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Photos have appeared on the interwebs from the set of Jeff Wadlow's Kick-Ass 2 and show Chloe Moretz's stunt double in character as Mindy Macready riding a purple Ducati 1199 Panigale.
The sequel to the hit comic book based action flick is set several months after the events in the first movie and follows the title character as he tries to form a team of real life superheroes.
Ducati is well known for its product placement although the purple hue of this example leaves something to be desired.
Kick-Ass 2 is scheduled to release on June 28th, 2013 and also stars Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Robert Emms, Donald Faison, Jim Carrey and Nicolas Cage.
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The Yours/Mine Secondhand Shopping Soiree (YMSSS), DC's first women's secondhand/vintage clothing and accessories sip and shop expanded their brand in September 2013 by adding a consulting arm, dedicated to helping individuals launch, grow and sustain their business.
The YMSSS Team announced this extension online last year via their website here and hosted a Successful Business 101 seminar to kickoff the consulting side of the business.
Having received much success from the Successful Business 101 pilot seminar, the YMSSS consultants plan to host it again on Feb. 8th in the Shaw/Howard district of Washington, DC.
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Bar Brawl
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|Tommy Vercetti
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|Vercetti Estate
Bar Brawl is a mission soon after taking out Ricardo Diaz, in which Tommy forces a bar to pay them for protection. In order to do that, he must take out DBP security they are currently protected by.
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In this mission, Tommy will take two henchmen to a small bar on Ocean Drive and have them help him with taking out DBP security.
The Mission
Take a car from Vercetti Estate and drive to the point on your map. First, take out the two guards. The easiest way to do so is to run them over, then get out and talk to the bar owner. After that, he will have told you the location of the security. Go over there and kill them all. Start off by blowing up a car to kill as many as you can, then kill the remainder, if there are any. After finishing off the rest, two more will escape on two PCJ-600s. Chase them down in a car and run them over (you can use a firearm, but running them over is the easiest way). Then you have completed the mission.
(inside Vercetti Estate bar) Tommy: What's the problem?
Lance: Some bar is refusing to pay. They reckon they're protected by a local gang of thugs. Don't worry Tommy, I can handle this.
Tommy: You call this handling it?
(to the two henchmen next to him)
You two, off your asses, let's go.
Tommy: Get in the car, useless.
(after killing the two guards and talking to the bar owner)
Tommy: Your protection needs a little more protection.
Bar Owner: Aw hell, not again! I don't need this crap! These idiots operate out of DBP security around the block. You guys just sort it out amongst yourselves.
Tommy: I'll be seeing you later.
Bar Owner: Yeah, yeah, whatever.


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What do you get when you take one vacant lot at Sylvan Thirty, two guys with a shirt business and music truck and beautiful weather? A successful Truckstock!
This event was the brainchild of Robert and Chad of Durty Laundry Clothing and their music truck, Def Star for their Beat Breakerz business. Seeing the advantage of an empty lot at Sylvan and Thirty, they started inviting the trucks to participate. The response from the trucks was quick, with ultimately 16 trucks joining in, Dallas based, Ruthie's Rolling Cafe, Tin Star Taco Taxi, The Butcher's Son, Gandolfo's New York Deli, Cup-Cakin, Three Lions, Jack's Chowhoud, Little Vessel Grill, Dos Paisanos, Cajun Tailgators, Four Seasons, Rock and Roll Tacos, Nammi and with three, Lee's Grilled Cheese, Eat Jo Dawgs and Zombie's Food Truck making the drive from Fort Worth.
Throughout the day, the trucks had steady business, with only a few having lines with waits of more than 5 - 6 minutes. As with any truck event, the trucks never know what will sell until the attendees start ordering, so some trucks began selling out of some items right at two hours in, with others calling for delivery of extra supplies.
Zombie seemed to be the break-out truck of the day, with long lines and an early sell-out; Dallas proved that they will support a vegan food truck. Dallas also loves cupcakes, with Cup-Cakin Machine selling out, getting a small reload and selling out again and Three Lions is proving that Dallas loves food from the UK, with their meat pies selling out, right at the 2 hour mark. The only truck that seemed to have much down time was Dos Paisanos, in an unwrapped truck, with only a small sign for their menu. Its a shame that more people didn't know who they were, events are always a great way to try new trucks; but with so many options people really need something to draw them in.
Beat Breakerz provided music that had people dancing while standing in line. In between hawking their tees they kept the grounds clean, emptying trash bins, talking to the media and making sure everyone was enjoying their day.
Enjoying the day was apparently to everyone and I suspect we will see another Truckstock soon.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words; for this event, I wanted to try something different, let's see how many words a video is worth.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Truckstock Recap
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My wife and I ate at Dos Paisanos and loved their Tacos Al Carbon. Probably the best food truck tacos we have eaten so far. We also had a burger from the Four Seasons truck. We got out to the area around 4 pm and were pleasantly surprised by the turnout. We will definitely head that way again the next time there is an event.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 25, 2012 at 2:08 PM
It was a perfect day. We ate from The Butcher's Son and the Cajun Tailgators. That Cajun truck serves some good stuff. I really wanted to try one of the grilled cheese sandwiches from Lee's, but the line was pretty long at that point, as was the Nammi line.ReplyDelete
Sounds like you had a great time! Come by to see us again at the Four Seasons Truck!ReplyDelete
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Panama City Beach - When it comes to navy bases, Naval Support Activity Panama City ranks in the top 15% for energy efficiency.
The Department of the Navy grades bases each October as part of National Energy Awareness Month.
This is the third straight year NSA Panama City has received a gold medal award for energy conservation.
"We're looking at a transitional time for the Navy and the entire nation in which we're looking to reduce energy consuming devices to the minimum that it's needed," said Wells Parker, NSA's Utilities Energy Manager.
Naval Support Activity Panama City has reduced its energy foot print by 15 percent in just the past 5 years.
To do this, the naval base has changed over 20,000 lights, added more solar technology, and upgraded to more efficient air conditioner models.
"It's a huge success, a lot of people have been working very hard in doing everything from modifying people's behaviors like reminding them to turn off a light, to turn off a computer, to some o f the bigger projects we've been working on," says Commander Pfefferkorn.
Some of those projects include adding solar panels to heat some of the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center's pools.
Street lights, stop signs, and even vehicles on base are solar powered.
According to Navy officials, if the U.S. maintains its current coal consumption rate, the supply will be gone in 220 years. If the consumption rate grows, the country's coal supply could dwindle in under 50 years.
The Department of the Navy believes the stakes are high.
So do local base officials, who are hoping to do better than the gold award next year.
"I want the platinum award. I'm not satisfied with just the gold, we're going for platinum," said Commander Pfefferkorn.


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I was wondering if anyone else has had weird vibes getting tickets to NYC through ISU on Monday. I work for a company that donates $$$ to ISU and are season ticket holders. We called to get some tix to NYC games. On the phone they were rushed, rude and a bit obtuse. Our company has one person who is the contact for our corporate account with ISU. Initially they said he was the only person who could buy the tickets and that he must be the one to pick them up in NYC-- he's not going to NYC... I am. After escalating to a supervisor, we were eventually given permission to buy the tickets under my name with my credit card.
Two days later, not one dime has left my bank account. They said they would only call if there was a problem (no call, thank goodness). They didn't know how much the tickets would be exactly (200, 250 or 295), and didn't know sections of MSG we would be sitting in. Every question I asked was answered in such a way that I could tell I was ******* them off.
My biggest fear is I get to NYC and can't get the tickets I thought I purchased.
I'm shocked they don't have a better way to notify people, give seats assignments, receipts, etc.
Anyone have any insight or similar experience?
Can't explain the rudeness but for events like this oftentimes the schools don't even know where their seats are. Think of the intricate and complex behind-the-scenes work needed for an event like this.
All ISU probably knows is they are given X tickets and they can distribute them how they want to. It's all based on what others schools do, the public sale, etc. ISU doesn't even know where our seats are in KC for an annual event so I wouldn't hold it against them they don't know for a once-per-20-year event in the largest city in the country.
