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A Few Fed Numbers Worth a Thousand WordsMichael Feroli
Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Modern central banks have been described as "an army with only a signal corps." It's an apt portrayal.
The instrument that central banks most directly control -- the interest rate at which commercial banks lend to each other overnight -- affects virtually no transactions that most people care about. But expectations about the path of that rate shape long-term interest rates, which then influence economic activity. The signal that central banks send about this path is how they exert leverage over an economy.
Among the world's central banks, the U.S. Federal Reserve's signal corps has been the most active in sending out and refining its message. The logical next step is to specify numerical thresholds that will govern the Fed's deliberations on the timing of its first rate increase since June 2006. More to the point, numerical thresholds will probably involve stating employment and inflation values that would need to be met before the Fed considers raising rates.
This is a worthy undertaking, but one that could take time to refine and put into practice. Fed governors have already started the discussion. Further progress at this week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting would be a welcome development.
The Fed's current calendar guidance -- that near-zero interest rates will likely be warranted at least through mid-2015 -- is the FOMC's best estimate of what constitutes a "considerable period after the recovery strengthens." This guidance communicates two things at once: the Fed's economic forecast, and the expected policy response given that forecast.
Numerical Thresholds
Numerical thresholds downplay the first part, and instead focus on articulating with more specificity the second part -- the reaction to economic outcomes.
This should provide important benefits. Instead of breathlessly waiting on the Fed to alter its rate guidance, the market can automatically adjust its rate expectations in light of incoming economic data.
By focusing on how the Fed will react instead of what it forecasts, the tone of Fed communications should change for the better, too. Calendar guidance often risks sending a pessimistic signal about the Fed's outlook for the economy. Communicating numerical thresholds, by contrast, would send a more affirmative message about the Fed's commitment to full employment and price stability -- a message that should help bolster business and consumer confidence.
Make no mistake: The immediate benefit of establishing these thresholds would likely be minimal. After several fits and starts, the Fed has finally pushed back market expectations on the timing of the first post-crisis rate increase. In late 2009, even as the unemployment rate hovered at about 10 percent, markets were expecting the Fed to raise rates at least twice over the following year. Now, the Fed has convinced the market that the first tightening is at least three years away.
If the Fed says that rate increases won't begin until unemployment is at least below 7 percent, that would likely do little to change market expectations on when short-term rates will rise and, hence, on longer-term rates. Instead, the benefits would slowly accrue over time. A more predictable, stable, rules-based policy framework should reduce uncertainty and prevent another situation like 2009 when interest rates moved at odds with the Fed's mandated goals.
Operational hurdles remain. Take the example of Chicago Fed President Charles Evans's "7/3" rule, which says the first rate hike won't occur until the unemployment rate falls below 7 percent, provided inflation doesn't get above 3 percent. There are still public misperceptions about what the 7 and the 3 really mean.
Minimally Acceptable
First, Evans has suggested that rates shouldn't be raised before unemployment falls below 7 percent. After the surprise move down in the September unemployment rate, many analysts misinterpreted the 7 as a trigger rather than a minimally acceptable improvement in the labor market.
If unemployment falls below 7 percent (or whatever the threshold is) in a low-quality way -- because, say, people are dropping out of the labor force or more people are accepting part-time jobs -- there is no obligation for the Fed to raise rates. The Fed would need to emphasize that reaching an unemployment threshold is a necessary but not sufficient condition for tightening.
Second, Evans stipulated that 3 percent inflation should be considered a serious enough deviation from the Fed's 2 percent inflation target that it should release the Fed from its commitment to keep rates low, even if the employment objective hasn't yet been attained.
Regrettably, many have misinterpreted this to mean that Evans intends to raise the Fed's inflation objective to 3 percent from 2 percent. The Fed must do a better job of spelling out the distinction between an inflation objective and a threshold that represents an intolerable deviation from that objective.
These are tactical issues. The strategic consideration, as it must be whenever a central bank is being innovative or aggressive in spurring growth, is inflation. The inherent conservatism of the Evans rule or similar thresholds is that they contain an automatic inflation firebreak. If structural unemployment is greater than anticipated, the ensuing wage and price inflation would activate the inflation circuit breaker and policy would be free to adjust.
Inflation, the greatest risk in a numerical threshold policy, would be inherently limited. Over time the benefits could be large, including more stable, predictable policy-setting that would automatically adjust to ensure interest rates are geared toward getting the economy back to work.
(Michael Feroli is the chief U.S. economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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Hard to say. A combination of all or some of those things and perhaps a few others as well I guess.
Rory? Could be, but we don't know that for a fact. We do know for a fact though that she started to struggle as soon as he got into her life. But she's clearly in love with the guy (and he with her), so for that reason alone I don't agree with those who argue that she should just break up with him. Sounds corny, I know, but I don't begrudge two people the love they feel for each other. Besides, I doubt that a brokenhearted Caroline would play any better than a Caro in love.
The coaching situation? I think that Caroline feels indebted to Piotr for bringing her this far. She probably feels that it would be an act of betrayal on her part to give him the boot. It's always complicated when there's family involved, especially family as close as a father, and even more especially when the're as close as those two. She'd probably be better off with another coach at this point, but she has never stuck with one long enough to find out if it would make a difference in the long run. Of one thing I'm convinced though - the worst thing she can do (and did do in 2012) is changing coaches every couple of months with everyone whispering (in Piotr's case yelling
) different things in her ears. That can, and has only confused her.
Her game? Obviously. Not only isn't she successful in terms of making more winners or improving her serve and forehand, but she doesn't even play error free tennis anymore like she did when she was at her best. The traditional "she beat herself" excuse that fans of other players always came up with when their girl lost a match to Caro sounds lamer than ever because these days Caro is perfectly capable of "beating herself" herself. In short, she hasn't improved her offensive game - or not enough anyway to compensate for all those errors she's making now.
Lack of confidence? Definitely. In the past when a match was as close as this one I had a big smile on my face because I knew that nine times out of ten she would win it. If you couldn't hit Caroline off the court you would lose because she was mentally the stronger. But in the last eighteen months or so she has lost a truckload of close matches that the 2010-early 2011 version of Caro probably would have won. In fact, it's become common for her to win a first set (and sometimes quite convincingly) only to end up struggling from the start of the second set onwards.
And perhaps the media, bloggers, comments from specialists like Navratilova and Hingis and so on also played their part. Could be that they were part of the reason that she stopped believing and ultimately why she started experimenting with different coaches. But she didn't see it through because she panicked when she didn't get the short term results she had hoped for.
In other words, despite the lenght of this post I have no idea, but it's probably a bit of eveything really.
No, I definitely appreciate your response, and it was well thought out.
I heard a lot from others here (both friend and foe of Caro and in between alike), so I was curious to your opinion, since we hadn't spoken in a while. It makes sense.
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MACAU (Reuters) - On Macau's dusty Cotai strip, the cranes at the Las Vegas Sands' construction site stand idle at dusk atop the half-finished husks of three massive towers, while weary batches of construction workers, laid-off en masse, stream out of the site's turnstiles, many for the last time.
After a golden streak since 2002, which saw Macau transformed from a sleepy former Portuguese colonial backwater into a Las Vegas-style gambling paradise, Macau's luck may be running out.
"I'm in a state of shock, the whole thing has made me sleepless for days," said Chen Rui, a native of Zhanjiang across the Chinese border, one of an army of migrant workers brought in to ease Macau's acute labor shortage amid the construction boom.
"The economy's bad in China and everything's more expensive so it's going to affect us badly. Even if we want to find another construction site it'll be very difficult," Chen, 25, added while other sacked blue-collar brethren stared at him in silence.
Last week, debt-straddled Las Vegas Sands shocked many in this brash boomtown, by laying off most of the 11,000 workers on two Cotai strip sites -- a stone's throw from the palatial 3,000-suite Venetian Macau, which Sands owner Sheldon Adelson had opened just a year ago with much fanfare.
"I never thought that was possible before, that such a big elephant could collapse so easily," said Lam Wai, manager of the San Tio watch and jewelry pawn shop, one of many operators feeding off luckless gamblers spilling from the glitzy casinos.
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The Egyptian Government launched a new ICT portal on 23 October 2008 as a collective effort between Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) and its affiliates, the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) and National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA) and Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). The portal covers many different sectors, including telecommunication infrastructure, households, the business sector, the Governmental sector, public access points (IT clubs and Internet cafes) and the education sector.
The project builds a database within MCIT for ICT indicators which will help in measuring and analyzing the information society in Egypt, according to international standards and analysis. It aims to build capacity in the area of ICT indicators, monitor ICT usage in Egypt within different sectors and across different geographic regions. Providing decision-makers with early, accurate ICT indicators will help them in setting policies and strategies related to the ICT sector.
The portal uses the categories of ICT indicators as defined by the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development, of which ITU is a founding member.
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World Bank Chief To Launch Carbon Market Fund
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Author: Lesley Wroughton
World Bank President Robert Zoellick is set to launch a new multi-million dollar fund in Mexico on Wednesday to help emerging market countries set up their own carbon markets, the bank said on Tuesday.
While the list of participating countries is still being finalized, they are expected to include China, Mexico, Chile and Indonesia.
Zoellick will launch the fund in Cancun on Wednesday where countries are involved in global climate negotiations to toughen existing pledges to cut carbon emissions.
The climate talks are supposed to agree in 2011 on a global successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.
One particular focus of the talks in Cancun is how to expand the carbon markets. Kyoto capped emissions by industrialized countries through 2012, driving them to invest in clean energy projects in developing countries to earn carbon tradable offsets, which would help them meet their limits.
"While (developing) countries would like to see a comprehensive global accord on climate change, they are not waiting for one," Zoellick said in a statement.
"They are acting now and acting differently to shift from being climate vulnerable to being climate smart," he added.
"We are fully engaged and have been ramping up our efforts with countries as they put in place practical, effective solutions leading to low-carbon growth and inclusive efforts to overcome poverty," he added.
The fund, which could reach up to $100 million, will provide technical and other support to developing countries to develop their own carbon markets.
Zoellick noted that more World Bank member countries are making climate change a priority in their development plans. In 1990, about 10 percent of countries included climate change in such plans. That number has grown to over 80 percent.
"We know that the poorest countries will suffer the earliest and the most from climate change," Zoellick added. "They will bear the brunt of changing weather patterns, water shortages, and rising sea levels even though they are the least equipped to deal with them."
In Cancun, Zoellick will also meet with government leaders and others to try to advance the climate talks, the Bank said.
As the globe's largest poverty-fighting institution, the World Bank is a major provider of loans to developing countries to help them tackle climate changes.
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"A thought for my fellow CEOs: Of course, the immediate future is uncertain; America has faced the unknown since 1776. It's just that sometimes people focus on the myriad of uncertainties that always exist while at other times they ignore them (usually because the recent past has been uneventful)."
Those words from Warren Buffett in his 2012 letter to Berkshire Hathaway stockholders gently chide U.S. business leaders for what a number of observers consider too much timidity in their investments. But for many manufacturers, the fresh memory of a recession that saw production fall 13.6% in 2009 alone -- and employment rolls shed 2 million jobs -- continues to leave them cautious about the future.
See Also: Global Manufacturing Economy Trends & Analysis
At Newtex Industries, CEO Jerry Joliet has grappled with a wrenching series of challenges since taking over the company's top spot in 2006. The company makes a variety of products designed to protect people and equipment from heat and fire. When Newtex introduced its products in 1978 as a replacement for asbestos, the firm quickly grew. But by 2000, Newtex was facing a wave of cheap Chinese competition, while at the same time it opened a factory in China. The combination of Chinese imports and increased operating costs resulted in heavy losses.
By 2008, Joliet had restored the company to profitability, only to be slammed by the recession. With belt tightening and the help of a new management team he had installed, the company has come back strong, growing 25% last year.
But sequestration has already had an impact on Newtex. The company designed a heat shield for Air Force cargo planes, but so far it has only been installed on 17 planes instead of the hundreds originally anticipated. "Now that has been put on hold," he says.
"Executives are feeling a lot of uncertainty," says Bobby Bono, U.S. industrial manufacturing leader for PwC. Where in the past executives had better visibility into future revenue and could make resource allocations based on that, now, Bono says, there is less clarity as to what the future holds, not just with sales but with the impact of regulatory and tax policy.
"Most of the companies that survived the recession did so because they were really careful," says economist Chris Kuehl, managing director of Armada Corporate Intelligence. "They would rather risk losing a little bit of market share than get into a debt situation they can't handle."
When the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association (FMA) recently conducted a poll, Kuehl noted, about one-third of the companies were "modernizing as fast as they possibly can." The other two-thirds "were really being cautious." Kuehl said the investment approach seemed to be closely related to the industry sectors they serve, with companies that supply the aerospace and automotive industries typically being more progressive.
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Recent economic data have done little to make manufacturers feel sanguine about the future. In April, factory production slid by 0.4%, the third month in the past four that manufacturing output contracted.
"The output backslide in April was broad-based, with widespread weakness in both durable and nondurable manufacturing," observes Cliff Waldman, senior economist for the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI). "Suppliers of numerous manufacturing supply chains such as machinery, nonmetallic mineral products and fabricated metal products all suffered contractions in production, indicating fundamental factory sector weakness."
While the Institute for Supply Management's purchasing managers index continued to indicate growth in April, the index fell to 50.7%, the lowest rate of the year, and the employment component fell 4 percentage points to 50.2%.
U.S. manufacturing has shown "very modest growth in production and sales" in 2013, says Chad Moutray, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers. He attributes the slowdown to a number of economic headwinds U.S. manufacturers had little control over, including uncertainty over the Affordable Health Care Act, sequestration and weakness in the world economy.


