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WHEREAS, the economic well-being of South Carolina's citizens is a matter of paramount public interest; and
WHEREAS, The South Carolina Department of Commerce has developed a strategic plan with an economic development vision for the future development of the State; and
WHEREAS, to increase the wealth-generating capacity of South Carolina's economy, the strategic plan recommends formulating and implementing a South Carolina technology strategy for research and business development;
NOW, THEREFORE, by the virtue of the powers conferred upon me by the Constitution and the Statutes of the State of South Carolina, I hereby establish the South Carolina Technology Advisory Council, hereinafter called the "Council."
The Council shall serve to oversee the development of a Technology Strategy regarding the needs for technology in research and business development in South Carolina, and shall present this strategy to the Governor on or before December 31, 1997. Such strategy, at a minimum, shall address the present condition of technology development, and make recommendations that support the welfare and growth of South Carolina's business community, with a particular emphasis on resources that support the development and expansion of technology-based businesses.
The Council shall have one member from each of the following public entities:
Additionally, seven or more members shall be selected from among private sector businesses that are representative of South Carolina's technology-based industries. Members shall serve as individuals, representing broad technology and industry perspectives, not simply representing their specific organizations.
The Governor shall appoint the Council members. Dr. Larry E. Druffel, President and Director, South Carolina Research Authority, is appointed as chairperson. Members shall serve without compensation. By a majority vote of a quorum of its appointed members, the Council may create such committees as deemed appropriate to discharge its tasks. The chairperson shall establish meeting dates and locations. Committee chairs may call and conduct necessary committee meetings, in agreement with the chairperson. At the invitation of the chairperson, representatives from Federal research and development activities in key technologies, staff or members of the General Assembly, and technologists from the industry and educational institutions, may be invited to participate in strategy development discussions, but without voting privileges.
Staff support for the Council shall be provided through the South Carolina Department of Commerce. The chairperson may request assistance from any other agency of the State of South Carolina in presenting or evaluating findings and recommendations for the Council. I am further directing that the activities and recommendations of the Council be coordinated with the Information Resource Council of South Carolina, its Standing Committees on Science and Technology Research, Technology and Education, and any other existing or planned committees of the IRC as appropriate.
Each member from the private sector is encouraged to prepare and present a briefing about the condition of technology support, incentives, and any other matters that positively or negatively impact the industry he or she represents. These matters will be considered by the Department of Commerce when it prepares the Technology Strategy for Council review.
Members shall review the Technology Strategy and make recommendations for improvements or additions in the technology resources that support the growth of technology-based industries. Support staff shall record meetings; prepare and present appropriate documents, findings, and recommendations; and submit a draft Technology Strategy to each member of the Council by September 30, 1997. Members shall report any final responses to the draft Technology Strategy to the chairperson by October 31, 1997. The chairperson shall present the Technology Strategy to the Governor on or before December 31, 1997.
The Council shall serve to periodically review the Technology Strategy, monitor progress towards its objectives, reconsider its recommendations, review additional priorities that may amend it, and provide an annual progress report to the Governor and the Secretary of Commerce. Such endeavors shall take place at least once each year beginning January 1, 1998.
Together with support from the South Carolina Department of Commerce, the Council may make any inquiry, investigation, survey, feasibility study, or other study which it may deem necessary for undertaking the provisions of the Order.
The Council shall promulgate by-laws and procedures for the orderly conduct of its business and discharge of its responsibilities.
Secretary of State
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TECO Energy Declares Quarterly Dividend Business Wire TAMPA, Fla. -- May 1, 2013 At its meeting today, the board of directors of TECO Energy declared a dividend of 22 cents per share on the company's common stock. The dividend is payable May 28 to shareholders of record as of May 13. TECO Energy Inc. (NYSE: TE) is an energy-related holding company. Its principal subsidiary, Tampa Electric Company, is a regulated utility in Florida with both electric and gas divisions (Tampa Electric and Peoples Gas System). Its other major subsidiary, TECO Coal, owns and operates coal production facilities in Kentucky and Virginia. Contact: TECO Energy Inc. Media Contact: Cherie Jacobs, 813-228-4945 or Investor Relations: Mark Kane, 813- 228-1772
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Florida State alumnus Andrew Bachelor (left) in his new parody of Django Unchained called Django 2Chainz. / Photo courtesy of Jon Lesane
For the third time since June of last year, actor/director/producer/writer Andrew Bachelor has done something worthwhile of covering in the FSView. Last time we spoke to Mr. Bachelor, an FSU alumnus and ex-track team member, he was just about hitting his strike with King Bachelors Pad, his festival-featured web series that, to date, has parodied everything from The Hunger Games to Sherlock Holmes, on top of producing original material. Now, the King is back and hes unchainedDjango Unchained, I mean. Or should I say Django 2Chainz?
Just past 118,000 views since its premiere six days ago, the Quentin Tarantino/Tity Boi homage marks Bachelors fastest rising video yet. With Bachelor writing and directing, the 12-minute short film was in production for just two days. For reference, most films shoot about four pages a day. At the FSU College of Motion Picture Arts, six days are granted for a 12-minute screenplay. In other words, Bach moves fasta trait he accredits to his film school career where he attended, not as a filmmaker, but as an actor. A student at The Groundlings, a theater school in LA, Bachelor learned the craft of filmmaking through watching others and picked up tricks of the trade along the way.
Django 2Chainz looks fantastic (props to cinematographer Elias Talbot) and the performances from not only Bachelor, but also his cast is stellar. The film marks a true career high in this writers opinion.
But whats next for the comedian? Nine months ago, the actor told me King Bachelors Pad is the jump-startthe beginning to greatness. Well, I guess we can say greatness has been born.
Were just going to keep growing, said Bachelor. The man has achieved celebrity status, but he has yet to achieve infamy.
Im after Oprah endorsements, said Bachelor. People say that she has money. Future endeavors for the young comedian include a spoof of After Earth with SNL cast member and impressionist Jay Pharoah and a second season of his sure-to-be-bigger-than-ever King Bachelors Pad. Season one of his sketch series featured appearances from Cousin Skeeter star Robert Richard, Bree Olson, AlphaCat, Tamala Jones, Neil Brown, Jr. and Lyman Johnson. Guests for season two havent be confirmed, but if history is any indication, theyll be bigger than ever.


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Beyond the box score: Golden sombrero; Quality is job one; Leaning left
The Natural: The Tigers' first four hitters in the sixth had the components of the cycle in its natural order. Ryan Raburn singled, Miguel Cabrera doubled, Victor Martinez tripled and Delmon Young homered.
Quality is Job One: In nine postseason games, the Rangers have one quality start from their rotation. Since the Division Series was added in 1995, only five other teams have played at least five postseason games and had one or zero quality starts. Four of those five lost in the Division Series; none made the World Series.
A golden sombrero: Denton's Austin Jackson struck out in all four plate appearances and now has 18 strikeouts in 37 at-bats this postseason. Jackson has been behind in the count 0-2 in 19 at-bats in the playoffs.
