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North River Campground is a slice of Americana, an old-fashioned lodge and campground that will take you back to movies on the lawn, swimming in a lake, and marshmallows toasted over an open fire.
Driving up to the North River Campground and RV Park in Shawboro, it's hard to believe that six years ago this place was a deteriorating hunting lodge that decent people avoided.
Today, freshly mulched beds bursting with mums surround a Halloween display at the entrance; a scarecrow completes the scene. Inside the grounds, campfires reflect on a lake surrounded by red maples. Campers relax under the stars.
Elton Sawyer rides the manicured grounds in a golf cart, checking on RV campers, commiserating with people whose rolling homes need repairs, and offering rides to the store. He points out one family who arrived planning to stay a night and now has been here more than a week.
Sawyer is happy to share stories like that. When he and his wife, Judy, bought the distressed property five years ago, few people had faith in their business sense. But the Sawyers believed in the area, and they saw what this place could be.
Wholesome getaway
Shawboro is one of those small towns along North Carolina's northeastern edges. It's beyond any significant population points but not quite on the coast. It's the kind of community that people pass through on their way to someplace else, like the Outer Banks.
The Sawyers have created a place worth a stop.
RVs surround the small, stocked lake. A neat lawn sweeps up to the lodge, small cabins, and spaces for tent campers. In the lodge, which offers a row of crisp rooms and studio suites, a small general store holds those things that go along with camping — marshmallows, bug spray, charcoal, and ice. In the restaurant right next door, guests can munch on pizza, barbecue, onion rings, and ice cream.
On pretty days, children hitch rides on the miniature train Elton drives across the grass. When the sun sets, campers line up on the lawn behind the lodge to watch movies on the outdoor screen. Some weekends welcome bluegrass festivals, and the Sawyers throw seasonal parties, like the costume party coming up this month.
At the end of a long drive, North River Campground is quiet, a nice place to stay in an area short on lodging options.
People from all over have discovered its charms. Guests from Germany, England, Austria, Denmark, and Bermuda have camped here, sometimes alongside locals, Judy says.
"We had some people from just up the road five miles who came and camped," she says. "They said it was like being 1,000 miles from home."
'Diamond in the rough'
The Sawyers, who lived at the other end of Camden County, were scouting out-of-state campgrounds to buy when they heard about the hunting and fishing lodge then known as Camden Acres.
Others saw only the problems: "Alcohol, drugs, prostitution, fights," Judy says. "It was a real hangout." Sheriff's deputies were called out regularly, and many locals were afraid to drive anywhere near the place.
Here's what they had after closing the sale in February 2005: no grass, geese taking over the pond, and common bathrooms in the lodge. Each room had beds, a towel rack, and curtains glued to the windows. The concrete floors were cracked, and half-inch openings under outside doors welcomed mice and insects. The health department wouldn't even give the Sawyers a rating — but did give them time to clean it up.
"It needed some TLC," Judy says. "It was a diamond in the rough."
The Sawyers cleaned and caulked. They put in a security gate. They sacrificed rooms to add bathrooms to every room.
They built their own home onto the lodge. Construction also added two meeting rooms with full kitchens. The
Camden County Sheriff's Department, no stranger to the place in its early incarnation, holds its annual meeting here.
Over time, the Sawyers added the restaurant, horseshoes, a volleyball net, miniature golf course, a video-game room, cabins, two new bathhouses, and a laundry room. For the lake, they brought in hydro bikes and pedal boats.
Their vision has transformed an area of Camden County that was once nearly forgotten.
North River Campground
256 Garrington Island Road
Shawboro, N.C. 27973
(252) 336-4414
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Thoughts on Florida GOP Debate
A few days late, but I've had time to gather my impressions and video clips of this recent debate.
To start, I was not impressed with the inclusion of video questions or revelations of Google search query analysis during breaks in the debate . By far, the worst offender of this debate – Wordles. Really, Wordles? That is so 2008.
It is entirely unacceptable to have faulty microphones distracting the debate with presidential contenders.
I say keep it simple, scrap the annoying tech nonsense and simply focus on the candidates.
All the candidates, with the exception of Rick Perry, performed as expected. Perry's fumbled attack on Romney is still painful to watch:
Herman Cain gave a stellar performance, and won the Florida GOP Straw Poll, but will it give his campaign the momentum to catapult into the front runner seat?
This exchange between Romney and Perry on Healthcare just rubs me the wrong way. After watching this, I have no confidence at all that Romney will work to repeal Obamacare, especially since recent revelations point out Obama's advisers considered Romneycare the platform design for Obamacare.
Michele Bachmann handled herself well in this debate, however, she did not stand out despite solid answers to questions posed to her from the moderators.
This clip also includes the infamous Don't Ask, Don't Tell question and Rick Santorum handled the question quite well. As for the booing incident, I will refer you to someone who was in the audience during the debate - Sunshine State Sarah. My blogging buddy, Jonn Lilyea, of the blog This Ain't Hell, deftly cuts through all the bull surrounding DADT:
And if Private Hill thinks that being gay is a more important part of his identity than being a soldier, he doesn't belong in the Army. I appreciate his service, but I don't appreciate the fact that he relishes the opportunity to shove his sexual preference in our face.
Three debates later and I still can't shake the idea that Newt Gingrich would make a kick butt cabinet member, not President:
After this debate, I've had no change in my top three candidates in this race so far. To date Bachmann, Perry, Romney still occupy the top spots. Herman Cain, however, is quickly rising in the charts. This may change dramatically if this dude jumps in the race.
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Posted onPreventing the spread of aquatic invasive species throughout freshwater lakes and rivers of the western United States has become a high priority, especially on the lower Colorado River, which has a growing population of quagga mussels.
The Lake Havasu Marine Association, in cooperation with Arizona Game and Fish, developed and initiated a grassroots plan, "Sticker A Mussel," to raise awareness and teach boaters how to prevent the contamination of other invasive species-free bodies of water.
The campaign, starting its sixth month, was chosen as one of seven proposals awarded funding by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for continuing the fight against quagga mussels.
"The program developed by the LHMA will serve to reduce the number of potentially contaminated boats from moving further into Arizona and California waters and from crossing state and tribal boundaries," David Britton, assistant aquatic nuisance species coordinator for the Fish & Wildlife Service, said in a statement. "The LHMA is one of the first and select few non-government, non-profit entities to be awarded such a grant in the four-year history of this program."
