Korea and China, Societe Generale says. The iShares MSCI China ETF (FXI) has dropped 13.7% during the past three months, the iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (EWY) has fallen 9% and the iShares MSCI Taiwan (EWT) has dropped 3.1%. The iShares MSCI Japan Index ETF (EWJ), meanwhile, has gained 16.7%.
In a separate report, Societe Generale's Albert Edwards fretted that the plunging yen could lead to a replay of the 1997 Asian currency crisis. He writes:
It seems investors may have forgotten that yen weakness was one of the immediate causes of the 1997 Asian currency crisis and Asia's subsequent economic collapse…
A weak yen comes at a time when the Chinese and other major EM countries are seeing a deteriorating BoP situation similar to what we witnessed in the mid 1990s. I studied Asian economies very closely at that time as the average UK pension funds had almost 10% of their assets parked in Asia ex Japan! Hence when I see a sharp rise in Chinas real exchange rate and deteriorating [balance of payments], it rings alarm bells. China is not the most vulnerable of the EM currencies to a weak yen, but this conjunction could easily trigger a currency crisis as growth is crushed. High levels of FX reserves are no protection if they are sold to prop up Asian currencies this will only impart a further deflationary monetary squeeze. Boom will turn to bust.
Edwards has been a bear for quite a while (though not permanently, as his reputation suggests) so feel to disregard what he says. Emerging market bulls do so at their own risk.
China's stock market bounced back from yesterday's disappointing GDP data, but it has entered a period of slower growth, the Financial Times says. The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 0.6% today.
India is targeting manufactures that sell below cost with new taxes, Reuters says. India The S&P BSE India Sensex Index gained 2.1%.
South Korea unveiled a fiscal stimulus package, Bloomberg reports. The Korea Stock Exchange KOSPI Index rose 0.1%.
China warned nations not to expand their military presence in Asia, a veiled threat to the U.S., which has been boosting military ties with the Philippines, among others. The Philippines Stock Exchange PSEi Index fell 0.75%.
Taiwan is investigating whether Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) hired people to post negative reviews of HTC phones. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Index rose 0.5%
Indonesia might hike gas prices for private-car owners by as much as 56% to reduce fuel subsidies, Bloomberg reports. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index gained 1%.
Oil's plunge has Russia reconsidering its export duties on crude. Russia's Micex stock index has risen 0.2%.
A South African central bank governor called gold's precipitous drop "extremely concerning," Bloomberg reports. The FTSE/JSE Africa Top40 Tradeable Index has gained 1.25%.
Turkey's central bank cut interest rates by half a percentage point today to boost growth and weaken its lira, Reuters said. Turkey's Istanbul Stock Exchange National 100 Index has climbed 0.5%.
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Telefonica (TEF) plans to begin spending its Venezuelan cash hoard as a hedge against a weaker bolivar.
Coca-Cola (KO) beat earnings forecasts on better Latin American sales.
Merrill Lynch downgraded Infosys (INFY) to neutral from buy, according to Briefing.com.
Maxim Group reiterated its sell on Baidu (BIDU) on declining market share.
Stifel expects Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) to reiterate, if not boost, its capital spending plans when it releases earnings on Thursday, according to Briefing.com.
LDK Solar (LDK) defaulted on $7.2 million of convertible bonds, Bloomberg said.
China's exports rose less than forecast for the first time in four months, Bloomberg reported. Fitch Ratings cut China's credit rating to A-plus from double-A-minus, while nine people have died from bird flu in China. The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 0.02% today.
India's car sales fell for the first time in 10 years, the BBC reports. The S&P BSE India Sensex Index dropped rose 1%.
North Korea told South Korea nuclear war is imminent, according to the New York Times. The Korea Stock Exchange KOSPI Index rose 0.8%.
Philippine exports plunged 16% in February. The Philippines Stock Exchange PSEi Index rose 1.2%.
The iShares MSCI Malaysia Index Fund (EWM ) has been hitting 52-week highs ahead of that country's presidential election. The FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index gained 0.4%.
Russia has charged an NGO monitoring elections with failing to register as a "foreign agent," the New York Times reports. Russia's Micex stock index has dropped 0.05%.
Brazil cut taxes on smartphones that sell for less than 1,500 reais, or $750, which could leave Apple's (AAPL) iPhone out in the cold. The Bovespa stock index has gained 0.5% in early trading today.
Emerging Market Stocks on the Move
The U.S. is investigating former Wynn Resorts (WYNN) director Kazuo Okada.
Constellation Brands (STZ) reported earnings of 47 cents a shares, above analyst forecasts of 45 cents a share, and said it has an agreement in principal for Modelo deal, according to Briefing.com.
JinkoSolar (JKS) reported a loss of $1.26 a share, below analyst forecasts for 82 cents.
First Solar's (FSLR) 49% gain yesterday was too big, Credit Suisse said via Briefing.com.
Suntech Power Holdings (STP) may offload some assets and bring in new investors, according to Reuters.
Baidu (BIDU) was upgraded to buy from hold by 86 Research, according to Briefing.com.
Telefonica (TEF) is considering an IPO in Colombia, according to Bloomberg.
Emerging markets have been synonymous with growth, but the outlook for individual nations is constantly changing. Countries from Brazil and Russia to Turkey face challenges including infrastructure bottlenecks, credit issues and political shifts. Barrons.com's Emerging Markets Daily blog analyzes news, data and research out of emerging markets beyond Asia to help readers navigate the investment landscape.
Barron's veteran Dimitra DeFotis has been blogging about emerging market investing since traveling to India and Turkey. Based in New York, she previously wrote for Barron's about U.S. equity investing, including cover stories and roundtables on energy themes. Dimitra was among the first digital journalists at the Chicago Tribune and started her career as a police reporter at the Daily Herald in the Chicago suburbs. Dimitra holds degrees from the University of Illinois and Columbia University, where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in the business and journalism schools. She studies multiple languages and photography.
