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Dave Stout
Dave "Notso" Stout, age 61, formerly of New Ulm, MN, died on Monday June 17, 2013 after a long illness.
David Allen Stout was born on August 19, 1951 in New Ulm, MN to Bob and Jeanne Stout. He graduated from NUHS in 1970 and lived in New Ulm the majority of his years until moving to Cathedral City, CA in 2001.
He is survived by his mother, Jeanne of Cathedral City, CA; sisters Debra Healy of Bloomington, MN, and Gretchen Mantalica of Maplewood, MN; nephews, Rick and Jamie of New Ulm, and niece Missy of Maple Grove, MN; special friend Susan Slater of Cathedral City, CA, and many other friends and relatives.
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By Mitchell Anderson • Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 16:44
It seems the Air Force is more interested in looking at the Sun than our warming planet and plans are being made to send the spacecraft one million miles distant – only to look the other way.
DSCOVR is unique experiment that would place a spacecraft at a gravitational parking spot one million miles away where it could continuously observe the Earth as it circles the sun.
This unique vantage point would allow us for the first time to directly measure the energy budget of our warming planet. This spacecraft would also immediately lay to rest any remaining scientific questions about the origins or seriousness of climate change. Strangely, this fully completed spacecraft remains in a box somewhere in Maryland, eight years and $100 million after it was built.
DeSmog Blog has written a series of investigative articles on the status of this strange mission. NASA has repeatedly refused to release any internal documents relating the status of DSCOVR or why the space agency refuses to launch it, even when requested through the Freedom of Information Act.
This spring, Congress submitted a bill that included a clause requiring NASA to explain to the taxpayer within 180 days why this mission remains in storage and what it plans to do with it. The bill was signed into law last week by president Bush, meaning NASA must present their plan regarding DSCOVR by April 13, 2009.
Assuming that there are senior scientists within NASA that are threatened by the novel methodology of the DSCOVR experiment, or well placed oil interests that want to keep the so-called climate debate going, this legally mandated deadline presents a problem. What to do?
The latest bizarre development with the Air Force would perversely get NASA off the hook. The spacecraft would be launched, NASA would met the strict legal requirements of resolving the mission, yet DSCOVR would return no data for which it was designed. Problem solved.
This latest twist is entirely consistent with the eight years of foot-dragging and obfuscation from the leadership of NASA. For those of us with a growing suspicion about why DSCOVR remains in a box, we can only wonder how all of this will play out.
In the meantime, I will be publishing some new and disturbing internal documents about the DSCOVR mission in the next week. If anyone out there has any additional documents or insights they would like to share in confidence, please contact me directly at [email protected].
Paul Middents replied on Permalink
I have just sent the following to my congressman, Rep. Jay Inslee:
I was pleased to note that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2008 has been signed into law. Section 207 requires NASA to report on a "Plan For Disposition Of Deep Space Climate Observatory".
DSCOVR offers the only possibility for gathering planet wide climate information (particularly on cloud cover). This data is critical if climate science is to advance. This information would be particularly useful in putting to rest numerous theories that attempt to downplay the role of human induced climate change.
I have heard that the Air Force is now sniffing around this program and that they would eliminate all the earth observing features and direct to toward solar research only. This would be tragedy for climate science.
Please do all you can to get DSCOVR back on track and launched.
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
Good for you!
Good for you!
Yes, but
what can people outside the US do to get this back on track?
Fern Mackenzie
Alastair McDonald replied on Permalink
You could write to your MP
You could write to your MP and to ask your government to fund the earth observing instruments. Even if this only causes a delay until the new president takes office it could be effective.
This is obvioulsy a case of George W. Bush trying to pursue a scorched earth policy against "the greenies trying to save the world."
Cheers, Alastair.
Eric replied on Permalink
Do you realize the sheer idiocy of your statement?
"This is obvioulsy a case of George W. Bush trying to pursue a scorched earth policy against "the greenies trying to save the world.""
Bush signed the bill forcing NASA to come to a decision. How is this "pursuing a scorched earth policy?"
BCL replied on Permalink
Ummm. . . But NASA is a
Ummm… But NASA is a "Greenie" organization. If the reason for not launching is coming from inside NASA, it is to serve some sort of liberal agenda, not conservative.
aardvark replied on Permalink
Ill-informed comment
When Dubya came into power, his administration placed political management at the top of numerous Federal Agencies, often these individuals had no scientific qualifications. Their function was to exercise political control over scientists talking to the media, or severely limit what was communicated, in-order that science communicated with the public didn't undermine Administration policy. It was a means of keeping the public in the dark about the science, by muzzling the scientists.
"I have been a climate researcher with NASA for over two decades and the last eight years are the first attempts at 'control' of NASA public affairs that I had seen. I primarily experienced this through interactions with center public affairs officials who were very frustrated by the increased NASA HQ 'control' of the messages going out. It has improved since the Jim Hansen issue, but has not yet returned to levels prior to the [George W.] Bush administration." —anonymous NASA scientist
From http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/abuses_of_science/freedom-to-speak-additional.html#AgencyFactsheets
Roflamous replied on Permalink
LOL.. I wondered how long
LOL.. I wondered how long till someone came in here blaming it on Bush.
Who's going to be to blame for all the worlds problems when he is out of office?
montex replied on Permalink
Good question! In fact, I
Good question! In fact, I intend to blame George W. Bush for EVERYTHING for the next 8 years. It's payback for all those republicans who have been blaming everything on Clinton.
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pat replied on Permalink
Your theory seems unlikely.
Your theory seems unlikely. The leading scientists at NASA are die hard proponents of anthropogenic Global Warming. It is far more probable that they are nervous that such an instrument will measure the cooling trend evident for the last 8 years.
Nick replied on Permalink
Maybe they're avoiding the massive embarrassment of proving so many prominent world figures wrong by showing that there is NO global warming, therefore the nonexistent condition cannot possibly be man made. Or maybe they want to better observe the real source of the warming and cooling of the planet; the Sun. As the planet continues to cool through this current solar cycle, it will become harder and harder to continue to perpetrate the lie of global warming, and the ones who are pushing it for their own financial gain will hopefully live long enough to be called on their lies and their true motivations of money and control.
