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Tebow Tweets and Fireman Ed and Jets Twit have a misunderstanding
Posted by Erik Manassy on Mar 30, 2012 in Player Tweets, Twitter Conversations | 0 comments
By now you have heard the term "circus" to describe the atmosphere of the New York Jets since Tim Tebow has been traded and joined Gang Green. Many people are wondering how this is going to work with Tim and Mark on the same team. Tim's role is so unknown, but whatever it is going to be, the player tweeted to Jets Nation and Fireman Ed that he will play his heart out:
TimTebow Fireman Ed and the rest of Jets nation, I'm gonna play my heart out for you. J-E-T-S JETS! JETS! JETS! 3/29/12 8:12 PM |
Now that Tim Tebow is here, let's just say our world as fans has been turned upside down. Tim's simple tweet caused reaction, which had a dominoe affect where Fireman Ed and I had a conversation in which I had to convince him that I wasn't hating on him. Huh? Let me explain.
So as I stated, Tim put out a series of tweets including the one above specifically to Fireman Ed. Tim didn't use Ed's twitter name, but the super fan saw the tweet and responded:
FiremanEd42 @TimTebow Welcome to #jetnation! I know you will and look forward to seeing you in green and white! Go Jets! 3/29/12 8:37 PM |
Many people saw Ed's tweet including Jets beat writer Bart Hubbuch who then put out a tweet basically calling Fireman Ed's popularity out amongst Jets fans:
NYPost_Hubbuch How long before Jets Nation brings Tebow up to speed on Fireman Ed's true (lack of) popularity? 3/29/12 9:10 PM |
I saw it pop into my timeline and thought, huh, why always the hate towards Ed. I understand that not everyone is on board with Ed, but still, why would a beat writer fuel the fire. Wait, and why is the sky blue? Ok so I tweeted this:
e_man "@NYPost_Hubbuch: How long before Jets Nation brings Tebow up to speed on Fireman Ed's true (lack of) popularity?" > really? 3/29/12 9:11 PM |
Now if you look closely, I simply ReTweeted Bart's message and added "Really?". I meant it as, really (are you serious) and of course if you could hear me, my tone would be condescending. Now Ed read it as, really!, as in I agree with Bart and he thought I was hating on him as well, to which I received this tweet:
FiremanEd42 @e_man Why the hate?What happened? 3/29/12 9:28 PM |
My first reaction was, hey cool, I didn't know FIreman Ed followed me, and he just tweeted me! Then it quickly shifted to: Uh oh. I knew he read it the wrong way and before I could tweet back, a fellow Jet fan came to my defense to explain the misunderstanding:
Gscott1847 @FiremanEd42 It isn't @e_man but this guy: https://t.co/Tu7iqrjJ 3/29/12 9:31 PM |
e_man "@FiremanEd42: NO HATE from me. I RT'd Bart and asked Really? As in NO WAY. U the Man Ed. 3/29/12 9:33 PM |
FiremanEd42 @Gscott1847 @e_man That makes more sense! #NYPOST_HUBB #JET HATERS 3/29/12 9:35 PM |
e_man @Gscott1847 thx buddy 3/29/12 9:38 PM |
Gscott1847 @e_man no problemo Erik! Needed to clear things up so us #Jets fans don't get divided! 3/29/12 9:44 PM |
e_man @Gscott1847 yeah no kidding… I was like, whoaaaa… not me. hahahaha 3/29/12 9:45 PM |
FiremanEd42 @Gscott1847 Thank you my brother! GO JETS! 3/29/12 9:46 PM |
Ok so that was cleared up, and then to my surprise Fireman Ed tweeted this:
FiremanEd42 @e_man Thanks! Great job on your blog! GO JETS! 3/29/12 9:37 PM |
e_man "@FiremanEd42: Thanks Ed.. BTW I sit behind u in 124. Go Jets! 3/29/12 9:37 PM |
It took that series of tweets to find out that Fireman Ed reads my blog and as you know I have two twitter accounts, @e_man and @JetsTwit . Ed was follwoing me on @e_man, but I shortly received a follow to @jetstwit .
I wanted to share how a simple interaction with a Jets celebrity can take place with no intention to get a follow. I encourage you to participate and talk if you prefer to sit back and just read tweets. I started with a handful of followers just like you and slowing grew my following to 4K on each account because of interactions such as this. Get out there and talk! As they say, get in the game! Who knows, maybe one day if it hasn't happen already, you will get a follow from your favorite Jet!
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The bankers are warning of Armageddon if a rule from the Dodd-Frank bill is left in place that requires that retain a 5 percent stake in mortgages where the owner puts less than 20 percent down. In effect, that if the bank sells a loan into a security pool that had a down payment of less than 20 percent, it will be liable for at least 5 percent of the losses incurred on the mortgage if there is default.
While the bankers are portraying this as an ominous restriction that will prevent them from making loans to moderate-income homeowners, a little arithmetic suggests otherwise. Before the bubble, Freddie Mac estimated that its average loss on a foreclosed property was 25 percent of the mortgage's value.
If we assume that the mortgages in question will have the same 25 percent loss rate once the market becomes more normal, then this would imply a loss of 1.25 percent of the mortgage's value, given the bank's 5 percent stake. If one in ten of these mortgages go bad, then this implies an average loss of 0.125 percent on loans in this category.
However, this calculation assumes that the bank can sell off a mortgage with less than 20 percent down at the same price that it can sell off a mortgage with 20 percent or more down. Since this is almost certainly not true, then the loss to the bank from this provision would be somewhat less than 0.125 percent of the price of the mortgage. If this loss were fully passed on to homebuyers then the impact of this provision would at most be equivalent to raising the cost of a mortgage by 0.13 basis points, and almost certainly considerably less. Given this arithmetic, it is not plausible that this 5 percent rule will have any noticeable effect on the access of moderate-income families to mortgages.