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Police may enter a home without a warrant when they have an objectively reasonable basis for believing that an occupant is seriously injured or imminently threatened with such injury. An action is reasonable under the 4th amendment, regardless of the individual officer's state of mind, "as long as the circumstances, viewed objectively, justify the action. Brigham City v. Stuart,
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In a traffic-stop setting, the first
condition — a lawful investigatory stop — is met whenever it is lawful for police to detain an automobile and its occupants pending inquiry into a vehicular violation. The police need not have, in addition, cause to believe any occupant of the vehicle is involved in criminal activity. To justify a patdown of the driver or a passenger during a traffic stop, however, the police must harbor reasonable suspicion that the person subjected to the frisk is armed and dangerous. Arizona v. Johnson,
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does not authorize a vehicle search incident to a recent occupant's arrest after the arrestee has been secured and cannot access the interior of the vehicle. Police are authorized to search a vehicle incident to a recent occupant's arrest only when the arrestee is unsecured and within reaching distance of the passenger compartment at the time of the search. Consistent with
circumstances unique to the automobile context justify a search incident to arrest when it is reasonable to believe that evidence of the offense of arrest might be found in the vehicle. Arizona v. Gant,
129 S. Ct. 1710
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concern to limit a school search to a reasonable scope requires reasonable suspicion of danger or a resort to hiding evidence of wrongdoing in underwear before a searcher can reasonably make the quantum leap from a search of outer clothes and backpacks to exposure of intimate parts. The meaning of such a search, and the degradation its subject may reasonably feel, place a search that intrusive in a category of its own demanding its own specific suspicions. Safford Unified School District #1 v. Redding,
129 S. Ct. 2633
174 L. Ed. 2d 354
A government employer had the right, under the circumstances of the case, to read text messages sent and received on a pager the employer owned and issued to an employee. The privacy of the messages was not protected by the ban on "unreasonable searches and seizures" found in the 4th amendment. Because the search was motivated by a legitimate work related purpose, and because it was not excessive in scope, the search was reasonable. Ontario v. Quon, 560 U.S. ___,
130 S. Ct. 2366
176 L. Ed. 2d 560
Warrantless searches are allowed when the circumstances make it reasonable, within the meaning of the 4th amendment, to dispense with the warrant requirement. The exigent circumstances rule justifies a warrantless search when the conduct of the police preceding the exigency is reasonable in the same sense. When the police do not create the exigency by engaging or threatening to engage in conduct that violates the 4th amendment, warrantless entry to prevent the destruction of evidence is reasonable and thus allowed. Kentucky v. King, 564 U.S. ___,
177 L. Ed. 2d 1150
131 S. Ct. 61
Whether an official protected by qualified immunity may be held personally liable for an allegedly unlawful official action generally turns on the objective legal reasonableness of the action, assessed in light of the legal rules that were clearly established at the time the action was taken. When an alleged 4th amendment violation involves a search or seizure pursuant to a warrant, the fact that a neutral magistrate has issued a warrant is the clearest indication that the officers acted in an objectively reasonable manner. There is a narrow exception allowing suit when it is obvious that no reasonably competent officer would have concluded that a warrant should issue. Messerschmidt v. Millender, 565 U.S. ___,
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Generally, every detainee who will be admitted to the general jail population may be required to undergo a close visual inspection while undressed. Undoubted security imperatives involved in jail supervision override the assertion that some detainees must be exempt from these invasive procedures absent reasonable suspicion of a concealed weapon or other contraband. Deference must be given to the officials in charge of the jail unless there is substantial evidence demonstrating their response to the situation is exaggerated. Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington, 566 U.S. ___,
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Within the meaning of the 4th amendment, domestic animals are effects and the killing of a companion dog constitutes a seizure, which is constitutional only if reasonable. Viilo v. Eyre,
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The categorical authority to detain incident to the execution of a search warrant must be limited to the immediate vicinity of the premises to be searched. A spatial constraint defined by the immediate vicinity of the premises to be searched is therefore required for detentions incident to the execution of a search warrant. Limiting the rule in
to the area in which an occupant poses a real threat to the safe and efficient execution of a search warrant ensures that the scope of the detention incident to a search is confined to its underlying justification. Once an occupant is beyond the immediate vicinity of the premises to be searched, the search-related law enforcement interests are diminished and the intrusiveness of the detention is more severe. Bailey v. United States, 568 U.S. ___,
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Natural metabolization of alcohol in the bloodstream does not present a
per se
exigency that justifies an exception to the warrant requirement for nonconsensual blood testing in all drunk-driving cases. Consistent with general 4th amendment principles, exigency in this context must be determined case by case based on the totality of the circumstances. Missouri v. McNeely, 569 U.S. ____,
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: Wisconsin Police Now Need Only a Reasonable Suspicion to Search a Suspect's Blood Incident to an Arrest. Armstrong. 1993 WLR 563.
But What of Wisconsin's Exclusionary Rule? The Wisconsin Supreme Court Accepts Apparent Authority to Consent as Grounds for Warrantless Searches. Schmidt. 83 MLR 299.
But What of Wisconsin's Exclusionary Rule? The Wisconsin Supreme Court Accepts Apparent Authority to Consent as Grounds for Warrantless Searches. Schmidt. 83 MLR 299 (1999).
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No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, nor any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall ever be passed, and no conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate.
Section 45.37 (9), Stats. 1963, constituted a contract as to the property an applicant for admission to the Grand Army Home had to surrender, and to apply a later amendment would be unconstitutional. Estate of Nottingham,
46 Wis. 2d 580
175 N.W.2d 640
Although the obligation of a contract is not an absolute right but one that may yield to the compelling interest of the public, the public purpose served by a law mandating rent reductions due to property tax relief is not so vital so as to permit such an impairment of contract. State ex rel. Bldg. Owners v. Adamany,
64 Wis. 2d 280
219 N.W.2d 274
Retroactive application of s. 57.06, 1987 stats. [now s. 304.06], as amended in 1973, increasing the period to be served by state prison inmates imposed an additional penalty and violated the prohibition against ex post facto legislation. State ex rel. Mueller v. Powers,
64 Wis. 2d 643
221 N.W.2d 692
The legislative preclusion against the State Medical Society's divesting itself of control of ch. 148, disability plans did not constitute any impairment of the society's charter because: 1) the grant of ch. 148 powers is permissive and voluntarily exercised by the society; 2) the ch. 148 grant is in the nature of a franchise rather than a contract and cannot be viewed as unalterable or it would constitute a delegation of inalienable legislative power; and 3) the constitutional interdiction against statutes impairing contracts does not prevent the state from exercising its police powers for the common good. State Medical Society v. Comm. of Insurance,
70 Wis. 2d 144
233 N.W.2d 470
When a probation statute was amended after a crime was committed but before the accused pled guilty and was placed on probation, application of the amended statute to probation revocation proceedings offended the ex post facto clause. State v. White,
97 Wis. 2d 517
294 N.W.2d 36
(Ct. App. 1979).
A challenge to legislation must prove: 1) the legislation impairs an existing contractual relationship; 2) the impairment is substantial; and 3) if substantial, the impairment is not justified by the purpose of the legislation. Reserve Life Ins. Co. v. La Follette,
108 Wis. 2d 637
323 N.W.2d 173
(Ct. App. 1982).
The ex post facto prohibition applies to judicial pronouncements as well as legislative acts. The question to be addressed is whether the new law criminalizes conduct that was innocent when committed. State v. Kurzawa,
180 Wis. 2d 502
509 N.W.2d 712
Legislation creating penalty enhancers resulting from convictions prior to the effective date does not run afoul of the ex post facto clause. State v. Schuman,
186 Wis. 2d 213
520 N.W.2d 107
(Ct. App. 1994).
An ex post facto law is one that punishes as a crime an act previously committed, that: 1) was innocent when done; 2) makes more burdensome the punishment for a crime, after its commission; or 3) deprives one charged with a crime of any defense available at the time the act was committed. State v. Thiel,
188 Wis. 2d 695
524 N.W.2d 641
Retroactive application of a new statute of limitations, enacted at a time when the old limitations period has not yet run, does not violate the ex post facto clause. State v. Haines,
261 Wis. 2d 139
661 N.W.2d 72
, 01-1311.
In any challenge to a law on double jeopardy and ex post facto grounds, the threshold question is whether the ordinance is punitive, as both clauses apply only to punitive laws. Courts employ a two-part "intent-effects" test to answer whether a law applied retroactively is punitive and, therefore, an unconstitutional violation of the Double Jeopardy and Ex Post Facto Clauses. If the intent was to impose punishment, the law is considered punitive and the inquiry ends there. If the intent was to impose a civil and nonpunitive regulatory scheme, the court must determine whether the effects of the sanctions imposed by the law are so punitive as to render them criminal. City of South Milwaukee v. Kester,
2013 WI App 50
347 Wis. 2d 334
830 N.W.2d 710
, 12-0724.
Constitutionality of rent control discussed. 62 Atty. Gen. 276.
Private property for public use.
The property of no person shall be taken for public use without just compensation therefor.
The dismissal of an appeal for lack of prosecution in a condemnation action did not violate the condemnee's right to just compensation. Taylor v. State Highway Comm.