Jason replied on Permalink
IF someone is lying about
IF someone is lying about global warming and pushing something for their own financial gain, say, alternative energy, in the end that's GREAT anyhow because oil is running out and the faster we can exploit all sources of energy more efficiently the less chance there is that we'll deplete one and then be left with nothing.
craig replied on Permalink
My thoughts
1. I'm not sure if I understand what motivation NASA would have for trying to bury this project on the premise that it would affirmatively verify global warming theory?
2. I don't think that there is any reputable dispute that the earth is warming. The debate is the degree to which human activities are influencing this warming.
3. Since no historical information exists, I am not sure how this project could affirmatively or negatively verify global warming. It would take hundreds (perhaps thousands)of years of data, to identify a conclusive trend. Thoughts?
Brian D replied on Permalink
Point 3
Craig, DSCOVR's instruments (if they aren't removed) could measure the Earth's energy imbalance, if any. Climate is, essentially, a function of this – the net result of Incoming Energy - Outgoing Energy. Weather is just a matter of shifting that energy around.
To date, the current instruments measure weather and we need to do some analysis to look for climate signal in that noise. However, if DSCOVR directly observes an energy imbalance (one way or the other), it is essentially measuring the key input into climate. If it returns a positive (and potentially increasing) imbalance, then that shows more energy's coming in than going out (however, other research shows that total solar irradiance – the energy output from the sun – has been steady for at least 30 years, meaning that the imbalance likely comes from a reduction in outgoing energy – which is what GHG warming predicts). If it returns a negative value, then more energy's going out than coming in, and the ZOMGWE'RECOOLING crowd is probably correct.
(DSCOVR also has the interesting effect of being able to study the entire lit face of the Earth *with clouds*, which are currently a large source of uncertainty in climate models. This means that it can measure albedo, or the amount of the sun's light that the earth reflects (clouds factor into this), on a global scale. This is also a fundamental factor of determining our impact on climate. In short, DSCOVR would actually definitively answer this one way or the other, and in a very short stretch of time.)
That is why we wouldn't need thousands of years of data.
Obama08 replied on Permalink
Bush is that one that signed
Bush is that one that signed the bill in the first place.
BobG replied on Permalink
Contacting Congress...
Good idea Paul! I just contacted my congressman and senators.
JimK replied on Permalink
I think this has more to do
I think this has more to do with internal NASA politics than anything else. Living near a NASA center and having acquaintances that are NASA administrators, I hear far too much about internal power struggles in that agency to see any outside malevolence involved.
NEO satellites and climate data crunching are run out of a different department (and different centers) than satellites that leave earth orbit. Launching DSCOVR has the effect of placing the major new climate observing equipment (and it's associated research budget) in a whole new group of bureaucrat's hands. It also means that the data (and opportunity for first publication) is first received by scientists outside of Hansen's climate change group.
Even if the data 100% confirmed the existing climate groups' previous publications, this will be strenuaously fought so they can maintain their budgets. If it did not confirm previous publications, it would cause their budgets to tumble even faster and lead to a different Department's being percieved as correcting errors made by Hansen, a big scientific black eye for NASA.
Unlike the previous writer, I suspect Bush would love to see this thing launched since it will diminish Hansen's standing no matter what its data shows. It's just that there are thousands of small ways for NASA insiders to delay a satellite launch and only a few ways to actually get one off the ground.
aardvark replied on Permalink
Reverse Logic Desperation
Your argument is so full of stupid that it isn't worth dissecting.
A prime example of reverse logic used in desperation to blame anybody but the useless but culpable Dubya.
dj hojo replied on Permalink
you need to change "warming
you need to change "warming planet" to "cooling planet". http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/records/index.php?ts=monthly&elem=mint&month=10&day=29&year=2008&submitted=Get+Records#recs
C. Hunter replied on Permalink
Nobody is sure...
The continued dragging of feet by all who could get this satellite launched makes sense.
Believers in the human-caused environmental problems are afraid that the data returned will not support their doomsday message, and the unbelievers are afraid that it will.
Why take a chance when there are billions of dollars at stake both ways?
Everybody wants to promote their agenda, but nobody really needs to know the truth at this time.
Shawn Harstad replied on Permalink
"This unique vantage point
"This unique vantage point would allow us for the first time to directly measure the energy budget of our warming planet. This spacecraft would also immediately lay to rest any remaining scientific questions about the origins or seriousness of climate change."
You're kidding right? You actually believe that?
BCL replied on Permalink
Hmmm. . . why hypothesize a
Hmmm… why hypothesize a right-wing conspiracy when it could just as easily be a left-wing conspiracy. Maybe there are scientists and tree-hugger politicians that have too much to loose – even on the small chance that their theories are proven wrong – to launch this probe. NASA has been spending billions trying to prove Human Induced Global Warming. What would happen if they prooved that it isn't true – or that their strategy of using low orbit satallites for Earth observation was flawed?
Of course the idea that this one satilite parked at the L1 Lagrangian point can answer the global warming issue once and for all is a bit of a stretch of the truth.
Greg replied on Permalink
"what can people outside the
"what can people outside the US do to get this back on track?"
Well… you could get your own government to build and launch their own deep space observatory! Why do so many people from other countries want to have input in everything the US does? LOL!
The last ice age ended 20,000 years ago, long before the industrial revolution. What caused the Earth to warm back then? For that matter, what caused the Earth to cool to start that ice age? Why can't you people (and I DO mean that as a pejorative) just accept that climate change is natural?
Alastair mcDonald replied on Permalink
The ice age in the Northern
The ice age in the Northern Hemisphere, America, Europe and Asia, only ended 10,000 not 20,000 years ago. That was when temperatures jumped by 10c in as little as three years. See "The Two Mile Time Machine" by Richard Alley.
That warming occurred when the sea ice in the North Atlantic, which had spread out from the Arctic as far south as Ireland, suddenly melted.