Jim Salscheider, the marine association's president and CEO, said its mission is to teach boaters to use the proper protocol of "clean, drain and dry" every time they use their boat.
"This is the only way to effectively prevent moving invasive species from one body of water to another," Salscheider said. "Our 'Sticker A Mussel' campaign is a visual reminder to boaters to follow those steps whenever they load their boat back onto the trailer. Because the sticker is placed on the tongue of the trailer in plain view it also has recognition value at California agricultural border inspection stations. Stickered trailers let inspectors know that boaters have a basic knowledge of the quagga mussel problem and the importance of maintaining a contamination-free boat and trailer."
The $25,500 grant allows the association to aggressively pursue resources to promote and fully implement the campaign. More than 2,200 boats/trailers have been stickered, the group said.
The association is actively soliciting additional volunteers to assist the campaign. Information is available by contacting Salscheider at (928) 208-2442 or by email at email@example.com.
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Democracy Now! Blog
"Funny Man in an Unfunny World"
The world lost one of its great comedians this week with the death at age 71 of George Carlin. Carlin had a career as a stand-up comic that spanned a half-century, in which he continually broke new ground, targeting those in power with his wit and genius.
"Weather Reports Are Missing the Story"
While the TV meteorologists document "extreme weather" with their increasingly sophisticated toolbox, from Doppler radar to 3-D animated maps, the two words rarely uttered are its cause: global warming.
"This Way to Better Media"
"This way to better media," read the floor sign directing people through a skyway to the Minneapolis Convention Center. Thousands of people gathered there for the fourth National Conference for Media Reform, hosted by freepress.net. They came from all walks of life and all ages to address a central crisis in our society: our broken media system. I was one of the invited speakers.
"Obama Strikes a Chord With a Disaffected Republican"
David Iglesias is an evangelical, Hispanic Republican—yes, that one, the former U.S. attorney for New Mexico—and he has positive things to say about Barack Obama.
"Utah Phillips Has Left the Stage"
"Utah" Phillips died this week at the age of 73. He was a musician, labor organizer, peace activist and co-founder of his local homeless shelter. He also was an archivist, a historian and a traveler, playing guitar and singing almost forgotten songs of the dispossessed and the downtrodden, and keeping alive the memory of labor heroes like Emma Goldman, Joe Hill and the Industrial Workers of the World, "the Wobblies," in a society that too soon forgets.
"Presidential Race Ignores Arms Race"
As the U.S. presidential race continues, so does the arms race worldwide. People—civilians, children—are being killed and maimed, on a daily basis, by unexploded cluster bombs and land mines. Thousands of nuclear missiles remain at hair-trigger alert. The U.S. government rattles its saber at Iran, alleging a nuclear-weapons program, while at the same time offering enriched uranium to Saudi Arabia.
"Whistle-Blower Points to Target List in U.S. Attack on Hotel"
A veteran of Army intelligence has shed new light on the military's 2003 shelling of the Palestine Hotel, a Baghdad home to many journalists, including two who were killed by that attack.
"The U.S. War on Journalists"
Sami al-Haj is a free man today, after having been imprisoned by the U.S. military for more than six years. His crime: journalism. Targeting journalists, the Bush administration has engaged in direct assault, intimidation, imprisonment and information blackouts to limit the ability of journalists to do their jobs. The principal target these past seven years has been Al-Jazeera, the Arabic television network based in Doha, Qatar.
"Ticker Tape Ain't Spaghetti"
Food riots are erupting around the world. Behind the hunger, behind the riots, are so-called free-trade agreements, and the brutal emergency-loan agreements imposed on poor countries by financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund.
"The Single-Payer Solution"
As the media coverage of the Democratic presidential race continues to focus on lapel pins and pastors, America is ailing.
"The Orangeburg Massacre"
Sen. Barack Obama is clearly a bad bowler. But it was not too long ago that African-Americans were not allowed in some bowling alleys. In Orangeburg, S.C., three young African-American men were killed for protesting against that town's segregated bowling alley.
"A Torture Debate Among Healers"
The American Psychological Association is in the midst of its own heated presidential campaign. The central issue is whether APA members should be banned from participating in "harsh interrogations."
"Where Do We Go From Here?"
It has been 40 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., while standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel. King was there to support striking sanitation workers, African-American men who endured horrible working conditions for poverty wages. While King's staff was opposed to him going, as they were scrambling to organize King's new initiative, the Poor People's Campaign, King himself knew that the sanitation workers were at the front lines of fighting poverty.
"Body of War"
We just passed the grim milestone of 4,000 U.S. military members killed in Iraq since the invasion five years ago. Still, the death toll climbs. Tomas Young was one of those injured, on April 4, 2004, in Sadr City. Young is the subject of a new feature documentary by legendary TV talk-show host Phil Donahue and filmmaker Ellen Spiro, called "Body of War."
Watch Democracy Now! Online
You can now watch Democracy Now! on the homepage of our newly redesigned website. Each morning we will post a video file of the current show in the center column of the page.
Watch our three most recent shows covering Winter Soldier: 3/17, 3/18, 3/19. We will be posting video for older shows in the coming days and weeks.
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"Winter Soldier Marches Again"
Last weekend, in the lead up to the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a remarkable gathering occurred just outside Washington, D.C., called Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations. Hundreds of veterans of these two wars, along with active-duty soldiers, came together to offer testimony about the horrors of war, including atrocities they witnessed or committed themselves.
David Paterson Sworn In First Black Governor of New York
A Cause Bigger Than Any Scandal
The women of New York had a champion in Eliot Spitzer. The good news in the wake of the governor's resignation is that his successor, David Paterson, and the state's activists are ready to keep up the fight.
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As Goes Vermont
While the Iraq war is off the front pages, and Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama embark on what may well be a scorched-earth primary battle against each other, let's keep our eye on where the real scorched earth lies: who profits and who dies.
Clinton proclaimed in her victory speech in Ohio on March 4, after winning three of the four primary contests that day, "as goes Ohio, so goes the nation." She should take note, however, of how goes Vermont. That state might be a better bellwether, especially concerning the U.S. quagmire in Iraq.
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Assessment Expo 2014
Synthesizing Assessment Methods
April 4, 2014
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The Assessment Expo provides a forum for the campus community to discuss program assessment and highlight best practices. This year, the theme of the Expo is Synthesizing Assessment Methods. Based on the theme, the University Assessment Panel selected ten academic and student support programs to showcase. Presenters from each of the ten programs worked with Media Services to develop posters describing their program's synthesis of assessment methods.