text: COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) has announced organizational changes as part of a continuing corporate-wide repositioning effort, according to Nicholas K. Akins, AEP president and chief executive officer. "We are redefining our organization to better address the business challenges we face today and potential opportunities in the future," Akins said. Charles E. Zebula, currently treasurer and senior vice president – Investor Relations, will become executive vice president – Energy Supply, a new position reporting to Robert P. Powers, executive vice president and chief operating officer. Julie Sloat, currently vice president – Regulatory Case Management, will become treasurer and senior vice president. Sloat will report to Brian X. Tierney, executive vice president and chief financial officer. Zebula will be responsible for separating AEP Ohio's generation from the company's regulated fleet by Jan. 1, 2014, as required under Ohio's move to enhance electric market deregulation. "AEP is a regulated electric utility, with the vast majority of our operations and earnings tied to rate-regulated electric utilities," Akins said. "But Ohio's move to enhance electric market deregulation will shift much of AEP's Ohio generation into a separate competitive business. This is an important change for AEP. We're confident that Chuck's financial experience in leading AEP's treasury functions, combined with his prior operational experience running fuel procurement and our river operations business, makes him the right person to manage the transition and ensure it is seamless." Functions reporting to Zebula will include Commercial Operations; AEP Energy, the company's retail marketing unit; AEP Energy Partners, the company's wholesale power marketing unit; and AEP River Operations, the company's dry-bulk barge transportation subsidiary. Sloat will replace Zebula as AEP's treasurer.


