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text: COLUMBUS Just when you think a situation can't get any worse, it reaches a whole new dimension.A fundraising scandal that has engulfed Republicans in the Ohio House has reached into the Ohio Senate and has now derailed the Senate presidency hopes a GOP senator from the Dayton area.State Sen. Jeff Jacobson, a Vandalia Republican who was the heir apparent to succeed GOP Sen. Doug White of Manchester as president next year, said news reports that have linked him to two political consultants under investigation for campaign finance irregularities have caused him to abandon his bid.In a statement this past week, Jacobson, the Senate's majority whip, said connections to political consultants Brett Buerck and Kyle Sisk have weakened his ability to lead."In seeking the Senate presidency, I allowed myself to become associated with persons whose practices were antithetical to the reforms I sought and the standards I believed in," Jacobson said. "I have come to recognize that further persistence in the leadership race would not be in the best interest of either the Ohio Senate or the reforms I support and still hope to effect."Jacobson, a former Montgomery County Republican Party chairman, admitted in news reports he paid money from a county party fund to a Dayton consultant who then hired Buerck and Sisk to help him secure the presidency of the Senate in 2005, assuming Republicans hang onto their 22 to 11 majority in the November elections.Buerck, a former chief of staff to Republican House Speaker Larry Householder, and Sisk, a political fundraiser, are the subject of federal and state probes related to campaign-finance issues.Buerck and Sisk had worked for the Ohio House Republican Campaign Committee and other GOP organizations, but have since been fired by number of them including the OHRCC.And the political fallout from the fundraising scandals continues.Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell has asked Gov. Bob Taft to recall the Legislature, which is on summer recess, to call a special legislative session to work on campaign-finance reforms.The Republican governor has declined, but White, the current Senate president, has promised to push reforms through the upper chamber by the end of the year.Among the reforms being considered are full disclosure of receipts and expenditures of county party operating funds, state officials say.Jacobson's withdrawal from the leadership race could renew the presidency hopes of state Sen. Randall Gardner, a Bowling Green Republican who had sought the top leader's role but dropped out late last year in deference to Jacobson.State Sen. Bill M. Harris, an Ashland County Republican, had also been named by some as a potential "dark-horse" for Senate president last year.State Sen. Kevin Coughlin, a Cuyahoga Falls Republican, said it's too early to tell who might have an edge following Jacobson's withdrawal."We have to worry about November," said Coughlin, noting what some political observers believe will be a tough race involving incumbent Sen. Joy Padgett, a Coshocton Republican, and Democratic candidate Terry Anderson of Athens in southeast Ohio.Coughlin said he believes Jacobson made the right decision."This was a very unselfish thing to do," said Coughlin.The state's top Democratic Party official said Jacobson's actions are the first of many steps Republicans must take to restore credibility.Dennis White, the Ohio Democratic Party chairman, said the GOP needs to disavow the campaign finance practices allegedly practiced by Buerck and Sisk and that all contributions raised using those alleged tactics be returned.And the hits just keep on coming. Stay tuned.(Jeff Ortega is Dix Newspapers capital bureau chief. Reach him online at email@example.com)

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Growing Peonies: If you live where peonies grow, its the same every year in late spring. Certain homes have them in beds, borders, along drives--and anywhere they grow, they create probably the most beautiful clump of flowering of the whole season. Big, usually fluffy flowers in glossy green foliage.
Perennial peonies are what experienced gardeners call investment plants. They're some of the most permanent landscaping you can buy. In fact, many continue blooming beautifully for over 100 years. Once they're established, they're as hardy and dependable as oaks, creating a fantastic season of bloom in your yard year after year.
Planting Peonies Adding peonies to your garden is not difficult. All you need is full sun and good soil. (In even partial shade, the bloom will be scant or non-existent--keep them out in the sun!) As most gardeners know, the roots look like a bunch of carrots--thick long tapering tuber-like masses that increase every year. Feed them, water them, and the clumps will expand rapidly, and more and more blooms will result.
Types of peonies: The standard perennial peony species is Paeonia lactiflora but within the species, there are thousands of hybrids old and new. And there are several flower types:
Single Peonies are the huge, wide-open ones with just one row of overlapping petals. Like huge poppies, they create dinnerplate-size beauty that's really unmatched in the garden. The singles are less frequently seen in American gardens because of our passion for petals-people just prefer the doubles. One of the most famous singles is the breathtaking Krinkled White, an old classic and still a big favorite.
Japanese Peonies, not to be confused with Tree Peonies which often come from Japan, is a flower form somewhat similar to the singles, but with a more elaborate center. A great example is the big favorite, stunning Bowl of Beauty, with glistening cherry red petals petals plus fluffy yellow center, creating spectacular color contrast.
Semi-double Peonies are just that. They have the basic bottom row of large petals seen on the singles (often called the guard petals), but on top, there are more shorter petals, developing from the center. A great example is the beautiful red Edulis Superba.
Bomb Peonies are the ones with the guard petals flat and large, with a pile of petaling sitting upon them-sort of like a fluffly snowball sitting on a plate. Some of the most-loved and dramatic peonies are bombs including the magnificent Laura Dessert and the dramatic Raspberry Sundae As these two illustrate, there are bombs of various shapes and sizes. With Raspberry Sundae, the large bomb not only adds size and height, it gives the overall bloom a stunning palette of three colors-white guard petals, a collar of yellow, and then pastel pink making up the center. In Laura Dessert, the coloring is all white, with a hint of lemon yellow in the bomb.
Double Peonies are probably the most popular, and the most widely planted. Excellent examples are the famous Victorian introduction, Festiva Maxima with its snowy white flowers with red flecks, and Sarah Bernhardt, the all-time popular double pink with huge flowers and great fragrance. Other popular doubles are the red Karl Rosenfield and white Shirley Temple.
There's really no end to a gardeners pleasure with peonies. They're all good for cutting. The foliage stays glossy and green all summer long, and they attract almost no pests. (Don't confuse the standard perennial peony with the Tree Peony, a separate group. Tree Peonies are more shrub like, and don't die down completely each winter.)