Of course she probably did not know that this is what she is doing in her hypothetical conversation between "Paul" and "Barack," but that is exactly what she is doing when she touts the lower than expected cost of the Medicare drug benefit. The main reason that the drug benefit cost less than expected is that drug prices in general have gone up less than expected. And, the reason that drug prices have gone up less than expected is that there have been very few new blockbuster drugs in last decade.
This means that even though the industry claims that it is spending more than ever on research, it has much less to show in the form of new drugs than it did 20 years ago. It seems a stretch to blame this lack of innovation on the private insurers offering the Medicare drug benefit, but we can't question a very serious person with a regular column in the Washington Post.
The rest of this hypothetical discussion is equally confused. Contrary to what it asserts, the vast majority of Democrats did not think it was okay to have just private insurers in the exchanges set up under the Obama plan. They pushed hard to include a good public option. However, they did not have the 60 votes to get a public option through the Senate.
And the comparison of the cost of the Ryan plan to the existing Medicare plan is not a hypothetical. The additional $34 trillion cost that CBO projected for buying Medicare equivalent policies is based on the actual history with Medicare Plus Choice and Medicare Advantage. How many times must this experiment be repeated before its results are accepted?
It is worth noting that there is a simple mechanism for saving large amounts of money under the Medicare system. The government could give beneficiaries a voucher that would allow them to buy into the health care systems of other countries with longer life expectancies than the United States. The beneficiary and the government could split the tens of thousands of dollars in projected annual savings. If the Post was not such an ardently protectionist paper it would support this program
The WSJ had a chart alongside an article on the House vote on raising the debt ceiling. The chart shows the debt ceiling through time. The ceiling is shown in nominal dollars. By not adjusting for the growth in the economy or even the rate of inflation, the chart makes the ceiling look hugely out of line with past levels.
That's a good practice if the point is to scare readers about the size of the debt. It is bad journalism. The debt ceiling was higher relative to the size of the economy during World War II and its aftermath.
It's also worth commenting on its reference to credit default swaps (CDS) as a reference to the risk that investors assign that the U.S. could default on its debt. In fact, the price of CDS on the U.S. debt imply nothing of the sort. If the government actually defaults on its debt, the issuer of a CDS on the debt will almost certainly be bankrupt, so the CDS would itself be worthless.
Rather than being a bet on the government defaulting on its debt, the price of a CDS on U.S. government debt should be viewed as a bet on how much people will be willing to pay for the CDS tomorrow. In this way the price of a CDS on U.S. debt can be viewed as comparable to the price of an awful painting by a very famous artist. No one actually wants the painting, but it may hold great value because other people are willing to assign it great value.
If the Washington Post sent reporters through northern Japan they would note the wrecked roads and buildings, the large number of deaths, the crisis at the nuclear power plants, but they would never notice the earthquake/tsunami that caused it all. That is what one can assume from its continued failure to notice the housing bubble.
Anyone who followed trends in house prices should not have been at all surprised by the drop in prices reported for March (the "double-dip"). Nationwide house prices are still close to 10 percent above their long-term trend.
No one -- as in not a single economist anywhere -- has presented a remotely plausible reason as to why we should expect house prices to diverge from their 100-year long trend. Given the continued near-record vacancy rates, and huge inventory of homes in the foreclosure process, there is no reason to think that house prices will stop falling any time soon.
The Post should try to find at least one person who recognized the housing bubble (the largest asset bubble in the history of the world) for its articles on the housing market, instead of relying exclusively on people who were caught by surprise by its collapse.
This is worth noting because the NYT is so anxious to tell readers what politicians actually believe about the deficit, Social Security, and other issues. It is much easier to accept that Pat Courtney was actually delighted about her daughter Kathy Hochul's election to Congress than that most politicians believe the things they say about government policy.
(Hat tip to Ben Ross.)
The NYT had a front page article on the prospect that house prices will hit a new post-bubble low with the release of new data from the Case-Shiller index. (This refers to nominal house prices. Real house prices are down by about 4 percent from their low in 2009.) The article does not make any reference to the housing bubble.
At this point the bubble is mostly deflated, but real nationwide house prices still must fall back by about 10 percent to get back to their 100 year-long trend. It would have been worth mentioning this trend in this article.
The article also includes a misstatement by Douglas Yearley Jr., the CEO of the builder Toll Brothers. Yearley is quoted as saying, "no one ever renovated the kitchen or redid a room for the kids in a rental."
This is not true. In cities that give security of tenure to renters, meaning that it is difficult for landlords to kick them out, it is not uncommon for tenants to pay for major repairs/renovations to their units.
No, I don't have any evidence for that assertion, but neither does David Brooks have any support for the assertion that today's graduating college seniors, "inherit a ruinous federal debt."
It's apparently a day for throwaway lines and I wanted to play too.
In its top of the hour news segment (no link) Morning Edition told listeners that the unemployment rate in Germany had fallen to 7.0 percent. This is misleading. The 7.0 percent figure is the official German measure of unemployment. This measure counts part-time workers desiring full-time jobs as being unemployed.
By contrast, the OECD calculates a harmonized unemployment rate that uses a methodology that is comparable to the methodology used in the United States. By this measure, the Germany unemployment rate had already fallen to 6.3 percent by March.
News outlets should present the OECD harmonized measure to their audiences. If they use the German government measure, at the very least they should point out that it is not directly comparable to the U.S. rate.
