text:
Dog Brothers Public Forum
. Please
July 01, 2016, 06:40:30 AM
1 Hour
1 Day
1 Week
1 Month
Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search
Welcome to the Dog Brothers Public Forum.
Posts in
Topics by
Latest Member:
Dog Brothers Public Forum
Politics, Religion, Science, Culture and Humanities
Politics & Religion
The Decline, Fall, and Resurrection of America
« previous
next »
Topic: The Decline, Fall, and Resurrection of America (Read 23945 times)
Power User
Posts: 37084
WSJ: Malone: The Next American Boom
Reply #50 on:
July 06, 2012, 10:40:25 AM »
Michael Malone: The Sources of the Next American Boom
Nanotech, 3-D printing and other innovations point to a coming golden era, if we can unleash the animal spirits of the market
By MICHAEL S. MALONE
Three years after the recession was declared officially over, unemployment remains high and there's worry that a new recession is down the road. And yet waiting in the wings for when we get our economic policies in order are a mounting number of stunning discoveries, inventions and technological breakthroughs that could set off a burst of growth and wealth creation as big as any in living memory.
The fracking technology that is making available vast new sources of recoverable oil and natural gas in North America is one such breakthrough. But all across the commercial and industrial landscape, there are exciting developments:
Nanoculture: One of the truths of tech is that revolutions take longer than predicted, but they arrive sooner than we are prepared for them. That is the case with nanotechnology, the hot new science story of a decade ago.
Though it has largely disappeared from the front pages, nanotech is only now coming into its own. Breakthrough medicines; genetic research; new materials such as graphene (a lattice-sheet form of carbon used for everything from filters to computer chips); molecular electronics (extreme miniaturization, thus super-small sensors and other devices); and quantum computing (small, superfast supercomputers) have all been announced in recent months. Indeed, the range of emerging applications for nano materials is so wide-ranging and important that, together, they suggest an impending turning point in high tech as important as silicon and integrated circuitry were half a century ago.
Cloud Crowd: In the world of information technology, the big story these days is the shift of data management from largely in-house computing centers to rented, easily scalable computing and storage from anonymous servers located somewhere out in the Internet. Much of this shift, driven by leading providers such as Amazon, is already well under way, rapidly driving down costs and making information management much more affordable both for industry and, increasingly, consumers.
This in turn has kicked off a true revolution in what is being called "big data." Big data is the application of all of this new computing power to reach beyond the individual application of mass information to the mass application of individual datafor instance, by tracking a billion sensors in real time to monitor weather across a continent. It could mean capturing every step in the path of every shopper in a store over the course of a year, or monitoring every vital sign of a patient every second for the course of his illness.
Big data offers measuring precision in science, business, medicine and almost every other sector never before possible. It could ultimately have an impact as great as mass production did more than a century agocreating a new world of mass personalization of products and services. The big-data revolution is already happening, with hundreds of applications already in use, for instance, tracking millions of chickens from farms in Thailand to family tables around the world, or monitoring the location in real time of every emergency vehicle in a major city like Chicago. Over the next few years, it will spread across every industry and scientific discipline.
Printing Dreams: Three-dimensional printing is a manufacturing technology that creates specific objects from buildings to machine components, and even human organs, either by laying down layers of material or carving away from a block of existing material. It's been around for several years but will soon influence everyday life.
Using new materials such as molten polymers and metal powders, highly focused lasers and, increasingly, nanotech, 3-D printing is an incredibly powerful design and modeling tool. Because it offers the potential for the same economies at any volume, this technology, especially when it gets bolted to big data and nanotech, rewrites the very notion of economies of scale. It could transform manufacturing, eliminating the current cost advantage enjoyed by developing countries and bringing jobs back to the U.S.
You can already find hundreds of consumer products, from furniture to jewelry, created with 3-D printing. Less obvious are the thousands of gears, motors and other industrial components that are now custom-fabricated this way. Says computer scientist Christopher Barnatt, "[Imagine] a future in which the everyday 'atomization' of virtual objects into hard reality has turned the mass preproduction and stockholding of a wide range of goods and spare parts into no more than an historical legacy." Then, imagine that future with the 3-D printer in your home.
Handheld Diplomas: The discrepancy between the cost of university tuition and the return on that investment for most students grows every year. As students, increasingly priced out of traditional education, begin to abandon the college path, colleges and universities will have no choice but to pursue themwith ever-greater numbers of virtual courses (and eventually degrees)on laptops, smartphones and tablets. This shift is already beginning to transform higher education and bring in a host of new competitors. Its potential to raise educational achievements in K-12where rising costs and diminishing results are even more out of controlcould be even more revolutionary. And apart from formal schooling, why can't the Internet be harnessed to embed education into the daily life of people at any age, and wherever in the world they live?
Self-Health: While Washington, the national media and the general public focus on draconian responses to the rising costs of health care, for-profit businesses are busy inventing small, affordable solutions. For example, there are now more than 12,000 new health-care apps available from independent developers for the iPhone and iPad. Examples includes the iTriage, which lets users check their own symptoms and find a nearby health provider, and iBGStar, a blood tester for diabetics that connects to the iPhone and lets users sync and manage information from test readings.
Meanwhile, the first of scores of new home diagnostic and monitoring devicessmall, affordable, and increasingly connected to health professionals via the Webare now appearing on the scene. They promise greater drug regimen adherence (the current failure of which is a huge social cost); early identification of everything from a drug reaction to a heart attack; better maintenance of chronic diseases such as diabetes and hepatitis; and virtual doctor visits that make use of home monitoring devices and communications tools such as Skype.
It's all on the way. Together, these trends offer the potential for a golden era. Getting there won't be easy, as we are currently governed by leaders who want to manage our complex and dynamic economy from the top down, to tame entrepreneurs with regulation, to tax the productive and, ultimately, to pick the next generation of winners. That's never worked well and isn't working today. But a better world awaits us if we elect leaders who can imagine a better future and fight to unleash the animal spirits of the market that will get us there.
Mr. Malone is a tech journalist and the author of several books, most recenty "Charlie's Place" (History Publishing, 2012).
Power User
Posts: 37084
Unexamined Premises
Reply #51 on:
July 13, 2012, 10:01:20 AM »
Power User
Posts: 37084
WSJ: George Schultz
Reply #52 on:
July 15, 2012, 09:23:03 AM »
George Shultz: Memo to Romney Expand the Pie George Shultz, the former secretary of state and Treasury says America's current problems are large, and its power in the world is diminished. But the policies for revival are obvious with the right leadership
By ROBERT L. POLLOCK
Stanford, Calif.
George Shultz has one of the most preposterously impressive résumés in recent American history. World War II Marine (1942-45); distinguished academic economist; business executive; secretary of labor (1969-70); director of the Office of Management and Budget (1970-72); secretary of the Treasury (1972-74); chairman of Ronald Reagan's economic transition team; and the secretary of state (1982-89) who wound down the Cold War.
He's also been an active adviser to GOP leaders including George W. Bush in the years since. And, as I just learned, he's not a bad singer either.
When I called out of the blue on Wednesday morning, the 91-year-old éminence grise was in his office at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and willing to meet for an interview that afternoon.
The executive summary? On the economy: "We have some big problems in this country." He's very concerned about debt, and about monetary, tax and regulatory policy. On foreign policy: "We're weaker, much weaker" abroad than we were two decades ago.
But despite it all, Mr. Shultz is confident that if we get the policies right again, America can regain its footing: "When Ronald Reagan took office, inflation was in the teens, the prime rate was in the 20s, and the economy was going nowhere. We still had the remnants of wage and price controls, particularly in oil and gas. And Jimmy Carter said we were in 'malaise.' It was a bad time. I'm convinced the economy can be turned around because I watched Ronald Reagan do it."
"It took long-term thinking," Mr. Shultz emphasizes. "I'll give you an example. [Reagan] knew and we all advised him you can't have a decent economy with the kind of inflation we've got. . . . The political people would come in and say 'You've got to be careful, Mr. President. There's gonna be a recession [if the Federal Reserve tightens the money supply]. You're gonna lose seats in the midterm election.'
"And he basically said, 'If not us who? If not now when?' And he held a political umbrella over [Fed Chairman] Paul Volcker, and Paul did what needed to be done. And by late '82 early '83, inflation was under control, the tax changes that he made were kicking in, and the economy took off. But it took a politician with an ability to take a short-term hit in order to get the long-run results that we needed."
Is inflation a primary threat today? Not an immediate one, says Mr. Shultz, "but it's a building problem because of all this liquidity that's being stored up. . . . They [the Fed] think their contribution to doing something about [our economic troubles] is very easy money. Well, by this time money is very easy. It doesn't have to get any easier. . . . It takes other things to get the economy goingnot more money."
Mr. Shultz dwells at length on the national debt, and on the Fed's role in enabling it: "It's startling that in the last year, three-quarters of the debt that's been issued has been bought by the Fed and the balance has been bought by other countries, so U.S. citizens and institutions are not on net buying U.S. debt. . . . The Fed doesn't have an unlimited capacity because when it buys the debt what it's doing is monetizing the debt. Sooner or later that has got to get out into the economy. Can't be held forever. And when it does in that kind of volumeas Milton Friedman taught us, inflation is a monetary phenomenonit's gonna be hard to control."
As Mr. Shultz sees it, there is plenty of empirical evidence about which policies promote growth and which don't.
"I think the things that need to be done are sort of in the air, and you almost feel as if everybody knows what they are," he says. "It's quite apparent that we need to have another round of the 1986 tax act. That is, clean out the preferences and lower the rates. . . . It's also not a mystery that our corporate tax rate is way too high and there are preferences there that could be cleaned out."
For Mr. Shultz, the tax issue is not just about ratesthough he believes lower rates often produce more revenue than higher ones, and "it's the revenues you're looking for"but about predictability.
He asks me what sports I like. "Let's talk about football. . . . You want to know the rules and have an impartial referee, but you also want to make sure somebody isn't going to come along and change the rules in the middle of the game. . . . Now it's as though we have all these people who have money on the sidelines and we say 'Come on and play the game,' and they say 'Well what are the rules?' and we say 'We'll tell you later.' And what about the referee? Well, we're still struggling for who that's gonna be. . . . That's not an environment designed to get people to play."
Mr. Shultz cites the handling of the auto bankruptcies as an important deviation from rules-based economic policy. The question was "are we gonna have a political bankruptcy or a rule-of-law bankruptcy? Political bankruptcy was chosen. So the result is that the unions got paid off and the regular creditors didn't."
He also cites Washington's "habit of passing bills that are thousands of pages long and you know most legislators haven't even read what they're voting for."
That would be ObamaCare, of course. "I fear that the approach to controlling costs in the health-care business is moving more and more to a wage-and-price-control approach. And one thing you know from experience is when you control the price of something, you end up getting less of it. So if you control the price of health-care providers, you will have fewer of them and that's gonna wind up as a crisis. The most vivid expression of that . . . was Jimmy Carter's gas lines."
Experience. Examples. Evidence. Shultz themes.
As we turn to foreign policy, the national debt again looms large: "Now remember something. Alexander Hamilton, our first secretary of the Treasury, and a very good one, redeemed all of the Revolutionary War debt at par value, and he said the 'full faith and credit' of the United States must be inviolate, among other reasons because it will be necessary in a crisis to be able to borrow. And we saw ourselves through the Civil War because we were able to borrow. We saw ourselves able to defeat the Nazis and the Japanese because we were able to borrow. We've got ourselves now to the point where if we suddenly had to finance another very big event of some kind, it would be hard to do it. We are exhausting our borrowing capacity."
Mr. Shultz is not an alarmist about the rising power of China. He believes Chinese leaders understand their interest in having good relations with the United States. He is withering in his critique of those who would blame cheap Chinese labor or a cheap Chinese currency for U.S. economic problems:
"We are consuming more than we produce and we've done that a while and we're complaining about the fact that we have an imbalance of trade with China. But if you consume more than you produce, you have to import. It's just arithmetic. And if you spend more than you earn, you have to borrow. It's just arithmetic."
Mr. Shultz is more concerned about the Middle East, an area where he concedes even the Reagan administration struggled, "just like everybody." So what would he do about the threat of an Iranian bomb? Is he concerned we haven't seized the current opportunity to weaken Iran's ally in Damascus?
"[Syrian President Bashar al-Assad] and the Iranians have been a strategic adversary. Gadhafi was sort of a tactical adversary. . . . I think I would have said to the Turks, 'I see you are providing safe havens on your border and probably you could use some help. We're there with you.'"
He also thinks we can have a deterrent effect without major military strikes. He recalls an episode from the 1980s when the U.S. Navy became aware of Iranian efforts to mine the Persian Gulf: "We boarded the ship. Took off some mines for evidence. Took off the sailors, sank the ship. Took the sailors to Dubai, I believe, and said to the Iranians 'Come and get your sailors and cut it out.'"
What about Mitt Romney? Is he running on the right themes? Will he have a mandate if he wins?
"He made one speech that I thought was outstanding, addressing a long-term problem. And that was the speech about K-12 education, and he pointed out the degree to which the United States is falling back. . . . We know that economic growth in the long run is correlated to education achievement."
Could he recommend one book for Mr. Romney to read this summer? "This book that John Taylor"the Stanford economist and Mr. Shultz's colleague at Hoover"has just published, 'First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity.' You don't have to spend weeks reading it."
Mr. Shultz also mentions the memo his economic transition team wrote for President-elect Ronald Reagan in 1980, recently excerpted in The Wall Street Journal ("Advice for a New President," May 26): "If you just took that and put that into effect again, then we'd be in business."
I try hard to pull Mr. Shultz back toward despair. Aren't we an older, more poorly educated society than the one that climbed out of similar debt after World War II?
"Well, we gotta get after these things! Somehow people are locking into the idea of chronological age. There's another way of calculating age. That is what is the probability of your dying within the year. If you use that way of calculating, people who are 75 today on that basis are 65 as of some earlier time. . . . We need to gear our retirement system in such a way that people keep working longer."
He suggests ending Social Security taxes for people who have paid in for 40 years. The way to meet our demographic challenge is to keep people in the labor force longer, Mr. Shultz says, and not fall for European notions that there is some fixed amount of work to be divided up. "The trick is to keep expanding the pie."
We end on some wistful and optimistic notes. "There's no lack of creativity in the United States." Silicon Valley, he says, "is a giant Stanford spinoff." He waxes lyrical for a moment about Steve Jobs. "My wife tells a story," he says about a party with Jobs's wife. "[My wife] says well 'Where's Steve?'" "Steve is thinking. He's decided to take six months off and think" is the response. "He was a creative genius," adds Mr. Shultz with admiration.
Shultz conservatism is not dour, budget-balancing conservatism. Nor was Reagan's. It is a belief in the human spirit.
And, of course, in economic policies based on evidence. As the interview closes, I am treated to a songnot a note out of placethat was sung by the secretary on Milton Friedman's 90th birthday:
"A fact without a theory is like a ship without a sail. Is like a boat without a rudder. Is like a kite without a tail. A fact without a theory is as sad as sad can be. But if there's one thing worse in this universe, it's a theory . . . without a fact."
Mr. Pollock is the Journal's editorial features editor.
Power User
Posts: 37084
We ain't hit peak energy yet
Reply #53 on:
July 17, 2012, 02:50:40 PM »
IMHO the following considerably underestimates the drawbacks to shale oil, but its positive viewpoint is not without a goodly amount of merit.
Energy Revolution 2:
Walter Russell Mead
Forget peak oil; forget the Middle East. The energy revolution of the 21st century isnt about solar energy or wind power and the scramble for oil isnt going to drive global politics. The energy abundance that helped propel the United States to global leadership in the 19th and 2oth centuries is back; if the energy revolution now taking shape lives up to its full potential, we are headed into a new century in which the location of the worlds energy resources and the structure of the worlds energy trade support American affluence at home and power abroad.
By some estimates, the United States has more oil than Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran combined, and Canada may have even more than the United States. A GAO report released last May (pdf link can be found here) estimates that up to the equivalent of 3 trillion barrels of shale oil may lie in just one of the major potential US energy production sites. If half of this oil is recoverable, US reserves in this one deposit are roughly equal to the known reserves of the rest of the world combined.
Edward Luce, an FT writer usually more given to tracing Americas decline than to promoting its prospects, cites estimates that as early as 2020 the US may be producing more oil than Saudi Arabia.
So dramatic are Americas finds, analysts talk of the US turning into the worlds new Saudi Arabia by 2020, with up to 15m barrels a day of liquid energy production (against the desert kingdoms 11m b/d this year). Most of the credit goes to private sector innovators, who took their cue from the high oil prices in the last decade to devise ways of tapping previously uneconomic underground reserves of tight oil and shale gas. And some of it is down to plain luck. Far from reaching its final frontier, America has discovered new ones under the ground.
Additionally, our natural gas reserves are so large that the US is likely to become a major exporter, and US domestic supplies for hydrocarbon fuels of all types appear to be safe and secure for the foreseeable future. North America as a whole has the potential to be a major exporter of fossil fuels for decades and even generations to come.
Since the 1970s, pessimism about Americas energy future has been one of the cornerstones on which the decline theorists erected their castles of doom; we are now entering a time when energy abundance will be an argument for continued American dynamism.
The energy revolution isnt a magic wand that can make all Americas wishes come true, but it is a powerful wind in the sails of both Americas domestic economy and of its international goals. The United States isnt the only big winner of the energy revolution Canada, Israel and China among others will also make gains but the likely consequences of the energy revolution for Americas global agenda are so large, that the chief effect of the revolution is likely to be its role in shoring up the foundations of the American-led world order.
I will look at the global consequences for geopolitics and the environment in some upcoming posts, but first things come first and Id like to look at the domestic consequences of the boom before moving on to its impact on the world.
Domestically, the energy bonanza changes the American outlook far more dramatically than most people yet realize. This is a Big One, a game changer, and it will likely be a major factor in propelling the United States to the next (and still unknown) stage of development towards the next incarnation of the American Dream.
The energy revolution is first and foremost a revolution that affects jobs. We are in the very early stages, but since the financial crisis of 2008, fracking alone has created something like 600,000 new jobs in the United States, says the FT. Throw in more jobs in both extracting and refining the new energy wealth, and add the manufacturing and processing industries that will return to US shores to benefit from cheap, secure and abundant energy and feedstock, and it is clear that the energy revolution will be a jobs revolution.