Staking: This is important, since once a peony is established, the heavy flowers are often too heavy for its stems. You don't have to stake them, but if you don't, you're going to have big beautiful flowers nodding down in the mud. So once you have a healthy clump, use peony rings to keep them upright. The rings are simply wheel-like wire arrangements that stand up over the peony like a little wire table as the plant sprouts in the spring. With upright supports, the peony ring is placed so the shoots will grow up through the round wire bale. Of course, the foliage quickly hides the ring, and you have a beautifully-supported clump well before the flowers open. Where to find Peony Rings? GardenersSupply.com has great ones which I've used, and I recommend them.
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Adding peonies to your garden is easy. Plant in full sun in most regions. In colder regions, planting peonies in shade will result in weak stems and less flowers. In warmer regions or where spring is hot and dry, choose a site with afternoon shade. Plant in average or well-draining loamy soil. Peonies prefer soil that provide moisture, but isn't water logged. Add compost if needed before planting.
Planting tree peonies is different than herbaceous and intersectional itoh peonies.
The first year of growing peonies, expect the roots to products 2-5 leave shoots and 1-2 flowers. Year two brings a plant double the size and double the blossoms. By the fourth or fifth year peonies will be full and bushy, with lots of foliage and blossoms.
Itoh and tree peonies don't require staking, but most herbaceous peony once established, produce heavy flowers that often are too heavy for its stems. You don't have to stake them, but if you don't, you're going to have big beautiful flowers nodding down. So once you have a healthy clump, use peony rings to keep them upright. The rings are simply wheel-like wire arrangements that stand up over the peony like a little wire table as the plant sprouts in the spring. With upright supports, the peony ring is placed so the shoots will grow up through the round wire bale. Of course, the foliage quickly hides the ring, and you have a beautifully-supported clump well before the flowers open. Where to find Peony Rings? We recommend Gardeners Supply.
For herbaceous and (itoh) intersectional peonies after blooms have passed, clip expired blooms down to the where the foliage meets the stem. Leave the foliage for the remainder of the growing season. As fall arrive and temperatures cool, the leaves will turn yellow and then wilt. For herbaceous peonies trim back all foliage to about 3" from the ground. This keeps the plant tidy and allows new growth to come up without damaging it. In the fall itoh peonies need to be treated similar to herbaceous and tree peonies since they are a hybrid of both. Once the plant has matured its best to trim back so that the herbaceous portion of the stem is removed and the hard wood portion remains. Its best to leave the peonies alone in there first year of growing so that you tell the difference between the herbaceous green stem from the hard wood portion as the leaves die back. Usually mature itoh peonies will leave 4-5 inches of hard wood above ground.
Tree peonies require different trimming techniques. Cut the stem just below the expired blooms. If you trim the stem to far, it will hinder next year's growth. This years green shoots will become next years woody branch. So in the fall, do not trim back or cut to the ground, leave the shrub as is. If you have a mature tree peony and it needs shaping, the best time to prune, is right after it blooms. Make sure to not take to much off the tree as it can really hurt the shrub.
Peonies don't need to be fertilized every year. Its best to plant them with plenty of nutrients. Apply bonemeal, compost or well-rotted manure in early summer, after peonies have bloomed every couple of years.
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Another beautiful touch to my landscaping. I ordered 2 but one never came up. The one that did is thriving! Cant wait til it starts to bloom!
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outdoors , died after planting. came up a couple of inches then disappeared.
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Tried and true Peony. Looks beautiful and can stand up to harsh weather.
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So disappointed in my peony. I love them but these didn't even get a start on them. They shriveled up and died.
I bought these same plants for my mom and hers did beautifully.
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This is the most beautiful flower. It is growing great in my mom's garden and she is very pleased with it.
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Arrived as expected & planted. They will establish themselves this summer and hopefully bloom late next spring. I gave them 3 stars only because I've yet to see them bloom. Remain tuned...
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Had to pot the root first, because the site wasn't prepared yet. It started to sprout almost immediately...thick, strong sprout. Transplanted well about a month later, after I could prep the ground. It hasn't bloomed yet but has strong, healthy-looking leaves.
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I was so excited to purchase the peonies. They were starting to get little green sprouts on them when I planted them. I watered them, kept them going and them both of them died! I kept them in the soil and will hopefully get something next year.
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Michele Bachmann's national career has been marked by wild swings between directness and misdirection. At times, the Minnesota representative is the embodiment of tea party clarity. At other times, she breaks new ground minting fact-free claims that make it hard to trust politicians. Glenn Kessler, Washington Post fact-checker, joked that her departure from Congress should be declared a national day of mourning.
In announcing that she will not be seeking re-election, both of Bachmann's personalities were on display.
As a political correspondent, you find yourself on a lot of email lists without asking. This can be disorienting. Suddenly you are bombarded with accusations from one person about another person and you aren't familiar with either of them. It's like looking at the magazine covers at the grocery store checkout: Celebrities you've never heard of are reconciling from breakups you didn't know ever happened.
In this genre, Michele Bachmann's email blasts achieved a special art. They had a peculiar mix of chatty subject lines and desperate conspiracy peddling. "Can I mail you something?" read the subject line from one this weekend. "Listen to this!" reads another recent one, which then pleaded, "John Dickerson - Please - if you can - stop what you are doing right now and listen to my message immediately." Another fretted, "I need your advice ... I sent you the below email last week, and I'm concerned that I haven't heard back from you." She's been very successful. According to the latest Federal Election Commission filings, she has more than $1.8 million in her campaign bank account.
These solicitations aren't written by Bachmann, of course, but they matched her personality. They were written with the same directness that made her so appealing to tea party supporters. One of the laudable attributes of the tea party movement is the BS filter of its members. Bachmann knew how to channel and tap into this quality. She was masterful at capturing the anger and resentment that wells up in people when they are told what kind of light bulb they must buy. In the 2012 campaign, she wasn't afraid to take on her Republican primary rivals, most successfully calling out Newt Gingrich during one debate for repeatedly treating her as if she didn't really belong there.
Juxtaposed with that image of Michele Bachmann is the fuzzy, fact-free side of her on display in her departure video. Shot in front of a bookshelf to the strains of elevator music, it runs eight minutes but lacks discernible nourishment. In her emails, Bachmann's purpose is clear. Whether it's the perils of Obamacare or the Democratic machine's decision to target her, the message is unmistakable. But in Wednesday's, it's hard to know what you're watching. It feels at once like a eulogy, a campaign video for a future run for office, and an in-flight video. (I thought any minute she'd say, "Please be sure to comply with all lighted signs and placards.")
