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Rufus Wainwright seems to have far more life experience than one can reasonably fit into 40 years: He's released seven original studio albums, won a Grammy, been praised by Elton Jon as "the greatest songwriter on the planet," toured with his mom and sister (Kate McGarrigle and Martha Wainwright; his dad is the songwriter Loudon Wainwright III), gone through rehab, partied with George W. Bush's daughter, and written an opera—not to mention chasing after a three-year-old. He recently put out two new albums: Vibrate: Best of Rufus Wainwright and Live from the Artists Den. I tracked him down to chat about growing up among musicians, channeling his personal life into his lyrics, and "slowing down" for fatherhood (i.e., writing another opera). But first, here's "Out of the Game," the title track from Wainwright's seventh studio album.
Mother Jones: I've read your online bios, but I was hoping to get one straight from the horse's mouth.
Rufus Wainwright: I was born in Rhineback, New York, and then lived in the city for about three years until my parents divorced and I moved up to Montreal with my mom and my sister. My mother, sadly, passed away, but she was a great singer-songwriter. My father's still a fantastic singer-songwriter. So I grew up in a very musical environment, and Martha and I were very familiar with the stage from a young age. Our mother, being the wise woman she was, really wanted us to succeed and know the realities of the business. She was by no means a stage mother. If anything, she was trying to make it harder for us because, you know, she wanted it to last and be of a certain quality. I fell in love with opera at a certain age and had this kind of weird-opera-religious transfiguration where music became my temple, but I still wrote pop songs—well, I guess pop songs, I don't know what else you call them—and managed to get away with it. I moved to California for my first album and was signed to a major label very quickly. And it all seems like it's been the flash of a second.
MJ: What did your mom teach you about the life of an artist?
RW: The big edict in the house was really from my grandmother, my mother's mother, who wasn't an artist, who grew up in the Depression and had to work really hard to support her brothers and sisters. I don't think she was against anyone going into music—she just knew that you had to be good. Her whole thing was, "There's nothing worse than a second-rate folk singer!" So, that's always reverberated through the household. We've tried to steer away from that in our family.
MJ: So you love opera and you write songs using Shakespearean sonnets, and yet you've lived this total rock and roll lifestyle. Are these two separate sides of you?
RW: Oh, no. I've very much emulated an earlier time when all of that stuff was mushed together. When I was growing up a gay teenager, and without this present day acceptance that exists now, it was very closed. I knew I was gay when I was around 13. There wasn't the internet, there weren't support groups, AIDS was everywhere. I mean, it was really dark. So I looked back at another era, which was more the turn of the last century and the early 20th century when—whether it was Stravinsky or Picasso or Oscar Wilde—the great arts were all kind of in one big pile. It was very decadent and very dangerous and exciting. And very gay too, when you think about it!
MJ: In what way?
RW: It was just about utter freedom. To be in the process of tearing down the old idols of culture that those artists were in the process of doing, the more hedonistic you were, the better. And I very much subscribed to that as a young artist. It's very classical, in a lot of ways.
MJ: When did you get a sense that you wanted to channel that into your music?
RW: I knew when I was signed, at the age of 23, in Hollywood, at a huge studio, that the fact that I was openly writing about my homosexual lifestyle and that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very unusual. I was inadvertently a total pioneer in that world. There were other people who had come out of the closet or who had been forced out. But there was never anyone who had really started in the mainstream totally out and totally honest about it with the press and their fans. People tried to persuade me to hide it and be a little more mysterious. But I didn't want to hear any of that. I thought I could only be myself. So that's important to me—that was part of my engine in the early days.
MJ: You just released a best-of album. Are there any songs that got really popular that you weren't expecting to?
RW: "Hallelujah" was a big shock. I just sort of did that in an afternoon, and boom. I'm very associated with that song now. "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk"—who would have thunk that, too? In this politically correct world we live in, to have "cigarettes" in the name of a song is pretty risky.
MJ: I remember listening to it when I was 11 or 12 and thinking, "I love chocolate milk! This is a pretty great song."
RW: [Laughs.] Well, I'm happy you liked chocolate milk and not cigarettes.
MJ: What music have you been listening to lately?
RW: I've been listening to Reflektor by Arcade Fire. It's really great music to do photo shoots to. There's something about the songs on that album that makes you feel very glamorous, and very stoned without having to be stoned.
MJ: What's surprised you about being a dad?
RW: What I love about my daughter is that she is going to definitely allow me and force me to change my life and slow down and make it more about the real things in the world. I've been working so hard for so many years that I need this stop sign. I'll always have to keep working—my idea of taking time off is writing an opera, which is funny. But I won't be on the road as much.
MJ: Elton John once called you the "greatest songwriter on the planet." What's your writing process like?
RW: I've always written about what I'm going through. Where certain artists manage to create a certain kind of mystery or hidden meaning, I'm very clear about it being about my life, even though the songs can be very esoteric. It's just through this crazy life I lead, whether it's early days being in bars, or now changing diapers. It's all so inspiring. A diaper is as inspiring as a drink. I never thought I'd say that!


