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Michelle Obama's Path to Popularity
A first lady takes a risk when she plunges into the world of politics and policy. Hillary Clinton tried it in the 1990s and until the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, her favorability ratings generally trailed those of her husband, Gallup polls show.
Michelle Obama has left the controversial stuff to her husband –and the decision has paid off if her poll numbers are a measure. Earlier this month, Gallup came out with a report showing that her favorability rating has averaged 66% — a number her husband would envy. So popular is she that Gallup said she could even be helpful to Democrats in the midterm elections, visiting states that Democrats must hold if they are to keep control of the U.S. Senate. Meantime, vulnerable Democratic incumbents are hardly clamoring to campaign alongside President Barack Obama.
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How Mrs. Obama has sustained high ratings isn't a mystery. She has urged Americans to eat healthy and exercise while championing an array of apolitical causes that tend to "engender public support and help her rise above the partisan politics that has worn on the president's rating," Gallup said in its report.
When she's in the news it's mostly been on her own terms, as her recent trip to China demonstrated.
A report on her trip in the Washington Post this week said that "while (Mrs.) Obama called freedom of the press a universal right, she did only one news interview during the trip – a written Q&A."
Mrs. Clinton approached the role differently. As first lady she became a political force in her own right. She took an office in the West Wing, attended policy meetings and tried vainly to overhaul the nation's health-care system. All that took a toll on her favorability rating.
Mrs. Clinton went to China, too. In September 1995 she gave one of the defining speeches of her life in Beijing, exhorting the audience to "recognize that women will never gain full dignity until their human rights are respected and protected."
Far from shying away from press coverage, her aides wanted to maximize attention to the China visit.
A memo recently released by the Clinton presidential library recommended an exhaustive series of press events tied to Mrs. Clinton's China trip, including a "30-minute on the record wrap up session with the travelling press corps."
The memo, from August 1995, goes on to recommend a press breakfast with the Los Angeles Times after Mrs. Clinton returned home. One reason for the interview? "California is an important state for us politically …"
The two first ladies, past and present, have taken different paths. Mrs. Obama has shown no appetite for a career in elective office. Mrs. Clinton left the Clinton White House and won a U.S. Senate seat — an arc that that could end with her back in the White House as the 45th president.
But as first ladies, Mrs. Obama has so far trumped Mrs. Clinton in one respect. Sticking to traditional East Wing duties, Mrs. Obama remains the more popular of the two, with an image rating that has averaged 10 points higher than that of Mrs. Clinton, according to Gallup.
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So, a distinctly underwhelming Six Nations is over, we're all another year older, and the Promised Land looks as distant as ever. Thank God for Italy and Ireland, who pulled off the two most entertaining results of the championship; the rest of it was all pretty hard to digest.
Wales started their last game with an outside shot at winning the Championship, and they finished it in fourth place – as clear a sign as any of how little there was to choose between the top four sides. It was almost all so mediocre, though – England showed the most adventure over the course of the season and deserved their win, Ireland came to life to make up for BallBoyGate, and that was just about it in terms of real quality.
Wales now have four games to fine-tune the side before the World Cup – unfortunately, it looks as though we need a fair bit more than just fine-tuning. So, where is it going wrong, and what can realistically change before we fly to the other side of the world?
Our side-to-side slugfest. This is a busted flush – it isn't working any more, and there are several reasons why. First up, it is so dreadfully predictable. This allows defences to maintain their organisation far too easily, and gives teams something of a comfort zone against us. Second, it has become a largely pointless activity – there is some obvious value in taking the point of contact as wide as possible if you're going to attack using the full width of the pitch, but if all you're going to do is work from one side of the pitch to the other over the course of several fairly slow rucks, there really is no particular value in having started an extra five metres closer to the line. Finally, Irish sleepiness apart, it has removed any possible surprise value in using the blindside, as more than one of our players discovered against France when they found themselves the single blindside attacker against three or four defenders.
Our error count. Even with a predictable gameplan, we would have been right in the mix for a potential Grand Slam this season if our error count had been under control – but it isn't. Time and again, we do the donkey work, build some momentum, get some field position and then cough the ball up in the tackle, or give it to a static runner who gets pinged for holding on, or try one pass too many. In the last half an hour against France, Bradley Davies got stripped in contact because he was far too upright, Alun Wyn Jones tried a miracle pass of the kind that he was sensibly NOT making in the first half, Ryan Jones took attacking ball standing still and got pinged for holding on, Hibbard lost the ball in contact – and given that you're always going to get some calls against you, that's already enough mistakes to leave any side seriously hamstrung.
We've got the platform there, of a kind. The scrum has held up reasonably well even without our two first choice props, the lineout has definitely improved (although it would be a bloody delight to see one of our forwards pinching opposition ball as consistently as Richie Gray did against Italy), and our back row have done outstanding work in defence for most of the season. We've got some genuine strike runners who are particularly dangerous in broken play, and we're obviously not a team that flags physically in the last quarter any more.
We desperately need at least a little more variety. Once we've taken the ball out to the touchline, the next couple of phases almost invariably go to Dan Lydiate to take contact. Oh, okay, it's not always Lydiate, and he usually does a good job of it when it is, but I'm sure you take the point. Yes, you've got to be prepared to do the work to tie defenders in; but if you're dead set on going out to the touchline, why not try to use that full width of the pitch oh, just once or twice in each half? We've got the players to do some damage one-on-one or two-on-two if they've got enough space, and if we lie deep and sometimes attack the outside of the pitch instead of just looking for contact on the gainline, it will have the added bonus of making it a bit less bleedingly obvious when we do take route one.
Speed of thought. We talk about how fit we are as though it was still the deciding factor it seemed to be in 2008 – but we play an attacking game which gives the opposition plenty of time to align, and doesn't ask them to cover all that much of the park. If we think that we can run the opposition off their feet, then we need to play fast rugby, to change the point of attack frequently and quickly, and to keep the ball in hand as much as possible. This is about patterns more than about individuals (if you've got the time, take a look at the French game from 59:55 to 64:00 and then 66:47 to 69:43 and you'll see that there's not all that much to choose between Phillips and Peel when the forwards retain possession for a while) – but having said that, Peel does have the edge in speed and quality of delivery, and it will be a ridiculous error of judgement if he doesn't get the shirt for at least one of the summer matches. Wales might be able to play a faster game with Peel at 9, but there'll be no way of seeing that for sure unless he gets a start.
Aggression. Not just at ruck and maul, but across the board, and in terms of our attacking intent. The way this team performs makes it look as though Gatland wants to see us play a percentage game; but a game plan based on a strong defence coupled with a predictable attack is actually quite risky rugby, because it means we need a very low error count to be able to take control of a game. Two errors meant two tries in Paris, and it would be a brave man who would bet on this Welsh team producing error-free performances in New Zealand. If we're going to make mistakes, we need to be able to put points on the board a lot more quickly ourselves – and that takes us back to speed of play and varying the point of attack again.
It's all pretty small margins at the top of the game. Our 'not turning up mentally' in Paris saw France take two soft tries from two unnecessary mistakes – take those out of the equation, and we unquestionably had enough opportunities to have won the game, even with the error count as it was.
There isn't a great deal that needs to change. We've got a platform that will see us get a decent amount of possession in our pool games – we just need to be a bit more threatening on our own ball, which we can do by changing the point of attack a bit more often, and taking the ball wide, fast, just occasionally.
We've produced strong performances against all the Tri Nations sides in the last year. Our bang-your-head-against-the-door-until-it-breaks style of play will beat Samoa and Fiji with something to spare – so the truth of it is that we will get two rolls of the dice in New Zealand. If we can find a win from somewhere against either South Africa or Australia, this team might grow up in a hurry.
[Probable Wales route to the final: Group runners-up, beat an Ireland made over-confident by their unexpected win against Australia, beat a Scotland made over-confident and quite possibly hallucinatory by their unexpected wins over England, Argentina and France, to lose to New Zealand in the final by 30 points and/or 2 points after an All Black forward wins a penalty in the last minute of the game by throwing himself out of a lineout.]