The video is for those same people she's been bombing with regular, urgent fundraising appeals, but she never really explains her head-snapping decision to step down. She starts with a confusing numerology about her length of service in various political offices. Bachmann says she figured eight years was enough time in office. Strange, because just Friday she sent out an email asking for money for her re-election. Usually politicians break their pledge to be term-limited by deciding to stay in office; this may be the first case of late-onset term limitation. She then insists that she's not leaving office because she would lose re-election or because both the Federal Election Commission and the Office of Congressional Ethics are looking into the campaign finance activities of her presidential campaign. When you build a career on being direct, it doesn't fit when you take the meandering route. At least she didn't claim she was leaving to spend more time with the family.
Bachmann will serve out the remainder of her term, but the ethics committee will probably not pursue her - it has no jurisdiction over former members. That doesn't mean she won't have plenty of material to keep her busy in the next year and a half. The tea party is enjoying a rebirth. The IRS targeting of conservative groups ratifies its claims and worldview. The president's health care program is finally being implemented, which should offer regular opportunities for Bachmann to sound off. She's been working to repeal the law harder than perhaps any other lawmaker. That means her career in Congress may be over, but the emails aren't likely to stop.
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PLYMOUTH, N.H. – After capturing its fifth consecutive conference championship, the Plymouth State University women's lacrosse team moves on to the national tournament this weekend with a trip to the second round of the NCAA Division III Championship.
The undefeated Panthers (16-0) received a first-round bye, and will face Ithaca College (12-4) this Saturday in a regional semifinal at Amherst, Mass. The other semifinal features defending national champion Amherst College (14-2) against the winner of Wednesday's first-round game between Western New England College (14-3) and Scranton (13-4). The semifinal winners will meet at 1:00 p.m. Sunday for the regional title with a trip to the NCAA Final Four at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, N.Y., at stake.
Plymouth State, ranked 12th in the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association Division III poll, captured its third straight Little East Conference Championship last Saturday, defeating rival Keene State College in the title game, 9-5. The Panthers recorded their school-record 16th victory of the season, and extended their overall winning streak to 25 games, dating back to last season.
This will be the third NCAA appearance for Plymouth State in the last five years. The Panthers advanced to the tournament in 2000 and 2001 after winning New England Women's Lacrosse Alliance titles, but were defeated both times in the first round by Middlebury College.
"We've been working very hard for this for quite a while," said PSU coach Wynne Lobel, who gathered her team together for Sunday night's official NCAA announcement. "We feel we deserved getting a first-round bye, too. It's exciting to be recognized and acknowledged as one of the top teams in the country. It affirmed to people that hard work does pay off, and that makes us really proud."
The PSU -Ithaca second-round match-up features former teammates as the head coaches. Lobel, who is in her fourth season at Plymouth State, is a 1993 graduate of Ithaca, and third-year Bombers head coach Karen Hollands is a 1994 graduate of Ithaca. They were teammates on both the field hockey and lacrosse teams at the central New York school, competing together in the 1993 NCAA Lacrosse Tourney.
"Nothing makes me happier than playing Ithaca," said Lobel. "It's an honor and an awesome challenge. We talked about the NCAA Tournament earlier in the year, and our players wanted to play Ithaca because they knew that's where I'm from. Our girls have friends that play for Ithaca, too. Karen's a great coach and a great person, and it'll be fun."
Ithaca, ranked 18th in the IWLCA Division III poll, comes into the NCAA Tournament after defeating Nazareth College last Saturday in the Empire 8 Championship, 9-8. (Nazareth (13-3) received an at-large berth in the NCAAs despite the loss.) The Bombers are making their seventh appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 1989, and third in the past four years. Ithaca won a first-round game 9-8 over St. Mary's (Md.) in 2001 before losing to Amherst (13-6) in the national quarterfinals, and the Bombers were defeated in the first round last season by Williams, 7-5.
"New York lacrosse is good lacrosse," said Lobel. "They consistently play at a high level. The games that prepared us for this are Bowdoin and the LEC Tournament. Those games were great competition."
The Panther offense, which is ranked third in the nation with over 16 goals a game, is led by senior Katie Sheridan (West Sayville, N.Y.), the three-time Little East Conference Offensive Player of the Year. Sheridan, who was the LEC Tournament's Most Outstanding Player, is one of the nation's scoring leaders with 98 points (73 goals, 25 assists). She is also one of Division III's all-time scoring leaders, as she is now tied for fifth on the career goals list with 264, and is 10th in the career points department with 350.
PSU also gets plenty of offense from seniors Michelle Norton (Sandwich, Mass.) and Jill Matteson (Chatham, Mass.), sophomores Bethany Brown (Norwich, Conn.) and Nicole Evans (Scituate, Mass.), and freshmen Kelsey MacDonald (Oak Bluffs, Mass.) and Meg Cupoli (Southboro, Mass.). Brown has scored 45 goals, Norton 35, MacDonald 28 and Evans 26, while Cupoli has 22 assists, second-most on the team.
The Panther defense, which is among the national leaders with just over six goals allowed per game, is backboned by senior goalie Carmen Villanueva (East Schodack, N.Y.), the two-time LEC Defensive Player of the Year. She has a 38-4 career record, and is among the NCAA leaders with a 6.17 goals against average and a .627 saves percentage.
Villanueva has an outstanding defensive unit in front of her, which consists of senior Cathy Berei (Trenton, N.J.), sophomore Megan O'Neil (Scituate, Mass.), and freshmen Steph Blanchette (Sudbury, Mass.) and Amanda Spadafora (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.). The group allowed only three teams to score in double figures this season.
Plymouth State also made ECAC Tournament appearances the last two years, as the Little East Conference champion did not have an automatic bid until this season. PSU won the ECAC New England Championship last spring after finishing runner-up in 2002.
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For those who missed it . . . Joseph Berger, "No Need to Kvetch, Yiddish Lives On in Catskills," NYT, November 25 2010.
KERHONKSON, N.Y. — In a chilled and snow-shrouded Catskills landscape, hundreds of people get together every December to try to breathe some warmth into a dying culture.
For almost a week at a hotel here, organizers immerse the group, which calls itself KlezKamp, in Yiddish and the folkways of the Eastern Europeans who spoke that language until Hitler extinguished their communities. Classes are offered in Yiddish conversation, humor and literature; in klezmer — the sometimes plaintive, sometimes mischievous folk music that has experienced an astonishing comeback — and in the snaking, coiling, hand-clapping dances animated by those melodies.>>>
See also:
Barney Zwartz, "Website a 'treasure chest' of Yiddish migrant history," The Age, November 22, 2010.
