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BEND, Ore. - Two new sets of numbers out Thursday – one national, one local – shed additional light on more hopeful signs about Central Oregon's housing market and tourism industry after several troubled years.
While U.S. house prices rose 2.1 percent in the second quarter of the year, the Bend-Redmond metro area (all of Deschutes County) saw a home price appreciation rate more than twice that, of 5.25 percent, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
But it's the one-year increase of nearly 17 percent in home prices that puts the Bend metro area at no. 4 in the country for house price appreciation, according to the agency numbers.
However, one only has to look over one column to the right -- at the five-year price change -- for a quick reminder of how hard the recession hit Deschutes County real estate, which still has seen a 27.2 percent home price depreciation since the second quarter of 2008.
Bend-Redmond's home price gain over the past year was only topped by Stockton-Lodi, Calif., Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, Arizona and Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, Nevada. Modesto, Calif. Rounded out the top five.
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It's perhaps not surprising that science fiction often compares the exploration of outer space to seafaring. Both space and the oceans are deep, vast domains impenetrable to the naked eye and hostile to human survival—dark, frigid expanses of seemingly limitless scope. But their very foreignness is likely what still drives us to try to explore and explain them.
Several features in this issue touch on the theme of trekking into the unknown, especially through the use of technological envoys that can withstand conditions that humans cannot. In "The Robot Ocean Network" (pages 434–441), oceanographer Oscar Schofield and his colleagues describe how they have been using underwater autonomous vehicles to have a permanent presence in the world's ocean waters, no matter what the temperature or the weather. Schofield describes how little is really known about the ocean, despite centuries of exploration, and how these robotic devices are starting to fill in some of the crucial gaps.
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(May 29, 2009)--Two of the world's leading Alzheimer's researchers, George Perry, dean of the UTSA College of Sciences, and Ricardo B. Maccioni, neurology professor at the University of Chile Medical School, have co-edited a book analyzing the major new developments in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
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Congressman McNerney bill to raise pay danger pay for Military passed house.
Original post made by Ron, Danville, on May 30, 2010
The provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act to bump up pay for troops in dangerous situations originated in legislation introduced by Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, after he returned from a trip to Afghanistan, according to a news release from his office Friday.
The bill would increase "hostile fire pay" and "imminent danger pay" from $225 to $260 per month. Hostile fire pay is for troops exposed to enemy fire or mines. Imminent danger pay is for those serving in specifically designated areas.
The bill would also increase the family separation allowance from $260 to $285 per month.
The bill will head to the Senate for consideration.
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a resident of Danville
on May 30, 2010 at 8:28 am
Wish we heard from McNerney sometime when he wasn't running for re-election.
a resident of Danville
on May 31, 2010 at 7:34 am
Our fine Congressman Jerry McNerney has been hard at work for us all on a constant basis. His work for our veterans, soldiers and families has been terrific and is confirmed by the bills he authored and were passed in Congress. Thank you Jerry McNerney!!!
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on May 31, 2010 at 7:54 am
Farmer Dave is a registered user.
Rick Pshaw: In case you aren't up on your Civics, members of the US Congress run for re-election every two years. Given the time it takes for a bill to make its way through committees and onto the House agenda, it may take as long as two years for a bill to be passed.
a resident of Danville
on May 31, 2010 at 10:26 am
I met Congressman Jerry McNerney some weeks ago at function in Dublin (California, that is). The general feeling regarding our full legislative body is to "kick the bums out". That is not a fair assessment as far as Congressman McNerney is concerned. He is a hard worker and a fine individual. He is the only one that I would elect to keep. The rest remain in that catagory, "THROW THE BUMS OUT".
a resident of Vista Grande Elementary School
on May 31, 2010 at 10:29 am
Chet and Farmer Dave: I appreciated both of your reponses. Congressman McNerney should be thanked for all his hard work, especially for veterans and those currently serving. We can not pay those fine men and women enough. I wonder why we pay so little to those who educate our children and those who defend freedom, and put their lives on the line? So sad.
a resident of Diablo
on May 31, 2010 at 12:56 pm
McNerney's support of our soldiers and veterans is popular and hard to criticize, but in the end it is his bad decisions on major votes like wastful stimilus (unfiltered political patronage), and an unrealistic expansion of healthcare entitlements (union deals and more political patronage) that show him to lack courage and common sense. He is nothing more than Nancy Pelosi's lap dog, and his motives are purely political to the core. He needs to go.
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Dear Farmer,
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Key concepts

The following concepts are key to understanding the Run & Shoot:

[*]Throw to the open receiver. This is fairly obvious but if the receiver is open, the quarterback must recognize the coverage and find him in time to get him the ball. [*]If the QB reads 5 or less in the box, run the football. This means that traditional defensive formations using a 3-4 or 4-3 front will have moved 2 defenders outside of the "box" for coverage help. The "box" is the area about a yard outside of the tight end or offensive tackle on one side of the line to the other offensive tackle/tight end on the other side of the line and about 5 yards beyond the line of scrimmage. [*]Use motion and formations to spread the defense out and anticipate what the defense is going to do. If one uses motion and the defensive back follows the motioning receiver, they are probably playing man coverage or blitzing. If no defensive back follows the motion receiver, then they are probably playing zone defense.[/list]
i'll own u on this all day ol man
You just described every offense in the NFL.

The Giants try to throw to the open receiver, they use motion to read zone or man to man and if the defense moves out of the box they will audible to a running play. This is offense 101.

You are absolutely nuts. You have no idea what the Run and Shoot is!!!

There are no TE's so as to flood the zone with WR's. I repeat, there are NO TE's. Lomas said when they got rid of the R & S the first thing they had to do was draft or sign TE's because there were none on the roster.

exactly why i would call it a hybrid Run and shoot.
cuz we've incorporated the TE into the offense. Now back then, the TEs weren't ilke this. Today's "RECEIVING TIGHT ENDS" would of definitly been classified as UPBACKS that would of absolutely fit into the traditional run and shoot. I would be amazed if u'd disagree with that
And while everybody DOES run option routes, nobody bases their whole passing game on it like we do - which is basically the biggest part of the run and shoot that carried over. And don't worry i'm waiting for a response to completely end your argument
Option routes came as an answer to the complexities of defenses in recent years. They are absolutely necessary for a passing game to work.

You have no idea how wide open and fast paced the run and shoot was. Watch some of these college teams use it with their huge O line splits. Or watch film of Jeff George or warren Moon run it. This system does NOT translate well to the NFL anymore at all.

It has no resemblance to what the Giants do. (Oh I forgot..they do use 11 players just like the R & S, I forgot)

Option routes was a concept originated from the run and shoot style (like the article says). Please name me another team that relies on it to the degree that we do. ITS OUR WHOLE PASSING OFFENSE
I said its a hybrid run and shoot. Which means we took alot of concepts from it and applied it to our offense, which is true...
still waiting to hear your upbacks response and I was making this argument WAYYY before I went to wiki. Where else would u like me to quote things from the run and shoot?
Your pretty much denying all facts involved just because it doesn't agree with you.
I have no idea what they are referring to as an "upback". It appears neither do you.