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At first glance, it could have been any gathering of a bunch of outdoorsy guys: fly fishermen in cargo pants and plaid shirts; rock climbers with coils of rope slung over their shoulders; cowboys wearing snap shirts and chaps.
But not only were the men's outfits a little too well-coordinated and their faces a bit too chiseled to look real, their hair was impeccably styled and just messy enough that you knew it took both a hairstylist and the right amount of what the beauty industry likes to call "product" to get it to look that way.
Welcome to American Crew's Opening Night, an occasion to gather dozens of top hairstylists and 38 male models to put on a trend show for more than 400 people at the Infinity Park Event Center in Glendale. The company also named the U.S. winner in its global competition to find the top men's hairstylist.
Photos: Men s hair trends for 2013
A division of The Colomer Group headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, American Crew is the Denver-based business known for hair and grooming products it sells in salons across the country and around the globe. The company is also big on creating trends, educating stylists and getting guys to freshen up their look, which was the impetus behind Opening Night. At the event, it presented a trend forecast for 2013 to salon professionals and distributors. The last time they did this was in Chicago in 2008, said Craig Hanson, creative director for American Crew. So backers were in the mood to stage a big show.
"This is our statement as to how we address men and their lifestyle — from their professional lives to their casual lives," he said. "But we like to throw in a little humor and show the trends in a way that's tongue-in-cheek. So that's why we had a cowboy segment in the show, and outdoorsmen."
The American Crew team of 38 hair stylists — from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and Japan — had spent four days learning what Crew is promoting for 2013. "It's an educational retreat where we train them on what we're going to show as a brand," Hanson said, adding that these folks are artists in their own right and will put their stamp on the trends.
For all the hoopla, what Crew is proposing for 2013 isn't a radical change from what guys have been wearing lately. "It's your dad's haircut, styled in a new way," Hanson said."The thing we have really zeroed in on is a classic look with a proper taper and clean lines around the ear, but the interiors are more modern and geometric — square or round. And we're seeing a strong fringe area that you can push up or down."
American Crew is also promoting styles that can be worn two ways. "Some guys will want to wear their hair the same way every day, but we think others will be open to a second look. And with the right cut and products that can happen."
Aha! The product hook. Crew is coming out next spring with a spray called Alternator that enables a flexible hold, so hair can be worn smooth or styled to show its natural texture.
The creative team dubbed its dual-purpose designs for 2013 the "Crewcial" collection, combining part of its company name with "social" to come up with the word.
Here's what they see as other trends:
Cowboy: A nod to James Dean's 1950s 'do, this look features hair that is trim on the sides but left long in front. The front is pushed back from the forehead and held high and in place using Molding Clay (Crew's brand, not the kind you use in art class).
Field + Stream: A little shine, a little matte finish and a lot of texture comes into play in this style, which sounds random but requires three products: Ultramatte, Firm Hold Gel and Pomade. "If this look reminds you of a grade-school photo met with Mom's hasty application of a dollop of Dad's hair gel, then you know what we're talking about," said the program notes. We have to admit this one left us scratching our head.
REI Guy: This style is for outdoorsy types who want a short, easy-care cut. The front has a straight line across the forehead. Pomade gives it shine.
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A precision "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" -- harmony so close you could practically hug it -- wafts from a backroom of the Market Street Theater and Senior Center.
From another room comes the sound of tap shoes snapping the floor faster than popcorn in the microwave. Out in the small theater hall, a row of six women ("We're munchkins," they asserted) link arms and sway to a few bars of "Ease on Down the Road" from "The Wiz."
And this is just the prerehearsal -- the "real" two-hour practice begins at 6 p.m., sharp -- for the Santa Cruz Follies, a top-notch music and vaudeville-style production held each September at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, drawing crowds numbering in the thousands.
The Follies is one of only a handful of performing arts groups around the greater Bay Area with all members over age 50. Others include The Kut-ups in Rohnert Park, the Sizzling Seniors based in the South Bay and the students from Oakland's Stagebridge performing-arts school.
All these groups are literally bouncing with baby boomers and beyond -- way beyond -- proving without doubt that the showbiz bug doesn't shrivel up and die from old age.
"I don't know if it's a chicken-or-the-egg thing," says Kris Wheeler, who has been with the Follies since turning 50 in 1993. "I mean, are people who perform like this doing it because they're healthy and vibrant? Or are they healthy and vibrant because they're doing this?"
Wheeler started out as a performer, then moved on to costume director, music director and now director of this year's "Moments of Time" themed show.
"Either way," Wheeler says, "our Follies seniors are the youngest seniors you'll ever see."
That said, they're not trying to be Katy Perry or Jay-Z, although some probably could be if they wanted to.
Ethel Lewis, of Aptos, is 83, agile in movement and mind, and easy to spot -- she just dyed her close-cropped hair a vibrant purple not found in nature.
"I'm a natural ham," she says.
The petite Lewis, retired from a career at Child Protective Services, had taken vocal lessons in her youth and this year has a solo in the Follies, singing "Summertime."
Oh, and she plans to go hang gliding for her 84th birthday in July.
Like Lewis, many of the Follies folks have some theater or musical background. Others had never set foot on a stage.
Marilee Westen, of Capitola, has longed to dance since age 5 but never had the chance. Now, she's doing a tap dance number in the show.
"The gift this provides is the message that it's never too late," she says, tightening the buckles on her dance shoes and getting back to the munchkin line.
"We hear that kind of story all the time," says Marge Betley, executive director of Stagebridge, which has been offering hundreds of theater, singing, storytelling and play-writing classes for seniors for 35 years.
The idea is to transform public opinion on growing older, from a picture of decline to a sense of "creative aging" through artistic study and performance, Betley says.
"Most of our students -- the average age is about 70 -- had perhaps been in plays in high school and loved it, but life took over, families, careers," Betley says. "Now that they're retired or semiretired, they can start to focus on their own interests again."
Stagebridge students also put on public shows, and there's an over-50 performing-arts summer camp that offers a chance to "get your feet wet," Betley says.
Many of the Bay Area's senior dance and theater groups perform year-round in senior centers and assisted-living communities in addition to their larger shows. The Follies just finished up a mini version of last year's "sock hop" show at The Villages retirement community in San Jose.
The South Bay-based Sizzling Seniors troupe -- about 40 members led by Beverly Myers -- has been doing shows at such venues for 28 years. In fact, Myers doesn't even call the events "performances."
"We're not performers per se," she says. "We feel like we're educators in costumes, dancing to music. Mainly we're encouraging people to stay active as long as they can."
Many of her dancers are now in their 80s, still going strong and doing wonderful things, she says.
"I myself am 77. Just three months ago, I had a total hip replacement, and now I'm back dancing and teaching classes every morning."
Ariel Weymouth-Payne, 65, a dance instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College, has been directing the Rohnert Park Kut-ups for eight of the group's 42 years. They, too, are currently in rehearsals for their big variety-show production in July.
A few of their members may not be as agile as the Follies folks -- in fact, one or two come on stage with walkers -- but the fact is, they're still coming on stage and drawing crowds who love it.
"We're not precision," Weymouth-Payne says. "Some of our performers look pretty old. Then they get in their costumes, the band starts playing, and everyone just comes to life. Older audiences tell us they're inspired by people close to their ages doing something like this."
Barbara Colahan, of Rohnert Park, is one of about 16 dancers in the show this year. She'll be 80 in October.
"I don't feel that old," she says. "I'm very active, ride my bicycle every day, go to the gym. For Kut-up rehearsals, we're there two or three hours. We have about 12 dance numbers. It's quite a commitment.
"But it's so much fun," she says. "When you get older, it takes a little longer to learn routines. It's a little more work. But I tell you, keeping my mind and body active like this, as well as my social life with all the friends I've made here -- it makes me feel younger by being in the show, too.