These jobs pay well; for the first time in a generation we are looking at substantial growth of high-income jobs for skilled blue collar workers. Some of these jobs, especially with overtime, will pay in the six figures; most offer wages well above the national blue collar average.
The boom has the potential to change the debate over immigration. The best blue collar jobs in the new oil and gas patches will demand workers with good English language skills and some technical background good junior colleges and strong vocational high schools will prepare workers for these new jobs. Low skilled, non-English speaking workers will have a hard time competing for these jobs but will work instead in less well paid jobs servicing the energy sector and its workers. They will build houses for the oil workers to live in and staff the restaurants where they eat. As more blue collar native-born Americans see their living standards rise, it is likely that (legal) immigration will lose some of its political salience.
Towards A New Geography of Power?
Theres another advantage: these jobs will mostly be located away from the coasts. The hollowing out of Middle America has been one of the tragedies of the last generation. Looking at the depopulation of the northern Great Plains, planners began to speculate about returning large chunks of whole states to the wild: the Buffalo Commons idea that would have taken up to 20 million acres out of private hands. The buffalo will have to move over now for the oil rigs and the people who work them; North Dakota will not be reverting to the wild anytime soon.
But there are large oil and/or gas reserves in other downtrodden areas. Western New York State and much of Pennsylvania and Ohio appear to have commercial quantities of fossil fuel. The revival of the Rustbelt may be getting under way. And Dixie will not lose out: the US share of the Gulf of Mexico is now believed to have the potential to produce 2 to 3 million more barrels per day than the 1.2 million that it currently pumps.
Overall, the new energy geography points toward a revival of the Mississippi-Ohio-Missouri river system as the axis of American growth. Thats likely among other things to be good for Americas political climate; the Midwest has traditionally been something of a swing region less liberal than the coastal northeast and less aggressively conservative than Dixie. Middle Westerners have tended to be pragmatic optimists over time, and it would be interesting to see how a revival of this political tendency would work out in our politics today. In any case, we may be looking at a decline in the power of the northeast and (unless California embraces its inner tycoon and begins to exploit its own energy riches) the Pacific, while Dixie continues current rates of growth and the Middle West booms.
Energy frontiers tend to be individualistic places. Canada, where the oil boom is a few years ahead of the US, has shifted to the right as power and money flow from blue Ontario and Quebec to Alberta. Prosperous blue collar workers and aspiring oil tycoons are not generally the strongest supporters of expensive welfare states, and American greens are already feeling the political consequences of a newly energized hydrocarbon sector. They are also not very interested in subsidizing the fiscal problems of other states; should Californias woes worsen and the state come to Washington for more help, the energy rich states and their representatives are likely to take a hard, skeptical look at its requests.
Even so, the Middle Wests traditional moderation is going to soften the rough edges a bit; much of the oil is coming to places where people historically have valued community ties and concerned themselves about the well being of the less fortunate. This wont be the second coming of Ayn Rand.
Heartland Economics
There are significant economic benefits in having all this prosperity in the heartland. North Dakota and Wyoming are states where shipping costs from China and Japan are high but Chicago and St. Louis are much better placed to serve them. Put cheap and secure energy in the Middle West, and build large new cities and centers of economic demand in the neighborhood, and the energy revival in a few states will support general economic growth in many more.
The long term outlook for the dollar and even for the federal governments accounts will also improve. Even quite recently people assessing the long term health of the United States pointed toward inexorably rising energy imports as an important drain on the balance of trade and on the health of the dollar. But oil imports are going to decline, and exports especially of natural gas will help offset them. The federal government is also going to be collecting taxes on the new energy production and on all the incomes of the individuals and companies involved, directly or indirectly, in the new energy boom.
The United States will be a more attractive place for foreign investment. Building the infrastructure required to get the new energy industry up and running and to transport its products to the market offers some very profitable and secure investment opportunities. And with the US much less dependent on foreign oil (and with the foreign oil it does need coming largely from Canada), the US economy will be much less exposed to the risks associated with turmoil in the Middle East. That is the kind of thing investors look for: high growth in safe places.
Few places are going to look more secure in the 21st century than America between the Rockies and the Appalachians, between the Gulf of Mexico and the Canadian frontier. Some of the worlds largest energy reserves will be sited next to the worlds most fertile crop land. Geopolitically, few places on earth are as secure from war; politically few can match its record of stable governance; legally, few offer as much protection for property rights and few have as long a record of offering foreign investors the equal protection of the law.
Avoiding the Pitfalls
Every silver lining has a cloud, and the energy bonanza isnt all good. We will have to watch out, for example, that the hydrocarbon boost to the dollar doesnt price American manufacturing goods out of world markets. Here we will need to look at Europe, and see how some countries like Germany responded in a more disciplined way through the years when the euro was high to reduce costs and improve quality so that German goods remained internationally competitive.
We will also have to work to keep the political classes from distributing the oil wealth to the rent-seekers. We dont want to be either the Nigeria or the Russia of the new century, in which corrupt rent-seeking elites hijacked the political process and appropriated the lions share of the hydrocarbon wealth to themselves. Cheap, attractive subsidies for the masses, while the real wealth goes into the Swiss bank accounts of the well connected and the unscrupulous: that could very well happen here and there are plenty of people in leading positions in American life in both parties who stand willing and ready to sequester the loot.
But the first great wave of oil discoveries did not turn America into a corrupt petrostate when the oil discoveries of the late 19th and early 20th centuries made the US the worlds greatest producer of fossil fuels. One important reason that still holds true today is that the US economy was so diversified and so high tech (by the standards of the day) that the oil tsunami was only one part of a much larger story of innovation and development.
Innovation remains a big part of the American energy picture. The United States has very large reserves of these new fuels, but we are not alone on the planet in having this wealth. But America is getting to the energy revolution early because our oil companies and drillers were ahead of other people in developing the technologies that can bring the new resources on line. We dont just happen like the Saudis and others to be sitting on incredibly large pools of oil which the skills of other people discover and pump out of the ground. We havent exactly made our own luck, but weve made the discoveries that enabled us to take advantage of it.
That spirit of innovation and the culture that supports it are the true sources of American wealth. That is how we found oil in the first place and built our first energy economy; it is what enables us to benefit from these additional reserves and it is what will get us on to the next thing when the new energy sources begin to run dry.
Thankfully, the United States is not a Russia or a Nigeria. Our economy and our political system are strong enough and diverse enough to benefit from an energy boom without being overwhelmed by it. The energy boom will stimulate the development of new technologies and new products in the non-energy sectors and will likely to usher in an era of broad prosperity and social advance across many industries and regions rather than just in a few.
Nature or perhaps Natures God seems to love mocking pundits. Just when the entire punditocracy, it sometimes seemed, had bought into the American decline meme, Europe collapsed and huge energy reserves were discovered underneath the United States. The special providence that observers have from time to time discerned in Americas progress through history doesnt seem to be quite finished with us yet.
Getting the new oil and gas raises complicated technical and environmental issues, and it may take some time before the dust settles and we understand exactly what we are looking at here. And drilling is a notoriously uncertain business. The energy revolution may fall short of the full hopes it stirs up. Yet the rapid progress of extraction technology is making these unconventional reserves look more real and more gettable all the time. Rather than coping gracefully with the consequences of inevitable decline, Americas job in the 21st century looks like handling its new set of opportunities wisely and well.
Power User
Posts: 5626
Re: The Decline, Fall, and Resurrection of America
Reply #54 on:
July 17, 2012, 05:07:01 PM »
there is 14 pages of shale gas writings in the past Economist mag.
the contamination of ground water, earthquakes, use of water, issues seem overblown but that guy at Columbia is probably right that it is not unreasonable for the oil/gas industry to spend a reltively small amount to monitor and study the situation rather than go in full bore (pun intended) and then risk (albiet small) a very big problem when it becomes obvious.
OTOH, I wonder if he wonders they should pick HIM to advise such proposed monitoring with 'appropriate' enumeration.
Power User
Posts: 37084
Re: The Decline, Fall, and Resurrection of America
Reply #55 on:
July 17, 2012, 07:29:03 PM »
"that guy at Columbia is probably right that it is not unreasonable for the oil/gas industry to spend a reltively small amount to monitor and study the situation rather than go in full bore"
Agreed 100%!!!
Power User
Posts: 8024
Re: The Decline, Fall, and Resurrection of America
Reply #56 on:
July 17, 2012, 10:07:04 PM »
"it is not unreasonable for the oil/gas industry to spend a relatively small amount to monitor and study the situation rather than go in full bore"
Agreed 100%!!!
Absolutely. Note that many who are most skeptical of shale also don't want to allow use of light, sweet crude out of Alaska either. There isn't a plan for prosperity that doesn't include the energy to power it. If not oil or coal, then natural gas. If not any fossil fuel, then nuclear. But you must legalize and produce something or get used to the idea of becoming a third world economy.
Isn't it interesting that the war against energy production that drove prices up actually caused the shale oil and fracking revolutions.
Power User
Posts: 2168
Great Green Fleet
Reply #57 on:
July 18, 2012, 06:30:56 AM »
An interesting view of the greening of the military from Senator Inhofe.
Power User
Posts: 2168
Energy Revolution 2: A Post Post-American Post
Reply #58 on:
July 18, 2012, 06:48:15 AM »
Power User
Posts: 37084
We are FUCT
Reply #59 on:
August 02, 2012, 02:06:32 PM »
Power User
Posts: 37084
Re: The Decline, Fall, and Resurrection of America
Reply #60 on:
November 11, 2012, 11:02:24 PM »
THIS thread and the American Creed threads are where our attentions and postings should now be focused. The 2012 election thread should be winding down.
For example, the outstanding piece by Mark Steyn that GM posted on the 2012 thread belongs here, not there. Indeed, GM may I please ask you to post it here.
Power User
Posts: 2168
Confronting the Problem of American Decline
Reply #61 on:
November 12, 2012, 12:18:55 AM »
By a warrior scholar.
Power User
Posts: 37084
Re: The Decline, Fall, and Resurrection of America
Reply #62 on:
November 12, 2012, 07:58:04 AM »
I just took a look and see that this speaks inter alia to a theme I have raised on the Foreign Policy thread-- the return to a multi-polar world from the uni-polar moment. May I ask you to post it in the Foreign Policy thread?
Power User
Posts: 37084
Re: The Decline, Fall, and Resurrection of America
Reply #63 on:
November 12, 2012, 08:00:08 AM »
I just took a quick look and see that this speaks inter alia to a theme I have raised on the Foreign Policy thread-- the return to a multi-polar world from the uni-polar moment. May I ask you to post it in the Foreign Policy thread as well?
Power User
Posts: 13711
Re: We are FUCT
Reply #64 on:
November 12, 2012, 04:16:55 PM »
Quote from: Crafty_Dog on August 02, 2012, 02:06:32 PM
At least we just elected a skilled businessman and a budgetary guru as his VP , so we have a chance.
Power User
Posts: 13711
Re: We are FUCT
Reply #65 on:
November 13, 2012, 02:21:20 PM »
Quote from: Crafty_Dog on August 02, 2012, 02:06:32 PM
Food stamps: Once associated with the poor, now commonly used among college students
By Breanna Hogan
President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney were both criticized throughout the election season for focusing their campaigns almost exclusively on middle class voters. The needs of the poor were rarely debated at length or in detail. When the issue was discussed by the candidates, it was more to criticize each others positions than to explain how they would actually help the poor.
(For The Washington Post)
Obama criticized Romneys record of shutting down companies and putting people out of work. Romney blamed Obama for the record number of Americans now relying on food stamps.
Howard University sophomore Breanna Hogan takes on the food stamp issue, with a twist, in the article below. She reports on the increasing number of college students relying on food stamps. Subsequent student stories will tackle homelessness, poverty among women and children, and other social issues that were minimally addressed or ignored altogether by candidates Obama and Romney.
This campaign season, Barack Obama and Mitt Romneys heated debates over who can best fix the economy has pushed the issue of food stamps into the national discourse.
Nearly 47 million Americans rely on federal food assistance benefits, a 12-year high attributed to the weak U.S. economy and high rates of unemployment over the last five years. Lesser known is that college students are among the increasing numbers of people relying on food stamps. As tuition rates have risen and financial aid has fallen and parents who were once a source of financial support have lost jobs or homes and become ineligible for college loans for their children students have had to fend for themselves.
Some college students now work two and three part-time jobs to cover living expenses and some of their tuition. Theyre applying for more student loans and claiming financial independence on their tax forms to become eligible for financial aid that does not factor in parental contributions. Theyre cutting corners by renting required textbooks instead of buying them or simply making due without some textbooks. Theyre also bypassing expensive college meal plans and applying for food stamps, an option that once carried a social stigma on campus but no longer does now that food stamp usage is more commonplace at colleges around the country.
For instance, Virginia spent $447,000 in SNAP benefits for college students in January 2007 but by January of this year the total had risen to $2.9 million, according to the states Department of Social Services. The state spent $30 million in food assistance benefits to college students in 2011.
I never thought I would be on food stamps as a student, but with this economy I had no choice, said student Courtney Davis, a second year student at Howard University majoring in maternal health and childcare.
Although most people still use the term food stamps for the program that provides low-income families food payment assistance, the name was formally changed to SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Funds are now allocated electronically through an EBT, or Electronic Benefit Transfer, card instead of with paper vouchers that were used as cash.
Davis, 18, applied for SNAP benefits last July after loosing some financial aid and parental support. At one point she was bouncing from one friends couch to another, moving from dorm to dorm until finally securing university housing. She says, under the circumstances, survival would have been nearly impossible without SNAP.
Even with the money Im making from working 22 hours a week, I wouldnt be able to afford tuition, living expenses and food, she said.
Davis is not alone. At Howard University, where tuition increased by 13 percent this year, more and more students are openly discussing their use of the SNAP benefits.
I didnt realize so many students here were on food stamps, but its becoming a trend from what Ive noticed, said Darius Thomas, a junior who has been receiving $200 in benefits for over a year.
The U.S. Department of Agricultures Food and Nutrition Service, which administers SNAP, does not track the number of college students participating in the program It breakdowns the number of participants by age but some states do keep track and have seen an increase in the number of college students relying on food stamps.
Student use of SNAP is not limited to regional or urban areas; students are using EBT cards across the country.
I am receiving about $200 worth of food stamps per month, and I cant imagine living without them, said Sheena Vails, a sophomore at the University of Missouri who lives in an apartment with three other student SNAP participants.
During the second presidential debate Romney blamed President Obama for the weak economy that led to an additional 15 million people using food stamps since his term began. Republicans have dubbed Obama the food stamp president and Romney has campaigned on a platform that promises to cut federally funded programs such as SNAP.
But students seem less embarrassed about using food stamps now that many of their peers use them.
When I was growing up, being on food stamps was frowned upon as it meant that your family was poor, but now that so many people have been forced to take advantage of it, its become socially acceptable, said student British Fields, who also attends Howard, adding: Without them, I simply would not eat.
The increased food stamp use on college campuses has raised questions about whether students are abusing the program and applying less for need than as a means to save money.
Some states, concerned about student abuses, are cracking down by limiting eligibility requirements and strengthening the verification process. Last year, Michigans Department of Human Services kicked 30,000 students off the program and saved $75 million. Such efforts to crack down on potential fraud may end up hurting the students that are actually in need.
While I dont appreciate the program being abused by students who dont really need them, I dont think that cutting the program and placing restrictions on eligibility requirements are the answer, because that would eliminate many students who need the assistance, like me, Fields said.
Power User
Posts: 8024
Re: The Decline, Fall, and Resurrection of America
Reply #66 on:
November 13, 2012, 02:34:35 PM »
GM, Same college students now own our debt.
Power User
Posts: 13711
Re: The Decline, Fall, and Resurrection of America
Reply #67 on:
November 13, 2012, 02:37:39 PM »
Quote from: DougMacG on November 13, 2012, 02:34:35 PM
GM, Same college students now own our debt.
At least they'll have an EBT in hand when they graduate.
Power User
Posts: 37084
Czech newspaper on Obama and the American people
Reply #68 on:
November 17, 2012, 02:43:50 PM »
Occasionally people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way that can be quickly understood; this quote - from the Czech Republic was translated into English from an article in the Prague newspaper, Prager Zeitungon
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.
The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president."
Power User
Posts: 13711
Profound cultural rot
Reply #69 on:
September 26, 2015, 02:34:45 AM »
Power User
Posts: 37084
Another article by Fay Voshell
Reply #70 on:
September 27, 2015, 12:55:04 PM »
I happen to know Fay.
Power User
Posts: 13711
Surviving Obamacare
Reply #71 on:
October 21, 2015, 07:44:43 PM »
Power User
Posts: 13711
Making everything rape
Reply #72 on:
October 24, 2015, 11:37:49 AM »
Everything is now rape. Something to keep in mind before you send your son to school.
Power User
Posts: 8024
Re: Making everything rape
Reply #73 on:
October 24, 2015, 03:32:15 PM »
"Everything is now rape...". - except for real rape committed by radical islamists. Then it is just cultural differences.
Power User
Posts: 13711
The coming dark ages
Reply #74 on:
October 24, 2015, 04:28:54 PM »
Power User
Posts: 13711
Feminist family fun!
Reply #75 on:
October 25, 2015, 04:57:14 PM »
Power User
Posts: 13711
Yes, next question.
Reply #76 on:
October 27, 2015, 06:23:28 PM »
Power User
Posts: 5626
Re: The Decline, Fall, and Resurrection of America
Reply #77 on:
October 28, 2015, 07:25:27 AM »
GM thanks for the post.
VDH says what we already know, but a great read because he expresses it SO eloquently and much more effectively then I could have probably ever done.
That said it is the sad truth that hurts.
Power User
Posts: 13711
Reply #78 on:
October 28, 2015, 05:50:35 PM »
Power User
Posts: 5626
Re: The Decline, Fall, and Resurrection of America
Reply #79 on:
October 28, 2015, 06:16:49 PM »
Why not call the Justice Department, FBI, and look for the highest bidding attorney and also why is not the bottomless pocketed taxpayer on the hook for this?
Power User
Posts: 1007
Re: The Decline, Fall, and Resurrection of America
Reply #80 on:
October 28, 2015, 06:23:00 PM »
Not if the clowns in the Undercard Debate are any indication. I watched about 5 minutes and bailed. They should follow my lead and bail out of the election.
Power User
Posts: 13711
Glenn Reynolds: Forecast of distrust with a chance of revolution
Reply #81 on:
January 26, 2016, 11:19:33 AM »
When Americans have more faith in the military than the political class, democracy is in trouble.
Power User
Posts: 327
Re: Glenn Reynolds: Forecast of distrust with a chance of revolution
Reply #82 on:
January 26, 2016, 01:18:21 PM »
Quote from: G M on January 26, 2016, 11:19:33 AM
When Americans have more faith in the military than the political class, democracy is in trouble.
Exactly how I feel.
It's all a matter of perspective.
« previous
next »
Jump to:
Please select a destination:
DBMA Martial Arts Forum
=> Martial Arts Topics
Politics, Religion, Science, Culture and Humanities
=> Politics & Religion
=> Science, Culture, & Humanities
DBMA Espanol
=> Espanol Discussion
Powered by SMF 1.1.21
SMF © 2015, Simple Machines