45 Wis. 2d 490
173 N.W.2d 707
The total rental loss occasioned by a condemnation is compensable, and a limitation to one year's loss was invalid. Luber v. Milwaukee County,
47 Wis. 2d 271
177 N.W.2d 380
A prohibition against filling in wetlands pursuant to an ordinance adopted under ss. 59.971 and 144.26 [now ss. 59.692 and 281.31] does not amount to a taking of property. Police powers and eminent domain are compared. Just v. Marinette County,
56 Wis. 2d 7
201 N.W.2d 761
A special assessment against a railroad for a sanitary sewer laid along the railroad's right-of-way, admittedly of no immediate use or benefit to the railroad, did not constitute a violation of this section. Soo Line RR. Co v. Neenah,
64 Wis. 2d 665
221 N.W.2d 907
In order for the petitioner to succeed in the initial stages of an inverse condemnation proceeding, it must allege facts that, prima facie at least, show there has been either an occupation of its property under s. 32.10, or a taking, which must be compensated under the constitution. Howell Plaza, Inc. v. State Highway Comm.
66 Wis. 2d 720
226 N.W.2d 185
The owners of private wells ordered by the department of natural resources to seal them because of bacteriological danger are not entitled to compensation because such orders are a proper exercise of the state's police power to prevent a public harm, for which compensation is not required. Village of Sussex v. Dept. of Natural Resources,
68 Wis. 2d 187
228 N.W.2d 173
There must be a "taking" of property to justify compensation. DeBruin v. Green County,
72 Wis. 2d 464
241 N.W.2d 167
Condemnation powers are discussed. Falkner v. Northern States Power Co.
75 Wis. 2d 116
248 N.W.2d 885
Ordering a utility to place its power lines under ground in order to expand an airport constituted a taking because the public benefited from the enlarged airport. Public Service Corp. v. Marathon County,
75 Wis. 2d 442
249 N.W.2d 543
For inverse condemnation purposes, a taking can occur absent a physical invasion only when there is a legally imposed restriction upon the property's use. Howell Plaza, Inc. v. State Highway Comm.
92 Wis. 2d 74
284 N.W.2d 887
The doctrine of sovereign immunity cannot bar an action for just compensation based on the taking of private property for public use even though the legislature has failed to establish specific provisions for recovery of just compensation. Zinn v. State,
112 Wis. 2d 417
334 N.W.2d 67
Zoning classifications may unconstitutionally deprive property owners of due process of law. State ex rel. Nagawicka Is. Corp. v. Delafield,
117 Wis. 2d 23
343 N.W.2d 816
(Ct. App. 1983).
Ordering a riparian owner to excavate and maintain a ditch to regulate a lake level was an unconstitutional taking of property. Otte v. DNR,
142 Wis. 2d 222
418 N.W.2d 16
(Ct. App. 1987).
The operation of this section is discussed. W.H. Pugh Coal Co.
157 Wis. 2d 620
460 N.W.2d 787
(Ct. App. 1990).
A taking by government restriction occurs only if the restriction deprives the owner of all or practically all use of property. Busse v. Dane County Regional Planning Comm.
181 Wis. 2d 527
510 N.W.2d 136
(Ct. App. 1993).
A taking claim is not ripe for judicial review until the government agency charged with implementing applicable regulations has made a final decision applying the regulations to the property at issue. Taking claims based on equal protection or due process grounds must meet the ripeness requirement. Streff v. Town of Delafield,
190 Wis. 2d 348
526 N.W.2d 822
(Ct. App. 1994).
Damage to property is not compensated as a taking. For flooding to be a taking it must constitute a permanent physical occupation of property. Menick v. City of Menasha,
200 Wis. 2d 737
547 N.W.2d 778
(Ct. App. 1996), 95-0185.
A constructive taking occurs when government regulation renders a property useless for all practical purposes. Taking jurisprudence does not allow dividing the property into segments and determining whether rights in a particular segment have been abrogated. Zealy v. City of Waukesha,
201 Wis. 2d 365
548 N.W.2d 528
(1996), 93-2381.
Section 32.10 does not govern inverse condemnation proceedings seeking just compensation for a temporary taking of land for public use. Such takings claims are based directly on this section. Anderson v. Village of Little Chute,
201 Wis. 2d 467
549 N.W.2d 561
(Ct. App. 1996), 95-1677.
The mandate of just compensation cannot be limited by statute or barred by sovereign immunity. Just compensation is not measured by the economic benefit to the state resulting from the taking, but by the property owner's loss. Just compensation is for property presently taken and necessarily means the property's present value presently paid, not its present value to be paid at some future time without interest. Retired Teachers Association v. Employee Trust Funds Board,
207 Wis. 2d 1
558 N.W.2d 83
(1997), 94-0712.
When the state's constitution and statutes are silent as to the distribution of excess proceeds received when a tax lien is foreclosed on and the property is subsequently sold by the municipality, the municipality may constitutionally retain the proceeds as long as there has been notice sufficient to meet due process requirements. Due process does not require that notices state that should the tax lien be foreclosed and the property sold the municipality may retain all the proceeds. Ritter v. Ross,
207 Wis. 2d 476
558 N.W.2d 909
(Ct. App. 1996), 95-1941.
The reversal of an agency decision by a court does not convert an action that might have otherwise been actionable as a taking into one that is not. Once there has been sufficient deprivation of use of property, there has been a taking even though the property owner regains full use of the land through rescission of the restriction. Eberle v. Dane County Board of Adjustment,
227 Wis. 2d 609
595 N.W.2d 730
(1999), 97-2869.
When a regulatory taking claim is made, the plaintiff must prove: 1) a government restriction or regulation is excessive and therefore constitutes a taking; and 2) any proffered compensation is unjust. Eberle v. Dane County Board of Adjustment,
227 Wis. 2d 609
595 N.W.2d 730
(1999), 97-2869.
A condemnation of property for a highway that was never built because an alternative route was found constituted a temporary taking entitling the owner to compensation, but not to attorney fees as there is no authority to award fees for an action brought directly under this section. Stelpflug v. Town of Waukesha,
236 Wis. 2d 275
612 N.W.2d 700
, 97-3078.
A claimant who asserted ownership of condemned land, compensation for which was awarded to another as owner with the claimant having had full notice of the proceedings, could not institute an inverse condemnation action because the municipality had exercised its power of condemnation. Koskey v. Town of Bergen,
2000 WI App 140
237 Wis. 2d 284
614 N.W.2d 845
, 99-2192.
A property owner who acquires property knowing that permits are required for development cannot presume that the permits will be granted and assumes the risk of loss in the event of denial. R.W. Docks & Slips v. State,
2000 WI App 183
238 Wis. 2d 182
617 N.W.2d 519
, 99-2904.
The lessor under a long-term favorable lease who received no compensation for its leasehold interest under the unit rule when the fair market value of the entire property was determined to be zero was not denied the right to just compensation. City of Milwaukee VFW Post No. 2874 v. Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee,
319 Wis. 2d 553
768 N.W.2d 749
, 06-2866.
Article I, Section 13 protects a wide variety of property interests recognized by state law. Contract rights are not the sine qua non for a property interest in a state fund. Property interests arise from a much broader set of factors than contract rights. A contractual relationship is a source of property interests, and that principle remains sound, but case law recognizes a broader scope of participant interests. These interests derive directly from statutory language and from the nature and purpose of the trust created by statute. Wisconsin Medical Society v. Morgan,
328 Wis. 2d 469
787 N.W.2d 22
, 09-0728.
Health care providers have a constitutionally protected property interest in the injured patients and families compensation fund under s. 655.27, which defines the fund as an irrevocable trust, and the structure and purpose of which satisfy all the elements necessary to establish a formal trust. Because the health care providers are specifically named as beneficiaries of the trust, they have equitable title to the assets of the fund. The transfer of $200 million from the fund to another fund was an unconstitutional taking of private property without just compensation. Wisconsin Medical Society v. Morgan,
328 Wis. 2d 469
787 N.W.2d 22
, 09-0728.
