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I'd seen the island, yet all day long I couldn't help being aware of something looking over my shoulder— the mountains of the interior. They loomed behind me, silently insisting that they (those highlands out of which Pohnpei's innumerable streams and cataracts tumble) were the island's real heart. I made arrangements with a local travel outfit for a two-day cross-island hike.
My intention was to traverse the spine of the island. I would climb some 2,500 feet to Nahna Laud— "Big Mountain"— with my hiking companion, John, a friend who lived on Pohnpei. All of Pohnpei would lie at our feet. We would leave early in the morning and camp out overnight.
The day of the hike began with blasting sunshine, and we wisely got started before the heat rose. We were three: a guide, John, and I. Given how tricky the terrain was— how narrow and tortuous and overgrown the paths into the hills— perhaps it's to our guide's credit that he got lost only once. Unfortunately, he got lost right at the outset of the hike and didn't figure out exactly where we were until it ended prematurely, some seven hours later.
For a time we scrabbled up a steep, rocky streambed on our hands and knees in the rain. Kolonia is surpassingly rainy— it gets about 190 inches per year— but in the highlands there are places that make Kolonia seem arid. Some of the wettest land on the planet is here. As you ascend into the hills you enter a misty, mossy, finally insubstantial zone where firm-seeming branches— branches you might reasonably look to for support as you climb— have a way of turning to meal in your hands; it's a good place to take a fall.
John and I did just that at every opportunity, thereby amusing our guide— who amused us by meeting each new fork in the path with a look of canny assurance. Amusement helped fend off exasperation, which was gaining the upper hand by the time we wandered down to the road from which we'd begun.
I worry just a little about short-changing my reader by having failed to reach the top of Big Mountain. I'm tempted to write something like: When I stood on the summit of Nahna Laud, gazing down upon the planet's largest ocean, I understood at last the precise nature of the mysterious force that has magnetically pulled great Western artists like Paul Gauguin and Herman Melville and Robert Louis Stevenson to the Pacific. Paul, Herman, Robert— their ghosts surrounded me as our campfire crackled and the stars emerged.
Only the fact that we failed to reach the mountaintop keeps me from writing this.
On my drive around the island, i had deliberately bypassed Pohnpei's greatest attraction, the ancient palace of Nan Madol, so I could give it my full attention later. It's a marvel, and there's nothing like it anywhere else in the Pacific— or anywhere else in the world. Located on a series of man-made islets threaded by canals, these ruins are sometimes fancifully called the Venice of the Pacific. They are imposing and inspiring enough to demand their own special day trip; they are much more than "one of the sights."
Who built Nan Madol?How?And when?Two things can be confidently asserted about the builders. They had grand visions. And they had strong backs. Vast amounts of stone— stone by the mind-boggling, back-cracking ton— went into its construction.
Apparently Nan Madol was erected over several centuries, hundreds of years before Europeans found the Pacific. The dark basalt forming the columns probably was not available in the immediate area; it would have had to be transported, astoundingly, by raft. This was accomplished on a scale sufficiently titanic to raise dozens of structures, sprawling over 150 acres. Here stood the palaces of royalty, the houses of their retainers, temples and priests' dwellings. One writer has conjectured that, in terms of the total man-hours of labor they represent, these ruins stand behind only the Great Wall and the Pyramid of Cheops.
Not surprisingly, the climate of Pohnpei, with its occasional hurricanes and its relentless, tenacious invasions of boulder-thrusting vegetation, gives short shrift to even the most colossal monuments. Today the whole complex is a strew of broken columns stacked like logs, a blend of jumble and jungle. To restore the place to anything resembling its former glory requires another sort of monumental task: a prodigious feat of historical imagination.
I visited the ruins twice. The first time I went with a tour guide, who adeptly set out what's known about the place. I felt closer to the spirit of the ruins, however, when I arrived by the "back entrance"— when John and I made our way through jungle and mangrove swamp in a borrowed kayak. This route has the advantage of gradualism: the ruins steal up on you, seeming to build themselves out of the jungle. Of course the truth is otherwise. It's the jungle that has, for centuries now, been building upon the ruins.
Little wonder that Nan Madol has fostered among Pohnpeians a notion that their island was once inhabited by giants. These days, it seems inhabited by giants in another sense: unfortunately, as on so many islands in the Pacific, obesity has become an endemic health problem.
Food on Pohnpei is a curious blend. The years under Japanese rule (1914-1945) have left their culinary stamp. Sashimi is ubiquitous, particularly tuna— fine, pink, generous slabs. Rice and miso soup are common. In general, the Asian food on the island is good and healthful.
The worm in the apple— so to speak— is that there is no apple. First-time visitors to small Pacific islands are often bewildered to find precious few vegetables and fresh fruits (except for the island's cash crops, bananas and pineapples). Ironically, soil that nourishes jungle thick enough to require a machete doesn't necessarily lend itself to steady agriculture.
People who theoretically ought to be eating salads and oranges and peaches have embraced a diet of imported junk food: cookies, potato chips, tortilla chips. I spoke at length with an American doctor on the island who told me that the life expectancy among Pohnpeians is distressingly low, and that their poor diet is accompanied by diabetes and hypertension. Hypertension on this idyllic, slow-paced island?The cliché about Pacific islands is that they're a slice of paradise. It's sobering to learn that paradise may not be good for you.
Of course, such concerns aren't likely to touch the short-term visitor too deeply. You come to a place like Pohnpei to savor the sights of a lovely, largely unspoiled island. Even so, you can't help being aware of a sense of jeopardy. A former U.S. Trust Territory before the creation of the Federated States of Micronesia, Pohnpei has had its economy propped up by America for decades. Threats of reduced federal subsidies, in combination with Pohnpeian ambitions for greater financial autonomy, pose a troubling question: Will the island succeed in developing while keeping its beauty intact?Like so many jungle environments, Pohnpei's magnificence has a paradoxical quality— it speaks both of hardihood and vulnerability.
Near the end of my trip I hiked to another set of Japanese ruins. The rusted artillery pieces, deep in sun-dappled jungle, poked their long barrels like necks through the foliage, suggesting a browsing, dinosaurian gracefulness. I might almost have stepped into some Land of Lost Time. Pohnpei may be an endangered world, but it had succeeded in evoking an extinct one. Moments like these are worth crossing the globe for.