With George W. Bush's unilateral refusal at G7 meetings to act on global warming, and the consequent loss of the last of the Arctic sea ice, so presenting us with the prospect of yet another rapid warming, then I feel I have good cause to blame him for the disaster that is about to strike.
Perhaps I am mistaken. He may not have acted alone. He may have been backed by the American people. If so they also deserve the blame!
Cheers, Alastair.
Jason Lee replied on Permalink
"This spring, Congress submitted a bill that included a clause requiring NASA to explain to the taxpayer within 180 days why this mission remains in storage and what it plans to do with it. The bill was signed into law last week by president Bush, meaning NASA must present their plan regarding DSCOVR by April 13, 2009"
How, out of Bush signing a bill that makes NASA explain why they aren't using it to monitor Earth, do you come to say that this is obviously a "scorched earth" policy by Bush?
I don't like the man either, but why do people always have to say everything that goes wrong is Bush's fault? Even in cases like this one where he has signed a bill that holds an agency accountable for their actions.
Pat replied on Permalink
Since when did the debate
Since when did the debate about "man-made climate change" end? As far as i know, it is mostly politicians (how much has Al Gore made on the global warming swindle?) and climate scientists (whom also have a LOT of money to make on this because if there is no crisis, no reason for them to be getting paid). There are plenty of scientists that do NOT believe the hype and we should not just shut out debate on account of Al Gore. As far as the DSCOVR goes, I would like to see it up there and studying our planet as well and will do what i can to help.
(Didn't we also believe that the earth was heading for the next ice age in the '70s?)
JR Wakefield replied on Permalink
$3M to $300M
Gore just out of office was worth $3M. Today he is worth more than $300M.
Yes, and those scientists then were relying on computer models written by James Hansen.
ster replied on Permalink
Warming? Um... no warming
Warming? Um… no warming since 1998.
maybe we should be looking at the sun.
solar activity is (so far) the best predictor of temperature levels on the earth.
the sun is in a quiet period, we're cooler.
that's not to say that greenhouse gasses aren't contributing, but it looks as if the sun is much more of a factor.
montex replied on Permalink
Where did you get your
Where did you get your scientific information? Fox news?
Thought so.
Just because you figured out how to get words on the typewriter with a tv on it doesn't make it true. No warminging since 1998? Complete BS. You flaunt your ignorance as though you are proud of it. But why bother with scientific research when Bill O'Riley tells you everything you need to know?
Price of Crude Oil replied on Permalink
Would only end half the debate
There are two debates, one much more vigorously argued than the other:
Is the earth warming? - Widely accepted that it is, not widely argued that it isn't. The satelite could end this debate.
Is the warming anthropogenic? This is the question, and the satelite wouldn't offer any insight here.
Bryce replied on Permalink
Who cares if global warming
Who cares if global warming is mand-made or a natural phenomenon? Honestly, the question should be about trying to stop it, not whom to blame when the earth is no longer inhabitable by humans.
Bryce replied on Permalink
Climate change is ultimately
Climate change is ultimately bad for us, no matter what the cause. Who cares whether global warming is being caused by natural phenomena? I'm sure the victims of the last few ice ages and global warmings are secure in their knowledge that they weren't the ones to blame.
At any rate, I'm sure NASA is simply prioritizing their projects. With their tiny budget they can't really afford to do everything. Of course, I'm only seventeen years old, so I really don't know that much.
Tom Bright replied on Permalink
Steady-state sun theory
Reconstructions of solar variability going back more than a couple of decades are fabrications based on steady-state atmospheric gases and humidity, steady-state temperature, and steady-state cloud cover, among other essentials.
The only thing steady about these guesses is that there is never steady-state anything, so reliance on an imagined steady-state sun in "sophisticated computer models" is fatuous.
If I am to base my loyalties on personality rather than measurable data, I shall stand with this year's new petition of 32,000 signatories possessing university degrees in physical science. More than nine thousand possess doctorates in physical science. That is physical science, not political "science," social "science," or any other exercises in cat's cradles, houses of cards, pipe dreams, or smoke and mirrors. Text follows:
"We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.
"There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth."
Arrayed against them are one-half of one hundred and their credulous camp followers who are suitably mobbed up with gun-toting world governments as to have discovered the lodestone for extracting cash from the gainfully employed.
Skeptic replied on Permalink
Biggest pianist
I'd put my money on internal BS about who has the biggest pianist… seriously… human beings are way too petty, way too selfish, and almost incapable of keeping secrets for it to be a conspiracy…
Heck, even WWI was basically the King of England and his cousin the Kaiser (and the Czar) trying to see who had the biggest package… regardless of who suffered…
Richard replied on Permalink
The Air Force has no legal
The Air Force has no legal right to hijack this project. Besides, they have more than enough money in their black project account to fund their own without interfering with what NASA is doing.
If the earth were to be observed with this instrument, everyone would know that we are entering a cooling period, not a warming one, and this whole global warming thing is bogus. This is to be the next big issue used to control us, to control our movement and how we are taxed. Of course the government doesn't want us to find out about this.
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This craft has been ready to
This craft has been ready to launch for 8 years, yet it is being held back so these measurements cannot be taken. Does anyone wonder why? They've been hiding something, and now the Air Force wants it so we won't find out what they've been hiding.
Scott replied on Permalink
Why can't you people (and I
Why can't you people (and I DO mean that as a pejorative) just accept that climate change is natural?
Nobody is disputing that climate change happens naturally. The issue is one of the degree to which the climate changes naturally. Given the evidence available, it appears that the climate is changing faster now than it ever has before in the geological history. The primary mechanism seems to involve the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. There have always been natural fluctuations in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, but it was previously tempered by a balance in the global ecosystem. The problem is that the geological record clearly shows that current atmospheric CO2 levels are orders of magnitude higher than ever before and increasing faster than ever before since the industrial revolution. If it is true that the primary mechanism behind climate change is CO2, it would follow logically that vastly exceeding the normal high limit for CO2 in the atmosphere is likely to cause (on a geological timescale, not next Tuesday) climate change on a scale never before seen in the history of the Earth. Furthermore it is a whole lot easier to put CO2 into the atmosphere than to take it back out. It's not like we can just suck it back out and call it good if climate change becomes plainly apparent. We're not talking about hotter summers and higher sea levels, the real concern is a long term major shift in the balance of life on the planet that would likely lead to the extinction of most if not all living things.