Leaning to the left: Detroit catcher Alex Avila homered in the third to tie the score. It was the second homer Rangers lefty C.J. Wilson has allowed to a lefty in the postseason. Wilson allowed only two homers to lefties during the regular season.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Toy keys imported by Battat Inc. of Plattsburgh, N.Y., and sold at retailers nationwide and online sellers from April 2010 to May 2011 for B. FunKeys, and from January 2006 to December 2009 for Parents Magazine keys. About a million in the United States and 3,600 in Canada are being recalled.
The metal toy keys and the plastic key ring can break, posing a choking hazard. No injuries reported but CPSC and Battat have received 17 reports of keys breaking, and 14 reports of key rings breaking.
Contact Battat at 866-665-5524 or visit the firm's website at www.battatco.com on information on how to get a free replacement toy.
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Does anyone know of fabric stores in Pittsburgh, PA that sell home dec fabric? A friend wants to make drapes and I am not very familiar with the fabric stores there. Thanks.
HI Mary,
I haven't been there in years but the biggest home dec store in Pgh used to be Gene Sanes in the Strip District. Gene Sanes Upholstery
A review on google says they don't answer email, though. Perhaps a phone call would be more productive.
Don't miss the rest of the Strip District shopping if you go! Fun place--its the one thing I really miss about living in "the 'burgh."
It is almost the ONLY one that sells home dec besides JoAnn.
Calico Corners closed its doors about a year ago, as did Textile Studio.
You may wish to try http://www.decoratorsupplyinc.com/
and see if you have any luck with that.
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Ladies, Thank you for the information. I will tell my drapery making friend.
I think that now people rely on Online resources and you can also go for that. -- Edited on 4/29/12 5:44 AM --
Loom Exquisite Textiles in the strip district does as well.
They have a FB page :
June- 5.88 yards used
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There's a store in PA, although not Pittsburg, called Barn Fabric Center and they specialize in home dec with incredible prices. I've mail ordered from them before. barnfabriccenter.com
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Oaklawn will be having their annual holiday concert on Nov. 20 at Alberta Kimball Auditorium. Along with our concert the PTO will be sponsoring the 2012 Holiday Raffle Basket as well as a delicious bake sale. Raffle tickets and baked goods will be on sale night of the concert 5 p.m. until the 2/3 grade intermission. All proceeds will help fund Oaklawn's new playground.
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RIM shows how to strip Carrier IQ from BlackBerry
updated 05:15 pm EST, Thu December 15, 2011
RIM details process of removing Carrier IQ
Canadian BlackBerry smartphone maker RIM maintains it never gave carriers permission to install Carrier IQ software on its devices and has now detailed how users can get rid of it. T-Mobile installs the software on three BlackBerry handsets, including the Bold 9900, the Curve 9360 and the Torch 9810. Users need to download an app called IQ Agent, which will also detect and remove other third-party apps.
The app is useful for stopping and removing other apps such as Solitaire, which drain the device's resources. RIM's instructions make no mention of a specialized app, instead instructing users to simply delve into their devices' options menus and deleting third-party apps, though the process varies depending on which version of the OS the phone is running. [via eWeek]


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Fifty years after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, a recent Gallup poll showed that just under 61% of Americans still believe that there was more than one person involved in his killing. As much as Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK tried to prove a case for a massive conspiracy and cover up, there a likelihood that the farther we get away from the historical tragedy, the less we'll end up figuring out.
While none of them have anywhere near this type of public captivation, there are still plenty of famous conspiracy theories floating around the sports world. Here's our list of the five biggest ones still out there.
1) The NBA rigged the 1985 draft lottery with a "frozen envelope" to give the New York Knicks the top overall pick.
Did NBA commissioner David Stern orchestrate it so that the Knicks would be in the position to draft Patrick Ewing, thus rejuvenating basketball in the league's biggest market? Plenty of skeptics have suggested a frozen or bent envelope with the Knicks card inside it was inserted into the big plastic cylinder prior to the 1985 lottery draw. It's hard to see any evidence of malfeasance in the video, but that hasn't stopped the questions.
Stern has scoffed at the theory repeatedly over the years, most recently last summer on Jim Rome's nationally syndicated radio show.
2) The blood on Curt Schilling's famous sock in Game 2 of the 2004 World Series was faked.
The Red Sox ace, who was recovering from an ankle injury in the famous series against the Cardinals, was given even more kudos for his gutty performance thanks to the bloody evidence on his sock late in the game. Orioles broadcaster Gary Thorne reported in 2007 that Schilling's teammate Doug Mirabelli admitted it was either paint or ketchup, but Mirabelli quickly backtracked on that claim. Schilling vehemently denied the report, offering a $1 million charity wager if someone could prove the blood was fake.
Schilling's financial woes resulted in the sock being sold for $92,613 at auction in February, so it's possible that the new owner could put this theory to bed once and for all.
3) Michael Jordan's retirement from the NBA prior to the 1993-94 season was actually a gambling suspension.
After reports of some of Michael Jordan's gambling debts began to surface, speculation began that the Chicago Bulls star's abrupt retirement from the NBA in September 1993 was actually an undisclosed suspension from the league for betting. With Jordan the league's most marketable player, the theory went that it would benefit the league to keep it quiet, have Jordan go do something else for a year (hence, his minor league baseball experiment) and come back the following season.
Film director Ron Shelton, who made a documentary about Jordan's year in the minors as part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series, told the Chicago Tribune in 2010 that he found nothing to support that thesis.
"I probably, like most people in America, thought he left the NBA for a year because of gambling," Shelton told the paper. "After researching the project, I was utterly convinced that was nonsense. And probably like most people, I thought he was a catastrophically bad baseball player. And after researching it, I got a different view about that, as well."
"Everybody that I talked to said they spent hundreds of hours looking for smoking guns and there is not even a leak; it's just circumstantial. It's just a theory."
David Stern laughed off the premise with Bill Simmons in 2006, claiming the rumor was that Stern had met with Jordan at his home to issue the suspension.
"In my living room!" he adds, shaking his head. "My wife still wants to know where she was that day."
4) Sonny Liston threw the heavyweight title rematch against Muhammad Ali in 1965.
Liston was only hit by two punches in the one round bout against Ali, who beat him in six rounds a little over a year earlier. The knockout punch, a quick right jab, has often been called a "phantom punch" due to its quick delivery. Liston appears to start getting up off the canvas and flops back down, where he waits out referee Jersey Joe Walcott's count.
In the 2009 book "The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All Time," author Elliott Kalb writes that "one popular theory is that Liston owed a ton of money to organized crime figures, so he bet against himself and didn't want to risk landing a lucky punch."
Whle Liston's dealings with shady underworld figures has long been conjectured (and seen as a possible link to his mysterious death in 1970), the boxer never admitted taking a dive, although Kalb's book states that his widow believed the rematch was fixed.