"Plus," she says, "when you get all the makeup on and costumes and stockings and everything that holds you in, you look in the mirror and say, 'Hey, I don't look too bad!' "
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Bay ARea's Over-50 dance troupes
Santa Cruz Follies: This year's annual production is "Moments in Time" running for five shows in September at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium; www.santacruzfollies.net, 831-423-6640.
Rohnert Park Kut-ups: This year's annual production, "Seasons," runs for five shows in July; www.thekutups.com, 707-588-3400.
Sizzling Seniors: Perform in various assisted-living communities and senior centers around the Bay Area. Contact Beverly Myers at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Stagebridge: An over-50 theater company and performing arts school for seniors in Oakland. Its annual Performing Arts Camp for Adults 50+ takes place in July; www.stagebridge.org, 510-444-4755.


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WOLF CREEK PASS - Davey Pitcher leans over the sheer cliff, his ski tips throwing shadows on the snow 50 feet below.
"Yeah, I've hit this," he said. "But over there, it's a little bigger. That one was better."
Pitcher, whose family has owned Wolf Creek Ski Area since he was a boy, is following the "bigger is better" theme with an ambitious expansion plan that would double his ski area's size. He has sketched plans for a tram accessing 750 plummeting acres on the backside of Wolf Creek.
The 50-year-old has spent most of his life skiing not just his home hill's slopes but the wild terrain beyond the boundary ropes.
"I've been skiing back here for 10 years, and I'll be skiing back here for another decade," he said. "This is public land, and this is all about public access."
Pitcher's southwestern Colorado roots trace back to his grandfather Otto Mears, a turn-of-the-century road builder who was known in southern Colorado as the "Pathfinder of the San Juans."
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Hopes and False Hopes in China's Interest Rate Reform
The Chinese central bank has recently dropped hints that it will quicken the pace of interest rate reforms towards a market determined regime. This has raised many hopes, both inside and outside the country, from improving efficiency to reducing China's so-called excessive savings and current account surplus.
The hopes about efficiency are reasonable, but this reform alone will not achieve the intended goal, and some complementary reforms outside the central bank's controls must take place in concert. The hopes for a much-reduced current account surplus are fundamentally misplaced and will be dashed.
What does it take to improve resource allocation?
The current interest rate regime places a ceiling on the deposit interest rate, implicitly imposing a tax on savers, but puts a floor on the lending rate. The biggest beneficiaries of this scheme are large state-controlled banks, since the gap between the two interest rates gives them a fat profit margin. The biggest losers are savers who suffer from the implicit tax and firms, especially private-sector firms, which face a higher cost of capital than necessary.
This reform will likely result in a lower (real) lending rate, and a higher (real) deposit rate. (The actual nominal interest rates will also depend on the country's prevailing inflation expectation.) It appears logical to think that the reform should necessarily lead to a better allocation of resources.
However, in the absence of further reforms on the state-owned enterprises (SOEs), the interest rate liberalization could exacerbate rather than reduce inefficiency. Specifically, SOEs often overinvest, because their senior management is rewarded for scale and size instead of just pursuit of profit. If the interest rate liberalization reduces the cost of capital, their urge for scale could result in more overinvestment. This problem is aggravated by the fact that many SOEs do not pay a market price for using natural resources and do not pay the full social cost of compromising the environment.
In short, reforming SOEs and imposing adequate social costs of using environmental and natural resources are necessary complementary reforms needed to achieve efficiency improvement. One challenge is that these reforms are outside the purview of the central bank.
Will the reform drastically reduce China's current account surplus?
A popular theory in some Washington-based think tanks is that the current interest rate regime is the key culprit behind China's high savings rate and current account surplus. The supposed logic is that the low real interest rate on bank deposits has caused people to raise their savings rate to compensate for the lost interest income. This has then led to a current account surplus (Lardy, 2012). By this theory, the interest rate reform would reduce drastically China's current account surplus.
This theory is false both logically and empirically. Logically, a lower interest rate produces two effects, with opposite signs. On the one hand, because the reward for savings is lower, people would save less. On the other hand, because interest income is lower, people feel poorer and may choose to consume less and save more. While the net effect appears ambiguous, both experimental evidence and statistical analysis of people's actual savings choices overwhelmingly suggest that the first effect dominates. That is, a lower interest rate leads to less savings. Otherwise, the ultralow interest rate in the United States would have produced a savings boom. This means that the Chinese save a lot in spite of a low interest rate, not because of it. The interest rate reform per se may very well raise China's savings rate and current account surplus.
The Chinese current account surplus is not a mystery. Two factors are especially noteworthy. The first is China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in late 2001, which, by itself, tends to reduce the domestic return to capital, generating incentives for the country to park a greater portion of its wealth in foreign assets during a transitional period of about six to seven years. My research with Jiandong Ju and Kang Shi suggests that this has contributed one-third of the surplus we observe.
The second factor is a rising ratio of marrying-age young men to young women since 2002. This imbalance has caused young men, and especially their parents, to raise their savings rate in order to compete better in the marriage market. The same force has also contributed to a rise in the corporate savings because more parents with an unmarried son and more young men themselves have chosen to be entrepreneurs. Given the difficulty in getting a bank loan, new entrepreneurs and small firms must rely on self-savings to finance their operation and expansion. Together with Xiaobo Zhang and Qingyuan Du, I estimate that this force has accounted for another one-third of the current account surplus.
To be sure, other factors also matter. But each perhaps plays a smaller role than commonly assumed. Collectively, they account for the remaining one-third of the surplus. Because the gradual reforms associated with the WTO accession have been completed, the part of the surplus due to this factor is naturally winding down. In contrast, because the sex ratio imbalance is going to rise over the next decade, the part of the surplus due to this factor is not going away any time soon.
In sum, while the interest rate reform may carry many benefits, reducing the country's current account surplus is not one of them.
A shortened version of this commentary originally appeared on FT.com.
Research articles referenced in the essay:
Nicholas Lardy, 2012, "Analyzing China's External Imbalances," presentation at the IMF.
Jiandong Ju, Kang Shi, and Shang-Jin Wei, 2012, "Trade Reforms and Current Account Imbalances: When Does the General Equilibrium Effect Overturn a Partial Equilibrium Intuition?" NBER Working Paper #18653.
Qingyuan Du and Shang-Jin Wei, 2013, "A Theory of the Competitive Saving Motive," NBER Working Paper #18911.
Shang-Jin Wei, and Xiaobo Zhang, 2011, "Sex Ratios, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth in the People"s Republic of China," NBER Working Paper #16800.


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Bull Market in Treasurys Far From Over: Capital Economics
The 30-year bull market in bonds is far from over, one research firm says.
Even as the 10-year Treasury yield touched 2.0% earlier Monday for the first time since April, John Higgins at Capital Economics says he doesn't see yields rising much further from current levels. If anything, he sees renewed worries in Europe driving yields lower during the second half of the year.
The firm expects the 10-year yield to drop to 1.5% by the end of 2013.
"If the crisis in the euro-zone flares up, which we assume it will in the second of this year, then the demand for assets that are perceived to be safe havens should strengthen temporarily, dragging the yield on Treasuries lower again," Higgins says.
Treasury yields had been stuck in a tight range for much of the second half of 2012, with the 10-year yield oscillating between 1.6% and 1.8% for much of that time. Many investors had been reluctant to bet against long-term Treasurys, in part because the Fed has been such a big buyer of the debt.
Over a longer time horizon, the bull market in bonds is in its third decade as investors have pushed into safer investments, such as Treasurys.
But yields have moved higher to kick off 2013 as prices have fallen. The U.S. economy has shown gradual improvement, turmoil in Washington and Europe has waned and corporate profit growth hasn't collapsed.
Still, Higgins isn't sold:
If we are right, an analysis of the seven major prior tightening cycles in the US since the early 1970s suggests that the 10-year yield may remain firmly anchored throughout most of 2014. Accordingly, our forecast for the end of next year is still only 2%.