In response to my friend, Jared Bernstein, responding to Paul Krugman, let me point out that there was a real simple, non-bureaucratic way in which to allow underwater homeowners to stay in their home and get out from under their crushing mortgage burden.
If we just gave them the option of staying in their home paying the market rent, post foreclosure, it would immediately give them housing security and relieve them of the prospect of paying a crushing mortgage debt. This requires no taxpayer dollars, no government bureaucracy, nor moral harzard, and it would have given immediate relief. This was good enough for conservatives like Desmond Lachmon at the American Enterprise Institute and Andrew Samwick, but not for the folks in the Obama administration.
I can see why people who work for the banks opposed right to rent, but not why anyone else would.
Bruce Ramsey, a columnist for the Seattle Times, apparently thinks it is really cute to call the U.S. government bonds held by Social Security "IOUs." That is the only possible explanation for using this unusual term for government bonds in a column that is completely incoherent.
Ramsey apparently thinks that he is giving his readers news by telling them that they don't have a constitutional right to Social Security. This is of course true, but people do not have a constitutional right to many things that they can reasonably depend on, such as drinkable water, roads they can walk and drive on, not having their income taxed at a 90 percent average rate.
Congress could change laws tomorrow and make it so that we no longer enjoy any of these items, the constitution will not prevent them. But most of us conduct our lives as though Congress will not take such steps, because any Congress that did take away any of these items would likely be voted out of office quickly. Similarly, any Congress that substantially reduced Social Security benefits would likely be looking for new jobs quickly also. So, there is no constitutional right to Social Security benefits; there is just the fact that in a democracy it will be very difficult for Congress to substantially reduce Social Security benefits, since almost everyone either depends on them or expects to depend on them in the future.
But the serious inconsistency problem arises when Ramsey talks about the government bonds held by the Social Security trust fund:
"If you or I had the bonds, we would be trillionaires. But Social Security is the government — and an organization's IOUs are not an asset to itself."
Okay, first off, under the law, Social Security is a distinct entity from the government. Mr. Ramsey may not like this fact, but that is the law. This means that the bonds held by Social Security are an asset to Social Security.
Congress can change the law, but as the law is written now, both the bonds and interest on the bonds are assets to Social Security. This means that under current law as long as the trust fund holds bonds, Social Security must pay full benefits. (If Mr. Ramsey knows any member of Congress who plans to vote to default on the bonds held by the trust fund he could do a great service to his readers by publishing their names. Their constituents would probably want to keep this information in mind at election time.)
The inconsistency in Ramsey's argument is that if we take his "Social Security is the government" line at face value then his article makes no sense.
Let's say Social Security is the government just like the Defense Department, the Education Department or the State Department. What does it mean to say that Social Security has a deficit? Does the Defense Department have a deficit?
If Social Security is just like any other part of the government then it makes no sense at all to discuss the program as running as a surplus as deficit. The government collects revenue though a variety of sources, including a payroll tax, and it has various expenses. If we take Ramsey's view of Social Security (ignoring current law) then claiming that Social Security has a deficit or faces a shortfall is nonsense.
Of course that is not the direction that Ramsey goes. He wants to cut benefits because current Social Security tax revenues are less than current benefits. However after he just told us that there is no link between these two -- Social Security is the government -- there is no reason anyone should care whether the payroll taxes designated for Social Security are bigger or smaller than the benefits paid out.
Essentially what Ramsey wants is to say that Social Security is the government when taxes exceed benefits, so the money cannot be banked for future benefits -- but Social Security is not the government when benefits exceed taxes -- so then he can say that benefits have to be cut.
It's dishonest, but hey, it's not like Social Security can sue him for libel.
Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He is the author of several books, his latest being The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive. Read more about Dean. Archives
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I've long admired Buzz Hoot Roar, a graphics-driven blog that explains science in fewer than 300 words, so when @VerdantEleanor (she's "Roar) approached me about doing something with artist Christine Fleming, I said yes with alacrity! We decided to focus on the ongoing competition between machines and dogs and other animals, to see which has the best nose, and is the easiest to use. Okay, dog people, I honestly tried to be objective when I did this research, but one of Christine's marvelous illustrations sums up why dogs rock, and why A Good Nose Isn't That Hard to Find.
Dogs' noses point to forgotten, unmarked graves in Wilmington
Bruce Siceloff, a reporter with the Raleigh News & Observer, spent a couple of days reporting on the work in Wilmington on historic graves, and wrote a beautiful story on it:
Canine noses point to forgotten, unmarked graves in Wilmington.
And Chuck Liddy took great video and photographs.
Wilmington Historic Grave Search
I am helping organize a historic grave search with cadaver dogs in Eastern North Carolina from Sept. 12 to 14. An African-American church's graveyard is being relocated because of a road widening project. The church has generously agreed to having the cadaver dog teams on site to see whether they can help confirm or locate unmarked graves.
I am trying to raise some modest funds to cover the expenses of three experienced cadaver-dog handlers — Lisa Higgins, Paul Martin, and Susan Goodhope — who were featured in What the Dog Knows doing this work. Separately and together, they have worked on ancient remains projects across the United States. The link provides just one example of Lisa Higgins working with her dog Dixee on such a project at Dozier School for Boys.
The three handlers, whom I know personally, are bringing their dogs and their handling talents to this project because an environmental review coordinator at the NC State Historic Preservation Office read the chapter in the book on historic remains, called me, and suggested that it might be a great opportunity to both help the church, and to be able to study how accurate dogs trained on detecting ancient remains can be. The state department of transportation will need to move all the graves, marked and unmarked, to another area on the church's property. The DOT is using GPR and other methods on the site, and will be excavating.