A slow motion video of the "phantom punch" certainly shows Ali connecting with Liston, although it's hard to tell whether the impact of such a short right would have packed enough force to knock out the former heavyweight champ. We'll never know now.
5) Bobby Riggs threw the "Battle of the Sexes" to settle a mob debt.
For The Win's Chris Chase dove into this in August, after an ESPN feature presented a case that the senior men's player may have let Billie Jean King win their 1973 exhibition based on conversations a Florida golf pro heard at the time among reported members of several mafia families.
Chase lays down a six-point rebuttal to the theory in his post, with his most pressing skepticism coming from King herself, who tweeted the following statement after the ESPN story ran.
"This story is just ridiculous. I was on the court with Bobby and I know he was not tanking the match. I could see in his eyes and body language he wanted to win. People need to accept he had a bad day at the office - just as Margaret Court did when she played Bobby. It was 40 years ago and I won the match and I am 100% sure Bobby wanted to win as badly as I did. Those who bet against me lost money but the result is the same today as it was 40 years ago."
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Case Shiller Index Declines 19.1% in Q1 '09
by Barry Ritholtz - May 26th, 2009, 10:00am
Well, I asked for lower prices earlier, and that's what we got:
Home prices continued falling at record paces, according to the Case Shiller Home Price Index.
Annual (-19.1%), quarterly (-7.5%) and monthly (-2.2%) data continue to show prices reverting back towards levels not seen for years.
March 2009 Case Shiller Home Price Index
As of the most data, prices have returned to 2002 levels; Will pre-2000 levels be next?
S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index
Nationally, Home Prices Began 2009 with Record Declines
S&P, May 26, 2009
Category: Real Estate
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
60 Responses to "Case Shiller Index Declines 19.1% in Q1 '09"
leftback says:
Fast forward to early 1990s levels… insolvent banks… CRE bust… mo' bailouts… mo' printing…
franklin411 says:
How about a snapshot of the dramatic turn in consumer confidence? =)
I agree with your overall proposition that price declines in housing aren't necessarily a bad thing. I love the whole CNBC mantra that "the economy can't recover until housing rebounds." Oh, come on! Why would the thing that killed the economy be what saves it?
Last year, my friend was rooting for Hillary. She said that she opposed Obama because he didn't have a plan to restore housing prices to the good old days (her parents were losing their home). I said I was sorry for her parents, but how did she ever expect people like us, who are likely to get jobs making $40k/yr to start (education ain't the get rich quick scheme some make it out to be), ever supposed to get ahead if the starting price of a home in our area is $700k?
Cursive says:
The consumer confidence numbers prove that the green shoots propaganda has worked magic. Well, maybe just a higher level to short from….
Mr. C. Cheese says:
40 K to start and the houses in the da hood start at 700k………Sally, get the kids we's going back to the trailer… 700k ain't no place for us!
Pool Shark says:
Yeah Frankilin…
The value of consumers' homes will continue to fall 'till well into 2012, but at least they'll feel real confident about it. ;-)
The Curmudgeon says:
There is such a thing as inflation, even when prices are declining, sorta like the dog that didn't bark. It is happening right now with the housing market. Call it a second derivative inflation. It is when the pace of decrease slows due to massive infusions of cash. How massive? On the order of 80% of the cash for mortgages right now is appearing out of thin air, from the Fed's printing presses. It will be roughly $1.5 trillion dollars before they're through (for this go 'round…stay tuned for part second, third, fourth, etc.). And that doesn't include the roughly $8 trillion of guarantees the Fed is on the hook for with Fannie, Freddie, Ginnie, the FHLB's, etc., ad nauseum.
This will, like before, end badly, which is itself a green shoot. When this fails again and dumbasses that tried to game it get burned again, perhaps then there will be a realistic re-pricing of housing such that fine folks like F411 can buy houses for their use as homes, and not as piggy-banks funded by the sweat of quasi-slave Chinese labor. But we've a ways to go before we get there.
Cursive says:
If you have returned to Minneapolis, please proceed to the edge of your driveway and camp there. Do not re-enter your home until this market co-operates. Thanks in advance.
VennData says:
I'd like to see actual housing prices displayed with the bid / ask format… and the yield, like they do in the paper with stocks, bonds funds etc.
Yeah, yeah I know the yield's negative, but that's why I want it. So people see how unbelievable, freaking stupid they were to buy houses.
Andy T says:
The history of parabolic moves, like the one from early 1990s to mid-2000s, is for the market to COMPLETELY retrace the move. So, a move back early 1990s levels should not be a surprise.
ben22 says:
Why isn't Philly in the Case Shiller? Does anyone know?
some_guy_in_a_cube says:
In chart 1, if 0% is truly the mean, then expect some serious mean reversion to kick in – look for a 2-3 year ride from these levels back to 0%.
This jibes with chart 2, whose mean reversion still has along way to go.
In housing, the bottom is in only if you are a real-tor, homebuilder or wall street shill.
olephart says:
ben22 Says:
Why isn't Philly in the Case Shiller? Does anyone know?
Because W. C. Fields made out the list.
"I was in Philadelphia once, it was closed."
Mannwich says:
@Cursive: On the plane at Logan now heading home after a superb trip. Should I get off and stay a bit longer until reality hits the markets again? Could be a while though.
Pool Shark says:
"The history of parabolic moves, like the one from early 1990s to mid-2000s, is for the market to COMPLETELY retrace the move. So, a move back early 1990s levels should not be a surprise."
Not only unsurprising, but INEVITABLE:
Jim C says:
Pool Shark, since that graph is inflation adjusted, there are two ways (or a combination of the two) for the reversion to occur. One is further deflation of home prices. The other is inflation of everything else. I'd bet on the latter, but a combination is also a possibility.
Cursive says:
Glad your visit was good. Have a safe trip!
Pool Shark says:
I agree.
But, like many on this site, I see massive inflation in our future… just not our near future.
I think we'll pretty well form the right side of that bell curve in home prices before the serious inflation hits.
I don't know, but Philly hasn't been hit as hard as other places(at least foreclosure wise). That doesn't mean that housing here is any more affordable. Because it isn't. I'd like to know how people younger than 40 are able to afford to buy a house/condo here. I know I can't.
bitplayer says:
More towns need to follow the example of Palo Alto (pop. 60,000). Simply issue $378 million in munis to rebuild your public schools, whether they need it or not. Voila! A floor appears under entry-level home prices in your community. In Palo Alto's case, that floor is $1000 per sq. ft. for the first 1000′ of living space. $1 million may sound like a lot to pay for a 1940 tract home, but if it gives your kids access to world-class aquatic facilities…
ben22 says:
Yeah I'm very familiar with philly. I live in DE but am in the city a few times a week.
One thing I have recently noticed in area's around Addison St. etc. in the last few months are tons For Rent signs all around there and into Rittenhouse Sq. I think a lot of people are holding on for dear life right now.