A taking occurs in airplane overflight cases when government action results in aircraft flying over a landowner's property low enough and with sufficient frequency to have a direct and immediate effect on the use and enjoyment of the property. The government airport operator bears responsibility if aircraft are regularly deviating from FAA flight patterns and those deviations result in invasions of the superadjacent airspace of neighboring property owners with adverse effects on their property. Placing the burden on the property owners to seek enforcement against individual airlines or pilots would effectively deprive the owners of a remedy for such takings. Brenner v. City of New Richmond,
343 Wis. 2d 320
816 N.W.2d 291
, 10-0342.
A New York law that a landlord must permit a cable television company to install cable facilities upon property was a compensable taking. Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp.
State land use regulation preventing beachfront development that rendered an owner's land valueless constituted a taking. When a regulation foreclosing all productive economic use of land goes beyond what "relevant background principals," such as nuisance law, would dictate, compensation must be paid. Lucas v. S. Carolina Coastal Council,
120 L. Ed. 2d 798
Seizure of private property in a forfeiture action under a warrant issued at an ex parte hearing to establish probable cause that a crime subjecting the property to forfeiture was committed, while possibly satisfying the prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures, was a taking of property without due process. United States v. Good Real Estate,
126 L. Ed. 2d 490
A municipality requiring the dedication of private property for some future public use as a condition of obtaining a building permit must meet a "rough proportionality" test showing it made some individualized determination that the dedication is related in nature and extent to the proposed development. Dolan v. City of Tigard,
129 L. Ed. 2d 304
A taking claim is not barred by the mere fact that title to the property was acquired after the effective date of a state-imposed land use restriction. Palazzolo v. Rhode Island,
150 L. Ed. 2d 592
A temporary moratorium on development imposed during the development of a comprehensive plan did not constitute a
per se
taking. Compensation is required when a regulation denies an owner all economically beneficial use of land. An interest in property consists of the metes and bounds of the property and the term of years that describes the owner's interest. Both dimensions must be considered in determining whether a taking occurred. A fee simple interest cannot be rendered valueless by a temporary prohibition on use. Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency,
, 152 L. Ed. 2d. 517 (2002).
Regulatory takings jurisprudence aims to identify regulatory actions that are functionally equivalent to classic takings in which government directly appropriates private property or ousts the owner from his or her domain. Each applicable test focuses upon the severity of the burden that government imposes upon private property rights. In this case lower courts struck down a rent control statute applicable to company owned gas stations as an unconstitutional regulatory taking based solely upon a finding that it did not substantially advance the state's asserted interest in controlling retail gasoline prices. The "substantially advances" test prescribes an inquiry in the nature of a due process, not a takings, test that has no proper place in takings jurisprudence. Lingle v. Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
161 L. Ed. 2d 876
125 S. Ct. 2074
The State may transfer property from one private party to another if there is a public purpose for the taking. Without exception, cases have defined the concept of public purpose broadly, reflecting a longstanding policy of deference to legislative judgments in this field. It would be incongruous to hold that a city's interest in the economic benefits to be derived from the development of an area has less of a public character than any other public interests. Clearly, there is no basis for exempting economic development from the traditionally broad understanding of public purpose. Kelo v. New London,
L. Ed. 2d 439,
125 S. Ct. 2655
Under Wisconsin eminent domain law, courts apply the unit rule, which prohibits valuing individual property interests or aspects separately from the property as a whole. When a parcel of land is taken by eminent domain, the compensation award is for the land itself, not the sum of the different interests therein. Hoekstra v. Guardian Pipeline, LLC,
2006 WI App 245
298 Wis. 2d 165
726 N.W.2d 648
, 03-2809.
The lessor under a long-term favorable lease who received no compensation for its leasehold interest under the unit rule when the fair market value of the entire property was determined to be zero was not denied the right to just compensation. City of Milwaukee VFW Post No. 2874 v. Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee,
319 Wis. 2d 553
768 N.W.2d 749
, 06-2866.
Consequential damages to property resulting from governmental action are not compensable under Article I, Section 13 or the takings clause of the 5th amendment. Here, the government did not physically occupy the plaintiff's property or use it in connection with the project in question, and the public obtained no benefit from the damaged property. Rather, the property was damaged as a result of alleged negligent construction. Accordingly, there was only damage, without appropriation to the public purpose. Such damage is not recoverable in a takings claim but instead sounds in tort. E-L Enterprises, Inc. v. Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District,
326 Wis. 2d 82
785 N.W.2d 409
, 08-0921.
The backing of water so as to overflow the lands of an individual, or any other superinduced addition of water, earth, sand, or other material, if done under statutes authorizing it for the public benefit, is a taking within the meaning of Art. I, sec. 13. Pumpelly v. Green Bay and Miss. Canal Co. 13 Wall. (U.S.) 166.
Government induced flooding, temporary in duration, gains no automatic exemption from takings clause inspection. When regulation or temporary physical invasion by government interferes with private property time is a factor in determining the existence of a compensable taking. Arkansas Game and Fish Commission v. United States, 568 U.S. ____,
133 S. Ct. 511
184 L. Ed. 2d 417
Precedents enable permitting authorities to insist that applicants bear the full costs of their development proposals while still forbidding the government from engaging in "out-and-out . . . extortion that would thwart the Fifth Amendment right to just compensation." The government may choose whether and how a permit applicant is required to mitigate the impacts of a proposed development, but it may not leverage its legitimate interest in mitigation to pursue governmental ends that lack an essential nexus and rough proportionality to those impacts. Extortionate demands for property in the land use permitting context run afoul of the takings clause not because they take property but because they impermissibly burden the right not to have property taken without just compensation. Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District, 570 U.S. ___ (2013).
Compensation for lost rents. 1971 WLR 657.
Feudal tenures; leases; alienation.
All lands within the state are declared to be allodial, and feudal tenures are prohibited. Leases and grants of agricultural land for a longer term than fifteen years in which rent or service of any kind shall be reserved, and all fines and like restraints upon alienation reserved in any grant of land, hereafter made, are declared to be void.
Equal property rights for aliens and citizens
No distinction shall ever be made by law between resident aliens and citizens, in reference to the possession, enjoyment or descent of property.
Imprisonment for debt.
No person shall be imprisoned for debt arising out of or founded on a contract, expressed or implied.
Section 943.20 (1) (e), which criminalizes the failure to return rented personal property, does not unconstitutionally imprison one for debt. State v. Roth,
115 Wis. 2d 163
339 N.W.2d 807
(Ct. App. 1983).
This section only prohibits imprisonment for debt arising out of or founded upon a contract. A court imposed support order is not a debt on a contract and prosecution and incarceration for criminal nonsupport does not violate this section. State v. Lenz,
230 Wis. 2d 529
602 N.W.2d 172
(Ct. App. 1999), 99-0860.
Exemption of property of debtors.
The privilege of the debtor to enjoy the necessary comforts of life shall be recognized by wholesome laws, exempting a reasonable amount of property from seizure or sale for the payment of any debt or liability hereafter contracted.
Freedom of worship; liberty of conscience; state religion; public funds.