If I were you I'd print my receipt from ISU that confirms you got X tickets and keep that with you. I'd also print out any emails you have from ISU (with someone name and contact info on it) and bring those along. I know it's frustrating but that receipt may come back to save your behind.
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They are clearly trying to steal from you and leave you dissatisfied.
Everything they said is exactly what I would expect to hear based on the letter. If the company is the donor, naturally, they would expect the money to come from them. Probably even necessarily.
It's been stated a billion times over that the NCAA hasn't released the ticket locations yet.
This sounds like the customer was plainly wrong, but very irritating, and they were nice enough to get you what you wanted even when they could probably accommodate someone much more reasonable and polite. Congratulations.
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Are we adding the ticket office to the boycott list?
You joined March of 2014. Your handle indicates you're a thug, yet you want them to issue tickets under your credit card when that doesn't match what they have on their account. I can understand why there would be issues with what you're requesting.
How does ISU know whether you're some scalper or a Uconn fan trying to exploit an ISU account to get access to the limited supply of ISU tickets that they have? I've always found the ISU ticket office to be very cooperative, so I'm not sure what to think of your story.
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Harsh response dude... lighten up.
You are lucky they helped you! How are they supposed to act if someone else from your company gives them the same story? If you do not like it, then have the company change the contact to you.
Limited tickets, the fact they helped you makes me think they had at least a little room in their allotment, or maybe got lucky and got the ISU allotment increased somehow, like they did for the Big 12 tournament.
I have never had trouble with the ticket office on games like this, if you did not hear from them then they took care of you. Be happy!
They know because both the person on the account, who had all of the account information and I were together. It was a matter of the frontline guy being a little too rigid in the instructions he was given regarding individual cyclone club members. The supervisor was great.
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Harsh response dude... lighten up.
Sounds like you should take your own advice DugDaThug.
I have always had very satisfactory experience with the ISU ticket office. Maybe they were temporarily preoccupied with signing a get well card for Georges. Please give them a little slack.
Best of luck
Okay, my money for the big 12 tourney did not come out until the day before the tournament. I am not sure if the payment for these games is processed by Iowa State or the NCAA host school? trust me they will get the money sooner or later! See you there!
Just a dumb question-- will ISU definately sell out their allotment and therefore must be very careful with the tickets they do have, or do we need to be a little more customer friendly here because the AD could use all the money they can get?
Clone to the Bone with the up and coming IOWA STATE.
I have had no trouble getting my tickets for the last couple rounds, but it still does make you wonder if the person on the other line entered your request correctly. An email confirmation acknowledging your request would be a good idea. I see where you are coming from.
The ISU ticket office is really poorly run and needs to get its act together. This is typical behavior from the ISU ticket office. You should thank your normal contact for having to deal with them.
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You don't personally have season tickets but think your bosses donations make you a special little snowflake?
Good luck with that attitude, Dug.
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Goshen Boys & Girls Club garden provides health and food education
The Boys & Girls Club of Goshen expands programs for health and wellness with a victory garden.
GOSHEN -- Hands were dirty at the Boys & Girls Club of Goshen Wednesday afternoon, May 29.
A group of more than 25 children clustered around four box plots, breaking ground in the club's new victory garden for the first time. They planted and watered seeds for tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, cucumbers, squash and peppers. Robert Gunn, an eighth-grader in charge of organizing the Garden Club, was one of them.
"I love getting dirty and growing my own food," said Gunn, 14, of Goshen, who also has a garden at home. "I am helping the kids learn how to plant. Everyone's so excited to see what will grow."
With the support of staff, attendees will be responsible for daily care and harvesting. The garden is one of several initiatives in a four-year commitment the club made last September to address hunger and wellness issues.
The programs will work in conjunction with a new cafeteria, funded this spring by a $250,000 grant from the Elkhart County Community Foundation. Adrianne Penner, associate executive director for the Boys & Girls Club of Goshen, believes their work is about exposure and education.
"We took a step back and said, 'How can we serve food better?'" said Penner. "A lot of our kids wouldn't be able to go into a grocery store and tell you what the produce is. If we can show them, teach them, give them experience – not just in growing, but in cooking – they're set to make decisions for themselves."
Despite only having space to seat 42 kids, the club serves about 360 snacks to children on a daily basis, as well as 140 dinners in the evenings to more than a third of its attendees.
In addition to a larger cafeteria, the club will build a teaching kitchen for kids to gain "cooking experience that will equip them for a lifetime," Penner said. "Many kids cook for their siblings right now, so it's not just about preparing them for the future; it's also about addressing current needs."
In summer 2013, the club banned soda and junk food, organized a 5K run for kids and their families, and worked with the Chamberlain Neighborhood Association's garden. Penner has also talked with local farmers about providing produce for meals. "Where we are now compared to where we were a year ago is huge, " Penner said. "But we still have a long way to go. Our own garden means that all the kids can be involved."
Erica Lint, cafeteria supervisor and garden coordinator, plans to help the children utilize the garden's produce in both the club's kitchen and at home. "When we give these kids responsibility, it's amazing how hard they work," Lint said. "This garden is coming from seeds, but soon they will have skills and food to take home to their families."
After Wednesday's watering, the kids have the summer to wait for their plants to sprout.
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Let $\mathcal{M}(n,k) := \{ \, m\in\mathbb{N}^n \,\,\lvert \,\,\, \sum_{i=1}^n m_i = k \,\}$, where $\mathbb{N}$ denotes the natural numbers with the $0$. Also, let $M(n,k) := |\mathcal{M}(n,k)|$ denote the number of elements in this set.
I assume that the numbers $M(n,k)$ are well known. I'm looking for a general formula for them. With basic calculations, I've found out that $M(1,k) = 1$, $M(2,k) = k+1$, $M(3,k)=\frac{1}{2} (k+1)(k+2)$ and $M(4,k) = \frac{1}{6}(k+1)(k^2+5k+6)$. I could not come up with an inductive proof for general $M(n,k)$, however.
And I'm not very interested in a proof, as I assume - maybe naively - that such a proof will be inductive, using only elementary calculations. I'm more interested in the result.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The breath of obese children may help doctors predict and treat future complications, like liver disease or diabetes, according to research conducted at the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital.
Researchers studied the concentration of volatile organic compounds in the breath of obese and lean children. Obese children had higher concentrations of up to 50 different compounds then their lean counterparts. Using these compounds, researchers were able to identify obese children with 92 percent accuracy.
"Ultimately, this could have huge implications for early interventions for obesity-related complications that could be effectively targeted to combat risk as these children get older," lead study author Naim Alkhouri, MD, was quoted as saying.
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Here Are Our Five Favorite Food-Cliché Sentences
Check out some nom-tastic food writing.
Yesterday, we presented our list of food-writing words and phrases that drive us crazy: Unctuous, sammies, mouthfeel, etc. Based on the feedback we got, we aren't the only ones who feel strongly about overused turns of phrase (do yourself a favor and read through the comments, if you haven't already). But, in an effort to really make the point, we also asked Twitter users to cram as many food-clichés as they could into 140 characters. You can see all the entries here — a special nod goes to Ruth Bourdain and the Times's Oliver Strand, who both put their expertise to work — or you can check out our five favorite entries, below.
The eatery boasts yummy, pillowy gnocchi, enrobed in velvety white truffle sauce: nom-tastically delectable. @grubstreetny #bannedfoodwords— Cara Anselmo (@CaraAnselmo) July 25, 2012
@grubstreetny The velvety-smooth bisque's unctuous mouthfeel is lobster-tastic with its toothsome tidbits. To. Die. For. #bannedfoodwords— Jenn Robinson (@GoodJennBadJenn) July 25, 2012
@grubstreetny The toothsome, unctuous BK Broiler. #bannedfoodwords— Doosh Boring (@dooshboring) July 25, 2012
This isn't technically a sentence, but we're giving it credit anyway for using two of the worst food-writing words to remind us that something called the "BK Broiler" once existed.