I had a client that lived in a very nice condo on mkt st. that just had an appraisal done that came back very close to what they bought it for in 2006 which I was really surprised by. Not sure what to make of any of that.
I'm under 30 and bought a home 4 years ago in DE, that said, philly and DE are apples and oranges when it comes to costs of homes and cost of living and I bought a cheap townhouse.
cvienne says:
Tell me the logic of keeping houses artificially inflated when all it does in turn is keep PROPERTY TAXES inflated…
I don't care how much $$ they can print to keep interest rates low…In this day and age, you have to be able to put down 20-25%…Then, pay the HIGH TAX RATE off a HIGH MORTGAGE PAYMENT…
I guess all the public companies out there are going to get all caught up in the groundswell of emotion and give all their employees PAY RAISES so they can cope with all the houses they want to move into…
What does THAT say for profits?
Mike in Nola says:
Re: Philly
Could be as simple as a lack of price info. That's why Houston ain't on it and it's maybe the 4th biggest town in the US. Here, it's so people can lie to the assessors. It also helps realtors keep up the talk of how Houston is not affected by the slump.
Mike in Nola says:
BTW, anyone looking at AAPL as a short in a couple of weeks?
Big jump todayon upgrade by someone and there's rumors of a new iPhone to be announced at the developer's conference in two weeks. I suspect they'll even wheel in Jobs to work the old magic if he doesn't look too bad.
Of course, the problem is finding people with jobs and house to buy them. A couple of Russian companies are facing huge payments to Apple for not meeting quotas.
drollere says:
the national housing market is bottoming, and prices will have firmed up nationally by this summer. they are already rising in several key markets, such as phoenix.
whatever hysteria remains around the true value of mortgage based "toxic assets" will no longer be the hysteria that there is no market to price them but the hysteria of all banks forced by bad management to sell them.
yes, many mortgages are still due to reset and many homeowners are losing homes after losing their jobs. but there is no longer the buyer fear that homes will continue to depreciate.
permabears continue to snort that humanity has not suffered enough and theory is not proving true enough and … and hell is gaping under our feet. meanwhile, the eternal cycle of bubble formation turns on. how about that crude oil!
ladies and gentlemen, this is last call for the housing bubble! last call!
franklin411 says:
Not every town has a world class university to keep a floor under the local economy and serve as an engine of innovation. But every town should!
The Curmudgeon says:
"prices will have firmed up nationally by this summer"
Of course they will, or have already. It'd be hard to create $1.5 trillion dollars for the express purpose of artificially inflating housing prices and completely fail. I mean, how hard is it to print money?
Or more pointedly, how hard is it to enter integers followed by zeros on the balance sheet of a government agency that thinks it has free reign to create as much money as it wants, and then to digitally transfer the money thus created to another governmental agency?
JDinCT says:
Anybody following the macro shares ETF on MEtro realestate prices?
According to the article an imbalance on the LONG side is preventing the IPO from coming out.
I-Man says:
@ Curmudge:
"Or more pointedly, how hard is it to enter integers followed by zeros on the balance sheet of a government agency that thinks it has free reign to create as much money as it wants, and then to digitally transfer the money thus created to another governmental agency?"
Mike in Nola says:
I think you are giving that statement about firming up based on money-printing too much credence. While the bottom end is getting there, the upper end is just starting to get hit with a combo of few move-up buyers, no financing on the high end, and a wave of resets and recast on jumbo and alt-a.
Just because you have some vulture buying frenzies in places like Phoenix doesn't mean it's the bottom. The new bubble is rental property, but rents are falling as job losses continue. Many of the vultures may become carrion themselves if they are leveraged and the rent doesn't cover the note.
usphoenix says:
@drollere: Are you a realtor?
The Curmudgeon says:
@Mike in Nola:
"Many of the vultures may become carrion themselves if they are leveraged and the rent doesn't cover the note."
That would be a "green shoot".
cvienne says:
Franklin – I have a question for you…
Can you identify the class of people who serve the lattes to, mow the lawns for, blow the leaves for, babysit the kids of, and otherwise clean up the mess after all the highly educated people who live in your idyllic university town of higher wisdom?
Put a "face" on that if you would be so kind to indulge us…
cvienne says:
I'm 'serious' about that last question…
It would be helpful to initiate a philosophical debate on the subject…
Pool Shark says:
You must have been one of those 'consumers' they polled in arriving at this morning's "confidence" numbers.
For housing prices to bottom this summer, the thick black line in that first chart above would have to go completely vertical.
Not going to happen.
Bottom = 2012 (if we're lucky)
Renting in Mass says:
droller says "but there is no longer the buyer fear that homes will continue to depreciate."
What are you talking about? Why on earth wouldn't they fear that homes will continue to depreciate?
Onlooker from Troy says:
And if they don't fear it, they should. No doubt some will step in here and try to catch the knife. But many will regret it. The overwhelming evidence from non-biased (i.e. not the NAR) sources who have been on top of this from the start (e.g. CR, Dr. Housing Bubble, Shiller), says that we are 2-3 years from a bottom in housing, minimum.
Cramer is wrong. Of course he'll find some way to squirm out of his prediction, like saying he was just talking about the subprime, bottom of the market in the bubble states, like FL, CA. For all I know he's already doing that.
bitplayer says:
@ franklin411
But Stanford had the same, world-class reputation back when Palo Alto houses were affordable.
No, the public schools are the big draw. Sure, you *could* rent and send your kids to Paly, but everyone knows that kids of renters don't do as well in school.
Palo Alto has two public high schools. Each has an excellent reputation. One has 1900 students, the other has 1750. $300 million is going to be spent to refashion these two "campuses," one or both of which will soon boast the following new structures: media arts center, aquatic center, industrial arts building, additional classroom buildings, $12 million gym, $4 million building for "world language programs," performing arts center, student activities center, and theater.
Of course it's insane. There isn't a liberal arts college in the country that could afford to go on such a construction binge. But why quibble? $5000 (per citizen) is a small price to pay for uninterrupted home price appreciation. And it works!
The sooner every other municipality in America realizes this, the sooner we can get our glorious economy off the ropes. The children are our future!
cvienne says:
Franklin continues to "duck" me my friends in a square debate :-(
Let me just give you an anecdote on consumer confidence…
1. I own my house OUTRIGHT…(I paid cash for it just 6 months ago)
2. I have investments in other asset classes
3. I am a consumer (yet a very frugal one), I buy things here and there
4. From an economic standpoint, it would be VERY DIFFICULT for me to get hurt either way because…
A. I don't RELY on a job for income
B. My house is paid for
C. I have adequate liquid cash
- If they want to INFLATE housing prices to a new bubble (great: I'll just sell my house again like I did in '06 and cashed in)
- If they want to DEFLATE the economy then the house I just bought goes down in value but I don't care, I paid cash for it…meanwhile I'm "net short" equities, so I profit more there
- If the actions put my job in jeopardy…WHAT JOB? I grow food and will therefore always eat
So you should ask ME what my CONSUMER CONFIDENCE is…After all, I can give you an objective opinion because whether BO & BB want to inflate or deflate, it doesn't effect me one bit…
My consumer confidence level…VERY LOW (but it's mainly because I feel sorry for all the other poor bastards out there who are kidding themselves with "green shoots")…
Come on in…the water is fine!