The seven tightening cycles are highlighted in Chart 1. We define them as instances when the cumulative increase in the federal funds rate during each period exceeded 1 percentage point. The economic and policy backdrops to each of the seven cycles were clearly different. For example, the first two cycles in the 1970s encompassed major oil shocks. Nonetheless, in all seven cases the trough in the ten year bond yield only occurred on average seven months before the first increase in the federal funds rate, albeit with a range of three months to just over a year.
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Thursday morning I woke up with the expectation of the usual mountain of Thanksgiving food. I laid in bed imagining turkey, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce right out of the can. The plan was to go down to my parents' house for the meal. I looked at the clock — 10 a.m. — and wondered why they hadn't called me to get my butt down there to help peel potatoes. I understand that for a big meal such as Thanksgiving, everyone should pitch in a little, and since I tend to overcook meat for fear of salmonella and undercook vegetables out of impatience, I am usually entrusted with peeling potatoes.
I laid in bed feeling very thankful for my parents, who obviously understood that I was very tired and needed sleep. Eventually, after I took a couple more morning naps under my big, fuzzy blanket, guilt made sleeping difficult, and I called my parents.
I chatted with my dad about whether anyone had heard an update from my sister, who was planning on flying into Portland that night from a monthlong trip to Peru.
We talked about the menu and whether I needed to go to the grocery store.
After an unusually long amount of time passed before I was asked about potato peeling, I inquired myself.
"Oh, didn't we tell you that we decided to celebrate Thanksgiving on Friday instead?" my dad said.
No, no one told me. I wouldn't have wasted my morning fantasizing about gravy if someone had. It turns out my parents weren't being hardworking Thanksgiving chefs, allowing me to sleep in. In fact, my dad told me that I would be expected to make something called "cranberry pilaf" for the following night's dinner.
There was a very, very long pause in the conversation. Actually, my dad still might have been talking, but I was sitting on my bed in stunned silence. Finally, Dad said, "It seems like you're taking a very long time to agree to this."
"Uh, no ... I was just, uh ... thinking about something else." I was thinking about pilaf and trying to imagine what it was.
"It sounds complicated," I said.
"Don't be silly," Dad responded. "It's really easy, and I have a recipe. See you soon."
Right. A recipe. I have an old cookbook of my grandmother's that includes instructions on how to cook an opossum. Just because I have the recipe doesn't mean I have any will or ability to make it. I'm just glad the opossum recipe doesn't have any notes scrawled next to it, meaning my grandma probably never made it, either.
Despite my overwhelming fear of pilaf, which increased exponentially over the course of the day, having Thursday as a nonholiday turned out to be really nice.
At least one grocery store in town still was open, and it wasn't very crowded. I spent the day lying around my parents' house re-reading "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," and eventually roused myself enough to make everyone some soup for dinner. No one ended up violently ill, so I consider my soup a big success.
I'm writing this column on Friday morning, so it's too early to let you know how the pilaf turned out. I think it's some kind of a rice dish, so I'm predicting it to be a little mushy on top and a little burnt on the bottom. If only Minute Rice had a cranberry pilaf version.
On the plus side, I just found out that there will be three different kinds of gravy available at Friday's dinner. I can already hear my stomach muttering to itself in excitement.
In general, celebrating a holiday a day late seems to make everything a little less stressful. My family has started discussing celebrating all holidays this way.
My son just might stand out a little bit when he goes trick-or-treating on Nov. 1.
Zoe Abel is looking forward to gravy. You can contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Bowie's early TV appearances must rank as some of the most interesting and amusing material to collect.According to Dave Thompson's Moonage Daydream, a concert was filmed and shown on French TV in 1965....how interesting would that be? I am just wondering how much of this footage currently exists on the bootleg circuit? Who has seen any of the following? (I've indicated in bold what I have seen):06-06-64 "JUKE BOX JURY" - BBC 1 TV programme, UK. Includes: Liza Jane. 00-00-64 "THE BEAT ROOM" - BBC 2 TV programme, UK. Includes: Liza Jane. 12-11-64 "TONIGHT" - BBC 1 TV programme, UK. Includes: Interview (heads a plea for The prevention of cruelty to long-haired men). (3min, BW) 08-03-65 "GADZOOKS! IT´S ALL HAPPENING" - BBC 2 TV programme, UK. Includes: I Pity The Fool (with the Manish Boys). 31-12-65 GOLF-DROUET, PARIS - ORTF TV programme, France. Includes: unknown. 04-03-66 "READY STEADY GO" - ITV TV programme, UK. Includes: Can´t Help Thinking About Me (live on the vocal with the Buzz). 10-11-67 "FAN CLUB" - Dutch TV programme. Includes: Love You Till Tuesday. 16-03-68 "4-3-2-1 MUSIK FUR JUNGE LEUTE" - ZDF TV programme, Germany. Filmed in Hamburg 27-02-68. Includes: Love You Till Tuesday / Did You Ever Have A Dream / Please Mr Gravedigger. 20-05-68 "THE PISTOL SHOT" - BBC 2 TV programme, UK. Filmed in London 30-01-68. Includes: Bowie & Hermoine Fartingale appear briefly dancing a short minuet. 19-09-68 "4-3-2-1 MUSIK FUR JUNGE LEUTE" - ZDF TV programme, Germany. Includes: unknown. 11-11-68 "FUR JEDEN ETWAS MUSIK" - German TV programme. Includes: unknown. 00-00-69 "LUV ADVERT" - TV advert for Lyons Maid featuring Bowie advertising their new ice-cream Luv. (1min, BW) 14-06-69 "COLOUR ME POP" - BBC 2 TV programme, UK. Includes: unknown. 30-08-69 "DOEBIDOE" - Dutch TV programme. Filmed in Amsterdam 25-08-69. Includes: Space Oddity (playback). 09-10-69 "TOP OF THE POPS" - BBC 1 TV programme, UK. Includes: Space Oddity. 02-11-69 "HITS A-GO-GO" - SRG TV programme, Switzerland. Includes: Space Oddity. 22-11-69 "4-3-2-1 MUSIK FUR JUNGE LEUTE" - ZDF TV programme, Germany. Filmed in Berlin 29-10-69. Includes: Space Oddity. 27-02-70 "CAIRNGORM SKI NIGHT" - Grampian TV programme, UK. Includes: London Bye Ta Ta / performs a dance routine with Angie Bowie & Lindsay Kemp. 10-05-70 "IVOR NOVELLO AWARDS" - US TV programme. Includes: Space Oddity. 08-07-70 "LOOKING GLASS MURDERS" - Scottish TV programme, UK. Includes: A pantomime devised by Lindsay Kemp. Bowie plays the part of Cloud and also contributes with the soundtrack to the programme (When I Live My Dream / Columbine / The Mirror / Threepenny Pierrot / When I Live My Dream-again). (26min) 20-01-71 "unknown" - Granada TV programme, UK. Includes: Holy Holy. get bowie downunder
I've also seen the Looking Glass Murders thing, has Bowie doing some mime, but it's not as interesting visually as it sounds. The soundtrack is really cool though.I don't think any of the other ones popped up, maybe in a very small circle but I doubt even that. Think about it - Bowie was really unknown at the time and would continue to be unknown till at least 1969, when he had one hit and then not much again for a couple of years.Film was very expensive at the time so most of the time the tapes were taped over. This is also the reason hardly any early Top of The Pops episodes exist. Videorecorders didnt exist or were very rare so the chances of a home taped version are very slim too.On the other hand, every once in a while something rare crops up so you never know.Maarten
i know i`m an old bugger but i have not seen any of these although i think i`ve seen the prevention of cruelty to longhaired men thingy and seen him in a ice cream add must be about 1966-67,it would be good to get hold of some of this footage .
The Ivor Novello Awards footage is available on *Diamonds In Space* along with some shakey 8mm 74 tour stuff.
Yes, it is all VERY interesting.I've seen Tonight and LUV, have yet to see the Diamonds in Space cdrom....I can tell you that the actual spelling for the name of the 10/11/1967 programme on Dutch TV is "Fenklup" It was presented by a famous dutch talkshow host, who was then in her teens. The programme has been wiped and I have yet to find photographs or any record of the show.The Doebidoe programme, I'm told by well informed sources, has been preserved, but was stolen after being cleaned up for re-use. Or so I'm told. My contact says it was black and white film, with Bowie having curly hair. It was not live, but playback. That's just about all I know....