A donation of even $10 will help, but time is of the essence.
We want to cover the expenses (hotel, food, and gas) plus a minimal honorarium for the handlers ($300 each), who are generously coming from some distance.
We have two ways to give: Triangle Search Dogs has kindly agreed to host the project because of its mission to further the education of K9s and handlers. I and another member of Triangle Search Dogs will be on site to help and learn (I'm so excited to be able to do this!). Triangle Search Dogs is a non-profit, and any donations you give will be tax deductible. A donation of $50 or more, and I will send you an autographed copy of What the Dog Knows.
Or, if you'd like to donate via Indiegogo, you can use your credit card. That donation (because of our tight time frame) isn't set up to be tax deductible.
If you have any questions, feel free to email me, email@example.com, or firstname.lastname@example.com. Thank you!
Cat Warren
Oso Disaster Pushes Dogs, and Their Handlers, to Their Limits
I was fortunate to be able to interview a number of people who worked their cadaver dogs at the tragic mudslide in Oso, Washington. Here is another piece, Oso Disaster Pushes Dogs, and Their Handlers, to Their Limits, that I wrote for the online magazine, The Dodo, about their experiences. Pictured is Marcia Koenig's search dog, Raven.
Second-Dog Syndrome
Here's a post I wrote on Coda that appeared in the Dodo, a great new online magazine devoted to animals. They called it "My Dogs Do Sensitive Work. Will My New One Let Me Down?" I called it "Second Dog Syndrome." Despite everything, Coda is growing up and starting to fly right!
The Accidental Reader
Thank you, dog bloggers and emailers, for letting me be an accidental reader.
Since the book's publication in October, one of my greatest joys has been subtler than one might think. Yes, Rebecca Skloot's review in the New York Times was a thrill. Same for the National Geographic Weekend radio coverage.
But the coverage that in some ways has moved me most has been from talented people with small blogs or slightly obscure websites whom I didn't know at all, and whom the publisher didn't know either. These are often the reviews that I either stumble upon by accident. Sometimes, it'll just be an email from someone who says, "I really loved your book, and here's why." I love those.
This morning, a photographer from Indiana, Mike Meadows, posted an amazing review of the book on his blog. His website is filled with great photography of dogs and people, and I learned something new just by reading his take on the book.
In November, I found Ranny Green's review on the Seattle Kennel Club's website. He's the former president of the Dog Writers Association of America, a five-time recipient of the DWAA's columnist of the year award and a six-time winner of the DWAA feature writer of the year for newspapers over 150,000 circulation. He retired from the Seattle Times in 2008.
Then there was Robert Vaughn's mid-October blog post on the book, which he'd seen by accident in his local library. I didn't know Robert, and there was something special about that complete lack of connection that made his post special. No advance copies from the publisher, no pleading for a possible review. Since I suffer from probably more than what is a healthy dose of fraud syndrome, Robert's review, Ranny's review, Mike's review — and all of those emails and Facebook messages from strangers help provide me with an extra dose of feeling it was a worthwhile project writing the book.
Why Cat for a Dog? Guest Post by Joan Andreasen-Webb, Framheim German Shepherds
I had a hole in my heart when I emailed Solo's breeder, Joan Andreasen-Webb, back in May of 2003. David and I had put our wonderful German shepherd Zev to sleep the week before: lost to an obscure disease at too young an age. I had decided I wasn't going to mope for a year before I got on a waiting list and waited for another year to get a pup. I had a German shepherd lover's version of a biological clock, though perhaps not quite as dramatically as Marisa Tomei's. Tears were still pouring as I emailed Joan. I had researched to her dogs via a number of people. I'd been on the web, on the phone, on email almost non-stop. Framheim German Shepherds and Joan kept popping up. Joan wrote back, warmly and candidly. Thus began a relationship that is more than a decade old and has changed my and David's life. One year later, in May 2004, Solo arrived in our home like a small freight train. He comprised the Y litter, the 25th litter Joan had bred. She whelped one final litter after Solo, and temporarily retired from shepherd breeding, having completed the alphabet.
Joan wrote this back in May 2013 after I had finished the book. I read it and got a lump in my throat. I asked Joan if I could post it on this blog not because Joan chose me to become Solo's owner (although I am forever grateful and fortunate), but because to me, her succinct essay epitomizes responsible breeding.
Letter from Joan
Hobby breeders can be an odd lot. Match-making runs through our veins.
When we plan litters, every available source is searched, scratching out details on ancestors. How did relatives perform in Schutzhund? Were they confident, easily trained, over-aggressive, out of control, nervous or fearful? We watch them performing in trials and observe their every expression to evaluate their mental soundness. We study their anatomy for structural correctness. Have they passed their strengths onto their progeny?
When a breeder has bred generations of her own dogs, we have a handle on who they are and what they produce. We can be our dogs' strictest critics even with the emotional bonds we have with them. We recognize glimpses of ancestors gazing back at us in every litter. Each pup is a vessel of its family history and a reckoning of our matchmaking abilities.
You might think we fulfill our matchmaking drives via our dogs. No – the obsession given to assessing the character and worthiness of dogs, we now turn to the prospective adopter. We study what you say, how you say it and even what you do not say. We evaluate your history of dog care, the issues you had with other dogs; how those problems were managed; how long your past dogs lived; what they died of and were you with them when they died? We study your every reaction to determine if you are worthy of our prized puppies.