Bruce N Tennessee says:
franklin411 Says:
May 26th, 2009 at 10:15 am
How about a snapshot of the dramatic turn in consumer confidence? =)
Great. However, it is based on feelings, not hard data…kinda like investing on hope…
5/26/09 2 am Germany:
capital investment down 8.6%
exports down 9.7%
just take a look…this is hard data…not a feeling.
And the bondholders rejected GM again…BK this week.
Franklin, it's not that we don't want a recovery…but you seem to be basing your thoughts on the most nebulous of feelings/ideas/ wishes….difficulties like CRE, credit card debt, continue falling of house prices, rising gas costs, and so on and so on….you have one engine the Obama stimulus…maybe you are right, but if you are only going to make 40/k a year as you state, you better be plenty sure before you jump in with both feet.
just my 2 cnts..
The Curmudgeon says:
"Of course it's insane. There isn't a liberal arts college in the country that could afford to go on such a construction binge. But why quibble? $5000 (per citizen) is a small price to pay for uninterrupted home price appreciation. And it works!
The sooner every other municipality in America realizes this, the sooner we can get our glorious economy off the ropes. The children are our future!"
And imagine, good ol' Abe Lincoln got it done by the light of a candle, with only a few books (remember those?) as a resource. My county just did a Palo Alto type school bond–a billion dollars to build or re-build schools. Beware Palo Alto. My county is also about to go broke, and it can't even use the school bond money to save itself. But a bunch of contractors that happened to also be political contributors made off well. At least until they all did the perp walk, along with the politicians.
hopeImwrong says:
@ Andy 10:47 "The history of parabolic moves…"
On an inflation adjusted basis (not even using shadow stats inflation numbers, just using the gov't's) We have retraced to about 1995 levels, which is where it seems the parabolic move started.
I kind of hope I'm right.
cvienne says:
@Bruce in Tn
What Franklin411 REALLY wants is one simple thing…STUPID SIMPLE THING but nonetheless "simple thing"…
He wants the economy to suddenly do a miraculous about face so that he can credit his idol OBAMA for being the engine of ushering in this new era…
Franklin is NOT ALONE…In fact he is just one of many 'sheep' with this mentality (and BHO is their shepherd leading them to the slaughterhouse)…
Franklin…let me let you in on something pal…take out advice…STEP OUT OF LINE…It's not too late to get yourself into the "shearing" line instead of the line that's going to turn you into a pork chop dinner…
Nobody here is really trying to bash Obama (at least I speak for myself)…The macro situation is far greater than HE or anyone else has power to control…Trust me that if McCain had been elected, we'd still be talking about the same things (maybe have a few less taxes to pay in the future – but basically the same problems)…
What most people in this forum would like is for your boy Obama to just take his hands off the wheel…When you're in a hole…STOP DIGGING…That is the sign of a truly intelligent person…
Don't worry Franklin…Nobody is going to "stone" your boy if things don't start getting better soon (well – maybe SOME will, but those people would be out of line)…Nobody is going to "criticize" you either when things don't turn out so good and you are the only one left standing and proudly proclaiming "I VOTED FOR HOPE & CHANGE"…
Let the glacier grind the rock down…It's time to be humble…It's time to be small…
Pat G. says:
Imagine where home prices would be without all the governmental intervention? Probably, properly priced. Regardless of their efforts, home prices will get there on their own sooner or later.
cvienne says:
@hopeI'm wrong
I'd argue that the PARABOLIC MOVE started with Reagan in the early 80′s with defecit spending…
Since then we've been on this fantasy carousel of trumped up economic fantasy…
hopeImwrong says:
Green shoots? What green shoots? I want greenhouse shoots!
I've been venting freon all day to get a warmer climate to lengthen the growing season, and cause my garden to grow faster. I also exercise a lot to produce more CO2. Please help, as CO2 and warm weather benefits crops (they grow faster).
Bruce N Tennessee says:
One last thing about hard data today:
5/26/09 5 am
for the Eurozone,last month industrial orders dropped .6%…but economists expected a 1% rise this month…what did they get? Uh, another .8% drop…orders are a leading indicator and not a feeling…Franky the Eurozone had another severe drop in orders…what does that "feel" like? I don't know, but it is a FACT…..
zyzy says:
well, since Bush pulled "go spend" banner and, apparently, it worked ( for a 3 years ). I don't see how this time this group weed smoking session won't.
It is my believe that for market to reverse (down) some terrible news(!) should arrive.
Don't forget "don't' bet against American economy" etc. Plus ( i believe) majority of ppl are optimists driven by greed. I think that's the major reason why i'm losing money :)
hopeImwrong says:
Second derivative? What second derivative. Just look at the integral of the unemployment numbers, not the second derivative (since no one seems to be able to find a job once they are unemployed).
Second derivative my butt. Just a way to call a negative number a positive number. What a joke.
R. Timm says:
These are nominal numbers. Using real numbers it is apparant that prices are currently near historic norms for Case Schiller. Price/Rent and Price/Income are back to historic norms. The question is will prices overshoot to the downside?
I expect high single digit inflation in 2011 and beyond based on monetary expansion. This will get real estate prices on an upward trajectory again in a hurry and we'll likely have negative real interest rates for a period of time.
cvienne says:
@R Timm
Great…another bubble…can't wait…
Andy T says:
I'm not a big believer in "inflation adjusted" (insert asset here). Asset prices going up IS the measure of inflation, and vice versa. Not to go off on a slight rant here…..
But, there is NO SUCH THING as inflation adjusted Gold prices….or, inflation adjusted oil prices…or, inflation adjusted house prices. The rapid rise of all of this "stuff" was the inflation….
And, on top of that, I suredly wouldn't rest any investment thesis on the back of government manipulated number like "inflation."
Though, I get you're point…prices have come down pretty hard. I would suggest, however, doing a little research into "real estate" cycles. There are some studies that have shown real estate moves in 16-18 yr cycles, so if we saw the peak in 2007, then it could be 2015-2016 before the nadir in the real estate cycle.
danm says:
permabears continue to snort that humanity has not suffered enough and theory is not proving true enough and … and hell is gaping under our feet. meanwhile, the eternal cycle of bubble formation turns on. how about that crude oil!
Actually, oil price goes up with every decline in US$… Canadian dollar has gone from 79 cents to 89 cents in the last few weeks.
US is losing buying power.
hopeImwrong says:
Andy, I agree with that. I was off topic (thinking of the S&P). I should have read the thread more carefully. If the s&p is to retrace the bubble, where would it end up?
bitplayer says:
@ Curmudgeon
I suspect the realtors are a driving force also. Five of the bigger RE agencies employ 900 realtors in their Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Los Altos offices. That's one "real estate professional" for every 130 residents. Seems a tad high?