What I don't understand is the people who are so intent on denying that climate change exists. Suppose we take major steps to reduce atmospheric CO2 and the whole thing turns out to be wrong, what do we lose? A little bit of money, maybe a little bit of personal convenience, but that's pretty much it. Suppose we do absolutely nothing and the climate change problem turns out to be very real, what do we lose? Everything. Everybody dies, no more humanity. I'm sorry if I can't help regarding anyone who advocates ignoring the issue as a profoundly ignorant and selfish person with only his short-term personal interests in mind.
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it really doesn't matter
it really doesn't matter whether or not we're having any obvious influence on the global climate (although it seems to be a possibility, which should be enough). either way, we're being really inefficient, and foolish, preferring to buy (from teurrists!) a fantastic source of energy that is finite, instead of being smart enough to solve our own energy needs with renewable everpounding solar. fuck wind and hydro, they're just engineers wanking off, solar has so many possibilities… is kind of ridiculously obviously the way to go.
save the geofuels for crazy space exploration!
and i guess get this stupid thing off the ground, and push for an administrative restart for NASA, cause lately they're sucking pretty hard. but geez, enough with the climate change blah blah blah, enough with squandering hydrocarbons. was there such a fuss when we switched from steam? or horsies?!
caerbannog replied on Permalink
STER is full of it.
The whole "Sun is responsible for recent warming" nonsense is so easily debunked that it's almost embarrassing.
Folks who still buy into "the Sun is responsible" nonsense should take a look at this post I made on another forum addressing claims similar STER's: http://tinyurl.com/5dcp33. That post includes a plot of high-precision satellite measurements of solar output going back nearly 30 years. Consider the questions that I posed in that post.
STER, feel free to dig up a plot of global-average temperatures for the past 30 years and compare the global temperature trend with the solar output changes over that same period of time. There is simply no way that any reasonable person can conclude that the sun has been driving climate-change over the past few decades.


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The most important earnings report is Amazon (AMZN) , an obvious momentum stock with a growth story. Amazon traded to a new all-time high at $284.72 last Friday, Jan 25.
Stocks are approaching dangerous overvalued readings according to www.ValuEngine.com. This morning we show that 62.4% of all stocks are overvalued, and as I explained on Jan. 25 in Market Hasn't Peaked a reading of 65% and higher is a warning for the stock market. Only 37.6% are undervalued and only 14.7% of these are undervalued by 20% or more. This reflects limited additional upside for the stock market.
ValuEngine also shows that all 16 sectors are overvalued, nine by double-digit percentages. The seven sectors represented by the stocks profiled here are overvalued: aerospace by 6.8%, computer & technology by 15.7%, consumer discretionary by 9.2%, medical by 16.0%, oils-energy by 6.5%, retail-wholesale by 15.8% and transportation by 24.9%.
Reporting before the open on Tuesday Pfizer (PFE) ($26.84) is expected to earn 44 cents per share. PFE has a buy rating and set a new multi-year high at $27.30 on Jan. 24. The daily chart shows a negative divergence in momentum and the weekly chart is positive with the five-week modified moving average at $25.91. The stock has a buy rating and is 30.4% overvalued with a monthly value level at $25.47 and a quarterly pivot at $27.13.
Reporting after the close on Tuesday Amazon (AMZN) ($276.04) is expected to earn 29 cents per share. AMZN has a hold rating, is 33.9% overvalued with a ludicrous 12-month trailing price-to-earnings at 776.5, and set a new all-time high at $284.72 on Friday. The daily chart is overbought, as is the weekly chart with the five-week MMA at $262.09. My quarterly value level is $255.75 with a weekly pivot at $275.00 and semiannual risky level at $305.64.
Reporting before the open on Wednesday Boeing (BA) ($74.00) is expected to earn $1.19 per share. BA has a buy rating and is below its 52-week high at $78.02 set on Jan 4. The daily chart is negative and the weekly chart shifts to negative with a close this week below the five-week MMA at $74.87. My monthly value level is $68.59 with a weekly pivot at $76.27 and a quarterly risky level at $79.34.
Reporting after the close on Wednesday Qualcomm (QCOM) ($63.67) is expected to earn $1.00 per share. QCOM has a buy rating and is trading between its March 27, 2012 high at $ 68.87 and its July 17, 2012 low at $53.09. The daily chart is negative with a positive weekly chart and the five-week MMA at $63.08. My monthly value level is $56.74 with a weekly pivot at $62.94 and annual risky level at $64.58.


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Cabin electronics options continue to expand and improve. At the National Business Aviation Association's annual convention last October, it seemed as though every other exhibit featured airborne high-speed Internet connectivity, e-mail access through BlackBerries or iPhones, wireless interfaces, Blu-ray players, high-definition screens or docks for MP3 players. Apps were offered for everything from fuel pricing to cabin management.
Gulfstream introduced its G650 at the show and noted that it would be equipped with the company's own cabin-management system. The manufacturer also said passengers would be able to control everything from window shades to movies by using an iPod touch synched to a particular seat.
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S&P Misses Record High, Stocks Pare Losses
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- S&P 500 failed to reach a record high closing, but stocks pared losses to close near the flatline as U.S. housing demand outpaced supply and worries about Cyprus lost steam.
"It's really just been the recent consideration that
The S&P 500 closed down 0.06% to 1,562.85 near its all-time high of 1,565 set in October 2007.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.23% to 14,526.16 while the Nasdaq gained 0.12% to 3,256.52.
The National Association of Realtors reported that pending home sales fell more than expected by 0.4% in February on the back of a downwardly revised 3.8% rise in January; economists were expecting a 0.2% fall. The group said sales dipped last month on constrained inventory that gave buyers limited choices on homes to purchase.