Participants can view posters, talk with presenters, and participate in discussion roundtables. Such collaboration fosters engaged and proactive assessment and helps provide our students with the best teaching and learning experiences.
2014 Expo Featured Programs
Campus Child Care, National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) reaccreditation
Campus Child Care compiles assessment evidence from multiple sources including portfolios, surveys, and observations to maintain their accreditation with NAEYC. Their process involves continual self-assessment and thorough external review. Physical environment improvements will be made based on the review of the assessment results. The program is looking forward to new and updated playground equipment.
Housing & Dining, Report on the Future of Residential Computer Labs
In order to facilitate informed decision making, Housing & Dining assessed the future of the residential computer labs through online surveys, student focus groups, and a benchmarking survey. Based on the results, a series of changes were made to meet the needs of students. Students now have access to improved study zones, new computers, Anywhere printing, comfortable seating in the labs, and lab computers located in lounges throughout the residence halls.
Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning (OSEEL), Themed Learning Communities (TLCs)
The TLCs represent one of the many High-Impact Practices OSEEL supports on campus. The TLCs consist of a cohort of students that co-enroll in two or more courses that explore a common theme and engage in learning opportunities outside of the classrooms. The TLC program began in Fall 2010 and is an optional experience for first-year students. OSEEL analyzed assessment results with a method to account for the possible self-selection bias of students who participate in Learning Communities. Results suggest that participation in TLCs positively impact academic achievement and retention.
College of Business, Department of Management, Management B.S.
The Department of Management uses external and internal sources to validate the results from multiple assessment methods. Internally, instructors use a custom rubric to assess students' individual presentation abilities as part of a group presentation in a core course. External results are provided by business professionals serving on the Management Executive Advisory Council. As part of a course assignment, students are required to conduct a mock job interview with one of the business professionals. The business professionals score student presentation abilities with a different custom rubric that is aligned with the internal rubric. Alumni are also asked to provide an indirect assessment of this skill. One year after graduation, students are asked to rate the Management degree program on enhancing their ability to deliver business presentations. The Department of Management reviews all data to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
College of Education and College of Health and Human Sciences (Interdisciplinary), Early Childhood Studies B.S.
The Early Childhood Studies program emphasizes the use of authentic assessment and incorporates multiple assessment methods to make decisions. The program integrates key assessment strategies that are reflective of the work that teachers do. Assessments are connected to accreditation standards and used for continuous program improvement.
College of Education, Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations, School Business Management M.S. Ed.
Through student internship portfolios and a data-driven decision-making project, the School Business Management, M.S.Ed program assesses student learning outcomes related to: school budgeting, fund accounting, resource management, and school facilities maintenance. The program uses assessment results to guide internship site supervisors and to improve students' field training.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of English, First-Year Composition Program ePortfolios
By actively engaging in various forms of assessment, the First-Year Composition Program at NIU continuously strives to enhance their program. In 2004, NIU joined other early leaders in the first cohort of the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio research. Since then, the program has used portfolio pedagogy and assessments to support an authentic, evidence-based assessment plan that uses both quantitative and qualitative results to drive continual program improvement.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Geography, Meteorology B.S.
Aimed at providing students with a strong foundation in modern weather and climate science suitable for careers or graduate study, the Meteorology B.S. program synthesizes multiple assessment methods to support these student goals and make program improvements. The program provides students opportunities to demonstrate their skills and knowledge in various ways by using multiple assessments including pre- and post- tests, course embedded projects, a weather forecasting competition, research presentations, employer reports, advisory committees, and alumni surveys.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Chemistry M.S.
A significant challenge in the development of the M.S. Chemistry Assessment Plan was its actual implementation. The primary challenge was finding a system that faculty were willing to use, and then leveraging it effectively to provide ongoing assessment and improve student skills. The development of an integrated web-based access point for assessment tools and timelines has helped meet this challenge.
College of Health and Human Sciences, School of Nursing and Health Studies, Nursing B.S.
Nursing utilizes and synthesizes a wide range of assessment methods to monitor student progress and overall degree program quality. Assessments range from authentic classroom assignments, an SBAR paper, to standardized national tests, including the HESI and the NCLEX-RN. The Nursing program uses the multiple assessments to create a descriptive picture of the program for multiple stakeholders including faculty, students, staff, employers, and accreditors.


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I ordered my usual 2 subs. So that puts the count at 158
I've ordered my sub so the count is at 156
I ordered my usual 2 subs. So that puts the count at 158
just got mine.
that's 159.
and a rhyme.
guess it's time.
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He first makes mad. - Reinfield.
I'm about to to sub up .. and yet again the shipping costs have gone up to 13.69 for one figure.. where are they getting these rates..??
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ordered some time ago. no question in my mind. i'm 100% down!
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I haven't ordered yet...but it's just because there was no penalty in waiting until after the reveals.
I did an experiment on shipping to see which direction I'm going to go. I purposely chose two different shipping methods for the Club Eternia and Club Filmation. I do understand that I probably won't be able to combine the subs this year (but it's only for 6 figures). I now know that I'm going to pick the cheapest shipping option.
My Club Eternia comes UPS Ground...and Filmation comes USPS/Newgistics.
Both of my subs shipped on the same day...and both are arriving today. Why would I pay more?
I officially subbed last night so does that make me 160??
Mattel I'm still waiting for these characters!
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I'll be ordering in a few days....but holy ****....shipping for USPS is now ****ing $10.29????? This **** is ridiculous now....overkill ****....to hell with DR and their gouging....
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+1 monthly sub for me, I think that's 163
I wanna sub today but I am short on cash and may have to wait a few weeks - does the $25 sub fee get charged now or when the first figure ships? Thanks in advance!
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I ordered mine right after the panel.
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Ok, I just ordered mine.
I believe that puts the total at 167.
After today's reveals (especially with Glimmer now included!!!) there was no way I was not going to buy one!!! Think that brings the total to 169?
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I ordered mine, making the total 170 if the number in the previous post is accurate.
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July 22 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. technology stocks rallied on improving earnings, sending the Nasdaq-100 Index to a 10-year high and extending a weekly gain for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, while lower-than-estimated results at Caterpillar Inc. dragged the Dow Jones Industrial Average lower.