The German Shepherd Dog is not a breed for everyone. One can say that about most breeds, but it especially relates to the German Shepherd Dog. The origins of the breed as a tending dog imparted a broad and complex range of duties that formed its eventual genetic temperament. The tending dog has a sense of defense to protect its flock; a sense of territory that maintains the flock in the graze area; with prey drive – enough to ensure herding but not too much so the dog insists on sheep for dinner; to be self-reliant as well as devoted to its human. Ultimately, the breed is an intelligent dog with a sense of responsibility and an honest character. Not a small goal to aspire to! These qualities – in balance – make it the consummate service dog but not always an easy dog to live with.
That sense of responsibility that makes for sheep-tending and service dogs can be unruly, even belligerent, without wise leadership or, on the opposite spectrum, with uncompromising harshness – a cringing or over-aggressive menace. An intelligent dog trained for a duty is a wonder to behold. When left to its own devices, resourcefulness can reach new heights of destruction!
This brings us to the question: Why Cat Warren?
The unique qualities of the breed so useful when bred thoughtfully, and reared and trained wisely make for an ideal partner. Solo demonstrated these admirable qualities as a pup. He was full of himself, slightly arrogant; indulged by everyone – dog and human – in his little world, confident that one and all would adore him. As a singleton, he also missed out learning to negotiate dog-to-dog relationships. Adult dogs have no need to negotiate with impertinent pups. Their reactions range from permissiveness to no-nonsense scolding. Choosing a future human for Solo was a significant task.
As I got to know Cat, her personal history made her a natural for one of our pups. It was her commitment, striving for knowledge and the ability to be flexible yet determined that ultimately confirmed my belief that she would bring out the best in our only child, Solo. From this matchmaker's perspective, Cat and Solo have brought out the best in each other. We readers of What the Dog Knows are now the beneficiaries of their successful relationship.
Two Sniffin' Dogs — and a Training Aid in an Oak Tree
I put some simple cadaver training aids out in a cooperative neighbors' big backyard last week: some carpet, a few teeth, dirt, a sheet. I ran first Coda, then Solo. I knew that Solo might track Coda but wouldn't be distracted by the knowledge that a dog had come before him. It wasn't a challenging training for either him or me. It was a chance for him to stretch his legs and get happy.
I haven't trained the two dogs one right after the other often. That's because I don't have an SUV to cart them around together when I go to K9 trainings. The Camry is still our dogmobile. The two dogs have different needs, and I've spent the past eight months prioritizing Coda's getting used to all sorts of search environments and bonding. Plus, learning to mind me. I have trouble multi-tasking anyway, so I'm only occasionally frustrated by our transportation limitations. I do know people who can train and work two dogs. Or more. I admire them. I am not them.
Today, I loved being able to work both dogs in turn. I also realized the differences between them. They both found the hides. Since I often let Solo work at a distance from me, he will sometimes run back to find me, once he's found the aid, and then go back in for his final alert. Sometimes, I can fling his tug toy from 20 feet away if I limber up my arm. That was the case today. Since I'm still working Coda on a long lead, I do have to move in behind her. I'm rewarding her right now with desiccated liver right at the source. The smell of the liver in my pocket is her best cue what game we are playing. I only use the liver for scent training, so even before I tell her, "Go find your squirrel!" she's ready. I move in behind her once she's found her "squirrel," and if she's not in a down, gently encourage her before I start giving her several pieces in a row.That's to reward, but also to encourage her not to paw at the training aid — or try to devour it. She doesn't leave the source. I like that.
Dogs work differently, of course. Duh, I knew that. Yet, somehow, when it's your own dogs working so differently, it's ever so much clearer. It was fun seeing those differences up close last week. It's not just that Coda is just a year old, and Solo now nine and a half, although that matters, too. Solo is a skeptic at this point in his career: ever-suspicious about where scent is the strongest. He works from the outer perimeters in, and once he hits scent, he slows down immediately. If he finds the hide and it's something that emits faint scent, he'll check just outside the scent pool to confirm before coming back for a final alert. It's pretty clear he's ruling out areas; making sure his final choice is the right one.
I found the picture above from Solo's early days of training — he was less than a year old, coming in on a hide in the rocks. I remember the joy and abandon with which he would fling himself into an alert in those early days. It's not that he has lost that joy, but speed no longer matters to him quite as much. Or to me. He now wants to be sure. He's like a thoughtful student who goes over the quiz one final time before handing it in; or a veteran reporter who double-checks his sources.
Coda is snotty and certain; she's a natural. It's too early in her training for her to even consider that air currents might trick her. She may realize at some point that it might not be that easy, but for now, she doesn't doubt or query her nose when she gets into source scent. It's not that she flings herself as Solo did as a youngster. But the map she draws of her scent world appears nonetheless entirely consumed with the here and now, rather than the what ifs. I'm pleased that her map, for all its limitations, is three-dimensional: not flat, but a nice globe. If scent is high, she'll levitate and climb along walls; she leaps onto whatever is nearby to get closer to it. She ignores me entirely. She moves in on the hide and likes to paw or try to sample it if it's accessible. She's like a toddler: happy to experience the world through her mouth, not just her nose. Liver has been the best substitute for the hide that she finds to start to discourage that tendency. Long term, I'm hoping for a toy that will be as meaningful to her as liver. That way, my pockets won't reek. I also remember to remove the toys before I run the pants through the washing machine.
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I have second dog syndrome, and Coda is my fourth shepherd. I am such a beginner. Again. At 11 months old, Coda remains an enigma and a challenge. One friend, listening to my admiring, yet rueful description of her, said that she sounded like a young raven or a crow. Beautiful, smart, wary, clever, and as shiny as a patent leather shoe. Even though she's pure black, she reflects light. She learned early that if she dropped a marrow bone from some height onto the concrete floor of our house, she might knock the marrow right out of the bone. A corvid trick she's applied to all her toys, though she hasn't yet learned to drop rocks into something to raise the water level, like the old Aesop's fable. That's coming, though.