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Krugman on FoxPac: "the Ministry of Propaganda has... seized control of the Politburo"
In his column [1] in today's New York Times, Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman says that Fox News "no longer feels the need to make any effort to keep up appearances" that the network is "fair and balanced."
Krugman discusses Fox's employment [2] of "every major contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination who isn't currently holding office and isn't named Mitt Romney"; the network's $1 million donations to the Republican Governors Association [3] and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce [4]; how the network is "anointing" conservative Republican candidates like Christine O'Donnell [5]; how "the Tea Party movement owes much of its rise [6] to enthusiastic Fox coverage"; and the consequences [7] of conservative criticism of Fox.
From Krugman's column:
As Politico recently pointed out [8], every major contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination who isn't currently holding office and isn't named Mitt Romney is now a paid contributor to Fox News. Now, media moguls have often promoted the careers and campaigns of politicians they believe will serve their interests. But directly cutting checks to political favorites takes it to a whole new level of blatancy.
Nobody who was paying attention has ever doubted that Fox is, in reality, a part of the Republican political machine; but the network -- with its Orwellian slogan, "fair and balanced" -- has always denied the obvious. Officially, it still does. But by hiring those G.O.P. candidates, while at the same time making million-dollar contributions [9] to the Republican Governors Association and the rabidly anti-Obama United States Chamber of Commerce, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which owns Fox, is signaling that it no longer feels the need to make any effort to keep up appearances.
Something else has changed, too: increasingly, Fox News has gone from merely supporting Republican candidates to anointing them. Christine O'Donnell, the upset winner of the G.O.P. Senate primary in Delaware, is often described as the Tea Party candidate, but given the publicity the network gave her, she could equally well be described as the Fox News candidate. Anyway, there's not much difference: the Tea Party movement owes much of its rise to enthusiastic Fox coverage.
As the Republican political analyst David Frum put it, "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox" -- literally, in the case of all those non-Mitt-Romney presidential hopefuls. It was days later, by the way, that Mr. Frum was fired by the American Enterprise Institute. Conservatives criticize Fox at their peril.
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Johan Caspar Haunshield married Christina Messerschmiedin, from Westtown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, on 2 April 1757, by the Rev. Pastor Friedrich Schultz. This marriage record has been misread and widely published on the web and elsewhere as follows:
"1757, April 13 in Conrad Jost's house." This date and location applies to the Schlatzer-Keplerin marriage listed above the Hounshell marriage in the source book, not to our Haunshild-Messerschmiedin marriage. John's ancestry is presently unknown. (Augustus Ev. Lutheran Church, Trappe, Pa.: record of marriages, confirmations and burials, with a list of the contributors to pastor's salary, Nov. 27, 1760. 1897. Reading, Pa: Pennsylvania-German Society, page 496.)
Christina Messersmith (Messerschmidt in German), daughter of Andreas Messerschmidt and Anna Maria Heyes, was baptized on 17 October 1728, in Ofterdingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. She was probably also born there in 1728. Ofterdingen is a town in the district of Tubingen, and lies about 8 miles south of the town of Tubingen, which is located about 20 miles south of Stuttgart, the old capitol of the duchy and kingdom of Wuerttemberg, Germany. The Andreas Messerschmidt &wife Anna Maria Heyes family arrived in Philadelphia 5 August 1751, on the ship "Nancy", Thomas Coatam, Captain, from Rotterdam with 200 passengers. They arrived with six of their eight children, Christina, Agnes, Hans Bernhard (Barnabus), Johannas (John), Sebastian, and Maria Sophia. The others, Regina and Anna Maria died in Ofterdingen and are buried there. Three of these children are known to have come to Southwest Virginia, Christina who married John Hounshell, Barnabus who never married, and John Messersmith. (Canfield, Clifford R. 1987. My German ancestors I: Brandstetter, Daude, Lambert, Messersmith and allied families. Carlsbad, California, [s.n.]. page 59.)
Most of the information on the early Hounshell and allied families of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky is a result of the extensive research conducted by Mr. Clifford Robert7 Canfield, (Margaret6 Hounshell Canfield, Joseph Albert5 Hounshell, Joseph Sampson4 Hounshell, Peter3 Hounshell, Andrew2 Hounshell, Johan Casper1 Hounshell).
Mr. Canfield was born 25 June 1925 at Taft, California, and in (August, 2002) lived in Hemet, California with wife Mary J. (Fike) Canfield. I had corresponded with Clifford Canfield in Germany just prior to his first book being published, but he didn't have time to include more information on my line at that time, much of my data was not published. Mr. Canfield's prior research along with research during his ten year stay in Germany as a U.S. Armed Forces schoolteacher, resulted in " CANFIELD, C. R. (1973). The Hounshell family of Southwest Virginia. Frankfurt, Ger, (by Clifford R. Canfield, Frankfurt, Germany, June 1973. His German research also resulted in, (Canfield, Clifford R. 1987. My German ancestors I: Brandstetter, Daude, Lambert, Messersmith and allied families. Carlsbad, California, [s.n.]. Mr. Canfield passed away on 15 Jan 2005 in Hemet, CA.
The first mention I, (Thomas R. Luce, of Bethel, Ohio), have found of my ancestor John Casper (Johann Caspar) Hounshell after his arrival in America, was by accident during one of my several, genealogical trips to Washington, D.C. in the 1970's & 80's. One of my mother's German ancestral lines is Umstat, Umstead, and etc. (Settled in Germantown, now Philadelphia, PA in 1682). While checking the indexes of the original five volumes of "Notes and Queries Historical and Genealogical Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylvania", William Henry Egle, Harrisburg, Pa. : Harrisburg Pub. Co., 1896 -1900, at The Library of Congress, I discovered the following entry, and immediately recognized it as my Hounshell family. I knew from previous research that my Hounchell's had apparently pronounced their surname with a silent "H" for some period of time:
Unschild, Andrew page 48; Unschild, Christina page 48; Unschild, John page 48
My ancestor John3 Owndshell (Hounchell), son of Andrew2 & grandson of John Casper1 was born in Wythe Co., VA, and moved to Lee Co., VA, and then several years later went thru the Cumberland Gap to Clay Co., Kentucky. John died there on 30 Aug 1854. His death record reads as follows: at the age 73?, of Bilious fever, Son of A(ndrew) & L(ouisa) Owndshell & born in Wythe Co., VA. John and his sons were listed as Ownshell in the 1850 census for Clay Co., KY.
My research discoveries were made too late to be incorporated in Clifford's books mentioned above. He graciously gave us his notarized permission to incorporate his published works into our later research, during my visit to his home in Hemet, CA in August of 2002.
The following baptisms were originally published in book form in ""Notes and Queries Historical and Genealogical Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylvania", William Henry Egle, Harrisburg, Pa. : Harrisburg Pub. Co., 1893, page 48.
1.) "Unchild, b. May 20, 1759; bap. Festo Trinitatis, 1761; witnesses, Jacob Speidel and Elizabeth Greb." (Note: This Unchild child was baptized on the Festival day of Festo Trinitatis, 1761. No first name or sex was given for the child baptized.)
2.) "Unschild, Christina, d. of John Unschild, b. June 6, 1762; bap. Sept. 9, 1762; witnesses, Jacob Speidel and wife."
3.) "Unschild, Andrew, s. of John Unschild, b. Oct. 3, 1766; bap. Nov. 2, 1766; witnesses, John Goez and Christiana Schumaker."
A second set of birth and baptism records are the results of a 1957 translation from the German script of the original St. Paul Church registers performed by Lutheran Pastor Frederick S. Weiser. Paster Weiser's translation resulted in some changes from the original translations of our baptisms performed in the late nineteenth century for "Notes and Queries, …". As can be seen above, in the first translation from German, of our baptisms published in 1893, the baptism record for the first child omitted the sex and first name of the child baptized on 17 May 1761 and born on 20 May 1759. Many, including myself, assumed this record could have applied to the child (Major) John Hounshell. Paster Weiser's translation of 1957, proved that assumption wrong, and showed the dates applied to John Casper Hounshell's daughter Maria Elizabeth Hounshell.
John Casper Hounshell and Christina Messersmith probably had four children as listed below. The last three of these children were probably born in Pennsylvania, and baptized at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church (also known as Hill Church ("Bergkirche") or Sand Hill Church or as Maxe Church ("Maxe Kirche") in Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, as translated by Paster Weiser.
1.) John (Major John to distinguish him from John Casper Hounshell the father), exact birth date and place unknown. He may possibly have been born about say May 1757, based on having been at least 16 years old when listed in "Capt. Doack's List of Tithables for 1773" ordered by the newly formed County of Fincastle, VA.
2.) 1759, May 20: Joann Unchild father. A daughter was named Maria Elisabeta. Sponsors Jacob Speidel and Elisabeta Grebin. Baptized on Festival of the Trinity (May 17) 1761.
3.) 1762, June 6: Joann Unchild father. A daughter who was given the name Christina in Holy Baptism. Sponsors Jacob Speidel and wife. Baptized Sept. 9, 1762.
4.) 1766, Oct 3: Joann Unchild father. (son) Andreas. Sponsors Joannes Goetz and Christina Schumacherin. Baptized Nov. 2, 1766.
Hounshell TimeLine Feb. 2011
1757, April 2: John Casper Hounshell married Christina Messersmith. They were of Westtown Twp., Chester County, Pennsylvania, by the Rev. Pastor Friedrich Schultz.
1766, Nov 2: Son Andrew baptized at the St. Paul Lutheran Church, Dauphin Co., PA. Sometime after this date John Casper Hounshell and family moved to Virginia.
1768: John "Houncal" was one of thirty-one inhabitants of Reed Creek, of Holston, Augusta County, later to become Wythe County, Virginia, who signed a Petition directed to the worshipful Court of Augusta County asking that the road to their Patent lands be improved.
ca. 1757: Son (Major) John Hounshell born in possibly Westtown Twp., Chester Co., Pennsylvania.1771: John "Hownshell" appears on "A List of Tithables taken by Walter Crockett from William Sayers to the Head of the Holston River – 1771". This list of Tithables was ordered by the Botetourt County Court, to be taken by Walter Crocket in Capt. Doalk's
1759, May 20: Daughter Maria Elizabeth born in possibly Westtown Twp., Chester Co., Pennsylvania.
1762, June 6: Joann Unchild father. A daughter who was given the name Christina in Holy Baptism. Sponsors Jacob Speidel and wife. Baptized Sept. 9, 1762.
1763, Mar 8: John Hounshell and wife are sponsors at the baptism of Maria Elizabeth Speidel at the St. Paul Lutheran Church, Dauphin Co., PA.
1766, Oct 3: Son Andrew born in possibly Westtown Twp., Chester Co., Pennsylvania.
1768: John "Houncal" was one of thirty-one inhabitants of Reed Creek, of Holston, Augusta County, later to become Wythe County, Virginia, who signed a Petition directed to the worshipful
Court of Augusta County asking that the road to their Patent lands be improved. Bruce, Philip Alexander, and William Glover Stanard, 1893. The Virginia magazine of history and biography. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, VOL. XXX, pg. 199-200. (Doak's) and his own company. John's brother-in-law John Messersmith also appears on the list. Kegley, Mary B. 1988. Glimpses of Wythe County, Virginia. Charleston, W. Va: Pictorial Histories Pub. Co., VOL. 2, 147, 148.
1772: John "Hownshell" appears on "A list of Tithables in Capt. Doacks and my own
Companys for the year 1772, taken by Walter Crocket. This list was taken for
Botetourt Co. VA. John's brothers-in law John & Barnabas Messersmith also appear on this list. Kegley, Mary B. 1988. (Glimpses of Wythe County, Virginia. Charleston, W. Va: Pictorial Histories Pub. Co., VOL. 2, 152, 153.)
1773, aft. May 3: John "Ounshell" appears on "Capt. Doack's List of Tithables for 1773", ordered by the newly formed County of Fincastle. Capt. Doack took the list for his own Company. John's brother-in laws John & Barnabas Messersmith also appear on this list. A note at the bottom of the list showed men who had more than one Tithable: "John Ounshell: 2".
The lists of tithables above (1771, 1772, and 1773) were taken under the 1748 Tithable law of the Colony of Virginia as follows: "That all male persons of the age sixteen years and upwards, (and etc.), shall be and are declared to be tithable….." This note referring to two tithables probably refers to John Casper Hounshell and son (Major) John. Son John probably was sixteen years old in 1773.
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We had to check it wasn't April 1 for this one - a group from the Google X Labs has debuted Project Glass, based around a pair of Augmented Reality glasses.
With seemingly a prototype already out there - is the pics aren't pure renders - Google must have been working on these AR glasses for a while, but this is the first time Google X Labs has talked about it in public. A Google page for Project Glass has been launched, along with a video showing how it'll work - which you can watch below.
The glasses place a little transparent display in front of your right eye, dropping a user interface into your field of vision. It'll give you access to key Google services including Google , Music, Maps and Calendar. And all for the price of - your dignity. Like video glasses, they won't help you blend into the background. Google's demo photos don't feature glass lenses either, making it all the clearer that these aren't everyday glasses. Rumoured to cost between £300 and £500, they're in high-end smartphone territory.
However, it's likely to be some time before any of us non-Google-acolytes get to see them in the flesh. Project Glass is a proof of concept, something intended to "start a conversation" about what this technology could mean in the future - rather than an announcement about some Star Trek-like tech you'll see on shelves before the year's out. Strange as they may look and expensive as they may be, we'd love to try a pair out. How about you?
Google X Lab is a special part of Google that fiddles with all sorts of odd technology concepts, to try and uncover ones that might be worth taking further. And identify ones that aren't, too. Other X Lab classics include the self-driving car and the space elevator.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post7734883859502890866..comments2017-05-25T22:05:24.132-04:00Comments on The TSA Blog: New Mexico v. Phillip Mocek: A Quick Reminder on ID and Photography at TSA email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-26158521555707155082012-12-27T21:58:32.603-05:002012-12-27T21:58:32.603-05:00So even though acquitted on ALL charges and it has...So even though acquitted on ALL charges and it has been proven in a court of law that nobody is required to show ID to fly, you are telling us that TSA will NOT comply with the ruling? I smell another court case soon………………..