Linda Morel, "Schmaltzy history: A Nostalgic Look at Fats for Frying Latkes," Jewish Times of South Jersey, November 26, 2010.
"Battle of the Bris: A Move to Outlaw Circumcision in San Francisco," TIME, November 22, 2010.
Catskills, History, Jewish Food, and Circumcision
Categories: american judaism, circumcision, religion and food, yiddish
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- Tom Van Dyke at: November 26, 2010 at 8:41 PM said...
Oh, I loved the piece on the history of schmaltz. Thx, Randall.
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Fellows wins historic, rainy Nationwide race in Montreal
MONTREAL (AP) Carl Edwards used a squeegee to clean his windshield while he drove under caution. Jacques Villeneuve and Joey Logano wrecked with the yellow flag flying. And rooster tails flew off the grooved — yes, grooved — back tires.
It certainly was a history-making day at rainy Circuit Gilles Villeneuve — right down to the winner, Canadian road-racer Ron Fellows.
In the first NASCAR points race run on grooved rain tires, Fellows splashed his way to victory — his fourth road-race win in 13 Nationwide Series starts — in the event that ended 26 laps early because of heavy rain and poor visibility.
"Visibility was the big, big problem," said Fellows, the first Canadian winner in a major NASCAR race in Canada. "At over 70 mph, there was just so much spray."
The 48-year-old Ontario driver took advantage of Marcos Ambrose's pit-road speeding penalty to take the lead, and had about a half-minute advantage over fellow Canadian Patrick Carpentier when the NAPA Auto Parts 200 was red-flagged.
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"It's very dangerous," Fellows said minutes before the race was called.
After just eight laps on the 2.71-mile, 14-turn road course, rain and lightning forced an eight-minute delay. The cars returned to the track with the grooved Goodyear tires and many also had a single windshield wiper.
"This is ridiculous," early leader Scott Pruett said over his radio.
Grooved tires also were used in 1999 during a Craftsman Truck Series practice on the road course at Watkins Glen. In 1997, rain tires were used in practice and qualifying for an exhibition race in Japan.
After averaging about 90 mph on the regular slick tires before the rain arrived, the leaders' average speed dropped to about 75 mph on the grooved tires.
"That was different," Fellows said. "This is incredible."
Fellows, driving the No. 5 Chevrolet for Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s JR Motorsports, led the final seven laps. Ambrose finished third after leading a race-high 27 laps.
Ron Hornaday was fourth, followed by Boris Said, Edwards, Jason Leffler, Greg Biffle, series leader Clint Bowyer and Scott Wimmer.
"All in all, I'm surprised how well everyone did and how few accidents there were," Said said. "In the end, people were wrecking under caution because you just couldn't see. The cars were hydroplaning."
Villeneuve, the former Formula One and CART champion racing on the track named after his late father, had so much trouble seeing out of his Toyota that he ran into the back of another car during the final caution period.
Running sixth at the time of the accident, he ended up 16th.
"I couldn't see a thing," Villeneuve said.
Logano also wrecked during the final caution.
"I hit a lapped car with no brake lights. I have no idea who it was," Logano said. "I couldn't see 5 feet in front of me down the straightaway, under caution. Somebody stopped. I locked up all four and boom! ... It's just not right."
The teen star finished 17th.
"It was fun, but it's not good to see guys wrecking under yellow," Edwards said.
The historic tire move came a week after tire troubles derailed the Sprint Cup race at Indianapolis. Goodyear's tires weren't durable enough to withstand more than 10 or so laps at a time, creating a chaotic and confusing caution-filled race.
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From: Harry Duckworth <>
Subject: Re: Fordham, London
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 09:26:38 -0500 (CDT)
Bruce Fordham wrote:
>I have traced my family back as far as HENRY ALEXANDER FORDHAM, b. 30 Oct
>1832, Christened at St Edmond The King and Martyr, Lombard Street,
>Southwark on 2 December 1832: son of James and Lucinda, James described as
>a chemist of 6 Three Kings Court.
>Trying to trace his Father I have come across a record of James Fordham,
>Christened on 1 April 1804 at St Saviour's, Southwalk. I have no direct
>evidence of the relationship.
>Can anyone help me to obtain further information or advise me of the likely
>sources of records.
The parish of St Edmund the King & Martyr, Lombard Street, is not in
Southwark (the district south of the Thames, expanding out from the end of
London Bridge), but in the heart of the city of London itself - what people
now call the Financial District. The parish included parts of Lombard
Street (where all the old banks were) and the adjacent courts; it was a
high-rent district in the 18th and 19th centuries, with most buildings
devoted to business premises. I expect that a chemist's in Three King
Court, Lombard Street, would have been a pretty solid business There's an
excellent chance that your Fordham, the chemist, is listed in the London
Directories, so a likely source of further information would be those - you
should be able to trace the history of the business year by year, and get
the names of any partners, business predecessors, and so on. Sometimes the
partners' families intermarried. Almost certainly he and his family were
living over the shop.
It would be a good idea to make sure that you have the names of all the
children of James and Lucinda - either comb the IGI, or look up the
original entries in the register of St Edmund the King. I'd also try hard
to find an index entry to the marriage of James Fordham and Lucinda in the
IGI - the names are unusual enough that you should be able to recognize
them, though they may not have married in London. If you find this index
entry, and look up the original parish register entry, that will give the
home parishes of both parties; with luck, there will be hint as to where
James came from, unless he was already living in the parish of St Edmund
the King. There's no reason to assume that he was born in London - most
Londoners came in from the country.
Another potential source would be apprenticeship and other records of the
Company of Apothecaries, which are now held at the Guildhall Library,
London. An on-line edition of their leaflet on genealogical records for
physicians, surgeons and apothecaries, which explains the records in
detail, is at the Web site:
James Fordham, baptized at St Saviour's in 1804, could be your man, but
you're right, there's no special reason to think so unless you can get more
Good luck!
Harry Duckwort
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|807 sq. ft.
|Property type
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|3 - 7 nights
Located in Siena region, on the hills overlooking the Chianti area, next to the historic centre, the farm is composed of 20 hectare, of which 11 are vineyards producing wine Chianti Classico, Chianti Colli Senesi, extra virgin olive oil and cereals.
