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Originally, I was going to talk about hitting and physical violence among women since new evidence has shown that frequently, in roughly 40% of cases, men are the target of domestic violence. We are so programmed by our duplicitous media to regard women as victims, that younger generations cannot imagine such a high rate of abuse victims are men - except for young people who grew up in the households of abusive women. They can imagine all too well.
I've known a number of men personally who were perhaps not physically beaten by their wives or partners, but were subjected to endless psychological abuse, crazy, jealous, or controlling behavior. At least three of these men's wives took a blowtorch to their lives, and they barely survived. They were normal men whose lives were ruined when vicious women used the system against them for fun and profit.
Teach your girls not to be like that.
Start with the idea that they need to keep their hands them themselves. That just because they're cute and small, they don't get a free pass on hitting. It's not okay to hit a boy just because he's bigger or male. Then move up to the idea that "Want, take, have" is a philosophy suited to psychopaths not women, and certainly not ladies.
It's distressing to read all of the recent stories about adult women who have taken sexual advantage of the boys entrusted to them socially or professionally, like local teacher Jamila Williams who sexually molested two of her students. This is not an isolated incident. Women pedophiles are becoming more common. I'll forgive you if you haven't read more of the hundreds of these cases (h/t SOBL1). The media doesn't seem to think they are as interesting as priest pedophile cases. We are still getting thorough coverage of archived Catholic scandals in the national press, although female pedophile cases are much more of a trend now. Where there is little oversight, predators will roam, and schools apparently are great hunting grounds these days.
Some may say boys who are sexually molested by women must consent or sex cannot occur, but the fact remains that these boys are still minors. Their brains have not fully formed, and they cannot conceptualize the legal responsibilities they will have for their predators' children should these women become pregnant or what life with herpes (or antibiotic-resistant Gonorrhea) will be like. We shelter them from the responsibilities of voting and drinking because our society thinks they are unready. If it's wrong for a 30-year-old man to have consensual sex with a 15-year-old girl because one is adult and has adult understanding and the other is a child with inadequate experience, it's wrong for women to have sex with boys as well. Personally, I don't think we have the punishments right for these "consensual" sex cases, but I do agree that this isn't trivial stuff. I'm not raising my son to believe sex is like a handshake and matters just as little.
Then there are the truly crazy cases, like the one in Chicago where the nurse had sex with a medicated patient without his consent. It's fair to say that if on college campuses consensual sex must contractual, having sex with your drugged up patient is rape. You can't broker any kind of business if you can't count to 10.
For those confused about how women (and girls) should respect men's boundaries physically, psychologically, emotionally, sexually, and legally, remember: What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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Piece of Advice #61: Do NOT embrace your inner slut
Jaclyn Friedman just posted a piece at feministe.com entitled, "My Sluthood, Myself" revealing in detail how she healed herself from her last bad breakup by having sex with 9 different men she picked up through Craigslist Casual Encounters. Her argument is that she needed sex and affection, but she kept trying to get it through relationships that she entered into because she so desperately needed sex and affection. In bypassing any attempt to find meaning or closeness in sex, she was able to get what she wanted and journey to a better mental place where she needed a relationship less and was therefore more able to seek out a more positive one.
The high points:
1) She knew what she was doing was physically dangerous and did it anyway.
2) She wants other women to feel as free to be a slut as she does.
There are so many things I disagree with in Jaclyn Friedman's message here, but even if you don't, take this away: if this is what the dating pool now looks like, think of the market value a slim, chaste, not certifiably insane young woman has by her sheer scarcity. Supply. Demand.
The high points:
1) She knew what she was doing was physically dangerous and did it anyway.
I'm telling you this because sluthood is scary. Because we've been taught to fear it all our lives, and that training doesn't just go away because we understand the agenda behind it. And because there are real risks involved. Society likes to punish slutty women. And so do a lot of individual men, some of whom frequent Craigslist Casual Encounters.But had she been beaten or raped, no doubt she would have blamed the "rape culture." Because Jaclyn is a firm believer in this rape culture and is never a victim blamer. Even when there is no victim, such as when positing a hypothetical situation during a CNN interview. There still might have been a victim because people place themselves in dangerous situations, but they are never at fault, even at a theoretical level. Because people - women specifically, in her worldview - have to be free to make the stupidest decisions ever and be protected from any bad outcome. Friedman's motto appears to be: "Creating the feminist utopia of tomorrow with every avoidable rape and assault today."
2) She wants other women to feel as free to be a slut as she does.
It's a choice we should all have access to because it has the potential to be liberating. Healing. Soul-fulfilling. I'm telling you this because sluthood saved me, in a small but life-altering way, and I want it to be available to you if you ever think it could save you, too.3) She wants you to offer emotional/verbal/physical/legal/whatever backup for other self-actualizing sluts:
I'm telling you this because sluthood requires support. Because any woman who indulges these urges carries with her a lifetime of censure and threat. That's a loud chorus to overcome. A slut needs a posse who finds her exploits almost as delicious as she finds them herself, who cares about her safety and her stories and her happiness but not one whit about her virtue. A slut alone is a slut in difficulty, possibly in danger.One can not help wondering, given #2 and #3 above and the overwhelming number of positive comments this piece generated, whether feminists are now operating on the idea that if we are all of us sluts, we are none of us sluts. If there's nothing in the cupboard to eat but oatmeal, we'll all happily eat oatmeal. And without sugar or even milk.
There are so many things I disagree with in Jaclyn Friedman's message here, but even if you don't, take this away: if this is what the dating pool now looks like, think of the market value a slim, chaste, not certifiably insane young woman has by her sheer scarcity. Supply. Demand.