AMD rose 19 percent after the chipmaker forecast more sales than analysts estimated. Technology stocks in the S&P 500 gained 1.2 percent, the most among 10 industries, as SanDisk Corp. added 9.6 percent after earnings beat projections. Caterpillar slid 5.8 percent as profit trailed projections because of Japan's record earthquake and slower demand from China. C.R. Bard Inc. declined 12 percent, the most in the S&P 500, after reporting a loss in the second quarter.
The S&P 500 rose 0.1 percent to 1,345.01 at 4 p.m. in New York and gained 2.2 percent for the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 43.25 points, or 0.3 percent, to 12,681.16. Gains in technology stocks pushed the Nasdaq-100 Index up 1.1 percent to a 10-year high.
"You're seeing fast money gravitate to the large-cap tech names, viewing them as better able to withstand slower economic growth," said Mark Bronzo, who helps manage $26 billion at Security Global Investors in Irvington, New York in a telephone interview. "There are a couple stocks weighing on the Dow where the earnings came out a little less than expected but overall, earnings have been pretty good. All eyes are on the budget deficit discussion. It's not a market people really want to short."
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Stocks surged yesterday after euro-area leaders eased the terms of loans for cash-strapped nations and announced the latest aid for Greece after eight hours of talks yesterday. Officials empowered their 440-billion euro ($635 billion) rescue fund to buy debt across stressed nations, helping to erect a firewall around Spain and Italy even as they risked temporary default to lighten the Greek debt burden.
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Quarterly reports from corporations have helped boost U.S. stocks this week. Among 122 S&P 500 companies that have reported earnings since July 11, 83 percent exceeded the average analyst estimate, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The S&P 500 climbed 2.1 percent this week through yesterday.
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Ashes 2013-14: England in disarray against Australia
First Ashes Test, Brisbane (close, day three): |
Australia 295 & 401-7 dec v England 136 & 24-2 - England need another 537 runs to win |
Blistering centuries from captain Michael Clarke and opener David Warner punished England's weary bowlers on day three as Australia moved to within touching distance of winning the first Test.
Warner's 124 off 154 balls - his first ton in Ashes cricket - and Clarke's 113 off 130 allowed the home side to declare after tea on 401-7 and set England a monstrous 561 to win.
"I can't remember two days as bad as this from this England team - they have been nowhere near the standard we expect. But the Australians have played a great brand of aggressive cricket.
"The crowd have helped Australia - they have been hostile and England just haven't had any answers. The cracks that we thought were in the England team, but which were hidden because they won 3-0 in the summer, are wide open now."
Given an hour to survive, England lost Michael Carberry for a duck and Jonathan Trott for a tortured nine as they slumped to 24-2 by the close.
No side in history have scored more than 418 in the fourth innings to win a Test, and with the forecast good for the remaining two days Alastair Cook's men will have to bat out a near-impossible 183 overs to save the match.
And the manner in which they batted against Mitchell Johnson and Ryan Harris on Saturday evening suggested they will be fortunate to take it into a fifth day.
Carberry was a little unlucky to play on to Harris. But Trott looked utterly hapless against the predictable barrage of deliveries aimed at his body, his dismissal pulling Johnson straight to deep square leg as humiliating as it was inevitable.
Warner and Clarke had earlier put on 158 runs for the third wicket, with Graeme Swann (2-135) coming in for particularly chastening punishment.
Clarke's century was his 25th in Test cricket and his 11th as captain, and means that he now averages more than Sir Don Bradman at this ground.
England had given themselves brief hope by dismissing both Chris Rogers and Shane Watson in the first 35 minutes after Australia resumed on 65-0, both men caught playing ambitious back-foot shots.
They then tried to rough up Clarke with the same short, fast stuff that accounted for him in the first innings.
But neither Stuart Broad nor particularly the pedestrian Chris Tremlett could match the pace and aggression shown by Johnson and Harris on the second day, and the Australian skipper settled in by pulling away two fours.
It was the start of a sustained assault that picked up pace before lunch and then accelerated after as the heat built and England's bowlers tired.
Warner led the way, piling first into Tremlett and then attacking Swann with lusty relish to race into the 90s.
He was fortunate to escape on two occasions against James Anderson while on 99, but went to his century in the next over when he cover-drove Joe Root away to deafening appreciation from the Gabba crowd.
Australia's leading Test century-makers
41 - Ricky Ponting (168 Tests)
32 - Steve Waugh (168)
30 - Matt Hayden (103)
29 - Don Bradman (52)
27 - Allan Border (156)
25 - Michael Clarke (98*)
24 - Greg Chappell (87)
23 - Justin Langer (105)
Warner ripped off his helmet and leapt in the air to celebrate, and when Swann was recalled to the attack from the Vulture St End went after him again.
Clarke joined the assault, with brutal force to flay a six over long-on and with delicate panache to cut him behind point for more.
In three overs in the middle of the afternoon, Swann went for 38 runs, the 150 partnership coming up at almost a run a ball.
When first-innings destroyer Broad came back, Warner clouted him back over his head for another six, only to snick one behind to Matt Prior three balls later to fall for 124 and give Broad his 50th Ashes wicket.
The damage had been done. While Tremlett had Steve Smith caught behind for a duck, Clarke continued to use his feet beautifully to Swann and went to his own 100 with a controlled drive as the Gabba once again rose.
He celebrated with relish, kissing the badge on his helmet and pointing his bat at the home dressing-room, knowing that his innings had almost certainly crushed any faint hopes England had of saving the game.
Swann had posted his own unwanted century before he finally had any success, Clarke bowled as he went down the track once again, and although George Bailey's scalp then gave him his 250th Test wicket there were few smiles.
"Jonathan Trott has a problem and it was a continuation of the first innings. He showed he had a problem with a short ball and he decided to play his shots but he's not the sort of player to be positive and play the pull and hook shot. He's a player who is quiet at the crease and scores his runs. Taking on the fast bowler doesn't work for him."
Brad Haddin and Johnson continued the cruel massacre against the second new ball and took the lead past the 517 that England famously made to save the corresponding Test three years ago.
Johnson heaved Tremlett for a straight six over long on before Haddin went to his second half-century of the game with a single off the 49th ball he faced.
Clarke declared as the score passed 400, knowing England's chances of batting out the 198 overs left in the match were remote.
Sure enough, both Carberry and Trott fell before Cook (11) and Kevin Pietersen (three) clung on to the close.
Even then it took fortune to see them survive, Pietersen calling his captain through for an insane single that would have seen him run out had Warner taken the ball cleanly by the stumps.
It summed up the horrors of the day for the tourists, second best by a distance throughout to a team they beat 3-0 only three months ago.