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I've been thinking hard about what I wanted to write about today.
I kept hoping inspiration would strike.
It didn't.
Instead, I ended up with lots of little things that I'm excited about that happened this past week, and no real way to tie them all together except through a series of clever (and not-so-clever) segues. So, here we go.
Speaking of beginning, I started my new job last Monday. For a full-time job, it seems like I'm doing a lot less work than I was as a consultant. This is mostly because I'm going through an orientation program, and last week was full of meetings. This week is also full of meetings, but more productive meetings and I have more control over the schedule. I'm looking forward to getting back to compiling reports (which is something I never thought I'd say), if only because it's something tangible and tangible things make me feel like I've actually earned my pay.
Speaking of tangible things, I am now the proud owner of a new website domain. This is for the secret project that I keep hinting about. If all goes according to plan, come late October, you will all be in on the secret.
Speaking of secrets, I've been tweaking my budget to reflect my new income levels (but I won't post a new excel screenshot until next month- hence the secret part). While the total monthly number isn't much different from previous months, the sources and usages of that money is different. Less of my income comes from my retail job, and I'm no longer setting aside money each month as estimated tax. The good news is that I seem to have been overestimating that monthly tax amount. Come next April, I may have some of that money back in my pocket.
Speaking of pockets, I had some trouble keeping my debit card in my pocket this month. I got past the major hurdle that was Dragon*Con, but then the Shakerag Arts and Crafts Festival snuck up on me last weekend. $50 later, I have three new kinds of jelly, and the dog has three new kinds of treats, a new bandana, and a new toy. The lesson of the day is don't take the dog to the arts and crafts festival. People will be selling homemade dog treats and it is impossible to say no to a pair of big brown golden retriever eyes.
Speaking of saying no, I have been thwarted once again in my attempt to locate a deluxe edition of volume 2 of Fables. This is the one true comic book series that I read, although I read several manga series. I have tried and failed multiple times to find this book. You see, Fables has been running for years, and now they are collecting the series into deluxe hardcover volumes. I have volume one. The local comic book store has volumes 3-5. Barnes and Noble have volumes 4 & 5. Not one dealer at Dragon*Con had the deluxe editions. They all had individual issues, but since none had the complete set that make up volume 2 and the local comic book store doesn't carry the individual back issues of Fables, there wasn't much point in purchasing any. Last week, I thought I had lucked out and found the elusive volume 2 at Barnes and Noble.com. I even had a 20% off coupon. I ordered it, got a confirmation email, and even got a shipping notice. Then I got an email that the shipment had been delayed. Saturday, I got an email that it had been delayed again. This morning, I got an email that basically suggested that I give up hope. With great sadness, I cancelled the order. One day, I will find this book.
Speaking of getting new books, someone bought my Sunday School kids a class set of bibles. These are specialty bibles, which tell major biblical stories in terms that kids can understand, and are designed to fit with our current curriculum. My church had three copies, one for each classroom. That's all we could afford. Through the generosity of someone who doesn't even attend my church, we now have 23 copies, more than enough for each kid in the two elementary classes to have their own each week. It was the single biggest donation to the children's ministry that I've seen in my two years as director, and it blows me away that someone who has never met these kids or seen how I run the program would believe in me enough to send a check of that size.
Speaking of checks, I just have to mention again how wonderful it is to know when my paycheck will arrive each month, how much it will be for, and that I won't have to calculate an estimated tax amount. Honestly, that might be the best perk that my full-time job offers- simple peace of mind.
Speaking of peace of mind, I'm going to stop with the terrible segues now. Mainly because I've run out of things to say, but also because I care about all of your peace of minds. I'm off to read my way through the stack of books on my nightstand. Another excellent perk of my new job is having my evenings back to myself, which means time to read.
By the way, if you have any book recommendations, leave me a comment here. And that's not just another segue.


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Khap panchayats in Haryana have opposed the demand for death penalty for rapists, saying such laws can be misused.
"Amending the law and introducing death penalty for the rapists can lead to negative consequences," khap leader Sube Singh Samain told the media at Uklana, about 45km from here, on Monday. People think that rapists should be hanged but if such amendments were introduced in the Act, many fake cases of rape would come up and the law would be misused in those cases, he said.
He said they had seen the anti-dowry and the Schedule Casts and Schedule Tribes (SC/ST) laws being misused and any new law, which gives such harsh punishment to rapists, would also be vulnerable to misuse. Instead, khaps demanded that rapists must be boycotted socially and their right to property scrapped. "The guilty should be behind the bars for at least 20 years without parole," Singh said.
The remarks came amid the national outrage over the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedical student in New Delhi, which provoked nationwide protests and debates about violence against women in India. The victim died on Saturday at a Singapore hospital, prompting promises of action from the Centre that is struggling to respond to public outrage.
"The incident that happened in New Delhi was brutal. For such cases, we have the provision of Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), under which all accused rapists can be awarded death penalty," Singh said.