text:
- How should the ETS® PPI Evaluation Report be used?
The information on the ETS PPI Evaluation Report should be considered along with a graduate applicant's undergraduate grades, test scores, recommendation letters and other information that is submitted as part of the graduate application. Each report contains information to assist graduate programs in interpreting the report. Learn more about Guidelines for Interpreting ETS PPI Evaluation Reports.
- How does the ETS PPI Evaluation Report relate to the letter of recommendation?
The ETS PPI Evaluation Report and the letter of recommendation have important but distinct roles to play in the graduate admissions process. Unlike a letter of recommendation, the ETS PPI Evaluation Report provides standardized and quantifiable information, making it possible to compare candidates within a given year and from year to year — as well as from institution to institution. The ratings on the ETS PPI Evaluation Report are based on evaluators' responses to a common set of structured questions. Moreover, the report incorporates ratings from a number of evaluators, rather than just one.
- How are applicants rated in the ETS PPI?
The evaluation consists of 24 questions (four for each of the six dimensions) plus an overall evaluation. Evaluators use a 5-point Likert scale to rate the applicant relative to other students from the same department or program who have gone on to graduate study. The scale points are "Below Average," "Average," "Above Average," "Outstanding (Top 5%)" and "Truly Exceptional (Top 1%)." Evaluators may also provide comments for each of the six dimensions and for the overall rating.
ETS converts the ratings to numerical equivalents and computes means for each evaluator for each dimension, as well as for all evaluators across each dimension and for the "overall evaluation" category. The ETS PPI Evaluation Report provides graphical representations of the data and includes any comments provided by the evaluators.
- How are the mean ratings calculated?
The mean rating for each evaluator for a particular dimension averages an evaluator's ratings for all of the statements within that dimension. The mean rating for each dimension averages all of the evaluators' mean ratings for that dimension. The mean rating for "Overall Evaluation" averages all of the evaluators' ratings for the overall evaluation.
- What evidence do you have that these attributes are the right ones?
ETS PPI reflects nearly a decade of research by ETS and university researchers on personality theory and measurement of personal attributes, as well as on feedback from hundreds of graduate and business school deans and faculty members. In addition, ETS is committed to ongoing validity research for ETS PPI that explores the relationship between these attributes and success in graduate and professional school.
- How does a graduate program know whether the evaluators are who they say they are?
As is the case with letters of recommendation, the possibility of evaluator misrepresentation exists with the ETS PPI. ETS is taking several steps to reduce this likelihood, however. For example, evaluators must e-sign a statement confirming their identity and acknowledging that they have been informed of the potential penalties for misrepresentation. In addition, the ETS PPI Evaluation Report includes contact information for each evaluator, allowing graduate schools to investigate if they have questions or concerns. However, ETS does not verify the identity of evaluators and does not make any assurances regarding evaluators' identities.
- As a faculty member, I already write letters of recommendation for my students. Why should I complete an ETS PPI evaluation?
ETS PPI is convenient and easy to use. An evaluator needs to complete only one evaluation for an applicant — regardless of how many applications the student makes. We estimate that it will take the average evaluator less than 15 minutes to complete an evaluation, which consists of 24 statements (four for each of the six dimensions) plus an overall evaluation. If they choose, evaluators may also provide additional comments. In other words, in less than 15 minutes, a faculty member can help students provide a more complete picture of their potential for success in graduate school.
- If an evaluator does not speak English, can he or she complete an ETS PPI evaluation for an applicant?
ETS has translated the ETS PPI statements into Mandarin Chinese and Spanish-language versions to assist evaluators who speak these languages in better understanding the statements on which they must rate the applicant. However, any text provided by the evaluator must be in English.
- How can I receive ETS PPI Evaluation Reports as part of my admissions process?
All institutions and programs that currently receive GRE® scores are automatically eligible to receive ETS PPI Evaluation Reports. Other programs and institutions can apply for a recipient code online.
- In what format are ETS PPI Evaluation Reports delivered?
- Institutions can receive the ETS PPI Evaluation Reports in paper format or electronically via Scorelink® Internet Delivery Service.
For more information about how ETS PPI can help your graduate program, contact ETS today.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Outrage grows over US Olympic team's apparel
Next video starts in : 7 Play
Outrage grows over US Olympic team's apparel
Raw: Somber Somme Battlefield Centenary Ceremony
2:36Now watching Up next
Outrage grows over US Olympic team's apparel
Athletes will be wearing clothing made in China by Ralph Lauren
1:57Now watching Up next
Raw: Somber Somme Battlefield Centenary Ceremony
UK Prime Minister David Cameron and royal family members stood side by side with France's president to celebrate their historic alliance at the centenary of the deadliest battle of World War I. (July 1)
0:20Now watching Up next
Boy, 8, Medevaced From Royal Caribbean Ship After Pool Accident
Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas Cruise ship was forced to turn around off the coast of New York Thursday after a child had an accident in a pool and required medical help, according to the cruise line.
0:56Now watching Up next
AP Top Stories July 1 A
Here's the latest for Friday, July 1: Tesla crash investigated; Teens rescued during Nevada flood; Wildfire threatens Oregon homes; International Space Station docking test.
1:00Now watching Up next
Raw: Workers Picket Trump Taj Mahal
Atlantic City, New Jersey's main casino workers union began picketing against the Trump Taj Mahal casino amid a contract dispute on Friday. The casino is owned by billionaire Carl Icahn, not Donald Trump. (July 1)
0:50Now watching Up next
Google Earthquake Alerts
In the event of an earthquake, Google will enter data directly into search results.
1:02Now watching Up next
What Travelers Should Expect for 4th of July Weekend
ABC News' David Kerley shares the latest details on holiday air travel.
1:56Now watching Up next
July 4th Holiday Travel Expected to Set Record
ABC News' Linzie Janis reports on what experts are saying could be an exceptionally busy travel weekend.
4:14Now watching Up next
Rihanna Releases Music Video for 'Sledgehammer'
The Grammy award-winning artist releases a video for the movie "Star Trek Beyond".
1:19Now watching Up next
Albania Shows Support for Hillary Clinton
A statue of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is unveiled in Albania.