I have one thing to say here:I believe copies, of some sort, of some of these shows do exist in Bowies archive somwhere. Remeber that he had the only copy of the 68 BBC radio show that was wiped. Since it was before VCR and Bowie would have been paid minimally, I'm belive only home videos(ie: 8m home camera pointed at a television) would exist, with audio perhaps having a better chance of surviving. Also, though the master tapes would have been wiped, sometimes those that worked inside TV studios made copies of shows for their own collections. Many, Many things have turned up via this route, including many famous retro TV appearances. Studio editors simply converted a master tape directly onto a 16m/8m film(or something similarly inexpensive) bowie himself, could have possibly aquired tapes via this route(slip a henchman some money etc)What exist in private collections is a fascination to me. Of the stuff I know existing(including non-db material in my collection) is simply staggering.My honest opinion is that 40% of what's on this list exist in some form. It just takes a really long time to turn -up.BFP
So tell me , Peter, of what do you KNOW that is out there that hasnt floated amongst collectors?personally I was amazed at the Ivor Novello awards turning up out of the blue, and the Pierrot in Turqoise thing. I know there seems to be a video for Rock 'n Roll Suicide that's doing the rounds....and knock on wood....Anyone know of any other intersting stufff?
I know of people who work in the music industry whom have collection of soundboard tapes of shows they attended that are uncirculated. They cannot be traded because of trust issues concerning the artists and their line of work. They also have a tendancy to keep to themselves.I would also say that there would be A/V of the 74/76/78 tours that few have heard. I'm talking specifically about soundboards tapes here. Bowie was a huge star by then, and private collection would for sure contain them. I do think little video has leaked out, or anything better than what is in the vancouver 76 video. It's a fair assumption video of the show proper exists.I have the LUV Ice cream commercial. It's of the blink and yuo'll miss it variety. Few know that it was directed by and young Ridley Scott(Bladerunner, Alien etc....)I have rarely seen the 78 Dallas be circulated. Same with the 1980 Carson show. Also hard to find are 79 Kenny Everett show(outtakes of Boys Keep Swinging) And the Dick Clark 79 show where Bowie did Space Oddity live. I have only once seen these turn up.There would be JumboTron footage from the 83/87/90/96/97/00/02 tours that those working in the industry would have access to for personal consumption. I have some original 70's photos that I have the only copies. Some including 8x10 shots from the press pit. I have yet to see any of these reprinted anywhere. I also have 7 Bowie ticket stubs that have not been reprinted on any website.I have a Starman video that looks like a grainy 8m transfer. It was of a ziggy/lindsey kemp mime troupe rehearsal. Uneventful footage, worth a mention however. I don't know much else, with nary of a mention of any internet source.Also, there is a full HYPE performance that was floating around I had heard existing. Pro shot on film at the Roundhouse. I'm unsure of how many collectors have this tape.Bowie would (should?possibly?) be in the audience of the DA Pennbaker's filming of dylans 65 and 66 UK tours. I also assume DB attended the doors 68 roundhouse performance filmed by Granada TV UK(has been released on home video) Bowie has never talked about what shows he has attended growing up. There is only a mention in the Strange Fascination book about Dylan 66. There also may be footage existing from Bowie's package tours in the mid 60's. Perhaps the headliners were filmed with Bowie in the background, or earlier acts(like DB) were filmed to practice camera angles/sound levels/lighting etc.The one item on this list I have the highest hope of turning up is the Ready Steady Go from 1966. It's of interest because Dave Clark(of the Dave Clark 5) owns and has the tapes from this show and released 3 video tapes contains moments of the 64 and 65 season. Mr. Clark was a very smart business man, so he would have the original tapes under tight control. I don't knowk of anything that has turn up from the 66 season, including one of Hendrix's first TV appearances. Perhaps DC's business has a email contact(this will need some research)I pointed out the 68 radio BBC tape Bowie had. Since the early 80's it was assumed the tape was lost forever. Bowie had the only copy. It was also 1/2 inch tape directly from board. Bowie may have done this with TV station to aquire a personal copy. Bowie does admit to keeping a large archive. So who knows?Bowie would have the master tapes of the DL and Heroes commercial shoots. The only copies existing in collectors hand are from a 25 year old VHS tape. Outtakes should also exist.Bowie has home movie footage dating back the early 70's. Both off stage and on. Also some private moments, including conversations with lennon. There's likely also Iggy footage...Mick Rock would have a load of footage, including unseen ziggy show(s)Lindsey Kemp is said to have some video due his connections with those work in TV studios, and being an early manager of DB.Pennbaker would have footage of the final ziggy gig. Remember there were 2 shows, plus more backstage stuff. Pennbaker has a habit of keeping all his extra footage. The 74 rehearsal video exists and has made some movements in collector circles. The audio has been available for some time.Tony Zanetta claimed in his book Stardust every show of the 74 tour filmed for Bowie to look at the next day. All the soundboard tapes exists according to Bowie, the video should be in the same state. It may only be camcorder level footage, or it may be tripod-proshot type footage. Little is known about what angles this footage is derived.That is all I can think off the top of my head, ArdentDesir.BFPP.S. A 4th song was performed on the 72 OGWT. Look on page 75 of the BowieStyle book. Did Bowie performe a song sitting on a stool?(he did this for the brel songs he did live during this period)P.S.S. A collection in vancouver contains a 76 Bowie show. Soundboard audio plus video(high quality audience shot) Nobody has access to it, myself included.P.S.S.S A 20 minute unedited reel of the 72 OGWT exists, judging from the from the screenshots on the ziggy companion website. The songs have been around for some time, but the between song banter has evaded most collectors.
Edited by bowiefanpeter on 12/07/02 09:11 PM (server time).
...I was hoping for a formal response from ArdentDesir....**sigh**...
Sorry I did not Reply earlier......some personal issues...Wouldn't it be cool if we set up a good website, concerned with just his TV appearances?I have a lot of stuff you mention, like LUV, Dallas'78 and Carson....I guess the stuff I would most like to see are the Hype video and the 74 rehearsal footage!


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By Jeffrey Sparshott and Eric Morath
The Federal Reserve projects that the unemployment rate could fall to 6.5% in 2014, a threshold it has conditionally set to begin raising interest rates.
Still, most Fed officials expect to hold off on a rate increase until 2015, according to assessments of monetary policy for the coming years that showed 15 of 19 officials expect the first tightening will come that year.
The latest unemployment and economic-growth forecasts for 2014 are an upgrade from the last set of estimates, made in March. The projections reflect officials' expectations and hint at their next monetary-policy moves.
The central bank's economic and monetary-policy projections, released Wednesday, are based on the responses of the 19 members of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee.
The forecasts are updated in conjunction with the Fed's FOMC meeting held Tuesday and Wednesday. A policy statement follows each meeting.
The Fed is mandated with maintaining stable prices and maximum employment.
For 2014, Fed officials boosted their outlook on gross domestic product growth to 3.0% to 3.5%, versus a 2.9% to 3.4% estimate made in March. Unemployment is seen falling to 6.5% to 6.8%, versus an earlier projection of 6.7% to 7.0%.
Central bank policy makers say they'll keep short-term rates near zero percent until the unemployment rate falls below 6.5%, so long as expected inflation stays under 2.5%.
Their forecast for 2015 unemployment is 5.8% to 6.2%.
The forecast for next year's inflation was little changed. The price index for personal-consumption expenditures is expected to range from 1.4% to 2.0% in 2014 and 1.6% to 2.0% in 2015.
Fed officials did make a big adjustment to this year's inflation expectations, lowering their forecast to 0.8% to 1.2%, versus an earlier forecast of 1.3% to 1.7%.
Low inflation gives the Fed more latitude to continue its $85 billion-per-month bond-buying program, which is meant to keep interest rates low and spur economic growth.