And to say it our "whole offense" is silly. We make sight adjustments to enhance our offense, not to throw more picks.

Are there sight adjustments? Yes. Just like every other team. It didn't make Eli throw 25 picks last year as you claimed.
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actually, i do...
if u watched the past few weeks with the Pats, they way they've used Keith Hernandez
The position that Cooley has been known to play...
i guess its just ironic that we base our whole pasisng offense on sight adjustment and that everytime Gilbride has run has had a high interception rate...


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My Marine bud, 25 year retired D.I. Nam Vet, and me are checking the new toy out, out back here.
We open the back pin and turn it upside down and the bolt and charging handle come out. :scared:
Took us old Vets an hour too put it back together. Well we were sipping a bit of the devils brew. :)
Oh yeah. I tormented that Marine. But we had fun. :) I will learn again.
I find it hard to believe you guys forgot how to field strip and assemble your rifles after being trained by Uncle Sugar. A DI with bad breath and a worse attitude screamin' in your ear to hurry up and get that thing back together should stick with a fella for a while!
My Buddy the Gunsmith was a Marine back in the late 60s, did a little vacation in SE Asia too. A few years ago he is working on a Springfield Armory M1A, the civillian legal semi auto version of the military M14. He is down on the floor looking for the part that has gone "sproing" during disassembly. I walk in and ask him which part he is looking for. He replies "the doohickey that kicks the thingamajig loose from the whatsis when the bolt closes". Speaking fluent "gunlingo" I immediately knew he was looking for a non-existant full auto part that was never on the semi auto model, just the military one. Even 30+ years later, he was still flashing back to that DI yelling at him to reinstall the whatsis before the thingamajig.
What next 4th, more noise (I mean firepower)?????
That is funny Kernel. :)
We were rite after Tet 68". The need for warm moving bodies was of up most importance.
Basic was a march around the field, left face, right face, good.
Rifle training was, I think, M1 Garands. Couple of shots down range. Got my thumb stuck in the bolt thing and cried like a little girl with stolen candy.
Advanced was better. More intense shooting, pistols, rifles, 106 recoiless, etc.
At the time they were concentrating on theory more than practice.
Oh it was good, dont get me wrong. Good instructors, God bless them. Just time was of the essence.
But. They never taught us how to break the darn weapons down. Never.
Shoot turn them in go.
Then they packed us in these big jets and away we went. Trained :) Rite.
Keeping war stories aside. I joined my Company.
"Here. Hold this." 300 rounds of ammo and this Black Rifle. Thats it. No cleaning kit.
"But Sarge. How do I clean it?"
"Idiot. You see this jungle. Your gonna be out here for 12 months. These weapons dont need cleaning. The Government said so. Now put that selector switch on full auto and ride it on an empty chamber."
"Now what else yah want FNG."
"Who the hell do I shoot?"
"Anybody that shoots at you idiot."
Oh God I want to go home. :crybaby: :)
Marines. Inchon landing Korea. Sitting with my Uncle a few years back and his Band of Brothers from the landing. Frozen Chosin survivors.
The Military had been thinned down after WWII.
A General ordered up, full strength Marine Divisions in preparation for the landing.
"Where do I get the men?"
"Pull them out of basic training, the bars, I dont care. I want 3 full Divisions."
A lot of the poor kids heading over did not even know how to load the darn weapons. There Brother Marines gave them a crash course and they learned quickly.
Now I am old. I will learn how this thing works. :)
nice looking shorty 4th. Maybe a 22lr upper will help to keep things affordable. :)
Yeah, my Buddy had a similar experience with the M16 training, he did the full boot and advanced training course with the M14, he loved that rifle. Made a decent club and was good old heavy steel and walnut, a "real man's rifle" that he could qualify expert with at long range. Then they take away his beloved rifle, put him on a flight to Saigon and hand him a Mattel toy rifle that weighs less than the loaded magazine for his M14. Congratulations, here's your new rifle, good luck. He was not impressed at the time, immediately traded "unofficially" for an Ithaca model 37 sawed of special. He was also partial to the M79 with the buckshot and flechette loads for some reason. :dunno:
Thanks Sniper. Think I am going with the 5.45 upper.
Kernel. My neighbor a early Nam Vet F.O. 65" got one of the first M-16s too be issued. Well not him because he only carried a .45 and a heavy ass radio.
We went over this in the AR section. But those poor Marines got stuck with the early Black Rifles that jammed. Army also but a lot of Marines got the weapon.
They tossed them in a junk pile and refused to use them.
The M79 was a good "squad" weapon, but not enough firepower. Adapted too a rifle now is a lot better.
Interesting we were 19 years young and the Government gave us just about any destructive device we wanted.
Now I am 62 and have to give them $200 bucks for a stamp. Something is wrong with this picture. :)
Glad you got a laugh out of that Sniper, I heard that somewhere and laughed so hard my sides hurt.
4th, a 22 conversion is nice to have, cheap plinking.
There's a few on the market now (I'm only using this vendor because I felt like it :D ), here's a drop in conversion
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Common Core Teaching Tips for "The Price of Ivory":
Support close reading by following these steps.
Read for understanding
Read the article together, stopping to discuss important facts and details along the way. Ask: Why are African elephants being hunted? What are people doing to help elephants?
Key Ideas and Details
Challenge students to identify and explain cause-effect relationships in the article. To help them, ask: Why is the demand for ivory on the rise in China? (China's economy is growing.) Why was the international trade in ivory banned in 1989? (In the 1980s, as many as 1 million elephants in Africa were killed for their tusks.) What is one reason illegal ivory is being sold in China? (There is legal ivory being sold in China, which allows illegal ivory to go undetected.)
Craft and structure
Explain that the authors of nonfiction texts often do not directly state an opinion on a topic. However, it is sometimes possible to figure out an author's point of view. Ask: In this story, can you find clues that reveal how the writer feels about elephants? (In paragraph 4, the writer uses the expression gentle giants to refer to elephants. In paragraph 6, she says that "unfortunately," legal ivory has made it possible for illegal ivory to be sold.)
Writing Task
Should all ivory sales be banned? Have students use information from TFK to write a paragraph persuading others of their opinions.
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Richard L. Hoel
Richard L. Hoel
Formerly of Pequot Lakes
Richard L. Hoel passed away from complications of pneumonia May 23 in Bellingham, Wash. He was surrounded by his loving family.
Richard was born April 26, 1930, to Aulger and Alice Hoel and spent his childhood in Lake Mills, Iowa.
Richard attended Luther College before enlisting in the Army. He met Charlotte, his wife of 59 years, while he was stationed in Florida and she was vacationing there with friends. They corresponded for two years while he was stationed in Europe and married on April 24, 1954, a few months after his discharge. They had two children: Jeffrey Lee and Jennifer Lynn.
Richard received a bachelor's and master's degree in audiology from the University of Iowa. He worked as an audiologist at the Houston Speech and Hearing Center and the University of Minnesota Hospital. He was owner of Lake Region Hearing Center in Pequot Lakes from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s.
Dick and Charlotte thoroughly enjoyed their years living on Clamshell Lake, first as weekenders and later as full-time residents. For more than 30 years their home was a gathering spot for friends and family and the source of many happy memories. Their favorite activities included golfing, snowmobiling, fishing, boating, gardening and spending time with loved ones.
In 2004 Dick and Char moved to Blaine, Wash., to be closer to their daughter and her family. In 2012 they moved to Bellingham, Wash.
Dick is survived by his beloved wife, Charlotte; his daughter, Jennifer Gary, and her husband, Scott (Seattle, Wash.); and three grandchildren, Kathryn (Malmo, Sweden), Jeffrey (London, England) and David (Seattle, Wash.). He is also survived by his sister, Lonna Leidal, and her husband, Lee; Charlotte's sister, Leonore Lex; and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents and by his son, Jeff, who died of a brain tumor in 1977.
The family wishes to thank health care providers at St. Joseph's in Bellingham for their compassion and excellent care. There will be a private memorial service at a later date.