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24th November 2013 - 12:43Let's just put this down as a bad experience, and as long as we learn from it(especially for the last three tests,which I'll be at) and fetch the little urn back, (figuritively speaking, for as far as I uderstand it never actually goes anywhere) all will be forgotten and fogiven
Comment number 475.
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24th November 2013 - 10:08The batting was appalling - the batsmen let down the bowlers. They were waving their bats everywhere when it was not necessary. Lack of concentration. Hopeless. Batsmen better go back to learn the basics.
Comment number 474.
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24th November 2013 - 8:10Get over it, what do you expect it's our convict streak. Ok it didn't look good but don't judge until you know the facts. We don't know what was said by Anderson or Bailey. Clarke just enquired if Anderson was going to eventually take strike.
Comment number 473.
24th November 2013 - 8:09Warner, though arrogant; was perfectly correct. Prior's expression resembled Adam Sanford with his wife on lap. Broad 'walked' out; mortally scared of facing another missile. Swann was a dead duck before facing. Tremlett resembled a Trembling Omlette. Jimmy crumbled faster than Jimmy Biscuits in hot water. Poms softer than jelly beans marinated in KP sauce ahead of the Adelaide marmalade.
Comment number 472.
24th November 2013 - 8:04The Aussies have always been the same...bad losers, worse winners!!!
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In this Thursday, March 14, 2013, photo, Matthew Miller of Omaha shops for a car in Omaha, Neb. March is turning out to be the best month for auto sales in at least six years. Major automakers including Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, General Motors and Nissan all reported increases, with some reporting their best month since the start of the Great Recession in December of 2007.
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<I>Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.


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A gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is a sound recording medium, a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove. Gramophone records were the primary technology used for personal music reproduction for most of the 20th century. They replaced the phonograph cylinder in the 1900s, and although they were supplanted in popularity in the late 1980s by digital media, they continue to be manufactured and sold as of 2006.
There are three types of vinyl records. The 78 rpm record is the earliest form. The 78 rpm discs were 12 inches and only contained music on one side, while the other side was blank. The 78 rpm eventually was released as a 10-inch double sided disk in the 1930's-1940's. The 45 rpm followed the 78 rpm, as they were smaller and more economical to produce. Finally, the 33 rpm record was released with much higher quality audio than the previous records.
The time line of the life of the vinyl record begins as far back as 1806. Developments were made around the world from this time throughout 2001. In 1877 Thomas Edison made history by being the first to record and playback sound. Edison's genius made way for inventors, such as Emile Berliner, Chichester Bell and Charles Tainter, to perfect the craft throughout the late 1800's leading to the eventual creation of the first vinyl record player.
A vinyl record is made in four stages. First, a master disc is created. This master disc must be an aluminum flat disc with smooth and polished edges. Next, the master disc is cut. A lathe is used to create grooves in the disc during this stage. The third stage is the vinyl stamper. The disc is bathed in a variety of chemicals and finished off with a trim so it is exactly 12 inches in diameter. The final step is the finished vinyl record. A press is used on the disc at 190 degrees Celsius to mold the vinyl disc.
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Hair loss occurs for a great many reasons—from pulling it out to having it killed off by cancer chemotherapy. Some causes are considered natural, while others signal serious health problems. Some conditions are confined to the scalp. Others reflect disease throughout the body. Being plainly visible, the skin and its components can provide early signs of disease elsewhere in the body.
Oftentimes, conditions affecting the skin of the scalp will result in hair loss. The first clue to the specific cause is the pattern of hair loss, whether it be complete baldness (alopecia totalis), patchy bald spots, thinning, or hair loss confined to certain areas. Also a factor is the condition of the hair and the scalp beneath it. Sometimes only the hair is affected; sometimes the skin is visibly diseased as well.
To understand the cause of alopecia, it is helpful to understand how hair grows. Hair grows out of microscopic depressions in the skin called hair follicles. Normally, there are about 100,000 hairs on a person's head (scalp). Each hair is in one of three different growth stages. Eighty-eight percent of the hair on the head is in the growing (anagen) stage, which lasts for two to five years. Some of the hairs are no longer growing and are in a resting (telogen) stage. The telogen stage lasts for three to five months. The transitional (catagen) stage lies between the growing and resting stages. At the end of the telogen stage, the hair falls out. Usually about 100 hairs fall out each day. Alopecia becomes noticeable only after about half of the hairs have fallen out.
Indo-Pak Nuclear Diplomacy Continues, Unaffected By Mumbai-Terror Strikes
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By Nilofar Suhrawardy, MMNS India Correspondent
NEW DELHI: Notwithstanding the war-hysteria raised on both sides over Mumbai terror-strikes, they have not refrained from pursuing agreements inked regarding their decision to abstain from being engaged in open conflict. Adhering to the nuclear deterrence pact, India and Pakistan inked in 1988, the two countries exchanged lists of nuclear installations and facilities through diplomatic channels simultaneously at New Delhi and Islamabad on 1 January. Since their becoming nuclear powers and subsequently inking the deterrence pact, though Indo-Pak ties have ranged from being cordial to tense- as they are at present over the Mumbai terror strikes- they have continued the practice of exchanging these lists. The "Agreement on Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations and Facilities" was signed between India and Pakistan by the then Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi and Benazir Bhutto on 31 December 1998. It entered into force on 27 January 1991.
"Under the agreement, the two countries, on first January of every calendar year, are to inform each other of Nuclear Installations and Facilities to be covered by the agreement," a press release from Indian ministry of external affairs stated. "The first such exchange of lists took place on 1 January 1992. This is the eighteenth consecutive time that both countries have exchanged such a list," the statement said.
The agreement details the location of nuclear-related facilities in the two countries. Despite the two countries having come close to war, the exchange of lists has not stopped, sources said. Even when the two countries were in state of high alert in 2001, they exchanged the lists. Defying apprehensions raised about their nearing a conflict or conflict-like stage over the Mumbai terror strikes, they exchanged the lists this year too.
Ever since the two countries conducted nuclear tests, the western powers – particularly United States- have expressed concern about their nuclear prowess leading to a nuclear war in South Asia as India and Pakistan are known as permanent enemies with their being no sign of their resolving differences over long-standing disputes, including the Kashmir issue. Though since 1998, they have come close to war, once over the Kargil-issue and war-hysteria has been raised after the Mumbai terror strikes, India and Pakistan have not been engaged in any open conflict since achieving nuclear prowess. In this context, Indo-Pak nuclear diplomacy, resting on their bilateral understanding of nuclear deterrence defies fears raised earlier about their nuclear-status leading to Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) in South Asia.