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A Medford man suspected of calling in a bomb threat against the south Medford Walmart now faces more charges after police said they linked additional threats to him and found evidence he was using the subsequent evacuations as a cover for thefts.
Donald Lee Anderson, 43, is lodged in the Jackson County Jail, charged with two counts each of first-degree disorderly conduct and initiating a false report, first-degree theft, improper use of 911 and a parole violation. He was arrested Thursday and was held without bail as of Friday afternoon.
Anderson was charged with disorderly conduct and initiating a false police report following an unsubstantiated bomb threat at the Walmart at 1360 Center Drive, Medford, on Tuesday night. Since then, police took a closer look at that incident and threats the store received in May and June.
By reviewing video surveillance as well as other evidence, police discovered Anderson had stolen property from Walmart both before and during this week's bomb threat, a media release said today. The stolen property included two laptop computers, a DVD player and a phone card. All of the property, valued at a total of $1,265, was recovered, investigators said.
Police determined that Anderson also was likely responsible for the two other bomb threats made to the store on May 11 and June 18, the release said. Police suspect the motivation for those crimes was also to commit theft but said they were unable to prove it.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi men's tennis team continued competition today at the Ned and Tina Jacobs Lobo Tennis Winter Kickoff at the Linda Estes Tennis Center. The Islanders dropped two tough matches against New Mexico and UC Irvine on the second day of play.
The No. 67-ranked Islanders (1-3) fell 4-0 in a rematch with the Lobos (3-0) before coming up short 4-3 against UC Irvine (1-3) in a hard fought battle.
"It didn't go our way, we came up on the short end today," Director of Tennis Steve Moore said. "It was an incredible college tennis match against UC Irvine. I love the format. It was incredibly exciting. We competed extremely hard."
After falling to the Lobos, the Islanders came firing back in the second match of the day with a huge lift from Matt Westmoreland. With the Islanders down 3-2, the senior fought hard in a three-set tussle against Jonathan Hammel in the No. 5 slot to even the match and force doubles play for the first time in the tournament. The Oahu, Hawaii native garnered a 6-1 first-set victory, before being edged out 7-5 in the second set. In the final set with the match on the line, the captain saved seven match points to win 7-6 (10) and lift the Islanders into the tiebreaker. The Islanders and UC Irvine went neck-and-neck in doubles play before the Anteaters clinched the match with an 11-9 victory in the third match.
The Islanders received its first point of the match against UC Irvine after Javier Pujol made quick work of Caryl Hernandez in the No. 4 slot, 6-1, 6-3. Guillaume Rauseo extended the Islanders lead to 2-0 after topping Tyler Pham, 6-2, 6-4 on court three. UC Irvine rallied back with a pair of wins on courts one and two to knot the match at 2-2.
Rafael Davidian defeated Ricardo Mayagoitia 7-6 (4), 6-2 in the No. 2 spot, while Ryan Cheung registered a three-set win over Peter Nagy on court one. In the first set, Cheung notched a 6-4 win before Nagy took an early 5-2 lead en route to a 6-3 win in the second set. In the third, it was all Cheung with the 6-1 victory.
The Anteaters surged ahead with their second three-set victory. In the No. 6 slot, Pietro Jordao went back-and-forth with Shuhei Shibahara in a three-setter after squeezing out a 7-6 (4) first-set victory. In the second set, Shibahara responded with a 6-4 victory before handing Jordao the third set loss, 6-4.
With the match on the line it all came down to Westmoreland who forced the first doubles tiebreaker. In doubles play, Jordao and Pujol teamed up against Pham and Shibahara, but came up short 10-6. Freshman Paul Cook and Westmoreland downed Hernandez and Justin Agbayani 10-8 to tie the match once again.
The final point came on court one where the duo of Cheung and Hammel edged out the tandem of Nagy and Rauseo 11-9 to clinch the match.
"It didn't go our way, but this was an incredible college tennis match," Moore said. "I think this format is awesome and so good for our sport. It came down to the super tiebreaker in doubles and we lost 11-9 in the one that counted."
In the first match of the day, the Islanders faced No. 72-ranked New Mexico in a rematch of Friday night's match. The Lobos jumped out early with a 2-0 lead after Pujol fell short 6-3, 6-0 to Rodolfo Jauregui in the No. 3 slot and Cook, in his college debut, dropped a 6-3, 6-1 loss to Mads Hegelund in the No. 5 spot.
Hayden Sabatka followed suit with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Rauseo in the No. 2 position to pad the Lobos lead to 3-0. On court four, Westmoreland wouldn't let his team go down without a fight and forced James Hignett to a three-setter. After dropping the first set 6-3, the senior battled back to win the second set 6-3. In the third, Hignett took an early 4-2 lead and captured the next two games to take the set, 6-2, and help keep the Lobos undefeated.
"We played a very tough tough match against New Mexico with three matches in three sets," Moore said. "Philip and Peter played excellent matches against New Mexico and both were in their third sets when it was stopped. They both showed spirit and energy, and I thought they did a great job with the things they could control."
For the second straight match, No. 1 singles player Nagy and No. 45-ranked Samir Iftikhar did not get to complete their match. Nagy took the first set 6-2, while Iftikhar sealed the second, 7-5, and was ahead 4-3 in the third.
Also making his Islander debut was freshman Philip Kuehnen in the No. 6 slot. The La Nucia Alicante, Spain native forced Bryan Cunningham to a third set after dropping the first set, 6-3, and capturing the second set, 7-6 (4). In the third the two were deadlocked at 2-2 when the match was clinched.
The Islanders will conclude play on Sunday against UC Irvine at 9 a.m. MST and will wrap the kickoff against Arizona at 4 p.m. MST.
"We will learn from this, get better and stick together," Moore added. "We will be ready to go again tomorrow. These guys have good character, they are fighting hard and they are learning."
The Ned and Tina Jacobs Lobo Tennis Winter Kickoff features the new shortened college format where singles is played first and the match stops when the team reaches four points. In the case of a 3-3 tie, the winner will be determined by who takes the best two of three 10-point tiebreakers in doubles play.
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Tennis Match Results
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi vs. New Mexico
1/18/2014 at Albuquerque, N.M.
#72 New Mexico 4, #67 Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 0
Singles competition:
1. #45 Samir Iftikhar (UNM) vs. Peter Nagy (AMCC) 2-6, 7-5, 4-3, unfinished
2. Hayden Sabatka (UNM) def. Guillaume Rauseo (AMCC) 6-3, 6-2
3. Rodolfo Jauregui (UNM) def. Javier Pujol (AMCC) 6-3, 6-0
4. James Hignett (UNM) def. Matt Westmoreland (AMCC) 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
5. Mads Hegelund (UNM) def. Paul Cook (AMCC) 6-3, 6-1
6. Philip Kuehnen (AMCC) def. Bryan Cunningham (UNM) 3-6, 7-6 (7-4), 2-2, unfinished
Match Notes:
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 1-2; National ranking #67
New Mexico 3-0; National ranking #72
Order of finish: Singles (3,5,2,4)
Ned and Tina Jacobs Lobo Tennis Winter Kickoff
Tennis Match Results
UC Irvine vs. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi
1/18/2014 at Albuquerque, N.M.