The khap leader said, "How can women be safe in a country where votes are sold? Gangrape is an act of savagery but death sentence in each case is not the right recourse." There were instances when false cases were registered due to enmity or vengeance, he said, adding that there were cases of consensual sex, which were later, framed as rape cases.


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Europe continues to lead the U.S. in a sharp and continuing focus on workplace stress – excluding NIOSH's research. OSHA is silent on the subject of work-related stress. Cultural differences are at play here: stress is infrequently publicly discussed in corporate corridors in the U.S., where a combination of potential disability claims and the go-it-alone John Wayne tend to silence talk about job stress.


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8 month old JK and the metal bits going to both front tires are rusty.... What's up with this?!?!?!!!??
Wasn't able to see the back tires/bits yet as its dark here.
We went Offroad for 1st time today and I was getting the mud off the bottom and discovered it. So, the rust is from strictly driving on-road.
Should I bring it to dealer for warranty claim?
There are topics on this seems to be common. Warranty most likely won't matter as surface rust is common under vehicles not all parts are treated or coated to prevent it
By metal "bits" do you mean the axles or hubs? Because they have notoriously poor paint coverage from the factory and are prone to "grow" surface rust rather quickly. The good thing is that they're made of cast iron so corrosion wont affect them but you can always hit them with a wire brush and spray some paint on them. I prefer POR-15 Chassis Coat over straight up Rustoleum but the choice is yours.
I don't know what a dealer will say but I suspect they'll say exactly what I just did. It totally sucks on a brand new vehicle so I understand why you'd be upset, especially considering how it seems to not be an issue with most manufacturers.
Not the axles... I'm not sure what you mean by hubs. I'm sure its surface rust but still... It seems nuts to have rusty parts on a 2013 vehicle.
I'll take pics in the AM and post them.
Numerous threads on premature JK rust on here already...the search tool is your friend. Whatever can be said about it has already been said in the other threads.
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Gov. Jay Nixon highlighted the success of Missouri's public/private partnership in expanding broadband at the opening of Big River Telephone's new broadband headquarters in downtown Farmington today. Big River, a partner in the Governor's MoBroadbandNow initiative, has renovated an old fire station to house its broadband offices, as the company continues the installation of 58 wireless broadband towers throughout the seven counties it serves in east-central and southeast Missouri.
Gov. Jay Nixon highlights the success of Missouri's public/private partnership in expanding broadband at the opening of Big River Telephone's new broadband headquarters in downtown Farmington on April 9, 2012.
"Broadband access is a game-changer for businesses, schools, health care providers, first-responders and families, and providing that access throughout Missouri is a key part of our strategy for economic growth," Gov. Nixon said. "Thanks to the coordinated, fast-track efforts of our MoBroadbandNow initiative, broadband is now expanding to areas of rural Missouri that otherwise likely would not have broadband for many years. I congratulate Big River on its continued and impressive progress, and I thank the company and its leaders and employees for their commitment to this community and this region of Missouri."
Gov. Nixon launched the MoBroadbandNow initiative in 2009 to greatly expand broadband to reach more homes, businesses, schools, health care facilities, and public safety agencies. Over the next few years, Missouri will see a total investment of more than $310 million to expand broadband throughout the state, through a combination of federal, state, local and private sector resources, including more than $192 million in competitive federal funding obtained by the state of Missouri and its private and local partners.
Big River worked closely with state officials through MoBroadbandNow and was awarded $24.4 million in grants and loans in competitive federal funding. The Big River broadband project will bring high speed internet access to nearly 45,000 households and more than 7,500 businesses in Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Madison, Perry, St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve and Washington counties.
Once the project is finished, 90 percent of the homes in the seven-county area will have high-speed access, compared to less than 30 percent when the project was launched. The project is projected to create more than 1,000 jobs during construction, and more than 70 permanent jobs when completed.
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Rhea County Commission agrees to buy property for La-Z-Boy use
There are 8 comments on the daytonherald.net story from May 16, 2012, titled Rhea County Commission agrees to buy property for La-Z-Boy use. In it, daytonherald.net reports that:
On Tuesday Rhea County commissioners approved a resolution to purchase property for La-Z-Boy's local trucking needs. County Executive George Thacker said following the unanimous vote, "This is the first time this commission has done something we can point to and say, 'We brought these jobs here.' We're sending a message that we want jobs and we want La-Z-Boy here. We want expansion here."
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#1 May 16, 2012
I have a CDL. If it has wheel I can drive it. I would love to land me a job at lazboy.
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#2 May 17, 2012
Not trying to sound like a dickhead but if you currently possess a cdl why do you not currently have a job?
#3 May 17, 2012
Ever hear of a lot lizard?
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#4 May 17, 2012
Yep, and for those that are wondering what they are:
Lot Lizard: n.(lott-liz-zurd): trashy, street-level, female prostitutes who frequent some truck-stop parking lots and rest areas at night. Most lot lizards openly "advertise" using CB radios; others boldly walk from truck to truck randomly knocking on doors. Same as: commercial company; lizard; pavement princess; sleeper leaper.
