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You have a beautiful kitchen! It is unique and memorable. The cabinets are gorgeous. Enjoy cooking! |
I love your cabinets! What is the finish on them? Do you expect them to darken or turn more golden over time? |
Beautiful!!! |
- Posted by jenny_from_the_block (My Page) on Sat, Dec 22, 12 at 17:46
thanks! We have white oak floors we did ourselves and used Bona water based finish so it would not yellow. The cabinet maker put some kind of finish on ours that is not supposed to yellow - it is different than oil based poly but I am not sure exactly what it was called. It may darken a tad over time but should not really get dark or yellow. I am not too worried about it. |
Just beautiful!! I love the cabinets, and the floor!! All of it is perfect!! Nancy |
- Posted by trailrunner (My Page) on Sat, Dec 22, 12 at 18:24
It may be cold outside but THAT Is one of THE nicest kitchens I have ever seen ! Those cabs...and that fantastic art...and the counterspace to the right of the sink..those open shelves..well I am going to go back over and over. Love at first sight. wow...that is all I can say...wow. c |
- Posted by trailrunner (My Page) on Sat, Dec 22, 12 at 18:29
I meant to the right of the Bluestar:) I am still in awe LOL. I wanted to ask how your GC or carpenter did the shelves . I want floating shelves like that in my sunroom ..I am redoing it and want to put my cookbooks on them. Is it the cleat system and if so where did he get the hardware ? Thank you !! |
- Posted by motherof3sons (My Page) on Sat, Dec 22, 12 at 18:32
Cool kitchen! I love it. The blend of kitchen items and "nature" is perfect! |
Very nice! Love everything, especially the warm natural wood tone with knots, and that BlueStar, the knob color you chose is perfect! |
So beautiful! I adore your backsplash. What material is that? Congratulations!!! |
I'm speechless! Enjoy! |
Wow, I love your floating shelves! So different. It's nice that you can forgo the upper cabs and have plenty of storage space. Are your cabs knotty alder by chance? |
Fabulous kitchen! Unique and special and I'll bet you are enjoying the heck out of it!!! (C--you can always call J for info re: floating shelf hanging) |
- Posted by mermanmike (My Page) on Sat, Dec 22, 12 at 21:53
Wow--beautiful! Your cabinets are truly stunning. |
As a fellow White Oak cab person, I LOVE YOUR CABS! The whole kitchen, however, it just beautiful. It looks stunning, yet comfortable! I would drink coffee in your kitchen (I will be there tomorrow morning, I like it with cream, no sugar :) It was also great to see those cabs with light countertops. I love the look of my dark ones, but I don't always like how they show so much (even right after they are wiped down). Seriously thinking about going lighter...and now even more so! |
- Posted by allison0704 (My Page) on Sat, Dec 22, 12 at 21:58
It looks great, J! Love the floors and the cabinets are so pretty. I know you are enjoying cooking in it! How is the kitchen working when everyone is helping? Congrats on a job well done. |
- Posted by Kitten1313 (My Page) on Sat, Dec 22, 12 at 22:06
Those are just the kind of cabinets I'm looking to put into my rustic kitchen. Beautiful!! |
What a nice space you have created. It is unique without being weirdly different. The room is so light and airy. The cabinet wood color adds just enough warmth for the space. I'm not an open shelf person but I love the way yours look. Great job! |
That's one beautiful kitchen. I especially love the color of your wood stain. Enjoy! |
- Posted by go_figure01 (My Page) on Sat, Dec 22, 12 at 23:03
jenny, So glad you posted your reveal. I love the feeling that I have when I look at it, and with the snow outside, I can almost smell the crispness. I also love your backsplash, is it painted plywood? It sure is beautiful! The open shelves are fabulous and your work counters are incredible! You did a great job pulling it all together. TY so much for sharing!! |
Wow - Just beautiful! I love your cabinets! Is it considered quartersawn? Again, they're great! |
This is just stunning! I love the shiplap walls. I have a detail question for you: how thick are those open shelves? I'm planning on wood floating shelves, myself, and debating about thickness. |
Jenny, that is an awesome kitchen, congratulations! I love the art and your open shelves, plus those cabinets are gorgeous. Really well done! |
- Posted by jenny_from_the_block (My Page) on Sun, Dec 23, 12 at 1:59
Thanks for the nice comments. To answer a few questions, The shelves are approx. 12" wide by 3" deep. They are hung on some kind of hidden bracket type thing - I can get more details from my DH. The open shelves make it so easy to grab stuff while cooking and throw it back up there after cleaning. We bought a 1960 home and this is the original kitchen footprint. It is closed off from other spaces so I don't mind having cooking stuff visible. The white oak is not quartersawn, although that would have been a nice addition for sure! :-) The tiles behind the range are a handmade Moroccan tile called Zellij, first read about them on Atticmag. |
What a fresh looking unaffected kitchen! Just love it. Your floating shelves are one of the best I have seen. You must get details from DH and post it all. I love the lightness and the clean lines. |
- Posted by liriodendron (My Page) on Sun, Dec 23, 12 at 6:19
In my view one of the top ten most wonderful kitchens on GW. I would love to see more details about the shelves, too. And peek into the pantry, please? And maybe a close up of the cab fronts to see the knobs, and especially the handsome base moulding and the toekick arches. Is that too much and too greedy for details? I hope not. Such an original, and completely succesful, design. Brava! Especially love the radiator cover and the (original to the house?) dutch door with its serving shelf. And all the lines, perfectly set-off with the round, ovoid and organic shapes of stuff on shelves and walls and art. Thank you for this holiday treat! Liriodendron |
Simply gorgeous. I love its originality and all of the exquisite details. Thank you so much for sharing - this is an inspiration! |
Sigh, this is so incredibly lovely. Totally magazine-worthy without the obvious pretense or faux glamour of some of those showplace kitchens you see in magainzes. Thanks for posting the photos for all of us to admire! |