UC Irvine 4, #67 Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 3
Singles competition:
1. Ryan Cheung (UCI) def. Peter Nagy (AMCC) 6-4, 3-6, 6-1
2. Rafael Davidian (UCI) def. Ricardo Mayagoitia (AMCC) 7-6 (7-4), 6-2
3. Guillaume Rauseo (AMCC) def. Tyler Pham (UCI) 6-2, 6-4
4. Javier Pujol (AMCC) def. Caryl Hernandez (UCI) 6-1, 6-3
5. Matt Westmoreland (AMCC) def. Jonathan Hammel (UCI) 6-1, 5-7, 7-6 (12-10)
6. Shuhei Shibahara (UCI) def. Pietro Jordao (AMCC) 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 6-4
Doubles competition:
1. Ryan Cheung/Jonathan Hammel (UCI) def. Peter Nagy/Guillaume Rauseo (AMCC) 11-9
2. Paul Cook/Matt Westmoreland (AMCC) def. Caryl Hernandez/Justin Agbayani (UCI) 10-8
3. Tyler Pham/Shuhei Shibahara (UCI) def. Pietro Jordao/Javier Pujol (AMCC) 10-6
Match Notes:
UC Irvine 1-3
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 1-3; National ranking #67
Order of finish: Doubles (3,2,1); Singles (4,3,2,1,6,5)
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I realised the other day that the other day, for no apparent reason, I thought that Persilot was blond with short hair and fair skin (maybe freckles, blue eyes). It got me thinking how I envisage you lot from your profiles & your posts when I have not seen a photo of you. It's strange visualising people just through what they say but nevertheless I do it subconsciously. Reply to this post and I will tell you what image you conjure up for me."You could earn twice as much begging outside a Tube station, even if you were twice as ugly as you are, which is very ugly indeed!"
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I thought that Persilot was blond with short hair and fair skin (maybe freckles, blue eyes).
I'd send you a picture but perhaps it's better in the long run for you to retain your delightful illusion of my appearance. I do have blue eyes and some freckles though. "They said they respected me, which means their judgement must be crazy"
I think it's actually about time we were due for another picture thread, but if you want to hunt through the old one for pics of posters who still post regularly, then here ya go.And another.Edit: fixed link."I love Let's Dance! I love every track on it! I love China Girl!" --Wraith2
Hmm...for my part, I picture Persilot looking just like his avatar. And yes, I am aware how unlikely it would be that he resembles it.later,Chris... I seem that which I am;And therefore do I ask of thee, if thouWouldst be immortal?
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?Have a go at me, LadyMacbeth. zigbot
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Me too, me too! I like to pay attention to the men behind the curtain.
Well? Try me!
Well, a lot of it shows in my avatar, but what image of me do my posts conjure up?"Caroline, the day you see anything through to the end, I'll stick my own dick in my ear." - Kevin Spacy in The Ref
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Shia LaBeouf might be some sort of weird thespian genius. Then again, maybe one of those Transformer gobot things slapped him in the head one too many times.
According to the New York Daily News, the actor has parted ways with his longtime girlfriend in favor of "Nymphomaniac" co-star Mia Goth, the 19-year-old actress he got close to while shooting Lars von Trier's upcoming film.
Really close. Like, they-couldn't-get-any-closer close.
LaBeouf broke up with stylist/designer Karolyn Pho "a while ago" after two years of dating, a source told Us Weekly, and things have reportedly been heating up with Goth ever since.
"They've kept their relationship under wraps, but they pretty much started dating after he broke off things with Karolyn a few months ago," a source told RadarOnline.
LaBeouf and Goth were spotted together on the day before Thanksgiving in Los Angeles and are reportedly very comfortable together.
"He got to know Mia on set and quickly became enamored of her," the source said, according to Radar. "They have similar interests, they love alternative music, thrift stores and she is edgy and funny, which Shia loves."
They also both apparently like having real sex in indie films.
LaBeouf's relationship with Pho was reportedly damaged over -- go figure -- work on von Trier's controversial new film, in which the actors engage in real sex scenes.
"They've been on the rocks ever since Shia agreed to star in 'Nymphomaniac,'" a source told RadarOnline. "Karolyn doesn't want him having sex with somebody else — simple."
How incredibly unreasonable of her.
Director von Trier is notorious for pushing the boundaries with his actors, and has shot several sexually explicit films in the past.
LaBeouf told the Hollywood Reporter in August that he took the job "because (von Trier's) dangerous. He scares me. And I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified."
Well, then he should make another Indiana Jones movie. Just about everyone is scared of that.
LaBeouf is apparently already into his new pal, even meeting Goth's parents in her native London.
"They're already spending a lot of time together, not just with work, but also have been hitting the town," the source said. "Mia has made Shia very happy and he's certainly found a party buddy for the time being."
"Karolyn gets that Shia likes to go method and appreciates his artistic integrity," a source told RadarOnline at the time. "However, she thinks performing a real sex scene in a movie is going too far. It's difficult for her to understand why it can't be simulated -- just like in other films."
Well, then she doesn't understand real art. Just like those people who make those straight-to-DVD movies in the San Fernando Valley involving the pizza boy making a delivery to the local sorority house. That's real art, right there.
But Pho, 23, later told the Daily News the split wasn't over LaBeouf's on-screen sex life.
"It's none of anybody's business," she said. "Everything is fine with us. It was nothing affiliated with his movie."
Of course not.
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Prep baseball, softball playoffs set to resume
Some teams face elimination, while others look to stay in winner's bracket
Published: Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 29, 2013 at 12:55 a.m.
Several area baseball and softball teams will fight to stay alive as the district playoffs resume on Monday evening.
Fort Mill at Boiling Springs, 7 p.m.
Wade Hampton at Spartanburg, 7 p.m.
Chapin at Union County, 7:30 p.m.
Chapman at A.C. Flora, 7 p.m.
Woodruff at Dreher, 7 p.m.
Gaffney at Rock Hill, 7 p.m.
A.C. Flora at Woodruff, 6:30 p.m.
Camden at Chapman, 6 p.m.
Union County at Chapin, TBA
Abbeville at Landrum, 6 p.m.
Boiling Springs' baseball team dropped a tough 1-0 decision at Blythewood on Friday and will attempt to rebound at home against Fort Mill at 7 p.m. Should the Bulldogs win, they would have to win two at Blythewood on Wednesday to repeat as 4A district champions.
Spartanburg will host an elimination game against Region II-4A foe Wade Hampton at 7. The Vikings fell 9-4 at Nation Ford on Saturday.
Chapman will attempt to win its 13th straight baseball game and punch a ticket to the district championship but will have to do so at A.C. Flora at 7 in the 3A playoffs. The Panthers rallied to down Emerald 4-3 in 10 innings on Friday.
Union County and Woodruff will have to win if they want their seasons to continue in the 3A playoffs. The No. 1-seeded Yellow Jackets will host Chapin at 7:30, while the Wolverines will travel to Dreher at 7.
Dorman and Chesnee have each won two straight playoff games in their respective districts and will next host district championships against teams to be determined on Wednesday.
On the softball side, Gaffney will travel back to Rock Hill in an elimination game in the 4A playoffs at 7. The Indians shut out the Bearcats 8-0 to open the district playoffs but fell 6-0 at J.L. Mann on Friday.
Woodruff will also fight to stay alive after a 9-0 loss at Daniel to open the 3A playoffs. The Wolverines will host A.C. Flora at 6:30.
Chapman and Union County jumped into the winner's bracket after their opening games and are hoping to reach Wednesday's district championships. The Yellow Jackets will travel to Chapin, while the Panthers will host Camden at 6.
Landrum will look to stay alive in the 2A playoffs with a home game against Abbeville at 6. The Cardinals downed the Panthers on Thursday but fell at Crescent the following night.
Boiling Springs and Byrnes are both 2-0 in playoff action and will next host their respective district championships on Wednesday.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The 49ers learned how vulnerable their defense could be without starting safeties Donte Whitner and Eric Reid.
One play after Reid left with a left-ankle sprain -- and with Whitner out since late in the third quarter because of a knee injury -- Tennessee's Chris Johnson raced 66 yards for a touchdown catch-and-run in the 49ers' eventual 31-17 win Sunday.
Fortunately for the 49ers, neither injury appeared serious, as Reid returned to the game the next series. Whitner showed no signs of hindrance when he came onto the field to check on Reid when the star rookie got hurt making a tackle.
"I'll be all right and just put ice on it," said Reid before turning his focus to the Titans' late-game rally. "We made some mistakes at the end. We got too confident with the lead and need to stay focused."
Reid noted, however, the 49ers started "exactly how we wanted" by shutting out the Titans through three quarters.
The 49ers accomplished their top priorities in containing Johnson on the ground (nine carries, 39 yards) and former 49ers tight end Delanie Walker, who had three catches for 52 yards and a fourth-quarter touchdown reception.