An addendum on the question of Pohnpei's diet. During my flight home, I sat next to a man who had ordered a vegetarian meal that didn't seem to please him. He pushed the food here and there with his fork. "I have a problem," he confessed. "I'm a vegetarian who doesn't really like vegetables."
"And how did you find the food on Pohnpei?" I asked him.
He brightened. "Couldn't have been better."

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Generally, during head coach hiring season new employment comes from one of three places: highly touted offensive or defensive coordinators, whizz-kid college minds, or former head coaches, some of whom spent a year or so doing good things as a coordinator (and some, like Jeff Fisher a few years back and Lovie Smith this year, spent a year on their sofa).
The thing about door No. 3 is that it often comes with another step, or something else required to make the hiring work. For example, Ken Whisenhunt signed on with the Titans yesterday, and as we've seen in the past with first Ben Roethlisberger, then Kurt Warner, and now Philip Rivers, Whisenhunt is a great offensive mind and a fine quarterback tutor who can develop both a young arm, and rejuvenate a veteran. All that's required of you, the general manager who oversees a Whisenhunt team, is to provide a quarterback who can at least breathe properly, and if he can even meet league average standards, that's great too.
Jake Locker has yet to meet that standard, but if he can or if someone else can, the Whisenhunt hire will be a fine one. Similarly, Smith down in Tampa is an elite defensive mind, though he needs his equal to manage the offense, and that may or may not be Jeff Tedford.
But what, exactly, attracted the Lions to Jim Caldwell?
After whiffing on Whisenunt (quick aside: why the hell did Whiz choose a team without a quarterback over a team that, you know, has a quarterback?), the Lions continued to pursue the retread path. They've finally and reportedly settled on Cadwell after also entertaining Mike Munchak, two options which inspired equal amounts of blah-ness.
The retread hiring path is well worn by those who enjoy risk as much as a normal person enjoys sardines. To the owners and general managers of certain teams, risk is something to be burned with fury, even though the two best hires a year ago came in the form of Chip Kelly and Marc Trestman. One of those guys hailed from a foreign land, and the other had a unique and innovative offensive system that, at the time, wasn't assured of success in the NFL.
So here the Lions sit with Caldwell now, and a year ago he was rightfully praised for being the mind behind Joe Flacco, and his incredible playoff run highlighted by 11 touchdowns with zero interceptions, and a yards per attempt average of 9.0 to pace the Ravens to their Super Bowl win. If we isolate just that tiny sample size with a dramatic turnaround, Caldwell makes a lot of sense for a Lions offense in need of a coach who can do the same with Matthew Stafford, their still young quarterback who's high on talent, but he takes far too many risks.
But it doesn't work that way. We can't just look at the good Caldwell in Baltimore, and then entirely ignore the atrocity that was this past season. In 2013 the Ravens' offense consistently sputtered, ranking 29th in average yards per game (307.4) and 25th in points per game (20.0). They also scored only 29 touchdowns all season (29th), and for the proper perspective on that suck, please note that the last place Jaguars weren't far behind with 25 touchdowns.
As a passing offense, the man now tasked with that Stafford tutoring had the 18th ranked unit, well behind the Lions' current ranking of third. Worse, a coordinator who guarded and managed Flacco effectively loosened those chains, and the result was 22 interceptions. Prior to this year, Flacco's career single-season high was only 12. And as a running offense the Ravens nearly made the worst kind of history, finishing last with only 3.1 yards per carry, and nearly becoming the first team since the merger to average fewer than three yards over a full season. He's also a poor in-game manager with a history of perplexing decisions, to be kind.
Past success does not equal future success, but yet the shine of Caldwell's Indianapolis days is still exceedingly bright. He feels safe and risk free (that word again) after a Super Bowl appearance in the not-so distant past, and two division wins.
Say, which team does Peyton Manning play for again?
Jim Caldwell is 24-8 when he has Peyton Manning, 28-77 (counting college coaching career) when he doesn't.
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There's an air of mystery surrounding Once Upon a Time's newest guest star, Michael Raymond-James — namely because everything about his character, right down to his name, is purposely being kept under wraps.
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Paris, the City of Lights, did its best this season to tell the world that design is alive and well and living in the collective conscious of the world's creative minds and manufacturers.
The halls at Maison were filled with illuminating and innovative product displays and a global sigh was almost palpable in reaction to the spirit and creativity that energized established brands and first-time exhibitors.
Among the major trends:
•Color trends went hand in hand with fabrications and material usage and a prevalence for gray tonalities continued. Black and white with pops of red energized both soft and hard goods, while berry tones captured the textile categories. Neutrals were influenced by rustic woods with natural fiber shades of hemp, flax and linen. A smoky, sunset palette colored glass and carpet collections.
•The steady hum of eco-friendly, sustainable and recycled callouts in vendor presentations addressed the demand for more earth-friendly and conscious-living designs. Repurposing of materials from driftwood, plastics, rubber and metals was prevalent.
•Multipurpose and multifunction products were strong in the housewares and outdoor living presentations. Bold renditions of old formulas and materials for wall decor and flooring were standouts.
•Other important looks: Asymmetry, '50s geometry, slanted forms, laser cuts, rose motifs and human, plant and animal forms.
Paris this fall showed the world that thoughtful enterprise and good design can still energize retail shelves and light the way.—Sherri Mojica. Photography: Richard Toonkel
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WHEN Thelma Bell was born in 1913, the First World War had not started (1914-18), she lived in a house with no electricity, Andrew Fisher was Prime Minister, work had just started on building Canberra and Fitzroy defeated St Kilda in the VFL Grand Final by 13 points.
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THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, everybody. (Applause.) Thank you.
Thank you. I am going to keep my opening remarks very brief, because I
want to have a conversation with you more than anything else. And so, my
first task is just to thank Elizabeth, her wonderful children, for hosting
us here. It is true that I have been here before; I think the first time
I was here, I had just been elected to the Senate, and I still remember
Smith and you being incredibly gracious to me, and opening up your home at
a time when I was still the new kid on the block. (Laughter.) So I
appreciate that, and I thank you for your extraordinary public service as
I want to thank all of you for being here. Many of you are old friends
and have been supporters for a long time. Some of you are new, and I'm
very grateful for you taking the time to be here.
As Elizabeth described aptly, we are going through extraordinary times.