For any further explanation please feel free to contact George Thacker. He should be able to supply any local contacts as well as fees and fee negotiations.
#5 May 19, 2012
No one said they didn't have a job, they just said they'd like to have a job at La-Z-Boy. Sometimes people do and have changed jobs for better benefits, different shift, location, many reasons. Some people are just getting CDLs. Just a few possibilities. Not everybody is a loser because they don't have a job right now. Im not trying to sound like a dickhead either.
#6 May 19, 2012
I thought the topic was about La-Z-Boy , property, rhea county commission and some jobs around here. Even with attempting to make a positive move in a good direction there will always be someone to block it with a cocky negative remark to diminish the positive with the negative. I thought you were all about coal mining anyways. In playing the game of playing on words, why would you even pull a cockblock on a good move in this county for some jobs for some of the people that are willing to, want to, and would go for a job like this? We don't need the definition of a Lot Lizard, which I'm pretty sure the majority of us Rhea county adults are smart enough to know what that is. What we do need here is jobs.
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I'm not cock blocking anyone. I'm neither for nor against the coal mining. And that truck driver made the initial mention of lot lizard and I was making a joke of it. As far as Lazyboy and the trucking is concerned I wish them well.
Did anyone see the Lazyboy truck that got pulled over by the trooper yesterday at the Exxon? The driver not only got a ticket for 62 in a 45 but got a dot inspection at the same time. The trooper said that Dayton had its hand full with the other side of the tracks so he was patrolling Dayton state routes. It's a shame that the state has to step in and do our locals job for them.
#8 May 19, 2012
I'll bet 50 to 1 that Laz-Z-Boy will locate their truck terminal in Tazewell.
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Pound sterling vs US dollar exchange rate predictions: GBP/USD outlook uncertain as GBP faces a critical week
The US dollar to pound sterling exchange rate is thus at 0.6186.
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"The global risk-off helped GBP to recover to 1.6181 in Asia. Decent GBP-demand vs. EUR clearly helped. EURGBP hit 0.83403 for the first time since January 17th."
Today's data propels GBP/USD higher
After a lacklustre start for the pound sterling to US dollar exchange rate we see the pairing has moved higher over the course of the past half hour.
The only data of any note today was released at 09:30 and proved to be mixed. However, the positive move in the pound sterling to dollar rate suggests GBP bulls have taken a net positive from the outcome.
On the domestic data front money supply data has formed the main focus of the morning.
More money has been made available to the housing sector it has been shown.
The Mortgage Approvals released by the Bank of England came in at 62.226K, well above forecasts for 61.350K.
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Summer grilling and seasonal produce are at their best in this flavorful salad! Toasted walnuts add a delightful crunch while the avocado chipotle dressing gives a little kick!
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- 1 avocado, large, ripe, peeled, pitted
- 1/4 cup cilantro leaves, lightly packed, fresh
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 tablespoons lime juice
- 3 tablespoons orange juice
- 1-2 teaspoons chipotle pepper in adobo sauce, minced, canned
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
- 2 ears corn, fresh, husks and silk removed
- 2 jalapeno peppers, large
- 1 red bell pepper, stemmed, seeded, quartered
- 1 red onion, medium, peeled, sliced 1/2-inch thick
- Lime juice, freshly squeezed, and sea salt to taste
- 4 cups romaine lettuce, sliced
- 1 cup California walnuts, toasted, coarsely chopped
- 1 cup chipotle Cheddar or pepper Jack cheese, very small cubes
- 1 cup black beans, rinsed, drained, canned
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- Puree all dressing ingredients in a blender or food processor. Transfer to a small bowl and press plastic wrap onto the surface. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
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- Pile lettuce into 4 salad bowls. Top with equal amounts of grilled vegetables, walnuts, cheese, and black beans, forming rows of each. Serve with avocado dressing and Cheese Walnut Chips.
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- Cut 2 corn tortillas into 8 wedges (preferably a homemade-style tortilla). Place on a foil lined baking sheet and sprinkle with 3 tablespoons shredded pepper Jack or chipotle Cheddar cheese and 2 tablespoon finely chopped walnuts.
- Bake at 400°F for 15 to 20 minutes or until lightly browned.
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The truth is that the woodshop where we make our cases would literally grind to a halt if it wasn't for our production manager, Sean Michael Kelly. To sum up what he does is a difficult task because he wears so many hats -- and even Sean says he doesn't really know what he does here at Grove. But here's a try: Sean does his best to make Grove a fun and upbeat environment to work in. He guides everyday production, works in line, continually develops production processes, and does specialty design work with both products and packaging. He's also one of Grove's original members who started as an intern two and half years ago! Sean likes to think that he has literally touched every single case that has been made at Grove.
Sean grew up in the Southwest Hills of Portland with his parents and two younger siblings. He attended the University of Oregon and graduated in 2010 with a BFA in Product Design.