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Jan 30, 2013 6:39 PM | about stocks: AAPLIn this article I will explain how I plan to earn $100,000+ in 2013 in my IRA while risking no more than $30,000.00. With Apple trading at $450, it would take $45,000 to purchase just 100 shares of stock, and $450,000 to control 1000 shares of stock. Using the following OPTION strategy I will show how I plan to control as much as 1000 shares of Apple worth $450,000 with only $30,000 or less at risk. The trade is leveraged at a ratio of up to 15 to 1.
I will be buying January 2014 Apple calls that are $40 out of the money at a cost of nearly $3,000 each. This allows for the purchase of 10 calls when employing $30,000. Apple options are about the most liquid stock options on the planet and buying a year out will allow the price to find a bottom and have plenty of time left for bullish surprises from earnings announcements, new product launches, dividend increases, etc. Since it will take a $40 rally to get to the strike price and an additional $30 to cover the option purchases, a $70 pop is needed to get the options profitable at expiration. But in a whole year, $70 is nothing! The stock dropped from $514 to $440 ($74) in just two days following earnings. It can pop back up about as easy as it went down. Since I have about 50 weeks to expiration of the options and I need a $70 rally to cover all my costs at expiration, then slippage (time decay) would be less than $1.50 per week.
To increase my chances of success, I will scale into the trade (scale trade) by buying one option on every $10 dip of the stock price. Starting at $450, I would buy a January 490 call, and then at $440 I would buy a January 480 strike call and so on. By the time the Apple stock price fell to $360, then I would exhaust my entire $30,000 but I would own 10 Apple call options and control 1000 shares of stock once the options were "in the money". My ten calls would have strikes that ranged from 490 down to 400, so the average strike would be 445. Above the price of $445 then I would earn $1,000 for every dollar Apple stock went up. At expiration, I would need a further $30 rally in the stock price to cover what I paid for the options, so if Apple was at $475 at expiration in January 2014, then I would be at breakeven. But that is after a year. If after 6 months I wanted out of the trade at breakeven then I would only need for Apple to trade at $435 thanks to the time premium that the options would still hold.
In 2012, Apple had a high to low trading range of about $267. If Apple in 2013 had a trading range of just $215, then if the stock price low was $360 then the high of the year would be $575. At the price of $575 the option position could be liquidated at a net profit of $100,000. Not a bad return on $30,000 in an IRA.
But of course that was the description of a perfect scenario. If the low of the year is higher than $360, then I will not get all ten of my options purchased $10 strikes apart. However, if the stock retests the lows several times and the bottom holds, then I maybe would go "all in" on the remaining options to average the breakeven price down, or just invest the cash elsewhere. Another thing that could happen (highly unlikely but still a possibility), the stock could go down to the lows and never rally back to breakeven the rest of the year. If that occurs then part or all of the investment would be lost. However, if that would occur then I would just do the exact same strategy in 2014, buying option strikes maybe $5 apart and surely sometime in 2014 Apple makes a nice rally that takes the stock all the way to $600 or higher and both year's investments are recouped, along with a profit of maybe $100,000, $200,000 or more. If Apple was a total dud in 2014, I could do this strategy again in 2015 and sometime we get a rally of $100 above my breakeven to let me become an overall winner. It just takes persistence.
Over the next couple years Apple will be adding a billion dollars about every week to its coffers so at some point in the next 2-3 years won't it at least double if not triple the price it is now trading at?!
I am an excellent swing trader and I believe with this much leverage, I could swing $100,000 profit for the year if the stock did nothing but go sideways. I believe I could breakeven if the Apple stock price continued to drop. I would just take partial profits on rallies, and buy back calls on dips. I will update my progress on a quarterly basis so readers can see how well I progressed with this strategy.
In closing, I am a professional day trader who normally only sells option premium and never buys calls; I only go short calls. However, I believe the sentiment is so unjustifiably negative on this company after it reported earnings that other companies would die for, that at some point sentiment improvement alone could bring me my profit goal. If Apple sentiment just went from negative to neutral, wouldn't it trade $100 higher than today? If sentiment ever turned bullish, would it not be worth a $200 pop from current levels just on improving sentiment alone? Netflix rallied 70% post earnings because the company earned $7 million in an entire quarter. Apple earned $7 million every 70 minutes in order to reach the $13 billion profit they reported! Thus, I don't believe this stock can stay under $450 long-term and under $400 even short-term. Apple call options are so cheap that they are screaming to be bought! Can you hear them?
Disclosure: I am long AAPL.
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Actually your ten options would probably cost you less than $30,000 as you have forgotten that each one would fall a little bit in price, (leaving out considerations of implied volatility). However, if the stock plunges after a quarterly earnings report, you could find yourself buying 3 or 4 options at the same time at different prices.
Thanks much for commenting! Your comments show you are much more than a rookie, ;-). I left out implied volatility to try and simplify the thought process for novices as those are the types of complications that give rookies an excuse to not try options. Again why I left out ways to sell puts or even calls to partially or fully pay for the call purchases.
Hey, I am still a rookie because I learn something new every single day I trade. I am a 32 years and counting......over night success. You call yourself a rookie but trust me, based on your comments you are far from a rookie as most people define it. A couple things you mentioned has got me thinking.........
I have not been doing the trade as I lost faith in the ability of Apple to rally enough to make the trade viable. One is buying several dollars out of the money and then one needs a rally off the lows of $70 to $90 to break even and $120 or more to make any real money. Recently Apple traded a few dollars under $400. Apple would need to trade by the end of the year above $500 which I am not sure will occur.