@grubstreetny #bannedfoodwords "Notice the way that it just melts in your mouth; it really is an mouth orgasm." (note: mouth-gasm is worse)— Thom TheGlassPhoenix (@TheGlassPhoenix) July 25, 2012
@grubstreetny Foodies unimpressed by this fusion eatery - meltingly tender pork belly: a must; rest of bill of fare: meh. #bannedfoodwords— Emily Chu (@emilychu) July 25, 2012
Thanks to everyone who played along — and we'll be in touch with the winners soon about the prizes we promised.
It won't be possible to eradicate all these words immediately (one will probably sneak onto Grub Street soon, now that we've made such a big stink about it), but hopefully the world will be a slightly less unctuous place going forward.
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I have a friend (from here in Florida) in Texas doing some insurance adjusting, and he will be over there at least until the end of the year. Needless to say, people can tend to be aggressive when told that they are not covered, so he is borrowing a .22 pistol, but he can only keep it in the car. He does not have a CWL here in Florida, and he wanted me to find out if he could get a Texas license and what it entailed. He wants to get the Florida permit when he can (and a better handgun). I've been telling him over and over to get it, now he needs it (I told him so!).
So, is he eligible for a license in Texas? If so, what does he need to do? From what I understand, he needs a shooting test (by who?), written test (70% or better), and the typical fingerprints, picture, application, and some kind of fee. I heard that the waiting period was pretty backed up as well. Is he better off just trying to get a Florida license?


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Police in Bryant say a 17-year-old boy was killed when he apparently jumped into the path of a train.
Police say the boy was hit Monday by a Union Pacific train. The boy's name was not released.
The train's engineer told officers that the boy could be seen crouched in bushes next to the train track as the train approached — then stepped onto the tracks as the eastbound engine approached.
Police say the boy was pronounced dead at the scene by the Saline County coroner.
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THE battered housing market may have bottomed out – with a "significant" rise in sales predicted.
Prices have been falling in most parts of the country since the credit crunch of 2008 and the longest downturn in generations.
But new research out today provides the best sign yet that things are looking-up.
A survey of estate agents by the trade body the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows house prices remained steady in December – the first time since June 2010 that average prices nationwide haven't been falling.
RICS predicts prices will rise by 2% in 2013 – hardly a stellar performance but an improvement nonetheless.
And estate agents are more confident as a result, with 24% more of them expecting sales to rise rather than fall in the first three months of 2013.
Peter Bolton King, from RICS, said: "As we start the year, confidence in the housing market does appear to be improving, helped in part by the Funding for Lending scheme.
"Indeed, our members are predicting that transaction levels will continue increasing in many parts of the country and it may be that we are now over the very worst."
The Bank of England Funding for Lending scheme is aimed at boosting the availability of cheaper mortgages, with signs of initial success.
London was once again the strongest region, with another big rise in prices last month, while the North East and Wales saw the largest drops.
But other areas, including the West Midlands, have seen a relentless fall in prices now come to an end.
The closely watched RICS survey showed the number of homes coming up for sale was relatively stable last month.
But there was another increase in would-be buyers, with the reading now positive for the fourth month running.
Mr Bolton King added: "More still needs to be done to ensure potential buyers can access the market at every level. There is still a clear need for more homes to be built."


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I have a wierd problem, I've launched a website recently on IIS6, and it is working good, accesible from every computer I've tested. On one network, however, the one's of my client, it is only partially accesible.
When trying to reach the web site on any of their computers, they recieve a 403.4 Error:
HTTP 403.4 - Forbidden: SSL is required to view this resource
They recieve this error only when entering the address without "www". When entering "www.domain.com" it is being loaded fine.
From what I've read, it can be fixed by changing a setting 'Require Secure Channel (SSL)', however it is not checked, not as a website configuration and not in the files configurations.
What could be the problem, either on the website configuration or the network?


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There have been constant trade rumors swirling around Boston Celtics All-Star point guard Rajon Rondo over the last couple years, but those rumors have been stronger with the team drafting Marcus Smart in the NBA draft and the team losing out on the Kevin Love sweepstakes. With Rondo approaching free agency after this upcoming season, a trade would make sense, but according to a report by Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe Sunday, moving Rondo is "not a high priority" for the Celtics.
If there is no trade, that means Rondo will be allowed to test free agency and as Washburn reports, the Celtics point guard "fully intends on taking the LeBron James-Carmelo Anthony tour of teams." Although a trade would appear to be the best choice for the Celtics, it is unlikely Rondo would sign an extension with a team interested in him. Therefore, any potential suitor would be taking a risk by trading for Rondo.
The Celtics are also trying to determine if Rondo is apart of their future. His experience can help some of the younger players and if he is able to fully return from ACL surgery and become the player he was before the injury, Rajon Rondo can be a very valuable asset for a rebuilding team. Of course, he would have to have the patience want to stay in Boston on a team not going anywhere fast.
The team would also have the option of trading Rondo at the February trading deadline. That could be when Rondo is at his most valuable. There could be a contending team in need of a point guard to get them over the hump. That's where Rondo's championship experience could be of high value. As of now, however, Rondo appears to be remaining a Celtic, unless a team makes an offer they can't refuse.


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Residents stranded in a village in Somerset surrounded by floodwaters are demanding the Environment Agency dredges the nearby river to stop the problem from happening again.
For the last eight days Muchelney has been cut off from the world - it is now an island.
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Scope and Contents of the Collection
Overview of the Collection
|Virginia Beauchamp
|Quilt Patterns of Onondaga County, 1919 - 1923
|1 linear foot
|This collection is comprised of 373 hand-drawn representations of quilts from various locations across Onondaga County and beyond completed by Virginia Beauchamp.
|Onondaga County Public
Local History & Genealogy Department
447 South Salina Street
Syracuse, New York, 13202
(315) 435-1900
Virginia Beauchamp was a graduate of the University of Michigan. After teaching for 20 years in Colorado, she returned home and became the Director of the Syracuse Home Association and the Onondaga Historical Society, Secretary of the Visiting Nurses' Association, on the Executive Council of the South Side Library Association, and a member of the Syracuse Botanical Society. Virginia died on February 22, 1923.
Virginia's quilt patterns were donated to the library by her sister, Grace B. Lodder in November, 1945.
This collection consists of 419 patterns drawn to scale and finished with watercolor paints in order to imitate the colors of the actual quilts upon which the representations are based. Although the patterns were completed from 1919-1923, many were based on quilts made before 1850 and are thus an important record of domestic life from that time. This collection consists of all of the original 419 patterns donated to the library.
Series 1: Quilt Patterns.
This series includes numerous folders containing the aforementioned quilt patterns, as well as five DVD discs containing digitized images of each quilt pattern in an uncompressed TIFF format. The digitized images were scanned and uploaded along with descriptions to the New York Heritage website (http://tinyurl.com/373quilts) were they can be accessed free of charge.
Series 2: Indexes.
This series contains 3 indexes; the first two contain listings of the original 419 patterns that the collection contained along with titles, persons names and years when available. The third index contains the same information for selected patterns that were borrowed by the Canal Museum on November 28, 1975.
Series 3: Display Items.
This series contains a brief description of the collection mounted on a small display board from when the collection was on display at the Syracuse Public Library in December, 1945 and a small sign directing people to the second floor to view the exhibit. Also included is information from the Syracuse Herald American newspaper informing readers that the collection was on display, and a small piece of an actual quilt. It is unknown whether the quilt sample belonged to Virginia or was based on a pattern that she made.
Series 4: Obituaries.
This series contains several obituaries for Virginia Beauchamp retrieved from local newspapers.
The quilt patterns in this collection had been previously numbered (likely by librarians at the time of donation), grouped loosely based on style and placed into folders. Although the original folders have been replaced with new acid-free folders to help preserve the documents, the original organization of the collection has been retained.
User must have a valid Onondaga County Public Library card.