Apartment "Simona", of 75 square metres on 2 floors; on the ground floor there is the entrance, a wide kitchen-living room with TV and a little bathroom.
On the first floor there is a double bedroom with king size bed, a single room and a bathroom with shower.
Heating is individually controlled. Outside there is a private courtyard with table and chairs.
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We had a fabulous time in Siena at this location. It was perfect for our vacation in Italy. We drove through Tuscany and took day trips from this property to Florence and Siena. All we can say is that our stay wasn't long enough! The pool was great to hang out and enjoy a nice late day in the sun. We also brought back dinner and ate on the deck. Simona and Stefano were very accommodating and helped us better understand our local surroundings. The only negative was finding the house initially. Our GPS wasn't working and we were unfamiliar with navigating the country roads. Overall, we would highly recommend this location and our wonderful hosts. We hope to visit again soon and stay longer next time.
The welcome was warm with a nice bottle of red wine from the Azienda !
The apartment was very clean , lovely furnished and well maintained.
Maybe in the kitchen for the oven I missed an baking dish, but further well equipped with large refrigarator and freezer (good for the kids for the ice creams:) Lovely pool to cool down
There is an wash machine outside our apartment which we could use.
Simona (a very friendly woman) gives a lot of information & tips about the area .
"Wonderful surroundings, very quiet and very close to the center of Siena."
This has been one of the bettter holiday locations we have been. We went here on holiday with 2 adults and 2 young children. The scenery is beautifull, the house is more then anyone could wsh for. If somethings missing just ask and it will be taken care of by the owner.
The swimming pool is amazingly located between the olive trees and is cleaned dayly.
Overall a great holiday and we will be back again.
Maarten van den Dool
Que du bonheur ! Nous avons passé une superbe semaine dans un belle propriété, très bien restaurée mais qui a gardé son authenticité, nichée au milieu des oliviers et des vignes.
Idéalement située à seulement 4 km du centre de Sienne , tout en étant dans un endroit calme et reposant (le plaisir de la ville à la campagne).
Lieu de départ idéal pour visiter la TOSCANE.
L'Appartement est spacieux lumineux bien équipé et bien agencé, propreté impeccable.
Une belle piscine avec transat est à disposition des hôtes.
Un grand merci à SIMONA pur son accueil chaleureux, ses informations sur les lieux à visiter et ses précieux conseils.
Notre seul regret : quitter la Toscane et ce lieu magique après un aussi beau séjour.
Arrevedechi e speriamo di presto
Nous avons passé trois jours agréables chez Simona. Le gite est confortable, accessible sans voiture, par le bus. La propriété est agréable. Merci
Exit Siena Nord of the Ring-Road of Siena, turn left, at the first rotunda turn on the right (direction hospital) at the second rotunda turn left (direction San Miniato- hospital) downhill and go on straight ahead till you arrive to a small rotunda.
Then turn left (direction Le Tolfe-Il Castagno).
At the first crossing go straight, after about 50 metres, on the left, there is a gate with the writing' Azienda Agricola Colombaiolo'.
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Classic Philadelphia
Drinking History
By Sebastian Fortino
City Tavern
Today almost everyone has a touch of vintage in their lives, whether you collect vintage items, are a fan of Mad Men or watch Downton Abbey. Therefore, it should come as no surprise vintage cocktails have captured the hearts – and perhaps hangovers – of today's imbibers. Boasting 330 years of history Philadelphia is an ideal city to catch up on this classic trend.
In fact, one could easily tour the city via venues mixing up some cocktail history. Consider stopping by The City Tavern, founded in 1773 mere blocks from Independence Hall in the Old City section of town. Their quaint bar features Early American antiques, a roaring fire during those colder months and historical drinks such as The Winter's Kiss, made with eggnog and Chambord, and The Tavern Warmer, made with warm apple cider, peach brandy, rum, whiskey and a cinnamon stick. In the summer it's called The Tavern Cooler, and made with chilled apple cider.
The Tavern Warmer
1 oz Peach Brandy
1/2 oz Jamaican Rum
3/4 oz Whiskey
8 oz fresh apple cider
1 Cinnamon stick
Heat the apple cider in a small sauce pan over low heat until it reaches desired temperature. Pour cider in a tall glass and add Brandy, Rum and Whiskey. Garnish with the cinnamon stick and serve immediately.
"Any drink made with apple cider is satisfying but this one is a favorite because it's potent yet delicious," said Chef Walter Staib of the drink. Staib took over the iconic tavern nearly 20 years ago and added finessed-but-traditional recipes from Early American sources. In fact The Winter's Kiss came to Philadelphia from Germany's Black Forest and was first recorded here in the late 18th century.
The City Tavern
City Tavern
138 South 2nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
(215) 413-1443
The Farmers' Cabinet
The Farmers' Cabinet, opened up last spring by Matthew and Pauline Schwartz, in the Washington Square West section of Philly, takes its name from mid-nineteenth farming guides once published in Philly and other cities.
"A lot of our aesthetics are drawn from early American saloons, but we elevate it with live prohibition jazz every evening. We want it to be an exciting, comfortable and nostalgic drinking environment," said Valerie Boyle, their bar manager. "The ambiance is further aided by candlelight and oil lamps."
Valerie certainly knows her cocktails and speaks lovingly of how classics have taken over the scene here. The cocktails we know as classic really grew with the country as they were defined in the 1800s, when liquor, bitters, sugar and ice became easier to procure and quite fashionable.
"Ice," Valerie said profoundly, "was a huge advancement of drinking culture. For instance you want a larger piece of ice for an Old Fashioned, while a Mint Julep really needs shaved ice to make a sort of slushy."
The bar does not stand on pretension – even if you only drink vodka tonics. However, if you are a novice to the world of classic cocktails they are willing to educate you. In fact they call their menu a "cocktail program" which boasts recipes from original sources dating back to the 1800s and early 1900s.
"We are really proud to serve The Philadelphia Scotchman, a drink which originated in 1930. Despite the name there is no Scotch in it. It consists of apple brandy, ruby port, ginger syrup, orange juice and club soda," Boyle said. "It's a favorite at the bar."
Of course part of their mission is to serve classic cocktails and the other is to build on classic drinks. This past summer they served up the Muriel on the Rocks made with a local gin, house-made blue Curacao, lime-juice, sugar, black Hawaiian sea salt, sage and egg whites…and they kindly shared recipe.