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The Kiwis, who beat Luna Rossa in the previous Louis Vuitton Cup in 2007, won the series 7-1. The victory makes Emirates Team New Zealand the official challenger to Oracle Team USA for the 34th America's Cup in the "September Showdown" beginning Sept. 7. It's the fifth time in the last six America's Cup matches that the Kiwis will be a contestant.
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Thursday, July 3, 9:00–10:30 PM
Crocker Park, 11 Front Street*
In the event of rain, the Film Festival will be screened at the Gerry 5 VFA Function Hall, 210 Beacon Street.
Film Festival works are intended to show the many ways that film and video can be used as an art form to inform and express. They are not commercial films of the sort that you can find in your standard multiplex. Although some of these works can certainly be enjoyed by children, not all of the films will be understood by them. Parents should review the lineup and decide if these films are all appropriate for their younger children.
Chairpersons: Mike Evers, Laurie Stolarz
Committee: Sandy Rhoads, Bill Smalley, Paulina Villarroel-Cruz
The 2014 Film Festival includes a program of selected film and video and also two film workshops. The films will be screend at Crocker Park on Thursday, July 3, at 9:00 PM.
For those of you who would like to see this year's Film Festival again, or didn't have a chance to see it in the first place, this is your opportunity! An encore presentations will be screened at Abbot Public Library on Saturday, July 5. View it in the relaxing, air conditioned environment of the library. Not only that, but you'll have an opportunity to talk with any of the filmmakers who might be present and with the people who put the Film Festival together.
Film Festival Schedule
Thursday, July 3
1:30–3:00 PM: Workshop:
Making the 10 Minute Movie,
with Keith Wasserman
9:00-10:30 PM: Film Festival Program at Crocker Park
Saturday, July 5
10:00 AM to Noon: Encore Screening of Film Festival Program at Abbot Public Library
1:30–3:00 PM: Workshop:
3D Animation: A Primer,
with Ben Albarelli
See Below for
Program and Workshop Details
2014 Film Festival Program
Thursday, July 3, 9:00–10:30 PM
Crocker Park, 11 Front Street*
*Rain location is the Gerry 5 VFA Function Hall, 210 Beacon Street
Mulligan's Island
Jeffrey Blake Palmer
4:15 minutes
Mulligan's Island may mean golf and entertainment for you, but for the five travelers to the island, it's a place of magic and discovery that the best movies can provide. Mulligan's Island—the music video—is by the group We Govern We. Jeffrey Blake Palmer, the filmmaker, is best known for his interest in fantasy and horror material.
Mulligans' Island
won the Best Music Video award at the Somewhere North of Boston Film Festival last year and has appeared in numerous other film festivals.
The Future
Venetia Taylor
7:11 minutes
Beth and Simon are celebrating their engagement in a very public way in a restaurant and wonder, somewhat idly, what their future will be like. A pair of unusual visitors appears at their table and provides answers they're not happy to hear. Venetia Taylor's
Ave Maria
is also being shown at the Film Festival.
Moment to Speak: Season 2 Episode 10
Jason Cruz
2:11 minutes
In response to a question by several young men he's worked with in Lynn, Jason Cruz, Clinical Supervisor and Art Therapist at Lynn's Raw Arts, shows us his work and how it conveys meaning. He "makes stuff," and doesn't claim to be an artist, but his visual expressiveness would argue otherwise. Paper Schemes Productions produces music videos to "enlighten the world and inspire as well."
Little Pen Lost
Julia Radochia
5:00 minutes
How can you change your life or anyone else's if you keep losing the stuff you need to do so? These and other questions are pondered by two friends and some smelly clothing articles. Julia Radochia, whose films graced previous Film Festival screenings, has returned after a five year hiatus.
Little Pen Lost
was the Invitational Film Challenge Winner at last year's Broad Humor Film Festival.
Within the Eyes of Beauty
Izzy Ramirez
4:10 minutes
"Skateboarding is a medium, the city a canvas," Izzy Ramirez comments in this poetic tribute to the thrill of the sport. Boston landmarks become the stage for performances on four wheels and everywhere the city seems to move at a more frenetic pace. Izzy Ramirez made this film as part of the ICA's Fast Forward program for young filmmakers.
First Match
Olivia Newman
15:00 Minutes
Monique "Mo" Morris, fourteen years old and the first girl on a formerly all-boys high school wrestling team, is preparing for her first wrestling match. She's trying to prove herself to her teammates but also to her father, a former wrestler with troubles of his own. Olivia Newman is an award-winning writer and director of short films which have been shown at major film festivals throughout the country.
Just Play
Andrys Galan
1:50 minutes
Talent and skill are what's most important in sports, right? Why should anything else matter? Andrys Galan made this short film as part of the Raw Arts Works Real to Reel Film School.
A Dose for Dominic
Ruth Gregory
7:23 minutes
The average five year old can be a handful, but Dominic Leppell's severe autism overwhelmed his parents, Tony and Angela, which led to their decision to treat him with medical cannabis. Ms. Gregory's documentary details the problem and the solution. Were they right? You be the judge. Ruth Gregory is a filmmaker and a scholar and Dominic was a finalist in the recent International Documentary Challenge and has been screened in a number of film festivals and a PBS affiliate in the Northwest.
Let's Call Her Lynn
C Wells and Paper Schemes Productions
5:57 minutes
Lynn the girl is Lynn the city in this song by rapper C Wells, himself a native of the "City of Sin," and the story is about the struggle to survive life on the streets and to forge viable relationships. This is another video from the creative crew at Paper Schemes Productions.
That Woman
Joshua Davis (Producer)
13:02 minutes
Danny ended a relationship, but the ending is more like a death to him. To get him past his funk, he is set up with a date with…a well-known figure from the late 1990s. As the time for the date approaches, he realizes that there might be more at stake for him and his date than he might have guessed.