She's so fleet of foot that she seems to fly, sometimes. Terrifyingly, at times, it's away from me. She has a rear end that looks more like Betty Boop's than a raven's tail, so how she moves so fast is a mystery. When she's walking, it waggles like an off-kilter planet, with loose unctuousness. She loses that waggle when she speeds up. All of a sudden, she's low and straight and swift, like a panther.
Coda can be utterly charming—flinging herself on me with abandon, wanting me to put my head down so she can lick my ears, or lying on her back, her white teeth flashing, eyes rolling, bubblegum pink tongue lolling out of her mouth, leaping over to her crate, and pushing the door latches over, and flipping the door open with her nose, so she can get ready for the peanut butter bone I'm preparing. Occasionally, she will gaze up with such affection when she's heeling that it gives my heart a brief hitch, and I momentarily see what our relationship might be like. Her nose and her hunt drive? Both are over the top. I've trained her on old bones, on buried hides, on faint scent that so faint I wonder whether she'll recognize it. She does; focusing on scent work isn't a problem. But right now, unless we are training in an abandoned warehouse, she is constrained on a long lead or parachute cord. I have little rope burns around my ankles and my fingers, though I've created training gloves out of gardening gloves.
I've never had a German shepherd who didn't reliably come when called, who thinks that chasing wild things is far better than tug toys, better than smelly liver treats, far better than anything I can offer. Far better, especially, than me. Perhaps I can be more exciting as pee on a tree, as one K9 trainer exhorts me to be, but I can't be more exciting than a bunny running. Prey drive, her breeder, Kathy Holbert, told me, is tough. Coda comes by it honestly, genetically; now she needs to re-channel it, and I need to help.
It's going to be slow. Obedience, obedience, obedience. Swift correction and redirection when she starts to stare and hackle. At our house, for Coda, every day is a bunny day. For her, it would be worth it to go through the closed window. For me, it's not so much of a bonne idée. I correct, ask her to do something to refocus on me, and reward. Games when possible. In the meantime, I feel like an old-fashioned parent, the not-fun one, imposing new boundaries, restricting freedom. I have friends inside and outside the dog world who tell me that this is my challenge, like a difficult daughter who will, as an adult, help me run with the wolves. I just want her recall to come back to where it was when she was six months old. I want her current Away From Me (apologies to all experienced herding dogs), to become a That'll Do.
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Coda as a puppy learning how to search for hidden treats in the woods
The tendons that support my cervical vertebrae are unknotting from weeks of bending over page proofs with a red pencil, wondering whether that little line is an en dash or an em dash, what it should be, and why I care. A chunk of the past three years has been devoted to writing, reporting and editing What the Dog Knows, the book.
Now that the book has moved through my cognitive system like a deer through a python in the Everglades and is in the capable production system at Touchstone and Simon & Schuster, it's time to start my blog! And train the dogs. And train the dogs. Especially little Coda, who at 10 months, is no longer so little and no longer as cute as she was here, in an early hunt for treats in the woods. If I want her to learn how to hunt for cadaver scent in the woods, she needs to learn that deer are not planted in there for her amusement and pleasure, and that I, her handler, am not an extraneous nuisance to ignore. To her, I am not yet as exciting as pee on a tree, or a rabbit, and I need to be.
My hope for this blog? That, like Coda, it will evolve and be a challenging adventure. I'll focus on working dogs—cadaver, trailing, law enforcement, conservation ), the good science that's emerging, the legal and social controversies, and the training and handling issues that arise. Occasionally, I'll throw in a cute dog picture (see above) or video. I'll have some guest posts from working dog handlers, trainers, and breeders who know better than I about so many working dog issues.


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Vergil's Downfall clocks in at about 3-5 hours, and boasts all-new environments as opposed to returning to old ones from the game proper. Vergil will handle similarly to Dante, but quicker. His movement will reflect his elegance, confidence, and training. Strikes will be dealt with more precision. And like Dante, Vergil will also have light and dark attacks and upgradable weapons.
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SECTION 1: No person shall be eligible to hold the offices of President or Vice President if that person's spouse, former spouse, natural parent, adoptive parent, step-parent, sibling, half-sibling, or adopted sibling has previously held either office.
SECTION 2: No natural children, adopted children, or step-children of a person barred by SECTION 1 of this Amendment from holding the offices of President or Vice President, shall themselves be eligible to hold the offices of President or Vice President.
SECTION 3: No person who has ever held the office of President shall be eligible to hold any subsequent public office at the federal level.
SECTION 4: Except for an Associate Justice being appointed to the office of Chief Justice, no person appointed to the Supreme Court shall be eligible to hold any subsequent public office at the federal level.
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Full Clip: Raphael Saadiq Runs Down His Musical Catalogue Ft. Tony! Toni! Toné!, The Roots, D'Angelo, Lucy Pearl & More
"What They Do" → The Roots (feat. Raphael Saadiq, 1996)
"I'm a huge A Tribe Called Quest fan…in fact, I'm a Tribe member. I was the only R&B cat that played on Midnight Marauders (Saadiq played bass on the track 'Midnight'). And Questlove was a Tribe fan as well. So when I hooked up with the Roots to make 'What They Do' I felt like the bassline had to be something solid in the same way. Questlove is one of the best drummers in the world, period. From being around so much hip-hop, I knew exactly what to do on that track. That's why I came up with the lyrics 'Never do what they do.' My thought process was to just do something different that would be a timeless song for a timeless group like the Roots."