User must use materials in the Local History and Genealogy Department of the Central
Permission must be obtained from staff for reproduction of any materials.
For online users, a the collection is available on New York Heritage. There are related materials in the Local History/Genealogy Department of the Onondaga County Central Library pertaining to Virginia Beauchamp and her family. Please check with OCPL staff to access additional material.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Quilt Patterns of Onondaga County Collection, 1919-1923
Onondaga County Public Library
Local History and Genealogy Department
Shelf Location: MS-15
The watercolor quilt patterns in this collection were donated by Grace B. Lodder to the Syracuse Public Library.
Created by: Michelle Waltos
Date: July 26, 2013
Revision history:
|Series 1: Quilt Patterns
|Box 1, Folder 1
|Quilt patterns 1-18: Triangles
|Box 1, Folder 2
|Quilt patterns 19-71 (many missing; actual contents: 32, 34, 46, 48, 51, 52, 55)
|Box 1, Folder 3
|Quilt patterns 72-86: Log Cabin, Ribbon quilts
|Box 1, Folder 4
|Quilt patterns 87-100: Squares
|Box 1, Folder 5
|Quilt patterns 101-110: Octagons
|Box 1, Folder 6
|Quilt patterns 111-118: Squares set with triangles
|Box 1, Folder 7
|Quilt patterns 119-129: Old Maid's Puzzle, circles, diamonds
|Box 1, Folder 8
|Quilt patterns 130-137: Hexagons
|Box 1, Folder 9
|Quilt patterns 138-161: Stars
|Box 1, Folder 10
|Quilt patterns 162-170: Saw Tooth, Tray & Snuffers, Bear's Paw or Duck's Foot in the Mud, Farmer's Wrench – Hole in the Barn – Bird's Nest
|Box 1, Folder 11
|Quilt patterns 171-178: Stars with circles
|Box 1, Folder 12
|Quilt patterns 179-182: Trees with houses
|Box 1, Folder 13
|Quilt patterns 183-193: Odd patterns
|Box 1, Folder 14
|Quilt patterns 194-216: Bear's Paw or Duck's Foot in the Mud
|Box 1, Folder 15
|Quilt patterns 217-235: Stars, trees
|Box 1, Folder 16
|Quilt patterns 236-247: Blazing stars
|Box 1, Folder 17
|Quilt patterns 248-266: Garden Path or Double Cross, Cross Patch, crosses
|Box 1, Folder 18
|Quilt patterns 267-286: Squares and triangles
|Box 1, Folder 19
|Quilt patterns 287-293: Postals
|Box 1, Folder 20
|Quilt patterns 294-313: Baskets
|Box 1, Folder 21
|Quilt patterns 314-319: Capital T
|Box 1, Folder 22
|Quilt patterns 320-331 (miscellaneous)
|Box 1, Folder 23
|Quilt patterns 332-344 (miscellaneous)
|Box 1, Folder 24
|Quilt patterns 345-356: Flowers
|Box 1, Folder 25
|Quilt patterns 357-369: Flowers
|Box 1, Folder 26
|Quilt patterns 370-382: Flowers
|Box 1, Folder 27
|Quilt patterns 383-394: Flowers
|Box 1, Folder 28
|Quilt patterns 395-406 (miscellaneous)
|Box 1, Folder 29
|Quilt patterns 407-419 (miscellaneous)
|Box 1, Folder 30
|Five DVD discs containing digitized images of each quilt pattern in an uncompressed TIFF format
|Series 2: Indexes
|Box 1, Folder 31
|Indexes (2 copies) that list titles, names, and years for the 419 patterns originally held in the collection; one index listing selected items borrowed by the Erie Canal Museum on November 28, 1975.
|Series 3: Display Items
|Box 1, Folder 32
|Ephemera from the display of the collection at the Syracuse Public Library in 1945 including a brief description of the collection, a sign directing patrons to their location, a fragment of an actual quilt, and a newspaper clipping from the Syracuse Herald American newspaper.
|Series 4: Obituaries
|Box 1, Folder 33
|Obituaries for Virginia Beauchamp from local newspapers (1923).


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Sangre de Cristo Mountains > Wheeler Peak (NM) > Climber's Log
Wheeler Peak (NM) Climber's Log
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|Highpoint #11
Date Climbed: Sep 25, 2010
|My eleventh state highpoint. I camped in the parking lot at the Bavarian and got on the trail at 6:45 a.m. It took me 3 hours to get to the top and 2 hours to get back down. I also hit Mt. Walter while I was up there since it was so close. Then I shot over to Black Mesa. Overall, Great half-day hike but very steep!
|Posted Sep 26, 2010 8:03 pm
|Somewhat lost
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2010
|Camped out in the parking lot by the Williams Lake Trailhead. Hiked and summited using the Williams Lake Trail. Met some nice people at the top, they suggested taking Bull of the Woods Trail back to the parking lot. It was a beautiful trail, but took longer than expected. We ended up at the Taos ski area and had to hike back up to the Williams parking lot via a dirt road. Overall a 10+ day!
|Posted Sep 15, 2010 10:27 am
Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2010
|HWat Hotoven said. this was was my first high peak and it was awesome. the altitude beat my ass. gotta train harder with cardio. awesome views and the golden-mounted ground squirrels on top were awesome. met a lot of cool people
|Posted Aug 15, 2010 12:30 am
|Nice hike on a wonderful day!
Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2010
|Couldn't have asked for better weather. We met some great folks from all around and had a nice break on top. I got a small headache but what can you say. I'm a flat lander! Awesome views and a nice cannon on top?
|Posted Aug 11, 2010 3:51 pm
|Climbing Wheeler
Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2010
|Camped at the Twinning camp in the middle of Taos Ski Village. Stated from Williams lake TH at 0635hrs, reached Williams lake by 0730hrs, and the summit 0835hrs. Summit was totally fogged in, pretty windy and viewless at the top of NM. There were already 4 persons on the summit when i arrived. Took a few shots and descended quickly to Williams TH. Halfway down the weather cleared up spectacularly. I should have started out one hour late and would have gotten the million dollar summit view. Anyways, lingered for long while at Williams lake taking in the view before heading out.
|Posted Aug 1, 2010 9:54 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2010
|Did it in 3 hours. Glad to do another rocky state highpoint. It was awesome!
|Posted Jul 29, 2010 10:55 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2010
|Lovely hike!
|Posted Jul 20, 2010 8:30 pm
|3 Day Escape
Date Climbed: Jun 18, 2010
|Escaped from the concrete jungle to spend 3 wonderful days around the Williams Lake area, took direct route to Wheeler Peak the last day, started at dawn and climbed into the sun as it came over the ridge, wonderful, beautiful day, with the typical 40 mph winds at the top!! Doing it with my son made the time extra special.
|Posted Jun 29, 2010 1:18 pm
|via Williams Lake
Date Climbed: Jun 24, 2010
|On my way across the country, had just come from Mount Magazine and Black Mesa. Beautiful climb, but coming down was hard on the knees.
|Posted Jun 29, 2010 11:54 am
|State HP #6
Date Climbed: Jun 26, 2010
|In Taos for the Solar Music Festival, hiked the standard route in the morning.
|Posted Jun 29, 2010 10:19 am
|Pre-monsoon beauty
Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2010
|My wife and I had a great hike on June 21. Camped at Taos Ski Valley, left camp at 8am, meeting strong gusts at exposed ridges above Bull of the Woods, but great views and plenty of sun. La Cal basin was full of Marmots. I missed the snow free easy traverse through alpine shrubs and snow fields in La Cal basin, which cost us 500 extra feet following trail down to bottom of valley-- trail still buried in snow, so it was a slog up the switchback ridge to Mt. Walter. It takes a bit of maze work, but coming down we traversed this section off trail without losing alt. A short, steep snowfield below Walter is a bit dangerous without climbing gear -- stay to right/west on way up and over knob above La Cal basin to avoid (again we corrected on way down). Otherwise trail on ridge at 13k is either snow free or low risk. We made it to summit about 2pm and took our time with no lightening threat; just occasional strong gusts. A few young, strong climbers came up from Williams Lake-- strongly suggest very good conditioning and acclimatization for that route. Made it back to camp at 6:45 pm -- long day... Bull of Woods route is very exposed with several hours above treeline at top of NM, so again warning on weather -- we lucked out with short notice pre-monsoon and hot weather with good meltoff -- suggest post-monsoon in Sept or very good forecast -- would not want to be caught up there in a Tstorm.... Last time we were on top of Wheeler was 17 years ago in early Oct of '93-- perfect weather, no other people -- following weekend dumped 2ft on TSV. I posted photo album-- http://www.summitpost.org/album/631747/Wheeler-Peak-NM-17-years-later-.html --great trip.