That Woman
was an official selection of both the 2013 Cambridge Film Festival and the 2013 Boston Jewish Film Festival.
Unshakable: The Agueda Jiminez Story
Alexis Villar, Ava Ludwig, Sara Tesh
4:09 minutes
This is a documentary about a woman who came to the U.S. and works toward her goals and achieves them, despite physical and social obstacles. Ms. Jiminez tells her own story and gives a sense of her powerful determination. The filmmakers made the work as part of the Raw Arts Real to Reel School.
Solo Piana NYC
Anthony Sherin
5:10 minutes
In this short documentary, a lone piano stands curbside in New York City, and the film shows the interactions of passers-by as the piano awaits its fate. Anthony Sherin, a New York filmmaker whose work has been shown on PBS, shot the stills that form the work and Art Fabriola created the score, and presto, the film was made. It's been shown at a number of festivals, and we are happy to show it here.
Ave Maria
Venetia Taylor
7:18 minutes
Daniel loses his mother and to help assuage his grief, his partner enrolls both of them in a photography class. There he encounters a woman and the beginnings of an obsession. Loss, desire, and photography—they're all connected in this story. Venetia Taylor is a writer and filmmaker working out of Sydney, Australia. Both Ave Maria and her other work shown here, The Future, have been shown in film festivals both in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Danielle Lurie
7:58 minutes
A young woman living in present day Barcelona gets up to prepare to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend to give the foundering relationship another chance. Every time she looks in the mirror though, she sees someone who looks like her and talks like her but has a savvier take on her life. Danielle Lurie is an American filmmaker who shot the film in Barcelona in a day and a half using a minimum amount of equipment and the services of the dynamic Spanish actress she met on her trip.
2014 Film Festival Workshops
At Abbot Public Library, 235 Pleasant Street
Thursday, July 3
1:30–3:00 PM: Workshop:
Making the 10 Minute Movie,
with Keith Wasserman
Award winning filmmaking Keith Wasserman will discuss the challenges and benefits of making a "short film." From choosing a subject, to writing, producing, editing and distributing , Mr. Wasserman will provide the details and talk about finding an audience in an ever expanding marketplace. If you've ever thought about making a film but didn't know where to start, this workshop is the place to be. Sharing stories from his ten years of working in film, this fun and informative presentation offers a peek behind the magic of moviemaking.
Keith Wasserman is the Executive Producer of Movie Magic Media, a film production company, and has been involved in the writing, producing , and editing films for ten years. His film
Bitter Sweet
won the Marblehead Festival of Arts Film Festival Best of Show award last year.
Saturday, July 5
10:00 AM to Noon: Film Festival Redux
For those of you who would like to see this year's Film Festival again, or didn't have a chance to see it in the first place, this is your opportunity! View it in the relaxing, air conditioned environment of the Marblehead Public library. Not only that, but you'll have an opportunity to talk with any of the filmmakers who might be present and with the people who put the Film Festival together.
1:30–3:00 PM: Workshop:
3D Animation: A Primer,
with Ben Albarelli
You might think that 3D animation requires massive computers and production budgets, but because the hardware and software has become more affordable, it's something you can do on a budget as a hobby or professionally as a freelancer. In this presentation you will get a breakdown and demonstration of the various aspects of 3D production and the skills needed. You will also get an overview of the hardware and software needed to start creating your own 3D artwork on a budget.
Ben Albarelli is a freelance 3D artist with eight years of academic and professional experience with computer animation production. He has a B.S. in Electronic Arts from Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute and a professional certificate from the Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts.
Film Festival History
Film Festival has been a Summer Festival event since 1996. For a listing of films screened and the filmmakers,
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Okay I think I did a stupid thing. :/ I sorted my garlic into heads based on size, then also separated out the heads that were damaged. I divided the damaged heads into cloves, reserving the larger ones to replant next year, while setting aside the others to use. I thought the cloves would keep a month or so until planting, but I'm now starting to see blue penicillium mold on some of them, mostly right at the bottom end where you plant them. Questions: 1. Can I still plant these? I'd guess the plants won't grow well. 2. Is it safe to use the other cloves that were in the box but don't seem mold-infected yet, or should I assume none of this is safe to plant? 3. Any way to kill the mold while preserving the viability of the cloves? Maybe washing them in something or using an organic dusting agent (sulfur?) Thanks, Charles |
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- Posted by GarlicFiend none (My Page) on Fri, Sep 23, 11 at 15:44
I would not use the ones with mold and I'd soak all cloves before planting; I use rubbing alcohol for a minute or two myself, even when there is no evidence of mold. I just like to kill any possible mold spores - a mold infection can wipe out an entire crop. |
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- Posted by GarlicFiend none (My Page) on Fri, Sep 30, 11 at 10:20
I strongly disagree. Mold in the soil can spread so easily sine the long root networks inevitably come into contact or close enough for mold spores to cross over. Mold infections are BAD news. If a clove is soft or has visible mold growing on it - I toss it. |
@GarlicFiend But the types of molds which infect garden plants are really different from the types that grow on things in your kitchen. If the garlic is in storage it's probably a kitchen type mold. As far as I know, mold spores are always present on everything. That's why growing mushrooms, for example requires the medium be sterilized and even then it doesn't always get everything.. Doesn't pretty much anything get moldy in the compost? I've never seen that continue to live uncovered in the garden or in garden soil when the compost is spread among plants. |
Toss it, burn it, don't even think about putting in compost pile. Agree with garlic fiend. Don't want to risk infecting your entire garlic bed. People a whole lot more experienced than me suggest the same!!! |
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As part of the banks' efforts to attract, train and retain UAE National talent, Emirates NBD, the leading bank in the field of Emiratisation, conducted its 6th open day in cooperation with Tanmia. This time the event was held at TANMIA premises in Ras AL Khaima. During the open day, instant interviews were conducted at Emirates NBD's stand for UAE Nationals interested in taking a Banking and Finance career path. In the past 5 events, Emirates NBD has recruited more than 100 UAE nationals. Whereas, the RAK event was an opportunity to collect the applications of 50 young UAE nationals who visited its booth and are interested in joining its workforce.