Murial on the Rocks
1.5 oz Bluecoat American Dry Gin
1/2 oz blue tinted triple sec (Combier tinted with blue vegetable extract)
3/4 oz lime
3/4 oz simple syrup
1/2 oz egg white
4 fresh sage leaves
Black Hawaiian Sea Salt
Sage Leaves
Build cocktail with one sage leaf, add egg white. Dry shake. Add ice. Shake until chilled. Strain into rocks glass garnished with remaining sage leaves and cracked ice. Top with black Hawaiian sage leaves and Black Hawaiian Sea Salt.
"It really looks like the ocean captured in a glass," Boyle said fondly.
The Farmer's Cabinet
The Farmers Cabinet
1113 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 923-1113
Chez Georges
If you are a Francophile or you happen to be in the Rittenhouse Square District of the city consider stopping at Chez Georges. This truly elegant and cozy bistro is tucked neatly into the basement of Le Bec Fin. The boîte has its roots in Philadelphia's famed restaurant renaissance of the 1970s and 80s.
However, times have changed and – in addition to revamping Le Bec Fin's look and menu – Chez Georges was born. Unlike the upstairs dining room reservations are simply not taken. The bistro captures the elegance of Paris and serves cocktails to match. The French 57 is a play on a French 75, created at the New York Bar in Paris in 1915. Some of the ingredients diverge from the original recipe, such as the inclusion of St. Germain liqueur, a heavenly substance made from Swiss elderberry flower.
The New Orleans Sazerac recalls French heritage via New Orleans. Peychauds bitters are featured but, while the French version uses cognac, the Louisiana incarnation uses rye whiskey. This drink certainly packs a kick, refined from the bitters and Pernod Absinthe Superieur, which is used in many of their drinks.
2 oz Rye whiskey
3/4 oz simple syrup
7 dashes Peychauds bitters
1/4 oz chilledAbsinthe.
Rim low ball glass with lemon twist. Stir over ice without the Absinthe, strain into lowball glass; float chilled Absinthe on top and drop in a twist.
Another classic, or take on a classic, is perfect if you like rum and is called the Chartreuse Swizzle. In addition to rum this cocktail incorporates one of my favorite ingredients: herby, emerald colored Chartreuse served over refreshing crushed ice.
So, the next time you're in The City of Brotherly Love remember there is more to please your palate than cheesesteaks and soft pretzels. Although…this native Philadelphian does admit they have their merits too.
Chez Georges at Le Bec Fin
Le Bec Fin
1523 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
(215) 567-1000


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Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 | 2 a.m.
The election is apparently on the minds of the Sun's readers.
The winner of the August edition of the Smithereens Cartoon Caption Contest, which shows various aircraft delivering utility bills, has an election theme: "Do you see the size of those bills? Now I'm really afraid of all that election junk mail!"
The entry earned 31 percent of the vote from readers, giving the win to website user vegastony for the third time after winning in May and June.
John Carty suggested the second-place caption on Facebook — "I think it's time to go paperless!" — which received 25 percent of the vote.
Third place went to user Gloryg, who got 22 percent of the vote for "Yesterday a submarine dropped off our underwater mortgage."
In fourth with 12 percent of the vote was Barry Regan with "If we do not pay on time do they send the drones next?"
And fifth place goes to popin's "Honey! I don't think we can ignore that collection agency anymore," which got 10 percent of the vote.
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MMH Supports Breastfeeding Moms
It is well documented in the literature that breastfeeding is best for babies. In addition to containing all the vitamins and nutrients babies need in the first six months of life, breast milk is full of disease-fighting substances that protect your baby from illness. These are the reasons that the American Academy of Pediatrics and Montrose Memorial Hospital recommend breastfeeding to all of our new moms. In addition to good nutrition, breastfeeding has medical and psychological benefits for both mom and baby. The physical contact helps create a special bond between moms and babies, and human milk is easier for babies to digest. Research also suggests that breastfeeding may help to protect children from obesity, diabetes, asthma, eczema, colitis and some cancers.
Although breastfeeding is natural, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's easy. The nurses at MMH are trained to help our new moms breastfeed. We even have one nurse who is a specifically trained lactation professional and will work through any difficulties that arise. She is available for all new moms and they can even set up freeconsultations with her after they are discharged. Breastfeeding is encouraged during the MMH "Teddy Bear University" childbirth classes, and parents are educated on the best practices as well as things to avoid. Ninety-three percent of our moms leave the hospital breastfeeding, which is well above the national average!
Last week, Montrose Memorial Hospital was honored by The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) for implementing the Colorado Can Do 5! Program. This program requires that hospitals ensure that babies are breastfed in the first hour after birth; fed only breast milk in the hospital; stay in the same room with the mother; do not use a pacifier in the hospital; and that mothers are given a breastfeeding-help telephone number before discharge. The Family Center at MMH consistently meets all of these criteria. Forty-one out of Colorado's 53 hospitals with maternity services participate in the healthy breastfeeding practices program.
Colorado is currently ranked first in the nation for exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of a child's life and MMH is proud to do all we can to help new moms and babies get a healthy start!
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Georgetown College baseball got off the snide in NAIA Baseball Championship Opening Round action tallying its first win Friday morning in Montgomery's elimination bracket. The No. 21 Tigers (36-18) got behind early, but quickly responded and rolled 12-2 over Mount Vernon Nazarene (32-17) to advance to this evening's game against Indiana Tech (32-17).
The game is currently set for an 8 pm EST start.
"It's good to end that little streak and finally get a win in the opening round," said GC coach Micah Baumfeld. "We knew we were hitting well and like hitting here, but it was a matter of stringing things together. In the bottom of the second we took the lead, but really saw our offense come to life in the third."
In two games, the Tigers have had 29 hits.
Georgetown scored three runs in the third to break it open and never looked back.
Matt Smith took the mound and helped GC to its first-ever opening round win since the NAIA started this format in 2009. The Tigers were two and out this past year and then dropped into the elimination bracket following a defeat by No. 17 Texas Wesleyan Thursday afternoon.
Justin Moore, Jordan Hinshaw, David Higuera, Tanner Baldwin, Mike Steinke, EJ Murray and Marvin Flores pounded out multiple hits on the day. Eight players crossed the plate, Higuera did so three times. Moore (4), Flores (3) and Steinke (2) also had multiple RBIs in the high-scoring affair.