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Don Fagerstrom
Don Fagerstrom
Don Fagerstrom of Jenkins was taken to Heaven on Oct. 17, 2013.
He was born Dec. 14, 1936, in Rockford, Ill., to Thorsten and Isabelle Fagerstrom. He married Marlene Schmidt on April 9, 1960. He began his career as a meat cutter in Rockford, and then in 1968, he and Marlene moved back to her hometown of Pequot Lakes and owned and operated Don's IGA until 1978. Known to his friends as "Butcher," Don cut meat in Crosslake and Pequot Lakes until his retirement. His whistle could often be heard throughout the store.
Don's passions were his family and his 1951 Chevy. He was a devoted Christian who had read the Bible through multiple times and knew for certain where he would go when he left this earth. He is now reunited with his beloved dog, Maggie.
He will be deeply missed by his wife of 53 years, Marlene; daughter, Lani, and her boyfriend, John Jensen; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Don and Myrt Schmidt; nephew, Steve (Kathy) Saxvold; sister, Claudette (Don) Thor; and nieces and nephews, Donnie, Kristi, Julie and Jeff.
Services were at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 22, at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Pequot Lakes.
Arrangements were with Kline Funeral Home, Pequot Lakes.


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We did real good getting a gold for our dried elderberry mead. We grew and dried the elderberries from our own Wineyard and got the tulip poplar from a local beekeeper who keeps hives in our yard, Our local woodlot is full of locust and poplar tress.
35 ounces dried elderberries simmered in water 20 minutes, added 1 gallon of tulip poplar honey after berries cooled.
We added fermaid, rapidase and kwik bentonite to help clear.
93 grams of acid blend was needed and we also like to add oak, 55gm toasted oakmore in the primary.
SG went from 1.100 to1.01, was fed a little more honey and raised to 1.024, down to 1.010 and back up to 1.030 for finisishing.
Started Jan 11, 2011 and judged in April 2012, not bad aging for an elderberry!!
The rich taste of these berries comes through to the finish with the sweetness and body of the tulip polar honey, it made a good match with the elderberries.


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The larger comic companies aren't the only ones moving to the digital world. Many well-known creators have seized on the opportunity to present original, free, web-only stories. Now a lost but much-admired series is being revived this way.
Karl Kesel and Tom Grummett, who worked together on DC's Adventures of Superman, have returned to their independent Gorilla Comics project, Section Zero, featuring the adventures of an international adventure assigned to investigate and, if necessary, fight the strange and unusual.
To launch the story, the original issues are being uploaded at Kesel's site, Mad Genius Comics. The story began with a five-page prologue that was posted on January 2. Three pages will be posted every Thursday and once all the original issues are online, the new material will begin.
Kesel and Grummett spoke to GeekDad about why they love this concept and what brought them back to the story.
GeekDad: What was the original concept of Section Zero?
Karl Kesel: Section Zero is a combination of all my personal, quirky favorite things. Start with equal parts Challengers of the Unknown and Fantastic Four, add in copious amounts of strange phenomena and atomic monsters, stir with high-octane Jack Kirby energy, pour into Tom Grummett's magic drawing pencil. Enjoy!
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Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.
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At the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometime-collaborator with Langston Hughes and a fierce rival of Richard Wright. Her stories appeared in major magazines, she consulted on Hollywood screenplays, and she penned four novels, an autobiography, countless essays, and two books on black mythology. Yet by the late 1950s, Hurston was living in obscurity, working as a maid in a Florida hotel. She died in 1960 in a Welfare home, was buried in an unmarked grave, and quickly faded from literary consciousness until 1975 when Alice Walker almost single-handedly revived interest in her work.
Of Hurston's fiction, Their Eyes Were Watching God is arguably the best-known and perhaps the most controversial. The novel follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida. Hurston sets up her characters and her locale in the first chapter, which, along with the last, acts as a framing device for the story of Janie's life. Unlike Wright and Ralph Ellison, Hurston does not write explicitly about black people in the context of a white world--a fact that earned her scathing criticism from the social realists--but she doesn't ignore the impact of black-white relations either:
It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.One person the citizens of Eaton are inclined to judge is Janie Crawford, who has married three men and been tried for the murder of one of them. Janie feels no compulsion to justify herself to the town, but she does explain herself to her friend, Phoeby, with the implicit understanding that Phoeby can "tell 'em what Ah say if you wants to. Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."
Hurston's use of dialect enraged other African American writers such as Wright, who accused her of pandering to white readers by giving them the black stereotypes they expected. Decades later, however, outrage has been replaced by admiration for her depictions of black life, and especially the lives of black women. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston breathes humanity into both her men and women, and allows them to speak in their own voices. --Alix WilberFrom the Back Cover:
Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is a luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to seventy years.
This poetic, graceful love story, rooted in black folk traditions and steeped in mythic realism, celebrates, boldly and brilliantly, African-American culture and heritage. And in a powerful, mesmerizing narrative, it pays quiet tribute to a black woman, who, though constricted by the times, still demanded to be heard.
Originally published in 1937, Their Eyes Were Watching God met significant commercial but divided critical acclaim. Somewhat forgotten after her death, Zora Neale Hurston was rediscovered by a number of black authors in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and reintroduced to a greater readership by Alice Walker in her 1972 essay "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston," written for Ms. magazine. Long out of print, the book was reissued after a petition was circulated at the Modern Language Association Convention in 1975, and nearly three decades later Their Eyes Were Watching God is considered a seminal novel of American fiction.
With a new foreword by the celebrated novelist Edwidge Danticat -- author of Eyes, Breath, Memory; The Farming of Bones; and Krik?Krak! -- this edition of Their Eyes Were Watching God commemorates the singular, inimitable voice in America's literary canon and highlights its unusual publication history.
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Keep up the good work! It is not bad for your first!!!! Work on the things mentioned above!!! Get yourself some new rotary blades, cutting matt, be careful on 1/4 seams and you will only get better and better.
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Keep up the good work! It is not bad for your first!!!! Work on the things mentioned above!!! Get yourself some new rotary blades, cutting matt, be careful on 1/4 seams and you will only get better and better.
Darlin', I can see a big difference in your seams..If you don't have a 1/4" foot, can you move your needle? Draw a quarter inch seam line on a white block, line the edge of the block with the edge of your reg. foot, and move the needle until it is just a skosh over the line. Stitch and measure . Some folks line up the edge of their block with masking tape on the machine bed. It just takes a little while to train your eye on the edge of the foot & you'll soon be finding it easy to do.
None of us were any good starting out. Practice makes perfect.
I don't think you should be expecting perfection after 4 blocks.
I bet your appliqué is beautiful. Would you show us a photo of that?
Dull rotary cutters are no good, that's for sure. I'd suggest you change the blade.
It looks like you didn't square up some of your HSTs and as a result some of them are oversized. In that case, nothing will line up and it is no wonder that you are frustrated. I always sew my HSTs and QSTs oversided and square them up. It may be more prep work but MUCH LESS headache in the long run.
The book "Mastering Precision Piecing" 2006 by Sally Collins was the single best book that helped me the most. I checked it out at the library.
Cut fabric accurately - square up the fabric first (use rotary cutter)
Get that scant 1/4" seam allowance
square up each section that you piece together
press gently without distorting the section. gently means with as little iron gliding as possible.
before you sew, put the needle down and butt the edge of the fabric up to the needle.
Slow is key. I pin a lot. Going slowly enables you to sew over the pins and not break your needle.
Hope this helps.
Love 2 Sew, here is the post link to some of my applique: http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...s-t208187.html
MadQuilter, what is HST and QST?
Thank you all for the advice! I'll get more blades for my cutter and probably a new mat. I think I'm going to make a single 2 color irish chain quilt and see how I do with that. That should be easy I would think.
Get a Go Baby, it's not expensive, and a few basic shape dies. Your cuts will be accurate and each one the same. You will have much better results when sewing. It looks like your seam wobbled some on the border. That is easy to fix. Go back and sew a straight over the wobble and then pick out the crooked part.
I agree with the other ladies. This isn't bad for a first. I too prefer applique because my piecing skills are lacking. However, after getting Harriet Hargrave's "Quilting Academy" books and following her techniques, I have improved considerably. I believe it's either her Junior or Senior book that deals with triangles. The Sally Collins book is also great for learning accurate piecing, but I find Harriet's book easier. Harriet gives you projects to practice on. I now measure each piece that I sew to make sure it's accurate. It takes more time, but a lot less frustrating than to have a finished block you are unhappy with. Keep at it. The more you do, the better you will become.
Having said all that, I still prefer applique.