Emirates NBD has adopted an ambitious Emiratisation strategy which is built on supporting and participating in the various initiatives and events across the UAE. In this context, Emirates NBD continuously participates in the various career fairs and works closely with TANMIA, Zayed University and the Higher Colleges of Technology and the various Emiratisation organizations to identify potential talent. In addition, the bank coordinates with Special Needs institutions to employ qualified individuals with special needs in the various departments of the bank. Also, Emirates NBD considers Emiratisation a priority issue and continuously creates career opportunities to attract and retain UAE National talent.
Emirates NBD is at the forefront of investing in its staff by providing advanced knowledge and input in partnership with numerous world class business schools and professional development institutions. The bank has set up many training programs which include Al Mishaal program for high school graduates to qualify UAE Nationals to perform operational activities within the bank. The PAL (Program for Accelerated Learning) is Management Training for University Graduate UAE Nationals and qualifies them to join the bank as Managers and Assistant Managers in branches and departments. Al Shehab program for diploma graduates is designed to create a pool of talented UAE Nationals qualified to become Head Tellers/ Team Leaders/ Supervisors and also prepares them to become future Program for Accelerated Learning (PAL) trainees.
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A year into his job running Charlottes airport, Brent Cagle is overseeing $1 billion worth of construction and coordinating with the worlds largest airline. But his biggest challenge may be more personal: stepping out of his predecessors shadow.
Longtime Aviation Director Jerry Orr was fired or resigned on July 18, 2013, depending on whose version of events you believe. Since then, Cagle has had to oversee construction of new parking decks and roads, deal with a merged American Airlines and worry about state legislation that could transfer control of the airport from the Charlotte City Council to an independent commission.
From 1989 until a year ago, Charlotte Douglas was Jerrys airport.
Airport employees and government officials still refer to Orr by his first name. When he left last year, state Sen. Bob Rucho, one of the legislators pushing to remove the airport from City Council control, called Orr the only person who knows how to run the airport.
And Orr, now retired, says he would come back to run the airport if given the chance.
Cagle, though, said he thinks Charlotte Douglas is starting to move past Orrs blueprint.
More and more, yes, were transitioning from What would Jerry have done? to How can we move forward? he said. I do believe that more of the decisions that are being made by myself and from the leadership team are unencumbered by the what-ifs Well, what if Jerry wouldnt have done it that way? Its hard to manage looking over your shoulder.
Still, the future is murky. After a year on the job, Cagle remains saddled with the interim title. And the controversy over who will run the airport remains in court, with no resolution in sight.
Cagle is both the citys interim aviation director and the commissions interim executive director, even though the commission has no power, for now.
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The uncertainty about who will control Charlotte Douglas is a sideshow to the biggest projects at the airport, however. Over the next five years, Cagle plans to oversee more than $1 billion worth of construction that includes new hourly and business valet parking decks, roadways, a concourse with more domestic gates, a runway and a complete rehabilitation and remodeling of the terminal.
Orr launched the airport expansion, but its now Cagles responsibility. The first phase has given travelers headaches, as packed parking lots and changing traffic patterns create congestion and backups.
Cagle said that points to a broader problem with the way the airport was run before: a lack of investment in maintenance.
He raised the airports budget 8 percent for the coming year a move that would have been heretical under Orr in order to pay for more maintenance and hire more staff.
We need to spend more, Cagle said. I think the growth and just the demands of trying to keep up with the growth caused us to get behind on things like replacing vehicles.
The airports fleet of shuttle buses that ferry passengers to and from parking lots is old and has been breaking down. Cagle said they should have been replaced on Orrs watch.
We should have read that better. The fleet was aging. Its beyond useful life. Thats something that we should have done better on, Cagle said. Hes overseen the purchase of more than three dozen new buses. We should have replaced those vehicles probably starting three years ago.
Should we have been on top of it more? Yeah, we could have done better. We should have done better, Cagle said. But over the 12 months, I think staff has been very decisive in resolving the problem as quickly as we could.
Orrs shadow
The contrasts between Orr and Cagle are readily apparent. Orr, 73, occasionally wore cowboy boots to meetings, quoted the character Tuco in The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly and drove a beat-up city-issued white Ford Crown Victoria.
Cagle, 42, favors muted suits, uses corporate terms such as messaging and drives an all-electric Nissan Leaf.
Orrs office was in the airport terminal, filled with decades worth of knick-knacks such as a mannequin and signs (This is not Burger King. You dont get it your way. You take it my way, or you dont get the damn thing.) Cagle works out of a newly renovated office off Wilkinson Boulevard, separate from the terminal.
Orr said Cagle is in a difficult spot.
There are a lot of things I would have done differently, and there are a lot of things that are changed that I dont think are changed for the better, Orr said. I think the airport clearly needs a professional airport manager.
Cagle came to Charlotte Douglas as assistant aviation director for finance in 2012 from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
Asked whether he was talking about the parking issues and higher costs at the airport under Cagle, Orr responded, Lord, yes.
But parking problems had already begun under Orr, starting in 2013 when the airport tore down its hourly parking decks in front of the terminal. In the ensuing months, congestion became an issue. In April that year, at a meeting of the Airport Advisory Committee, members asked Orr about the parking mess.