email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-43152531800741675332011-03-10T14:22:39.523-05:002011-03-10T14:22:39.523-05:00Why are TSA employees at ATL still threatening peo...Why are TSA employees at ATL still threatening people with deliberate delays and/or arrest for attempting to document their experiences with the TSA?

http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-42815282885111620832011-02-26T11:37:42.156-05:002011-02-26T11:37:42.156-05:00DJ said... so photography at the checkpoint is pe...DJ said...
so photography at the checkpoint is permitted, so long as it does not capture the screening process?

that rings hollow, even for TSA..."

No, as along as it does not INTERFERE with the screening process. Reading is firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-9027157959950392962011-02-25T01:56:30.271-05:002011-02-25T01:56:30.271-05:00Call your senator 24/7 and vote anyone that contin...Call your senator 24/7 and vote anyone that continues with this stazi force to exist out of office in both senate and house.Its up to all of us via vote to remove them.

The writeing of the TSA to the case that was found innocent in this blog speaks volumes of their authority even over a judicial proceeding.The arrest was unfounded and mr mocek should put forward a civil case and email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-39081728761524011512011-02-23T06:47:17.667-05:002011-02-23T06:47:17.667-05:00West, this is an astonishingly unprofessional set ...West, this is an astonishingly unprofessional set of comments. Frankly, I'd have expected better from a PR professional than to refer to free English lessons and keep insinuating that there might have been technicalities in the trial that prevented a guilty verdict. Not guilty in a system with the presumption of innocence means the accused is innocent, just as the TSA often refuses to email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-6901424040504296992011-02-22T21:40:30.366-05:002011-02-22T21:40:30.366-05:00If TSA's requirements for ID at checkpoints ar...If TSA's requirements for ID at checkpoints are so vital ... how, pray tell, did an 80-year old woman get through a TSA checkpoint with someone else's boarding pass, ending up in the wrong city?Jim Hugginshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-44822395468625437582011-02-21T22:22:20.470-05:002011-02-21T22:22:20.470-05:00As sad as it is that this is even a story it does ...As sad as it is that this is even a story it does provide some glimmer of hope.notmyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-29551984776266731542011-02-19T19:32:14.898-05:002011-02-19T19:32:14.898-05:00Bob said: Blogger Bob said: "TSA's goal ...Bob said:
Blogger Bob said:
"TSA's goal is to ensure that all passengers who fly are checked against government watchlists. This can be achieved only if a passenger's identity is confirmed at the checkpoint."

Great, Bob. Good to know that the bombers you're looking for will be caught assuming they've attempted to bomb an aircraft in the past. <br firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-28534078404070832652011-02-18T10:25:31.071-05:002011-02-18T10:25:31.071-05:00Blogger Bob said: "TSA's goal is to ensur...Blogger Bob said:
"TSA's goal is to ensure that all passengers who fly are checked against government watchlists. This can be achieved only if a passenger's identity is confirmed at the checkpoint."

Please explain how looking at the ID that someone produces before they enter the checkpoint is tantamount to checking it against government watchlists.

C from email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-70233701593131341412011-02-17T09:59:05.626-05:002011-02-17T09:59:05.626-05:00Why do TSA employees continue to lie to the public...Why do TSA employees continue to lie to the public and state that the TSA does not allow photography or video recording at the checkpoints?

http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-1702228275198316362011-02-16T19:57:13.770-05:002011-02-16T19:57:13.770-05:00Anonymous said: "Nothing like sunshine to cur...Anonymous said:
"Nothing like sunshine to cure rot and infection."
so out of over 8 years for screening you have 4 witnesses that you want before congress. 100s of thousands of people are screened everyday across the country so that puts the number of people screened since tsa was made in the billions and you want to sight 4 or 5 witnesses, it could even be in the 100s. come firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-31418991283978150562011-02-16T15:41:49.617-05:002011-02-16T15:41:49.617-05:00Yes, let's look at the big picture. TSA has in...Yes, let's look at the big picture. TSA has inconvenienced billions of people, violated the constitutional rights of millions of people, egregiously personally violated at least dozens, destroyed or tried to destroy several lives, and caught exactly zero terrorists. There's your big email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-50668562425724225052011-02-13T20:17:26.452-05:002011-02-13T20:17:26.452-05:00anon said: "I hope Mr. Mocek testifies before...anon said:
"I hope Mr. Mocek testifies before Congress about his ordeal. Lets add in Amy Sullivan from Time Magazine, the patriot pilot and the breast milk Mom. We need to get TSA's misdeeds in front of the American people.
Nothing like sunshine to cure rot and infection."
so out of over 8 years for screening you have 4 witnesses that you want before congress. 100s email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-6079402774449010692011-02-13T09:52:58.635-05:002011-02-13T09:52:58.635-05:00I hope Mr. Mocek testifies before Congress about h...I hope Mr. Mocek testifies before Congress about his ordeal. Lets add in Amy Sullivan from Time Magazine, the patriot pilot and the breast milk Mom. We need to get TSA's misdeeds in front of the American people.
Nothing like sunshine to cure rot and email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-27557366545064731492011-02-09T13:55:34.311-05:002011-02-09T13:55:34.311-05:00Anonymous said: "im curious, was the verdict...Anonymous said:
"im curious, was the verdicted appealed?
have there ever been any verdicts that have been given reversed in an appeals court?"