Undeniably, apprehensions still prevail on whether nuclear weapons would contribute to stability in South Asia. Concern has been voiced over unintentional/intentional targeting of nuclear facilities by militants in either country and/or access to the same falling in wrong hands fuelling nuclear tension in the sub-continent. To date, however, Indo-Pak nuclear diplomacy only stands as a commendable illustration of their deterrence ensuring military restraint and a check on their moving towards open conflict. This may be illustrated briefly by the role played by nuclear prowess of the two nations, taking their ties from the stage of conflict to no-conflict in the first stage. Without doubt, there was a period when India remained suspicious about Pakistan's nuclear ambitions. The first major step in taking their ties to a positive level was the six-point accord reached between the then President of Pakistan General Zia-ul-Haq and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in December 1985 in Delhi. Their agreement on not attacking each other's nuclear installations was hailed as a significant step in establishing mutual confidence. This principle was re-emphasized when Gandhi and Bhutto signed the agreement in December 1988 in Islamabad.
Strangely, but definitely, there is a parallel between nuclear ambitions of India and Pakistan and a decisive improvement in their bilateral ties. It would not be wrong to state that their respective nuclear drives' impact on the upswing in their relations fits into the theory of "classic deterrence." Earlier than this, the two countries -known to shift between the stage of conflict, no-conflict and/or avoidance of conflict- had not even given serious consideration to the idea of entertaining cordial and/or friendly ties. The very principle of not attacking each other's nuclear installations marked the beginning of some sort of nuclear dialogue between the two. Had they not taken this step, that of considering the deterrent factor, the past two decades may have been marked by constant threat of a nuclear holocaust erupting any moment in the subcontinent. Equally significant was their decision to resolve their nuclear tensions bilaterally. This also implied their accepting each other's nuclear development. Had they criticized each other's nuclear intentions and designs unilaterally, the issue may have assumed serious proportions for multilateral deliberations. With the two nuclear powers sharing border, notwithstanding their disputes, they opted for a strategy that best suited their interests, unilaterally as well as bilaterally, that is work towards normalization of Indo-Pak ties. Interestingly, notwithstanding all the diplomatic hype raised over the Mumbai-terror strikes, India and Pakistan have ruled out prospects of going to war on this. This only suggests that they are not likely to backtrack- for quite some time- from the wise and rational nuclear diplomacy they have pursued so far.


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Zebra chip has been found in scattered potato fields in parts of the Columbia Basin and in Idaho, marking the first time the disease has been confirmed in the Pacific Northwest.
Although the discovery is surprising, Phil Hamm, a plant pathology professor and superintendent of Oregon State University's Hermiston Agricultural Research & Extension, says growers shouldn't be alarmed by it.
"There are maybe only a dozen or so fields where you'd call it more than incidental," he says of the Columbia Basin finds. "And there are maybe only five or six fields that I'm aware of that it's an issue."
Potato processing contracts allow for a small percentage of internal defects before a load is rejected. In all but a few of the fields where zebra chip was confirmed, the amount of internal discoloration was far below the contract limit, Hamm says.
In the Columbia Basin, the disease was first found in the production area south of the Tri- Cities—Kennewick, Pasco and Richland—of Washington and into Oregon.
Since then, additional infected fields have been found farther north, but again at very low levels, he says.
Hamm says growers brought in tuber samples that had the telltale zebra chip symptoms. Further testing confirmed the Candidatus Liberibacter bacteria-like organism.
"Basically, growers were doing their normal thing out digging, cutting a few potatoes and just looking around," Hamm says of how infected potatoes were found.
The disease has been identified in several varieties, including Russet Ranger, Umatilla Russet, Pike, Alturas, Russet Norkotah and a red selection.
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The discovery of zebra chip in Idaho wasn't totally unexpected, based on earlier reports in Oregon and Washington, says Nora Olsen, Extension potato specialist and storage researcher with the University of Idaho in Kimberly.
The disease was confirmed in Idaho after a state grade inspector stationed at a packinghouse sent a sample of an unknown internal defect into the University of Idaho, she says.
The sample was eventually traced back to a Jerome County field. Subsequent surveys found a very low incidence of zebra chip in the field, Olsen says.
She says researchers also surveyed plots at the university's Kimberly Research and Extension Center and found zebra chip, again at very low levels.
"We didn't see any symptoms in our plots, as we were walking those fields a lot," she says. Since then, the university has received other samples that tested positive for zebra chip. The disease is at low enough levels that it's not causing issues for growers, Olsen says.


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Take Two for December 7, 2012
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In this handout from the White House, Former Republican presidential candiate and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (L) shakes hands with U.S. President Barack Obama in the Oval Office following their lunch November 29, 2012 in Washington, DC . Obama had invited Romney to the White House for the lunch.
According to reports filed late yesterday with the Federal Election Commission, President Obama and Mitt Romney spent $2 billion on their presidential campaigns. It's a record breaking number for a White House bid.


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We had a glorious bank holiday weekend just past and I took full advantage of it by taking the camera with me everywhere while outside, even when I was walking the dog and my son Adam in the morning. I snapped this flower while Oscar sniffed around and Adam looked on. We were all happy!
Don't forget the Doneraile Photowalk next Sunday! Hope we had the same sort of weather we had last weekend, but a few degrees cooler would be welcome.
PS. posted this one today in response to Pete's gorgeous photo from 2 days ago.
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Time to stand up to the banking lobby
– Christopher Swann is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own —
The crusading spirit that at one stage threatened to lead to the nationalization of U.S. banks and the downfall of their top executives now seems like ancient history.
Banks are again flexing their muscles and have turned the tables on America's politicians. Remarkably, policy makers now seem to be struggling to secure even a modicum of needed change in the regulatory system.
The winter's paroxysm of public anger has dissipated with astonishing speed. This is in spite of the fact that economic recovery still seems a distant goal and the woes of CIT Group suggest that even the financial system is not out of the woods. As a result there is now a real danger that the administration and Congress will fail to live up to Rahm Emanuel's famous injunction never to let a crisis go to waste.
The ability of the financial lobby to hold onto its political power has been one of the great mysteries of the crisis. Few special interest groups have shown such flexibility in their logic.