During his time at Grove Sean got married to the love of his life Priscilla, bought a house, and they now live just outside of Portland with their beastly man-dog Oli who is believed to be a reincarnation of a Civil War era soldier name Oliver.
Sean breathes and thinks design. More than anything else, he's interested in how we interact with each other and the world around us. He's made beautiful streamlined furniture, an interactive communication device using light, and is currently working on an engaging teaching tool for children with Autism. He grew up with a carpenter father and an architect grandfather who both influenced and inspired him to do this type of work from a young age.
To see some of Sean's work you can visit his website here. Sean is the one who found the coveted shop wheelchair in which each and every one of us eats our lunch together. Thank you, Sean!
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Blue Willow Bookshop
Gitty Daneshvari, MG Author
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Twelve-year-olds Jonathan Murray and Shelley Brown are completely average and forgettable until they are recruited to help the League of Unexceptional Children (a covert network that uses the nation's most average, normal, and utterly unexceptional children as spies) save the Vice President of the United States, who has been kidnapped along with an important code.
Picture Book Critique Workshop, with Varsha Bajaj
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In this workshop we will read and analyze several beloved picture book classics and identify the elements that contribute to their magic. If you are an intermediate picture book writer with at least one year of experience attending critique groups and studying picture book craft and you would love the opportunity to explore how you can vitalize and deepen your manuscript with supportive fellow writers, then this is the perfect workshop for you.
The first six writers to register will get to have their picture book manuscripts critiqued.
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Jenny McKissack, YA Author
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Maud Marks Library, 1815 Westgreen Blvd., Katy
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Date of Stay: November, 2007
Very nice park. This time of year, all we wanted was a place to hook up and take a hot shower.
Date of Stay: October, 2007
This was the only park open within 40 miles, despite many hunters. The showers and restrooms were closed for the winter. The path to the river was also closed.
Date of Stay: October, 2007
This was our first night with our new (for us) travel trailer. The restrooms and showers were very clean. They have a main shower/restroom/laundry building and a secondary; they keep the main building open throughout the winter. I would definitely stay here again.


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The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, will speak in chapel on April 9 at Cedarville University. Rodriguez, according to CNN, is the "leader of the Hispanic Evangelical movement."
Rodriguez has been featured, profiled and quoted by prominent media including the Washington Post, CNN, FoxNews, Christianity Today and Newsweek. Rodriguez champions topics of life, family, stewardship, education, justice and youth throughout the nation and is the leading Hispanic Christian voice on comprehensive immigration reform. Rodriguez has been a featured speaker in White House and congressional meetings and he also serves as a member of President Obama's White House Task Force on Fatherhood.
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|African Pension Funds: Unlocking Local Funding for Private Equity Investments?
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In an environment with comparatively small stock markets, private equity investments are not only a potentially attractive asset class, but also help to nurture businesses and entrepreneurs. How can pension funds be convinced to take a closer look?
The global financial crisis may have led to a temporary dent, but private equity's interest in emerging markets is rising steadily. However, Brazil, China and India still continue to overshadow sub-Saharan Africa, where much of the funding for private equity funds comes from development finance institutions (DFIs) rather than commercial investors.
This needn't be the case, argue industry representatives: High GDP growth rates in many African countries, a growing middle class and booming sectors like telecommunications, banking and finance, and agribusiness represent interesting opportunities. There is a shift away from the traditional targets like commodities and natural resources.
When the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Commonwealth and the Africa Venture Capital Association (AVCA) hosted the first East Africa Private Equity Roundtable together in Nairobi in May 2010, the intention was to engage African pension funds and other institutional investors: They are a potentially sizeable source of local funds for private equity investments and, the organizers argued, have not paid enough attention to the opportunities that this asset class presents.
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Michael Addo from Ghana's SSNIT, for one, is a convert, and provided an enthusiastic narrative of how SSNIT began to look at private equity investments as a strategy to become more competitive after Ghana's pension fund sector had been liberalized. At the moment, SSNIT set aside 3% of its entire portfolio for private equity investments, and currently has four PE funds that it works with: one local and three pan-African, one of which is focused on infrastructure investments.
It is an interesting asset class, he said, that has several advantages:
But convincing the trustees was not easy, Addo found: Long period of no returns, putting money into a blind pool with no access to investment committee, and capital calls within 15 days made them uneasy. This is reflected across the industry: Overly conservative trustees were a repeat concern. But some of the factors that worry them can be managed, and some can be addressed with more investor education:
South Suez, a fund of funds backed by South African pension funds, came to the roundtable to engage other African pension funds to broaden their investor base. But for the foreseeable future, DFIs will continue to play a very important role. Actis' Michael Turner expects that the market will continue to be divided between large caps that attract international commercial money, and SME funds often backed by soft money that offer more scope for local participation.
And if the organizers of the round table took home the need for sustained investor education, sometimes other issues than the intricacies of private equity assets occupy pension funds: Uganda's National Social Security Fund (NSSF) lurches from scandal to scandal, stumbling most recently over the allegedly overpriced purchase of land from a cabinet minister. Kenya's NSSF, in contrast, had problems locating the share certificates for rather substantial stock market investments transacted through a broker later put under statutory management. In these cases, far more fundamental governance issues probably need to be addressed first.