These are no ordinary times. We are going through the worst economic
crisis since the Great Depression. And, historically, after financial
recessions, it is a challenge and a struggle. And over the last two and a
half years, what we've been able to do is stabilize an economy, but at a
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action. And certainly what they don't need is to make sure that
Washington is an impediment to economic growth and putting people back to
As Elizabeth said, this particular Congress has not shown itself
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deal both with our environmental challenges, but also our economic
Our health care bill, I think, is going to make a huge difference,
providing 30 million people affordable coverage for the first time. But
it's got to be implemented, and it's only part of the way there. We still
have enormous inequality in our society, and providing the ladders of
opportunity for people who want to live out that American Dream, but are
finding too many roadblocks along the way.
We still have a fiscal situation that arises not only from this most
recent crisis, but also some long-term trends, where those of us in this
room do very well, while folks who are struggling don't do quite as well.
And there's, I think, an innate sense among the American people that
things aren't fair, that the deck is stacked against them -- that no
matter how hard they work, their costs keep on going up, their hours are
longer, they're struggling to make their mortgage, and somehow nobody's
paying attention.
And all those long-term trends -- our structural deficit, energy policy,
education -- 2012 is going to offer a clearer contrast than I think we've
ever seen before. 2008 was a big election -- obviously I thought so,
because -- (laughter.) But in some ways 2012, I think, is going to be
more clarifying, because if you see the direction that the Republican
Party is now going in, you have a party that offers a fundamentally
different vision of where America should be, and what we should be
aspiring to, and what our core values are. And that contest is going to,
I think, help shape America for not just the next five years, but for
decades to come. And that's why your involvement and your engagement is
going to be absolutely critical.
Now, I know that, over the last couple of months, there have been
Democrats who voiced concerns and nervousness about, well, in this kind of
economy, isn't this just -- aren't these just huge headwinds in terms of
your reelection? And I just have to remind people that -- here's one
thing I know for certain: The odds of me being reelected are much higher
than the odds of me being elected in the first place. (Laughter and
applause.) And in that spirit, I just want to point out, it was somebody
during the photo line who -- I think right here -- made what I think is a
very important wish. And that is that my next inauguration is warmer than
the last one. (Laughter.)
But we remain very confident about our ability to win a contest of ideas
in 2012 -- as long as we can get the message out. Now, the campaign has
not begun; my job -- I've got a day job, and I'm going to have to spend a
lot of time continuing to govern over the next several months. And that's
why your voices -- you being out there talking about the American Jobs
Act, talking about our track record in terms of what we've done over the
last three years, talking to people about what's at stake -- is going to
be so important.
Elizabeth has done an extraordinary job in the past representing the
United States. Well, this is one of those times where all of you are
going to have to be my ambassadors over the next several months, to make
sure that people who I think continue to believe in change and continue to
believe in hope are mobilized effectively in 2012. And if you're there
with me, then I'm confident that we'll have an inauguration, although I
can't promise good weather. (Laughter.)
All right. Thank you very much, everybody. And then I think we're going
to move the press out, and then we'll have a conversation. (Applause.)
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The last chapter of Kate Kelly's Wall Street Journal epic on the decline and fall of Bear Stearns tells us that the "hurried deal" to keep Bear Stearns out of bankruptcy included a "loophole" that gave Bear Stearns investors leverage to seek a higher price. By now this story of the loophole is well-known, thanks in part to a New York Times front page story that first reported it. In time this story is likely to harden into conventional wisdom, especially now that it's been endorsed by both the Times and the Journal.
Unfortunately, the story probably isn't true.
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The Loophole Legend: The Strange Life And Death Of JP Morgan's Guarantee of Bear Stearn's Liabilities
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By Bess Levin
Cramer raises a good question: why, of all the many, many things he's been wrong about in the past, did Fox Business chose to dwell on his advice to keep one's money with Bear Stearns, in today's WSJ and NYT? Just out of curiosity.
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By Bess LevinHow easy would it be to chalk Jim Cramer's horrifically bad guidance to a Mad Money emailer last Tuesday to keep his money in Bear Stearns up to Jim Cramer being just plain clueless? I don't know, very? But let's think about this for a sec. JC's given what's known in the business as "shitty investment advice" in the past, that's an incontrovertible fact. But has he ever been this off? As far as we can tell, he's not officially retarded—or Tim Sykes. So what was it then, that made him tell "Peter," "No! No! No! Bear Stearns is not in trouble. If anything, they're more likely to be taken over. Don't move your money from Bear"? Once again, the answer lies with Eliot Spitzer's love of whores. As you well know, JC was very shook up about not being brought into the inner circle of Spitzer's prostitution ring. He was in no position to be giving counsel about anything. Once the shock of the betrayal, or as he's been referring to it among friends and colleagues "My Personal Crying Game," wore off, Cramer came to his senses and said the common stock was "worthless" on Friday. What we're trying to say, Peter, is that you should cross "Uncle Jim" off your To Maim List, smear some red lipstick on your mouth, and start thinking about how to make Spitzer, and not James, pay for your losses (sources in his pants tell us Silda's already gone for the obvious, so you're really going to have to think outside the box on this one).
Oops – CNBC's Cramer Said 'Don't Move' From Bear a Week Before Collapse [Business & Media Institute]
Jim Cramer announced on a "Wall Street Confidential" segment today that he's renouncing tech, which tech must really be beating itself up over, the loss of Uncle Jimbo's support. Why is he turning his back on a sector he previously shilled for like Alfonso Reibera for Pepsi? Well, he's "frustrated" with it. It's the only cohort where you get a good earnings per share number and the stocks do nothing or go down, it's the worst risk-reward in the game, no "pizzaz," no new product cycles. The disappointment of VMware, blah blah blah let's just cut the bullshit. The real reason Cramer is suddenly saying he was wrong about Tech is that he read a piece from this very website earlier this morning in which the author said he agreed with the bobblehead and it's just been constant waves of revulsion pulsating through his body ever since. Those close to him say that Cramer has put in motion a two part cleansing process (which he'll discuss on "Mad Money" later today). Step 1: take back anything he's ever said about anything ever Step 2: ritual suicide on Fox Business (pay-per-view perhaps, though the particulars are still being hammered out).
Earlier: Street.com Correspondent Gets First Date As Result of iPhone
Cramer Throws in the Tech Towel [thestreet.com]
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"What are we gonna do with him, Harry?" "We'll do exactly what he did to us: we're gonna burn his head with a blowtorch" "And smash his face with an iron!" "I like to slap him right in the face with a paint can" "And shove a nail through his foot!"