"Only new home construction can genuinely help relieve the inventory shortage, and housing starts need to rise at least 50% from current levels," Lawrence Yun, the association's chief economist, said in a statement. "Clearer regulatory rules, applied to construction loans for smaller community banks and credit unions, could bring many small-sized builders back into the market."
Michael Gayed, chief investment strategist of Pension Partners, LLC in New York, NY, said in an email that the market is at risk of a bigger pullback as uncertainties about the future of the Eurozone continue to go unresolved.
"There have been major disconnects in the market since late January, and it appears internally concerns have been building due specifically to Europe," said Gayed. "If the continued collapse in Italy and Spain eventually filters through to global risk-off sentiment, the honey-badger stock market which has not cared about headline risk will be in trouble."
"Treasuries are showing clear fear," he added. "It is only a question of when, not if, that fear filters down to stocks."
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Therein lies the problem that prompted me to start this thread. The
/field/ has to refresh, not the screen. Plus the cursor has to stay
where it was, and keyed data has to remain unchanged. It has to look
like nothing happened except a couple of fields updated. No flash, no
flicker; just the needed fields change their value.
Here is a description of the GWT Event Bus: "Dispatches GwtEvents to
interested parties. Eases decoupling by allowing objects to interact
without having direct dependencies upon one another, and without
requiring event sources to deal with maintaining handler lists. There
will typically be one EventBus per application, broadcasting events that
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On 9/2/2012 8:59 PM, Dennis wrote:
You could do this with threads. In your example, a trigger on the ordersor inventory items file could, well, trigger a message to a data queue on
which one thread of Sally's job is waiting. Another thread may be waiting
for screen interaction, while yet another may be awaiting an Alarm to fire
(say, a timer Alarm). Any/all of these actions might causevSally's screen
to refresh with new stats.
of minutes filling in fields on that screen, and just when she's ready to
But Sally is going to be rightly perturbed if she spent the last couple
press <ENTER> or some function key, the screen refreshes.
++since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used
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Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The dataque with trigger is pretty straight forward and provides the
event and needed information. Thats the first half of the problem.
Now, I need the other half, the listening part. Lets say Sally has an
inventory item on her screen and is talking with a customer and the
screen shows:
On Hand - 12
Inbound - 12
Allocated - 22
Available - 2
In the call center there are 28 other folks taking orders and some one
of those people sells 4 pieces, leaving as Available a minus 2.
At this point, I would like Sally's screen to refresh and reflect that
there are none left to sell. All without Sally doing anything and
without a timer constantly refreshing her screen every nn seconds.
This is fairly common in the new world, but it isn't clear to me how we
do this on our platform.
Here is a simplistic example:
This clock refreshes every n.nn minutes, based on a timer. I would
rather that when another program sent a change in the time, a "listener"
would hear the message and poke the clock program with the new time to
be displayed.
An Executive Dashboard is another example of the problem. How does one
refresh that screen by other than a cycle started with a timer?
On 9/2/2012 8:00 PM, Mark S Waterbury wrote:
Hi, Booth:
I think it would help if you could attempt to describe what problem you
are trying to solve, or what you are trying to accomplish. In other
words, what are your goals or objectives.
Mark S. Waterbury
On 9/2/2012 8:38 PM, Booth Martin wrote:
This seems simple enough yet I am stumbling all over the school yard
with it.
This has to do with event-based actions versus waiting for the Enter
theto be pressed or for a timer to run out..
This is a fairly simplistic case, but it should serve to demonstrate
andproblem I am trying to solve.
Lets say a desktop gadget displays the local temperature. When the
temperature changes, the gadget changes the display. As I understand
it, this is accomplished by a "listener" that "listens" for a
temperature change event from the mother ship. It is not a timer that
periodically checks to see what the temperature is. When the listener
hears that the temperature has changed, it alerts the desktop gadget
my desktop display shows the new temperature. As I said, this is a
simplistic case.
So, in midrange world, how do I mimic the behavior of a listener and of
This may not be well presented. For that I apologize. Of course, if I
understood the issue better I probably would also know the answer,
right? ;) If you have questions, please ask. That may help me
explain my issue better.
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Professor of Theater and Communication Arts and the 2013 Harry W. Nerhood Teaching Excellence Award recipient Brian Reed delivered the keynote address.
Reed had words of advice for the honorees, "I feel compelled to tell you students here tonight that I and my faculty colleagues and your parents represent, in one sense or another, your future… But don't fear, students, not all is necessarily lost…
"If you haven't done so already, I recommend you develop a better sense of design about your life. What are the lines, the shapes, the colors, the textures, the shadows and highlights? What are the harmonies, the variations, the repetitions, the contrasts within your life?"
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Later in the program, Professor of Psychology Chuck Hill was named the 2014 Nerhood Award winner.
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They have outscored opponents 114 to 49 in eight games.
They have one of Section V's top goalies.
And there are more signs that the Pittsford Panthers have one of Section V's top teams – at least in the tier below Brighton.
The Pittsford Panthers are 8-0 for the first time in Heidi Rasmussen's nine seasons as coach. Their strong start includes a win over nemesis Rush-Henrietta, a team the Panthers had failed to beat in seven seasons.
It also includes a victory over Penfield, a team that beat Pittsford twice last season, each time by a goal. Pittsford lost a total of four games by a goal last season.
Ashley Herbst, a two-time All-Greater Rochester goalie headed to Louisville, has an experienced and mobile defense in front of her this season.
Toepfer wins hockey award: East Irondequoit Eastridge High senior Jake Toepfer has won the Thomas M. Nichols Schoarlarship Award in recognition of his personal strength in overcoming adversity or extraordinary circumstances.
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U.S. Hwy. 59 stayed dry, open during nasty storm
MARSHALL – As bad as the weather and roads got in and around Marshall on Monday night, road conditions to the north and east were even worse, surpassing hazardous stage, which explains why U.S. Highway 59 was not closed to traffic that night.
Minnesota Department of Transportation District 8 Public Affairs Coordinator TJ Melcher said the closure of Minnesota Highway 19, east out of Marshall, was due to some heavy drifting, coupled with stranded vehicles. Highway 59, meanwhile, had very little drifting and no stalled vehicles.