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I was wondering since we have lots of quilters on this board if you usually make the quilts for yourself, give away or for charities?
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I was wondering since we have lots of quilters on this board if you usually make the quilts for yourself, give away or for charities?
i have never made a quilt for myself..someday. all given away..
All of mine have been for family, friends and donations. The one I have on my bed I bought..lol.Originally Posted by craftybear
I have done all three, I have three queen size quilts for myself, my family has more than enough quilts of all sizes, I have donated many quilts to charity and fund raiser type programs and right now I have eight small lap size quilts that will be given away when the need arises. I have been making quilts for almost 20 years. Marge
I'll be keeping the quilts I'm working on now as they are going into my Guild's show in May. All the other quilts I'll be making this year will be gifts or for charity. Have 50+ log cabin blocks ready to be put together for a Veteran's quilt, and then onto some yellow centered string blocks for HeartStrings's latest challenge.
May in Jersey
Mostly to give away. The ones I keep are "practice" quilts of new patterns. Now I am working on a practice king-size cathedral window (using Eddie's tutorial) which will go to my son. They already know my "sewing skills." I have attended local groups of Project Linus and another local group to help with construction of quilts and blankets for various charities.
I have given most away, out of 37 I have 5 or 6 and 4 or 5 I haven't found someone for those yet. I like making them and save the ones I really like for myself.
Computer posted twice, acting real stupid this morning.
All of the above. I mostly keep my art quilts. I have one one my bed, a couple of throws for the sofa. I am working on a quilt now for the Citzen Sam project, quilts sent directly to Afganistan to be put on the gurneys of returning wounded soldiers.
Another guild that I belong to is making prayer shawls this year that we will give to anyone in need.
The third guild I belong to makes Angel quilts, also donates to nursing homes, ect.
The quilts I put a lot of time into I give to family and friends.
The other quilts I make I give to charity. They are just as warm as the fancier ones.
After the flood in "07 I gave a lot of them to the local church to help those who lost all or most of what they had


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A Forestville man suffered serious injuries in an ATV accident late Friday night in the Town of Hanover.
Sheriffs deputies say 37-year-old Joseph Kaye was about to turn his ATV into a private driveway when 39-year-old Nathan Stevens ran into the back of Kaye's vehicle. Stevens' vehicle rolled over. Stevens, who was not wearing a helmet, was thrown form the ATV.
He was taken to ECMC with serious injuries.
Deputies are continuing their investigationand say charges are pending.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Serious Injuries in ATV Crash
Posted by Anne Holliday at 11:27:00 AM
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- ajlounyinjurylaw said...
ATV's can be seriously dangerous. There is no update on his condition.
- May 31, 2011 at 1:09 AM
- Anne said...
I'm sorry to say there is an update -- He passed away last Monday.
- May 31, 2011 at 8:54 AM
- ajlounyinjurylaw said...
So sad, my thoughts and prayers are with his family.
- May 31, 2011 at 10:18 AM
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Forgive me, please, but I'm about to do a little shameless self-promotion to remind you of my E-workshops for writers after which we'll get back to this week's thoughts about writing.
I often teach writing workshops near the place I live, but since you and I don't live in the same places, E-workshops are a way for us to connect without so much as a short walk required unless it's the walk from your refrigerator to the computer.
I'd love to work with every Skylark reader personally, but this is the next best thing.
E-workshops for writers are designed to get you started if you're a beginner and keep you going if you've been writing a while. These are four-week personal communications from me to you around a particular theme. E-workshops are appropriate for writers of fiction, nonfiction or poetry.
Current themes are "Among My Souvenirs," "Make Mine Music," "Poetry in Motion," and "Places I Remember." Choose the one that sounds interesting to you, and every week for four weeks, I'll send a variety of writing prompts. You'll use them to write wherever and whenever you like. Write at your desk, in the local coffee shop or in your pajamas at 3:00 a.m.!
I'll write to you on Monday, Wednesday and Friday each of the four weeks. You can send me a couple of pages of prose or a couple of poems at the end of each week, and I'll send you a little feedback. I don't do a full critique but I do send back thoughts about the work. Some writers send something every week and others send nothing. It's entirely up to you.
Writers who've done the E-workshops have found the prompts particularly helpful when applied to work in progress or in getting them started on pieces that either will, or already have, become longer.
The fee for four weeks is $40. If you're interested, you can drop me a line at firstname.lastname@example.com. I'll let you know where to send your check (sorry no credit cards or PayPal), and once I receive the check, I'll send you a welcome message with more details and we'll begin the following Monday.
Okay, end of commercial. Now back to our regular programming.
A would-be writer friend and I have been talking about writing lately. He's led an interesting life and met a lot of colorful characters. I love listening to the stories he tells. He wants to write about them, but finds it daunting to sit down and write an entire story or memoir-type chapter. And yet, these characters and their stories are too good to lose.