|Posted Jun 24, 2010 8:30 am
|Great trip to the top of NM
Date Climbed: May 29, 2010
|I took the bull of the woods trail up to the top of Wheeler. It was super windy, gusts of at least 60 or 70mph. I saw about 20 rams, including one that tried to mount another one. Great day, still quite a bit of snow.
|Posted May 30, 2010 12:48 am
|Job Benefit
Date Climbed: Jun 27, 2005
|I was assigned to work at Los Alamos and found the opportunity to do this peak. I had to make two attempts. it was pouring the first attempt so never made it out of the parking lot. A couple days later and glorious weather was had!
|Posted Mar 13, 2010 10:12 pm
|Route Climbed: Standard
|Enjoyed the hike, excellent scenery
|Posted Feb 3, 2010 6:01 pm
|2nd State high point
Date Climbed: Oct 25, 2009
|Nice day in the snow, mountain goats at the summit
|Posted Jan 23, 2010 1:44 am
|Via Williams Lake
Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2008
|Most beautiful alpine in New Mexico. Super friendly marmots.
|Posted Dec 19, 2009 3:01 pm
|1st HP, 1st 13er
Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2009
|Took the Bull-of-the-Woods trail which was very pleasant. Great weather and clear skies. Afternoon showers rolled in around 12-1pm as is normal in the summer, but we escaped them.
|Posted Nov 20, 2009 7:03 pm
Date Climbed: Oct 25, 2009
|Highpoint 7, light snow/no wind on the way up via Willams Lake. The west face was tiring, as we were postholing up to our knees, but it went rather quick. Views started to open up as we were on top. Saw some mountain goats. Speedy descent. A little over 4 hours ctc.
|Posted Oct 25, 2009 10:28 pm
|Bryan K
|First highpoint
Date Climbed: Aug 10, 1989
|My first state highpoint when I Was 15 years old. It was a great trip with my Dad and his friend. A marmot came up to me and licked my boots too!!
|Posted Oct 21, 2009 6:03 pm
|Adam Doc Fox
|Re: First highpoint
|My first state highpoint as well. Sadly, I was 31.
|Posted Feb 11, 2015 9:01 am


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Tonight is a new episode of "When Calls the Heart" on Hallmark channel. On Jan. 25, the show went to their Facebook page to share a picture from tonight's episode along with a few spoilers. It is called "A Telling Silence." Do you love this show?
There will be a fire in Coal Valley tonight at a church. Jack is going to have to investigate and try to figure out what happened to cause it. Elizabeth will also be helping a student out tonight and it will be an interesting story line. The little girl will not speak at all and then she ends up going missing.
The show "When Calls the Heart" actually started out as a movie, but it was then turned into a series. Hallmark is doing well with having their own original shows. "Cedar Cove" was picked up for another season and fans are hoping the same happens for this show.
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J. Ralph- American born, New York, 1975. Has no formal training and does not read or write a single note of music. A self-taught composer, songwriter and producer from New York City, his professional career began at 22 with the signing to the prestigious Atlantic Records by label president Jason Flom in what was one of the biggest record deals ever granted to a new artist. J. Ralph's debut album Music To Mauzner By took over a year to record virtually by himself and was released on February 23rd 1999 under the nome de plume, SPY. A musical Rorschach test, it was sonic blender of rock, hip-hop, mariachi, electronic, blue eyed soul, funk, and classical. Notable music critic Charles M. Young proclaimed the album "truly an important debut."
Weeks after the release, amidst critical acclaim and MTV billing him the next big thing in pop music, J. Ralph disappeared into a self-imposed exile. He took refuge in an abandoned vaudeville theater in lower Manhattan, where he constructed a sonic laboratory and carried out a full-scale excavation of what he calls "the orchestra's universal language." Five years later he emerged with, The Illusionary Movements of Geraldine & Nazu; an orchestral memoir recorded with a 75-piece orchestra, featuring players from the New York and Czech Philharmonics. Master film composer Carter Burwell arranged and conducted the first two chapters "Untitled 17" and "Where the Day Takes You". Released in an unprecedented artist direct deal with Barnes and Noble, the store sold every single copy.
Drawing no distinction between art and commerce, J. Ralph is the founder and creative director of scoring collective, The Rumor Mill. The production company creates scores, songs and musical identities for films, artists, and brands. The Rumor Mill is considered by many an authority of innovative, authentic music and counts many of the fortune 500 companies as its clients. Over their ten-year history they have created an expansive catalog featuring thousands of songs and scores which they own and control 100%. Internationally recognized, they have won every top honor and award including the Cannes Lion, AICP, Clio, LIAA, The One Show and a Grandy. Their music has been featured in the biggest television advertising events in the world including The Olympics, The Academy Awards, The Super Bowl, The Grammys, The Emmys, and The World Series.
J. Ralph believes the orchestra is the ultimate medium boundless in philosophy and universal in scope. He has scored the last two Academy Award winning documentaries The Cove (about the dolphin captures in Japan) and Man On Wire (Philippe Petit's 1974 illegal tight rope walk between the Twin Towers), the music for Jean Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child which he did along with Adam Horovitz and Michael Diamond of The Beastie Boys, & the score for Marilyn Minter's instillation Green Pink Caviar on exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and featured in the Destricted film series along with Matthew Barney, Richard Prince, Gaspar Noe, Larry Clark, & Cecily Brown.
In 2008, his fascination with acoustic instruments and live performers continued when J. Ralph was commissioned to write the opening fanfare for Columbus Ohio's Pro-musica Orchestra. His resulting, Fanfare for the Uncommon Eli & Mr. Greene, had its world premiere at the State Theater on November 8th of that same year.
His most recent works are the war documentary Hell and Back Again for which he wrote the score, sound design and end title song performed by Willie Nelson and the score/soundtrack album for the autism documentary Wretches & Jabberers by Academy Award® winning director Gerardine Wurzburg. Recorded in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, & London, J. Ralph wrote and produced 20 songs featuring Collaborations with Antony, Devendra Banhart, Paul Brady, Bonnie Bramlett, Vashti Bunyan, Martin Carthy, Judy Collins, Lila Downs, Vincent Gallo, David Garza, Ben Harper, Scarlett Johannson, Nic Jones, Norah Jones, Leah Siegel, Carly Simon, Stephen Stills, Ben Taylor, & Bob Weir.
J. Ralph is a fellow of Yale University and the only composer ever to win two consecutive A.I.C.P. awards. His scores are included in the Museum of Modern Art's Permanent Collection of Film and Media in New York City.


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Grape Catsup
Total Time: 10
Yield: 1-1/2 quarts
"When I was a teenager in New Hampshire in the 1950s, we had a Concord grapevine that grew on the side of the woodshed," wrote reader Lucille Mitchell in Yankee's September 1999 issue. "In the fall, my mother picked the large purple grapes and made grape catsup. Its spicy aroma filled the house and tickled our appetites. It made an excellent addition when served with meat and fowl. The thought of it brings to my mind fall's crisp, cool days and hills of beautiful foliage. I am now old and a long way from home, and these are the things I miss."
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Charles Arthur Hutchison
Position: G
Height: 6-3 Weight: 250 lbs.