The mess is demand exceeding supply, Orr answered. Right now, were kind of stuck with it where it is.
Orr said he still talks with members of the legislature, but declined to give details. There are lots of people concerned about the airport, and I talk to lots of people, he said.
I would come back under the right circumstances, Orr said meaning an airport separated from the City Council.
Another key difference between Orr and Cagle: Orr butted heads with his city bosses, and his dominating style made clear he considered the airport his turf. He squabbled with the former city manager over airport security and a plan to transfer the airport police from his direct oversight to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
Cagle, on the other hand, draws applause from his bosses, especially City Manager Ron Carlee. In addition to his budget increase, Cagle has broken with Orrs philosophy in other ways. Hes agreed to a plan that transfers the airport police to CMPD, drawing a lawsuit from some of the officers.
Cagle is also overseeing the rebidding of a controversial taxi contract passed under Orr that limited the number of cab companies at the airport to three. Allegations of corruption have dogged the contract, and Cagle has said he would consider adding more companies. Hes also seeking a new operator for Charlotte Douglas recycling center and worm compost farm, a program started under Orr as a no-bid deal that ran into delays and cost overruns.
Construction challenges
Cagle said he knows travelers are frustrated with the airports ongoing construction projects and congestion.
Clearly, the airport is going through some growing pains. All of this growth has caught up with us, he said.
Cagle said Charlotte Douglas needs to communicate the need for the construction and the benefits, and tell travelers how they will be affected.
I think the roadway and the new hourly deck are great examples, Cagle said. Both of those projects, we knew when we started them and Jerry, Mr. Orr knew when he started them how disruptive they would be.
For now, Cagle said customers will have to bear the inconveniences. But congestion should ease, he said, with new shuttle buses and the 7,000-space hourly decks that open next year in front of the terminal.
I will be disappointed if we get into next summer and were still having some of these parking problems, Cagle said. The investments were making, the pain were going through now, it needs to pay off. Its going to pay off next year.
Divided opinions
Cagle, who makes $152,640 annually, draws both praise and criticism from those involved in the airport battle.
Rucho, the state senator who said only Orr was capable of running Charlotte Douglas, said Cagles budget increases endangered the citys hub. He pointed to spending increases, such as converting 150 shuttle bus drivers from temporary workers to full-time employees with benefits, as signs that Cagle is spending too freely.
It left the control of Mr. Orr and went into the control of the city, and the cost escalated, which is exactly what we were concerned about, said Rucho, a Matthews Republican.
Charlotte Douglas is an independently-funded city department, with revenue from airline landing fees, concessions sales, parking and federal grants. Cagles budget calls for an 8 percent increase in the cost per passenger to match the higher expenses. Charlotte Douglas remains the nations cheapest major hub airport, but the increase unnerves Rucho.
The whole crux behind the success of the airport is low cost, Rucho said. If they raise it, which they have, it works against the opportunity to keep it a low-cost airport and keep it attractive for American Airlines.
So far, American has publicly supported Cagle and his increased budget. The airline operates more than 90 percent of daily flights at Charlotte Douglas and is by far the airports most important tenant.
The airlines master lease at Charlotte Douglas runs through 2016, and preliminary negotiations about renewing it began under Orr. City and business leaders prize the hub for attracting companies and jobs.
Mike Minerva, Americans vice president of government and airport affairs, said the airline was involved with planning Cagles higher budget and supports the increased spending at its second-busiest hub.
We dont like those increases, but we recognize them as necessary, Minerva said. Those bills would have come due about now whether Jerry was there or not.
Minerva said that, like Charlotte Douglas, many of Americans hub airports are undertaking renovation and construction projects now. The reason: Airlines are making profits again. That means airports are comfortable asking for higher budgets. Most large hubs are decades old and need repairs.
Robert Stolz is chairman of the independent commission thats trying to take control of Charlotte Douglas from the City Council. While Cagle remains a city employee, he also was named interim executive director of the commission after Orrs departure.
I think hes been just terrific, Stolz said. Hes come in at a bizarre, difficult time for any professional to step into a leadership role, with all the hullabaloo going on.
He said Cagle has been accessible and open with commission members, who are still learning about the airport while they await the resolution of the citys legal challenge to the commission. Stolz also praised Cagle for hands-on leadership, such as staying overnight at Charlotte Douglas to oversee operations during severe winter storms in February.
He was hunkered down with all of his people setting up cots, Stolz said. Thats what you want a leader to do.
Cagles boss, Carlee, also praised Cagle.
In my almost 40 years in local government, I have seen no one assume a more difficult task and perform as successfully as Brent has done in the past year, Carlee said. He downplayed any comparisons between Cagle and Orr.
Jerry did what he did very well. Brent started from a different place and has different challenges. Comparisons serve no useful purpose, Carlee said.
Terri Pope, Americans vice president for the Charlotte hub, said she still texts Orr, whom she called a friend and mentor. And she said she has a good working relationship with Cagle. He has impressed her with steps hes taken, such as riding the employee shuttle bus, to respond to complaints about the service.
Hes open and responsive, she said.
A year after taking charge, one word is still stapled to both of Cagles job titles: interim.
Pope said shes seen Cagle overcome that uncertainty. A lot of people would be nervous, she said. Just that label alone, youre really vying to make that something other than interim.
Despite their praise, neither Stolz or Carlee committed to keeping Cagle permanently.
I think thats for the entire commission to discuss, Stolz said.
Interim and permanent are only words, Carlee said. Brent is the aviation director and has the full authority to take whatever actions he needs to take.
Cagle would like to be permanent.