"It's like Lenin said, you look for the person who would benefit, and, uh…"
arbitrader says:
Andy T,
Your statement about the real estate cycle assumes that the time from top to bottom equals the time from bottom to top. In most cycles this is not true for a couple reasons. First long term prices always march higher (unless the society colapses) so the up swing has a larger price move than the down swing. Don't believe that. Go look up the prices for any asset class, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 100 years ago, They will get drastically smaller the farther back you go. Second As you can see on most asset charts, prices typically grind higher somewhat slowly, then at the end there is a spike to a blow off and then a crash. The grinding is the majority of the cycle, the spike and the crash can be quite short in relation to the rest of the cycle. Then you can may sit and base for a while and eventually start the grind higher again. But that doesn't mean that the bottom occurs 1/2 way between tops. Usually the bottoms occur not too far past the tops. Could be a few years but likely not 1/2 of the cycle.
cvienne says:
That is a good description of CYCLES PAST…
However, I'd offer the caveat that THIS PRESENT CYCLE was the result of massive leverage 9which started all the way back in the early Reagan years)…
Therefore, I'd start back in 1982 as a "familiarity" base for any new trend which may emerge…
Clearly we are not there yet…I don't imagine we hit bottom until late 2011…
Mark E Hoffer says:
you fixin' to be milking Cape Buffalo, anytime soon? (:
Swampfox says:
You assume:
1) All of the good work done by a local university stays local.
2) All of the good graduates produced / educated by the local university stay local.
In many towns, neither 1 or 2 are true.
Finally, you, like many in the university world seem unaware that the university system is about to be ripped apart in coming years as web-based learning take over.
Andy T says:
I understand all that. To add on…my research suggests that time cycles are better for determining "bottoms" rather than tops. i.e. if there's an 8 or 9 yr cycle in a commodity (very common), then the cycle is better at calling "buying opportunities" when they're due, as opposed to suggesting that every 8 or 9 yrs you can nail a top in the cycle. That doesn't work so well, so that supports what your stating for sure.
I would also agree with you that the first move will be the biggest move on a chart and now we could see just years and years of a slow crawl lower and a flat line. We've probably see the brunt of the price move lower in absolute prices, though the next 20-30% down from these will levels will not feel so great either. I'm suggesting it could be a few years before we ever seen a real trend change higher in real estate prices.
cvienne says:
@Andy T
I agree with your "cyclicality" thoughts (especially with regards to average term, 8-9 years).
Probabaly the reason the "bottom's" are more consistent than the "tops" is that by the time we reach a bottom, every artifical POLICY measure has already been thrown at a problem, found to be useless, and finally abandoned…
Instead, at the top, the measures to 'keep the party rolling', are met with enthusiam and suck a lot of people into acting inunusual ways which make the actual point in time of the top harder to determine…
With regards to the S&P (because one can see it on a chart more clearly than housing prices, and because of BID/ASK prices and daily high/low aggragates)…I "still" believe that the TOP to this market was the few days before February 27, 2007 (not the "artificial" rallies in July and later that year which were fueled by very aggressive Fed intervention in the midst of the bank problem bubbling to acknowledgement in the mainstream, coupled with the proximity to ALL TIME highs…
I don't think the S&P would have behaved that way otherwise…


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Paychex delivered modest fourth quarter 2012 results, with
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|Increased Incidence of Coronary Artery Origin Anomalies Associated With Isolated Patent Ductus Arteriosus.
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|Coronary artery anomalies may increase the risk of sudden death. Despite awareness of this association with certain congenital heart anomalies such as tetralogy of Fallot and transposition of the great arteries, it is thought to be an infrequent finding in cases of isolated patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). The authors report their experience with coronary anomalies in PDA patients. This study aimed to estimate the incidence of coronary artery anomalies in patients with PDA. The study reviewed 206 angiograms of PDA patients obtained between 1999 and 2011 to determine the origin of the coronary arteries. In 102 angiograms (49.5 %), the origin of the coronary arteries could be adequately visualized. An anomalous origin of coronary arteries was detected in 11 of the 102 patients (10.8 %). Seven of these patients had a single common coronary artery origin (6.8 %). One patient had an aberrant origin of the left coronary artery from the noncoronary sinus, and three patients had an aberrant origin of the right coronary artery: two from the left coronary sinus and one from the noncoronary sinus. These findings suggest that the incidence of coronary artery anomalies in association with an isolated PDA may be considerably higher than expected and previously reported. In view of the increased risk for sudden death with coronary anomalies, a reasonable approach is to determine the coronary artery origin and pathway after the diagnosis of an isolated PDA.
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Michele Bullock is the Assistant Governor (Currency) at the Reserve Bank of Australia, a position she has held since December 2010. In that role, she is responsible for the banknote issue function, including the distribution, quality and security of Australian banknotes, and the conduct of related research and analysis. Michele is also Chair of Note Printing Australia Limited.
Michele has held a number of senior management positions in the Reserve Bank. Prior to her current position she was Adviser, Currency Group and, before that, she was Head of Payments Policy Department.
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Terracotta statue of St Antonio, Spanish or Italian, early 16th century.
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The Catholic Church dominated medieval Europe, and Christian teaching often implied that illness was the result of sin. Prayer therefore became an important part of healing. St Antonio of Florence was often invoked against fevers.
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Incumbent State Representative Jim Van Engelenhoven of Pella will face a challenger in the Republican primaries later this year. Marc Held, who is also from Pella, filed candidacy papers earlier this week, according records kept by the Secretary of State. Held also challenged Van Engelenhoven for the District 71 seat in the 2008 election. Another Pella resident, Pat Van Zante, will be running for the same seat on the Democratic ticket. Primary elections statewide will be held on June 8th of this year.
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The Invisible Man Up For a Remake?Goon
Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have announced that they want David Goyer to write and direct a "re-imagining" of HG Wells classic novel The Invisible Man. The film was set up as a sequel to the novel centering on a British nephew of the original Invisible Man. Once he discovers his uncle's formula for achieving invisibility, he is recruited by British intelligence agency MI5 during WWII.
This leaves me scratching my head just a little. It sounds like a sequel but Goyer goes on to say, "I've always been a fan of the original H.G. Wells book as well as the Universal film and felt the property was ripe for reimagining".
I guess if anyone can do something like this David Goyer is the man to do it. With so much work under his belt with the genre I'm more than sure that he has the chops to write and direct this project. We'll be keeping a close eye on this project as it progresses so keep it here.


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Black Friday is a day of numbers. Last year, 133.7 million shoppers worldwide spent nearly $52.5 trillion in store and online, according to the Statistic Brain Research Institute. Most of 2015's numbers have yet to come in, but there's one in …More...