This verdict will not be appealed and, if it were, would be rejected on the merits. The defense didn't even present evidence; the not guilty verdict was due entirely due to the insufficiency of the Government's email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-9861822444792367202011-02-09T00:54:29.698-05:002011-02-09T00:54:29.698-05:00@Adrian: Some of the TSA officers make several fal...@Adrian: Some of the TSA officers make several false statements to the police. Will they be charged or disciplined for their actions?

Of course not.

Our Government Overlords wouldn't be allowed to jeopardize their continued employment at a few hundred thousand dollars a year per email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-45193099502599825292011-02-08T14:05:18.312-05:002011-02-08T14:05:18.312-05:00"Anonymous said... im curious, was the verdic..."Anonymous said...
im curious, was the verdicted appealed?
have there ever been any verdicts that have been given reversed in an appeals court?

February 7, 2011 3:58 PM"

Why would they appeal, and on what grounds?

Beyond being double jeopardy, the prosecution was handed its hat the last time around. Would you like to see them kiss their firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-4870320020308784982011-02-08T07:30:08.066-05:002011-02-08T07:30:08.066-05:00Anonymous asks: I'm curious, was the verdicted...Anonymous asks: I'm curious, was the verdicted appealed?

A criminal acquittal can't be appealed in court. Otherwise, prosecutors could indefinitely "punish" defendants by repeatedly forcing them to defend themselves in court against false charges (like these).Jim Hugginshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-17337105948836763612011-02-07T15:58:29.044-05:002011-02-07T15:58:29.044-05:00im curious, was the verdicted appealed? have ther...im curious, was the verdicted appealed?
have there ever been any verdicts that have been given reversed in an appeals firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-33125862961597921502011-02-07T13:58:41.519-05:002011-02-07T13:58:41.519-05:00Another example of TSA not holding its employees a...Another example of TSA not holding its employees accoutable for their actions.

Par for the course.

Perhaps TSA will get some real leadership one day.RBhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-66340452359151083322011-02-07T10:13:16.088-05:002011-02-07T10:13:16.088-05:00Retired MSGT said... Col said: "I expect all ...Retired MSGT said...
Col said:
"I expect all government employees, including myself -- no, I DEMAND that all government employees conduct themselves with honesty, transparency, and integrity. A personal attack using official communication methods against an individual whom they believe to be an antagonist following a court decision to which the agency does not agree is bizarre at email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-53909068082831306282011-02-07T10:03:15.108-05:002011-02-07T10:03:15.108-05:00GSOLTSO said: "The question was not about fi...GSOLTSO said:
"The question was not about filming in the checkpoint area, but about what was being filmed – namely SSI material, which the TSOs have a duty to try and prevent."

This point was raised during the trial. Obviously the jury didn't agree. As a government employee commenting on the facts of a trial, you should get your facts straight before you firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-22966257527127936772011-02-06T10:26:10.374-05:002011-02-06T10:26:10.374-05:00Retired MSGT said... Col said: "I expect all ...Retired MSGT said...
Col said:
"I expect all government employees, including myself -- no, I DEMAND that all government employees conduct themselves with honesty, transparency, and integrity. A personal attack using official communication methods against an individual whom they believe to be an antagonist following a court decision to which the agency does not agree is bizarre at RBhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-779482962021719502011-02-06T10:24:07.414-05:002011-02-06T10:24:07.414-05:00TSM West said... All of this complaining about inn...TSM West said...
All of this complaining about innocent or not guilty. We have both sides of the issue to include Mr. Mocek's version. 182 comments. How many were from members of the jury that found Mr Mocek not guilty. Without hearing from any of them no-one will ever know the reason for the verdict. No one is right and no one is wrong without their input.

February 4, 2011 11RBhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-266277669065568972011-02-06T06:40:14.522-05:002011-02-06T06:40:14.522-05:00"Without that video, Mocek undoubtedly would ..."Without that video, Mocek undoubtedly would have been convicted by the perjurious testimony of the 19 TSA and police witnesses you had lined up for the first trial, before you discovered there was a video that contradicted every word of the fabricated testimony they planned to give."

"19 TSA And police witnesses" - Can this be verified?, if so did they provide email@example.com