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A streamliner puts on quite smoke show as it rolls along on the rear of the Branson Sceinic Railway`s afternoon train. This beautiful F unit began it`s life in 1951 for the B&O as number 369. Late... (more)
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Reality Check Recap: July 29th, 2014
Two US Marshals and one NYPD detective are in stable condition today following the deadly shooting of a wanted child molester. The three officers had been working on a task force looking for the suspected child molester Charles Mozdir. The man had recently been featured on CNN's "The Hunt," and some people in the neighborhood were paying attention. Authorities found him working at a smoke shop in the West Village and a gun battle erupted when they went to confront him. The suspect was killed at the scene. The 45-year-old detective was saved by his bulletproof vest. Mayor Bill de Blasio said after they recover, the three will be honored for their work.
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An ESPN host is eating crow today. Stephen A. Smith has apologized after he said, on-air, that women shouldn't provoke men into beating them. He was referencing the fact that Baltimore Raven's running back Ray Rice was seen dragging his unconscious wife out of an elevator in Atlantic City, and the NFL only suspended him for two games, same as a marijuana penalty.
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The worst Ebola outbreak ever is happening in West Africa. It's unlikely that it will come to the US but you should be aware of it because two Americans working in Liberia have contracted it. In fact, Liberia has closed its borders to keep the virus from spreading. Ebola is spread through bodily fluids and is contagious once the symptoms of headache, fever, diarrhea, and vomiting show up. Up to 90% of people who get it die from it. So far, 670 people died.
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Donald Sterling can't be a pain in the ass anymore, at least when it comes to the sale of the LA Clippers. A judge has ruled against Donald, saying his wife Shelly had acted appropriately when she negotiated the sale of the Clippers. Shelly Sterling had agreed to sell the team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for two-billion dollars.
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Two tragedies in six months has Malaysia Air changing name and looking to overhaul the brand. The airline said it is looking at a number of options to restructure the business, which could include changing its name. The move follows the death of 298 passengers after flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine on July 17th and the disappearance of flight MH370 on March 8th, which was carrying 239 passengers and crew.
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Judges have struck down Virginia's same-sex marriage ban. The panel was divided 2-1 but said, quote, "We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples…equal protection of the laws." Same-sex marriage is now legal in 19 U.S states plus the District of Columbia. (Those states are California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington state.)
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Two big corporate romances have happened: Dollar Tree is buying its frenemy Family Dollar (for $8.5 billion) and the real estate website Zillow is buying IT'S rival, Trulia, for $3.5 billion.
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And did you know you can get liposuction for your dog? This isn't a ridiculous cosmetic procedure for the super rich dog owners. It's actually awesome for dogs and could save them a lot of pain and suffering, especially in their golden years. This is a non-invasive operation that gets rid of benign fatty masses that grow on overweight and older animals. So instead of your furry friend having to endure major surgery and tons of stitches, he can do this instead and be back up on his paws in 48 hours!
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And the next time you get a text from a number you don't know, it's probably a demon. A Polish priest claims he's being texted by an unearthly, and evil, spirit. Father Marian Rajchel said he started getting nasty text messages after her tried and failed to perform an exorcism on a teenage girl. Now, Father Marian said, quote, "The author of these texts is an evil spirit who has possessed her soul." He also said that this isn't uncommon, and often the owners of mobile phones are not even aware that they are being texted by demons. (Apparently the texts say things like "She will not come out of this hell. She's mine. Anyone who prays for her will die," and "Shut up, preacher. You cannot save yourself. Idiot. You pathetic old preacher.")
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And there's apparently a growing trend in Colorado, "weedings." These weed themed weddings are a mix of "Martha Stewart Weddings" and "High Times," incorporating the traditional wedding elements with a sprinkle of pot. Lauren Meisels and Bradley Melshenker had a hookah bar and a gift bag that included a rolled joint along with some other goodies like lip balm infused with mango butter and cannabis. The note in the bag read, "We wanted to show you some of the things we love the best."
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Policy-makers across central and eastern Europe can be forgiven for feeling a hint of schadenfreude when they look at the travails of their western neighbours.
A year ago financial markets were betting on which CEE government would be the next to seek help from the IMF. Twelve months later and bets are on which of the so-called eurozone PIGS Portugal, Ireland and Spain will follow Greece in seeking an IMF bailout to avert default.
But one of the ironies of financial globalization is that systemic failure for the euro could wreak havoc on CEE countries. As significantly, the crisis has dampened the enthusiasm among countries for joining a currency union that has lost its lustre.
According to leading economists, a crisis in western Europe would deliver a double whammy to the EBRD region in the form of a slump in economic demand and a fresh banking crisis.
Willem Buiter, a former chief economist of the EBRD, says CEE countries will be affected despite having stronger sovereign debt positions. They should be worried about the health of the European banking system, he told Emerging Markets while on a visit to Athens. Thats the main thing. Their banks are largely branches or subsidiaries of western European banks, and a lot of those are still in a very bad shape.
The threat of a hit to economic growth is equally worrying. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) expects the eurozone to post GDP growth of just 0.8% this year, worse than any comparable region. The main reason is that fiscal consolidation tax hikes and spending cuts undertaken by Greece and other, larger economies, to cut their deficits will act as a drag on growth.
While Greece itself accounts for less than 3% of eurozone GDP, the concern is that the state of the public finances in other member countries is too fragile for comfort, according to the EIU. This has manifested itself in a blowout in the premium governments must pay investors to take on their debt when compared with the interest rate on the benchmark German bund.
While Greeces 10-year bond spread peaked at 852 basis points (or 8.52%) just before the EU/IMF bailout, Portugal was not far behind on 2.84% while Irish, Italian and Spanish spreads have all risen. Until last November the spread on Greek debt over the previous five years had averaged 0.65%.
This points to the nub of the issue: while the euro protects its members from currency attacks, markets will find other ways to punish them for policy failures.
Jan Randolph, director of Sovereign Risk Country Analysis at IHS Global Insight, says the problem for the PIGS is not just high public debt but large private debt taken on after they joined the euro. At that point their interest rate migrated down to the German level, and they benefited from a triple-A credit rating, he says. So everyone embarks on this big party, asset prices go up and households take on heavy debt burdens.