As amended Nov. 1982
] The right of every person to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of conscience shall never be infringed; nor shall any person be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry, without consent; nor shall any control of, or interference with, the rights of conscience be permitted, or any preference be given by law to any religious establishments or modes of worship; nor shall any money be drawn from the treasury for the benefit of religious societies, or religious or theological seminaries. [
1979 J.R. 36, 1981 J.R. 29, vote Nov. 1982
A statute authorizing a contract requiring the state to pay an amount to a Catholic university for the education of dental students violated the establishment clause by permitting the use of funds paid by the state to be used in support of the operating costs of the university generally and violated the free exercise clause by requiring regulations as to management and hiring by the university that were not restricted to the dental school. Warren v. Nusbaum,
55 Wis. 2d 316
198 N.W.2d 650
It is outside the province of a civil court to review the merits of a determination of a duly authorized ecclesiastical tribunal that has adhered to prescribed canonical procedure and that results in terminating a clergyman's relationship with his church. Olston v. Hallock,
55 Wis. 2d 687
201 N.W.2d 35
This section is not violated by s. 118.155, which accommodates rather than restricts the right of students to religious instruction, does not compel any student to participate in religious training, and does not involve the use or expenditure of public funds, especially when the electorate approved an amendment to art. X, sec. 3, specifically authorizing enactment of a released time statute. State ex rel. Holt v. Thompson,
66 Wis. 2d 659
225 N.W.2d 678
For purposes of 121.51 (4), 1981 stats. [now s. 121.51 (1)], and in the absence of fraud or collusion, when a religious school demonstrates by its corporate charter and bylaws that it is independent of, and unaffiliated with, a religious denomination, further inquiry by the state would violate Art. I, sec. 18. Holy Trinity Community School v. Kahl,
82 Wis. 2d 139
262 N.W.2d 210
Refusal on religious grounds to send children to school was held to be a personal, philosophical choice by parents, rather than a protected religious expression. State v. Kasuboski,
87 Wis. 2d 407
275 N.W.2d 101
(Ct. App. 1978).
The primary effect of health facilities authority under ch. 231, which fiances improvements for private, nonprofit health facilities, does not advance religion, nor does the chapter foster excessive entanglement between church and state. State ex rel. Wis. Health Fac. Auth. v. Lindner,
91 Wis. 2d 145
280 N.W.2d 773
Meals served by a religious order, in carrying out their religious work, were not, under the circumstances, subject to Wisconsin sales tax for that portion of charges made to guests for lodging, food, and use of order's facilities. Kollasch v. Adamany,
104 Wis. 2d 552
313 N.W.2d 47
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The scientific breakthrough you most hope to see in your lifetime
And yes, this question assumes that nobody comes up with a way for us to live forever (although you never know). But seriously, there are a ton of scientific projects making exciting progress right this instant — personalized medicine, the search for dark matter, and so on. If you could only pick one breakthrough that you'd get to see before you croaked, what'd it be?
I'm going to go "big but realistic" here, mostly because I'm obsessed with this specific branch of research. But regenerative medicine has made huge, huge strides in a very brief period of time — and I think it's only the beginning. So I'm hoping to see regenerative medicine break into the mainstream in an enormous way, with lab-grown cells or organs available "on-demand" and tailored for specific patients. Need a new kidney? Done. Desperate for a fresh heart? Replacement is ready. Obviously, this would have absolutely enormous implications (fodder for another forum thread) of which I can hardly even start to wrap my head around.


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A bunch of small screen news cropped up over the past week, so let's just take a little breather on the first day of summer to round it all up...
First up, the Sam Mendes and John Logan produced Showtime series "Penny Dreadful" has found a helmer to get it off the ground. "The Impossible" director Juan Antonio Bayona will get behind the first two episodes of the eight-episode season. The psychological horror drama series weaves together classic characters -- Dracula, Dorian Gray, Dr. Frankenstein -- into a wholly original tale. Ambitious stuff indeed. A first season order is already on the books and production will begin in the fall. [THR]
Jonathan Demme has been doing some small screen work of late, helming episodes of "Enlightened" and "A Gifted Man," and now he's jumping over to AMC. The network is headed into sci-fi territory with "Line Of Sight," with the story following " Lewis Bernt, a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator who survives a mysterious plane crash, bringing him on an emotionally disorienting quest to discover the accident's cause." Demme will direct the pilot. [Deadline]
On the acting side of things, Liv Tyler has joined Damon Lindelof's brewing HBO effort "The Leftovers." She'll join Justin Theroux in the series, which is based on the book by Tom Perrotta ("Little Children"), set in the town of Mapleton, whose citizens have survived The Rapture, and continue to live on, while hundreds of their neighbors have disappeared....to somewhere. Tyler will play a young woman, about to get married, who becomes the ensnared in a cult. Peter Berg will helm the pilot. [Deadline]
Lastly, John Hurt is reteaming with his "Hellboy" director Guillermo Del Toro, and joining Corey Stoll and Mia Maestro in "The Strain." Based on the novels by Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, the show will focus on a vampire outbreak in the United States and those trying to contain it. Hurt will play a Holocaust survivor and pawn shop owner who may have the answers. Production begins later this year. [Deadline]
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Liv Tyler--- aaahhh what a girl. A rare almost unique occurrence. she has the virtues a female should - femininity, charm, grace, vulnerability, innocence, nurturing, caring, cooking, making home, looking after family, generosity.
I would love to please & pleasure her in any & every way she wants. i would do it as often, as much, as long as she desires it. i'd pleasure her like no woman has ever been pleasured before. i'd take her all the way to heaven & back - again & again & again. i would give her fulfillment, joy, pure bliss, and i would keep giving it to her until every bit of her being was gratified.
and if she dressed as Arwen --- o hello ..... ding dong. I'd start all over again !


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Recently Philip decided it was time to call for some attention.I happen to agree with him on the need to focus on developer experience, that's why I organized the first hackfest on this topic last year and attended this year. There are plenty of conversations around this and Philip, if you care so much, maybe you could attend or help, there's a lot to do and so few hands.
I've been asked to remove your blog by several people and I've reached the conclusion that it would be a really bad idea because it would set the wrong precedence and it would shift the discussion to the wrong topic (censorship yadda yadda). Questioning OPW should be allowed. The problem with your post is that if not questioned by other people (as many have done already) it would send the wrong message to the public and prospect GSoC, OPW and general contributors. Your blog was the wrong place to question and your wording makes it clear that you have misunderstandings about how the community works.
You want to make things better? Why don't you start by learning how to work with others and contributing yourself? You think we need better leadership? Why don't you learn what it takes to become a leader? (hint: your blog post doesn't help)
Perhaps your lack of contact with the overall project and your abscence from most events makes you not realize how possitive OPW has been, OPW has been a lot more successful than GSoC in retaining contributors and bringing diversity to our contributor base (and I don't mean gender diversity, but diversity in the nature of those contributions). I happen to have a pretty good picture of this because I get to manage the blogs of the people who stay and the people who leave. Without OPW GNOME would be worse community wise and project wise and this is not an opinion, it is a _hard data_ backed fact (other posts have enumerated the contributions that would have not happened otherwise so I will not do that here).
There are plenty of questions that I think are healthy to ask: for how long do we do OPW? Is its success only due to it being targetted to women or is it successful for something else? You should have a conversation with Marina and other people involved with OPW and gather an understanding before making assumptions and throwing assertions. And you should respect what people chooses to do within the project, it's their goddamn time after all. In open source no one gets to dictate what nobody does (though alignment is always good if can be achieved), people work in what they think its important and they try to do it together.
I think you should also watch this video, it might give you some understanding on why GNOME is as responsible for equality as any other entity.
Two weeks ago I flew to Berlin for the 2nd GNOME Developer Experience hackfest.
The event was quite productive and allowed us to move things forward in different fronts. There has been many blog posts about most of the on goings so I'll stick to what I did.
I joined the discussions about the data model APIs with Ryan and Lars and tried (and failed) to include some new widgets in Glade (GtkStack). Turns out it's not as simple as I thought and that there was already a patch in the works for this so I gave that bullet up.