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This is official Town Bizness! The sideshow started at lest twenty years ago in Deep East Oakland, CA. In the ghetto Eastmont mall parking lot. Now it can happen anywhere that Oakland people congregate.We might show up in your city next! It is an impromptu, car show. We ride the strip, stunt, get at, or mingle with the opposite sex, do donuts, figure 8's, hang out the windows while we drive, drive wit the doors open and basically do it real live, Yadada-mean! No one and I mean no one has a strip that cracks harder than the infamous Deep East Oakland, "Foothill Strip". Str8 Up!
We did it real big at the sideshow last night!
by The Sensei March 04, 2005
even that orignated in Oakland back in the 80's that draws crowds from all over to spin their cars, race, do doughnut, holler at females/niggas, socialize, play their music, and represent that real Bay shit
(you can usually run into one every weekend in east oakland)
(you can usually run into one every weekend in east oakland)
by that dozen April 30, 2005
showing off your car in the middle of the street, swingin' it, buring rubber, hittin 8s, donuts, doin the fool, pushing your car to the limit.
Aka: yokin', going stupid, gettin on glass, swingin' it.
side shows started in the BAY AREA, (california).
Aka: yokin', going stupid, gettin on glass, swingin' it.
side shows started in the BAY AREA, (california).
by GSL RECORDS July 12, 2004
my patna got arrested and got his car inpounded last night at da sideshow last night at 700 and holly!!
by Big Dick Tj.. HAyWArD wAt It B lIKe! February 21, 2004
burnnin rubber with large crowds in a parkin lot. haning out of your car from driver side. bouncin car up and down.
foothill to coliseum sideshows east oakland!
by BIG DICK December 21, 2003
A group of people that do stunt maneuvers in their cars, and the spectators of the drivers. Mostly seen in Northern California, with high performance muscle cars, and grown men with their feet hanging out of windows.
"At the side shows, bout to set shit straight, equipped with semi auto, and 38." - First Degree the D.E.
by DJ Dosia Sac May 10, 2006
An exhibition of speed in Oakland, practiced by extremely stupid people with lots of mush in their mouths.
by Cap'n Bullmoose April 23, 2005


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Soccer player retirements don't normally make front page news in New Zealand. They barely make inside page news.
The ink and its internet equivalent, not to mention a few tears so to speak, will flow however if the one and only Ryan Nelsen - as is predicted - calls time on his magnificent career, leaving the All Whites without their prime force for the 2014 World Cup finals qualification.
Here's the rub in the bigger picture though. New Zealand aren't good enough to be at every World Cup, or even most of them, with or without Nelsen. There are many teams who don't make it to the finals and many of them are way better soccer nations. Forty teams from Europe - the hot bed of the game - don't get there.
New Zealand still has the closest thing to a soft ride to Brazil, despite changes to the qualification route since the 2010 tournament in South Africa. They only need to win the desperately weak Oceania conference to earn a playoff against the fourth team from the modest North/Central America and Caribbean zone.
Fifa is being charitable in the extreme, especially when you consider that New Zealand will scoop around $12 million just for getting to Brazil. If the All Whites were to make a series of World Cup finals, Fifa might even be persuaded to close what has to be considered a loophole, one that a lot of powerful soccer nations will look at with frustration and suspicion.
Back to Nelsen. He is the most significant and important playing figure in our soccer history, even if Wynton Rufer is considered the best, while Brian Turner may not have received the acclaim he deserved.
Nelsen ran the show in Ricki Herbert's history-making World Cup All Whites, who were unbeaten in their finals pool and unlucky in drawing with champions Italy. An illustration of his importance occurred in the last match against Paraguay when Nelsen was desperately ill, contributing to poor decisions and a loss of energy throughout the side. He also showed New Zealand kids that it is possible to make the grade in the most famous league in the world - Nelsen has not only been a respected central defender, he also captained Blackburn Rovers in the English premier league.
Wherever Nelsen goes, managers praise his leadership, attitude and professionalism. To have risen to these levels and garnered the respect he has, is almost beyond belief when matched against our soccer history.
However, Nelsen will be 36 when the big playoff games are held late this year and close to 37 by the time of the finals in Brazil. There are never guarantees around injury at any time in a player's career and even less so at advanced ages. He is unlikely to have been the player he was and his maestro-like steering of the 2010 team - aided by Simon Elliott - may have been a one-off anyway.
The bottom line: New Zealand has to move on from a Nelsen-dominated mentality, even if he is still playing. To rely on one player so heavily is too fragile a situation.
We may be about to find out how good Herbert's All Whites really are, and they have two exceptional long-term defender prospects in Tommy Smith - the likely new captain - and Winston Reid. But the strong odds are that the All Whites will initially be found wanting without Nelsen, whose influence was all encompassing.
The All Whites were enormously lucky to get past goal-shy Bahrain last time, even with their great leader running the show. And going to Brazil without Nelsen on the field might be scarier than not going at all, apart from the financial advantages. Losing a player and personality so strong in a sub-par side by the top world standards will leave a huge vacuum.
• Gayle highlights T20 nonsense
Hardly a day goes by without another reason appearing to dislike - even fear - the rise of T20 cricket. The brilliant West Indian Chris Gayle might sign for the Wellington Firebirds which - in itself - would be a wonderful thing if you like that sort of thing. In terms of Champions League eligibility however, Gayle could also play for Bangalore and Jamaica, is currently playing for the useless Sydney Thunder and has an aborted mission with the Durban Dolphins on his lengthening CV. In other words, Chris Gayle is a gun for hire in a world in which the punters are in danger of being turned from fans into rent-a-mobs.