text: In honor of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Girl Scouts, Lladró introduces this special commemorative figurine, Girl Scout Brownie. Wearing a contemporary uniform and bearing the Girl Scouts' 100th Anniversary mark, Girl Scout Brownie is a timeless keepsake for the Girl Scout in your life or to honor your own Girl Scout history. Size: 9.25''H x 4''W.Department: GiftsStyle: 01008646


text:
Letters from 2012 Dining Awards winners have come in emails and hand written messages of thanks to dining editor Mary Brown Malouf over the past several weeks.
And as I sit here writing the opening pages of the next issue, including our "letters to the editor" section, it's clear they will not all fit on the page. So, we decided to post the letters from owners and chefs right here.
Check out what the winners have to say about their awards:
I can't thank you and your crew enough for considering myself and The Wild Grape for such an honor. The [Dining Awards] reception was amazing, and the venue was unforgettable (the friggin' Leonardo? Wow!). Salt Lake magazine is the cutting edge in town, and we couldn't be more stoked to have been a part of that night.
—Sean Neves, head bartender at The Wild Grape (Best Mixologist)
It was such a great evening at the Leonardo. Thanks for hosting the fabulous event and recognizing so many hard working, creative people. It makes our efforts so worth it. Keep on rocking.
—Lavanya Mahate, owner of Saffron Valley (Best Indian)
Just wanted to thank you and the entire Salt Lake magazine team for hosting such a great event last week. We were thrilled and honored to be part of it. The ceremony was fun, the social hour was a huge hit and the Leonardo was beautiful. Thanks again for including us in the festivities, and know that you and all the other great food/beverage industry players in Salt Lake have inspired us to make 2012 our best year yet!
—Christian Frech, director of operations/owner of Trio Restaurant Group
Thank you for putting together another amazing evening for the Dining Awards. The culinary community in Utah owes you a big thank you!
—Mikel Trapp, owner of Fresco Italian Cafe (Best Italian and Best Restaurant in SLC)
I want to thank you and everyone at Salt Lake magzine for the Community Award you presented to Slow Food Utah at the Dining Awards. It was an incredible honor to receive this award on behalf of our organization and all it represents. Thank you so much for the recognition of our work in this extraordinary food community and for all you do to support us!
—Gwen Crist, Slow Food Utah (Community Award)
Thank you so very much for considering us for your Best Bakery Award. It is extremely humbling for me to be so warmly welcomed in Salt Lake City. I wasn't sure what to expect when coming out here, but over the last year, I've seen that SLC has so much more to offer than people know—especially in its culinary community. It's really exciting to see that through great restaurants, amazing food and wonderful people, we are able to foster an adventurous spirit that is opening up people's palates and exposing us to a greater world that is food. It is exceptionally exciting knowing that, having been active in the culinary worlds of Napa, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, Salt Lake is on the forefront of its own amazing adventure. And to be a part of that is an incredible honor. So, thank you and your team again for this amazing award. It will always be a reminder that we can never stop pushing forward, no matter what it takes. Passion for food is passion for life!
—Jeffrey de Leon, executive pastry chef at La Bonne Vie at The Grand America Hotel (Best Bakery)
We are blown away by this very prestigious award. I would like to thank you and your wonderful staff for this great honor. We have worked very hard to maintain what we do every day and always strive to be better. My great staff and I are so very thankful for this super, great opportunity to be in your magazine. My next challenge will be to maintain and exceed the expectations of our guests. Thank You.
—Patrick Barber of Pat's Barbecue (Winner of Best Comfort Food)