Born: November 17, 1948 in Canton, OH
High School: Carrollton
College: Ohio St. (school history)
Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2nd round (38th overall) of the 1970 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 16 (5629th overall since 1950)


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Magazine of the painting blogosphere.
Erin Langner interviews painter Emily Gherard.
Gherard comments: "I am realizing more and more how important that physicality is to my actual practices. I think it is really fundamentally crucial. My techniques started off as ways to create a particular kind of layer, and they often had connections to the content; the forms that I was painting were creating these physical spaces for themselves. It was something that would visually accumulate on the canvas and then be scraped back. I realized I'm kind of addicted to that process, that I actually enjoy physically pushing the materials around. I also love the exhilaration of a process that completely disintegrates the image and then enables it to re-emerge."
The landscape has inspired painters from Courbet, Monet, and Cézanne to Jackson Pollock and Joan Mitchell, the immensity of nature acting as a catalyst for each of their highly individual visions.
Tenses of Landscape, on view at the University of Arkansas Fine Arts Center Gallery through November 4, 2012, takes a look at the influence of landscape in the work of nineteen contemporary painters: Ricky Allman, Julie Cifuentes, Mike East, Emily Gherard, Grant Hottle, Michael Kareken, Tim Kennedy, Carla Knopp, Michael Krueger, Mark Lewis, Kristin Musgnug, Joseph Noderer, Margaret Noel, Casey Roberts, Claire Sherman, Kimberly Trowbridge, Shane Walsh, Megan Williamson, and Jenn Wilson.
In the exhibition introduction, Sam King writes that the show "presents both broad and dynamic depictions of landscape revealed as motif. Moreover, each artist examines the terrain dictated by these approaches and in turn addresses the act of painting itself."
In addition to publishing statements by the artists each Monday on their blog MW Capacity, exhibition co-curators Sam King and Christopher Lowrance agreed to share their thoughts on putting together the show with Painters' Table.
Interview with painter Emily Gherard about her work and influences.
Gherard says: "The painting or drawing begins with an idea of a particular form and how it might fit in the space of the painting but as the work continues what keeps me in the piece is manipulating the materials... I look for when the use of materials adds more information, clarity and definition to the original idea."
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The San Jose Sharks used a natural hat trick by Martin Havlet to beat the Colorado Avalanche, 5-1, Friday night at the SAP Center in San Jose. Dan Boyle opened the scoring at 3:01 of the first period and Patrick Marleau added another goal at 10:31 to take 2-0 lead into the second period for the Sharks.
Havlet scored all three goals less than ten minutes apart in the 3rd period for his sixth career hat trick and first in nearly nine years. "He's one of those guys who's had a rough season, but we need him to be a scorer for us," captain Dan Boyle said.
Patrick Bordeleau scored off a rebounded save late in the second period to get the Avalanche close at 2-1 before Havlat's third period hat trick put the game on ice for the Sharks.
Sharks coach Todd McLellan had the services of Tomas Hertl for the first time in over four months. Hertl had knee surgery earlier in December stemming from a knee-to-knee collision with L.A. King's Dustin Brown. "Tomas is quite a bit better than we thought he might be," McLellan said.
The Avalanche almost tied the score in the second period when P.A. Parenteau, fresh from the penalty box, took a head man pass in stride for a breakaway but Sharks' goalie, Alex Stalock made an athletic kick-save with his left pad to thwart the scoring opportunity. Stalock made 32 saves for his 12th victory this season.
The Sharks already know they'll play the L.A. Kings on the first round of the playoffs while the Avalanche is still working for playoff positioning that will be decided over the last weekend of the season. The Avalanche was trying to secure the best record in their division but now need to win against Anaheim or have St. Louis lose to Detroit on Sunday for that honor.
The Sharks won their last home game on fan appreciation night before they head to Phoenix for the final game of the season Saturday night.


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General manager Dave Dombrowski said the Tigers gave up two minor-league prospects, Antonio Cruz and Julio Rodriguez, to acquire Betemit.
Dombrowski acknowledged that the Tigers "have scuffled" at third base, where Brandon Inge is hitting .177, and said a decision on the longtime starter's future would be made after Betemit reports to the Tigers for Thursday's game at Minnesota.
Betemit, 29, is hitting .281 with three home runs and 27 RBIs for the Royals. He is a ninth-year veteran.
The Tigers gave up two Class A players to get Betemit, who makes $1 million and will be a free agent after the season. Cruz is a pitcher for the West Michigan Whitecaps, while Julio Rodriguez is a catcher at Lakeland.


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Who Launched the USS Fannie Mac?
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The United States Government has usurped the Constitution with the acquiescence of the people whose insatiable demand for largess has destroyed the foundation of this country. American corruption, greed and sloth has brought about her destruction from within. You wanted democratic socialism but you got corporate fascism. Right wing populism is simmering. It took the Civil War to eviscerate the Tenth Amendment. The Great Depression heralded the end to constitutional government. Reform will come from the barrel of a gun. Military dictatorship under the guise of public safety will follow. You won your freedom only to lose it to your base need for comfort.
I am glad to see only Bush was responsible for the crisis. The previous administrations and congresses past and present should not be lumped in with Bush. That would tarnish there already stellar reputations.
I agree Fannie and Freddie are disasters, billions in losses. This seems to be an argument to the effect that the proximate cause of these monumental losses is garden-variety negligence, e.g., the immense battleship whose helmsman is momentarily distracted, with unfortunate consequences.
However, it is hard to argue that actions endlessly repeated, and endlessly ratified by all of the various participants, constitutes "negligence." I see it as a grand series of business transactions, with a profit motive. Then it follows, that for every loss, there is a counterparty who profits, in this case handsomely, who therefore has motive to enter into the transaction, especially one in which the outcome can be greatly influenced to one's benefit by political contributions and lobbying. So, who profited? Follow the money to the real perps.
Is conflict of interest negligence? Is willful misuse of power negligence?
That's for the lawyers to work on. For me I have made up my mind. The WH used F/F to further their agenda. While their intent way back then was benign, the consequences were catastrophic.There were many in the Bush administration (include all of the Treasury Secretaries and his life long friend James Lockhart) who were all saying they constituted a systemic risk. No one listened and now we pay........The battleship hit the dike and we all got flooded.
We can't rewrite history. But I will ask the question anyway. Where would we be today if F/F did not load up on Sub Prime and Alt A loans in the 02-06 years?
Answer: Much better than were are today.
While their intent way back then was benign,...
What makes you so sure Bruce?
Oh boy. Bruce, don't feed the fire, the piece on the agencies is deeply flawed. There are people out there trying to sink the ZH Bismarck, why give them an easy shot?
I would rather this have died earlier this weekend, too. Howard and you wrote some excellent rebuttals that referenced actual experience in the field. To say that the fraud was ring-fenced inside F/F and that there is a wide moat between F/F and the ratings agencies and investment banks is, well, unbelievable (and that was the least inflammatory word I could think of).
Cursive, Howard and I are dissenters the spirit of communitas, it is because we care about ZH. There are two important stories IMO around MBS-ABS and they are not about the agencies:
1. The rise of non-agencies MBS and the massive fraud that accompanied it,
2. The discrediting of the MBS-ABS technology, the only challenge to the banking model, and the rise of banks so large that they are de facto GSEs.
@ heatbarrier
I care about ZH, too. Reading Denniger this morning, he posits a theory that the Christmas Eve open credit line extended the F/F could be a window for the banksters to unload the principal reductions on their underwater loans/HELOC's. If that were to happen, who would be the ultimate beneficiary? The banks. Who among the ZH community doesn't think the banks are pushing for these bailouts? And there are so-called economists such as Mark Zandi saying this is exactly what we need. F/F are problems, but it is wrong to focus on F/F as the origin of the problem.
No wonder the banks are now showing relative strength.
All the garbage will be offloaded from the balance sheets onto FNM and FRE, and the taxpayers will end up paying the bill.
Agreed. The BAD BANK (S) have already been created with this intent.
The horror.
Wishful thinking at best.