"Highway 19 needed to be closed because there was a bad stretch from Vesta and east into Redwood Falls," Melcher said. "That all needed to be closed. There's no good spot to close it, so we do it at the biggest population center, which is Marshall."
Highway 19 – from Redwood Falls to Gaylord, and from Marshall to Redwood Falls – reopened early Tuesday. Other area highways that closed were Minnesota Highway 67 from U.S. Highway 75 near Canby to Granite Falls, U.S. Highway 212 from Granite Falls to Hector, Minnesota Highway 23 from Willmar to Granite Falls, and Minnesota Highway 19, west out of Marshall. The closure of that road, however, said Melcher, was a result of a miscommunication with the posting of the closure on the 511mn.org site.
The site listed 19 west of Marshall as closed, along with 19 east, but in reality, 19 west wasn't closed, and the Non-Interstate Road Closure Operations (NIRCO) lights were not activated.
"The biggest problem areas were around Granite Falls, Olivia, Redwood Falls, Clara City, Montevideo," said Melcher. "As you got closer to Marshall and farther south it wasn't quite as bad."
Melcher said Highway 59, which runs north and south, didn't have the issues many highways were faced with Monday night and into Tuesday.
"Across the region, the two biggest factors for closures were, number 1 the visibility and number 2 the ice and drifting. The overall condition of the road surface (on Highway 59) was good, without any ice or drifting, and even though visibility was limited, there was not a disproportionate amount of stalled vehicles like there were in other portions of our district," he said.
Melcher said another part of the evaluation process takes into account the forecast along with the current conditions, and winds in the area, he said, were forecasted to decrease through nightfall.
The periods of limited visibility on Highway 59 were assessed to be intermittent, which, along with the road conditions, would not require an extended closure.
Melcher said it's rare that MnDOT will perform a "blanket closure," when it shuts down all highways and prefers to close roads on a base-by-case basis.
"MnDOT prefers not to close roads en masse, rather taking each road individually and allowing motorists to exercise their best judgment on the necessity of travel," he said. "The Non-Interstate Road Closure Operations lights and gates are a tool to help warn motorists that travel on that stretch of roadway can be hazardous. Ultimately, motorists should always use caution when traveling, especially during inclement weather. There isn't a specific metric that says if this and this and this happen, we'll close them. All highways are individual and independent of each other."


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Heavenly Chocolate Delight
Recipe courtesy of Wanda Harrison and Becky Morris
- 2 1/2 cups finely chopped chocolate (recommended: Valhrona brand)
- 2 tablespoons whipping cream
- 1 cup butter
- 4 eggs
- 4 egg yolks
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons Armagnac
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, plus more for sifting
- Powdered sugar
- Spun Sugar Halo, recipe follows
Filling: In a heavy saucepan combine 1 cup of the chocolate and whipping cream. Stir over low heat until chocolate melts. Transfer mixture to a small bowl. Cover and chill for 45 to 60 minutes or until nearly set. Lightly grease and cocoa powder 6 (3/4-cup) souffle dishes. Divide chilled chocolate filling evenly between dishes. Place dishes in baking pan, set aside.
In a double boiler over low heat, stir butter and remaining 1 1/2 cups chocolate over low heat until melted. Remove from heat and let cool. Set aside.
Batter: Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
In a large mixing bowl beat eggs, egg yolks, granulated sugar, and Armagnac on high speed for 5 minutes or until thickened and lemon-colored. With mixer on medium speed, beat in melted butter-chocolate mixture until combined. Sprinkle flour and cocoa powder over the chocolate mixture, beat on low speed until combined. Divide batter evenly among the dishes. Bake uncovered for about 15 minutes or until the cakes feel firm at the edge. Cool in dishes for 2 to 3 minutes. Using a knife, loosen cakes from side of dishes. Invert onto dessert plates. Sift cocoa powder onto plates, dust cakes with powdered sugar and serve with Spun Sugar Halo's.
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
Combine sugar and water in a saucepan over medium heat until sugar is dissolved and mixture caramelizes, about 15 minutes. Drop syrupy mixture onto waxed paper in a circular "halo" and cool before peeling off waxed paper backing. Place halos on top of cakes as garnish.
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The Badminton World Federation membership will open a discussion about alternative options to the current scoring system at its annual Member's Forum in New Delhi, India, on Friday.
It will be the first formal discussion on this topic since 2006 when BWF introduced a rally point scoring system (21x3) which remains in place today. The world-governing body will be considering the matter as it seeks to continue innovative developments to improve badminton in all contexts – for fans, television, live streaming and for players at every level.
"Badminton is a great sport and, as with everything else, it's continually evolving. There have been various developments re. scoring which, as an international federation, we think the time is right to discuss with our members," explained BWF Secretary General Thomas Lund (below, left; with BWF Athletes' Commission) of the meeting which takes place on the sidelines of the Li-Ning BWF Thomas & Uber Cup Finals 2014.
"This session will introduce ideas around scoring and different scoring possibilities. It is designed to start a dialogue and consultation with our members on what we have now as a system and how this could be improved so generations to come continue enjoying badminton at its best."
The scoring system was on the agenda at a players' meeting held by the BWF Athletes' Commission last weekend; with BWF keen to canvass the opinions of those at the heart of the sport. At that gathering, Lund outlined reasons for contemplating a change in scoring systems while stressing players would be integral in any decision to retain or alter the current regulations. Among the benefits of a change, he listed creating more intensity and excitement in matches and reducing the length of time for matches which has steadily increased and been a challenge for scheduling.
Chair of the BWF Events Committee, Peter Tarcala, noted "there are various badminton leagues in the world with their own scoring systems...we need a uniform system" which has "more peaks (high points)".
Players were asked for feedback on three alternative scoring systems:
One of these could be selected after adequate testing at tournaments and feedback is considered from various stakeholders.
Chair of BWF Athletes' Commission, Emma Mason, urged players to voice their views, noting whatever decision is taken must be one "everybody supports" and that the transition should be smooth.
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DESPITE THE dreary and damp weather that has shrouded the Ohio Valley, excitement abounds at five Eastern Ohio high schools, and for good reason.