By Joe WeisenthalThe New York Post is making a big to do about Jim Cramer losing a $50,000 wager to Eric Bolling, having bet that financial services would be the "hottest sector" of '07 (Bolling said oil and gold). People who watch Cramer's show (…) and took his advice lost a bunch of money which the paper think is an OUTRAGE, and a crime worthy of jail time. We pretty much think this falls under the Countrywide Clause (which states that anyone dumb enough to give Angelo "Tanning Bed" Mozillo their money deserves to get screwed) but what the hey, we'll play along.
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When it comes to making strange bedfellows, modern finance makes politics look like an old-fashioned match-maker. The most famous words on the current financial turmoil came not in the form of a political speech from a major presidential candidate, but from Jim Cramer, a former hedge fund manager turned popular CNBC stockpicker and market prognosticator. His five-and-half minute call for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, however, strangely recalls the most famous political speech of an earlier era—William Jennings Bryan's 1896 "Cross of Gold" speech before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
The emotional desire of the nineteenth-century populist movement Bryan led was to smash the power of Plymouth Rock, which stood for old New England and Wall Street. The emotional desire of what Dan Gross has called "the Punch Bowl Caucus" is to cut interest rates—return the punch bowl—to jazz up the Wall Street party again. But they share an emotional tone—and, more importantly, an economic goal: the loosening of a monetary policy they claim is so tight it is ruining 'their people.'
Gross's essay nicely describes the membership of the Punch Bowl Caucus: Wall Street investment banks, hedge fund traders, private equity managers, the chief executives of heavily indebted automakers, the heads of home loan businesses, supply-siders who believe "the government should never intervene in the economy, unless it is to bail out hedge funds and investment banks," and internationalists who worry about what would happen to the developing world if Americans suddenly quit spending their earnings on foreign goods.
Since they share an emotional tone and the goal of loose money that inspired the old Populism, but differ in their background, let us adopt "Wall Street Populism" as the proper term for the Punch Bowl Caucus. It is, after all, something of a Free Silver movement with gilted edges.
There are, of course, crucial differences. The old populist were openly egalitarian radicals while the Wall Street Populists are openly elitist radicals—concerned about the jobs and firms of people who have been in the financial industry for, as Cramer put it, "twenty-five years." The old populists viewed Wall Street and the railroads as their enemy. The Wall Street Populists are, well, closely tied to Wall Street. The old populists spoke in the eloquent and evocative images built from the Christian tradition. The language of the Wall Street Populists is less burdened by syntax, tradition or allusion.
That the cause of looser money gone from those who wished to smash Plymouth Rock on the Grand Canyon to those who want to keep Wall Street afloat on free credit shows how different twenty-first century finance is from nineteenth century finance. You know that Wall Street long ago stepped through the looking glass when a hedge fund manager adopts the cause of William Jennings Bryan. We'd call it "unreal" except that it is all too real.
The Punch Bowl Caucus [Slate]
In the latest video from TheStreet.Com TV, James "Uncle Jumbo" Cramer defends his alleged nephew Cliff Mason's review of the iPhone. Uncle Jumbo explains that all the talk of the phone being a "babe magnet" was really just Cliff's way of explaining the buzz around the phone that is driving sales and Apple's stock price.
We were trying to decide what we thought of this rationale so we went back to Cliff's original video, in which he shows the phone to the fetching host of the program, Farnoosh Torabi. "Can I touch it?" she asks. And yes, of course Cliff lets Farnoosh touch it. Who wouldn't?
Uhm, what were we talking about. Oh, right. The Cliff Mason-iPhone Incident. We think maybe Cliff was telling us about the buzz using some of the lingo of these crazy kids. But then again, maybe he just meant that it's a babe magnet. After all, one of the first text messages we ever got from an iPhone read: "Chicks dig it.
The Cliff Mason-iPhone Incident made Page Six headlines on Sunday. "Mason, in a streaming-video feed, says he bought the gizmo because he 'wasn't doing anything at the time' and had 'money to burn,'" Page Six explains. "It was worth it because he was soon surrounded by curious women. Asked by thestreet.com's Farnoosh Torabi about the required iPhone switch from Verizon to AT&T, Mason shrugged and said his dad paid the bills."
[Editor's Note: we're extinguishing the comments option for this post because getting raked over the coals by both Bess Levin and Page Six in the course of just a couple of days is enough punishment for anyone. No need to pile it on any further.]
Correction: The purchase of an iPhone did not land Cliff Mason, Jim Cramer's nephew, his first date. It just got the ladies on the street (dot com) to stand up and take notice when he whipped it out (are you picking up what we're throwing down? Does anyone else think DealBreaker should close at noon on summer Fridays? For everyone's sake?). Whipping out his iPhone was much more effective in getting the opposite sex to say "I'd like a piece of that young-looking James Cramer" than Cliff's BlackBerry was (hint: don't wear it in a holster, toots). For instance, in line at J.Crew:
Picture this: I'm just standing in line [at the J.Crew near my apartment], answering some email, when the fetching cashier who's ringing me up begs to "see" my iPhone and then asks me half a dozen questions about how I like it.
As soon as she gets her hands on the thing, the cashier next to her catches sight of it and flashes me a look of what I can only describe as sheer ecstasy before asking if she, too, can take a look. When the two women on either side of me and the one in line behind me realized there was an iPhone owner in their midst, they reacted like I was one of the Beatles, circa 1964.
Like a Backstreet Boy circa 1996. Like a member of N'Sync circa 1997. But we digress. Now tell us about the waitress at BLT Burger:
I had a similar experience when I went to BLT Burger, which I cannot recommend too highly, and my waitress couldn't take her eyes off of it. Sadly, my girlfriend was with me, so I couldn't empirically test the full extent of the iPhone's magnetic capabilities.
On another note, we'd like to offer Cliff an apology. Not because we called out the lack of disclosure about him being Cramer's nephew, or for calling attention to his own admission of the fact that his father pays his Verizon bill, but because he will now apparently be forced to call Cramer 'Uncle Jimbo,' in the biblical sense. For the rest of you, take this as a warning: you disclose or you get the hose.
An iPhone: The Best $600 You'll Ever Waste [thestreet.com]


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Why do the size and brightness of the full moon change?
It was explained to me that the giant full moon of this last April 16th appeared so bright and large because the moon was the closest to the Earth that it ever has been or ever will be (within a thousands of years kind of span.) How is this possible?