Id love to be the aviation director, strike the interim, or the executive director, strike the interim, he said. But I really dont spend a lot of time thinking about it because there are so many what-ifs that have to be resolved first.
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Speke Hall
Seen at Speke this month:
- Lots of nesting birds
- Greenery everywhere - the rain is doing the gardens good!
- Roses just coming into the bloom in the rose garden
- Pesky jackdaws - watch out for them as you enter the hall!
- Many, many bunnies.
Habitats - The Clough
This is an ancient woodland site, situated in a semicircle between the Hall and the River Mersey.
It was mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086, but has been clear-felled in the past and is now mostly sycamore with some native hardwood trees.
Trees from the Clough are said to have been used in the building of the Hall.
Habitats - Meadows
The original farmland that surrounded the gardens and hall has been converted to wildflower and wild grass meadows, with historic field boundaries reinstated.
They contain a good variety of native grasses and herbs. This creates an excellent habitat for invertebrates, butterflies and moths, mammals and birds.
Habitats - Stocktons Wood
Part of the original Speke Hall estate, the woodland has survived nearly 600 years intact. Originally heathland, with a scattering of hardwood trees, it now contains oak, birch and sycamore trees as well as rhododendron and bracken.
The wood has a richly diverse fauna and two very rare species of beetle are found here.
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Real quite around here lately. Can't wait for spring to hit the garden. Got a couple of cherry sized tomatoes in my indoor container. Matina plant is growing out past the over head light with 3 flower clusters.
Have a good day, good people, and stay warm. Kenny |
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I have trays of leeks, bunching onions, and shallots planted, and they all are at that stage where they are bent in a "U", the roots going down, something green humping up, but still not strong enough to lift the seed husk up and wave it around. They've been that way for about a week now. I wish they'd get on with it, because I'm so tempted to go 'help' them along. This is one of those occasions where the seeds didn't look like so much in the 'sampler' packet, so I just sprinkled the whole thing, and now realize I have several hundred of each. |
Good Morning! I HAD 10 seeds each of 4 onion varieties started. They were in with houseplants in the 2 pots behind here in the south window. Always heard how onion seed should be fresh every year - these were from 2008. They did fine with no worse than 80% germination from all. It's still another 2 weeks plus before I'll "fire up" the greenhouse. That happens just about the time the fuel bill should be dropping. This south window will just be a way station for plants migrating from the top of the fridge to the greenhouse. Make sure those onions get plenty of sun, David. Oh I forgot, you're in Colorado. Here, the sun seldom shows up - when it does, the angle is acute . . . I was just trying to remember where my shadow was yesterday (like Peter Pan, my shadow won't "stick" from day to day ;o). Measuring on the deck boards in this morning's gray dimness, yesterday's shadow must have been about 12 feet long. Ummm, I was goin' keep track of where to find this sort of information on the web, you know: zenith, horizon, solar elevation, etc. . . . Ha!, I found it . . . it's linked below. If'n you can't find your city, get the latitude & longitude for it from Wikipedia, set the calculator for "Enter Lat/Long ->", choose the date & time, and shoot! I'll have 29.5° solar elevation at noon today, if'n I did this right . . . let's see, at that angle, my shadow would be . . . digit S ' |
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37ş here at noon. No wonder you guys look so short. :-) The snow needs to go off the top of the greenhouse, then they'll get decent diffused light, but I may just line them up on the west window and let them get a few hours of more direct sunlight. Would that be better, or will they all start growing horizontally? |
- Posted by jaliranchr z5 EC CO (My Page) on Sun, Feb 15, 09 at 10:51
I imagine on a dreary day like yesterday, those tomato fruits and blossoms perked your spirits, Kenny. Nice to see the sun shining again. Dang, I'm such a sunshine addict.... enjoy the rest of the weekend all! |
Sun!?! I notice that the neighbor's photocell garage light is on . . . facing south . . . 9:45 AM. One thing I gave up on with flats of seedlings is turning them. I've literally tied them in knots. Horizontal is preferable when transplant time comes. (Today, Dear Dad is 91. For gifts, I've got a Library of Congress photograph of the US Calvary at Las Cruces and 2 coffee mugs with the same picture on it. The calvary was there to chase Pancho Villa back to Mexico. I'm going to make a joke that they are there to make the place safe for Dad's arrival a couple years later. ;o) S' |
- Posted by dan_staley USDA 5/S 2b (My Page) on Sun, Feb 15, 09 at 13:41
I have quite a few seedlings going - onions, broccoli, a few toms, many peppers. Second wave starts next week. Also saw the first daffies in the warmest part of the yard poking thru the mulch next to the dark rocks (sheesh). I might get some lettuce and mustard out of the coldframe for lunch. Good morning, digit. Here is another good way to get your lat-long (lat-long converter) and the localest weather as well (says the ex-weatherman) - simply follow the links on the left to zoom to your area. Otherwise, it looks like a return to seasonal weather for the coming week, albeit we need more than seasonal snow to get some decent storage of soil moisture for the spring. Dan |
Steve, an Uncle on my Fathers side of the family was shot dead by Pancho Villa - coming down the church steps in Las Crusas. I can't remember what he was doing there. |
Thank you Dan - I've opened an account with MesoWest and have saved a few things for quick reference. I believe that if you are in difficult weather, you can favorably influence it by paying very close attention to current information and forecasts. Moaning a lot has also proven helpful. David, your uncle was a known heathen, then? There could have been a last minute conversion, don't you think? When I gave Dad the photograph he told us a neighbor in Las Cruces had one ear cut off by Pancho Villa. Kenny, this was the direction you expected for this thread, am I right? d'Steve |
- Posted by dan_staley USDA 5/S 2b (My Page) on Mon, Feb 16, 09 at 11:47
No problem d'. My neighbors learn to watch me for their weather forecasts, esp for frost and heavier precip., temp not so much as I'll be outside in shirt sleeves any time. I also find HamWeather has useful information, altho their 5-day forecasts aren't worth much. Dan |
"Kenny, this was the direction you expected for this thread, am I right?: What ever it take to keep this place alive. I like to check in each day. Never know, might learn some thing. FWIW: I heard old Pancho had a new wife in every town he took. Kenny |
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Back in 2005, at the nadir of the Iraq War, Charles Ferguson was an independently wealthy documentary film junkie who was appalled to discover that no one in his favorite field was making a serious inquiry into American war policy. So he did it himself. No End In Sight, Ferguson's first documentary, was a searing, clear-eyed indictment of the war and it earned an Oscar nomination in 2008. The film's power sprang not so much from the startling revelations it uncovered—though there were plenty—as from the remarkable tapestry of top-level figures who Ferguson had gathered to testify about the war's folly. Put another way, it wasn't just what they were saying, it was who was saying it. (The film's talking heads included Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's chief of staff when the war began, and General Jay Garner, who briefly ran the Iraq reconstruction effort before he was fatefully replaced by Paul Bremer.)