Beautiful, I especially love the cabs, open shelves and counters. Perfect kit to work in, enjoy! |
I love this kitchen. You should upload it to Houzz.com. Very inspiring. Enjoy! |
- Posted by EngineerChic (My Page) on Sun, Dec 23, 12 at 8:01
I think this proves that oak CAN be gorgeous. I love this for so many reasons: The marble and open shelving are beautiful and keep this at the level of "aspirational" kitchen for me, at least. With the pet fur that flies around here during shedding season and DH's propensity for leaving greasy spoons or drippy bottles of olive oil around, those 2 elements would not work for me. But that doesn't mean I don't love them ;) |
Stunning, I love everything in this kitchen. Enjoy. |
Unique & lovely! I really like how you've incorporated your beautiful artwork into your kitchen. Awesome cabinets. The room is fresh, crisp, relaxing & charming. Enjoy your new space! |
- Posted by firsthouse_mp (My Page) on Sun, Dec 23, 12 at 11:51
Love the horizontal boards! The kitchen has such a clean fresh look and the white oak is a color wood that I am so attracted to. I am a huge fan of the floating shelves and you did such a nice job with this!! Beautiful :) |
- Posted by jenny_from_the_block (My Page) on Sun, Dec 23, 12 at 12:24
- Posted by michoumonster (My Page) on Sun, Dec 23, 12 at 14:42
wow, gorgeous, yet feels like home! I love your shelves! thanks for posting all of the details! |
That is really a warm, inviting and pretty kitchen. Very unique. Great job! |
- Posted by gsciencechick (My Page) on Sun, Dec 23, 12 at 15:00
I agree it looks like the outdoors came indoors. So many beautiful elements with the light cabinets and counters, and the wall planks and shelving. |
- Posted by lavender_lass (My Page) on Sun, Dec 23, 12 at 17:43
It's a wonderful kitchen...but those floors!!! They're beautiful :) Everything works so well together from the cabinets and marble to the appliances and the open shelves. They look great with the walls. Thanks for sharing...now I know what style of floor I'd like to get for my current kitchen. |
- Posted by annkathryn (My Page) on Sun, Dec 23, 12 at 18:45
Very pretty kitchen - it's unlike any other I've seen on GW. You've done a great job making it unique and inviting. The wood is gorgeous and a great rejoinder to people who think oak is dated. |
- Posted by localeater (My Page) on Sun, Dec 23, 12 at 20:23
Really gorgeous. I love the warmth; the floor, the cabinets, everything is just great. |
Different and beautiful! Thank you for sharing. |
Thanks for the info on the shelves! Those close-ups really show the beauty of the wood. All around just lovely. |
- Posted by modern_mom35 (My Page) on Mon, Dec 24, 12 at 10:23
gorgeous!! I normally do not like rustic, but the open shelves, clean lines, and light colors really speak to me. well done!! |
- Posted by outsideplaying (My Page) on Mon, Dec 24, 12 at 17:38
What a stunner kitchen! And I don't usually even like oak cabs, but these are gorgeous! Well done, everywhere I look! Especially love your custom hood and backsplash. |
- Posted by scootermom (My Page) on Tue, Dec 25, 12 at 2:14
What a beautiful, fun, kitchen. Rustic, yes, but also simple, and light-filled, and peaceful. When I hear "rustic", I think of a room that's busy with too much wood. This kitchen makes the most of the beautiful natural wood, yet it's clean and elegant. My kids are probably thankful we don't live in that gorgeous home, because if we did, I'd be dancing around that airy, natural kitchen all day, like some kind of crazed forest nymph. |
That is one of my favorite kitchens! I love everything about it. Great job! |
- Posted by laurainlincoln (My Page) on Tue, Dec 25, 12 at 16:16
That is just a fabulous kitchen! I love the walls, they are so wonderful. The cabinets are also just gorgeous as well. What a great kitchen you've created. You will enjoy that for years and years. |
It's beautiful! Thanks for sharing some additional details on how the open shelving was done. I would love some more close-ups of the shelving and underside, if you have time. |
- Posted by farmgirlinky (My Page) on Tue, Dec 25, 12 at 22:08
Really lovely! I especially like the shiplap boards, and the tiles behind the range. Wonderful combination of materials. Congratulations! Lynn |
- Posted by jenny_from_the_block (My Page) on Tue, Dec 25, 12 at 23:04
junicb - if you are still reading, I took some photos of the shelves and their underside with light tape, will try to post it tomorrow. |
I am still reading! No rush - whenever you have time... |
Just love your kitchen! Fantastic job! Enjoy it in good health! |
Jenny - any update on the photos of the underside of the shelves? |
- Posted by jenny_from_the_block (My Page) on Sun, Jan 6, 13 at 20:04
Hi Junicb - here is a photo of the lights underneath the shelves. They are LED strip lights, you just cut and stick them up there, and then the end is hardwired into the wall. |
Jenny - I don't know how I missed your response! Thanks for the update. By any chance, do you know the brand and vendor for your tape lighting? We are having a hard time finding the right style to go with our open shelving. Is it low-voltage? Where is the driver/transformer hidden? Thanks! |
- Posted by jenny_from_the_block (My Page) on Tue, Jan 22, 13 at 16:05
Junicb The brand of tape lighting is Hafele led lighting. Yes low-voltage, and the transfomer is in the basement I think DH said. The wires go into the walls and down to the basement. Let me know if there are any other questions I can help with. We ordered some of the stuff through our cabinet company (they had a lighting specialist) and then some of it my DH ordered on his own (he is very handy!). Let me know if there are any other questions I can help with. I am very happy with it - its very bright and has a nice natural bright tone too it - not too blue. |
Thanks again, Jenny! Your kitchen is beautiful! |
Jenny-This is one of the most interesting kitchens I've seen on here in a long time. I love the way you have combined the different elements and materials. I'm a little late in commenting, but thanks for sharing. |
What a beautiful and very unique kitchen! |
Your kitchen is lovely. So warm. Congratulations! |
I have no idea why I keep losing this thread right when I mean to comment on it. You have done a truly terrific and original job. Your kitchen has broad appeal as a softly contemporary space and yet you have avoided all of the cliches of overdone contemporary kitchens. Love the way the brass on the BS came out--just the right note. Congratulations! |