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Colombiaa**s President Juan Manuel Santos called on Congress Wednesday to
approve a draft legislation on transitional justice in order to prevent
the return of 25,000 demobilized ex-rebels to illegal armed
groups, newspaper El Espectador reported.
According to Santos, the demobilized fighters could be recruited back into
illegal armed groups if the process of reintegration does not begin. The
draft legislation lays the legal groundwork for the transition.
a**The legislative act that was discussed yesterday in the House of
Representatives and that seeks to give a constitutional framework to the
transitional justice and aims to give legal ground to the completion of
the justice and peace process that began under President Uribe, is an
essential step if we want this process to be a success,a** Santos said.
a**The alternative to this draft legislation is that we could see more
than 25,00 people reinstated, recruited again by criminal groups and
guerrillas,a** he added.
The president declared that illegal armed groups are already beginning to
recruit demobilized fighters by telling them that the government is not
going to keep its promises.
Nearly 10,000 demobilized individuals have been reintegrated into society
and hold normal jobs, Santos said, but that progress will be jeopardized
if a**this project does not happen.a**
a**It is a project of great importance to national security,a** the
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Design history
17 April 2009
Revival! preview
the type department
Speed-dating, craft, obsessive photography and The DFC
Revival!: Eighth Annual Friends of St Bride Library Conference
St Bride Library, London, 23 and 24 April 2008
This conference, explain the organisers, explores how we reinvigorate contemporary design thinking through a reconsideration of what it is we think we do best. The past has a part to play in such a reconsideration. On offer at this event then are a series of talks and displays, which set out the stories of key practitioners and their re-engagement with what it is they do as designers, writers and makers by looking backward to find fresh creative directions, renewed enthusiasm and a way forward.
14 April 2009
Drawn to be wilder
rian hughes
Rian Hughes explores magazine hand-lettering in the latest issue of Eye
Custom type was not an occasional indulgent art in the pre-digital dark ages, it was the norm, says Rian Hughes in 'Drawn to be wild' (Eye no. 71 vol. 18).
8 April 2009
Cutting some Slack for the AR
simon esterson
A framework that's more than just a (projected) shadow of its former self
The Architectural Review, the 113-year-old monthly known simply as 'the AR' by its visually aware audience, has had a tough time of it over the past few years, writes Simon Esterson. Changes in ownership and a loss of design direction left it looking like an also-ran in a field it once dominated. I've been a keen follower of the AR since its Manplan issues (see Eye no. 54 vol. 14) sparked my interest in both architecture and magazine design in the school art room nearly 40 years ago, so it is very encouraging to see the redesigned April issue emerge phoenix-like from the inferno that is contemporary magazine publishing.
4 April 2009
Q&A with Stefanie Schwarz
'OpenType makes typographic subtleties easier to apply now'
Online exclusive. For other interviews on the theme of 'Who needs design history?' see Eye 68 on the Eye site.
29 March 2009
Jan van Toorn at the Mermaid
simon esterson
'Collecting images is not enough. How democratic is it?'
In a very polite, and very Dutch way, writes Simon Esterson, Jan van Toorn used the latest D&AD lecture to remind the audience at London's Mermaid Theatre about graphic design's social possibilities. He told us we should break out of our design stereotypes because, 'it's boring to produce neat things'.
13 March 2009
The Peter Saville principle
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'Music covers are not graphic design, they communicate nothing'
Peter Saville didn't keep the audience waiting long last night, writes Sara Martin, only fifteen minutes, but the crowd wanting to see him at the D&AD talk struggled to fit into the large auditorium; a screen was set up outside for people who couldn't find a seat.
5 March 2009
Museum and magazine
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New exhibitions at the Graphic Design Museum in Breda, Holland
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23 February 2009
Collection by Matt Willey
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Scrapper vs. Slugger. Boxing posters: tough type; bare facts; no fuss
I found these old boxing posters recently and I think they are wonderful, writes Matt Willey. The typefaces and the way they are arranged appeal to me. The arrangement of the type is a result, I presume, of a simple need to get all this information on the poster – nothing more fancy than that.
22 January 2009
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Black Panther: Emory Douglas and the Art of Revolution
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Phil's top type hits
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serious dislocation in market today. oil down hard
The former leader in the field becomes irrelevant by failing to adapt
3 million trade ins kill Rimm
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BBRY needs to merge quickly to leverage its intellectual base. It could be Intel, Google, Qcom or any of a dozen others....Just merge and save BBRY from going down drain
the unstable price moves at ANV indicative of larger crisis
rarely do you see a failure of management as bad as cliff. completely clueless
In its first day in the open market, Petroleo Brasiliero SA (Petrobras) managed to set a new record in a public offering, selling $67 billion in new common and preferred stock, the company reported. The company sold more than 4 billion common and preferred shares Thursday.Roughly $25 billion was sold to private investors; the Brazilian government acquired another $42.5 billion worth in exchange for giving Petrobras the right to develop rich new oil reserves. By comparison, the Agricultural Bank of China raised $22 billion in its IPO in July.
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JODHPUR : The questioning of Luni MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi and Leela Maderna, wife of sacked PHED minister Mahipal Maderna, continued for the second day on Saturday.
They were grilled for over six hours for the second time separately by the CBI at Circuit House. Though the CBI called Mahipal Maderna for the third time, he expressed his inability to appear on the grounds of health, which the CBI accepted.
According to the sources, the CBI has obtained adequate clues and is now in the process of consolidating and verifying them in order to get to the real culprit behind the suspicious missing of Bhanwari Devi.