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Lapins J, Ye W, Nyrén O, Emtestam L. Incidence of Cancer Among Patients With Hidradenitis Suppurativa. Arch Dermatol. 2001;137(6):730-734. doi:10-1001/pubs.Arch Dermatol.-ISSN-0003-987x-137-6-dst00132
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On the basis of some case reports, a relationship has been suggested between hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) and the development of nonmelanoma skin cancer.
To confirm this relationship and to explore the risk of other cancers among patients with HS.
Patients with a discharge diagnosis of HS were obtained from the computerized database of hospital discharge diagnoses from January 1, 1965, through December 31, 1997. A total of 2119 patients with HS were identified.
All hospitals in Sweden.
With record linkage to the Swedish National Cancer Registry, standardized incidence ratios (SIR [the ratio of the observed to expected incidence]) were calculated to estimate relative risk.
The risk of developing any cancer in the cohort with HS increased 50% (95% confidence interval of SIR, 1.1-1.8, based on 73 observed cases). Statistically significant risk elevations were observed for nonmelanoma skin cancer (5 cases; SIR, 4.6; 95% confidence interval, 1.5-10.7), buccal cancer (5 cases; SIR, 5.5; 95% confidence interval, 1.8-12.9), and primary liver cancer (3 cases; SIR, 10.0; 95% confidence interval, 2.1-29.2).
This study confirms an increased risk of nonmelanoma skin cancer among patients with HS. The risk for buccal cancer and primary liver cancer was also elevated among this cohort, but these associations should be interpreted cautiously because the combination of multiple significance testing and the few observed cases may have generated chance findings.
HIDRADENITIS suppurativa (HS) is a chronic, suppurative, and cicatricial inflammatory disease, mainly affecting apocrine gland–bearing areas of the skin.1 Several case reports of co-occurrence of HS and nonmelanona skin cancer2- 16 have implied a causal relationship, but firm epidemiological data are lacking. In an attempt to confirm this association and to look for other cancer associations as well, we performed a retrospective cohort study of patients hospitalized for HS in Sweden. The patients were followed up for up to 32 years to examine the subsequent risks of cancer.
In 1964-1965, the National Board of Health and Welfare started collecting data on individual hospital discharges in the Inpatient Register. In addition to the national registration number (unique personal identifiers assigned to all Swedish residents), each record—corresponding to one in-hospital episode—contains administrative and medical data such as hospital department and discharge diagnoses. The diagnoses are coded according to the International Classification of Diseases, 7th Revision (ICD-7) through 1968, the eighth revision until 1987 (ICD-8), the ninth revision (ICD-9) until 1996, and the 10th revision (ICD-10) thereafter. The number of hospitals providing data to the register has increased steadily: the register covered 60% of the Swedish population in 1969, 75% in 1978, and 85% by the end of 1983. From 1987, the register attained complete nationwide coverage.
All patients recorded in the Inpatient Register with a discharge diagnosis of HS (ICD-7 = 714.07, ICD-8 = 705.91, ICD-9 = 705W, and ICD-10 = L732) were initially selected for inclusion in the study. A total of 2259 unique national registration numbers were registered at least once with this diagnosis between January 1, 1965, and December 31, 1997. During the period 1987 through 1996, the ICD-9 code, 705W, contains also other diseases, namely, pompholyx, bromhidrosis, and chromhidrosis. However, the incidence of these 3 diagnoses in Swedish inpatients is very low.
Record linkage of the study cohort to the nationwide Register of Causes of Death, using the national registration numbers as identifiers, provided information on dates and causes of death among those deceased through 1997. Corresponding linkage to the emigration register identified dates of emigration. The National Swedish Cancer Register, founded in 1958 and close to 98% complete,17 was used to ascertain all incident cancers until December 31, 1997. The cancer register coded malignant neoplasm according to the ICD-7 classification during the entire study period.
To remove records with incorrect national registration numbers, which would otherwise contribute person-years at no risk of cancer, we also linked the cohort file to the register of the total population. If a national registration number could not be found in this register or in the death and emigration registers, we concluded that it did not correspond to an existing person. We, thus, excluded from the cohort 22 medical records because of erroneous or incomplete national registration numbers. We also excluded 67 patients with prevalent cancers (ie, those who had a previously registered diagnosis of cancer) and 51 patients with inconsistencies uncovered during medical record linkage. Thus, a total of 2119 patients, 1495 women and 624 men, were enrolled in the study cohort, which is further characterized in Table 1.
Follow-up time (person-years) was calculated from the date of enrollment in the cohort (date of the first discharge from the hospital having a diagnosis of HS) until the occurrence of a first cancer diagnosis, emigration, death, or the end of the study (December 31, 1997). To avoid possible ascertainment bias associated with differential autopsy rates between the cohort members and the general population, we did not count cancers found incidentally at autopsy. Relative risk of cancer was estimated as the standardized incidence ratio (SIR), defined as the ratio of the observed number of cancers to that expected. The expected number of cancers was calculated by multiplying the number of observed person-years, divided into age (in 5-year groups), sex-, and calendar year–specific strata, by the corresponding cancer incidence rates. These incidence rates, derived from the relevant strata in the entire Swedish population and aggregated by 5 calendar years to avoid instability in rates of rare cancers, were calculated by dividing number of the first primary cancers excluding those discovered incidentally at autopsy by person-years at risk (number of midyear population without reported cancer). The 95% confidence interval (CI) of the SIR was calculated on the assumption that the observed number follows a Poisson distribution.18 For selected cancer sites, stratified analyses were also performed to detect any difference of risk pattern across sex, duration of follow-up, period at discharge, status of comorbidities, and whether patients had ever undergone surgical excision of the affected skin areas. An approximate χ2 test was used to test the difference between 2 SIRs.19 We also calculated standardized mortality ratios for selected causes of death. Patients with prevalent cancers (ie, those who had a previously registered diagnosis of cancer) were included in the mortality analyses. In the main analyses, we excluded cancers and person-years accumulated during the first year of follow-up to minimize the possible influence of selection bias. Such bias occurs if patients with HS and a subclinical cancer are more likely to be hospitalized than those without a subclinical cancer. If this is the case, these cancers are most likely to be diagnosed within the first year of follow-up. This study is approved by ethics committee of Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
On average, the patients with HS were followed up for 9.8 years, yielding 20 801 accumulated patient-years at risk. During the observation period, we ascertained a total of 81 cases of cancer (52 among women, 29 among men). The average age at diagnosis of cancer was 51.2 years for women and 55.0 years for men (Table 1). Among all 2119 patients, 134 (6%) had a diagnosis of alcoholism and 152 (7%) had a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus. About one third (652) of the patients had ever undergone surgical excision of the affected skin areas.
After excluding 8 cancer cases accumulated during the first year of follow-up (SIR, 1.9; 95% CI, 0.8-3.8), including 1 case of squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, the risk for any cancer (all sites) was increased by 50% among patients hospitalized for HS, compared with the age- and sex-matched general Swedish population during the time of the study (Table 2). The estimated relative risks for cancers of different sites with at least 2 observed cases are also listed in Table 2. There was a significantly increased relative risk for nonmelanoma skin cancer (5 cases; SIR, 4.6; 95% CI, 1.5-10.7), but no excess risk was observed for melanoma. Significantly elevated relative risks were also observed for buccal cancer (5 cases; SIR, 5.5; 95% CI, 1.8-12.9) and primary liver cancer (3 cases; SIR, 10.0; 95% CI, 2.1-29.2). Although not statistically significant, increased risks were noted for esophageal cancer (2 cases; SIR, 7.4; 95% CI, 0.9-26.8), lung cancer (5 cases; SIR, 1.7; 95% CI, 0.6-4.1), kidney cancer (2 cases; SIR, 1.7; 95% CI, 0.2-6.3), cancers in urinary tract organs other than kidney (3 cases; SIR, 1.9; 95% CI, 0.4-5.5), and hematopoietic cancers (6 cases; SIR, 1.8; 95% CI, 0.7-4.0). No obviously increased risk was observed for colon, rectum, breast, female genital system, and brain cancers in our cohort (Table 2). Nine cancers are not accounted for in Table 2 and they occurred in the following sites: stomach (1 patient), ampulla of Vater (1 patient), pancreas (1 patient), prostate (1 patient), testis (1 patient), thyroid (1 patient), and unspecified (3 patients).
Stratified analyses for selected cancer types among patients hospitalized for HS from January 1, 1965, through December 31, 1997, in Sweden by sex, follow-up duration, and calendar period of hospitalization are given in Table 3. Small numbers of observed and expected cancers hampered interpretation of these data. Men seemed to have a higher relative risk for all-site cancer, but a lower relative risk for nonmelanoma skin cancer and buccal cancer than women, although these differences were not statistically significant. The observed excess risk for primary liver cancer was seemingly confined to men, with a borderline significant difference between sex (P = .07). Except for buccal cancer, where the excess became more obvious after more than 10 years of observation (P = .05), there was no clear tendency of increasing or decreasing relative risks with time. Nor did the relative risks vary materially with calendar period of enrollment. The findings remained practically unaltered after removal of patients with a co-diagnosis of alcoholism, and the excesses seemed to be essentially independent of whether a surgical excision of the hidradenitis had been carried out (although only one case of buccal and no cases of primary liver cancers were observed among operated on patients). Cancer cases were clearly overrepresented among patients with a co-diagnosis of diabetes mellitus (P = .01 for all-site cancer and P<.01 for buccal cancer), but the excesses of all-site cancer, nonmelanoma skin cancer, and primary liver cancer remained (the latter nonsignificantly) after removal of the patients with diabetes mellitus.
To our knowledge, no other large-scale follow-up study of patients with HS has been published. The association between HS and the risk of nonmelanoma skin cancer has, however, been suggested in some case reports.2- 16 The lack of proper denominators in measures of occurrence and of correct unexposed comparison groups make case reports a shaky basis for qualitative or quantitative inferences regarding cause-and-effect relationships. In our cohort of patients with HS, we observed a 4.6-fold increase of nonmelanoma skin cancer 1 to 32 years after enrollment. This supports the clinical impression voiced in the previous case reports. There seems to have been no obvious concentration of missed preclinical cancers in our cohort, as only one case with skin cancer was ascertained within the first year of follow-up. In the National Swedish Cancer Register neither cases of basal cell carcinoma nor actinic keratosis are reported. Thus, the nonmelanoma skin cancer category includes only squamous cell carcinoma and not squamous intraepidermal neoplasia or Bowen disease.
The earliest inflammatory event in HS is a rupture of the follicular epithelium, followed by the spilling of foreign body material such as corneocytes, bacteria, sebum products, and hair into the dermis. The dumping of foreign products initiates an inflammatory response to cause a foreign body granuloma. Epithelial strands form sinuses in this inflammatory tissue. Secondary bacterial colonization in this milieu can intensify the chronic inflammation,1 a similar picture as seen with intravascular catheters20 and prosthetic devices,21 but in HS the process is long standing, and the presence of a foreign body enhances the pathogenetic properties of coagulase-negative staphylococci that are found in a high proportion of hidradenitis lesions.22 Thus, although it is not fully understood why HS predisposes to skin cancer, the suspicion has centered on the role of chronic irritation and infections that may lead to proliferative epidermal changes, including cancer. The reason for the greater risk among female patients than among male patients, although not clearly ascertained statistically in our data, is unclear. It may be related to hormonal factors or to the fact that HS has an earlier debut among females than males, leading to a longer duration of the chronic disease in females.
In our study, for the first time, it was possible to investigate other cancer risks in a relatively large group of patients with HS over 3 decades. Increases were found for several cancer types, most importantly buccal cancer and primary liver cancer. We have no information of the alcohol-drinking habits of our cohort, and, to our knowledge, no such studies exist, but the increased incidence of primary liver and buccal cancer might be an indication of excessive drinking among patients with HS. Although the excesses remained practically unaltered in the stratum of patients with no recorded alcoholism, the possibility of residual confounding of alcohol abuse cannot be excluded, since probably only a small proportion of alcohol abusers will be given a co-diagnosis of alcoholism when they are hospitalized for other reasons. According to epidemiological data, cigarette smoking seems to be involved in many skin diseases as reviewed previously.23 We have no information on the smoking habits of our patients, but in a questionnaire study of 63 patients with HS, 89% were smokers compared with 46% in a matched-pair control group.24 Similar results regarding smoking habits and HS were found in a recent retrospective study.25 Therefore, substantial confounding by smoking cannot be ruled out, since the risk of lung cancer (SIR, 1.7; 95% CI, 0.6-4.1) and mortality from lung cancer (standardized mortality ratio, 1.7; 95% CI, 0.5-3.9) were increased. The reason for this relationship between the presence of HS, buccal cancer, liver cancer, and cancer in general, if true, and causal, is unclear. However, microbial or lifestyle factors or genetic predisposition are suggested to be included in the considerations. The major strength of our study is the internal validity, that is, the stringent cohort design with no losses to follow-up and virtually complete cancer ascertainment. The epidemiological approach ensured that our patients were representative of hospitalized Swedish patients with HS, thus benefiting the external validity. Moreover, the restriction to patients admitted to hospitals probably minimizes misclassification of the studied condition. However, several limitations should also be noted in the interpretation of our findings. First, owing to the rarity of HS, the small numbers of expected cases of some cancers in this cohort make the risk estimates highly sensitive to chance effects. Second, because we used hospital discharge data to identify our cohort, we may have selected patients with the most severe form of HS26 and, thus, artificially increased the likelihood of finding other serious diseases. Moreover, hospitalized patients may have an excess of comorbidities, in turn, associated with cancer risk. The closer surveillance of hospitalized patients may also introduce some ascertainment or detection bias for skin, breast, and prostate neoplasms. However, the excess risk for all-site cancer, buccal cancer, liver cancer, and nonmelanoma skin cancer persisted after 10 years of observation, which argues for a true relation with HS. Third, information on potential confounding factors, such as cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, and occupational exposures was unavailable for adjustment. Finally, we could not separate HS from some other skin diseases (ie, pompholyx, bromhidrosis, and chromhidrosis) during the 1987-1996 period. Thus, our cohort may contain some patients who did not have HS. However, no material difference of cancer risk pattern between the 2 periods (1965-1986 vs 1987-1997) was observed, which suggests no important influence on our results by this misclassification of exposure.
We have shown a statistically significant 50% excess of malignant neoplasms among patients with HS. The greatest relative excess among patients with HS was for nonmelanoma skin cancer, buccal cancer, and primary liver cancer, but the confounding by smoking and possibly alcohol abuse might explain some or most of these excess risks. The increased frequency of skin cancers, the site of the chronic inflammation, and bacterial colonization, support a possible etiopathologic link between the disease and neoplasia. Clinicians caring for patients with HS should be aware of their propensity to develop these tumors. Whenever atypical clinical manifestations of HS occur, histopathologic examination of representative skin biopsy specimens are recommended.
Accepted for publication January 31, 2001.
This study was supported by grants from the Edvard Welander Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden (Dr Lapins) and the Finsen Foundation, Stockholm (Dr Lapins).
Corresponding author: Jan Lapins, MD, Department of Medicine, Section of Dermatology and Venereology, I43, Karolinska Institutet at Huddinge University Hospital, SE-141 86 Stockholm, Sweden (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com)