- Posted by lannegreene (My Page) on Thu, Feb 14, 13 at 17:11
Wonderful cabinets. The inset doors are so well done and the oak is beautiful. The wood and floors give it such a naturalistic, calm, warm feel. Congradulations. Enjoy. |
- Posted by jenny_from_the_block (My Page) on Thu, Feb 14, 13 at 21:57
Thanks for the nice words all! Cooking in it has been so much fun. |
Hi Jenny, we are doing planked walls and thick shelves. Do you know the color of your walls? And also, what size are the planks? 6"? Also, we're the walls painted before they put wood on? Thanks for the detailed info on the shelves. We are DIYing and they are a debate in our house. DH says they need corbels, I can show him yours and say "not so much"! Don't know how I missed this reveal thread, but still have a picture of your kitchen! Thanks so much |
- Posted by young-gardener (My Page) on Sat, Oct 19, 13 at 15:58
I fall for the painted cabinets every.single.time having sworn off bare wood, and let me just tell you that your kitchen has me swooning. Oh my! It's gorgeous! Well done!! |
- Posted by jenny_from_the_block (My Page) on Sun, Oct 20, 13 at 11:28
Hi Susie, to answer some of your questions - the planks are about 5 1/4" wide, with a little gap inbetween. They were put in on top of the drywall, then painted in once they were in place. Unfortunately the longest shelves are starting to pitch forward just a bit. Both my husband (who is handy) and our contractor think they will not come off the wall, BUT we all decided we'd feel better to put brackets in. I have some really heavy stuff I'd like to put up there, like a big le creuset dutch oven etc. and I'd feel better with the brackets. I picked out some metal ones and I will paint them white to blend in with the wall. as for wall color, its either Sherwin Williams Dover white, or just plain white, I don't remember. And yes, I still love the marble. It does etch but doesn't stain at all once properly sealed. I did do a re-seal on it after about 6 months. Good luck with your kitchen! Thanks for the kind words. |
wow, what a beautiful and unique kitchen! |
- Posted by donnasophia (My Page) on Thu, Oct 24, 13 at 13:01
Is there a lot of dusting involved with this type of wall? I LOVE them, and your entire kitchen! |
OH WOW! Really gorgeous-I love the light wood and white paired together. :) |
- Posted by jenny_from_the_block (My Page) on Fri, Oct 25, 13 at 13:00
Thanks! No there is no dust issue with the wall. The kitchen was a complete gut, and we installed the wood (yellow-poplar) boards on top of new drywall, then painted it. So no more dust than you'd usually get. |
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Released on 2012-10-19 08:00 GMT
Email-ID | 5411511 |
Date | 2008-12-02 19:28:58 |
From | firstname.lastname@example.com |
To | email@example.com |
Foreign ministers from NATO member states are holding their annual
conference Dec. 2-3 in Brussels, where the hot topic is an American
prompted plan to extend Membership Action Plan (MAP) to the former Soviet
states of Ukraine and Georgia.
Washington (as well as the rest of the world) knows that in pulling
Ukraine or Georgia into its fold is one of the surest ways to contain
Russia inside its own borders as well as castrate Moscow's ability to
reach westward. The West's plan gained momentum in both countries when
each underwent their color revolutions-Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution
and Georgia's 2003 Rose Revolution-that brought in pro-Western
governments. But since those color revolutions, Moscow has increased its
efforts to either break Western influence in Ukraine and Georgia or at
least keep that influence from being able to solidify its hold on the two
Both of the ex-Soviet states were given a vague promise from the U.S. at
the April NATO summit in Bucharest
that MAPs would be extended when the foreign ministers met in Dec.,
however since that summit Russia has made it very clear
to the West -by both helping break the government in Ukraine and going to
war with Georgia-- that both countries are its turf and the West should
keep its distance. The U.S.-along with the UK and most of Central Europe--
is taking the view that NATO membership for the two countries now would
will cut off Russia's resurgence
now before Moscow can make any more moves.
This is where the U.S. and much of Western Europe's views over the MAP
issue divides. For while containing Russia now makes strategic sense on
one level, there is an enormous amount of reforms and changes for each
country-politically, economically, militarily, institutionally-for either
to be a contributing member of NATO. Other NATO members-like France and
Germany-- want the two candidates to hold off on joining the Alliance
until they can prove they are stable countries and can actually contribute
to the security missions of NATO-essentially making for a net gain in
security, rather than a net loss that they currently represent by taking
more security from NATO than they give in return.
Both sides have valid, practical points, while Tbilisi and Kiev (or at
least the pro-western parts of Kiev) are taking the view that if the West
doesn't formally pull in these states now, than Russia will most likely be
able to reinstate its claim on each country
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/medvedev_doctrine_and_american_strategy .
Russia has taken advantage of this divide between NATO
members and has actively campaigned to Germany and France to prevent the
Alliance from extending the MAPs --and within NATO it just takes one veto
to prevent any such move. Russia has reminded certain NATO members that
Russia can make life very difficult for them should they go against
Moscow's wishes. Germany
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20081006_german_question and France have
both come out against extending the MAP to Ukraine and Georgia, largely on
technical reasons of those states not being adequately prepared or unified
behind the goal of membership. Berlin knows that it receives the majority
of its energy supplies from Russia-something Moscow isn't twitchy about
cutting off. Paris is the current president of the EU and was the broker
of peace between Russia and Georgia during its war in August-France does
not want another conflict to erupt with Russia.