Bellaire, Harrison Central, River, St. Clairsville and Shadyside have all punched tickets into the OHSAA football playoffs. That is a noteworthy accomplishment as only 192 schools out of more than 800 football-playing schools can lay claim to that feat in Ohio.
All five of our local teams are no strangers to the post-season party. In fact, the Red Devils and Tigers, both riding the wave of 10-0 campaigns, were in the playoffs a season ago.
The one unfortunate note is that two of our locals must lock horns this Friday, as St. Clairsville welcomes Harrison Central in a Division IV encounter. The Huskies will be looking to exact a measure of revenge for an earlier season Buckeye 8 setback.
Staying alive to reach Week 11 is a sweet reward for months and months of hard work, sacrifice, commitment and dedication. It also is a reflection of loads of teamwork, starting from the school administration filtering down through the coaching staff, players and community.
All those involved should feel a deep sense of pride and accomplishment for the success their respective teams are experiencing. Nor should it be taken for granted as the playoffs are not an easy hill to climb.
We wish the Tigers, Huskies, Red Devils and Pilots the best of luck Friday night and the Big Reds one night later for stellar performances and good health.
As a Red Devil-Huskies' matchup prevents a clean Eastern Ohio sweep this weekend, we hope that four of our teams are still standing strong for Week 12. We salute all five teams on outstanding seasons and all the ingredients that made that success a reality.


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Present: Mike, Nix
Apologies: Sam (rescinded)
1) Tasks to achieve today
2) Ongoing tasks
3) Training
1: Tasks for today
Nix: Finish building Sound Desk cover, buy and fit locks for the same. Test+label all cables and put away in correct place. Fix laminator(?). Tidy Cave. Amps?
Mike: We should get the amps out and turn them off, they've not had a break for a year?
Nix: 3 years
Mike: Yeah, let's give them some downtime and a good clean. We need to try and get a switch set so we can turn them off more, power wastage is stupid.
Nix: People will break it.
Mike: But it's being used for a few hours a day and on for the rest. Still massive power wastage.
AP: Nix to investigate feasibility of locked panel on stage for access to amps
AP: Everyone to work through tasklist. Sound team GO!
2: Long term tasks
Nix: Lets set a goal of having them done in a month. "Deadline" of 2nd Thursday Feb. Sound team meeting to be arranged.
Mike: Sounds good. Todo is Cave PC, membership cards and training/guide.
Nix: Will do membership cards when laminator fixed
Mike: I'd like the Cave PC to be temporarily relocated to action room so I can get easy network access.
Nix: Make sure there's a sign so people know not to use it.
AP: Mike to move Cave PC and get it up and running
AP: Nix to make membership cards for Cave users
AP: Mike/Nix to finish "Idiot's guide to sound" and Equipment sheets.
Sam Arrives. Mike gives recap of previous discussion.
Sam: Suggestion: permanent monitor(s), with talkback mic for the sound desk
Nix: Good idea, can cable tie current monitor in place and put a sign up.
Mike: We can use the DJ mixer to provide a mic input to the desk
AP: Added to tasklist for today
3: Training
Mike: Some EVS interested in basic sound training so they can possibly be "Events managers" on nights with a lot of bands booked or whatever. This was discussed in Cafe and Events yesterday, see minutes for more detail but I said I would do training when people were available. Some people also coming in today around 5pm.
Nix: Cool, let's also make a "Sound Team List" to put up on the wall by the sound corner with names and emails
Mike: Good plan, can we get a email@example.com email set up to forward to all interested?
Nix: Milk should be able to do that today.
AP: Nix to liase with Milk about setting up email address/forwarding.
End of meeting! Hooray!
Addendum: Milk arrived and has been APed to fix the laminator today so we can have shiny things, yay!


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The Economics of Journal Publishing
Researchers routinely submit papers to their journals of choice and ask libraries to subscribe to those journals. But those same researchers often have little idea of the institutional subscription price of those journals, how subscribing to them may impact the ability of their institution to retain subscriptions to other titles, or the impact on maintaining an equitable distribution of library budget dollars across subject areas. Researchers who are informed about the prices and value of the journals in their subject areas and who consider subscription prices, rates of increase, and various measures of value in determining which journals they will submit papers to, review for, or be involved with editorially can positively impact the ability of their institution to maximize access to journal content across all subject areas.
Illustration of serial cost history
An excellent illustration of a recent 20+ year history of journal subscription prices for research libraries is the graph of serial and monograph expenditure data (above) produced by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).
As the graph illustrates, from a baseline of 1986:
- serial expenditures by ARL libraries had risen 340% as of 2007
- expenditures for books over that same period increased only 87%
- the number of books purchased most years was lower than in 1986, with only two years showing small increases until 2007
- the consumer price index increased by 89% over the same period, a rate of increase almost identical to that seen in book expenditures, but far lower than the increase in journal expenditures over the same period.
Although not illustrated in the 2007 graph, through 2006 serial expenditures had increased 321%, while the number of serials purchased had increased by only 51%. Until 2002 the number of serials purchased was below the baseline number of serials purchased in 1986.
As the graph indicates, serial expenditures have increased at a steep and steady rate, far greater than the other measures illustrated. Serial expenditures went up at a rate far greater than book expenditures because serial prices went up at a far higher rate than did book prices. Those high rates of serial price increases, often combined with publisher inflexibility in the ability of libraries to cancel subscriptions, plus demand for those high-priced journals by researchers, have sometimes led libraries to cancel high use, less expensive journals and retain lower use, more expensive titles. But not all serial titles, or their publishers, are created equal.
Publisher type and value
Efforts have been made on various fronts to analyze and compare the costs and relative value of serials. One such is the Journal Cost Effectiveness site by Ted Bergstrom and Preston McAfee, both professors of economics, at UC-Santa Barbara at Cal Tech respectively. The Journal Cost Effectiveness site allows a user to compute price per article and price per citation (among other measures) across thousands of different journals.
The results of those computations show that, in general, cost per article and cost per citation are substantially higher for for-profit journals than for not-for-profit titles. Differences in these values across titles vary by as much as three orders of magnitude.