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Random numbers have a peculiar power, even when they are only pseudo- or quasirandom
Brian Hayes
Here's a toy problem to help pin down the distinctions between the pseudo and quasi varieties of randomness. Suppose you want to estimate the area of an object with a complicated shape, such as a maple leaf. There's a well-known trick for solving this problem with the help of a little randomness. Put the leaf on a board of known area, then throw darts at it randomly—trying not to aim. If a total of N darts hit the board, and n of them land within the leaf, then the ratio n:N approximates the ratio of the leaf area to the board area. For convenience we can define the board area as 1, and so the estimated leaf area is simply n/N.
Tossing darts at random can be difficult and dangerous. But if you're willing to accept dots in lieu of darts, and if you let the computer take care of sprinkling them at random, the leaf-measuring experiment is easy, and it works remarkably well.
I collected a leaf from a nearby sugar maple, photographed it, and placed the green shape within a square field of 1,024×1,024 blank pixels. Then I wrote a program that tosses random dots (actually pseudorandom dots) at the digitized image. The first time I ran the program, 429 of 1,024 dots fell on the leaf, for an area estimate of 0.4189. The actual area, as defined by a count of colored pixels, is 0.4185. The random-dots approximation was somewhat better than I expected—a case of random good luck, though nothing out of the ordinary. When I repeated the experiment 1,000 times, the mean estimate of the leaf's area was 0.4183, with a standard deviation of 0.0153.
The basic idea in Monte Carlo studies is to reformulate a mathematical problem—such as calculating the area of a leaf—as a game of chance, where a player's expected winnings are the answer to the problem. In simple games, one can calculate the exact probability of every outcome, and so the expected winnings can also be determined exactly. Where such calculations are infeasible, the alternative is to go ahead and play the game, and see how it comes out. This is the strategy of a Monte Carlo simulation. The computer plays the game many times, and takes the average result as an estimate of the true expected value.
For the leaf-in-a-square problem, the expected value is the ratio of the leaf area to that of the square. Choosing N random points and counting the number of "hits" approximates the area ratio, and the approximation gets better as N increases. When N approaches infinity, the measurement becomes exact. This last point is not just an empirical observation but a promise made by a mathematical theorem, namely the law of large numbers. This is the same principle that guarantees a fair coin will come up heads half the time when the sample is large enough.
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Do some sale research! Check out Black Friday ads on Thanksgiving Day or a few days before. Or take a look at sites like BlackFriday2012, which posts tons of stores' Black Friday ads in one place. After your research is done, make a plan! It may sound a little serious, but mapping out what and where you want to buy (and the times they open!) in advance will save you from running around the mall like crazy.
Stores typically offer great discounts on clothing all year round, meaning their Labor Day or Memorial Day promos will probably be just as good as their Black Friday ones. But for electronics, Black Friday is usually the biggest sale day of the year. Now's the time to stock up on cell phones, computers, and other devices!
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How to unlock your phone?
1. Unlock your phone, locked by the operator.
2. Unlock your phone, depending on the manufacturer.
3. Conduct unlock SIM card.
4. Restore the phone capacity, which has been locked memory.
How to unlock the phone, locked the operator?
This type of lock used mobile operators with the aim to make it impossible to use the phone (usually branded) in another operator's network. If you insert another SIM card (any other operator), then when you turn the phone will prompt you for your password or unlock code. The question then becomes "how to unlock the phone code?". The best option, of course, if you have enough loyal to the operator, who kindly provide you with the code during a support call. To do this, you will only need to call the IMEI of your phone (a number that is unique for each device, usually you can find it under the phone's battery). But this ideal that is rarely possible. If the operator said you refused, then do not despair, because the full craftsmen that unlock your phone using firmware. Detailed manuals can often be found on the network, so that a sufficient level of knowledge, you can do this procedure yourself. But if you are not confident in their abilities and knowledge, it is better to entrust this work professional. Often used to unlock jailbreak program that is supported by a well-known company like Apple.
Unlock your phone, depending on the manufacturer.
Many modern phones support phone protection function using a special password, which the user sets their own. But there is always the risk of forgetting to set your same code that will make it impossible to continue operation of the mobile device. In this case, you unlock your phone you can use the reset firmware. In other words - this is to reset all phone settings to factory defaults. Of course, you then have to re-produce all the settings previously established, but there is no alternative. This type of phone unlock is different for different manufacturers.
Unlocking phone SIM card
A small plastic card with a chip in the middle - it's indispensable device without which the mobile phone is simply useless as such. It is, of course, on the SIM card. The chip, which it applies, although the small size, but allows you to keep a certain amount of information, which is often confidential. For the safety of the data is also used to protect the technology with the help of the so-called PIN-code that is requested to be turned off. If you unsuccessfully enter the PIN three times, the mobile device will prompt you for a different code, the so-called PUK-code is. It usually consists of eight digits and is provided to you together with the SIM card. If you can not use the phone because of the ignorance of the PIN-code, just use the PUK-code. But if you do not know him, and he was nowhere to be recorded (and documents on the SIM card is lost, for example), then the first thing to do - is to call the customer service number of your mobile operator. There you will learn how to prompt a PUK-code is (perhaps even be able to find him on the phone). If there is no opportunity to call, contact the nearest customer service center, taking the SIM card and phone, in which it was used.
Unlock your phone memory
Some phone models allow separate deny access to various files that are in memory (either phone or often optional memory card). In this case, again, the situation when you do not know (or remember) set the password and device functionality will be partially available for you. It is very frustrating when you need the information seems to be at hand, but at the same time is not available to you. To solve this problem have puzzled unlocking the memory card. There is the option of formatting, which allows you to quickly solve the problem of lack of knowledge of the code. But it does not solve the question of recovery, since all of it will be destroyed as a result of formatting. Therefore, this option is not for everyone. All other ways to unlock your phone, based on the use of additional software. To do this you will need a cable that was supplied with the phone (or you purchased the optional) to connect it to a computer or memory card reader (a small device that allows to read information from the memory card by connecting it to a computer separate from the phone). One of the programs which can be used to produce unlocking - JetFlash Recovery Tool. You can download it from the official site of developers. It can also be used for formatting the memory card.
The main thing that you are aware of all your actions and perfectly understood what you are doing. Otherwise, you can simply break your phone, which is not always possible to recover. So if you do not you know how to unlock the phone, perform any other action with it, it is best to seek professional help. But I still hope that you will not be faced with similar problems and will intelligently handle your telephone.
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Summer All Over with Andrea Ho
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Andrea had just started journalism studies at RMIT when a friend dragged her up to the student radio station, and somewhere deep down a huge mental and emotional light bulb lit up. That was nearly 20 years ago. She's made her living making radio ever since. Andrea really has worked all over Australia. Since joining the ABC over 10 years ago, she's held jobs in three different states and worked in five. So, she's had the dubious fortune to work through fires, floods and cyclones, as well as to meet wonderful people and hear remarkable stories in many regional, suburban and city areas around Australia. Andrea relocated to Canberra in 2006, and when she's not bringing you Summer All Over, she runs ABC Local Radio in the country's bush capital.