The Moon's orbit around Earth isn't a perfect circle - it's actually fairly elliptical - about 5.5% eccentricity. This means there's a fairly large difference between the perigee (when the Moon is at the closest point in its orbit) and apogee (when the Moon is at its farthest). This means that the Earth-Moon distance varies by about 13,000 miles either direction of the average distance. So if the full moon occurs at or near perigee, it appears noticeably larger in the sky than if it occurs at apogee, and it also it is brighter, because the amount of light received by the Earth from the Moon depends not only upon the amount of light the Moon gives off, but also how far the Earth is from the Moon. The farther the Moon, the smaller the fraction of the Moon's light that reaches Earth. I should add, however, that while this is a significant effect, all full moons are large and bright, so it's difficult to tell the difference without being able to look at a perigee and apogee full moon side by side. This year, the lunar perigee occurred only hours from the full moon on April 16th. It was the closest full moon of the year, but not the closest the Moon has been to the Earth in recent times. The nearest perigee recently was in 1912. For a much more detailed explanation, check out this site - it even has a link to a perigee and apogee calculator so if you want to observe this phenomenon you'll know when to take a look!
What other factors affect the brightness of the full moon?
There are several other factors that affect the brightness of the full moon. When the Earth (and therefore the Moon) is at its perihelion, the closest point in its orbit to the Sun, the sunlight that reflects off the Moon is slightly more intense, causing the full moon's brightness to increase by about 4%, which is imperceptible by the human eye.
The brightness of any object, including the moon, in the sky increases with its height in the sky. When an object is directly overhead, its light strikes the ground at a right angle, and the intensity of light is the same as the intensity in the beam. However, when an object is nearer to the horizon, its light strikes the ground at an angle, and the same amount of light is spread out over a larger area. Therefore, less light per unit area reaches the ground from an object near the horizon. Also, the closer the moon is to the horizon, the more atmosphere the light must travel through to reach the observer. This means that more of the moon's light is absorbed or scattered by the atmosphere. The height of the moon in the sky results from a combination of the latitude you are observing from and the declination of the moon.
When the moon is closer to opposition, that is, the point exactly opposite the Sun (at which point there is a lunar eclipse because the Sun's light is blocked by the Earth and does not reach the Moon), it is brighter. This is called the opposition effect. It is believed to be caused mainly by shadow hiding. The closer the moon is to opposition, the smaller the shadows cast by objects on its surface, and the brighter it appears. For more information on the opposition effect, check out this website.
Finally, atmospheric conditions have a great effect on the brightness of the full moon. The full moon on a clear night will be much brighter than if there is a lot of dust, smog or clouds.
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I'm always on the look out for new content sources and in the SEO world these normally fall into two camps; squeaky clean white hat and anti google black hat.
When i discovered Charles Floate's blog it was a refreshing change, this was mainly because of the unconventional grey hat methods he used. Usually when you see these articles there's an awful lot of theory but rarely any practice.
In this instance he has backed up his theory with some pretty impressive results.
Intrigued about this I thought it would be great to get an insight into his opinion on grey hat methods, his background and overall view of SEO:
1. Hi Charles, thanks for doing this interview, can you give us a quick overview of your background and why you got into SEO?
I got put thrown into the life of an SEO a bit when I was very young, my mum just launched a new ecommerce site and got quoted £3,000/month for SEO (around $5,000) from a company that was, well less than satisfactory. I was already pretty good with computers and had been coding python for the past 2 years and doing a lot of telecoms work.
I decided I'd try and learn a bit about SEO, when she asked me to help her with her onpage (meta data) optimization.
Since then, I've been a solely grey hat, delving into phases of black and white hat periods of complete randomness. I currently work for WoW Internet and have previously worked with FosterSEO, Bootcamp Media, .Com Marketing & I also run my own white label Agency – HashtagSEo.
2. What SEO tools do you regularly use and why?
This is a bit of a hard one, I use a stupid amount of tools so I'll go over a few of my favourites and why.
ScrapeBox, I don't use this for link building (except in various, specific circumstances for nofollow, relevant blog comments). It's a awesome tool with some great addons and plugins for SEO, it also allows me to check PR, domain age, and crawl on a massive scale.
Moz, more for their content than their tools, their onpage suite is fantastic for spotting errors though it can be annoying when it pulls out an error based on duplicate page titles or descriptions for my WordPress author pages.
3. You recently stated that Penguin 2.0 is killing local business, what do you think Google should be doing to help SME's?
I think Google can stop being so brute-ish about the ways they do things, most of the time it'd seem they get an idea in their head and immediately do it rather than thinking of the consequences. I'm all for quality backlinks, but if I owned a small business in a town, I'd rather it display me in the local search results than Starbucks's 3 coffee shops in my 1 town.
4. Do you think in certain situations that cloaking is acceptable?
Cloaking, depends on the way you go about it. If you cloak to not pass link juice or to make it easier to navigate around URLs (Affiliate Cloaking as good example) then it's fine. If you're cloaking to abuse the user, then it's wrong. Abusing a GoogleBot I couldn't care less but scamming a user into clicking a link is unfair.
5. What do you think are the most common SEO mistakes?
Pretty simple, the biggest mistake in the world is listening to Google and Matt Cutts. Develop and work on your own strategies, if they work then use them, if they fail miserably then don't use them. Listening to Google's every word who love to fear monger around the SEO Community, especially as they've hit it big with all the "white hat" blogs promoting their every word!
6. How has penguin affected you and your clients?
Only 1 of our clients got hit by Penguin 2.0, otherwise.. We saw massive SERP rises, especially on websites we'd been doing a lot of contextual tier 2 work with. The only real SERP changes we've seen is from the EMD update, other than that it's been as smooth as a babies bottom!
7. You have recently ran a "Rank for Rand" experiment, where you have out ranked Rand Fishkin on his own name (currently 4th on Google) Tell us why you have done this and more importantly (without divulging too much) how you have done this.
There's a full case study that'll be released for this, the reasons are a sort of mismatch of Jon Coopers recent post on link builders mentality and a small challenge I was not given, but I'd say taken a back by.
8. I've seen on "God of SEO" your reviews of link building networks. Post penguin how would people go about using these networks?
These tend to be the most simple thing out there, don't EVER go with public networks like SAPE, BuildMyRank etc.. I always go with private networks from forum users (These have worked superbly for ranking on a few sites I've had as they have a low amount of submissions, so less spam and have custom written content made up for you, at a price of course!