Later on I sat down with Tomeu to try to revive my former attempts to revamp the API reference documentation UI a bit. He managed to produce a set of JSON files I could use to produce the UI from. My intention is to create a web frontend that works mostly client-side and is off-line friendly (pre fetching all the content) for later use. This could potentially enable a DevHelp replacement through a Web (Epiphany) App.
I have some code working using jQuery, I would like to eventually switch to AngularJS as it has built-in templating support, currently I am generating quite a bit of HTML myself and that would eventually become a maintenance/styling nightmare.
While working on a side project I was confronted with the problem of serving a JSON object to potentially tens of thousands of users representing the state of the app (think you are following the results of an election live and you want data to be updated every second).
The web service is really simple, it grabs the payload from the data store (disk/Redis/Mongo), uploads it every second, and serves the content accordingly.
Initially I implemented this using Python and Flask, I must admit that I didn't try too hard to get the data in an async fashion since it wasn't obvious how to do this with Flask. Using twisted could have been a better choice.
Initially I attempted to use Varnish as a front-line HTTP cache with promising results, however using HTTPS became a requirement pretty soon (due to CORS policies) so I had to discard Varnish rather quickly.
However I took the opportuninty to teach myself Go which I knew it had pretty good support for concurrent operations and that the Google guys already have a success story serving static data with it. Boy have I been surprised.
Take the simplest form of an HTTP server that serves a common JSON payload for all the requests:
Note that it reads the data just once from a json file in the disk. No updates every second, for the sake of showing how well Go can do as a static HTTP server, these are the performance results using httpress on my ThinkPad T430s (i7-3520M 2.90GHz/8GB of RAM):
$ ./httpress -n 100000 -c 1000 -t 6 -k http://localhost:8080
TOTALS: 1000 connect, 100000 requests, 100000 success, 0 fail, 1000 (1000) real concurrency
TRAFFIC: 4195 avg bytes, 109 avg overhead, 419532658 bytes, 10900000 overhead
TIMING: 3.752 seconds, 26646 rps, 112007 kbps, 37.5 ms avg req time
That's 26646 request per second with 1000 concurrent keep-alive connections in 6 parallel threads without doing anything special, I must say that I'm impressed that the Go developers have put so much effort in their built-in HTTP server implementation.
Now that Go started to look as a viable option, let's see how it behaves as a HTTPS server. Here's the link to the modifications to turn the previous example into an HTTPS service, note that you have to generate the certificates.
TOTALS: 1000 connect, 100000 requests, 99862 success, 138 fail, 862 (862) real concurrency
TRAFFIC: 3994 avg bytes, 109 avg overhead, 398848828 bytes, 10884958 overhead
TIMING: 22.621 seconds, 4414 rps, 17688 kbps, 226.5 ms avg req time
Damn you secure webs! That's a big downgrade in performance... 4k rps now. This made me realize that this new security scheme for cross site content implemented in browsers is going to kill a lot of trees. At this point I wanted to investigate further for possibilities boost this up.
My suspicion is that the TLS handling inside Go's net/http has some chances to be improved, but I didn't want to get my hands dirty there, so I started to think about off-the-shelf alternatives.
I stumbled upon Cherokee's front-line cache by reverse HTTP feature which is really easy to setup thanks to the cherokee-admin interface. This means that I run my original plain HTTP Go implementation as-is behind Cherokee so that it handles the TLS by itself.
These are the results:
TOTALS: 1523 connect, 100000 requests, 99511 success, 489 fail, 1000 (981) real concurrency
TRAFFIC: 8635 avg bytes, 142 avg overhead, 859277485 bytes, 14131208 overhead
TIMING: 12.975 seconds, 7669 rps, 65735 kbps, 130.4 ms avg req time
There's quite an improvement in latency, though the requests per second improvement while worth the while is not as big as I would have expected.
And these are my findings so far, I want to try to configure Cherokee so that it only talks to the backend server once every second and cache the requests that way, haven't figured that out yet.
As per my experience with Go, it has been mostly pleasant, it's nice to have a mix of low level and high level features in the language, though it has some things that are quite confusing for a C/Python/Vala guy like myself. Eventually I will post some notes about the synchronization primitives I've used in the implementation of the service that gets the data from Redis every second.
Evolution just branched for 3.11 starting what would be the latest release under the 6 month cadence. As announced before, Evo is going for a 1 year release cycle that the team thinks is going to enable them to improve things dramatically moving forward.
This also means that there's some pressure to make Evolution 3.12 rock in terms of stability and basic features as this is a version that is going to be used for a whole year by users.
This is why we think this is the right time to join the team and help. If you have specific areas that you want to help with let us know.
We also have a couple of issues we think are an easy one to start if you are already familiar with Gtk+/GObject development in C.
We have a Canvas based widget that we would like to replace with either GtkCalendar or a fork of the GtkCalendar widget so that we get all the a11y niceties from a native Gtk+ widget. If you have experience developing Widgets in Gtk+ this should be an easy one, it is also a great opportunity to learn how to do widget development so if you haven't done so in the past, we can definitively help you if you want to take the chance to learn.
A sizable amount of icons are utterly outdated, a gentle artist touch would be greatly appreciated. Notice the Notes and Memos icons, the Attachment and the Appointment icons in the mail list, and also the still-not-symbolic looking glass and brush in the search entry:
There are a few GNOME Goals where Evo and/or EDS are lagging behind:
There are plenty of areas where you can help as well, if you are a UX/UI designer there are plenty of areas in Evo that could use some help like the appointment/meeting editor, here's a list of low hanging fruits:
If you are interested in any of these suggestions or if you have other ideas or skills you would like to offer to the community and help making Evo 3.12 rock just join us at #evolution in GIMPNet's IRC or join the evolution-hackers mailing list.
GNOME has just launched its official GitHub mirror!
This is an idea that has been in the back of my head for quite a while, my motivation started after I found out that someone fixed my webp pixbuf loader out of the blue without me even advertising the project. That made me realize the value of tracking who forks what and what they do with those forks. Coding and not being in GitHub these days is pretty much like being a photographer and not being in Flickr.
The aim of the mirror is just to allow people to work and publicize their branches and for maintainers to be able to lurk around and find out what are people doing either with branches inside the same repo (through the branch comparison tool) or in other forks.
Issues and wikis are disabled, pull requests can't be disabled but they will be ignored, this mirror has no intention whatsoever to modify the current contribution/review workflow that GNOME has in place.
Other nice side effects is that if our severs and our backup go to /dev/null, we still have a centralized copy of all the repositories.
As per people concerned about the fact that github is a closed source service, I have a few things to highlight: this is just a mirror, we won't rely on them for any of our activities. Also, GitHub has contributed a great deal of their infrastructure code to the free software commons and they offer a free and very valuable service to anyone who has a free software project. I hope that this alleviates any concerns with regards to this topic.
I would like to thank the GitHub staff for being so helpful, Juanje for his help on the initial scripts and Andrea Veri for his support from the GNOME infrastructure side of things!
GUADEC 2013 is over and it was a blast, kudos to the organizers and the whole community for making it a great success.
As I announced previously an Evolution Hackfest took place on the 5th and it was quite a productive and eventful meeting.
A lot was covered but here are the highlights:
As announced by mbarnes in the mailing list, we agreed that the 6 months release schedule was harming to the current state of Evolution, it needs several major rewrites in several components, and the 6 months cadence is stopping that from happening.
The plan is to have 3.12 be the last release following this schedule and to have a release in 2015 in sync with GNOME 3.16. In 2015 we should be able to evaluate if we want to stick to the yearly release cycle or if we want to switch back to 6 month releases.
Tomas Popela is working hard in providing a WebKit composer by 3.12. The current work is based on WebKit1. The agreed plan is to aim on having a WebKit2 based mail composer/renderer by 3.12 and to deprecate gtkhtml by then.