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Original post made by Tom Cushing, Danville, on Oct 7, 2013
1 -- "This bill opens the door and invites the entrance into the political field of a power so vast, so powerful as to threaten the integrity of our institutions and to pull the pillars of the temple down upon the heads of our descendants."
2 -- (The legislation) "will lead to deteriorating service. Washington bureaucrats will invade the privacy of the examination room. We are on the road to rationed care and that patients will lose the freedom to choose their own doctor."
3 -- "If (we) don't stop this legislation, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was like in America when men were free."
4 -- "…why not food baskets, why not public housing accommodations, why not vacation resorts and ration(s) of cigarettes and beer?"
5 -- "This is one of many attempts to Sovietize America."
a. Ted Cruz
b. John Boehner
c. Michelle Bachmann
d. Sarah Palin
e. Pat Robertson.
All done? Here's the thing: the first and last quotes were from Republican opponents of the original Social Security bill, in 1935 (James Wadsworth, Silas Hardy Strawn). The middle quotes were taken from the Medicare debates of the 1960s (Wall Street Journal, Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater). Sorry. But in each case, the question might be asked of each GOP speaker: how'd all that doomsday rhetoric work out for you?
It's important to keep that hyperbole in mind when considering the immensely better financed, developed, focus group-tested, rehearsed and delivered lines of the current merry little band of ObamaCare opponents. A good rule of thumb is that if you hear an attractive word used prominently by more than one speaker, it's a plant by this well-planned and polished assault on the government (link).
The best current candidate: "a conversation" – how non-threatening, reasonable and collaborative does that sound? But as Mr. Gershwin taught my grand-daddy, also in the 1930s, some statements should be taken with a grain of salt, because "it ain't necessarily so." As in most things, better to focus on what folks actually DO, than on what they Say.
So, why have Republicans fought so hard, for so long, against programs that have vastly relieved old-age and disability suffering of so many fellow citizens, that work pretty well (indeed, Medicare is the only cost-based health-care in the country), and are hugely popular with just about everybody else? Why would they now spread such disinformation, and threaten to destroy the full-faith-and-credit of the entire nation in the hope of derailing one law?
Part of that answer lies in global, diametrically opposed viewpoints between conservatives and liberals about what government is, and should do. More about that later in the week. And more specifically, as Conservative columnist Ross Douthat puts it:
" … what you're seeing motivating the House Intransigents today, what's driving their willingness to engage in probably-pointless brinkmanship, is not just anger at a specific Democratic administration, or opposition to a specific program, or disappointment over a single electoral defeat. Rather, it's a revolt against … what many on the right see as forty years of failure, in which first Reagan and then Gingrich and now the Tea Party wave have all failed to deliver on the promise of an actual right-wing Answer to the big left-wing victories of the 1930s and 1960s — and now, with Obamacare, of Obama's first two years as well."
"… This time, no matter the risks and costs and polls, there are small-government conservatives who intend to dare — because only through a kind of wild daring, they believe, can the long-term, post-New Deal disadvantage that the cause of limited government labors under finally be overcome."
So it's a last stand against a law that Must be opposed, not because it's unpopular, but because, like its predecessors in the '30s and '60s, it will be embraced and built-upon, once it is implemented and understood. It's apparently a war they see as holy, and with a zealot's blind spot, one that they think they can either win, or accept martyrdom.
Unfortunately, we are All in this boat together, they are imperiling All of us, and I, for one have no desire to play That game. As Douthat concludes: "If this attitude sounds more like a foolish romanticism than a prudent, responsible, grounded-in-reality conservatism — well, yes, unfortunately I think it pretty clearly is."
Synopsis: GOP doomsayers inveighed against Social Security in the 1930s, Medicare in the '60s and now ObamaCare. The tiny House minority that is steering the ship-of-state of-all-of-us toward Niagara sees this as a do-or-die mission to reverse 80 years of progressive government. Unless you want that, GOP moderates, you'd better tell them, soon. They won't discover it on their own.
a resident of Danville
on Oct 7, 2013 at 9:36 pm
Tom Cushing is a registered user.
Gaah. The link marked "(link)" was not included. Here it is: Web Link A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning.
Sorry for the omission.
a resident of Danville
on Oct 8, 2013 at 12:43 pm
Tom says Medicare is wildly popular. Of course it is. The average retiree receives more than $100,000 in Medicare benefits than they put into the system. Who doesn't like free stuff?
If you actually made people pay for the Medicare benefits they receive, would they still like it?
What happens when we run out of money and can no longer pay for Big Government programs?
Tom mocks the early GOP "doomsayers." But Tom's victory is premature. We are headed for a fiscal Niagara Falls. At some point we will not be able to borrow $1 trillion per year to pay our bills. And it will get ugly.
a resident of Alamo
on Oct 8, 2013 at 2:09 pm
S-P: I'll pretend that your comments address the current ill-conceived, thoroughly planned and carried-out, made-up crisis.
You can't just draw straight lines that intersect -- someday -- and declare the end of the world -- effective today. There are hundreds of factors that contribute to Medicare's costs, and many must be addressed. Nobody's denying that. The only denial is to legitimize the extortion tactic currently being pursued by the addled know-nothings of the extreme Right.
Doomsday was predicted by Malthus, and by various soothsayers before Social Security and before Medicare, and now before the ACA. Yet somehow, we're still here. It's disappointing, I guess. Human beings have ways of addressing and solving problems -- their common theme is that none of them involve extortion.
a resident of San Ramon
on Oct 9, 2013 at 7:32 am
Blame repub blame repub blame repubs blame repubs blame repubs blame repubs blame repubs blame repubs blame repubs blame repubs blame repubs blame repubs
Bammy good---bush bad. Bammy good...bush bad..Bammy good..bush bad Bammy good bush bad!!!!!!!!!
a resident of Blackhawk
on Oct 9, 2013 at 8:34 am
Tom - Give me a break... The Lib side uses the opposite rhetoric in this debate with "words used prominently by more than one speaker" like "holding the country for ransom", "... hostage", "extortion"... etc. Like those inflammatory words are not also rehearsed talking points for the Dem minions, staffers, press/talk show shills, etc... You cannot seriously be that obtuse to deny that.
Meanwhile, the Senate/POTUS are being JUST AS OBSTRUCTIONIST as the GOP by not passing the numerous House funding bills proposed for all of the rest of the government affected by the Continuing Resolution minus the pieces/agencies that fund the ACA. The parks WOULD be open and other services WOULD be in place had the apparently blameless Dems done so....oh but they get such praise for digging THEIR heels in the dirt... so righteous... puhlease!!!
De-funding Exec Orders, statutes, laws by the 'power of the purse' in the House (especially) is a legal and often used defense against the majority party in power(BOTH PARTIES!!).
While the non-discretionary (Medicare, Exchanges, etc) funds are locked in (another minion talking point shoved down everyone's gullet), there is a LARGE chunk of the ACA's funding implementation across numerous agencies that is still in the hands of Congress...which starts in the House. Assuming this renowned source (New England Journal of Medicine) is accurate, "The ACA contains 64 specific authorizations to spend up to $105.6 billion and 51 general authorizations to spend 'such sums as are necessary' over the period between 2010 and 2019. None of these funds will flow, however, unless Congress ENACTS specific appropriation bills."
While the NEJM doesn't advocate the current practice, they and others foretold the de-funding playbook 3 years ago when Republicans took over majority of the House...many who were elected for the express purpose of gutting the ACA. So why the ghastly surprise?!?! There are plenty of discretionary pieces to either specifically not fund or repeal from a new Continuing Resolution. The 'power of the purse' defense is another 'check and balance', which is how a Constitutional Republic is constructed. It is always the majority party in power at the time that is constrained by these checks and balances that wants to run roughshod over the other party while they have the current leverage and advantage (i.e. gee...maybe how the ACA got passed in the first place during the slim time frame when Dems had both chambers and the POTUS).
a resident of Danville
on Oct 9, 2013 at 12:14 pm
A very disingenuous article, Tom.
As Matty said, above, the hyperbole and rhetoric on both sides has been high, as is almost always the case with politicians.
Some other comments:
- Using SS and Medicare as "success stories" is ignoring reality on multiple levels. They were "successful" back when the ratio of "payers in" to "recipients out" was high. But with that ratio down to roughly 3:1 NOW, and heading toward 2:1, these programs are unsustainable in their current form.
- Even for people who entered the work force 30 years ago, SS and Medicare have been bad "investments" of their money. Even if my SS contributions over the years had been put simply into government bonds, I'd be able to get a lot more out when I started receiving benefits. The same principle also applies to Medicare, although it implies the funding of a long-term healthcare account of some kind. Would some people need to be "forced" to contribute to their own accounts? Maybe. But it would still be a better deal than SS and Medicare. And this is ignoring the opportunity to do something that is just slightly more aggressive with the investments. But what about the poor, you say? Even if some of my "contributions" were siphoned off to fund a benefits pool for very-low income and disabled people (which I'd be in favor of), I'd still be better off with almost any other form of "investment".
- Let's not even start talking about Medicare fraud, as well as the latest trend of phony disability claims. When the government is the administrator of benefits, they fundamentally don't care that much about rooting out fraud and waste. It's just "OPM" (Other People's Money). Obamacare fraud - the new frontier!
- Despite the above, I don't see much evidence of Republicans ("moderate", or even the dreaded Tea Party...) trying to "reverse 80 years of progressive government". No, it's more like trying to stem the tide a bit.
Interestingly enough, while we are busy becoming more socialistic over time, other nations are trying to figure out ways to become less socialistic, based on prior lack of success.
There ARE problems in our current healthcare system(s) that needed to be addressed. I would include in these problem areas the need to deal with pre-existing medical conditions (providing a reasonable avenue towards coverage, for those with pre-existing conditions), and the cost shifting that results when people with no insurance (and also no money or assets) can still receive care. There are actually elements of Obamacare that I like. But it's taking the wrong approach. I actually think that the architects of Obamacare know that it will to some extent "fail", in that costs will go up significantly for a large majority of Americans. Then we will see the Dems arguing that the cause of the higher costs is having insurance companies still in the picture. The answer? Single-payer healthcare, run completely by the government. It may take a couple/few years for this to happen, but it is coming.
a resident of Danville
on Oct 9, 2013 at 3:16 pm
CRM, your comments on Social Security illustrate the gap between pragmatic liberalism and ideology based on theory instead of how things actually work in the real world. If you had invested your FICA contributions in government bonds you **might** have come out ahead; but you wouldn't have done that, would you? No, it's more likely that you would have put it into the stock market in 2001 and sold in 2002, got back in in 2007 and sold in 2009. Or leveraged your savings by investing in multiple "can't miss" real estate investments in 2006. If not you, millions of other Americans, in which case we'd have millions of people with no money and too old to work, who we'd have to support somehow. Taxes not high enough for you? Think what that would cost.
Social Security is a system where people pay in all their working lives and get some money to live on when they're old, regardless of how foolish they are financially. Guaranteed. It's "insurance" and expressly labeled as such. And the worst case scenario if nothing is changed in the SS system is that benefits will drop to 75% of their current levels in 2033. That's still better than all actual, plausible alternatives. Social Security is a pragmatic response to the way real people actually behave in the real world.
I get the fact that in theory, we're all above average, and we would all save and invest wisely. I've actually done that, but I know many affluent, well educated people in their 60's with absolutely no savings whatsoever. This isn't surprising; 60% of Americans have less than $25,000 in savings and investments. SS is all they're going to have to retire on. You can be judgmental and say, "Well, let them starve." Practical minded people understand that we're just not going to do that. So pragmatists design a system which ensures that the majority of people who won't otherwise have enough to live on in retirement will get a check every month. They won't live large but they needn't starve.
Pragmatism. It's what made me abandon the ideological allure of Libertarianism and accept the reality of practical, liberal programs designed to address to real world, real people problems.
a resident of Danville
on Oct 9, 2013 at 3:18 pm
We could have insured every single person with a pre-existing condition for a mere $5 billion per year. Web Link Democrats have used this popular issue to justify government intrusion into the ENTIRE $2.7 trillion healthcare industry.
Harry Reid was asked whether his goal was to move Obamacare to a single-payer system. His answer? "Yes, yes. Absolutely, yes." Web Link
The Contra Costa Times had an article in Sunday's paper where they interviewed an Obamabot, who was shocked and sad to learn that due to Obamacare he now has to pay $10,000 more per year to insure his family of four.
He said, "I was laughing at Boehner -- until the mail came today [with the $10,000 per year price increase]. Of course, I want people to have health care. I just didn't realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally. I'm not against Obamacare. It's just the initial shock. I'm holding out hope that there will be a [price] correction over a handful of years." Web Link
a resident of Alamo
on Oct 9, 2013 at 3:30 pm
In response to Matty and The Mudge, I am not surprised that the term disingenuous is on your minds. It precisely captures my own distaste for terms like "a conversation," which is intended to mask the reality that it is not-at-all a conversation that the House radicals have in mind, but a complete dismantling of the ACA.
By contrast, terms like blackmail and extortion accurately capture the reality and aptly describe the tactic employed by the Radical Right. Words matter -- they can be twisted by dissemblers or or they can convey meaning. As I've written elsewhere (and borrowed from others), this pre-fabricated 'crisis' is the exact, functional equivalent of taking your family hostage, and then demanding a conversation about what price you want for your house.
I'm guessing that both of you consider yourselves to be GOP moderates. It's time you took your Party back from bellicose fringe, lest you become nationally what the GOP is in CA -- irrelevant, far-fringe ideologues. That would be a shame -- we need a credible, center-right alternative to Democrat-thinking. The Tea Party know-nothings are not it.
a resident of Danville
on Oct 9, 2013 at 4:06 pm
Yeah C. Mudge, you should tell your party to act more like Obama. He has a 37% approval rating right now. Or maybe they should act like Harry Reid. His approval rating is 18%! Web Link
a resident of another community
on Oct 9, 2013 at 9:05 pm
Farmer Dave is a registered user.
Hey, spcwt:
I notice you forgot to mention that the poll you link to also shows John Boehner's approval rating at 18%.
Is that selective quotation?
a resident of Danville
on Oct 10, 2013 at 7:20 am
Tom's already doing a great job bashing Republican.
My job is to point out that Obama and Democrats are losers too.
Your job is to realize it.
a resident of Blackhawk
on Oct 10, 2013 at 8:42 am
I'm neither a moderate nor a Tea Partier, but am conservative enough, educated enough, informed enough, and experienced enough on both business ownership and health care to clearly understand that the ACA will crush small businesses in this country and that large businesses, save VERY few, will have every incentive to dump their health plans over the next 5 years and force people to these sh*t exchanges. It is pure economics... and Government never 'gets it' when pure economics are involved. Entitlements were already unsustainable going forward, and this will double down on that train wreck that is coming. Once the low-to-middle class of the Dem party understands they have been duped, it will be too late to unwind this behemoth.
a resident of Danville
on Oct 10, 2013 at 2:31 pm
spcwt, The $5B pre-existing condition program you referred to did not cover every person with a pre-existing condition and became over-enrolled once more people found out about it, despite its restrictions which included 6 months of no medical insurance before eligibility took effect.
As to the person you referred to as an "Obamabot" I take it that you are baffled by his mature response to the fact that some people will pay more under Obamacare and he's one of them. Here's a clue about how to understand that: adults understand that they have to pay their way. Sometimes they get a break and pay less, sometimes things don't work out and they have to pay more. When that happens, you can either go all Tea Party and scream and yell and hold your breath till you turn blue, or you can analyze the situation, recognize that it's less than ideal from your personal perspective but is not actually unreasonable, and move on.
I completely understand that that's a foreign concept to the right wing. When your ideology is basically "What's in it for me, now?" any program which is for the betterment of all of us for years to come has to be pretty confusing. But keep trying.
Would I like to see a single payer alternative made available? Yes. But our side didn't get that in the negotiations over Obamacare in 2009. We lost that battle. Will we return? Sure. Hopefully some day we'll have the votes and all Americans will have the opportunity to opt into a single payer plan. But will we close the government and squander billions of dollars to try to blackmail the majority into letting us have our way? Sorry - that's not in the nation's interest. For some of us, that's reason enough not to do stuff like that.