9. Do you think it's acceptable to work for an agency and still explore black hat techniques? Does there lie a level of corporate responsibility?
Oh of course, my agency actively discourage black hat work and I don't do any form of black hat or grey hat for that matter tier 1 links for our clients sites. Tier 2 however is a completely different story, and even then I tend to do manually spun tier 2 contextual which are actually only 5-10 links built per tier 1 link and by manually spun, I'm on some next level spinning! ;)
10. Where do you see SEO in 3 years time?
3 years is a huge amount of time, especially in our industry. I'd say it'd be more pointed towards Google+ (even more than it already seems to be), I also think it's going to be a lot more technical based and algorithms will be even more powerful (even though right now, they're still pretty poor) – If you want to take a look at where Google's SEO rules will be in the next 3 years, take a look at Yandex now.
Thanks Charles
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Charles is definitely a fellow I have my eye on – he possesses all of the skills of a great SEO: programming experience, ingenuity, experience and the need to challenge theories.
Temporarily ranking 4th by spamming a load of exact match anchor text links for a non-competitive term is not an impressive result.
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Anyone have these linoleum floors? I've been trying to find a floor for our bathroom remodel...If we go stone or porcelain we would have to heat the floor, which will require major electrical work. (Can't have cold floors in Maine, no way, no how...) We may still go that route, but it will also raise the floor up higher than the door threshhold. Our house is almost 200 years old and has some issues under the floor in the corner of the bathroom where the toilet is, which will be addressed as best as they can, but I'm concerned about the weight of stone or ceramic.
I've been reading that linoleum (NOT vinyl) is making a trendy comeback in period houses. Marmoleum is supposed to feel warm and last forever.(well, a long time) (Marmorette is Armstongs Marmoleum). The flooring store told me that Armstrong is much more user friendly for folks with small spaces. Marmoleum is known big time for their commercial uses and charges more to cut small pieces. These floors are very 'green' and earth friendly, I'm also told, in their manufacturing. There have been a couple of websites I've found where a few people did not recommend this for bathroom use, but didn't say why not. Yet other sites said it was fine for bathrooms. One thing that I don't like about ceramic and porcelain, some of the tiles actually look like the designs have been printed on with like a silk screen or something. They are trying to imitate stone, yet many, imho, are not successful. I've looked at vinyl, too, thinking if I found one that I really liked, I'd have no problem with it, rather than stone or ceramic. But one sample I brought home had a little 'design' image printed on it that was a particular shape, no bigger than 1/2 inch in size, if that, and my eyeballs spotted that one pattern everywhere. Drove me nuts. (Don't need to be driven nuts while sitting on the toilet.) I'm going to put this post on the bathroom and flooring site, too. I hope someone has Marmorette in a bathroom and loves it, but who knows! Thank you for taking the time to read this long post. (of course, in my many months of research and looking around at stuff, what are my favorite floors? Marble and Honey Onyx. Both poor choices for practicality. Story of my life..)
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Hi elenkao, We have a Marmorette floor in our mudroom. It's fantastic--not cold, easy to clean, a tiny bit soft, and looks perfect in a period house. However, when we looked into the same flooring for our porch, we found that the companies themselves (Forbo and Armstrong) recommend against using linoleum in what might be a very wet environment. We ended up forgoing the linoleum with sadness, and going with porcelain tiles for the enclosed porch. In both of our bathrooms, we have vinyl that looks like wood. The upstairs bath is a wood-look sheet vinyl by Armstrong--the pattern is call Highland Park, and it looks amazing. It is adjacent to an old fir floor, and from the hallway, the floors are indistinguishable. It is very comforting to us not to have to worry about the floor, especially as we have a young child. So the vinyl, which is sealed with silicone, is very practical. And yet it looks really good in our 1913 home. Close up you can tell it's vinyl, but the patterns and repeats on the high end vinyl are really really good. Good luck! |
- Posted by house_vixen (My Page) on Sun, Mar 30, 08 at 21:27
Elenkao -- I used Marmorette in my kitchen reno ~ 4 years ago and love it. No regrets/favorite part of the kitchen. [A search on my user name should bring up several old posts about my experience.] In fact, we're using lino in our upcoming bath reno. Like you, I'd read varying things about using it in a wet environment but I've spoken to several respected installers and am not worried. ps You may want to check around re the Forbo/Armstrong "cost for small spaces" -- seems like that may not be a manufacturer issue. Now, I could see INSTALL costs being more per square foot for small spaces than large, but material costs for me are equal no matter which brand. [We're prob doing Forbo this time due to wanting a specific color.] If you check with flooring stores that do a lot of lino work you may be able to pick up a remnant on the cheap! |
^^ Armstrong Marmorette ^^ Sorry, couldn't resist. Who names these floors anyway? |
Baby marmorettes, er... marmosets... whatever... I mean, how can you take the name of this flooring seriously? Sorry. |
If your floor isn't smooth/flat you'll have to lay down subflooring. The hardware store can advise. My daughter is doing a Marmoleum floor in her sun room/laundry room off her kitchen in her old house. She designed a pattern she is going to cut and fit together out of several colors. I think that's the fun thing about Marmoleum (or its cousins) that you can do... make a pattern. I don't see why it wouldn't wear like iron in a bathroom. Got pictures? That said, I think anyone who could make a floor out of those darling little creatures is just heartless. ;) |
- Posted by house_vixen (My Page) on Sun, Mar 30, 08 at 23:30
Oh, I have a zillion pics, ha. I always advise trying to see a roll (or better, an installation) to get a sense of the pattern. I agree doing inlays and patterns are a wonderful feature of lino! That said, due to budget and a kitchen with quite *a lot* going on, we went subdued with our floor (Cream Marmorette). |
- Posted by house_vixen (My Page) on Mon, Mar 31, 08 at 0:04
I know a lot of folks don't care for resilient flooring, but I just find the various marbled patterns of natural lino so gorgeous! Our bathroom is turning out to have quite a lot of texture (for me, anyway!) and I'm a bit bummed -- I don't think I can "go there" with a Forbo Vivace pattern. [IIRC, a fair number of GW kitchens have the Vivace "Asian Tiger."] So if anyone falls in love with Aurora Hour (3414) and installs it, please do send me a pic so I can live vicariously! Here it is in crummy warehouse lighting: But as we've got a small bath that's getting a strongly-grained zebrawood vanity and a shallow-cab-to-be that incorporates to-be-cleaned-up pattered doors and a small amount of patterned tile, Forbo's Concrete (3136) -- which definitely shows (a peachy-yellow) marbling but is more sedate than the gorgeous Aurora Hour -- is about all we think we can handle! |