I'm encouraging him to think about sketches instead of stories or chapters. He likes the idea and sees that writing can be much less daunting when you break it into pieces. And I'm sure once he gets the sketches – one or two pages – about each of these characters, he'll find the rest of the material just waiting in the wings to be introduced and to shine.
If you feel daunted by your writing, ease up. Maybe sketches are a better way for you to go. In her book, The Writing Life, Annie Dillard notes that stories about writers who are so prolific it hurts add to our anxiety about writing.
She says, "Some people lift cars…Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in barrels, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in childbirth. Some people eat cars. There is no call to take human extremes as norms."
Don't be intimidated by writers like Faulkner who supposedly wrote As I Lay Dying in six weeks while working a full-time job. You don't have to write like that and God knows you don't have to eat a car, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel or leap tall buildings in a single bound either.
Just sit down now and write one (1) single page and call it your own little miracle for today. It will be that.


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Jaguar Turns to Playboy, New York Ice Rink for Rebound
Tata Motors Ltd. (TTMT)'s Jaguar brand, trying to build sales in the U.S., is starting a nine-month push that includes a partnership with Playboy magazine as it introduces all-wheel-drive versions of its XF and XJ sedans.
The company is looking to all-wheel-drive to broaden Jaguar's appeal in cold-weather states before bringing the F- Type sports car to showrooms next year, Andy Goss, president of Jaguar Land Rover North America, said in an interview. Events to boost sales include a New York ice-rink promotion and a California party co-hosted by Playboy.
"This is probably the most important nine months for this company in a decade," Goss, 54, said by telephone.
Jaguar is the smaller of the two Tata-owned brands in the U.S. Jaguar sales gained 1.7 percent to 7,517 units this year through July while Land Rover increased 21 percent to 24,311, according to researcher Autodata Corp. The company expects the all-wheel-drive sedans to help Jaguar increase sales this year to about 15,000 and more than 20,000 in 2013, Goss said. Jaguar had 12,276 U.S. deliveries in 2011.
Jaguar's lack of all-wheel-drive in cold-weather markets such as New York has left it uncompetitive against Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW)'s BMW brand and Daimler AG (DAI)'s Mercedes-Benz.
"Eighty-two percent of the volume in the Snow Belt states is all-wheel-drive from our competitors," Goss said. "We've been fishing well in a very small and decreasing pond and now we've got the opportunity to compete more appropriately head-on with some of the German brands."
The all-wheel-drive XJ and XF go on sale in the U.S. in December and January, respectively, Stuart Schorr, a Jaguar Land Rover spokesman, said in an e-mail.
Jaguar today is slated to being a three-day "Chill NY" publicity event in Manhattan to highlight the all-wheel-drive offerings. The brand tomorrow will host a party at Pebble Beach, California, along with Playboy for customers in advance of the Concours d'Elegance on Aug. 19.
Tata Motors is based in Mumbai while Jaguar Land Rover North America is based in Mahwah, New Jersey.
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Check out this crab from another forum. I think this is the largest blue crab I have ever seen. Unless that's a midget's hand, It beats my personal best of 9.25" I caught on the magothy back in 2008.
Damn on the rivah. I thought my secret of my hand was safe.
Brigitte has small hands. .........Gary
reminds me of that commercial where the guy doesnt want to hold the big cheese burger because he has tiny hands
Looks like a 10"+, Sure beats my 8.90"
Thats is a Western shore crab for sure. Nothing even close to that size on the Eastern shore.
The best by far is the Patapsco and then Bodkin creek. Huge crabs in that area.
Go gettem guys!
If those tiles are 2 inches, the crab is close to 10 inches, some adjustment would need to be made for greater distance from lens to wall than lens to shell, but still a very nice crab.
Claws are small, But a Very nice crab-to say the least!!
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Crusaders 38
Force 24
The play-offs must be coming, the Crusaders are suddenly looking ominous. Richie McCaw in particular - supposedly not the player he once was - had an imperious look to him last night.
For 40 minutes he and his old mate Dan Carter had the game by the scruff of the neck. The pair of them had a steady hand on the tiller and with 32 points and the bonus already secured by half-time, coach Todd Blackadder chose to take his two big guns off.
There was no need to leave them out there - the war really begins this week. The Crusaders didn't know their preliminary playoff opponent until early this morning, but were expecting to be facing one of either the Sharks or the Bulls.
After that, depending on what happens with the Stormers, the Crusaders are likely to be heading to Cape Town for the semifinal proper if they make the last four.
There is no team other than the Crusaders who would be confident about winning in Cape Town. They did it twice last year - once heroically in the round-robin and then again in the semifinal.
They will fancy they can do it again having already outplayed the Africans earlier this year. But the beauty of the Crusaders is they never think that far ahead. The only thing they will listen to in the next week is the rumbling discontent that has lingered since Will Genia scampered a ridiculously long way in last year's final.