In Ferguson's new documentary, Inside Job, which arrives in theaters today, the filmmaker delivers the same treatment to the global financial crisis that he gave to the Iraq war a few years ago. And once again, it's not so much the revelations that startle as the people making them. This is high-level, hard-hitting work. And it firmly establishes Charles Ferguson as the man America should turn to whenever we want to leave a movie theater really, really angry.
For those fuzzy on the financial details, but irate about the outcome, Ferguson put together this exclusive syllabus for GQ. Read and watch all of them, and you'll understand exactly how—and how badly—we all got screwed. After the jump, Ferguson makes his picks and explains why they're so essential.
1. Simon Johnson's "The Quiet Coup"
In the May 2009 issue of The Atlantic, there appeared a brilliant article by Simon Johnson, an eminent economist, telling painful truths about what the financial sector and its money have done not only to the American economy but also to its political system. Read it here. Simon is Australian by birth, and in our filmed interview with him, he spoke quite affectingly about his having chosen to become an American citizen. He has done his country a great service by speaking out, in this article, in his book 13 Bankers, and in his blog with James Kwak, The Baseline Scenario.
2. Charles R. Morris, The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown
Late in 2007, my longtime colleague Charles Morris sent me the manuscript for his forthcoming book, The Trillion Dollar Meltdown. I read it and called Charlie. "Very scary," I said to him, "but Charlie, aren't you exaggerating a little? It can't really be that bad. A trillion dollars? "Just you wait," replied Charlie. The book was published in February 2008, one month before Bear Stearns collapsed. I called Charlie again. "Well, you were right, Charlie," I said, "that was bad." "Oh no, Charles," he replied, "we're just getting started." Well, when I watched Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and AIG fall apart within forty-eight hours in mid-September of 2008, I started taking my friend a little more seriously. The second edition was entitled The TWO Trillion Dollar Meltdown. I called Charlie again. "Please," I said, "no more editions, this is getting expensive."
3. The Jon Stewart Show
Jon Stewart is hilarious. Very depressingly, he has also been far more informative and insightful about the financial crisis, financial regulation (and the absence thereof), Congress, and the Obama Administration than 99 percent of the so-called serious media. Mr. Stewart is a national treasure, and he should run for President. Seriously. If you want the real skinny on what's been going on, watch his shows starting with mid-2008. My dream ticket would be him and Senator Carl Levin. Speaking of which...
4. CSPAN archives of the Congressional hearings chaired by Waxman and Levin
For the most part, Congress gets a dismal grade for its shameless role in deregulation, lack of oversight, lack of inquiry, and lack of response to the crisis. But two members of Congress and their committees—Henry Waxman in the House, Carl Levin in the Senate—held a series of hearings starting in the fall of 2008 that simply can't be topped. Watch the regulators, the bankers, the ratings agencies, the lobbyists, and the paid-for experts squirm. Watch Goldman Sachs executives pretend to be stupid and innocent, and then watch their facades crack. Watch the CEO of AIG try to explain with a straight face why it was OK to block the attempted audit of AIG Financial Products, and then to pay its former CEO a $1-million-per-month consulting fee after he blew the company up.
5. The Best Bloggers: Yves Smith, Nouriel Roubini and Felix Salmon
There are zillions of financial blogs and bloggers, but several stand out. Yves Smith's tart, smart, tough Naked Capitalism will keep you current and angry, but with one cute animal picture every day. Nouriel Roubini's wonky, expensive, but very good site—modestly named Roubini (Nouriel says it with a grin)—is in fact an excellent monitor of the world's macroeconomic condition as well as Dr. Doom's latest pronouncements. And if that's not enough, witty Brit Felix Salmon gives you good information with style at his blog for Reuters.
6. Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier, by Raghuram Rajan
Seriously wonky but very worthwhile, this 2005 paper is still one of the best writings about the crisis. It's also the one that Larry Summers publicly denounced as retrograde, unnecessarily alarmist, and Luddite. To read this paper, then to know that when it was delivered, the audience included Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, Larry Summers, and most of the world's central bankers, is to realize, definitively, that finance is way too important to be left to the financiers. It's online here.
7. Insidejobfilm.com
Yes, it's a shameless plug for my movie. But it's also true. We did an enormous amount of research for the film, and my patient and tireless associate producer, Anna Moot-Levin, compiled a master document with all the links, articles, websites, documents, and presentations that we archived, and we've placed all of it on our website. Read it and weep.