I worked at Fannie Mae for 5 years. Grew to loath it, it's 'mission' to push the "American Dream" on everyone, and creeps like Barney Frank, Jamie Gorelick, Frank Raines, etc., the pathetic, racist 'diversity' training classes they made employees suffer through, and the promotion of employees on bases other than merit.
My own view is that the present economic mess in this country germinated not from a failure of free markets but from the Gubmint's having stuck its finger in the sector underlying the US economy - the housing sector - via Fannie and Freddie.
The WSJ repeated warned/editorialized over the years that the Gubmint's implicit backing of Fannie/Freddie would one day become explicit. They were right, and today, the preliminary, soon-to-grow price tag has emerged at $400 billion.
Nice work, Barney & Co. I nominate Barney Frank for Time Magazine Person of the Decade.
I sure do love to hear from F/F employees. Any others want to contribute?
Little of track , but I just saw some government bastard on This Week say somthing about " we have to decide what we are going to do about american terrorists who contact Aquida. (?)" Get the hell out of Missouri if you can!
After MONTHS of telling everyone that the equity was good money AND allowing Fannie Mae to raise $7BILLION in straight Preferreds, 2 months before the gov't nationalized them and WIPED it ALL OUT. That absolutely disgusted me, because that is the start of the mass exodus of capital from this country. It's going to be an economic wasteland for years and perhaps even decades to come. Gov't now makes up >55% of GNP. After learning about the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and seeing that 2 tiered accounting and the notion that now they have complete control of the mortgage market AND have a grasp on Health Care, we're done.
No question in my mind that the way they handled Freddie and Fannie was completely classless and was officially the beginning of the end.
The judge's analogy of a Navy ship being bearing sole responsibility for a levee breach might be accurate were it not for the not so small matter of the hypothetical Navy ship being driven into a levee by a hurricane! Katrina was an 'Act of God' in my estimation.
I believe you are a weather buff Mr. Krastings and I am not
but I do remember the NHC Sunday night warning on Katrina. A category 5 hurricane with sustained winds in excess of 175mph! Without that tempest in the Gulf of Mexico New Orleans would have been just fine as would have been Biloxi.
What happened at the GSE's was entirely manmade and had more to do with 'animal spirits' and pushing homeownership to people who were not "culturally or financially ready for homeownerhship " to quote Barney Frank.
if you had hired an engineering firm to deal with obvious problem the shipping channel presented, you would have sued them for doing what the ACE did, they screwed up major league, like a doctor not diagnosing an obvious classic case of a well known disease, even after the patient raises concern they have such disease. It like the doctor, says no, I refuse to test you for said disease as I know you don't have, and then patient dies of said disease.
If you look at the technical issues, the shipping channel did just what everyone technical knew it would do, allowing massive flooding if not re-engineered. Dutch et al all deal with this and have much expereince how these channels will behave. ACE was tasked and given enough money to fix this and they did not. The flooding from Katrina that went into shipping channel was not even close to a rare event, it was well within anticipated design life flooding, Kat was not even that big of hurricane, the flooding was not that bad except that the stupid channel made it bad.
FWIW, it is my understanding that all professional engineers bear a personal, perpetual liability for any negligence or malfeasence. Perhaps our burden for Federal retirement costs could be reduced by going after the responsible individuals. Just a thought.
Let's put this to rest....
In many developing countries....there are many people
that build flimsy homes on riverbanks....knowing full well
that one day....their houses WILL BE FLOODED OR LOST....
There is not a single person in New Orleans that is not aware of possible flooding issues....NOT ONE....
If one chooses to live in these areas....thne THEY automatically accept natures risks....VERSUS living SOMEWHERE ELSE....
However let there be no surprise that some SLICK AMBULANCE CHASER THEORY TYPE POPULIST LAWYERS will want a shot at making some $....
Now let's end the Fannie Mae story by this....
The flaw in any loan is "skin in the game"....
The originator has to have skin in the game....and must prove they have the money to do so....and must be marketed for what it is in a factual manner.....such that buyers can properly weigh the risks before participating....
The title of the loan is "just a title"....
Loans must be made illegal that "do not require substantial skin in the game" whose originators cannot prove their participation.....
Then the marketing or securitization of "skin in the game" loans would be ok....as long as the facts about risk are adequately described to the participants....
All derivatives MUST TRADE ON A PUBLIC EXCHANGE....
Good point Anon. All those folks in NOLO could have just moved..... That's silly. Judges decide these matters, and they have.
Sounds like you live in America. You can choose which block to live on or the Town you call home. You can move from State to State. But you can't get the Feds out of your picture.
You could not have moved anwhere and been protected from the trouble these two brought on us. You did not ask for that, but they came into our homes whether we wanted them or not.
Are you telling me you are not a little poorer as a result of the crash of the USS Fannie Mac? We all are.
As for the 'skin in the game', you are spot on.
Bruce can we dispense with Government agency's / financial's nomenclature and use say...fascist oligarchs .001 oner's and their minions...Just saying.
BTW Brontecapital blog is gone...Biden bite[?] so soon after the wet ink?
Mr. Krasting, it's a bit hard to take you serious when you're drooling on yourself while typing out:
I believe that she might be the first to not only blame the government for the problems at Fannie and Freddie but to make a case that the government might be responsible for some of the consequences. Ms. Singer may be onto something.
I don't want to take anything away from Ms. Singer, but really, the first to warn of Freddie and Fannie, and the consequences of the governments current actions? There have been warnings since the GSE's first inception and when they were first made into "private" exchange traded companies--and I guarentee that major institutions buying Fredde and Fannie's MBS knew damn well that the US government was going to back them, even though it says right on the prospectus that the US government is not obligated to back them. That's the hazard of powerful enetities, especially foreign powers, buying securities from any GSE: the inevitable political pressure will be put on to cover these losses.
Again, not to take anything away from Ms. Singer, but in the future, Mr. Krasting, you might do yourself a favor without such overly egregious promotions--or simply ask her on that night on the town in person
the funny thing is we used to complain about the quasi-govt guarantee these "private" GSE had...knowing the moral hazard that created all along...little did we know AIG and GS and BofA and Citigroup also had govt guarantees...they did not even in need the "GSE" for such backing...pathetic.
You guys are tough! I said that she A) Blamed the Government AND 2) SHE LAID OUT A CASE THEY WERE LIABLE.
So it was the lialbility side that I thought was unique. I would not have been able to write about battleships if it were not for her. I owe her for that.
As for that on the town stuff, I'm too shy......
You make good points Mr. Krasting and your observations are well worth the read--I'm not trying to be hard, just I would not like to see readers turned away unnecessarily from your comments. Like most quasi government agencies, there's usually a loop hole for the government to weasel out. If they can and/or have to pay up (i.e. powerful political influence, domestic or foreign) then they will; and if they can't (for whatever reason), then they won't--the FDIC should be viewed in the same light.
These arguments aside, if we were to make the government liable, then again, we run into the issue of what role does due diligence play in the investors role? What about the disclaimer on the offering prospectus that says that these MBS are not backed by the full faith and credit of the United States?
The US government (whatever that may be) may be liable for specific actions, butI'm not convinced that the government could be held responsible for investors making a willing purchase of securities, regardless of the policies of the government and/or Freddie and Fannie--that's the responsibility of the investor to perform due diligence on the investing environment they are entering. Taking the government is liable down another avenue: could I hold the government liable for money I lost on short selling if they bailed out a company and in consequence raised their stock price?
Let's say we do make the US government liable, then who pays? The government? But what's the government? It's nothing more than abstract concept, so you can't make a concept pay out; and so here we face the dilemma of the consequence falling on the tax payer; so are we basically saying the tax payer is liable for Freddie and Fannie? After all, if the consequence on the sentence falls on them, then is it not them that we ultimately holding accountable?