We also agreed to enable this composer by default on master.
Milan and Fabiano are the two people currently working on this. EWS is the HTTP API that Exchange > 2003 provides. The plan for now is to work full steam towards feature completion for the Exchange 2013 server EWS protocol. We also talked about using Philipp Whitnall's tools to record/replay HTTP traffic and use it for unit/regression testing within evolution-ews.
We would love to see something similar to Philipp Whitnall's approach to record HTTP traffic applied to other protocols such as IMAP, SMTP, POP and LDAP. People with suggestions as to how to approach this and willing to help is more than welcome!
GNOME Canvas is still used in several UI components within the Evolution shell, namely the calendar view and the addressbook. Some people argue that right now everything is mostly done with cairo so switching to a drawing area might just work in the short term.
Moving forward, to have a full featured widget with a11y support the plan is to use WebKitGTK+ to provide a rework of those widgets. With the resources we have at hand right now it is not realistic to expect this to happen before Evolution 2015.
For the sake of robustness and allow other mail clients and infrastructure pieces (shell) to use EDS for email handling, Srinivasa Ragavan has been working on a patch to split the email handling infrastructure from Evolution and merge it into EDS.
This is something everyone seemed excited to see happening, the plan right now is to see if Srinivasa and Tristan can find the time to implement this during the Evolution 2015 development phase.
There are tons of low hanging fruits within the Evolution shell that could be improved, here is a non comprehensive list of things that we mentioned:
A more complex task would be to come up with a proper threading view for mail conversations, but this won't be a low hanging fruit at all. Probably something for 2015 or 2016 depending on how many people we have contributing.
I think everyone was really happy with the outcome of the hackfest, the next 18 months are going to be a fun ride. 3.12 is promising to be a great and stable release and 2015 has the chance to deliver the great email experience that the free desktop deserves.
I would like to thank everyone who showed up, apart from Red Hat, we had representatives from SUSE, Intel, Collabora and several community members. I hope I can start showing the progress being made by the community soon!
I am having a blast during the first few sessions at GUADEC.
I should mention that the Evolution team is organizing an Evolution hackfest on Monday. Most of the current Evolution team will be there (Matthew, Milan, Fabiano, Tomas...). We have cool plans for Evolution going forward, namely making it more stable and adding long overdue features. The MS Exchange support based on Microsfot's EWS is coming along really nicely in 3.8 and we expect to get even further feature wise for 3.10. Tomas Popela is working hard to get the webkit based composer in place and get rid of gtkhtml. Milan is killing bugs like a machine. And Matthew is working in major refactor and code cleanup work to make the project more maintainable.
As you can see, loads of awesome stuff going on, but we need help!
I am specially interested in getting input from designers and having a more concrete set of goals to incrementally improve Evolution's user experience. The calendar view and making the inbox view more thread friendly would be a great start.
Join us and help us make Evolution rock and roll!
This is some news I have been wanting to share with my friends and the community for quite a while, starting on the 15th of June I will be working for Red Hat.
I will be filling Christian's position before he got promoted to lead the entire desktop group, that means I will be managing the engineers working on Evolution, Firefox and LibreOffice. This means that I will be closer to the tree upstreams I have cared the most for my entire career: GNOME, Mozilla and LibreOffice (and OO.o before them) and I get to do it in one of the greatest companies of the open source ecosystem.
I will be moving to Brno, Czech Republic, to work along side 600 redhatters in the European engineering HQs, also, this means I don't have to figure out flights and accommodation for GUADEC this year ;-)
I can't express how thrilled I am for being given this chance. This has been, however, one of the hardest decisions I had to make in my entire life.
Moving to Dublin when I was 22 to work for Sun was certainly easy, I was fed up with college at that point, I never left home before and I was young enough so that my decisions did not necessarily affect how the next 10 years would look like. It turned out quite well, I loved working for Sun and learned a lot, my English improved quite a lot and spent probably one of the best years of my life (2008).
Moving to Manchester from Dublin to work for Codethink in 2009 was also somewhat easy, most of my friends left or where about to leave Dublin and things at Sun were starting to get a bit stiff because of the acquisition process from Oracle. It was a good move after all and I fell in love with the UK and Manchester as a place to live. I also learned a great deal alongside Rob and the rest of the Codethink bunch.
However this time is different, I am 29 (yeah I know, not an old fart yet, but still...) I came back to Gran Canaria and started working for Canonical a year and a half ago after 5 years abroad, I rebuilt my social circles, I am closer to my family, I've just lost 15kg recently and I am going through a very happy stage of my life now, not to mention that moving to a country whose language I'm far from barely speaking is certainly frightening.
It's the first time this kind of move feels like a sacrifice to me, but my gut feeling keeps telling me that it will be worth it, and it has never failed me before for these kind of matters.
Exciting and challenging times ahead!
Next Wednesday, April 24th, will be my last day at Canonical.
During these 18 months I've met a great bunch of people and I've been part of a worthwhile project, to bring free software to the consumer space, something I hope they achieve even if I am not part of the team anymore.
It has been an amazing ride and I think I've grown quite a lot as an engineer in the meantime, I am very greatful for their trust and support and I will miss the vibe during sprints, the colleagues and friends I've made during this time.
So what's next you ask? You'll know soon enough, all I can say for now is that after the 24th I will have some time for myself and I will sort things out before my next gig.
A while ago I had a discussion with Benjamin on IRC about the health of the GTK+ project, he seems pretty pessimistic about the state of GNOME in general and GTK+ in particular, and I showed my disagreement. Now don't get me wrong, there are challenges and I do share some concerns. Mostly, the fact that programming and delivering GNOME apps these days is way too complicated compared to other development platforms, consuming and viewing large online datasets and the lack of a coherent set of widgets and guidelines for touch driven devices are among those. Some of these issues will be covered at the DX hackfest of course and I'm certain that we will find solutions in the long term.
Benjamin raised that there seems to be less and less GTK+ hackers, and strongly disagreed with that fact, I perceive a lot more people doing stuff in GTK+ and GNOME than when I joined GNOME back in 2004. However, he caught me at something, I did not have numbers to back that up, and he was right, without actual data, I was just basing my opinion on perception. This is one of those times where I am glad that data backs up my gut feeling, I wrote down a little script to count the number of different contributors on each GNOME release (or each 6 months on pre-2.0 times).
These are the results:
Notice that on top of the total contributors I have also plotted the amount of translations. I have to say that we have an outstanding group of translators who are doing a remarkable job in the GNOME community, however while the amount of translators reflects the good health of our translators community, it does not really reflect the health of the project code wise, therefore I decided to do another chart with just code contributions:
This chart shows what my gut feelings told me already, a lot of people are contributing to GTK+ these days, more than ever. There are a few points in time where contributions have risen up noticeably, one is in the 2.18 release, which I suspect has to do with the adoption of Subversion over CVS, and the other one is during the 3.0 release.
All in all, there seems to be a rough average of 60 people contributing code on each release, this has enormous potential. Of course, a lot of these contributions are small, but it means that a lot of people find it possible to contribute code which means that this perception that people are running away from core GTK+ development is not true. In fact, it has only gotten better steadily during the past few years.
Not only in terms of people contributing patches, but 3.x has been an outstanding release series (though a bit bumpy stability wise), CSS theming and a new cairo based theming API, the broadway and wayland backends, file and font chooser improvements, a massive code cleanup in several places... the list just goes on. Not to mention that the grounds for 4.0 are being settled already like the paint clock work by Owen and the work Emmanuele has been doing on Clutter 2.0.
I remember that back in 2004, the sole suggestion of adding a new widget to the toolkit was received very negatively by the maintainers (for good reasons at the time), that is not the case anymore, things are at an optimal stage to get the improvements we need in.