So for now, MAPs are not going to happen, much to Russia's glee. But the
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been touring some
key NATO members-like United Kingdom and Italy-- in the run-up to the NATO
summit to jockey for a new plan for Ukraine and Georgia. This plan would
greatly expand the Ukraine-NATO and Georgia-NATO Commissions-mirroring the
preparations each state would take if it were extended a MAP, thus
preparing the countries anyway for eventual membership to the Alliance in
practice, if not in name.
Rice's plan changes the dynamic of preparing each country for membership.
Whereas if a MAP was extended to Ukraine and Georgia, the institution of
NATO (in which each member has say) would take over reforming each country
to join; but in simply expanding the Commissions, this allows the U.S. to
have a firmer hand in guiding the candidates-keeping the preparations on a
bilateral level and within Washington's control.
But both Rice's plan and the MAP are both long-term strategies for Ukraine
and Georgia-something that may keep either from ever being successful for
many reasons.
First off, Rice is leading up the U.S.'s efforts for Georgia and Ukraine
though she only has six weeks left in her job before President-elect Barak
Obama's administration comes in. Without a formal MAP that brings the
alliance as a whole on board and thus uses the alliances secretariat to
manage the MAP, the push towards membership is completely dependent upon
the ongoing interest of the state -- the US that is attempting to do an
end run around the normal process. And since it is unclear if Obama's
will want to continue an aggressive push against Russia, especially since
it has so many other items on the U.S.'s plate the Ukraine and Georgia
membership push could well fall by the wayside in a matter of weeks.
Secondly, even if Ukraine and Georgia do eventually reform and modernize
to a sufficient degree not only to meet the usual requirements ofr MAP
eligibility but also to meaningfully contribute to the alliance's security
(a long shot to say the least), membership would not be guaranteed. It
still requires all Alliance members to sign off on it-something that looks
increasingly problematic as the cracks within NATO
http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/lithuania grow deeper.
Third, there is a good chance that both the pro-Western governments in
Ukraine and Georgia could fall or reverse the longer the West holds back
on folding them into their alliances. Kiev
and Tbilisi
are both highly unstable and both have large pro-Russian (or at least
sympathetic to Russia's stance) movements that could turn or break the
Lastly, the longer NATO keeps from solidifying its hold on Ukraine and
Georgia, the longer Russia has to act to counter Western influence
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/real_world_order within each country and
weaken certain NATO members' position on ever wanting the two candidates.
Russia doesn't have an endless period to work, especially since the U.S
will eventually sort through its other issues that keep it bogged down,
but Russia's window
is widened with NATO's stagnation.
There is no good answer for any side on this situation, but at the moment
it is about each player attempting to balance everyone else in both the
short and long terms.
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Get some very used kitty litter, the riper the better, dump it down both holes. I tried this years ago after several other methods, it really worked! Sheila |
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Never tried it on groundhogs, myself, but I agree with Sheila - used kitty litter is great stuff! I've used it to encourage rats and rabbits to move on. Anybody know how to get rid of armadillos? Must be the dry weather, this year they are destroying my yard and trying their darndest to break my ankle! pam |
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I also have groundhogs living under my chicken house and shed. So far they have not caused a lot of trouble. I did plant some green pole beans to grow on the chicken fence on one side and they ate those to the ground as soon as they came up, but nothing else much. They haven't found our veggie garden. It's on the other side of the property so I hope it's safe from the groundhogs. I'm doubtful about the racoons, though. The only thing in my flower garden that they eat are the weeds and are welcome to them. I thought maybe they would prevent something more dangerous to the chickens from taking up residence there, like a weasle, mink, skunk, fox, etc. etc. so I have left them alone. My dogs sure are interested in them, though! Will a couple of big cats keep groundhogs away? These are huge groundhogs! Will the cats bother the chickens and chicks and eggs? I have considered getting a couple of big guard cats, if they will happily co-exist with the chickens, chicks and eggs, which are in a covered run but I would like to let them out to free range, occasionally. I have also considered getting a big free ranging dog but need to do some containment fencing first. Will a big dog wreck the veggie garden chasing away racoons? (I do have a couple of indoor "guard" shi tzus lol!) |
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Chemical spills in the United States did not significantly decrease when they increased the fines. Spills greatly decreased when the plant manager was made criminally responsible for the prevention and the reporting of all releases at their facility, and quite a few went to federal prison, mostly for failure to report.
There is a useful lesson to be learned from that experience in the regulation of finance. The amount of money available and the likelihood of getting caught will always tempt underlings to cheat, no matter the level of fine. Throwing the occasional boss (and the underling) in jail 'pour encourager les autres' is the only way to convince bank executives to start hiring trustworthy and honest subordinates, rather than slick smart guys with few ethical encumbrances.
The problem is bigger than LIBOR and bigger than finance. Virtually every public and private institution, carefully built up over centuries of western civilization, is being pillaged by the rich and powerful who control them.
And virtually all the professional truth tellers theoretically paid to put a check on self-interested behavior -- public accountants, property appraisers, bond raters, pension actuaries, executive pay consultants, etc. -- have sold out. Tell the lie or you don't get the deal.
The best case is a really rotten generation now in charge. The worst case is an ongoing downward spiral.
In the game of life, all are tempted to pursue their own desires, but are also reliant on other people and social institutions. Are those who do the right thing by those other people and institutions saints or suckers? If enough people decide the latter, LIBOR is just a symptom of a broader cancer.