So who's "they" when we speak of the government? Of course these legalistic and moral questions have constantly burdened the minds of philosophers of law, and there will probably never be an adequate answer presented, or a workable one without it immediately breaking down due to the unbridgeable gap between theory and practice. We can possibly link liability conceptually but the problem we run into is: the stronger we link causation the weaker (i.e. more abstract and general) the concept becomes; and vice versa: the stronger (i.e. more particular and narrow) we make the concept, the weaker the casual link becomes.
I would agree that one should not pass up the rare opportunity to interject battleships into a topic, if possible.
Sorry, Mr. Krasting, the above post should have been issued in my username; a mistakingly replyied without logging in.
OK, most of those people foreclosed upon either knew they couldn't pay or were buying as an investment to flip in a short period of time, left holding the bag or 'hot potato'.
Are these the plaintiffs?
Next the Federal government is essentially "we the people", so if a lawsuit were to succeed it would be we the people paying the claim. Unless you can lay blame on the individual decision makers here I see this as an act of screwing oneself. (haven't we been through enough?)
I think the only people to benefit on this would be the lawyers, and I'd hate to recite all the bad lawyer jokes I know.
atoyota you say "...most of those people foreclosed upon either knew they couldn't pay or were buying as an investment to flip in a short period of time, left holding the bag or 'hot potato'."
Have you read the stats on these things, most people were buying a house they could afford according to the bank, or refi-ing a house that they said they should because the money was so cheap, many people that lost their houses, lost their houses due to slimy mortgage fraud that took the trusting homeowners for all they could through outrageous fees, exploding interest rates that were not declared. Many are simply losing their houses due to bad economy, and even while getting an affordable house and paying down principle with fixed rate mortgage, the 30-50 drop in prices had wiped out equity, so when jobless for a year, they can't sell house, can't make payments...lose house. Many people lose houses after getting sick hurt.
There are lots of reasons for foreclosures, not just individuals that over reached.
If house prices were run-up by policies by others that knew better, they should hold as much responsibility as individual, schmucks working for a living and just doing what all the smart guys are telling them to do.
I go with Andrew Jackson on this:
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society-the farmers, mechanics, and laborers-who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
This is the bottom line, no need to go any further with this.
Next the Federal government is essentially "we the people", so if a lawsuit were to succeed it would be we the people paying the claim. Unless you can lay blame on the individual decision makers here I see this as an act of screwing oneself. (haven't we been through enough?)
This is a lose lose proposition, the only winners would be the lawyers.
+100. It's one thing for a small group of people to recover from the government (even if a bogus claim). It's completely another for a large group to do so. At best, as Atoyota says, it would enrich the lawyers.
More likely, it would end up in a wholescale redistribution of wealth. After all, the poor were hardest hit, right?
So the Bismarck is the visualization of the USS Fannie Mac? Interesting...
A once mighty warship that was sunk at a huge cost of life? Seems fitting to me. I loved the photo, and came up with a way to use it........
Very good article, and really great perspective. Love the photo too.
A parallel metaphor with the warship is that you need to power off the engines while you are miles off shore, because its mass will drive it into the harbor without power. So it is with F&F -- what mass, what mess.
It's a little sad, really ... the US culture has evolved into, "Something bad happened to me, so now I'm gonna get rich!" While I understand the tragedies, and the fact that the lawyers will skim the greatest wealth (and the "victims" may not themselves be "made whole"), the reality exists that the government CANNOT be a backstop to everything.
Does anyone really believe that the government should be repsonsible for everything (e.g., infrastructure, healthcare, economy, etc.), and we can merely sue when we don't get what we want?
The money doesn't exist for all this stuff, although yes, a few hundred billion here and there might slosh to some Katrina "victims".
the kultur of moral hazard will not survive...
While I agree with what you said, you have to remember that we're such a nanny state that if the Govt didn't have their fingers in every aspect of our lives they wouldn't be liable cause they wouldn't be involved. If we want to be left alone we as americans have to start doing for our selfs and get the Govt out of our lives.
I know, there is no easter bunny .......
Agreed, and I'd prefer that ... We can mis-direct our capital better than the government can, and aside from national defense, government really doesn't do anything very well.
what makes you think they do national defense well? $600+ billion a year
what makes you think they do national defense well? $600+ billion a year
A fair point, with my only response, "National defense is expensive and there is no viable alternative."
People can ONLY look to government for something so important that they are willing to waste money and hurt people. All social programs waste money and hurt people, and I'd prefer they'd be handled by non-government because non-government would waste less money and hurt fewer people.
Pretty much the only exception is national defense because of its nature and scale -- you're wasting money and hurting people to build a $1B airplane, but there's no other way you'd get a $1B airplane.
That analogy doesn't hold for other large economies-of-scale, like national highways or NASA -- it's already shown big stuff like that can be done better and cheaper without the (Federal) government.
Good one Bruce!
This needs to be sent around to all the lawyers and the ACLU, which would start a real shit storm. Think of all the people foreclosed on because the Government acted irresponsibly with this financial mess.
All you have to do is Put Marla's article, next to Tyler's with the lying with the UEI levels and spending, and there is due cause, and an attempt to "cover-up".
ZEROHEDGE is the best site currently with in depth news and information on "just what is happening".
It is some "thinking person's" site for those that are really knowledgeable about the financial situation and the governmental situations, to the "great unwashed" masses.
All these articles are "must reads" and all have been helpful to me to understand just "what the hell is going out there".
Thank you for your contribution Bruce.
Hat's off to ya!
New York Times Takes Aim at Treasury Mortgage Mod Program
While no one has said as much, Home Affordable Modification Program, like the Paulson Hope Alliance Now, looks designed to work very narrowly within existing securitization rules to so as to minimize the odds that any mortgages modifications under the program could be challenged in court. However, the resulting program is an abortion. It gives little in the way of real benefits to borrowers. So called "permanent mods" are in fact only a five year payment reduction, which makes sense only if the borrower believes both his income will improve markedly between now and then (given stagnant worker incomes since 1973 and deflationary pressures, that is unlikely to apply for most people) and that the value of his house will appreciate considerably over that timeframe as well. Of course, Treasury may harbor fantasies like that, which might explain why they thought this dubious program was viable.
January 2, 2010 at 6:50 am
This still seems more optimistic regarding Treasury's motives than I'm willing to be.
It seems clear that the mod program was never meant to solve the problem, namely to keep people in their homes.
Rather, facing the prospect of more and more people being willing to stand up for themselves and walk away, this program was a scam meant to induce people to keep paying, dangling the fraudulent promise of a permanent mod (which, as this piece demonstrates once again, was always a chimera). Meanwhile Treasury itself wrote into the agreements how once you enter the program you waive all rights to further negotiations or even notifications.
So once they lured somebody in with these lies, the banks could then keep extracting until they foreclosed at a time of their convenience.
Once again we see the joint crime of the banksters and this administration.
In light of that and of everything else, it's overwhelmingly clear that where it comes to a rogue, criminal system and a rigged, corrupt "legal" system,, there are no longer any "contracts".
The banks are not citizens. They're simply gutter criminals, and no reasonable person thinks a contract with a common criminal is binding, morally or legally.
So I'd suggest that decent Americans stop trying to rationally argue with the "sanctity of contracts crowd" and instead demonize and villify them as the scum they are. It's clear by now that such perps are not willing to be part of the solution, but only to be part of the crime.
Professor Oliver Houck of Tulane Law School, "This was our 9/11. There's even more of a rationale here, because the government was largely responsible."
Good Lord. We can all blame the politicians and the agencies and the banks and anyone else. The real cause for all of this crap is a piss-poor culture where "class-action" has replaced "acting with class" in the minds of the populace.
...none of this was ever intended to exist under the Constitution, ...remember the Constitution? The basis of the United States.
All of this quagmire is more or less attributable to the central banking philosophy, keynesian monetarist theory, and the resulting house of cards that is built on a fiat currency.
Find a way to take the lawsuits to the real culprits, you know who they are, what you lack is the will to take action.
...thanks for reading.


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A recent FCC filing reveals that Dell are making the finishing touches to what could well be a Pine Trial based "Mini 10" netbook.
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