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Bird-Cut Armoire
Beautifully designed.
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get organized with great prints!Tags: storage, organization, print, designAdded 5 Years Ago from Anthropologie
You know all those paperclips, USB drives and thumb tacks you've got scattered around your desk? They'd look way prettier hidden in this beautiful little box.Added 7 Years Ago from Anthropologie
Bountiful baubles cover this linen trinket keeper from end to end, creating a colorfully curvy terrain. •Flax, linen, MDF, cardboard, foam •3.5"H, 6.5"W, 6.5"D •ImportedTags: storage, organization, beads, large, Anthropologie, box, jewelry boxAdded 8 Years Ago from Anthropologie
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OK, this little green grill might be called "cute" by females, but I think guys would like it, too. It's a good size for camping or tailgating.Tags: food, kitchen, storage, containers, green, bbq, grill, organization, picnicAdded 8 Years Ago from Anthropologie


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|Date Added: Tuesday 01 January, 2013
I used some Elmer's glue when I put this item together as I know how my 9 year old likes to take things apart. Easy to assemble and sturdy. The game of tossing the rings on the pegs is challenging enough to stay interesting for kids and adults. The size of the rings are small and made of hard plastic but once you have the technique down it is fun!
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Just wanted to buy a game for a niece that didn't involve sitting in front of a TV set. She loves it
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This was for my grandson so he would have something to play inside on hot or rainy days. A rather quiet game that helps to pass the time. For young & old.
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Nothing special about this toy; it's pretty basic, but it works fine. I like how easily you can break it down to store it.
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Game is just as described..you have to put all together..not a problem..it is easy.! It is a well made wooden set.
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I'm satisfied with the product I received. It will be used at our annual military beach picnic at Camp Pendleton.


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SocketCluster (GitHub: TopCloud / socketcluster, npm: socketcluster) is a WebSocket server designed with clustering in mind. The developers have tested for memory leaks and included benchmarks. It handles client reconnection if a server crashes, and has a clustered memory store for temporary session data.
SocketCluster lets you store session data using the socket.session object. This object gives you access to a cluster of in-memory stores called nData. You can effectively invoke any of the methods documented here to store and retrieve session data: https://github.com/topcloud/ndata
Basic usage looks like this:
var SocketCluster = require('socketcluster').SocketCluster;
var socketCluster = new SocketCluster({
workers: [9100, 9101, 9102],
stores: [9001, 9002, 9003],
balancerCount: 1,
port: 8000,
appName: 'myapp',
workerController: 'worker.js',
rebootWorkerOnError: false,
addressSocketLimit: 50
The project is built with iocluster and loadbalancer, by the same authors.
i18n-generator (GitHub: huei90 / i18n-generator, License: MIT, npm: i18n-generator) by Huei Tan is a library for converting i18n text files into JSON.
For example, given this input:
i18n=> | en | zh_TW | de | my
you | you | 你 | Du | kamu
I | I | 我 | ich | Saya
love | love | 喜歡 | liebe | cinta
eat | eat | 吃 | essen | makan
ilovegithub | i love github | 我愛 Github | ich liebe Github | Saya cinta pada Github
It would generate this:
{"you":"you","I":"I","love":"love","eat":"eat","ilovegithub":"i love github"}
for each language. It comes with tests and browser support.
I find it difficult to work on MVVM projects without some sort of build system so I can at least structure the project with CommonJS or AMD. generator-gulp-angular gives you a Yeoman generator that uses Gulp, Bowser, and AngularJS.
This generator aims to takes the best from others generators like generator-angular, ngTailor and generator-gulp-webapp to offers the best workflow to start an application with AngularJS powered by Gulp!
generator-gulp-angular scaffolds out an AngularJS application with a full featured gulpfile.js which offers all the tasks for modern web development.
It seems like a good way to get started with Gulp and AngularJS, which can actually be a little bit daunting.