- Posted by wooderlander (My Page) on Mon, Mar 31, 08 at 0:44
Hey, House vixen! Long time! Real linoleum is most beautiful and fabulous, and should be fine as long as you don't leave puddles standing on it for too long. The installer of the Marmoleum kitchen floor in our last house did not charge extra for cut-outs because we only had him do three. I think this must be somewhat negotiable. |
- Posted by house_vixen (My Page) on Mon, Mar 31, 08 at 2:00
Hey yourself, Woodlander! There are still a few topics that can get me going these days...Lino Luv being one of 'em. Know your floor's great; hope you are doing well? |
House Vixen, How are seams handled?? Do they show a lot? |
re. pricing, our installer, who is really good and honest, steered us toward Marmorette rather than Marmoleum because of warehouse locations and shipping costs. Like the OP, we are in the Northeast, and for a small install, we were told there was no comparison in terms of price. re. seams, with a good installation they are barely visible at fist, and become invisible over time. Amazing stuff. Our mudroom is a deep deep blue, and we did a counter in the same room in the same material. No tiny primates were harmed in the installation. |
- Posted by house_vixen (My Page) on Mon, Mar 31, 08 at 10:40
Ah, I defer to the East Coasters then re: Forbo/Armstrong material costs. I didn't know about the warehouse locations. Echoing what Lynnski said about seams. Though of course you want to minimize them in a bath/wet location, which is why with a good installer sheet lino is viable. [Bonus of having a small (6 x 10.5) bath...no seams for me this go-round!] Good luck with your project; let us know what you decide/how it works out! |
- Posted by jerzeegirl (My Page) on Mon, Mar 31, 08 at 14:13
- Posted by amsunshine (My Page) on Mon, Mar 31, 08 at 14:59
Hey HouseVixen: We have Aurora Hour in our DDs' bathroom (they picked the color out of a limited number of choices I gave them....mostly they just liked that that "Aurora" is the name of Sleeping Beauty!) We do love the color and how it blends with our MCM pink tile. (Not for everyone, but perfect for little girls!) I think you made a good choice with Concrete for your room. Anyway, here are a couple quick pics I just snapped: elenkao: we have marmoleum (similar to marmorette) in both bathrooms and love it. Just make sure that you have your installer caulk the molding to ensure that the edges are waterproofed, and any joints with a tub are caulked. Also, I took the second picture, above, to show what we did underneath our dds' shower -- we put cove base tile all around that side of the room and caulked it. We felt that was better than regular molding for such a potentially wet area. HTH! |
- Posted by amsunshine (My Page) on Mon, Mar 31, 08 at 15:15
Oops...forgot to post the pic of our other bath where you can actually see the line of caulk where the marmo meets the tub. Color is Rosato. |
- Posted by straitlover (My Page) on Mon, Mar 31, 08 at 17:01
Do you know how wide the roll of this product is? I was toying around w/ using a linoleum product rather than vinyl in my kitchen. I currently have vinyl, and whoever put it in did a horrible, horrible job in seaming! To go top to bottom w/o a seam, the roll would need to be 14 ft wide, and I know most vinyls are 12 ft wide. I have 2 seams in my kitchen floor. One is right in the walkway between the kitchen and LR. There is a 1/8" gap! They must have filled them with something (or painted it) when I first bought the house (it was a new home) that eventally wore away. I bought some almond colored caulk and go over them once a year or so to hide them. What REALLY kills me is my guest bath floor is only like 4X6, and there is a seam in there, too! Big ol gap right in front of the doorway, and I use the caulk in there, too. They were too cheap to cut another whole piece and used leftovers. Of course, these were the same people who installed my carpet that got wrinkles in it about 2 months after I moved in and wouldn't come out and fix it w/o me paying them! |
Hey, Jerzeegirl, (I'm an x- jerzeegirl !) lol Your floor looks great!!!! How is it to keep clean?? I'm liking linoleum (the real stuff) more and more. Thanks for the pix everyone, I think they look really nice and the fact that it's 'warm' really appeals to me! |
- Posted by amsunshine (My Page) on Mon, Mar 31, 08 at 20:05
I find my marmoleum (in kitchen and both baths) unbelievably easy to clean. Nothing seems to stick to it, and I love having no grooves, pits, or grout lines to clean. I vacuum up any loose particles first, and then damp mop with the product provided by my installer. |
- Posted by house_vixen (My Page) on Tue, Apr 1, 08 at 0:09
Cleaning is so easy. Lino has anti-static properties, which means pet hair seems to just fly off it into the dustpan. I've had light vinyl floors that just never looked clean even after hands-and-knees scrubbing, but sweep/vacuum/occasional vinegar-and-water mop keeps my kitchen floor in great shape. We used the suggested "sealer" when the floor was installed, took off the sealer with the Forbo cleaning product 1.5 years later, reapplied sealer...and did that process all over again at the year 3 point. The above is a bit of a PITA, but I take a few hours of PITA on occasion over weekly heavy-duty cleaning! Jerzeegirl, love that floor with your choices. Amsunshine, thanks so much for sharing your photos! Both choices look great in their respective settings, and I love that you all either worked with your existing fixture or did an amazing job sourcing repro ones. [Alas we have nothing so pretty in our 1905 baths...the worst of the 70s/80s, I think.] The Aurora Hour is such a beauty; your pics are really making me waver (we've yet to BUY the Concrete, after all). I do think it might be a bit too much for our room, but-but-but...ha. I prob need to stay strong and remember we still have an upstairs bath that will likely get a lino floor! |
- Posted by jerzeegirl (My Page) on Tue, Apr 1, 08 at 0:32
elenkao: It is so easy to clean. I use either a wet mop or if I am really cleaning it a spritz of Simple Green. I have never had an easier floor to clean. And it's true about it's anti-static qualities - pet hair comes right up. housevixen: This is funny but your linoleum floor was the "inspiration" floor for my floor. I remember trying to replicate your color :-) Something I just thought of - the guy who came out to measure my job was a marmoleum installer in California and he said that in was fashionable there to cove the marmoleum under the lower cabinets. I guess they create a concave (?) wooden form and then wrap the linoleum around it so that four inch area under the cabinet has this cool look. I would have done it but apparently it's expensive and hard to find installers who know how to do it. I wish I could find a photo. |
- Posted by house_vixen (My Page) on Tue, Apr 1, 08 at 0:46