It is as if the tale of Gyges and the Ring has been reinterpreted, with the vast majority deciding that Glaucon was right -- better to be evil if you can get away with it -- and Socrates was wrong. Those in finance, and those elsewhere, got magic rings that made their crimes invisible or unpunished.
Restore trust in finance? Perhaps it would be more honest to tell people they should have no such thing.
If those caught defrauding the public continue not going to jail, the behavior will continue. The potential rewards are too great.
It must be hard to write an editorial about this when you know that your own readers are implicated.
The only relevant questions are: why is no one in jail yet? Why is no one on wall street that committed massive fraud and led to the ongoing bailouts in jail yet?
Why are the ilk of Blankfein, Rubin, Cohen, Cohn, Schwartz, Fuld, Greenspan, Bernanke, Feinberg, etc., etc. not in jail yet for defrauding investors, tax payers and Savers?
Why is Bernanke allowed to continue to extend tens of trillions of zero cost loans to these very same bankers, orchestrating debasement of the currency and, hence, theft from savers and tax payers?
"despite the risks of banker-bashing"
The biggest risk here seems to be that too little meaningful banker bashing has happened since the 2008 financial crisis. Between bonuses and criminal behaviour, it seems obvious that a rotten culture persists in London, New York, and elsewhere.
Bringing criminal charges against those who participated in this fraud is an obvious first step.
Seriously, did anyone not see this kind of thing happening?
When people who help finance people doing REAL BENEFICIAL work, make multiples of the money that the REAL workers do, surely there's something wrong with the pricing.
Banks have become financial companies.
The goal is to pad the bottom line and ensure handsome bonuses ,by gouging consumers for a few extra points.
When times get lean, or investments go bad, get taxpayers to pay for it all… But the bonuses are non-negotiable…cleverly done by convincing the public that talent will go elsewhere (where that is is anyone's guess) and the larger economy will seize up if liquidity dries up, effectively holding nations hostage til they bail the banks out.
When this recession gets deeper, Governments will be asked again to bail out bad debts.
So Here's an idea: have the governments call their bluff and NATIONALIZE a bank or two.
They are forced to bail out private banks with printed taxpayer money anyway,…might as well let the institution belong to the taxpayer as well, with bonuses reinvested into governemnt coffers.
More blah-blah will follow, some bankster bashing, some calls for reform, some fines will be levied, etc. We've seen this after the 2008 crash.
And in the end nobody will go to jail for this. And there will be no meaninful reform.
And the gravy train goes on...
Dear TE, so this is that "talent" you have been defending all these years... Well, same way you can defend Sopranos, they have also "certain talents"
The Economist is missing the mark.
The financial crisis was caused mainly due to 'innovative' products such as Collateralised Debt Obligations. All these types of products did was to increase the opacity of the financial system, while claiming to diffuse and reduce risk, which it did not do.
When the total cost of lost growth, wasted unemployed lives and bank bailouts are taken into account the many 'innovations' was of no use to society.
The recent Liborgate should prompt a rethink; instead TE is straining every sinew to retain its free market credentials and refuses to call for an outright separation of retail and 'casino' banks, nor for an independent judicial inquiry. A parliamentary inquiry would do nothing more than protect the vested interests of bankers, whereas a judicial inquiry would restore the not so secret sauce of banking:trust.
Liborgate should prompt the question: what other illegal activity at investment banks occurred?
It uses the argument that a long inquiry would damage the system; in effect that we should fear the truth being outed. FDR stated 'the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself'. TE correctly stated the importance of the banking and financial system then surely, given its importance, we should strive to get it right, not only for the current generation, but for the many generations to come.
The scale of the banking fraud has now touched every aspect of the financial system; nothing but a rigorous inquiry will now suffice. Leaving a single stone unturned will soon result in another crisis and another huge bill for taxpayers everywhere.
The cost to the banking system of a proper judicial inquiry is a lot less than the cost of another financial crisis.
"And virtually all the professional truth tellers theoretically paid to put a check on self-interested behavior -- public accountants, property appraisers, bond raters, pension actuaries, executive pay consultants, etc. -- have sold out. Tell the lie or you don't get the deal."
Wow, very well put. As someone who started his career working daily with accountants, appraisers, consultants and auditors, I can say this is 100% accurate. The partners at Big Four firms are a prime example. With the intense pressure applied by the deal-making clients (banks, PE/hedge funds, corporates and threats to take the work to another competitor, I found that these Partners (my bosses) were complete pushovers time after time. For example, one PE fund we questioned about a completely illogical explanation for why an illiquid asset should have higher market values than market data could reasonably support ran the issue up the ladder until the CEO was calling me (a junior staff at the time) cursing me to change the F$&*ing number. I didn't. Only a few individuals stood up to the clients and challenged them because they knew they were completely full of it. Just one more example of how the system is rotten. Everything from traders' (side note: why are these guy's one of the highest paid careers in our system again? -- they add very little value to our society vs. doctors, teachers, engineers!) manipulation of prices to ensure higher bonuses for personal wealth, to auditors failing to stand up and put their neck on the line when something is wrong. I'm ashamed that I've been any part of it and hope it can be restored to a respectable system that people can trust and invest their savings in for the long haul.
Quote: "Barclays traders pushed their own money-market desks to doctor submissions for LIBOR (and for EURIBOR, a euro-based interest rate put together in Brussels)."
The Economist must find it very lonely without involving the Euro in it's scandal. If you have any information, or rather proof, that EURIBOR suffered from the same fraud, now is the time to divulge the information.
London is now known to be riddled by fraud. as well as being responsible for the collapse in trust in the financial system. And we better not talk of the collapse of the world economy.
So, the Economist has to make a derogatory remark involving the Euro and Euribor without providing any evidence.
It is so lonely being on the outside, but a referendum on leaving the EU will make everything right again.
How far the arrogant and powerful can fall when their frauds are exposed.