text:
"Can I ride to school?"
Submitted by Kris Thompson on
News Item:
2 Comments
bike to school
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
growing up i thought i lived too far from school to ride, and had very inactive parents as role models. had it all to do over again i would ride daily, and if i'm in the same situation as a parent someday you better believe they can/will ride! -josh
Points: 11
My wife made our 8 year old
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
My wife made our 8 year old bike in the howling wind today while she ran with him. He complained about frozen hands and having to bike in wind, rain, blizzards....you would think that he was over 40. Deep down we know that he likes it for he brags about their 4:1 bike:drive ratio.
Points: 11


text:
Avery® Permanent Glue Stic 196Product Number: 0196
Stick in there like a champ with this Glue Stic. Its permanent adhesive securely fastens paper, cardboard, photographs and more for great crafting, scrapbooking and other projects. Simply lift the cap and twist the base for easy application. The photo-safe formula is acid free and won't harm precious materials, and the adhesive washes easily out of clothing. Plus, they're ACMI certified, and conform to ASTM D 4236.The large size lets you apply glue to a larger surface area. This is one tool you'll be happy to see stick around.
Product Description:
Recommended Products
Avery® Disappearing Color Permanent Glue Stic 226, 1 Glue Stic
See exactly where you've applied adhesive
Reviewed by 20 customers
Displaying reviews 1-5
Previous | Next »
- Easy Application
- Very Adhesive
- Works On All Surfaces
Best Uses
This review is from Glue Stic 6-pk .26 oz 98095:
Mostly used on paper products. Very dependable adhesive.
- Easy Application
- Very Adhesive
- Works On All Surfaces
Best Uses
- All Surfaces
- Permanent Adhesion
- Quick Fixes
This review is from Permanent Glue Stic 00171:
I don't use this as often so it dries out on me, so I keep a spare unopened around for the next need.
This review is from Glue Stic 6-pk .26 oz 98095:
I love this gluestick i dont buy any other kind
This review is from Glue Stic White Permanent 98001:
Easy to use and does what they are supposed to. My craft projects turn out nicely.
This review is from Permanent Glue Stic 00196:
I've been buying these glue sticks for a while now. Trust me they will not disappoint you.
Great buy!
Displaying reviews 1-5
Previous | Next »


text:
Customer Reviews
January 26, 2016
February 9, 2015
October 6, 2014
July 9, 2014
Wallet is absolutly beautiful with the finest leather and workmanship
I am totally impressed with the Faustino Bifold. I really don't think you could fine a nicer wallet. The leather is really nice and has a great feel. The workmanship/craftmanship could not be any better. It accomodates all my cards and info without stacking them altogether. I am very pleased with the weallet and I know you will be to. I ordered it the brown and love it.
November 6, 2013
Wallet is of excellent quality but could be 1/4" taller
The quality of the fabrication and the materials are excellent. This is a large wallet for those who carry 8+ credit card/info card sized items, receipts/data etc. When filled, bills in the money slots tends to "walk up" so that about 1/8" of the bill is exposed above the slot. The wallet could be made about 1/4" taller to mitigate this issue. Note that the three card slots on the back side of the flip out ID pocket are not long enough to accomodate credit cards.
Chris Bosca - Owner, BOSCA
"For us, it's all about the leather. Our search for the most beautiful, distinctive leather takes us to tanneries and small craft shops across the world; resulting in products that are strikingly beautiful and persistently rugged."
Crafted with an artist's touch.
Working with leather is a true art. Our team is passionately dedicated to each stitch, leather source, and color scheme that goes into each product. Our leather accessories are proof that art is beautiful and functional.
Designed for rugged function.
Our leather accessories are not only fashionable, but fashioned with performance in mind. Designed to compliment your busy, on-the-go lifestyle, Bosca leather accessories prove to be extremely dependable the more they are used.
Created with inspired vision.
Bosca leather accessories are birthed from our experiences. Our design team passionately designs each product with a unique story or feature in mind, giving our products a character you simply can't find anywhere else.