Simultaneously, the CBI is also tightening its grip around the proclaimed absconder Sahi Ram Bishnoi. His close relatives were also interrogated on Saturday, who appeared with the president of Phalodi Sarpanch Sangh, Mahipal Bhadu, said to be close to Maderna. Sahi Ram belongs to Kelansar village of Phalodi. ASP of Phalodi, Kesar Singh, also appeared before the CBI on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the CBI will take a break from all the grilling on Sunday.
"Some officials will land in Jodhpur and will review the investigation done and the evidences collected so far," said CBI spokesperson Dharini Mishra.
Besides all this, the CBI is also finding about the room where the sleaze CD featuring Mahipal Maderna and Bhanwari Devi was created. Speculations say that it was made in Ajmer district to which Bhanwari belongs.
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My husband and I stayed at Ida's "sea shell" cottage for 6 nights and had the absolute best time. Everything about our stay was perfect - the cottage, the views, the beaches, the people of Black Point, our trips to surrounding cays…the list goes on. Ida is so wonderful to deal with and made sure all of our needs were taken care of, starting with picking us up at the airport and showing us around the cottage when we arrived. Anything we needed, she was right there. Her and her husband's hospitality made us feel very welcome and taken care of. The cottage had everything we needed for the week – kitchen supplies, air conditioning, wifi (although not the best connection), bedding, beach towels, and a golf cart to get around the island. It was immaculately clean when we arrived. But the best thing about the cottage by far is its location overlooking the beautiful Black Point bay with beach access (including lounge chairs) and perfect views of sunsets over the bay.
Things to do: happy hour at Scorpios (food/drink deals and lots of cruisers go) and lunch/dinner at Deshamon's and Lorraine's. The service and food (especially at Lorraine's and Deshamon's) was wonderful and reasonably priced (e.g. grilled grouper with peas and rice, veggies and salad for $22USD). We also bought loaves of coconut bread from both restaurants which is homemade and delicious. For groceries, there is a store called Adderly's which had a lot of staple items and wasn't too expensive.
Renting a boat from Ida was the highlight of the trip for us. The first time you rent, you go out with a guide and he took us to the beaches where you feed the pigs and iguanas (a must-see!), showed us all the good snorkeling spots and pointed out the best cays and spots to visit. I cannot even describe how beautiful the water and cays are – the colours of the water are surreal and you have your choice of deserted beaches to pull up to and enjoy on your own. If you rent a boat, I also recommend spending some time in Staniel Cay and eating at the yacht club there. The food was great and it's a beautifully-decorated spot right on the water.
Black Point also has its own beautiful beaches that you can get to using the golf cart. One of them (on the south end of the island) was one of the prettiest beaches we've ever seen. It was so hard coming home after a wonderful week on Black Point. I really hope to be back again next winter! Thank you Ida and Terrance for such a memorable week!
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I can't begin to describe how wonderful our trip was to Black Point. Lorraine and her family were so welcoming and truly made this trip one I will never forget. Our immediate regret was not reserving enough time here. We were able to add a couple more days and it was still hard to leave. The cottage was perfect for my friend and I and, like many others suggested, we brought frozen meats, cheeses, and alcohol as they were a bit hard to find on the island. If you need something though, Lorraine will either have it, or tell you where to find it. She also owns a bar/restaurant in town that stocks plenty beer and alcohol if you need :) The cottages are set on a hill between two beautiful beaches. We loved having a cart to explore the island and get from the cottage into town. The feeling you get here is almost unexplainable as I've never been anywhere with a 0% crime rate and a community that welcomes you like family. We loved learning about the culture in Black Point, how to clean and cook conch, attending church (led by Lorraine's mother, who also makes the best coconut bread) and getting a tour of the Cays from her brother. We fed iguanas, swam with pigs and sharks, and snorkeled into the magical Thunderball Grotto. I don't recommend brining dive gear here. We intended to dive out of Staniel Cay, which closed permanently after we booked our trip, and the pilot of Flamingo Air frowned on the excess weight we would've left had we known. We were in no way disappointed because the snorkeling was top notch if you figure out where to go. If your idea of vacation is touristy resorts, this place is not for you. It's perfect for friends and family that can make their own fun, love exploring, immersing themselves in culture, and want to see the most beautiful water and beaches around. Not only would I recommend vacationing here, but I would move here if I could :) I will be returning in the hopefully near future as I miss it and the people every day.


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October 1, 2005
"One Of My Employees Came To Me Whispering that there was a leak in one of the back rooms. 'Sure, sure, I will be there in a minute,' I said. In a very stressed-out whisper, the therapist implored, 'NO! NO! You don't understand. You need to come right now!' The toilet was clogged in a spa suite above the treatment room, and water was flowing from the antique light fixtures hanging in our Chocolate Room, where clients go to relax...
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September 29, 2005
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1 For the leader. Set in the style of Y'dutun. A psalm of David: My soul waits in silence for God alone; my salvation comes from him. | 1 My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. |
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AUSTIN, Texas — The unemployment rate in Texas has dropped slightly for the second straight month as the state continues to add jobs.
The Texas Workforce Commission said Friday that the jobless rate for March was 8.1 percent, down from 8.2 percent a month earlier. The February rate was down from 8.3 percent in January. The state added 37,200 nonfarm jobs in March, the sixth consecutive month of job growth.
The U.S. unemployment rate for March was 8.8 percent. Professional and business services led the state's job sectors with an increase of 10,800 jobs.
Midland maintained the state's lowest local jobless rate at 4.6 percent for March. Brownsville-Harlingen is the highest at 12.0 percent.