It can be very difficult to determine accurately the market price of lending and a banks cost of borrowing because, other than financial products like Treasury Bonds, pricing is often indicative. LIBOR generates some 150 rates each day, covering 10 currencies and 15 maturities. In any single day, the likelihood that banks would have traded all of these to generate a rate submission is fairly low.
Trying to move towards a system of actual rates in determining LIBOR will be problematic because trillions of dollars in personal and business loans underpin the market. As the Economist Leader accurately points out this is not always possible when, for instance, markets are illiquid or are being thinly traded. Actual rates may not always be the most appropriate method in the setting of financial benchmarks.
LIBOR, like other interest rate setting markets, are self-regulatory. But the fear now is that once the full effects of the LIBOR scandal starts to become known could lead to contagion proliferating into other self-regulating markets like those involving the prices for gold or oil. The implications for these markets being affected, off the back of interest rate setting impropriety, would be extremely destabilising for the world economy.
Seriously, how can the premier economic paper in the world find out about 20-25 years of LIBOR fiddling at all major banks about the same time as, say, the Daily Mail?
I read TE with the hope of getting informed about what happens behind the scenes in finance but disturbingly often I only get what is presented "on stage". How often does TE actually break a story of financial malfeasance?
Banksters. You got it right, there is a interesting parallel between the behavior of traders and gangsters: from their taste in cars girls and booze, quick and large amounts of money with not the slightest regard for morality, let alone ethics of any sort. And they move in gangs, as you article describe beautifully. The only remedy is long overdue, strike where it hurts immediately and painfully: money. Let them pay for their misdeeds and suppress their means of easy income.
Reduce drastically the pool of bonuses, and let the jobs of traders become much more boring and less prone to big money making. It might even please more honest persons to be interested in a job less prone to adrenalin excesses, and who might be impressed by the rise of an eyebrow. The rise of an eyebrow! You have to be British to even think this might work in a banking environment.
In addition to criminal investigations, rate rigging performed under the auspices of corporate banks by rogue traders must result in significant payments from the banks involved to the affected tax-payers (i.e. the exchequers) in all countries affected.
Banks and bankers seem obsessed with greed and money. The only meaningful way to change the "future culture of banking " is to make them pay what they owe to the general public due to their appalling internal operations.
The indemnity received so far is pitiful. Faulty banks must pay a lot more to understand or appreciate their mistakes.
I one met an arrogant moron who worked for Lehman Brothers. I politely asked a question about derivatives. This idiot told me it was beyond my mental capacity to understand them.
He had just paid a huge deposit on a big house & was expected to get a huge bonus but the Bank went bust
Why not to simply return to the division between Commercial Banks and Investment Banks?
Since when the mix-model was reintroduced in the 90s, regulatory authorities have widely demonstrated not to be able to prevent this scandals to happen. In a word: they don't work.
I know, coming back to the division would mean for UK a huge sacrifice, considering the importance finance has for Britain nowadays.
Anyway, a finance-based UK, almost out of continental Europe and ruled by arabian billionaires (building modern pyramids in the centre of the capital town) is not a good way to face the future, as I see it.
What a lot of hocus-pocus the Economist spouts. Prime defenders of Big Bang finance and free markets which are in fact precisely the opposite; crony collusion and oligarchy manipulation unhampered right from inception because that was the very nature of the that doctrine : make the rich more powerful without the constraints of people and government.
Now that the writing is on the wall, we here the turn coats shreek their call for moral rectitude!
Oh, the irony of Thatcherist debacle and New labour Quisling thinking.
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I found this recipe but it lists dry ingredients in ounces (British) instead of cup measurement. Does any one know how to convert dry weight ounces into cups? I did a search online but haven't found the answer. I don't have a good scale, maybe Christmas present, so can't make recipes that have things listed in ounces. I have listed the recipe below. Looks like a good Sunday morning breakfast cake.
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Of course right after I posted this I found it on a new search, but it still doesn't seem right. Cups are a measurement of volume and ounces are a measurement of weight. What do you bakers think? Clare |
Here is a link that might be useful: How to Convert Dry Measurements for Cooking Ounces Into Cups
- Posted by foodonastump (My Page) on Wed, Nov 23, 11 at 13:37
For example, if the recipe specifies 2 cups of flour and you want to measure in ounces, multiply two by eight to get 16 ounces of flour. That's poorly written at best, flat out wrong at worst. For the 4.5 oz in the recipe you linked, I'd use a cup. |
foodonastump - It did seem a bit off. I did the math and it came out to be 1/2 cup, which doesn't seem like enough. But it wasn't as bad as one of those conversion calculator sites. I choose dry weight ounces and it converted it to 1 1/4 cups. Confusing! Thanks. Clare |
- Posted by foodonastump (My Page) on Wed, Nov 23, 11 at 14:23
Just realized you need help with the caster sugar, too. 6 oz of regular sugar would be about 7/8 of a cup, so I'd take that and process it into superfine sugar. p.s. Weren't you the one looking for Santa sugggestions? I love having a scale! |
- Posted by cloudy_christine (My Page) on Wed, Nov 23, 11 at 14:28
You really can't do it with accuracy. Cups measure volume, ounces and pounds and grams measure weight. That eHow article mentions flour only in the instructions; from the intro you might think she means you can use her formula for all dry ingredients! Flour is the biggest problem. Depending mostly on how it's measured and packed, but also on moisture content and the type of flour, you can be way off with If you are making a yeast bread, it doesn't matter because the flour amount is always flexible. Unless you are using a bread machine, which needs more exact measurements. I highly recommend putting a scale on you Christmas list. It makes everything so much easier. |