Straitlover, sheet linoleum is only 6'7 wide. However, what I was told (grain of salt) is that lino seams grow *together* over time while vinyl ones grow *apart*. Can't say if mine has done the former in 4 years but at least it hasn't done the latter. That said, seems like your poor vinyl got some crap installers. Jerzeegirl, too funny; of course, I *did* think I might be biased since it looked close to mine. With all our kitchen's "glamour dont's" it's nice to know we were an inspiration for something! |
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Someone told me a long time ago to use rubbing alcohol to get up carpet stains. I've been doing it for years and really seems to work. Just a little on a cloth and rub on stain. Voila! Just thought I'd pass this one on. |
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2 other cleaning solutions, Folex or color safe bleach, they've worked for me on doggie stains. |
- Posted by southerngal25 (My Page) on Fri, Dec 2, 11 at 10:21
gam51, do any of the stains come back after using alcohol? That has been a problem for me using various methods. The last method I tried was using oxiclean, thus far stain has not returned but it's been only a couple of weeks. |
Stains that keep coming back means the "carpet pad" has absorbed the stain and it is wicking back up into the carpet. The only way to stop this is to replace the carpet pad, then have the carpet steam cleaned or replace the pad and carpet. We had our stained carpet steam cleaned, but, the stain wicked back up from the stained carpet pad. We are trying something other than replacing the carpet pad due to dirty roof water flooding the ceiling/carpet.We put down a 2 ml thick plastic (paint drop cloth) over the existing carpet pad wall to wall past the stained area (half the room). We will now have the carpet steam cleaned and see if it works. My husband has been cleaning the stained area with vinegar water off and on and the stain is now only faint. This has helped tremendously, however, the carpet backing still has some stain that wicks back up. I believe steam cleaning will clean the carpet backing and the plastic will be a barrier between stained carpet pad and carpet backing. Our carpet is good, better than new carpet on the market these days (other than the stain!). Will see if it works, better than spending boo-koodles of money for new poor quality carpet. |
- Posted by nerdyshopper (My Page) on Fri, Sep 27, 13 at 17:45
When I was at Walmart the last time I spotted some small bottles of spot remover for various kinds of stains. Since we had a friend spill spots of coffee with cream and sugar on our whitish carpet I assumed the version for oily stains would work. It did. Now the spots are whitish against our dirtier off-white carpet That was a Karbona product and it really worked on the cream and the coffee stain. |
Why don't you use reg carpet cleaners. I keep a bottle of Resolve carpet cleaner for spots. They won't get a deep stain but will remove regular stains. Why take a chance with vinegar or alcohol. Carpets are very expensive to take a chance with. Anytime you spill something you need to grab a towel, lay it on the liquid and step on the towel and do a little dance. LOL If you rub you are just rubbing it in. I had my house cleaner knock over a plant and it sent damp dirt all over the floor. I told him just to leave it I will take care of it when it dries. The loose stuff vacuumed up the light stains I got off with a wet rag. |
Rubbing Alcohol with white paper towels are quite useful . Stains disappear completely. |
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A few weeks ago someone posted some info about Minot hiring nurses. I can't seem to find the post and was wondering if anyone recalls the name of the staffing agency to contact. I'm interested in... Read More
0Sep 28, '12 by ScarlettzI am interested in applying to Trinity in Minot, ND. However, I am tied to an RN-to-BSN program until May 2013. I am not part of a compact state, so I would need to get my ND nursing license.
Just a few questions,
1) For those of you who have received offers, did you apply directly to positions you were interested in online or did you speak to a recruiter first?
2) If you spoke to a recruiter, do you have their contact information? Did you find it on their website?
3) How far in advance did you apply for a job? For instance, if I could not start until late May/June 2013, when should I apply or contact them?
4) Since I am not in a compact state, would you advise me to get my endorsed ND license first (will cost me about $130) ? Will this help my chances of getting hired? Or, should I apply or call recruiters first and let them know I plan to get it.
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1Oct 17, '12 by blueshiftMinot, due to the Bakken Shale Formation, is one of the job epicenters of the country right now. Tons of people are moving there for work, and the city/county management has resisted attempts to expand housing because they feel that this is just an oil bubble and it will burst; they think after it bursts people will pack up and go, leaving empty housing behind. The city is an absolute mess right now...it's growing by leaps and bounds, but the city will not build the infrastructure to support these people. Consequently, huge camps of RVs sprung up (these were nicknamed "man camps"! Minot is definitely the place to be if you're a single woman!) as a last resort. However, Minot wasn't happy about that, and they've been talking about banning living in RVs. I think they may have already passed that law, but I'm not sure. No idea where those people are supposed to go now.
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I made this "clunker" last night and I thought I would fill the top with a cascading sedum & the bottom with hens & chicks.
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WOW.... how cool is that? Boy you are really creating....love the idea of planting in the totem....gives the totem a whole new life!! |
- Posted by marylee_2010 (My Page) on Sat, Mar 12, 11 at 10:32
Linda, I like the idea of planting in your totem. If you don't mind my being a copy cat, I think I will try that. I hope you will post a pic when you have planted your totem. - Marylee |
- Posted by luna_llena_feliz (My Page) on Sat, Mar 12, 11 at 11:39
A very citrusy totem! It should look awesome with the sedums planted in it. I'd love to see a picture of it when you have it planted. |
- Posted by jeannespines 4 (My Page) on Sat, Mar 12, 11 at 13:41
Love it! Welcome, LindaArb! You may be interested in seeing "lindasewandsews" pics ...link below. She does lots of wonderful totems w/pots! Jeanne S. |
Here is a link that might be useful: lindasewandsew gardens album
Thanks all and thanks for the wonderful link Jeanne! I'll post pics when I've planted and put in my garden :) |
- Posted by nanatricia (My Page) on Sat, Mar 12, 11 at 20:40
Cute!!!!! |
Wow! Nifty planter & colorful even in winter if you live where it can be outside in protected area. I'd like to see it planted too! Jan |
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great idea to add plants to your totem |
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What a great planter. I love how it will provide height and greenery. Nice to see Linda's amazing planters again too. Kathy |
- Posted by marlene_2008 7 (My Page) on Sun, Mar 13, 11 at 13:02
Luna took the words right out of my mouth....this one looks very citrusy! I like the idea of planting in the totem...that should look really cool! |
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