The ensuing slowdown in growth will harm the prospects for the eurozones eastern neighbours. Growth in the eurozone is incredibly important for our region, Erik Berglof, chief economist of the EBRD, says. Local business sentiment is so closely tied to what is happening in the eurozone. The euro area will have a slower, more fragile recovery than many other parts of the world, and that is what is affecting our region negatively. It dominates any other factor.
But all economies recover from downturns eventually. The larger question is whether the Greek drama has undermined the whole single currency project. The euro has been damaged by the [crisis] as a broad project and has shown some weaknesses, Berglof says.
Others are gloomier. Stephen Lewis, chief economist at brokerage Monument Securities, believes a break-up of the eurozone is the only logical development. The argument regarding whether the eurozone is an optimal currency area has been settled: it is not, and that has serious implications, he says.
At the heart of the problem is the public row between Germany and France, the largest countries in the zone, over how to resolve the issue of countries that got into fiscal difficulties. Germany insisted the IMF be part of a bailout to ensure that the money came for Greece with the sort of tough terms on budget cuts the IMF traditionally applies to a troubled emerging market. France on the other hand wanted a euro-led aid package to allow Greece to get its house in order without disturbing the unity and reputation of the eurozone.
Germany won a partial victory, with the result that Greece secured a E110 billion bailout on 2 May that included E30 billion from the IMF and much tougher conditions than originally envisaged by EU leaders.
Lewis sees the eurozone ultimately splitting into a hard euro area led by Germany and a soft euro tilted towards the southern states. One can imagine the Czechs feeling that their economy was so tightly meshed with Germanys that it should enter a union with a hard euro, he tells Emerging Markets. Others might see themselves better aligned with a soft euro.
He says the only alternative is for the zone to struggle on for years with member states becoming impoverished as they go through reforms aimed at reducing their labour costs to German levels.
Jan Randolph says Greece and Portugals debt problems have become an existential question for the euro. Europe is having an identity crisis, he tells Emerging Markets. If you were a policy-maker in eastern Europe, you would be watching very carefully because the crisis is testing what the euro means in terms of solidarity.
Since the Second World War, Germany has always bankrolled integration as it pursued bigger goals of reunification. But this time it is almost as if they are saying weve got what we wanted, and now we are not going to pick up the bill or be the final bulwark behind these defaults.
Simon Johnson, a former chief economist at the IMF, points out that Ireland and Italy must be kicking themselves for embarking on austerity measures rather than waiting for a bailout. There seems to be no logic in the system, but perhaps there is a logical outcome. Europe will eventually grow tired of bailing out its weaker countries, he says. When the plug is finally pulled, at least one nation will end up in a painful default. Unfortunately, the way we are heading, the problems could be even more widespread.
Johnson says that if crisis takes hold it would be too large for the European Central Bank or the German government to solve. The eurozone will be at risk of collapse, he says. He estimates a bailout of the four weakest economies Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy could cost $1 trillion.
Berglof plays down fears of a collapse of the eurozone but agrees its recent troubles have altered the way it is seen by its neighbours. The whole region is going through a reassessment of the euro in the sense that, particularly early on, there was this feeling that being part of the euro was a very important protection when the global crisis hit, he says.
The fact that countries closely tied to the euro seemed to withstand better the impact of the crisis actually fuelled moves to speed up the entry process, he says. What has happened now that people are a little bit further away from the precipice, is that it has dawned on them that actually there was some advantage to have the flexibility of an exchange rate, he says. For the countries that did have the flexibility, they used it to some effect. Poland is the primary example, but Hungary and the Czech Republic benefited to some extent.
The problems hitting Greece and Portugal have reminded countries they must ensure that they do not join prematurely and that they join at the right exchange rate. That debate will not go away and will have got new fire, Berglof says. That debate has come back in a sense because we have seen some of the dangers of joining too early or joining at the wrong exchange rate.
The first major test of the regions warmth towards the region will be Estonias application to join the single currency. Its government has taken very tough measures to meet criteria on budget deficits, public debt, inflation, long-term interest rates and currency stability.
The European Commission and the European Central Bank are expected imminently to release an assessment result on Estonias eligibility for membership. If the result is positive, the EU Summit will make the political decision on it in June. In principle the view that has emerged is that Estonia is ready for accession, and I think it is incredibly important for the role of the project of euro accession in our region that Estonia is not denied membership, says Berglof.
However, it hardly looks like a frantic race to the finishing line. Latvia and Lithuania are on track for membership in 2014 while Poland, which once pencilled in 2012, now sees 2015 as the earliest date.
Randolph says there has been a marked waning of enthusiasm. A lot of policy-makers in eastern Europe Poland, Latvia, Romania, etc. thought they had the assumption that they wanted to be a member of the euro, he says. What has happened with Greece has got them thinking that the benefits are not as clear as they thought.
The reality is that euro accession is less sexy than achieving membership of the European Union. EU accession was broadly very popular, says Berglof. There was a political aspect and a dignity aspect, and it touched peoples lives in so many different dimensions so people were broadly behind it. The euro has never been like that as the euro was held by a small narrow technocratic elite.
But he insists that people also realize that actually the euro is quite important whether for their business or for the interest rate on their apartment. If we can today make sure that we create certainty about this process, about what needs to be done, and if they do what they are asked to do, then they will become members at a certain point in time.


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More People Are Taking Antidepressants, But Fewer Are In Therapy
Looks like, as a country, we're feeling the blues. A new study shows that, since 1996, the number of people taking antidepressants has doubled. These days, about one out of every ten people in the U.S. is poppin' depression meds. Oddly enough, during the same period, the number of people seeing psychiatrists has decreased by over ten percent. So, what's up with this seemingly contradictory trend? Let's face it, therapy is expensive and a lot of insurance companies don't cover it. So rather than heading to psychiatrists, people go directly to their doctors, who are giving out prescriptions more readily, regardless of whether they have extensive mental health training or not. Since new fangled antidepressants have fewer side effects and are much safer than ever before, many docs are more comfortable dishing 'em out.
Advertising has also played a huge role here, too. Pharmaceutical companies have increased the amount they spend on antidepressant marketing from $32 million to $122 million. So, peeps who are feeling down and out are more likely to know what's out there and ask the doctor about it. [USA Today]
Do you think we are becoming a pill poppin' culture, or does this prescription increase make sense?