As profits soared in the 1990s, their strength was taken as proof of their genius and politicians bowed to their every whim. After their crisis their weakness became a trump card. Hurt the banks, they argued, and the economy would go down with them. Now the banks are taking credit for a revival in profits that is almost entirely due to the extraordinary contortions of public policy.
The administration and Congress should not be taken in again. We are entering a crucial phase in the revamping of regulation and there is still little sign that the White House is putting enough political muscle into the process.
And as the self-confidence of the banks increases — along with TARP repayments and climbing profits — the window for reform narrows.
The industry is digging in its heels over efforts to create a credible consumer protection agency and to sanitize credit default swaps. These are debates the Obama administration cannot afford to lose. Keeping anything close to the status quo would expose the United States to a repeat of 2008.
Banks might have less money to throw around. But they do not appear to be skimping on lobbying. Political action committees run by the Independent Community Bankers of America have already raised 40 percent more funds than last year. Overall the finance, insurance and real estate sectors spent $110.7 billion on lobbying in the first three months of the year — second only to healthcare providers.
Financial lobbyists could be forgiven for a certain swagger of late. In May they managed to defeat President Obama's push for a change in the bankruptcy law that would have allowed judges to cut the principal owed on home loans. They even capped this unlikely victory by extracting a concession that saved banks and credit unions at least $13 billion in fees to top up deposit insurance funds.
Now the industry would dearly like to abort Obama's new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, which they believe would pay too little attention to the health of banks. Failing this, they want to defang the agency, limiting its powers to vet and approve products.
Given the prominent role played by poorly designed loan products in the financial crisis, this is a hard case to make. There is a pressing public interest in creating a vigilant gatekeeper for consumer products. Not only would it limit much individual misery, it should reduce the chances of bank collapses and public bailouts. It would not, as opponents have misleadingly suggested, seek to monopolize the design of financial products.
On credit default swaps the industry seems determined to stick as close to the status quo as possible, restricting any move towards transparency. If they get their way, the system will still be vulnerable to crises.
The determination of the financial lobby to obstruct moderate regulation on such key components of the recent crisis indicates an alarming lack of humility. Given their recent success, the industry may get much of what it wants.
This makes it especially important that the White House provide a stronger lead to Congress.
Obama appears to have been reluctant to spend his political capital. In fact a defeat of the powerful financial services lobby may actually help him get his way on the rest of his agenda. It would also leave America with a much safer financial system.
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You've been drinking too much Obama Kool-Aid. I believe banks flexing their muscles and preventing the enactment of incredible destructive, poorly conceived policies is incredibly positive. Bad political policies are the primary cause of the problem. Reforms enacted by an administration with seemingly a complete lack of understanding of how a modern economy works would certainly worsen the problem. The less Washington does, the better.
It's a wonder that any banking regulatory legislation will be suggested by the White House considering that the Goldman Sachs crowd is so entrenched in the Treasury Department and in other advisory roles to the President.
The banks have escaped from the ICU. No way now. Banks eventually win. American taxpayer lose permanently.
A form of government in which all political and financial power is controlled by a few persons in high places is, in fact, an Oligarchy. This is a degradation of our Democracy (after it quickly degraded from a representative form to a Republic in 1804). The oligarchs had been growing in power and sophistication and checked only by the main competing Oligarchies of JD Rockefeller and JP Morgan as their respective 'heads of state' since the late 1800′s. Only after an economic calamity of Titanic proportions did the 'elected' government step up in the 1930′s. This only came about because there was no place for the oligarchs and their cronies to hide from the real voters, sans the lobbyists, the average American suffering the vagaries of The Great Depression. One who preaches about the so-called 'Modern Economy' fails to see the dramatic similarities between today's economy and that of the 1920′s – 1930's. Surely one is drinking cherry Kool-Aid (TM) if another is drinking grape. If serious reform and consumer protection is not enacted there will be more trouble as Oligarchs have proven time and time again throughout history their inability to disallow the corrupting influence of unbridled power and earth shaking calamities have always eventually ensued until there is a corrupting influence on Democracy itself. Think Octavian and the junior politician Adolph Hitler, who were both aiding in their political goals by the super rich in their day, and the result was an Imperial and Fascist Dictatorship with the untimely fall of one civilization and the World War 2 for the latter times. Things kinds of disasters are the ultimate result of concentrations of political and economic power as the system of checks and balances in human societies evaporate, like they are surely doing once again in the USA. These checks and balances need to be restored to stop the metaphorical government bus from careening off the proverbial cliff.
The first I head of Consumer Financial Protection Agency was the proposal put forth by Robert Schiller. Who if memory serves correctly, did a correct analysis of the sub-prime problem. The bank lobby wants the profits, but if the losses get too big, has no issue asking the taxpayer pick up the tab/debt.
The financial markets need regulation and a centralized clearing mechanism for derivatives. If not, then officers of these companies should be held liable.
The proponents of unbridled free-market policies must remember that the tax-payers footed this bill, with nothing creative about the global destruction it caused. The truth however remains that burocratic policies are undynamic by their very nature and are usually outfoxed and priced in before the ink dries. The real political challenge for the Obama administration, and intellectual challenge for Congress, will be to get the smartest guys in town keep the banks in line by paying them more than the banks ever can. You need a wolf to catch a wolf, not a slow-moving burocrat.
People who deny the need for a credible consumer protection agency simply are in denial. I have spent over 20 years on "Wall Street" and in my view many senior financial people are vampires who profit by draining the blood of the living. We know how to destroy vampires, don't we?
Very perceptive commentary by "J". Those who do not learn from history as destined to repeat it…….
It is interesting that Mr. Swann grants so much power to the Financial Lobby, and completely ignores the fact that the administration's misguided attempts to scare the public have worn thin. The danger of running the same plays from Saul Alinsky's playbook is that eventually the defense does adjust. As the facts of the financial problems have come to light, sweeping reforms are simply not necessary. Many could very reasonably argue that governemnt "reform" got us into the current mess. Bill Fleckenstein proposed a very thought provoking thesis on this recently (http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/In vesting/ContrarianChronicles/blame-reaga n-for-our-financial-mess.aspx?page=2).
Government Motors, Goverment Health Care, Government Energy, Government Banking.
A Free Economy is not without risk, but the risk of overt government involvement is a far greater risk to our Liberties than the occasional (and somewhat predictable) financial crisis.
We are all just so many little animals in the farm, your dream of being represented by democracy is an illusion shared by many of us, but sadly it is just that an illusion… and probably always has been.