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I purchased my first fogger from HQ (previously Hechinger) hardware store. HQ has since gone out of business in this area. I
purchased a second one from Lowes hardeare store.
For information purposes, I plan to check Home Depot and other local hardware stores to see if they carry them. I will post my findings later.
I paid $65.00 and $68.00. I am told that some people have paid less for theirs. So, I guess that as with everything else, it pays to shop around. But for that kind of money, it is a well worth investiment. If you are careful the investiment will last you a lifetime.
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[quote user="mjg407"][quote user="TooEasy"][quote user="bansaw"]golf simulator eh?
Zim, you should see what happens when a Canadian soldier's body comes back from Afghanistan
They land at CFB Trenton and the family has their time, then they have a procession along the 401(major highway) 50 miles to the coroner in Toronto. There are dozens of people on every overpass along the route. Its a great site, I've driven a few times and seen it first hand, even the cars honking as the hearst goes by the other side. The government did that part of this whole mess right imo. They even renamed that stretch of the 401 the Highway of Heros...but to see every overpass with people and flags, and the firetrucks with the ladders raised and big Canada flags waving must make the families feel a little bit better on that day. 135 times so far......
I'm a Navy guy - really Canada does a great job on Remembrance Day
It's always a great day for me. Ceremony is always good to be a part of and spending the day with the vets is always great.
Our Highway of heroes actually made the American national news last year. Theres lots of videos on YouTube for those who wanna check it out.
What did you do, or do you do in the Navy, I was in for 16 years.
Just FYI I am Canadian -
But to answer your question, I'm an officer. 4 types of naval officers in Canada: Combat systems engineer, marine systems engineer, logistics, and Marine Surface/Sub-Surface (MARS). I'm MARS.
I'm new and don't have my watch ticket yet, but I'm hoping to eventually be a navigator or clearance diver.
Did 2 years Army Reserve before I switched full-time to go Navy.