text:
Free Shipping!
Lowest Price Guarantee
The traditional 4-roll hockey glove design has been perfected with this years Warrior Franchise narrow fit hockey gloves.
Warrior has made several improvements on the Franchise. Starting on the exterior Warrior has used a combination of materials rather than just the carbon print PU. The Franchise now features a fair amount of TuffTex nylon material. This is a great material, exceptionally durable, lightweight, and does not hold water, so you don't need to worry about it gaining weight during the game. Warrior Franchise also has some high-grade synthetic leather and some carbon print synthetics down the middle of the glove.
Warrior mentioned that many of their NHL players were requesting more wrist mobility out of their personal versions of the Franchise gloves. So they decided to give the retail glove a flared-out cuff for increased wrist mobility. This is most noticeable on the inner wrist side, and makes a huge impact. It definitely offers more wrist mobility compared to last years Franchise. Warrior also decided to increase the cuff roll a little bit making it look like it has a shorter cuff, however, the cuff is not actually smaller it just looks and feels like it. You get the same protection but now with increased wrist mobility.
This version of the Franchise features a narrow fit. Same fit aspects of a traditional glove just slightly narrower reducing some of the negative space.
- Model Number: HG121N
- Level of Play: Ideal for advanced to pro level play
- Fit Guidelines: Traditional "narrow" fit - Also referred to as a "volume fit" this design gives the players ample room through the glove for wrist mobility
- Sizing Guidelines: Size varies on personal preference, see sizing chart below
- Exterior:Combination of three materials offering the ultimate balance in weight and durability
- TuffTek - Used on the index finger, thumb, and cuff
- High grade synthetic PU leather - Used on the pinky strip, and cuff roll
- Systhetic PU with carbon print - Used down the middle of the backhand and fingers
- Protection:
- TriLam foams - Combination of three different density foams laminated together.
- Used throughout the glove for superior protection
- TriLam foam design eliminates the need for plastic inserts under the exterior
- TriLam foams - Combination of three different density foams laminated together.
- Palm:
- Micro nash palm offers a great soft feel that will dry soft
- Liner:
- Silver shield - Top of the line liner that wicks moisture and reduces bacterial buildup with actual silver threading
- Fit:
- Blomming cuff/cuff roll - Offering increased wrist mobility
- Narrow Traditional fit - Keeps the fit aspects similar to traditional 4 roll gloves but slightly narrower.
- Sizes:
- 13", and 14"
Comments: One of the most classic 4-roll gloves on the market. Surprisingly protective even without PU inserts. I guess the trilam foams work as advertised. This also makes them extremely light.
From: Toby, JC, NJ
Comments: The absolute most amazing gloves EVER. I will never buy a different kind of glove. The mobility is amazing and the liner really wicks away the moisture from your hands. GET THESE!
From: ??
Comments: SIIIICK wrist mobility. Bought these after I purchased easton Eq50's and HATED the lack of wrist movement. The cuff flare is enormous and there is a break in the wrist cuff that allows the two sides to move independently. Great protection, great mobility. Sweet looking gloves!!! I went for the narrow fit over the wide fit because the wide ones seemed a bit too clunky for me. Either way you can't go wrong. I have larger than average hands, so the narrow fit style glove fits closely around my actual hand and fingers and then at the wrist flares away to allow for a quite roomy wrist. (it seems that the wide fit does the same thing so the wide fit may have just a bit more wrist mobility, but it felt better to me to have the conforming palm and finger area and still have the wrist flare) The only flaw I can see is that the palm is made of a very soft (although multiple layers) suede-style material. I personally prefer a strip of leather on the palm, with the soft suede for the upper palm and finger area, but once I wear through the palms I'll just have them re-done the way I like. BUY THESE GLOVES!!!!
From: Dominic, PA
Other Items to Consider
Warrior Dynasty Hockey Gloves Sr
Traditional Fit
The Warrior Dynasty AX1 4 Roll Hockey Gloves are the premier gloves in the Dynasty lineup. These hockey gloves feature Warrior's WarLite protection with their integrated Bone System that provides an advanced level of lightweight protection. The Bone System utilizes stacked high-density plastic inserts that disperse hard impacts away from your hand.Colors: 6
Build a pair of Custom Warrior Gloves online! You can select the colors, palms, and even put your name, and number on the gloves. Great for teams, or for building a unique and stylin' personalized glove.
Choose from 5 models - Dynasty AX1 / Dynasty AX2 / Covert QR1 / Covert QR Pro / Covert QR3
The Warrior Dynasty AX2 4 Roll Hockey Gloves offer an elite level of performance without having to break the bank. Medium density foams reinforced with plastic inserts line the entire glove for lightweight protection from sticks and pucks. These gloves have a traditional fit that provides ample wrist and hand mobility.Colors: 8
The Warrior Dynasty AX3 4 Roll Hockey Gloves are the entry level model in the Dynasty lineup. These gloves feature a nylon exterior and a mix of medium density foams for solid, lightweight protection and durability. The palm utilizes high quality Clarino™ for excellent stick feel and durability. The interior uses Warrior's WarTech performance fabric that spreads the moisture out across the fabric to evaporate quicker while maintaining a soft feel for comfort.Colors: 6


text:
Memorial Day Summer BBQ
Fresh Squeezed Lemonade
2 c. sugar
1 c. fresh lemon juice (about 5-6 large lemons)
1/4 c. fresh lime juice
1/2 c. loosely packed fresh mint leaves (optional)
8 1/2-10 1/2 c. water, divided
Ice cubes
Combine 2 1/2 cups water and sugar in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir until sugar has dissolved and then simmer 5 minutes. Remove from heat and cool about 20 minutes. Add lemon and lime juices to the sugar syrup. If desired, place mint leaves in a lidded pitcher or large, lidded storage bowl. Pour lemon-lime mixture into container. If not using mint, refrigerate. If using mint, allow to stand 1 hour and then strain mixture and store until ready to serve.
When ready to serve, mix lemonade base with 6-8 cups cold water. Start with 6 cups and then adjust according to your taste. 6 cups will be very sweet, 8 cups will border on watery.
{HWTM} Our Best Bites


text:
Gardening Articles: Edibles :: Vegetables
Transplanting Vine Crops
by National Gardening Association Editors
There are advantages and disadvantages to transplanting vine crops that you should consider before making up your mind to transplant or start seeds right in the ground.
Why Transplant?
Transplanting gives you a head start of a month or more on the season, and it protects the seeds and seedlings from birds, insects, heavy rains, cold weather and weeds. On the other hand, starting seeds indoors and transplanting seedlings is time-consuming. And, if you injure the sensitive roots during transplanting, it will slow the plants' growth.
Growing Indoors
If you choose to start your own vine crop plants indoors, follow these steps:
Order disease-resistant seed in time to arrive three to four weeks before the last frost date.
Use a separate container for each plant, rather than tubs or flats, so you won't disturb the roots during transplanting. You can use peat pots, milk cartons or paper cups as long as you punch a few holes in the bottom for drainage. Or, try pots with sterilized soil mix already in them (Jiffy-7 pellets, grow cubes).
Moisten the soil thoroughly before planting the seeds. Then plant two seeds in each pot by pressing the seed into the soil with your thumb and covering it with half an inch of soil.
Group the pots together on a tray, board or rack, and slide the whole thing into a plastic bag to prevent drying. Place the pots in a warm spot with an even temperature. Don't place them on a windowsill; the temperature changes there are too extreme.
When the seedlings first show, remove the plastic bag. Place the pots under grow lights (no more than five inches away) or in a sunny spot to give them at least eight hours of direct sun each day.
Choose the healthiest seed-ling from each pot after a week or so. Pinch off the other; pulling it out will disturb the roots of the one you're keeping.
Water the seedlings when the soil is dry to the touch.
Wise Shopping
If you buy transplants from a garden center, look for stocky, dark green plants rather than tall, spindly or flowering ones. The plants should be in individual containers. You must harden these transplants, too.
Some pots come with instructions telling you to plant them along with the seedlings, because they'll decompose in the soil. However, plants generally do better if these organic pots are gently peeled off at transplanting time. The roots then have immediate access to the food and moisture in the soil at a time when it really counts.
Hardening Off
Gradually toughen young seedlings, or harden them off, so they won't get sunburned, windburned or chilled after you transplant them.
Allow 7 to 10 days to harden your seedlings. When you start the process, don't water them for two days before you first bring them outside. From then on, water only when they really need it.
At first, place the seedlings in a sheltered spot away from wind and out of direct sunlight. Increase their exposure every day until they can tolerate a full day of sun. Then leave them out overnight, unless there's a danger of frost. After two or three nights outside, they're ready for the garden.


text:
Didier Reynders's reaction about the demise of President Mandela
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders has learned with great sadness of the demise of His Excellency, Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa.
President Mandela, "Madiba" as he was called by his people, will be remembered as an icon of peace, reconciliation and visionary statesmanship, reaching far beyond his term as first President of a democratic South Africa. Under his leadership, South Africa saw an end to apartheid and the restoration of human dignity. He succeeded in peacefully transforming a deeply divided country into a Rainbow Nation, often personally and physically paying a high price along this "Long Walk to Freedom".
"During my latest visit to South Africa, I realized how much Nelson Mandela remains a source of inspiration to all people in South Africa, across Africa and worldwide. He embodied the kind of leadership and vision that many aspire to. I hope that his example will still lead young generations in perpetuating his legacy of reconciliation and tolerance", says the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
On behalf of the Belgian government, Didier Reynders would like to express his sincere condolences and deepest sympathy to his family and to the authorities and the people of South Africa.