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New York, NY – StellaService, an independent provider of customer service performance metrics for online retailers, today announced findings from The Omni-Returns Experience Report, a new study exploring the benefits and challenges of omni-channel offerings including buy online, return in-store (BORIS).
November 24, 2015
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The Multichannel Merchant editorial team has been talking a lot amongst itself about Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and the alleged demise – and rebirth – of both super shopping days.
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Why Smart Retailers Aren't Waiting To Hit 'SEND' On Holiday Promotions
What started as Cyber Monday – when shoppers returned to their desktops at work on Monday with items still on their holiday lists – quickly became Cyber Week, a week-long marathon of savings (and spending). Digital interactions – estimated to impact 64% of all …More...
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Ecommerce sales continue to grow, generating over $300 billion in the U.S. alone this year. Yet ecommerce still remains a small percent of overall retail sales at approx. 10%. So what can multichannel and ecommerce retailers do to increase their online …More...
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Traditionally, brick-and-mortar retail has functioned separately from the ecommerce channel – they were two distinct silos. However, in today's omnichannel world, with the myriad of ship-from-store, ship-to-store, and buy online/pick up in-store options, the old approach is simply no …More...
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In a big year for e-books, two behemoths went to court while new services and companies emerged. Apple faced allegations over e-book pricing, calling into question the prices of e-books in general. Amazon went to court over access to e-books but saw its case tossed. New services from Amazon and streaming e-book companies emerged in […] more »
1. Startups pitching a "Netflix for e-books" might have a tough sell (Sarah Perez / TechCrunch) 2. Ninety-eight British publishers folded last year due to e-books, discounts (Carolyn Kellogg / LA Times) 3. How to understand self-publishing acronyms (Alex Palmer / Publishers Weekly) 4. Amazon Source offers retailers 10% cut of future e-books bought on […] more »
1. As e-books rise, smaller book stores are still growing (Marketplace) 2. Tech-savvy parents still prefer print books to e-books for kids, according to Pew (LA Times) 3. HarperCollins makes it easier for authors to give free, advance copies of their e-books (paidContent) 4. One-day deals making e-books brief best-sellers (NYT) 5. What the Toronto Star, Chicago Tribune and other media companies have learned […] more »
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The Great Circleville Pumpkin Show begins Tuesday in Circleville.
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Billed for years as "The Greatest Free Show on Earth," the 106th annual Circleville Pumpkin Show is set to fill the downtown streets once again with its traditional sounds, sights and smells of festival food, plenty of live music, a countless number of parades and, of course, 1,000-pound-plus pumpkins.
The festivities begin Tuesday and continue through Oct. 20.
The Circleville Pumpkin Show is the sixth-largest festival in the U.S., with an annual attendance of more than 300,000. Anyone traveling on U.S. 23 during the event can attest to its popularity, as it's not uncommon to see traffic ...


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Colorado has been facing a budget crisis for more than two years. Lawmakers have known all that time that higher education funding was going to go over a cliff once federal stimulus money dried up.
With the Legislature facing adjournment May 12, the Republican and Democratic Senate leaders last week introduced a slapdash overhaul of higher education funding that greatly reduces the state's role and pushes the burden of paying for higher education on to students and their families.
Frankly, that probably is an inevitable step. But jamming through a sweeping overhaul of a major portion of state government in three weeks is legislating at its worst. There's no real chance for public input or for better ideas to bubble to the surface in an informed debate.
First, it's necessary to understand the scope of the issue, particularly as it involves CSU. Colorado State University has seen its state funding cut from $130 million to $100 million during the past couple of years. Under the bill authored by Sens. Josh Penry and John Morse, the state's investment would likely shrink another $60 million - perhaps higher if community colleges are exempted from the cuts.
Cuts of that magnitude will require a mix of significant tuition increases and large-scale program reductions. Those sorts of changes should be well thought out. Rushing legislation assures that can't happen.
The broad components of the plan make some sense. Colleges and universities would get greater flexibility to set tuition rates, in exchange for meeting certain accountability goals. But the details get very sticky.
One component of the Penry-Morse plan would cost universities two years of tuition increases if they fail to meet certain goals. Such draconian punishment would make a bad situation even worse.
Another bill introduced last week would provide additional funding to higher education by creating more state-run gambling, in this case video keno. That's a remarkably bad idea on so many levels - it would create an unreliable funding stream that relies on taking money disproportionately from lower-income people.
It's clear higher education funding needs to be overhauled in Colorado, and it probably needs to be done in the next year. But it shouldn't be done in the next 17 days. If necessary, Gov. Bill Ritter should call a special session of the Legislature this summer to address this issue.
This subject is too important to be addressed during a few days with little opportunity for debate.


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The Hill-Burton Act, or the Hospital Survey and Construction Act, was a federal law passed in 1946, sponsored by Sen. Harold Burton (R-Ohio) and Sen. J. Lister Hill (D-Ala.) that gave grants and loans to hospitals to grow and modernize. In exchange for those grants, hospitals were required to provide services (a "reasonable volume" of care) to all people living in the area, regardless of race or creed, and to help patients who couldn't pay by providing free or reduced-cost care.
Hill-Burton hospitals must also participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs, post information about their community service obligations in English and Spanish, provide emergency services and maintain unbiased patient admissions policies.
Roughly 200 hospitals are still obligated to offer free or reduced-cost care to patients at or below federal poverty guidelines because of their participation in the Hill-Burton program, although the program stopped providing funds in 1997.
The bill was, in part, designed to address the shortages of beds in underserved areas, especially across the rural South. Hill's home state of Alabama, for example, created more hospital beds per capita between 1948 and 1970 than any other state besides Mississippi.
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Pet Tales by Barry B. Burtis D.V.M.
Cat Scratch Disease
Zoonoses are diseases that are transmitted from animals to people. Veterinarians are often asked about zoonotic diseases because of our training and experience in dealing with illness in animals. There are not many such diseases that we can get from our pets but it is important to have an accurate understanding of the risk. Cat scratch disease (CSD), as the name suggests, is carried by cats.
The disease is caused by the bacterium Bartonella henselae. It usually is associated with either being scratched or bitten by a cat. One study in the U.S. estimated that as many as 22,000 - 24,000 cases of the disease occur in that country each year. In people affected, CSD causes lymph nodes near the site injured to become swollen and painful. A fever, muscle aches and general malaise is usually reported. More than 90 per cent of cases are mild and symptoms disappear without treatment in a few weeks to a few months. However, more severe problems, requiring hospitalization, sometimes occur. People who are HIV-positive or are immunocompromised for other reasons can develop more serious or even life threatening forms of the disease. A physician should always be consulted when serious scratches or bites from any animal happen.
We really do not know how many cats are infected with B. henselae. Prevalence in cats varies with geographic regions in North America. In some areas as many as 50% or more of the healthy cat population may be infected. Most infected cats are younger than 2 years of age. Feral or stray cats are more likely to harbour the illness than pet cats. It is most likely that fleas are responsible for spreading the disease between cats. The number of infected cats is highest in geographic areas with warm humid climates that are well suited to support large flea populations. Southern states in the U.S. have a much higher incidence of infection in cats than those states near us, in Ontario.