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It can be tough for a kid to experience community on the Internet. All but 5% of teens are online, and most are using social media platforms. However, for all the success experienced by websites like Facebook, these are not places that welcome teens and tweens, either through policy or behavior. Girls at the cusp of becoming teenagers report the most negative assessment of online social networks.
Last month, Sweety High became the latest startup to launch with a mission of providing a safe Internet community for tween and teen girls. The service is trying to differentiate from the growing number of companies in this domain by focusing on creative expression and original online content.
In Sweety High, girls ages 8 to 16 participate in contests that give them a chance of winning once-in-a-lifetime experiences, such as recording a song track, dancing with TV celebrities, or designing a fashion line. The COPPA-compliant website creates a safe online space for tween and teen girls to be creative and develop leadership skills.
Sweety High is described by co-founders Frank Simonetti and Veronica Zelle as a creativity-powered social game. Members accumulate karma points by being actively involved in the community and sharing creative work, including scrapbooks, journals, and videos. They keep track of those points on their "SweetyMeter" as they work toward virtual goods and contest entries. As members advance through the game, they qualify for bigger events and more exclusive prizes.
"We envisioned an online version of Fame," says Simonetti, "but one in which you could leverage virtual currency and community to win the real-world opportunities you'd get at a prestigious school for the performing arts."
Simonetti likens the engagement to World of Warcraft, but built around content creation and pop culture, two things he says teen girls care about. "Our goal was to bring them out from behind an avatar into a specifically tailored environment that put their creativity front and center," Simonetti asserts. Continue Reading "Sweety High Aims to Be the Fame of Social Networks" »


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