The McAfee/Bergstrom summary statistics file, linked from www.journalprices.com, uses the following base data:
- 10,100 journals are represented, 5,816 from for-profit publishers and 4,284 from not-for-profits
- 17 subject areas are represented (agriculture, biology, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, education, engineering, geology, history, humanities, law, mathematics, medicine, physics, psychology, and social science)
|Mean price
|Median price
|Mean price per article
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|Mean price per citation
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Those numbers are remarkably consistent across all measures and collectively indicate that for-profit journals are generally greater than three times more expensive for libraries to purchase than are those from not-for-profit publishers, and that the mean and median price per article and price per citation are more than three times higher for for-profit journals.
Large increases in journal and other serial prices over the last 20+ years resulted in libraries, librarians and others taking action against the pricing practices of many publishers. That push-back has taken many forms, including the flourishing of the open access movement as an alternative to traditional subscription-based publishing, concerted efforts by individual libraries and library consortia to pressure publishers to moderate the rates of increase in their journal subscriptions, and the involvement of funding agencies and government bodies in support of alternatives to traditional publishing models. Individual researchers can become involved as well, first by educating themselves about the pricing and policies of the journals and publishers in their subject areas, and in taking other actions when appropriate.


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When your stomach and wallet are equally empty. When your three children sleep next to your wife in a shelter. When you play piano for pennies on a downtown sidewalk. That's when you know you are poor.
It's a twisted realization for a family that once earned $100,000 a year, owned a BMW and never gave a second thought to a Starbucks stop or Cheesecake Factory lunches.
"Life on life's terms," Seth Mayer says. "It will shake you down sometimes."
There has been a lot of press about Occupy Nashville, yet Occupy Memphis is still standing strong and their agenda is a bit different from other occupations. There is also a bit of history being revisited. LINK
Andrew Cohen has a daughter who has been involved in Occupy Wall Street. He comes from a deep family tradition of labor involvement as well as protest. He was among the marchers at Selma, Ala., during the landmark 1965 marches and voter registration campaign.
"My family has been involved in movements of one kind or another since before we emigrated," he said. "I've been doing this all of my life … anytime there is a chance to get the attention of the public and get them to think about the people at the top who like to think they run things and the people at the bottom who have nothing and serve the people at the top. I like to even it out a little bit."
Georgia congressman John Lewis visits Chattanooga. He was introduced by Sen. Andy Berke at Saturday's event in Hamilton County. LINK
At a time when Americans are politically splintered, the Democratic Party represents an inclusive "big tent" for all comers, civil rights leader and U.S. Rep. John Lewis told activists Saturday.
"We're black; we're white; we're Latino; we're Asian-American; we're Native American," the five-term Atlanta congressman said at Olivet Baptist Church. "We're one people; we're one family; we're one house. We all live in the same house."
A high school student named Emily Tate from White House has some words of advice on education in a letter to the editor to the Tennessean. LINK
I am relieved that the class-size bill has been dropped, but we must not allow this subject to be dropped. Tennessee school systems are in desperate need of a change on both sides of the classroom. Students need a renewed zeal for learning. Hard work and ambition need to be encouraged in students' homes, schools and communities. Teachers need better incentives to educate. If salaries were determined by order of importance, teaching would be one of the highest-paying careers.
How Tennessee congresspeople voted on the payroll tax in Washington. LINK
Most members of Tennessee's congressional delegation wanted nothing to do with the tax-cut extension Congress passed Friday, arguing it adds too much to the national debt.
But two Tennessee Republicans – Reps. Stephen Fincher of Frog Jump and Chuck Fleischmann of Ooltewah – voted for the bill, which extends the 2-percentage-point payroll tax cut through the end of the year.
Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, also voted yes.
Quick Hits
- Dr. Mark Harmon has a guest editorial in the Knoxville Sentinel on recent criticism Rep. John J. Duncan's "tin ear." LINK
- Dru Fuller with video of Senate District 20 candidate Richard Exton on being the loyal opposition in the new political environment.LINK
- The Daily Beast looks at gerrymandering and the worst state offenders. Yes, there is a map of Tennessee included in the piece. LINK
- A new blog alert out of middle Tennessee called Dem Mama in Da Burbs. LINK
- The View from the Kitchen Table dispels the rumor on the issue of "freeloaders." LINK


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Friday, July 1, 2011
There and Back Again
Today she was writing about all the junk food she enjoyed as part of "getting to know the neighborhood." Well, I have to say she brought back a Galaxy bar to share and English chocolate is so different from ours, especially when fresh. A heavenly delight. Today we settled for a mint chocolate Godiva bar. It worked.
C. B spent her month doing some touristy stuff but mostly just picking a direction to go for the day and jumping on the tube to explore with her main interest being coffee shops and book stores. She walked along the Thames and saw so many wonderful sights. She is still in a surreal world somewhere between London and Arizona but I'm glad to have her home and to take in all her excitement and amazing stories.
Even though the heat here in the desert is daunting right now I hope to catch some of her excitement and maybe find some new out-of-the-way places here in Phoenix. After all, many people come here from all over the world to do what C. B. did in London. In the meantime, I hope you will join me in following her adventures and make sure to backtrack through her blog to see more of Jolly Ol' England.
Thanks for sharing C. B.
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I love her blog and it really is so enriching to read about the places people go, soon we'll be hearing about Washington from someone!ReplyDelete
You're right about being attentive to the interesting things right in our own backyard! As Dorothy would say, "There's no place like home." Though it would be awfully nice to see England one day, too!ReplyDelete
You snuck this one in right under my nose! And I was sitting right across from you! Ha ha!ReplyDelete
I'm glad you enjoyed all my little blog ramblings . . . it was great having you and everybody else with me as I traveled. It's even better being back among you as I try to get my head back down from the clouds.
I'll be writing about London over the next few months as I let it all sink in. The sites were amazing (as always), but the people I encountered and observed are the real story. :-)
p.s. I feel so special to get an entry on your blog. You are too kind to me - I appreciate it so much.


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