At the end of the day is up to us to see the cup half empty or half full, FOSS communities are a lot about enthusiasm so I think we are better off making an effort at looking at the bright side of life and stop ourselves from actively undermining others people's enthusiasm, the worst thing we can do if we love GNOME is to let people think that there is no point in investing our time and passion in it.
So all in all, I think that there are challenges, but we have loads opportunities to improve as well. We have many facts to celebrate and be excited about.
Let's keep on rocking.


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No doubt others have posted this news elsewhere already, but today the mountains tried to take out Jens! Voigt, yet again, but this time the mountains failed! SHUT UP MOUNTAINS! You will not break Jens!
Apparently Jens! blew a tire 2 km down the descent of the Col de Peyresourde, at speed, and down he went. Luckily he was able to solider on and finish with the groupetto. He tells the story in true Jens! style at his blog.
Check out the post-race interview here as well as a photo of Jens! on his temp bike that cannot be missed


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Cree LED bulbs light up San Francisco Bay bridge
June 20, 2014
(WRAL TechWire)
Durham-based LED lighting company Cree supplied more than 51,000 bulbs for the new East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in California. Cree says the LED bulbs will last 15 years and will cut energy costs for the bridge by 50%.
Brad Daugherty to open Asheville restaurant
June 20, 2014
(Asheville Citizen-Times)
Black Mountain native Brad Daugherty will open Daugherty's American Kitchen and Drink, a seafood-heavy "casual-upscale" restaurant in south Asheville on July 16. It will be the first restaurant for the former NBA star and NASCAR analyst.
Judge rules SEC case against BofA can move forward
June 20, 2014
(The Charlotte Observer)
A federal judge ruled the Securities and Exchange Commission can proceed with a lawsuit filed in August against Bank of America over the sale of mortgage-backed bonds that were riskier than investors were told.
Charlotte leaders learn how Minneapolis landed the Super Bowl
June 20, 2014
(The Charlotte Observer)
The Charlotte Chamber, on its annual visit to explore how other U.S. cities are run, spent time with Minneapolis city leaders to learn how they won bidding for the 2018 Super Bowl. Minneapolis-St. Paul has a $1 billion stadium under construction that helped it win the bid over more experienced cities.
Eaton settles 10-year legal case involving Clemmons aerospace company
June 20, 2014
(Winston-Salem Journal)
Cleveland-based Eaton Corp. will pay $135.5 million to Berwyn, Pa.-based Triumph Group, parent company of a Clemmons-based aerospace company, to settle a 10-year-old legal battle. Eaton also will pay $12.2 million to six employees of Frisby Aerospace Corp. who had previously worked for Eaton.
Southern Pines businesses succeed at attracting U.S. Open fans
June 20, 2014
(The Fayetteville Observer)
Southern Pines city officials and business leaders say events including concerts and movies were successful at attracting U.S. Open fans to downtown and commercial districts.
Advance Auto Parts adding 600 jobs in Raleigh
June 19, 2014
(The News & Observer, Raleigh)
Advance Auto Parts will create 600 jobs with an average annual salary of $110,770 by 2017 at a corporate support center it plans to open in Raleigh. The Roanoke, Va.-based retailer will receive up to $17.4 million in state incentives if it meets hiring and investment goals. Advance acquired Raleigh-based General Parts International for more than $2 billion in January.
Report: 80% of jobs created in NC low-wage work
June 19, 2014
(Winston-Salem Journal)
A report issued Wednesday by the N.C. Justice Center says that 80% of jobs created in North Carolina from June 2009 to September 2013 paid less than $33,709 a year and more than 75,000 jobs paid less than $24,000 annually.
20-story hotel tower coming to Charlotte's EpiCentre
June 19, 2014
(The Charlotte Observer)
Developers expect to begin construction early next year on a 20-story, 302-room hotel tower at the EpiCentre entertainment complex in downtown Charlotte. The tower, which will house two Marriott hotels, will be developed by a partnership of Florida-based McKibbon Hotel Management and Charlotte-based Vision Ventures and Mount Vernon Asset Management.
Quarterly dividend still a penny for BofA shareholders
June 19, 2014
(The Charlotte Observer)
Bank of America announced Wednesday its shareholders will get a 1-cent per share dividend for the second quarter, the same as it has been since before the financial crisis. The bank had said it would increase the quarterly dividend to 5 cents a share, but later revised its plan after discovering it had miscalculated capital ratios.


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NAB Video: A Chat with Adobe Part 1 & 2
FreshDV sits down with Premiere Product Manager Al Mooney to discuss the latest from Adobe, including highlights from Premiere and their approach to providing "editing finesse" for users. They also talk about SpeedGrade integration, the Creative Cloud, the competition from Avid and Final Cut, GPU support, enhanced ProRes and DNXHD support, and the "link and locate" feature. Hit the jump for the videos:
Adobe strives to listen to the editing community and try to provide a tool that will serve professionals. How are they doing so far this year? Share your thoughts below.
We're all here for the same reason: to better ourselves as writers, directors, cinematographers, producers, photographers... whatever our creative pursuit. Criticism is valuable as long as it is constructive, but personal attacks are grounds for deletion; you don't have to agree with us to learn something. We're all here to help each other, so thank you for adding to the conversation!
Joran on 04.9.13 @ 4:25AM
Thanks for your coverage but can you please level your audio? The commercials in front and end are much louder then the interview :)
same here, thanks.
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Everything they (Adobe) make is not included in the Creative Cloud! FALSE
I'm glad he started off the interview by talking about how much they've been listening to their user base. It's really starting to become apparent in their last few releases.
It's so true. I feel like all the heavy hitters in that NFS post about what people want from the next premiere release were addressed. Yay adobe
They've finally got "join through edit" and "nudge clip vertically"??
Don't know how many dozens of feature requests I submitted on those…
That's my editing teacher! :D (Scott the interviewer)
JMosley3D on 04.9.13 @ 8:52PM
Being able to manually enable MPE and supporting more wider range of cuda or open GL graphics cards is huge. That's a big enough an improvement alone to warrant an upgrade.
Thomas on 04.10.13 @ 5:59AM
So Premiere is starting to get as good as FCP7? lol wow!
I do not want to do the cloud and was told by adobe that is the only way to use current adobe products. I for one feel duped that i have been paying for u[grades and versions and now am forced to pay 50 per month. Adobe is trying to make more money by force. In the past they said her is a great upgrade and you had a choice. Now they are saying if you want our software pay every month. They will dbl profits.
JMosley3D on 04.10.13 @ 1:26PM
You can still buy a full version of Adobe programs without the subscriptions: http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/buying-guide.html
And your also still allowed to upgrade your current adobe software (as long if it isn't too much out of date)
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Sorry if this reads like a commercial. But I think it would be fun for a bunch of us to get together for a baseball game and I figured it'd be a good chance to show you all what my team has to offer. Plus, let's face it, Phils tickets are super expensive this year.
As you all may know, I have illustrated a coloring book for the Lancaster Barnstormers. We're set to give out said coloring books on Sunday, June 12th at 1:30p.m. Recently, we decided that instead of giving the books out to just kids and having piles of them left over after the game, we're going to give them to EVERYONE! That is, if you're one of the first 1,500 people there. So if you'd like to come support me, watch some great baseball and get a free coloring book, check out www.lancasterbarnstormers.com for tickets.
Thanks to everyone who voted for my coloring book on Facebook back in March, it was greatly appreciated and the BSH turnout was awesome.
Also, since it is a Sunday game we have a deal called the Sunday Sliders ticket. It's all you can eat pulled pork sandwhiches, ribs, and all you can drink draft beer for 90 minutes before the game. Those are limited though so get those now!