The All Black skipper, even having gained his 100th cap and coveted World Cup, is still a little dirty about the Crusaders' defeat in Brisbane last year.
That was a sour note on a phenomenal year and McCaw and his Crusaders chums are itchy for redemption.
That was apparent last night when they flicked the switch and blasted the Force off the park in the first half. It was breathtaking at times.
The skills were sharp and the ability to break from deep, keep the ball alive and support the ball carrier left the Force gasping - although it did fade in the second half when they emptied their bench.
The Force were able to claw some respectability when the Crusaders came off the boil - but that so often happens when the game is done and dusted and the dominant side has mentally and physically checked out. There seems little point in dwelling on that second phase - the real deal was seen in the first: that was the true Crusaders.
There was considerable venom in the Crusaders' counter-rucking and more times than the Australians would care to remember, they were smashed off ball they would expect to be theirs.
Intense and accurate - just the qualities all coaches want to see from their teams at this stage of the season. The pressure will increase in the next two weeks and the ability to do the little things well makes all the difference.
This is usually what sets the Crusaders apart and they are gearing up nicely again. They had to dig in, scrummage their socks off and then tackle their hearts out to beat the Chiefs last week.
Last night was elevating the speed of their attack, making sure the passes were in front, that the support came from depth and that the platform was initially set. All that happened in the first 40 - not so much in the second.
It was also partly about making a statement - about making sure that all the teams left in the competition were left in no doubt about who had momentum coming into the critical stretch. It was noticeable too that Israel Dagg - a player with a big game temperament - was more accurate than he's been all year.
Crusaders 38 (I. Dagg, S. Maitland, A. Ellis, M. Todd tries; D. Carter 2 cons, 2 pens; T. Taylor 2 pens) Force 24 (K. Godwin, Z. Homes, A. Mafi try; B. Sheehan 2 cons; B. Seymour pen; K. Godwin con)


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The three sisters have also developed their talents on various other instruments including guitar, bodhran and voice in the pursuit of creating a fuller, more compelling show. Their love for music, dance and storytelling is their inspiration for performing and recording.
These days the girls can be seen making their way across the country visiting fairs and festivals to share their love of music and dancing with the people that they meet. A live show with the Gothard Sisters is likely to include fast fiddling numbers with lively choreography, Irish step-dancing used in a myriad of ways, and special songs and ballads.
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The Gothard Sisters are an amazing and gifted family of performers from the Northwest of the United States. Not only can these three beautiful sisters sing and dance, but they are musically talented on guitar, bodhran and violin. Their Christmas album will warm your heart and spread cheer all through out your holidays. There is just the right mix of traditional songs mixed with a lovely version of 'Silent Night.' And we were very pleased to see our favorite "Good King Wenceslas" sung in true angelic voices.
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text: BOSTON, July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Eagle Investment Systems LLC, a leading provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with MicroStrategy® Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software. Eagle plans to integrate the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform™ with Eagle's innovative portfolio management solution. Eagle clients will be able to access highly visual dashboards and portfolio data on the web, on mobile devices, or via Microsoft Office applications to perform portfolio analytics and in-depth risk and performance analyses. Business executives and portfolio managers will be able to use the MicroStrategy-based reporting solution to quickly navigate multiple complex datasets, create compelling data visuals using MicroStrategy Visual Insight, and interact with portfolio information on their mobile devices using MicroStrategy Mobile. "Our data management solution has always been built on innovative software that consolidates, validates and delivers vital information to our clients in the formats they need," said John Lehner, Eagle president and chief executive officer. "This alliance with MicroStrategy streamlines our ability to derive quality information from multiple sources and consistently deliver it as rich content to the web, iPads and smart phones, or to Microsoft Office applications." "MicroStrategy is proud to provide Eagle Investment Systems and the investment management community with an enterprise reporting platform that's agile, easy to use, and gives fund managers the tools they need to interact with portfolio data on their smartphones and mobile devices," said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy chief operating officer. "Leading financial organizations are deploying MicroStrategy's integrated platform to give their large user communities fast and direct access to business analytics through the use of user-friendly dashboards, interactive reporting, and innovative mobile apps." About MicroStrategy Incorporated Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a leading provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile intelligence, and social intelligence applications. MicroStrategy's BI platform enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make better business decisions. Companies choose MicroStrategy BI for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. MicroStrategy's mobile intelligence platform helps companies and organizations build, deploy, and maintain mobile apps across a range of solutions by embedding intelligence, transactions, and multimedia into apps. MicroStrategy's social intelligence platform includes a number of applications that help enterprises harness the power of social networks for marketing and e-commerce, as well as a suite of free consumer friendly apps that use MicroStrategy's enterprise technologies. The MicroStrategy Cloud offering combines MicroStrategy and third-party software, hardware, and services to enable rapid, cost-effective development of hosted BI, mobile, and social applications. To learn more about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), visit www.microstrategy.com and follow us on Facebook ( http://www.facebook.com/microstrategy) and Twitter ( http://www.twitter.com/microstrategy).