When cats are infected with the causative organism it can live in their bodies a long time but most animals develop few, if any symptoms. Sometimes they will develop some enlarged lymph nodes and a low fever, but there seem to be no lasting ill effects. Antibodies to the bacteria can be found in an infected cat. Occasionally the organism can be cultured from the cat's blood but diagnosis of the problem can be quite difficult. Unfortunately, there is no known effective way to treat the infection in cats. A number of different antibiotics have been evaluated for the treatment of infected cats and have proven to be unreliable Therefore, treating cats is not a method of preventing CSD in humans. Also, although most cases of CSD in people can be traced to a cat scratch, it can occur from bites or other means of spread. As a result, declawing a cat does not absolutely prevent infections either.
The most effective way of preventing B. henselae infections in pet cats is to keep the cats free of flea infestation. We are fortunate that we now have very effective medications to help us do this. These medicines are safe to use in kittens from a very early age. This is important since, as mentioned, it is they who are most susceptible to this infection. To begin this treatment promptly, if it is needed, is another reason why it is a good idea to have a kitten examined by a veterinarian as soon as possible after acquiring it. In addition, it is important to try and use every means possible to reduce scratches and bites by discouraging aggressive behaviour by cats. Cat owners should seek advice from their veterinarian when such behaviour is noticed. We should always avoid teasing kittens and not encourage rough play with them. If a bite or scratch does occur, the bite should be washed immediately with soap and warm water and covered to keep it clean. Cats should not be allowed to lick a human's open wound or broken skin.
The pleasure and benefits of cat ownership, in my opinion, far outweigh the risks of acquiring CSD from a cat, provided these steps to minimize the risk are taken.


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It has to be a minimum of 10k.
Wait until he arrived and you will see a message at the top of the screen.After this is done load the city and the money will be there.
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In the beginning the student is endlessly restless, and so the teacher and the training hold the student in a small container. Having that container, which is part of the tradition of formal practice, allows us to stop seeking external solutions and begin turning the light around upon our own mind. Here, we can at last begin to settle down and taste true ease. As students become more stable, which simply means better able to access their own capacity, that container becomes larger and the teacher can begin demanding that the students actually do what they're capable of doing—to not seek truth in any pattern. Daido Roshi says, "Why must yin and yang be placed in an arrangement? If you do, you will never have today." Let go of any fixed pattern.
For many years, I went to my teacher in dokusan, asking my questions and receiving his teachings and guidance. I remember once going to him with something that was deeply troubling me. I asked him about it and waited for his guidance. He just looked into my eyes for a long moment then rang the bell, ending the meeting. I left with what I'd entered with; at that moment I needed to be my own guide. In this the student discovers his or her own vast capacity.
So where is the love between the parent and the child—the love, that one true thing which has never been found? Caoshan says, "It cannot be split apart." Everyone has it, but no one has ever seen it. This is not the love of Valentine's Day. This is not something based on feelings and shared experiences. This is not a fabric that can disintegrate with use, or be forcefully split in two. It's a love that we're born as, not with. It doesn't begin with birth and it doesn't end with death. It certainly doesn't appear with enlightenment, nor can delusion taint it. That's why the teacher's vow to the student doesn't stop. The student can turn away from the teacher, burn his robe, or spit on the Buddha. But the teacher doesn't turn away from the student. Having encountered Buddha, one sees that there is no turning away.
While this love that cannot be split apart is not a matter of emotion or feelings, there is no barrier to emotion and feelings. The love that I have for my teacher includes everything we did together for all those years of my training and all that we are still doing together since his passing. It is a love that is a result of these years of training, and it is something which I cannot touch or measure; that is not about him or me. This is a love that cannot be split apart. The teacher's vow is to help the student discover that love within him or herself, and within every thing. This love is, When the wind blows, the grasses bend; when the rains come the river fills. Each thing moves in accord. Nothing is fixed, nothing is not present.
The only way somebody arrives at the real truth of this life is through true spiritual power. It is always here but we can't look with our ordinary eyes, or listen with ordinary ears. Discover for yourself this vast, nameless love. When it fills your body and mind, it naturally illuminates in all directions. Thus Bodhidharma taught that to be liberated from the self is the greatest giving
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Review: Sometimes I just have to admit my lack of knowledge when it comes to certain cultural aspects. Before this movie I had never even heard of Séraphine Louis or Séraphine de Senlis as she is more known as. But that didn't stop me from really liking it. Yolande Moreau was brilliant in the lead and was a real treat to watch. A truly enjoyable movie.
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Hello forum,
I got a call today to do a spring clean up on a yard for one townhouse. The turf area is roughly 900 square feet. In the backyard, 800 square feet of the entire turf is completely taken over by weeds. I mean literally, there wasn't one blade of grass visible.
So, I am asking for your suggestions on how to renovate this yard. I was thinking of cutting all the grass, then rake up all debris, then lay down fresh sod.
Do I need to till the ground before laying sod? I have installed a few pieces of sod before but it was a new installation.
Sorry if this is an elementary dumb question but I really need to know. Thanks for your help.
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Yes. Weed eat the weeds, rake it up & then till up and loosen the soil, rake out again, before planting new sod. I was giving an estimate today to a guy who wanted landscaping done. He'd had already put out (2) pallets of centipede on top of the old centipede grass lawn he had (he wanted to build up his yard higher). I hated to tell him he had screwed up the new sod by laying it over the old sod, no topsoil touching the "new".
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Parliamentary Secretary Dechert Concludes Visit to Windsor/Detroit Area After Investigating 'Windsor Hum' Disturbance
April 20, 2012 - Parliamentary Secretary Bob Dechert concluded a visit to Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, today to investigate the "Windsor Hum," a recurring vibration and noise that has been disturbing people in the Windsor area for more than a year. Parliamentary Secretary Dechert undertook the visit at the request of Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.
"Today, I had a chance to meet with Windsor mayor Eddie Francis and representatives of the Great Lakes Commission, the Council of Great Lakes Industries, the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments and the Regional Office of the International Joint Commission," said Parliamentary Secretary Dechert.
"The Government of Canada takes this issue seriously. I look forward to working with my colleagues, including MPs Jeff Watson (Essex), Brian Masse (Windsor West) and Joe Comartin (Windsor-Tecumseh), as well as the Province of Ontario, the City of Windsor, the U.S. federal government, the State of Michigan, the City of River Rouge and others on this important file."
"It is important that we find a solution that works for the people of Windsor. Our government is prepared to collaborate with stakeholders and other governments to isolate the source of the Windsor Hum so that a solution can be implemented in due course."
Since March 2011, many complaints have been received from Canadians disturbed by rumblings in the Windsor area, the so-called Windsor Hum. A federal study suggests that the Hum may originate from the U.S. side of the Detroit River, in the general area of Zug Island.
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