The farmers (bankers) will fatten us up for shearing, sale or slaughter to suit themselves and their desire to own everything, and the politician is little more than a shepherd to coo soothingly to keep us animals from panic or straying.
The likelihood of the re-regulation of the financial markets this side of WWIII is probably zero (and WWIII will probably take us back to the stone age with added radiation).
The likelihood of politicians not being corrupted by big money is zero. Your interests are only of interest to the politician at election time, otherwise you are zero.
Agree with the thrust of the article. I believe we are in a time where the public will challenge the governmental system if it cannot demonstrate substantive reform of the financial system since, if Govt cannot act effectively as an agent for the taxpayer in a critical area that could bankrupt us all permanently, then what is the point of Government?
Fundamental change is needed to the financial services and related industry sectors where moral erosion and high wastage is endemic (for example who actually needs the management consultancy industry which preys mainly on the gullible public sector and thus us the taxpayer (just like the banks) and whose value added is virtually all to the consultancy's owners and not to companies, government or society who they powerpoint to death claiming to support for very large amounts of taxpayers money).
We taxpayers hold a lot more power than voting power and this may be a time when we need to start wielding it. Some sort of revolution is needed to address the causes of the current crisis as the establishment cannot right itself and is capable of destroying all our livelihoods for ever.
Ths Banks will not be touched. They are the only companies going to report increased earnings this season. ( all be it due to doubtful accounting) These earnings are the only thing that are stopping the DOW going to 4000 !
Aaah, Patriotism and the Best Interest of the Nation!
What a great way to get volunteers for the Army, not something bankers feel inclined towards. Only suckers will feel morally indebted to the nation. At least, not this one.
Forget marching on Washington… Wall Street wields the power.
March on Wall Street – Monday, August 10th, 2009.
In the proud American tradition of government for the people – regardless of your political convictions, you cannot argue that the banking situation is good for the United States and the people.
So, let us take action, join forces as Republicans, Democrats, Independents, etc. and tell Wall Street that THIS MESS is not working for the American People!
March on Wall Street, beginning at 8 AM on Monday, August 10th, 2009.
These banks – are they not private organisations owned by wee gnomes? Why then are they so brazen as to come and ask money from tax payers, then in return for their salvation we are subjected to more pain and disinformation? If I default on my house loan, will the taxpayer save me? Probably not. The banks have an enormous responsibility to run their businesses ethically. If I am forced to support them as a tax payer, then I feel I am absolutely entitled to tell the banks how they should conduct themselves. If we allow them to go back to pre-crisis conditions, then in a short time we shall all be right back where we are now. To not legislate heavily against the banks is simply not an option: it is a prerequisite for ensuring future stability for the world…..
Can you believe the banks results? really great aren't they ! Only an idiot would believe them, but Ben and Tim will tell you they are green shoots.
The bank results aren't that surprising given the massive amounts of tax-payer funds kindly donated by our leaders. I'm currently reading a book about the recent events and it would seem that one of the banks reporting great profits dipped in and and then out of the sub-prime mortgage scam before it blew out, and still got buckets of bail-out money to play with… resulting in great results, courtesy of the gullible tax payer! Charitable assistance for bankers is second only to the assistance being given by the armed forces to the trans-national oil companies.
Comment to J's entry: We currently have a oligarchy – the financial and insurance industries currently rule the U.S. Having the government taking back all of the power its lost would only hand over the "reins" so to speak to another oligarchy. Our government has become powerless or paid off from both of the industries and if any American thinks his/her say or vote can change that is deluded. We've lost democracy a long time ago.
One more thing – to the writer of this article – the people's anger hasn't subsided – we're too distracted in keeping our heads above water to fight a fight we can't win. We're all beginning to think the same things about our personal lives as well.
The banking community seems to bring about most of the economic illnesses.It will continue in dictate their bussines phylosophy, unles regulatory practises are created and enforced, so banks act more in step with the idea that all activities must in the final analysis benefit the people and not just cater to the wealthy and powerful.Of course balanced position hast to be reched for a fiscal policy to effectively work.
The virtuous circle? Some interesting quotes I came across…
"Banking Establishments Are More Dangerous Than Standing Armies." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd US President
"… a serious depression seems improbable; [we expect] recovery of business next spring, with further improvement in the fall." Harvard Economic Society (HES), November 10, 1929
"While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed through the worst — and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. There has been no significant bank or industrial failure. That danger, too, is safely behind us." President Herbert Hoover, May 1, 1930
"Under a paper money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation." Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, in 2002


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I just cant get enough of this polka dot fabric. I am so crazy over it until finally I used my leftovers to design a cute, girly and stylish dress that was so floating around in my mind. Probably it is retro but I am madly in love with the design :-) Here goes……..
It is a sleeveless dress with a broad collar (kind of looking like those sailor ones) with added extending fabrics at ends going through a knot so as to form a bow. The top is self lined with the same polka dot.
The skirt is made out of knits and is lined with blue pongee of the same shade as the dot to give a peek a boo feel, as the blue is showing underneath. An invisible zipper is at the side.
I then added six bows sewn around the waistline with black and white buttons in the center of the bows. The hemline of the skirt is rolled hem with blue and black threads.
I am so proud of how my self draft design as turned out. Happy Me :-)
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Nov 28, 2012, 12.31 PMby Vanessa Leigh
so sweets fab job doll
Nov 28, 2012, 01.41 PMby kisses
Thanks Vanessa :-)
Nov 23, 2012, 07.04 AMby Roxana Marian
Nice and sweet
Nov 22, 2012, 08.18 AMby Ivanamania
completely understand why you can't get enough of this fabric!
Nov 22, 2012, 08.05 AMby Mtetar
Lovely!!! What a Unique Button Bows. Great work of Art. Thank you for sharing. Best, Mtetar
Nov 22, 2012, 07.44 AMby Mary Athey
Morning kisses. your attention to detail is fabulous. this is yet another stylish dress on you. you must be the envy of all your friends xx
Nov 22, 2012, 09.14 PMby kisses
Thanks Mary! You are so right….at times I see the envy coming out in how they express themselves. With all that I still aim to do my best
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My Mom had a pair of lamps of similar worksmanship. Just one figure each, but the same style. The pierced decorative brass base on yours is exactly the same. I recall asking her if they were antique, and she said no (That was a while back! More than a while). She said she had bought them right after her marriage. She was married in 1950. So I would date them to 1950 or shortly before. |
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