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Back in April, as the first series of HBO's hit dramedy Girls was being broadcast, a Photoshopped version of the show's publicity poster broke out on the web like HPV on a college campus. The acclaimed series about four hip young women making their way in the world — or, at least, in Brooklyn — had already developed both a following and a backlash. In the remixed poster, its title had been changed to Nepotism, and the four lead actors' names replaced with those of their parents: Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke (father of Jemima); NBC news anchor Brian Williams (father of Allison); artist Laurie Simmons (mother of Lena Dunham); and the playwright and film-maker David Mamet (father of Zosia).
Zosia hasn't seen the image, but when I describe it to her, she laughs and reluctantly admits that it's funny, kind of. 'But it was a total coincidence that we all have well-known parents. We didn't all know each other before the show. It wasn't like we all decided that we had famous parents, "So, hey, let's do a show together!" ' Zosia's sister Clara is an actor, too. Does the surname make it easier or more difficult to succeed? 'I've had people kiss up to me because of my father; I've had people be doubly hard on me. It's a double-edged sword. I think having a famous last name makes you work harder to remove the comma that comes after it.'
Zosia has had two memorable roles in hit TV series in the past few years: first as Joyce, Peggy Olson's sardonic lesbian pal in Mad Men; then as Shoshanna, the pink-wearing, NYU-attending, Sex and the City-watching Jewish American virgin in Girls. Both characters consort with New York hipsters at coffee houses and warehouse parties; the difference between them is half a century. 'Cool kids are always cool kids,' says Zosia, 'but the Girls generation is super-nostalgic: the clothes, the music, the literature. We're almost sad we're not living in the era of Mad Men, because the world was circumstantially more fascinating then. A crazy war, students protesting, the civil rights struggle. I think the kids of my generation would like something more tangible to push against.'
The 24-year-old is also about to begin rehearsals for her first Broadway play, Really Really by Paul Downs Colaizzo, a drama about undergraduate friendships undermined by ugly campus gossip. Our interview takes place in a hotel lobby in Los Angeles, where she grew up and still owns a craftsman bungalow three blocks from the beach, but her work takes her to New York so frequently now that she's finally moved into a rented apartment in Manhattan. She has a boyfriend, whose identity she declines to divulge; suffice to say, he's not an actor. 'But I was always terrible at dating and never did it much. I hid in my room with my books instead. I put my blinders on and focused on work. The whole idea of dating seemed so contrived to me. I met my ex-boyfriend in a diner on New Year's Eve. He's the first and only guy ever to ask for my number.'
In person, she has Joyce's cool, without the character's caustic edge, and Shoshanna's sweetness, without the batshit-crazy element. She never wears make-up, she says, apart from a dab of red lipstick if she's dressing up for an event. At her stylist's insistence, she bought her first ever hairbrush two months ago. 'I have quite an eclectic style. I own a lot of old men's oversized sweaters that I'll wear as dresses. But I wore a dress by Bibhu Mohapatra to the Emmys. I love a wacky print.'
Zosia first appeared on stage before she was even born, when her mother, the actress Lindsay Crouse, was performing in a Chekhov play while heavily pregnant. Zosia entered the world officially at her family's house in Vermont in February 1988. Her distinctive name is Russian Polish, like her father's forebears. Her parents were keen to find a 'Z' name, she says, and with advice from an old Polish family friend, they hit upon Zofia, the Russian spelling of Sofia. 'Zosia is a nickname,' she explains, 'like Katie for Katherine.'
Naturally, the Mamet household in LA was steeped in theatre, film and literature. Zosia remains a voracious reader: on her bedside table at the moment is The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. Her favourite author is Somerset Maugham. Her summer reading was Moby Dick. ('Took me the entire summer. There's an 80-page chunk that's just about whale skeletons. I was like, "Come on!" It was a trek, but I did it.') She and Clara were forbidden from watching American TV as children, and instead were brought up on old movies by the likes of Powell and Pressburger, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra and Billy Wilder. 'We also loved British TV shows like Fawlty Towers and Are You Being Served? I got to live a dream about four years ago, because the first pilot I ever did was an American remake of Absolutely Fabulous, and I played Saffy. It didn't get picked up, but it was so much fun.'
Her earliest memories are all of being backstage in theatres or on film sets, and she can reprise her very first acting role on demand. The Mamets would summer at Cape Ann in Massachusetts, where the tiny local theatre staged a musical every year. 'I think I was, like, five, and we did The King and I. I played one of the kids, and I had one line: "Snow? What is snow?!" '
She went to high school in LA, but despised the experience sufficiently to be convinced that she wouldn't enjoy college. 'I was horrifically unhappy. I love learning and I was always a very good student because I hated not doing well. But I had some extreme social anxieties. I never really got along with kids my age. I was a bit of a precocious child. I could go with my dad to a party full of famous Hollywood individuals and be fine. But put me in a room with a bunch of other 17-year-olds and I would stand in the corner, terrified.'
Before she could graduate, she was acting professionally: at 17, she joined the cast of her father's TV drama The Unit for a five-episode run. (Also among the show's cast members at the time was a little-known Jon Hamm, who told her he wasn't allowed to cut his hair because he was about to shoot a pilot about ad men in the 1960s, for an obscure channel called AMC.) From there she landed small parts in TV shows United States of Tara and Parenthood, and the movies Greenberg and The Kids Are All Right. At the HBO Emmys party this year, after Girls was nominated for four awards, 'Someone asked me what overnight success felt like. I said, "It feels about ten years long." '
Zosia's role in Girls wasn't intended to last beyond the pilot episode, but plans changed and Shoshanna became a recurring character. The show itself, meanwhile, caught a wave of public attention — mostly positive, some not so much — and saw its creator and Zosia's co-star Lena Dunham hailed as the voice of her disaffected, underemployed, self-obsessed generation. Dunham recently leveraged this status to sign a book deal with Random House for a reported $3.5 million.
'We are self-obsessed,' says Zosia, 'but I think that's got a lot to do with the way we were brought up: talk about your feelings; everyone gets a trophy. In your twenties you're selfish, but you kind of have to be, because it's sink or swim. You're thrust into the world and expected to figure it out. My generation, we're super-underprepared for it, because we were so coddled in the earlier years. The brilliant thing about Lena's writing is that there are no touch-ups. She writes as real as possible, and we're shown in the most real, often unattractive light.'
On the subject of unattractive lighting, one of the most talked-about aspects of the show is its frank and frequent nudity. Dunham is naked on screen more than almost any TV star in memory — including the cast members of Game of Thrones — and even the uptight Shoshanna, who spends most of series one a virgin, had two awkward sex scenes in its first season, with more doubtless to come in the second. 'We have an incredible costume designer and a wonderful hair and make-up team,' Zosia explains. 'So once we know that one of us is going to be nude, it's all prepared for very quickly: "Do we need tanner?" "What are the underwear options?" '
The sophomore season of Girls, due imminently, has attracted guest stars including Rosanna Arquette and Patrick Wilson. In spite of its superficial similarities to Shoshanna's favourite show, it boasts a broader demographic than Sex and the City. 'A lot of sorority girls come up to me to say they're fans, but I've also had a lot of guys say their girlfriends made them watch it and now they're religious watchers, too. And a lot of older women: I was waiting for a subway train and this lady in her seventies came up to me and said, "I love the show. Especially that episode where you try to lose your virginity." Then she started telling me about her and her husband's oral sex history. She said, "We've been married 40 years; I still make the same faces." '
Season Two of Girls begins on Sky Atlantic on 14 January
Dork talk
Shoshanna's best lines from Girls
'A little bird tells me you are getting an STD test. FUN'
'I'm definitely a Carrie at heart but sometimes Samantha kind of comes out'
'You're not on Facebook? You're so f***ing classy'
'Your skin is, like, hauntingly beautiful'
'I'm the least virginy virgin ever'
'His name is Bryce, which is,like, um, hello, great name. He works in product development, which is, like, perfect for me because I love products'
'I'm so happy to see you I could murder you'
'I don't smoke pot, I'm hyper enough already'
'I hate today. I hate today so much that I might not even go to class'
'I may be deflowered, but I'm not devalued'
'Oh my F-ing G. No'
Photographs by Squiz Hamilton
Styled by Orsolya Szabo
Fashion assistant: Basma Khalifa.
Hair by Alex Pollilo at Magnet Agency.
Make-up by Mai Quynh at Starworks Artists.
Shot on location at the Four Seasons Los Angeles at Beverly Hills (fourseasons.com/losangeles)
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Darren Carroll for Sports Illustrated
August 10, 2011
Advertising and editorial lifestyle and portrait photographer Darren Carroll recently had assignments for Sports Illustrated, Luxe, and Texas Highways magazines. The first three images in his portfolio are for Sports Illustrated, as well as the shot of the baseball players with the long shadow taken from above. Various photo editors Carroll worked with on these shots were Miriam Marseu on the golf pictures, Claire Bourgeois on the hockey player and Nate Gordon for the baseball image. Carroll also shot for Luxe with Art Director Olivia Lambert, and the row of musician images was for shot for Texas Highways.


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Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson Still in Love? 'On the Road' Star Reveals, 'You Can't Control Who You Fall in Love With,' Bella and Edward Forever?
Kristen Stewart is not afraid to talk about love in the new interview with Marie Claire magazine, but we wonder if she was hinting that she's still in love with Robert Pattinson.
The 23-year-old "On the Road" actress covers the front of Marie Claire's March issue. Inside the mag, she dished about trying to control her heart.
"You don't know who you will fall in love with. You just don't. You don't control it. Some people have certain things, like, 'That's what I'm going for,' and I have a subjective version of that. I don't pressure myself ... If you fall in love with someone, you want to own them-but really, why would you want that? You want them to be what you love. I'm much too young to even have an answer for that question," Stewart said.
She added that she wants to have children someday, maybe by adoption, and re-create the happy childhood she had.
"I had it too good to not have that, too. If I were to put money on it, definitely, yeah," she said. "But you earn that, like, that's so not here yet." She laughs. "I mean, at this point, I can't tell you if I want to hang out on Saturday."
Robsten fans would love to see Stewart get back with her ex-boyfriend Robert Pattinson. The two broke up directly after Stewart's cheating scandal in July 2012. Then the two were off and on. The two started dating back in 2008, when the first "Twilight" movie came out.
New reports say that the Edward and Bella pair is still keeping in touch while not physically together.
Stewart also recited a poem that she wrote on a road trip to Texas about a year ago.
"This poem, written after the Twilight saga had officially ended, is typically raw and candid," MC said. Read the whole poem HERE.
We honestly love the poem, and we would have to say that we are Robsten fans as well. But like Stewart said, you really can't control whom you love. If the two are happy apart, no doubt they will find the love of their lives elsewhere.
Check out the latest Robsten news HERE!
Read more about Stewart's Marie Claire interview HERE.
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