Fluid ounces are a measure of volume; a cup is eight fluid ounces. That conversion formula ONLY works if the substance involved has a weight in ounces avoirdupois which is the same number as its volume in fluid ounces. Some substances do: water, for instance. 'A pint's a pound the world around'--a pint of water (16 fluid ounces) weighs about 16 ounces avoirdupois, or one pound. Even though the term 'ounce' is used for both weight and volume, the two have absolutely nothing to do with each other. It's the imprecision (or possibly laziness) of the English language that brings confusion. In the metric system, volume is in cubic centimeters or liters and weight is in grams. (Yes, I know one cubic centimeter of water weighs one gram, and one liter of water weighs one kilo. My point is that they use different terms for weight and for volume.) No way you'd use that conversion formula for anything other than water or similar liquids. That flour conversion formula is flat out wrong, as FOAS stated. But, if you're serious about baking, get a good scale. Obtain recipes using weight of flour rather than volume. You'll be far more accurate in your measurements of flour's weight than measuring flour by volume, and your baking results will be far more consistent. And once you're comfortable using the scale, convert everything to the metric system. Makes the math much easier. |
I agree, "get a good scale". Heck, get a cheap scale - just get a scale and eliminate the conversion math quiz. You'll soon be sorry you didn't get a scale a long time ago. There are all kinds of things a scale makes easier in the kitchen. -Divide bread dough into equal amounts so the loaves, rolls, buns, etc. are all the same size and will bake evenly. -When you make layer cakes you can scale the batter in the pans to equal weights so the layers are the same size. -It's a lot easier weighing sticky things than scooping them into cups (although you'd have a hard time getting my Wonder Cup from me ;-). -Accuracy...as already mentioned. If you have 3 people measure 1-cup of flour, they will all be a different weight because of how they fill them. They may be as little as 3.75 oz. to as much as 5 or 6 oz. BTW - There are not any "standards" for how much a cup of flour weighs. Even the "experts" can't decide this one. -Dry measuring cups and spoons sold in the U.S. are not manufactured to a standardized volume, so each set you have may be slightly different in volume. Measuring cups/spoons in the U.K. and Australia are larger than the ones from the U.S. About the only reason measuring cups work at all is because most recipes are based on a ration of ingredients. For instance, a plain cake has, by measure, one-third as much fat as sugar; two-thirds as much milk as sugar; and about three times as much flour as liquid. So you can use measuring cups, grandma's coffee or tea cup, canning jars, or buckets for measuring, as long as you maintain the ration of ingredients. The exact measurement isn't as critical as the ratio of one ingredient to another. -With a scale, when you need 4 oz. of shredded cheese you can weigh it and not try to figure out how many cups that will be, and whether the cup is loose-packed or tightly-packed. It's 4-oz. by weight and you don't have to worry if you've over-stuffed the cup or not put enough in it. -However, accuracy of measurement goes out the window when it comes to flour for bread making - also already mentioned.... Due to the amount of moisture in flour (more in humid weather and less in the dry winter months), if will alter the weight of the flour. You have to go by the "feel" of the dough rather than an exact measurement. Each bag of flour will also vary in protein/gluten content, as well as moisture. The higher the protein level in the flour, the more hydration it will absorb. Protein content of flour can't be weighed with a scale. -Grainlady |
I have asked for a scale for a Christmas present (noted in my first post). Hopefully I will get it. cloudy_christine - Interesting how they are all different. And regarding weight and volume, not the same I know. I often go by feel and look when making bread but can't really do that with a cake. LOL arley, Grainlady - Thanks for the detailed explanation. I have several measuring cups and for fun once I measured sugar in one than dumped it in the others, none of them were exactly the same. LOL Clare |
- Posted by cooksnsews (My Page) on Wed, Nov 23, 11 at 18:28
For what it's worth, a pint is NOT a pound the world around. An Imperial pint which I grew up using, is 20 fl ounces. |
- Posted by foodonastump (My Page) on Wed, Nov 23, 11 at 18:39
The fact that they're not manufactured to a standardized volume doesn't mean that there are no standards, and as such I wouldn't hesitate to return any measuring cups or spoons that were not reasonably accurate. Just like I'd return an inaccurate scale. |
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In October 2008, the FCC granted Iridium exclusive access to
1617.775 to 1618.725 MHz and shared access to 1618.725 to 1626.5 MHz,
based on a sharing plan set out in November 2007.
Iridium uses a Frequency Division Multiple Access/Time Division
Multiple Access (FDMA/TDMA) scheme for communication with the
satellites using differentially-encoded QPSK modulation at 2400 bits per second.
The subscriber links are in L-band between 1616 and 1626.5 MHz. Feederlinks are in Ka band, with downlinks between 19.4 and 19.6 GHz and uplinks between 29.1 and 29.3 GHz. Intersatellite links are between 23.18 and 23.38 GHz at 25 Mbps. Ka band uplinks and cross-links are packetized TDMA, transmitted via QPSK with 1/2 rate convolutional forward error correction. Each satellite provides 48 individual spot beams with a frequency re-use pattern. This provides a total of 1628 cells, with each cell covering about 30 mile footprint. Each cell has 174 full-duplex voice channels (there are 283,272 channels worldwide).
Frequency access is 41.667 kHz
Simplex Frequencies
TDMA Frame
Data Bursts
All data is transmitted at 50 kbps, so a 8.28 ms frame transfers 414 bits. A 2400 bps traffic channel uses one Uplink and one Downlink per frame
Paging From the FCC Order and Authorization (DA 96-1789). [MSC is Motorola Satellite Communications, Inc.] Enhanced ringing and paging services. MSC requests explicit authorization for the IRIDIUM System to provide enhanced ringing and paging services, in addition to the kinds of MSS service that it originally proposed to provide. The enhancement would enable users to receive ringing and paging messages during heavier atmospheric fading conditions and in buildings where attenuation is greater, according to MSC. One-way "ring alert" channels at 1626.270833 MHz would be used to alert subscribers with special receive-only mobile earth terminals to the presence of incoming paging calls. Paging messages would be transmitted to the receive-only terminals at 1626.437500, 1626.395833, 1626.145833, or 1626.104167 MHz. Their duration would not exceed 20.32 milliseconds. The transmit power for the ring alert channel would be somewhat higher than the power used for a voice/data channel, so as to enable the mobile earth terminals to receive ring alerts even when their antennas are stowed, but spurious- emission performance would be better than that of the two-way channels on the system when fully loaded. MSC therefore contends that the addition of these services would not increase interference levels or complicate satellite-system coordination. No one else filed comments on this proposal.