text:
Sausage & Spinach Calzones RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
4.5 18 20
These are perfect for quick lunches or a midnight snack. My nurse coworkers always ask me to make them when it's my turn to bring in lunch. —Kourtney Williams, Mechanicsville, Virginia
- 1/2 pound bulk Italian sausage
- 1 tube (13.8 ounces) refrigerated pizza crust
- 3/4 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- 3 cups fresh baby spinach
- 1/2 cup part-skim ricotta cheese
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- Preheat oven to 400°. In a large skillet, cook sausage over medium heat until no longer pink. Meanwhile, unroll pizza crust; pat into a 15x11-in. rectangle. Cut into four rectangles. Sprinkle mozzarella cheese over half of each rectangle to within 1 in. of edges.
- Drain sausage. Add spinach; cook and stir over medium heat until spinach is wilted. Remove from heat. Stir in ricotta cheese, salt and pepper; spread over mozzarella cheese. Fold dough over filling; press edges with a fork to seal.
- Transfer to a greased baking sheet. Bake 10-15 minutes or until lightly browned. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Sausage & Spinach Calzones in Simple & Delicious September/October 2009, p29
Reviews for Sausage & Spinach Calzones
Please Log In or Join to add a rating and review.
Click stars to rate
Any changes to your rating or review will appear where you originally posted your review
Reviewed Mar. 29, 2013
"very tasty and easy"
Reviewed Oct. 20, 2011
"I made this recipe for a family dinner and everyone loved it. My husband usually does not care for rocotta but loved it in this. My father who is a super picky eater had seconds, then left overs the next day. I used chicken sausage instead of pork and it was yummy. I doubled the recipe."
Reviewed Oct. 1, 2011
"yes you can freeze just make sure thay arecooled, they are wonderfull for left overs.db"
Reviewed Sep. 26, 2011
"Very good!!! Bake in a pan that has sides as it may leak juices."
Reviewed Sep. 23, 2011
"Very easy! I used turkey sausage, fat free ricotta, and added some garlic powder, onion powder, and oregano and my results were outstanding!"


text:
Cepaea nemoralis in Maryland
Early last week, a reader e-mailed the picture of a snail shell he had found in Maryland and asked for an identification. To my surprise, it turned out to be Cepaea nemoralis, a native of Europe introduced to a few places in the U.S. Subsequently, I got from the reader the GPS coordinates and detailed directions to his collection spot along with the warning that there was a lot of poison ivy in the area.
The location turned out to be only about a half an hour drive from where I live. So this morning I took my son along and went there. The exact spot was surrounded by an impenetrable wall of poison ivy. While I was scouting the area and trying to figure out what to do, my 14-year old son, who has been trained since the age of 4 to spot snail shells, announced his first find. It was indeed an empty Cepaea nemoralis shell from the edge of the busy highway next to us. Empty shells turned out to be quite abundant among the grass along the metal guardrail separating us from the highway. Soon we had close to 40 shells.
Here is our collection spot.
The live snails took longer to find. Eventually, I spotted them on damp soil inside the cavities around the bases of the guardrail posts.
Its brown lip distinguishes Cepaea nemoralis from the similar Cepaea hortensis. The latter, known from some islands off the coast of northeast U.S., may or may not be native to North America.
I have no idea how and when these snails were introduced to this spot. We will probably write a short paper to publish this new record for Maryland. Until then, I will keep the exact location confidential.
Part 2


text:
Welcome to the DASB Flea Market
Come sell with us; see the links at the left to discover how easy it is!
The De Anza College Flea Market is now on
The Flea Market is held the First Saturday of Every Month including holidays, rain or shine.
We are currently accepting applications for the
For more information on mail-in registration for the Saturday,
Six-Month Contracts for July - December 2016 are NOW AVAILABLE.
There is normally no walk-in registration.
There is no waiting list and there will be no stand-by/day-of-market sign-ups.
Information Booth Location
ATM Location
Office Location
New Office Hours
The De Anza Flea Market began as a small effort by the students of De Anza College to raise money for the student body over 30 years ago and has grown into an established community event attracting vendors and patrons from throughout the state. The De Anza Flea Market is still a student enterprise with the De Anza Associated Student Body paying for all of the expenses and gaining approximately $300,000 annually for a variety of programs, services and events at De Anza College. The De Anza Flea Market contains about 825 vendor stalls and usually sells out very quickly. If the weather is good the Flea Market will typically draw approximately 15,000 to 20,000 shoppers.
Thank You for visiting our web site. We hope to see you at the next market.
DASB Flea Market
Building: Hinson Campus Center inside the Office of College Life (HCC 157)
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: 408.864.8414


text:
View Comment
Posted at 10:11 AM on November 26, 2015
Posted at 4:21 PM on October 14, 2015
Posted at 4:13 PM on October 14, 2015
Posted at 9:19 AM on July 16, 2015
BORRRING! Not sophisticated or confident enough to pull this elegant suit off. Look at her plain face and nappy hair. Stick to the short dresses and hooker heels.
KStew is a one dimensional actress. She never becomes the character. Same mannerisms and insecure performance in every role. Needs to grow up, accept her screw ups in life and just go for it.
Posted at 8:10 AM on July 14, 2015
Posted at 10:45 AM on July 7, 2015
Posted at 8:55 PM on July 6, 2015
Posted at 10:37 PM on July 1, 2015
Olivia carr
Posted at 10:09 PM on June 24, 2015
Kristen l know you still love Rob, let him know, please.
Robert is making a mistake marrying whoever she is , she's using him. She lies about everything that comes out of hermouth, and God forgive me that girl is ugly, with her nappy hair and no makeup on.no one had ever heard her sing. And as for that all her songs sound the same, I don't even like her songs. She setup her friends to bad mouth you and Roberts fans also , then acted like your fans were attacking her instead. It's funny how you forgave him for that 1st yr. You two st a red dating, so you didn't sleep with this director, in fact he seduced you, our didn't know how to react, he was to blame for it all. Kristen you and Robert Pattinson belong together call him. Meet him somewhere, you both need to talk.
Posted at 9:11 AM on July 16, 2015
Sudam Husain
Posted at 5:11 AM on June 23, 2015
Posted at 9:21 AM on May 30, 2015
Posted at 8:37 PM on May 13, 2015
Vijay Yadav
Posted at 7:07 AM on April 30, 2015
Posted at 9:38 PM on April 29, 2015
Kristen looks beautiful! Perfect! Love the pink! Ignore these imbeciles who come to spew hate on anything Kristen does. They seek out her sights to spread their venom. Like Tracey who can't think of why the sex scene was what it was. What you saw in the sex scene was a PG rating not an R rating. The broken bed etc.were elements left to the imagination. Rob was also trying to cover Kristen as much as he could. Anyone who has watched any of their videos on utube cannot deny the love and chemistry between them. You know…no one really has to argue about the truth, sooner or later it proves itself.


text:
A couple of weeks back I wrote about Meridian Hookah Lounge over by
UCF, where you can smoke a hookah for $12 per person all night (open
from 8 p.m. – 3 a.m.) but not do much of anything else.
Well the folks at Hookah Dreams quickly e-mailed me to let me know
about their joint on 6325 N. Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando. Here's
some of what they say they have to offer:
1. A 6-foot hookah.
2. The SheeCool Frozen hookah.
3. Free Wi-Fi.
4. Games to play, including The Wii.
5. A mermaid fish tank hookah.
6. Custom-made hookahs (The Army Tank, UCF smoke through a knights helmet).
7. A hand-made shisha (Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Java Explosion).
8. Fresh fruit (coconut, pineapple, apple, orange, lemon, lime)
you can smoke out versus out of a bowl placed on top of the
9. Free beer every Monday through Thursday after 9 p.m. and $7 hookah
rentals (regular prices are $11.95 per person for two hours).
10. Island Way Sorbet, Island Oasis Fresh Fruit Smoothies, candy,
popcorn, snacks to choose from, AMP Energy Drink, sodas and teas.
11. Fruitwood charcoal imported from Egypt.
I can't vouch because I've never been, but the description seems intriguing enough that I'll need to go check out (especially the free beer part). If you've been let me know what you think and here's a list of other hookah lounges around town too.


text:
"Just to be around the constant positive energy, all the ridiculous dancing, all the bonding. I love @boilergoldrush with my everything."
"This is a very student-friendly environment with everything you need in walking distance. I would feel extremely comfortable leaving my son here for college."
"Boiler Up!"
"While at Purdue, you felt like a part of something big. You felt like you were cared about, that the University wanted you to learn and succeed."
"The professor did an excellent job explaining the subject matter and encouraging discussion. He made something that could have been relatively uninteresting absolutely fascinating."


text:
Erik Roner skis some of the harriest runs in the backcountry. Flying at unthinkable speeds down spaghetti thin canyons is just a warm up for Erik. He gets his thrill from ski-jumping off cliffs hundreds of feet high. This is the stuff most wouldn't dream of doing, but Erik takes it in his stride. See him in action in this video.
One of the few in the world to experience the rush of back country skiing and the heart-stopping thrill of base-jumping, Erik knows how to safely push his body, mind, and heart to the limit. Because of his expertise in the matter, he was asked to assist motocross hero Travis Pastrana base-jump into the Grand Canyon on his dirt bike. Following this stunt Nitro Circus of MTV signed him on to help film 2 seasons of the show, plus a movie scheduled for release in 2012.
And now you have an opportunity to ski with the expert, Erik Roner.
This month through February, in association with Bench & Loom's Winter Specialty Shop, Joe Shmoes, like you and me, can ski with Erik on the groomed runs of Snowbird for the day or heli-ski with him in Portillo, Chile for three. On top of that, you can take up to four of your friends. It's up to you. Here's the scoop:
Every 2 months the Specialty Shop at Bench and Loom focuses on a different theme. They make available for purchase, a package that offers a unique chance to interact with the experts from each theme. This coming Jan-Feb's theme will be skiing. This theme's expert: the ski/base-jumping pioneer, Erik Roner. Mention Salt Lake magazine when you order your tickets and you'll receive 5% off!
So don't miss out on your opportunity to ski with the very best! For more information contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
Contact the shop for your chance to ski with Gold medal Olympian Bode Miller as well. However, the discount only applies to skiing with Erik Roner.