Linebacker Patrick Willis took pride in how he matched up with Walker, claiming Walker only beat him for a 21-yard reception in the first quarter. "The rest of the game, I feel like I played him pretty well," Willis said.
Said Walker: "I take some of that blame, too, because I let all of this get to my head. I played out of my character. I had a holding call and a couple of missed assignments."
Willis was credited with nine tackles as he played in his native state for the first time in his seven-year career. Willis' foster parents, other family members and friends were in attendance.
The 49ers were outgained 368 yards to 349, but they owned an 111/2-minute advantage in the time of possession. Most of the Titans' yards came in a fourth-quarter aerial rally by Jake Locker, who returned from a two-game hiatus but still looked hindered by a hip injury.
Highlighting the secondary's effort was nickel back Tramaine Brock's third interception in three games, which the 49ers converted into one of Frank Gore's two touchdown runs.
Defensive tackle Justin Smith sacked Locker twice, and Ahmad Brooks had the 49ers' other sack. Smith had a half-sack this season entering the game.
Coach Jim Harbaugh praised defensive linemen Ray McDonald (right biceps) and nose tackle Glenn Dorsey (right hamstring) for "soldiering" through their injuries. McDonald said he could do much more than last game, when he admitted it felt like he was playing with just one arm.
"It's big to come on the road and get a win against who we felt like was a pretty good team," Smith said.
Added Willis: "The most important thing is we got the win and now we have a long trip to London, and we have to get back to work and get ready for the Jaguars."


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I'm wondering about something I saw somewhere on the Net. Someone said that circs wouldn't show a true size on the Boye plastic rule with the Needle sizer, nor would the Susan Bates give true size for the needles in circular sets. I think they said there was an Addie Turbo gauge ( haven't even checked to see if there IS one!!) is the right one for measuring the sizes of your circs!! Anyone?? :D :XX:


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One57 Crane Malfunctions, Closes Down Midtown Street
By Pervaiz Shallwani and Josh Barbanel
UPDATED | A short but busy stretch of Midtown was shutdown for several hours Monday after the crane that snapped during superstorm Sandy malfunctioned, leaving it and a 13,500 load of concrete stuck more than 20 stories in the air, authorities said.
Officials shut down West 57th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues as they worked with the building contractor to fix the crane. It was being counter-balanced by the concrete, which was being lowered to the ground and was two-thirds of the way down. No one was injured and no evacuations were necessary, but authorities were concerned about the load on a day where the city has been besieged by high winds and is under a tornado watch.
The crane, which is constructing the luxury condo building One57, stopped working shortly after 11:20 a.m., a law-enforcement official said. The load was brought to the ground around 3:30 p.m.
A person familiar with the matter said that the construction team, lead by Lend Lease, was in the process of gradually bringing the crane to the ground by jumping it down its tower when one of the pumps in the motor malfunctioned. The operation was halted and Lend Lease called in an additional mechanic to look in to the problem, the person said.
The person said there was no danger at any time, and did not know why a street closing was required. Police do not believe there was danger of the load falling to the ground but the street was closed to pedestrian and vehicular traffic as a precaution, officials said. The street was expected to be reopened by 3 p.m.
Officials said the crane was the same one that snapped during Sandy. The 150-foot boom was left dangling for days, becoming one of the lasting images of destruction from the storm.
The crane, which is owned by New York Crane and Equipment Corp., is scheduled to be completely down by the third week in October, officials said. A spokesman for the company said they were awaiting reports from the mechanics to find out what went wrong.
One57, once completed, will be the tallest residential building in the city. There are two condos currently under contract for more than $90 million each.
As part of the process of removing the crane at One 57, hoisting equipment for the tower crane sustained a malfunction earlier today," Lend Lease said in a statement. "All safety systems worked as designed."
"We apologize to the community for the inconvenience," the company added.


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While cloud computing is now commonly recognized as the newest stage in the ongoing development of computer technology, its application in public works departments is often misunderstood. Server and desktop computer use is still the predominant approach implemented in municipal departments throughout the country.
The free online maps hosted in the cloud by various providers allow for regular — though restricted — use of cloud-computing capabilities. For example, someone might use Google, MapQuest, or Microsoft's Bing Maps to identify the exact location of an event that requires their attention. Simply type the address of the graffiti, say, or a broken water main into the service and a map of that location is subsequently displayed.
The ability to display a location on a computer screen, however, is vastly different from the ability to use that map to coordinate and compare data. That's what a geographic information system (GIS) does. In the past, the use of GIS in the government sector has been restricted to server and desktop platforms because of hardware constraints, security considerations, and the need for specialized technical staff to operate and maintain the system.
Today, that paradigm has begun to change (see sidebar on learn how North American communities use GIS).
Static Web maps vs. dynamic Web GIS
Maps have been used for thousands of years to record locations and events. In fact, the earliest known map is inscribed on a clay tablet more than 4,500 years old. Found in the ruined city of Ga-Sur at Nuzi in ancient Babylon, it presents a view of the local area that includes natural and man-made features, place names, and a plot of land identifying Azala as its owner. Thus, the first map ever created was of a municipality.
Today, public works departments can use free Web maps to highlight specific features, such as streetlights and manhole covers, for maintenance purposes. Those features are overlaid on a general basemap that depicts common landmarks, such as roads and property lines, for easy visual identification by field crews. They're often interactive and allow the viewer to pan and zoom to explore different areas.
Once such a map is generated, it can't be changed until it's been updated for a subsequent printing. And it's static, meaning the map is just a picture. You can see a road and, with a provided measuring tool, perhaps even figure out how long it is. But you can't determine from the map whether that road is concrete or asphalt, what the speed limit is, when it was last paved, or any of the other many details critical to public works.
A GIS-based map can.
GIS was created to solve problems in addition to presenting information on a map. A GIS attaches many sources of information — databases, pictures, CAD files, scanned documents, and even other maps — to a map's features. Its built-in analytical tools can identify trends and patterns based on location and even time. These capabilities transform a static map into a dynamic map that can be used to proactively manage that road.


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- ZIPLINE ADDENDUM: Study Roles
- ZIPLINE and PAPER SUPPLEMENT: Department of Energy
- ZIPLINE and PAPER TEMPLATE: Confidentiality Agreement
- ZIPLINE APPLICATION: IRB Protocol
- ZIPLINE APPLICATION: IRB Protocol, No Contact with Subjects
- ZIPLINE APPLICATION: Status Report, Conversion Study
- ZIPLINE APPLICATION: Status Report, Renew or Close
- ZIPLINE GUIDANCE: Data Security Protections
- ZIPLINE REVIEW AUTHORIZATION: External IRB
- Zipline Roadshow - Conversions
- Zipline Roadshow - IRB Protocol
- Zipline Roadshow - Overview
- Zipline Roadshow - Zipline Process Changes
- ZIPLINE SOP External IRB (CC-IRB) Review - HSD Procedures
- ZIPLINE SOP External IRB (CC-IRB) Review - Researcher Procedures
- ZIPLINE SOP External IRB (WIRB) Review - HSD Procedures
- ZIPLINE SOP External IRB (WIRB) Review - Researcher Procedures
- ZIPLINE SUPPLEMENT: Department of Defense Involvement
- ZIPLINE SUPPLEMENT: Devices
- ZIPLINE SUPPLEMENT: Drugs, Biologics, Botanicals, Supplements
- ZIPLINE SUPPLEMENT: Exception from Informed Consent for Emergency Research (EFIC)
- ZIPLINE SUPPLEMENT: Genomic Data Sharing
- ZIPLINE SUPPLEMENT: Participant Results Sharing
- ZIPLINE SUPPLEMENT: Participating Site in Multi-Site Research
- ZIPLINE WIRB Process Diagram
- ZIPLINE WORKSHEET: External IRB (CC-IRB) Eligibility
- ZIPLINE WORKSHEET: External IRB (WIRB) Eligibility