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Emission Designator |
The pertinent emission designator for the mobile satellite phone is 41K7Q7W.
Bandwidth is primarily determined by a 96 tap FIR filter used to filter I and Q channel modulating signals and is consistent with a necessary bandwidth specification of 41.667 kHz. Converting this result yields 41K7.
a. First Symbol - Type of Modulation of the main carrier.
b. Second Symbol - nature of signal(s) modulating the main carrier.
This corresponds to symbol 7, derived from two channels "containing quantized or digital information" modulated in-phase and quadrature modulated.
c. Third Symbol - Type of information to be transmitted.
This corresponds to W, defined as "combinations of above" which would be the combination of the symbol D, "Data transmission, telemetry, telecommand", and symbol E, "Telephony (including sound broadcasting)". The resulting complete emission designator is then 41K7Q7W. |
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The frequency range of the equipment is in the band of 1616 MHz to 1626 MHz.
Band is channelized. Center frequency determined by:
A 12-frequency access band is reserved for the simplex (ring alert and messaging) channels. These channels are located in a globally allocated 500 kHz band between 1626.0 MHz and 1626.5 MHz. These frequency accesses are only used for downlink signals and they are the only L-band frequencies that may be transmitted during the simplex time-slot.
Frequency Stability: +/- 0.00015 % (1.5 ppm) This equipment uses Automatic Frequency Control (AFC) to lock within +/- 600 Hz of the received frequency from the Space Vehicle (SV). The mobile performs all frequency pre-correction for Doppler shifts. The system is designed to be tolerant of these frequency offsets. Radio Frequency Output Power ranges from 0.1 to 0.6 Watts. The mobile maximum output power is achieved under closed loop control with the SV network. The mobile power will respond to commands from the SV network to change power levels as defined in the specifications. RF Power Output: Variable range from 0.1 to 0.6 Watts (by control of satellite network via closed loop power control). The transmitter duty cycle allows for bursted transmission every 8.28 ms out of 90 ms, or 9.2%, at a rate of 50 kbps, or 25 k symbols/sec. Modulation is DEQPSK (Differentially Encoded Quadrature Phase Shift Keying). |
Iridium devices that are capable of completing circuit-switched calls use a
Subscriber Identity Module (SIM), a type of
IRIDIUM-Specific SIM Files |
Besides the standard SIM files for a GSM (Global System for Mobiles) network, Iridium SIMs also contain
an additional Directory File (DF) called DFIRIDIUM with an identifier of 5F30.
[MF/DF] RFU: 00 00 Free Memory: 00 00 File ID: 5F 30 (DF-IRIDIUM) File Type: 02 (Directory File) RFU: 00 00 00 00 00 Length Following: 0D File characteristics: 13 Clock stop: Allowed, no preferred level Required speed: 13/4 CHV: Enabled Child DFs: 00 Child EFs: 07 CHVs, Unblock CHVs, etc: 04 RFU: 00 CHV1 Status: 83 (Initialized, 3 remaining) Unblock CHV1 Status: 8A (Initialized, 10 remaining) CHV2 Status: 83 (Initialized, 3 remaining) Unblock CHV2 Status: 8A (Initialized, 10 remaining) RFU: 00 This DF contains seven Elementary Files. I do not have documentation for these files:
4F20 (16 bytes): FF 15 FC AF 05 2C 0A 4C FE 44 EB DC 1B 00 08 31 4F21 Record 1 (14 bytes): FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 4F23 (3 bytes): 13 F0 10 4F24 Record 1 (4 bytes): 11 F2 FF 08 4F24 Record 2 (4 bytes): 19 F1 FF 08 4F24 Record 3 (4 bytes): FF FF FF FF 4F24 Record 4 (4 bytes): FF FF FF FF 4F25 (1 byte): 05 4F26 (1 byte): 05 4F27 (1 byte): 05 |
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The Iridium SIM supports the standard
GSM authentication algorithm (known as A3) and the
ciphering key generating algorithm (known as A8). They are combined in a single SIM
instruction called "RUN GSM ALGORITHM".
To SIM (21): A0 88 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 (The "RUN GSM ALGORITHM" and 16 bytes representing RAND)
It is interesting to note that the last ten bits of Kc are always zero, reducing the effective keyspace from 64 to 54 bits. Terrestrial GSM has long been limited, as summarized in a document (Tdoc SMG P-99-011) from an ETSI/TC/SMG meeting in Italy in 1998: The GSM encryption uses in principle a 64 bit key. However at introduction of GSM it was decided to limit the effective key size to 54 bits. This should have been realised by the SIM and the Authentication Centre (AuC) both forcing 10 specific bits of the encryption key to zero. |
The original Motorola 9500 handset supports a test mode using a special test SIM card.
There is some overlap between the test commands used on Motorola GSM cellular telephones.
I would be interested in receiving a list of all the available test mode commands, and/or the entire service manual for an Iridium phone.
One command that is different is the Static Traffic Channel command ( #29xxyyzabc# ). |
The 9602 is a Short Burst Data (SBD) module that provides packetized data connectivity.
It communicates with an external device via a serial connection
and uses "AT" commands.
Default serial communication parameters: 9600 baud, no parity, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit.


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