text:
As Halloween draws near (horray!) I'm subtly reminded of all the random candy I'd get trick-or-treating that I normally don't buy for myself. Walking down the aisles in my local grocery stores and seeing the bags upon bags of candy, I see favorites that I haven't had in a long time. The Tootsie Fruit Rolls are one of these favorites.
I recall fishing these out of my Halloween swag and setting them aside along with my other "don't trade with the sibling" candy. These usually came with the other "loose" candy, such as Mary Janes, SweetTarts, Hershey's Kisses, Candy Corn and regular Tootsie Rolls. I was always happy to trade my SweetTarts to my sister in return for these and I also never had a flavor preference either. All of them were delicious to me.
Since I'm too old for trick-or-treating (sob), I picked up a bag to review for the blog. That's my excuse and I'm standing by it.
Vanilla (blue): This is very mild and sweet with a good vanilla flavor. Aside from the good chewiness factor of the tootsie base, this remnds me of nice fresh vanilla marshmallows.
Lemon (yellow): I love the sunny yellow color. The flavor is like lemon meringue pie, or cake, or some sort of lemon dessert. It's zesty and sour with a strong lemon essence. The Tootsie part delivers a creamy sweetness, with almost a hint of coconut, and it's just so tasty. It really got my saliva glands going.
Lime (green): Really nice lime flavor, which is hard to pull off without tasting like a cleaning product. The taste has a nice kick to it and the Tootise base adds a good subtle sweetness.
Cherry (pink): A pretty salmon pink color. The flavor is reminiscent of the cherry Tootsie Pop. It's extremely fruity with a good juciness and those bright, sweet-sour cherry notes. It's not medicinal at all, but does have a little bitterness towards the end.
Orange (orange): This has a nice flavor, but it's not as intense as I was expecting. The actual orange flavor is mild, and the zest it the main feature. It's juicy and really gets the mouth saliva going.
What can I say, I really enjoy these. Maybe not enough to pick them up any other time of year, but come October they satisfy my cravings for sweet nostalgia.
Rating:Will Eat Again
Tootsie Website


text:
The knowledge and experience of Bernardaud has enabled the brand to maintain a high quality over the years. The Bernardaud factory has explored new territories while constantly innovating with the porcelain creations great designers, artists and creators.
His delivery is within 15 days Colissimo or courier to the address indicated by the customer on the order form which can only be in the area of delivery.
The method of payment accepted by Bernardaud for the settlement of or purchases made by credit card Visa, Mastercard, American Express. The flow of your credit card occurs only once recording your order.


text:
Welcome to the Minnesota State University Moorhead International Student Services. International Student Services is committed to promoting, supporting and celebrating an international environment at Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM). To accomplish this, International Student Services strives to create access to and appreciation for international and cross-cultural experiences, perspectives, initiatives and advocacy with a view to preparing individuals to interact in the global community. Included in our commitment is providing dependable, accurate information and services to our international students.
Fall 2016
More information to come.
Spring 2016


text:
TUCSON, Ariz. – Head coach Laura Ianello and the University of Arizona women's golf team have announced the 2013-14 competition schedule. The Wildcats will play four fall tournaments and five regular-season spring tournaments with three postseason championships on the schedule.
The Wildcats open 20-13-14 with the Dale McNamara Fall Preview, hosted by the University of Tulsa. Played at Tulsa Country Club, the course will be a test run for many as the Golden Hurricane will also host the 2014 NCAA Championships.
The fall schedule also include stops at the Windy City Collegiate Classic in Chicago, Ill. (Sep.t 30-Oct. 1), The Landfall Tradition in Wilmington, N.C. (Oct. 25-27) and the Pac-12 Preview in Kohala, Hawaii (Nov. 4-5).
The spring will start with the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge, hosted by Ohio State, in Palos Verdes, Calif. Competition will be held Sun.-Tues., Feb. 9-11. The Bruin Wave Invitational, hosted By UCLA and Pepperdine, will be held Mon.-Tues., March 3-4, in Tarzana, Calif.
The Cats will head to the Sunshine State for the SunTrust Gator Women's Golf Invitational, March 14-16, at Mark Bostick Golf Course. The PING/ASU Invitational will be played April 4-6 at the ASU Karsten Golf Course. The regular season will wrap with the Silverado Showdown, hosted by Oregon and Colorado April 14-15, in Napa, Calif.
To open up postseason play, the Pac-12 Championships will be held Fri.-Sun., April 25-27 and hosted by Oregon State at Trysting Tree Golf Club. Television coverage by the Pac-12 Networks will be announced at a later date.
Washington (West), Oklahoma State (Central) and Florida State (East) are the selected NCAA Regional Championships sites, to be held Thurs.-Sat., May 8-10. A top-eight finish at the regional site will earn a trip to the NCAA Championships, hosted by the University of Tulsa, May 20-23.For continued coverage of Arizona Wildcat women's golf, follow @UAWomensGolf on Twitter, Facebook.com/ArizonaWomensGolf or visit ArizonaWildcats.com.


text:
Four Dover Central YMCA swimmers took first place in the 200-yard free relay at the East Field South District YMCA Championship Meet March 14-16 at the Prince Georges Sports and Learning Complex in Landover, Md.
The team came in at a time of 2:08:30 against 11 other teams. The weekend championship meet consisted of competition from YMCA swimmers from Maryland, Virginia and Delaware . Swimmers invited must achieve district standards qualification times for each event.
Location, ST | website.com


text:
Rated 5 out of 5 by 2 reviewers.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Frankie87 Yummy This pasta sauce exceeds expectation. It is creamy, rich, flavorful and wonderful over a pumpkin ravioli that I found...or any pasta for that matter. I highly recommend it and World Market has the best price on it that I found anywhere. November 26, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by djcookin Fantastic, Unique Pasta Sauce This is a one-of-a-kind pasta sauce! It's delicious just by itself over pasta, or with fresh vegetables mixed in. Also served it once over spaghetti squash, & that was great too. Nicely seasoned. I WANT THE RECIPE! January 26, 2013
1-2 of 2


text:
Luke Owens
Position: DE-DT-T
Height: 6-2 Weight: 254 lbs.
Born: October 19, 1933 in Cleveland, OH
High School: John Adams
College: Kent St. (school history)
Drafted by the Baltimore Colts in the 3rd round (32nd overall) of the 1957 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 29 (3459th overall since 1950)
Our primary support comes from users like you. Sponsor this page for $5. Your message will replace this ad.
1965 Game Log: Regular Season · Playoffs · vs.


text:
Gardening Articles: Care :: Plant Care Techniques
Lawn and Garden Tractors (page 4 of 4)
by Michael MacCaskey
Resale or Buying Used
As with your used car, the initial quality and current condition of your tractor determine its resale value. A quality tractor from a national manufacturer is worth about half of its initial value after three or four years. By comparison, we estimate a low-cost tractor from a mass marketer would be worth about a tenth of its initial value.
All top-brand tractors now feature a seat shutoff switch, which instantly kills the engine if you leave the seat while the wheels or attachments are moving. Make sure the gasoline tank is separate from the engine and battery. Spilling a little gasoline is common, and it could ignite on a hot engine or from a battery spark.
On some tractors, the gearshift lever can be accidentally kicked into gear while the user is climbing off. Check out your body cl during test drives or in the showroom.
Before you shop for a lawn and garden tractor, do your homework. Call manufacturers and ask for information about their lawn and garden tractors. Then visit dealers and begin price and service comparisons. Take test drives and, finally, use and enjoy your new tractor.


text:
NASCAR fans packed more than 4,000 meals on Sept. 30 at Dover International Speedway as part of a Chase-sponsored event for seniors in need.
The first 300 fans to visit the Chase tent and pack a box full of cereal, canned fruits and vegetables, peanut butter, crackers, pancake mix and other household staples received a free pass to a Jeff Gordon question and answer session. The boxes were delivered to the Food Bank of Delaware for distribution.
According to statistics from AARP's Drive to End Hunger, one in 20 Delaware seniors struggles with hunger. Many are forced to make difficult decisions like purchase food or medications.
Location, ST | website.com


text:
Patti has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers over the past 20 years, and one of her screenplays, Sacrifices of the Heart, was produced by Hallmark in 2007. She has just finished a script about a fictional First Daughter, and is working on another novel titled The Myth of Water.
Want MORE from Patti? Read: My Night with New Gingrich
Don't miss out on MORE great articles like this one. Click here to sign up for our weekly newsletter!


text:
1993 Hall of Fame Inductee and famed host of American Bandstand, Dick Clark, passed away on Wednesday, April 18, 2012. He was 82.
Affectionately known as "America's oldest teenager," Clark was significant in transforming the record business into an international industry. As host of American Bandstand, Clark provided many acts with the opportunity to reach a national audience via television, spreading the gospel of rock and roll to teenagers across the country.
Born Richard W. Clark in 1929, he entered the music business as a sales manager for an upstate New York radio station at age 17. In 1952, he began doing a radio show ("Caravan of Music") at WFIL in Philadelphia. The station's TV affiliate had a teen-oriented show called Bandstand that was taken over in 1956 by Clark. He was such an affable, magnetic host that Bandstand was picked up for national distribution by ABC in 1957. With Clark as businessman, personality, music lover and host, American Bandstand catapulted to popularity and, in 1996, celebrated its 40th anniversary.
Although his demeanor was low-key and agreeable, Clark did not shrink when it came time to defend rock and roll. He stood up for the music when it was under attack from censorious voices who branded it immoral. Such figures as Buddy Holly and James Brown made their national debut on American Bandstand. The show's success helped spread the word throughout the entertainment industry that rock and roll was no fluke.
Although Clark subsequently moved on to other areas of TV that had little to do with music, his weekly televised record hops – which predated MTV by 25 years – played an integral role in establishing rock and roll, keeping it alive and shaping its future. For more than 30 years, he was a fixture on December 31, as television viewers across the country tuned in to Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve on ABC.
With the passing of Dick Clark, we lost a real hero who had untold influence on both world culture and the art form we call rock and roll. Clark was a trendsetter who helped guide our tastes in music, dance and fashion for more than three decades. His show American Bandstand was instrumental in showing the world that rock and roll was here to stay.